You need to find something more worthy of your anger, like a social concern or something like that. Expending energy in hating corporations never got anyone anything.
Yes, yes. Oh yes. This is absolutely impossible, and therefore must be another evil fabrication by Microsoft. Yes. Your stats are better than my stats, as long as you see what you want to see. Yes.
PHB buying off-the-shelf software (usually made in US)
And PHB using off-the-sourceforge software to eliminate programmer jobs is an impossibility, I assume? For example, picking up phpBB or Plone or some other FOSS CMS to run their website?
BTW, how is the software being made in the US relevant here?
Just like Wikipedia has no problem with anything that is critical of open source, free software, RMS or the spotted owl.
Kinda like Wikipedia contains absolutely no articles that are slanted and POV'ed against Microsoft and the United States (to use just two examples).
The Wikipedia technorati "overlords" do the song and dance of requiring "NPOV" while linking to their own definitions of relevant terms and even use their absolutely ridiculous conflict resolution "system" that generates more chuckles than results, but your average contested article continues to live in never-ending pointless revert wars that have the great effect of displaying factually wrong information when you happen to load them at any given time of day.
I'll take an effectively moderated encyclopedia over the useless anarchist hippie fest that is Wikipedia any day.
This is absolutely hilarious. Actually most threads on this article are. If this were a Microsoft product everyone and their mother would be rushing down the ramparts yelling how worthless this piece of shit is (based on something that is admittedly as dumb as this) and how their aunt/friend/daddy/cat happened to look in the control panel and had a heart attack, ergo "M$" is "evil" and stupid and can't code to save their lives.
But this is Mozilla, so why don't we just Delete the registry key if you really care that much? Most people are too busy USING their computer to worry about what little glitches are in a dialog in control panel that they never use. Yes.
Interesting, I didn't see that on the Bashmork front page, along with the "OMFG TEH IE HAS TEH NEW VULNENRABINILITIE LOLOLOLOL!!!1!" submission next to the hysterical Gates borg icon.
Ahhh, but this is Mozilla. They can keep vulns "private" for three years, ship spyware with Firefox, wipe out user's hard drives and still do no harm. Of course.
Never, because this was not proactive. And I suspect we'll be hearing about this a lot more if enough people can't be bothered to update their browsers or turned off notifications.
The wonders of shipping an app that's used by more than 15 people.
I can't help it if you feel insulted when I point out a fallacy with one of the "commandments" that help constitute the argument against propietary software. Especially one that people around here like to repeat as if it were some kind of absolute, proven truth.
Half-truths, delusion and FUD will get you nowhere, fast. We could be learning from Microsoft, but instead we keep making the same mistakes.
When Slashdot reported (with their hysterical headlines and bullshit "editorial" commentary) about IE "vulnerabilities" that involved the user agreeing to something or clicking on something or "visiting a malicious website" (par for the course in Microsoft's vuln reports) the slashbots laughed themselves to tears and continued the "M$ is teh suxx0rz" mantra unabashed.
Now that we're seeing what happens when the same millions of clueless people run a safer browser, then the fault lies squarely on said users instead of the people who put it out.
Aside from the kook in the Palomino jacket, it's a great insight into Japanese culture. It makes you kewl.
For example, while at the pub chugging a few pints and talking about how much Chelsea suxx0rz this year, exult "nomimasen deshita, you old fruit!" as if you were saying "you dumbass, that wanker goalie should be shot". It has great effect on the women as well. Engrish is "teh sexy", as they say.
No need to thank me now, I gotta get back to work.
That argument breaks down anyway when I add new hardware to my OEM-built box. It's true that most users don't build their boxes, but they do add hardware to them - hardware that requires drivers.
Here we get into how complicated it is to install software in Linux, which while not directly relevant to the article, does tie into installing drivers for new hardware, which in Windows is a stupid-proof task.
True, many of us can build driver sources and type 'emerge' or 'rpm' or whatever. But frankly, the only good implementation of a package system GUI I've seen is Linspire's. Everyone else is still living in the dark ages.
For the "savvy user" and OEM builder, the Linux driver "problem" isn't the problem it was.
Because we all know that the majority of computer users are "savvy".
I can attest to that actually - these "You visit illegal websites" messages that SpamAssasin has been dumping to the rate of ~50 an hour since last week must be coming into my Linux mail server from an alien civilization, not from stupid people that open ZIP attachements in messages written in bad engrish and then run the executables inside.
Quite a riposte. Not that I thought the original "how to kill Linux" column was particularly insightful, in fact it was down right dumb. Microsoft can no more kill Linux than Sun or anyone else. But c'mon. Why legitimize it with this?
This is Raskin's SF project page. He used to host a complete web site on the SF-provided home page (here) with quite a lot of articles and essays, but it's gone now. You can still see parts of it in the Way bak machine.
For all the high-flying blabber bandied about by Slashdot and everyone else about "innovation" and how Microsoft "can't innovate", the only thing most FOSS projects do is copy them. Or Apple.
The only refreshing thing I've seen on the Linux desktop lately is XFCE.
Really now, they do this for a living. They won't fix anything, unless you give them "patches", they won't do anything else except keep the boxes running or whatever it is they do. This is the one thing they should at the very least try to do well.
If they take themselves seriously enough to charge people for the extras, run ads and insert their pontificating rants into each and every submission, at least maybe they could take their jobs seriously as well.
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You need to find something more worthy of your anger, like a social concern or something like that. Expending energy in hating corporations never got anyone anything.
ROFL! Not everyone is WalMart my man. You are either being disingenuous on purpose for some weird reason, or just plain dumb.
I wonder how many people are still running 1.0 out there after being sold the "perfect browser never needs patches" line.
Yes, yes. Oh yes. This is absolutely impossible, and therefore must be another evil fabrication by Microsoft. Yes. Your stats are better than my stats, as long as you see what you want to see. Yes.
And PHB using off-the-sourceforge software to eliminate programmer jobs is an impossibility, I assume? For example, picking up phpBB or Plone or some other FOSS CMS to run their website?
BTW, how is the software being made in the US relevant here?
Service Mark.
Really? I'll believe they're an "open source company" as soon as they release the code to the SourceForge site.
Kinda like Wikipedia contains absolutely no articles that are slanted and POV'ed against Microsoft and the United States (to use just two examples).
The Wikipedia technorati "overlords" do the song and dance of requiring "NPOV" while linking to their own definitions of relevant terms and even use their absolutely ridiculous conflict resolution "system" that generates more chuckles than results, but your average contested article continues to live in never-ending pointless revert wars that have the great effect of displaying factually wrong information when you happen to load them at any given time of day.
I'll take an effectively moderated encyclopedia over the useless anarchist hippie fest that is Wikipedia any day.
As it stands now, however, this is just another "OMFG M$ IS TEH EVIL" hysterical headline from Slashdot. No more, no less.
But this is Mozilla, so why don't we just Delete the registry key if you really care that much? Most people are too busy USING their computer to worry about what little glitches are in a dialog in control panel that they never use. Yes.
Absolutely hilarious.
Ahhh, but this is Mozilla. They can keep vulns "private" for three years, ship spyware with Firefox, wipe out user's hard drives and still do no harm. Of course.
Never, because this was not proactive. And I suspect we'll be hearing about this a lot more if enough people can't be bothered to update their browsers or turned off notifications.
The wonders of shipping an app that's used by more than 15 people.
I can't help it if you feel insulted when I point out a fallacy with one of the "commandments" that help constitute the argument against propietary software. Especially one that people around here like to repeat as if it were some kind of absolute, proven truth.
Half-truths, delusion and FUD will get you nowhere, fast. We could be learning from Microsoft, but instead we keep making the same mistakes.
Now that we're seeing what happens when the same millions of clueless people run a safer browser, then the fault lies squarely on said users instead of the people who put it out.
My, how the times change.
Aside from the kook in the Palomino jacket, it's a great insight into Japanese culture. It makes you kewl.
For example, while at the pub chugging a few pints and talking about how much Chelsea suxx0rz this year, exult "nomimasen deshita, you old fruit!" as if you were saying "you dumbass, that wanker goalie should be shot". It has great effect on the women as well. Engrish is "teh sexy", as they say.
No need to thank me now, I gotta get back to work.
kaida arigato!
No, no. Use http://it.slashdot.org/ so they can appreciate the subtle graphic prowess of the open source community.
Only if you had to change the oil
Like.. uh I dunno.. reporting user-executed email attachments are vulnerabilities?
Remember these are the guys who said Windows is safer because there are more bugs that people find.
And of course this article proves that's a bogus claim.
Here we get into how complicated it is to install software in Linux, which while not directly relevant to the article, does tie into installing drivers for new hardware, which in Windows is a stupid-proof task.
True, many of us can build driver sources and type 'emerge' or 'rpm' or whatever. But frankly, the only good implementation of a package system GUI I've seen is Linspire's. Everyone else is still living in the dark ages.
Because we all know that the majority of computer users are "savvy".
I can attest to that actually - these "You visit illegal websites" messages that SpamAssasin has been dumping to the rate of ~50 an hour since last week must be coming into my Linux mail server from an alien civilization, not from stupid people that open ZIP attachements in messages written in bad engrish and then run the executables inside.
Quite a riposte. Not that I thought the original "how to kill Linux" column was particularly insightful, in fact it was down right dumb. Microsoft can no more kill Linux than Sun or anyone else. But c'mon. Why legitimize it with this?
True, thanks. I had an old bookmark. The link in the article is the redirect from that URL.
He'll be missed.
Which is not necessarily bad, except when you turn around and say "OMFG M$ IS TEH SUXX tEhY DONt INNNOvATEING!!!1!"
Thanks for making my point.
For all the high-flying blabber bandied about by Slashdot and everyone else about "innovation" and how Microsoft "can't innovate", the only thing most FOSS projects do is copy them. Or Apple.
The only refreshing thing I've seen on the Linux desktop lately is XFCE.
If they take themselves seriously enough to charge people for the extras, run ads and insert their pontificating rants into each and every submission, at least maybe they could take their jobs seriously as well.