Mod parent up. It's one of the more insightful posts I've read here. I'm not fan of MS by any stretch of the imagination, but this is just turning into a witch hunt.
Pitchfork?... Check Torch?... Check Map of Corporate Castle locations?... Check FSF Lawyers programmed to be speed dialed in emergencies?... Check Desire to burn the non-believers?... Check
Okay, I'm ready! What IRC Channel are we meeting in?
That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying that the number of FOSS licenses is not something that exists in a vacuum, and when you look at the larger picture (what software company is larger than MS?) there is little if any difference between Floss and Proprietary software if all you look at is the number of licenses out there. Gheesh. Feeling a little defensive aren't you?
Check out Microsofts License-o-rama! If Microsoft as a corporation can't stick to even a few licenses what on earth makes anyone think that thousands of FLOSS programmers will share enough commonality among them that they would be willing to use fewer licenses.
Microsofts licensing site doesn't even address the individual EULA's for products. Each MS product has a license that is nearly always unique to that product. So I say let those that do the work decide on how they would like or not like to share it.
Seriously... 6% of any given Britney Spears song is still sufficient to cause internal hemorrhaging. The other 94%, if added back, would just be salt on the wound.
If it's such a freaking concern to the ISPs of the world why don't they just come up with a few colo (coloation) agreements for those companies that they claim are using too much bandwidth. They ISPs are complaining that youtube et al are using too much bandwidth and I would like us to remember that according to This article Windows Update is using quite a bit of bandwidth itself. One has to wonder why MS isn't being targeted by the ISPs.
I'm a fan of Ubuntu which is Debian based, and I think you also have a good point. CentOS, and Debian both feature that chocolaty goodness known as apt, and to spite what the fan boys say about yum or rpm, apt is still the best package management game in town and administration of the workstation (or ease of it) is the key to success.
Liv Tyler is still hot... I hope they keep her. I hear that Cowboy Neal is going to try out for Ben Affleck's part and that the title is going to be "Armageddon II: This time we'll just shoot the fucker".
I agree with you. I have a Dell 1505n, and while I love Feisty, the six month cycle is just too freakin quick for OEM's. CentOS would be a good choice indeed.
It's all about differentiating product. After a decade of mono-culture in the OEM world commoditization happened, and the OEMs suffered excruciatingly low profit margins as a result.
With Vista sales at a blisteringly mediocre pace and consumers increasingly met with nearly identical machines at identical prices from identical companies with identically poor support where else can the OEMs turn? We've seen M. Dell mention publicly that he would distribute OS X if he could, and Apple will never do that. Linux provides for the utmost extreme example of potential product differentiation at a nominal cost to the OEM. Most of them will take differing sides in the Flavor-of-the-month club. Dell has chosen Ubuntu, Lenovo has chosen Suse. Who will HP pick? Madriva or Fedora maybe. The OEMs want to sell machines, they need to find new markets and differentiate their products. This is the beginning of a time travelling exercise to about 1986 when CP/M, Commodore's Amiga, and DOS were but a few of the possible business and consumer choices out there. MS did some great things in introducing a common platform for development and such, but I think that world+dog realizes that homogeneous computing has more downsides than ups.
I feel like a tiny bit of myself has been killed today. I will never experience the same innocent joy that accompanies reading a fake CEO blog again. Damn frigtard reporters.
They could use the random interactions of the beer bubbles as a random number generator for crypto. This is much cooler than the plain ol' lava-lamp random number generator that Sun uses.
Plus this gives the added advantage of being able to recruit college students that are torn between a degree in Art History, and one in Math by telling them that they'll be forced to work with beer. It's a Win/Win situation!
First I'm not suggesting Dell spend the money to reach the customers - they already did spend that money, and they have already expanded their Linux offering. Secondly let's take a look at other's that went to good business schools and see how they faired?
Ken Lay - Enron: Doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston John Rigas - Adelphia: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
Just two examples, but hey there is more if you want them. Now let's look at a couple of other business leaders that did NOT attend business school, now I know they have their own issues but they weren't sentenced to prison.
Steve Jobs: Ceo Apple / Pixar / Board of Disney Bill Gates: Ceo / Csa of Microsoft
Business school arrogance does not equal business success. A computer company is certainly within its bailiwick when it comes to reaching possible buyers of it's computers, and it is not unreasonable to expect them to meet you half way as a customer.
If I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a potential customer that I wasn't reaching I'd be trying damn hard to make room for them in my product line. I had never been a Dell customer prior to the e1505n model. They asked, and like an awful lot of other people I said that I'd buy a Dell if they factory installed Linux. I bought one, and the irony here is that I sold my less than ninety day old Acer laptop to help finance the purchase.
The point isn't that I was just one customer, it's that I was just one more customer. Dell's market share grew by just one customer that day, and probably a lot more than that but I'm speaking about my own story here. Acer (and dang near all American telecommunications companies) need to get what Dell did, that markets are built one customer at a time. I just don't get what they're teaching in business school these days. Damn kids.
1. 2 Solid state rockets at 3,300,000 Lbs of thrust each. 2. Odds of dying on a shuttle mission are about 1:100 3. The shuttles are at or over 20 years old. 4. 2.5 million individual parts on a space shuttle. 5. Knowledge that the shuttle was made by the lowest bidders. 6. You're on it.
Who the hell wouldn't need a drink to get through the work day in those conditions!
The only secure machine is one that is OFF. If it isn't off then I'm always going to bet on the hacker. IANAP, but I feel very sorry for the challenges that programmers face. They have to review and analyze code for bugs, flaws, and features, they have bosses that demand profit and features. Those 1337 boys only need to find one flaw, the programmers have to find and fix all of them. I'm not surprised at all that all of the machines were cracked, given a high enough profile, the right conditions, and a motivated h4x0r any system is vulnerable.
the case that also the program at the same place is offered for the Download: "If distribution OF executable or object code is larva by off ring ACCESS ton of CoPy from A designated place, then off ring equivalent ACCESS ton of CoPy the SOURCE code from the same place COUNTs as distribution OF the SOURCE code, even though third parties of acres emergency compelled tons of CoPy the SOURCE along with the object code." In all other cases of the software selling it is not sufficient to make the SOURCE code available only on-line one.
It's a wonder why Microsoft hates the GPL, Balmer is afraid of GRUB(s)
to me is not the Enigma machine itself, but the Allied response to it and other Axis crypto systems. If you haven't had the chance yet you should read up on the folks at Bletchley Park, it's one of the most fascinating programs of WW2. Without a doubt the people that worked there contributed as much to the effort as any other single organization and probably shortened the war considerably.
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Mod parent up. It's one of the more insightful posts I've read here. I'm not fan of MS by any stretch of the imagination, but this is just turning into a witch hunt.
Pitchfork? ... Check ... Check ... Check ... Check ... Check
Torch?
Map of Corporate Castle locations?
FSF Lawyers programmed to be speed dialed in emergencies?
Desire to burn the non-believers?
Okay, I'm ready! What IRC Channel are we meeting in?
That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying that the number of FOSS licenses is not something that exists in a vacuum, and when you look at the larger picture (what software company is larger than MS?) there is little if any difference between Floss and Proprietary software if all you look at is the number of licenses out there. Gheesh. Feeling a little defensive aren't you?
Check out Microsofts License-o-rama! If Microsoft as a corporation can't stick to even a few licenses what on earth makes anyone think that thousands of FLOSS programmers will share enough commonality among them that they would be willing to use fewer licenses.
Microsofts licensing site doesn't even address the individual EULA's for products. Each MS product has a license that is nearly always unique to that product. So I say let those that do the work decide on how they would like or not like to share it.
Giving a rocket powered bionic arm to a 19 year old soldier thousands of miles away from his girlfriend? This can only end in tragedy.
The article doesn't mention the package that was found nearby. It was a wooden box carved with
Grunt Growl Roar
Snort Grumble Grunt!
Diebold apparently believes that you can polish a turd.
Seriously... 6% of any given Britney Spears song is still sufficient to cause internal hemorrhaging. The other 94%, if added back, would just be salt on the wound.
The I'm a little fuzzy on the problem. If the traffic stays on the local subnet it is effectively free from a bandwidth perspective.
If it's such a freaking concern to the ISPs of the world why don't they just come up with a few colo (coloation) agreements for those companies that they claim are using too much bandwidth. They ISPs are complaining that youtube et al are using too much bandwidth and I would like us to remember that according to This article Windows Update is using quite a bit of bandwidth itself. One has to wonder why MS isn't being targeted by the ISPs.
Amen brother.
All I know to say is that when Dr. Faust made his deal with the devil it didn't work out well for him either. Faust
I'm a fan of Ubuntu which is Debian based, and I think you also have a good point. CentOS, and Debian both feature that chocolaty goodness known as apt, and to spite what the fan boys say about yum or rpm, apt is still the best package management game in town and administration of the workstation (or ease of it) is the key to success.
Liv Tyler is still hot... I hope they keep her. I hear that Cowboy Neal is going to try out for Ben Affleck's part and that the title is going to be "Armageddon II: This time we'll just shoot the fucker".
I agree with you. I have a Dell 1505n, and while I love Feisty, the six month cycle is just too freakin quick for OEM's. CentOS would be a good choice indeed.
It's all about differentiating product. After a decade of mono-culture in the OEM world commoditization happened, and the OEMs suffered excruciatingly low profit margins as a result.
With Vista sales at a blisteringly mediocre pace and consumers increasingly met with nearly identical machines at identical prices from identical companies with identically poor support where else can the OEMs turn?
We've seen M. Dell mention publicly that he would distribute OS X if he could, and Apple will never do that. Linux provides for the utmost extreme example of potential product differentiation at a nominal cost to the OEM. Most of them will take differing sides in the Flavor-of-the-month club. Dell has chosen Ubuntu, Lenovo has chosen Suse. Who will HP pick? Madriva or Fedora maybe. The OEMs want to sell machines, they need to find new markets and differentiate their products. This is the beginning of a time travelling exercise to about 1986 when CP/M, Commodore's Amiga, and DOS were but a few of the possible business and consumer choices out there. MS did some great things in introducing a common platform for development and such, but I think that world+dog realizes that homogeneous computing has more downsides than ups.
I feel like a tiny bit of myself has been killed today. I will never experience the same innocent joy that accompanies reading a fake CEO blog again. Damn frigtard reporters.
They could use the random interactions of the beer bubbles as a random number generator for crypto. This is much cooler than the plain ol' lava-lamp random number generator that Sun uses.
Plus this gives the added advantage of being able to recruit college students that are torn between a degree in Art History, and one in Math by telling them that they'll be forced to work with beer. It's a Win/Win situation!
First I'm not suggesting Dell spend the money to reach the customers - they already did spend that money, and they have already expanded their Linux offering. Secondly let's take a look at other's that went to good business schools and see how they faired?
Ken Lay - Enron: Doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston
John Rigas - Adelphia: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
Just two examples, but hey there is more if you want them. Now let's look at a couple of other business leaders that did NOT attend business school, now I know they have their own issues but they weren't sentenced to prison.
Steve Jobs: Ceo Apple / Pixar / Board of Disney
Bill Gates: Ceo / Csa of Microsoft
Business school arrogance does not equal business success. A computer company is certainly within its bailiwick when it comes to reaching possible buyers of it's computers, and it is not unreasonable to expect them to meet you half way as a customer.
If I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a potential customer that I wasn't reaching I'd be trying damn hard to make room for them in my product line. I had never been a Dell customer prior to the e1505n model. They asked, and like an awful lot of other people I said that I'd buy a Dell if they factory installed Linux. I bought one, and the irony here is that I sold my less than ninety day old Acer laptop to help finance the purchase.
The point isn't that I was just one customer, it's that I was just one more customer. Dell's market share grew by just one customer that day, and probably a lot more than that but I'm speaking about my own story here. Acer (and dang near all American telecommunications companies) need to get what Dell did, that markets are built one customer at a time. I just don't get what they're teaching in business school these days. Damn kids.
1. 2 Solid state rockets at 3,300,000 Lbs of thrust each.
2. Odds of dying on a shuttle mission are about 1:100
3. The shuttles are at or over 20 years old.
4. 2.5 million individual parts on a space shuttle.
5. Knowledge that the shuttle was made by the lowest bidders.
6. You're on it.
Who the hell wouldn't need a drink to get through the work day in those conditions!
The only secure machine is one that is OFF. If it isn't off then I'm always going to bet on the hacker. IANAP, but I feel very sorry for the challenges that programmers face. They have to review and analyze code for bugs, flaws, and features, they have bosses that demand profit and features. Those 1337 boys only need to find one flaw, the programmers have to find and fix all of them. I'm not surprised at all that all of the machines were cracked, given a high enough profile, the right conditions, and a motivated h4x0r any system is vulnerable.
It's a wonder why Microsoft hates the GPL, Balmer is afraid of GRUB(s)
You think that is funny until it's your own seven year old that tells a teacher to fuck off, or starts cursing in a WalMart.
to me is not the Enigma machine itself, but the Allied response to it and other Axis crypto systems. If you haven't had the chance yet you should read up on the folks at Bletchley Park, it's one of the most fascinating programs of WW2. Without a doubt the people that worked there contributed as much to the effort as any other single organization and probably shortened the war considerably.
There is a pretty good artile on Wikipedia