A lot of IT jobs are the equivalent of the guy changing your oil at Grease Monkey. A lot of coding jobs are nothing more than providing a gui to a database. These jobs do not take a degree in Computer Science. Everybody that I know that found jobs after being laid off were very good engineers that remembered there calc/diff eq/linear alg/physics. The people that had no distinguishing characteristics and pretty much had boilerplate jobs are still searching.
I ran over my future wife's iBook on my bike. Long story short: I was coming to a stop and started swinging my backpack around and discovered the zipper was failing. As I watched my front wheel plow over the top of that white plastic case I knew for sure I'd be buying her a new computer. The only real evidence of the mishap was a scuffed up corner and the tire mark, which washed away before I returned it to her.
I noticed somebody pointing out that it's been reported that it was ONLY 26K licenses. When you consider that the majority are probably servers and that there quarterly results have improved as a result of the enterprise line, they are making the correct decisions for themselves. Redhat has architected a great support and service model that supports Linux(imho).
They are targetting what marekts they currently want to sell Linux right now and I agree with their analysis at this point. Linux isn't close to competing with Mac OS X or Windows on the desktop yet. Hardware needs to be detected and drivers installed seamlessly. IMHO one toolset needs to emerge as the standard. You want a bloated pig, run three apps that require three different tookit libraries to run. Right now Linux is a server/workstation operating system. All the big corporations that are now trying to go with desktop solutions are selling it in specific configurations, not as a Windows or Mac replacement. I think Redhat is making the right move.
Yesterday I called Compaq because the battery in my 6 month old laptop was already giving up the ghost. It was the first time I can honestly say that I've experienced an overseas call center. My issue did get handled but not before having to ask for things to be repeated several times while keeping my frustration in check.
Honestly, the organizations I've worked at didn't publicize the break-ins, be they Microsoft shops or Unix shops. You had emergency maintenance, not a compromised machine.
I'm not asking for regulation, I'm asking for disclosure of methods. All search engines cull the same exact content, at least they should be scanning the same internet. They compete via doing things faster or providing better services. It seems absurd to get the results I get for Linux via MSN search, especially when one of the top 5 is a Microsoft document on why Linux sucks. I'm currently typing this under 2000, it's not like I don't use Microsoft products, but actions like this alarm me.
I'd wager a bet that most of us replying to this thread use the internet for research purposes daily. The fact that I just searched for linux on http://search.msn.com and came up with roughly 350+ hits shows that the owner of that search engine wants to limit my access to content on that topic. I think it's time for legislation involving search engines providing information on how they provide their results. Microsoft is obviously either blocking results that pertain to Linux or they need to state exactly how their search engine works if this is not the case.
One big stupidty point, they are selling support, not the operating system. You are free to roll your own or keep all your software up to date with the latest bug and security fixes on your own, but a lot of people don't want to do that, hence the success of SuSE and Redhat.
It's a monopoly. Name any company in a truly competitive market with such an accumulation of cash. The fact that they have such a large sum shows just how much of a force they are.
It matters for both markets. Developers want to target one base. Standards drive adoption, your average computer user wants the same interface everywhere and wants everything to work the same on every computer.
This lawsuit seems to be more about the validity of licensing and ip. I refuse to believe that Microsoft isn't orchestrating this. It's not paranoia, it's not Microsoft bashing. Microsoft has pumped cash into SCO in a variety of ways. A lot of the arguments SCO has made about ip and licensing sound similar to Microsoft's words. Microsoft employees have been caught in the past FUDing competitors, while acting like impartial third parties. Weren't they going to start an editorial campaing to try to feign a groundswell of public support for them before?
I was coming to a stop and taking my backpack off as when I noticed my books started flying forwards as I swung my backpack around, then I saw the iBook do the same. I think having a suspension fork on my bike may have helped but but when I plowed over it I was sure I just killed it. The culprit was the worn zipper on my 10 year old backpack, it wast thrown away that night.
So when a lot of jobs are moved overseas to people making half what Americans make, who is buying all the items that keep the economy here going? I can't believe Washington is that short sighted as well as the multinationals. You don't increase your potential market buy shrinking the available purchasers unless you really do plan to have the top 1% be the economy.
I think the "millions" is the code they claim that was developed under "license", such as XFS. that's the only logical explination I can see for the claim of "millions" of lines of code.
People like to stick with what they know. The idea behind this is to make the gui similar to what people know. I'd wager that 99% of computer users don't understand what an operating system is.
Where Redhat and Real were working together on an an updated RealPlayer for Linux. I'm I having a false recovered memory or did that just never pan out?
I've been curious if there are any mildy meaningful metrics out there pointing to KDE vs GNOME usage? I personally haven't seen anybody using KDE but I see a lot of people posting to Slashdot that use it. My personal experience doesn't seem to coincide with the real world but I'm really curious about the numbers.
Can you back up your ideas with information from Redhats quarterly reports? Redhat is being very vocal about making good money from the Enterprise line.
Well have you? Redhat is a public company and as such they have to divulge how they made their money. You should look at their last quarterly statement.
I agree that a lot of work needs to be done for Linux to even approach Windows or Mac OS X on the desktop. I agree with your point about installing Mac apps, Drop the icon and your done, can't be simpler than that.
This all being as it is, I only believe this will happen when one dominant desktop prevails. For Linux to even hope to challenge it needs to provide everything Windows and Mac OS X provide from the development process to the end user experience. Standards drive the acceptance of everything, people are not going to deal with, "well for that app you need the kde libs and qt and for this other one you want you need gnome libs and gtk+, and for...". If this continues, Linux will remain right were it is now with regards to the desktop.
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A lot of IT jobs are the equivalent of the guy changing your oil at Grease Monkey. A lot of coding jobs are nothing more than providing a gui to a database. These jobs do not take a degree in Computer Science. Everybody that I know that found jobs after being laid off were very good engineers that remembered there calc/diff eq/linear alg/physics. The people that had no distinguishing characteristics and pretty much had boilerplate jobs are still searching.
I ran over my future wife's iBook on my bike. Long story short: I was coming to a stop and started swinging my backpack around and discovered the zipper was failing. As I watched my front wheel plow over the top of that white plastic case I knew for sure I'd be buying her a new computer. The only real evidence of the mishap was a scuffed up corner and the tire mark, which washed away before I returned it to her.
I noticed somebody pointing out that it's been reported that it was ONLY 26K licenses. When you consider that the majority are probably servers and that there quarterly results have improved as a result of the enterprise line, they are making the correct decisions for themselves. Redhat has architected a great support and service model that supports Linux(imho). They are targetting what marekts they currently want to sell Linux right now and I agree with their analysis at this point. Linux isn't close to competing with Mac OS X or Windows on the desktop yet. Hardware needs to be detected and drivers installed seamlessly. IMHO one toolset needs to emerge as the standard. You want a bloated pig, run three apps that require three different tookit libraries to run. Right now Linux is a server/workstation operating system. All the big corporations that are now trying to go with desktop solutions are selling it in specific configurations, not as a Windows or Mac replacement. I think Redhat is making the right move.
Yesterday I called Compaq because the battery in my 6 month old laptop was already giving up the ghost. It was the first time I can honestly say that I've experienced an overseas call center. My issue did get handled but not before having to ask for things to be repeated several times while keeping my frustration in check.
Honestly, the organizations I've worked at didn't publicize the break-ins, be they Microsoft shops or Unix shops. You had emergency maintenance, not a compromised machine.
I'm not asking for regulation, I'm asking for disclosure of methods. All search engines cull the same exact content, at least they should be scanning the same internet. They compete via doing things faster or providing better services. It seems absurd to get the results I get for Linux via MSN search, especially when one of the top 5 is a Microsoft document on why Linux sucks. I'm currently typing this under 2000, it's not like I don't use Microsoft products, but actions like this alarm me.
I'd wager a bet that most of us replying to this thread use the internet for research purposes daily. The fact that I just searched for linux on http://search.msn.com and came up with roughly 350+ hits shows that the owner of that search engine wants to limit my access to content on that topic. I think it's time for legislation involving search engines providing information on how they provide their results. Microsoft is obviously either blocking results that pertain to Linux or they need to state exactly how their search engine works if this is not the case.
One big stupidty point, they are selling support, not the operating system. You are free to roll your own or keep all your software up to date with the latest bug and security fixes on your own, but a lot of people don't want to do that, hence the success of SuSE and Redhat.
What are the top issues you feel that need to be sorted out in order for Linux to really compete with Mac OS X and Windows?
Easy, they aren't even going to cover the book past the final battle. Him and wormtounge appear in the shire at the end of the book.
It's a monopoly. Name any company in a truly competitive market with such an accumulation of cash. The fact that they have such a large sum shows just how much of a force they are.
It matters for both markets. Developers want to target one base. Standards drive adoption, your average computer user wants the same interface everywhere and wants everything to work the same on every computer.
This lawsuit seems to be more about the validity of licensing and ip. I refuse to believe that Microsoft isn't orchestrating this. It's not paranoia, it's not Microsoft bashing. Microsoft has pumped cash into SCO in a variety of ways. A lot of the arguments SCO has made about ip and licensing sound similar to Microsoft's words. Microsoft employees have been caught in the past FUDing competitors, while acting like impartial third parties. Weren't they going to start an editorial campaing to try to feign a groundswell of public support for them before?
I know of several schools that don't allow calculators during exams in calc and physics.
I was coming to a stop and taking my backpack off as when I noticed my books started flying forwards as I swung my backpack around, then I saw the iBook do the same. I think having a suspension fork on my bike may have helped but but when I plowed over it I was sure I just killed it. The culprit was the worn zipper on my 10 year old backpack, it wast thrown away that night.
nuff said
So when a lot of jobs are moved overseas to people making half what Americans make, who is buying all the items that keep the economy here going? I can't believe Washington is that short sighted as well as the multinationals. You don't increase your potential market buy shrinking the available purchasers unless you really do plan to have the top 1% be the economy.
I think the "millions" is the code they claim that was developed under "license", such as XFS. that's the only logical explination I can see for the claim of "millions" of lines of code.
I can't seriously see them not fretting over Microsoft locking people using PC's into their solutions only.
People like to stick with what they know. The idea behind this is to make the gui similar to what people know. I'd wager that 99% of computer users don't understand what an operating system is.
Where Redhat and Real were working together on an an updated RealPlayer for Linux. I'm I having a false recovered memory or did that just never pan out?
I've been curious if there are any mildy meaningful metrics out there pointing to KDE vs GNOME usage? I personally haven't seen anybody using KDE but I see a lot of people posting to Slashdot that use it. My personal experience doesn't seem to coincide with the real world but I'm really curious about the numbers.
Can you back up your ideas with information from Redhats quarterly reports? Redhat is being very vocal about making good money from the Enterprise line.
Well have you? Redhat is a public company and as such they have to divulge how they made their money. You should look at their last quarterly statement.
I agree that a lot of work needs to be done for Linux to even approach Windows or Mac OS X on the desktop. I agree with your point about installing Mac apps, Drop the icon and your done, can't be simpler than that. This all being as it is, I only believe this will happen when one dominant desktop prevails. For Linux to even hope to challenge it needs to provide everything Windows and Mac OS X provide from the development process to the end user experience. Standards drive the acceptance of everything, people are not going to deal with, "well for that app you need the kde libs and qt and for this other one you want you need gnome libs and gtk+, and for...". If this continues, Linux will remain right were it is now with regards to the desktop.