It depends who the laws are meant to serve- people or companies. If, as I understand it, laws (& gov't) are meant to serve people, then why shouldn't a group of people making a statement about a particular law be relevant? I'd prefer my gov serve citizens and not give a whit what Big. Co.'s agenda is.
I guess we should all consider ourselves fortunate to be enable to pay for the privilege of using their products. (Yeah right.)
Either MS is truly delusional regarding their "Rights as Vendor" or somebody needs their bottom spanked over a poorly worded press release.
They probably thought of it but considered it an inappropriate use of the network. Remember, the Internet originally wasn't meant for commercialization and there was great resistance to it right up until the early 1990's.
"We're approaching a situation where the PC type software-OEM model is viable in the mobile space"
That point has come and gone and the platform which achieved it is on track to dominate the market - it's called Android. I'm highly skeptical MS will be able to dethrone Google's darling given the history of MS on mobiles and Android's ability to evolve faster. Much faster.
Embrace - Extend - Extinguish is obviously a good strategy for getting large market share and maximizing profits. However, I don't think it's a great way to keep market share over the long term, especially if you rarely innovate, are expensive and, on occasion, a sub-par value. Your customers will eventually notice you're serving your share holders disproportionately more than you're serving your customers. That's when they're likely to leave.
How is it different from commercial software? At least when F/OSS dev's piss you off you're not paying for the software or commercial "support" which allows you to open a bug ticket. Sorry, there maybe some crab grass on both sides of the fence but at least I'm not getting fleeced on the F/OSS side. Ever pay $200 for a single pay-per-incident ticket with Vendor X and not get an issue resolved? It happens.
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The hostility from the MS fanboi's toward the *nix fanboi's reminds me of Big Tobacco's stance toward the American Medical Association regarding carcinogenic properties of cigarettes, respectively.
Tapes are useful as a removable & portable media. RAID arrays generally are not as portable. The RAID array won't do me much good when my house burns down- off-site media is the protection in this case. Large external hard drives are a suitable substitute which MAY lower the $/GB of off-siting content in certain scenarios (relative to even the most recent tape tech). I've been using Hitachi G-Drives in place of LTO and have reduce the media cost.
Good job PC World- I hope you got a lot of advertising dollars for the FUD article. Just curious, after you've lost all your eyeballs how you'll pay to print your publication?
Would be nice if somewhere there was mention of that fact that the author of the article is president of a software company that appears to be a pure MS shop- in addition to to being a "senior editor" at PC World.
Agreed. Looking at it as a desktop issue is fast becoming irrelevant. Linux already has it's beachhead - it's called Android. Didn't it recently beat out iPhone in cell phone market share? I'd wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens in the tablet world once they get them out there. I believe convenient new form factors and safe "walled gardens" (ie. app markets with free/cheap downloadables that are pseudo-repudiated by somebody or at least peer-reviewed) is going to drive the market for the next few years.
Seems a relevant time to bring up and old adage, "Health is merely the slowest way someone can die." (Anon) A saying particularly relevant in the fast moving world of technology. And I can't help but think of "Weekend at Bernie's" when I look at the way other OSes often get propped up.
Interesting idea. Thirty years ago many people were introduced to programming by printed (ink on mashed up trees) anthologies of programs that were generally around a page long (8.5 x 11). Don't know how pervasive the term was, but in my personal circles these programs were called "K-Byters" because they were ~1 K long (or less).
Breaking key-based encryption used to be considered hard to do. Bring more horsepower to bear, ie. a GPU, and today's Hard To Do turns into a Proof of Concept and eventually becomes tomorrow's Commonplace.
Because even after those in the know recognize a better value proposition there is significant latency before the rest of the world to catches up- decades in some cases.
I wouldn't build a castle and put the moat inside the castle wall either.
Why manage 2 layers when one done right (external to the PC) is sufficient and the other one, even managed correctly could be doing effectively nothing - if there are OS vulnerabilities as we know some commonly deployed OSes exhibit.
Don't you get the Hyperbole Times? "Orders of magnitude" is the new "literally" when it comes to marketing's abuse of language (c.f. David Cross bit on the misuse of "literally").
Hey, physics geeks! "Sheet of glass" is not an appropriate unit of measurement to use in a conversation about the forces exerted & effects on an object when dropped, especially when, as already mentioned the material(s) are unspecified. Never mind of course that its marketing speak about a hypothetical object in the distant future (distant in the context of the applicable industry).
Isn't that Physics 101; using and being clear on units of measurement and the standards on which they're based?
I've been a Cyrus IMAP admin for over a decade and have experienced no problems with user email boxes in the 6 Gb - 8 Gb range or single imap boxes with > 1E+06 messages. Performance of large batch message operations is also satisfactory (ie. import, export). It's also very useful to have server side message tagging support (ie. like gmail). I've heard other similar reports regarding FOSS imap servers such as Dovecot & UW and there seems to be at least some consensus that they are easier to manage than Cyrus but I have no direct experience regarding the relative ease of administration. Running your own local Zimbra might be a nice starting point as well- gives you a bunch of personal productivity functionality in a single groupware app. I'm running my own Zimbra instance on a RackCloud server for $90/year (all-in) for exactly this purpose.
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It depends who the laws are meant to serve- people or companies. If, as I understand it, laws (& gov't) are meant to serve people, then why shouldn't a group of people making a statement about a particular law be relevant? I'd prefer my gov serve citizens and not give a whit what Big. Co.'s agenda is.
The real question for this audience is whether or not we have the right to reverse engineer any devices up our asses.
I guess we should all consider ourselves fortunate to be enable to pay for the privilege of using their products. (Yeah right.) Either MS is truly delusional regarding their "Rights as Vendor" or somebody needs their bottom spanked over a poorly worded press release.
They probably thought of it but considered it an inappropriate use of the network. Remember, the Internet originally wasn't meant for commercialization and there was great resistance to it right up until the early 1990's.
"We're approaching a situation where the PC type software-OEM model is viable in the mobile space" That point has come and gone and the platform which achieved it is on track to dominate the market - it's called Android. I'm highly skeptical MS will be able to dethrone Google's darling given the history of MS on mobiles and Android's ability to evolve faster. Much faster.
Embrace - Extend - Extinguish is obviously a good strategy for getting large market share and maximizing profits. However, I don't think it's a great way to keep market share over the long term, especially if you rarely innovate, are expensive and, on occasion, a sub-par value. Your customers will eventually notice you're serving your share holders disproportionately more than you're serving your customers. That's when they're likely to leave.
How is it different from commercial software? At least when F/OSS dev's piss you off you're not paying for the software or commercial "support" which allows you to open a bug ticket. Sorry, there maybe some crab grass on both sides of the fence but at least I'm not getting fleeced on the F/OSS side. Ever pay $200 for a single pay-per-incident ticket with Vendor X and not get an issue resolved? It happens.
The hostility from the MS fanboi's toward the *nix fanboi's reminds me of Big Tobacco's stance toward the American Medical Association regarding carcinogenic properties of cigarettes, respectively.
Tapes are useful as a removable & portable media. RAID arrays generally are not as portable. The RAID array won't do me much good when my house burns down- off-site media is the protection in this case. Large external hard drives are a suitable substitute which MAY lower the $/GB of off-siting content in certain scenarios (relative to even the most recent tape tech). I've been using Hitachi G-Drives in place of LTO and have reduce the media cost.
I'm sorry, when did you start?
Good job PC World- I hope you got a lot of advertising dollars for the FUD article. Just curious, after you've lost all your eyeballs how you'll pay to print your publication?
Would be nice if somewhere there was mention of that fact that the author of the article is president of a software company that appears to be a pure MS shop- in addition to to being a "senior editor" at PC World.
Agreed. Looking at it as a desktop issue is fast becoming irrelevant. Linux already has it's beachhead - it's called Android. Didn't it recently beat out iPhone in cell phone market share? I'd wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens in the tablet world once they get them out there. I believe convenient new form factors and safe "walled gardens" (ie. app markets with free/cheap downloadables that are pseudo-repudiated by somebody or at least peer-reviewed) is going to drive the market for the next few years.
Seems a relevant time to bring up and old adage, "Health is merely the slowest way someone can die." (Anon) A saying particularly relevant in the fast moving world of technology. And I can't help but think of "Weekend at Bernie's" when I look at the way other OSes often get propped up.
Weren't "Toaster" boards in Amigas doing video encoding on GPUs in the early 1990's?
Your response beat out my own of "So does Catholicism." but, to play devil's advocate, how do you know nobody has seen the afterlife?
Interesting idea. Thirty years ago many people were introduced to programming by printed (ink on mashed up trees) anthologies of programs that were generally around a page long (8.5 x 11). Don't know how pervasive the term was, but in my personal circles these programs were called "K-Byters" because they were ~1 K long (or less).
Breaking key-based encryption used to be considered hard to do. Bring more horsepower to bear, ie. a GPU, and today's Hard To Do turns into a Proof of Concept and eventually becomes tomorrow's Commonplace.
Because even after those in the know recognize a better value proposition there is significant latency before the rest of the world to catches up- decades in some cases.
I wouldn't build a castle and put the moat inside the castle wall either. Why manage 2 layers when one done right (external to the PC) is sufficient and the other one, even managed correctly could be doing effectively nothing - if there are OS vulnerabilities as we know some commonly deployed OSes exhibit.
Which is convenient because in ten years that might be the minimum power plant required to support a PC running the latest MS O/S.
Don't you get the Hyperbole Times? "Orders of magnitude" is the new "literally" when it comes to marketing's abuse of language (c.f. David Cross bit on the misuse of "literally").
Hey, physics geeks! "Sheet of glass" is not an appropriate unit of measurement to use in a conversation about the forces exerted & effects on an object when dropped, especially when, as already mentioned the material(s) are unspecified. Never mind of course that its marketing speak about a hypothetical object in the distant future (distant in the context of the applicable industry).
Isn't that Physics 101; using and being clear on units of measurement and the standards on which they're based?
Probably not; it's likely just the tip of the iceberg.
I think you should make a clicking sound. Let us know how it goes ... maybe upload a .wav?
I've been a Cyrus IMAP admin for over a decade and have experienced no problems with user email boxes in the 6 Gb - 8 Gb range or single imap boxes with > 1E+06 messages. Performance of large batch message operations is also satisfactory (ie. import, export). It's also very useful to have server side message tagging support (ie. like gmail). I've heard other similar reports regarding FOSS imap servers such as Dovecot & UW and there seems to be at least some consensus that they are easier to manage than Cyrus but I have no direct experience regarding the relative ease of administration. Running your own local Zimbra might be a nice starting point as well- gives you a bunch of personal productivity functionality in a single groupware app. I'm running my own Zimbra instance on a RackCloud server for $90/year (all-in) for exactly this purpose.