Who changed adapted to adopted in your
text?
A hidden MS apologist?
"We adopted this and look how it went wrong".
Maybe they did the Intended change.
Posts by Adrian Midgley 1
502 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
NASA is sniffing jet fuel over Germany
Google asked to take down 2.4 MEEELLION URLs under EU law
Australia joins the 'decrypt it or we'll legislate' club
NHS outages KO Welsh GP services and Manchester A&E
UK.gov slammed for NHS data-sharing deal with Home Office
Ubuntu 'weaponised' to cure NHS of its addiction to Microsoft Windows
Wednesday 17th January 2018 15:25 GMT
Re: Cost is the smaller concern
I'm puzzled why you assume that support of closed source code should not be done free by volunteers.
Or alternatively that you assume that people willing to pay for work on closed source code would not be similarly willing to pay for work on open source code. Hewlett Packard's experience, relayed by their VP for that, was that most FLOSS is written by people who are paid to at least in part write code, and that HP could make a profit out of maintaining/developing FLOSS. Not everywhere, but where they sold that service.
It is one of those memes that goes around and seems to indicate either thinking failure, or an attempt to mislead.
Ice cliffs found on Mars and NASA says they’re a tap for astronauts
Think tank: Never mind WannaCry, update NHS IT systems for RoboDoc
Facebook's send-us-your-nudes service is coming to UK, America
National Audit Office: We'll be in a world of pain with '90s border tech post-Brexit
Three useless UK.gov 'catapults' put in Last Chance Saloon
Looking for scrubs? Nah, NHS wants white hats – the infosec techie kind
Thou shalt use our drone app, UK.gov to tell quadcopter pilots
Tuesday 28th November 2017 08:40 GMT
Funded by who benefits from regulation!
There are several bad effects of introducing a law saying you may not now do something you could before unless you pay us as much as we spend on allowing you to.
Among them are a temptation to regulate where it might not be needed, and a lack of incentive to operate efficiently.
Who is claimed to benefit? In short, all citizens, residents, visitors.
Who should pay for that benefit?
...all citizens, residents and visitors, through general taxation.
EU's data protection bods join the party to investigate Uber breach
Cops jam a warrant into Apple to make it cough up Texas mass killer's iPhone, iCloud files
Intel finds critical holes in secret Management Engine hidden in tons of desktop, server chipsets
80-year-old cyclist killed in prang with Tesla Model S
Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020
Do fear the Reaper: Huge army of webcams, routers raised from 'one million' hacked orgs
Musk: Come ride my Big F**king Rocket to Mars
Linux kernel hardeners Grsecurity sue open source's Bruce Perens
Congress battles Silicon Valley over upcoming US sex trafficking law
UK Prime Minister calls on internet big beasts to 'auto-takedown' terror pages within 2 HOURS
Slapping crap bosses just got cheaper: Blighty's Supreme Court nixes tribunal fees
'SambaCry' malware scum return with a Windows encore
Renewed calls for Tesla to scrap Autopilot after number of crashes
Now UK bans carry-on lappies, phones, slabs on flights from six nations amid bomb fears
Do we need Windows patch legislation?
Tuesday 23rd May 2017 10:36 GMT
There's a fair compromise...
That vendors are required to maintain support for software while an[1] operating instance remains in the world[2] ... OR until they publish the full source code - all needed to compile working instances - under a licence allowing study, support, distribution of altered versions, extension and patching, which in practice is going to be a GPL.
Then if the task is onerous and no profit can be made from it, the company loses nothing by publishing, and ends its responsibility. If it is a business decision, then their ex-customers get to make a business decision as well, and people who like supporting that sort of thing, likewise.
[1] You might put a number higher than 1 on that, or not.
[2] or country, or business, or public service, or government...
Bloke charged under UK terror law for refusing to cough up passwords
74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+
Saturday 13th May 2017 08:28 GMT
Do we need attachments?
And if we need attachments, do we need them present in the email?
PointMail looks a better idea, but if an email has an attachment stripping if at the border and dropping it into two days quarantine, turning it to plain text and generally neutering it and allowing it to be collected later seems better.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
