Source: http://www.synonyms.net/synonym/surrender

surrender, yielding, capitulation, giving up, resignation, fall, forsaking, concession, surrender, resignation, conceding

Depending on your point of view these can apply as well: Withdraw, fall back, retreat.

So what does that say about English speaking countries?

I can come up with at least one example of the old user interface providing something ribbons were not making as easy to find. Under older versions of MS Word you double-click on the Header or Footer and you would be shown a toolbar that gave you options to insert Page Numbers, Total pages and so forth.

So if I wanted to, I could quickly do: Page/Total to get a 1/2 to show up at the bottom of the document.

Now under 2007, that toolbar dissapears and now I can insert Page numbers, none of which matched that exact format and none of which were simply a macro fill in. Hence, I had to dig through in order to find what I wanted. Go to Insert, and look about its not necessarily obvious. But eventually you can click on Quick Parts and Field and then select from a large list of macros.

Now that you do it once, you can create a template and never repeat the procedure. However, how was that any easier or more obvious then the old method?

MySQL caused a bit of a stir where I worked for the same reasons mentioned in the article. It is not always about doing the legwork, as anyone can pretty much take a few hours of research to find out licenses, variants in code and so forth.

What IS the problem however, is the fact that the GPL is a complex legal document and some companies don't want to pay the fees necessary for a small battalion of lawyers to confirm its use on a server platform or within a product. Its polar opposite the BSD license however is far easier for anyone to interpret and has a lot of legal precedence behind it.

The MySQL dual licensing issue reminds me of another project I encountered. iText PDF (http://www.itextpdf.com) is a Java open-source license that was traditionally released under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.

Oddly enough, just as their tutorials disappeared when the author of the library published a book. To which is used exclusively when asking for help in the forums, they also changed the license to the AGPL.

This seemed to be a way to force companies into buying their dual license. Apparently a lot of people used their product on a back-end servers to generate PDF invoices and so forth. By forcing the license change it meant that their changes to the code would have to be released and the viral nature of the AGPL forced the hands of many formerly legal products.

Fortunately, their MPL licensed version is only a few months older then their new code and oddly works with their Tutorial files they have hidden away in an old archive on Source forge.

Not that myself or my organization was opposed to licensing legally. However when you have a small, no fee, in house product being distributed within your organization and they are looking for 100$ US or more per instance for licensing fees, it rather makes it a hard pill to swallow.

MySQL had the same problem some of their fees seemed to range in the 300$ US per instance depending on the type of licensing involved and overhead of the company you used to get them. Some individuals at our organization recalls getting Oracle licenses for that price!

In a way, are these open source products or are they simply using the moniker as a way to attract people and force them into costly solutions?

What about OpenBSD? The core distro has apparently gone through the rigours of auditing and I am sure that is dealing with a fair amount of lines of code.

Sure OpenBSD does not offer every bell and whistle in their distribution. It certainly shows that it can be done if you have the will and resources to do it.

Not necessarily. Who does security of the perimeter around the air base? Who would defend the air base in war time conditions when the marines and army are out there holding the line?

Knowing how to defend your colleagues, the installation and yourself is not a waste of money. It's not like they are in a low risk job and will never be deployed overseas.

Of course if their training is almost meaningless and treated as a joke by those doing said training. Then I agree with you.

A lot of corporate Exchange accounts have limits on their size. So you have a PST to bypass that limitation, since an overflow prevents you from getting mail in at least our case!

When mounting a filesystem under OpenBSD you can specify that any file within that mount cannot be executed. I find that this is very much a valuable flag (noexec) when you are mounting /tmp and /home as it pretty much prevents execution of files outside of expected areas.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Of course if it is a script, nothing stops the person from calling the interpreter first. e.g. perl script.pl