going to force Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features.
So MS is going to spend more time on security and stability, something every user needs, and less time on adding new features, most of which are hardly ever used.
Is going to be over "open" office suites. Most companies go with windows because their worker driods are accustomed to Ms Word, MS Excel and Ms Outlook. If we can keep the new emerging markets from being addicted to MS office productivity suites, that will be a big boost for open source.
This is a good start
Haryana(State in India) signs pact with Sun Microsystems
The Haryana government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sun Microsystems to adopt open source office productivity tool, the StarOffice 7, for departments and educational institutions.
Linux may carve out bigger niche in desktop PC market
On Feb. 4, it announced the sale of 10,000 copies of its StarOffice desktop suite to United India Insurance, one of India's largest insurers. StarOffice can run on Windows or Linux desktop PCs.
Sun aims next to persuade United India to replace 10,000 Windows PCs with Linux-based Java Desktop PCs.
Each party has a symbol e.g. Elephant, Lotus, wheel etc. If you want to vote for the ruling BJP, you press the button next to the Lotus. That's how they have electronic voting even with the illiteracy problem.
China applies a 17% value-added tax (VAT) on all semiconductor sales. In an attempt to encourage local production, China is granting rebates to products made domestically. Semiconductors manufactured in China are eligible for an 11% VAT rebate (resulting in an applied rate of 6%), and semiconductors designed and manufactured in China receive a 14% VAT rebate (resulting in an applied rate of only 3%). According to some reports, the company must use the refunds to do research and development in China.
For the same level of effectiveness, the cops could have enlisted a bunch of programmers to work on their code using open source, instead of Oracle, and they would gain better security in less money and likely a lot less time.
This is just your opinion. I'm sure Microsoft feels they could have done it better and cheaper. I support open source as much as the next guy but a project requires much more than gifted programmers to succeed.
crime, which is mostly caused by citizens failing to make a decent living, sick of the system and just mad at everything.
So people only take to crime when their job search on monster.com draws a blank?
The United States position, formed at the behest of the Business Software Alliance, CompTIA, and other organizations dedicated to maintaining the status quo and curtailing the growth of free software, is that no software development methodology -- closed and proprietary versus open source -- be recommended over any other.
Choice is capitalistic. Excluding non-OS software is limiting choice.
The US position isn't focussed on profits. A solution from Microsoft shouldn't be excluded just because MS makes a profit. I know this goes against the grain on/., but a MS solution may be the better solution. Restricting yourself to open-source software is not the solution. If the costs are higher, it will end up hurting the open source movement.
I actually followed the remark in your sig and read the article:)
and an abiding insistence that the WSIS not say or do anything that might prevent profiteering on the needs of the disadvantaged, now or in the future. Nowhere in the WSIS documents was it deemed permissible to state the obvious: that free/open source software is the logical choice in achieving affordable solutions.
English isn't my first language, but this is how i read it: The US position is that WSIS shouldn't do anything to prevent profiteering and the solution that delivers the most bang for the buck should be used. i.e. non-Open source software shouldn't be excluded.The author thinks open source software is the logical choice for the most affordable solution but that's just his opinion.
I think what Sally Shipman really means is "We want our large US software firms to continue to reap Huge profits: Open Source threatens that."
I'm sure those of us work for those corporations reaping huge profits would appreciate this position. For a lot of people, free as in freedom/free as in free trade are great ideas as long as it's not their ox that's being gored.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the aforementioned corporations.
There is nothing racist about the comment. It's a cultural thing, not a racial thing. Asians born in the US tend to do well because their parents expect them to perform to their potential and failure to do so has consequences. Most blacks have athletes for role models.
Most Indians, even those in engineering schools, don't have unmilited access to computers. Most people who start in open source do so because they have access to a computer and take up open source as a hobby. Indian students don't have that luxury yet. However, computer penetration is increasing and you should expect to see more contributions to open source from Indians and Chinese. Remember: Individual users in India and China don't really pay for software and most people aren't hooked onto Microsoft products. These markets are ripe for open source. Sun even sold a 10k license for it's office alternative to an Indian insurance company.
In short: give it time..just 10 years ago(1994) most people in India had never worked on computer.
That's not necessarily true. Less competition means carriers can now think about investing in their networks instead of trying to win customers with their existing networks. The combined Cingular/ATT customer base would give them a good revenue stream and after the merger, they would only need to invest X*1.5$ in their networks instead of X$(for cingular) and X$(for ATT).
Most people working in health care are underpaid(or at least not overpaid). All the lawyers working for the HMOs and those out to sue doctors are doing just fine. Nothing capitalist about that.
The morons who gave the september 11 hijackers visa extensions AFTER 9/11 are still working for the government. That wasn't outsourcing. I don't see how a worker for the government agency involved couldn't have made the same mistake.
That's how personal details about hundreds of children ended up on the Internet. A user named Mark Dennis, stuck with a tricky formatting issue, posted his question to RentACoder -- and attached a zipped copy of the database he was working on.
This work was outsourced, not offshored. This article has obviously been posted to show how outsourcing threatens the future of our children. This work wasn't offshored. It was done by an American programmer. If outsourcing is bad, why did the navy outsource a 5billion $ chunk of IT work to EDS?
That's how personal details about hundreds of children ended up on the Internet. A user named Mark Dennis, stuck with a tricky formatting issue, posted his question to RentACoder -- and attached a zipped copy of the database he was working on.
Before the Indian bashing begins, some of us actually read the article.
I agree. What if she said the same thing about her car? I make no apologies for my lack of driving skills because my car is moody.. I'll bet she would learn to drive a stick shift if her livelihood depended on it.
Can someone tell me why you would need all this extra bandwidth on your laptop? Surfing the internet? For what? porn? reading/.? I don't think business users, the most likely market for a Nextel service, would be interested in downloading movies...or at least paying a lot of money for the ability to download movies on their laptops.
Cultures don't remain static. They are influenced by interactions with other cultures. In India, about 10 years ago, you addressed your boss as sir. Now with the influence of the IT industry and people who are working in India after a stint in the US, it's not uncommon to use first names when addressing even your CEO. That would have been unheard of before.
The article doesn't talk about people moving to countries with different cultures and adapting to the culture of that country. Indians working in the US may behave slightly differently than Indians in India.
But who stands to gain the most from an SCO win? Microsoft. Linux is the primary force standing between Microsoft and domination of the computer world. The software giant is happily fanning customers' fears with an anti-Linux campaign while pumping money into SCO. Even though neither company has disclosed a dollar figure, sources close to SCO say Microsoft has spent more than $12 million on SCO licenses. Microsoft says it needs the licenses because it sells technology that allows its customers to run applications that were designed for Unix, the operating system Linux was modeled on. Critics believe it is just helping SCO finance its lawsuit.
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It's ironic considering the amount of money MS made from DOS and Windows...and they didn't invent a thing.
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So MS is going to spend more time on security and stability, something every user needs, and less time on adding new features, most of which are hardly ever used.
This is a good start
Haryana(State in India) signs pact with Sun Microsystems
The Haryana government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sun Microsystems to adopt open source office productivity tool, the StarOffice 7, for departments and educational institutions.
Linux may carve out bigger niche in desktop PC market
On Feb. 4, it announced the sale of 10,000 copies of its StarOffice desktop suite to United India Insurance, one of India's largest insurers. StarOffice can run on Windows or Linux desktop PCs. Sun aims next to persuade United India to replace 10,000 Windows PCs with Linux-based Java Desktop PCs.
Each party has a symbol e.g. Elephant, Lotus, wheel etc. If you want to vote for the ruling BJP, you press the button next to the Lotus. That's how they have electronic voting even with the illiteracy problem.
This is just your opinion. I'm sure Microsoft feels they could have done it better and cheaper. I support open source as much as the next guy but a project requires much more than gifted programmers to succeed.
crime, which is mostly caused by citizens failing to make a decent living, sick of the system and just mad at everything.
So people only take to crime when their job search on monster.com draws a blank?
I'm sure Oracle built this system for free and the system uses DB2..
The United States position, formed at the behest of the Business Software Alliance, CompTIA, and other organizations dedicated to maintaining the status quo and curtailing the growth of free software, is that no software development methodology -- closed and proprietary versus open source -- be recommended over any other.
Choice is capitalistic. Excluding non-OS software is limiting choice.
The US position isn't focussed on profits. A solution from Microsoft shouldn't be excluded just because MS makes a profit. I know this goes against the grain on /., but a MS solution may be the better solution. Restricting yourself to open-source software is not the solution. If the costs are higher, it will end up hurting the open source movement.
and an abiding insistence that the WSIS not say or do anything that might prevent profiteering on the needs of the disadvantaged, now or in the future. Nowhere in the WSIS documents was it deemed permissible to state the obvious: that free/open source software is the logical choice in achieving affordable solutions.
English isn't my first language, but this is how i read it: The US position is that WSIS shouldn't do anything to prevent profiteering and the solution that delivers the most bang for the buck should be used. i.e. non-Open source software shouldn't be excluded. The author thinks open source software is the logical choice for the most affordable solution but that's just his opinion.
I'm sure those of us work for those corporations reaping huge profits would appreciate this position. For a lot of people, free as in freedom/free as in free trade are great ideas as long as it's not their ox that's being gored.
Disclaimer: I don't work for the aforementioned corporations.
There is nothing racist about the comment. It's a cultural thing, not a racial thing. Asians born in the US tend to do well because their parents expect them to perform to their potential and failure to do so has consequences. Most blacks have athletes for role models.
In short: give it time..just 10 years ago(1994) most people in India had never worked on computer.
That's not necessarily true. Less competition means carriers can now think about investing in their networks instead of trying to win customers with their existing networks. The combined Cingular/ATT customer base would give them a good revenue stream and after the merger, they would only need to invest X*1.5$ in their networks instead of X$(for cingular) and X$(for ATT).
Umm..Air India? The nationally owned airline?
Most people working in health care are underpaid(or at least not overpaid). All the lawyers working for the HMOs and those out to sue doctors are doing just fine. Nothing capitalist about that.
The morons who gave the september 11 hijackers visa extensions AFTER 9/11 are still working for the government. That wasn't outsourcing. I don't see how a worker for the government agency involved couldn't have made the same mistake.
This work was outsourced, not offshored. This article has obviously been posted to show how outsourcing threatens the future of our children. This work wasn't offshored. It was done by an American programmer. If outsourcing is bad, why did the navy outsource a 5billion $ chunk of IT work to EDS?
Before the Indian bashing begins, some of us actually read the article.
I agree. What if she said the same thing about her car? I make no apologies for my lack of driving skills because my car is moody.. I'll bet she would learn to drive a stick shift if her livelihood depended on it.
Can someone tell me why you would need all this extra bandwidth on your laptop? Surfing the internet? For what? porn? reading /.? I don't think business users, the most likely market for a Nextel service, would be interested in downloading movies...or at least paying a lot of money for the ability to download movies on their laptops.
Did you even RTFA? The Americans didn't blow up anything. The Soviets bought computer chips and used them to control the operations of the pipeline.
The article doesn't talk about people moving to countries with different cultures and adapting to the culture of that country. Indians working in the US may behave slightly differently than Indians in India.
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But who stands to gain the most from an SCO win? Microsoft. Linux is the primary force standing between Microsoft and domination of the computer world. The software giant is happily fanning customers' fears with an anti-Linux campaign while pumping money into SCO. Even though neither company has disclosed a dollar figure, sources close to SCO say Microsoft has spent more than $12 million on SCO licenses. Microsoft says it needs the licenses because it sells technology that allows its customers to run applications that were designed for Unix, the operating system Linux was modeled on. Critics believe it is just helping SCO finance its lawsuit.