I agree with you. It's nice working at a company, though, that allows you to install any OS you want as long as you can get your work done and work with whatever standard file formats they happen to use. It's even nicer to be able to use my personal laptop specifically for work.
Where this analogy falls short is that in a communistic or socialistic government, you have people with guns enforcing property rights (just as you do in a capitalistically inclined government). In OSS, it's all voluntary. I don't see anyone with guns storming Microsoft's or SAP's gates demanding they share their IP.
Homo Erectus: Hello, Ugg. Would you care to see my new invention?
Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Vention?
Homo Erectus: I call it fire.
Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Fire..
Homo Erectus: You create it by rubbing these two sticks together.
Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Stick..
Homo Erectus: It's really quite simple. The friction generates enough heat to cause the sticks to combust.
Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Friction...heat...combust... Don't get it. Ugg.
Homo Erectus: I'm thinking of taking my invention to the patent office. It'd be a terrible shame if someone stole my idea.
Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Shame..
I think MS is starting to see that software is becoming a commodity. OpenOffice may not be a better product than MS Office, but it offers a compelling alternative. Linux may not have a better desktop, but, again, it offers a compelling alternative. Both are free, both will, in time, be as pretty and feature rich as the MS alternatives. And, one day, you will be able to turn granny loose on both of them and have her be productive and not pester you for support. So, how is MS going to make money when free, good rival software becomes ubiquitous? By trying to see what they can put up on a "hosted" model. Although, with Web 2.0 (specifically the no-walled-gardens idea), I'm not so sure how they are going to make hosting work. But it should work for a moment.
I would guess that the majority of criminals that're worth dealing with only intentionally transfer non-encrypted messages. I mean, how much thought (and Googling???!!!) does it take to figure out what communication methods over the internet are and are not secure?
32 bit only access 4MB of RAM at a time?????
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Or, your better performance with 50 users could be attributed to errors in the application. I've seen web apps that when an error occurs, it doesn't return a 500 level error message to the browser. Sometime an application "handels" an error (which is caused by something like hitting it too hard and maybe it doesn't have any available database connections) and it returns back to the browser really quickly. If you're only checking HTTP status codes, you may not be seeing real errors.
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I agree with you. It's nice working at a company, though, that allows you to install any OS you want as long as you can get your work done and work with whatever standard file formats they happen to use. It's even nicer to be able to use my personal laptop specifically for work.
Where this analogy falls short is that in a communistic or socialistic government, you have people with guns enforcing property rights (just as you do in a capitalistically inclined government). In OSS, it's all voluntary. I don't see anyone with guns storming Microsoft's or SAP's gates demanding they share their IP.
Homo Erectus: Hello, Ugg. Would you care to see my new invention? Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Vention? Homo Erectus: I call it fire. Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Fire.. Homo Erectus: You create it by rubbing these two sticks together. Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Stick.. Homo Erectus: It's really quite simple. The friction generates enough heat to cause the sticks to combust. Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Friction...heat...combust... Don't get it. Ugg. Homo Erectus: I'm thinking of taking my invention to the patent office. It'd be a terrible shame if someone stole my idea. Homo Ergaster: Ugg. Shame..
I think MS is starting to see that software is becoming a commodity. OpenOffice may not be a better product than MS Office, but it offers a compelling alternative. Linux may not have a better desktop, but, again, it offers a compelling alternative. Both are free, both will, in time, be as pretty and feature rich as the MS alternatives. And, one day, you will be able to turn granny loose on both of them and have her be productive and not pester you for support. So, how is MS going to make money when free, good rival software becomes ubiquitous? By trying to see what they can put up on a "hosted" model. Although, with Web 2.0 (specifically the no-walled-gardens idea), I'm not so sure how they are going to make hosting work. But it should work for a moment.
I would guess that the majority of criminals that're worth dealing with only intentionally transfer non-encrypted messages. I mean, how much thought (and Googling???!!!) does it take to figure out what communication methods over the internet are and are not secure?
I thought it was 4GB at a time.
Here is a website that maintains a list of open source testing tools. Some of the tools mentioned in some of the comments here are in that list.
Or, your better performance with 50 users could be attributed to errors in the application. I've seen web apps that when an error occurs, it doesn't return a 500 level error message to the browser. Sometime an application "handels" an error (which is caused by something like hitting it too hard and maybe it doesn't have any available database connections) and it returns back to the browser really quickly. If you're only checking HTTP status codes, you may not be seeing real errors.