Employment linux admin/programmer wanted

[Aaron Vegh]

Jesus Evan, you need to take this show on the road. It's like you're
running a FOSS advocacy group or something...uh, wait...

On 12/7/06, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> ted leslie wrote:
> > it is a ecma spec,
> Ah, yes, ECMA. The place to go when ISO and IEEE don't want your
> steekin' standard. :-)
>
> > its open source, GPL/X11, run on where every you want it (community puts it), including nokia tablet 770, etc,etc,etc.
> >
> Isn't there a difference between "portability is a design goal" and
> "well, with enough screaming and gnashing of teeth, we got it working on
> some different platforms".
>
> > If MS buys sun do you stop using java?
> No, but only because there are other sources of Java around (and Sun's
> committed to open sourcing it, a new owner can't undo it once it's done).
>
> Consider:
>
> Within months of its purchase by Microsoft, Fox Software -- whose
> Foxbase was a better dBASE than dBASE -- dropped Unix support, leaving
> tens of thousands of users scrambling for alternate database solutions.
>
> Within months of it receiving investment cash from Microsoft, Corel went
> from being a longtime avid supporter of Linux (remember the bobsled ads
> and Netwinders?) to kicking its distribution to the curb (now Xandros)
> and eliminating Linux support from WordPerfect and CorelDraw,
>
> (One of WordPerfect's original claims to fame was its cross-platform
> operability. Wasn't it originally developed for Data General systems?
> Now it's just for one platform.)
>
> So yes, Ted, from a Linux user's POV Microsoft indeed has a reverse
> Midas touch. No wonder people are so edgy about the deal with Novell.
>
> > buys sony, do you go to panasonic?
> >
> Yes, or at least to Nintendo. If MS bought Sony you can bet one of the
> first casualties would be Playstation support of Linux.
>
> > If you knew/hated MS as much in 89-95 as you do now, what OS would you
> > have used back then on your desk top? Well actually from 81-93 i used
> > apple prodcuts but most people did the dos windows shit.
> >
>  From the mid-80s to the mid-90s my home desktop was a variety of
> Intel-based Unix systems. The first computer program my four-year-old
> son learned was 'vi', and now he's in his 20s.
>
> > The best way to beat Microsoft is to do what ever is best to empower
> > yourself to kick them in the teeth.
> >
> Understood. But when you try to do so using their tools, to a certain
> extent you're playing by their rules, and that suggests an immediate
> handicap to challengers.
>
> - Evan
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