There's a lot of danger with providing an email address.
1) Companies have partnerships with marketing firms. Often, it's these marketing firms that are the evil ones. 2) Spammers setup sniffers on networks to sniff incoming and outgoing email. often times they sniff a router close to the source of where the marketing emails are sent out and then they have all the email addys.
Email sent out today is NOT encrypted. ANYONE can read it, including the email addys.
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys.
Computers will be sooo much faster once we can let the 32 bit cousins go.
16 to 32 bit didn't take long at all..
But my favorite quote: "Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run."
It's too bad that Vista will be the only windows OS for another 5-7 years. Anyone who can afford an apple will have a new one by then.
I like your comment: "Good idea in the beginning, bureaucracy kicks in, budgets get busted, scientists get frustrated and leave for the greener pastures in the US (or elsewhere)"
The US runs into the same problem and is the reputation we have whenever doing anything. Europe was pretty successful at getting GSM implemented in the EU (despite it being largely created in the US) while we have multiple standards floating in the US.
The pains the EU has recently started to feel are similar to what the US has felt between states and big companies for over 100 years now. Hopefully they'll do a better job sorting through all the big company mess. In the US, it's whomever has the biggest pocket that wins. It's true for technology standards as well as our laws.
Foo
p.s. I too hoped the EU make a military as well. If course the US govt is against it - that would mean creating an army bigger (but not badder) than the US.
My reason for not liking MS is simple:
They don't open up their APIs.
If you truly want your OS to have the best software possible you should let the world know what programming interfaces exist in your application. A few years back, before.net, we were all stuck using an API called MFC to make front-ends and a lot of other minor tasks.
Now you can get their APIs, provided you first sign an agreement that you're in bed with MS. I do think this is a major step up, but would prefer them to keep them open.
I can care less if they're anti-GNU or if they try to put FUD into companies. If I can code with an open API on windows if I choose I would actually respect Microsoft.
NetWare *was* way ahead of it's time. 10 years ago, it did things (with an ugly gui and expensive admin) that the MS world didn't start until only a few years ago.
SUSE had a lot of potential. These days, for me, it's much easier to install Linux than Windows (assuming you don't have wacky hardware).
I especially liked SUSE for being the first to include Handicap accessibility features into KDE.
SUSE is still out there and a major player, I just hope they don't get hit too hard - I really think they have a chance to be really successful.
Having a lot of IT friends in Europe and Asia, I know that a LOT of organizations are now using open office as a document standard. Since OO doesn't work 100% well with MS formats, allowing MS Office to be 100% compatable with OO will make the US companies (who are still obsessed with MS Office) more easily work with their OO businesses. If MS didn't support it, then the US companies will begin to use both MS Office and OO - which will start the push for US companies to use OO.
It's a win for MS to do this. They've done this with Java in the past and it proved damaging to the Java world.
Just print each entry on the blog, bring it to a coffeeshop, and now you're a journalist!
(even though there's millions of reuters/AP articles that never make it to print - like blog articles, and many times the articles are not accurate - like bloggers, and AP/Reuters put their articles on feeds - like bloggers with RSS)
Hrm... what's the difference.. I guess you need a degree...
There is over $3B spent a YEAR on "cybersecurity." So far, they've implemented an email alert system that tells people of new viruses/worms going around. They've convicted less than 10 people. They made claims that Al Queda operatives can turn off the Internet and disrupt powerlines through a modem in a cave (even though powerlines are turned off through a physical switch).
Now, our Cybersecuity making an outrageous claim that developers held responsible for unforseen security breaches. I would only be up for this if every time someone does a buffer under/overrun as a security breech that the OS developer be held responsible - Microsoft:)
There's many layers below the developer that can have security holes: * the virtual machine (for.NET/Java/Python etc etc) * The OS * the hardware's firmware * an error in the processor * the API the developer uses * poor requirements * encryption algorithm flaws * idiot bosses who proclaim that a product MUST ship on time
This guy is nothing but a tool of the government. All of cyber security has always been this way. My only regret is not joining them to get a piece of the terrorist/cybersecurity pie they're handing out due to FUD.
The packet sent over on a bittorrent does a CRC checksum. Then when the show is complete, it does an SHA. CRC is a 32 bit encryption. You'll only need to "poison" important packets - the header and the full frames.. or the first B-frame.
So 2^32 operations against about 300 packets can be done with a network grid of computers in a feasible day. Hell, they can get hollywood actors to pay for the computers.
Then, when a bittorrent completes, they'll at least mess up parts of the show. Maybe not the entire show (unless they mess with the header).
Yet another problem: when these people RAR the file up.. this could be worse, as messing with a few packets of an entire RAR file would make the whole thing corrupt.
Actually, "Innocent until proven guilty" is for CRIMINAL COURT. Yes, if you were being charged with a CRIME you would have that liberty. However, in civil court matters, it's all up to the judge.
Copyright infringement is a civil court matter (although there are laws in extreme cases which make it a crime). Yet to this date, no downloader has gone to jail (yet). If the RIAA or MPAA go this route, then "innocent until proven guilty," along with a slew of other protections would apply to the (innocent until proven guilty) infringer.
MPAA has only gone after (criminally) to the CAM people who make the films. In many cases, the CAM recorders have gone to jail (not the downloaders). Not to say the MPAA won't sue, but so far they're watching the RIAA and letting them carve the laws.
You're right.. I was about to post the same comment...
Yet MS helped develop the Handicap features on linux (indirectly), and they also helped develop mono for linux. They're also the largest supplier of mac software (because of office).
Yet developing a mainstream application for Linux would mean giving linux credit.. which MS cannot do (yet).
Give it time, once Linux hits the corporate offices for desktops, and the corporate offices get sick of using crossover office, MS will see a billion bucks and begin developing for it...
It was the same way for software that was first created on the Mac, many vendors said "we'll never go windows!" But now most of these ISV's now make the windows version first...
Most programming positions do pay a lot. As a programmer for the last 6 years, and remembering learning through college - I'd say work is way better than college. I realize at times (most of the time actually), my work is real boring.
However, when I think about what I did before this - office assistance and waiting on tables - I begin to realize that a lot of times us programmers become spoiled.
Granted, most of the time we deserve to be spoiled. A lot of work we do fires a lot of people who have unskilled labor, saving a company millions. But there does come a point where we have to realize that yes, it can suck at times, but sometimes you have to suck it up and just do the job.
I can see why people get burned out, but the programming field is becoming more and more competitive. I think the dot-com days of bringing the dog to work, free soda 24x7, super benefits, frequent promotions (who WASN'T a VP in 1999?), and just "heads down" coding without the headaches of knowing the business are numbered.
Perhaps I'm playing devil's advocate, but where is the point we have to suck it up and just do the work without running around like a spoiled brat? I think in the future we're going to compete with countries that pay their programmers A LOT less, so our work will have to become A LOT HARDER for keeping in line with competition.
How I miss 1999..
Google is forcing the authors to get hold of google to prevent their own works from being part of their print program? That's unfair.
Google should ASK to COPY a book. Hence, copyright.
A lot of posts bring up a good point: google is copying material that's not their right to copy - and it's done to bring in ad revenue. We all like the idea and want a service like this, so most of us our turning our heads to the issue here.
It's the same thing with torrents. Lots of people on/. use torrents to d/l illegal software/movies/tv shows/music. The EFF doesn't defend copyright infringers, they want to protect the technology.
It's a confusing argument. I feel that the copyright laws are wrong but the points argued are correct. But I'm not a lawyer.
I saw an episode of "In Search Of.." with Leonard Nemoy.
The show argued that plants have feelings!! Plants were put in equal environments - but one group were told mean things like "you'll never amount to anything! you're just a weed to me!" while the other plants were told "you are great! people love you."
According to the study, the socially deprived plants died quickly.
Now, ask yourself.. if this study were actually TRUE, wouldn't plants all over evil dictatorship countries die early?
Point being: researchers often make theories. They get funding. Without results, no funding. This goof who studied plant feelings had to of changed the data results to prove his point: plants have feelings.
Since then, I don't trust a lot of researchers -- including myself.
Please.. as a person who graduated CS at UIUC, I will do as all geeks do, and give you my lunch money! I was more talking about UIUC as a whole.. I wasn't trying to dare put me against the ECE folks. Those guys actually took the paractical and hard advanced physics, as opposed to my hard yet impractical math classes.
And all the folks who were working at NCSA (including myself), were workers for them by day and CS students by night.
No hard feelings! I have full faith in the fighting illini.. When I want there, USA today had us CS nerds pegged as #2 program in the country (and ECS was #1). Last I looked, CS program was at #5...
It's probably 1/2 my fault.. #2 until I went to work for failed dot-coms.. now #5...
So I guess I should've wrote my post:
Illini had to do way too much work to climb up in the rankings due to my failures after they gave me a diploma by accident..
Sun Solaris is now going Open Source. What does this mean to SCO? Anyone here thiink SCO will go after Sun now, since they paid SCO millions? Does this legally make Sun "recognize" the "Unix Property"?
After all, SCO isn't claiming much code is stolen anymore, just a bunch of header files and comments...
Of couse, this case looks like it's entering the final stages and that SCO will lose. But could opening Solaris give them a little water and food into their attack to keep the rats alive for a few months longer?
I live in Chicago, and this is already in the ghetto. It's kinda scary looking - bright blue lights all over with video camera.
Thing is: they work. Crime went way down in the areas where they're installed. The city has used the tapes numerous times in cases across the city.
Here's the catcher: crime went up in adjacent neighborhoods. What did the city do? Rotate the cameras between neighborhoods.
I'll admit though, it was nice going through a ghetto neighborhood in Chicago (they're REAL bad), get stared at by POS gang bangers who want to rob you, and wave to them knowing they don't have the guts to do it.
Do you guys think this will change the neighborhoods? If they're installed everywhere, where will the criminals go?
Google this:
1) This company was started by a drug running felon with ties to the Bush's
2) Read the Contract between Seisint and the Florida Goverment with the MATRIX
3) This company is very, very late with their software project - using terrorism as means to drag it out.
4) 120,000 terrorists in the US? C'mon! Has ANYONE on/. ever met a "terrorist"?
5) 3.2 billion dollars a year goes toward "cyber security".
After reading all this, I get soooo disgusted.. I mean, this is SICK!!! How much money is wasted? How the hell do I get a piece of terrorist pie?! Millions of dollars have been lost and never gone to me.
How can the open source community get some of this cash cow? How about a sourceforge project Ivory Tower (the irony of the name would be great)?
-Foo
"Below is a sample schedule from the University of Illinois. U of I has a strong and established CS program but isn't going to be as rigorous as an MIT or Berkley, so this should be a realistic example."
That's harsh!! Back in the 90's, U of I was ranked higher than Berkley but under MIT. So I suspected that he's from Berkley or MIT - seems wrong. Then I realized: UIUC (U of I) may not be as famous of a CS school anymore!
I'm a grad from UIUC - I need those kids to make me look good. They better whip themself into shape to undo the damage I caused with my low GPA:)
Foolinator
-- UIUC Grad, home of the first Internet browser
Who cares about Fry's love for Leela? We're geeks on./, we can take yet another Fry rejection. Which geek can't identify with that? Fry is cool, he can't be happy in love - cool guys just don't do that.
If the love plot is the only thing that would hold new episodes from being created, then that's only a minor problem. It's not jumping the shark.
EMail Fox (askfox@foxinc.com)!! Tell them "BRING BACK FUTURAMA!!"
Geeks have morphed the programmer to look cool in cheeseball Hollywood (ie Swordfish, Matrix, Antitrust, Hackers, The Net - excluding Dennis Miller, and booger - the original cool nerd), why not try and bring back Futurama?
Imagine if Microsoft weren't a monopoly.
Theoretically, if you owned an OS in a competitive market you would want more software choices. In other words, if Windows had an alternative, they would have to make their barriers to create software on it to become more loose.
Best way to come up with the most software for your OS is to make development on the OS free. But that won't happen (yet).
So if MS actually has competition, they would make it easier to release software for windows.
Expect MS to open source more apps which encourage development on Windows as Linux gains more ground. If the world embraces open source, MS is going to have to open more and more...
Slashdot Mirror
There's a lot of danger with providing an email address.
1) Companies have partnerships with marketing firms. Often, it's these marketing firms that are the evil ones.
2) Spammers setup sniffers on networks to sniff incoming and outgoing email. often times they sniff a router close to the source of where the marketing emails are sent out and then they have all the email addys.
Email sent out today is NOT encrypted. ANYONE can read it, including the email addys.
Just because it's unique to the website does not always mean that the company had a lone person who stole the addys.
Computers will be sooo much faster once we can let the 32 bit cousins go. 16 to 32 bit didn't take long at all.. But my favorite quote: "Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run." It's too bad that Vista will be the only windows OS for another 5-7 years. Anyone who can afford an apple will have a new one by then.
I like your comment: "Good idea in the beginning, bureaucracy kicks in, budgets get busted, scientists get frustrated and leave for the greener pastures in the US (or elsewhere)"
The US runs into the same problem and is the reputation we have whenever doing anything. Europe was pretty successful at getting GSM implemented in the EU (despite it being largely created in the US) while we have multiple standards floating in the US.
The pains the EU has recently started to feel are similar to what the US has felt between states and big companies for over 100 years now. Hopefully they'll do a better job sorting through all the big company mess. In the US, it's whomever has the biggest pocket that wins. It's true for technology standards as well as our laws.
Foo
p.s. I too hoped the EU make a military as well. If course the US govt is against it - that would mean creating an army bigger (but not badder) than the US.
My reason for not liking MS is simple: They don't open up their APIs. If you truly want your OS to have the best software possible you should let the world know what programming interfaces exist in your application. A few years back, before .net, we were all stuck using an API called MFC to make front-ends and a lot of other minor tasks.
Now you can get their APIs, provided you first sign an agreement that you're in bed with MS. I do think this is a major step up, but would prefer them to keep them open.
I can care less if they're anti-GNU or if they try to put FUD into companies. If I can code with an open API on windows if I choose I would actually respect Microsoft.
Let's dangle a few PSPs in front of these addicts. It'll amke them grow stronger.
Wait, I shouldn't joke about this, my father almost died from pac man fever.
NetWare *was* way ahead of it's time. 10 years ago, it did things (with an ugly gui and expensive admin) that the MS world didn't start until only a few years ago.
SUSE had a lot of potential. These days, for me, it's much easier to install Linux than Windows (assuming you don't have wacky hardware).
I especially liked SUSE for being the first to include Handicap accessibility features into KDE.
SUSE is still out there and a major player, I just hope they don't get hit too hard - I really think they have a chance to be really successful.
Having a lot of IT friends in Europe and Asia, I know that a LOT of organizations are now using open office as a document standard. Since OO doesn't work 100% well with MS formats, allowing MS Office to be 100% compatable with OO will make the US companies (who are still obsessed with MS Office) more easily work with their OO businesses. If MS didn't support it, then the US companies will begin to use both MS Office and OO - which will start the push for US companies to use OO.
It's a win for MS to do this. They've done this with Java in the past and it proved damaging to the Java world.
Just print each entry on the blog, bring it to a coffeeshop, and now you're a journalist!
(even though there's millions of reuters/AP articles that never make it to print - like blog articles, and many times the articles are not accurate - like bloggers, and AP/Reuters put their articles on feeds - like bloggers with RSS)
Hrm... what's the difference.. I guess you need a degree...
There is over $3B spent a YEAR on "cybersecurity." So far, they've implemented an email alert system that tells people of new viruses/worms going around. They've convicted less than 10 people. They made claims that Al Queda operatives can turn off the Internet and disrupt powerlines through a modem in a cave (even though powerlines are turned off through a physical switch).
:)
.NET/Java/Python etc etc)
Now, our Cybersecuity making an outrageous claim that developers held responsible for unforseen security breaches. I would only be up for this if every time someone does a buffer under/overrun as a security breech that the OS developer be held responsible - Microsoft
There's many layers below the developer that can have security holes:
* the virtual machine (for
* The OS
* the hardware's firmware
* an error in the processor
* the API the developer uses
* poor requirements
* encryption algorithm flaws
* idiot bosses who proclaim that a product MUST ship on time
This guy is nothing but a tool of the government. All of cyber security has always been this way. My only regret is not joining them to get a piece of the terrorist/cybersecurity pie they're handing out due to FUD.
Do the math...
The packet sent over on a bittorrent does a CRC checksum. Then when the show is complete, it does an SHA. CRC is a 32 bit encryption. You'll only need to "poison" important packets - the header and the full frames.. or the first B-frame.
So 2^32 operations against about 300 packets can be done with a network grid of computers in a feasible day. Hell, they can get hollywood actors to pay for the computers.
Then, when a bittorrent completes, they'll at least mess up parts of the show. Maybe not the entire show (unless they mess with the header).
Yet another problem: when these people RAR the file up.. this could be worse, as messing with a few packets of an entire RAR file would make the whole thing corrupt.
I think the whole thing is doable.
Foo
Actually, "Innocent until proven guilty" is for CRIMINAL COURT. Yes, if you were being charged with a CRIME you would have that liberty. However, in civil court matters, it's all up to the judge.
Copyright infringement is a civil court matter (although there are laws in extreme cases which make it a crime). Yet to this date, no downloader has gone to jail (yet). If the RIAA or MPAA go this route, then "innocent until proven guilty," along with a slew of other protections would apply to the (innocent until proven guilty) infringer.
MPAA has only gone after (criminally) to the CAM people who make the films. In many cases, the CAM recorders have gone to jail (not the downloaders). Not to say the MPAA won't sue, but so far they're watching the RIAA and letting them carve the laws.
Just my two cents,
Foo
You're right.. I was about to post the same comment...
Yet MS helped develop the Handicap features on linux (indirectly), and they also helped develop mono for linux. They're also the largest supplier of mac software (because of office).
Yet developing a mainstream application for Linux would mean giving linux credit.. which MS cannot do (yet).
Give it time, once Linux hits the corporate offices for desktops, and the corporate offices get sick of using crossover office, MS will see a billion bucks and begin developing for it...
It was the same way for software that was first created on the Mac, many vendors said "we'll never go windows!" But now most of these ISV's now make the windows version first...
Most programming positions do pay a lot. As a programmer for the last 6 years, and remembering learning through college - I'd say work is way better than college. I realize at times (most of the time actually), my work is real boring.
However, when I think about what I did before this - office assistance and waiting on tables - I begin to realize that a lot of times us programmers become spoiled.
Granted, most of the time we deserve to be spoiled. A lot of work we do fires a lot of people who have unskilled labor, saving a company millions. But there does come a point where we have to realize that yes, it can suck at times, but sometimes you have to suck it up and just do the job.
I can see why people get burned out, but the programming field is becoming more and more competitive. I think the dot-com days of bringing the dog to work, free soda 24x7, super benefits, frequent promotions (who WASN'T a VP in 1999?), and just "heads down" coding without the headaches of knowing the business are numbered.
Perhaps I'm playing devil's advocate, but where is the point we have to suck it up and just do the work without running around like a spoiled brat? I think in the future we're going to compete with countries that pay their programmers A LOT less, so our work will have to become A LOT HARDER for keeping in line with competition.
How I miss 1999..
Google is forcing the authors to get hold of google to prevent their own works from being part of their print program? That's unfair.
/. use torrents to d/l illegal software/movies/tv shows/music. The EFF doesn't defend copyright infringers, they want to protect the technology.
Google should ASK to COPY a book. Hence, copyright.
A lot of posts bring up a good point: google is copying material that's not their right to copy - and it's done to bring in ad revenue. We all like the idea and want a service like this, so most of us our turning our heads to the issue here.
It's the same thing with torrents. Lots of people on
It's a confusing argument. I feel that the copyright laws are wrong but the points argued are correct. But I'm not a lawyer.
I saw an episode of "In Search Of.." with Leonard Nemoy. The show argued that plants have feelings!! Plants were put in equal environments - but one group were told mean things like "you'll never amount to anything! you're just a weed to me!" while the other plants were told "you are great! people love you." According to the study, the socially deprived plants died quickly. Now, ask yourself.. if this study were actually TRUE, wouldn't plants all over evil dictatorship countries die early? Point being: researchers often make theories. They get funding. Without results, no funding. This goof who studied plant feelings had to of changed the data results to prove his point: plants have feelings. Since then, I don't trust a lot of researchers -- including myself.
1) Unhook your Windows PC
2) Grab you C64 out of the garage
3) http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/
How can you make a virus with only 64K of address space?
Please.. as a person who graduated CS at UIUC, I will do as all geeks do, and give you my lunch money! I was more talking about UIUC as a whole.. I wasn't trying to dare put me against the ECE folks. Those guys actually took the paractical and hard advanced physics, as opposed to my hard yet impractical math classes.
And all the folks who were working at NCSA (including myself), were workers for them by day and CS students by night.
No hard feelings! I have full faith in the fighting illini.. When I want there, USA today had us CS nerds pegged as #2 program in the country (and ECS was #1). Last I looked, CS program was at #5...
It's probably 1/2 my fault.. #2 until I went to work for failed dot-coms.. now #5...
So I guess I should've wrote my post:
Illini had to do way too much work to climb up in the rankings due to my failures after they gave me a diploma by accident..
Kristian
As a UIUC graduate in CS, I was very proud of their glory days of creating Mosaic and the birth of Apache (or what became apache)...
I still love how IE's help gives props to the university of illinois...
But they've been dropping from the rankings these days.. could this be a return to their hey days of "we invented the internet!"
Let's hope.. I feel ashamed to hang with the Melons and MITes..
Foo
Sun Solaris is now going Open Source. What does this mean to SCO? Anyone here thiink SCO will go after Sun now, since they paid SCO millions? Does this legally make Sun "recognize" the "Unix Property"?
After all, SCO isn't claiming much code is stolen anymore, just a bunch of header files and comments...
Of couse, this case looks like it's entering the final stages and that SCO will lose. But could opening Solaris give them a little water and food into their attack to keep the rats alive for a few months longer?
I live in Chicago, and this is already in the ghetto. It's kinda scary looking - bright blue lights all over with video camera.
Thing is: they work. Crime went way down in the areas where they're installed. The city has used the tapes numerous times in cases across the city.
Here's the catcher: crime went up in adjacent neighborhoods. What did the city do? Rotate the cameras between neighborhoods.
I'll admit though, it was nice going through a ghetto neighborhood in Chicago (they're REAL bad), get stared at by POS gang bangers who want to rob you, and wave to them knowing they don't have the guts to do it.
Do you guys think this will change the neighborhoods? If they're installed everywhere, where will the criminals go?
Google this: /. ever met a "terrorist"?
1) This company was started by a drug running felon with ties to the Bush's
2) Read the Contract between Seisint and the Florida Goverment with the MATRIX
3) This company is very, very late with their software project - using terrorism as means to drag it out.
4) 120,000 terrorists in the US? C'mon! Has ANYONE on
5) 3.2 billion dollars a year goes toward "cyber security".
After reading all this, I get soooo disgusted.. I mean, this is SICK!!! How much money is wasted? How the hell do I get a piece of terrorist pie?! Millions of dollars have been lost and never gone to me.
How can the open source community get some of this cash cow? How about a sourceforge project Ivory Tower (the irony of the name would be great)?
-Foo
"Below is a sample schedule from the University of Illinois. U of I has a strong and established CS program but isn't going to be as rigorous as an MIT or Berkley, so this should be a realistic example." :)
That's harsh!! Back in the 90's, U of I was ranked higher than Berkley but under MIT. So I suspected that he's from Berkley or MIT - seems wrong. Then I realized: UIUC (U of I) may not be as famous of a CS school anymore!
I'm a grad from UIUC - I need those kids to make me look good. They better whip themself into shape to undo the damage I caused with my low GPA
Foolinator
-- UIUC Grad, home of the first Internet browser
If the love plot is the only thing that would hold new episodes from being created, then that's only a minor problem. It's not jumping the shark.
EMail Fox (askfox@foxinc.com)!! Tell them "BRING BACK FUTURAMA!!"
Geeks have morphed the programmer to look cool in cheeseball Hollywood (ie Swordfish, Matrix, Antitrust, Hackers, The Net - excluding Dennis Miller, and booger - the original cool nerd), why not try and bring back Futurama?
Imagine if Microsoft weren't a monopoly. Theoretically, if you owned an OS in a competitive market you would want more software choices. In other words, if Windows had an alternative, they would have to make their barriers to create software on it to become more loose. Best way to come up with the most software for your OS is to make development on the OS free. But that won't happen (yet). So if MS actually has competition, they would make it easier to release software for windows. Expect MS to open source more apps which encourage development on Windows as Linux gains more ground. If the world embraces open source, MS is going to have to open more and more...