Research Paper regarding LINUX/Open Source

[LuckyTaxi]

I have to write a 15-20 page paper in regards to globalization. The topic has to be within your job field, so I figure why not write a paper regarding the open source movement, but more particularly Linux.

Here's my problem...which specific issue shoudl I explore. the most basic topic I can write about, but I dont think it will be that interesting is why linux is better than microsoft. I'm sure I can find tons of sources on it, but there has to be a better issue to explore.

 

[Ameesh]

How about quality control in source code updates?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
How about quality control in source code updates?

always thinking....

 

[notfred]

How about "100001 reasons why Amish doesn't like linux"?

#1) it may, at some point, with enough support, threaten his job.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: notfred
How about "100001 reasons why Amish doesn't like linux"?

#1) it may, at some point, with enough support, threaten his job.

hahahaha shouldnt you be writing some perl?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: notfred
How about "100001 reasons why Amish doesn't like linux"?

#1) it may, at some point, with enough support, threaten his job.

hahahaha shouldnt you be writing some perl?

Actually, I should be writing some java....... ugh.

BTW, I'm posting form a windows box.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Write about how Microsoft has the only coders that can make MySQL coders look good.

 

[n0cmonkey]

On a serious note, write something about the draconian anti-encryption laws in the US and why countries like Canada are hosts to projects like OpenSSH.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: notfred
How about "100001 reasons why Amish doesn't like linux"?

#1) it may, at some point, with enough support, threaten his job.

hahahaha shouldnt you be writing some perl?

Actually, I should be writing some java....... ugh.

BTW, I'm posting form a windows box.

LOL, how come?

(btw i could come up more then 33 reasons if i need to)

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: notfred
How about "100001 reasons why Amish doesn't like linux"?

#1) it may, at some point, with enough support, threaten his job.

hahahaha shouldnt you be writing some perl?

Actually, I should be writing some java....... ugh.

BTW, I'm posting form a windows box.

LOL, how come?

How come I should be writing java, or how come I'm on a windows box?

Java: I need to learn it to pass this class if I ever want to get my damn degree.
Windows: Cause this machine runs windows, because almost any software in the world will run on it.

(btw i could come up more then 33 reasons if i need to)

BTW, that was hex, not binary.

 

[Cattlegod]

linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

that has to be the dumbest thing ive heard all day. the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary. (and the size has nothing to do with the efficenciey of the binary)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

Ok, to make it more fair, this "Sun station" would have to be an x86 based machine and using gcc for compilation. Size shouldnt matter too much, so we can go with speed.

 

[n0cmonkey]

As a plus to Ameesh and all the others at Microsoft, Im told MSSQL would be almost perfect... If it ran on Unix

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

that has to be the dumbest thing ive heard all day. the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary. (and the size has nothing to do with the efficenciey of the binary)

and you have to be the dumbest person i've met all day. how do you figure that the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary?

if you don't believe me argue it with my computer engineering prof.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

that has to be the dumbest thing ive heard all day. the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary. (and the size has nothing to do with the efficenciey of the binary)

and you have to be the dumbest person i've met all day. how do you figure that the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary?

if you don't believe me argue it with my computer engineering prof.

It depends more on the compiler, optimizations, and the platform.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
linux is less efficient

compile a c++ program on a linux system then on a sun station. huge difference in size.

that has to be the dumbest thing ive heard all day. the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary. (and the size has nothing to do with the efficenciey of the binary)

and you have to be the dumbest person i've met all day. how do you figure that the OS has nothing to do with the size of the binary?

if you don't believe me argue it with my computer engineering prof.

It depends more on the compiler, optimizations, and the platform.

exactly, the OS has nothing to do with it.

 

[Jfur]

Make sure you explicitly define and state the relevance to globalization

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
As a plus to Ameesh and all the others at Microsoft, Im told MSSQL would be almost perfect... If it ran on Unix

I have to give some props to MS SQL Server... It's a fast and robust database server. We had a SQL 7 server up for 140 days until we had to take it down for an hour to do some major patching. I learned SQL on SQL Server and was dissapointed that mysql did not support queries within queries :Q

 

[BigNeko]

I have to write a 15-20 page paper in regards to globalization. The topic has to be within your job field, so I figure why not write a paper regarding the open source movement, but more particularly Linux.

I think software would be tough cause there is no major drive to move production overseas. Might do better with IC chips (some CPUs and some memory). Started in USA, then to Japan, then to Korea, then Malaysia, now Phillipines, but higher end (smaller) stuff shifting to chip fabs in Taiwan?? Of course, we never did see pics of that resin plant "fire" here in Japan, did we?
Someone else here probably has better info, but I think you would want to track something that has moved from (emerging to mature) industrial country, to next (emerging to mature) country.
Then again, that`s not necessarily "globalization". WTF was that term in economics? Country A produces Widget X more efficiently than Widget Z. Country B produces Widget Z more efficiently than Widget X. SO they each produce their respective efficient Widgets and trade.
Fer instance, in the late 70s, we would send shiploads of lumber from Oregon to Japan. They would turn it into plywood and send it back. It was more cost effective to do this, than for Americans to make the plywood here. Wierd, but I think that is more along the lines of globalization.
Good luck with your paper. I have one due in about five weeks on Lynucks. But only 8 pages!

 

[StattlichPassat]

www.linuxworld.org

 

[DeadHead]

I was thinking of uinstalling linux once... until I stopped thinking.

 

[Jfur]

Originally posted by: BigNeko

I have to write a 15-20 page paper in regards to globalization. The topic has to be within your job field, so I figure why not write a paper regarding the open source movement, but more particularly Linux.

I think software would be tough cause there is no major drive to move production overseas. Might do better with IC chips (some CPUs and some memory). Started in USA, then to Japan, then to Korea, then Malaysia, now Phillipines, but higher end (smaller) stuff shifting to chip fabs in Taiwan?? Of course, we never did see pics of that resin plant "fire" here in Japan, did we?
Someone else here probably has better info, but I think you would want to track something that has moved from (emerging to mature) industrial country, to next (emerging to mature) country.
Then again, that`s not necessarily "globalization". WTF was that term in economics? Country A produces Widget X more efficiently than Widget Z. Country B produces Widget Z more efficiently than Widget X. SO they each produce their respective efficient Widgets and trade.
Fer instance, in the late 70s, we would send shiploads of lumber from Oregon to Japan. They would turn it into plywood and send it back. It was more cost effective to do this, than for Americans to make the plywood here. Wierd, but I think that is more along the lines of globalization.
Good luck with your paper. I have one due in about five weeks on Lynucks. But only 8 pages!

This is "comparative advantage" (Ricardo). I was thinking also about standardization. If globalization is the outcome of interconnectedness between economic and telecommunications networks, standards are required for diffusion of global technologies, and open "standards" like Linux are necessary for global networks to exist. Operating systems are standards, although this argument is related more to TCP/IP. That would be a great paper.

 

[kherman]

How aboiut writing an article on how Microsoft is tryong to make open source illegal siting security concerns. A convenient side effect for Microsoft is that this will allow Microsoft to further monopolize the industry.

It's not a commonly discussed topic, yet it is VERY valid and 'm sure you could find lots of sources.

I've also heard about how easy Red Hat 8 is to install! Microsoft whould be quaking in their boots.

How about they change their name to Micropoly. (Miscrosoft Monopoly. Maybe you could buy that make-your-own-opoly board game where you turn the classic game into something of your own. Each space could be another event in Microsoft's hisitroy on how they screwed other companies. What would Boardwalk be????)

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: kherman
How aboiut writing an article on how Microsoft is tryong to make open source illegal siting security concerns. A convenient side effect for Microsoft is that this will allow Microsoft to further monopolize the industry.

It's not a commonly discussed topic, yet it is VERY valid and 'm sure you could find lots of sources.

I've also heard about how easy Red Hat 8 is to install! Microsoft whould be quaking in their boots.

How about they change their name to Micropoly. (Miscrosoft Monopoly. Maybe you could buy that make-your-own-opoly board game where you turn the classic game into something of your own. Each space could be another event in Microsoft's hisitroy on how they screwed other companies. What would Boardwalk be????)

I would like to see one valid link to something like this. I do not see anyway that lawmakers could pass a law that would stand up to constitutional scrutiny outlawing open source even if Microsoft was actively pursuing such an initiative.