Stupid lawsuits should be discouraged as all this abuse of the legal system just makes life harder for everyone. I remember a Sliders episode once where they happened to slide to an earth where something like 80% of the population practiced law. It was very funny to watch as you could not do anything without fear of being sued, but very scary as well.
So ok if this guy wins, he will shut down the net for most of us. Nice way to be remembered I think. Does he do anything other than bring lawsuits against people?
What I have noticed is that due to the underlying drive of OSS, that of "scratching an itch" and the availability of time and resource vs deadlines and budgets of commercial software, when software bloats, that too becomes an itch.
For example the previous posters comment about modular drivers vs drivers in the kernel comes to mind. Another is the CVS tree's as it became harder to write the Kernel and Utilities.
Protocol and Interface Standards are another weopen against the complexity of projects.
As OSS Software evolves and becomes more complex, solutions to complexity evolve along with it.
With OSS it is viable to say, ok we will have to rethink this and derive a better, more scalable approach. With Commercial software it is a lot harder to say "Damn we need to scrap this approach and rethink it, BTW this adds another 6 months to the dealine". What percentage of project managers are going to have the force of will to push through this change at the sacrafice of a deadline, not many. There is also the preassure of those higher in the hierachy, who never seem to like a predictor of doom.
That is why I feel that OSS will prevail over commercial software in he long term.
If it stops Intel having to put a FSB lock then I am up for it. Maybe they could take the mult lock off as well.
What I think would be good, is to have a write once bit on the cpu that is set whenever the FSB or Mult lock exceeds the rated speed or setting. This would be good to protect people from buying 2nd gear that has been o/c in the past, also would eliminate Intel's claim that they have to honour the warranty on CPU's that have been O/C. Think, if they do not have to honour, then they have no incentive to prevent the hobbyist pushing thier hardware.
As a means of identity on the net, well that is not quite true as it just identifies the cpu in current use.
Slashdot Mirror
As it happens every day,
or at the most 47.9 days.
Ice Tiger
The fact you say that it cannot share files and serve web pages as well as NT makes it clear you have not done any homework.
Linux is not perfect, no OS is, but where it competes with NT/98 it tends to do better.
In fact my Linux can mount my FAT32 98 partitions, whereas NT does not, go figure.
Ice Tiger
This looks very cool, especially for images and video. What would it take to use the same mathematic priciples and to have an OSS codec?
Any OSS codec would kill a proprietery standard due to it soon being ported to greater platforms than just Netscape / IE under Wintel.
Codecs are commodaties, and the sooner the world realises this the better.
Ice Tiger
Why did you not sue back?
Stupid lawsuits should be discouraged as all this abuse of the legal system just makes life harder for everyone. I remember a Sliders episode once where they happened to slide to an earth where something like 80% of the population practiced law. It was very funny to watch as you could not do anything without fear of being sued, but very scary as well.
So ok if this guy wins, he will shut down the net for most of us. Nice way to be remembered I think. Does he do anything other than bring lawsuits against people?
What I have noticed is that due to the underlying drive of OSS, that of "scratching an itch" and the availability of time and resource vs deadlines and budgets of commercial software, when software bloats, that too becomes an itch.
:)
For example the previous posters comment about modular drivers vs drivers in the kernel comes to mind. Another is the CVS tree's as it became harder to write the Kernel and Utilities.
Protocol and Interface Standards are another weopen against the complexity of projects.
As OSS Software evolves and becomes more complex, solutions to complexity evolve along with it.
With OSS it is viable to say, ok we will have to rethink this and derive a better, more scalable approach. With Commercial software it is a lot harder to say "Damn we need to scrap this approach and rethink it, BTW this adds another 6 months to the dealine". What percentage of project managers are going to have the force of will to push through this change at the sacrafice of a deadline, not many. There is also the preassure of those higher in the hierachy, who never seem to like a predictor of doom.
That is why I feel that OSS will prevail over commercial software in he long term.
IceTiger
PS Yeah I can code a bubble sort
If it stops Intel having to put a FSB lock then I am up for it. Maybe they could take the mult lock off as well.
What I think would be good, is to have a write once bit on the cpu that is set whenever the FSB or Mult lock exceeds the rated speed or setting. This would be good to protect people from buying 2nd gear that has been o/c in the past, also would eliminate Intel's claim that they have to honour the warranty on CPU's that have been O/C. Think, if they do not have to honour, then they have no incentive to prevent the hobbyist pushing thier hardware.
As a means of identity on the net, well that is not quite true as it just identifies the cpu in current use.
Ice