Untrue. CentOS has released versions for the SPARC and Alpha processors that are not available from Red Hat. This definitely adds value for people running those platforms.
Article's comparison reminds of a conversation on the Simpson's:
Lenny: If you ask me, Muhammad Ali in his prime, was much better than anti-lock brakes. Carl: Yeah, but what about Johnny Mathis versus diet pepsi? Moe: Oh, I cannot listen to this again!
Re:We have clicks! We have eyeballs! But profits?
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Flickr may not actually be making money for Yahoo! (other than the Pro subscriptions). But getting more people to visit their portal for their news, search, sports scores, stock quotes, etc. does make them money from the advertisements in those areas. Getting people hooked on the Yahoo! "brand" is what is important for them.
Google is doing the exact same thing - they probably don't make a lot of money on Google Earth or Google Desktop Search but it gets people thinking that their company is the one place to stop for information on the web.
Agreed -- the Mac mini announcement was the biggest and they seemed to have glossed over that in the summary.
The Intel GMA950 graphics worries me a bit. From this spec page it looks like the graphics is shared with the main memory. Especially since these machines come, by default, with only 512 MB RAM.
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"At least add something of value..."
Untrue. CentOS has released versions for the SPARC and Alpha processors that are not available from Red Hat. This definitely adds value for people running those platforms.
Article's comparison reminds of a conversation on the Simpson's:
Lenny: If you ask me, Muhammad Ali in his prime, was much better than anti-lock brakes.
Carl: Yeah, but what about Johnny Mathis versus diet pepsi?
Moe: Oh, I cannot listen to this again!
Flickr may not actually be making money for Yahoo! (other than the Pro subscriptions). But getting more people to visit their portal for their news, search, sports scores, stock quotes, etc. does make them money from the advertisements in those areas. Getting people hooked on the Yahoo! "brand" is what is important for them.
Google is doing the exact same thing - they probably don't make a lot of money on Google Earth or Google Desktop Search but it gets people thinking that their company is the one place to stop for information on the web.
Agreed -- the Mac mini announcement was the biggest and they seemed to have glossed over that in the summary. The Intel GMA950 graphics worries me a bit. From this spec page it looks like the graphics is shared with the main memory. Especially since these machines come, by default, with only 512 MB RAM.
"As one commentator notes, could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet".
Or it could mean the rest of the world will continue to be interoperable while China becomes even more isolated.