I think it will be interesting to see.
Microsoft has hyped this to the point where they are pretty much betting the whole company on Vista. Which is sad more than anything. They have complained about how people refuse to upgrade from windows 95 and 98, and NT 4. Yet, they somehow expect everyone to upgrade from XP? I'm sure I'm probably wrong, or I mispelled something, so please enlighten me. How does this make any sense?
It's all good. Just can't seem to win on this one:P.
The power supply on my big box is borked. It won't stay on for more than two minutes. My smaller older mandrake box won't run open office for some reason.
You have my apologies for all of the badly spelled slashdot posts over the last few days.
Think about it this way: What did Microsoft do when Word Perfect was the standard document format used by everyone? They adapted it, tweaked it, and make it next to impossible for anyone to catch up. And they can admit now, that that's exactly what happened. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who remembers it differently.
Yet now, a new format comes along. Rather than adapt the format and play dirty tricks with it, what are they doing?
They're crying about it. Crying! From a company who's CEO just threatened to kill the Google's CEO. Even though Google doesn't pose an immediate threat to Microsoft, while a shift in office format does. Why is it that they seem to care more about screwing Google than putting any thought into their talking points?
Why is it that you see talking points at all, and not the horrible businesses that have made Microsoft the dominant software vendor in the industry? Sounds to me that they don't know where their priorities are.
Microsoft claiming that their propriatary standard is open, that any deviation from that would be too costly, and that Mas has no common sense is a load of Bullshit.
Can't say I dissagree. But here at slashdot, pieces like this are kind of preaching to the quire... don't you think?
You know, Sometimes, when I've been compulsively drinking cheap coffee all night on a project, a little half calf is just what you need. Remember, half calf would not exist without decaf... in most offices.
I fail to see why higher wages for hard working American programmers is a bad thing. We have been used and abused by the government over the last five years, cutting us one unfair break after another. Why is it that a ditch digger is entitled to overtime when a computer programmer who works just as hard isn't? I say, keep it up. No seriously. The higher the going rate for programmers, the easier it'll be to put food on my family.:P
I've always thought of them as the unicies rather than the unixen, but I guess that there isn't much of a difference.
Although I do think it's fair to point out that Linux and All of the BSD distributions, except the one created by Berkely itself are not true Unix, and are not certified by The Open Group. Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and the like all fall under the category of Unix-like OS's, but none can legally call themselves that. In fact, Apple got into trouble awhile back as I recall for making that claim.
You're absolutely right.
We do know who Bush is though... mostly.
If your dad was the former head of the CIA, you too would have the same sort of doors open up.
It's always hard to find people who are willing to work on a percentage basis. How complicated is the game? Is it the kind of thing that can be pieced out, or done quickly?
I say, we want to watch out for dinosaurs all together. Especially web enabled ones. And if they're carnivorous, watch out, they'll stomp on every web page and service they can get their claws on, eating innocent pictures of Pam Anderson as they go. Is there no decency anymore? Mozilla is especially dangerous because of it's ability to breathe fire. Please, think of the jpegs.
Thanks for the link. Is it me, or does this software not sound like much of anything?
What we know: 1. It connects skype to you phone. Sort of 2. It will at some un named date in the future provide you with msn, aim, and yim, which most cell phones these days can do anyway. 3. According to this you should be able to make long distance calls for a fraction of a penny. Nice feature, but they don't really explain what they're doing with it, or how it actually works. Do you think that's too much to ask from a page entitled, "How it works?"
My question: So it looks like they're using the skype api and doing some potentially neat things, but they are in no way related to Skype. What's to stop Skype from undercutting them, and putting them out of business?
Have you noticed all the negetivity coming from Microsoft against Linux over the last few years? It seems like every time I turn around, there's somebody at Microsoft saying nasty things about Linux, the open source community, and the like.
Windows is a great operating system. It's the most widely used desktop system in the world. XP is generally a lot more usable than any of the Linux desktops, and the lirary of compatible software for Windows eclipses that of the library of software available for Linux.
So why all of the hate? Do you guys really think of Linux as a threat?
It would seem to me that all of this talk about how terrible Linux is coming out of Microsoft has actually made the alternative system more popular.
Is there some brilliant strategy behind this that we should know about?
It seems to the onlooker that there are two camps at Microsoft, one that embraces Open Source, and one that doesn't. On the one hand, Ballmer comes out and says that the company can never support open source solutions, yet they have people like you to manage their Linux lab.
If Microsoft can never support open source solutions, how is it possible that a Linux lab would even exist in the first place?
Which brings me around to my question: What is Microsoft's real policy on Open Source software?
I wonder, is any of it actually worth the money?
I imagine Microsoft spends millions, possibly billions on anti-piracy efforts. For what? Piracy hasn't gone down at all since they've started, quite the opposite. So why bother at all?
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Or, more to the pont: The great great grandchildren of the stock holders of the original copyright owner. As most are publically traded these days.
I think it will be interesting to see. Microsoft has hyped this to the point where they are pretty much betting the whole company on Vista. Which is sad more than anything. They have complained about how people refuse to upgrade from windows 95 and 98, and NT 4. Yet, they somehow expect everyone to upgrade from XP? I'm sure I'm probably wrong, or I mispelled something, so please enlighten me. How does this make any sense?
Nuts!
That would be like me getting sued by a half retarded lawyer because I called him an idiot in my weblog. Oh....
It's all good. :P.
Just can't seem to win on this one
The power supply on my big box is borked. It won't stay on for more than two minutes. My smaller older mandrake box won't run open office for some reason.
You have my apologies for all of the badly spelled slashdot posts over the last few days.
Ah... another spelling nazi.
The one time I forget to run spell check. Damnit. The hypertext is malformed mein furer.
Yet another example of why Microsoft is dying.
Think about it this way:
What did Microsoft do when Word Perfect was the standard document format used by everyone? They adapted it, tweaked it, and make it next to impossible for anyone to catch up. And they can admit now, that that's exactly what happened. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who remembers it differently.
Yet now,
a new format comes along.
Rather than adapt the format and play dirty tricks with it, what are they doing?
They're crying about it.
Crying! From a company who's CEO just threatened to kill the Google's CEO. Even though Google doesn't pose an immediate threat to Microsoft, while a shift in office format does. Why is it that they seem to care more about screwing Google than putting any thought into their talking points?
Why is it that you see talking points at all, and not the horrible businesses that have made Microsoft the dominant software vendor in the industry? Sounds to me that they don't know where their priorities are.
So to summarize,
Microsoft claiming that their propriatary standard is open, that any deviation from that would be too costly, and that Mas has no common sense is a load of Bullshit.
Can't say I dissagree.
But here at slashdot, pieces like this are kind of preaching to the quire... don't you think?
Send my love to El Presidente.
I don't think it was lightbulbs he was holding.
What part of "including, but not limited to" do you not understand?
You know,
Sometimes, when I've been compulsively drinking cheap coffee all night on a project, a little half calf is just what you need. Remember, half calf would not exist without decaf... in most offices.
I fail to see why higher wages for hard working American programmers is a bad thing. We have been used and abused by the government over the last five years, cutting us one unfair break after another. Why is it that a ditch digger is entitled to overtime when a computer programmer who works just as hard isn't? I say, keep it up. No seriously. The higher the going rate for programmers, the easier it'll be to put food on my family. :P
That clenches it.
I'm moving back to California!
I've always thought of them as the unicies rather than the unixen, but I guess that there isn't much of a difference.
Although I do think it's fair to point out that Linux and All of the BSD distributions, except the one created by Berkely itself are not true Unix, and are not certified by The Open Group. Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and the like all fall under the category of Unix-like OS's, but none can legally call themselves that. In fact, Apple got into trouble awhile back as I recall for making that claim.
Yes, and they'll also have an insane compulsion to wear tights and fight evil.
You're absolutely right. We do know who Bush is though... mostly. If your dad was the former head of the CIA, you too would have the same sort of doors open up.
It's always hard to find people who are willing to work on a percentage basis. How complicated is the game? Is it the kind of thing that can be pieced out, or done quickly?
Anyone else notice that the domain opensuse.org is registered to the caped crusader himself?
It strikes me as odd that Mitch Kapor would go for this.
I say, we want to watch out for dinosaurs all together. Especially web enabled ones. And if they're carnivorous, watch out, they'll stomp on every web page and service they can get their claws on, eating innocent pictures of Pam Anderson as they go. Is there no decency anymore? Mozilla is especially dangerous because of it's ability to breathe fire. Please, think of the jpegs.
Thanks for the link.
Is it me, or does this software not sound like much of anything?
What we know:
1. It connects skype to you phone. Sort of
2. It will at some un named date in the future provide you with msn, aim, and yim, which most cell phones these days can do anyway.
3. According to this you should be able to make long distance calls for a fraction of a penny. Nice feature, but they don't really explain what they're doing with it, or how it actually works. Do you think that's too much to ask from a page entitled, "How it works?"
My question:
So it looks like they're using the skype api and doing some potentially neat things, but they are in no way related to Skype. What's to stop Skype from undercutting them, and putting them out of business?
Here's how I see it going down:
Microsoft hands money to Novell, who hands it to sco, who sues Slashdot, who's bailed out by Microsoft. Woo hah hah haha. Just kidding.
It would be funny though.
Have you noticed all the negetivity coming from Microsoft against Linux over the last few years? It seems like every time I turn around, there's somebody at Microsoft saying nasty things about Linux, the open source community, and the like.
Windows is a great operating system. It's the most widely used desktop system in the world. XP is generally a lot more usable than any of the Linux desktops, and the lirary of compatible software for Windows eclipses that of the library of software available for Linux.
So why all of the hate?
Do you guys really think of Linux as a threat?
It would seem to me that all of this talk about how terrible Linux is coming out of Microsoft has actually made the alternative system more popular.
Is there some brilliant strategy behind this that we should know about?
It seems to the onlooker that there are two camps at Microsoft, one that embraces Open Source, and one that doesn't. On the one hand, Ballmer comes out and says that the company can never support open source solutions, yet they have people like you to manage their Linux lab.
If Microsoft can never support open source solutions, how is it possible that a Linux lab would even exist in the first place?
Which brings me around to my question: What is Microsoft's real policy on Open Source software?
I wonder, is any of it actually worth the money? I imagine Microsoft spends millions, possibly billions on anti-piracy efforts. For what? Piracy hasn't gone down at all since they've started, quite the opposite. So why bother at all?
Exactly, and when the Florida police come knocking at your door, you'll be just as happy about it. Heh heh.