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Joined 13 years ago
Joined 13 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-a...
Wait, Open Source is magically free of bloatware? OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE?
Try running a modern Linux desktop distro like Ubuntu on a 10 year old machine or a 5 year old netbook. Open ten tabs with sites like Gmail, YouTube etc. in Firefox on that machine and then get back to us.
And since Windows 7, the minimum requirements have been steady and boot time has been pretty fast.
>Even though our central IT systems are protected against Heartbleed, any accounts that have already been stolen still pose a security risk. Almost 20,000 members of the McGill community did change their McGill Password, but thousands more did not, and so additional actions have become necessary.
So, ff the people who got the passwords read this post then all they need to do is double the passwords they got with HeartBleed to gain access?
Perhaps they should quadruple the password? /s
All I see at colleges and conferences worldwide are Macbooks. How is OS X Open Source? It actually seems to be worse, since it's legally tied to expensive hardware.
Also, Open Source products aren't really technically superior for a number of categories. I am sorry but Photoshop, Office, Exchange etc. are definitely technically superior. Software like Windows Server and SQL Server are competing with free products and still doing very well.
Imagine how much marketshare they would have if they were free of cost and MySQL/PostgresSQL and Linux cost the same as SQL Server and Windows Server now. How many would buy them instead of the free MS products? How many would pay the same as Office costs now for OpenOffice if Office was free? How is this technically superior?
Also, Azure runs Linux and other open source products quite well.
See "Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work".