The people thought "change" meant a new model with a new engine, a new engine and a new set of practices better matching the constitution.
What they got instead was an oil change so that the current system keeps on going where it was heading before the election: towards the enrichment of the haves at the expense of the have-nots.
Who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
I'm not going to trust a multi billion dollar company to get me out of shit if its track record clearly shows that it's not going to do what I need of it. If bob@sourceforge fails to be reliable too, with OSS I can at least hire anyone else; with proprietary software I can hire no one else.
(Deciding whether or not the track record shows that is left as an exercise to the reader.)
I could quite happy have lived [...] although language is of course important
Happily. Just focusing on one of the important bits;-)
About literature, a physicist only got an intellectually-sounding but meaningless text published in a journal of literary theory. See also http://xkcd.com/451/
If you honestly don't think you need to be checking your box for virii... you sir need to stay off my network.
If you honestly think you need people to scan for viruses before you can safely let them on your network... you sir need to stay away from managing mine.
Likewise, can you argue with the success and value of a site like youtube? which, by the way, works in flash?
I want a plugin for firefox that detects "hmm, this is flash... Oh, this is flash video! Remove flash, download *.flv in the background, insert embedded mplayer."
Then I'd dump flash faster than you can count to e^{i \pi} + 1.
To neutralize the advantages of Linux and other open source competitors, Microsoft will have to make Windows more like them. If it doesn't, it risks losing the 6-million-plus developer base that's made the Windows platform great.
Uhmm... why would the developer base run away? I don't get it. Because everyone else has? Then what starts them?
Also, why would Microsoft open-sourcing things be good for Microsoft? Either people shift to Linux because they drink the RMS kool aid (that'd include me), or because it's the better product for them (I then found out this also included me).
If they shift because they drink the RMS kool aid, then we can assume that they prefer a completely free OS (including application stack), which MS won't give out (according to the article, at least).
If they shift because Linux is the better product (technically, that is), Windows being open source(d) won't change the fact that Linux is the better product.
In other words, Windows may be what established Microsoft, but Windows can't sustain the company.
Why not? Where are the figures to back this up? I think you'd need to make an assumption about the relative number of OEM XP licenses vs. OEM Office licenses sold with new computers to just get something linking the claim back to the article.
The proprietary file formats that have protected Microsoft apps have been offset by Office Open XML
Here's the spec: if the document says jump, you jump as high as this other unspecified program. I have heard (but beware of echo chamber effects) that it's nigh impossible to write two implementations of the OOXML spec that renders identical outputs. So if people are going to look at $COMPETITOR Office and say "but my documents look all wrong, let me go back to Microsoft", how was the consumer really not locked in?
Blargh. I'm just going to judge this book by its first page. You can find some statistics in the article if you need them, but they seem loosely connected, and the article fails to specify why its predictions are likely to come true.
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I'd even rather hear one more variation on our insensitive clod overlords from Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, insensitive overlords run Linux without windows on YOU!!
Sure.
The people thought "change" meant a new model with a new engine, a new engine and a new set of practices better matching the constitution.
What they got instead was an oil change so that the current system keeps on going where it was heading before the election: towards the enrichment of the haves at the expense of the have-nots.
That's the worst car analogy in the history of slashdot!
That'd probably face some voltage over current...
Unlike Microsoft's law division, where instead of R = V/I we have R = futile.
(SCNR)
If she can be judged on her achievements without mentioning her gender, that'll be real progress.
Wouldn't that be the end goal rather than progress towards it?
never read anything longer tha
My middle finger is shorter than your lines :(
Wait, Internet browser is not application, it is part of OS. At least thats what Microsoft told us.
It *is* the OS. A shame it doesn't have a good text editor, though...
Who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
I'm not going to trust a multi billion dollar company to get me out of shit if its track record clearly shows that it's not going to do what I need of it. If bob@sourceforge fails to be reliable too, with OSS I can at least hire anyone else; with proprietary software I can hire no one else.
(Deciding whether or not the track record shows that is left as an exercise to the reader.)
I could quite happy have lived [...] although language is of course important
Happily. Just focusing on one of the important bits ;-)
About literature, a physicist only got an intellectually-sounding but meaningless text published in a journal of literary theory. See also http://xkcd.com/451/
Someone modded me Informative.
Only on slashdot can you find people who don't know how you get herpes... :p
If you honestly don't think you need to be checking your box for virii ... you sir need to stay off my network.
If you honestly think you need people to scan for viruses before you can safely let them on your network... you sir need to stay away from managing mine.
who here believes Counter Strike really teaches gamers how to be (counter)terrorists?
I know that to defuse a bomb, you press the 'e' button on it.
Also, I know that you want to plant the bomb either in the counter-terrorists home, or some unrelated other country.
Oops, did I just politicize my joke? ;-)
who tagged this astroturfing?!?!
Obviously someone whose dictionary was bricked!
Meh, I'm still hurting from his speech on herpes...
I figure such a talk must suck...
Likewise, can you argue with the success and value of a site like youtube? which, by the way, works in flash?
I want a plugin for firefox that detects "hmm, this is flash... Oh, this is flash video! Remove flash, download *.flv in the background, insert embedded mplayer."
Then I'd dump flash faster than you can count to e^{i \pi} + 1.
Congratulations samzenpus, you've posted perhaps the first article that's wrong, dupe, blogspam, and slashvertisement all at the same time!
So does he win an internet?
FTFA:
To neutralize the advantages of Linux and other open source competitors, Microsoft will have to make Windows more like them. If it doesn't, it risks losing the 6-million-plus developer base that's made the Windows platform great.
Uhmm... why would the developer base run away? I don't get it. Because everyone else has? Then what starts them?
Also, why would Microsoft open-sourcing things be good for Microsoft? Either people shift to Linux because they drink the RMS kool aid (that'd include me), or because it's the better product for them (I then found out this also included me).
If they shift because they drink the RMS kool aid, then we can assume that they prefer a completely free OS (including application stack), which MS won't give out (according to the article, at least).
If they shift because Linux is the better product (technically, that is), Windows being open source(d) won't change the fact that Linux is the better product.
In other words, Windows may be what established Microsoft, but Windows can't sustain the company.
Why not? Where are the figures to back this up? I think you'd need to make an assumption about the relative number of OEM XP licenses vs. OEM Office licenses sold with new computers to just get something linking the claim back to the article.
The proprietary file formats that have protected Microsoft apps have been offset by Office Open XML
Here's the spec: if the document says jump, you jump as high as this other unspecified program. I have heard (but beware of echo chamber effects) that it's nigh impossible to write two implementations of the OOXML spec that renders identical outputs. So if people are going to look at $COMPETITOR Office and say "but my documents look all wrong, let me go back to Microsoft", how was the consumer really not locked in?
Blargh. I'm just going to judge this book by its first page. You can find some statistics in the article if you need them, but they seem loosely connected, and the article fails to specify why its predictions are likely to come true.
Article: -1, Overrated.
Buuuuyyyyy WinPokomon. It give you happy feeling!
However, managing license keys brings its' own set of issues.
Why would Microsoft care? That's the customer's problem.
From what I've heard, it's not like they care about making licensing simple today. Why do you think they will change?
Tell me about it. That solitaire is a real memory hog...
If yarrrrrr' a pirate, Fully Cracked = Happy :)
Everything else: Grumpy :(
Just ask my wife!
I can't be bothered...
Also, the fact that you called Sun's VirtualBox by the name OpenBox clues me into this fact.
That might just have been a brain fart on tjstork's part. But feel free to come to a different conclusion if you think it isn't.
Alabama Man's brother-in-law
And in the true slashdot spirit, you knew there were women nearby, got nervous and ran away?
You're doing it wrong! ;)