MICROSOFT APOLOGISM is a subject that we wrote about yesterday and will revisit later today. Regarding Matt Asay's "Apache: 'No jerks allowed'," a reader tells us: "Matt seems to have a self-contradictory summary. Which is it? Microsoft is part of Apache or no jerks allowed in Apache?"
“Microsoft's Novell's Greg Kroah-Hartman works with the Linux kernel and got caught with his mouth open. Microsoft did a hit and run on him, with his own help.”
--Anonymous"To look to another project, the Linux kernel, we see what can go wrong if a project lets naive people let jerks walk all over them. Microsoft's Novell's Greg Kroah-Hartman works with the Linux kernel and got caught with his mouth open."
"Microsoft did a hit and run on him," argues our reader, "with his own help." We wrote about this right here.
Our anonymous reader concludes as follows: "The assertion that code should matter, if taken at face value, should also then take into consideration the history of coding and engineering quality coming out of Redmond. Or should it? Maybe there is only One Microsoft Way for all projects and code quality should be a thing of the past."
The bottom line is that Microsoft code cannot be trusted because it only serves Microsoft shareholders, to whom GNU/Linux and Free software are not acceptable, as they are antithetical. Red Hat is making a mistake right now because it follows the footsteps of OpenSUSE 11.2 by becoming dependent on Winforms. As the following new post emphasises:
The Fedora 12 Constantine GNOME Live CD is Mono free, but installing GNOME from the DVD pulls in not only Mono itself, but also support for Windows.Forms (mono-winforms), which is outside the ECMA standard (and not covered under Microsoft’s horribly inadequate Community Promise).
While Constantine no longer includes Tomboy, it does still include F-Spot which is a .NET application.
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Needs Sunlight
2009-11-19 14:29:06
Shareholder meetings are orchestrated by the board and the company. Agendas are sculpted to achieve a desired outcome and procedures choreographed to ensure that everyone toes the line. After a short session of deafening music to stun them, the mob is exposed to a three ring circus of buzzword salad presentations until powerpoint poisoning brings even the strongest of them into a right proper state of tonic immobility in time for the vote.
Granted anyone dumb enough or fanatical enough, outside of M$, to own M$ stock already has a few screws loose. But don't blame these gobshites entirely for M$ management.
In theory a board of directors could shape up a company, but that would require a lot of time money and effort to get a near unanimous majority working towards that goal. Look at how much damage three microsofters, about 15%, were able to do to Yahoo's large board.
Needs Sunlight
2009-11-19 14:39:22
Even if you could gain the board and clear the management? Where will they end up? Where ever it is, they'll bring their One Microsoft Way with them.
Even if you could gain the board and clear the management, there would still be the issue of the Microsoft employees. it's a self-selecting lot. Anyone with any technical skills or knowledge steers clear of M$. Anyone with any ethics steers clear of M$. So what you have is an enormous steaming herd of individuals that would be best off far away from any technology.
Look what happened to Red Hat which has now added Windows-like features to Fedora 12: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
What place can society find for these Microsofters where they can contribute instead of harm? Can they be divested from their ideology and become assets or is a neutral, inert lump the best we can hope for from that lot.
finalzone
2009-11-19 19:19:03
From what I understand, it is a policy rules from PackageKit for a single user that can be modifed through polkit command (unfortunately, frontend Authorization is no longer available and has to be done on terminal). The arguments are about multiple unprivileged users scenarii where that policy should be modified in that consequence.
What I think triggered those multiple comments are the lack of clarification related to that policy on release note.
finalzone
2009-11-19 19:24:14
Hope it helps.
finalzone
2009-11-19 22:46:47
your_friend
2009-11-19 15:37:10
Needs Sunlight
2009-11-19 15:44:39
Microsoft marketers have almost as good a mastery of the Big Lie as the press team for the Great Prevaricator, Ronald Reagan.
Mark and Jono need to clean house before it is all over for Canonical.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-19 15:45:46
finalzone
2009-11-19 18:44:20
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-19 22:50:45
finalzone
2009-11-19 23:55:14
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-20 00:05:18
<Kevin_Kofler> At the point where some of the Fedora GNOME users complained about no F-Spot on the live images, I actually made a serious proposal to ship Digikam on the GNOME spin. ;-) I even offered to help making it use QGtkStyle when running under GNOME and this kind of stuff. They rejected it anyway. ;-)
finalzone
2009-11-20 01:18:47
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-20 01:36:14