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Stallman And Bero Interviewed
Juraj Bednar writes: "I have done two interviews: one with Bero from RedHat and one with Richard
Stallman, the GNU and FSF founder. I usually write in my native language, but since these interviews were done in English, I asked myself why not to share them" Readers may want to also visit Bero's shared-source.com, and bookmark it as a FUD antidote.
OSS indeed did make possible what a proprietary solution or non-free solution may not have (I guess we'll never know - but the point is that Redhat using OSS was the prefered option).
They could not have made as much money selling a proprietary solution as I doubt if they could have written the entire system themselves and as such the authors of the kernel, or the library - would take their slice.
OSS is not stealing from others by relying on their work as programmers were happy for this to happen and understood the licence they released code under.
A hat trick! Second one for me! Lum forever!
My new *FIRST POST* script works! I'll release it in a moment in this thread!
oh yeah
Apparently not, number 4.
Needs a bit of work.
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Felttip from Mandrake?
All the old paintings on the tomb
They do the sand dance, don'cha know?
If they move too quick (Oh-Way-Oh)
They're falling down like a domino
And the bazaar man by the Nile
He got the money on a bet
For the crocodiles (Oh-Way-Oh)
They snap their teeth on a cigarette
Foreign types with their hookah pipes sing:
Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo...
Walk like an Egyptian.
The blonde waitresses take their trays
Spin around and they cross the floor
They've got the moves (Oh-Way-Oh)
You drop your drink then they bring you more
All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (Oh-Way-Oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian
All the kids in the marketplace say:
Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo...
Walk like an Egyptian.
Line your feet astreet, bend your back,
Shift your arm, then you pull a clock
Like Sergeant O (Oh-Way-Oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac
If you want to find all the cops,
They're hanging out in the donut shop.
They sing and dance (Oh-Way-Oh)
They spin their clock and cruise on down the block
All the Japanese with their Yen
The party boys call the Kremlin
The Chinese know (Oh-Way-Oh)
They walk along like Egyptians
All the cops in the donut shops say:
Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo...
Walk like an Egyptian
Walk like an Egyptian
Amen.
This is exactly a first post message and first class message.
see subj
GUI's are like diapers, everyone grows out of them
very FAR from the truth. People that don't use guis get their jollies off of the fact that they can execute a shell script (from your SIG, you included) Just like the script kiddies. This statement is also said from supporters of an OS that has a GUI system that leaves much to be desired.
A gui is like a work of art. Windows (MacOS X) = the mona lisa. Linux (Kde,Gnome,insert your favorite linux GUI here) = goatsex.cx.
They could have made as much money selling a proprietary solution though. OSS did NOT make this solution possible.
Sure, we believe you and all your "inside sources." Nothing says "credibility" like a Slashkiddie.
Made up stories ("I heard from inside sources") isn't all that informative.
Hmmm, not sure I associate completely.
I don't have a problem with Linux being free and open-source. I do not believe that a company should try to make money off of it, unless they are doing what Redhat is doing, providing an associated service and NEVER claiming they own Linux itself. I support Redhat.
What I do have a problem with is the presumption that ALL software should be treated this way, so that if you build a [insert prog.lang] application using your time and expertise, you or your company should just give it a way, allow someone to copy and redistribute it, and hope someone down the line needs help with it so you can bill them for your time. This is silly. There is a basic "unalienable" property right in any intellectual creation which even Stallman would have trouble denying if pressed. I mean, he puts his name on what he writes, doesn't he? His name was on that interview, right? He wants to be recognized as the specific individual who initiated the GNU, right?
Operating systems and tools, such as Apache, should be free, but solutions, such as a DB front-end or other application, should cost something monetary, even if the source code is available. If you go to the bookstore to buy a book, you are inherently supporting the same principle. The author gets full credit and (theoretically) some compensation for their work, but the language in which they write is free to use. No one is suggesting that we place all books into a state where the text can be copied and redistributed with no agreement from the author just because the books use a free language, so why do we hear this in regard to software??
- Defiant