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Trademarks Considered Harmful To Open Source
An anonymous reader touts a blog posting up at PC World titled "Trademarks: The Hidden Menace." Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet completely ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as corrosive to the freedom that open source projects strive to embody. "Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further business ends. ... Is this how open source is supposed to work? Restricted redistribution? Tight control on who can compile software and still be able to call it by its proper name? ... Trademarking is almost totally incompatible with the essential freedom offered by open source. Trademarking is a way of severely limiting all activity on a particular product to that which you approve of. ... If an open source company embraces trademarks then it embraces this philosophy. On the one hand it advocates freedom, and [on] the other it takes it away."
fucking homosexual faggots need to die of the aids and die fast. you're wasting resources that can be used by real human beings instead of complete fucking homos. homosexuals are a drain on society and deserve to be buried like the corpses of road kill.
if you're a faggot just understand that you have no place as a functional human being unless you give up the rump roasting and dick smoking. you should be ashamed of yourself.
Bitwise OR is stupido, you stupid lady/.
What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Atheism is the absense of religion. Agnosticism is an acknowledgement that god has not yet been proven to not exist. It's just simple honesty, though I feel that god like in the Bible is about as likely as having god be a 7 foot tall bunny made of spaghetti, used video tape and lug nuts.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
There's no free lunch -- that freedom for OSS customers comes at the expense of programmers working like slaves, for free. Right now, the work is voluntary, so it's not quite slavery. But once protections provided by patents, copyrights and trademark laws are destroyed, OSS will be synonymous with "forced free" software, aka slavery.