IEEE Spectrum Open Source issue 26
David McWha writes "The cover story of the May issue of IEEE Spectrum is on open source systems, and gives a good balanced view of the competition between Windows NT and various Unices (including Linux). There is a nice unbiased review of the pros and cons of each. The whole story from the history through to the commercial model of open source is there. The article is available online, but you have to be an IEEE member to get in, so join! "
Re:Ironic (and moronic also) (Score:1)
Join the IEEE (Score:1)
three reasons
1) They provide a forum for issues concerning engineers.
2) They provide benefits like access to portable health insurance which is important in an industry where most jobs only last 2 to 3 years and most companies last less than five years or so.
3) They lobby for your rights in Washington; this is necessary to counter the increased spending (bribery?) by companies like Microsoft on special laws to benefit them and hurt engineers.
Re:"Protected" Content and Pirating (Score:1)
I think that the introduction of restrictions on links to non-free content on /. would be a bad idea. I think that it is valuable for one to know that IEEE Spectrum published such an article, even if one can't read it online. If Rob and/or someone else in the crew thinks it's worth putting up, then fine. The /. item was very explicit that the Spectrum article wasn't available to non-IEEE members, so no one should have been surprised when they found that there wasn't any way around it.
It's not like there isn't any filter on /. content... I've submitted maybe a dozen stories and not a one has been picked up (except maybe one or two that was put up when someone else submitted them a couple of weeks later... I'm sure everyone who submits stories has had this happen).
BTW, the IEEE is doing much better on keeping up with current events in their publications; the print journals are still dismally behind the times, but they have taken to publishing much more stuff online, and the membership includes good access even to stuff you don't subscribe to (subscribing to one journal can get you access to the online stuff in some other journals).
Re:"Protected" Content and Pirating (Score:3)
It should be up to
Perhaps some sort of per-article tag, relating to kind of content, restrictions, etc. could be used so that indivudual
As for copyright violation, I don't see that as Rob's problem.
Re:"Protected" Content and Pirating (Score:2)
I don't know whether "we" want it or not, but I am pretty certain there's some filtering going on, anyhow. I'm 1 for 4 when it comes to seeing stories I've submitted appear. I'm not complaining about this state of affairs, either. I read Slashdot precisely because it's a filter. It's what I 'pay' Rob et al for when I get rid of that adfu.blockstackers.com line in my Junkbuster configs.
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Sheesh, haven't you people ever heard of a library (Score:4)
IEEE is a non-profit professional organization. The costs they charge just cover the services they give.
Re:Ironic (and moronic also) (Score:2)
A bit ironic, I agree, but I wager it is available in the library of every university in the world with engineering or comp sci.
I was once a member of IEEE, the organization itself sucks like hell, at least here in Mexico. I really regretted shelling out the money to subscribe, specially being a hungry student at the time (and their "computer" mag was always late on everything, playing catch-up to byte, etc).
I couldn't disagree more. For students IEEE is incredible value for money. Last year I paid US$46 for 30 issues of 3 high quality technical publications - $1.50 each! Plus other member benefits. Full membership is more expensive, but try hitting up your employer for a "technical development" cost.
IEEE Computer is not trying to compete with Byte, it has a lot more technical and theoretical detail, it's not a consumer mag.
Re:that really chaps my hide. (Score:1)
Filter if requires account. (Score:2)
It would be nice to be able to filter out any article that requires a signup to read.
BN
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Ironic (and moronic also) (Score:4)
An article about Open Source software and the article itself isn't viewable except by members.
I was once a member of IEEE, the organization itself sucks like hell, at least here in Mexico. I really regretted shelling out the money to subscribe, specially being a hungry student at the time (and their "computer" mag was always late on everything, playing catch-up to byte, etc).
I coincide, /. shouldn't display pay-subscription-site news. Like the guy said, 99.9999% of us won't subscribe just to read the thing.
-elf
"Protected" Content and Pirating (Score:3)
"Protected" Content and Pirating (Score:5)
In this case it would have been worth providing a basic list of what they liked and didn't like about the various OSes. This could probable have been done in one paragraph without even a hint of copyright enfriengment.
Fattening whose pockets? (Score:1)
Re:that really chaps my hide. (Score:1)
Standards development is just one of the services the IEEE performs for the industry at large. There are others.
Full disclosure: I chair an IEEE standards working group. I personally know people who work for the IEEE standards department. It's likely that little money from the IEEE pubs department goes towards supporting the standards effort at the IEEE; this is merely an example.
Here is the actual article... :) (Score:1)
http://www.spectrum. ieee.org/spectrum/may99/features/work.html [ieee.org]
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Re: Here is the actual article... :) (Score:1)
Username: spectrum98
Password: tempid
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