WINE and Samba were both reverse-engineered. I believe that the alternative Java environments were written from specifications. That's a big difference in my book.
Clearly they can't "kill" Mozilla, but if they stopped paying their Mozilla staff, it would be a bad thing for the project.
(Yes, Slashdot Pod People, I know that someone else could pick up where they left off, but it could take a while, and they might not have the expertise, and if these hypothetical third parties care so much, why aren't they paying people to work on Mozilla full-time already?)
All they have to do is say "the average user used X bytes, N percent of our cap last month", and then tell people on their bills how much they used the previous month. That would calm people's fears. Yes, people can be easily frightened, but it won't take a marketing genius to figure out how to calm their fears on this issue.
There is some truth to this, but for the most part it's bogus. There's a lot to the Mac OS X kernel that's not BSD at all. For example, the SMP stuff is at the Mach layer, if I understand correctly.
Not to be mean, but please don't shoot your mouth off like this, it's bad for everybody. It's ok to speculate, but mark it as speculation.
The Micron system I bought in 1996 is made entirely of standard parts. It's been a good machine for me, and with the caveat that it's not a statistically significant sample, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Micron to anyone. Well, the Micron of 1996, who knows what they're doing these days.
Simple economics. If Abe can sell software cheaper than Barry because Barry's paying full price for licenses and Abe's not, Abe wins. So Barry's got a choice: he can wait for Abe to put him out of business, he can start "pirating" as well, or he can turn Abe in. Given that the last is the least risky, what's wrong with it? Look at it from Barry's point of view: isn't he pretty stupid to have let his competititor find out what he was up to?
I like the model of the "storage hierarchy", which organizes storage according to its distance/ latency from the CPU. Registers, L1, L2, L3 if present, main memory, disk. This model seems to fit pretty well with the way a modern virtual memory system organizes the world.
The line between "storage" and "memory" is pretty thin. The differences between DRAM and hard drives are basically access speed and persistence, and while they're important, neither is essential. I mean, ask yourself what would happen if main memory became persistent (I think there was a/. article about this recently), or if hard drives became as fast as DRAM.
Interesting stuff you post though. I take it your father was on Mauchly's team?
Slashdotters seem to me to be very well-informed when it comes to the flaws of major bills in Congress that affect the Internet, somewhat well-informed when it comes to copyrights and patents, and largely clueless about all other governmental affairs.
I'm largely clueless about government business as well, but I don't go around making Weighty Pronouncements about The Way Things Should Be as so many here are wont to do.
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I am under the impression that Oracle requires
SysV SHM. I wonder if this means that Mac OS X
is getting the SysV IPC interfaces.
There are two more, from the article:
5. Integrating perl into the BSD build system is
difficult and error-prone.
6. Related to the above, perl has cross-build problems.
That's absolutely true! But maybe you should
have shed a tear for DEC. Unix was invented on
a DEC machine.
Laser printing has a much lower per-page cost
than inkjet printing.
WINE and Samba were both reverse-engineered.
I believe that the alternative Java environments
were written from specifications. That's a big
difference in my book.
"Aesthetics" refers to beauty, not specifically
visual beauty, according to my dictionary.
Would *you* like to live in primitive conditions?
Microsoft has never been afraid to do an about-face.
"Oceania is at war with EastAsia. Oceania has
always been at war with EastAsia."
(I think by "deplementing" you mean "end-of-lifing.")
> If it wasn't for the GPL, Microsoft would
> port all their software to Linux.
What about the GPL keeps Microsoft from porting
their software to Linux?
(This should be interesting.)
I bet they're using mostly the same codebase for
all the ports except the Windows one.
Aren't you cool.
There are people who are familiar with Dan Clowes
and still like the Simpsons, you know.
But we're probably not as cool as you.
Clearly they can't "kill" Mozilla, but if they
stopped paying their Mozilla staff, it would be
a bad thing for the project.
(Yes, Slashdot Pod People, I know that someone else
could pick up where they left off, but it could take
a while, and they might not have the expertise, and
if these hypothetical third parties care so much,
why aren't they paying people to work on Mozilla
full-time already?)
All they have to do is say "the average user used
X bytes, N percent of our cap last month", and then
tell people on their bills how much they used the
previous month. That would calm people's fears.
Yes, people can be easily frightened, but it won't
take a marketing genius to figure out how to calm
their fears on this issue.
I don't know if you're reading this, but if you are,
I just want to say: thank you.
There is some truth to this, but for the most part
it's bogus. There's a lot to the Mac OS X kernel
that's not BSD at all. For example, the SMP stuff
is at the Mach layer, if I understand correctly.
Not to be mean, but please don't shoot your mouth
off like this, it's bad for everybody. It's ok to
speculate, but mark it as speculation.
All of the software you mentioned runs on FreeBSD.
Including Red Hat, if you use VMware.
The Micron system I bought in 1996 is made
entirely of standard parts. It's been a good
machine for me, and with the caveat that it's
not a statistically significant sample, I
wouldn't hesitate to recommend Micron to anyone.
Well, the Micron of 1996, who knows what they're
doing these days.
Simple economics. If Abe can sell software cheaper
than Barry because Barry's paying full price for
licenses and Abe's not, Abe wins. So Barry's got
a choice: he can wait for Abe to put him out of
business, he can start "pirating" as well, or he
can turn Abe in. Given that the last is the least
risky, what's wrong with it? Look at it from
Barry's point of view: isn't he pretty stupid to
have let his competititor find out what he was up
to?
I like the model of the "storage hierarchy",
which organizes storage according to its distance/
latency from the CPU. Registers, L1, L2, L3 if
present, main memory, disk. This model seems to
fit pretty well with the way a modern virtual
memory system organizes the world.
The line between "storage" and "memory" is pretty /. article about this
thin. The differences between DRAM and hard drives
are basically access speed and persistence, and while
they're important, neither is essential. I mean, ask
yourself what would happen if main memory became
persistent (I think there was a
recently), or if hard drives became as fast as DRAM.
Interesting stuff you post though. I take it
your father was on Mauchly's team?
Prove it.
They did that before AT&T bought them.
Did it occur to you that maybe the person
transcribing his speech got it wrong?
The Bill of Rights is short and punchy.
Slashdotters seem to me to be very well-informed
when it comes to the flaws of major bills in Congress
that affect the Internet, somewhat well-informed
when it comes to copyrights and patents, and largely
clueless about all other governmental affairs.
I'm largely clueless about government business as
well, but I don't go around making Weighty
Pronouncements about The Way Things Should Be as
so many here are wont to do.