Do you believe in open standards? If so, Do you support efforts (like those in the Linux community) to freely educate people and make knowledge freely available to those who wish to learn?
Many of us here at/. know what we think of the computer industry as it is. Do you think things would have turned out differently if Gary Kildahl (sp?) had been home when IBM visited his house (rather than being turned away by his wife, who was unwilling to sign the NDS)? If so, how?
"THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPONENTS AND ANY SUPPORT SERVICES REMAINS WITH YOU."
"TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS PROVIDE TO YOU THE COMPONENTS AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY SUPPORT SERVICES"
So much for the softie argument "Yeah, Linux is okay, but who do you sue when something goes wrong?" If you're using Microsoft, the answer is "The same people you sue if your using Linux, nobody." Fortunately you can go to the Linux community and get help for free.
Actually, I was hoping for 4 OS companies, 15 companies to write API's, 11 protocol companies, 3 NOS companies, 3 Office Products companies, MSN, Exploder Inc., 2 games companies, an audio/video company, 8 business software companies, 12 home software companies, and 101 standalone M$ hotdog stands (two for each state and one for the District of Columbia).;-)
The solution would require the os company to provide the same api's to the corel's and applix's of the world, not just to the MSOffice company. It would make for a more even playing field for the development community, and make it nearly impossible for the OS company to freeze out middleware. That's what the case was about.
I don't have a problem with stockholders making more money. If they didn't make money, they wouldn't invest in the first place.
IMHO the only way to deal with this situation is a break up. In that M$ constitutes about 95% of the os's on pc's and that figure only drops to about 85% when you include Mac's, a regulatory solution would ammount to government regulation of practically the entire software industry. And I don't think anybody wishes that. Too intrusive and too expensive. A break up would be much more cost effective for taxpayers and would be the only way to really ensure M$ was held to the proposed remediation. The feds have put too much into this to let it slip away. The Washington Post is a M$ bootlick anyway, and we should expect this type of unsupported rhetoric from it. I have no doubt that Joel Klein want's a break up and is pushing very hard for it. Those who live in the greater Washington DC metropolitan area have been awash in television ads for M$, showing Bill Gates in his golf sweater doing his best easy going Arnold Palmer impersonations he can muster. This is just part of the M$ campain to win the hearts and minds of influental people in the DC area. It is clear that the Washington Post is a minion of the dark side and we should disregard anything it decides to publish on the subject. If you remember the article about the negotionations, there was no truth there either, just unsupported rhetoric and unfounded conjecture. This is obviously not journalism, but simply a bit of the current ad campain discuised to look like journalism.
I would like to keep things at a very high level, but I've posed this question to all those whom I know to be very knowledgable about Samba and have yet to get a satisfactory answer. I have 2 questions.
1. My employer uses a dual-domain system where all the user accounts are in one domain and all the accounts for machines are in another. The two domains are incestuously joined with trust relationships. When setting up the Samba Client, is there any way to configure the Samba client to validate credentials to both domains just like the NT boxes on our network?
2. Will the Samba team ever come out with a User Manager or Server Manager for Linux?
5 will get you 10 the chip design originated in... Hmmm...let me take a wild guess here...how about LANGLEY VA. Nah, they wouldn't do somthing like that, would they?
I am a Net Admin and I have to do it as well. How I handle it is I go look for it and if I find it, I play "Dutch Uncle" and give the individual a heads up. A few minutes later it's gone. No problem. That way, the two of us are the only ones who know, and no one gets fired or black balled.
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Dear Mr. Becker,
What's your favorite flavor of high speed communications card for implementation within a beowulf cluster?
Respectfully,
Do you believe in open standards? If so, Do you support efforts (like those in the Linux community) to freely educate people and make knowledge freely available to those who wish to learn?
Robert,
/. know what we think of the computer industry as it is. Do you think things would have turned out differently if Gary Kildahl (sp?) had been home when IBM visited his house (rather than being turned away by his wife, who was unwilling to sign the NDS)? If so, how?
Many of us here at
"THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPONENTS AND ANY SUPPORT SERVICES REMAINS WITH YOU."
"TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS PROVIDE TO YOU THE COMPONENTS AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY SUPPORT SERVICES"
So much for the softie argument "Yeah, Linux is okay, but who do you sue when something goes wrong?" If you're using Microsoft, the answer is "The same people you sue if your using Linux, nobody." Fortunately you can go to the Linux community and get help for free.
Actually, I was hoping for 4 OS companies, 15 companies to write API's, 11 protocol companies, 3 NOS companies, 3 Office Products companies, MSN, Exploder Inc., 2 games companies, an audio/video company, 8 business software companies, 12 home software companies, and 101 standalone M$ hotdog stands (two for each state and one for the District of Columbia). ;-)
The solution would require the os company to provide the same api's to the corel's and applix's of the world, not just to the MSOffice company. It would make for a more even playing field for the development community, and make it nearly impossible for the OS company to freeze out middleware. That's what the case was about.
I don't have a problem with stockholders making more money. If they didn't make money, they wouldn't invest in the first place.
IMHO the only way to deal with this situation is a break up. In that M$ constitutes about 95% of the os's on pc's and that figure only drops to about 85% when you include Mac's, a regulatory solution would ammount to government regulation of practically the entire software industry. And I don't think anybody wishes that. Too intrusive and too expensive. A break up would be much more cost effective for taxpayers and would be the only way to really ensure M$ was held to the proposed remediation. The feds have put too much into this to let it slip away. The Washington Post is a M$ bootlick anyway, and we should expect this type of unsupported rhetoric from it. I have no doubt that Joel Klein want's a break up and is pushing very hard for it. Those who live in the greater Washington DC metropolitan area have been awash in television ads for M$, showing Bill Gates in his golf sweater doing his best easy going Arnold Palmer impersonations he can muster. This is just part of the M$ campain to win the hearts and minds of influental people in the DC area. It is clear that the Washington Post is a minion of the dark side and we should disregard anything it decides to publish on the subject. If you remember the article about the negotionations, there was no truth there either, just unsupported rhetoric and unfounded conjecture. This is obviously not journalism, but simply a bit of the current ad campain discuised to look like journalism.
Jeremy,
I would like to keep things at a very high level, but I've posed this question to all those whom I know to be very knowledgable about Samba and have yet to get a satisfactory answer. I have 2 questions.
1. My employer uses a dual-domain system where all the user accounts are in one domain and all the accounts for machines are in another. The two domains are incestuously joined with trust relationships. When setting up the Samba Client, is there any way to configure the Samba client to validate credentials to both domains just like the NT boxes on our network?
2. Will the Samba team ever come out with a User Manager or Server Manager for Linux?
Thank You.
It's things just like this which give the open source movement legs.
5 will get you 10 the chip design originated in... Hmmm...let me take a wild guess here...how about LANGLEY VA. Nah, they wouldn't do somthing like that, would they?
I am a Net Admin and I have to do it as well. How I handle it is I go look for it and if I find it, I play "Dutch Uncle" and give the individual a heads up. A few minutes later it's gone. No problem. That way, the two of us are the only ones who know, and no one gets fired or black balled.