I, for one, would like to see Microsoft combine the Surface tablets with their brilliant server OS strategy. Picture, if you can, a tablet that only runs a PowerShell prompt floating in a sea blue. Yes, friends, you can own the new Surface Core. It's like Windows, only without windows, and in a convenient tablet format!
Really, is it so much to ask that the world stop putting up with this crap? Liberals in the United States cheered Ahmedinejad (sp?) when he held his little rah-rah last year to "study" whether the Holocaust occurred. "Let's celebrate the diversity of opinions." "Ooh, we shouldn't criticize the Muslims or they might get mad at us." And now it's, "Let's just pretend that their wrongly held little beliefs are sacrosanct and ignore the TRUTH." Come on people, wake up. If you tolerate this sort of politically correct hogwash, it will be repeated until it becomes truth.
Apparently, there was a recent security breach relating to a computer housing data from one of the retirement programs in the state of Georgia. Data was stolen, including names, SSNs, banking info, etc, and the state sent a form letter with applications for retrieving credit scores. Although this isn't quite the same as what you are saying, it is a breach that occurred on the government's watch. Do government agencies have the same notification duties as companies under this new legislation? Who holds government accountable when their data security is inadequate and/or fails?
I would agree that Security Spy is a pretty awesome app. We actually use Ben's app with D-Link and some other economical IP cameras and use Mac Minis. The Mini runs headless and is small enough that it can be physically secured in any number of contexts. Plus, it fits the bill of being virus resistant far better than a comparable PC solution. One other tech and I have done approximately 10 locations with 2 to 4 cameras at each site in our company, and we originally chose this route because we were given a minimalist budget by management and told to get them some video security in a hurry. We've been getting it done for $1000-$1500 per site for material costs. We also use it with our G5 XServe, and it doesn't even phase the G5.
Am I alone in wondering how it is that the comments seem overwhelmingly in favor of the government's actions and opposed to those of a sysadmin? Is you is or is you ain't my constituency? If this looney tunes boss was not getting his job done, and the official policy gave the sysadmin the duty to make record of abuse, then his actions were justified and right.
On another note, Alabama's government must be somewhat different than my state. Here, it is almost impossible to fire a government employee, no matter how blatant the offense(s).
Actually, on win2k and later, because solitare is part of the base install, you can't delete it (it regenerates).
Yes, you can remove solitaire and other games from Win 2k. You must edit sysoc.inf to unhide the Games section of Add/Remove Windows Components. Then you can remove games. I think XP changed the default behavior back to not hiding, but it's a simple task to fix one way or another.
If Apple hits the 10 million mark by Christmas I will be impressed...
I think I heard that Unca Steve and company have stated that their goal is 100 million songs sold by the end of this year. Considering that they sold 13 million to approximately 5% of the market (Apple users), and have since sold 1 million in the first 3.5 days of iTMS for Windows and Mac, that's pretty impressive. I don't know if 100 million is gonna happen, but hey, everybody needs to aspire to something.
"We know that we are being illegally deprived of millions of dollars annually..."
Wrong. You are guilty of assuming that the people who pirate software would otherwise pay your company for that software. I can guarantee you that the guy who steals cars would not otherwise pay GM, Ford, Toyota, etc. the value of those cars. The millions that you and the BSA and others like to flaunt as damages or deprivations are a bunch of crap, only touted to try to win sympathy for a bastard cause.
Next:
"The key words here are wrongful use. Is it wrong, when someone has stolen something from you, to offer them a conditional amnesty?"
Uh, yes. It is wrong. It is indicative of the fact that the BSA knows that what they're doing does constitute extortion under any legal or other definition of the term. The BSA has no legitimate power of their own. None. Zilch. Nada. They are not a law enforcement agency. Tbey are not a court of law. The only thing they are is a kangaroo court full of fools. When they attempt to use their illegitimate power to threaten me, "under color of official right," they commit extortion. Plain and simple. They have no right to interfere in any matter pertaining to me or my business. I do not have any contract with the BSA whereby I grant them license to extort my money/property. Perhaps they would like it if I investigated them for something animal poaching. I have no right to do so, nor any proof that they are actually illegally killing animals, but I'll surely grant them amnesty (conditionally, of course) if they will pay me a few hundred thousand dollars!
And finally:
"Calling this extortion is akin to the robbery victim who pleads on the news for the return of his wallet - no questions asked - and all will be forgiven: is the victim then the extortionist?"
There's a big difference. A robbery victim can usually offer pretty good evidence that he/she has actually been deprived of property. The BSA cannot. Instead, the BSA sends out hundreds of thousands of notices telling people/businesses that they are probably guilty of stealing, but they can be forgiven -provided they are willing to break out the checkbook. Isn't that what Jim Baker and the other televangelists used to do -- selling forgiveness? To further your analogy, the BSA is not pleading on the news for the return of their property. Rather, what the BSA is doing would be akin to rounding up a group of thousands of potential suspects, even though only a few may have actually committed the robbery, and telling them all that they could purchase amnesty for the low low price of $$$bling-bling. It doesn't mattter that the overwhelming majority are not guilty. All that matters to the BSA is that they collect enough money to remain solvent until next year's extortions begin. The BSA acts as though you are guilty until proven innocent, there's no way are you gonna sell me that vaporware.
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if your (sic) rolling this out large scale (like ATM's or something), you might be looking at a number in the thousands of customers who can't use your picture-password system.
...As opposed to the thousands of vision-impaired people who currently use the braille on drive-up ATM's...
but unless you have to be an early adopter for some reason or another, I would hold off for a while. The HDTV ready TV's are still way too expensive to only be HD ready. You still have to buy the HD reciever. And the true HDTV's (with built in HD receivers) are even higher. If you just want a quality big screen, those are cheaper than they've ever been and not a bad option for limping along for a couple or few years. In a couple of years, as there actually a fair number of HD broadcasts available, the HDTV's will be more reasonable (hopefully) and (hopefully) more advanced, so why pay a premium for what will be commonplace before too long? You can't beat HD quality, but a nice FD Trinitron Vega is close enough for now.
I used to have Comcast cable television and broadband internet service. When AT&T bought MediaOne, they also acquired the Comcast division that serviced my area. Eventually, the switch was made to calling the service AT&T broadband. I find it somewhat amusing that less than a year later, I'm about to be back on Comcast. AT&T broadband was so bad that I switched back to DSL and abandoned my cable television entirely. All AT&T seemed able to do was remove good channels (WGN Chicago, Speedvision, and some others) and run commercials advertising 5 non-functional customer service phone numbers and about a zillion ads informing paying customers that stealing cable tv is a crime. Maybe Comcast will learn something from AT&T's plans to take over the cable industry. Somehow, I kinda doubt it. At least maybe now I can have decent cable tv again.
Did you not notice the damage to the "hardened" PC cases as well? The bottom of the box he called his BSD router was bent. The cards inside were knocked out of their mountings. Memory was dislodged from its slots. If anything, the PC cases took a worse beating than the "cutesy" G4.
UPS has no regard for their customers. They supposedly have a strict policy forbidding drivers to leave packages outside your front door. When asked why their drivers do not pay attention to that policy, the management had this to say, "We cannot be responsible for the conduct of our drivers." Seriously, UPS, get a grip. What's worse is that drivers leave boxes at your door with no signature where anyone can steal them when the package has a big sticker that says in big bold letters "Signature Required." Sheesh. FedEx is at least marginally better, though not without their own set of shortcomings.
Take the source for what it's worth. Isn't the poster a decidedly liberal person with an axe to grind against conservatives, as well as every other group he/she sees as a threat?
After all, in this country, the US, we had an administration that told us that it depended on what the definition of "is" is, that fellatio was not sex, that we attacked a chemical weapons (read, aspirin) factory in response to terrorism, that I am considered rich because I earn $30,000 a year, and that we know everything there is to know about global warming and how it will give us all skin cancer tomorrow, etc, etc, ad nauseum. So maybe you're the same thing here - a politicizer of "facts" that you trot out as truth to serve your own agenda.
Remember that Sun Microsystems commercial from a few months back that showed the space ship dealing with some space-based threat? You know, the one with the character that was made to look as much like Mr. Spock as possible without infringing on any copyrights? Right down to him saying that "the Dot is highly logical," or something quite similar. Heck, they might even convince James Doohan to do a commercial for Sun where he says his famous "Hello, Computer" to the mouse. And the Dot could actually answer. Oh, and let's not forget the M$ Borg who would have to be the main enemy..."I am BillGatus, of Borg. Your life as it has been is over. From now on, you are one of M$."
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Not my stupidity, you pompous ass. Of course I have had many long and ultimately futile conversations with my credit card company. My credit card company, however, has decided that Flashcom is allowed to go on charging my credit card regardless of anything I say or do, simply because they are Flashcom and apparently have that right. I disagree. My credit card company does not believe that billing someone for a non-existent product is fraud. Again I strongly disagree. That's why I have escalated the matter to the Southland California Better Business Bureau, the locale which covers Flashcom's business location. If I have to, I will take legal action against Flashcom. My point was not that my fellow/. posters are communists, rather that the folks at Flashcom are. Perhaps you have heard of the practice of redistribution of property? You know, where an entity takes property from another entity (me, by virtue of charging me for service that I do not use) and redistributes that property to a third entity (in this case, those people who use the service without paying). That, my ignorant friend, is what communism/Marxism-Leninism/socialism is all about. Please try to refrain from spouting filth without first pausing to consider whether what you say connotes reasoned, cogent thoughts or simply causes you to appear unworthy of the attention your ranting will unfortunately attract.
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I'm glad to know so many people have been getting free service from those a**holes at Flashcom. I moved to a non-serviceable location several months ago, and according to Flashcom's terms, I was let out of their contract. Since then, I've been charged for seven months of service that I haven't used because I no longer live where their DSL was available. Now Flashcom doesn't answer their phones, they're in Chapter 11, and I'm out a bundle of money. I guess now I know that I've been paying for the other folks out there who use the service but don't get charged. Bloody communists.
1.5 hrs? I had a 15 minute drive. Sad, sad, sad.
Yes, it really does constitute a swift kick to the nads to all of us in the area who appreciated having some good regional Linux action. Apart from the LWE that showed up in Raleign, NC (RedHat country) one year, the ALS (ATLANTA Linux Showcase) was one of the best thing Southern Linux users had going. I say it's time we band together and start our own Linux show in the southeast. Atlanta's a good city, but then so are Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, Birmingham, etc, etc, ad nauseum. I mean, the most popular distro in the US is headquarted in the southeast. Why must everything cater to the f***ing left coast or NYC? Surely there are craploads of Linux users who don't reside in either of those two areas. Is there anyone else out there who thinks that the southeast still needs a good Linux expo?
Enough griping, I guess I'll hop down from my soap box...but I'm still pretty pissed off at those bastards for making our ALS go away...
that this is an x86 Linux only thing? I mean, after using Linux on x86 exclusively the last few years, I have now branched out and seen what Linux on Sparc and PPC can do for me. With open source software, I can of course port the stuff with little difficulty. However, this Chillisoft business being closed source, do I then have to wait to be able to buy a different platform version? That was why I quit using closed source crap in the first place!
The old days when you used to have to earn credits on the BBS by uploading a certain number of programs to be able to download. Yeah, it was sort of fair. But there must be some reason that things like that went away... Maybe people won't bother with the whole credit system. Why would they, when Napster, Gnutella, etc. are more or less free, except that you gotta be willing to give up some bandwidth and cpu time.
is probably what the real juice of this story should be. You have to know that Merkey & company have some ace in the hole that they waved at Microsoft and made the M$ legal battalions cut and run. Or perhaps they agreed to give Microsoft some really sweet deal on their products under the table, and that appeased the beast enough to make a phony public apology. While I realize that this is pure speculation on my part, I am also aware that the data that I can see out there certainly does not offer one any real insight into why Microsoft would do a complete 180 degree turn from their normal M.O. That's kind of like expecting the Pope in Rome to suddenly convert to Taoism. Not very likely. I'm sorry to have to say it, but anytime a company as big and brash as Microsoft pulls a move like this, you have to know that the stuff you and I get to see is only the tip of the iceberg...
Borland doesn't make much money from their compilers because most companies buy one or two licenses and pirate the rest.
What I was saying is not that we shouldn't make apps for Linux. Rather, we should at least take the release of Kylix with a grain of salt. There is enough hype about it as things stand. What I don't want to see is a bunch of good people from Borland having to make excuses to the Wintel world why Kylix didn't work in the Linux world. I, for one, am very much excited about the enormous potential for success that Borland is presenting the Linux community. I'm just not one to proclaim the glory of a product that has yet to be released...
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I, for one, would like to see Microsoft combine the Surface tablets with their brilliant server OS strategy. Picture, if you can, a tablet that only runs a PowerShell prompt floating in a sea blue. Yes, friends, you can own the new Surface Core. It's like Windows, only without windows, and in a convenient tablet format!
Really, is it so much to ask that the world stop putting up with this crap? Liberals in the United States cheered Ahmedinejad (sp?) when he held his little rah-rah last year to "study" whether the Holocaust occurred. "Let's celebrate the diversity of opinions." "Ooh, we shouldn't criticize the Muslims or they might get mad at us." And now it's, "Let's just pretend that their wrongly held little beliefs are sacrosanct and ignore the TRUTH." Come on people, wake up. If you tolerate this sort of politically correct hogwash, it will be repeated until it becomes truth.
Apparently, there was a recent security breach relating to a computer housing data from one of the retirement programs in the state of Georgia. Data was stolen, including names, SSNs, banking info, etc, and the state sent a form letter with applications for retrieving credit scores. Although this isn't quite the same as what you are saying, it is a breach that occurred on the government's watch. Do government agencies have the same notification duties as companies under this new legislation? Who holds government accountable when their data security is inadequate and/or fails?
I would agree that Security Spy is a pretty awesome app. We actually use Ben's app with D-Link and some other economical IP cameras and use Mac Minis. The Mini runs headless and is small enough that it can be physically secured in any number of contexts. Plus, it fits the bill of being virus resistant far better than a comparable PC solution. One other tech and I have done approximately 10 locations with 2 to 4 cameras at each site in our company, and we originally chose this route because we were given a minimalist budget by management and told to get them some video security in a hurry. We've been getting it done for $1000-$1500 per site for material costs. We also use it with our G5 XServe, and it doesn't even phase the G5.
Am I alone in wondering how it is that the comments seem overwhelmingly in favor of the government's actions and opposed to those of a sysadmin? Is you is or is you ain't my constituency? If this looney tunes boss was not getting his job done, and the official policy gave the sysadmin the duty to make record of abuse, then his actions were justified and right.
On another note, Alabama's government must be somewhat different than my state. Here, it is almost impossible to fire a government employee, no matter how blatant the offense(s).
Actually, on win2k and later, because solitare is part of the base install, you can't delete it (it regenerates).
Yes, you can remove solitaire and other games from Win 2k. You must edit sysoc.inf to unhide the Games section of Add/Remove Windows Components. Then you can remove games. I think XP changed the default behavior back to not hiding, but it's a simple task to fix one way or another.
If Apple hits the 10 million mark by Christmas I will be impressed...
I think I heard that Unca Steve and company have stated that their goal is 100 million songs sold by the end of this year. Considering that they sold 13 million to approximately 5% of the market (Apple users), and have since sold 1 million in the first 3.5 days of iTMS for Windows and Mac, that's pretty impressive. I don't know if 100 million is gonna happen, but hey, everybody needs to aspire to something.
An amusing interpretation, but how about calling it a billy goat because it will eat anything?
Let's start this off here:
"We know that we are being illegally deprived of millions of dollars annually..."
Wrong. You are guilty of assuming that the people who pirate software would otherwise pay your company for that software. I can guarantee you that the guy who steals cars would not otherwise pay GM, Ford, Toyota, etc. the value of those cars. The millions that you and the BSA and others like to flaunt as damages or deprivations are a bunch of crap, only touted to try to win sympathy for a bastard cause.
Next:
"The key words here are wrongful use. Is it wrong, when someone has stolen something from you, to offer them a conditional amnesty?"
Uh, yes. It is wrong. It is indicative of the fact that the BSA knows that what they're doing does constitute extortion under any legal or other definition of the term. The BSA has no legitimate power of their own. None. Zilch. Nada. They are not a law enforcement agency. Tbey are not a court of law. The only thing they are is a kangaroo court full of fools. When they attempt to use their illegitimate power to threaten me, "under color of official right," they commit extortion. Plain and simple. They have no right to interfere in any matter pertaining to me or my business. I do not have any contract with the BSA whereby I grant them license to extort my money/property. Perhaps they would like it if I investigated them for something animal poaching. I have no right to do so, nor any proof that they are actually illegally killing animals, but I'll surely grant them amnesty (conditionally, of course) if they will pay me a few hundred thousand dollars!
And finally:
"Calling this extortion is akin to the robbery victim who pleads on the news for the return of his wallet - no questions asked - and all will be forgiven: is the victim then the extortionist?"
There's a big difference. A robbery victim can usually offer pretty good evidence that he/she has actually been deprived of property. The BSA cannot. Instead, the BSA sends out hundreds of thousands of notices telling people/businesses that they are probably guilty of stealing, but they can be forgiven -provided they are willing to break out the checkbook. Isn't that what Jim Baker and the other televangelists used to do -- selling forgiveness? To further your analogy, the BSA is not pleading on the news for the return of their property. Rather, what the BSA is doing would be akin to rounding up a group of thousands of potential suspects, even though only a few may have actually committed the robbery, and telling them all that they could purchase amnesty for the low low price of $$$bling-bling. It doesn't mattter that the overwhelming majority are not guilty. All that matters to the BSA is that they collect enough money to remain solvent until next year's extortions begin. The BSA acts as though you are guilty until proven innocent, there's no way are you gonna sell me that vaporware.
if your (sic) rolling this out large scale (like ATM's or something), you might be looking at a number in the thousands of customers who can't use your picture-password system.
...As opposed to the thousands of vision-impaired people who currently use the braille on drive-up ATM's...
but unless you have to be an early adopter for some reason or another, I would hold off for a while. The HDTV ready TV's are still way too expensive to only be HD ready. You still have to buy the HD reciever. And the true HDTV's (with built in HD receivers) are even higher. If you just want a quality big screen, those are cheaper than they've ever been and not a bad option for limping along for a couple or few years. In a couple of years, as there actually a fair number of HD broadcasts available, the HDTV's will be more reasonable (hopefully) and (hopefully) more advanced, so why pay a premium for what will be commonplace before too long? You can't beat HD quality, but a nice FD Trinitron Vega is close enough for now.
is new again...
I used to have Comcast cable television and broadband internet service. When AT&T bought MediaOne, they also acquired the Comcast division that serviced my area. Eventually, the switch was made to calling the service AT&T broadband. I find it somewhat amusing that less than a year later, I'm about to be back on Comcast. AT&T broadband was so bad that I switched back to DSL and abandoned my cable television entirely. All AT&T seemed able to do was remove good channels (WGN Chicago, Speedvision, and some others) and run commercials advertising 5 non-functional customer service phone numbers and about a zillion ads informing paying customers that stealing cable tv is a crime. Maybe Comcast will learn something from AT&T's plans to take over the cable industry. Somehow, I kinda doubt it. At least maybe now I can have decent cable tv again.
I take care of the place while the master is away. And what's up with those knees of his?
Did you not notice the damage to the "hardened" PC cases as well? The bottom of the box he called his BSD router was bent. The cards inside were knocked out of their mountings. Memory was dislodged from its slots. If anything, the PC cases took a worse beating than the "cutesy" G4.
UPS has no regard for their customers. They supposedly have a strict policy forbidding drivers to leave packages outside your front door. When asked why their drivers do not pay attention to that policy, the management had this to say, "We cannot be responsible for the conduct of our drivers." Seriously, UPS, get a grip. What's worse is that drivers leave boxes at your door with no signature where anyone can steal them when the package has a big sticker that says in big bold letters "Signature Required." Sheesh. FedEx is at least marginally better, though not without their own set of shortcomings.
Take the source for what it's worth. Isn't the poster a decidedly liberal person with an axe to grind against conservatives, as well as every other group he/she sees as a threat?
After all, in this country, the US, we had an administration that told us that it depended on what the definition of "is" is, that fellatio was not sex, that we attacked a chemical weapons (read, aspirin) factory in response to terrorism, that I am considered rich because I earn $30,000 a year, and that we know everything there is to know about global warming and how it will give us all skin cancer tomorrow, etc, etc, ad nauseum. So maybe you're the same thing here - a politicizer of "facts" that you trot out as truth to serve your own agenda.
Apparently you have already discounted that...
Remember that Sun Microsystems commercial from a few months back that showed the space ship dealing with some space-based threat? You know, the one with the character that was made to look as much like Mr. Spock as possible without infringing on any copyrights? Right down to him saying that "the Dot is highly logical," or something quite similar. Heck, they might even convince James Doohan to do a commercial for Sun where he says his famous "Hello, Computer" to the mouse. And the Dot could actually answer. Oh, and let's not forget the M$ Borg who would have to be the main enemy..."I am BillGatus, of Borg. Your life as it has been is over. From now on, you are one of M$."
Not my stupidity, you pompous ass. Of course I have had many long and ultimately futile conversations with my credit card company. My credit card company, however, has decided that Flashcom is allowed to go on charging my credit card regardless of anything I say or do, simply because they are Flashcom and apparently have that right. I disagree. My credit card company does not believe that billing someone for a non-existent product is fraud. Again I strongly disagree. That's why I have escalated the matter to the Southland California Better Business Bureau, the locale which covers Flashcom's business location. If I have to, I will take legal action against Flashcom. My point was not that my fellow /. posters are communists, rather that the folks at Flashcom are. Perhaps you have heard of the practice of redistribution of property? You know, where an entity takes property from another entity (me, by virtue of charging me for service that I do not use) and redistributes that property to a third entity (in this case, those people who use the service without paying). That, my ignorant friend, is what communism/Marxism-Leninism/socialism is all about. Please try to refrain from spouting filth without first pausing to consider whether what you say connotes reasoned, cogent thoughts or simply causes you to appear unworthy of the attention your ranting will unfortunately attract.
I'm glad to know so many people have been getting free service from those a**holes at Flashcom. I moved to a non-serviceable location several months ago, and according to Flashcom's terms, I was let out of their contract. Since then, I've been charged for seven months of service that I haven't used because I no longer live where their DSL was available. Now Flashcom doesn't answer their phones, they're in Chapter 11, and I'm out a bundle of money. I guess now I know that I've been paying for the other folks out there who use the service but don't get charged. Bloody communists.
1.5 hrs? I had a 15 minute drive. Sad, sad, sad. Yes, it really does constitute a swift kick to the nads to all of us in the area who appreciated having some good regional Linux action. Apart from the LWE that showed up in Raleign, NC (RedHat country) one year, the ALS (ATLANTA Linux Showcase) was one of the best thing Southern Linux users had going. I say it's time we band together and start our own Linux show in the southeast. Atlanta's a good city, but then so are Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, Birmingham, etc, etc, ad nauseum. I mean, the most popular distro in the US is headquarted in the southeast. Why must everything cater to the f***ing left coast or NYC? Surely there are craploads of Linux users who don't reside in either of those two areas. Is there anyone else out there who thinks that the southeast still needs a good Linux expo? Enough griping, I guess I'll hop down from my soap box...but I'm still pretty pissed off at those bastards for making our ALS go away...
@Home: "Oiga, senor, we are an ISP. You know, the broadband regime."
Customer: "If you're the ISP, where are your network admins?"
@Home: "Network admins? We ain't got no network admins! We don't need no network admins! I don't have to show you any steenking network admins!"
Let's try "famous hightech people's homes." You should not make the plural of the word home by adding an apostrophe and an s, just an s.
that this is an x86 Linux only thing? I mean, after using Linux on x86 exclusively the last few years, I have now branched out and seen what Linux on Sparc and PPC can do for me. With open source software, I can of course port the stuff with little difficulty. However, this Chillisoft business being closed source, do I then have to wait to be able to buy a different platform version? That was why I quit using closed source crap in the first place!
The old days when you used to have to earn credits on the BBS by uploading a certain number of programs to be able to download. Yeah, it was sort of fair. But there must be some reason that things like that went away... Maybe people won't bother with the whole credit system. Why would they, when Napster, Gnutella, etc. are more or less free, except that you gotta be willing to give up some bandwidth and cpu time.
is probably what the real juice of this story should be. You have to know that Merkey & company have some ace in the hole that they waved at Microsoft and made the M$ legal battalions cut and run. Or perhaps they agreed to give Microsoft some really sweet deal on their products under the table, and that appeased the beast enough to make a phony public apology. While I realize that this is pure speculation on my part, I am also aware that the data that I can see out there certainly does not offer one any real insight into why Microsoft would do a complete 180 degree turn from their normal M.O. That's kind of like expecting the Pope in Rome to suddenly convert to Taoism. Not very likely. I'm sorry to have to say it, but anytime a company as big and brash as Microsoft pulls a move like this, you have to know that the stuff you and I get to see is only the tip of the iceberg...
Borland doesn't make much money from their compilers because most companies buy one or two licenses and pirate the rest.
What I was saying is not that we shouldn't make apps for Linux. Rather, we should at least take the release of Kylix with a grain of salt. There is enough hype about it as things stand. What I don't want to see is a bunch of good people from Borland having to make excuses to the Wintel world why Kylix didn't work in the Linux world. I, for one, am very much excited about the enormous potential for success that Borland is presenting the Linux community. I'm just not one to proclaim the glory of a product that has yet to be released...