"As someone who has been involved with software development for over two decades, the whole area of how you actually bring together a team and get them to successfully deliver a project on time . . . Microsoft"
My original comment was a general one about the state of this country in relation to businesses and how they are paying for laws that are taking away our rights as consumers. I felt that your comment that I was government bashing just to get modded up was unfair, so I pointed you to the first example that came to my mind.
You are right that my comment didn't have anything specific to do with this case, but you were wrong to suggest that I was just throwing something out there to get modded up.
"Another "Our government sucks" post that gets instant Insightful moderations from ignorant, cynical peers.
The least you could do is back up your accusation with some proof."
I presume you've heard of the honorable Orrin Hatch, senator from Utah? Are you unaware of his efforts to destroy people's computers?
Do you know
how much money he receives from the media industry? He is using his influence to take away your rights.
I like our government and I'm actually pretty conservative, but there is no doubt that there is a war going on to take away consumers' rights.
Their right to put software on your computer will last a lot longer than your rights as a private citizen as long as they spend more money on political parties than you do.
Management blamed the slow sales on a "lack of SCOsource licensing revenue." SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to "increasing shareholder value," but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood. By the way, McBride was paid more than $1 million last year -- most of it in cash -- to preside over this impending disaster.
Its like, great, we've got the source, but what the heck kind of CPU does it run on, and what version of the compiler do we use to build the project with? Give someone a "snippet of C" and have them re-build the PC with it
First of all, that's a terrible analogy. Our understanding of ancient history is far better than that.
... hmm... odd analogy I suppose, but I'm just too lazy to smooth out the wrinkles. Like so many archaeologists before me, perhaps?
Second, I can't even imagine that you are an archaeologist, but if by hook or by crook you got a degree from somewhere, I assure you, most archaeologists are not like you.
how on Earth can we be so sure that we've interpreted a few clay tablets here and there correctly? snip leads me to a very nasty suscpicion that we've completely misunderstood the Ancients, too many times to be sure
Have you ever read Homer's The Illiad? Or Plato's The Republic? Those texts sure make a lot of sense if your hypothesis is true.
"We predicted it," Hart says of Tuesday's horrific events. "We said Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers -- that's a quote (from the commission's Phase One Report) from the fall of 1999."
I'm pretty sure Bush wasn't obstructing things in 1999.
Rudman generally agrees with Hart's assessment, but adds: "That's not to say that the administration was obstructing."
"They wanted to try something else, they wanted to put more responsibility with FEMA," Rudman says. "But they didn't get a chance to do very much" before terrorists struck on Tuesday. "
The principals involved don't seem to support your position.
Interesting that he never mentions the fact that IBM is not only defending the GPL, but suing SCO for not complying with it.
But I guess when you're trying to suggest that the GPL is supported by capitalism-hating commies, the fact that one of the largest corporations in the world also supports it doesn't really do anything to strengthen your argument.
Do companies like Sapient give discounts when they're going to use programmers in India? Somehow, I doubt it.
The comments about Indian talent being cheaper would only apply here if MIT paid less than they would have had they used a company that employed American programmers. If they didn't get a discount, then Sapient simply improved their profit margin by using offshore programmers and MIT gained nothing from it, while indirectly hurting the US economy.
I'd say SCOs' PR strategy (via legal recourse) is aiming to discredit them as leftist/socialist/communist subversives (don't laugh) to the American pro-capitalist mainstream.
The "American pro-capitalist mainstream" are not going to stop their adoption of linux because SCO tried (or even succeeded) in painting these guys as socialists. The reason? Because companies will still be able to make money using linux.
The bottom line is what counts. You seem to be suggesting that companies make hardware/software choices based (at least in part) on moral reasons, and that hasn't been my experience.
I used to work at FedEx and still have some friends there. One of them told me that FedEx wants to sign a huge contract with Redhat for a bunch of servers, but the FedEx legal department wants Redhat to indemnify FedEx against damages if SCO wins, which of course Redhat refuses to do.
Consequently, FedEx has been talking to HP about buying the software through them rather than RedHat.
I'm sure that there are other instances of Redhat's getting hurt by all of the garbage SCO is spewing. I would guess that at least one reason they're doing this is they can't afford to wait any longer for someone else (IBM) to.
Agree completely. I purchased Win4Lin 3 and later upgraded to 4, and it is a ton more convenient than dual booting.
I do java and oracle (pl/sql) development. I run JBuilder natively on the linux side and fire up Win4Lin when I need SQLNavigator and Microsoft VSS (and yes, I've pushed for cvs, but the people at my office have refused to move to it for some reason).
Because my java and pl/sql code are so closely related, dual booting to work on one and then the other is not an option.
As noted above, the speed is great, and if something crashes Windows, you can reboot very, very quickly.
Having said all of that, the list of new features for version 5 is not interesting enough for me to upgrade; version 4 covers all of my bases very well.
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This was the funniest comment I've seen on here in a while. Thanks.
That's a great post that I don't disagree with at all.
Yeah, great point.
Say, what are the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists nurished by, anyway?
He lost me right there.
My original comment was a general one about the state of this country in relation to businesses and how they are paying for laws that are taking away our rights as consumers. I felt that your comment that I was government bashing just to get modded up was unfair, so I pointed you to the first example that came to my mind.
You are right that my comment didn't have anything specific to do with this case, but you were wrong to suggest that I was just throwing something out there to get modded up.
The least you could do is back up your accusation with some proof."
I presume you've heard of the honorable Orrin Hatch, senator from Utah? Are you unaware of his efforts to destroy people's computers? Do you know how much money he receives from the media industry? He is using his influence to take away your rights.
I like our government and I'm actually pretty conservative, but there is no doubt that there is a war going on to take away consumers' rights.
Their right to put software on your computer will last a lot longer than your rights as a private citizen as long as they spend more money on political parties than you do.
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First of all, that's a terrible analogy. Our understanding of ancient history is far better than that.
Second, I can't even imagine that you are an archaeologist, but if by hook or by crook you got a degree from somewhere, I assure you, most archaeologists are not like you.
how on Earth can we be so sure that we've interpreted a few clay tablets here and there correctly?
snip
leads me to a very nasty suscpicion that we've completely misunderstood the Ancients, too many times to be sure
Have you ever read Homer's The Illiad? Or Plato's The Republic? Those texts sure make a lot of sense if your hypothesis is true.
"We predicted it," Hart says of Tuesday's horrific events. "We said Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers -- that's a quote (from the commission's Phase One Report) from the fall of 1999."
I'm pretty sure Bush wasn't obstructing things in 1999.
Rudman generally agrees with Hart's assessment, but adds: "That's not to say that the administration was obstructing."
"They wanted to try something else, they wanted to put more responsibility with FEMA," Rudman says. "But they didn't get a chance to do very much" before terrorists struck on Tuesday. "
The principals involved don't seem to support your position.
Is anyone else getting a little tired of her Stallmanistic rants?
Interesting that he never mentions the fact that IBM is not only defending the GPL, but suing SCO for not complying with it.
But I guess when you're trying to suggest that the GPL is supported by capitalism-hating commies, the fact that one of the largest corporations in the world also supports it doesn't really do anything to strengthen your argument.
Man oh man, I hope he ends up in jail.
Do companies like Sapient give discounts when they're going to use programmers in India? Somehow, I doubt it.
The comments about Indian talent being cheaper would only apply here if MIT paid less than they would have had they used a company that employed American programmers. If they didn't get a discount, then Sapient simply improved their profit margin by using offshore programmers and MIT gained nothing from it, while indirectly hurting the US economy.
The "American pro-capitalist mainstream" are not going to stop their adoption of linux because SCO tried (or even succeeded) in painting these guys as socialists. The reason? Because companies will still be able to make money using linux.
The bottom line is what counts. You seem to be suggesting that companies make hardware/software choices based (at least in part) on moral reasons, and that hasn't been my experience.
Consequently, FedEx has been talking to HP about buying the software through them rather than RedHat.
I'm sure that there are other instances of Redhat's getting hurt by all of the garbage SCO is spewing. I would guess that at least one reason they're doing this is they can't afford to wait any longer for someone else (IBM) to.
I do java and oracle (pl/sql) development. I run JBuilder natively on the linux side and fire up Win4Lin when I need SQLNavigator and Microsoft VSS (and yes, I've pushed for cvs, but the people at my office have refused to move to it for some reason).
Because my java and pl/sql code are so closely related, dual booting to work on one and then the other is not an option.
As noted above, the speed is great, and if something crashes Windows, you can reboot very, very quickly.
Having said all of that, the list of new features for version 5 is not interesting enough for me to upgrade; version 4 covers all of my bases very well.