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RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper
An anonymous reader writes ". . . and boy, is he pissed! The BitKeeper license, he told the Linux kernel mailing list, is 'the whip hand' of proprietary software. His brief but pungent comment is carried by Linux and Main."
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FIRST POST!
And something about a beowulf cluster.
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rms say wage holy jihad on closed source for it is teh sucks.
who's on first?
YHBT, HAND
Another example of what happens when 12 month old puppies are dealt moderation points.
Keep the animals in their respective cages por favor.
Well said. Bravo, bravo.
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It is official - Netcraft officially confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell ht the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent ofall servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fttingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majorsurveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick nd its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BS s to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
God I hate backronyms and "resursive" acronyms.
This is the biggest reason Open source is not used by anyone else than dirty GNU/hippies. Names aren't supposed to mean anything.
Another annoying habit is taking the name of a well working and known program, changing or adding one letter and naming your crappy open-sores clone using that name.
1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster.
2. ???
3. Profit!
business model;
1,skip
2,skip
3,sit tight and listen to whining.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Maybe you should follow your own sig.
Not to troll here or anything, but aren't these postings of RMS rants a tad redundant? We all know the man isn't going to like anything that's not open source, and we all know what he has to say (well, anyone that really cares anyway.) He's on the fringe anyway, the GNU-nazi camp is a vocal minority of the Linux community (hence why the stupid GNU/Linux thing never caught on.)
:P)
Besides, a tad more on topic, Bitkeeper does what the kernel developers need it to do. Other open source alternatives do not. From what I've read, they've basically said that if there's an open source alternative to bitkeeper that does what they need it to, they'd use it. I very often see people bending their projects to fit open source tools, when it should be the other way around (tools made to fit the projects.) This is obviously a bit counterintuitive.
The niche for hardcore zealots is closing as the "open source" world heads toward the mainstream. RMS and his rhetoric are part of that group that needs to go if anyone is going to take Linux or open source seriously.
Mod me down, I got karma to burn. But at least give me some decent replies (not flames
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Untrue, try, for playing games, and the business end of things maybe windows has the edge, but when it comes to just about anything else, not just server oreiented domains, unix systems have the edge.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
Drat! You took my joke! ;o)>
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I don't think that people in general hate muslims.
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