socerhed - Slashdot User

Comment Respect because its professional (Score 1) 486

by socerhed on Saturday August 11, 2007 @03:59PM (#20197505) Attached to: Linux Foundation Calls for 'Respect for Microsoft'

He's right that we should respect Microsoft. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't ridicule them, but we should act professional and respect them because whether or not you agree with them, its the professional thing to do. Linux is always going to be the fanboy's OS as long as the people supporting it act like juveniles. Now thats not to say poking fun behind closed doors isn't allowed, but to the public we need to act professional. Do you really expect people to trust an OS, the backbone of one of their most important assets, that is backed by unprofessional juveniles?

Submission + - 5 Things You Can't Discuss about Linux

Submitted by gondwannabe on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:13AM

gondwannabe writes: Flamebait for the /. crowd? How about The Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Linux With considerable chutzpa, an insightful Rob Enderle takes on what he considers five dogmas in the OSS community and explains why they're wrong. Examples: Linux is secure, "communes" actually work in the long haul, and that Linux is "pro-developer.

Submission + - The Coevolution of Lice & Their Hosts

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eldavojohn

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @03:23PM

eldavojohn writes: "It might be an uncomfortable subject but parasites are an interesting subject when it comes to evolution. Ever wonder if pocket gophers have lice? Well, they do. And most interesting of all is the evolution of these lice mirroring the evolution of gophers. To study the genes of lice may shed just as much light on evolutionary trees as studying the genes of the actual host the lice has evolved to. The most unsettling result from these studies is that human head lice and human pubic lice (crabs) vary so greatly that they are in two separate genera. There were similarities between our pubic lice and the lice found on gorillas. Scientists came to the conclusion, "which they published today in BMC Biology, is just as striking as their earlier one about head lice. But it is hardly the same. We did not get pubic lice from other hominids. We got them from the ancestors of gorillas.""

Submission + - Intel to sample flash-killer PRAM this year

Submitted by Station on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @03:12PM

Station writes: Intel's new phase-change memory technology (PRAM) will begin sampling this year. Samsung, IBM, and Hitachi are all working on phase-change memory as a successor to flash as it has a lower (~20ns) read latency than flash (50-90ns). 'Intel says they plan to ship the first PRAM modules as a straight-ahead NOR flash replacement so that they can work the kinks out of the design before trying to move it up the memory hierarchy. The company claims a much higher number of read-write cycles (100 million) than flash, as well as a potential 10 years' worth of data retention. NOR flash is typically used as program storage memory for mobile devices like cell phones, while more durable but slower NAND flash is used for mass storage in devices like the iPod nano.'

Submission + - What the GPLv3 Means for MS-Novell Agreement

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @02:00PM

eldavojohn writes: "I read a dry but interesting interview with a lawyer (Antoinette Tease) on the effects the GPLv3 would have on the well known Microsoft & Novell alliance. From her answers: "Unlike prior versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which did not address patent rights, the current draft of the GPL version 3 has several provisions that address patent rights. Section 2 states that the license to use the open source code 'terminates if you bring suit against anyone for patent infringement of any of your essential patent claims' based on any version of the open source program." She goes on to say "the GPLv3 as currently drafted would impose an obligation on Novell to somehow 'shield' its customers from patent lawsuits brought by Microsoft, or, alternatively, to make the source code publicly available...""

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