The more notable thing than wether the U.L. is true or not is how easy it is for most people to believe it of Richard Gere. We have a pretty strong opinion about those left coasters here in flyover country...
Microsoft probably didn't 'win' much market share with Windows 16. They just held onto it and it transitioned their customers gradually onto Win32. I can remember when Windows 16, specifically version 3.11, was an upgrade to DOS, because the Virtual 86 mode meant it multitasked legacy DOS apps fairly well. Not as good as DesqView, of course, but nobody ran DesqView 'cuz it wasn't Microsoft.
Actually, a greatly overlooked product/platform was DesqView/X. It was a layer to run on top of Windows 16 that included an X Server. I had a friend who used it to run X apps back in the days when that was a pretty exotic thing. I think he was on a dialup at 14.4K when he was doing that. But, then, he was the nerd running a VT-100 with Regis Graphics, too (before he hooked up an actual computer to his modem).
The FSF and Microsoft have different goals. You're entitled, of course, to claim some goals are more noble than other goals. However, see paragraph one above.
Indeed. Mr. Ellison was a pioneer in the field of vapourware. There is a long history of his salespeople selling features to their database product then rushing back to the developers to see if it can be added.
And since we're talking about ethics, Ellision wrote the text book on sexual harassment in the high-tech industry, having sexual relations with high level female employees, then firing them within a week of the romantic breakup.
It's really a mistake to read a 'friendly' history of Mr. Ellison. There are far better and less biased books about Ellison and Oracle, for instance: this one which the big jerk must HATE.
If you look up the term 'Asshole in a suit' in the dictionary, you should find Mr. Ellison's picture on the page next to the defintion.
It might even serve as a 'news item' that is a clear warning to some FreeBSD users who don't follow all the newsgroups and discussion threads, but who would view this as a negative thing for FreeBSD when made aware of it. For which reason it's an excellent topic heading/article for Slashdot to cover.
It's always seemed to me like FreeBSD is the 'compromise for Performance' BSD version. They make no pretense of being widely cross-platform, and do things like this, which break basic 'rules' of the UNIX system, for tweaky/performance reasons. The thing this sort of thing reminds me of is when Microsoft pulled the graphical subsystem into the Windows NT kernal layer 'to enhance performance.'
As well there should be. I recently switched 'back' to an aging PPC Mac (a 5400/120, eeeek!) as a 'desktop' platform for the living room. The best web browser I have found for it, running MacOS 9.1 in 128 MB of RAM, is Netscape 7.03. The OSS developer crowd, taillight chasers that they always are, have abandoned such an 'ancient' platform. (one of the problems with 'scratching an itch' programmers is they tend to run bleeding-edge hot-dog hardware, not what regular people use). The unofficial 'Mozilla' build for MacOS is a slow, convoluted kludge compared to this official Netscape build of the Mozilla codebase. I don't know why. It just is. Possibly there are non-distributable MacOS bits and pieces that Netscape built with that can't be used in a 'free Open Source' build environment.
My point: There are TONS of people out there, likely the sort of people still using AOL products like AIM, for whom Netscape 7.x is viable and the correct browser choice. It's a hell of a lot nicer than IE 5.1 for Mac on this aging hardware...
I miss my Beige G3 but I'd rather have the money at this point.
If the Windows customer got an 'OEM' bundle of Windows, then the computer vendor is responsible to support it, not Microsoft. A 'supported' copy of Windows costs $180-250, not the $18-30 an OEM pays for it.
It's a similiar comparision to the difference between a Customer who buys a supported 'box' package for Red Hat Linux and one who downloads the ISO. No, the person who downloads the ISO is not entitled to 'full support' no matter how bad the Red Hat release is.
AOL could last a long time. It has many loyal customers who think of 'AOL' as the Internet.
For an example of a similar phenomenon, look how long Apple Computer survived with a 'cooperative multitasking' kludge of an Operating System and a rabidly loyal customer base.
Entire segments of the software market have NO Open Source options. Engineering Workstations and high-end CAD and design are examples of this. You can't design a large FPGA and simulate it with any Open Source solution. Well, you probably can, with tools reminiscent of what engineers had in 1985...
Restricting a society to Open Source Only will stunt the economy of that society, limiting them to word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers and an array of similar 'prole' applications.
Most ISPs don't decide. In fact, once they start 'regulating content' they lose Common Carrier status and find themselves responsible for ALL content they purvey. Your ISP might regulate content. Mine doesn't.
the system can
either silently drop the malicious traffic or generate a pop-up message on an end-user's computer.
That sounds, ummm, interesting. So all client machines have this program listening for pop-up messages, and some unknown box out in a middle layer somewhere on the network is configured to automatically open up these 'pop-up messages.'
When you're not in lockstep running the software your ISP approves and running their little pop-up client (malware??) your messages just are silently dropped? And if you are using the little pop-up wonder, you give it the authority to approve or not approve details in your mail transit?
A few years back I remember on repeated visits to Best Buy seeing that sad, tattered copy of Office 98. It grew more, and more shopworn, but the price never dropped.
Is Apple just going to version everything 10.x from here on out? Everybody keeps talking about 'this big improvement of 10.3 over 10.0' so clearly there's time coming soon for a major version number change.
Apple, lose the 'X' obsession. Come out with OS XI or whatever you're going to call it. Give 'X' back to the X Window System.
Well, you see, there's this 'forked' filesystem. There's a data fork, and then there's a resource fork. It's better. Because it's... just... well, it's better. Take our word for it. We've built a filesystem where any files you have on it break if you move them to any other kind of filesystem. Because you should know better than to venture off of Macintosh.
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It's pretty likely that Microsoft asked permission.
Have you asked Warner Brothers permission for anything you've done with their IP?
Richard Gere becoming involved with a gerbil,
The more notable thing than wether the U.L. is true or not is how easy it is for most people to believe it of Richard Gere. We have a pretty strong opinion about those left coasters here in flyover country...
Microsoft probably didn't 'win' much market share with Windows 16. They just held onto it and it transitioned their customers gradually onto Win32. I can remember when Windows 16, specifically version 3.11, was an upgrade to DOS, because the Virtual 86 mode meant it multitasked legacy DOS apps fairly well. Not as good as DesqView, of course, but nobody ran DesqView 'cuz it wasn't Microsoft.
Actually, a greatly overlooked product/platform was DesqView/X. It was a layer to run on top of Windows 16 that included an X Server. I had a friend who used it to run X apps back in the days when that was a pretty exotic thing. I think he was on a dialup at 14.4K when he was doing that. But, then, he was the nerd running a VT-100 with Regis Graphics, too (before he hooked up an actual computer to his modem).
No need to get all preachy on us.
The FSF and Microsoft have different goals. You're entitled, of course, to claim some goals are more noble than other goals. However, see paragraph one above.
If the command line arguements for the independent utility are hard-coded into the OOo binary, doesn't it pretty much constitute 'linking'?
You make baby RMS cry when you do bad things to his COPYING textfile....
Indeed. Mr. Ellison was a pioneer in the field of vapourware. There is a long history of his salespeople selling features to their database product then rushing back to the developers to see if it can be added.
And since we're talking about ethics, Ellision wrote the text book on sexual harassment in the high-tech industry, having sexual relations with high level female employees, then firing them within a week of the romantic breakup.
It's really a mistake to read a 'friendly' history of Mr. Ellison. There are far better and less biased books about Ellison and Oracle, for instance: this one which the big jerk must HATE.
If you look up the term 'Asshole in a suit' in the dictionary, you should find Mr. Ellison's picture on the page next to the defintion.
It might even serve as a 'news item' that is a clear warning to some FreeBSD users who don't follow all the newsgroups and discussion threads, but who would view this as a negative thing for FreeBSD when made aware of it. For which reason it's an excellent topic heading/article for Slashdot to cover.
It's always seemed to me like FreeBSD is the 'compromise for Performance' BSD version. They make no pretense of being widely cross-platform, and do things like this, which break basic 'rules' of the UNIX system, for tweaky/performance reasons. The thing this sort of thing reminds me of is when Microsoft pulled the graphical subsystem into the Windows NT kernal layer 'to enhance performance.'
"Switch to Netscape 7.1!"
As well there should be. I recently switched 'back' to an aging PPC Mac (a 5400/120, eeeek!) as a 'desktop' platform for the living room. The best web browser I have found for it, running MacOS 9.1 in 128 MB of RAM, is Netscape 7.03. The OSS developer crowd, taillight chasers that they always are, have abandoned such an 'ancient' platform. (one of the problems with 'scratching an itch' programmers is they tend to run bleeding-edge hot-dog hardware, not what regular people use). The unofficial 'Mozilla' build for MacOS is a slow, convoluted kludge compared to this official Netscape build of the Mozilla codebase. I don't know why. It just is. Possibly there are non-distributable MacOS bits and pieces that Netscape built with that can't be used in a 'free Open Source' build environment.
My point: There are TONS of people out there, likely the sort of people still using AOL products like AIM, for whom Netscape 7.x is viable and the correct browser choice. It's a hell of a lot nicer than IE 5.1 for Mac on this aging hardware...
I miss my Beige G3 but I'd rather have the money at this point.
If the Windows customer got an 'OEM' bundle of Windows, then the computer vendor is responsible to support it, not Microsoft. A 'supported' copy of Windows costs $180-250, not the $18-30 an OEM pays for it.
It's a similiar comparision to the difference between a Customer who buys a supported 'box' package for Red Hat Linux and one who downloads the ISO. No, the person who downloads the ISO is not entitled to 'full support' no matter how bad the Red Hat release is.
AOL could last a long time. It has many loyal customers who think of 'AOL' as the Internet.
For an example of a similar phenomenon, look how long Apple Computer survived with a 'cooperative multitasking' kludge of an Operating System and a rabidly loyal customer base.
I imagine that organs and body parts from African donors, particularly 'underworld type' individuals, are considered highly likely to be AIDS tainted.
Entire segments of the software market have NO Open Source options. Engineering Workstations and high-end CAD and design are examples of this. You can't design a large FPGA and simulate it with any Open Source solution. Well, you probably can, with tools reminiscent of what engineers had in 1985...
Restricting a society to Open Source Only will stunt the economy of that society, limiting them to word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers and an array of similar 'prole' applications.
Within a few years Linux may be the 'free software that sucks' in computer labs around the world. Kids will go home and tell dad what NOT to get.
Will the new network be admin'd by Central Services?
Most ISPs don't decide. In fact, once they start 'regulating content' they lose Common Carrier status and find themselves responsible for ALL content they purvey. Your ISP might regulate content. Mine doesn't.
That sounds, ummm, interesting. So all client machines have this program listening for pop-up messages, and some unknown box out in a middle layer somewhere on the network is configured to automatically open up these 'pop-up messages.'
When you're not in lockstep running the software your ISP approves and running their little pop-up client (malware??) your messages just are silently dropped? And if you are using the little pop-up wonder, you give it the authority to approve or not approve details in your mail transit?
It sounds like an interesting playground.
Generally the Linux boxes got remaindered out quickly. I remember the big bin of Corel Linux boxes.
So, ummm, you have your Big Brother install and maintain these, to protect 'the people' from 'malware.'
Who gets to decide what is malware?
A few years back I remember on repeated visits to Best Buy seeing that sad, tattered copy of Office 98. It grew more, and more shopworn, but the price never dropped.
No. It proves that Microsoft fears those things, just like they fear Linux.
Uh-huh.
That would be the few games in that short 2/3 length aisle in the back of the store that has everything the computer store offers for Macintosh, eh?
I'd rather raise my kids to be more sensible than to drink at parties.
Is Apple just going to version everything 10.x from here on out? Everybody keeps talking about 'this big improvement of 10.3 over 10.0' so clearly there's time coming soon for a major version number change.
Apple, lose the 'X' obsession. Come out with OS XI or whatever you're going to call it. Give 'X' back to the X Window System.