Yep, I counted four entries if you include a cooperative contribution, after I posted it. The entry I found (I don't know why it was the only one I found) seems to be some of his oldest legacy code. Way to go Linus! It would be interesting historicaly if people had said what version of the program they were contributing to.
I searched for a few names I knew and didn't pull up anything. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^ ~~^~
Do a search of the above subject on slashdot and you'll see this is one of the most contested ideas dating back to Bits and Chips.
But I'll agree with it. The GPL would not be able to protect my code if it allowed others freedom to use of it or allowed me freedom to use anothers GPLed code. But it does protect it, in some very strange public limbo where alls fair as long as it stays in that state (of GPL). The GPL may not be freedom but it is fair! And that is more than any other Liscence out there.
The GPL is in itself an owner of the code, not the writer or the person who adds to it. But at least it is free as in it won't ever *have* to cost you money. And it is free speach. But it is not freedom. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~ ~^~
Yep sure enough I misposted above. He actually shows up about four times. I suppose my number involves some of his earlier code left around.
And I think you are right, they don't fear Linux as much as they fear the GPL's hungry nature. Linus's origional copyright wasn't GPL but he changed it to GPL becuase "it worked better" whatever that means.
I like the GPL, it is enough of a marker. I'd hate to have to name every application I release under the GPL as GNU/Nosepicker, etc... ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^ ~
Here's some favorite companies and there breakdown
#2 Sun Microsystems 7.43% (and a little tiny bit mislabeled as Sun Microsystem) #587 Apple Computer 0.017% (curious) #2270 Microsoft Corporation 0.001% (Thanks Uncle Bill) #3483 IBM 0.001% (what about the Apache/NT patch?)
nothing from AOL, but there is a rather large personal contribution from an AOL address. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~ ~^~
Sometimes your a pri-madonna and then sometimes you hit the nail soundly into the board (IMHO). The press seems to be skipping the point while it focuses on the conflict. The articles about Linux seems to be more like they are covering a war than a movement.
Stories about opening software are portrayed more like throwing a litle meat to distract the watchdogs dogs before they devour you. Stories about Microsoft have the ominous feeling like Rome fortifying itself for the barbarian hordes pillaging the periphery of its empire. Stories about Linux seem to portray an unsympethetic somewhat unstable devouring beast, growing daily.
Its a romantic beast this GPL, and the way its shook the proprietary pillars even to Redmond is going to catch the attention of the press, not the technical details behind it. The press has heralded this fight for maybe a little over a year now, while geeks forsaw the convergence many years before that ran to join the ranks in hopes of bringing down the Microsoftonian Giant. And Richard envisioned it uniquely years before that.
Its exciting to watch, entrancing to listen to, just like the Gulf War on CNN. So when dealing with the press, everyone remember they are covering a war. They are looking for victory speaches and stratagies, big heros and hope. And the final battle ground will be convincing my mother that this software is safe and easy to use (and maybe even fun too.) ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
You know, for the longest time I've had a nagging question about Slashdot. Why is it that a site devoted to the manager hating free floating hacker produces so many posts that look like email from a four year old boss throwing a temper tantrum?
(Do this... Do that... what your doing is crap... you can't use that product... etc.)
Interesting concept, but I thought that there were some sort of fcc restrictions on transporting, since it takes up (hypotheticaly) bandwidth in the teleportation frequencies.
Interesting world when differing star trek books colide.
The military (federation) was granted its own frequencies/etc and daily house use was not advisable. No where on earth, in Captain Kirk's or Captain Picard's houses were there transporters. They always used shuttles. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^ ~~^~
I'm tired of having unknown problems and not knowing where to start. Ivan for how extreme he is has a really good point. There is so much freedom from knowing everything that is going on. That to me embodies the concept of owning your own distribution, just like a well marked up textbook that you've gone over a hundred times means you finally own the textbook.
having said that I realize it would be the beginning of unknown problems but it would also be the beginning of the end. These are things my mother doesn't need to know, but for some reason i think i do. Just stubborn too I guess. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^ ~
I'm working on about the same thing but in concept so far. I have a computer suitable for testing/development. Also you might want to check with Rock Linux man. (Or maybe you are Rock Linux man). ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
Ahh I still remember the great KDE flame by Bruce Perens. It overloaded Robs little server in a most grotesque fashion.
As far as KDE vs Gnome, I use neither. Although Windowmaker is compliant with both, its perfectly good on its own. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
I don't want to read through 700+ comments, can someone just give me the gist?
(btw, wheres Ivan, redwolf and bored in an intense discussion like this. At the time of this writing it is an 89% AC crowd. AC's are lame.) ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^ ~
A roll your own distribution faq in a distribution?
j/k
Almost every distribution comes with a download of the Linux Documentation Project, and at last look there wasn't one. I'm owning up to the fact it just might be too ambitios for any one person. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~ ^~
Where would there be a roll your own FAQ? It sounds complex, but it should be a really good culmination of a lot of good Howtos that are somewhat complex and incompatable otherwise. Someone let me know if you find one. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
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Liz Coolbaugh is definately one of the coolest heads in the linux media ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
But I refuse to buy a Mac, unless Apple releases G3 and G4 motherboard specs to Be.
I've always said Apple is like an ex girlfriend, sure they look good but there is bad relationship dynamics. Compared to Jobs, Gates is a benevolant dictator. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^ ~~^~
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was better, but I really liked Joel. It was his vision of making it through bad times with jokes and friendship that gave moral to the comedy.
Disasterpiece Theatre was better like I said. sal u Loid had more room to do strange things with the movies he showed.
But it was such an obscure show, I'd almost pay money if anyone else on slashdot remembers it. ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~ ABORTED effort: Close all that you have.
Why can't we have some sexy blonde leading us blazingly through fads and fashion statments rather than Bruce? ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^ ~ ABORTED effort: Close all that you have.
Its not CG it's Katherine, my old girlfriend (now married.) Overall I like how her face has a more friendly tone, considering what they could have done.
But I agree with another poster, the lighting seems to be created to cast the best light on the image. The more complex things like hair, etc... are in the dark, and her face and a cyber-phychedelic board are about all we see. Still i think it will be pretty fun to watch. I remember disliking Toy Story because the people looked more toy like than the toys.
And as far as connecting with the charectar, people connect with written charectars all the time. (I even get bewildered by those that seem to connect with Lara Croft. Rachel had some interesting things to say about her, being somewhat an athority herself... and I'll stop there.) ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~ ^~ ABORTED effort: Close all that you have.
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Yep, I counted four entries if you include a cooperative contribution, after I posted it. The entry I found (I don't know why it was the only one I found) seems to be some of his oldest legacy code. Way to go Linus! It would be interesting historicaly if people had said what version of the program they were contributing to.
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I searched for a few names I knew and didn't pull up anything.
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Do a search of the above subject on slashdot and you'll see this is one of the most contested ideas dating back to Bits and Chips.
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But I'll agree with it. The GPL would not be able to protect my code if it allowed others freedom to use of it or allowed me freedom to use anothers GPLed code. But it does protect it, in some very strange public limbo where alls fair as long as it stays in that state (of GPL). The GPL may not be freedom but it is fair! And that is more than any other Liscence out there.
The GPL is in itself an owner of the code, not the writer or the person who adds to it. But at least it is free as in it won't ever *have* to cost you money. And it is free speach. But it is not freedom.
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Yep sure enough I misposted above. He actually shows up about four times. I suppose my number involves some of his earlier code left around.
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And I think you are right, they don't fear Linux as much as they fear the GPL's hungry nature. Linus's origional copyright wasn't GPL but he changed it to GPL becuase "it worked better" whatever that means.
I like the GPL, it is enough of a marker. I'd hate to have to name every application I release under the GPL as GNU/Nosepicker, etc...
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Here's some favorite companies and there breakdown
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#2 Sun Microsystems 7.43% (and a little tiny bit mislabeled as Sun Microsystem)
#587 Apple Computer 0.017% (curious)
#2270 Microsoft Corporation 0.001% (Thanks Uncle Bill)
#3483 IBM 0.001% (what about the Apache/NT patch?)
nothing from AOL, but there is a rather large personal contribution from an AOL address.
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in 1948th place with 0.002% of the code. That is a very interesting chart.
The answer to this is simple. I'll come up with my LYING distribution
(Linux, Yes, Isn't Named GNU)
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Sometimes your a pri-madonna and then sometimes you hit the nail soundly into the board (IMHO). The press seems to be skipping the point while it focuses on the conflict. The articles about Linux seems to be more like they are covering a war than a movement.
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Stories about opening software are portrayed more like throwing a litle meat to distract the watchdogs dogs before they devour you. Stories about Microsoft have the ominous feeling like Rome fortifying itself for the barbarian hordes pillaging the periphery of its empire. Stories about Linux seem to portray an unsympethetic somewhat unstable devouring beast, growing daily.
Its a romantic beast this GPL, and the way its shook the proprietary pillars even to Redmond is going to catch the attention of the press, not the technical details behind it. The press has heralded this fight for maybe a little over a year now, while geeks forsaw the convergence many years before that ran to join the ranks in hopes of bringing down the Microsoftonian Giant. And Richard envisioned it uniquely years before that.
Its exciting to watch, entrancing to listen to, just like the Gulf War on CNN. So when dealing with the press, everyone remember they are covering a war. They are looking for victory speaches and stratagies, big heros and hope. And the final battle ground will be convincing my mother that this software is safe and easy to use (and maybe even fun too.)
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more wannabe bosses than hackers~ ^~
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and it was good.~
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You know, for the longest time I've had a nagging question about Slashdot. Why is it that a site devoted to the manager hating free floating hacker produces so many posts that look like email from a four year old boss throwing a temper tantrum?
(Do this... Do that... what your doing is crap... you can't use that product... etc.)
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Interesting concept, but I thought that there were some sort of fcc restrictions on transporting, since it takes up (hypotheticaly) bandwidth in the teleportation frequencies.
^ ~~^~
Interesting world when differing star trek books colide.
The military (federation) was granted its own frequencies/etc and daily house use was not advisable. No where on earth, in Captain Kirk's or Captain Picard's houses were there transporters. They always used shuttles.
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Share the wealth.... Where are these scripts?~ ~^~
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Amen,
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I'm tired of having unknown problems and not knowing where to start. Ivan for how extreme he is has a really good point. There is so much freedom from knowing everything that is going on. That to me embodies the concept of owning your own distribution, just like a well marked up textbook that you've gone over a hundred times means you finally own the textbook.
having said that I realize it would be the beginning of unknown problems but it would also be the beginning of the end. These are things my mother doesn't need to know, but for some reason i think i do. Just stubborn too I guess.
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Email me,
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I'm working on about the same thing but in concept so far. I have a computer suitable for testing/development. Also you might want to check with Rock Linux man. (Or maybe you are Rock Linux man).
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Do it again tomorrow?^ ~~^~
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Thanks you two, I guess that simply sums it up.
Ahh I still remember the great KDE flame by Bruce Perens. It overloaded Robs little server in a most grotesque fashion.
As far as KDE vs Gnome, I use neither. Although Windowmaker is compliant with both, its perfectly good on its own.
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I don't want to read through 700+ comments, can someone just give me the gist?
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(btw, wheres Ivan, redwolf and bored in an intense discussion like this. At the time of this writing it is an 89% AC crowd. AC's are lame.)
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if AIX dies, we get
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better working utilities like NFS2 etc...
CATIA, and other high end drafting
All sorts of Electical Engineering Packages
mmmmm high end software,
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in ten years"
--Bill Gates, during a promotion in 1997
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A roll your own distribution faq in a distribution?
~ ^~
j/k
Almost every distribution comes with a download of the Linux Documentation Project, and at last look there wasn't one. I'm owning up to the fact it just might be too ambitios for any one person.
^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~
Where would there be a roll your own FAQ? It sounds complex, but it should be a really good culmination of a lot of good Howtos that are somewhat complex and incompatable otherwise. Someone let me know if you find one.
^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
Liz Coolbaugh is definately one of the coolest heads in the linux media~
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But I refuse to buy a Mac, unless Apple releases G3 and G4 motherboard specs to Be.
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I've always said Apple is like an ex girlfriend, sure they look good but there is bad relationship dynamics. Compared to Jobs, Gates is a benevolant dictator.
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was better, but I really liked Joel. It was his vision of making it through bad times with jokes and friendship that gave moral to the comedy.
ABORTED effort:
Disasterpiece Theatre was better like I said. sal u Loid had more room to do strange things with the movies he showed.
But it was such an obscure show, I'd almost pay money if anyone else on slashdot remembers it.
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Close all that you have.
Why can't we have some sexy blonde leading us blazingly through fads and fashion statments rather than Bruce?^ ~
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
Its not CG it's Katherine, my old girlfriend (now married.) Overall I like how her face has a more friendly tone, considering what they could have done.
But I agree with another poster, the lighting seems to be created to cast the best light on the image. The more complex things like hair, etc... are in the dark, and her face and a cyber-phychedelic board are about all we see. Still i think it will be pretty fun to watch. I remember disliking Toy Story because the people looked more toy like than the toys.
And as far as connecting with the charectar, people connect with written charectars all the time. (I even get bewildered by those that seem to connect with Lara Croft. Rachel had some interesting things to say about her, being somewhat an athority herself... and I'll stop there.)
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.