Posted on 08/27/2005 7:10:39 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
I'm all for American business making it; however, I believe Novell would pretty much be considered a failure. Until they make it as big as they once were (or at least in the same ball park), they should be considered a failure.
Will they have a revival...maybe...a long shot wins the race every once and a while. But this is an argument best left for the stock market. If you think they'll win bet on them. If you think they'll lose bet against them. And if you just don't know...stay away.
Or is there some special part of the license I don't understand that makes my code your code, and your code only your code?
I guess a partnership in OSS would actually be a bad thing as you are dwindling the competitiion to see who can write the best OSS code that everyone else can try and find a way to make money on.
Big 'Ol OSS ping.
LINUX BAD!!
LINUX BAD!!!!!!!!!!
I see Golden DoDo has visited us already this morning
Actually that makes a lot of sense. Since Linux distros keep getting bought and sold as companies try to find a way to make money off it, but keep failing. Getting your distro from a gov't backed version would mean it has a longer term support. And what country is better at pirating software than China, it's just this time they found a "legal" way to do it. Since they don't want to pay for their OS, they'd rather force ("pay") their local commies to write their OS for them. The good news is all the OSS fans will get a long term support of Linux. Of course calling to the Chicoms for support may be a bitter pill to swallow.
I bet some of that windows source code ends up in Linux one day, and then all that "free" software will cost the companies millions.
We went over this in great depth a few days ago.
They released portions of it to China to prove the BS about these "backdoors" is BS, a reasonable fear that China has. The code is still proprietary.
Considering the OS market in China is worth billions, wouldn't you?
That's all fine, but I'm not doing the "group hug" thing.
Of course. Share and share alike, isn't that what OSS is? If he doesn't share, he would be just like {gasp} Micro$oft!
LOL!!! You guys crack me up.
it's all in good fun. :)
It's obviously not Novell's fault over this. Also the part where you mentioned that it was $33 a share in 2000 is also very misleading because ALL tech companies were booming during that time period. So, I think you are proving the point that Novell has pretty much stayed steady over the years, and in fact, has seen a slight upturn since purchasing Suse (after the initial hype). Good job.
LOL
Yeah. It is good to learn this stuff because IT and technology is constantly changing.
As for the Linux is for Commies stuff, that's just stupid :)
Have a good one. Time to get some stuff done and play from poker.
Why did? Please provide a link as I do not remember Project Rotor being discussed.
http://research.microsoft.com/programs/europe/rotor/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/SharedSourceCLI/
"Released on 27 March 2002, Rotor provides a free, shared-source implementation of Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime platform, including source code for C# and Jscript compilers, as well as for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) platform itself. It also contains source code for a variety of useful developer tools, including a Common Intermediate Language (CIL) assembler, a disassembler, a debugger, a profiler, and an assembly linker. The Rotor code can be used, modified, and re-distributed, for non-commercial experimentation, as a basis for courseware or lab projects, or as a guide for those developing their own commercial ECMA implementations. (The specifications, already ratified as international standards by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA Standards 242, 334 and 335), are undergoing ISO Fast Track processing.)
In April 2002 and November 2003, Microsoft Research published two requests for research proposals to initially help get things going and then for purposes of research, teaching and community building."
Some parts of it get a bit silly as we are in a world economy. However, when you look at the true underpinnings, OSS is about as close as we'll ever get to working communism.
Each programmer adding what he can to the collective community. Each user taking what he needs from the collective community.
"Why not start a ping list for your articles? N3wBI3's is for open source, maybe you could start one for non-OSS articles?"
Or, Golden Eagle and Bush2000 could start their own two man ping list and call it "crabby tin-foil hatters who call everyone communists at the drop of a pin". But then they'd have no one but themselves to spew venom at.
Open source is here to stay, the Chicoms already steal Microsoft OS far more than they buy it, so even if Linux was magically taken from the universe it isn't like tey would suffer because they are thieves anyway.
No, B2000 and GE just like to bark at the moon.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!" - Karl Marx
Use the list with the permission of the memebrs on it but dont call it an OSS ping, please..
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