"Free Speech" award goes to.. Microsoft. Yes, we all know that story when the monster published essential piece of Kerberos interoperability specifications under trade secret notice in hope to compromise Samba developers with illegal knowledge and to establish a new legal precedent of "nobody can implement those specs". But, one of obvious outcome of the antitrust battle is the required openness of all Microsoft API's. That's what will be too late to protect in the High Court - once the bird is out of the cage, you can't put it back. Please, help me to write a list of young fellows waiting to kick the behemoth's butt: Netscape/Mozilla, Samba, RealNeworks, StarOffice, CorelOffice, etc.
All the last couple of years, AMD was fighting against cheapest chipzilla's Celerons, eating bits after big Intel Pentium III lunch. Well, today is the day to revenge.
First trick was to involve Intel into crazy run for the first Ghz CPU. Having complicated two-year design cycle and expensive factory-replication pattern, Chipzilla is too big to move fast. Playing by AMD rules, it lost much of its production power to bad yield. Announcing 1 Ghz chip, Intel is practically shipping 850 Mhz parts at the best, and only 550-800 Mhz in volume. So the whole 800 Mhz to 1 Ghz market is at AMD control. And now follows the next AMD play - price reductions. So, the most powerful Intel chip will compete... against $324 800 Mhz AMD part? The whole $430 billion company is moving into sub - $350 market? Very bloody...
And what was the Intel game? All the last year it was drunk - dancing with Rambus, screwing up one mobo chipset after another. Today earnings report shows Intel's revenues falling. Maybe its a good time to open another bottle?
It would be nice to have a bill to protect our rights. The Internet User Rights. We have a right to know what our Computer is downloading from the Internet. We have a natural right to know all Net standards.
As SGI donated all its GLX code, its clear that all this new closed-source OpenGL will still work with open GLX protocol. So it _will_ work with XFree.
I recommended this site to our recruters. We are nice Java sturtup. Linux is a main hacker's platform. We have stock options, too. Visit http://ia.com , please.
You can send me your resume, at andrew@metaphoria.net.
Hi! I recommended this site to our recruters. We are nice Java sturtup. Linux is a main hacker's platform. We have stock options, too. Visit http://ia.com , please. You can send me your resume, at andrew@metaphoria.net.
Well, Blackdown does this job for us, people, not to please Sun. They should make some protest to Sun, but I hope we can continue to enjoy their work. I have Linux+Java job, and I depend on those guys efforts (Thank you very much, Blackdown). BTW, we need more full-time hackers here, drop me a resume, if interested.
Amiga announced recently it is dropping one of the best modern OS's QNX to join the crush of Linux supporters. Although Amiga is right that this market is going to be huge, but it will compete directly with other Linux vendors like IBM, Dell, Compaq etc., etc. with the real risk to loose its unique face. The president Collas said: "PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not to judge the Linux decision until you have a chance to read the technology brief". Ok, no award for them. And welcome on board, sure!
http://www.ecsl.cs.suny sb.edu/~andrew/awards/1999/June.html Do you remember this boring new operating system installation procedure? I do, while I install over 20 new OS's every year. Now things are getting better while Caldera lets you play while computer works. Look at the screenshot here. Yes, that's the old good Tetris ( invented by Pajitnov ). So Caldera gets the award as the best sysadm entertainer. But there is another thing to say.. do you remember that real sysadm's hate graphic user interface?
Just one week after the last award for players in the October embedded contest, the battle rages on. BeOS gets the point after the rumor of talks between Microworkz.com and AOL. It may happens that AOL will distribute this device for free in exchange to online subscription fees. The small iToaster can take this new market by storm. What else to say... Do you know that BeOS is written on C++?
Just one week after the last award for players in the October embedded contest, the battle rage on. BeOS gets the point after the rumor of talks between Microworkz.com and AOL. It may happens that AOL will distribute this device for free in exchange to online subscription fees. The small iToaster can take this new market by storm. What else to say... Do you know that BeOS is written on C++?
Dell is getting a chip manufacturing technology, while it still works with Intel. Dell definitely don't want to became second AMD and loose all partnership with Intel unless... Is there any hidden joker here? Maybe Transmeta?
The sites linux.com and redhat.com are not for us.
Its for PH bosses who will buy Linux. What they will do first? Right. They will type "linux.com" and "redhat.com". That's not for geeks, but that does not means that that's bad!
How can I be sure that they will not change license for core libs to GPL? Does the current license protect from such a voluntary restriction of choice?
Free speech vs. free beer. Sun Microsystems embraces the business model of the fastest growing computer technology - Linux. It opens everything: Java, Jini, Solaris, Sparc and PicoJava. With only very small exception: you may not redistribute Sun technologies without passing compatibility tests and paying royalty. That is what is called freedom in Linux world. The early but strong sound that Linux should fire back was made few weeks ago by Stallman. Maybe most of us don't want to shed blood in the crusade for the freedom, but it seems that this small article defines most of what will happens in industry the next decade. In history pragmatism always wins over ideology, but we still don't know which approach is more pragmatic. We can't predict how Linux and Sun will divide the market but it is certain that everybody who can't open the source code will be out of business very soon.
Hi! I am working on Video Server project - this is not exactly the topic of the discussion, but is related. This is the software to broadcast live video across the network or to play video on demand from the database. URL: http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/VideoServe r/videoserver/index/book1.html
Beware: it is on alpha stage, don't expect it to be useful right now, but i will appreciate if you take a look. I will double appreciate if you put your hands over. The goal is to make this software used in some Universities to be used by students. The next snapshot is expected tomorrow.
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http://samovarawards.com/
"Free Speech" award
goes to.. Microsoft. Yes, we all know that story when the monster
published essential piece of Kerberos interoperability specifications
under trade secret notice in hope to compromise Samba developers with
illegal knowledge and to establish a new legal precedent of "nobody can
implement those specs".
But, one of obvious outcome of the antitrust battle is the required openness of all Microsoft
API's. That's what will be too late to protect in the High Court - once the bird is out of the
cage, you can't put it back. Please, help me to write a list of young fellows waiting to kick the
behemoth's butt: Netscape/Mozilla, Samba, RealNeworks, StarOffice, CorelOffice, etc.
What is inside?
As you know, i820 screwed, so the market is very good for alternative systems. SGI _may_ have a very bright future.
I just wrote an article about patents at samovarawards.com. Thanks ch-chak for a nice link!
"Revenge of the year" award
All the last couple of years, AMD was fighting against cheapest chipzilla's Celerons, eating bits after big Intel Pentium III lunch. Well, today is the day to revenge.
First trick was to involve Intel into crazy run for the first Ghz CPU. Having complicated two-year design cycle and expensive factory-replication pattern, Chipzilla is too big to move fast. Playing by AMD rules, it lost much of its production power to bad yield. Announcing 1 Ghz chip, Intel is practically shipping 850 Mhz parts at the best, and only 550-800 Mhz in volume. So the whole 800 Mhz to 1 Ghz market is at AMD control. And now follows the next AMD play - price reductions. So, the most powerful Intel chip will compete... against $324 800 Mhz AMD part? The whole $430 billion company is moving into sub - $350 market? Very bloody...
And what was the Intel game? All the last year it was drunk - dancing with Rambus, screwing up one mobo chipset after another. Today earnings report shows Intel's revenues falling. Maybe its a good time to open another bottle?
I'm glad VMware can make some bucks from MS. That's a good company and cash will help them to develop VMware further.
I wish RedHat to make as much money as it can whatever way it wants. Just keep the show going :-)
Mark,
This effort is appreciated. I will switch to Mozilla very soon.
It would be nice to have a bill to protect our rights. The Internet User Rights.
We have a right to know what our Computer is downloading from the Internet. We have a natural right to know all Net standards.
As SGI donated all its GLX code, its clear that all this new closed-source OpenGL will still work with open GLX protocol.
So it _will_ work with XFree.
Hi!
I recommended this site to our recruters. We are nice Java sturtup. Linux is a main hacker's platform. We have stock options, too. Visit http://ia.com , please.
You can send me your resume, at andrew@metaphoria.net.
Hi!
I recommended this site to our recruters. We are nice Java sturtup. Linux is a main hacker's platform. We have stock options, too. Visit http://ia.com , please.
You can send me your resume, at andrew@metaphoria.net.
Well, Blackdown does this job for us, people, not to please Sun. They should make some protest to Sun, but I hope we can continue to enjoy their work.
I have Linux+Java job, and I depend on those guys efforts (Thank you very much, Blackdown).
BTW, we need more full-time hackers here, drop me a resume, if interested.
Amiga announced recently it is dropping one of the best modern OS's QNX to join the crush of Linux supporters. Although Amiga is right that this market is going to be huge, but it will compete directly with other Linux vendors like IBM, Dell, Compaq etc., etc. with the real risk to loose its unique face. The president Collas said: "PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not to judge the Linux decision until you have a chance to read the technology brief". Ok, no award for them. And welcome on board, sure!
http://www.ecsl.cs.suny sb.edu/~andrew/awards/1999/June.html Do you remember this boring new operating system installation procedure? I do, while I install over 20 new OS's every year. Now things are getting better while Caldera lets you play while computer works. Look at the screenshot here. Yes, that's the old good Tetris ( invented by Pajitnov ). So Caldera gets the award as the best sysadm entertainer. But there is another thing to say.. do you remember that real sysadm's hate graphic user interface?
Just one week after the last award for players in the October embedded contest, the battle rages on. BeOS gets the point after the rumor of talks between Microworkz.com and AOL. It may happens that AOL will distribute this device for free in exchange to online subscription fees. The small iToaster can take this new market by storm. What else to say... Do you know that BeOS is written on C++?
Just one week after the last award for players in the October embedded contest, the battle rage on. BeOS gets the
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point after the rumor of talks between Microworkz.com and AOL. It may happens that AOL will distribute this device for
free in exchange to online subscription fees. The small iToaster can take this new market by storm. What else to say...
Do you know that BeOS is written on C++?
http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/awards/19
Hi! What about mpeg video? Audio is too simple, guys.
Linux is not the best OS in the world - YET. Maybe we should work more?
Dell is getting a chip manufacturing technology, while it still works with Intel. Dell definitely don't want to became second AMD and loose all partnership with Intel unless...
Is there any hidden joker here? Maybe Transmeta?
The sites linux.com and redhat.com are not for us.
Its for PH bosses who will buy Linux. What they will do first? Right. They will type "linux.com" and "redhat.com".
That's not for geeks, but that does not means that that's bad!
How can I be sure that they will not change license for core libs to GPL? Does the current license protect from such a voluntary restriction of choice?
Free speech vs. free beer. Sun Microsystems embraces the business model of the fastest growing computer
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technology - Linux. It opens everything: Java, Jini, Solaris, Sparc and PicoJava. With only very small exception:
you may not redistribute Sun technologies without passing compatibility tests and paying royalty. That is what is
called freedom in Linux world. The early but strong sound that Linux should fire back was made few weeks ago by
Stallman. Maybe most of us don't want to shed blood in the crusade for the freedom, but it seems that this small
article defines most of what will happens in industry the next decade. In history pragmatism always wins over
ideology, but we still don't know which approach is more pragmatic. We can't predict how Linux and Sun will
divide the market but it is certain that everybody who can't open the source code will be out of business very
soon.
http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/awards/in
Hi All!
I made a new Samovar award for this Sun's move:
March awards
Both KDE and GNOME are memory - consuming. You must have 64 Meg inside the box. Or you've better to use fvwm - it's nice on small boxes.
Hi!e r/videoserver/index/book1.html
I am working on Video Server project - this is not exactly the topic of the discussion, but is related. This is the software to broadcast live video across the network or to play video on demand from the database. URL:
http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/VideoServ
Beware: it is on alpha stage, don't expect it to be useful right now, but i will appreciate if you take a look. I will double appreciate if you put your hands over. The goal is to make this software used in some Universities to be used by students. The next snapshot is expected tomorrow.