Good on Red Hat. How many times has this "business model" failed, continues to fail, or barely makes it? This way of doing business really relies on the scruples of the company. Financially, it isn't in their best interest to keep packages up to date. The longer they drag their feet, the more money they keep making in their subscriptions. It's like Code Sourcery. They port the GNU tool-chain for use on embedded platforms like ARM. They also give out their changes and such like they have to. What's to say what they give out doesn't have a few bugs that were fixed a long time ago but haven't quite made it to the free public version. If you pay them for support maybe you get a less buggy version.
I'm not skeptical of when a person does this for free and just relases the source. That's cool. When a company has to generate money by basically, fixing bugs and/or some customization, I think you need to be skeptical.
Until the end of September this year, the amount of venture money that went to companies with "open source" in their business description was $144m (£81.8m). That's more than double the total for the whole of last year, according to research from the National Venture Capital Association, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Thomson Venture Economics.
In addition, a conservative estimate is that there have been at least 18 open source companies funded in the first three quarters of 2005, compared with 12 last year, a NVCA representative said. Among this year's top investment recipients were XenSource, which landed $23m, and SugarCRM, which got third-round funding of $18.7m last month.
What's the size of the "bubble" we're talking about here? $144M? That's like a spit bubble, heh. I bet if you take MS, Oracle, and Dell's yearly complimentary food, drink, and party budgets, they'd be more than that. Ok well, that's probably not true, but I mean, $144M as far as business investments go is a peanuts.
Whether or not this is bad for the OSS/FS community, I don't know. How much OSS/FS software is developed by employees of IBM and other friendly companies versus how much software is developed by some little startup on VC funding? That to me, would be a larger indicator on how "volatile" this is becoming.
GeoffP writes "AppleTalk Australia is running a story on running KDE on Mac OS X. For those that don't know, KDE is a graphical desktop environment used to access your computer's files. Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech)approach to their filesystem."
I understand now oh wise master. Thank you for showing me the path. I was lost in the woods and you have shown me the way. If it was not for you, I would have been eaten by a bear. Again thank you kind sir!
They will be taking over very soon, I mean, most private aerospace companies have hurricane proof launch sites in the region, as well as anti-hurricane force fields. Some of it is a mixture of some sci-fi technology that John Carmack got from the Stroggs. The rest is part of some voodoo spells.
While this isn't completely due to Katrina, I'd be scared of how private industry would handle space flight. Yes some of the engineers that work for the aerospace firms might be doing it because they like their work, the owners of the companies that will be going into space, will be doing this for the profit option.
Why is "competetive programming" so great? I'm not trying to troll, but is this for some lack of being able to compete in sports or something? Why does this too have to be competitive? It seems like everything in here has to be tested and ranked.
My university had a team, I went to one meeting and realised how stupid and hokey it was. Half of it was an intellectual circle-jerk and the other half was some practicing. All too l4m3.
I used Office 2003 on a PIII laptop at work (no budget for a desktop for me) with 256MB RAM and running on XP SP2. I used Excel heavily every day -- meaning I was always generating reports and such. It was used as a customer contact DB for the dept I was in. I also used Word to type up installation instructions for a piece of hardware my company was selling. Neither of them crashed on me, but they did lock up. That was due to bugs in some VB Script macros I was writing though.
OTOH I tried using OOO in Linux for lab reports. I had this big lab report for midterm due... like 12 pages long. I was inserting graphs from the OOO spreadsheet into my OOO Writer document. It kept locking up. Luckly in XWin, all you have to do is hit ctrl-alt-esc to get the kill pointer. Anyway, after inserting one of my last graphs it crashed when saving and corrupt my report. That was fun retyping that up. That time I used Office 2K on Win2K at the univ labs.
I recently installed that pseudo java/c++ OSX version of OOO on my mac. While it works, it's slow as hell. For the record, I have a 933Mhz (I think) G4 with 768MB of RAM. I can't afford MS Office for OSX atm, so thats all I have to use if I'm on it. I haven't had it crash yet, but then I haven't done much. I wish it would integrate better with the look of OSX. Though i'd take speed improvements any day over look.
Date: 3/17/2003
Subject: After you - I insist
From: Greg Boyle, IS Department
Richard:
Seriously - I'm extremely uncomfortable poking through SR's hard drive for files you insist you need. I'm not that interested in being the one who gets in trouble if it's discovered. Are you sure this is important enough to risk getting found out?
Anyway, I think I grabbed nearly everything you asked for. Just to be safe, and just in case someone else somehow gets hold of this, I have encrypted the files the usual way. You need to determine the password in order to access the files, but that shouldn't be too difficult a task for a smart guy like you, I'm sure.
Once I am done here, I will dispose of this computer, making sure the contents are irretrievable. I hope you approve.
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6 + 6 != ten, that's for sure. But you can easily make the case for 6+6=10 in base 12.
Good on Red Hat. How many times has this "business model" failed, continues to fail, or barely makes it? This way of doing business really relies on the scruples of the company. Financially, it isn't in their best interest to keep packages up to date. The longer they drag their feet, the more money they keep making in their subscriptions. It's like Code Sourcery. They port the GNU tool-chain for use on embedded platforms like ARM. They also give out their changes and such like they have to. What's to say what they give out doesn't have a few bugs that were fixed a long time ago but haven't quite made it to the free public version. If you pay them for support maybe you get a less buggy version.
I'm not skeptical of when a person does this for free and just relases the source. That's cool. When a company has to generate money by basically, fixing bugs and/or some customization, I think you need to be skeptical.
Just my paranoid thoughts on it I guess.
To quote from the article:
Until the end of September this year, the amount of venture money that went to companies with "open source" in their business description was $144m (£81.8m). That's more than double the total for the whole of last year, according to research from the National Venture Capital Association, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Thomson Venture Economics.
In addition, a conservative estimate is that there have been at least 18 open source companies funded in the first three quarters of 2005, compared with 12 last year, a NVCA representative said. Among this year's top investment recipients were XenSource, which landed $23m, and SugarCRM, which got third-round funding of $18.7m last month.
What's the size of the "bubble" we're talking about here? $144M? That's like a spit bubble, heh. I bet if you take MS, Oracle, and Dell's yearly complimentary food, drink, and party budgets, they'd be more than that. Ok well, that's probably not true, but I mean, $144M as far as business investments go is a peanuts. Whether or not this is bad for the OSS/FS community, I don't know. How much OSS/FS software is developed by employees of IBM and other friendly companies versus how much software is developed by some little startup on VC funding? That to me, would be a larger indicator on how "volatile" this is becoming.
But isn't it even better to pirate the game? Then you can really sock it to EA.
GeoffP writes "AppleTalk Australia is running a story on running KDE on Mac OS X. For those that don't know, KDE is a graphical desktop environment used to access your computer's files. Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem."
That was taken from the article body itself, see.
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Who are you to tell them what they should do with their life
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I understand now oh wise master. Thank you for showing me the path. I was lost in the woods and you have shown me the way. If it was not for you, I would have been eaten by a bear. Again thank you kind sir!
They will be taking over very soon, I mean, most private aerospace companies have hurricane proof launch sites in the region, as well as anti-hurricane force fields. Some of it is a mixture of some sci-fi technology that John Carmack got from the Stroggs. The rest is part of some voodoo spells.
While this isn't completely due to Katrina, I'd be scared of how private industry would handle space flight. Yes some of the engineers that work for the aerospace firms might be doing it because they like their work, the owners of the companies that will be going into space, will be doing this for the profit option.
Why is "competetive programming" so great? I'm not trying to troll, but is this for some lack of being able to compete in sports or something? Why does this too have to be competitive? It seems like everything in here has to be tested and ranked.
My university had a team, I went to one meeting and realised how stupid and hokey it was. Half of it was an intellectual circle-jerk and the other half was some practicing. All too l4m3.
I used Office 2003 on a PIII laptop at work (no budget for a desktop for me) with 256MB RAM and running on XP SP2. I used Excel heavily every day -- meaning I was always generating reports and such. It was used as a customer contact DB for the dept I was in. I also used Word to type up installation instructions for a piece of hardware my company was selling. Neither of them crashed on me, but they did lock up. That was due to bugs in some VB Script macros I was writing though.
... like 12 pages long. I was inserting graphs from the OOO spreadsheet into my OOO Writer document. It kept locking up. Luckly in XWin, all you have to do is hit ctrl-alt-esc to get the kill pointer. Anyway, after inserting one of my last graphs it crashed when saving and corrupt my report. That was fun retyping that up. That time I used Office 2K on Win2K at the univ labs.
OTOH I tried using OOO in Linux for lab reports. I had this big lab report for midterm due
I recently installed that pseudo java/c++ OSX version of OOO on my mac. While it works, it's slow as hell. For the record, I have a 933Mhz (I think) G4 with 768MB of RAM. I can't afford MS Office for OSX atm, so thats all I have to use if I'm on it. I haven't had it crash yet, but then I haven't done much. I wish it would integrate better with the look of OSX. Though i'd take speed improvements any day over look.
I'm a cockroach and damn proud of it.
Subject: After you - I insist
From: Greg Boyle, IS Department
Richard:
Seriously - I'm extremely uncomfortable poking through SR's hard drive for files you insist you need. I'm not that interested in being the one who gets in trouble if it's discovered. Are you sure this is important enough to risk getting found out?
Anyway, I think I grabbed nearly everything you asked for. Just to be safe, and just in case someone else somehow gets hold of this, I have encrypted the files the usual way. You need to determine the password in order to access the files, but that shouldn't be too difficult a task for a smart guy like you, I'm sure.
Once I am done here, I will dispose of this computer, making sure the contents are irretrievable. I hope you approve.
Fallaces sunt rerum species,
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