There is a site www.hotsos.com and a paper about why 2 batch jobs kill
system performance. The paper is protected so is there anybody on the list
who can explain this, Im very curious
thanks
Sam
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> Jared Still wrote:
> >
> > Same old FUD. Try to associate your competition with
> > a scary word and make them a pariah.
> >
> > McCarthyism in the 50's, Balmerism in the 00's.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Friday 01 June 2001 14:17, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:
> > > Read the story here
> > > (<url>http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html</url>)
and
> > > have a good laugh.
> > >
> > > LOL! TGIF
> > > Raj
>
> This is not an email that I would normally post to the list - but since
> its the weekend - why not?
>
>
> Jared,
>
> The GPL has been referred to as a "virus" previously, due to inclusion
> of GPL code causing the entire piece of code (at the execution unit) to
> be required to be released under the same license.
>
> I have a problem with this section of the article:
>
> <snip>
> Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to
> Microsoft?
>
> A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It
> will force us to
> justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy.
> The only thing
> we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work.
> Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody.
> Open source
> is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is
> written, if you use
> any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software
> open source.
> If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it
> should. Linux is not
> in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an
> intellectual property
> sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
> <snip>
>
> "Open Source" != "GPL".
> The GPL is one license - there are many like it, many unlike it.
> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>
> Here is an article by Stallman
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/08/freedom.GNU.idg/
>
> Linus Torvalds chose the GPL so that no one could "own" Linux.
> There are other licenses that can be used for Free Software or Open
> Source Software, such as the LGPL, Apache and BSD Artistic License. I've
> heard rumors that much of the TCP/IP stack in Windows 2000 has its
> origins in FreeBSD code - licensed under the BSD license.
>
> To Balmer - if Microsoft cannot "own" it - it is evil - and should not
> be funded.
> As not all Open Source work is licensed under the GPL, his statement is
> overly broad and therefore false.
>
> Paul
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