We have 2 servers running mandrake corporate server in a hosting environment.
We modified the apache code and recompiled apache to change the suexec
default root. Later we had problems with apache displaying code on some pages
instead of the rendered page. To make a long story short. We called Mandrake
support and even though we told them that we modified the Apache source they
still helped us. We sent them the code snippet that we modified and they
determined that it was not the source of the problem. It turned out to be
a mime types issue with apache mod_mime and they helped us fix the problem.
So I say in my experience I still get help with modified system.
So i guess it just depends on your vendor.
Worms don't infect computers they infect operating systems.
when will people ever realize this? The title should be "worm infects windows" or "worm infects Linux or OSX" or whatever. So people, wake up!!!!
The state goverment in Alabama has decided that vibrators are illegal( yep female toys) It is a FELONY if you get caught with one in Alabama. Now tell me how much faith do you have in your goverment ? After all if you get caught with any sex toys in Alabama you are commiting a felony. But posessing one is a personal and private matter to women. But the trusty Alabama state goverment that you have so much faith in doesn't see it that way.
We used the original Netscape Directory server for user authentication of 1700 users worldwide for many years on 2 sun netra 333mhz boxes. The Netscape code back then was bulletproof. If that code is now free then all hell has broken loose and its only a matter of time before OSS has a truly free, truly robust all purpose directory server.
When will people ever learn. Ok now lets think for a minute. Apple can use Intel or AMD. Intel is able to guarantee more volume than AMD at the moment. This will change when AMDs new fab comes online this year. Intel also promised Apple a taste of the ol' MDF pie. MDF (Market Development Funds) as they like to call it helps Apple compete better with the likes of Dell in this space. MDF also guarantees that Apple will use only Intel CPUs. Now unless our heads have been buried under rocks for a while we all know that AMD technology is superior to Intel in sevral ways at this point. But Apple chose the inferior technology because Intel promised it massive $$$ kickbacks. Intel basically "buys" its customers. This is not rocket science folks. My prediction. After the move to x86 is stabilized Apple will then be free to use AMD as a tool to get better deals from Intel as Dell currently does. Due to their volumes they will not be able to get the prices that Dell gets so they will unlike Dell introduce a line of AMD cpus in the future. For two reasons. To have the MAC daddy of all X86 PCs and to stick it to Intel.
You are incorrect sir by stating that a hosting company cannot use the word linux in their promotional materials just put the little (r) beside the word linux like so Linux(r). Just like you have to do with BSD UNIX(r) If you are a hosting company or any other company you can still state we use Debian Linux(r) or Novell(r) Netware(tm). That is besides the point. What you cannot do sir is take say a BSD distribution and call it Linux. or Use the word Linux as a PRODUCT NAME or COMPANY NAME. How does this affect your company sir? do you manufacture products called Linux? Does your company have the term Linux in its name? If so then I should inform you that switching to BSD will not help your situation as it costs a whole lot more to License the UNIX(r) trademark than the Linux trademark. You don't think the BSD folks would be amused if someone came along
and took Debian Linux and marketed it as Debian BSD UNIX(r) do you? So what is the differnce here? it only applies to companies that market products based on the name Linux. So are you going to quit using google too? They will charge your company a whole lot more than $5000max if it tried to setup a seach engine called "google for kids" I dont even think they would allow it. What about M$ and Lindows ? Did you forget about that ? Lindows was not a trademark of M$ when they got dragged through the mud. Making critical OS/Platform migration decisions while wallowing about in complete ignorance can adversly affect your company. One would suggest you read up on trademarks a little bit more before making anymore critcal business decisions.
HYPERTHETICAL** This is a what would be possible if Linus fails to register and protect the trademark linux. Lets just say Linux was never registered as a trademark. This is they type of event that can happen.
This is not a real letter just Hyperthetical.
From: Linus Torvalds.
To: The Community
I regret to have to inform all of you that due to my failure to register the trademark Linux, A company called The SCO Group has registered the trademark and is now demanding that we cease and desist using the word Linux. They have sent out letters to several companies demanding 30% of all revenues. It is going to cost millions of dollars to defend this in court and I dont have that cash,
It costs several hundred thousand dollars to register and prove that I am protecting that trademark and I dont have that cash either, and I dont want to burden the community with those expenses, Also I'm a coder not a lawyer and would rather just not be bothered with all of that lawyer stuff. It would take teams of people and lawyers to enforce a worldwide trademark and I just dont have the time nor funds for that. Besides in the spririt of true freedom I am going to change the name from Linux to a new name the community decides. In the spirit of futher freedom once we decide on a new name I will also refuse to register the trademark and protect that new name. So even SCO will be free to trademark our new name on their behalf at their free will. And be free to make new demands on our new name. Now that is true freedom. Have a nice day.
I dont think you understand. You do not have to pay to use Linux this does not affect us. Are u manufacturing products with linux in the name of that product? IF not why does this even bother you.
We still can go download Debian and use it and copy it to our hearts content. So how does this affect you? They are not asking us to pay anything. Do you think Google will let you use their name in the name of your product of company for free ? So I can create a search engine and call it "a better google" and thats ok? Do you even think google will let me pay them a measly $200-$5000 for a the use of the name google in my product "a better google" or "super google" or "google for kids" or anything like that? Do you think the BSD people will let me
produce a product based on debian Linux and call it Debian BSD UNIX? I dont think they would be too amused for calling a linux product BSD. This is the crap that they have to protect against. What if I come along and tradmark the NAME Linux and demand that Linus and everybody pay me to use the name because he failed to do it ? what would u say then. Also the OS is free the name is not. the code is free so u can take the code and fork it and call it what ever you like. Just be sure to protect the new name u give it so that SCO cant come along and take you new name from you.
The reason is because someone else trademarked the name Linux and was beginning to make impossible demands. If he doesn't trademark the name then SCO can trademark the name and demand that You pay a whole lot more that $200-$5000. So he was forced to file the trademarks. When u file trademarks u need lawyers and u also have to PROVE to the trademark office that u are ACTIVELY PROTECTING that trademark or LOSE IT. This costs a lot of money lots and lots and lots. So they have to do this or lose the trademark. It has nothing to do with the source code. It is all about keeping SCO and other morons from trademarking the name themselves. So go head and pay the $699 to use that SCO garbage. I will continue to use debian and mandrake for free because as a user/consultant/retailer this does not affect me on bit. My company name does not have Linux in it nor do i manufacture anything with the name Linux in it. No go and play with your openserver or whatever they call it these days.
Ok so we fork the kernel and give it a new name and remove all references to the word Linux. Lets callit Newix. We say its free to everyone. So free that we do not need to trademark it or protect the trademark thats true freedom right ? So what happens when Ken thompson comes along and says hmmmm "they are using this free thing called newix. I can generate some reveues from it." "I can really monetize this asset" So ken Thomson trademarks our new name newix and sends a letter to us and everybody else telling us we have to pay to use the name because now newix is his trademark. Well we refused to protect the trademark so now what. He registerd the newix trademark it is now his so we have to pay up or fork again right? so is that the sprit? just keep forking the code when someone hijacks our name and trademarks it because we failed to trademark it and protect it in the name of "freedom"? That seems really wise doesn't it ?
Let me simplyfy this for you. If you don't trademark your name then I can come along and trademark it then force everyone to pay me $$$$$$$ to use it correct ? Now it cost $$$ maintain trademarks correct? You lose your tradmarks if you don't protect them correct? It costs $$$ to protect them right ? So Redhat Linux makes millions of dollars on the name Linux. So lets say Linus does not maintain and protect the trademark and I come along and register the trademark Linux(r) And force your company, RedHat etc to pay me 30% of all company revenues via expensive lawsuits that you or Redhat now have to defend against. Tell me. What would be cheaper for Redhat ?
$5000? or the huddreds of thousands in legal fees to defend against this type of garbage.
This is what they are trying to prevent. Some moron already tried this and it cost a lot of $$$ to get it fixed. They are protecting you from some 'not very nice' people out there. Either Linux ignores the trademark or he protects it. It costs a lot to do this and lawyers and trademarks are not cheap. You pay $5000 and let them worry about defending the name linux instead of you worrying about that. You get to go on and run your business. so switching to a competing product would be cutting of your nose to spite your face. I don't believe that action would be or particularly pleasant for that matter. Have a nice day.
Please understand that it costs hundred of thousands of dollars in legal fees to simply maintain and protect the trademark and they have to show that they are protecting that trademark or lose it. They are basically forced to do this. Someone already tried to hijack the trademark and force everyone to PAY TO USE Linux. If they dont do it then someone else will simply hijack it. If you make a billion dollars using Linux in the NAME of your product what is $5000? The money has to come from somewhere to pay for this. As a company that profits from the WORD Linux in your comany name would you rather be spending a lot more money defending yourself from rogue lawsuits by unscrewpulous characters who hijacked the linux name or just pay the $200-$5000 and let them worry about defending it so u can go on with our business Which one would you chose ?
Actually I believe that if Microsoft applied for a license to use the Linux(r) trademark and obeyed the terms of the license agreement for Linux(r) They would be granted one justlike anybody else. I do not believe Linus is that immature. And i believe even Microsoft would be treated fairly in this restpect. Say if M$ released MSLinux just like Rehat with Redhat Linux their maximun fees would be $5000 how is this unfair? I think its noble and shows that we are not like them.
I really dont think they are that stupid. they will probably encode with some kind of macrovision screwup that will make it difficult to record manually. that means even to vhs.
These people will stop at nothing and they are a bunch of liars. Just like the organized criminals they resort now to blackmailing their customers.
"If there is no mandated broadcast flag we are going to pull all our programs from broadcast TV" Hey MPAA Go ahead and pull 'em that will leave plenty of space for the more talented players to fill your void you morons.
It is important to understand that Marketing is what really works here and there are several examples of that. HyperTransport/Opteron is far superior to Netburst/Xeon but you dont see many commercials touting the benifits of that platform so AMD struggles to penetrate the market. Yet every commercial you see on TV whether its from gateway or IBM or HP they all say "We use intel Processors". Dell and Intel's Superior marketing skills keep them as the percieved technology leaders even when it is clear they are not. They are market leaders not technology leaders.
Likewise the same scenario plays out with Linux and Windows. Windows is a market leader not a technology leader. Linux is the current technology leader. You don't see Windows running on Cray or S390 big irons do you ? Nor can I easily install windows to a USB thumb drive and boot any USB bootable PC and all my desktop and files are there.
So how can we reduce the effectiveness of their propoganda campain? We have to directly attack the campain
1) Reduce the effectiveness of their paid studies.
How ? (a) Simply ridicule the paid studies (b) point out their obvious flaws in a professional manner (c) Make jokes about the obvious flaws in their studies. This will instill in peoples minds that anyone that believes *Any* of MS paid studies is quite naive.
We must single out each one of their studies in the Get The Facts Campain and create a tag line for each one. A tag line that points out the obvious flaw in each study. Then propogate these in ways that will be prevalent in the minds of CIOs each time they see one of MS GTF ads. Basically we want "microsoft funded studies are flawed" to be as ubiquitous as "Microsoft has the poorest security" in the minds of managers and the media.
Marketing is what rules not superior products If superior products ruled then many companies would be using alpha technology today.
If price/performance really mattered then most companies would have already switched to Linux/AMD64 platform or would at least be evaluating it.
The MPAA and the RIAA will stop at nothing to protect their monopolies. These 2 corrupt officers are just a tip of the giant iceberg of people that recieve huge sums from the MPAA and RIAA. Some others - Several politicians, Virus writers. Yes they employ these people to create nastyware to disrupt p2p networks. and many many more people are bribed by these organizations. The MPAA and the RIAA are among the most corrupt organizations in America. And the blatantly lie about their the root cause of their losses almost every year. It is about time they are investigated but I fear they may buy out the investigation.
So many people forget that Adobe is and BIG sponsor of the DMCA and as a big member of the BSA has lobbied hard for the DMCA. So I am afraid that I cannot feel sorry for Adobe in this case. They deserve what they get. They had the Russian kid arrested for doing they same thing. So Screw-em. The should just license the code from Nikon and stop whining. HEY ADOBE! You and the BSA lobbied for this crap. Live with it.
Your argument about the GPL flies in the face of logic. You argue that the GPL stops companies from locking the code up. Hello!!. This is a good thing. It prevents your company from stealing code and calling it your own. Why do you want to steal code from us ? Your HUGE billion dollar company should be ashamed of yourselves for wanting to take others hard work and calling it your own. Imagine. I create some code, you take it and include it in your products then sue me for accessing the said product with my code in it. You call this fair?. Everytime you open your mouth your credibilty drops even further. This is a practice that must stop. You cannot take other's work and put it in your products then ban them from accessing the code they created. This is moronic and I would expect better from you people at Sun.
Your arguement that the GPL forces developing nations to contribute all their work to the USA. This scare tactic will not work. Developing nations are not naive and they can see right through this stupid arguement. What have you contributed to developing countries may I ask? You and Microsoft have done nothing but rip off these developing nations time and time again with your proprietary licences. This has forced them to discover GPL software and they are waking up to the hijack and lock-in tactics that You and Microsoft practice. You and Microsoft will jump through hoops to prevent products from developing nations to enter the US market. The
GPL facilitates a fair playing field for all involved. What you are doing here is advocating that big comanies should be able to steal code then lock it up in such a way that if I access such code freely you have the right to send the BSA gestapo to kick down the door of my business at gunpoint and demand licences. I hope all companies that use proprietary license and fake opensource licenses are aware that they give you and Microsoft and the BSA gestapo free reign to their premisis every time they license their rights away with your proprietarty licences. Companies that use exclusivly GPL softare can avoid this scenario.
Intel "period" has owned the market for a long time.
Intel is a marketing powerhouse. They could sell cheese to a dog if the wanted to. The xeon is inferior to the opteron in many ways. eg. the xeon bus is comparable to a hub while the opteron bus is comparable to a switch. If u read the article and the summary u see that the testers chose opteron over the xeon. Why? Well for starters the opterons tested are half the price of a 2MB cache xeon. the xeons used in the article are 4MB cache which is going to be waaaay more expensive than the 2MB cache xeons that are now available. SO u pay a whole lot more for the same performance at dual and less performance at quad. Also as u add processors opteron leaves the xeons behind due to the advanced bus architecture.
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We have 2 servers running mandrake corporate server in a hosting environment. We modified the apache code and recompiled apache to change the suexec default root. Later we had problems with apache displaying code on some pages instead of the rendered page. To make a long story short. We called Mandrake support and even though we told them that we modified the Apache source they still helped us. We sent them the code snippet that we modified and they determined that it was not the source of the problem. It turned out to be a mime types issue with apache mod_mime and they helped us fix the problem. So I say in my experience I still get help with modified system. So i guess it just depends on your vendor.
Worms don't infect computers they infect operating systems. when will people ever realize this? The title should be "worm infects windows" or "worm infects Linux or OSX" or whatever. So people, wake up!!!!
The state goverment in Alabama has decided that vibrators are illegal( yep female toys) It is a FELONY if you get caught with one in Alabama. Now tell me how much faith do you have in your goverment ? After all if you get caught with any sex toys in Alabama you are commiting a felony. But posessing one is a personal and private matter to women. But the trusty Alabama state goverment that you have so much faith in doesn't see it that way.
We used the original Netscape Directory server for user authentication of 1700 users worldwide for many years on 2 sun netra 333mhz boxes. The Netscape code back then was bulletproof. If that code is now free then all hell has broken loose and its only a matter of time before OSS has a truly free, truly robust all purpose directory server.
When will people ever learn. Ok now lets think for a minute. Apple can use Intel or AMD. Intel is able to guarantee more volume than AMD at the moment. This will change when AMDs new fab comes online this year. Intel also promised Apple a taste of the ol' MDF pie. MDF (Market Development Funds) as they like to call it helps Apple compete better with the likes of Dell in this space. MDF also guarantees that Apple will use only Intel CPUs. Now unless our heads have been buried under rocks for a while we all know that AMD technology is superior to Intel in sevral ways at this point. But Apple chose the inferior technology because Intel promised it massive $$$ kickbacks. Intel basically "buys" its customers. This is not rocket science folks. My prediction. After the move to x86 is stabilized Apple will then be free to use AMD as a tool to get better deals from Intel as Dell currently does. Due to their volumes they will not be able to get the prices that Dell gets so they will unlike Dell introduce a line of AMD cpus in the future. For two reasons. To have the MAC daddy of all X86 PCs and to stick it to Intel.
ROFL ROFL friggin' hillaious
You are incorrect sir by stating that a hosting company cannot use the word linux in their promotional materials just put the little (r) beside the word linux like so Linux(r). Just like you have to do with BSD UNIX(r) If you are a hosting company or any other company you can still state we use Debian Linux(r) or Novell(r) Netware(tm). That is besides the point. What you cannot do sir is take say a BSD distribution and call it Linux. or Use the word Linux as a PRODUCT NAME or COMPANY NAME. How does this affect your company sir? do you manufacture products called Linux? Does your company have the term Linux in its name? If so then I should inform you that switching to BSD will not help your situation as it costs a whole lot more to License the UNIX(r) trademark than the Linux trademark. You don't think the BSD folks would be amused if someone came along and took Debian Linux and marketed it as Debian BSD UNIX(r) do you? So what is the differnce here? it only applies to companies that market products based on the name Linux. So are you going to quit using google too? They will charge your company a whole lot more than $5000max if it tried to setup a seach engine called "google for kids" I dont even think they would allow it. What about M$ and Lindows ? Did you forget about that ? Lindows was not a trademark of M$ when they got dragged through the mud. Making critical OS/Platform migration decisions while wallowing about in complete ignorance can adversly affect your company. One would suggest you read up on trademarks a little bit more before making anymore critcal business decisions.
HYPERTHETICAL** This is a what would be possible if Linus fails to register and protect the trademark linux. Lets just say Linux was never registered as a trademark. This is they type of event that can happen. This is not a real letter just Hyperthetical.
From: Linus Torvalds.
To: The Community
I regret to have to inform all of you that due to my failure to register the trademark Linux, A company called The SCO Group has registered the trademark and is now demanding that we cease and desist using the word Linux. They have sent out letters to several companies demanding 30% of all revenues. It is going to cost millions of dollars to defend this in court and I dont have that cash, It costs several hundred thousand dollars to register and prove that I am protecting that trademark and I dont have that cash either, and I dont want to burden the community with those expenses, Also I'm a coder not a lawyer and would rather just not be bothered with all of that lawyer stuff. It would take teams of people and lawyers to enforce a worldwide trademark and I just dont have the time nor funds for that. Besides in the spririt of true freedom I am going to change the name from Linux to a new name the community decides. In the spirit of futher freedom once we decide on a new name I will also refuse to register the trademark and protect that new name. So even SCO will be free to trademark our new name on their behalf at their free will. And be free to make new demands on our new name. Now that is true freedom. Have a nice day.Linus.
I dont think you understand. You do not have to pay to use Linux this does not affect us. Are u manufacturing products with linux in the name of that product? IF not why does this even bother you. We still can go download Debian and use it and copy it to our hearts content. So how does this affect you? They are not asking us to pay anything. Do you think Google will let you use their name in the name of your product of company for free ? So I can create a search engine and call it "a better google" and thats ok? Do you even think google will let me pay them a measly $200-$5000 for a the use of the name google in my product "a better google" or "super google" or "google for kids" or anything like that? Do you think the BSD people will let me produce a product based on debian Linux and call it Debian BSD UNIX? I dont think they would be too amused for calling a linux product BSD. This is the crap that they have to protect against. What if I come along and tradmark the NAME Linux and demand that Linus and everybody pay me to use the name because he failed to do it ? what would u say then. Also the OS is free the name is not. the code is free so u can take the code and fork it and call it what ever you like. Just be sure to protect the new name u give it so that SCO cant come along and take you new name from you.
The reason is because someone else trademarked the name Linux and was beginning to make impossible demands. If he doesn't trademark the name then SCO can trademark the name and demand that You pay a whole lot more that $200-$5000. So he was forced to file the trademarks. When u file trademarks u need lawyers and u also have to PROVE to the trademark office that u are ACTIVELY PROTECTING that trademark or LOSE IT. This costs a lot of money lots and lots and lots. So they have to do this or lose the trademark. It has nothing to do with the source code. It is all about keeping SCO and other morons from trademarking the name themselves. So go head and pay the $699 to use that SCO garbage. I will continue to use debian and mandrake for free because as a user/consultant/retailer this does not affect me on bit. My company name does not have Linux in it nor do i manufacture anything with the name Linux in it. No go and play with your openserver or whatever they call it these days.
Ok so we fork the kernel and give it a new name and remove all references to the word Linux. Lets callit Newix. We say its free to everyone. So free that we do not need to trademark it or protect the trademark thats true freedom right ? So what happens when Ken thompson comes along and says hmmmm "they are using this free thing called newix. I can generate some reveues from it." "I can really monetize this asset" So ken Thomson trademarks our new name newix and sends a letter to us and everybody else telling us we have to pay to use the name because now newix is his trademark. Well we refused to protect the trademark so now what. He registerd the newix trademark it is now his so we have to pay up or fork again right? so is that the sprit? just keep forking the code when someone hijacks our name and trademarks it because we failed to trademark it and protect it in the name of "freedom"? That seems really wise doesn't it ?
Let me simplyfy this for you. If you don't trademark your name then I can come along and trademark it then force everyone to pay me $$$$$$$ to use it correct ? Now it cost $$$ maintain trademarks correct? You lose your tradmarks if you don't protect them correct? It costs $$$ to protect them right ? So Redhat Linux makes millions of dollars on the name Linux. So lets say Linus does not maintain and protect the trademark and I come along and register the trademark Linux(r) And force your company, RedHat etc to pay me 30% of all company revenues via expensive lawsuits that you or Redhat now have to defend against. Tell me. What would be cheaper for Redhat ? $5000? or the huddreds of thousands in legal fees to defend against this type of garbage. This is what they are trying to prevent. Some moron already tried this and it cost a lot of $$$ to get it fixed. They are protecting you from some 'not very nice' people out there. Either Linux ignores the trademark or he protects it. It costs a lot to do this and lawyers and trademarks are not cheap. You pay $5000 and let them worry about defending the name linux instead of you worrying about that. You get to go on and run your business. so switching to a competing product would be cutting of your nose to spite your face. I don't believe that action would be or particularly pleasant for that matter. Have a nice day.
Please understand that it costs hundred of thousands of dollars in legal fees to simply maintain and protect the trademark and they have to show that they are protecting that trademark or lose it. They are basically forced to do this. Someone already tried to hijack the trademark and force everyone to PAY TO USE Linux. If they dont do it then someone else will simply hijack it. If you make a billion dollars using Linux in the NAME of your product what is $5000? The money has to come from somewhere to pay for this. As a company that profits from the WORD Linux in your comany name would you rather be spending a lot more money defending yourself from rogue lawsuits by unscrewpulous characters who hijacked the linux name or just pay the $200-$5000 and let them worry about defending it so u can go on with our business Which one would you chose ?
Actually I believe that if Microsoft applied for a license to use the Linux(r) trademark and obeyed the terms of the license agreement for Linux(r) They would be granted one justlike anybody else. I do not believe Linus is that immature. And i believe even Microsoft would be treated fairly in this restpect. Say if M$ released MSLinux just like Rehat with Redhat Linux their maximun fees would be $5000 how is this unfair? I think its noble and shows that we are not like them.
Does anyone here think this guy would be useful at AMD? Maybe help with inventing a new breed of high performance compilers for AMD64 ?
I really dont think they are that stupid. they will probably encode with some kind of macrovision screwup that will make it difficult to record manually. that means even to vhs.
These people will stop at nothing and they are a bunch of liars. Just like the organized criminals they resort now to blackmailing their customers. "If there is no mandated broadcast flag we are going to pull all our programs from broadcast TV" Hey MPAA Go ahead and pull 'em that will leave plenty of space for the more talented players to fill your void you morons.
It is important to understand that Marketing is what really works here and there are several examples of that. HyperTransport/Opteron is far superior to Netburst/Xeon but you dont see many commercials touting the benifits of that platform so AMD struggles to penetrate the market. Yet every commercial you see on TV whether its from gateway or IBM or HP they all say "We use intel Processors". Dell and Intel's Superior marketing skills keep them as the percieved technology leaders even when it is clear they are not. They are market leaders not technology leaders. Likewise the same scenario plays out with Linux and Windows. Windows is a market leader not a technology leader. Linux is the current technology leader. You don't see Windows running on Cray or S390 big irons do you ? Nor can I easily install windows to a USB thumb drive and boot any USB bootable PC and all my desktop and files are there. So how can we reduce the effectiveness of their propoganda campain? We have to directly attack the campain 1) Reduce the effectiveness of their paid studies. How ? (a) Simply ridicule the paid studies (b) point out their obvious flaws in a professional manner (c) Make jokes about the obvious flaws in their studies. This will instill in peoples minds that anyone that believes *Any* of MS paid studies is quite naive. We must single out each one of their studies in the Get The Facts Campain and create a tag line for each one. A tag line that points out the obvious flaw in each study. Then propogate these in ways that will be prevalent in the minds of CIOs each time they see one of MS GTF ads. Basically we want "microsoft funded studies are flawed" to be as ubiquitous as "Microsoft has the poorest security" in the minds of managers and the media. Marketing is what rules not superior products If superior products ruled then many companies would be using alpha technology today. If price/performance really mattered then most companies would have already switched to Linux/AMD64 platform or would at least be evaluating it.
The MPAA and the RIAA will stop at nothing to protect their monopolies. These 2 corrupt officers are just a tip of the giant iceberg of people that recieve huge sums from the MPAA and RIAA. Some others - Several politicians, Virus writers. Yes they employ these people to create nastyware to disrupt p2p networks. and many many more people are bribed by these organizations. The MPAA and the RIAA are among the most corrupt organizations in America. And the blatantly lie about their the root cause of their losses almost every year. It is about time they are investigated but I fear they may buy out the investigation.
So many people forget that Adobe is and BIG sponsor of the DMCA and as a big member of the BSA has lobbied hard for the DMCA. So I am afraid that I cannot feel sorry for Adobe in this case. They deserve what they get. They had the Russian kid arrested for doing they same thing. So Screw-em. The should just license the code from Nikon and stop whining. HEY ADOBE! You and the BSA lobbied for this crap. Live with it.
Your argument about the GPL flies in the face of logic. You argue that the GPL stops companies from locking the code up. Hello!!. This is a good thing. It prevents your company from stealing code and calling it your own. Why do you want to steal code from us ? Your HUGE billion dollar company should be ashamed of yourselves for wanting to take others hard work and calling it your own. Imagine. I create some code, you take it and include it in your products then sue me for accessing the said product with my code in it. You call this fair?. Everytime you open your mouth your credibilty drops even further. This is a practice that must stop. You cannot take other's work and put it in your products then ban them from accessing the code they created. This is moronic and I would expect better from you people at Sun. Your arguement that the GPL forces developing nations to contribute all their work to the USA. This scare tactic will not work. Developing nations are not naive and they can see right through this stupid arguement. What have you contributed to developing countries may I ask? You and Microsoft have done nothing but rip off these developing nations time and time again with your proprietary licences. This has forced them to discover GPL software and they are waking up to the hijack and lock-in tactics that You and Microsoft practice. You and Microsoft will jump through hoops to prevent products from developing nations to enter the US market. The GPL facilitates a fair playing field for all involved. What you are doing here is advocating that big comanies should be able to steal code then lock it up in such a way that if I access such code freely you have the right to send the BSA gestapo to kick down the door of my business at gunpoint and demand licences. I hope all companies that use proprietary license and fake opensource licenses are aware that they give you and Microsoft and the BSA gestapo free reign to their premisis every time they license their rights away with your proprietarty licences. Companies that use exclusivly GPL softare can avoid this scenario.
Intel "period" has owned the market for a long time. Intel is a marketing powerhouse. They could sell cheese to a dog if the wanted to. The xeon is inferior to the opteron in many ways. eg. the xeon bus is comparable to a hub while the opteron bus is comparable to a switch. If u read the article and the summary u see that the testers chose opteron over the xeon. Why? Well for starters the opterons tested are half the price of a 2MB cache xeon. the xeons used in the article are 4MB cache which is going to be waaaay more expensive than the 2MB cache xeons that are now available. SO u pay a whole lot more for the same performance at dual and less performance at quad. Also as u add processors opteron leaves the xeons behind due to the advanced bus architecture.