Nokia just made a partneship with Microsoft. Except for IBM (that was nearly banckrupt, but survived) that can end in two outcomes: 1 - No more Nokia; 2 - Microsoft buys Nokia.
"I wouldn't trust those bastards not to screw you over down the road with their other products (e.g. their database)"
Just try to port any software for their database and you'll see that they already screwed it as much as they can. No need to distrust them.
Anywhay, they never did anything under the covers. It is that the people who buy Oracle aren't the ones that must live with Oracle (that means, they sell only to big corporations), so their botton line doesn't feel their users revolt. Also, once you are using Oracle, you are locked in.
Oracle could throw service clients away, but hardware and software are very scale sensitive markets. On scale sensitive markets the solution to "not profitable clients" is to get more "not profitable clients" so your unitary costs go down, and those clients become profitable. If you simply throw them away, your profitable clients will become unprofitable next, and you'll need to throw all your client base away.
They could have made a killing if they distributed Open Solaris under GPLv3, hell, some people were even talking about Open Solaris killing Linux by the time. Instead, Sun published things in an "we own everything you do" license, and required copyrights assignments. It is one more place where Sun just didn't get it enough to be sucessfull, but didn't also get it so wrong to fail.
Now, Oracle's contributions to the Linux kernel were mainly focused on making their database run faster. Ok, it is good that they did it, but don't expect a lot of praise.
I often find buggy packages in Debian stable. And those are normaly software that is buggy upstream, and kind of unique, not having any replacement available on other distros (without compiling the same bugged one) nor on Windows. The situation is so that I normaly report the bug upstream, instead of on Debian. I guess it is better to have buggy software that do some of the things that it should do than no software at all.
The amount of functionality available inside the Debian repositories would make (and normaly does make).rmp users dizzy, and Windows users completely lost.
"nor do I want to be forced to install some crappy bloatware windows emulating desktop like gnome or kde"
That nails down another thing about Debian. I just don't want to run some bloatware at servers, thank you RH and SUSE. I also don't want that server to start missbehaving from times to times just because I didn't use the (GUI) distro sanctioned config application. Config application? WTF if you want to make some application that makes my life easier, thank you (but I probably won't use it if it is a GUI), but oblying people to use those applications is another thing completely, and making them GUI based, and not scriptable is stupid.
On the desktop, by the other side, I like KDE (3, didn't try 4 yet but will probably update now that squeeze is out) quite well.
Why do you think so? Most people use free software to get things done, not because they are tin-foil nuts.
Also, did you realise that there is a false dicotomy at the above paragraph. "Free software nuts" is different from "tin-foil nuts", and whther any of them aren really nuts is out to the reader to decide.
That is just a publicity stunt. People that fall for it would be too concerned to listen their software is based on something else (to the point of being afraid to install it) anyway, and by that date are not important for Debian. Later, some may learn a thing or two, and become relevant, by them they'll already know how things work.
It's too bad that publicity and truth are so opost to each other. But it is the way the world is, it should be stupid to deny it.
I kind of liked the first Police Academy, but I can understand you'd think the world would be a better place without them. But Google getting things out of their search engine just because the authors (or whoever has interest int them) threatened to sue is evil. That would put Google in a "we can do anything we want, and you can't defend yourself" position.
That is a bit worse than that. If the police already suspected them, they could simply follow the suspect, wait for him to dump the driver at the truk, stop the truck, get the disks without any trouble on getting search arrants or any such thing.
People think hard about how to destroy data on a disk for a reason.
Aerogel is an interesting idea. I also don't work with rockets, but the basic idea is that they are mass constrained, not volume constrained. And, with something as strong as aerogel, it shouldn't be hard to create an light structure that when filled with it holds into one piece during launch (avoiding such problems with aerondynamics).
Also, I don't know why such insistence on catching things. Let is pass through the gel, the gel will vaporize, the debris will lose energy and fall into a lower and probably more eliptical orbit, where friction with the atmosphere will be more intense.
That's just evading the point. Do the people locked in Guantanamo have the right of due process? Or are they locked without any formal accusation?
Yes, I know the answer, and if you think that corroborates your statement (what I'd disagree, since things are a bit more complex than that), I'm quite ok with that.
Are you complaining about step 3? Yes, those are mainly paid MS people (not all, mind you, people are strange), but that doesn't make it less sonore. The press do run wild about what MS pays it to run, and everywhere there are people repeating the MS song.
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You have an idea on how powerfull this will make Microsoft. You have no inkling on how powerfull this will make Nokia.
Nokia just made a partneship with Microsoft. Except for IBM (that was nearly banckrupt, but survived) that can end in two outcomes: 1 - No more Nokia; 2 - Microsoft buys Nokia.
That is your sentence, not mine.
Just try to port any software for their database and you'll see that they already screwed it as much as they can. No need to distrust them.
Anywhay, they never did anything under the covers. It is that the people who buy Oracle aren't the ones that must live with Oracle (that means, they sell only to big corporations), so their botton line doesn't feel their users revolt. Also, once you are using Oracle, you are locked in.
Oracle could throw service clients away, but hardware and software are very scale sensitive markets. On scale sensitive markets the solution to "not profitable clients" is to get more "not profitable clients" so your unitary costs go down, and those clients become profitable. If you simply throw them away, your profitable clients will become unprofitable next, and you'll need to throw all your client base away.
They could have made a killing if they distributed Open Solaris under GPLv3, hell, some people were even talking about Open Solaris killing Linux by the time. Instead, Sun published things in an "we own everything you do" license, and required copyrights assignments. It is one more place where Sun just didn't get it enough to be sucessfull, but didn't also get it so wrong to fail.
Now, Oracle's contributions to the Linux kernel were mainly focused on making their database run faster. Ok, it is good that they did it, but don't expect a lot of praise.
You'll have to pay for it (add-on), but Postgres scales way further than Oracle.
Bothering or not, the slope seems to be down, but just for oil. Hydrocarbons are still somewhat up.
I just wonder why gathering oil was so interesting when it was priced $30 a galon, and now at $90 people don't bother with it.
Nano is the default editor for fresh Debian instalations, so I guess there are more than 6 people using it.
I often find buggy packages in Debian stable. And those are normaly software that is buggy upstream, and kind of unique, not having any replacement available on other distros (without compiling the same bugged one) nor on Windows. The situation is so that I normaly report the bug upstream, instead of on Debian. I guess it is better to have buggy software that do some of the things that it should do than no software at all.
The amount of functionality available inside the Debian repositories would make (and normaly does make) .rmp users dizzy, and Windows users completely lost.
That nails down another thing about Debian. I just don't want to run some bloatware at servers, thank you RH and SUSE. I also don't want that server to start missbehaving from times to times just because I didn't use the (GUI) distro sanctioned config application. Config application? WTF if you want to make some application that makes my life easier, thank you (but I probably won't use it if it is a GUI), but oblying people to use those applications is another thing completely, and making them GUI based, and not scriptable is stupid.
On the desktop, by the other side, I like KDE (3, didn't try 4 yet but will probably update now that squeeze is out) quite well.
Why do you think so? Most people use free software to get things done, not because they are tin-foil nuts.
Also, did you realise that there is a false dicotomy at the above paragraph. "Free software nuts" is different from "tin-foil nuts", and whther any of them aren really nuts is out to the reader to decide.
That is just a publicity stunt. People that fall for it would be too concerned to listen their software is based on something else (to the point of being afraid to install it) anyway, and by that date are not important for Debian. Later, some may learn a thing or two, and become relevant, by them they'll already know how things work.
It's too bad that publicity and truth are so opost to each other. But it is the way the world is, it should be stupid to deny it.
I kind of liked the first Police Academy, but I can understand you'd think the world would be a better place without them. But Google getting things out of their search engine just because the authors (or whoever has interest int them) threatened to sue is evil. That would put Google in a "we can do anything we want, and you can't defend yourself" position.
Ok, I admit, I do have the needed materials... But just some fire would already do the work.
That is a bit worse than that. If the police already suspected them, they could simply follow the suspect, wait for him to dump the driver at the truk, stop the truck, get the disks without any trouble on getting search arrants or any such thing.
People think hard about how to destroy data on a disk for a reason.
Let me see...
"3. Destroy economy." Done.
"1. Destroy communications." Ongoing.
"2. Destroy power distribution." Todo.
Can nobody set their priorities right anymore?!? I should be 1, 2, 3, ????, Profit. 3, 1, 2 just isn't right.
No, but ethics and corporations are mutualy exclusive.
Completely legal, but it would be, you know... Evil.
Aerogel is an interesting idea. I also don't work with rockets, but the basic idea is that they are mass constrained, not volume constrained. And, with something as strong as aerogel, it shouldn't be hard to create an light structure that when filled with it holds into one piece during launch (avoiding such problems with aerondynamics).
Also, I don't know why such insistence on catching things. Let is pass through the gel, the gel will vaporize, the debris will lose energy and fall into a lower and probably more eliptical orbit, where friction with the atmosphere will be more intense.
That's just evading the point. Do the people locked in Guantanamo have the right of due process? Or are they locked without any formal accusation?
Yes, I know the answer, and if you think that corroborates your statement (what I'd disagree, since things are a bit more complex than that), I'm quite ok with that.
Or, in other words, they are -pedantic and -Werror.
And the US needs to press charges against someone to lock him at Guantanamo?
Are you complaining about step 3? Yes, those are mainly paid MS people (not all, mind you, people are strange), but that doesn't make it less sonore. The press do run wild about what MS pays it to run, and everywhere there are people repeating the MS song.
Thanks for clarifying upfront that you have no idea what you are talking about.