Okay you may say that I have been living under a rock for some time... but I had never heard of Cygwin until I read your post here -- you just made my day!
I agree fully -- Novell have done a great job with recently-acquired SUSE. They have attracted further funding to ensure better platform support, such as the IBM Power PC. They are assembling an excellent suite of products to complement SUSE, such as their (stable!) version of OpenOffice and Evolution. Novell have also built strong ties with the open source community, while "playing nicely" with a growing ecosystem of vendors who want to support their Linux efforts.
They are becoming a great company, and I'm glad to see them win any battle against the likes of SCO.
You raise two very interesting points: What ever happened to strong leadership by powerful leaders? And why don't we have a better choice for president of the world's supposed 'greatest country?'
I don't mean windbags like W who utter so much nonsense that Americans travelling abroad hide their identity out of shame, or even Kerry (what was it he stood for again?) but real leaders.
Once the world had leaders who took great personal risks for the betterment of the people they represented.
Examples come to mind like Churchill, or more recently Kim Dae Jung, who went to prison and was nearly executed to bring democracy to his country, or people like Trudeau and Mahathir, who stood up to global bullies despite their relative power.
One has to wonder what has happened to the sober-minded great leaders of the world, and why is it that, in a time of apparent global crisis, some strong, well-educated figures do not stand up to lead this country.
It's quite okay for the US to continue to flout the Kyoto treaty that most other nations have been supporting. Even better that new technology development happens more and more outside the USA (alternative energy research in China, etc.). And once all of this begins to spawn new industries, at least those companies won't have to adhere to the now ridiculous financial reporting required in the USA, and progress can happen a lot more quickly.
Now if we could only solve the problem of Americans abroad having to pretend to be Canadians out of sheer embarrassment...
4 years of a dazzlingly stupid drunkard (okay, I know he's just stupid, but he seems drunk) at the helm of the world's largest polluting country, arrogant flouting of the Kyoto protocol... who can honestly be surprised that we've seen a leap in CO2 levels!
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Okay you may say that I have been living under a rock for some time... but I had never heard of Cygwin until I read your post here -- you just made my day!
Cheers, D.I agree fully -- Novell have done a great job with recently-acquired SUSE. They have attracted further funding to ensure better platform support, such as the IBM Power PC. They are assembling an excellent suite of products to complement SUSE, such as their (stable!) version of OpenOffice and Evolution. Novell have also built strong ties with the open source community, while "playing nicely" with a growing ecosystem of vendors who want to support their Linux efforts.
They are becoming a great company, and I'm glad to see them win any battle against the likes of SCO.
You raise two very interesting points: What ever happened to strong leadership by powerful leaders? And why don't we have a better choice for president of the world's supposed 'greatest country?'
I don't mean windbags like W who utter so much nonsense that Americans travelling abroad hide their identity out of shame, or even Kerry (what was it he stood for again?) but real leaders.
Once the world had leaders who took great personal risks for the betterment of the people they represented.
Examples come to mind like Churchill, or more recently Kim Dae Jung, who went to prison and was nearly executed to bring democracy to his country, or people like Trudeau and Mahathir, who stood up to global bullies despite their relative power.
One has to wonder what has happened to the sober-minded great leaders of the world, and why is it that, in a time of apparent global crisis, some strong, well-educated figures do not stand up to lead this country.
It's quite okay for the US to continue to flout the Kyoto treaty that most other nations have been supporting. Even better that new technology development happens more and more outside the USA (alternative energy research in China, etc.). And once all of this begins to spawn new industries, at least those companies won't have to adhere to the now ridiculous financial reporting required in the USA, and progress can happen a lot more quickly. Now if we could only solve the problem of Americans abroad having to pretend to be Canadians out of sheer embarrassment...
4 years of a dazzlingly stupid drunkard (okay, I know he's just stupid, but he seems drunk) at the helm of the world's largest polluting country, arrogant flouting of the Kyoto protocol... who can honestly be surprised that we've seen a leap in CO2 levels!