The vast majority of applications are built to run on Windoze, deego. Just because he wants to bring some half decent applications that were built for the Windows OS to the Linux kernel doesn't make him "less of a believer."
Imitation is the best kind of praise you can get. If there's applications for Windows that are being ported to or being given some form of compatibility with Linux, it speaks for both the application and the OS as being worthy of each other.
You and I call it "theft of ideas," Microsoft calls it "innovation." I guess it's all a matter of perception... and I always perceive a lot of crap coming from M$.
I don't know... M$, Epic, VUG, and a host of other companies like working under tight deadlines for dev, and releasing crap that is poorly tested and patched to the point of no return. I'd rather have the testing during the various points of development to assure the code is good through and through. I'd rather have solid code out of the box (official release) than crap I have to patch up every few days because a new exploit or bug was found.
But that's my opinion for what it's worth.
If you sign a contract that says "I will not disclose details of the Company's business," you better not be caught telling your friend about the big contract they picked up last week. Same applies to a non-competition clause. You don't want to be caught at the competitor's site running the register. Likewise, you don't want to be seen smoking a bong if your terms of employment prohibit using drugs, like marijuana.
It's not about the right to earn a living. It's about what conditions of employment were set when he was hired by M$, and the fact that he's trying to break those conditions now. Personal rights do not factor into this argument.
Whether it's company trade secrets, your personal data or the company's financial records, when an executive leaves a company, there's a LOT of information that he has access to. What's to stop him from handing it all to his new employer when he shows up for work the next day? That's why there's a NCC in his contract, and it's usually why they're given a golden handshake when they leave.
They say that when you start treading on the freedoms of the people, that it never truly ends. Big Brother will always want to know more.
This is setting a very dangerous marker in US policy. US citizens may not be required to have this tracking technology present in their lives yet, but give it time... it'll soon be a present and completely invasive reality.
If ever there was a time to call the Government to task for their actions, it is now.
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He'll hire Satan's legal team. Only the best lawyers of all time reside in the deepest pits of Hell. :-p
The vast majority of applications are built to run on Windoze, deego. Just because he wants to bring some half decent applications that were built for the Windows OS to the Linux kernel doesn't make him "less of a believer."
Imitation is the best kind of praise you can get. If there's applications for Windows that are being ported to or being given some form of compatibility with Linux, it speaks for both the application and the OS as being worthy of each other.
To each his own.
You and I call it "theft of ideas," Microsoft calls it "innovation." I guess it's all a matter of perception... and I always perceive a lot of crap coming from M$.
I don't know... M$, Epic, VUG, and a host of other companies like working under tight deadlines for dev, and releasing crap that is poorly tested and patched to the point of no return. I'd rather have the testing during the various points of development to assure the code is good through and through. I'd rather have solid code out of the box (official release) than crap I have to patch up every few days because a new exploit or bug was found. But that's my opinion for what it's worth.
If you sign a contract that says "I will not disclose details of the Company's business," you better not be caught telling your friend about the big contract they picked up last week. Same applies to a non-competition clause. You don't want to be caught at the competitor's site running the register. Likewise, you don't want to be seen smoking a bong if your terms of employment prohibit using drugs, like marijuana.
It's not about the right to earn a living. It's about what conditions of employment were set when he was hired by M$, and the fact that he's trying to break those conditions now. Personal rights do not factor into this argument.
Whether it's company trade secrets, your personal data or the company's financial records, when an executive leaves a company, there's a LOT of information that he has access to. What's to stop him from handing it all to his new employer when he shows up for work the next day? That's why there's a NCC in his contract, and it's usually why they're given a golden handshake when they leave.
They say that when you start treading on the freedoms of the people, that it never truly ends. Big Brother will always want to know more. This is setting a very dangerous marker in US policy. US citizens may not be required to have this tracking technology present in their lives yet, but give it time... it'll soon be a present and completely invasive reality. If ever there was a time to call the Government to task for their actions, it is now.