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 | ... How can you be surprised that no one is expressing outrage? The source of outrage toward Microsoft's security practices is simply that they cherry pick the vulnerabilities to publish and then use the number of those publicised vulnerabilities as if that were all the vulnerabilities they know about. Then …  |
| | One problem. Market share, which is a measure of machines sold and shipped with a particular operating system installed, has nothing to do with installed base when talking about freely downloadable and freely distributable operating systems. The metric cited is meaningless.  |
| | [QUOTE=johndoe444;1178046]Instead of typing :sh and being taken to the shell prompt after temporarily quitting vi, is that possible to open a split screen which is shell? Because it is difficult to keep track of whether a vi is open if working a long time in shell.[/QUOTE] If you run vi … |
 | Larry Ellison wants to unseat Microsoft from their position in the market and to unseat the personal computer as a front-line technology solution. He wants centralized software feeding dumb terminals with Oracle databases underpinning the entire stack. Open Source is a weapon for him to use toward those ends. For … |
| | As was pointed out above, you are equating dollars with success. It should also be pointed out that dollars are not the only measure of value and that the value returned to developers of Open Source software is derived from the additional effort and code contributed by volunteers, paid or … |
 | Here's a list of things I remember doing without. Some of these are not strictly technological: - touch tone telephone dialing - cordless telephones - answering machines - competing telephone service providers - cell phones - video games - calculators - personal computers - electric typewriters - cable TV - … |
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