Red Hat added far more new installations than any other distro -- over 200,000. By the definition used in this article, a distro that goes from 1 site to 2 sites is the "fastest growing", with a 100% growth rate!
Fine them based on their EU profits, and you'll soon find they have no EU profits -- "Gee, we keep buying this software from Microsoft USA for $149 each, and selling in the EU for $149 each, and we're not making any money! I can't understand why!" One of the problems with Multinationals is that they can structure their transactions to make all their profits is whatever country benefits them the most.
You're quite correct; there are worse companies than Microsoft. However, Europe apparently still clings to it's colonial attitudes: "Well, as long as they're not killing or enslaving Europeans, why should we care?"
Giving Bill Gates an honorary knighthood, then immediately deciding Microsoft is a monopoly and should be fined up to $3.2 billion? Which is it: Microsoft good or Microsoft bad?
So, why aren't we outsourcing executive positions? Wouldn't offshoring that $40 million/year CEO position save the company a lot more than offshoring that $70,000/year programmer position? Doesn't India have any business schools?
Likewise, how difficult would it be for terrorists to take out the Indian telecommunications infrastructure overnight? What are the chances of a SARS-like epidemic taking some programmers in a country with a billion people, most of whom have no health care? Think that might have some effect on your delivery schedules? Think that even gets considered in corporate risk/benefits equations?
Better yet, put them both in an arena and don't let them out until they settle their differences. Who wouldn't pay to see spammer/virus writers and SCO executives beating the crap out of each other?
What Linux user would admit to being enough of an expert at Windows to write a virus for it? It's a little outside of most Open Source Contributor's area of expertise, isn't it?
It suits SCO and their Redmond Muppet-masters... That's an insult to Jim Henson! Heck, that's even an insult to Frank Oz! Please refer to them as "Nefarious puppet-masters" in the future; it conjures up more of an image of Bill Gates with his hand up Darl's... er... back.
This is doubly true today with offshoring -- do you really think all those companies in India and China buy a copy of your software development tools for every developer? How do you think they keep their costs down? I'm afraid there is no way to make a profit on tools in today's market.
Ever since being laid off from a seniour level job at a large ISP in 2001 I have been unable to find anything that would match my level of expertise. Could that possibly have anything to do with the way you spell "senior"???
The biggest expense for many companies is R&D Wrong. The biggest expense for most companies is Marketing... the very thing most geeks are least well equiped to do. I've wanted to start my own company for years. I just can find people to balance out my week areas of marketing, finance, and legalities. Do you know of any good marketers, accountants, and/or lawyers willing to work for free?
The Ringworld flowers are mirrored, they don't shoot heatbeams, they merely reflect the sun, IIRC. Oh, and one other thing... THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST! Oh, and if a mine is buried deep enough, heat-beaming it probably won't detonate it.
Problem is, it is far more expensive and risky to do the "missionary sell" of a new product than it is to do a "me too" product in a proven market. Look at Microsoft -- they've never really produced an innovative new product (other than MS Bob), yet they've done quite well by taking over markets that other companies proved were profitable. (CP/M, VisiCalc/Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Apple, Logitech Mouse, Nintendo/Sony game consoles, etc.)
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Red Hat added far more new installations than any other distro -- over 200,000. By the definition used in this article, a distro that goes from 1 site to 2 sites is the "fastest growing", with a 100% growth rate!
Couldn't they just force all the griefers to be on the same team?
Remember -- a mime is a terrible thing to waste!
Fine them based on their EU profits, and you'll soon find they have no EU profits -- "Gee, we keep buying this software from Microsoft USA for $149 each, and selling in the EU for $149 each, and we're not making any money! I can't understand why!" One of the problems with Multinationals is that they can structure their transactions to make all their profits is whatever country benefits them the most.
You're quite correct; there are worse companies than Microsoft. However, Europe apparently still clings to it's colonial attitudes: "Well, as long as they're not killing or enslaving Europeans, why should we care?"
Giving Bill Gates an honorary knighthood, then immediately deciding Microsoft is a monopoly and should be fined up to $3.2 billion? Which is it: Microsoft good or Microsoft bad?
Hey, don't complain -- they also check to make sure you have enough disk space to REMOVE software, too!
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
So, why aren't we outsourcing executive positions? Wouldn't offshoring that $40 million/year CEO position save the company a lot more than offshoring that $70,000/year programmer position? Doesn't India have any business schools?
Likewise, how difficult would it be for terrorists to take out the Indian telecommunications infrastructure overnight? What are the chances of a SARS-like epidemic taking some programmers in a country with a billion people, most of whom have no health care? Think that might have some effect on your delivery schedules? Think that even gets considered in corporate risk/benefits equations?
Better yet, put them both in an arena and don't let them out until they settle their differences. Who wouldn't pay to see spammer/virus writers and SCO executives beating the crap out of each other?
What Linux user would admit to being enough of an expert at Windows to write a virus for it? It's a little outside of most Open Source Contributor's area of expertise, isn't it?
It suits SCO and their Redmond Muppet-masters... That's an insult to Jim Henson! Heck, that's even an insult to Frank Oz! Please refer to them as "Nefarious puppet-masters" in the future; it conjures up more of an image of Bill Gates with his hand up Darl's... er... back.
If you really want it, work is easy to find. Well, almost right. If you really want work AND are willing to work for $9/hour, work is easy to find.
This is doubly true today with offshoring -- do you really think all those companies in India and China buy a copy of your software development tools for every developer? How do you think they keep their costs down? I'm afraid there is no way to make a profit on tools in today's market.
Ever since being laid off from a seniour level job at a large ISP in 2001 I have been unable to find anything that would match my level of expertise. Could that possibly have anything to do with the way you spell "senior"???
The biggest expense for many companies is R&D Wrong. The biggest expense for most companies is Marketing... the very thing most geeks are least well equiped to do. I've wanted to start my own company for years. I just can find people to balance out my week areas of marketing, finance, and legalities. Do you know of any good marketers, accountants, and/or lawyers willing to work for free?
It also tends to get you robbed and shot in a lot of neighborhoods.
You don't get a net connection for free. I do! Thanks to my neighbor neglecting to enable WEP encryption on his Linksys wireless router...
using unemployment as a cushion until things take off. Uh, isn't drawing unemployment while starting your own company illegal in most states?
Uh, once it has changed color, isn't it a little bit too late?
The Ringworld flowers are mirrored, they don't shoot heatbeams, they merely reflect the sun, IIRC. Oh, and one other thing... THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST! Oh, and if a mine is buried deep enough, heat-beaming it probably won't detonate it.
Actually, they're called "terminator seeds".
Problem is, it is far more expensive and risky to do the "missionary sell" of a new product than it is to do a "me too" product in a proven market. Look at Microsoft -- they've never really produced an innovative new product (other than MS Bob), yet they've done quite well by taking over markets that other companies proved were profitable. (CP/M, VisiCalc/Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Apple, Logitech Mouse, Nintendo/Sony game consoles, etc.)
What, no 'Gigli'? Or did they not even bother to put that one on DVD?