A proprietary Operating System? Of course, I've always had a hankering for
Big Iron.
Yes, now you come to think of it, Linux really isn't all that good - not when
you consider the alternatives.
I think a cluster of Z990s with z/VM with a source code license, with source
code licensed z/OS and VSE/ESA running as guests, would be fine, just fine.
And of course, I was forgetting, a 32-cpu Alpha running OpenVMS for the
terminal.
I mean, I have to have a serious games machine, don't I? Everybody'll laugh
at me if I don't. And that takes serious IO, to control all the remote
control aircraft and spacecraft and robots that one needs to b>play DOOM in
a totally satisfactory and convincing manner; and once again, thanks for offering.
Linux'd never fit the bill, would it?
And once again, thanks for the offer, and I take it that once having declared
my intentions to take up your offer in good faith, you cannot now refuse to
carry it out. And I gave my full postal address when I applied for the Free
Unix Licenses, so you don't have any excuses, do you now?
I've never owned a mainframe before - and I owe it all to SCO!
Quite apart from the intended insult of the comparison to the Nigerian
scamsters, I found his thread quite hard to follow. I guess if he had been
Theseus, he would've wound up in the Minotaur's stomach after all.
"Too sophisticated to believe" - precisely what has this got to do with
anything, let alone the question at hand? Then we get on to the ridiculous,
skipping the sublime with consumate ease...
"You can get complex systems at absolutely NO COST!" Yes, for a start they
enable you to publish Syllabus, using the HTTP transport protocol and the
HTML markup language, running on the TCP/IP internetwork connection suite.
"Why buy expensive software or spend millions to develop it yourself?" In
relation to the Internet - let's see, I have within my grubby little hands, a
book called "The Open Book", which you may or may not have read, written by
Marshall T Rose, in which he mentions the Open Systems Interconnect
internetworking suite - so far behind it's now been officially abandoned
except for highly specialized applications such as the Aeronautical
Telecommunication Network. There's nothing so cheap as a product that never
gets developed.
"We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards,
accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the
ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely
dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do it anyway."
Where to start? Has the estimable Howard Strauss ever read "The Mythical
Man-Month" by Frederick Brooks? Of IBM's Operating System/360 fame? That
does tend to cast doubts on the value of a lot of so-called "project
planning". Strangely enough, much of the problems Microsoft has had with
Windows over the last few years has been with "quality control" - I don't
call soBig's world-wide success a proof that Microsoft has any idea what
quality is, let alone how to develop for it. Ditto "coding standards" - and
"accountability" - have you managed to get from Microsoft a statement of
accountability for its criminal negligence in releasing software that allows
such grotesque default breaches of privacy and personal security as Windows?
"Version control"? The estimable Howard Strauss is pulling my leg. Perhaps
he can tell me what the letters cvs and rcs mean - besides being TLAs?
"Support"? Amazing - I bought MS DOS 5.0 when it came out - but Microsoft
was never particularly interested in supporting me.
"something that is extremely dangerous to do," for ignorami. I expect every
prof and his dog to back me up on this - mind you, I also expect every prof
and his dog to back me up when I also say that doing such dangerous things is
one way to learn, and extremely fast.
"was discredited decades ago," - by whom, where at, and in relation to what?
I suppose that also refers to the TCP/IP suite, the which discredited
software you yourself are happily running a magazine site on? And in
relation to which, might I add, Microsoft has been happily selling software
that is based heavily on said TCP/IP source code - you are at liberty to
inform them that half their product lineup has been discredited.
"Another way to get free software is to have students develop our critical
systems." Ask the DoD about TCP/IP and the University of California at
Berkeley. Even better still, ask Bill Joy, late of Sun Microsystems, about
the UoC at Berkeley.
"You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for
you. Really, users are no dummies..." - only if you don't treat them as
dummies. The estimable Howard Strauss gets funnier and funnier all the time.
Do you think Apple would've got so far along with its Macintosh - if it
hadn't had Hypercard? Here was a nice little utility - users with no
background in programming of cou
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Dear Darl McBride
About "Linux Migration Incentives Planned by SCO" -
A proprietary Operating System? Of course, I've always had a hankering for Big Iron.
Yes, now you come to think of it, Linux really isn't all that good - not when you consider the alternatives.
I think a cluster of Z990s with z/VM with a source code license, with source code licensed z/OS and VSE/ESA running as guests, would be fine, just fine.
And of course, I was forgetting, a 32-cpu Alpha running OpenVMS for the terminal.
I mean, I have to have a serious games machine, don't I? Everybody'll laugh at me if I don't. And that takes serious IO , to control all the remote control aircraft and spacecraft and robots that one needs to b>play DOOM in a totally satisfactory and convincing manner ; and once again, thanks for offering.
Linux'd never fit the bill, would it?
And once again, thanks for the offer, and I take it that once having declared my intentions to take up your offer in good faith, you cannot now refuse to carry it out. And I gave my full postal address when I applied for the Free Unix Licenses, so you don't have any excuses, do you now?
I've never owned a mainframe before - and I owe it all to SCO!
I read Howard Strauss' abovementioned article.
Quite apart from the intended insult of the comparison to the Nigerian scamsters, I found his thread quite hard to follow. I guess if he had been Theseus, he would've wound up in the Minotaur's stomach after all.
"Too sophisticated to believe" - precisely what has this got to do with anything, let alone the question at hand? Then we get on to the ridiculous, skipping the sublime with consumate ease ...
"You can get complex systems at absolutely NO COST!" Yes, for a start they enable you to publish Syllabus, using the HTTP transport protocol and the HTML markup language, running on the TCP/IP internetwork connection suite.
"Why buy expensive software or spend millions to develop it yourself?" In relation to the Internet - let's see, I have within my grubby little hands, a book called "The Open Book", which you may or may not have read, written by Marshall T Rose, in which he mentions the Open Systems Interconnect internetworking suite - so far behind it's now been officially abandoned except for highly specialized applications such as the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network. There's nothing so cheap as a product that never gets developed.
"We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do it anyway." Where to start? Has the estimable Howard Strauss ever read "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick Brooks? Of IBM's Operating System/360 fame? That does tend to cast doubts on the value of a lot of so-called "project planning". Strangely enough, much of the problems Microsoft has had with Windows over the last few years has been with "quality control" - I don't call soBig's world-wide success a proof that Microsoft has any idea what quality is, let alone how to develop for it. Ditto "coding standards" - and "accountability" - have you managed to get from Microsoft a statement of accountability for its criminal negligence in releasing software that allows such grotesque default breaches of privacy and personal security as Windows? "Version control"? The estimable Howard Strauss is pulling my leg. Perhaps he can tell me what the letters cvs and rcs mean - besides being TLAs? "Support"? Amazing - I bought MS DOS 5.0 when it came out - but Microsoft was never particularly interested in supporting me.
"something that is extremely dangerous to do," for ignorami. I expect every prof and his dog to back me up on this - mind you, I also expect every prof and his dog to back me up when I also say that doing such dangerous things is one way to learn, and extremely fast.
"was discredited decades ago," - by whom, where at, and in relation to what? I suppose that also refers to the TCP/IP suite, the which discredited software you yourself are happily running a magazine site on? And in relation to which, might I add, Microsoft has been happily selling software that is based heavily on said TCP/IP source code - you are at liberty to inform them that half their product lineup has been discredited.
"Another way to get free software is to have students develop our critical systems." Ask the DoD about TCP/IP and the University of California at Berkeley. Even better still, ask Bill Joy, late of Sun Microsystems, about the UoC at Berkeley.
"You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for you. Really, users are no dummies ..." - only if you don't treat them as
dummies. The estimable Howard Strauss gets funnier and funnier all the time.
Do you think Apple would've got so far along with its Macintosh - if it
hadn't had Hypercard? Here was a nice little utility - users with no
background in programming of cou