What do Chinese researchers owe Microsoft? It would be courteous to notify them no doubt, but 'should'? Please, Microsoft is a foreign corporation, he owed them as much consideration as he does McDonalds.
"Really, Gentoo users often perceive that Gentoo is giving them control, when actually Gentoo is just making easier the same advanced tasks that you can do on any other distribution."
I don't recall that Netcraft ever said anything about 'market share'. They enumerate servers. Market share is a valid measure for someone selling something.
The way I see it, Random Corperate Giants are making the decision in cooperation, which is precisely the way I thought OSS+GPL was meant to work. No one company forces the hands of the rest.
" If your complaint instead has to do with the quality of the voice acting, well I still think it's lame in that you won't fully get to know how good the original voice acting was if you can't understand what words they're actually emphasizing."
The first part is exactly the problem, voice actors are usually horrible and cast by people who 'market the product for American audiences.' Rent the Cowboy Bebop movie and watch the interview extras at the end. Pay close attention to the two women who voiced Fae's character. They came to it from completely different perspectives and the results aren't subtle. To my ear the subbed version turns Fae into a gum-cracking grocery store clerk on the loose, cheapening and flattening the character into another Hollywood cliche.
The last half of your objection is just strange. True the language difference means subtuitles don't convey 100% of the intent, but the emotional payload of the original voice comes through loud and clear. Even that is lost with an overdub.
Talk about propaganda, what happened to the first half of that sentence?:
"But on the one occasion when SCO has publicly shown what it claimed were examples of code from Linux taken from Unix Sys V, its demonstration backfired, showing instead SCO's cavalier attitude toward copyright law and its even greater sloppiness at factual research."
SCO claimed those code fragments as legal proof of the veracity of the claims. They were found to be ridiculuously trivial to counter. How more cavalier can they be?
"Startup time is a large part of responsiveness. If I double-click on MS Word 2002 at work, it loads instantly, because it's already in memory starting at bootup. This makes Windows Explorer (the program launching Word) seem very responsive.)"
OpenOffice has a similar fast-start option. It's not always a blessing. When Office 2000 was installed on my work notebook (P2 366 128 ram) it became almost unusable for the constant swapping. Pre-loading libraries is sleight of hand for the impatient. What comes off the application start is shifted to the system start.
"Mozilla was never a perfect browser......heard mutterings in the past couple of months that it was becoming worse, so eventually I had to download it and see for myself.....I am a little sad to see that Mozilla has not learned the lesson that many of us had hoped Phoenix would have taught it."
Phoenix is also an open source project. How do you get from this to the conclusion that all OSS projects are lacking? Further down the author enlightens with pearls of wisdom such as:
""Show Web Site Icons" (Some whiny little bitches put up the fight of the century when this useful and appealing enhancement was added a year or so ago, and so now we have to deal with an extra preference. Solution: a raised middle finger)"
If this is a valid example of HCI expertise it goes a long way towards explaining why I can barely tolerate IE after becoming accustomed to Mozilla and Firebird.
"Simply point a PHB in the right direction and poof, there goes another Linux opportunity."
Not really. Any PHB who makes an infrastructure choice based on a salespeson's comments about a public message board will be Biggie Sizing soon enough.
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Why does everyone think there only one route towards acceptance? Linux advanced from a student hobby to a monopoly's number one perceived threat without having given a single rat's ass about 'image' so far. Likely it will continue to do so.
For me one of Linux's most refreshing strengths is not having to deal with layers of marketing bullshit and lies or work with mass-appeal desktops designed by marketing 'experts'. Fortunately, its completely open license scheme assures I never will be forced into a one-size-fits-all OS.
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I agree completely. Gentoo is excellent and the only distro I use, but it's too foreign for most people accustomed to managing a Microsoft site to make for a manageable transition. FreeBSD, with its simple configuration and excellent and consistent ports collection, makes more sense for a corporation bent on a port-style package management system. Ultimately though an apt or apt/rpm solution will probably win out.
The example page displays poorly in Mozilla 1.5 for me. Running a 1600 x 1200 desktop with min font size in Moz set to 18, characters in the left hand frame overwrite the left edge of the story summaries.
I'm not sure what this means about Taco's plan to rule the HTML universe.
You completely ignore the fact that Linux share of the corporate desktop is on the upswing. Exposed to it at work, many will want it at home, as happened with Win 3.1 and 95. You also ignore the escalating cost of a complete home Microsoft solution and the ever decreasing possibilty of MS warez due to activation. In fact, your entire chain of reasoning hangs on brand recognition of the RedHat name. Seems thin to me.
Not everything basic just works. I'm setting a box with Fedora Core 1. The system was loaded with a CD burner on the secondary IDE master position which, once complete, was replaced with a pair of 40 gig IDEs for a RAID0. Though the BIOS recognized them Fedora refused and neither would fdisk. It took a while for me to realize the Fedora install added a switch to grub.conf, passing the kernel a parameter indicating/dev/hdc was still a CD burner, and that it didn't recognize the hardware change and remove the switch. I know how to edit an fstab but was expecting Fedora to handle it automagically.
It was a simple matter to rectify the problem by editing grub.conf, but we're well out of soccer mom territory now. The same problem would have arisen had the burner been replaced with the single drive, a normal home user upgrade.
Here we call it Teflon Suits. Upper managers are hands off, middle managers are hands off, line managers are hands off, bottom rung people are in constant panic/fire mode from lack of planning and guidance. A 5 job requires 15 work units. A horrid way to run a business but a good way to climb the ladder.
"As for instance, if code I'd licensed under the GPL were used in a closed source product in contravention of the GPL."
You're forgeting in the GPL case code is being appropriated by someone intending to make a business profit, possibly in competition with you. Preventing such actions is the original reasoning behind copyright law. The author gets a short monopoly to spur creation. It doesn't apply to 15 year old Kazaa users.
"All the more reason not to engage in this illegal activity. The reason that the fine is so high is that copyright infringement of this magnitude used to be the type of thing that organized crime got into. The fact that the perpetrator was a 12 year-old girl doesn't change the law."
Organized crime? Right. Her, Vicki the Pipe and Icepick Lucy shook down the industry for millions in profit. Is there a Godwin's Law for RIAA apologists?
Conversely, if the intent of the legal system is to prevent and redress harm done, those laws have no right to exist until that harm is proven. Laws don't exist in a vacuum, they serve a purpose and must be justified beyond expressing the wish of lobbyists.
You said more than you know. Time to trot out the financial statements of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, once again. The Foundation increased their net worth almost $800 million in 2002, mostly from investments. I'm not knocking a great symbiotic relationship, the mega-wealthy steering money from taxes to charitable donations, but it shouldn't be portrayed as Bill writing personal checks. Also, if you look at their grant programs for 2002 a very significant portion went to universities, a market segment in which Microsoft has a very strong interest.
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What do Chinese researchers owe Microsoft? It would be courteous to notify them no doubt, but 'should'? Please, Microsoft is a foreign corporation, he owed them as much consideration as he does McDonalds.
That's not an attribute?
Stage 3 install, 2-3 hours on any relatively modern machine while still retaining all the config goodness.
I don't recall that Netcraft ever said anything about 'market share'. They enumerate servers. Market share is a valid measure for someone selling something.
My idea of a win-win situation.
The way I see it, Random Corperate Giants are making the decision in cooperation, which is precisely the way I thought OSS+GPL was meant to work. No one company forces the hands of the rest.
" If your complaint instead has to do with the quality of the voice acting, well I still think it's lame in that you won't fully get to know how good the original voice acting was if you can't understand what words they're actually emphasizing."
The first part is exactly the problem, voice actors are usually horrible and cast by people who 'market the product for American audiences.' Rent the Cowboy Bebop movie and watch the interview extras at the end. Pay close attention to the two women who voiced Fae's character. They came to it from completely different perspectives and the results aren't subtle. To my ear the subbed version turns Fae into a gum-cracking grocery store clerk on the loose, cheapening and flattening the character into another Hollywood cliche. The last half of your objection is just strange. True the language difference means subtuitles don't convey 100% of the intent, but the emotional payload of the original voice comes through loud and clear. Even that is lost with an overdub.
"But on the one occasion when SCO has publicly shown what it claimed were examples of code from Linux taken from Unix Sys V, its demonstration backfired, showing instead SCO's cavalier attitude toward copyright law and its even greater sloppiness at factual research."
SCO claimed those code fragments as legal proof of the veracity of the claims. They were found to be ridiculuously trivial to counter. How more cavalier can they be?
Your dual equivalency model is invalidated by SCO's having been caught lying and dissembling. Repeatedly.
"Startup time is a large part of responsiveness. If I double-click on MS Word 2002 at work, it loads instantly, because it's already in memory starting at bootup. This makes Windows Explorer (the program launching Word) seem very responsive.)"
OpenOffice has a similar fast-start option. It's not always a blessing. When Office 2000 was installed on my work notebook (P2 366 128 ram) it became almost unusable for the constant swapping. Pre-loading libraries is sleight of hand for the impatient. What comes off the application start is shifted to the system start.
"Mozilla was never a perfect browser......heard mutterings in the past couple of months that it was becoming worse, so eventually I had to download it and see for myself. ....I am a little sad to see that Mozilla has not learned the lesson that many of us had hoped Phoenix would have taught it."
Phoenix is also an open source project. How do you get from this to the conclusion that all OSS projects are lacking? Further down the author enlightens with pearls of wisdom such as:
""Show Web Site Icons" (Some whiny little bitches put up the fight of the century when this useful and appealing enhancement was added a year or so ago, and so now we have to deal with an extra preference. Solution: a raised middle finger)"
If this is a valid example of HCI expertise it goes a long way towards explaining why I can barely tolerate IE after becoming accustomed to Mozilla and Firebird.
Fortunately, the Linux community has Balmer to redress the balance.
Not really. Any PHB who makes an infrastructure choice based on a salespeson's comments about a public message board will be Biggie Sizing soon enough.
For me one of Linux's most refreshing strengths is not having to deal with layers of marketing bullshit and lies or work with mass-appeal desktops designed by marketing 'experts'. Fortunately, its completely open license scheme assures I never will be forced into a one-size-fits-all OS.
I agree completely. Gentoo is excellent and the only distro I use, but it's too foreign for most people accustomed to managing a Microsoft site to make for a manageable transition. FreeBSD, with its simple configuration and excellent and consistent ports collection, makes more sense for a corporation bent on a port-style package management system. Ultimately though an apt or apt/rpm solution will probably win out.
I'm not sure what this means about Taco's plan to rule the HTML universe.
You completely ignore the fact that Linux share of the corporate desktop is on the upswing. Exposed to it at work, many will want it at home, as happened with Win 3.1 and 95. You also ignore the escalating cost of a complete home Microsoft solution and the ever decreasing possibilty of MS warez due to activation. In fact, your entire chain of reasoning hangs on brand recognition of the RedHat name. Seems thin to me.
It was a simple matter to rectify the problem by editing grub.conf, but we're well out of soccer mom territory now. The same problem would have arisen had the burner been replaced with the single drive, a normal home user upgrade.
Here we call it Teflon Suits. Upper managers are hands off, middle managers are hands off, line managers are hands off, bottom rung people are in constant panic/fire mode from lack of planning and guidance. A 5 job requires 15 work units. A horrid way to run a business but a good way to climb the ladder.
You're forgeting in the GPL case code is being appropriated by someone intending to make a business profit, possibly in competition with you. Preventing such actions is the original reasoning behind copyright law. The author gets a short monopoly to spur creation. It doesn't apply to 15 year old Kazaa users.
Organized crime? Right. Her, Vicki the Pipe and Icepick Lucy shook down the industry for millions in profit. Is there a Godwin's Law for RIAA apologists?
No, she didn't. Neither did her parents. Read the article.
You have no problem with companies buying 'harsh penalty' legislation for crimes without proof of harm?
Conversely, if the intent of the legal system is to prevent and redress harm done, those laws have no right to exist until that harm is proven. Laws don't exist in a vacuum, they serve a purpose and must be justified beyond expressing the wish of lobbyists.
Doesn't this mean the OSS development model is more efficient?
You said more than you know. Time to trot out the financial statements of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, once again. The Foundation increased their net worth almost $800 million in 2002, mostly from investments. I'm not knocking a great symbiotic relationship, the mega-wealthy steering money from taxes to charitable donations, but it shouldn't be portrayed as Bill writing personal checks. Also, if you look at their grant programs for 2002 a very significant portion went to universities, a market segment in which Microsoft has a very strong interest.