Since always, there are alot of reasons why open source == good and closed source == bad.
In and of itself, closing off source is a bad thing for humanity. If something has functionality and an improved fitness for a purpose, that functionality should be opened up and given back.
From a business perspective closed source is a nightmare, it puts your most critical business functions (no medium or larger sized business could last long without computers) at the mercy of a third party which can cut it off at any time for any reason. Which can collapse and go out of business if they don't decide you annoy them. For all intensive purposes your business is only allowed to exist at their mercy and whim.
With open source they say shut down, you give them the finger and continue operating. With open souce they go belly up, you hire in a couple coders of your own.
About winex actually is able to run about 50 top and not top games, their database is not all working games, it's games that are even under considering for making work.
Also Cross over office is extremely buggy, it crashes every 5min in any office application. Personally I think both winex and COO should dump what they have come up with back into the true wine. Those two merged with the api ground they've made given back to wine would make for some serious advancement, seperate keepin all the true advancement to themselves it doesn't amount to much.
No, the technology the chinese are wielding in warfare is not exactly sticks. This is where your wrong, this is not the equivelent of peasants with sticks fighting knights in plate armor (even in that case the peasants eventually won).
The chinese are only slightly behind us in terms of military technology, not drastically behind us. And there are enough of them that every one of our solidiers COULD take 100 of them and it wouldn't even make them blink.
Iraq was one of the weakest nations in the world our whole "invasion" of iraq was never anything more than a joke.
Nuclear Weapons aside (since nobody will use them unless somebody else does first, even in the event of a war) china does NOT have ANY competition in terms of military power. Not the US, certainly not Europe (which united doesn't even begin to compare with the military or economic power of the US) and certainly not Russia anymore. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to face the chinese if they were wielding sticks.
The chinese certainly are NOT wielding sticks however, they have manditory military service by far the largest population of any nation in the world. And they definately have arms for their vast military.
Actually I think in china they'll partially rule in favor of SCO. I think they'll let SCO license them to keep the source to themselves attempt to use that in order to save public face.
Microsoft didn't invent active directory either, actually active directory is a rip off of LDAP, if you dig you'll find ldap tools for mass importing and exporting of data from your trees. Active Directory is just LDAP, altered to be proprietary... like everything else released by microsoft it's a knock off of someone elses innovation. They've never innovated anything.
my understanding is there is nothing that actually requires you to deploy everything in the bundle... in fact you can deploy none of it and still pay for the licenses... these are licenses that are already paid for. Even if those licenses were bought yesterday, they would be wasted money boo hoo, but since the licensing for linux is NOTHING, then you can easily drop those and transition ALL of the things in that bundle to open source solutions and NOT have to pay for any piece of it from MS next time payment is due. You simply never buy an upgrade to the bundle.
ummm media player the best streaming codec? I don't think i've ever seen a streaming codec that DOESN'T trump it, in quality and speed, and espcially in portability. As well know portability is the most important factor in streaming media..net again it sucks, especially in terms of portablity. How can develope a language with the intention of competing with java, when java's only benefit is portablity, and NOT make it portable?
There is nothing wrong with reverse engineering. Using the code obtained directly maybe, but nothing wrong with studying it to implement various features in the office suite. Our own technology thrives on this.
What has me clueless is why someone would want to reverse engineer a Microsoft product. It's not like there is anything significant in them that can't be found in a better implementation elsewhere.
"But that same genetic research, without a doubt, will ensure that humans will be genetically engineered into another species vastly more advanced than us, thereby meaning our own de-facto extinction."
If we don't do it, nature will. If we are able to create an evolved species, then they SHOULD replace us. And no we SHOULDN'T avoid it.
interesting, we have a story about word being nasty, bloated, and most importantly, a security risk. I suggest getting rid of the security risk since there are plenty of other choices.
Somehow this makes me a troll? What do we mod down ANYTHING that even hints at being a negative statement about microsoft products now days? How slashdot has changed...
Yes what you learn in college is already starting to gather dust the day you walk in the door.
Yes it would take an idiot to truely be set back 4yrs, because anyone but an idiot will be keeping up with technology on top of college. What I'm saying is that if you didn't touch a pc or anything electronic aside from your schoolwork. If the only input you recieved during that time was what your taught in the classrooms. You'd walk out 4yrs behind.
I agree with the gist of your statement with one minor correction. You CAN rely on a mailing list. You CAN'T blame them or start chewing their ass when your frustrated like contracted support.
"Of course, you could just do what a lot of people do and rely on mailing lists for support for really hard problems... it works great but it's quite understandable that large businesses are willing to pay for something more formal"
Indeed, even though the mailing lists generally MORE senior guru's than redhat employs and are quite likely to respond if those REALLY Bizarre problems come up.
Seriously though, aside from those really bizarre problems an enterprise level organization should already have internal staff qualified to handle anything that should arise. For $350kish they could hire 3 talented programmers to work the 3 most critical projects they use and those programmers will be dedicated to them first, when they aren't busy solving one of those critical issues then they can be busy working on features that interest the company.
This works well for the company, they would gain some support from a very loyal community. They leverage the power of open source to get features they want without beg and pray (and know what it's going to cost them). And those Mailing lists become even more legitimate as a support means (those senior developers are alot more likely to notice and work with other senior developers than some random joe posting "my computer no work"). They get what they want, they are giving something back to the world at large. They contribute to the programmer economy AND they have punished redhat for bait and hook techniques to force upgrades.
You learn next to nothing in school, it's really impressive when you think about it. They manage to make entire classes in which you have to absorb volumes of material and yet somehow, if you memorize every detail of that material and retain it, you still only walk away with a 10th of what you figured out playing with the subject on your own the first week...
You don't learn in the classroom, it's primary purpose is to give a piece of paper and 4yr+ setback on the world of technology. You learn in the field.
So let me get this straight, you'd consider paying someone right out of college more than $20k to start with, and then you think their salaries should all be doubled in 2yrs? Considering the average ANYTHING support professional, I'd say it's a fair guess that half of them just touched the OS for the first time yesterday and are piped info from engineering to maintain the facade.
aye, we all know how great management is at judging what the right choices are in technology they don't know a damn thing about (or knew about 10yrs ago and have just followed jargon since).
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Since always, there are alot of reasons why open source == good and closed source == bad.
In and of itself, closing off source is a bad thing for humanity. If something has functionality and an improved fitness for a purpose, that functionality should be opened up and given back.
From a business perspective closed source is a nightmare, it puts your most critical business functions (no medium or larger sized business could last long without computers) at the mercy of a third party which can cut it off at any time for any reason. Which can collapse and go out of business if they don't decide you annoy them. For all intensive purposes your business is only allowed to exist at their mercy and whim.
With open source they say shut down, you give them the finger and continue operating. With open souce they go belly up, you hire in a couple coders of your own.
Now I love linux, but lets not spread BS
About winex actually is able to run about 50 top and not top games, their database is not all working games, it's games that are even under considering for making work.
Also Cross over office is extremely buggy, it crashes every 5min in any office application. Personally I think both winex and COO should dump what they have come up with back into the true wine. Those two merged with the api ground they've made given back to wine would make for some serious advancement, seperate keepin all the true advancement to themselves it doesn't amount to much.
I doubt gates is scared, if Microsoft crumbles to dust tommorow gates walks away a VERY VERY rich man.
no, the company doesn't have to make all it's stock public.
AFAIK a company can ensure that there is always 51% of it's stock which is never publically traded.
nah, the brits were once a super power, EUROPE was never a super power. And neither the brits nor europe combined are super powers today.
No, the technology the chinese are wielding in warfare is not exactly sticks. This is where your wrong, this is not the equivelent of peasants with sticks fighting knights in plate armor (even in that case the peasants eventually won).
The chinese are only slightly behind us in terms of military technology, not drastically behind us. And there are enough of them that every one of our solidiers COULD take 100 of them and it wouldn't even make them blink.
Iraq was one of the weakest nations in the world our whole "invasion" of iraq was never anything more than a joke.
Nuclear Weapons aside (since nobody will use them unless somebody else does first, even in the event of a war) china does NOT have ANY competition in terms of military power. Not the US, certainly not Europe (which united doesn't even begin to compare with the military or economic power of the US) and certainly not Russia anymore. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to face the chinese if they were wielding sticks.
The chinese certainly are NOT wielding sticks however, they have manditory military service by far the largest population of any nation in the world. And they definately have arms for their vast military.
Actually I think in china they'll partially rule in favor of SCO. I think they'll let SCO license them to keep the source to themselves attempt to use that in order to save public face.
Microsoft didn't invent active directory either, actually active directory is a rip off of LDAP, if you dig you'll find ldap tools for mass importing and exporting of data from your trees. Active Directory is just LDAP, altered to be proprietary... like everything else released by microsoft it's a knock off of someone elses innovation. They've never innovated anything.
my understanding is there is nothing that actually requires you to deploy everything in the bundle... in fact you can deploy none of it and still pay for the licenses... these are licenses that are already paid for. Even if those licenses were bought yesterday, they would be wasted money boo hoo, but since the licensing for linux is NOTHING, then you can easily drop those and transition ALL of the things in that bundle to open source solutions and NOT have to pay for any piece of it from MS next time payment is due. You simply never buy an upgrade to the bundle.
ummm media player the best streaming codec? I don't think i've ever seen a streaming codec that DOESN'T trump it, in quality and speed, and espcially in portability. As well know portability is the most important factor in streaming media. .net again it sucks, especially in terms of portablity. How can develope a language with the intention of competing with java, when java's only benefit is portablity, and NOT make it portable?
unless they get rid of ALL of those things. And if the new software is open source the licenses are nil.
There is nothing wrong with reverse engineering. Using the code obtained directly maybe, but nothing wrong with studying it to implement various features in the office suite. Our own technology thrives on this.
What has me clueless is why someone would want to reverse engineer a Microsoft product. It's not like there is anything significant in them that can't be found in a better implementation elsewhere.
oh hell yeah, you mean you've never used a gestapospread?
hmm we're talking several gigawatts here when operating PROPERLY, that's a hell of fuse.
It's always those damn canadians
"But that same genetic research, without a doubt, will ensure that humans will be genetically engineered into another species vastly more advanced than us, thereby meaning our own de-facto extinction."
If we don't do it, nature will. If we are able to create an evolved species, then they SHOULD replace us. And no we SHOULDN'T avoid it.
interesting, we have a story about word being nasty, bloated, and most importantly, a security risk. I suggest getting rid of the security risk since there are plenty of other choices.
Somehow this makes me a troll? What do we mod down ANYTHING that even hints at being a negative statement about microsoft products now days? How slashdot has changed...
Yes what you learn in college is already starting to gather dust the day you walk in the door.
Yes it would take an idiot to truely be set back 4yrs, because anyone but an idiot will be keeping up with technology on top of college. What I'm saying is that if you didn't touch a pc or anything electronic aside from your schoolwork. If the only input you recieved during that time was what your taught in the classrooms. You'd walk out 4yrs behind.
I agree with the gist of your statement with one minor correction. You CAN rely on a mailing list. You CAN'T blame them or start chewing their ass when your frustrated like contracted support.
it's .cue, now RTFA like a good AC.
"Of course, you could just do what a lot of people do and rely on mailing lists for support for really hard problems... it works great but it's quite understandable that large businesses are willing to pay for something more formal"
Indeed, even though the mailing lists generally MORE senior guru's than redhat employs and are quite likely to respond if those REALLY Bizarre problems come up.
Seriously though, aside from those really bizarre problems an enterprise level organization should already have internal staff qualified to handle anything that should arise. For $350kish they could hire 3 talented programmers to work the 3 most critical projects they use and those programmers will be dedicated to them first, when they aren't busy solving one of those critical issues then they can be busy working on features that interest the company.
This works well for the company, they would gain some support from a very loyal community. They leverage the power of open source to get features they want without beg and pray (and know what it's going to cost them). And those Mailing lists become even more legitimate as a support means (those senior developers are alot more likely to notice and work with other senior developers than some random joe posting "my computer no work"). They get what they want, they are giving something back to the world at large. They contribute to the programmer economy AND they have punished redhat for bait and hook techniques to force upgrades.
I could be wrong, just something to think about.
You learn next to nothing in school, it's really impressive when you think about it. They manage to make entire classes in which you have to absorb volumes of material and yet somehow, if you memorize every detail of that material and retain it, you still only walk away with a 10th of what you figured out playing with the subject on your own the first week...
You don't learn in the classroom, it's primary purpose is to give a piece of paper and 4yr+ setback on the world of technology. You learn in the field.
So let me get this straight, you'd consider paying someone right out of college more than $20k to start with, and then you think their salaries should all be doubled in 2yrs? Considering the average ANYTHING support professional, I'd say it's a fair guess that half of them just touched the OS for the first time yesterday and are piped info from engineering to maintain the facade.
aye, we all know how great management is at judging what the right choices are in technology they don't know a damn thing about (or knew about 10yrs ago and have just followed jargon since).