I'm sick and tired of Slashdot posting Political headlines on the main page. Most of it winds up being Bush-bashing (admittedly, it's easy to do) or ripping Republicans. Fine, if the Slashdot community wants a politics.slashdot.org, so be it. But this article is NOT "News for nerds." It's "Politics for nerds." Leave it off the main page!
So, do they divy their one dollar up into bimonthly pay checks?
NASA - JSC installed Firefox this week...
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Firefox Momentum Slows
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The Johnson Space Center IT department has installed Firefox this week. They will also be regularly patching it as required. Some odd 15000 people work at JSC.
So no one posed the question: Does Microsoft intend to develop applications for OSS Operating Systems?
I'm glad that they are playing ball and trying to be cooperative, but it seems to me that they are doing it to benefit themselves; the "keep your enemies closer" routine. While they do not need to open the source for applications like MS Office, they could sell them for UNIX/Linux.
All that shows is Microsoft rolls tons of updates into one patch, where as the Linux community is bound to patch as needed. When you roll the updates together, of course you will have less patches. I would rather more patches and know that security holes are patched as they are found.
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I'm sick and tired of Slashdot posting Political headlines on the main page. Most of it winds up being Bush-bashing (admittedly, it's easy to do) or ripping Republicans. Fine, if the Slashdot community wants a politics.slashdot.org, so be it. But this article is NOT "News for nerds." It's "Politics for nerds." Leave it off the main page!
So, do they divy their one dollar up into bimonthly pay checks?
The Johnson Space Center IT department has installed Firefox this week. They will also be regularly patching it as required. Some odd 15000 people work at JSC.
Add this to the list of reasons not to use Internet Explorer.
Most of the MAC OS is closed source. While it does run OSS, it's hardly an open source operating system. Interesting note on IE; I did not know that.
Yes.
So no one posed the question: Does Microsoft intend to develop applications for OSS Operating Systems? I'm glad that they are playing ball and trying to be cooperative, but it seems to me that they are doing it to benefit themselves; the "keep your enemies closer" routine. While they do not need to open the source for applications like MS Office, they could sell them for UNIX/Linux.
All that shows is Microsoft rolls tons of updates into one patch, where as the Linux community is bound to patch as needed. When you roll the updates together, of course you will have less patches. I would rather more patches and know that security holes are patched as they are found.