The point you are missing is that freedom is just as important to a corporation as it's to a human being. Corporations don't like being locked in to a vendor, they will put up with it if they don't have an alternative but as soon as an alternative comes along they will jump on it.
Linux is almost ready to invade corporate America. My prediction is that 2005 will be year that corporation adoption of linux will explode. The main driving force behind that will be the desire for freedom. Freedom to upgrade when you want, freedom to choose your hardware from many different vendors and freedom to switch support contracts.
Munich was the watershed event. They chose linux even though it cost them more money because it gave them greater freedom.
Who goes to forbes for unbiased information and news anyway?
The Idea that forbes would stay neutral in the war of corporations against open source is just silly. Forbes sees it's calling as the advancement of capitalism as it defines it (in a nutshell they define capitalism as the republican party platform).
No not at all. It's totally legitemate to question the judgement of a corporation when the top management shows itself to be inept risk assessors.
One of the most crucial jobs of a CEO or a board is to properly manage risks to the company. This CEO has shown himself to be incapable of recognizing when something is a risk and when it's not. By simply caving in to an empty threat he has demonstrated that he is completely unaware of the issues around this claim of IP ownership by SCO.
It's clear to any observer that this company is being run by inept management. There is no reason to continue to support them whatsoever.
Let's say you are a plumber. Let's also presume that you make 40K a year and are 40 years old (just to pick some numbers out of the air).
You just lost both of your legs. The hospital costs were are probably more then 30K right? You lost 15 years of income at 40K a year right? How much is that? That's 600K of lost income.
Don't you also think that person should be compensated a little for their pain and suffering?
At a minimum you owe this guy 600 to 700 grand and that's before any concept of punishment comes into play.
You seriously expect me to believe that a person with an infection can't be cured in an American hospital. That the poor doctors just can't cope with an infection. They have to stand by helplessly while an infection destroys a person's legs.
Many people in the US don't have healthcare per-se. They wait till they are so sick they have to go to the emergency room because the emergency room is not allowed to kick them out. Afterwards they have to declare bankrupcy.
I think this is actually a bad idea. I like the fact in linux or freebsd all the config files for all programs are in/etc or/usr/local/etc. This allows me to check the/etc into cvs and be able to revert my system into a known good state.
I also like the convention of putting all data in/var or/home which most linux distros do. This means I can devise backup strategies which allow me to back up the files in those directories more often then the files in/bin or/sbin.
Finally I like being able to set immutable flag on the entire/sbin directory and checking for permissions by doing a simple ls -la.
Instead of putting everything into one directory they should have followed the example of encap
"Has it ever occured to you that this might not be "their negligence" or "their fault"? That sometimes shit just happens?"
Really? Shit just happens? You go into the hospital without an infection and lose both of your legs and perhaps your life because shit just happens? What are the chances of that?
I'll put it another way. What is more likely? Shit just happened and guy just got on infection because some germs randomly floating in the air landed on both of the guys legs. Or maybe some doctor did not disinfect his hands or utensils properly? Which is more likely?
Even worse once the "shit just happened" not one doctor recognized or treated the infection till it got so bad that they had to cut his legs off.
Ok then. Let's not sue the doctors. Lets put them in jail instead. That would be acceptable to me. That way the hospital still has their money and doctors are not hurting other people.
Is that acceptable to you? Or are you seriously proposing that nobody be held responsible fo rtheir actions?
BTW the purpose of suing is not to get his legs back. It's to make up for lost income and pain for the rest of your life. We put people to death in this country not because anybody believes that it will resurrect the murder victim or un-rape a woman but because we believe that people who commit crimes should be punished.
"How can you blame the doctor for this? The hospital and its procedures are usually to blame for these kinds of infections"
I blame both. The hospital for having sloppy procedures and the doctors for not caring enough about the patient to do the right thing. I also blame the doctors for not acting soon enough to prevent a double amputation.
BTW this had nothing to do with following directions. The man was in the hospital being (supposedly) tended to by professionals.
"It's also possible that doctors will just stop practicing medicine because of people with a chip on their shoulder like yours. "
Great. Fantastic. That would be an acceptable outcome. They should go into another field where they won't ruin peoples lives.
"But unless you know EXACTLY where the infection came from and how, you have to consider it just as likely that this guy already had the infection when he came into the hospital, and it got much worse because his body could no longer fight it off."
Yea right. Other then a weak heart there was nothing wrong with him. Even if he had an infection it was the job of the doctors to detect it and certainly take care of it before it got so bad they had to cut both of his legs off.
What should happen to doctors who kill patients or ruin their lives? What should happen to a doctor who amputated the wrong leg?
I know a guy who had a heart attack. They rushed him to the hospital and while there he got a staph infection. Both of his legs had to be amputated. He might not live to the end of the year acccording to the doctors who infected him.
What should happen to this hospital and doctors who were so negligent that their carelessness cost a guy both of his legs and maybe his life.
I hope to hell some lawyer becomes a multi millionaire because he took that hospital to the cleaners. I also hope that the doctors all lose their license and live a life of abject poverty and suffering. They deserve it.
Permanence is why. The grandparents will be around no matter what. In normal circumstances kids will grow up around their grandparents and have fond memories of them once they are gone. Babysitters will come and go. You may go through several every year sometimes. The kids then start not to trust adults and to form bonds with them because they know adults come and go. This is actually quite harmful to kids.
Like I said it all depends on who you are. If you are a black person who holds up a 7-11 you go to jail. If you are Ken Lay and know the president personally you get to steal all you want and don't go to jail.
First of all unethical behacior is accepted and presumed in a business whereas it's not in a human being.
Also businesses have lots of tricks to shield the people who make sleazy decisions from the law. If you steal you go to jail, if your business steals they aw worse they pay a fraction of what they stole in fines and go on.
"just as" implies some sort of equavalence. That's simply no the case. linux is more secure period. It's not 100% secure but it's more secure then windows.
Hope springs eternal but I would not hold my breath.
Novell has always had fantastic products. Ask anybody who was/is a netware admin and I bet you can't get them to shut up about how great the products were. Same with zenworks or NSD/eDirectory.
The problem is that Novell does not know how to sell. They have no juice with the magazines, they have no PR power. They can't create buzz and excitement about their products.
Maybe things have changed over there, I certainly hope so, but I am not holding my breath.
I don't see anything wrong with that. I figure they can drive the adoption of linux once they get all the kinks out of integrating edirectory and zenworks and linux.
Combine that with groupwise and you have a compelling enterprise story to tell. Basically you can do anything AD/sql server/windows/exchange/outlook can but cheaper and better.
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You know what's funny though. MS is still spreading that "you can sue anybody if your linux breaks" FUD.
I guess you can't sue MS either.
So will you dump them as a vendor and choose somebody else?
I thought not.
The point you are missing is that freedom is just as important to a corporation as it's to a human being. Corporations don't like being locked in to a vendor, they will put up with it if they don't have an alternative but as soon as an alternative comes along they will jump on it.
Linux is almost ready to invade corporate America. My prediction is that 2005 will be year that corporation adoption of linux will explode. The main driving force behind that will be the desire for freedom. Freedom to upgrade when you want, freedom to choose your hardware from many different vendors and freedom to switch support contracts.
Munich was the watershed event. They chose linux even though it cost them more money because it gave them greater freedom.
Who goes to forbes for unbiased information and news anyway?
The Idea that forbes would stay neutral in the war of corporations against open source is just silly. Forbes sees it's calling as the advancement of capitalism as it defines it (in a nutshell they define capitalism as the republican party platform).
Take a log of all the time you wasted waiting for windows to reboot and send the bill to MS.
"is MS evil?
sure.
is $45 too much to pay for an OS?
no way."
It is if you are furthering the cause of evil.
No raindrop may be responsible for the flood but every drop does it's part.
So yes. Paying $45.00 to further evil in the world is too much to pay.
No not at all. It's totally legitemate to question the judgement of a corporation when the top management shows itself to be inept risk assessors.
One of the most crucial jobs of a CEO or a board is to properly manage risks to the company. This CEO has shown himself to be incapable of recognizing when something is a risk and when it's not. By simply caving in to an empty threat he has demonstrated that he is completely unaware of the issues around this claim of IP ownership by SCO.
It's clear to any observer that this company is being run by inept management. There is no reason to continue to support them whatsoever.
He is top level office in an American Corporation. I really doubt he is that different then any other CEO.
Daryl believes that the football players talk about him in the huddle during the superbowl.
Let's say you are a plumber. Let's also presume that you make 40K a year and are 40 years old (just to pick some numbers out of the air).
You just lost both of your legs. The hospital costs were are probably more then 30K right? You lost 15 years of income at 40K a year right? How much is that? That's 600K of lost income.
Don't you also think that person should be compensated a little for their pain and suffering?
At a minimum you owe this guy 600 to 700 grand and that's before any concept of punishment comes into play.
You seriously expect me to believe that a person with an infection can't be cured in an American hospital. That the poor doctors just can't cope with an infection. They have to stand by helplessly while an infection destroys a person's legs.
Many people in the US don't have healthcare per-se. They wait till they are so sick they have to go to the emergency room because the emergency room is not allowed to kick them out. Afterwards they have to declare bankrupcy.
Do you know what the range on the IR is? I need it to go far so I am figuring I might need to make my own cable.
I think this is actually a bad idea. I like the fact in linux or freebsd all the config files for all programs are in /etc or /usr/local/etc. This allows me to check the /etc into cvs and be able to revert my system into a known good state.
/var or /home which most linux distros do. This means I can devise backup strategies which allow me to back up the files in those directories more often then the files in /bin or /sbin.
/sbin directory and checking for permissions by doing a simple ls -la.
I also like the convention of putting all data in
Finally I like being able to set immutable flag on the entire
Instead of putting everything into one directory they should have followed the example of encap
"Has it ever occured to you that this might not be "their negligence" or "their fault"? That sometimes shit just happens?"
Really? Shit just happens? You go into the hospital without an infection and lose both of your legs and perhaps your life because shit just happens? What are the chances of that?
I'll put it another way. What is more likely? Shit just happened and guy just got on infection because some germs randomly floating in the air landed on both of the guys legs. Or maybe some doctor did not disinfect his hands or utensils properly? Which is more likely?
Even worse once the "shit just happened" not one doctor recognized or treated the infection till it got so bad that they had to cut his legs off.
Shit just happened indeed.
Ok then. Let's not sue the doctors. Lets put them in jail instead. That would be acceptable to me. That way the hospital still has their money and doctors are not hurting other people.
Is that acceptable to you? Or are you seriously proposing that nobody be held responsible fo rtheir actions?
BTW the purpose of suing is not to get his legs back. It's to make up for lost income and pain for the rest of your life. We put people to death in this country not because anybody believes that it will resurrect the murder victim or un-rape a woman but because we believe that people who commit crimes should be punished.
"How can you blame the doctor for this? The hospital and its procedures are usually to blame for these kinds of infections"
I blame both. The hospital for having sloppy procedures and the doctors for not caring enough about the patient to do the right thing. I also blame the doctors for not acting soon enough to prevent a double amputation.
BTW this had nothing to do with following directions. The man was in the hospital being (supposedly) tended to by professionals.
"It's also possible that doctors will just stop practicing medicine because of people with a chip on their shoulder like yours. "
Great. Fantastic. That would be an acceptable outcome. They should go into another field where they won't ruin peoples lives.
"But unless you know EXACTLY where the infection came from and how, you have to consider it just as likely that this guy already had the infection when he came into the hospital, and it got much worse because his body could no longer fight it off."
Yea right. Other then a weak heart there was nothing wrong with him. Even if he had an infection it was the job of the doctors to detect it and certainly take care of it before it got so bad they had to cut both of his legs off.
What should happen to doctors who kill patients or ruin their lives? What should happen to a doctor who amputated the wrong leg?
I know a guy who had a heart attack. They rushed him to the hospital and while there he got a staph infection. Both of his legs had to be amputated. He might not live to the end of the year acccording to the doctors who infected him.
What should happen to this hospital and doctors who were so negligent that their carelessness cost a guy both of his legs and maybe his life.
I hope to hell some lawyer becomes a multi millionaire because he took that hospital to the cleaners. I also hope that the doctors all lose their license and live a life of abject poverty and suffering. They deserve it.
" why?"
Permanence is why. The grandparents will be around no matter what. In normal circumstances kids will grow up around their grandparents and have fond memories of them once they are gone. Babysitters will come and go. You may go through several every year sometimes. The kids then start not to trust adults and to form bonds with them because they know adults come and go. This is actually quite harmful to kids.
Like I said it all depends on who you are. If you are a black person who holds up a 7-11 you go to jail. If you are Ken Lay and know the president personally you get to steal all you want and don't go to jail.
Best Justice system money can buy.
It's great that you have the grandparents around. That's the way it should be. Children should be raised by their family not strangers.
"And that's different from normal people how? "
First of all unethical behacior is accepted and presumed in a business whereas it's not in a human being.
Also businesses have lots of tricks to shield the people who make sleazy decisions from the law. If you steal you go to jail, if your business steals they aw worse they pay a fraction of what they stole in fines and go on.
"just as" implies some sort of equavalence. That's simply no the case. linux is more secure period. It's not 100% secure but it's more secure then windows.
Hope springs eternal but I would not hold my breath.
Novell has always had fantastic products. Ask anybody who was/is a netware admin and I bet you can't get them to shut up about how great the products were. Same with zenworks or NSD/eDirectory.
The problem is that Novell does not know how to sell. They have no juice with the magazines, they have no PR power. They can't create buzz and excitement about their products.
Maybe things have changed over there, I certainly hope so, but I am not holding my breath.
I don't see anything wrong with that. I figure they can drive the adoption of linux once they get all the kinks out of integrating edirectory and zenworks and linux.
Combine that with groupwise and you have a compelling enterprise story to tell. Basically you can do anything AD/sql server/windows/exchange/outlook can but cheaper and better.