Links 24/04/2008: Linux Declared the #1 Embedded Operating System, Debian Gets a Boost
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-04-24 14:08:26 UTC
- Modified: 2008-04-24 14:08:26 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft Layoffs and Closures Now Reported in Africa
- Microsoft Uninstalls Nigeria as it closes African Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
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- Support for harassment and abuse victims
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 09/05/2024: Being Sick Enough and End of “World of Ends“
- Links for the day
- Links 09/05/2024: 'Hey Hi' (AI) Bubble Implodes Some More, Microsoft Layoffs So Widespread It's Hard to Keep Track
- Links for the day
- Speaking of Enshittification and Freedom, We've Still Not Begun Tackling the UEFI 'Secure' Boot Mess (Preventing GNU/Linux From Even Booting!)
- Microsoft continues to fly under the radar and commit competition crimes with impunity
- Microsoft Has Just Confirmed Mass Layoffs in Nigeria, It Now Adds Insult to Injury With Price Hikes for Locals
- It's not like Microsoft paid them good salaries
- Software Enshittification or Freedom? It's not a hard choice!
- Reprinted from Alexandre Oliva
- Links 09/05/2024: More Microsoft Layoffs on the Way
- Links for the day
- Amid Microsoft Layoffs in Nigeria GNU/Linux Climbs Above 6% Market Share (Not Including ChromeOS)
- Hundreds are being laid off by Microsoft in Nigeria, based on yesterday's reports
- [Meme] Blame the Robots or the 'Hey Hi' (AI), It Always Works in Today's Media
- Companies do not have financial troubles! They have "efficiencies"...
- News Reports Say Many More Microsoft Layoffs on the Way, Rumours Say Red Hat Also Imminently a Target
- Microsoft is slipping out of control
- Links 09/05/2024: Diplomacy Efforts With China, AstraZeneca Stops Experimenting With COVID-19 Vaccines
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 08, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, May 08, 2024
- Gemini Links 09/05/2024: Registered Computer Professionals and TLS (The Long Slog)
- Links for the day
- Links 08/05/2024: Android Malware and "AI" Hype
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- [Meme] Technical Committee With People Who Are Not Technical
- the computing/computer industry being occupied by people who lack suitable background
- The Demise of Computer Science Education
- Education is essential for the future; without it, whole nations will perish
- [Video] Prisons for the Minds and for Tech Workers
- Today's video talks about what happens to workforces (across disciplines) in recent years
- [Meme] Struggling to Leave Its Nazi Past Behind
- digital arson
- Microsoft Declines to Talk About How Many People It Has Just Laid Off
- Hours ago in IGN: "Microsoft did not say how many staff will lose their jobs, but significant layoffs are inevitable. IGN has asked Bethesda for comment. Microsoft declined to expand further when contacted by IGN."
- Microsoft Windows in South America: From 99% to 87%
- the latest from statCounter
- It's Rather Obvious Why They Try to Silence Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and Daniel Pocock
- Some of them already sent physically menacing messages to Daniel Pocock
- IRC Network of Techrights Turns 3 (or 16 if We Count the Freenode Days)
- In a few months IRC turns 36
- Sedating Oneself (and Shareholders) With Fuzzy Buzzwords and Pointless Acquisitions
- IBM trying to buy time
- Clickfraud Spamnil Ran Out of Clickfraud Budget, Apparently
- sooner or later charlatans and frauds run out of steam
- Techrights Gets Under the Skin of Bad, Corrupt, Immoral People (That's a Good Thing)
- Journalism is the lifeblood of democracy and free societies
- Companies Do Not Shut Down Offices and Lay Off Staff en Masse (Morale and Reputation Issue) Unless They're in Deep Financial Trouble
- Microsoft has been faking its financial performance for years
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 07, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, May 07, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- [Video] Leaving Microsoft Behind for the Sake of National Security
- Threats to "National Security" aren't some users with an Android phone but Microsoft at the root of things
- GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now at 6% in France, According to statCounter
- numbers from statCounter
- Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Music Spotlight and Network Knobs
- Links for the day
- Only Weeks After Microsoft Closed Offices and Studios It is Closing Several More (Many Layoffs, Still Deeply Debt-Saddled)
- When the sad news writes itself
- Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela: GNU/Linux Reaches 9% (ChromeOS Included)
- Venezuela must have lost interest in some American proprietary software when users were locked out of their own data (Adobe) and the costs could no longer be justified
- [Video] Microsoft is Like Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Other Perpetrators of Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering
- openwashing, Microsoft lobbying, and Microsoft subsidies (e.g. bailouts in the form of 'defence' contracts)
- Security & Debian: Urgent: New Feed URLs after another WIPO censorship
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- World Press Freedom Day: WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Smashing Windows (Moving to GNU/Linux) and Mastodon Time-wasting
- Links for the day
- Links 07/05/2024: Pulitzer for Supreme Court Expose, New Threats to Media Reported
- Links for the day
- Links 07/05/2024: Cheap EVs and Cloudflare Layoffs
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- Berlin police declined to investigate FSFE Nazi comparisons
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- [Meme] Communities Governed by Parasitic Elements and Girlfriends (Who Can't Understand Those Communities)
- Karen Sandler and Molly de Blanc present at DebConf18
- [Meme] You Can't Kill an Idea (or Facts)
- Thankfully, in Western societies, there's still due process, rule of law etc. You don't just hire assassins or imprison critics
- [Meme] Software in the Public Interest (SPI), Inc, Values Articles of Daniel Pocock at ~$5,000 Each (and Fails to Hide the Facts)
- we are laughing, not grieving
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 06, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, May 06, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- [Meme] About 2,564 Internet Sites Now at Risk of Hostile Takeover by Microsoft-Sponsored Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
- WIPO censors Debian suicide cluster
- Links 07/05/2024: Burning Plastic Waste, Facebook Censoring Politicians
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/05/2024: Smashing Windows (Microsoft Losing Users to GNU/Linux), Sixty Years of BASIC
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Comments
CoolGuy
2008-04-24 17:02:34
CoolGuy
2008-04-24 18:16:00
The energy behind ubuntu hardy is simply awesome today !!!! Just hoping how many million downloads its going to reach :P
Windows 7 is just another Vapourware and expecting that buying Yahoo will stop Google / Sun is just plain stupidity.
After three years :
- Mac on 1 - Linux on 2 - Unix on 3 - Windows struggling to keep up - All M$ cash burned out. - Google leading the online content - the new no. 1 company - Market leaders being Sun - Redhat - Apple
Only reason M$ is living today is bcoz of legacy products that were developed using M$. Their good luck wont last for too long.
And too many people want M$ dead.
Open Honesty
2008-04-24 22:48:10
The one thing we all have to remember is that open source leads to new concepts and market opportunity for small development shops. Just ask Astrum Inc. http://www.astruminc.com what astrum did was to develop the first SUSE based Solution Stack using Novell technology. What they produced and what the independent testing reported was a beast of an appliance and Astrum published the reports on its website. This solution was described at RSA as the first ever Identity based encryption system that can target users who have access to critical data or compliant data and harden policies that are compliance mandated. Lock them down in the appliance and OEM from nCipher and converted from a 32bit card to a true 64bit card with eDirectory integration. Now if that wasn't enough they then developed a key management system that never exposes any part of the key to a hacker outside the appliance. Now according to nCipher as told to me at RSA this makes the Astrum solution the only solution to meet the up coming FIPS 3 compliance changes and make this appliance very unique in the market space. The problem: The concept was presented to Novell under NDA two years ago in 2006 and promises of concept protection made and agreements signed and they worked business units to ensure no competitive issues may arise. They did not! So Astrum shared with Novell executives the plan that at the end of the day would map 8 of the PCI requirements to the appliance along with all the major compliances while the ability to leverage all the security Novell or any other security products that could sit on top or in the network. What happened is Astrum became the first ever to develop and Novell based solution stack using SUSE enterprise in a appliance only to have it stolen from them!.. Hence the following links. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080416/AQW05816042008-1.html http://www.novell.com/linux2/appliance/ So if the solution is market changing concept was why expose a concept to a company. Open source trust promised from Novell only to see it being stolen after it was promised Non Disclosure of the market potential. When Novell realized the market impact of such a solution they have moved to slowly create competition for little Astrum who is coming to market with out any assistance as promised by Novell. This solution from what I hear from internal Novell had enough potential market impact that it changed a direction for a major software company like it did for Novell. Prior to 07 from what I understand Novell couldn't spell compliance much less understands an appliance? Develop for Novell on SUSE or jeOS, and expose a development and market plan, NO WAY!!! I really feel for these guys and have to ask why anyone would trust Novell is they truly are moving to a channel model.
Open Honesty
2008-04-24 23:03:10
The one thing we all have to remember is that open source leads to new concepts and market opportunity for small development shops. Just ask Astrum Inc. http://www.astruminc.com, what astrum did was to develop the first SUSE based Solution Stack using Novell technology. What they produced and what the independent testing reported was a beast of an appliance and Astrum published these reports on its website.
This solution described at RSA is the first true Identity based encryption system that can target users who have access to critical data or compliant sensitive data and harden compliance based policies that are compliance mandated. Astrum then did a OEM with nCipher and converted the nCIpher HSM from a 32bit card to a true 64bit card with eDirectory integration. Now if that wasn't enough they then developed a key management system that never exposes any part of the key to a hacker outside the appliance and without making a customer change it’s network or put agents on it’s storage. I was very impressed as I spoke to representative from Astrum. Now according to nCipher as told to me at RSA this makes the Astrum solution the only solution to meet the up coming FIPS 3 compliance changes and make this appliance very unique in the market space. The problem: The concept from what I could gather was presented to Novell under NDA two years ago at the end of 2006 and promises of concept protection were made and agreements were signed and both worked with business units to ensure no competitive issues may arise. They did not! So Astrum shared with Novell executives the plan that at the end of the day for example map 8 of the PCI requirements to the appliance along with all the major compliances while having the ability to leverage all the security solutions sold by Novell or any other security software based solution that could sit in the network. What happened is Astrum became the first ever to develop and Novell based solution stack using SUSE enterprise server in a appliance only to have it stolen from them!.. Hence the following links. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080416/AQW05816042008-1.html http://www.novell.com/linux2/appliance/ So if the solution is potentially a market changing concept as Linux can be why expose a concept to a company like Novell who touts protection in the Open source community, of course they promise protection from Microsoft but who promises concept protection from Novell. When Novell realized the market impact of such a solution they have moved to slowly create competition for little Astrum who is coming to market with out any assistance as promised by Novell. This solution from what I hear from internal Novell had enough potential market impact that it changed a direction for a major software company like it did for Novell. Prior to 07 and from what I understand Novell couldn't spell compliance much less understands an appliance stack approach to compliancy and encryption. Develop for Novell on SUSE or jeOS, and expose a development and market plan, NO WAY!!! I really feel for these guys and have to ask why anyone would trust Novell and are they truly moving to a channel model
Gopal
2008-04-25 01:14:25
Roy Schestowitz
2008-04-25 01:25:01
Microsoft is playing with fire when it tries to 'extend ' the Web its own way. It could get fined again and again.
CoolGuy
2008-04-25 07:18:00
I have swore never to touch or recommend Novell products to anyone. They are just another incarnate of M$
Roy Schestowitz
2008-04-25 07:26:55
More in:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/22/novell-cisco-similarity/
"Cisco’s CEO argued that Microsoft screws its partners every time, just like Apple."
Also in:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/01/antitrust-letters-doj/
”Microsoft’s conduct as a corporation and a manufacturer of computing products, is predicated upon an internal policy of deception, which includes deceiving customers, deceiving competitors, deceiving partners, deceiving its own vendors, and at some level, deceiving its own staff.“