I think you're making a mistake by separating the software market into a free section and a non-free section. Non-free software competes with free software in the market as well. If there is a free equivalent to a commercial software package, the commercial software package just got bested and needs to become more appealing to continue to compete.
No, I don't wish to imply you will single-handedly bring down the free market. I'm merely saying that if there is a free version by all means use it, and if there is a commercial product you wish to throw money at, one that innovates and outdoes its free cousins, by all means do so.
* All references to "free software" here refer to price.
so I help the developers buying the programs I need, even if there is an almost identical free variant. You do realize that buying a program when there is free, just as good competition hurts the free market, right?
I have to disagree. If the rights are not given to us by a Creator, then how do we know those rights exist? How are there rules governing our moral activities, if we are nothing but a bunch of molecules?
Questions like these are why America was founded on Judeo-Christian values - not to merge church and state, as happened to the Roman Catholics, for example, but to give basis for their arguments that men deserve freedom.
Sounds great. My plan is to run MinGW on my dev machine, then have a server running Linux which does automated hourly builds from public SVN for Windows (using MinGW under Wine) and Linux, alerting me and emailing the dev mailing list if a build fails, host a private, working copy SVN repository, and automatically package releases for Windows including installers (running the installer script compiler under Wine), etc.
Right... When comparing products, we have to consider actual productivity benefits. When coding, how often to you modify two projects before compiling? Very, very, rarely. How often do you modify two files in the same project, or a header file that two or more source files include? For me, almost every time.
I used to use VC++ for all my C++ development work. I have switched to Eclipse/MinGW.
- There is SVN integration, task integration with Mylyn which can help you focus on only one task at a time, etc. - stuff you simply can't do in VC++ or, if you can, not without paying a lot of money
- The ability to compile one file on each CPU is, laughably, apparently worth $5,000 to Microsoft. Even then, I've heard it doesn't work properly
- I can easily make automated compile/test scripts thanks to switching to MinGW from VC++, and run them automatically on a Linux server which will notify me if a build goes awry
- EASILY extensible. I can compile every bit of the C++ toolset in about 30 seconds, since it is written in Java. If your machine can't run it, you deserve a better machine anyway to soothe compile times...
- The intellisense in both are pretty much comparable with the Europa release.
- If I decide to switch to Linux, all my hotkeys, knowledge, and features are still available.
I could go on and on, but those are the main reasons.
Really? Amazing how it was simply born mature, and how it responds exactly like BSD's.
Some sources say it was, some say it was not. My bad for not mentioning the controversy about it. However, the chances of it not being the BSD stack seem pretty darned slim, considering the evidence.
Either MS broke Vista or the TCP/IP stack is less functional than before. Ding, we have a winner. Vista's networking stack is indeed less functional than XP's. Why? Simple. XP's was borrowed from BSD; Vista's is Microsoft's own, untested stack.
See http://www.twit.tv/sn51 for details.
The Project Manager of WGA posted on the MS forum recently about the servers going down. He said something to the effect of "We apologize for the inconvenience, but desperate times call for desperate measures." I would post my comment there, but it would undoubtedly get deleted (I see no anti-Microsoft comments - gosh, wonder where they all went? Must mean everyone is happy!), so I am posting it here: Since when the heck has MS been in "desperate times"?!
Just off the top of my head:
iCalendar. They hide the free/busy time in X- declarations rather than the ones in the standard (that they helped write!)
ldap - Active Directory uses ldap type objects, except that they make some of them binary blobs that are unaccessible unless you use mapi transports. Thus locking up some information that really should be available. Also, they really should've used the community standard items, like username and what not instead of SMAccount name. But, meh. Was that done to intentionally warp a standard, kill a technology, or harm computing as we know it? No, it was done because a programmer (stupidly) thought he could "do it better" than the standard.
There's a big difference here, and the difference is intent.
I would do that, too, if I weren't so afraid of others seeing how ugly my working copy is...
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Indeed. I have to question the security of a software company which not only leaves it's source code in public FTP, but, after others discover this mistake, ASKS THEM TO MIRROR IT!
Thousands of Windows machines get exploited every day, and there's barely a word said about it.
3 Linux machines are exploited, and it's "OH MY GOSH!!111".
I don't know whether this is a good thing, a bad thing, or, my best guess, both.
I've never heard anyone say GNU correctly in person (it's always G.N.U.) Sez who?
Stallman, who ought to know, does not spell it out, so why do you think it needs to be? You misunderstood. He was saying, to put it differently, "I've never heard anyone pronounce it correctly - they always pronounce it G.N.U. instead."
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
This is called "pointless forking" and "not invented here syndrome" in the open source world. Feh, big deal. Name one time it was done to intentionally warp a standard, kill a technology, or otherwise harm computing as we know it.
The whole world is our beta tester
Google does this. Apple does this. Every open source project ever released does this. Yeah, if they STATE it. The point is that Open Source BETA products are just as stable as Microsoft RELEASE products. I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy, and even though its months from release (with a 6 month development period total) it's more stable than Vista.
We can release sloppy, sloppy code because we have a virtual monopoly
The open source version of this is "you have no right to complain because you got it for free" and "you got the source code so fix it yourself". And the open source version is true. I certainly expect higher quality products when I pay for them as opposed to getting them free; however, that that is almost always not the case makes the entire point moot.
Same with Gmail. The difference is, adding httpS to the Gmail URL encrypts the entire session - emails, contacts, any and all gmail traffic - not just the login credentials.
I get the same exact feeling! It feels a little like "this is odd, I know these programs accomplish useful tasks, but it feels as if it's a big toy, like it isn't actually doing anything..." If I had to describe it, I would say the programs felt like web pages.
I still like LUGs and attend regularly, if for no other reason than talking with like-minded people... Get a great dinner (it's always at a restaurant), walk into a room, and discuss the most elegant way to set up a backup cron job over a Chai latte.
No, LUGs aren't dead at all.
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I think you're making a mistake by separating the software market into a free section and a non-free section. Non-free software competes with free software in the market as well. If there is a free equivalent to a commercial software package, the commercial software package just got bested and needs to become more appealing to continue to compete.
No, I don't wish to imply you will single-handedly bring down the free market. I'm merely saying that if there is a free version by all means use it, and if there is a commercial product you wish to throw money at, one that innovates and outdoes its free cousins, by all means do so.
* All references to "free software" here refer to price.
On Linux, check out Thoggen. It rips a DVD and converts it to Ogg Theora files automatically.
I have to disagree. If the rights are not given to us by a Creator, then how do we know those rights exist? How are there rules governing our moral activities, if we are nothing but a bunch of molecules?
Questions like these are why America was founded on Judeo-Christian values - not to merge church and state, as happened to the Roman Catholics, for example, but to give basis for their arguments that men deserve freedom.
Sounds great. My plan is to run MinGW on my dev machine, then have a server running Linux which does automated hourly builds from public SVN for Windows (using MinGW under Wine) and Linux, alerting me and emailing the dev mailing list if a build fails, host a private, working copy SVN repository, and automatically package releases for Windows including installers (running the installer script compiler under Wine), etc.
Yes, you are right. My usage of heavily template-based libraries is rare, so it doesn't hurt me personally much.
Right... When comparing products, we have to consider actual productivity benefits. When coding, how often to you modify two projects before compiling? Very, very, rarely. How often do you modify two files in the same project, or a header file that two or more source files include? For me, almost every time.
I used to use VC++ for all my C++ development work. I have switched to Eclipse/MinGW.
- There is SVN integration, task integration with Mylyn which can help you focus on only one task at a time, etc. - stuff you simply can't do in VC++ or, if you can, not without paying a lot of money
- The ability to compile one file on each CPU is, laughably, apparently worth $5,000 to Microsoft. Even then, I've heard it doesn't work properly
- I can easily make automated compile/test scripts thanks to switching to MinGW from VC++, and run them automatically on a Linux server which will notify me if a build goes awry
- EASILY extensible. I can compile every bit of the C++ toolset in about 30 seconds, since it is written in Java. If your machine can't run it, you deserve a better machine anyway to soothe compile times...
- The intellisense in both are pretty much comparable with the Europa release.
- If I decide to switch to Linux, all my hotkeys, knowledge, and features are still available.
I could go on and on, but those are the main reasons.
Really? Amazing how it was simply born mature, and how it responds exactly like BSD's. Some sources say it was, some say it was not. My bad for not mentioning the controversy about it. However, the chances of it not being the BSD stack seem pretty darned slim, considering the evidence.
The Project Manager of WGA posted on the MS forum recently about the servers going down. He said something to the effect of "We apologize for the inconvenience, but desperate times call for desperate measures." I would post my comment there, but it would undoubtedly get deleted (I see no anti-Microsoft comments - gosh, wonder where they all went? Must mean everyone is happy!), so I am posting it here: Since when the heck has MS been in "desperate times"?!
There's a big difference here, and the difference is intent.
I would do that, too, if I weren't so afraid of others seeing how ugly my working copy is...
Indeed. I have to question the security of a software company which not only leaves it's source code in public FTP, but, after others discover this mistake, ASKS THEM TO MIRROR IT!
It boggles the mind.
Thousands of Windows machines get exploited every day, and there's barely a word said about it. 3 Linux machines are exploited, and it's "OH MY GOSH!!111". I don't know whether this is a good thing, a bad thing, or, my best guess, both.
Stallman, who ought to know, does not spell it out, so why do you think it needs to be? You misunderstood. He was saying, to put it differently, "I've never heard anyone pronounce it correctly - they always pronounce it G.N.U. instead."
...to get sued by the RIAA for "public performance of a copyrighted work". You just can't win in this world.
Same with Gmail. The difference is, adding httpS to the Gmail URL encrypts the entire session - emails, contacts, any and all gmail traffic - not just the login credentials.
The url is httpS://mail.google.com. The performance hit isn't noticeable, but the security increase sure is...
But it doesn't feel the same way with GNOME, and it only feels slightly similar in Windows.
I get the same exact feeling! It feels a little like "this is odd, I know these programs accomplish useful tasks, but it feels as if it's a big toy, like it isn't actually doing anything..." If I had to describe it, I would say the programs felt like web pages.
...before this extends to making your ipod inoperable if unbought music is found on it?
I still like LUGs and attend regularly, if for no other reason than talking with like-minded people... Get a great dinner (it's always at a restaurant), walk into a room, and discuss the most elegant way to set up a backup cron job over a Chai latte. No, LUGs aren't dead at all.
Exactly. If it "carries no legal weight", why are they so afraid of it?