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Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words
An anonymous reader writes "You gotta love Marc Andreessen's 12 reasons why Open Source is set to boom: can anyone use fewer than 103 words and still adduce as many reasons as he does?"
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That is indeed what is missing. With the 'power' of open source 100 projects to implement this will be started on sourceforge, 20 of which will actually publish source, the other 80 just have an IRC channel where they chat all day on how cool it will be once they get in the mood to start programming and to recruit other 14-year olds to join them.
Of those 20 maybe 5 will produce something useful after a few years, after which progress slows down while fanboys who spontaneously became supporters of a product flame endlessly on various forums.
A prediction: all version numbers of those products will always start with '0.'
You wrote 4 words.
"It's" is one word. It has the same meaning as two word, "it is", but it's a single word, with it's own dictionary-entry and everything.
by Indians or jobless propellerheads writing software for free. No thanks, I guess I'll become a real estate agent so I can feed my family.
A large part of the world is anti-U.S. government, not anti-American. Most Americans don't know this, but the U.S. government supports the killing of Arabs by supporting a scheme of embezzlement: U.S. weapons makers and other largely secret influences have arranged that Israel be given about $5 billion each year as "foreign aid". (The figure varies somewhat each year, and may not be accurate for this year.) But the money can be used only to buy U.S.-made weapons, like the "AH-64 Apache helicopters" mentioned in today's story: Hamas Leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin Killed in Gaza.
This arrangement allows U.S. weapons makers to "sell" more weapons than they would otherwise, and at pre-arranged prices. The Israelis are not careful about the price they pay, because the money is free, and because not discussing the price is part of the arrangement. Of course, everyone tries to keep all of this secret, and there is considerable pretense.
In recent interviews on U.S. TV, the King of Jordan and the foreign minister of Iran both say that the biggest factor encouraging al-Qaeda attacks on the U.S. is the U.S. government's long-standing support for killing Arabs in Palestine. A Jewish leader said that U.S. government money for weapons was like gasoline on the fire of Israeli-Arab conflicts.
There are only 14 million Jews in the entire world, and less than 5 million Jews in Israel. The $5 billion donation from the U.S. government is about $1,000 for every Jewish Israeli man, woman, and child.
I believe that no violence is justified. So, I am not justifying violence when I mention this: It is interesting to note that, throughout recorded history, beginning 3,200 years ago with an Egyptian pharoah, the decendants of Abraham (who became those we call the Jews) have had periodic conflicts with the people around them. The Jews move into an area and, within perhaps 200 years everyone else wants them killed. No other culture that I've been able to find provokes such hostile reactions. Mostly Jews blame everyone else. The only time I have ever known a Jewish person to take responsibility is a quote from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "Any group that has been persecuted for 2,000 years must be doing something wrong." (But it is 3,200 years.)
If you would like more facts about the purposes of al-Qaeda, you can download and read the al-Qaeda Training Manual from the U.S. government's Department of Justice web site: al-Qaeda Training Manual. Note that some of it is missing, presumably because the U.S. government does not want us to read it. Note that the conflict with Israel is mentioned. It has been plausibly suggested that much of the inspiration for the manual came from training given by the U.S. CIA to Arabs fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan in the early 1980s.
Osama bin Laden predicted that the U.S. would invade and occupy an oil-rich Arab state. The U.S. government under the present president Bush planned an attack on Iraq well before 9/11/2001. (If you watched yesterday's 60 Minutes TV news show on CBS, you saw this discussed intensely.) Those plans apparently encouraged al-Quaeda volunteers. The actual occupation of Iraq by the U.S. military encourages more to volunteer.
So, Americans live in fear and have their treasury drained by war so that weapons makers can make a higher profit.
There are other factors, of course, in this story of stupidity and illegality and ignorance. There is craziness. This is difficult to believe, but true, and has been widely reported: Christian fundamentalists in the U.S., who almost all support George Bush, have a plan to arrange the conversion or death of all the Jews, which they believe is predicted in their bible. There are numerous rationalizations and quotes from the Bible, but act
The problem here, is that you hate Bush so much that you are willing to put yourself in the anti-American camp along with the Democrat "leaders" like Kerry. (note that I didn't say Kerry was a terrorist)
You people are giving up everything good about America just so you can sound open-minded to a bunch of euro-trash anarchists. What you're really doing is conforming to these people, which makes you a hell of lot LESS open-minded than you think.
As far as OSS and anti-American sentiment, there shouldn't be a link. OSS should not be politicized. The thought shouldn't even be mentioned, because tossers like you will associate the two in your brain and start spouting MORE garbage. The last thing the OSS movement needs is this image, because it will lose support from American developers and American markets.
The problem with self-proclaimed "open-minded" people, is they want to give the impression they care more than everyone else. What they fail to recognize, is the world doesn't give a flying fuck whether they care or not. They don't realize that the world hates America for far more selfish reasons. Anti-Americanism is a generic umbrella for many forms of hatred, most of which we don't deserve.
So... why don't you get off your damn soapbox and stop supporting the cesspool of European communists/anarchists. You don't have to agree with or like Bush, but for the sake of the country YOU live in, why don't you try to show a little support?
"Never tell me the odds"
Excellent post, but since you normally have broadband you don't suffer like those of us FORCED to live on dial-up. What suprises me most about your post is some dum-dum moderator didn't mark you off topic.
No, Bush just finished the job that Clinton never had the stones to finish. The EUnichs were making loads of money off Saddam and Co., so it's understandable that they'd be pissed, even if they are just as big a scumbags as Saddam.