Apple charges a very very large markup on their hardware, I don't think the margin on their software would be nearly as high.
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Microsoft? World's richest guy as the owner?
Software has a fixed cost of creation. You make your money in volume!
Beyond that, one of the advantages of them controlling hardware and software is the fact that they can do more rigorous quality control, because they KNOW the configuration your machine will be running. This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Agreed... but it would be entirely possible to only provide support for "approved" hardware.
Should we spend our lives look over our collective shoulders or should we balance our need (and desire) for technically advanced Stuff (like space shuttles, cheap nuclear power and really cheap CPUs) with our ability to deal with the consequences?
If MS starts removing components that have the potential to be exploited by a virus, does that mean that IE has be removed too?;)
I guess the next version of Windows will be Dos!
In The Olden Days, you could install a Linux disto without 10,000 daemons running... ah, those were the days... Linux was noticably faster than Windows out of the box!;)
When everybody sees that MS-Linux 2.0 is shit just download a FREE copy of any other better linux from the internet...
The shops with the technical expertise to do this have already done so. The target market for MS-Linux would be shops that aren't Linux saavy. They need a simple, drop in distro. And I know that ~you~ think these distros already exist, but the lack of Linux market penetration says otherwise. Technical issues that you and I would take for granted are large hurdles to someone whose never been off of a MS OS.
Don't get me wrong... I'll be using KUbuntu myself:) but there are lots of straight MS shops out there...
A Linux distro is not a single program. It's thousands of programs, some GPL, some not. MS can write (or rewrite) a few core networking applications. Even if they release the changes required to the included GPL libraries, they can still hold the tool itself back.
Step two: Release MS-Linux. It will have lots of features that work really well with other MS servers.
Step three: Release MS-Linux 2.0 that contains a few improvements for networking and performance. Oh, by the way, these improvements are inpcompatible with the old open source versions.
Done. MS-Linux is now being sold into MS shops as a low cost server solution, but using enough "improved" technology that using a "free, unsupported" Linux like Debian will be difficult or impossible.
The real question will be how many Linux vendors will be demonized when they pay MS big bucks to get the improvements into their version of Linux.
I recently heard Dave Thomas (of PragProg.com, not of Wendy's) speak. As part of the talk he discussed working on Ruby, an open source language whose founder speaks Japanese. Matz (the founder) does speak English as well, but a very large segment of the development community don't speak English. And despite his best efforts, Dave couldn't learn Japanese.
So how did they communicate? Via unit tests. If Dave commits code that breaks something, he gets a unit test in the mail. When the test works again, he knows that he's fixed the problem.
With one hardcore nerd (yes, that's YOU) recording ~everything~ that's aired, you have a killer app. You can now buy your own T1 and resell internet ~and~ TV service to your neighbors!
Before you trot out all your legal objections, just let me say that you now have a legitimate reason to talk with the cute girl three doors over you've never met.
Yeah, but I can ~see~ the missing angle brackets! And with proper indentation, matching in XML elements is trivial...
Of course, most people I know who hate XML write their XML on a VERY long lines, with lots of elements jammed in together, and then they complain that it's hard to read.
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Microsoft? World's richest guy as the owner?
Software has a fixed cost of creation. You make your money in volume!
Beyond that, one of the advantages of them controlling hardware and software is the fact that they can do more rigorous quality control, because they KNOW the configuration your machine will be running. This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Agreed... but it would be entirely possible to only provide support for "approved" hardware.
Oh wait, we have money now! heh heh heh...
That's your argument??
Should we spend our lives look over our collective shoulders or should we balance our need (and desire) for technically advanced Stuff (like space shuttles, cheap nuclear power and really cheap CPUs) with our ability to deal with the consequences?
If MS starts removing components that have the potential to be exploited by a virus, does that mean that IE has be removed too? ;)
I guess the next version of Windows will be Dos!
$300 for a really cool triple core Linux box (post hacking, of course)! That's COOL!
Here's the photo: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
This is from the company who sent limos to pick up Borland's developers???
In The Olden Days, you could install a Linux disto without 10,000 daemons running... ah, those were the days... Linux was noticably faster than Windows out of the box! ;)
The shops with the technical expertise to do this have already done so. The target market for MS-Linux would be shops that aren't Linux saavy. They need a simple, drop in distro. And I know that ~you~ think these distros already exist, but the lack of Linux market penetration says otherwise. Technical issues that you and I would take for granted are large hurdles to someone whose never been off of a MS OS.
Don't get me wrong... I'll be using KUbuntu myself :) but there are lots of straight MS shops out there...
A Linux distro is not a single program. It's thousands of programs, some GPL, some not. MS can write (or rewrite) a few core networking applications. Even if they release the changes required to the included GPL libraries, they can still hold the tool itself back.
Quicken
Step two: Release MS-Linux. It will have lots of features that work really well with other MS servers.
Step three: Release MS-Linux 2.0 that contains a few improvements for networking and performance. Oh, by the way, these improvements are inpcompatible with the old open source versions.
Done. MS-Linux is now being sold into MS shops as a low cost server solution, but using enough "improved" technology that using a "free, unsupported" Linux like Debian will be difficult or impossible.
The real question will be how many Linux vendors will be demonized when they pay MS big bucks to get the improvements into their version of Linux.
So how did they communicate? Via unit tests. If Dave commits code that breaks something, he gets a unit test in the mail. When the test works again, he knows that he's fixed the problem.
Pretty interesting solution!
Before you trot out all your legal objections, just let me say that you now have a legitimate reason to talk with the cute girl three doors over you've never met.
Is this sort of situation fodder for the pending lawsuits or just a reflection of consumer demand (or the lack thereof)?
Let me instead ask you... do you work with Java code? If so, how do you build your projects?
Do you let your IDE do all the work? Or does your company IT department handle all compiles? Or...?
Then I respectfully submit that you have very little experience JCL or Ant (or both).
There are examples of how to use every task. It's really pretty easy once you get started.
Of course, most people I know who hate XML write their XML on a VERY long lines, with lots of elements jammed in together, and then they complain that it's hard to read.
I've fuond enough samples in the bundled set of Ant docs that I only have to customize Ant scripts, not create them.
Looks like ~not~ open sourcing Java is fragmenting the Java language after all!
Shockings will continue until morale improves!
Surfing the web is ~not~ always wasted time.
They supposedly have the largest continuous integration build farm in the world
We do. :)
http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/2005/06/23/
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Enterprise was on Friday night, up against Stargate! It was killed by a better show... it might have had a chance on another night.