Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 190
He has. We're in it!
What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? 217
Nerval's Lobster writes Back in the day, Microsoft viewed open source and Linux as a threat and did its best to retaliate with FUD and patent threats. And then a funny thing happened: Whether in the name of pragmatism or simply marketing, Microsoft began a very public transition from a company of open-source haters (at least in top management) to one that's embraced some aspects of open-source computing. Last month, the company blogged that .NET Core will become open-source, adding to its previously open-sourced ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages (Razor). There's no doubt that, at least in some respects, Microsoft wants to make a big show of being more open and supportive of interoperability. The company's even gotten involved with the .NET Foundation, an independent organization designed to assist developers with the growing collection of open-source technologies for .NET. But there's only so far Microsoft will go into the realm of open source—whereas once upon a time, the company tried to wreck the movement, now it faces the very real danger of its whole revenue model being undermined by free software. But what's Microsoft's end-goal with open source? What can the company possibly hope to accomplish, given a widespread perception that such a move on its part is the product of either fear, cynicism, or both?
Comment Re:Duh. (Score -1, Troll) 190
I thought it didn't work because he's a tedious, ill-informed windbag.
Comment Re:THERE HAS NEVER BEEN CLIMATE STASIS! (Score 1) 401
Or - and here is a notion that many may find strange - could it be that the left-vs-right divide is rather artificial, and not all political parties can be neatly fitted into one of two buckets?
Perhaps this is why the two-axis system was invented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Not perfect, but a better approximation.
Comment Re:Your argument is devoid of facts (Score 1) 401
The NAZI party was the National SOCIALIST German WORKERS PARTY.
It says "Oxo" on buses, but they don't go there.
Comment Re:Head (Score 1) 130
The water is boiled at the start. If you think that's equivalent to doing it with the finished product then enjoy your Bud, bud.
Comment Re:Piss poor open source (Score 1) 36
This is why using the term open source for things other than actual code is bullshit.
Comment Re:Fucking Hell, Harper needs to go! (Score 1) 122
IT has several problems, including ageism, racism, and misogamy.
Not really sure why the last one is a problem.
Comment Re:The best gift? (Score 1) 113
No, in those days we had to make do with crap by Michael Shims and Roland Pisspole.
Comment Re:The best gift? (Score 1) 113
Hey, this is slashdot. Dupes are good, and dupes about tripe are even better!
Comment Re: French politicians.... (Score 2) 168
McDonald Douglas
The famous flying hamburger chain...
Comment Re:So it is official. (Score 1) 168
while it does mean a larger budget for a project is needed, it also means that said budget directly benifits the economy rather then enriching another country`s economy at the cost of your own.
Doesn't it rather depend on how much larger it is?
Comment Re:Ecology vs archeology (Score 1) 465
Don't be silly, motor racing hasn't existed that long.
Comment Re:This is an overreaction (Score 1) 465
Not the same at all. The Mona Lisa wasn't created by Erich Von Daeniken in the 1970s.
Comment Re:This is an overreaction (Score 1) 465
cut off there funding etc etc.
Here here!
