[NTLUG:Discuss] Sourcing Linux

[Tom Adelstein]

tumelty4 at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
>>Tom Adelstein wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>tumelty4 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This article is very interesting. Especially the
>>
>>last
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>>>>2 sentences in the  2nd paragraph:
>>>>
>>>>
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> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808120
> 
>>>I don't think I have ever taken up for Bill Gates,
>>
>>but the quote used by 
>>
>>>the journalist is so far out of context, it verges
>>
>>on heresy.
>>
>>>I promise that if "cloning" was an issue, then
>>
>>Microsoft has the market 
>>
>>>cornered. They have connectors for everything from
>>
>>Banyan Vines, Novell, 
>>
>>>Lotus Notes and so on. They ever had a way to use
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>>early versions of 
>>
>>>Excel like Lotus 1-2-3. Word had a WordPerfect key
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>>mapping function.
>>
>>Interesting point.  For me, the one that caught my
>>attention and was easily 
>>the stupidiest paragraph:
>>
>>---
>>New tools could help prevent code from being
>>illegally copied. For example, 
>>digital-rights-management technology might be
>>applied to software-development 
>>processes, says Microsoft senior VP Eric Rudder.
>>"There are probably some very 
>>interesting things for us to think about in how
>>developers protect models, 
>>chunks of code, or specs," he says.
>>---
>>
>>DRM doesn't have a hope or prayer in being effective
>>against the problem being 
>>discussed (code copying).  Can you say "retype"? 
>>Yeh I thought you could. :-)
>>
>>This is merely PR to bring DRM into the discussion
>>in the hopes of moving it 
>>forward.
>>
>>Oh I wish for the ability to whack the announcers of
>>stupid or impossible 
>>statements!
>>
>>Kevin
> 
> 
> I just remembered something I was told a couple of
> yrs. A friend told me that MS wants to eventually
> verify every piece of code written with its software
> (c/c++/j++/VB/etc...). Supposedly this would mean
> submitting ever piece of code one writes to M$ so they
> could verify it is unique...oops but what happens if
> someone submits something they like and dont
> have....and nobody checks on them....reminds me about
> the story of the fox gaurding the chicken house and
> the fox was not checked on by anyone.
> 
> I do not know if this is actually thier plan but I do
> wonder if what we are seeing with SCO and this
> supposed comment by bill are the first steps in that
> direction.
> 
> 
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It's more likely than not a last ditch effort instead of a first step.

Even softare escrow agents have had a big uptick in business and 
Microsoft is the biggest to do it. One agent said that Open Source has 
now become the way people want to like.

BTW, Intuit dropped their rights management software. Since the mid 
1990's they've been spyware on people's computers. For them to drop it 
is remarkable.

That also reminds me. If you have a Microsoft desktop, go to the 
Internet and visit a few places like Career builders, Dice, Adobe, 
Corel, Microsoft and then download a program called "Spybot S&D".

Run Spybot and see how many spys you have on your system. When I did it, 
I had dozens of people monitoring everything from where I went to my 
keystrokes.

I felt like I walked through a mosquito experiments without "Off" spray.

I don't even turn XP on anymore except to scan an adocument to use efax.

As soon as I find a scanner that works with sane, I'll say goodbye to it 
too.