How do you become an open source billionaire? Ask Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
You mean create a hugely successful proprietary search engine and ads platform? Sure they may have leveraged open source in creating these proprietary products but they didn't make their money through selling open source products.
You mean the same multiple open-source side projects that add little to nothing to their bottom line? Google gets it's money from it's proprietary search engine and ad platform.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
You can't have a monopoly on your own store. That as ridiculous as whining that [insert random store of any kind] won't stock your product and whining that it's using it's "monopoly" to strangle you out of their stores. Such an argument has no merit and would be thrown out as ridiculous. No store is obligated to stock your product.
I'm not advocating everyone create their own framework (unless they really have a good use case for doing so) and thus you're arguing against a point I wasn't making.
If that were true there wouldn't be the dozens upon dozens of frameworks that probably share little to no code between them. In fact, these frameworks are nothing but a constant reinventing of the wheel.
You don't need to worry as much about security vulnerabilities
It's mantras like these that lead to so much insecure web code being written. You should always be equally worried about security no matter if you're using a framework or homegrown code.
your logic assumes mi5, brit govt. are not protecting the guy, due to its value, and already have working with him to gain all the information he uncovered.
Yes, my logic definitely doesn't entail such ridiculously convoluted excuses in order to explain away all the issues with the premise of my argument.
If they were really trying to hide such evidence they would have simply had him killed. All this publicity would do is make sure that everyone know that they were hiding such evidence which would pretty much go completely against your premise.
while the dumb jock who can't count to eleven without taking a shoe off is considered normal if not the pinnacle of human kind.
Still pretty butthurt because the captain of the football team fucked the girl you thought was your "girlfriend" because you used to pop her bra strap?
Buy all sorts of iterations of Bluff City PD to make it veritably impossible to get their web presensce back.
Hurp derp! I knows! Acting like a cybersquatter is teh funnay!
This is actually a funny, passive aggressive prank and it will teach the police a lesson about responsibility.
How does it teach about responsibility? This guy broke the law and then his reaction is to act like a petulant child and a cyber squatter. Where exactly is the lesson about responsibility in all of this?
Citizens still have some freedoms and Brian McCrary did absolutely nothing wrong!
Other than breaking the law and opening himself up to a whole host of potential issues with ICANN?
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You mean all running on an internal, proprietary fork of GNU/Linux, right?
How do you become an open source billionaire? Ask Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
You mean create a hugely successful proprietary search engine and ads platform? Sure they may have leveraged open source in creating these proprietary products but they didn't make their money through selling open source products.
You mean the same multiple open-source side projects that add little to nothing to their bottom line? Google gets it's money from it's proprietary search engine and ad platform.
The entire point of a business is to provide goods and services for money. Otherwise you're running an NPO.
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
You can't have a monopoly on your own store. That as ridiculous as whining that [insert random store of any kind] won't stock your product and whining that it's using it's "monopoly" to strangle you out of their stores. Such an argument has no merit and would be thrown out as ridiculous. No store is obligated to stock your product.
Except that Nokia and RIM hold larger shares than Apple. Thus there is no way Apple could be a monopoly by any definition.
Linux based OSes were of the first to show desktops as 3D surfaces,
Yeah except for the fact that they weren't. Apple and Microsoft were showing it off before Compiz existed.
and even have real time video playing on them.
That's funny cause my Amiga was doing that before the first revision of the Linux kernel even existed.
Anything starring Rob Schneider or Ben Stiller? The first 15 seconds of the movie is usually the limit of what any normal person could stand of them.
I'm not advocating everyone create their own framework (unless they really have a good use case for doing so) and thus you're arguing against a point I wasn't making.
If you are using a popular framework, there are many people who can discover and fix vulnerabilities.
And? How does this in any way entail that you should be less worried about security issues?
It's about not reinventing the wheel.
If that were true there wouldn't be the dozens upon dozens of frameworks that probably share little to no code between them. In fact, these frameworks are nothing but a constant reinventing of the wheel.
You don't need to worry as much about security vulnerabilities
It's mantras like these that lead to so much insecure web code being written. You should always be equally worried about security no matter if you're using a framework or homegrown code.
And that evidence would be what? Those fake crop circles? Manipulated photos? Grain, low resolution videos of space debris?
your logic assumes mi5, brit govt. are not protecting the guy, due to its value, and already have working with him to gain all the information he uncovered.
Yes, my logic definitely doesn't entail such ridiculously convoluted excuses in order to explain away all the issues with the premise of my argument.
That's the *chortle* brilliant *chortle* slashcode developers at work.
Really? I wasn't being serious...
but we got stuck with an idiot who labels every /. story... well "story".
That happens automatically when the story is posted. An actual user isn't tagging that.
Good job Obama is using the might of the most powerful and richest country on the planet to stop the spewing oil.
So he called in China to help?
If they were really trying to hide such evidence they would have simply had him killed. All this publicity would do is make sure that everyone know that they were hiding such evidence which would pretty much go completely against your premise.
while the dumb jock who can't count to eleven without taking a shoe off is considered normal if not the pinnacle of human kind.
Still pretty butthurt because the captain of the football team fucked the girl you thought was your "girlfriend" because you used to pop her bra strap?
Buy all sorts of iterations of Bluff City PD to make it veritably impossible to get their web presensce back.
Hurp derp! I knows! Acting like a cybersquatter is teh funnay!
This is actually a funny, passive aggressive prank and it will teach the police a lesson about responsibility.
How does it teach about responsibility? This guy broke the law and then his reaction is to act like a petulant child and a cyber squatter. Where exactly is the lesson about responsibility in all of this?
Citizens still have some freedoms and Brian McCrary did absolutely nothing wrong!
Other than breaking the law and opening himself up to a whole host of potential issues with ICANN?
We ended up paying a squatter $1000 to get the name that this business legally owned a trademark to.
Then that business was stupid. They should have filed a name dispute with ICANN.
Most people realize that it's rather stupid to make yourself look like a jerk and prejudice the jury and judge against you by doing so.
Maximum statutory damages ($150,000) times an estimate of about 10 million infringements.