His entire argument is that if you make changes to the source code, Red Hat support won't debug your modifications for you as part of their basic support package.
I can do whatever the hell I want with GPL'd open source, short of refusing to share my changes when distributing binaries to other users. Microsoft has all these licenses, but AFAIK they've released nothing of worth under any of them. I can't view or modify any significant Microsoft source without signing an NDA and paying millions of dollars, or risking serious prison time.
I haven't RTFA, but statements like "up to 90%" automatically trigger my bullshit detector. "Up to 90%" means "not more than 90%". For all useful purposes the statement is meaningless. It could mean 10%, but potentially higher for small enough test groups.
You might need a good PC for all your favorite games (unless your favorites are over 3 years old), but any cheap PC will usually be enough to run your favorite desktop apps. I bought one of those Linspire PC's for my dad for $269, which had 256mb ram, an 80gb HD, and a DVD/CDRW combo drive. It runs pretty smoothly. The only big downside is that they used a video chipset which was incompatible with Linux, including the Linspire that was preinstalled. And the hard drive is held in by only two screws, allowing it to wobble.
I've had no luck finding good open source CNC/manufacturing oriented 3D CAD/CAM software. There are some on sourceforge, but many of the commercial programs are a whole lot better. You might be able to piece something together out of many smaller programs, like one program for creating the models and another to convert models into G-code, or whatever else your specific CNC machines might accept. I'm not an engineer of the non-software kind, and I don't use CAD programs, but I work around people who do, and damn, some of that software is expensive, so we've always been interested in open source alternatives.
A few years back someone on my ICQ list changed his nickname to a female one. He's very active in online MMORPGs with that nick, and as far as I can tell, people generally believe him, or at least keep quiet when they don't. He even has two accounts registered on many sites, one for himself, and one for his female alter-ego. He discovered that people admire his programming skills 100x more when they think he's a girl.
If, like most failed revolutionary new technologies, they aren't flexible and reasonable in their patent licensing, this can take a long time to reach wide market acceptance. Experience tells me that new technologies are expensive through the roof, even if the cost that went into it isn't. It all depends on if they want to price for business or consumer use.
I feel lucky to have not been burned by this, but you can bet a lot of people have. If you really want to delete everything, you should have to type something like "delete from table where true" or "truncate table".
The SELECT syntax is usually good enough for me, but the capabilities of most implementations leave much to be desired. They only support a small subset of what the syntax suggests.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 73,300 for "coffee beer". (0.20 seconds)
Does anyone think they're the first to think of combining the two most addictive beverages in the world?
I'm sure the patent is much more specific than just mixing the two, enough to make it unique, but the general idea is nothing new. I really didn't know you could patent food, but I guess where there's a will there's a way.
Their stock price lost about 1/3rd overnight, 1/100th of what is was in their glory days. It's interesting that they peaked in late 1995 while most other software companies hit their peak in 2000. Their stock chart looks like a big triangle, and you barely see it wiggle when the dot com bubble burst. Too bad for all those XFS users out there. At least it's open source.
A few reverse splits ought to help fix their delisting problem, depending on the extra requirements they must meet to be relisted.
Users need Linux to run the software they can't get for free, which requires commercial software developers to write software that'll run on Linux. It needs to be easier for more commercial software developers to support both Windows and Linux. Open source makes a very good desktop, and there is a heck of a lot of good open source software, but some types of software only thrive in a market environment. This includes games, niche software, and any software that average users are willing to pay for but average developers aren't willing to write for themselves. Suppose a very cool game will cost $1 million to develop. There is nobody who will need to play that game so badly that they'll spend $1 million to have it developed, so such a game simply can't happen if it has to be open source. But for a commercial developer, it's worth spending $1 million to develop it if they think 50000 people will spend $35 to play it. For most commercial developers, the cost of supporting both platforms outweighs the benefits, or they think it does. The only ways I can think of to get commercial software developers/publishers to support Linux are: 1) Reduce costs/difficulty of porting and/or cross platform development. 2) Increase market share (chicken and egg problem). And 3) Evangelism.
You can buy Linspire, buy an update subscription, and buy free software from their Click-N-Run repository. Most other distros are accepting donations, except Red Hat in some cases. So far as I can tell, Red Hat only accepts yearly donations of certain large amounts of money, determined by your use of the software.
Radmin - Remote Administrator by Famatech will not work on a *nix box......I would rather eat glass then install the latest VNC variant...
Have you ever messed with Remote Desktop / Terminal Services? The server comes with every Windows 2000+ other than XP Home. It's very responsive, and the Linux rdesktop client works great. In full screen mode rdesktop captures and forwards all keyboard input, blocking the keystrokes from reaching local apps, which might otherwise have undesirable consequences. I use remote desktop when I want it to feel like the remote server is right in front of me, and VNC for almost everything else, mostly because I started out using TightVNC.
With remote Linux servers/desktops, there's also the fun option of X11 forwarding over ssh. You run remote apps rather than logging on to a remote desktop, and they feel like local GUI apps. I use Putty ssh and Xming for managing remote Linux systems from Windows where I work.
The drivers are great if you buy supported hardware. There's a lot of hardware that won't work well on Mac either, but you won't find it in Apple's store.
How about a real (used) computer for about the same price? Then you can load a bunch of educational crap on it. The educational possibilities will be limitless, rather than limited to a small bundle of expensive low quality game cartridges.
Or not. The jet engine sound of an old computer might scare the kid.
Still, if you use Windows, you may feel Windows open source deserves more respect than Windows freeware, or Windows payware. It'll probably encourage the continued use of Windows, but so does all other Windows software. If you do need it to work on Linux, you can at least tweak the source until it runs on Wine or mono, and submit your patches so it'll work for everyone. I tend to have good luck running open source Windows software on Wine, moreso than other Windows software, though it's still locked into x86.
The only really big issue I can think of is when cross platform GPL'd software gets embedded into Windows-only GPL'd software. Making a Windows-only fork is a means of encumbering previously unencumbered source code. If Microsoft is smart, they'll take part in many popular open source projects, making bigger, "better", incompatible forks that rely heavily on Windows API's, or at least submit features to the original projects that only work in Windows builds, and are left out of builds for other platforms.
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His entire argument is that if you make changes to the source code, Red Hat support won't debug your modifications for you as part of their basic support package.
I can do whatever the hell I want with GPL'd open source, short of refusing to share my changes when distributing binaries to other users. Microsoft has all these licenses, but AFAIK they've released nothing of worth under any of them. I can't view or modify any significant Microsoft source without signing an NDA and paying millions of dollars, or risking serious prison time.
Is there much, if anything, to gain by purchasing Ingres, when Postgresql is free under a non-restrictive license?
How many Mac users bought non-Macs? Are they subtracted from the "1 million"?
Maybe 20 million people installed Linux this year, but I doubt more than 1/4 of them will still be using it next year.
A typical sandwich contains thousands of different chemicals, many of which are toxic.
I haven't RTFA, but statements like "up to 90%" automatically trigger my bullshit detector. "Up to 90%" means "not more than 90%". For all useful purposes the statement is meaningless. It could mean 10%, but potentially higher for small enough test groups.
You might need a good PC for all your favorite games (unless your favorites are over 3 years old), but any cheap PC will usually be enough to run your favorite desktop apps. I bought one of those Linspire PC's for my dad for $269, which had 256mb ram, an 80gb HD, and a DVD/CDRW combo drive. It runs pretty smoothly. The only big downside is that they used a video chipset which was incompatible with Linux, including the Linspire that was preinstalled. And the hard drive is held in by only two screws, allowing it to wobble.
It's been cloudy and raining for several days now.
At least it wouldn't be a "disk", but I see "ramdisk" and "ramdrive" used interchangeably all the time.
Give me $3m and install Debian.
I've had no luck finding good open source CNC/manufacturing oriented 3D CAD/CAM software. There are some on sourceforge, but many of the commercial programs are a whole lot better. You might be able to piece something together out of many smaller programs, like one program for creating the models and another to convert models into G-code, or whatever else your specific CNC machines might accept. I'm not an engineer of the non-software kind, and I don't use CAD programs, but I work around people who do, and damn, some of that software is expensive, so we've always been interested in open source alternatives.
A few years back someone on my ICQ list changed his nickname to a female one. He's very active in online MMORPGs with that nick, and as far as I can tell, people generally believe him, or at least keep quiet when they don't. He even has two accounts registered on many sites, one for himself, and one for his female alter-ego. He discovered that people admire his programming skills 100x more when they think he's a girl.
If, like most failed revolutionary new technologies, they aren't flexible and reasonable in their patent licensing, this can take a long time to reach wide market acceptance. Experience tells me that new technologies are expensive through the roof, even if the cost that went into it isn't. It all depends on if they want to price for business or consumer use.
AFAIK, the most direct descendant of the old Microsoft XENIX is SCO OpenServer.
I feel lucky to have not been burned by this, but you can bet a lot of people have. If you really want to delete everything, you should have to type something like "delete from table where true" or "truncate table".
The SELECT syntax is usually good enough for me, but the capabilities of most implementations leave much to be desired. They only support a small subset of what the syntax suggests.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 73,300 for "coffee beer". (0.20 seconds)
Does anyone think they're the first to think of combining the two most addictive beverages in the world?
I'm sure the patent is much more specific than just mixing the two, enough to make it unique, but the general idea is nothing new. I really didn't know you could patent food, but I guess where there's a will there's a way.
Their stock price lost about 1/3rd overnight, 1/100th of what is was in their glory days. It's interesting that they peaked in late 1995 while most other software companies hit their peak in 2000. Their stock chart looks like a big triangle, and you barely see it wiggle when the dot com bubble burst. Too bad for all those XFS users out there. At least it's open source.
A few reverse splits ought to help fix their delisting problem, depending on the extra requirements they must meet to be relisted.
It needs mainstream desktop users.
-ducks-
Users need Linux to run the software they can't get for free, which requires commercial software developers to write software that'll run on Linux. It needs to be easier for more commercial software developers to support both Windows and Linux. Open source makes a very good desktop, and there is a heck of a lot of good open source software, but some types of software only thrive in a market environment. This includes games, niche software, and any software that average users are willing to pay for but average developers aren't willing to write for themselves. Suppose a very cool game will cost $1 million to develop. There is nobody who will need to play that game so badly that they'll spend $1 million to have it developed, so such a game simply can't happen if it has to be open source. But for a commercial developer, it's worth spending $1 million to develop it if they think 50000 people will spend $35 to play it. For most commercial developers, the cost of supporting both platforms outweighs the benefits, or they think it does. The only ways I can think of to get commercial software developers/publishers to support Linux are: 1) Reduce costs/difficulty of porting and/or cross platform development. 2) Increase market share (chicken and egg problem). And 3) Evangelism.
You can buy Linspire, buy an update subscription, and buy free software from their Click-N-Run repository. Most other distros are accepting donations, except Red Hat in some cases. So far as I can tell, Red Hat only accepts yearly donations of certain large amounts of money, determined by your use of the software.
Radmin - Remote Administrator by Famatech will not work on a *nix box... ...I would rather eat glass then install the latest VNC variant...
Have you ever messed with Remote Desktop / Terminal Services? The server comes with every Windows 2000+ other than XP Home. It's very responsive, and the Linux rdesktop client works great. In full screen mode rdesktop captures and forwards all keyboard input, blocking the keystrokes from reaching local apps, which might otherwise have undesirable consequences. I use remote desktop when I want it to feel like the remote server is right in front of me, and VNC for almost everything else, mostly because I started out using TightVNC.
With remote Linux servers/desktops, there's also the fun option of X11 forwarding over ssh. You run remote apps rather than logging on to a remote desktop, and they feel like local GUI apps. I use Putty ssh and Xming for managing remote Linux systems from Windows where I work.
The drivers are great if you buy supported hardware. There's a lot of hardware that won't work well on Mac either, but you won't find it in Apple's store.
How about a real (used) computer for about the same price? Then you can load a bunch of educational crap on it. The educational possibilities will be limitless, rather than limited to a small bundle of expensive low quality game cartridges.
Or not. The jet engine sound of an old computer might scare the kid.
I guess I don't really need to buy an Xbox 360, given the shortage and all.
Do they have the technology to make digital copies of the X-rays? Maybe they've even made some already?
Maybe Walmart can make digital copies, if you get signed permission from the copyright owner (the lab).
They list "Google News" among the available RSS feeds.
Still, if you use Windows, you may feel Windows open source deserves more respect than Windows freeware, or Windows payware. It'll probably encourage the continued use of Windows, but so does all other Windows software. If you do need it to work on Linux, you can at least tweak the source until it runs on Wine or mono, and submit your patches so it'll work for everyone. I tend to have good luck running open source Windows software on Wine, moreso than other Windows software, though it's still locked into x86.
The only really big issue I can think of is when cross platform GPL'd software gets embedded into Windows-only GPL'd software. Making a Windows-only fork is a means of encumbering previously unencumbered source code. If Microsoft is smart, they'll take part in many popular open source projects, making bigger, "better", incompatible forks that rely heavily on Windows API's, or at least submit features to the original projects that only work in Windows builds, and are left out of builds for other platforms.