Open source models are usually largely based on support. When you buy Linux from a commercial vendor your are presumabley buying something that they have put together well and know inside and out, putting them in a position to provide you with excellent support.
I don't see companies such as Redhat on the road to destruction. In fact the cheaper distros may be because they cannot compete with what is free. Of course it depends on which market. OEM Linux has to be cheap for the home user and mass desktop roll-outs but as for support you get what you pay for and in the end you pay for what you don't get.
What's interesting in the mindset of people that where Communists in their teenage years but decided to become entreprenuers in their twenties.
I believe that you can start a company and operate it to acheive some of the outcomes of "utopian communism" and to bring about progress and development of the relations of production and exchange by competing against the "bad" companies that are so prominent under the mixed econonmy that people see as capitalism.
That's actually an interesting point. If "you have already seen all the porn on the internet" then what difference has that made to your use of memory?
I think the issue is that Blue LEDs used to be really expensive compared to the others.
In Zone 3 (laser combat) there was 3 teams (red, yellow and green) but not blue becase the LED's very more expensive. So maybe in the years since it has become much cheaper to make them and people have started using them.
Well that article was published in Greenleft which is the print media of an Aussie Trotskiest group that broke away form the 4th international in the 70's some time.
I recall one of Steve Jobs' big failures. He created an "ultimate remote control" that did everything
but get your beer for you. It was a massive failure. Why? Too complicated. People didn't want an infinitely programmable remote control
No it was the lack of beer fetching feature that caused it to fail or else I'd be pressing that button right now! (:
802.16e shows it's beautiful face. When people can talk, exchange data, surf the web from anywhere for either free or cheap then it will be a very great day and society will change a great deal.
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I don't see companies such as Redhat on the road to destruction. In fact the cheaper distros may be because they cannot compete with what is free. Of course it depends on which market. OEM Linux has to be cheap for the home user and mass desktop roll-outs but as for support you get what you pay for and in the end you pay for what you don't get.
I believe that you can start a company and operate it to acheive some of the outcomes of "utopian communism" and to bring about progress and development of the relations of production and exchange by competing against the "bad" companies that are so prominent under the mixed econonmy that people see as capitalism.
That's actually an interesting point. If "you have already seen all the porn on the internet" then what difference has that made to your use of memory?
In Zone 3 (laser combat) there was 3 teams (red, yellow and green) but not blue becase the LED's very more expensive. So maybe in the years since it has become much cheaper to make them and people have started using them.
No it was the lack of beer fetching feature that caused it to fail or else I'd be pressing that button right now! (:
Careful there or Ximian will have nothing to be inspired by.
Slashdot has feelings? Next I am expected to give her flowers, say nice things and nibble her ear...
Everyone and their Dog is getting +5's. This is getting out of control and I can't figure out where to use mine...
Mod me appropiately.