All the digital platforms, be it Google's Android play store, Apple's mac/ios app store, Microsoft's Windows and Xbox store, Sony's Playstation store, etc, should be forced to switch from a store to an open mall model, with the platform provider hosting it own stores upon the mall in competition with anyone else being able to set up a store on the same platform.

With the exception of the platform providers own store and own apps, platform providers do do not get revenue direct from app creators/software vendors, but from rent from stores in the mall.

As mall owner the platform provider can set requirements for app behaviour, but it must be the same for all stores even the platform provider's own store. Platform providers and stores must not do exclusive deals that restrict stores from selling any particulate vendor's software, or setting prices.

Platform providers get rent from store owners. Stores in the mall, including the platform provider's store, enter a dutch auction every quarter to decide their rank and position in the platform mall list of store. Top stores get bigger banners etc.

Platform providers only get rent from stores other than their own store, set by dutch auction every quarter.

Platform providers can only set app payment conditions inside their own store.

Yes it means that the Platform provider's store is probably always going to be top and most prominent of the Mall list & metaverse.

All the digital platforms, be it Google's Android play store, Apple's mac/ios app store, Microsoft's Windows and Xbox store, Sony's Playstation store, etc, should be forced to switch from a store to an open mall model, with the platform provider hosting it own stores upon the mall in competition with anyone else being able to set up a store on the same platform.

As mall owner the platform provider can set requirements for app behaviour, but it must be the same for all stores even the platform provider's own store. Platform providers and stores must not do exclusive deals that restrict stores from selling any particulate vendor's software, or setting prices.

Platform providers get rent from store owners. Stores in the mall, including the platform provider's store, enter a dutch auction every quarter to decide their rank and position in the platform mall list of store. Top stores get bigger banners etc.

... anyone "swallowing" this re-branding Facebook to Meta can figuratively be accused of tea bagging Mr Zuckerburg.

#Facebook #Meta #Metaverse #AdVerse #AddPalm #FacePalm #FaceZuck #BookZuck #BookVerse Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

... is swallowing this bullshit the figurative equivalent of tea bagging Mr Zuckerburg?

#Facebook #Meta #Metaverse #AdVerse #AddPalm #FacePalm #FaceZuck #BookZuck #BookVerse Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

... needed for system wide wipes and running paper shredders?

The Andromeda Strain

What is Podman? Simply put: `alias docker=podman`

Podman is an open-source project that is available on most Linux platforms and resides on GitHub. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers and container images on your Linux System. Podman provides a Docker-compatible command line front end that can simply alias the Docker cli, `alias docker=podman`.

I'm currently using it on a small scale on Fedora but I know of a couple of large projects planning the move it's out of beta for Redhat and CentOS

Transcript of Internet Caucus Panel Discussion. Re: Administration's new encryption policy.
Date: September 28, 1999.
Weldon statement.

Rep. Curt Weldon : Thank you. Let me see if I can liven things up here in the last couple of minutes of the luncheon. First of all, I apologize for being late. And I thank Bob and the members of the caucus for inviting me here.

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But the point is that when John Hamre briefed me, and gave me the three key points of this change, there are a lot of unanswered questions. He assured me that in discussions that he had had with people like Bill Gates and Gerstner from IBM that there would be, kind of a, I don't know whether it's a, unstated ability to get access to systems if we needed it., Now, I want to know if that is part of the policy, or is that just something that we are being assured of, that needs to be spoke. Because, if there is some kind of a tacit understanding, I would like to know what it is.

Because that is going to be subjected to future administrations, if it is not written down in a clear policy way. I want to know more about this end use certificate. In fact, sitting on the Cox Committee as I did, I saw the fallacy of our end use certificate that we were supposedly getting for HPCs going into China, which didn't work. So, I would like to know what the policies are. So, I guess what I would say is, I am happy that there seems to be a comming together. In fact, when I first got involved with NSA and DOD and CIS, and why can't you sit down with industry, and work this out. In fact, I called Gerstner, and I said, can't you IBM people, and can't you software people get together and find the middle ground, instead of us having to do legislation.

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Meanwhile back in 2002 from What's the Business Case for Microsoft and Open Source?

Seven reasons we love Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking unexpectedly materialises as The Guide Mark II in the new series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "I have been quite popular in my time," he proclaims, and he's not wrong. Here are just seven of the reasons why.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks/

TabWorks is a shell for Windows 3.x and Windows 95 and was developed by Xerox's XSoft division. TabWorks organizes files into tabs in a notebook-like interface. It was distributed with PCs from 1994 to around 1997 by several companies, including Compaq and NEC. The product was developed by XSoft, a division of Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, the prestigious computing research lab that invented the concepts of laser printing, the mouse-driven graphical user interface and Ethernet networking. The original concept of a tabbed book metaphor came originally from Xerox PARC. Tabworks was shipped in 1993. A business team was assembled to produce the product initially for Compaq Computers who was given an exclusive worldwide license. NEC also had an arrangement with XSoft. The software was created to replace the Windows Program Manager (PROGMAN.EXE) on Windows 3.x and Windows 95 installations. It resembled a tabbed 3-ring notebook metaphor making it easier for novice users to navigate Windows. Over 9 million copies of the software were installed worldwide making it one of the most popular pieces of software in the world. TabWorks was later acquired in 1996 by Citadel Computer systems who integrated it into their line of network security and desktop utility product lines. Citadel discontinued selling TabWorks in early 2001.