The current bidding for the C block has NOT stalled at $4.71 billion as the story states. A new bidder upped the bid to $4.74 billion a few days ago. This was made possible because there are 2 ways of bidding for the C block: either outright for the whole block, where the bidding reached $4.71 billion, or for 8 pieces of the block individually. If the cumulative price for the bidding of the 8 pieces exceeds the bid for the whole block, then that bid trumps the whole block bid. The cumulative bid for the 8 pieces now stands at $4.74 billion, which means that the C block is still under contention. Today's latest story from the NYT gives more info on the auction.
OSS does have a good business model -- for the inner circle of coders who can sell their services. It will not support layers of management, marketing, and investors that the purchasing companies add to it. So the problem here is that we have a mini-bubble. Investors will lose billions on OSS acquisitions (from code forking, community abandonment, users declining to pay), these losses will be reported in sensational terms, and then anyone who even mentions OSS will be derided. This will not kill OSS -- I don't think anything could do that -- but it will not help it in the long-run, either.
The iMac requires an powered headset, so if you have a non-USB headset you may not get much volume. I am just mentioning this because I had a similar problem. Go through the setup procedure and make sure you can hear something other than Skype at a reasonable volume.
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The current bidding for the C block has NOT stalled at $4.71 billion as the story states. A new bidder upped the bid to $4.74 billion a few days ago. This was made possible because there are 2 ways of bidding for the C block: either outright for the whole block, where the bidding reached $4.71 billion, or for 8 pieces of the block individually. If the cumulative price for the bidding of the 8 pieces exceeds the bid for the whole block, then that bid trumps the whole block bid. The cumulative bid for the 8 pieces now stands at $4.74 billion, which means that the C block is still under contention. Today's latest story from the NYT gives more info on the auction.
Nope, still waiting. Hope it gets here by Christmas!
OSS does have a good business model -- for the inner circle of coders who can sell their services. It will not support layers of management, marketing, and investors that the purchasing companies add to it. So the problem here is that we have a mini-bubble. Investors will lose billions on OSS acquisitions (from code forking, community abandonment, users declining to pay), these losses will be reported in sensational terms, and then anyone who even mentions OSS will be derided. This will not kill OSS -- I don't think anything could do that -- but it will not help it in the long-run, either.
The iMac requires an powered headset, so if you have a non-USB headset you may not get much volume. I am just mentioning this because I had a similar problem. Go through the setup procedure and make sure you can hear something other than Skype at a reasonable volume.