Probably cause he isnt a dumbass and wont throw his money into something that is being controlled to the nth degree by gauvamint to further their own political agenda's at the expense of the country as a whole.lucifir said:y doesn't he invest in telecomms and rather try and do something there .... M$ has plenty of competition already .. but telscums has none.
Sneeky said:Probably cause he isnt a dumbass and wont throw his money into something that is being controlled to the nth degree by gauvamint to further their own political agenda's at the expense of the country as a whole.
Telkom is a gauvamint chess piece, if gauvamint want the prices to come down they will and not until then. Nothing Mark or anyone else can do about that, no matter how much money they have. Telkom rule the roost.
How did Microsoft make Shuttleworth rich? His company developed a platform-agnostic secure website certificate system.lucifir said:they the ones that made him rich anyways![]()
In case you hadn't noticed, we don't really have a free market in the telecomms sector.lucifir said:y doesn't he invest in telecomms and rather try and do something there .... M$ has plenty of competition already .. but telscums has none.
kilps said:all the problems regarding winmodems need to be sorted out
and from the articlerpm said:
This is not correct and I quote Mark (SABDFL):Shuttleworth says he is in talks with the city of Munich about creating an edition for them.
Yes - this is a misunderstanding with the author of the article, though
it's an understandable misunderstanding. I was describing the economic
model around desktop linux and saying that it seemed likely that Munich
would not deploy Red Hat, with its strong commercial-style licensing,
but would instead build its own using components similar to Ubuntu.
There's some chance that it could be an Ubuntu derivative that they end
up deploying, but we are not actually in discussions with Munich officials.
Nod said:Take a look here to get a description of the linux filesystem:
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/
A very good manual for Linux is the "Rute Manual" written by Paul Sheer from Obsidion Systems:http://www.gnoppix.org/pages/rute/
They actually did help him in a indirect way.. Thawte did a lot of digital certificates for MSHow did Microsoft make Shuttleworth rich? His company developed a platform-agnostic secure website certificate system.
Oh yeah??M$ has plenty of competition already
Whats wrong with SAMBA? It works perfectly ... I've been using it for years to share files between my Linux box and my Mom's Windows machine...(and get SAMBA to work ... it needs to be included as well)