I don't think its power abuse we're seeing here. Its more like the Dunning–Kruger effect.
These young'uns have learned enough to grok a tittle of what it takes to be a successful software engineer and think "This is easy!" since the majority of people who started on the CS track dropped back to a business major after they got stumped on the first "Hello World" program.
The arrogance will subside in time, once you're forced into a world where your cafeteria card requires funding and your student loans must now be paid...
They should be prevented for distributing updates to their existing distribution that are covered by GPLv3. In essence their distribution will be locked at the current level.
That is, of course, unless they want to dissolve their evil alliance...
I did read the rest of the article and your criticism is definitely on the right track. If this guy has ever seen a linux distro it was probably RedHat version 5 when RPM hell was par for the course.
After visiting his web page, I see that he and his wife are the company and they offer consultation services. If you're talking to the companies that can afford it "Buy microsoft and keep current" will always keep the lights on....
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Not freakonomics but psychohistory.
I don't think its power abuse we're seeing here. Its more like the Dunning–Kruger effect.
These young'uns have learned enough to grok a tittle of what it takes to be a successful software engineer and think "This is easy!" since the majority of people who started on the CS track dropped back to a business major after they got stumped on the first "Hello World" program.
The arrogance will subside in time, once you're forced into a world where your cafeteria card requires funding and your student loans must now be paid...
But you'll still be paying your cable company - since I'm sure thats where your internet access comes from...
True - but look at the end user agreement for the software.
You don't own it.
They should be prevented for distributing updates to their existing distribution that are covered by GPLv3. In essence their distribution will be locked at the current level.
That is, of course, unless they want to dissolve their evil alliance...
Probably not as bad as that, but I'd bet they're comparing two separate environments: Windows for desktop and Linux for everything else...
I'd bet the desktop doesn't do much in the way of financial transactions except act as a terminal to a Linux-based platform.
I did read the rest of the article and your criticism is definitely on the right track. If this guy has ever seen a linux distro it was probably RedHat version 5 when RPM hell was par for the course.
After visiting his web page, I see that he and his wife are the company and they offer consultation services. If you're talking to the companies that can afford it "Buy microsoft and keep current" will always keep the lights on....
Not really - Its just that its harder to CATCH a pirate...
Why? the site would be /.'ed in short order anyway!