Posts by mark9w

Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet

That tells you everything about the valuation of Tesla on the stock market. If Apple was not willing to buy Tesla at 1/10th the price, they think that they can replicate their products much cheaper.

If Apple (or any other tech company) did think they could create a dominant market position taking over Tesla, they probably would have. That is what the tech industry does.

But I don't think Tesla can make the car industry much less competitive. It is not so difficult to build an electric car. And cars will be much, much cheaper once a large percentage is electric. Maybe if you want an Apple-equivalent in a car, you will buy a Tesla. Most people will buy the cheaper cars.

Apple was driven by Steve Jobs charisma and massive profits. Tesla has the former. It makes losses in their core business producing cars. It is dependent on the tax credits it can sell to other car manufacturers.

Re: Both SX and Tesla have come a very long way in 2 years

I agree. I think Elon Musk is a great inventor and he is very clever. I am not so sure whether his fanbois that are buying Tesla stock at any price are that clever.

Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'

Re: Using Centos but paying RedHat millions for suppport? Doesn't add up

You can expect to pay up for Ubuntu some time in the future too. Unless a distribution is owned by a foundation and not a private (or even worse publicly traded) company that is what is going to happen in the long term. Especially if they are bought up by IBM...

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

Re: Dear el Reg,

Yes, that is what I thought too. I seriously doubt that Wikileaks publishes this to help a right wing politician such as Trump.

And if instead of spinning conspiracy theories The Register would focus on the technical details they would maybe have spotted what is most problematic about the leak.

The CIA is paying contractors to develop zero day vulnerabilities, does not inform the vendors and then the malware leaks. The CIA is actively helping criminals this way. If they could keep the code secret, it might not be that bad. But this is a scandal!

But when there is a story about Trump it seems journalists loose their mind.