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RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle
mshiltonj writes "You know its what we've all been waiting for: RMS weighs in on the BitKeeper debacle. An excerpt: "I want to thank Larry McVoy. He recently eliminated a major weakness of the free software community, by announcing the end of his campaign to entice free software projects to use and promote his non-free software. Soon, Linux development will no longer use this program, and no longer spread the message that non-free software is a good thing if it's convenient."
...the more I like him. :)
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
I've been working with Linux for about 2 years now. I've also been trying to master music production for about the same amount of time.
My music software of choice was Beast/BSE, which is a modular softsynth/sequencer program. At first, I kept giving up. I just couldn't make the sounds that "everyone else" was using. After a while, I understood enough to make those sounds, but I had spend so much time making my own sounds that I didn't want to use "everyone's" sounds.
The moral is: Free Software has a huge learning curve in some cases, and I was tempted to give up very often, but in the end, I believe that the Free Software gave me more power than a non-Free equivalent.
I don't really have anything to say about the "Ex-boyfriends List" (It's way out of context, so didn't make much sense.), but if you think that the Republican Beliefs text is "stupid bullshit" then you are very blind/have your head far up your ass.
How is any of those thing untrue about Republicans? They are horribly, scarily true.