Only 5% of bloggers are journalists therefor it can't be journalism..... And if what is going on in a person's personal life, New Orleans, is important. Or if Politics, next election, are issues they wont have any protection because its not 'journalism'.
Own the papers, buy the journalists... then you can afford to have journalistic freedom but not if people can report on things themselves.
Discredit blogs and you begin destroying most grass roots information in the country.
If freedom of speakers rights matters it must be speech not job profile that is protected.
Judging from news coverage in much of this country even less than 5% of big media are journalists.
Are the various demagogues of Open Source going to track how the new license helps Java grow?
I'd say that this is a classic situation where Java will not be the only thing worth studying. Once the license is decided and the code is even more out there for even more possibilities will we see IBM do even more with it? Will we see schools teach more Java because it has passed open source muster? Will this help it gain market share? Force M$ to open its languages? What about a new free Delphi?
I hope everyone, including Sun, is pleased with the outcome of this. Its not everyday such a big player takes this step. What do people think will happen?
You're right. And come to think of it, wasn't there a time when windows source code was available in France?
Re Govt's. I think many governments are lead around by their lobbiests and corporations. This would allow a company to get the source, make the package and then lobby governments who would only have to pay for it and implement.
The article doesn't go into too much detail about what 'source code' means. I imagine only people involved with the various programs would really be able to tell you. If their NDA would let them.
The price, in money and terms, will be too high for businesses. What it will mean that foreign governements will have similar access to what the US already has. The government(s) can make custom backdoors etc.... with their own people. They can give them back to MS who compiles and distributes.
I wonder whose version of M$ I'll get in the future?
If this survey was about safety and the expense of keeping our roads safe and the vehicles driving you know they would break down what vehicle cost most. Funny that there is no talk of the principle cost here being one software manufacturer and that alternatives dont represent such a cost to the country.
Virus protection and repair form the largest category of expenses. Doesn't it make sense to avoid the operating system with the largest expense in virus costs.
Why has protecting the nations computers from viruses affecting one company's operating system been represented as an inevitable cost of 'computer crime' to business. Seems there is something that can be done...
Americas favourite monopoly avoids any responsibility again.
Statistics like this support insinuations against people with computer skills. I wonder if stats were kept on the number of crimes where the perpetrators made use of the public roads and parking to aid their crime? Driving licenses contribute to X percent of national crime!
If last year music downloads had their best year ever and other computer based business models are also improving - I wonder what the size of computer aided or assisted business is? What percentage of the profit from that business went into security improvements and training?
In the blindingly vast percentage of cases people are honest but you never hear about that.
I don't see any further exposure or problem. Companies using Linux have the right to use linux just like they have the right to use something they bought. Linux has contributors who have a copyright relationship with distributions of Linux and those who write software based on their work.
Guess what. Microsoft has contributors who have a copyright relationship with distributions of Windows and those who wrote software based on threir work.
Considering the terms for Linux are more generous not less and dont affect end users anyway how is this something for companies to worry about? This is a canard!
Interesting that the price tag is now 'expensive' for a machine assembled for extreme performance. It was not very long ago that that was a upper level standard machine.
I never said I hate the U.S. I've never met more friendly people with better values. What I don't understand is the gap between talking about problems and acting on them.
I love the idea that your constitution has protections against going to war. I don't understand that a President is allowed to side step those protections by lying and going to war without a declaration.
I love the idea that there is an election for representatives. I don't understand that people stand for the carving up of polls to the absolute benefit of one party or _the_ other.
I think the American soldier, individually, is heroic and ready to put his life on the line for his country. I don't understand the huge profits allowed to Private contractors working in battle areas and the American Mono-culture that deprives GI's of world respect and cooperation. I think the army and the CIA has been made a scapegoat by a government of low moral fibre.
I don't understand how after the Florida controversy that there is not a bipartizan election fairness initiative. I don't understand how voting machines can be allowed without fixed checkable records.
I don't understand how the United States can allow an education system where if a citizen is born in a poor area he/she gets a dissadvantaged education.
If these sound like I hate the United States that is not my intention. Solving some of these problems would make for a better country. Even caring enough to demand a solution from your government would make a difference. How can a country where the people are so willing to help their neighbor feel so disenfranchised from their government.
Why are there so many barriers to a new party with new Ideas? How can the election of government and holding office be made more inclusive and cheaper.
Government use pushes software back into the public forums of education and function. Why shouldn't our subsidized universities produce software that everyone can use without further payment. We will always need people to customize it and explain it but we do not need Billionairs to sell it.
Government solutions should be for the benefit of all the populace. Hidden Source software resells the same solution over and over again. Why not solve it once for everyone.
The security and savings are far more than beneficial to the average voter than the millions spent by special lobby groups. I wish this was more widely known.
With their own Linux distro With Java With a whack of cash and declining sales They want to buy more infrastructure to support, and kill market options rather than find a way for _their own_ solution to emerge. Just when Novell is doing some exciting things. WAY TO MANAGE SUN!
Give Novell owners a whack of cash, see if they dont bank the money and buy back your company after you've deflated the value of both Novell & Sun.
If this happens, I think it will finish both companies.
In other news Microsoft doesn't know what to do with all its billions so its giving half back to the shareholders. Gates is donating the 3billion (more than the market cap of Novell) to his charity.
I imagine Intel wants a polite way to keep the Itanium on the books for very special applications and to save face. Zeon will, at least in the near future, be the processor of choice and a common socket will keep it from eclipsing the Itanic.
There might even be a chance that the market will change enough to want the Itanic, but not if they have to maintain specialized hardware for a currently very niche market.
My people, who bleed through the open check we your government write on, It is of grave importance to the Republican Corpor... er Government that we continue spending initiatives.
I am here to tell you of the threat Mars holds in shielding Al Queda training camps and Weapons of Mars Distruction.....
I think SCO claims are meritless mostly because I have a much greater respect of Linus & IBM than I do of the SCOG for _anything_. I rely on other people for technical appraisals but I think I can personally judge that SCOG and the Canopy group are without honour or merit.
Imagine if this were a Microsoft claim after the computing world moved to MONO? Honourable futures are like our honourable past based on clear choices and concensus.
I would love our supposedly moral governments to realize what backward damage they are doing with IP protectionism, monopoly making, and submarine patents.
Imagine an RFID reader that could tell when children were alone and let a whacko sort children from a distance.
It's an other instance of an _item_ being used to replace an _understanding_. Children should be taught to careful not cared for till they have no choices.
I can just imagine the kid at the back of the room with a bag full of RFID chips while his friends play hooky.
While I really dont like companies crippling the hardware I buy. Could you imagine a shovel that would stop you from moving sand too quickly ?
I have to say that if my systems are %10 slower but even %05 more reliable its a good trade off. I'm not saying that they are super unreliable now, given all that goes into making a computer behave and the number of suppliers involved. Its just that some of these machines are so fast that I there is no value to me personally in overclocking.
I think that businesses generally have enough to worry about with proper operation to not want to overclock their processors. If Intel is working with memory makers to insure stability they should be up front about it -- people would understand the overclocking then.
Overclocking adds another possible source of problems that most companies don't need.
It sounds like you need a good cost benifit analysis and an idea of a budged.
First RAID your existing data.
Second Replicate any working solution you have now identically for next month and backup hardware.
Have a serious talk with work as to what is expensive and what you can afford. What happens if a data set is lost? How much damage\cost would that incur? I would look int AIT drives from Sony.
It sounds like you are in a frame of mind where you see everything as expensive. This will heavily influence your decision. Walk through a data disaster scenario with your backers and examine your costs in that light.
Especially after Florida, I'm amazed and sadenned that election fairness is not a larger issue.
It falls to the party in power when this is all put together to take the greatest risk. If they are sure this is going to work they should be inviting criticism and showing how they are addressing problems.
I may be wrong but I don't see much time devoted to reassurances with pro-active action.
Someone should ask Bush now if he will accept a 'tainted' victory should one occur. Get a clear point at which recount & repair methods will be taken.
Claims that the Bush Brigade is going to fix another election are too credible without a visable effort to create transparency, by the government in power.
If Microsoft wishes they could distribute Linux's programs they should include a distro with every version of windows. I'm sure they could negotiate a very affordable price for wine and any other software.
People might still be willing to use their software especially since they seem so sure its intrinsically better. The could also distribute all the linux goodness they want.
I can appreciate your point but I think challenges we face right now like patent law demand my meager $$$. I'm pleased to think your's are going to the museum then...
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Only 5% of bloggers are journalists therefor it can't be journalism..... And if what is going on in a person's personal life, New Orleans, is important. Or if Politics, next election, are issues they wont have any protection because its not 'journalism'.
Own the papers, buy the journalists... then you can afford to have journalistic freedom but not if people can report on things themselves.
Discredit blogs and you begin destroying most grass roots information in the country.
If freedom of speakers rights matters it must be speech not job profile that is protected.
Judging from news coverage in much of this country even less than 5% of big media are journalists.
They do "Play one on TV" though.
LS
Are the various demagogues of Open Source going to track how the new license helps Java grow?
:)
I'd say that this is a classic situation where Java will not be the only thing worth studying. Once the license is decided and the code is even more out there for even more possibilities will we see IBM do even more with it? Will we see schools teach more Java because it has passed open source muster? Will this help it gain market share? Force M$ to open its languages? What about a new free Delphi?
I hope everyone, including Sun, is pleased with the outcome of this. Its not everyday such a big player takes this step. What do people think will happen?
We'll have to see.
LS
You're right. And come to think of it, wasn't there a time when windows source code was available in France?
Re Govt's. I think many governments are lead around by their lobbiests and corporations. This would allow a company to get the source, make the package and then lobby governments who would only have to pay for it and implement.
The article doesn't go into too much detail about what 'source code' means. I imagine only people involved with the various programs would really be able to tell you. If their NDA would let them.
The price, in money and terms, will be too high for businesses. What it will mean that foreign governements will have similar access to what the US already has. The government(s) can make custom backdoors etc.... with their own people. They can give them back to MS who compiles and distributes.
I wonder whose version of M$ I'll get in the future?
I wonder if it will cover 2003?
A cool new thing might make sick and old people less bored. They are people after all. A new robot would make my day!
What happens when every institurion has its IBO? Will they be as interesting as a dog when the novelty runs out? I don't think so.
I'd really worry about a fleet of 'entertainment' robots looking after our sick and aged. Seems like a classic setting for a robot uprising story.
ls
If this survey was about safety and the expense of keeping our roads safe and the vehicles driving you know they would break down what vehicle cost most. Funny that there is no talk of the principle cost here being one software manufacturer and that alternatives dont represent such a cost to the country.
Virus protection and repair form the largest category of expenses. Doesn't it make sense to avoid the operating system with the largest expense in virus costs.
Why has protecting the nations computers from viruses affecting one company's operating system been represented as an inevitable cost of 'computer crime' to business. Seems there is something that can be done...
Americas favourite monopoly avoids any responsibility again.
Statistics like this support insinuations against people with computer skills. I wonder if stats were kept on the number of crimes where the perpetrators made use of the public roads and parking to aid their crime? Driving licenses contribute to X percent of national crime!
If last year music downloads had their best year ever and other computer based business models are also improving - I wonder what the size of computer aided or assisted business is? What percentage of the profit from that business went into security improvements and training?
In the blindingly vast percentage of cases people are honest but you never hear about that.
I don't see any further exposure or problem. Companies using Linux have the right to use linux just like they have the right to use something they bought. Linux has contributors who have a copyright relationship with distributions of Linux and those who write software based on their work.
Guess what. Microsoft has contributors who have a copyright relationship with distributions of Windows and those who wrote software based on threir work.
Considering the terms for Linux are more generous not less and dont affect end users anyway how is this something for companies to worry about? This is a canard!
Interesting that the price tag is now 'expensive' for a machine assembled for extreme performance. It was not very long ago that that was a upper level standard machine.
I never said I hate the U.S. I've never met more friendly people with better values. What I don't understand is the gap between talking about problems and acting on them.
I love the idea that your constitution has protections against going to war. I don't understand that a President is allowed to side step those protections by lying and going to war without a declaration.
I love the idea that there is an election for representatives. I don't understand that people stand for the carving up of polls to the absolute benefit of one party or _the_ other.
I think the American soldier, individually, is heroic and ready to put his life on the line for his country. I don't understand the huge profits allowed to Private contractors working in battle areas and the American Mono-culture that deprives GI's of world respect and cooperation. I think the army and the CIA has been made a scapegoat by a government of low moral fibre.
I don't understand how after the Florida controversy that there is not a bipartizan election fairness initiative. I don't understand how voting machines can be allowed without fixed checkable records.
I don't understand how the United States can allow an education system where if a citizen is born in a poor area he/she gets a dissadvantaged education.
If these sound like I hate the United States that is not my intention. Solving some of these problems would make for a better country. Even caring enough to demand a solution from your government would make a difference. How can a country where the people are so willing to help their neighbor feel so disenfranchised from their government.
Why are there so many barriers to a new party with new Ideas? How can the election of government and holding office be made more inclusive and cheaper.
ls
Every time I hear Americans choose between the far right wing and the even further right wing I shudder.
Illegal detainments in Iraq and Cuba.
Vast expansion of secret police powers via "Patriot Act".
World's biggest Military budget (thats a guess) and a military commander chosen in hail of controversy.
If any of the above scares you, and you are American, break the two party system that makes it too easy to buy your government.
Think twice when you are sold something by a fear mongering right winger (of either party).
LS
Government use pushes software back into the public forums of education and function. Why shouldn't our subsidized universities produce software that everyone can use without further payment. We will always need people to customize it and explain it but we do not need Billionairs to sell it.
Government solutions should be for the benefit of all the populace. Hidden Source software resells the same solution over and over again. Why not solve it once for everyone.
The security and savings are far more than beneficial to the average voter than the millions spent by special lobby groups. I wish this was more widely known.
ls
With their own Linux distro
With Java
With a whack of cash and declining sales
They want to buy more infrastructure to support, and kill market options rather than find a way for _their own_ solution to emerge. Just when Novell is doing some exciting things. WAY TO MANAGE SUN!
Give Novell owners a whack of cash, see if they dont bank the money and buy back your company after you've deflated the value of both Novell & Sun.
If this happens, I think it will finish both companies.
In other news Microsoft doesn't know what to do with all its billions so its giving half back to the shareholders. Gates is donating the 3billion (more than the market cap of Novell) to his charity.
ls
I imagine Intel wants a polite way to keep the Itanium on the books for very special applications and to save face. Zeon will, at least in the near future, be the processor of choice and a common socket will keep it from eclipsing the Itanic.
There might even be a chance that the market will change enough to want the Itanic, but not if they have to maintain specialized hardware for a currently very niche market.
LS
Think of the money Halliburton could make on the Earth-Mars pipeline!
My people, who bleed through the open check we your government write on, It is of grave importance to the Republican Corpor... er Government that we continue spending initiatives.
I am here to tell you of the threat Mars holds in shielding Al Queda training camps and Weapons of Mars Distruction.....
I think SCO claims are meritless mostly because I have a much greater respect of Linus & IBM than I do of the SCOG for _anything_. I rely on other people for technical appraisals but I think I can personally judge that SCOG and the Canopy group are without honour or merit.
Imagine if this were a Microsoft claim after the computing world moved to MONO? Honourable futures are like our honourable past based on clear choices and concensus.
I would love our supposedly moral governments to realize what backward damage they are doing with IP protectionism, monopoly making, and submarine patents.
ls
You're right.
Imagine an RFID reader that could tell when children were alone and let a whacko sort children from a distance.
It's an other instance of an _item_ being used to replace an _understanding_. Children should be taught to careful not cared for till they have no choices.
I can just imagine the kid at the back of the room with a bag full of RFID chips while his friends play hooky.
American's who care about their Liberty, or their libraries, should find out how their representatives have voted on these issues.
Share what you find out and make them regret it if its wrong. Even if you're only a drop in the bucket at least you did something.
While I really dont like companies crippling the hardware I buy. Could you imagine a shovel that would stop you from moving sand too quickly ?
I have to say that if my systems are %10 slower but even %05 more reliable its a good trade off. I'm not saying that they are super unreliable now, given all that goes into making a computer behave and the number of suppliers involved. Its just that some of these machines are so fast that I there is no value to me personally in overclocking.
I think that businesses generally have enough to worry about with proper operation to not want to overclock their processors. If Intel is working with memory makers to insure stability they should be up front about it -- people would understand the overclocking then.
Overclocking adds another possible source of problems that most companies don't need.
My work demands 1TB a month ....
It sounds like you need a good cost benifit analysis and an idea of a budged.
First RAID your existing data.
Second Replicate any working solution you have now identically for next month and backup hardware.
Have a serious talk with work as to what is expensive and what you can afford. What happens if a data set is lost? How much damage\cost would that incur? I would look int AIT drives from Sony.
It sounds like you are in a frame of mind where you see everything as expensive. This will heavily influence your decision. Walk through a data disaster scenario with your backers and examine your costs in that light.
ls
I can just see this thing, composed of composite carban nanotubes a million miles long, stretching into the atmosphere.
How are they going to design it so that a bomb can't destroy the precious tether?
Its not space we haven't conquered but our violence.
ls
Especially after Florida, I'm amazed and sadenned that election fairness is not a larger issue.
It falls to the party in power when this is all put together to take the greatest risk. If they are sure this is going to work they should be inviting criticism and showing how they are addressing problems.
I may be wrong but I don't see much time devoted to reassurances with pro-active action.
Someone should ask Bush now if he will accept a 'tainted' victory should one occur. Get a clear point at which recount & repair methods will be taken.
Claims that the Bush Brigade is going to fix another election are too credible without a visable effort to create transparency, by the government in power.
ls
If Microsoft wishes they could distribute Linux's programs they should include a distro with every version of windows. I'm sure they could negotiate a very affordable price for wine and any other software.
People might still be willing to use their software especially since they seem so sure its intrinsically better. The could also distribute all the linux goodness they want.
I can appreciate your point but I think challenges we face right now like patent law demand my meager $$$. I'm pleased to think your's are going to the museum then...
ls