Ultimately, it's about power. Microsoft's only crime was that it brought computing to the "common man", bypassing the high priests of tech. Those people hate MS for undermining them. They'd like nothing more than for the "common man" to worship them. Instead, the average employee just wonders where the geek who's supposed to be replacing the printer cartridge is.
Yes, because Microsoft's commercial competitors (Apple with the Mac, IBM with OS/2) were so disdainful of the common man. Give me a freakin' break.
rather than size terms: the confusion between memory and long-term storage. In my experience with my technical support customers (i.e. the family), nobody outside the industry really understands the difference between RAM and disk space.
This company is run by a genius, though, since every suburbanite in the world thinks that just a few tweaks to the roadway network that are being held back by the evil DOT can solve their commute.
"We" never made the choice to allow illegal immigrants to increase the profit margin of these employers. At least, I have yet to be surveyed by any company on the topic. In fact, I bet most people, if surveyed, would rather illegal immigrants _not_ be here, even if it meant a Big Mac would be a dime more.
in a lot of ways - many of the more successful expeditions which explored the New World were run by rich guys in search of loot; at most quasi-sponsored by governments (and even then, it was rich guys looking for loot who happened to be running a government).
IBM's goal was, and presumably still is, to get customers like that bank to write all their new apps in Java; so that "porting", once the big customer was finally willing to change platforms, would be easier.
that's a hell of a lot easier than writing a "porting layer" for linux. Nobody liked even having to recompile big proprietary apps when both ends were UNIX, remember?
Actually, I'd wager that OS/2 at its peak had more desktops running it than linux does now. The sales we hit were in the high single-digit millions -- these are user seats at big corporations, not servers.
Of course, generally it's "bad" closed-source apps that GET opened; because by the only metric that matters to companies who create closed-source, "good" ones keep selling, and hence, no need to open their source.
That's silly. This ruling does not say that Intel would have been prevented from blacklisting Hamidi (which for some stupid reason they didn't want to do). Hamidi's mail was not spam by any reasonable definition of the term. Annoying? Perhaps. But I trust this court a lot more than I trust Intel, who has a vested interest in keeping their wage-slaves uninformed.
Ah, that could have been written by a five-year-old.
Those of us who worked in companies which competed with Microsoft understand that monopolies are suboptimal for capitalism. Eventually, it would get sorted out by the market; but for those of us who would rather not wait a hundred years, the government is the only available tool for the job.
That's a childish view of corporations. Relatively few of them (even the ones run by the pointiest haired weasels) fear free software because they think it's gimmicky; they actually fear it because they think it can't be worth anything if people aren't paying anything for it. (Think how often you've heard a variant of "Product X costs Y and it's worth every penny")
(The inherent assumption there being that if people aren't paying anything for it, they must not be willing to pay for it is, of course, not very valid, but it's a much more adult one to make than the one you implied)
I find it amazing that a guy like that could survive even at a small company. Viewing code primarily as "free expression" is a particularly goofy variant of academiathink; one which seems unsuitable for private-sector work.
yeah, except I agree; most people in South Florida are functionally retarded. Remember, this is the place that brought us hundreds of elderly Jews voting for Pat Buchanan; the anthrax scare; cheap housing for many of the 9/11 terrorists; several of the worst corporate crooks in recent memory; oh, man, I'm depressed.
The fork is a simple tool; the train is most definitely not. Nor is the TV; the stereo; the oven; the dishwasher; etc.
If every time I wanted to wash a slightly different set of dishes, I had to assemble a new dishwasher by combining a bunch of its elements; I'd be prepared for the state-of-the-art in linux.
This is a load of crap. People don't use linux because the "string together a bunch of small tools" approach so popular with Unix geeks is absolutely 180 degrees opposite from the paradigm most people are comfortable with in their real lives.
This is absolutely the case. I'm at a friggin' STARTUP now where the operations manager now wants to install monitoring software on peoples' PCs to make sure they're working; after imposing core hours of 9-5 (no room for the magma or crust on that core) and constantly walking around making sure asses are in seats.
At the large company I worked at (Big Blue), telecommuting was "an option" which meant that if you cleared it a long time ahead, it was OK once in a while; which is, of course, useless; since I usually wanted to telecommute on mornings where the weather looked good (to work with the windows open).
At the medium company I worked at (video cards), telecommuting was my way of life for 9 months, but only because I was one of only two people left at the local site after a bunch of people quit; and the other guy was already working at home. These pantloads eventually turned the screws and graced me with a crappy little office as well. (Plus, when we had the core 4 programmers including me; we actually had to use a temporary sublease where all of us shared a single 28.8Kbps modem line for network connectivity for a month - because of an screwup at company legal with our lease at some new office space. Despite the fact that we all had cable modems or ADSL at home; this particular pantload thought he couldn't trust us (but somehow didn't realize that he wouldn't know if we were in the office anyways due to the 2,000 mile distance).
You need to have non-basic service here, or so I have been told. That doesn't mean movie channels; but it does mean the 60ish channels that include about 40 channels I never watch and 15 I watch once a month if that.
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rather than size terms: the confusion between memory and long-term storage. In my experience with my technical support customers (i.e. the family), nobody outside the industry really understands the difference between RAM and disk space.
This company is run by a genius, though, since every suburbanite in the world thinks that just a few tweaks to the roadway network that are being held back by the evil DOT can solve their commute.
"We" never made the choice to allow illegal immigrants to increase the profit margin of these employers. At least, I have yet to be surveyed by any company on the topic. In fact, I bet most people, if surveyed, would rather illegal immigrants _not_ be here, even if it meant a Big Mac would be a dime more.
in a lot of ways - many of the more successful expeditions which explored the New World were run by rich guys in search of loot; at most quasi-sponsored by governments (and even then, it was rich guys looking for loot who happened to be running a government).
IBM can't; too much of it's critical core is covered by original agreements with Microsoft.
that's a hell of a lot easier than writing a "porting layer" for linux. Nobody liked even having to recompile big proprietary apps when both ends were UNIX, remember?
Actually, I'd wager that OS/2 at its peak had more desktops running it than linux does now. The sales we hit were in the high single-digit millions -- these are user seats at big corporations, not servers.
Of course, generally it's "bad" closed-source apps that GET opened; because by the only metric that matters to companies who create closed-source, "good" ones keep selling, and hence, no need to open their source.
That's silly. This ruling does not say that Intel would have been prevented from blacklisting Hamidi (which for some stupid reason they didn't want to do). Hamidi's mail was not spam by any reasonable definition of the term. Annoying? Perhaps. But I trust this court a lot more than I trust Intel, who has a vested interest in keeping their wage-slaves uninformed.
Those of us who worked in companies which competed with Microsoft understand that monopolies are suboptimal for capitalism. Eventually, it would get sorted out by the market; but for those of us who would rather not wait a hundred years, the government is the only available tool for the job.
Is Slashdot finally growing up?
(The inherent assumption there being that if people aren't paying anything for it, they must not be willing to pay for it is, of course, not very valid, but it's a much more adult one to make than the one you implied)
I find it amazing that a guy like that could survive even at a small company. Viewing code primarily as "free expression" is a particularly goofy variant of academiathink; one which seems unsuitable for private-sector work.
No, I'll go on the record as saying that you have no right at all to profit from your children or grandchildren.
Tucker Max should fight Max Power. And Bob Dole should be the referee.
yeah, except I agree; most people in South Florida are functionally retarded. Remember, this is the place that brought us hundreds of elderly Jews voting for Pat Buchanan; the anthrax scare; cheap housing for many of the 9/11 terrorists; several of the worst corporate crooks in recent memory; oh, man, I'm depressed.
Good Lord, this is the gym my parents go to...
Every startup around these parts had a CTO. Even if it was just one of the three programmers taking the title.
IBM is the leader in "computer" sales.
Remember, a lot of "computers" don't count as "personal computers". Still a lot of big and medium iron going out the doors of IBM.
If every time I wanted to wash a slightly different set of dishes, I had to assemble a new dishwasher by combining a bunch of its elements; I'd be prepared for the state-of-the-art in linux.
Sideshow Bob's brother's fiendishness knows no bounds. And what about Geech? How will we ever give him a proper burial now?
This is a load of crap. People don't use linux because the "string together a bunch of small tools" approach so popular with Unix geeks is absolutely 180 degrees opposite from the paradigm most people are comfortable with in their real lives.
At the large company I worked at (Big Blue), telecommuting was "an option" which meant that if you cleared it a long time ahead, it was OK once in a while; which is, of course, useless; since I usually wanted to telecommute on mornings where the weather looked good (to work with the windows open).
At the medium company I worked at (video cards), telecommuting was my way of life for 9 months, but only because I was one of only two people left at the local site after a bunch of people quit; and the other guy was already working at home. These pantloads eventually turned the screws and graced me with a crappy little office as well. (Plus, when we had the core 4 programmers including me; we actually had to use a temporary sublease where all of us shared a single 28.8Kbps modem line for network connectivity for a month - because of an screwup at company legal with our lease at some new office space. Despite the fact that we all had cable modems or ADSL at home; this particular pantload thought he couldn't trust us (but somehow didn't realize that he wouldn't know if we were in the office anyways due to the 2,000 mile distance).
There is no escape from pointy-haired bosses.
You need to have non-basic service here, or so I have been told. That doesn't mean movie channels; but it does mean the 60ish channels that include about 40 channels I never watch and 15 I watch once a month if that.