For those of us hating Microsoft, let them continue to acquire. We all know what happens when we eat to much. We expand, become bloarted, cannnot walk without wobbling.... they may very well overexpand.
This presents an interesting problem. As a practical matter, anti-spam and anti-virus need to be bundled in the same Internet mail gateway (at least this is how this is done in practice). So what if someone sued Trend Micro because their anti-spam technology infringed on a patent? Or, perhaps the encryption technology that is built into Trend Micro Internet Messaging Security Suite?
BTW, I have used their gateway in the past, and found it sorely lacking in anti-spam capability. This makes it not a very good product, which makes me wonder just what the lawsuit is defending.
Sure, why not? I have been using Microsoft TechNet for a while now, and I kept getting these pop-ip prompts to install something called "Silverlight" just about every time. I have to use TechNet to do my job, so I finally just relented and hit the "OK" button.
Maybe Microsoft should come up with a new logo program: "Microsoft adware Aware"
There is a lot of grey area with open source. Sometimes open source becomes closed, or has a closed fork. Companies compile open source in their closed source products. At least one Internet mail gateway vendor includes a closed source, proprietary version of Sendmail. If open source becomes closed, then why couldn't closed source become open?
That having been said, some battles are not worth fighting. Why make your employer suspicious about source code leaks?
That might be better than blaming the e-mail administrator, which I have seen happen. Bad software design is more like it. If autocomplete can choose two different names, then why would it choose one of the two? That is not exactly transparent to the end-user.
I couldn't agree more. I was watching The Paper Chase, a movie from 1973, about the education of Harvard law students, and this got me to thinking. What if I had been at the zoo and I happened to be carrying a leg of lamb. The tiger, smelling the lamb, got agitated and jumped his enclosure. Or what if one of the chimpanzees escaped, upset the tiger, and the tiger decided to jump his enclosure and eat the chimpanzee and then the hot dog salesman. The entertaining possibilities are many, perhaps even endless. It just so happens in this case that someone who was very young -- young people often do things that disregard their inherent mortality -- did something that was not smart but not really out of step with what an unsupervised youngster would do. Do we then say that it was the young man's fault for taunting the tiger? I don't think so.
I've had similar experiences. I document, so that I can go on vacation on not worry. Then, sure enough.... this isn't about buy-in from management, but from IT staff. The incentive that I personally use is to refer people to the documentation when they ask me a question for which they should obviously know the answer.
It costs a lot of effort to deploy an app to thousands of users, so not many IT departments are going to install Firefox when IE7 works OK -- and even better for some types of internal documents producted by MS-Office. Firefox needs to keep doing what (I think) it has been doing, which is to make the end-user install very easy.
Yes, I am -- we all are, and that's the point, isn't it? I hate to see a great, open source browser take a slide downward. The IE patches come with the OS patches, and so these are effectively mandatory.
FIOS does not go everywhere. In Washington, DC, Verizon does not support FIOS. Comcast here is awful from a television perspective, with lots of "server errors", hanging, and extended pauses. I have gotten a better picture by watching a television show off the Internet, using DSL, ironically.
It seems like the number of times I have had to restart Firefox lately because of patches is increasing. Does this make it more secure? Or does it mean that some programmer cannot get it right the first time (or the second time, or the tenth time)? Besides, all the Firefox patches lately have become really irritating.
Does anyone see a connection between this story and the previous post about outsourcing college e-mail? If Google can give up an IP address, then what else can it give up?
I tried to return something to a Best Buy store that I had ordered online. The problem was that their computer system said that the item had not yet been delivered. This, despite my standing in line with the item in hand. I called Best Buy corporate and they said that there was nothing they could do for me, despite the fact that I had called Best Buy ahead of time and checked their web site to see if I could make the return.
Best Buy really impressed me as a loser corporation with a loser mentality.
I agree, and it's about the (lack of) software quality too. The article seems to suggest that Microsoft should make MS-Office open source, but has anyone stopped to think that the code would, for most of us who can read and change code, be "read only"? It certainly will NOT build with gcc, but rather with all sorts of Microsoft tools.
Couldn't they let the rest of us know about SOME of the patents? How is that administratively impossible for the biggest software corporation?
If it is impossible, then doesn't it seem like there is something really wrong here? Isn't a patent supposed to be tangible enough to warrant a claim or some sort? Then, how can it be impossible to list what the patent violations ars?
One more possinle naive question: didn't Linux borrow heavily from UNIX, much more so than from anything Microsoft has done? And didn't UNIX predate Microsoft?
I can sure agree on that when it comes to compression algorithms. If you wanted to do something interesting or creative with Lempel-Ziv, arithmetic coding, and a few others, as I recall, you would have to account for the patents already held on these. In a course on compression that I took a few years back, part of the mid-term was to actually exectute these algorithms on paper!
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For those of us hating Microsoft, let them continue to acquire. We all know what happens when we eat to much. We expand, become bloarted, cannnot walk without wobbling .... they may very well overexpand.
This presents an interesting problem. As a practical matter, anti-spam and anti-virus need to be bundled in the same Internet mail gateway (at least this is how this is done in practice). So what if someone sued Trend Micro because their anti-spam technology infringed on a patent? Or, perhaps the encryption technology that is built into Trend Micro Internet Messaging Security Suite?
BTW, I have used their gateway in the past, and found it sorely lacking in anti-spam capability. This makes it not a very good product, which makes me wonder just what the lawsuit is defending.
Sure, why not? I have been using Microsoft TechNet for a while now, and I kept getting these pop-ip prompts to install something called "Silverlight" just about every time. I have to use TechNet to do my job, so I finally just relented and hit the "OK" button.
Maybe Microsoft should come up with a new logo program: "Microsoft adware Aware"
There is a lot of grey area with open source. Sometimes open source becomes closed, or has a closed fork. Companies compile open source in their closed source products. At least one Internet mail gateway vendor includes a closed source, proprietary version of Sendmail. If open source becomes closed, then why couldn't closed source become open?
That having been said, some battles are not worth fighting. Why make your employer suspicious about source code leaks?
That might be better than blaming the e-mail administrator, which I have seen happen. Bad software design is more like it. If autocomplete can choose two different names, then why would it choose one of the two? That is not exactly transparent to the end-user.
I couldn't agree more. I was watching The Paper Chase, a movie from 1973, about the education of Harvard law students, and this got me to thinking. What if I had been at the zoo and I happened to be carrying a leg of lamb. The tiger, smelling the lamb, got agitated and jumped his enclosure. Or what if one of the chimpanzees escaped, upset the tiger, and the tiger decided to jump his enclosure and eat the chimpanzee and then the hot dog salesman. The entertaining possibilities are many, perhaps even endless. It just so happens in this case that someone who was very young -- young people often do things that disregard their inherent mortality -- did something that was not smart but not really out of step with what an unsupervised youngster would do. Do we then say that it was the young man's fault for taunting the tiger? I don't think so.
Good movie, BTW.
I've had similar experiences. I document, so that I can go on vacation on not worry. Then, sure enough .... this isn't about buy-in from management, but from IT staff. The incentive that I personally use is to refer people to the documentation when they ask me a question for which they should obviously know the answer.
Here is the article, though it is limited to the high-end Symmetrix. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/14/EMC-will-replace-disks-with-solid-state-drives_1.html I wonder if we could do the same thing with a few dozen thumb drives.
It costs a lot of effort to deploy an app to thousands of users, so not many IT departments are going to install Firefox when IE7 works OK -- and even better for some types of internal documents producted by MS-Office. Firefox needs to keep doing what (I think) it has been doing, which is to make the end-user install very easy.
Are you sure? I did not go to graduate school to be a plumber.
Kind of adds new meaning to the phrase "Information Life Cycle Management."
I liked the user statistics. What a joke. My IE7 came with the computer I bought, and Microsoft also sneaks it into their "Windows Update."
Yes, I am -- we all are, and that's the point, isn't it? I hate to see a great, open source browser take a slide downward. The IE patches come with the OS patches, and so these are effectively mandatory.
FIOS does not go everywhere. In Washington, DC, Verizon does not support FIOS. Comcast here is awful from a television perspective, with lots of "server errors", hanging, and extended pauses. I have gotten a better picture by watching a television show off the Internet, using DSL, ironically.
It seems like the number of times I have had to restart Firefox lately because of patches is increasing. Does this make it more secure? Or does it mean that some programmer cannot get it right the first time (or the second time, or the tenth time)? Besides, all the Firefox patches lately have become really irritating.
Does anyone see a connection between this story and the previous post about outsourcing college e-mail? If Google can give up an IP address, then what else can it give up?
I agree. That is what keeps America Online's ISP business on life support.
I tried to return something to a Best Buy store that I had ordered online. The problem was that their computer system said that the item had not yet been delivered. This, despite my standing in line with the item in hand. I called Best Buy corporate and they said that there was nothing they could do for me, despite the fact that I had called Best Buy ahead of time and checked their web site to see if I could make the return. Best Buy really impressed me as a loser corporation with a loser mentality.
I wonder if this would be enough to persuade Bill and Karolyn Slowsky (https://theslowskys.com) to go with Comcast.
Very nice. I like the glazed-over, mindless look in the organic eye.
I think if someone could come up with a penguin with a Borg eye-piece, it would be very funny. Maybe give him a Microsoft T-shirt, too.
I agree, and it's about the (lack of) software quality too. The article seems to suggest that Microsoft should make MS-Office open source, but has anyone stopped to think that the code would, for most of us who can read and change code, be "read only"? It certainly will NOT build with gcc, but rather with all sorts of Microsoft tools.
Couldn't they let the rest of us know about SOME of the patents? How is that administratively impossible for the biggest software corporation?
If it is impossible, then doesn't it seem like there is something really wrong here? Isn't a patent supposed to be tangible enough to warrant a claim or some sort? Then, how can it be impossible to list what the patent violations ars?
One more possinle naive question: didn't Linux borrow heavily from UNIX, much more so than from anything Microsoft has done? And didn't UNIX predate Microsoft?
I am more baffled than ever.
I can sure agree on that when it comes to compression algorithms. If you wanted to do something interesting or creative with Lempel-Ziv, arithmetic coding, and a few others, as I recall, you would have to account for the patents already held on these. In a course on compression that I took a few years back, part of the mid-term was to actually exectute these algorithms on paper!
.... maybe for something like slander? Microsoft should make their case, or be sued.