Apple has every right to guard their monopoly, as does Adobe. I just hope that Adobe announces very soon that they're going to stop developing Creative Suite for Macs, and watch the Windows-only CS6 force Mac users into buying PCs. Then Apple will either have to develop their own version of CS, or go to Microsoft to buy their creative apps. That will indeed signal the end times.
I've heard this same issue come up from two different bio researchers - one doing post-doc work (French), and the other finishing his PhD (American) here in the US. They both related the same 'joke' about Chinese research, something like, "A non-PRC scientist approaches science to seek a result...a PRC-trained/educated scientist asks, "What result do you want to see?" Faking data is rampant among the Chinese students here in the US according to them, so much so that the non-Chinese are being passed over for grants here because they're shackled by such pesky things as 'ethics' and the scientific method. Afterward, when the grant donors see results blow up in their faces when reviewed by peers, they're usually too chagrined to make an issue out of it, having been made thorough fools of.
...that they called and told me that I had a zombie PC. I run updates, antivirus software and am very careful about where I go on the web, and what I download. Despite all my precautions, though, my PC got infected via an infected CD from my office (autorun is now turned off, btw).
I got a call from Comcast saying that they'd noticed some odd traffic. The tech guy said it looked like my PC had been infected although it didn't seem to be actively sending/receiving any unusual data. After a quick re-scan with my antivirus software, it was gone, and all was right with the world (well, my tiny corner of it, anyway).
I was used to Comcast sucking hardcore before this happened. Now my attitude is a little better toward them -- the Comcast tech guy knew his stuff, and was very helpful.
If a designer signs a "work for hire" contract, then anything created under that contract belong to the client, not the designer, true. It's one of the main reasons designers refuse "work for hire" terms. [Another being that usually the WFH language usually explicitly denies me the right to use MY designs in MY OWN portfolio...uh, no thanks.]
Under non "work for hire" terms, if you hire me to design it, I'm only contractually bound to give you the finished work. All IP remains with me, the designer, until you pay me for the IP.
You might find it an "interesting" business model, but it protects the interests of those who use their creative skills to make clients money (in this case a/buttload/ of money). I never sign my IP away unless clients are willing to compensate me for it, and I never, ever, EVER sign contracts with WFH terms. Why should I?
...would be Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think. While specifically focused on web design, the book introduces some helpful concepts that are fairly universal for UI design. I also second (or third or fourth by now) anything by Tufte - genius stuff (and he'll be the first to tell you that), and very thought-provoking.
After our warranty ran out on our ThinkPad T40, I decided to give Ubuntu a try, and am so far very pleased with it. The install was pretty straightforward, configuration was smooth, and we had no hardware/driver issues to speak of. Connecting up with our wireless router was a breeze, and really the only glitch has to do with our CUPS-enabled printer.
Frankly I was glad to find Ubuntu this easy to install and use because I thought our laptop was done for. Like the author, we had a corrupt Windows partition, and had to start from scratch. After we got everything installed and configured (less than an hour), I was on the deck working on docs and getting things done.
Anyone with a T40 or similar should give some serious thought to at least trying out Ubuntu. While it won't do everything a Linux admin would want, it's more than enough to keep users productive.
Doesn't that approach present a problem, though, for the consumer? I read reviews not only to know what to buy, but also what *not* to buy, so as a reader I would much rather have reviewers call both the good and the bad. Armed only with the "good" reviews, I feel I'm not getting enough information to buy, which is why I read the sites/mags in the first place.
Adding it to the DSM, yes - IV is just a volume number (III-R, IV, IV-TR). Most likely they're trying to add it to the DSM-V, which is due out in a few years.
"If this is the only ding you have on your credit report, employers can note the distinction between a medical related debt and something like consistently missing your mortgage payment."
True, but it's usually a rarity that a candidate has the chance to explain that in a second interview when they've already been dismissed from list of potentials. From what I understand from HR people I've talked to about this, they don't receive that level of detail in their report - usually it's just an overall score, maybe with the names of a few major debtors and percentage of credit limit used.
Even though it's probably cost me a few jobs, I've learned to scrutinize the applications I fill out before signing, and ask about the credit check. I've even gone so far in one obnoxious case to scratch through the "...we can check your credit..." phrase, and made sure that the person knew I'd sue if they checked. Unless you're lending me money (or the feds, I suppose), my credit history, good or bad, is not your business.
"His wife got offered a job with Cisco in the US (South Carolina)..." | "I asked him what he planned to do for a job down in Raleigh..."
Raleigh, *NORTH* Carolina -- I know few people care, but those of us from NC are a possessive bunch.:) Either that, or the wife will have *quite* the commute!
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, though, nitpicking aside. Being able to put family and life first is one of the best decisions anyone can make, especially for people like Bruce with such a wide range of interests and passions.
1) insert the DVD and allow it to play automatically 2) on the DVD box itself, hit the "STOP" button (the one on the remote won't work) 3) on the remote, hit the "MENU" button
This should bring you directly to the DVD menu without all the "crap" like the FBI/Interpol warnings and all the previews.
"Once you get the innovative core audience interested, and the support of the major printer manifacturers, it's a matter of time that it becomes widespread. And one day, the big clunky conservative presses may move to XPS too."
MS may have a competitor to PDF, but they have nothing that competes with Photoshop or Illustrator. Even if they did, I think the tight integration of PDF into the CS2 workflow would keep most designers exactly where they are, and, consequently, keep printers right where they are as well. XPS is only as pretty as it is widely used, which is to say, not very. Adobe can catch up, and most likely will.
The question that arises, though, is when is MS going to buy Quark? They're already working on some code to compete with Adobe on the creative end, but I've always wondered why they don't just go after InDesign's biggest competitor.
The ad running with the Ask.com founder made me roll my eyes, hearing that they were the only ones using clustered results. I use Clusty.com if I want clustered results (and have since it was Vivisimo), and see no reason to switch. They should stick to natural language querying as their niche - other search engines have clusters covered.
"I think it's called vision. It is what seperates good leaders from wishy-washy leaders. Now that the president has set this goal, he must give money to support. If there is no money or resources, than it is IT hell."
If this is "vision", then hopefully someone knows a good optometrist. It seems to me that the person making this decision sees the future clearly (or at least thinks he does), but can't see the present to save his life.
If this school teaches animation and computer visual arts, those laptops won't just have to be high end, they'll have to be VERY high end (and horrendously expensive) to work well. Why make students buy them when they probably won't use them in their future jobs? If they work for an animation shop or game company, they won't be using their college laptops to do their work - the company will provide desktop machines backed up by rendering boxes. Even design studios I'm familiar with use desktops for their primary work. Running Photoshop or Illustrator on a laptop can be agonizing -- I can't even imagine running Maya on one.
Keep in mind also that laptops aren't as easy for students to repair themselves or to upgrade as desktop computers, too. This isn't a CS degree he's describing, so don't count on people being as tech savvy.
"People don't like change, but let's face it, in 20 years, do you really think we are going to have rooms that do nothing but hold computers?"
Perhaps not, but what's the harm in a 1-2 year pilot program first? This plan, made by someone who clearly hasn't done enough homework, will mean a high chance that your "change" will mess up someone's education. A limited test might help everyone see that trapdoor before they step on it.
People dislike change for some damned good reasons sometimes - most of those reasons involve barely crawling out of more than a few smoking wrecks in their past thanks to such "visions".
You don't seem to understand that the Free Software movement is a sociopolitical movement that cares more about freedom than about mainstream popularity. Strange concept in this day and age right?
I think that's a big stretch - there are advocates of Free Software, but it seems that the majority of contributors could give two craps about the free part. For some it's a calling, for others it's a hobby, and for some (not all, as you imply) it's about protecting freedoms. SOME of the F/OSS contributors work for the reason you state, but I would hazard a guess that these people are NOT the majority of contributors.
I respect RMS because he has never waivered from his ideals, even though people running "Linux", think he's a crazy person.
I run "Linux", and I don't see him as crazy -- socially underdeveloped, perhaps, but not crazy. I judge him by his contributions and thank him for them, but that doesn't mean he gets a bye in other areas of life.
IMO idealistic integrity is in too short supply in the world these days.
"Idealistic integrity" being another way of saying "zealotry", I'd completely disagree, at least here in the US. We have a LOT of people on both sides of the aisle who are steadfast and true to their beliefs. No one seems to be winning, least of all the majority of people who are somewhere in the middle of an issue.
So, it's great that you like "Linux", but remember that without RMS and the FSF and their allies, your "Linux" would not exist.
Well, (a) you don't know that someone else wouldn't have stepped into those sandals and done the job in their absence and (b) it doesn't matter anyway. The strength of Linux is in its creators, not in its evangelizers or protectors. If it works, it will become popular despite the petulant behaviors of others.
I agree mostly, but I think this description really does leave out the DM. The DM is (whether your old school friend believes it or not) also a part of telling the story. How well/all/ parties balance their own strengths/weaknesses, devices/desires determines what kind of group you're in.
A DM who insists on having their own way will end up telling a story - unfortunately the players won't be listening because it's simply not fun for them.
Adventurers who insist on an adversarial relationship with the DM will end up telling a story as well, but the focus will be elsewhere: bickering, rules lawyering and hardly/any/ role playing.
I agree completely that a skilled DM should never be absolutely certain where the story is going, though. Despite the weeks of prep on some of my campaigns, sometimes the players would come up with off-the-cuff stuff that turned out to be much more fun to play, and these things challenged me to be more creative as a DM.
DMing shouldn't be a burden...s/he should be allowed in on the fun as well.
"The GPL did no such thing. You can't say "this license or law stopped X, Y, or Z" unless there's a likelihood of X, Y, or Z happening. There's a law against my pulling out a gun and shooting my boss, but you can't say "the law kept me from shooting my boss" unless you had reason to believe that I would have done that if the law didn't stop me."
It doesn't matter what your intent was, nor Apple's. Shoot your boss or no, the fact that there is recourse if you violate a law prevents you from doing so without consequence.
It doesn't physically stop you from pulling the trigger or hoarding the code, rather it keeps you from getting away with it unless a court decides otherwise. I'm afraid you're still missing the point here.
"THAT is the point that ESR's making."
Then he's not making it very well. No license will prevent laws being broken (see above), but the GPL prevents companies from doing so without any recourse for the license holders...key point.
"...the people most hurt by fighting it and only begrudgingly doing what the law allows...
Begrudingly, willingly...don't care -- at least they're either doing it or can be forced to do it by a court. No GPL (or other form of copyleft license), no recourse. We should encourage companies to give their code back, but you have a lot more trust than I that all that will require is a friendly request to do so.
I can imagine that some license holders and contributors will stop contributing to open source if they have no recourse to fight companies who ignore such requests. Talk about some real harm being done to open source...
"And THAT is what companies are catching on to."
If companies recognize this and act on it for the good of the community, then great and "yay, us." If they don't, at least license holders can do something about it with a GPL-oriented license.
"Yes, do, because this is a great example of where the GPL doesn't make any difference."
I think it actually/does/ make a difference, although it's not obvious - the GPL kept Apple from legally sucking up source code and not releasing it per the license. The GPL sets a minimum standard of behavior for companies. The GPL may have started as a way to subvert the system and give the code freedom, but it's evolved into a set of legal protections. That's the point Raymond seems to be missing.
"So, over and over again, we see that it's not the license that matters, it's the attitude of the people using it."
If you're talking about companies who choose to go over and above what the license requires, then sure, I agree with you. But for every company like Apple, there could be a dozen others who take the code and don't give back their source. For those companies, it's the license/and/ the attitude that matter.
I don't think forking is the issue of greatest concern. You're right that companies likely to contribute will do so regardless of license...when they don't, though, at least the license holders have some way of defending themselves in court through the GPL.
I think the point is that it doesn't work well for english, either. As a matter of fact, it doesn't work even when the researcher/knows/ the emails in question have "evil" in them.
It sounds like the guy... a) had a half-assed theory (that should've probably/stayed/ a half-assed theory) b) came up with little data to support his theory c) explained the lack of supporting data for his theory on the material being studied d) used a lot of pretty awful reasoning to shoehorn what little supporting data was left into a publication
But in this case, it's/not/ a question of what one needs to do - it's asking the proper question to the person who is/qualified/ to answer it. That would be the difference between a good survey ('...we asked network security experts about network security issues and got the following results...') versus creating a good marketing tool ('...we asked marketing experts about network security issues, and got the following results...').
In the first instance, you've provided real information that decisionmakers can use when choosing an OS for their business. In the second instance you've provided tainted fluff that uninformed bean counters will/perceive/ as real information. Sounds like FUD to me.
Not to say that the Linux community can't learn from it, but it's important to recognize that groups like this aren't assessing quality. I don't know about you, but when I have to make decisions about software, I require more than just knowing how someone 'feels' about it. Teasing the facts from these so-called 'objective' studies lately is/not/ worth my time.
...I'm an ardent supporter of independent music. My advice would be to seek out an indie label with good distribution and venue connections - if they can help out with CD packaging/reproduction and access to places to play, you're a few steps ahead of the game. Chances are they'll leave the marketing decisions up to your band for the most part, leaving your band in better control.
The smaller labels know that they have to form partnerships with musicians rather than act as parental figures as the large conglomerates do. If you keep each other happy and manage to make enough money to keep both you/and/ the label going, you have a decent shot of making music a career. Plus, you get to make more of your own decisions concerning direction, growth, etc.
Some respectable indie labels/resources: Secretly Canadian: Among the best indie labels with the likes of Magnolia Electric Company and Damien Jurado in their catalog Dim MakAnother stellar label and home of Soledad Brothers and the Gossip Better PropagandaExcellent indie music site, get your band listed here...free MP3s and discographies Audio LunchboxSite featuring MP3/Ogg tracks for sale - and indie version of iTunes, but won't rot your soul Kill Rock StarsLabel to Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill InsoundOne of the best retailers of indie music - decent catalog
"In our analysis we leverage the inherent modularity of Linux to consider both a default configuration and a "minimal install" system that has a smaller attack surface that both
satisfy the web server role."
...compared to...
For the Microsoft-based solution there are many components which are difficult or impossible to completely remove from the operating system and therefore we consider only one configuration, a "complete" installation, and count vulnerabilities for every application included with the server software in our analysis."
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, they're comparing a default install of Linux to a complete (assuming fully-patched?) install of WS2k?
And since they're claiming that this is a "Linux vs. Windows" research paper, the fact that they're looking at using the boxes as web servers makes it seem more like they're comparing Apache/PHP/MySQL to IIS/ASP/SQL...
I'm rather new to the Linux world, but isn't that like looking at the engine of a car, and saying the doors don't work?
Isn't the minimum number of bathrooms for a new building determined by building code? Having a single bathroom might allow for 'cross pollination' and all, but that's not really the point of bathrooms.
Having a single/breakroom/ would seem a better choice, and one that wouldn't potentially leave employees crossing their legs and hopping around 'synergizing' with their fellow desperados.
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Apple has every right to guard their monopoly, as does Adobe. I just hope that Adobe announces very soon that they're going to stop developing Creative Suite for Macs, and watch the Windows-only CS6 force Mac users into buying PCs. Then Apple will either have to develop their own version of CS, or go to Microsoft to buy their creative apps. That will indeed signal the end times.
I've heard this same issue come up from two different bio researchers - one doing post-doc work (French), and the other finishing his PhD (American) here in the US. They both related the same 'joke' about Chinese research, something like, "A non-PRC scientist approaches science to seek a result...a PRC-trained/educated scientist asks, "What result do you want to see?" Faking data is rampant among the Chinese students here in the US according to them, so much so that the non-Chinese are being passed over for grants here because they're shackled by such pesky things as 'ethics' and the scientific method. Afterward, when the grant donors see results blow up in their faces when reviewed by peers, they're usually too chagrined to make an issue out of it, having been made thorough fools of.
...that they called and told me that I had a zombie PC. I run updates, antivirus software and am very careful about where I go on the web, and what I download. Despite all my precautions, though, my PC got infected via an infected CD from my office (autorun is now turned off, btw). I got a call from Comcast saying that they'd noticed some odd traffic. The tech guy said it looked like my PC had been infected although it didn't seem to be actively sending/receiving any unusual data. After a quick re-scan with my antivirus software, it was gone, and all was right with the world (well, my tiny corner of it, anyway). I was used to Comcast sucking hardcore before this happened. Now my attitude is a little better toward them -- the Comcast tech guy knew his stuff, and was very helpful.
If a designer signs a "work for hire" contract, then anything created under that contract belong to the client, not the designer, true. It's one of the main reasons designers refuse "work for hire" terms. [Another being that usually the WFH language usually explicitly denies me the right to use MY designs in MY OWN portfolio...uh, no thanks.]
Under non "work for hire" terms, if you hire me to design it, I'm only contractually bound to give you the finished work. All IP remains with me, the designer, until you pay me for the IP.
You might find it an "interesting" business model, but it protects the interests of those who use their creative skills to make clients money (in this case a /buttload/ of money). I never sign my IP away unless clients are willing to compensate me for it, and I never, ever, EVER sign contracts with WFH terms. Why should I?
...would be Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think. While specifically focused on web design, the book introduces some helpful concepts that are fairly universal for UI design. I also second (or third or fourth by now) anything by Tufte - genius stuff (and he'll be the first to tell you that), and very thought-provoking.
After our warranty ran out on our ThinkPad T40, I decided to give Ubuntu a try, and am so far very pleased with it. The install was pretty straightforward, configuration was smooth, and we had no hardware/driver issues to speak of. Connecting up with our wireless router was a breeze, and really the only glitch has to do with our CUPS-enabled printer.
Frankly I was glad to find Ubuntu this easy to install and use because I thought our laptop was done for. Like the author, we had a corrupt Windows partition, and had to start from scratch. After we got everything installed and configured (less than an hour), I was on the deck working on docs and getting things done.
Anyone with a T40 or similar should give some serious thought to at least trying out Ubuntu. While it won't do everything a Linux admin would want, it's more than enough to keep users productive.
Doesn't that approach present a problem, though, for the consumer? I read reviews not only to know what to buy, but also what *not* to buy, so as a reader I would much rather have reviewers call both the good and the bad. Armed only with the "good" reviews, I feel I'm not getting enough information to buy, which is why I read the sites/mags in the first place.
Adding it to the DSM, yes - IV is just a volume number (III-R, IV, IV-TR). Most likely they're trying to add it to the DSM-V, which is due out in a few years.
Even though it's probably cost me a few jobs, I've learned to scrutinize the applications I fill out before signing, and ask about the credit check. I've even gone so far in one obnoxious case to scratch through the "...we can check your credit..." phrase, and made sure that the person knew I'd sue if they checked. Unless you're lending me money (or the feds, I suppose), my credit history, good or bad, is not your business.
"How far is that from Mount Pilot?"
Dunno...probably the same distance as "funny" was from your comment?
"His wife got offered a job with Cisco in the US (South Carolina)..." | "I asked him what he planned to do for a job down in Raleigh..."
:) Either that, or the wife will have *quite* the commute!
Raleigh, *NORTH* Carolina -- I know few people care, but those of us from NC are a possessive bunch.
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, though, nitpicking aside. Being able to put family and life first is one of the best decisions anyone can make, especially for people like Bruce with such a wide range of interests and passions.
Good luck, Bruce - be a hero to your kid!
We have a Sony with the same problem. Try this -
1) insert the DVD and allow it to play automatically
2) on the DVD box itself, hit the "STOP" button (the one on the remote won't work)
3) on the remote, hit the "MENU" button
This should bring you directly to the DVD menu without all the "crap" like the FBI/Interpol warnings and all the previews.
Good luck!
-jkc
"Once you get the innovative core audience interested, and the support of the major printer manifacturers, it's a matter of time that it becomes widespread. And one day, the big clunky conservative presses may move to XPS too."
MS may have a competitor to PDF, but they have nothing that competes with Photoshop or Illustrator. Even if they did, I think the tight integration of PDF into the CS2 workflow would keep most designers exactly where they are, and, consequently, keep printers right where they are as well. XPS is only as pretty as it is widely used, which is to say, not very. Adobe can catch up, and most likely will.
The question that arises, though, is when is MS going to buy Quark? They're already working on some code to compete with Adobe on the creative end, but I've always wondered why they don't just go after InDesign's biggest competitor.
The ad running with the Ask.com founder made me roll my eyes, hearing that they were the only ones using clustered results. I use Clusty.com if I want clustered results (and have since it was Vivisimo), and see no reason to switch. They should stick to natural language querying as their niche - other search engines have clusters covered.
"I think it's called vision. It is what seperates good leaders from wishy-washy leaders. Now that the president has set this goal, he must give money to support. If there is no money or resources, than it is IT hell."
If this is "vision", then hopefully someone knows a good optometrist. It seems to me that the person making this decision sees the future clearly (or at least thinks he does), but can't see the present to save his life.
If this school teaches animation and computer visual arts, those laptops won't just have to be high end, they'll have to be VERY high end (and horrendously expensive) to work well. Why make students buy them when they probably won't use them in their future jobs? If they work for an animation shop or game company, they won't be using their college laptops to do their work - the company will provide desktop machines backed up by rendering boxes. Even design studios I'm familiar with use desktops for their primary work. Running Photoshop or Illustrator on a laptop can be agonizing -- I can't even imagine running Maya on one.
Keep in mind also that laptops aren't as easy for students to repair themselves or to upgrade as desktop computers, too. This isn't a CS degree he's describing, so don't count on people being as tech savvy.
"People don't like change, but let's face it, in 20 years, do you really think we are going to have rooms that do nothing but hold computers?"
Perhaps not, but what's the harm in a 1-2 year pilot program first? This plan, made by someone who clearly hasn't done enough homework, will mean a high chance that your "change" will mess up someone's education. A limited test might help everyone see that trapdoor before they step on it.
People dislike change for some damned good reasons sometimes - most of those reasons involve barely crawling out of more than a few smoking wrecks in their past thanks to such "visions".I agree mostly, but I think this description really does leave out the DM. The DM is (whether your old school friend believes it or not) also a part of telling the story. How well /all/ parties balance their own strengths/weaknesses, devices/desires determines what kind of group you're in.
/any/ role playing.
A DM who insists on having their own way will end up telling a story - unfortunately the players won't be listening because it's simply not fun for them.
Adventurers who insist on an adversarial relationship with the DM will end up telling a story as well, but the focus will be elsewhere: bickering, rules lawyering and hardly
I agree completely that a skilled DM should never be absolutely certain where the story is going, though. Despite the weeks of prep on some of my campaigns, sometimes the players would come up with off-the-cuff stuff that turned out to be much more fun to play, and these things challenged me to be more creative as a DM.
DMing shouldn't be a burden...s/he should be allowed in on the fun as well.
"The GPL did no such thing. You can't say "this license or law stopped X, Y, or Z" unless there's a likelihood of X, Y, or Z happening. There's a law against my pulling out a gun and shooting my boss, but you can't say "the law kept me from shooting my boss" unless you had reason to believe that I would have done that if the law didn't stop me."
It doesn't matter what your intent was, nor Apple's. Shoot your boss or no, the fact that there is recourse if you violate a law prevents you from doing so without consequence.
It doesn't physically stop you from pulling the trigger or hoarding the code, rather it keeps you from getting away with it unless a court decides otherwise. I'm afraid you're still missing the point here.
"THAT is the point that ESR's making."
Then he's not making it very well. No license will prevent laws being broken (see above), but the GPL prevents companies from doing so without any recourse for the license holders...key point.
"...the people most hurt by fighting it and only begrudgingly doing what the law allows...
Begrudingly, willingly ...don't care -- at least they're either doing it or can be forced to do it by a court. No GPL (or other form of copyleft license), no recourse. We should encourage companies to give their code back, but you have a lot more trust than I that all that will require is a friendly request to do so.
I can imagine that some license holders and contributors will stop contributing to open source if they have no recourse to fight companies who ignore such requests. Talk about some real harm being done to open source...
"And THAT is what companies are catching on to."
If companies recognize this and act on it for the good of the community, then great and "yay, us." If they don't, at least license holders can do something about it with a GPL-oriented license.
"Yes, do, because this is a great example of where the GPL doesn't make any difference."
/does/ make a difference, although it's not obvious - the GPL kept Apple from legally sucking up source code and not releasing it per the license. The GPL sets a minimum standard of behavior for companies. The GPL may have started as a way to subvert the system and give the code freedom, but it's evolved into a set of legal protections. That's the point Raymond seems to be missing.
I think it actually
"So, over and over again, we see that it's not the license that matters, it's the attitude of the people using it."
/and/ the attitude that matter.
If you're talking about companies who choose to go over and above what the license requires, then sure, I agree with you. But for every company like Apple, there could be a dozen others who take the code and don't give back their source. For those companies, it's the license
I don't think forking is the issue of greatest concern. You're right that companies likely to contribute will do so regardless of license...when they don't, though, at least the license holders have some way of defending themselves in court through the GPL.
I think the point is that it doesn't work well for english, either. As a matter of fact, it doesn't work even when the researcher /knows/ the emails in question have "evil" in them.
/stayed/ a half-assed theory)
It sounds like the guy...
a) had a half-assed theory (that should've probably
b) came up with little data to support his theory
c) explained the lack of supporting data for his theory on the material being studied
d) used a lot of pretty awful reasoning to shoehorn what little supporting data was left into a publication
I call "BAD SCIENCE!"
...and that would be tragic, now wouldn't it.
But in this case, it's /not/ a question of what one needs to do - it's asking the proper question to the person who is /qualified/ to answer it. That would be the difference between a good survey ('...we asked network security experts about network security issues and got the following results...') versus creating a good marketing tool ('...we asked marketing experts about network security issues, and got the following results...').
/perceive/ as real information. Sounds like FUD to me.
/not/ worth my time.
In the first instance, you've provided real information that decisionmakers can use when choosing an OS for their business. In the second instance you've provided tainted fluff that uninformed bean counters will
Not to say that the Linux community can't learn from it, but it's important to recognize that groups like this aren't assessing quality. I don't know about you, but when I have to make decisions about software, I require more than just knowing how someone 'feels' about it. Teasing the facts from these so-called 'objective' studies lately is
...I'm an ardent supporter of independent music. My advice would be to seek out an indie label with good distribution and venue connections - if they can help out with CD packaging/reproduction and access to places to play, you're a few steps ahead of the game. Chances are they'll leave the marketing decisions up to your band for the most part, leaving your band in better control.
The smaller labels know that they have to form partnerships with musicians rather than act as parental figures as the large conglomerates do. If you keep each other happy and manage to make enough money to keep both you /and/ the label going, you have a decent shot of making music a career. Plus, you get to make more of your own decisions concerning direction, growth, etc.
Some respectable indie labels/resources:Secretly Canadian: Among the best indie labels with the likes of Magnolia Electric Company and Damien Jurado in their catalog
Dim MakAnother stellar label and home of Soledad Brothers and the Gossip
Better PropagandaExcellent indie music site, get your band listed here...free MP3s and discographies
Audio LunchboxSite featuring MP3/Ogg tracks for sale - and indie version of iTunes, but won't rot your soul
Kill Rock StarsLabel to Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill
InsoundOne of the best retailers of indie music - decent catalog
And since they're claiming that this is a "Linux vs. Windows" research paper, the fact that they're looking at using the boxes as web servers makes it seem more like they're comparing Apache/PHP/MySQL to IIS/ASP/SQL...
I'm rather new to the Linux world, but isn't that like looking at the engine of a car, and saying the doors don't work?
Isn't the minimum number of bathrooms for a new building determined by building code? Having a single bathroom might allow for 'cross pollination' and all, but that's not really the point of bathrooms.
/breakroom/ would seem a better choice, and one that wouldn't potentially leave employees crossing their legs and hopping around 'synergizing' with their fellow desperados.
Having a single