They do own the hardware and data you produce for them. They buy that time and work from you. Just because you believe that democracy is a good political model, doesn't mean it must be good and applied everywhere.
Red Hat supports RHEL. Message boards 'support' ReactOS, it's not the same thing. So the choice becomes XP, which you know will run Windows software because it is Windows and you have been running it for who knows how long, or some project that tries to be the same thing while not being the same thing.
You're not going to choose to run something that is essentially untested on the hopes that someone somewhere might see money in supporting you.
No one cares about Xen. Microsoft made a copy of VPC free to drum up business for a product they just bought. VMWare made one of their products free to expand their market, they can even still make money with VMWare server by selling support for it, or when its users realize they need more and upgrade to ESX. Xen exists for some hobbyists.
What does MS have to worry about with Xen or VMWare for that matter if they give VPC away? You still need to have a valid licence to run Windows on it or VMWare. VMWare has little to worry about too. Where are you going to get support for Xen from? Does Xen even come close to providing what VMWare workstation or ESX can do?
People are only running scared from OSS in the minds of many Slashdot users and bloggers no one cares about.
I believe that mostly, they use the existing knowledge of the laws of nature to understand how those laws shape nature. You can't form a proper hypothesis if you don't know enough to ask the right questions.
The 'general public' doesn't hate Microsoft, they actually don't care. Like with all things popular, successful or current, its popular to complain about it.
I seem to remember in one of the specials on Star Trek that it was said that at some point in time the Military was toying with the idea of hyposprays popularized by Star Trek because of the easy way of delivering injections.
It's nice to see SGI working on winning gold medals in Swimming. They just need to find out how to get rid of the meat bag causing all that drag on their wonderfully designed swimsuits.
It worked. Despite what you say about how hated they were, they made companies money. The real question is how stupid does a company have to be to stop using it?
The excuse of training individuals on a platform said to be an industry standard is weak
Not really, especially when you read the whole comment, that schools don't have the resources to go out and test every possible alternative. The 'industry standard' becomes the default choice.
Schools should stick to the basics. Teach students how to use a mouse or pointing device. Educate them on what an operating system is. Show them some basic applications. Show them which applications are used for which jobs
All of that can be done on any OS, so its not really an argument against choosing any platform is it.
If you have enough of something people want at the right price then why couldn't you get rich selling things on EBay? It's not really any different then selling things in a shop or through your own website.
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Does IPv6 change the internets tubes into dump trucks though?
They do own the hardware and data you produce for them. They buy that time and work from you. Just because you believe that democracy is a good political model, doesn't mean it must be good and applied everywhere.
Hm, 5x12=120? You went to an American school didn't you, or do you live on some other planet that has 24 months in a year?
Don't tell Buzz, he's really committed to the lie.
... where all the actual work is done by immigrants or off-shored because no one local knows how to do it anymore.
If the one place that can read them is closing, does it matter if you can't find what is essentially bunch of unreadable media?
On the other hand, how do you loose almost 700 boxes? You'd think that 700 boxes of stuff would kind of stick out.
Red Hat supports RHEL. Message boards 'support' ReactOS, it's not the same thing. So the choice becomes XP, which you know will run Windows software because it is Windows and you have been running it for who knows how long, or some project that tries to be the same thing while not being the same thing.
You're not going to choose to run something that is essentially untested on the hopes that someone somewhere might see money in supporting you.
Companies who do not want to move to Vista will keep using XP, not move to another unsupported OS.
OS's are distributed on 'virtual cd's' so I'm guessing it is like a big virtual poker chip.
What does MS have to worry about with Xen or VMWare for that matter if they give VPC away? You still need to have a valid licence to run Windows on it or VMWare. VMWare has little to worry about too. Where are you going to get support for Xen from? Does Xen even come close to providing what VMWare workstation or ESX can do?
People are only running scared from OSS in the minds of many Slashdot users and bloggers no one cares about.
I believe that mostly, they use the existing knowledge of the laws of nature to understand how those laws shape nature. You can't form a proper hypothesis if you don't know enough to ask the right questions.
The 'general public' doesn't hate Microsoft, they actually don't care. Like with all things popular, successful or current, its popular to complain about it.
I seem to remember in one of the specials on Star Trek that it was said that at some point in time the Military was toying with the idea of hyposprays popularized by Star Trek because of the easy way of delivering injections.
It's nice to see SGI working on winning gold medals in Swimming. They just need to find out how to get rid of the meat bag causing all that drag on their wonderfully designed swimsuits.
If you had an Oracle support contract, why would you be using MySQL?
It worked. Despite what you say about how hated they were, they made companies money. The real question is how stupid does a company have to be to stop using it?
All of that can be done on any OS, so its not really an argument against choosing any platform is it.
I hate it when people over react. Computers are the TOOLS of the Devil, not the Devil himself.
If you have enough of something people want at the right price then why couldn't you get rich selling things on EBay? It's not really any different then selling things in a shop or through your own website.
Do you mean CD Text?
This assumes its the job of an analyst to think. Despite what the word analyze means, it's not.
Because the correct way of doing things would be break every site in existance that was targeted to the de facto web browser standard.
I'm reporting greer2005 to Homland Security for his terrorist plot to boil the oceans.
You can only stay the current favorite for so long, so it's not really surprising. Eventually a lot of people are going to move on to something else.