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The Riches of Open Source
Daniel Dvorkin writes "This BusinessWeek article argues convincingly that Linus Torvalds has more resources at his disposal than Bill Gates. Not only is it a nice overview of Why Open Source Really Matters pitched to a non-technical audience, but it makes a solid argument in favor of OSS in general and Linux in particular, from a solidly capitalist perspective."
How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!
You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!
With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!
Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!
...as in Slit Anus and Anal Cox.
Sorry.
yup, SCO is out to steal & control all those Open Source riches, both GPL and BSD licensed flavors.
Ah yes, it's all about privacy and anonymity, until someone gets bled by an AC, then watch out! the seething hatred and demands for full disclosure commence.
I'll tell you who I am if you give me your PGP private key.
you make me cry... It's so beautiful :
...what an idiot. This slashdot thing gets worst every day. Too bad i can't find a better forum... :)
" I think it's because of the love and passion that everyone puts into their hobbies, in hope that they can get somewhere other folks haven't been before"
You're like the songs from the communist era: " _The_West_ spends millions on branding, on marketing, packaging and distrobution. They could easily make loads more money if they focused instead on a model closer to the _people_ model". Chill out, man. Go get a girl, or a beer.
and what is "positive growth" ?
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
We should bind all Programmers into slavery, and pay them nothing.
Thats what the open source movement is truely about!
Hmmm...fascinating insight, the problem is that you're a flaming homosexual, with veneral disease. Perhaps you should get that looked at, Dad.
It's time for buttsex and holly!!
Q: And yet you've been famously cool about Linux.
A[BILL JOY]: Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me
personally.
For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut
your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon.
Joy just ripped you fuckers a new ass. ONe smart guy can get done what 500 fat greasy hippie shitheads cant even do right.
HJAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH.
Cultural: he means, geeks fucks like yourselves thinking they are cool by being associated with digital communism. along comes the mediocrity.
Business: Companies use opensource like a fucker uses a condom. they use it to replace commodity SHIT while the real work gets done on commercial software.
Sorry greasy fags. You work for free to replace the low end of computing. live with your lowly status.
Can anyone explain to me what about linux is so creative? The weakest spot of linux is the lack of creativity and innovation. Everything is a big rip off of microsoft windows and windows does it better.
your master's pages shows you are a fucking fraud. you talk a lot more about things than ACTUALLY DOING THEM.
you are a highbrown academic LOSER. you wouldnt survive 5 minutes in a meritocracy. you hide behind societal contructs designed to protect you instead of doing anything new. you suck.
you strike me, judging on the "research," as the type who will end up in law schools and sue people for the IP you wished you were capable of creating.
Fewer and fewer people do M$ stuff as a hobby anymore. It's expensive and second rate. You can get more done with free software today and will be able to for the foreseeable future. Oh yeah, forget about trying to make money at it. The cost of polishing things up will eat you alive.
MS also has many, many manufacturers tripping all over themselves building and testing hardware drivers for their products.
It's more like they are looking for every way out from under Microsoft's nasty domination. They also have to pay through the nose for SDKs and still have no idea if M$ will grant them the favor of letting their hardware run. The testers are the people unfortunate enough to buy M$. I've seen Microsoft's Updater load up an old driver version that caused an Intel Winmodem to hang up sporadically. If M$ won't listen to Intel, who will they listen to?
Microsoft promised everyone that they would make more money if they kept things closed and followd the M$ monster. It turns out that only Microsoft can make money with Microsoft. Anyone who makes anything worth while faces extortion and then direct competition from the origninator of the scheme. It serves them right, after all the intent was to screw the user.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
..a community which is far more powerful than Microsoft.
That's the beauty of Slashdot. You can make any old assertion like it's the truth and no one questions you. Here's one I just came up with:
You're a DICKHEAD.
But, what are we to expect from State-funded education, which spews such non-sense as the idea that prior to the government stealing radio waves from private owners, there was chaos in radio waves (there was no such thing, courts were enforcing property rights).
You demonstrate extreme stupidity by claiming that the government "created" currency. Currency is established voluntarily by individuals acting of their own free will. At first, there is barter. Then when an item is in enough demand, it is used as a medium for indirect exchange, rather than barter. This creates conveniency and allows for more precise transactions.
You are right about one thing: we need property rights for the free market to exist. The non-aggression axiom must be enforced. You are completely wrong about the necessity of a government for this funciton. All that government is is (ideally) is a monopoly on the enforcement of property rights; that monopoly is protected by coercive force. There is no reason to presume why the free market cannot supply protection for property rights and justice more effectively than the government, just as it provides everything else more effectively than the government. Furthermore, there is no reason to presume beforehand that a monopoly on law-enforcement is the ideal solution. See Rothbard:
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newliberty11.asp
Of course, government's are alot more than a monopoly on law enforcement. They also ahve a monopoly on things like theft, stealing, and murder. In other words, the goverment is a self-legitimized organization of criminals, with a monopoly on violence.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
In regards to your absurd idea that the government is needed to prevent monopolies, you should know that all true cases of monopoly-pricing are government-created. The following articles may be helpful:
Fear of monopoly
The question of the cable monopoly
Understanding the Barriers to Entry
Pile on Microsoft
Media Concentration: Not a Threat
Break up Microsoft
Anti-trust, anti-truth
Cipro Shortage: An Invented Scarcity
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
fuck you hoser. termnals are so 1960's. grow the hell up and use a MANS computer. Get a windows machine. How the hell are you supposed to fix a machine without windows and a mouse? IDIOT. You are shit and really stupid for not knowing that. The world runs on windows. Everything important is on windows. Your life depends on it dumbass.