Who ever is instrumental for this already got away with the money. They are trying to lick the leftovers from the plate now. The funny thing is somebody lost and its not us(Open Source people), its the people who bought the stock.
One thing is for sure, this whole fiasco made more good publicity to FOSS. More people know about linux and more importantly what open source is.
Microsoft cannot vouch for the validity or quality of download packages offered by third parties not sanctioned by Microsoft."
How could they? They can't even vouch for their own products. How in the world are they going to vouch for someone else product?
Honestly I don't how the US educational system is but blaming it for moving jobs oversees is ridiculous. Are they saying the Indian(which i can speak for) educational system is better? India has a poor educational system. And they are finding fault with US education system? Before the flames start let me tell you something I am Indian and have survived the Indian Educational system. We have really few "good teachers" and a lot of good-for-nothing ones. The text books are outdated and so are the teaching tools. The education system is more about memorizing stuff than understanding it. Most of the exams results are like gambling. Nothing but luck.
I really don't see any privacy issues with RFID tags put on stuff. The customers are not tagged with it. Hell the only privacy issue I see is using credit card in these places. The good thing I see about RFID is that they could streamline processes which in turn could reduce costs for the company which would be (at least some of it) would be passed on to the customer.
The funny thing is all these people talk about privacy and stuff and I bet they wouldn't even encrypt their email.
Valenti: "But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Compared to the general population the number of people disabled is quite small. So why do we have ADA? Should improvements to acts be aimed at the people who are not disables. I am not trying to comparing Linux users to people who are disabled but minorities have civil rights too.
I don't know much about batteries but there is a certain number of charging cycles the rechargable batteries can handle and after which they die(or performance becomes poor). I wonder how they address this issue.
although this might *seem* a good idea its not going to work. Good luck implementing this outside the united states. Most of the spammers forge email headers. would it be impossible to forge the email servers on your "soft whitelist"?
Again the only real solution to spam is to stop buying from it. once the morons who support spammers financially stop the cash flow spam will stop. Again we still would have probles with worms sending spoofed emails.
Too much TV, like anything else(that includes hitting refresh for/.) is harmful. Yeah some TV shows are crappy(don't even get me started on the reality ones). but there are show that are still good(CSI anyone?).
"I'm all for corporations making profits, and the government helping protect this, but what is happening is that the small guy gets hurt"
you must be kidding right. You support government protecting corporations(think haliburton) and yet you are concerned but the "little guy". You have to pick one side. Pity is the last thing we need.
I don't think there is anything called a "perfectly secure operating system". Sure microsoft could make its operating system more secure. The same could be said for any other operating system be it linux or BSD or MAC OS.
Would it not be of vital importance that they be a member of this group?
I think it would be better microsoft doesn't joing the group. why? 'cause then the security groups policies would be influenced more microsoft's business gains. Microsoft, like any other business organization would first look out for its business interests more than standards.
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>Outsourcing to India
You had to say that didn't you? Can't be just out- sourcing in general. Do you know how many "tech" centrers and "universities" and "institutes" were started in India? probably more that it was started here in the US. and after the dot-com bubble burst probably 60 to 70 % of them went belly up. US in not alone in this situation.
"Most p2p network have search facilities. The search is done on a server, and the server is able to (and probably already does) log who searches for what."
agreed.I am guessing the log contain IP addresses which means shouldn't they subpoena the ISP to the get the real users name? if that's true then Microsoft is a lot quicker than RIAA to get the users IP address.
Yeah GPL and Xfree 4.4 may not be compatible with each other. but that doesn't mean one has to change for the other. that applies to both Xfree and GPL. If someone is starting a fork or a brand new project that doensn't mean its necessarily bad. Diversity is good. just like we have KDE and GNOME its better to have alternatives. Just my thought.
Indians do the like the idea of free knowledge exchange. One of the oldest universities in the world was NALANDHA University in India. Inportance was given to education and is still the same. Most of the older universities did not charge you to get your education. sadly its not the situation now. The population has grown and how ever good you might be at computers you need money to survive. In a land where there are 1 billon(and counting) people finding jobs is difficult. The social structure is also different. Many of us do support our parents after graduation. so money would be in short supply. One other subtle reason would be a lot of people find jobs in microsoft related work. so not much knowledge about opensource and its benefits.
If I remember right(somebody correct me if I am wrong) flash cards have some max rewrite cycle. Even if its high, it still won't beat my 2.1 GB seagate from yesteryear in lifespan.
putting the employees jobs at risk, possibly damaging their street cred at the same time
I guess the damage is already done. The only reason some companies are buying their rediculous licences for running Linux binaries is because they are afraid of their lawsuits. once this thing is over I don't think anyone would be willing to do business with sco. But what I think would happen is that SCO would rename itself and would try to get back to the game. The only people who are would be really affected by any of this would be the sco employees esp the programmers.
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Who ever is instrumental for this already got away with the money. They are trying to lick the leftovers from the plate now. The funny thing is somebody lost and its not us(Open Source people), its the people who bought the stock.
One thing is for sure, this whole fiasco made more good publicity to FOSS. More people know about linux and more importantly what open source is.
Mp3Pro?
Microsoft cannot vouch for the validity or quality of download packages offered by third parties not sanctioned by Microsoft."
How could they? They can't even vouch for their own products. How in the world are they going to vouch for someone else product?
Honestly I don't how the US educational system is but blaming it for moving jobs oversees is ridiculous. Are they saying the Indian(which i can speak for) educational system is better? India has a poor educational system. And they are finding fault with US education system? Before the flames start let me tell you something I am Indian and have survived the Indian Educational system. We have really few "good teachers" and a lot of good-for-nothing ones. The text books are outdated and so are the teaching tools. The education system is more about memorizing stuff than understanding it. Most of the exams results are like gambling. Nothing but luck.
I really don't see any privacy issues with RFID tags put on stuff. The customers are not tagged with it. Hell the only privacy issue I see is using credit card in these places. The good thing I see about RFID is that they could streamline processes which in turn could reduce costs for the company which would be (at least some of it) would be passed on to the customer.
The funny thing is all these people talk about privacy and stuff and I bet they wouldn't even encrypt their email.
Proof of concept?. For $30 not a bad deal. But without good support why would someone buy it. As for me, I am quite happy with openoffice.org.
Valenti: "But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Compared to the general population the number of people disabled is quite small. So why do we have ADA? Should improvements to acts be aimed at the people who are not disables. I am not trying to comparing Linux users to people who are disabled but minorities have civil rights too.
Cost of doing business.
I don't know much about batteries but there is a certain number of charging cycles the rechargable batteries can handle and after which they die(or performance becomes poor). I wonder how they address this issue.
although this might *seem* a good idea its not going to work. Good luck implementing this outside the united states. Most of the spammers forge email headers. would it be impossible to forge the email servers on your "soft whitelist"? Again the only real solution to spam is to stop buying from it. once the morons who support spammers financially stop the cash flow spam will stop. Again we still would have probles with worms sending spoofed emails.
important?
Too much TV, like anything else(that includes hitting refresh for /.) is harmful. Yeah some TV shows are crappy(don't even get me started on the reality ones). but there are show that are still good(CSI anyone?).
"I'm all for corporations making profits, and the government helping protect this, but what is happening is that the small guy gets hurt"
you must be kidding right. You support government protecting corporations(think haliburton) and yet you are concerned but the "little guy". You have to pick one side. Pity is the last thing we need.
I don't think there is anything called a "perfectly secure operating system". Sure microsoft could make its operating system more secure. The same could be said for any other operating system be it linux or BSD or MAC OS.
Would it not be of vital importance that they be a member of this group?
I think it would be better microsoft doesn't joing the group. why? 'cause then the security groups policies would be influenced more microsoft's business gains. Microsoft, like any other business organization would first look out for its business interests more than standards.
> >Outsourcing to India
You had to say that didn't you? Can't be just out- sourcing in general. Do you know how many "tech" centrers and "universities" and "institutes" were started in India? probably more that it was started here in the US. and after the dot-com bubble burst probably 60 to 70 % of them went belly up. US in not alone in this situation.
"Most p2p network have search facilities. The search is done on a server, and the server is able to (and probably already does) log who searches for what."
agreed.I am guessing the log contain IP addresses which means shouldn't they subpoena the ISP to the get the real users name? if that's true then Microsoft is a lot quicker than RIAA to get the users IP address.
how are they able to know who's downloading the files from p2p network?
is that you big bro?
shoot the link is farked. here's another one. http://it.geocities.com/zompi85/data/images/distri buzioni/mandrake.jpg
Yeah GPL and Xfree 4.4 may not be compatible with each other. but that doesn't mean one has to change for the other. that applies to both Xfree and GPL. If someone is starting a fork or a brand new project that doensn't mean its necessarily bad. Diversity is good. just like we have KDE and GNOME its better to have alternatives. Just my thought.
Indians do the like the idea of free knowledge exchange. One of the oldest universities in the world was NALANDHA University in India. Inportance was given to education and is still the same. Most of the older universities did not charge you to get your education. sadly its not the situation now. The population has grown and how ever good you might be at computers you need money to survive. In a land where there are 1 billon(and counting) people finding jobs is difficult. The social structure is also different. Many of us do support our parents after graduation. so money would be in short supply. One other subtle reason would be a lot of people find jobs in microsoft related work. so not much knowledge about opensource and its benefits.
If I remember right(somebody correct me if I am wrong) flash cards have some max rewrite cycle. Even if its high, it still won't beat my 2.1 GB seagate from yesteryear in lifespan.
putting the employees jobs at risk, possibly damaging their street cred at the same time
I guess the damage is already done. The only reason some companies are buying their rediculous licences for running Linux binaries is because they are afraid of their lawsuits. once this thing is over I don't think anyone would be willing to do business with sco. But what I think would happen is that SCO would rename itself and would try to get back to the game. The only people who are would be really affected by any of this would be the sco employees esp the programmers.
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sending tens of thousands of emails
spam people to stop spam? yeah it will work!