1) there is no disdain for American things there (unfortunately). American franchises and products are widespread there, if not quite with the same stranglehold one sees in Mexico City, Australia, etc. American "culture" - TV and Hollywood - is swallowed up there quite readily, to great destructive effect as always.
2) Windows is absolutely endemic in Brazil (and Russia and India, btw). The appalling statistics in the headline tell the story, I am not sure why the summary takes such a contradictory tack. Open source is destined to grow in the BRIC bloc, anybody could have predicted that for many common sense reasons, but MS has a lock on mindshare which is both tragic and incredibly costly.
And to the (presumably American) posters who claim Brazil is "backward" - they need to look a bit closer at their own neighbourhood. Brazil's infrastructure is excellent, they are (like all BRIC) highly educated, and have a culture of hard work and accountability - not to mention friendliness and generosity - which makes Bushistan look quite backward and socially diseased. Travel and take an interest in other cultures - get over your superiority complex.
For example, it has been benchmarked by Ulf Wiger (iirc) with up to 20 million scheduled lightweight concurrent entities ('processes') on one modest box.
But that might be because it encourages a lock-free design.:)
Instead of blowing smoke up Microsoft's ass, this guy should have looked around. Zimbra is just one of LookOut's many competitors. It even inter-operates with the MS product (ewww).
You guys just don't get it, do you. Nonrenewable resources must be left where they are.
The only hope we had was to finally run out of fossil fuel, since human nature shows no sign of solving the planetary-scale problems it has created by irresponsibly using cheap fuel.
Actually, it's fairly well known that every new release of OS X has been FASTER and leaner: specifically 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. (This is backed up by my experience on personal machines and production studios of Macs.)
In particular, 10.3 is noticeably snappier on G3 (even beige) compared to 10.2.
Can't speak for 10.5 as I've had limited exposure, but few are complaining - maybe because the Intel Macs are so fast out of the gate anyway:)
As for J#, C#, VB and WebDev, we're back to the same "How do I keep giving Microsoft money" question again. Those are not standards. They're proprietary solutions and stuff you build on them will obsolete every time Microsoft decides it needs more of your money. It's a trap....
And don't forget F# too.
Photoshop? Enough with the photoshop. I don't care about photoshop. If you need a dedicated photoshop box it's no excuse to chain everyone in your enterprise to Windows...
It restricts what you are allowed to do with code you develop with this MS product. One of those prohibited things is to distribute it under an "excluded license". 2 iii) makes it clear that this refers to open source licenses (gee, wonder why?)
It doesn't matter if the same code might be compiled one day by someone else using a different compiler. By downloading this MS product, using it to develop code, and licensing it thus, you're plainly breaking these terms.
I don't believe you have to be a lawyer to figure that out. And you don't need to be a genius to figure out why they prohibit it.
Here's the EULA. It is crystal clear from (2) that you are not permitted to offer anything you develop under an open source license. You may also be interested in the restriction on allowed runtime environment (Microsoft only). Also entertaining is the injunction that "You may not work around any technical limitations in the
software."
All in all, it's the usual perfectly odious nonsense I'd expect from them.
As for enforceability: Well why don't you find out? Go mano-a-mano in court with their lawyers.
Better advice: Just don't go near any of their stuff!
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All they saw was a smart man telling them they were idiots. And that, they don't like. So they voted for the lynching.
Or they were simply convinced he killed her (i.e. doing their job). Probably only Hans and Nina know for sure, but I can see why he was convicted.
I have spent some time living in Brazil.
1) there is no disdain for American things there (unfortunately). American franchises and products are widespread there, if not quite with the same stranglehold one sees in Mexico City, Australia, etc. American "culture" - TV and Hollywood - is swallowed up there quite readily, to great destructive effect as always.
2) Windows is absolutely endemic in Brazil (and Russia and India, btw). The appalling statistics in the headline tell the story, I am not sure why the summary takes such a contradictory tack. Open source is destined to grow in the BRIC bloc, anybody could have predicted that for many common sense reasons, but MS has a lock on mindshare which is both tragic and incredibly costly.
And to the (presumably American) posters who claim Brazil is "backward" - they need to look a bit closer at their own neighbourhood. Brazil's infrastructure is excellent, they are (like all BRIC) highly educated, and have a culture of hard work and accountability - not to mention friendliness and generosity - which makes Bushistan look quite backward and socially diseased. Travel and take an interest in other cultures - get over your superiority complex.
For example, it has been benchmarked by Ulf Wiger (iirc) with up to 20 million scheduled lightweight concurrent entities ('processes') on one modest box. But that might be because it encourages a lock-free design. :)
Instead of blowing smoke up Microsoft's ass, this guy should have looked around. Zimbra is just one of LookOut's many competitors. It even inter-operates with the MS product (ewww).
You could cram any more genitalia references into your post?
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To reflect the dreadful plague that is Microsoft and all their works.
Start with "microsoft" and "windows" as the technologies which bring you the largest, most profitable botnets!
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Honestly, who could trust Microsoft to blow their own noses. Get real.
You guys just don't get it, do you. Nonrenewable resources must be left where they are. The only hope we had was to finally run out of fossil fuel, since human nature shows no sign of solving the planetary-scale problems it has created by irresponsibly using cheap fuel.
Depending who you ask, the open source concept has been working in practice for 20, 30, 40, or even 52 years: IBM SHARE was founded in 1955.
By anyone's definition it's at least as old as the Free Software Foundation, which makes this article's premise ridiculous.
Holy fact checking Batman.
Actually, it's fairly well known that every new release of OS X has been FASTER and leaner: specifically 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. (This is backed up by my experience on personal machines and production studios of Macs.)
In particular, 10.3 is noticeably snappier on G3 (even beige) compared to 10.2.
Can't speak for 10.5 as I've had limited exposure, but few are complaining - maybe because the Intel Macs are so fast out of the gate anyway :)
Three gunshots to the head?
Martin Amis wrote a decent novel, Night Train, revolving around this premise.
As for J#, C#, VB and WebDev, we're back to the same "How do I keep giving Microsoft money" question again. Those are not standards. They're proprietary solutions and stuff you build on them will obsolete every time Microsoft decides it needs more of your money. It's a trap. ...
And don't forget F# too.
Photoshop? Enough with the photoshop. I don't care about photoshop. If you need a dedicated photoshop box it's no excuse to chain everyone in your enterprise to Windows ...
There's a rumour Photoshop runs on Macs!
So it's Leopard then: Because this does not happen on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 or 10.4. On any processor (G3, G4, G5 or Intel).
Wire transfers from Redmond.
Everybody complains, but nobody does anything about it!
Applies to their Distributable Code. Looks like I got it wrong. Oops...
It restricts what you are allowed to do with code you develop with this MS product. One of those prohibited things is to distribute it under an "excluded license". 2 iii) makes it clear that this refers to open source licenses (gee, wonder why?)
It doesn't matter if the same code might be compiled one day by someone else using a different compiler. By downloading this MS product, using it to develop code, and licensing it thus, you're plainly breaking these terms.
I don't believe you have to be a lawyer to figure that out. And you don't need to be a genius to figure out why they prohibit it.
Here's the EULA. It is crystal clear from (2) that you are not permitted to offer anything you develop under an open source license. You may also be interested in the restriction on allowed runtime environment (Microsoft only). Also entertaining is the injunction that "You may not work around any technical limitations in the software."
All in all, it's the usual perfectly odious nonsense I'd expect from them.
As for enforceability: Well why don't you find out? Go mano-a-mano in court with their lawyers.
Better advice: Just don't go near any of their stuff!
To "know" a language takes 1/2 hour. To get good at it takes 5-10 years. Yeah, I started when I was 10 years old too. Didn't we all?
Get rid of Windows and all the other Microsoft dreck. There are many more intelligent options. Start making the world a better place. :-)
The speed at which the browsers seem to be gaining acid3 compatibility is frankly worrying me.
Some people are just NEVER satisfied... :)