Why can't they be right? It's obvious. Because Linux is perfect and moral. Linux could never be wrong. Besides, if SCO were right they'd lay out all the evidence way, way in advance, for everyone to see, even if it might alter their opposition's reponse in court and even if public disclosure may alter the legal course of action taken by attorneys who might otherwise prefer to negotiate or deal in private, before public mention and subsequent culpability might be brought into play, therfore affecting stock prices, business decisions. No, if SCO were right, they'd just ignore all that, because ultimately SCO's responsibility is to a bunch of whiny Linux sycophants and not to their own interests.
Go ahead, mod me down. If I wanted to be modded up I'd just do what many other Slashdot idiots do and tattoo "Linux Rules" on my forehead while wiping my ass with a picture of Bill Gates.
In related news, an internal memo from Microsoft was released today that confirmed Microsoft is aware that Linux exists and that it is a competitor.
"We know," said Microsoft company spokesman Bob Chambers.
Slashdot readers collectively said "AHA!" and then proceeded to shake their heads when told tha Microsoft would try to compete with other products.
"We just can't believe it," said Jeff Nerdmeier, an avid Slashdot reader. "That Microsoft would try to compete in the marketplace is just amazing to us. Why they don't just give everything away, well, we don't understand it."
When Nerdmeier was told that Microsoft might try to compete by price-cutting and free installations, he further stated: "This is unprecedented. No other company in any industry has ever done something like this. We're shocked."
Also in the news today, Slashdot readers were amazed to learn that the United States is a capitalist nation and that their assertions that an entire industry should survive solely on the basis of services rendered in support of what otherwise should only be free, open products, some regard as dogmatic, highly political, and even quasi-religious.
In related news, scientists revealed a study today stating that Linus Torvalds is a human being, not a God. Slashdot readers formed lynch-mobs in response, vowing to "git them anti-Linux bastards".
Hey, Roidboy -- he can say whatever he wants on Slashdot. It's called "an opinion", bitch, and if you don't like it then you've got three choices: 1) post an intelligent reply, 2) shut your stupid mouth, or 3) go on some moronic profanity-fest where you try to demonstrate some kind of silver-backed dominance all while posting as "Anonymous Coward".
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Uh. Okaaaaayyyy. Well, we know something about your high school career now, don't we?
Enhanced "for" loop? Syntactic sugar. Oh and for God's sake, don't use new keywords. It'll be destabilizing.
The "split type system" in Java has always compromised Java's status as a true OOP platform. Seriously, this is supposed to be exciting? Java is how many years old and they've finally made it oh-so-easier to convert between primitive and class types? Aren't there enough conversions in a strongly typed language?
Typesafe Enum pattern, Constant Interface antipattern... Whenever I see this corporate programming designspeak crap I thank God that Apache wasn't written in Java.
Metadata programming. Now Java will have code that emits code before the compiler emits code. Well, there goes Java having no pre-processor. But in true Java fashion, it looks like this "framework" will be much, much harder to use than a pre-processor, so that's good.
Bottom line, Java is Byzantine, slow, bloated, and now playing catch-up. Want to avoid all this verbose, camel-cased code? Go C++. Yes, you'll have to learn how to write secure code, and yes, you'll have to use pointers, which are supposedly EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and yes you'll have to learn about how your computer works a little more to be an expert. Of course, Java requires none of these things.
If you must go with some absolutely proprietary platform, then go C#. At least it's standardized. Oh, oh, Sun was going to do that with Java but then, you know, didn't.
Idiotic. Typical. Idiotic.
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Well, this is typical. A bunch of nitwits who have no actual facts, just a series of shrill posts on Slashdot about how Linux or IBM could not possibly have any blame whatsoever no matter what in a million years so it must be SCO and who cares about SCO anyway and SCO's just trying to save it's own ass blah blah blah let's git 'em.
Nowadays they call this a DDOS. It used to be called a lynch mob. Both of them share the same moral ground.
Also in the news today, an employee of Microsoft, Bob Smithers, 32, farted loud enough for another employee, Carol Jensen, 36, to hear it.
"It wasn't really loud," commented Jensen. "But it was loud enough."
Smithers, who does not have a widespread reputation for flatulence, nevertheless could not help but find humor in his faux pas.
"You know how you'll fart, and then sometimes it's just kind of funny, because of the way it happens to make a funny whhoooooeee sound, or just how stupidly long it'll be? This was like that," Smithers said.
Still, Smithers didn't see cause for the attention. "It's funny it's getting all this commentary. I used to fart when I worked for other companies, but since coming to Microsoft it's been, like, fart hysteria."
Indeed whenever someone at Microsoft farts loud enough for someone else to hear it, IT SEEMS TO GET POSTED ON SLASHDOT, along with reams of other well considered posts such as those that comment that IBM couldn't possibly have any SCO code in Linux for no other apparent reason than Linux is somehow immune to moral ambiguity and who cares about SCO anyway?
This reporter wonders, is it possible that Slashdot is getting a bit shrill lately? Posts about IE crashing on some nonsense bit of invalid HTML certainly seems to point in this direction...
Err, your company's budget must be nil then. I'm a contractor with several large companies and financial institutions as clients, and while the economy isn't exactly booming, their budgets aren't exactly busting.
One of these companies, a Fortune 500 is based entirely on.Net now. Their budget is fine. In fact, since they standardized on Windows many moons ago, the switchover to.Net was, while not trivial, still more simple than most here might expect.
Many large companies don't want open source. They want support, they want assurance, they want compliance with existing standards. For large corporations, ditching Oracle in favor of PostgreSQL would be *extremely* costly, involving training and no small amount of anxiety on the parts of managers. The benefits would be hard to sell. Yeah, yeah, I know, user community, blah, free software, blah, blah. But you'd be surprised by how little weight these arguments carry with executives who do have budgets (and that's many), and who want to spend time furthering their projects, not accommmodating open source changeovers that they don't really understand and that, from their perspective, are only significant to technocrats-in-the-know.
Which is true. The average user doesn't give a rip if he's pulling a query from PostgreSQL or MySQL or SQL Server or Oracle, he just wants the information and then he wants to go to lunch, thank you, bye. This might not include the average *technical* user, but there are many more people out there who just want to open up Word and type their letter than bother about whether their word processor is open source and if Richard Stallman would approve of their choice of office software.
Secondly, this is the sort of mindless, nit-witted, "well Slashdot's jumpin' offa da cliff, so I guess I a-oughta too" response. RTFA. Read my ass. The word "Microsoft" appears ONCE in the article. Okay? ONCE.
The interview did mention how SCO would like to pin SUSE and Red Hat, though. Does THAT get top moderation on Slasdot? Nooooooo. Because someone said MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT? MICROSOFT! AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT! AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
CAST Joe, an average Joe. Dweedlemeyer, an average Slashdot reader.
(Joe enters, carrying a copy of Wired magazine. Dweedlemeyer is sitting at his computer.)
JOE: Hey Dweedlemeyer, how's it going?
(spoken with severe, nasal tone) DWDLMYR: Why, I'm well, thank you, Joseph. Hey what have you there?
JOE: Oh, it's the latest issue of Wired.
(Joe loses his grip on the magazine for a moment as he stops to get a Coke out of the fridge. An ad insert falls gently out of the mag, towards Dweedlemeyer.)
JOE (cont.): Oh, dang it, there's a bunch of Microsoft inserts in Wired this month.
DWDLMYR: MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT??? MICROSOFT! AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! MICROSOFT IS SABOTAGING PUBLISHING! MICROSOFT IF SABOTAGING PUBLISHING!!! AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
You people are nuckin futz. The article is about SCO suing IBM and the first freakin' comments all contain some reference to Microsoft.
I love Slashdot, really, but this ongoing obsession with the evils of a rather mundanely evil corporation is in itself dogmatic and, truthfully, weird. You people all need to find girlfriends, or get hobbies or do something else besides worry about the nefarious doings of a software corporation. And this is coming from someone that uses FreeBSD on the desktop at home.
Let the alternatives speak for themselves. If BSD or Linux are better then great, use them, but don't turn every damned discussion about software into an excuse to worry about WHAT MICROSOFT MIGHT DO NEXT.
Jeez, people.
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Why can't they be right? It's obvious. Because Linux is perfect and moral. Linux could never be wrong. Besides, if SCO were right they'd lay out all the evidence way, way in advance, for everyone to see, even if it might alter their opposition's reponse in court and even if public disclosure may alter the legal course of action taken by attorneys who might otherwise prefer to negotiate or deal in private, before public mention and subsequent culpability might be brought into play, therfore affecting stock prices, business decisions. No, if SCO were right, they'd just ignore all that, because ultimately SCO's responsibility is to a bunch of whiny Linux sycophants and not to their own interests.
Go ahead, mod me down. If I wanted to be modded up I'd just do what many other Slashdot idiots do and tattoo "Linux Rules" on my forehead while wiping my ass with a picture of Bill Gates.
Go FreeBSD. Or OpenBSD. Or NetBSD.
They all kick ass all over Linux anyway.
Quick Squishdotters! DDOS their server!
In related news, an internal memo from Microsoft was released today that confirmed Microsoft is aware that Linux exists and that it is a competitor.
"We know," said Microsoft company spokesman Bob Chambers.
Slashdot readers collectively said "AHA!" and then proceeded to shake their heads when told tha Microsoft would try to compete with other products.
"We just can't believe it," said Jeff Nerdmeier, an avid Slashdot reader. "That Microsoft would try to compete in the marketplace is just amazing to us. Why they don't just give everything away, well, we don't understand it."
When Nerdmeier was told that Microsoft might try to compete by price-cutting and free installations, he further stated: "This is unprecedented. No other company in any industry has ever done something like this. We're shocked."
Also in the news today, Slashdot readers were amazed to learn that the United States is a capitalist nation and that their assertions that an entire industry should survive solely on the basis of services rendered in support of what otherwise should only be free, open products, some regard as dogmatic, highly political, and even quasi-religious.
In related news, scientists revealed a study today stating that Linus Torvalds is a human being, not a God. Slashdot readers formed lynch-mobs in response, vowing to "git them anti-Linux bastards".
Hey, Roidboy -- he can say whatever he wants on Slashdot. It's called "an opinion", bitch, and if you don't like it then you've got three choices: 1) post an intelligent reply, 2) shut your stupid mouth, or 3) go on some moronic profanity-fest where you try to demonstrate some kind of silver-backed dominance all while posting as "Anonymous Coward".
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Uh. Okaaaaayyyy. Well, we know something about your high school career now, don't we?
Idiot.
"Generics"? Castrated templates.
... Whenever I see this corporate programming designspeak crap I thank God that Apache wasn't written in Java.
Enhanced "for" loop? Syntactic sugar. Oh and for God's sake, don't use new keywords. It'll be destabilizing.
The "split type system" in Java has always compromised Java's status as a true OOP platform. Seriously, this is supposed to be exciting? Java is how many years old and they've finally made it oh-so-easier to convert between primitive and class types? Aren't there enough conversions in a strongly typed language?
Typesafe Enum pattern, Constant Interface antipattern
Metadata programming. Now Java will have code that emits code before the compiler emits code. Well, there goes Java having no pre-processor. But in true Java fashion, it looks like this "framework" will be much, much harder to use than a pre-processor, so that's good.
Bottom line, Java is Byzantine, slow, bloated, and now playing catch-up. Want to avoid all this verbose, camel-cased code? Go C++. Yes, you'll have to learn how to write secure code, and yes, you'll have to use pointers, which are supposedly EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and yes you'll have to learn about how your computer works a little more to be an expert. Of course, Java requires none of these things.
If you must go with some absolutely proprietary platform, then go C#. At least it's standardized. Oh, oh, Sun was going to do that with Java but then, you know, didn't.
Well, this is typical. A bunch of nitwits who have no actual facts, just a series of shrill posts on Slashdot about how Linux or IBM could not possibly have any blame whatsoever no matter what in a million years so it must be SCO and who cares about SCO anyway and SCO's just trying to save it's own ass blah blah blah let's git 'em.
Nowadays they call this a DDOS. It used to be called a lynch mob. Both of them share the same moral ground.
Also in the news today, an employee of Microsoft, Bob Smithers, 32, farted loud enough for another employee, Carol Jensen, 36, to hear it.
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"It wasn't really loud," commented Jensen. "But it was loud enough."
Smithers, who does not have a widespread reputation for flatulence, nevertheless could not help but find humor in his faux pas.
"You know how you'll fart, and then sometimes it's just kind of funny, because of the way it happens to make a funny whhoooooeee sound, or just how stupidly long it'll be? This was like that," Smithers said.
Still, Smithers didn't see cause for the attention. "It's funny it's getting all this commentary. I used to fart when I worked for other companies, but since coming to Microsoft it's been, like, fart hysteria."
Indeed whenever someone at Microsoft farts loud enough for someone else to hear it, IT SEEMS TO GET POSTED ON SLASHDOT, along with reams of other well considered posts such as those that comment that IBM couldn't possibly have any SCO code in Linux for no other apparent reason than Linux is somehow immune to moral ambiguity and who cares about SCO anyway?
This reporter wonders, is it possible that Slashdot is getting a bit shrill lately? Posts about IE crashing on some nonsense bit of invalid HTML certainly seems to point in this direction
Err, your company's budget must be nil then. I'm a contractor with several large companies and financial institutions as clients, and while the economy isn't exactly booming, their budgets aren't exactly busting.
.Net now. Their budget is fine. In fact, since they standardized on Windows many moons ago, the switchover to .Net was, while not trivial, still more simple than most here might expect.
One of these companies, a Fortune 500 is based entirely on
Many large companies don't want open source. They want support, they want assurance, they want compliance with existing standards. For large corporations, ditching Oracle in favor of PostgreSQL would be *extremely* costly, involving training and no small amount of anxiety on the parts of managers. The benefits would be hard to sell. Yeah, yeah, I know, user community, blah, free software, blah, blah. But you'd be surprised by how little weight these arguments carry with executives who do have budgets (and that's many), and who want to spend time furthering their projects, not accommmodating open source changeovers that they don't really understand and that, from their perspective, are only significant to technocrats-in-the-know.
Which is true. The average user doesn't give a rip if he's pulling a query from PostgreSQL or MySQL or SQL Server or Oracle, he just wants the information and then he wants to go to lunch, thank you, bye. This might not include the average *technical* user, but there are many more people out there who just want to open up Word and type their letter than bother about whether their word processor is open source and if Richard Stallman would approve of their choice of office software.
First off, I did.
Secondly, this is the sort of mindless, nit-witted, "well Slashdot's jumpin' offa da cliff, so I guess I a-oughta too" response. RTFA. Read my ass. The word "Microsoft" appears ONCE in the article. Okay? ONCE.
The interview did mention how SCO would like to pin SUSE and Red Hat, though. Does THAT get top moderation on Slasdot? Nooooooo. Because someone said MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT? MICROSOFT! AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT! AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
CAST
Joe, an average Joe.
Dweedlemeyer, an average Slashdot reader.
(Joe enters, carrying a copy of Wired magazine. Dweedlemeyer is sitting at his computer.)
JOE: Hey Dweedlemeyer, how's it going?
(spoken with severe, nasal tone)
DWDLMYR: Why, I'm well, thank you, Joseph. Hey what have you there?
JOE: Oh, it's the latest issue of Wired.
(Joe loses his grip on the magazine for a moment as he stops to get a Coke out of the fridge. An ad insert falls gently out of the mag, towards Dweedlemeyer.)
JOE (cont.): Oh, dang it, there's a bunch of Microsoft inserts in Wired this month.
DWDLMYR: MICROSOFT! MICROSOFT??? MICROSOFT! AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! MICROSOFT IS SABOTAGING PUBLISHING! MICROSOFT IF SABOTAGING PUBLISHING!!! AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
You people are nuckin futz. The article is about SCO suing IBM and the first freakin' comments all contain some reference to Microsoft. I love Slashdot, really, but this ongoing obsession with the evils of a rather mundanely evil corporation is in itself dogmatic and, truthfully, weird. You people all need to find girlfriends, or get hobbies or do something else besides worry about the nefarious doings of a software corporation. And this is coming from someone that uses FreeBSD on the desktop at home. Let the alternatives speak for themselves. If BSD or Linux are better then great, use them, but don't turn every damned discussion about software into an excuse to worry about WHAT MICROSOFT MIGHT DO NEXT. Jeez, people.