They put shackles on all of us. Robbery could his bills too, until his new "friends" stab him in the back to take all the winnings for themselves. Guess which community will be happier to take him back when he learns the error of his ways and GPL's future code.
Boycott Novell puts the Norwegian story into proper perspective. They have been covering another scandal, which is the OOXML team trying to take over ODF upkeep. The M$ goal has always been the destruction of standards and standards organizations like ISO. They may have won the battle against ISO but they are losing the war against ODF and other real standards. If ISO won't clean itself up, it will be replaced.
There's nothing like a M$ press release to remind you of how far behind the Windows people are. They are finally getting virtual desktops? That's something that's been built into X since 1984 and every GNU/Linux window manager forever. Process monitoring is likewise primitive when compared to any *nix. They things they hype are embarrassing. This is why they are sinking into debt and need a bail out.
There's nothing good about SoundExchange. The program was drawn up by the RIAA to give them control over internet radio. People making deals with them should be ashamed.
If you are going to call someone smelly you should lay it on the right person.
The photo also unintentionally captures classic Gates: completely wrecked hair, terrible looking clothes, generally slovenly appearance, and two glazed eyes staring out past thick glasses. This image changed very little over the bulk of Gates' career, with the shower taps running at much less frequency than the money taps. It should also be noted that this isn't some heaping of sour grapes from the gutter staring up at Bill's mountain of success; throughout the time he has been known in public, Bill's dedication to all-nighters and in-the-trenches energy ensured a number of high-profile press conferences and demonstrations where his lack of hygiene became as breathtaking as the product being demonstrated.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at. I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment.
Can you assholes finally get a new angle for your lies? What's next, asking all GNU/Linux users for $699/cpu?
Finally, while many people admire and respect Mr. Stallman, he's never claimed to represent anyone.
It can be argued that M$ did not survive the dot com crash. Their stock price has been flat over 10 years and they have blown through $60 billion in cash over the last three. All of their new products have been financial failures. Essentially, they are worth less than half what they were worth ten years ago and are about to take on debt.
Google, on the other hand, has done great. They will survive on the kind of advertising that has kept newspapers publishing forever - small and large business benefit from it. This is a product that will always yield another crop.
There's so much unproductivity being advocated by these people that investors have to wonder about where the value really is. Divide and conquer. Screw around formats. Trick people into supporting you through networking effects. The basics of this type of competition were laid out in excruciating detail ten years ago by James Plamondon, a M$ Technical Evangelist. Disrupting others is not a valid business plan and businesses that act this way are losing money. SCO is dead, next up are Novell, Corel and M$ themselves.
There is very good evidence that ATT and every major ISP is moving to pay per byte models and per site discrimination. It comes from whistle blowers. Ignore it at your peril.
There is not any good evidence that wireless wiretaps and email filtering will be abandoned anytime soon.
The issue is neutrality and censorship. Moore's law also makes bad things easier too. We should fight them when we see them. Never accept "how things really work in technology" as an excuse to do nothing. Your freedom of press is too important to sacrifice to technical details and a false sense of "professionalism"
People would rather rule the Earth in relative squalor than conquer and share the infinite resources of space. We could have gone to Mars and come back for the price of the Iraq war. Think of that when you are drafted and lie dying in the dust someplace far from home.
A guy pushing his car down the street asks you for an easier way over the hill. You tell him to drive instead of push. The windows user is unaware his computer can do that after years of power management failure. He tries it once and sees his favorite full GUI and text editor instead of booting like he had a Winblows box. Wow, thanks, I forgot that cars were designed to move people rather than people designed to move cars.
M$ does not want free software taking sales from them and must counter any perception of real choice. Cheap hardware with GNU/Linux has the potential to eat their monopoly. It's cheap and it works better than any Windoze device the user has ever had. Word of mouth like that spells the end of the Wintel world. M$ will do anything to keep people from realizing what shit Windoze is.
WinCE does not have to run well to serve M$'s purpose. Every install gums up the research and production lines of companies dumb enough to drink the Windoze kool-aid. M$ will later use it's vast marketing machine to pretend WinCE works "good enough" and sell it. They will then transfer the poor reputation to the hardware and discourage sales of the devices that way. Just look at all the negative iPhone and OLPC coverage for examples of how this works.
Giving Vista away won't help. People already think they get it "for free" with their new computer and they still hate it. UAC was designed to annoy people, it's still buggy, and digital restrictions are something people will always hate anyway. If you think that's bad, just let people screw their computers up trying to install that pig themselves. They come back saying things like this.
Drag goes up by the square of velocity, so it will always cost more to move people faster. 300 people moved by bus will always consume much less fuel than 300 people moved by plane, no matter how efficient you make engines. Empty seats in planes make the problem worse and that happens when ticket prices go up. I like airplanes and I like flying but it's expensive.
Despite a few well publicized gory murders, the bus is still safer too.
This was not clear. I'm not aware of the FSF "Darth Vader Scale", so I assumed it was Lindberg's hyperbolic interpretation. That can swing in any direction. I'm now assuming that the Lindberg has reprinted the FSF position and simply annotated it with cartoons. That's nice, but it won't have me running off to buy what I could have downloaded.
Only a few major publishers are arrogant enough to distribute in customer hostile formats. Everyone else uses well established standards that just work. DVD has been overcome but we can't be sure people will be able to break the next generation. The harder they make things, the more they lose.
Any book with the term "Intellectual Property" in it suspect. Copyright, trademark and patent law can make sense on their own, but all of them are about monopoly grants not real property. Something that treats GPL'd code like a "cloaked" Darth Vader should be rejected as industry propaganda without further thought.
If you want to learn about licenses and software issues, the Free Software Foundation has an excellent and free library for you online.
Richard Stallman has a few things to say about copyright issues in condensed form here. The bits about helping your neighbors by sharing and how the law should never forbid verbatim, non commercial copy are core to the spirit and purpose of the GPL.
It is fair for Mozilla to guard their trademark, but they should not bother end users with it. EULA's endorse publisher control over users. It can create doubt over people's freedom to modify and share Firefox. Why bother? The vast majority of Firefox users will never compile a line of code, much less become popular distributors of a better/debased version that dilutes trademark and Mozilla's reputation. Imagine if every project decided to be this annoying. GNU/Linux desktops would be as distracting a billboard as Windows.
Free Software, specifically copyleft software, only places restrictions on distribution. "End users" should never be troubled with an "I agree" button. Non free extentions and auto updates can be handled with permission dialogs when they happen and should never confront a free software user out of the box. Trade mark issues should be resolved at the distribution level, if at all.
They want to have some kind of broadcast advert mass market synergy that eliminates competition and feeds them. You might be able to buy a $30 sensor that works with any shoe today. Without DRM you might be able to buy the same for $1 tomorrow. With DRM, you will only be able to do these things with a $200 pair of Nike shoes. They want to wall off their little garden and have everyone pay to participate. As is usual, the garden is only a cool place to be because so many other companies are already there. Free platforms can and will replace the pay platforms and defective by design makes will fade the same way Compuserve and AOL have.
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If we had Open Spectrum we would not have to worry about Slashdotting or sold to the highest bidder cell phone service.
Some "mistakes" are deliberate. We should not let them get away with that.
They put shackles on all of us. Robbery could his bills too, until his new "friends" stab him in the back to take all the winnings for themselves. Guess which community will be happier to take him back when he learns the error of his ways and GPL's future code.
No and I don't understand why I'm on your mind so often.
Don't have the logic or modpoints to fight the truth? I guess that leaves you attacking the messenger. Just as bankrupt as M$ itself.
Boycott Novell puts the Norwegian story into proper perspective. They have been covering another scandal, which is the OOXML team trying to take over ODF upkeep. The M$ goal has always been the destruction of standards and standards organizations like ISO. They may have won the battle against ISO but they are losing the war against ODF and other real standards. If ISO won't clean itself up, it will be replaced.
There's nothing like a M$ press release to remind you of how far behind the Windows people are. They are finally getting virtual desktops? That's something that's been built into X since 1984 and every GNU/Linux window manager forever. Process monitoring is likewise primitive when compared to any *nix. They things they hype are embarrassing. This is why they are sinking into debt and need a bail out.
M$ won't last much longer.
There's nothing good about SoundExchange. The program was drawn up by the RIAA to give them control over internet radio. People making deals with them should be ashamed.
If you are going to call someone smelly you should lay it on the right person.
The "bad name" meme is also really worn out, 32 years worn out
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at. I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment.
Can you assholes finally get a new angle for your lies? What's next, asking all GNU/Linux users for $699/cpu?
Finally, while many people admire and respect Mr. Stallman, he's never claimed to represent anyone.
It can be argued that M$ did not survive the dot com crash. Their stock price has been flat over 10 years and they have blown through $60 billion in cash over the last three. All of their new products have been financial failures. Essentially, they are worth less than half what they were worth ten years ago and are about to take on debt.
Google, on the other hand, has done great. They will survive on the kind of advertising that has kept newspapers publishing forever - small and large business benefit from it. This is a product that will always yield another crop.
There's so much unproductivity being advocated by these people that investors have to wonder about where the value really is. Divide and conquer. Screw around formats. Trick people into supporting you through networking effects. The basics of this type of competition were laid out in excruciating detail ten years ago by James Plamondon, a M$ Technical Evangelist. Disrupting others is not a valid business plan and businesses that act this way are losing money. SCO is dead, next up are Novell, Corel and M$ themselves.
Bill Gates did not steal this idea from Apple. Prisons have been using tents as a way to ease overcrowding for decades.
Liberate your PC today with GNU/Linux.
There is very good evidence that ATT and every major ISP is moving to pay per byte models and per site discrimination. It comes from whistle blowers. Ignore it at your peril.
There is not any good evidence that wireless wiretaps and email filtering will be abandoned anytime soon.
The issue is neutrality and censorship. Moore's law also makes bad things easier too. We should fight them when we see them. Never accept "how things really work in technology" as an excuse to do nothing. Your freedom of press is too important to sacrifice to technical details and a false sense of "professionalism"
People would rather rule the Earth in relative squalor than conquer and share the infinite resources of space. We could have gone to Mars and come back for the price of the Iraq war. Think of that when you are drafted and lie dying in the dust someplace far from home.
A guy pushing his car down the street asks you for an easier way over the hill. You tell him to drive instead of push. The windows user is unaware his computer can do that after years of power management failure. He tries it once and sees his favorite full GUI and text editor instead of booting like he had a Winblows box. Wow, thanks, I forgot that cars were designed to move people rather than people designed to move cars.
You would be better off with some Midol.
M$ does not want free software taking sales from them and must counter any perception of real choice. Cheap hardware with GNU/Linux has the potential to eat their monopoly. It's cheap and it works better than any Windoze device the user has ever had. Word of mouth like that spells the end of the Wintel world. M$ will do anything to keep people from realizing what shit Windoze is.
WinCE does not have to run well to serve M$'s purpose. Every install gums up the research and production lines of companies dumb enough to drink the Windoze kool-aid. M$ will later use it's vast marketing machine to pretend WinCE works "good enough" and sell it. They will then transfer the poor reputation to the hardware and discourage sales of the devices that way. Just look at all the negative iPhone and OLPC coverage for examples of how this works.
M$ does not care about what you want.
Giving Vista away won't help. People already think they get it "for free" with their new computer and they still hate it. UAC was designed to annoy people, it's still buggy, and digital restrictions are something people will always hate anyway. If you think that's bad, just let people screw their computers up trying to install that pig themselves. They come back saying things like this.
Drag goes up by the square of velocity, so it will always cost more to move people faster. 300 people moved by bus will always consume much less fuel than 300 people moved by plane, no matter how efficient you make engines. Empty seats in planes make the problem worse and that happens when ticket prices go up. I like airplanes and I like flying but it's expensive.
Despite a few well publicized gory murders, the bus is still safer too.
This was not clear. I'm not aware of the FSF "Darth Vader Scale", so I assumed it was Lindberg's hyperbolic interpretation. That can swing in any direction. I'm now assuming that the Lindberg has reprinted the FSF position and simply annotated it with cartoons. That's nice, but it won't have me running off to buy what I could have downloaded.
Only a few major publishers are arrogant enough to distribute in customer hostile formats. Everyone else uses well established standards that just work. DVD has been overcome but we can't be sure people will be able to break the next generation. The harder they make things, the more they lose.
Any book with the term "Intellectual Property" in it suspect. Copyright, trademark and patent law can make sense on their own, but all of them are about monopoly grants not real property. Something that treats GPL'd code like a "cloaked" Darth Vader should be rejected as industry propaganda without further thought.
If you want to learn about licenses and software issues, the Free Software Foundation has an excellent and free library for you online.
Richard Stallman has a few things to say about copyright issues in condensed form here. The bits about helping your neighbors by sharing and how the law should never forbid verbatim, non commercial copy are core to the spirit and purpose of the GPL.
It is fair for Mozilla to guard their trademark, but they should not bother end users with it. EULA's endorse publisher control over users. It can create doubt over people's freedom to modify and share Firefox. Why bother? The vast majority of Firefox users will never compile a line of code, much less become popular distributors of a better/debased version that dilutes trademark and Mozilla's reputation. Imagine if every project decided to be this annoying. GNU/Linux desktops would be as distracting a billboard as Windows.
Free Software, specifically copyleft software, only places restrictions on distribution. "End users" should never be troubled with an "I agree" button. Non free extentions and auto updates can be handled with permission dialogs when they happen and should never confront a free software user out of the box. Trade mark issues should be resolved at the distribution level, if at all.
They want to have some kind of broadcast advert mass market synergy that eliminates competition and feeds them. You might be able to buy a $30 sensor that works with any shoe today. Without DRM you might be able to buy the same for $1 tomorrow. With DRM, you will only be able to do these things with a $200 pair of Nike shoes. They want to wall off their little garden and have everyone pay to participate. As is usual, the garden is only a cool place to be because so many other companies are already there. Free platforms can and will replace the pay platforms and defective by design makes will fade the same way Compuserve and AOL have.
Handcuffed by iPod is more appropriate than ever. Print your own.