Oh, yes! The TCO research was an expensive ride with King Canute. It's obvious that M$oft, like SCO-SCAM, when confronted with "the beginning of the End", is placing its bets on the cupidity of the disciples of Mammon.
I don't wish any of 'em well. Let market forces decide. MS is bleeding heavily in all of its high-revenue hotspots - OS, intraweb, database, web tools - and it can't fix its QA and security lapses fast enough for the market it has burned, from home through to sovereign government, with arrogance, megalomania and FUD. In burning its captive market, it has burned its boats. 2003-2004 is the period in history when the chickens came home to roost. Bye-bye M$oft.
All power and praise to Apache for winning on merit.
How about putting SCO up for the next Darwin award? There is a long tradition behind such recognition being made posthumously. This awardee would have the extra fun of being alive to watch the worms consume its flesh.
Under "reactions of the Firebird folk", do you believe this posting from an anonymous reader, that slashdot headlined today? -- "How about calling it "900t"? [snip] In an Australian LinuxWorld article, one of their administrators calls the name change "one of the dirtiest deeds I've seen in open source so far."
[that article quoted me, btw]
[snip] "In a MozillaZine article, the same person accused mozilla.org of "theft" and "corporate bullying". They don't explain how it was different when they picked a name that was already used by a BBS, financial software manufacturer, Fenix IDE and games company."
I did post a comment about these other "Firebird" projects, which all except one are either more recent than ours, or are long defunct. The BBS project (a year older than our project) is a Chinese bulletin board, scarcely to be considered as being in the same space the way an open source browser and an open source database are...
"Meanwhile, IBPhoenix, an organisation that supports the development of the Firebird database, has put up a protest page, encouraging people to spam the MozillaZine forums"
This is a patent LIE - hence, no doubt, the poster's desire to stay anonymous. The readers were invited to write, not "encouraged to spam". As background to why the need to do so, our private emails to the Mozilla people at the start of all this have gone unanswered. What else could we do?
"(even though MozillaZine had nothing to do with the decision)"
Another misrepresentation. The announcement was made on the Mozillazine talkback forum and feedback was expressly invited.
" and send masses of email to many Mozilla developers"
Another outright lie. The suggestion was "You might like to write to..."
"(most of whom were not involved in selecting the new name)"
The announcement said "we". Absent better information, how could anything be assumed except that the whole Mozilla team made the decision, since that was how it was announced.
"I find it rather hypocritical that the Firebird database people are accusing Mozilla of "the filthiest of dirty tricks" while at the same time advocating the harassment of many Mozilla developers."
I find it highly hypocritical that an anonymous poster would construct a spin like this -- and rather depressing that Craig Ringer and others are buying the spin.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't wish any of 'em well. Let market forces decide. MS is bleeding heavily in all of its high-revenue hotspots - OS, intraweb, database, web tools - and it can't fix its QA and security lapses fast enough for the market it has burned, from home through to sovereign government, with arrogance, megalomania and FUD. In burning its captive market, it has burned its boats. 2003-2004 is the period in history when the chickens came home to roost. Bye-bye M$oft.
All power and praise to Apache for winning on merit.
How about putting SCO up for the next Darwin award? There is a long tradition behind such recognition being made posthumously. This awardee would have the extra fun of being alive to watch the worms consume its flesh.
"How about calling it "900t"? [snip] In an Australian LinuxWorld article, one of their administrators calls the name change "one of the dirtiest deeds I've seen in open source so far." [that article quoted me, btw]
[snip]
"In a MozillaZine article, the same person accused mozilla.org of "theft" and "corporate bullying". They don't explain how it was different when they picked a name that was already used by a BBS, financial software manufacturer, Fenix IDE and games company."
I did post a comment about these other "Firebird" projects, which all except one are either more recent than ours, or are long defunct. The BBS project (a year older than our project) is a Chinese bulletin board, scarcely to be considered as being in the same space the way an open source browser and an open source database are...
"Meanwhile, IBPhoenix, an organisation that supports the development of the Firebird database, has put up a protest page, encouraging people to spam the MozillaZine forums"
This is a patent LIE - hence, no doubt, the poster's desire to stay anonymous. The readers were invited to write, not "encouraged to spam". As background to why the need to do so, our private emails to the Mozilla people at the start of all this have gone unanswered. What else could we do?
"(even though MozillaZine had nothing to do with the decision)"
Another misrepresentation. The announcement was made on the Mozillazine talkback forum and feedback was expressly invited.
" and send masses of email to many Mozilla developers"
Another outright lie. The suggestion was "You might like to write to..."
"(most of whom were not involved in selecting the new name)" The announcement said "we". Absent better information, how could anything be assumed except that the whole Mozilla team made the decision, since that was how it was announced.
"I find it rather hypocritical that the Firebird database people are accusing Mozilla of "the filthiest of dirty tricks" while at the same time advocating the harassment of many Mozilla developers."
I find it highly hypocritical that an anonymous poster would construct a spin like this -- and rather depressing that Craig Ringer and others are buying the spin.
Helen Borrie
Firebird Project Admin