It's already a failing business model. Unfortunately, they're doing the same thing the RIAA is- paying the government to keep them afloat.
Microsoft isn't the only one- look at Autodesk.
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The "majority of people" supported slavery. The "majority of people" supported keeping 'dem uppity negros' from being able to ride in the front of a bus, or use the same restrooms as white people, etc.
The majority can kiss my ass- this country at best can be nothing more than an idiocracy, and that's only if the corporations and the church would get out of the government.
That's not categorized like a retarded web filter does. I managed to forget a few, though: Bomb, Explosive, Dynamite, TNT, Nuke, Nuclear, IED. This is quite fun, though there's someone knocking at my door no-- *CARRIER LOST*
To do my part, and get this page blocked:
Fuck Shit Damn Hell Motherfucker Bastard (general profanity)
Asshole Rape Cunt Twat Pussy Anus Sex Porn Nudes Hot Teen XXX Pornography Nudity (uh... pornography. Obviously.)
Nigger Chink Spick Wops Kraut Polack Terrorist (hate speech)
Bomb Gun Uzi 9MM Rifle AK-47 NRA (guns, violence)
Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Mortal Kombat, Fatality (violence)
Hm. I just realized something. They're blocking the dictionary!
I'm not so sure I'd want to put my name out there as "the guy who brought down the computers on a plane". He'll be lucky not to land on the no-fly list, I think.
GNU/Solaris is in the works. If Torvalds keeps antagonizing GNU, I wouldn't be surprised to see GNU/Solaris become the favored system. Furthermore, the GNU HURD kernel is complete, but still experimental.
How do we know that the voting isn't rigged by Dell? Are we so sure that many customers voted? Are all the voters from the same IP block, the same company, the same city, or is it a statistically random representative sample?
It actually shows the votes on the page by geography if guest, or username. The answer is that it's none of the above. It's a self-selected sample, which means it suffers from a bias and is unusable for any real statistical work. What it does show is that there is a demand for preinstalled GNU/Linux.
Linux isn't a "wannabe Unix". GNU is the free and opensource Unix clone. Linux is nothing more than the kernel to the system- what lets GNU and everything on top of it talk to the hardware. Given the source code and time, you could make Windows run on the Linux kernel.
There are those of us who think that ideas shouldn't be owned. I'm fine with it, and as the poster above me said, it should be quite obvious to anyone that they're not getting any money out of this- the "compensation" if they use the idea is that... uh... they use the idea.
I'll put more faith in this alleged consumer demand when Linux boxes start outselling all other systems by a 2-to-1 margin.
So you won't put faith in GNU/Linux demand until it takes 67% of the market? Are you nuts? I suppose you don't think there's any demand for OS X either, and it has a lot less marketshare than Linux would be getting if it got seriously pushed by one of the major manufacturers.
Furthermore, if you look at the votes given, the guest votes are all over the place, including a significant number not in North America. These votes haven't been rigged.
Dunno if you're in America or Canada (assuming the latter), but either way, there are certainly multiple taxes you're paying for silly things- at the minimum, the government is certainly funding obsolete, silly, and inane things that they really shouldn't be- with your tax monies.
Linspire has a legal license to distribute DVD playback software. Their Click-And-Run thing, when launched, will allow for it to be "legitimately" downloaded on multiple distributions (debian fedora freespire linspire opensuse ubuntu is what their page shows).
Enjoy.
I can download Opera or GoogleEarth through my package manager now. In fact, there's hundreds of proprietary apps in my Ubuntu package manager. I refuse to use them (and will switch to Debian shortly-just have to get the time to install), but they're there.
Younger, more technologically aware people are more inclined to be left-wing or liberal. Older (less technologically inclined) people are more inclined to be conservative/right-wing. Guess which group is editing wikipedia and guess what group is spending its time complaining about wikipedia?
Wikipedia's job is to let people look something up quickly. Need to know who the 23rd vice-president was? It's Adlai Stephenson.
"But someone could edit that page and change it!"
Oh, right. Now I've linked to the static page.
That part seems rather hard for some people to grasp, considering how many times I've seen that used as a justification for "thou shalt not cite" bullshit.
However, in some cases, "thou shalt not cite" is correct, not just based on reactionary BS- Wiki articles are sourced. If you cite a sourced statement from a Wiki article, you should really be citing it from the original... which is conveniently linked at the bottom of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia isn't failing at this. It's doing this remarkably well. The failing is in reactionary academics who feel threatened by Wikipedia, and the perception these people cause.
If you want to steal peoples' work, go here.
Otherwise, go here.
Free Software is not tyrannical fanaticism. These people work hard to make a working Free kernel, operating system, and applications. Their only request is that it stays Free.
If anyone in the "Linux community" needs to be told loudly to disappear, it's people like you- people who want to take that freedom away.
Compiz came out last year, and Ubuntu has had the sudo+gksudo setup for longer than that. Sorry, but you've got it backwards- UAC is a ripoff of gksudo, not the other way around.
The only reason for his refusal (that I can see) is that it may show some illegal or unethical behavour on his part - In which case, he deserves all he gets.
Ah, the old "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
The founders flat-out messed up because they had no idea that big business would have the power it has today. They had no idea that the internet would put the ability to curtain free speech in the hand of corporations rather than the government.
Had they known that, I suspect rather strongly that they would have phrased the Bill of Rights differently.
The rights of corporations are secondary to the rights of individuals.
Doesn't surprise me that someone who criticizes religion gets censored. After all, religious ideas are completely sacred and can't possibly be questioned by anyone. That would be progress, and progress is WRONG.
Violating patents and/or the DMCA doesn't make the software itself non-free. I don't give a rat's ass about the fact that the government in the USA is willing to give a patent to practically anything regardless of how unworthy it is, and I definitely don't give a rat's ass about the DMCA which is nothing more than proof that the media cartels can convince Congress to do whatever they want.
Copyright, in an age of technology, should recognize that digital media will propagate. Digitally published media should not be copyrightable, period. Any law that doesn't recognize that is bullshit.
I believe in right and wrong, not laws that exist only because our politicians are easily bought. VLC is free software. DeCSS is free software.
* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
* Freedom 1: The freedom to study and modify the program.
* Freedom 2: The freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor.
* Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
I have those freedoms with those programs. They are free software. The media cartels can fuck off- I'm not letting them have my freedom.
You can't be "statistically due" for something. If you flip a fair coin 1000 times and get heads 1000 times in a row, the next one still has a 50/50 chance of coming up heads.
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It's already a failing business model. Unfortunately, they're doing the same thing the RIAA is- paying the government to keep them afloat.
Microsoft isn't the only one- look at Autodesk.
The "majority of people" supported slavery. The "majority of people" supported keeping 'dem uppity negros' from being able to ride in the front of a bus, or use the same restrooms as white people, etc.
The majority can kiss my ass- this country at best can be nothing more than an idiocracy, and that's only if the corporations and the church would get out of the government.
That's not categorized like a retarded web filter does. I managed to forget a few, though: Bomb, Explosive, Dynamite, TNT, Nuke, Nuclear, IED. This is quite fun, though there's someone knocking at my door no-- *CARRIER LOST*
To do my part, and get this page blocked: Fuck Shit Damn Hell Motherfucker Bastard (general profanity) Asshole Rape Cunt Twat Pussy Anus Sex Porn Nudes Hot Teen XXX Pornography Nudity (uh... pornography. Obviously.) Nigger Chink Spick Wops Kraut Polack Terrorist (hate speech) Bomb Gun Uzi 9MM Rifle AK-47 NRA (guns, violence) Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Mortal Kombat, Fatality (violence) Hm. I just realized something. They're blocking the dictionary!
I'm not so sure I'd want to put my name out there as "the guy who brought down the computers on a plane". He'll be lucky not to land on the no-fly list, I think.
GNU/Solaris is in the works. If Torvalds keeps antagonizing GNU, I wouldn't be surprised to see GNU/Solaris become the favored system. Furthermore, the GNU HURD kernel is complete, but still experimental.
Linux isn't a "wannabe Unix". GNU is the free and opensource Unix clone. Linux is nothing more than the kernel to the system- what lets GNU and everything on top of it talk to the hardware. Given the source code and time, you could make Windows run on the Linux kernel.
There are those of us who think that ideas shouldn't be owned. I'm fine with it, and as the poster above me said, it should be quite obvious to anyone that they're not getting any money out of this- the "compensation" if they use the idea is that... uh... they use the idea.
So you won't put faith in GNU/Linux demand until it takes 67% of the market? Are you nuts? I suppose you don't think there's any demand for OS X either, and it has a lot less marketshare than Linux would be getting if it got seriously pushed by one of the major manufacturers.
Furthermore, if you look at the votes given, the guest votes are all over the place, including a significant number not in North America. These votes haven't been rigged.
Dunno if you're in America or Canada (assuming the latter), but either way, there are certainly multiple taxes you're paying for silly things- at the minimum, the government is certainly funding obsolete, silly, and inane things that they really shouldn't be- with your tax monies.
Linspire has a legal license to distribute DVD playback software. Their Click-And-Run thing, when launched, will allow for it to be "legitimately" downloaded on multiple distributions (debian fedora freespire linspire opensuse ubuntu is what their page shows).
Enjoy.
I can download Opera or GoogleEarth through my package manager now. In fact, there's hundreds of proprietary apps in my Ubuntu package manager. I refuse to use them (and will switch to Debian shortly-just have to get the time to install), but they're there.
Younger, more technologically aware people are more inclined to be left-wing or liberal. Older (less technologically inclined) people are more inclined to be conservative/right-wing. Guess which group is editing wikipedia and guess what group is spending its time complaining about wikipedia?
Wikipedia's job is to let people look something up quickly. Need to know who the 23rd vice-president was? It's Adlai Stephenson.
"But someone could edit that page and change it!"
Oh, right. Now I've linked to the static page.
That part seems rather hard for some people to grasp, considering how many times I've seen that used as a justification for "thou shalt not cite" bullshit.
However, in some cases, "thou shalt not cite" is correct, not just based on reactionary BS- Wiki articles are sourced. If you cite a sourced statement from a Wiki article, you should really be citing it from the original... which is conveniently linked at the bottom of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia isn't failing at this. It's doing this remarkably well. The failing is in reactionary academics who feel threatened by Wikipedia, and the perception these people cause.
If you want to steal peoples' work, go here.
Otherwise, go here.
Free Software is not tyrannical fanaticism. These people work hard to make a working Free kernel, operating system, and applications. Their only request is that it stays Free.
If anyone in the "Linux community" needs to be told loudly to disappear, it's people like you- people who want to take that freedom away.
Compiz came out last year, and Ubuntu has had the sudo+gksudo setup for longer than that. Sorry, but you've got it backwards- UAC is a ripoff of gksudo, not the other way around.
Ah, the old "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
So corporations can take away your rights?
The founders flat-out messed up because they had no idea that big business would have the power it has today. They had no idea that the internet would put the ability to curtain free speech in the hand of corporations rather than the government.
Had they known that, I suspect rather strongly that they would have phrased the Bill of Rights differently.
The rights of corporations are secondary to the rights of individuals.
Doesn't surprise me that someone who criticizes religion gets censored. After all, religious ideas are completely sacred and can't possibly be questioned by anyone. That would be progress, and progress is WRONG.
I find no reason to obey a law that only exists because our politicians are on sale to the highest bidder.
Violating patents and/or the DMCA doesn't make the software itself non-free. I don't give a rat's ass about the fact that the government in the USA is willing to give a patent to practically anything regardless of how unworthy it is, and I definitely don't give a rat's ass about the DMCA which is nothing more than proof that the media cartels can convince Congress to do whatever they want.
Copyright, in an age of technology, should recognize that digital media will propagate. Digitally published media should not be copyrightable, period. Any law that doesn't recognize that is bullshit.
I believe in right and wrong, not laws that exist only because our politicians are easily bought. VLC is free software. DeCSS is free software.
* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
* Freedom 1: The freedom to study and modify the program.
* Freedom 2: The freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor.
* Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
I have those freedoms with those programs. They are free software. The media cartels can fuck off- I'm not letting them have my freedom.
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
I believe when that hits zero, Testing becomes Stable. It's currently at 105.
If you want to help debian:
http://www.debian.org/intro/help
Yes, that's true, though if you already know it to be a fair coin, you just witnessed a 1/(2^1000) probability event happening.
You can't be "statistically due" for something.
If you flip a fair coin 1000 times and get heads 1000 times in a row, the next one still has a 50/50 chance of coming up heads.