After trusting the journalistic integrity Forbes and trusting Lyons to research the story SCO was telling him I invested my life savings on the SCO stock. After all they are listed on the prestigious NASDAQ. Now I am without pennies.:-
>>Who would want to install Debian anyway...? (Score:1)
>> by aswalkeraus (563276) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 13, @11:07AM (#20588309)
>>Seriously.... apt-get hell awaits,... be afraid, very afraid!
Thats the first time I heard that expression, not a total surprise I guess; google says:
Results 1 - 10 of about 558 for "apt-get hell". (0.30 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 16,000 for "rpm hell". (0.12 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 208,000 for "dll hell". (0.07 seconds)
btw. see how much longer it takes google to even come up with the list for apt-get,.30 seconds! That proves something for sure.
Re:Microsoft is thrilled by this news
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Zune DRM Cracked
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The parent comment was directed at the poster and the stank of his his shillin'.
Regarding your comment about the Zune player itself, I agree its a nice piece of hardware, there are hundreds of nice mp3 players if you are only looking at hardware. What good is nice hardware without good software. If it wasn't locked up hardware I could do something with it, since they won't let people who can write good software write good software for the device we have to depend on Microsoft's software; which you agree isn't that great.
The apple hardware is likely not better than the Zune. They don't let you hack at it either, but no one seems to need to to enjoy it.
At home, on one of my old Linux box, my video driver would sometimes crash, the mouse and keyboard would be locked up as well. I would go to another computer on my network, ssh into the box and just reload the driver and restart X. If I was unable to restart the video, I could at least sync the disk and do a proper shut down. The nice thing was the shares that that computer hosted, and other services it provided would not be affected by the crash of the video driver.
To me you sound like a fool, anyone else could threaten to sue users of SuSE for "IP" related issues, any one else could actually sue users for "IP" related issues, neither of which would be proof of "IP" related issues really existing. If there really is "IP" related issues in Linux, MS should spell them out, Novell at least should spell them out.
For you to "support" this deal because the terms are "not that bad" sounds foolish. Do you think this is a reasonable way for a company to do business, trying to sell their product not on the merits of the product itself or the service of the vendor but on some vague "promise" that a contracted partner of ours will not sue you if you pay us? What if I make up some similar promise; "My brother tells me that he will not sue you for some vague reason as long as you pay me, and you agree not to act in a way vaguely defined by him."
Hope those terms don't sound too bad for you.
I am willing to make similar deals with any others if that is the case.
Novell's actions are nowhere near the spirit of the GPL. Even if they get by section 7 on a technicality, I can judge for myself that they are no partner in the GPL relationship. For that I can make up my own mind to stay as far away from them as I can.
As for Microsoft, I would also say that a good part of the effectiveness of any license depends on the good will of the parties to the license, the lawyers and suits might convince themselves that they rule end users with the ironclad chains embedded in the EULAs they craft. I think without the good will and fairness that most end users feel towards the agreement, your going to be so busy trying to sue each individual. This is where I would call Microsoft and Novell hypocrites to now be bending (warping) the meaning of a fair agreement between the software producers, and themselves, the software distributors. What if some of us could think of technicalities around our obligations to their licenses.
Also, what makes Novells (and Microsoft's) product or support so inferior?
Why can't they compete in the market, are Red Hat, Ubuntu and the others that much ahead of them?
It's pretty clear how they got that number, subtracting percentage points, and then commenting on percentage increase is wrong and misleading don't you think?
Apache's marketshare is approximately 100% higher
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Apache down, IIS up
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note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment
Microsoft 29.7%
Apache 61.25%
Apache has more than twice the marketshare of Microsoft.
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After trusting the journalistic integrity Forbes and trusting Lyons to research the story SCO was telling him I invested my life savings on the SCO stock. After all they are listed on the prestigious NASDAQ. Now I am without pennies. :-
>> by aswalkeraus (563276) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 13, @11:07AM (#20588309)
>>Seriously.... apt-get hell awaits,
Thats the first time I heard that expression, not a total surprise I guess; google says:
Results 1 - 10 of about 558 for "apt-get hell". (0.30 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 16,000 for "rpm hell". (0.12 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 208,000 for "dll hell". (0.07 seconds)
btw. see how much longer it takes google to even come up with the list for apt-get,
Running SunOS Under Windows VM? Holy Crap!
Looks like your group of friends is able to mod him as a troll for whatever he posts, and you get modded up as funny for a personal attack.
Someones figured this thing out, eh?
p.s. check this add for a professional blogger to post on slashdot, etc. out for a laugh
Anyone got a link to a credible source?
Whatever dude, this ones behind us.
Not heck of lot.
Hide it in a Zune.
Solution: DON'T INSTALL IE7
The parent comment was directed at the poster and the stank of his his shillin'.
Regarding your comment about the Zune player itself, I agree its a nice piece of hardware, there are hundreds of nice mp3 players if you are only looking at hardware. What good is nice hardware without good software. If it wasn't locked up hardware I could do something with it, since they won't let people who can write good software write good software for the device we have to depend on Microsoft's software; which you agree isn't that great.
The apple hardware is likely not better than the Zune. They don't let you hack at it either, but no one seems to need to to enjoy it.
Step 1: 455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!!!
I guess this is what we get for not buying subscriptions to Slashdot.
This Info World sure seems hell bent on trolling, really driven, I wonder why they are so interested?
or just Information Week
Second.
At home, on one of my old Linux box, my video driver would sometimes crash, the mouse and keyboard would be locked up as well. I would go to another computer on my network, ssh into the box and just reload the driver and restart X. If I was unable to restart the video, I could at least sync the disk and do a proper shut down. The nice thing was the shares that that computer hosted, and other services it provided would not be affected by the crash of the video driver.
You would only need a license for public performance or copying, not for listening to it.
Oh great, one more MS patent to worry about.
Thank you. Really.
Man, when slashdot turns, they just don't let up do they.
To me you sound like a fool, anyone else could threaten to sue users of SuSE for "IP" related issues, any one else could actually sue users for "IP" related issues, neither of which would be proof of "IP" related issues really existing. If there really is "IP" related issues in Linux, MS should spell them out, Novell at least should spell them out.
For you to "support" this deal because the terms are "not that bad" sounds foolish. Do you think this is a reasonable way for a company to do business, trying to sell their product not on the merits of the product itself or the service of the vendor but on some vague "promise" that a contracted partner of ours will not sue you if you pay us? What if I make up some similar promise; "My brother tells me that he will not sue you for some vague reason as long as you pay me, and you agree not to act in a way vaguely defined by him."
Hope those terms don't sound too bad for you.
I am willing to make similar deals with any others if that is the case.
Novell's actions are nowhere near the spirit of the GPL. Even if they get by section 7 on a technicality, I can judge for myself that they are no partner in the GPL relationship. For that I can make up my own mind to stay as far away from them as I can.
As for Microsoft, I would also say that a good part of the effectiveness of any license depends on the good will of the parties to the license, the lawyers and suits might convince themselves that they rule end users with the ironclad chains embedded in the EULAs they craft. I think without the good will and fairness that most end users feel towards the agreement, your going to be so busy trying to sue each individual. This is where I would call Microsoft and Novell hypocrites to now be bending (warping) the meaning of a fair agreement between the software producers, and themselves, the software distributors. What if some of us could think of technicalities around our obligations to their licenses.
Also, what makes Novells (and Microsoft's) product or support so inferior?
Why can't they compete in the market, are Red Hat, Ubuntu and the others that much ahead of them?
What did you know about sunspots, never heard of faculae?
Why in the world would you spout off about it like an authority?
"so I'll just stick to what I know."
Please do
Misleading; you, no.
Mislead; you, I doubt it.
Ambiguity; hmmm...
Choosing to report the difference in points as a percentage difference bugs me. (not really that much)
Microsoft has less than half the market share of Apache.
It's pretty clear how they got that number, subtracting percentage points, and then commenting on percentage increase is wrong and misleading don't you think?
note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment
Microsoft 29.7%
Apache 61.25%
Apache has more than twice the marketshare of Microsoft.
That's the way I see it.