I am the CEO of the biggest software firm on the planet. We have almost illimited ressources, attract the brightest of developers in the world, none of which can bring an end to spam, even that in my own email account.
Yup, for a problem this common, this old I'd expect it to never reach the inbox of THAT CEO at least.
And zealotry towards the merits of a single (non-Microsoft) company is different... How... from what we have now?
Need I remind everyone of the recent lockin for the Apple Music store to only allow iPods and effectively dissalow other music players?
How about the fact that Apple has perfectly adapted to the ongoing change in the IT industry created in part by the presence of open-source software? Has anyone seen the Spotlight source code? Nope. They just appear to play nicely with other open-source projects so to be _everyone's_ platform of choice : Linux zealots and windows users fed up with fixing up their computers, without forgetting education.
Any company's goal is to grow. It is no different if it's called Apple, google, Microsoft or Shitforbrains...
What is needed is balance so competition can effectively foster genuine innovation and progress towards a better information technology ecosystem.
How is this relevant in ANY way since SCO's price per share is ridicule(thus industry leaders think it's not worth a dime), no SCO president is a major holder AND they pay themselves 1 million dollars a year even though their company barely stays afloat?
Sco is dead, what does it matter if they sue the neighbor's cow, they have no case.
I guess this is something like the placebo -> even though it's only a name change, no code affected, for people it's a big change; no wonder Microshaft and other successfull companies in any domain use codenames.
Since Sun includes a Ton of GPL'd software on their CD, where are the sources? I can't find any download either on their site (tried "Java Desktop System" download site:sun.com and all I got was a lenghty FAQ)
I'd like to try it, where do I get it from?
Whis is what I think is up with this prediction. Drive traffic, live off of FUD
Oh yeah, what's a better discussion-fueler than Fear Uncertainty Doubt?!
Linus should sue Microsoft for spreading lies about his project.
Redhat is not Linux. And if redhat 6 has 500 flaws it is a lie to say that Linux has 500 flaws. It's even a common logic error that Microsoft does.
Sadly some CEOs who don't care much about anything buy this lie...
This seems to be the same kind of discussion as the Canadian company which manufactured the layer for win32 drivers to work under Linux. Given that I call myself a supporter of open source why would I pay a 3rd party to use closed-source plugin for closed-source applications on an open source platform?
It smells hypocrisy and the crossover folks should bankrupt.
I have received, not long ago, an email from a certain Basil which, he said, was very impressed with my project that I had on sourceforge.net He wanted me to work on their instant-messaging product, by telling me that it's a 1 to 2-week job for which I would get paid at the end. Given that I do not know this Basil or have even seen him (or will - given they are a 'company' of people which work from home), I did not find acceptable their policy, and of course, started investigating. I went to their website and aside from the page banner which does not lead anywhere, that was it... Something was rotten.
Since this Basil wanted to impress me and fool me into working on this project, he gave me the.class (java compiled classes) of the project so I could test drive it. I saw also a few documents in the project's sdk as well, written by a certain guy (don't remember his name) You bet that I contacted him by email, given that he worked on this project before), asking whethere this Basil was worthy of my trust. He was very prompt and answered that I shuold not attempt to do business with this Basil because, at the moment of the pay, the 'bank' had 'problems' getting the 'check' to the developer's account. Uh-huh. The worst part is that this coder did not even realise he got scammed. That scared me.
So it seems that a new class of scammers start developing on free-software writers, which, for many of them (not trying to offend anyone), seem to be people proud of themselves, but very naive, given that the time spent writing free software is not spent with real friends outsite. They are easy prey to scammers, driven by their own pride...
Although shared source and open source are quite different, Cherry
said--Microsoft doesn't let anyone but itself re-compile the code to
Windows, for one--the end result may be essentially the same as
open-source and Linux.
"What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source
community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the
open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the
gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and
technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
uh-huh. No, we can get the code and compile it, and it's legal (GPL) microsoft's open source initiative dissalows you to recompile code. Here they tried to cloud uneducated minds (non-geeks) on how good microsoft is by telling half-truths on a national news website. A shame because it comes from a multinational company, therefore if their marketing people lie directly to people like that, what can one say of the way the company works? Lies?
I don't know about you but when a company which lies to its customers promises Digital Rights Management and total control of user's privacy, I don't really feel like jumping in.
Uh-huh. Once the box is set up properly and secured it doesn't need a UNIX administrator to tinker with it every day (in case of a less than 100 people company). And even if they DO need to 'administer' it, there's webmin to help out webmin and this one doesn't require you to have a BAC in computer science to add a new user to the system. Get real. And if people inside that company are THAT dumb to not be able to read simple instructions on screen and to point with their mouse, the contractor can give them a quick training -- show them webmin before leaving (thus saving them the cost of a unix sysadmin)
The Linux Knoppix CD hosts 2Gb of data, that is a whole distribution of linux with all the applications a desktop user needs (and more) on a normal 700Mb disk that all CDrom drivers can read. This is actually twice better than what plextor offers, plus it you don't need a special drive to read the CDrom (like plextor) and there's no company controlling it, the cloop linux kernel driver is open-sourced and can be ported to anything by a skilled programmer...
Just another attempt of a huge company to squeeze some money from the poor suckers who buy anything blindly without having any idea what they're buying. And yeah of course, there's DVD-writers which kick plextor's attempt to steal money from the average computer user.
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Yup, for a problem this common, this old I'd expect it to never reach the inbox of THAT CEO at least.
And zealotry towards the merits of a single (non-Microsoft) company is different ... How... from what we have now?
Need I remind everyone of the recent lockin for the Apple Music store to only allow iPods and effectively dissalow other music players?
How about the fact that Apple has perfectly adapted to the ongoing change in the IT industry created in part by the presence of open-source software? Has anyone seen the Spotlight source code? Nope. They just appear to play nicely with other open-source projects so to be _everyone's_ platform of choice : Linux zealots and windows users fed up with fixing up their computers, without forgetting education.
Any company's goal is to grow. It is no different if it's called Apple, google, Microsoft or Shitforbrains ...
What is needed is balance so competition can effectively foster genuine innovation and progress towards a better information technology ecosystem.
How is this relevant in ANY way since SCO's price per share is ridicule(thus industry leaders think it's not worth a dime), no SCO president is a major holder AND they pay themselves 1 million dollars a year even though their company barely stays afloat?
Sco is dead, what does it matter if they sue the neighbor's cow, they have no case.
I guess this is something like the placebo -> even though it's only a name change, no code affected, for people it's a big change; no wonder Microshaft and other successfull companies in any domain use codenames.
Since Sun includes a Ton of GPL'd software on their CD, where are the sources? I can't find any download either on their site (tried "Java Desktop System" download site:sun.com and all I got was a lenghty FAQ) I'd like to try it, where do I get it from?
Whis is what I think is up with this prediction. Drive traffic, live off of FUD Oh yeah, what's a better discussion-fueler than Fear Uncertainty Doubt?!
Linus should sue Microsoft for spreading lies about his project. Redhat is not Linux. And if redhat 6 has 500 flaws it is a lie to say that Linux has 500 flaws. It's even a common logic error that Microsoft does. Sadly some CEOs who don't care much about anything buy this lie...
This seems to be the same kind of discussion as the Canadian company which manufactured the layer for win32 drivers to work under Linux.
Given that I call myself a supporter of open source why would I pay a 3rd party to use closed-source plugin for closed-source applications on an open source platform?
It smells hypocrisy and the crossover folks should bankrupt.
I have received, not long ago, an email from a certain Basil which, he said, was very impressed with my project that I had on sourceforge.net He wanted me to work on their instant-messaging product, by telling me that it's a 1 to 2-week job for which I would get paid at the end. Given that I do not know this Basil or have even seen him (or will - given they are a 'company' of people which work from home), I did not find acceptable their policy, and of course, started investigating. I went to their website and aside from the page banner which does not lead anywhere, that was it... Something was rotten.
.class (java compiled classes) of the project so I could test drive it. I saw also a few documents in the project's sdk as well, written by a certain guy (don't remember his name) You bet that I contacted him by email, given that he worked on this project before), asking whethere this Basil was worthy of my trust. He was very prompt and answered that I shuold not attempt to do business with this Basil because, at the moment of the pay, the 'bank' had 'problems' getting the 'check' to the developer's account. Uh-huh. The worst part is that this coder did not even realise he got scammed. That scared me.
Since this Basil wanted to impress me and fool me into working on this project, he gave me the
So it seems that a new class of scammers start developing on free-software writers, which, for many of them (not trying to offend anyone), seem to be people proud of themselves, but very naive, given that the time spent writing free software is not spent with real friends outsite. They are easy prey to scammers, driven by their own pride...
Which version of Excel?
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Although shared source and open source are quite different, Cherry said--Microsoft doesn't let anyone but itself re-compile the code to Windows, for one--the end result may be essentially the same as open-source and Linux. "What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
uh-huh. No, we can get the code and compile it, and it's legal (GPL) microsoft's open source initiative dissalows you to recompile code. Here they tried to cloud uneducated minds (non-geeks) on how good microsoft is by telling half-truths on a national news website. A shame because it comes from a multinational company, therefore if their marketing people lie directly to people like that, what can one say of the way the company works? Lies?
I don't know about you but when a company which lies to its customers promises Digital Rights Management and total control of user's privacy, I don't really feel like jumping in.
Uh-huh. Once the box is set up properly and secured it doesn't need a UNIX administrator to tinker with it every day (in case of a less than 100 people company). And even if they DO need to 'administer' it, there's webmin to help out webmin and this one doesn't require you to have a BAC in computer science to add a new user to the system. Get real. And if people inside that company are THAT dumb to not be able to read simple instructions on screen and to point with their mouse, the contractor can give them a quick training -- show them webmin before leaving (thus saving them the cost of a unix sysadmin)
The Linux Knoppix CD hosts 2Gb of data, that is a whole distribution of linux with all the applications a desktop user needs (and more) on a normal 700Mb disk that all CDrom drivers can read. This is actually twice better than what plextor offers, plus it you don't need a special drive to read the CDrom (like plextor) and there's no company controlling it, the cloop linux kernel driver is open-sourced and can be ported to anything by a skilled programmer... Just another attempt of a huge company to squeeze some money from the poor suckers who buy anything blindly without having any idea what they're buying. And yeah of course, there's DVD-writers which kick plextor's attempt to steal money from the average computer user.