Along the same lines... we would set a low TTL on the domain, connect to IRC, then change the reverse lookup to something like cert.org's IP, and troll away. Fun times.
Please, MS gave the cow away. Research, followed by new product development, has not resulted in new markets, but has instead been absorbed (or summarily copied and destroyed) into the MS business model. Granted, they've managed to actually license some of these independently of windows, but any market of significance has been absorbed as a feature of windows. The next victim is the AV market.
For the IT industry (and thus the world) to reap the benefits of capitalism, it first must see a free market. UNIX vendors back in the day got bitchslapped with the SUS and POSIX for their refusal to play nice with each other, and that's what it will come to again. Though, hopefully this time it won't be the government, but instead an educated market that's been let in on the big secret...
Software matures. What happens when it's all written? What happens when MS buys someone's self-programming technology? Means to an end, my friend. What's our end goal? Well, if we buy all this free-market capitalism crap, it's FREEDOM, not profit.
One day we will all thank GNU/Linux not for all the open source software we have, but rather for the wealth of ideas formalized in open standards and, of course, a FREE MARKET!
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The book Solaris was also the inspiration for the band Failure's final album, Fantastic Planet. It's worth a listen.
Umm, this all started when MS bought a license from SCO.
Along the same lines... we would set a low TTL on the domain, connect to IRC, then change the reverse lookup to something like cert.org's IP, and troll away. Fun times.
It is your duty as an American citizen to SPEND anything you can, especially in this New world. George Bush says so.
Anyway, none of this really even matters. Jesus will be back soon.
Please, MS gave the cow away. Research, followed by new product development, has not resulted in new markets, but has instead been absorbed (or summarily copied and destroyed) into the MS business model. Granted, they've managed to actually license some of these independently of windows, but any market of significance has been absorbed as a feature of windows. The next victim is the AV market.
For the IT industry (and thus the world) to reap the benefits of capitalism, it first must see a free market. UNIX vendors back in the day got bitchslapped with the SUS and POSIX for their refusal to play nice with each other, and that's what it will come to again. Though, hopefully this time it won't be the government, but instead an educated market that's been let in on the big secret...
Software matures. What happens when it's all written? What happens when MS buys someone's self-programming technology? Means to an end, my friend. What's our end goal? Well, if we buy all this free-market capitalism crap, it's FREEDOM, not profit.
One day we will all thank GNU/Linux not for all the open source software we have, but rather for the wealth of ideas formalized in open standards and, of course, a FREE MARKET!
Perhaps the winning bidder?