Window's dominance of the PC market has been good in many ways
What?! That's like saying McDonald's did anything for fine cuisine. Gimme a break!
Like McD has given us something with which to compare fine cuisine, Windows has given us a way to differentiate between those who are and aren't IT literate.
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Disaster? Hardly. Let's see where "insert your favorite language here" is after 50 years. A recent Gartner study found COBOL in about 75% of enterprise business processes still today.
Just because it won't die, doesn't mean it's a success.
What do you do when they worry about you?
They were not worried about being liable for the content, they were worried about the (future) content putting people in jeopardy. Since the content they were worried about was not published yet, that in itself that was not a valid reason for the takedown IMO.
The fact that Wikileaks doesn't own the rights to then content was the main reason they stated. You can argue about that as well (legitimate purposes for publishing, freedom of press, etc...), but that was their reason.
The point is that Amazon did not lie in its statement. That doesn't make their reasons valid, but they did not lie.
Logical fallacy: transparent attempt to redefine terms by reframing the debate.
Fair point; that last part was unnecessary and over-interpreted the statement made by the parent. Of course Slashdot posters know open source, and many even know how to monetize it (even when that is 'just' as a salary). It was the tone of the parents message which I interpreted as 'of course we are the right people to criticize McNealy' that triggered me to post that last statement. But I should have read more carefully.
In fact, the decline of Sun could be viewed as specific evidence that there was a lack of understanding about Open Source on his part.
But he admits that, doesn't he?
"That's the message," McNealy tells us. "You gotta strike a proper balance between sharing and building the community and then monetizing the work that you do... I think we got the donate part right, I don't think we got the monetize part right.'
Now, if you can share your insight on how to build a multi-billion-dollar-company, please do...
The reason, I think, is that Ayn Rand's philosophy is that people become rich and powerful because they're better and more valuable people than those who don't. Compare that to, say, Karl Marx, who would argue that people become rich and powerful because they're scum-sucking leeches who like to steal from everybody else. Now, if you're rich and powerful, which philosophy would make you feel better about yourself and what you did to get to where you are?
And which makes you feel better about yourself if you are not rich and powerful?
Right, the only mistake Sun did was open-source too much. Like all the closed shop were doing wonderfully well too.
The summary is incomplete. Somewhere else in the interview he mentions that one of his regrets is not open sourcing Solaris earlier, claiming it was better than, and could have beaten Linux. His point is that they didn't have a good business model and didn't make enough money from the open source, but he also clearly still believes open source can be profitable, and open source was the right direction for Sun.
enums are not objects in Java, though they must be declared within an object. Which is stupid, as enums are types, just like objects are.
No, enum types are classes, and enums are objects. They derive from Object (via Enum) and can be declared in their own file, seperately from all other classes. The only difference is enums have a limited set of instances.
Complexity creates bugs
Bugs create employment
Bugs create work.
work != employment
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
