Ok. This post is going to sound like I'm rambling at times and is lengthy, but most of what you say is FUD in and of itself. I tried my best to go off of the truths that I understand, but please correct me if there is something completely wrong somewhere.
No future price hikes because Linux is free. Price for each version won't change.
You aren't exactly comparing apples to apples. Yes both are operating systems. But with SCO, you have a source to go back to when problems arise that is ultimately liable. With Linux, you of course have the distribution, but in order to go back to them, it will cost money. If you have rolled your own, sorry, you have no one to go back to officially.
No planned obscelescence, you're in control. Run kernel 2.2 and use KDE 2.2 untill the end of time if you want.
And you can run SCO OpenServer v.3.4.2 until the end of time as well. OF course it may not be supported any longer, but Redhat, Debian, et al also no longer support very old kernels.
No forced bundles. What happens if SCO decides you can only buy their OS if you also but program X and a 1000 seat license for it (at $500 a pop)?
Yeah SCO could force a bundle and do something outrageous with the price, but that is more a market decision. Doing so turns away customers and also puts them at a point where they can't compete price wise with the competition. Probably isn't going to happen as you describe.
Speaking of which, no per seat licenses. If SCO doesn't charge them now, how do you know they won't in the future?
SCO does charge for them now. Once again a marketing decision. The original customer already has the licenses and they would come across in the upgrade, so this point is currently mute. And it's not like SCO is the only company that charges for licenses.
Upgrades are free. Security patches are free. It's ALL free.
And if you want guaranteed supported upgrades and patches for Redhat, you are going to have to pay. Sure you can get all the patches individually from each of the 1000 different packages, but will Redhat support you free when you have version conflicts between software packages because you patched on your own?
It's TRUELY open. You have a problem? Your techs can look at the code to see what's going on. You don't need to call in an expert from SCO.
And every company employs an army of techs who have the free time, knowledge, and capibility to debug all different aspects of an OS.
Need a feature? Add it! You can add it directly to the software, you don't need to do it as some hack script that you run things though.
Once again, every company has an army of people who can write kernel code for specific features. Also, SCO doesn't forbid you writing your own code. They do have a official compiler (part of their development package) as well has GCC as part of their Skunkware package (non-offical software that has been tested to work). Need your computer to do something, write your own program. Hardware drivers don't necessarily have to be written by SCO either.
Not tied to a company. What happens if/when SCO goes out of business? You have to find a new company for support (costs more $$$), you'll have to switch to a different OS (costs more $$$).
And if Redhat goes out of business, who do you go to for your support contract, official patches, etc?
Linux has Tux, the cute/cool little mascot. What does SCO have?
Ok. You got me. Of course I always make my business decisions on what the mascot looks like. SCO had Ransom Love. That name sounds like a better porn star then Tux...so there.:P
I never said I had perfect grammar. And yes I made spelling mistakes and I looked like an idiot in doing so. Oh well. I look like an idiot most of the time anyways. My message just emphasizes my point. I made mistakes and I'm real. My original parent was reasonably well written...so it obviously wasn't written by anyone I work with.
It's obviously a virus. It has semi-decent grammer. No spelling mistakes. It has a subject, a body, an a closing. It makes sense.
Many of the real e-mails I get from coworkers are intelligible drivel with multiple grammer/spellimg mistakes, 3 different sentence fragments combined into one sentence that doesn't make sense, or my favorite putting the entire (long) message in the subject and just having a.sig as the body.
A 750 MB Zip disk costs about $15; who the fsck is going to pay 1500% more for only 15% more space? And then who would you send a 750 MB Zip disk to
But the big difference was that you could easily modify something on a disk, add something, delete something else. Yes you can with a CD-RW, but it's more of a hassle. It was like a giant floppydisk. I do agree that they were a day late getting it to the market, but there were cases where a zip would clearly be the better choice.
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This meant that they were not disposable the way $0.50 floppies are.
Dude, you are paying WAY too much for a floppy disk if you are paying.50 each.
Please tell me again how many people in the US make use of p2p networks.
How many of those have voted for these politicians in the past and will be pissed off enough to vote for someone else?
I bet that if you look at the demographics for P2P users, you will find that a majority of their ages would be between teens and mid twenties. Many are either not able to vote or don't care enough to vote. Once they get convicted, the Senators don't have to worry about them voting again.
I thought only the digital phones used the spread spectrum. The analog 2.5GHz phones didn't have to be...otherwise, wouldn't they advertise the spread spectrum feature on the box?
That's one reason. The other is that sprinklers are damned ugly, and many people actually care about such things. If they could figure out some way to embed them in the ceiling, then perhaps they'd catch on for single family homes
New sprinklers look a lot better then older ones these days. I visited a friends house down in New Mexico a while back and they had sprinklers all over the apartment about 6 inches from the celing on the walls. You don't notice them until you really look at them. They come pre-painted to match a variety of decors. Also, you can find them that are covered. Once they are activated, the cover pops off with the water pressure. So they are hidden except for the cover.
Just before July 4th, a message was sent around my place of work to salary staff asking for volunteers to come in on their holiday to do data entry. The reason...they didn't want to pay hourly staff overtime/holiday pay. We were free...hourly was not.
That reminds me of a story I once hear about a janitor who use to go stand in front of a large telecom microwave dish to warm up on winter evenings. Slowly cooked him...
I work right in between a large train yard and several train lines. Often there are numerous cars just sitting around and the majority of them have been "decorated". Some look quite crappy, but others look excellent and a work of art (of sorts). Anyone know how long it takes someone good with a can of spray paint to finish a work of art?
As I understand it, Fast User Switching simply keeps other users' processes alive (but suspended) while a user at the console starts up his/her own processes.
Actually, the process are not suspended. They continue to run in the backgroud. The unix eqivilent would be just opening up a different console shell.
I quite often will leave a video encoder running in the background and switch over users to my wife's account. If I don't set the encoding process at a low priority, her session drags.
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I think it would be interesting to see how much Sony used when they first came out with the PS. At that time, Sony was the new guy going against Sega and Nintendo. While a chunk of the $3.5b went to development, I'd imagine that a bigger chunk has gone towards marketing. It doesn't matter how superior the system is or isn't, if it doesn't get marketed well, it will fail.
I posted this in a previous dicussion when someone asked almost the exact same question.
Q: How long will Microsoft support a platform that seems destined to be in the red for the next few years? After all, you have invested $3.5 billion on the Xbox and are still losing money on the sale of each unit.
A: We are being smart about bringing the cost of producing the Xbox console down. We can decide to not make it a long investment business and price it to get a better return, but this is a 10-, 15- and 20-year investment.
Source: Interview with Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer (CXO) and vice-president of the Home & Entertainment Division at Microsoft Corp. June 16th, 2003. (It looks like the canada.com link is no longer working, but you can read the article here.)
The Register also had a recent article that puts the loss per sale figure at around $150. While PC costs have dropped over the last year or two, so has the X-box price. They also have to recoup serious development and advertising fees. MSFT has over $3.5 billion wrapped up in X-box so far.
I know. I'm living in a fantasy world where I think everyone is ethical.:) However, it's ultimately up to the sell to say yes or no to the offer. The agent can't.
It's kind of like when you have a real estate agent - they get a fixed percentage of the sale price, and underpriced houses sell faster - so it's in their best interest to sell your house at 5% under value if they can sell it twice as fast. Same with Boies.
This is where ethics come into play. An ethical real estate agent won't make that decision for the seller. They can suggest to the seller to sell it for less to minimize the stress of selling the house and to sell it quicker. But they won't knock off 5% for their own gain. Their single purpose is to serve the seller. That's why you should never have the same agent serve both the seller and buyer. It's a conflict of interest.
It would vary from circumstance to circumstance. A quick search found that Microsoft own people estimate it's legal fees from the Caldera/Dr. Dos lawsuit to be around 1.5 billion. Where they came up with this number I have no clue.
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You aren't exactly comparing apples to apples. Yes both are operating systems. But with SCO, you have a source to go back to when problems arise that is ultimately liable. With Linux, you of course have the distribution, but in order to go back to them, it will cost money. If you have rolled your own, sorry, you have no one to go back to officially.
And you can run SCO OpenServer v.3.4.2 until the end of time as well. OF course it may not be supported any longer, but Redhat, Debian, et al also no longer support very old kernels.
Yeah SCO could force a bundle and do something outrageous with the price, but that is more a market decision. Doing so turns away customers and also puts them at a point where they can't compete price wise with the competition. Probably isn't going to happen as you describe.
SCO does charge for them now. Once again a marketing decision. The original customer already has the licenses and they would come across in the upgrade, so this point is currently mute. And it's not like SCO is the only company that charges for licenses.
And if you want guaranteed supported upgrades and patches for Redhat, you are going to have to pay. Sure you can get all the patches individually from each of the 1000 different packages, but will Redhat support you free when you have version conflicts between software packages because you patched on your own?
And every company employs an army of techs who have the free time, knowledge, and capibility to debug all different aspects of an OS.
Once again, every company has an army of people who can write kernel code for specific features. Also, SCO doesn't forbid you writing your own code. They do have a official compiler (part of their development package) as well has GCC as part of their Skunkware package (non-offical software that has been tested to work). Need your computer to do something, write your own program. Hardware drivers don't necessarily have to be written by SCO either.
And if Redhat goes out of business, who do you go to for your support contract, official patches, etc?
Ok. You got me. Of course I always make my business decisions on what the mascot looks like. SCO had Ransom Love. That name sounds like a better porn star then Tux...so there. :P
Actaully that was Caldera that had the Mickey Mouse Ears, which is no longer. Blame the wrong image on the /. Graphic Arts Department.
I never said I had perfect grammar. And yes I made spelling mistakes and I looked like an idiot in doing so. Oh well. I look like an idiot most of the time anyways. My message just emphasizes my point. I made mistakes and I'm real. My original parent was reasonably well written...so it obviously wasn't written by anyone I work with.
It's obviously a virus. It has semi-decent grammer. No spelling mistakes. It has a subject, a body, an a closing. It makes sense.
.sig as the body.
Many of the real e-mails I get from coworkers are intelligible drivel with multiple grammer/spellimg mistakes, 3 different sentence fragments combined into one sentence that doesn't make sense, or my favorite putting the entire (long) message in the subject and just having a
Did you read the article. The Panasonic drive does DVD-RW and DVD-RAM. There are recorders that will do all 3.
But you are correct in that you probably won't find any pscan players with DVD-RAM drives.
Yeah...but it doesn't do DVD-RAM? That's where I'm placing my money on.
I bet that if you look at the demographics for P2P users, you will find that a majority of their ages would be between teens and mid twenties. Many are either not able to vote or don't care enough to vote. Once they get convicted, the Senators don't have to worry about them voting again.
I thought only the digital phones used the spread spectrum. The analog 2.5GHz phones didn't have to be...otherwise, wouldn't they advertise the spread spectrum feature on the box?
Just before July 4th, a message was sent around my place of work to salary staff asking for volunteers to come in on their holiday to do data entry. The reason...they didn't want to pay hourly staff overtime/holiday pay. We were free...hourly was not.
I figured it as much. But I never wanted to find out for sure. It's better to not know and look ignorant then to know and be a liar I guess. :)
You are going to look really bad some day soon when he really does gets assassinated.
That reminds me of a story I once hear about a janitor who use to go stand in front of a large telecom microwave dish to warm up on winter evenings. Slowly cooked him...
Yes. Over 700 servers mainly on OpenServer 5.0.5 and 5.0.6.
I work right in between a large train yard and several train lines. Often there are numerous cars just sitting around and the majority of them have been "decorated". Some look quite crappy, but others look excellent and a work of art (of sorts). Anyone know how long it takes someone good with a can of spray paint to finish a work of art?
I quite often will leave a video encoder running in the background and switch over users to my wife's account. If I don't set the encoding process at a low priority, her session drags.
Dell's inkjets are just rebadged Lexmarks.
I think it would be interesting to see how much Sony used when they first came out with the PS. At that time, Sony was the new guy going against Sega and Nintendo. While a chunk of the $3.5b went to development, I'd imagine that a bigger chunk has gone towards marketing. It doesn't matter how superior the system is or isn't, if it doesn't get marketed well, it will fail.
The Register also had a recent article that puts the loss per sale figure at around $150. While PC costs have dropped over the last year or two, so has the X-box price. They also have to recoup serious development and advertising fees. MSFT has over $3.5 billion wrapped up in X-box so far.
I know. I'm living in a fantasy world where I think everyone is ethical. :) However, it's ultimately up to the sell to say yes or no to the offer. The agent can't.
It would vary from circumstance to circumstance. A quick search found that Microsoft own people estimate it's legal fees from the Caldera/Dr. Dos lawsuit to be around 1.5 billion. Where they came up with this number I have no clue.