Guess again. The NDS tree was very nice and showed what could be done when someone actually deployed the 'next big thing,' but LDAP was STILL the next big thing even with Netware being sold.
Like it or not, Windows 2000 was installed in more places then Netware ever was. If you ran a Windows 2000 domain, you used the Active Directory and people who had never touched NDS began deploying LDAP on their networks.
How long was LDAP the 'next big thing' in enterprise networking? Guess which OS actually brought LDAP to most of the worlds enterprise networks.
Out of your list, only Solaris really deserves to be there as far as world changing OS's and even then saying genuine, generic Unix would be more correct. FreeBSD does not have a huge earth shattering install base, and Linux only began to see large scale adoption when it became good enough to replace existing Unix deployments. That was because it was free.
Ya that./configure && make && make install + bundling it in a RPM is some seriously hard work.
Red Hat owns the images and copyrights that have the words "Red Hat." Thats it, and thats what your paying for when you buy RHEL. Its not like they own or do the majority of the work on the software. Red Hat has no problem with not paying for OSS packages it uses, why should I have a problem with not paying Red Hat?
Most people do not equate Theo with OpenSSH. Since a lot of people using OpenSSH on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX et al don't even know their using it, it came with their UNIX I'm sure they just assume that their vendor wrote it, I doubt they know that OpenBSD and OpenSSH are the same project if they even know about OpenBSD at all.
Your also over emphasizing the importance of the project leader in the decision to use and support a product. When was the last time you saw that as a bullet point in deciding what Software to use.
Microsoft is a business, FOSS isn't even a single entity that you can use in this argument. If Microsoft wasn't a business do you think someone would sit down and do any of those accessibility options? Microsoft has a business need to do those if they wish to sell to governments.
Look at Gnome. Their accessibility features were nothing special. Why? There's no glory in doing those things, they're boring and they require a lot of knowledge in the field. so no hobbyist looked at them. Sun wants to make Gnome their default UI but a lot of Suns customers are governments that require these accessibility options. Guess what Sun does. They pay their programmers to fill in the gaps.
A great deal of OSS is made by hobbyists, projects spring up around them because other hobbyists see that its something that could be adapted for their use. Anything that these people do not deem interesting will not be done. Why should it, they're doing this for themselves.
It's still charity work to demand that someone who wrote a neat little tool be so kind as to make it easily available to you.
There is no FOSS community, or at least that term does not in any way apply to everyone who ever released a BSD or GNU licensed tool. Most do it as a hobby and just let it out there, it works for them so it's done, thats it. You want OSS to have better documentation? Be accessible to a disabled person? Be available in more then one language? Have a purple UI? Do it yourself, pay someone to do it, or hope that someone else wants the same thing and is motivated to do one of the first two things. Saying it would be better for the mythical 'community' isn't going to do anything.
Except that Virtualization on Linux was almost always as easy as on Windows, unless for some reason you use Xen. If they really wanted to remove the 'rocket-science' aspect from virtualization they would simply strike a deal with a company that has a mature virtualization product. However, that doesn't make Red Hat look like some industry leader in the area as virtualization as saying they're going to take an OSS product and create some group around it.
Red Hat and Xen - World leader in virtualization as long as you only want to run Linux or BSD.
Why? Because everyone knows virtualization is going to become very common place almost everywhere you have a datacenter. They also know that every time you change something you open the possibility of exploits. By knowing how exploits could be introduced into systems using virtualization they can begin to look at how to combat it. Why look at Linux as well? I seem to remember MS buying some virtualization software that supports Linux guests. They also know about VMWare on Linux hosts running Windows guests, which is a supported configuration.
Not everything is a conspiracy. In fact, very few things are.
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I'd suspect that most people who have a PSP expect the gameplay to be similar to what they have today on the PS2.
Maybe if you're an idiot. Do you expect the same gameplay on the Gamecube that you do from the Gameboy Advance or the DS?
Welcome to the real world, just like making disparaging remarks about people believing in a god is currently ok, welcome and even illustrates that you must be one of the intelligent enlightened in current society. On top of that, you do not have to be a bigot to not want to hear about being gay, peoples political opinions, religious beliefs or whatever when you play a game.
It's a game and people play it for entertainment and relaxation. Leave your problems in the real world where they are your problems, not mine.
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I don't get it. I know what those words are, but strung together like that they seem nonsensical.
They don't like the GPL and are currently removing GPL only licensed code from the base install. The GPL is not an option for OpenBSD.
Guess again. The NDS tree was very nice and showed what could be done when someone actually deployed the 'next big thing,' but LDAP was STILL the next big thing even with Netware being sold.
Like it or not, Windows 2000 was installed in more places then Netware ever was. If you ran a Windows 2000 domain, you used the Active Directory and people who had never touched NDS began deploying LDAP on their networks.
How long was LDAP the 'next big thing' in enterprise networking? Guess which OS actually brought LDAP to most of the worlds enterprise networks.
Out of your list, only Solaris really deserves to be there as far as world changing OS's and even then saying genuine, generic Unix would be more correct. FreeBSD does not have a huge earth shattering install base, and Linux only began to see large scale adoption when it became good enough to replace existing Unix deployments. That was because it was free.
Go build your own that gets the same performance for a fraction of the cost.
There is nothing special about alienware computers, they just look stupid and thats all you're paying for.
org.slashdot doesn't have the same ring to it.
org.dotslash? org.slash?
The bigger news is what can Microsoft do to control the desktop now?
Offer a better product. Oh wait, they already got that covered.
Both in a couple don't have to work. Just because on paper you might have the ability to make twice as much as a couple doesn't mean you do.
It makes sense if you put even a little thought into it.
Well I'm sold.
It's nothing like that.
Honda's actually work.
Ya that ./configure && make && make install + bundling it in a RPM is some seriously hard work.
Red Hat owns the images and copyrights that have the words "Red Hat." Thats it, and thats what your paying for when you buy RHEL. Its not like they own or do the majority of the work on the software. Red Hat has no problem with not paying for OSS packages it uses, why should I have a problem with not paying Red Hat?
Most people do not equate Theo with OpenSSH. Since a lot of people using OpenSSH on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX et al don't even know their using it, it came with their UNIX I'm sure they just assume that their vendor wrote it, I doubt they know that OpenBSD and OpenSSH are the same project if they even know about OpenBSD at all.
Your also over emphasizing the importance of the project leader in the decision to use and support a product. When was the last time you saw that as a bullet point in deciding what Software to use.
Except with that DoD thing. That was just stupid.
Microsoft is a business, FOSS isn't even a single entity that you can use in this argument. If Microsoft wasn't a business do you think someone would sit down and do any of those accessibility options? Microsoft has a business need to do those if they wish to sell to governments.
Look at Gnome. Their accessibility features were nothing special. Why? There's no glory in doing those things, they're boring and they require a lot of knowledge in the field. so no hobbyist looked at them. Sun wants to make Gnome their default UI but a lot of Suns customers are governments that require these accessibility options. Guess what Sun does. They pay their programmers to fill in the gaps.
A great deal of OSS is made by hobbyists, projects spring up around them because other hobbyists see that its something that could be adapted for their use. Anything that these people do not deem interesting will not be done. Why should it, they're doing this for themselves.
It's still charity work to demand that someone who wrote a neat little tool be so kind as to make it easily available to you.
There is no FOSS community, or at least that term does not in any way apply to everyone who ever released a BSD or GNU licensed tool. Most do it as a hobby and just let it out there, it works for them so it's done, thats it. You want OSS to have better documentation? Be accessible to a disabled person? Be available in more then one language? Have a purple UI? Do it yourself, pay someone to do it, or hope that someone else wants the same thing and is motivated to do one of the first two things. Saying it would be better for the mythical 'community' isn't going to do anything.
Why? For being in two games?
They'll be rolled into other departments.
intelligent life like ourselves
One of these things is not like the other.
Except that Virtualization on Linux was almost always as easy as on Windows, unless for some reason you use Xen. If they really wanted to remove the 'rocket-science' aspect from virtualization they would simply strike a deal with a company that has a mature virtualization product. However, that doesn't make Red Hat look like some industry leader in the area as virtualization as saying they're going to take an OSS product and create some group around it.
Red Hat and Xen - World leader in virtualization as long as you only want to run Linux or BSD.
Or sit still
Hardly, you just respawn again.
How can the article be offtopic when the article is the topic?
Why? Because everyone knows virtualization is going to become very common place almost everywhere you have a datacenter. They also know that every time you change something you open the possibility of exploits. By knowing how exploits could be introduced into systems using virtualization they can begin to look at how to combat it. Why look at Linux as well? I seem to remember MS buying some virtualization software that supports Linux guests. They also know about VMWare on Linux hosts running Windows guests, which is a supported configuration.
Not everything is a conspiracy. In fact, very few things are.
I'd suspect that most people who have a PSP expect the gameplay to be similar to what they have today on the PS2.
Maybe if you're an idiot. Do you expect the same gameplay on the Gamecube that you do from the Gameboy Advance or the DS?
Welcome to the real world, just like making disparaging remarks about people believing in a god is currently ok, welcome and even illustrates that you must be one of the intelligent enlightened in current society. On top of that, you do not have to be a bigot to not want to hear about being gay, peoples political opinions, religious beliefs or whatever when you play a game.
It's a game and people play it for entertainment and relaxation. Leave your problems in the real world where they are your problems, not mine.
open source isn't worth crap if it can't be redistributed
BSD's seem to be doing just fine.