The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
Although in a perfect world, we would have companies auditing their own code and finding exploits in their own products, the fact remains that unless there is a perverable rocket aimed at their behind, nothing will be done.
The fact remains that we have an organisation here with over 40,000 employees, over $40billion dollars in cash and yet, they're making *really* stupid mistakes. I am sure most people could cut Microsoft some slack if they were a small business OR that these incidents were as rare as hens teeth, however, when it becomes "have you applied the daily patch", people lose their cool.
The unfortunate thing, however, is due to Microsofts huge marketing muscle, this approach by "exploit finders" doesn't work. Microsoft instead of taking on board the information and applogising, instead they spin the story as to make out that the person who finds the exploit is somehow linked to a grand anti-Microsoft conspiracy, and god forbid, call them a "terrorist" for "exposing" the unwashed masses to "harm".
People compare PHP to Java. That isn't PHP's main competitor. The main competitor is ASP and so there fore, a better comparision would actually be between ASP/ASPX and PHP in regards to scalability. Once Mono is feature complete, then compare MS ASPX to Mono, then compare the two to PHP.
Once those comparisons are made, one can then decide whether the superior one is due to either the design/architecture or simply because one is better implemented than the other.
Personally, I find that both have a place depending on what you want to do. That is why there is diversity, because there isn't one product out there that is everything to everyone. Toasters for example all pretty much all the same. There is no difference between the taste of toast cooked in an elcheapo tiffany toaster vs and expensive Sunbeam, it is simply personal taste that dictates what is bought.
We can continue arguing which is superior but deep down inside every person here, things aren't done on technical superiority, it is done because the PHB got his creative juices following when he heard a marketer promote their "solution" over another.
I know I'll probably be called a troll but why on gods green earth are you running Windows on a server? sure, I can understand why one would need to run a Windows desktop, but a server?
The best way to remove the missery and heart ache of Windows is to simply buy that $100 per employee pack from SUN and be done with it. Everything one needs to get a server working; application server, Instant messenging server, directory server, etc etc. oh, and most importantly, Solaris on x86. A dream when it comes to a server OS.
Sure, Solaris sucks huge chocolate salty balls as a workstation but as a server, as some youngsters would say today, "it r001z!"
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It would require Oracle DB as part of the equation.
The operating system core resides on an un-DB partition which has the basic core plus the Oracle DB engine, the other part is a raw partition. Instead of the information being a partition, the DB can be mounted as a partition in the traditional sense so that to the end user, they will notice no difference. All they will see when they go df is a piddly 200MB partition and the rest mounted under something else.
In otherwords, it is nothing revolutionary. Oracle was promoting this years ago when Larry claimed that "operating systems are dead".
How about granting patents to companies that ACTUALLY invent something that is of real intellectual value instead of the user tripe of, "here is a widget, it does something, it come in multiple colours and was developed by doo-dacky incorporated at their R&D facility located out in the sticks where donkeys dig for day light".
Just look at the eloas patent, it is so open ended, one has to place it in the "how long is a piece of string" pile of questions which hopefully can be answered by some divine intervention when the second coming occurs (if ever?).
1> UltraSparc multicore is still over a year away, IBM has had a multi-core and low cost processor on the market for over a year. People don't give a toss about Linux, what people want is value for money, SUN doesn't deliver this.
2> Market properly. Who ever is the marketing department needs be given a public beating for the pathetic work they have done. They're like a DEC, great technology run by engineers but can't market themselves out of a paper bag.
3> Scott McNealy should stop whining and start listening to customers who are leaving. Go to the customers and ask, "why are you leaving? have we failed to serve you?". Find out why they are deciding/are leaving and do something about it.
4> Adopt Opteron for 8way and lower machines. Spruce up Solaris x86, PAY for the porting of workstation and desktop applications, and market the x86-64/Solaris as an alternative to Windows. Windows admins are looking for a commercial alternative to Windows but they don't feel comfortable with Linux, this is where they (SUN) can fill the gap.
When the real person to blame is Paul Keating pulled out of the openskys agreement between New Zealand and Australia. Air New Zealand tried to enter into the Australian market, they were told that they had to purchase Ansett or otherwise sod off.
Air New Zealand bought Ansett thinking that they could run it properly, what they found out is that the company had already been run into the ground, Australia is over run by militant unions meaning that ANY resutructuring they tried in the 12 months or so they owned it basically was stopped by the union.
Btw, the assertion by Unions that Air New Zealand had invested no money into Ansett, incorrect. I know of atleast 7 programmers who were working on a completely news, integrated system to replace the old one. There was also browsing done by Air New Zealand for new planes to replace the aging Ansett fleet.
If you want someone to blame for Ansetts collapse, blame the Unions and the Australian government. UNLIKE Australia, the New Zealand government DOESN'T give hand outs to companies, Air New Zealand UNLIKE QUANTAS, actually HAVE TO COMPETE for public service contracts.
Australia on the other hand simply hand out contracts to QUANTAS with out ANY competitive bids and worse still, its the public who is paying for this via higher taxes. Can any of you say, "corporate welfare"?
Remote shocking device to allow the victim of telemarketing to send a 4000amp charge down the line to the person at the call centre.
Another would be for the US to declare war on Telemarketing. Why? well, when ever GWB has a speech, guess what happens? the phone rings. When the phone rings, GWB loses his "connection with the American public". If you get rid of the telemarketers, you get a loyal listening audience;-)
Could you imagine the speech?
"My fellow Americans, our country is under attack by spam, telemarketing and faxes. This group constitutes a Triangle of Trash. We must unit as a people to purge this scourge from this great nation of ours. Countries who current allow these communication terrorists to operate in their country have to make a decision, they are either with us or against us."
I am sure it would be an interesting road show, too bad their product majorly sucks and their sales staff, well, has anyone here been able to contact their sales staff so that one could purchase a SCO license?
Before they go on their little contiki tour, how about fix the products THEN promote them.
Unfortunately I have tried to set it up with Mail (MacOS X), Lotus Notes 6 and Entourage, however, each of them download the message first them strip off the attachments. I've changed email addresses now, however, it is rather annonying that such a large number of people send attachments, HTML messages and run attachments thus I end up getting 134K *.exe files crammed in my inbox.
Easy. Negotiate between ISPs. The only mail servers allowed on the "network" are ISPs who conform. The ISPs who sign up, sign a legally binding contract.If they fail to abide, they are kicked out.
These laws were bought in democratically by the local government in nothern Nigeria. The people voted for these laws and now they have them.
Also, I assume you know nothing about Shariah law, because it requires that there are 4 witnesses to the deed that the defendent has been accused of. This was the virdict handed down:
In an hour-long hearing, the panel said Lawal was not caught in the act of adultery and wasn't given enough time to understand the charges against her.
It also cited procedural errors, including that only one judge was present at her initial conviction in March 2002, instead of the three required under Islamic law.
by the way, how is Islamic law any difference to the Christian fundamentalists who plague the US landscape demanding that abortion doctors be put on trial for murder and that people who devorce should be ostrasized from society.
A secure network needs to be created where by ISPs create a special network which only allows emails to be sent to and from each other. Any email coming from relays not from the list of "acceptable" senders, the message is instantly deleted.
It is unfortunate, however, that the majority of the spam I am receiving is from low lives who run a virus and now I get 143K size attachments being rammed to me.
If they are going to do something there has to be a concerted effort by ISPs to work together to kill of open relays and people who spam rather than getting a real job; 8 to 6, crappy holidays and unreasonable pay. If 95% of people out there can live their lives like normal adults, I think that these spammers can too.
I've read the article and it is the same tripe I've heard over and over again, "network transparency is the problem", "toolkits aren't integrated enough", "xlib is bloated", "[component] is bloated", "Project Berlin is the future (and in a state of continious lost direction too)".
There is nothing wrong with X in its current form. What is the problem is, is the lack of quality drivers. Here is any example, grab a run of the mill, generic XFree86 4.3.1 installation, buy a copy of Summit 2.2 drivers from XIG ( http://www.xig.com ), install them and see the difference. Then, grab a copy of X-Accelerate and Summit, install both then test it.
You will see that there is NO difference in terms of responsiveness or speed when comparing to GDI or Quartz.
Who do we blame? we can blame two parties, firstly the video card vendors who produce shoddy drivers for *NIX, and the second group is "ourselves". The only way we can send a clear message is to reward vendors who make decent drivers, aka Matrox and 3DLabs (Oxygen card is fully accelerated and opensource), and punish those who don't make a decent effort, aka, Nvidia and ATI.
Sure, us *NIX users may be a niche, however, when they see a sudden shift of several million users pulling away from a particular vendor when they do their 3 monthly video card upgrade, I think the message will be sent loud and clear.
Yes, I warned Steve Jobs that hiring the young man, Murphy Law as the new head of quality assurance was a bad idea but of course he assured me that Murphy was an optimist;-)
Damn you Murphy!
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then we wouldn't see a US fiscal deficit so far into the red. It is always funny to see the top people in society benefiting from tax cuts that they do not "need" but because of their lobbying power of these people. They never pay their fair share of the tax take.
Now, don't get me wrong. I love the self made man who pulls themself up by their bootstraps and makes something of themselves, however, I do take issue with those who receive handouts and backscratches which they do not deserve whilst we have the likes of Ximian struggling to make ends meet and are in a constant war with their VC.
Imagine if all the money wasted on dot-cons was put into REAL businesses that actually had a PHYSICAL product to sell. A REAL investment based on REAL business plan. No hype, no rubbish just straight business: product + sale = profit.
True, however, the reason for running Linux is the ability to have access to low cost x86 hardware with a rock solid operating system.
All things being equal, FreeBSD could easily step into this spot, however, from what I see, they are more concerned with the server space rather than tuning a version for the desktop, for example, "FreeBSD Desktop Edition", "Now with GUI installer and configuration tools!".
Most Mac users don't necessarily have issues with the x86 architecture but the lack of an OS, besides Windows, which gives them access to the titles they want.
Sure, they *could* run the software via vmware, but what is the point of that? they might was well use Windows fully.
I am running it on a box here (at home) and it is very polished, however, with that being said, having a nice operationg system isn't necessarily going to win converts.
Guaranteed my Karma will fall through the floor and I'll be labelled the ultimate Anti-Christ, however, Mandrake can make the operating system as pretty as they want, but, if the big name vendor software titles just aren't there, people aren't going to move over.
I've chatted to other Mac (being one myself) users and most would be more than happy to move to Linux/x86 without any hesitation, however, they need the likes of Photoshop, Studio MX, Quark etc etc for their day-to-day work.
Same goes for any other vendor. These vendors can keep tweaking, twirling and dolling their operating system up for eternity but it isn't going to change the fact that there is a lack of high profile ISV's and IHV's for the desktop.
When we "suddenly" move to content delivery via the internet (which has been tried, tried and tried again and every time it has failed; anyone remember "push content" and those "nifty" clients?), where will the accountability begin?
For example, IIRC, there is a competitor to iTunes, for example, which only allows the user to download the song once. What happens if the computur crashes? What is going to happen if the user no longer likes that artist and wants to sell the music?
For example, recently I bought a Dvorak music box set to replace the numerous number of single CD's. I then proceeded to sell those CD's. What happens if I want to do the same thing with on line music.
Also, another thing Forrestor fails to realise is that there still a *VERY* large number of the computing population that do not have access to broadband. In Australia, for example, broadband take up is low, why? because there are terrible pricing like $60 a month for 500MB download.
When the consumer looks at that vs. $60 for Foxtel, heaps of channels and they can watch it morning, noon and night without incuring any "consumption" charges as with the case of broadband, no wonder the uptake isn't that high.
Ultimately, that is what is going to kill the adoption of on demand content.
is part of their grand plan. A while back Microsoft told an audience of MVP's that they would like to create the same sort of community development atmosphere as found in opensource projects. Later on they talked about expanding it to end users.
The fact remains, Microsoft cannot create that atmosphere because leadership has to come from the top. If the top acts in the "dog eat dog" manor, then what will their ISV's and end users do?
Ultimately, the ball is in Microsofts court. In terms of helping their bottom line, it is a great way of making themselves look good. If the plan did work then the feel good factor about Microsoft would increase, especially in the "decision making" area of businesses who can be easily blinded by PR stunts.
They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur";-)
5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft;-)
Why hasn't NASA talked to the Russian Space agency in regards to Buran, the Russian version of the space shuttle? I know NASA is on a tight budget and may this would be a more cost effective way of them being able to get something to tie them over until they can get a even more cost effective space-mobile.
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Although in a perfect world, we would have companies auditing their own code and finding exploits in their own products, the fact remains that unless there is a perverable rocket aimed at their behind, nothing will be done.
The fact remains that we have an organisation here with over 40,000 employees, over $40billion dollars in cash and yet, they're making *really* stupid mistakes. I am sure most people could cut Microsoft some slack if they were a small business OR that these incidents were as rare as hens teeth, however, when it becomes "have you applied the daily patch", people lose their cool.
The unfortunate thing, however, is due to Microsofts huge marketing muscle, this approach by "exploit finders" doesn't work. Microsoft instead of taking on board the information and applogising, instead they spin the story as to make out that the person who finds the exploit is somehow linked to a grand anti-Microsoft conspiracy, and god forbid, call them a "terrorist" for "exposing" the unwashed masses to "harm".
Linux on the desktop and Solaris SPARC/X86 on the server. Thats plain and simple. Is it really that hard for you to understand?
I was still waiting for my new glasses to be ready.
People compare PHP to Java. That isn't PHP's main competitor. The main competitor is ASP and so there fore, a better comparision would actually be between ASP/ASPX and PHP in regards to scalability. Once Mono is feature complete, then compare MS ASPX to Mono, then compare the two to PHP.
Once those comparisons are made, one can then decide whether the superior one is due to either the design/architecture or simply because one is better implemented than the other.
Personally, I find that both have a place depending on what you want to do. That is why there is diversity, because there isn't one product out there that is everything to everyone. Toasters for example all pretty much all the same. There is no difference between the taste of toast cooked in an elcheapo tiffany toaster vs and expensive Sunbeam, it is simply personal taste that dictates what is bought.
We can continue arguing which is superior but deep down inside every person here, things aren't done on technical superiority, it is done because the PHB got his creative juices following when he heard a marketer promote their "solution" over another.
I know I'll probably be called a troll but why on gods green earth are you running Windows on a server? sure, I can understand why one would need to run a Windows desktop, but a server?
The best way to remove the missery and heart ache of Windows is to simply buy that $100 per employee pack from SUN and be done with it. Everything one needs to get a server working; application server, Instant messenging server, directory server, etc etc. oh, and most importantly, Solaris on x86. A dream when it comes to a server OS.
Sure, Solaris sucks huge chocolate salty balls as a workstation but as a server, as some youngsters would say today, "it r001z!"
It would require Oracle DB as part of the equation.
The operating system core resides on an un-DB partition which has the basic core plus the Oracle DB engine, the other part is a raw partition. Instead of the information being a partition, the DB can be mounted as a partition in the traditional sense so that to the end user, they will notice no difference. All they will see when they go df is a piddly 200MB partition and the rest mounted under something else.
In otherwords, it is nothing revolutionary. Oracle was promoting this years ago when Larry claimed that "operating systems are dead".
How about granting patents to companies that ACTUALLY invent something that is of real intellectual value instead of the user tripe of, "here is a widget, it does something, it come in multiple colours and was developed by doo-dacky incorporated at their R&D facility located out in the sticks where donkeys dig for day light".
Just look at the eloas patent, it is so open ended, one has to place it in the "how long is a piece of string" pile of questions which hopefully can be answered by some divine intervention when the second coming occurs (if ever?).
They've dug their own grave on the follow basis:
1> UltraSparc multicore is still over a year away, IBM has had a multi-core and low cost processor on the market for over a year. People don't give a toss about Linux, what people want is value for money, SUN doesn't deliver this.
2> Market properly. Who ever is the marketing department needs be given a public beating for the pathetic work they have done. They're like a DEC, great technology run by engineers but can't market themselves out of a paper bag.
3> Scott McNealy should stop whining and start listening to customers who are leaving. Go to the customers and ask, "why are you leaving? have we failed to serve you?". Find out why they are deciding/are leaving and do something about it.
4> Adopt Opteron for 8way and lower machines. Spruce up Solaris x86, PAY for the porting of workstation and desktop applications, and market the x86-64/Solaris as an alternative to Windows. Windows admins are looking for a commercial alternative to Windows but they don't feel comfortable with Linux, this is where they (SUN) can fill the gap.
People want lower prices, better pay and competition. Now these same people complain when they lose their job.
When the real person to blame is Paul Keating pulled out of the openskys agreement between New Zealand and Australia. Air New Zealand tried to enter into the Australian market, they were told that they had to purchase Ansett or otherwise sod off.
Air New Zealand bought Ansett thinking that they could run it properly, what they found out is that the company had already been run into the ground, Australia is over run by militant unions meaning that ANY resutructuring they tried in the 12 months or so they owned it basically was stopped by the union.
Btw, the assertion by Unions that Air New Zealand had invested no money into Ansett, incorrect. I know of atleast 7 programmers who were working on a completely news, integrated system to replace the old one. There was also browsing done by Air New Zealand for new planes to replace the aging Ansett fleet.
If you want someone to blame for Ansetts collapse, blame the Unions and the Australian government. UNLIKE Australia, the New Zealand government DOESN'T give hand outs to companies, Air New Zealand UNLIKE QUANTAS, actually HAVE TO COMPETE for public service contracts.
Australia on the other hand simply hand out contracts to QUANTAS with out ANY competitive bids and worse still, its the public who is paying for this via higher taxes. Can any of you say, "corporate welfare"?
Remote shocking device to allow the victim of telemarketing to send a 4000amp charge down the line to the person at the call centre.
;-)
Another would be for the US to declare war on Telemarketing. Why? well, when ever GWB has a speech, guess what happens? the phone rings. When the phone rings, GWB loses his "connection with the American public". If you get rid of the telemarketers, you get a loyal listening audience
Could you imagine the speech?
"My fellow Americans, our country is under attack by spam, telemarketing and faxes. This group constitutes a Triangle of Trash. We must unit as a people to purge this scourge from this great nation of ours. Countries who current allow these communication terrorists to operate in their country have to make a decision, they are either with us or against us."
I am sure it would be an interesting road show, too bad their product majorly sucks and their sales staff, well, has anyone here been able to contact their sales staff so that one could purchase a SCO license?
Before they go on their little contiki tour, how about fix the products THEN promote them.
Unfortunately I have tried to set it up with Mail (MacOS X), Lotus Notes 6 and Entourage, however, each of them download the message first them strip off the attachments. I've changed email addresses now, however, it is rather annonying that such a large number of people send attachments, HTML messages and run attachments thus I end up getting 134K *.exe files crammed in my inbox.
Easy. Negotiate between ISPs. The only mail servers allowed on the "network" are ISPs who conform. The ISPs who sign up, sign a legally binding contract.If they fail to abide, they are kicked out.
These laws were bought in democratically by the local government in nothern Nigeria. The people voted for these laws and now they have them.
Also, I assume you know nothing about Shariah law, because it requires that there are 4 witnesses to the deed that the defendent has been accused of. This was the virdict handed down:
In an hour-long hearing, the panel said Lawal was not caught in the act of adultery and wasn't given enough time to understand the charges against her.
It also cited procedural errors, including that only one judge was present at her initial conviction in March 2002, instead of the three required under Islamic law.
by the way, how is Islamic law any difference to the Christian fundamentalists who plague the US landscape demanding that abortion doctors be put on trial for murder and that people who devorce should be ostrasized from society.
A secure network needs to be created where by ISPs create a special network which only allows emails to be sent to and from each other. Any email coming from relays not from the list of "acceptable" senders, the message is instantly deleted.
It is unfortunate, however, that the majority of the spam I am receiving is from low lives who run a virus and now I get 143K size attachments being rammed to me.
If they are going to do something there has to be a concerted effort by ISPs to work together to kill of open relays and people who spam rather than getting a real job; 8 to 6, crappy holidays and unreasonable pay. If 95% of people out there can live their lives like normal adults, I think that these spammers can too.
I've read the article and it is the same tripe I've heard over and over again, "network transparency is the problem", "toolkits aren't integrated enough", "xlib is bloated", "[component] is bloated", "Project Berlin is the future (and in a state of continious lost direction too)".
There is nothing wrong with X in its current form. What is the problem is, is the lack of quality drivers. Here is any example, grab a run of the mill, generic XFree86 4.3.1 installation, buy a copy of Summit 2.2 drivers from XIG ( http://www.xig.com ), install them and see the difference. Then, grab a copy of X-Accelerate and Summit, install both then test it.
You will see that there is NO difference in terms of responsiveness or speed when comparing to GDI or Quartz.
Who do we blame? we can blame two parties, firstly the video card vendors who produce shoddy drivers for *NIX, and the second group is "ourselves". The only way we can send a clear message is to reward vendors who make decent drivers, aka Matrox and 3DLabs (Oxygen card is fully accelerated and opensource), and punish those who don't make a decent effort, aka, Nvidia and ATI.
Sure, us *NIX users may be a niche, however, when they see a sudden shift of several million users pulling away from a particular vendor when they do their 3 monthly video card upgrade, I think the message will be sent loud and clear.
Yes, I warned Steve Jobs that hiring the young man, Murphy Law as the new head of quality assurance was a bad idea but of course he assured me that Murphy was an optimist ;-)
Damn you Murphy!
then we wouldn't see a US fiscal deficit so far into the red. It is always funny to see the top people in society benefiting from tax cuts that they do not "need" but because of their lobbying power of these people. They never pay their fair share of the tax take.
Now, don't get me wrong. I love the self made man who pulls themself up by their bootstraps and makes something of themselves, however, I do take issue with those who receive handouts and backscratches which they do not deserve whilst we have the likes of Ximian struggling to make ends meet and are in a constant war with their VC.
Imagine if all the money wasted on dot-cons was put into REAL businesses that actually had a PHYSICAL product to sell. A REAL investment based on REAL business plan. No hype, no rubbish just straight business: product + sale = profit.
True, however, the reason for running Linux is the ability to have access to low cost x86 hardware with a rock solid operating system.
All things being equal, FreeBSD could easily step into this spot, however, from what I see, they are more concerned with the server space rather than tuning a version for the desktop, for example, "FreeBSD Desktop Edition", "Now with GUI installer and configuration tools!".
Most Mac users don't necessarily have issues with the x86 architecture but the lack of an OS, besides Windows, which gives them access to the titles they want.
Sure, they *could* run the software via vmware, but what is the point of that? they might was well use Windows fully.
I am running it on a box here (at home) and it is very polished, however, with that being said, having a nice operationg system isn't necessarily going to win converts.
Guaranteed my Karma will fall through the floor and I'll be labelled the ultimate Anti-Christ, however, Mandrake can make the operating system as pretty as they want, but, if the big name vendor software titles just aren't there, people aren't going to move over.
I've chatted to other Mac (being one myself) users and most would be more than happy to move to Linux/x86 without any hesitation, however, they need the likes of Photoshop, Studio MX, Quark etc etc for their day-to-day work.
Same goes for any other vendor. These vendors can keep tweaking, twirling and dolling their operating system up for eternity but it isn't going to change the fact that there is a lack of high profile ISV's and IHV's for the desktop.
When we "suddenly" move to content delivery via the internet (which has been tried, tried and tried again and every time it has failed; anyone remember "push content" and those "nifty" clients?), where will the accountability begin?
For example, IIRC, there is a competitor to iTunes, for example, which only allows the user to download the song once. What happens if the computur crashes? What is going to happen if the user no longer likes that artist and wants to sell the music?
For example, recently I bought a Dvorak music box set to replace the numerous number of single CD's. I then proceeded to sell those CD's. What happens if I want to do the same thing with on line music.
Also, another thing Forrestor fails to realise is that there still a *VERY* large number of the computing population that do not have access to broadband. In Australia, for example, broadband take up is low, why? because there are terrible pricing like $60 a month for 500MB download.
When the consumer looks at that vs. $60 for Foxtel, heaps of channels and they can watch it morning, noon and night without incuring any "consumption" charges as with the case of broadband, no wonder the uptake isn't that high.
Ultimately, that is what is going to kill the adoption of on demand content.
is part of their grand plan. A while back Microsoft told an audience of MVP's that they would like to create the same sort of community development atmosphere as found in opensource projects. Later on they talked about expanding it to end users.
The fact remains, Microsoft cannot create that atmosphere because leadership has to come from the top. If the top acts in the "dog eat dog" manor, then what will their ISV's and end users do?
Ultimately, the ball is in Microsofts court. In terms of helping their bottom line, it is a great way of making themselves look good. If the plan did work then the feel good factor about Microsoft would increase, especially in the "decision making" area of businesses who can be easily blinded by PR stunts.
They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur" ;-)
;-)
5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft
Why hasn't NASA talked to the Russian Space agency in regards to Buran, the Russian version of the space shuttle? I know NASA is on a tight budget and may this would be a more cost effective way of them being able to get something to tie them over until they can get a even more cost effective space-mobile.