When I spoke with a salesmen about becoming a potential reseller/OEM of Suse, the salesman I was speaking with said "If you're only going to sell 2 or 3 licenses a month it's not worth my time. We want large deployments." He said that about 5 times in a 15 minute conversation.
It is sad, but I think large companies thinks in similar way. However, for salesman it's not acceptable behavour, because he could politely describe their company policy on resales. I think it is worth to let some higher at the company to know that.
That it is really transition and how far I have seen and heard, shareholders all agree that Linux is Novell future. They just want management to know that they have to do very best not to slip in minuses - which is quite ok, because it _is_ their money, really.
About layoffs - so far I am only worried about Groupwise, which I see a only real-life replacement (in price and features) for Exchange. Yes, there are lot of open source solutions, but none of them perfectly integrates with Outlook - which is and will be important for some 10 - 15 years. I just hope that they know what they do. It would be sad that they would discontinue that product.
In overall, I wish Novell luck and get some real big contracts in RedHat style and then I hope their future will be in brighter colours.
Yes, this is something I can easily agree with. RedHat was my very first distro, when I didn't know absolutely nothing about Linux, or GNU, or whatever. And I abadoned it just because of rpm "suckness" and total unstability of RedHat 7. But RPM was quite a troble. My next distro was Mandrake, however, so I can't claim that I just left rpm for good:) Last years I have used Debian and Gentoo all the way.
However, after years when I hadn't touched RedHat for ages, I installed RedHat 9, I was quite surprised. Yes, rpm depency hell still was there, but in overall, RedHat had very polished and profesional look. And when I have drop eye glances to Fedora, it seems follow the same way, and many friends of mine uses it. So it should be good.
And yes, I hail RedHat for it's truely profesional support, countless contributions to free software, and be an excelent example of how Linux company can be very successful. I think RedHat success also did good push for Mandrakesoft (now Mandriva) to come out from bankruptcy, because as far as I remember, it was the same time when RedHat first announced that they ended quater without loss, and that they started to earn money. After that, Mandrake woke up from ashes, estabilished theirselves and now again rocking Eiropean market.
So...what's up for Novell? How this market will change? It will be very interesting, and I hope we won't see any heavy bankruptcy - t.i., that Linux market will grow.
...and all I can say that I'm proud as IT specialist, and also as someone who has to work/live and communicate with them as brother country. I'm from Latvia and there have been times and notions (and some of them still appears) that we don't care about each other as nations. It is not so, I think. Yeah, Latvians usually make silly jokes about slowness and stupidness of Estonians, however, in true life, Estonia is quite ahead in many fields like country (so our reaction is simple, pure jelousy.). But in very level this humor is very unoffensive.
Estonia have streamed a quite of investment in IT and Internet. So, actually, such things like this one comes for them naturally. It is sad sometimes, because our country also how many smart geeks - but we are so ambitional by each of ourselves that we can't agree on even basic things.
Estonians just sticked with target - create modern, powerful (in smart way), technically superior country - and there are already half-way to it (I think). Of course, close friendship with Finns helped them along the way.
And yes, I wish them luck.
Maybe it is not interesting...
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Vim 6.4 Released
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· Score: 3, Insightful
When I first saw vi, I thought - WTF. It is suitable for text editing!? Vi, for my point of view, is one of underdogs of software world. And yes, it really truely shines when we talk about remotently editing 40K file over 2800 baud modem or even on system with space about...emm...four megabytes?:)
Yes, there are Word, OO.o Writer, Gedit, Kedit, Pico, Nano, whatever...and there is vi. Freedom of choice does strange things, doesn't it?
My common sense says that. Most people in the world comon senses says that.
It is not enough?
Come on, we know that killing man is not right, with or without laws or proofs. Proofs are needed only for them who are killing men. Strange fallancy, isn't it?
But if we are pratical, ANY unnatural monopoly, however how small, is BAD for ecenomy. Sometimes it is acceptable, but sometimes...
Just say just because some coorporations or people want _more_ money (isn't is that they don't have enough), it is not suitable to say that overuse of copyright/patents is right.
p.s. use see, I didn't say that they are evil. People drives them to absurdum, that's evil - like religious fanatics and warmongering.
Emmmm....actually I call 'spamming' when I get really unexpected email letters. Companies usually don't send 'enlarge your penis!', 'buy viagra', 'buy real university diplomas', etc. Every letter I recieved from any normal company I expected - because I subscribed to it.
I don't like some of coorporate actions too, but spamming is not what we can blame companies for.
I doubt this claim. My pick is that spammers actually sells their services for those "sellers", but there is no proof of profit returns. Yeah, it would be great to spam in such level, but I actually don't know much people buys it stuff. Spammers just speculate on this, but I guess such arrests, also a sucess of antispam services shows a set of golden age of spam.
And yet, you proved what needed to be proven - people wants successful ones to fall, to make mistakes, to proove that Apple is not so 100% right on everything. My pick is that is somehow connected with our wish to protect ourselves from hype, which could can give wrong expetations on something.
My pick is? Just ingore that. There are usually will be people who will whine, cry, etc. And they will be men of action.
guns don't do the shot by theiselves, you know
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Google Terror Threat
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I just don't get - it is so HARD to understand that it IS a human issue where terrorism rises. It is not nation vs. nation, hell, it is not even human vs. human. It is just a reaction of those sad and bad bastards who have nothing in their lives left but kill and destroy innocent lifes. Why they do that - is there someone who just TRIED to understand it?
What caused World War II? What causes most of war? Money? Only money? Get a grip - that it is VERY complex problem usually and it is too tangerous to left solution to arms - because, hell, it don't resolve anything at all.
That whole "only for profit" motivation is just a big.... It feels just not right. And I don't want to bash or deny their free will, or judge anyone. It is just like...how much you really need to be happy? Okei, okei, everyone will claim that is very subjective, but I think it is whole point of fallancy.
When greed is enough? My pick is that greed comes from totally different field than basic human needs. It has something to do with human psyche. So usually when someones claims that their interests are purerly "business", I simply ignore it. Maybe someone will believe. I'm not.
Lack of general education leads to lack of IQ. Lack of IQ leads to lack of analysis and posibility to listen to other opinions and judge them by common sence, nor by 'ohh, I don't want to know that it is _that_ way' (also known as wishful thinking). And lack of judge yourself and your thoughts and see where it takes you leads to...certain defeat.
And most ironic thing is that in the end, US will have been defeated itself. In many ways.
Not because I hate Microsoft, or what. No. Actually I see Google has VERY serious plans to be big big ISP in US - at least - so it would suit them perfectly. Yeah, they would have to do litle rebranding - AOL branding is seriously damaged with all management lack of common sense last five years.
Microsoft wanted only AOL because they want Google dead. So, it would prove Microsoft to stop playing these silly games with their monopoly power. And it would be a middle finger for them..
But let's see. If it is all business, everything will be fine. If it will be some "I want you to be dead" overtones like Bill and Balmer have, then, well it wont end very good.
Sorry, I don't see how it will protect children, how it will protect them in REAL life, nor I see any sense of WHY they should do it. Way to break forbidden rules is easy one - just do it. And guess what - children LOVE to break forbidden rules. Because they want to know why.
But in this time, they will get confused.
What a heck, of course, better don't learn them anything, make better sheeps for all consumer system.
Yes, I'm ranting, but my common sense says that all this is totally off the way.
Why do you wonder? Users are usually ignorant to learn something completely new, so they will think as many as dvice excuses to not to even check out GIMP screenshots:)
That's the life:) And they will be losers, in the end. Those who learn and addapt, will stay.
hmmm,you didn't get it that way. They talk about copyright assigment and that Inkscape have SO much contributors that they can't even try that - it would be huge job to locate all of them, get them assign their copyrights, etc. etc.
That annoucement reads like total marketing crap. I know Xara, their products are quite popular, but I would not claim so loud such goals. And by the way, we have tools which are user friendly and I'm used to:)
But ignoring that, I just can say - welcome! For example, open sourcing for Blender was really best way to go. Propably for Xara Xtreme too.
Emmmm....may I ask you, in what time you got hacked by worms?:)
Ok, no offence and no, it was no joke. I suupose you got some of XPSP2 boxes. If you not, well, then you got very well protected with OEM default installed firewall or something else.
In fact, for at least two hours you should spend of downloading security patches alone, if you don't have one of these things by default.
You hit the target of whole issue. Let's be sure that Linux problems is NOT user friendly usability, but Windows[tm] user friendly usability. It is HUGE difference.
For example, I LOVE GNOME minimalistic point of view to things - even I'm geek with IT expierence for ten years. I don't want to have every configuration in point'n'click mode. And that's the whole point.
But there also rises problem - users are not used to use computers by mind, thinking, but by repetition - where each function lies. And there comes problem.
I see it as users are not dumb - they are simply uneducated to think.
Because allows unitended installs in first place. It is HUGE difference. With Windows, I'm simply not sure what it will do automaticly next - even if I don't want it.
Problem is Microsoft ignorance in first place - if you do user friendly usability, then do it, checking all other things - security, stability, etc. Sorry, but there is no excuse that Microsoft marketing dep. have too much power over developers.
What a hell you are talking about? Sorry, but there is NO excuse for Windows lack of security. Only Microsoft shills and some people who just don't want to bash and critize their beloved operational system can say that.
Check out OS X! They have the best installation system ever - just copy that shiny vector-graphics based icon to your Applications folder, ENTER your password once and DONE!
Please understand that User Friendly [tm] interface of Windows is NOT reason of their lack of security. Ignorance is.
I never got 'because they mast get maximum profits' bullshit. Because, if you will alienate most customers with such arrogant attitude, you will get lover profits.
Someone can call it 'profit maximizing', I call it greed without any logical reason.
For my mind, they are somehow equal - they are both interesting languages, good for developers, allows to produce code fast and without big gliches. There are some problems with distribution of support for them - which I find quite sad. For Java - hell, Java is good, I have to admit now when I have coded in it for some five months - there is distribution problems. I know that Sun maybe have good reasons not to allow distribute it's JRE for thirty party, but I would like to see this thing sorted out. For those saying that Java is not open standard - what make 'open standard'? For me, Java is good in that level that every aspect of language is clearly thought try. I would like to check Mono - and see if it goes the same way. If it is so, good for non-MS business, because they have modern, portable, cross-platform languages to choose from.
One biggest problem with Java that I haven't seen descent IDE with graphical GUI desginer for it. If there is someone, Sun or someone else should market a hell out of it - because it could draw novices to Java. If it is done so, they will discover that Java is one good language - and will stick with it.
I also don't get rants against Mono and C# in Slashdot - yes, I know, legal thingies and Microsoft with all that army of layers makes geeks to shake a bit (to atmit, me too), but actually it is time not to be afraid anymore. Fight and adapt, or stay away. Or code in Python/C++/C:)
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It is sad, but I think large companies thinks in similar way. However, for salesman it's not acceptable behavour, because he could politely describe their company policy on resales. I think it is worth to let some higher at the company to know that.
That it is really transition and how far I have seen and heard, shareholders all agree that Linux is Novell future. They just want management to know that they have to do very best not to slip in minuses - which is quite ok, because it _is_ their money, really.
About layoffs - so far I am only worried about Groupwise, which I see a only real-life replacement (in price and features) for Exchange. Yes, there are lot of open source solutions, but none of them perfectly integrates with Outlook - which is and will be important for some 10 - 15 years. I just hope that they know what they do. It would be sad that they would discontinue that product.
In overall, I wish Novell luck and get some real big contracts in RedHat style and then I hope their future will be in brighter colours.
A little post scriptum, Safari is based on KHTML.
But on anything else, I agree wholeheartly.
Yes, this is something I can easily agree with. RedHat was my very first distro, when I didn't know absolutely nothing about Linux, or GNU, or whatever. And I abadoned it just because of rpm "suckness" and total unstability of RedHat 7. But RPM was quite a troble. My next distro was Mandrake, however, so I can't claim that I just left rpm for good :) Last years I have used Debian and Gentoo all the way.
However, after years when I hadn't touched RedHat for ages, I installed RedHat 9, I was quite surprised. Yes, rpm depency hell still was there, but in overall, RedHat had very polished and profesional look. And when I have drop eye glances to Fedora, it seems follow the same way, and many friends of mine uses it. So it should be good.
And yes, I hail RedHat for it's truely profesional support, countless contributions to free software, and be an excelent example of how Linux company can be very successful. I think RedHat success also did good push for Mandrakesoft (now Mandriva) to come out from bankruptcy, because as far as I remember, it was the same time when RedHat first announced that they ended quater without loss, and that they started to earn money. After that, Mandrake woke up from ashes, estabilished theirselves and now again rocking Eiropean market.
So...what's up for Novell? How this market will change? It will be very interesting, and I hope we won't see any heavy bankruptcy - t.i., that Linux market will grow.
...and all I can say that I'm proud as IT specialist, and also as someone who has to work/live and communicate with them as brother country. I'm from Latvia and there have been times and notions (and some of them still appears) that we don't care about each other as nations. It is not so, I think. Yeah, Latvians usually make silly jokes about slowness and stupidness of Estonians, however, in true life, Estonia is quite ahead in many fields like country (so our reaction is simple, pure jelousy.). But in very level this humor is very unoffensive.
Estonia have streamed a quite of investment in IT and Internet. So, actually, such things like this one comes for them naturally. It is sad sometimes, because our country also how many smart geeks - but we are so ambitional by each of ourselves that we can't agree on even basic things.
Estonians just sticked with target - create modern, powerful (in smart way), technically superior country - and there are already half-way to it (I think). Of course, close friendship with Finns helped them along the way.
And yes, I wish them luck.
When I first saw vi, I thought - WTF. It is suitable for text editing!? Vi, for my point of view, is one of underdogs of software world. And yes, it really truely shines when we talk about remotently editing 40K file over 2800 baud modem or even on system with space about...emm...four megabytes? :)
Yes, there are Word, OO.o Writer, Gedit, Kedit, Pico, Nano, whatever...and there is vi. Freedom of choice does strange things, doesn't it?
My common sense says that. Most people in the world comon senses says that.
It is not enough?
Come on, we know that killing man is not right, with or without laws or proofs. Proofs are needed only for them who are killing men. Strange fallancy, isn't it?
But if we are pratical, ANY unnatural monopoly, however how small, is BAD for ecenomy. Sometimes it is acceptable, but sometimes...
Just say just because some coorporations or people want _more_ money (isn't is that they don't have enough), it is not suitable to say that overuse of copyright/patents is right.
p.s. use see, I didn't say that they are evil. People drives them to absurdum, that's evil - like religious fanatics and warmongering.
Emmmm....actually I call 'spamming' when I get really unexpected email letters. Companies usually don't send 'enlarge your penis!', 'buy viagra', 'buy real university diplomas', etc. Every letter I recieved from any normal company I expected - because I subscribed to it.
I don't like some of coorporate actions too, but spamming is not what we can blame companies for.
I doubt this claim. My pick is that spammers actually sells their services for those "sellers", but there is no proof of profit returns. Yeah, it would be great to spam in such level, but I actually don't know much people buys it stuff. Spammers just speculate on this, but I guess such arrests, also a sucess of antispam services shows a set of golden age of spam.
And yet, you proved what needed to be proven - people wants successful ones to fall, to make mistakes, to proove that Apple is not so 100% right on everything. My pick is that is somehow connected with our wish to protect ourselves from hype, which could can give wrong expetations on something.
My pick is? Just ingore that. There are usually will be people who will whine, cry, etc. And they will be men of action.
I just don't get - it is so HARD to understand that it IS a human issue where terrorism rises. It is not nation vs. nation, hell, it is not even human vs. human. It is just a reaction of those sad and bad bastards who have nothing in their lives left but kill and destroy innocent lifes. Why they do that - is there someone who just TRIED to understand it?
What caused World War II? What causes most of war? Money? Only money? Get a grip - that it is VERY complex problem usually and it is too tangerous to left solution to arms - because, hell, it don't resolve anything at all.
That whole "only for profit" motivation is just a big .... It feels just not right. And I don't want to bash or deny their free will, or judge anyone. It is just like...how much you really need to be happy? Okei, okei, everyone will claim that is very subjective, but I think it is whole point of fallancy.
When greed is enough? My pick is that greed comes from totally different field than basic human needs. It has something to do with human psyche. So usually when someones claims that their interests are purerly "business", I simply ignore it. Maybe someone will believe. I'm not.
Lack of general education leads to lack of IQ. Lack of IQ leads to lack of analysis and posibility to listen to other opinions and judge them by common sence, nor by 'ohh, I don't want to know that it is _that_ way' (also known as wishful thinking). And lack of judge yourself and your thoughts and see where it takes you leads to...certain defeat.
And most ironic thing is that in the end, US will have been defeated itself. In many ways.
Not because I hate Microsoft, or what. No. Actually I see Google has VERY serious plans to be big big ISP in US - at least - so it would suit them perfectly. Yeah, they would have to do litle rebranding - AOL branding is seriously damaged with all management lack of common sense last five years.
Microsoft wanted only AOL because they want Google dead. So, it would prove Microsoft to stop playing these silly games with their monopoly power. And it would be a middle finger for them..
But let's see. If it is all business, everything will be fine. If it will be some "I want you to be dead" overtones like Bill and Balmer have, then, well it wont end very good.
How? I don't know.
Sorry, I don't see how it will protect children, how it will protect them in REAL life, nor I see any sense of WHY they should do it. Way to break forbidden rules is easy one - just do it. And guess what - children LOVE to break forbidden rules. Because they want to know why.
But in this time, they will get confused.
What a heck, of course, better don't learn them anything, make better sheeps for all consumer system.
Yes, I'm ranting, but my common sense says that all this is totally off the way.
Why do you wonder? Users are usually ignorant to learn something completely new, so they will think as many as dvice excuses to not to even check out GIMP screenshots :)
:) And they will be losers, in the end. Those who learn and addapt, will stay.
That's the life
hmmm,you didn't get it that way. They talk about copyright assigment and that Inkscape have SO much contributors that they can't even try that - it would be huge job to locate all of them, get them assign their copyrights, etc. etc.
That's the whole issue.
That annoucement reads like total marketing crap. I know Xara, their products are quite popular, but I would not claim so loud such goals. And by the way, we have tools which are user friendly and I'm used to :)
But ignoring that, I just can say - welcome! For example, open sourcing for Blender was really best way to go. Propably for Xara Xtreme too.
Emmmm....may I ask you, in what time you got hacked by worms? :)
Ok, no offence and no, it was no joke. I suupose you got some of XPSP2 boxes. If you not, well, then you got very well protected with OEM default installed firewall or something else.
In fact, for at least two hours you should spend of downloading security patches alone, if you don't have one of these things by default.
Why do you think I would shout to you? :)
Your examples are quite on target - they are not very easy things to do in Linux yet. However, we are getting there.
You hit the target of whole issue. Let's be sure that Linux problems is NOT user friendly usability, but Windows[tm] user friendly usability. It is HUGE difference.
For example, I LOVE GNOME minimalistic point of view to things - even I'm geek with IT expierence for ten years. I don't want to have every configuration in point'n'click mode. And that's the whole point.
But there also rises problem - users are not used to use computers by mind, thinking, but by repetition - where each function lies. And there comes problem.
I see it as users are not dumb - they are simply uneducated to think.
Because allows unitended installs in first place. It is HUGE difference. With Windows, I'm simply not sure what it will do automaticly next - even if I don't want it.
Problem is Microsoft ignorance in first place - if you do user friendly usability, then do it, checking all other things - security, stability, etc. Sorry, but there is no excuse that Microsoft marketing dep. have too much power over developers.
What a hell you are talking about? Sorry, but there is NO excuse for Windows lack of security. Only Microsoft shills and some people who just don't want to bash and critize their beloved operational system can say that.
Check out OS X! They have the best installation system ever - just copy that shiny vector-graphics based icon to your Applications folder, ENTER your password once and DONE!
Please understand that User Friendly [tm] interface of Windows is NOT reason of their lack of security. Ignorance is.
I never got 'because they mast get maximum profits' bullshit. Because, if you will alienate most customers with such arrogant attitude, you will get lover profits.
Someone can call it 'profit maximizing', I call it greed without any logical reason.
For my mind, they are somehow equal - they are both interesting languages, good for developers, allows to produce code fast and without big gliches. There are some problems with distribution of support for them - which I find quite sad. For Java - hell, Java is good, I have to admit now when I have coded in it for some five months - there is distribution problems. I know that Sun maybe have good reasons not to allow distribute it's JRE for thirty party, but I would like to see this thing sorted out. For those saying that Java is not open standard - what make 'open standard'? For me, Java is good in that level that every aspect of language is clearly thought try. I would like to check Mono - and see if it goes the same way. If it is so, good for non-MS business, because they have modern, portable, cross-platform languages to choose from.
:)
One biggest problem with Java that I haven't seen descent IDE with graphical GUI desginer for it. If there is someone, Sun or someone else should market a hell out of it - because it could draw novices to Java. If it is done so, they will discover that Java is one good language - and will stick with it.
I also don't get rants against Mono and C# in Slashdot - yes, I know, legal thingies and Microsoft with all that army of layers makes geeks to shake a bit (to atmit, me too), but actually it is time not to be afraid anymore. Fight and adapt, or stay away. Or code in Python/C++/C
In the end, your choice is all what matters.