The first of your examples is about a... thing which had a world-wide monopoly. PNG did not replace GIF although it is better. The second example is not about a monopoly. Yes, gzip replaced compress because it is better.
What would you say about Samba?
and started ordering all kinds of stuff online like CDs, watches, perfumes, eyeglasses
Oh, that's pitiful:-) Here, in Bulgaria, even BMWs were ordered. Some FBI agents came personally to investigate but as in Macedonia nobody really got jailed.
I can. Like writing free software.
Competing against Microsoft, IBM, etc. with $20 utilities might once have been possible. But competing against the F/OSS hordes with something less valuable (I mean real price) than $1000 is not possible today.
In summary: not that I don't like the idea of shareware for Linux, it simply won't happen.
Track Changes absolutely ROCKS. If you write technical documentation, it's foolish not to use it
IMHO, if you write technical documentation without using a real versioning system then you are a PHB.
Nope, they aren't so many. Even Joel (pro-MS, IMHO) said it..NET's popularity is nowhere near the popularity of Java when the latter was 3 years old, although.NET is hyped as much better than current Java and Sun didn't have a large developer base back then.
I haven't seen usable applications based on.NET. The only one I have heard that might be usable, is Bulgaria's e-governemnt site. The decision to use.NET is clearly non-technical - the fact that Microsoft bribes Bulgarian politicians (on the expense of us, taxpayers) is a public secret.
Bribing politicians instead of gaining developers' attention? Nope, doesn't sound like.NET could become popular even in the future.
If you want to use/etc/passwd &/etc/shadow through PAM, just put this in/etc/pam.conf (the binaries are part of the glibc package):
#
# default; standard UN*X access
#
OTHER auth required/lib/security/pam_unix.so
OTHER account required/lib/security/pam_unix.so
OTHER password required/lib/security/pam_unix.so
OTHER session required/lib/security/pam_unix.so
restrictive networks that don't allow outbound connections on anything other than web, ftp, pop3, telnet, and maybe ssh
Wow, I can't believe you are complaining! I have ONLY an HTTP(S) proxy at work. Well, I had:-) Got a real IP for my home machine, tuned OpenVPN, and voila:-)
if there would be some way for us humans to actually learn regexps...
Well, according to Chomsky's hierarchy, regular expressions are equivalent to the simplest possible languages (automatic ones). Human languages are context-dependent, i.e. two levels more complex! I suppose you get my point:-)
BTW, programming languages are (usually) context-independent, i.e. right in the middle of regular expressions and natural languages. Therefore, every kid at the age of 2 should be able to learn programming really easy:-)
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The first of your examples is about a... thing which had a world-wide monopoly. PNG did not replace GIF although it is better. The second example is not about a monopoly. Yes, gzip replaced compress because it is better.
What would you say about Samba?
...being tainted by copyrights. Insane patents are something completely different.
Yes, that's what I meant :-)
But see what he says: "Come for me, come for me!"...
I think it is not your business to decide whether US-Visit is orwellian or not - you are not affected, after all.
Well, my employer, for example. Even if it is not required (my job is exclusively Java related).
I'm just not sure I'm interested in paying for the product that will come out just before Longhorn.
Because Longhorn might not stable (enough)?
I suppose there are other people than me who just wish to get as far away as possible from the so-called global village Earth...
Donating source is much better, IMHO.
that he promises is spoiler-free.
Who cares, the movie trailer is spoiling enough.
other people sit up and take notice and - most importantly - improve on it.
Forgetting about that patent thingy, eh?
They do.
and started ordering all kinds of stuff online like CDs, watches, perfumes, eyeglasses
:-) Here, in Bulgaria, even BMWs were ordered. Some FBI agents came personally to investigate but as in Macedonia nobody really got jailed.
Oh, that's pitiful
that you cannot do anything about it
I can. Like writing free software.
Competing against Microsoft, IBM, etc. with $20 utilities might once have been possible. But competing against the F/OSS hordes with something less valuable (I mean real price) than $1000 is not possible today.
In summary: not that I don't like the idea of shareware for Linux, it simply won't happen.
Since when does MS count as a small business, anyways, to attract their concern?
:-)
They are preparing themselves for the future
Track Changes absolutely ROCKS. If you write technical documentation, it's foolish not to use it
IMHO, if you write technical documentation without using a real versioning system then you are a PHB.
so many people are using .NET
.NET's popularity is nowhere near the popularity of Java when the latter was 3 years old, although .NET is hyped as much better than current Java and Sun didn't have a large developer base back then. .NET. The only one I have heard that might be usable, is Bulgaria's e-governemnt site. The decision to use .NET is clearly non-technical - the fact that Microsoft bribes Bulgarian politicians (on the expense of us, taxpayers) is a public secret. .NET could become popular even in the future.
Nope, they aren't so many. Even Joel (pro-MS, IMHO) said it.
I haven't seen usable applications based on
Bribing politicians instead of gaining developers' attention? Nope, doesn't sound like
If you want to use /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow through PAM, just put this in /etc/pam.conf (the binaries are part of the glibc package):
/lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix.so
#
# default; standard UN*X access
#
OTHER auth required
OTHER account required
OTHER password required
OTHER session required
whatever greek letter comes after beta. :-)
Gamma. Don't tell me you never studied mathematics
Greek alphabet
restrictive networks that don't allow outbound connections on anything other than web, ftp, pop3, telnet, and maybe ssh
:-) Got a real IP for my home machine, tuned OpenVPN, and voila :-)
Wow, I can't believe you are complaining! I have ONLY an HTTP(S) proxy at work. Well, I had
No. If Knoppix finds a swap partition on a hard drive, it activates it.
if there would be some way for us humans to actually learn regexps...
:-)
:-)
Well, according to Chomsky's hierarchy, regular expressions are equivalent to the simplest possible languages (automatic ones). Human languages are context-dependent, i.e. two levels more complex! I suppose you get my point
BTW, programming languages are (usually) context-independent, i.e. right in the middle of regular expressions and natural languages. Therefore, every kid at the age of 2 should be able to learn programming really easy
20 years of a monopoly on an obvious idea?
you could make a shell script that does it all for you that is set UID root
No, you can't. Linux ignores the suid flag on scripts.
Unless you are Jim Yonan, why don't you try OpenVPN?
It's certainly not useful to stereotype everything they do as bad, considering they're so successful (funny how often people utterly ignore that).
Well, the Third Reich was successful, too, but its success lead to the deaths of more than 50 mln. people...
Disclaimer: I don't mean to offend the Germans. As well as (most) of the Microsoft employees.