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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
Serious enough to warrant additional caution before purchasing. Because who honestly knows what else may be occurring that hasn't surfaced.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
Serious enough to warrant additional caution before purchasing. Because who honestly knows what else may be occurring that hasn't surfaced.
That's fair.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
Serious enough to warrant additional caution before purchasing. Because who honestly knows what else may be occurring that hasn't surfaced.
Seems like "our government doesn't like your government" kind of issues, rather than "our companies steals from your company" kinds of problems. It's all about the US beef with Iran, which is really a theater show of what the US is really concerned about. From the sounds of it, Lenovo affects Americans, Huawei affects corrupt government officials. So if you are just an American, it might not matter. If you trying to manipulate world politics for your own gain, then Huawei might not be so good for you.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
Now we have a moral dilemma, Do you choose to support a company that appears to be breaking US law? Does what the law they are breaking really matter? I'm not sure that it should. We don't want to reward them for breaking the law period, right?
Granted it's US morals - clearly the Chinese morals are different - they don't care about copyright, etc.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/business/huawei-charges/index.html
Hmm. One of corporate espionage the other was selling to Iran. Neither of which are similar to what Lenovo had done in the past. Both of them are serious allegations though.
Now we have a moral dilemma, Do you choose to support a company that appears to be breaking US law? Does what the law they are breaking really matter? I'm not sure that it should. We don't want to reward them for breaking the law period, right?
Laws are different from ethics. It used to be legal to have slaves, that didn't make it moral to have slaves, right?
What the law says and what is ethical are unrelated. Sure, we wish that they were aligned, but they are not. In fact, it's a trivial argument to make that following the law blindly is itself unethical. We have an ethical responsibility that supercedes the law.
The law defines that for which you can be punished, ethics defines what is "good".
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Granted it's US morals - clearly the Chinese morals are different - they don't care about copyright, etc.
It's US laws. Not US morals. I think most Americans find the law unethical, or do so indirectly. Most don't understand how the law works, what it is for, how it impacts out peoples, etc.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/android-malware-china-huawei-zte-kryptowire-blu-products/
They got caught shipping malware in their products in the past, so it's not unreasonable to suspect them again. Especially when another high ranking employee gets arrested for espionage: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/huawei-poland-wang-weijing_us_5c3b032ae4b0e0baf53e254b
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.cyberscoop.com/android-malware-china-huawei-zte-kryptowire-blu-products/
They got caught shipping malware in their products in the past, so it's not unreasonable to suspect them again. Especially when another high ranking employee gets arrested for espionage: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/huawei-poland-wang-weijing_us_5c3b032ae4b0e0baf53e254b
Oh I'm not saying it isn't reasonable or that they aren't doing something bad. It's more that we just don't know at this point and the two cases are pretty different. But sure, they might end up being pretty awful.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.htmlWasn’t there a thread for this? Or was it a telegram discussion?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.htmlWasn’t there a thread for this? Or was it a telegram discussion?
Telegram
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.htmlWasn’t there a thread for this? Or was it a telegram discussion?
Telegram
Ah, well for those curious, the big new thing, aside from the rebranding, is that you get full Veeam functionality for up to 10 VMs. Not just VeeamZip as it has always had.
I have not upgraded my free instance yet to test though.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.htmlWasn’t there a thread for this? Or was it a telegram discussion?
Telegram
Ah, well for those curious, the big new thing, aside from the rebranding, is that you get full Veeam functionality for up to 10 VMs. Not just VeeamZip as it has always had.
I have not upgraded my free instance yet to test though.
So you start out with unlimited VMs but with limited features unless you are only backing up 10 VMs, you'll get the features of the standard edition?
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Either way, this makes me want to move from Altaro free version of only allowing 2 VMs.
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I'm guessing I'll be getting a contact from Veeam reps because I downloaded their products.
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Veeam Agent for Linux v3
Does the install work correctly on Fedora 29 without doing that fix?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm guessing I'll be getting a contact from Veeam reps because I downloaded their products.
Oh yeah, they can be a little relentless at times.
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BtrFS support now, nice.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.htmlWasn’t there a thread for this? Or was it a telegram discussion?
Telegram
Ah, well for those curious, the big new thing, aside from the rebranding, is that you get full Veeam functionality for up to 10 VMs. Not just VeeamZip as it has always had.
I have not upgraded my free instance yet to test though.
Holy cats - that's awesome! though unless you can run it from a Linux Distro, it's still no where near free - you need an $800 Windows server license to run it from.
