Yes, obviously because your senior management has heard of it, it must be what's good for the community, no actual evaluation and long term planning is necessary.
The controversy is that Oracle is quite literally a leech. And is trying to take money away from a company that is heavily invested in the Linux community.
Of course RedHat's failure wouldn't kill the community, but it sure wouldn't help it. And every penny RedHat looses is one less penny to hire a FOSS developer.
I know the whole don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance thing. But Diebold is an ATM maker, I find it hard to believe that they were this ignorant. I would think that an ATM would be a more complex device than a voting machine.
The guys over at the Linux Action show (in their last episode) seem to adamantly think that this lawsuit has nothing to do with Linux. Jeremy Allison is probably a pretty jaded individual at this point (and rightly so), so having the view of someone else more familiar with these legal quagmires may be helpful.
Who blames Microsoft? The only person who should receive blame is the developers who choose it for anything that isn't explicitly supposed to be Windows only.
Flash didn't suck at that, it just wasn't convenient on the development side. But ActionScript being equivalent to Javascript, it can be very functional. Apparently Adobe is fixing most of dev side issues via Flex.
PyQt is also currently in the middle of nowhere. And PyQt, as far as I can tell, isn't really community maintained. Its a very small group of guys doing all the work, and who as of yet haven't come to a decision on what will happen to the project now that the little revenue they got from commercial licensing will likely dry up.
I was hoping that Qt would actual pull in more projects and not drop them.
I am very much not a fan of this move to web based everything. I like having web interfaces to things. But I hate only having web interfaces. Even more I hate the idea that one day I may have none of my own data on my own machine. Having the option is fine, but that option seems to be slowly disappearing.
Most people will feel that the candidate they wanted won, so the machines must be okay. Most will never consider the possibility that their candidate wasn't supposed to win. Or won despite having the machines against him. And the losing side had already picked scapegoats before the election so the don't need to worry about the machines.
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Yes, obviously because your senior management has heard of it, it must be what's good for the community, no actual evaluation and long term planning is necessary.
The controversy is that Oracle is quite literally a leech. And is trying to take money away from a company that is heavily invested in the Linux community.
Of course RedHat's failure wouldn't kill the community, but it sure wouldn't help it. And every penny RedHat looses is one less penny to hire a FOSS developer.
Who is the vendor for ODF? OpenOffice? KOffice? NeoOffice?
> You can't claim you are doing a Good Thing
RedHat never claimed it was doing a good thing. Just doing something for survival _while_ they try to get patent reform.
I know the whole don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance thing. But Diebold is an ATM maker, I find it hard to believe that they were this ignorant. I would think that an ATM would be a more complex device than a voting machine.
Darn. When you put it that way, it sounds really sleazy.
At some point, PC became synonymous with Microsoft Windows. I am not sure when that happened. All I know is that I didn't get a memo.
Aside from the inaccuracies, that was fun.
No, I think I'll enjoy my apathy just fine. When the payload drops my desktops/servers will still work.
The user is paying for web access directly.
You do not understand what they are attempting to do. This is defense against other patents.
Charging for a service another entity subsidizes without their approval.
People spending more time playing video games have less time to stab people.
That doesn't mean for sure it isn't on his desktop.
The guys over at the Linux Action show (in their last episode) seem to adamantly think that this lawsuit has nothing to do with Linux. Jeremy Allison is probably a pretty jaded individual at this point (and rightly so), so having the view of someone else more familiar with these legal quagmires may be helpful.
So Microsoft sues someone and the GPL is what you blame?
So what leads you believe it won't come with one?
Who blames Microsoft? The only person who should receive blame is the developers who choose it for anything that isn't explicitly supposed to be Windows only.
Flash didn't suck at that, it just wasn't convenient on the development side. But ActionScript being equivalent to Javascript, it can be very functional. Apparently Adobe is fixing most of dev side issues via Flex.
The people in charge have not yet commented. And I was just getting interested in Jambi as well. But Qt is dropping it to the community.
PyQt is also currently in the middle of nowhere. And PyQt, as far as I can tell, isn't really community maintained. Its a very small group of guys doing all the work, and who as of yet haven't come to a decision on what will happen to the project now that the little revenue they got from commercial licensing will likely dry up.
I was hoping that Qt would actual pull in more projects and not drop them.
I am very much not a fan of this move to web based everything. I like having web interfaces to things. But I hate only having web interfaces. Even more I hate the idea that one day I may have none of my own data on my own machine. Having the option is fine, but that option seems to be slowly disappearing.
Most people will feel that the candidate they wanted won, so the machines must be okay. Most will never consider the possibility that their candidate wasn't supposed to win. Or won despite having the machines against him. And the losing side had already picked scapegoats before the election so the don't need to worry about the machines.
In grand scheme of the technologies that the US government has access to, tracking cookies seem pretty irrelevant.
What exactly are the privacy concerns that are valid at YouTube.com that aren't are *.gov?