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Microsoft software comes with no warranties express nor implied though they charge a lot of money to run the software. Once they sell enough of that version release they go through the development cycle again and release an upgrade a lot of improvements are added. Some say those improvements should have been there in the first place. This marketing model is not unique to Microsoft. For a long time America has used enforced obsolecense in products sold. Other companies like Sony Blueray and Verizon LG phones operate on teh same model. FOSS does the same thing but doesn't charge.

Microsoft genuine advantage is a way for Microsoft to continue to assert ownership of its operating system.  The world has a huge warez trade in its OS and unless Microsoft takes steps to enforce ownership it will loose control.  Possesion is 9 tenths of the law.

Readings in CyberEthics

OMG Microsoft supports open source with Server and VS 2008.

Cathedral and the Byzar readings. It is withing the concepts of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that Linux was born and through these ideas that it can be sustained.

Linux Lab

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When I use Linux in the chaos lab have windows see linux

The following have man pages in Knoppix.

• sendmail -- Email server

   

• named -- is a DNS for Linux based on BIND 9

  Three popular command line utilities for testing DNS are host, nslookup (deprecated but still used in Windows therefore popular, and dig (supersedes nslookup). Use nsupdate to modify the /etc/bind/named.conf

   

• host -- 65.55.110.131 (reverse lookup) -- forward lookup is when you use the domain name. Some network administrators can setup the server to do a forward and reverse lookup on a request to detect spoofing. If the IPs don't match the request is discarded.

   

• dhcpd -- DHCP

   

• routed, gated, zebra and bird -- None in Knoppix. www.gated.org went commercial

   

  ipconfig /all equivalent

   

• ifconfig, route #, cat /etc/resolv.conf

   

   

• #updatedb and locate

  see more at linux urls

   

  Linux cookbook on dsl.org Useful looking online command explanations. Remiminded me about history >msqlcommands.txt with piping

  history -c clears the command history.

  Relevance

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  Every chance I get to bookmark a career recommendation towards Linux and FOSS. I do.

  Dice reports open source software jobs are growing

  Vetern Microsoft Developer goes open source Ruby on Rails -- Sees Python Google applications engine. Development cost of a fully licensed database server.

   

  Fundamentals of Unix Cisco press Unix class in the Networking Academy program.

   

  Linux in 2012

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  What Linux Will Look Like in 2012

  InformationWeek (08/14/08) Yegulalp, Serdar

  Linux is projected to evolve over the next four years into an operating system that is easy for non-Linux-savvy users to employ, with Serdar Yegulalp projecting a three-way split between three fundamental Linux usage models: For-pay, free to use, and free/libre. The most common model, free to use, is a free distribution with support optional, and additional optional support for closed-source elements such as proprietary, binary-only device drivers; free/libre distributions are wholly free. "Over the next few years, the distinctions between these three licensing models will become heavily accentuated by both the Linux community and by the creators of these distributions themselves," writes Yegulalp. He expects the Linux desktop of 2012 will develop into a bare-bones, click-and-go interface to ease non-technical users' adoption of Linux, while Linux hardware circa 2012 should include an array of mobile devices, including phones, netbooks, and products that use open architectures. Yegulalp anticipates a migration toward hardware with open standards and accessibility, while application trends he foresees include the browser assuming the role of application deployment framework. The running of Linux in parallel with any other operating system will be greatly simplified via virtualization in the Linux kernel, while Windows apps could be run side-by-side with Linux apps through the use of a virtual machine and cut-and-paste functionality. Yegulalp expects Linux to become even more dominant among servers, also partly thanks to virtualization. "Linux's mutability allows for its use not only as a server platform but as hypervisor and container for other operating systems," he writes.

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