ok so be is now going open source. a matter of four months after i bought R4.5. that's only slightly annoying. what's annoying is the comments in this thread. i read slash regularly and understand the oss bias of the site but the proprietary hatred is unreal. I'll return to that in a minute. first, be is in many ways just like linux. it uses all of linux's software but does it in a way that looks appealing and with the many advantages that others have pointed out (journaling being one of my favs) there should be love and harmony be linux and be users. in fact linux and be users should be the same people.
now onto the zealots. its my unscientific belief that the great majority of linux cum oss zealots only learned what modem meant two or three years ago. sadly once they started their AOL accounts and learned that only losers used aol and that truly elite people only use linux and local ISPs they immediately went into fullon evangelist poser mode, wherein they would find any opportunity to slam microsoft, apple, and others and promote linux in their innane way telling everyone how great and wonderful it was and touting their god Linus to the masses in the hopes that by doing so said god would come down from on high and bless them with his secret kernel tips. it is my hope that Linus is embarrassed by what has been made of his creation. I'm certain he feels some pride now and then but overall i would be ashamed of the way in which people who say "hey I use linux and I promote open source, I'm just like Linus." behave in his name, if i were him.
I'd like to say this. if not for bill gates and microsoft and DOS on IBMs more than likely we'd be using proprietary apples and the open source movement might never have happened. pc makers like dell and compaq and gateway might never have been born or made PCs because IBM would never have shown them it was profitable because IBM didn't have the OS. if not for AOL alot of you might never have learned of the internet or Linux. if not for aol possibly linux might not have happened. because the internet boom might never have happened and possibly Linus would have just posted his message on a local bbs or maybe over fidonet and it would have been missed. without IBMs success due to MS-DOS, IBM PC compatibles would never have been built and maybe we would have amigas and apples. and you'd only be able to use them in school cause they were to expensive for the regular person.
so please kill the immature rants about linux and against aol and microsoft and all the rest and realize you'd be taking truck driving lessons now and not learning perl if not for those very entities that you rail against.
p.s. who wants games by committee? open source doesn't work for eveything and in the long run i don't think it will work for most things.
ok, so there are a ton of things that go missing from the book to the movie. but. think of this. the only reason i read the book and all the subsequent books was because i saw the movie. I also happen to have the three issue comic version. Of course if i could get my hands on the full blown movie i would go apesh*t. Now we can knock the movie sure but that could potentially turn others away from herbert altogether. And lastly (thought i would go on forever didn't you) without the movie some people would never get an idea of Herbert. They might just go on thinking that the only sci-fi in the world revolves around the Enterprise and is fought with light sabers. Frankly (no pun intended) I'd take a bad Dune movie over a good Star Wars flick any day (especially the new ones) Star wars is good for the kiddies but gimmes a break.
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ok so be is now going open source. a matter of four months after i bought R4.5. that's only slightly annoying. what's annoying is the comments in this thread. i read slash regularly and understand the oss bias of the site but the proprietary hatred is unreal. I'll return to that in a minute. first, be is in many ways just like linux. it uses all of linux's software but does it in a way that looks appealing and with the many advantages that others have pointed out (journaling being one of my favs) there should be love and harmony be linux and be users. in fact linux and be users should be the same people.
now onto the zealots. its my unscientific belief that the great majority of linux cum oss zealots only learned what modem meant two or three years ago. sadly once they started their AOL accounts and learned that only losers used aol and that truly elite people only use linux and local ISPs they immediately went into fullon evangelist poser mode, wherein they would find any opportunity to slam microsoft, apple, and others and promote linux in their innane way telling everyone how great and wonderful it was and touting their god Linus to the masses in the hopes that by doing so said god would come down from on high and bless them with his secret kernel tips. it is my hope that Linus is embarrassed by what has been made of his creation. I'm certain he feels some pride now and then but overall i would be ashamed of the way in which people who say "hey I use linux and I promote open source, I'm just like Linus." behave in his name, if i were him.
I'd like to say this. if not for bill gates and microsoft and DOS on IBMs more than likely we'd be using proprietary apples and the open source movement might never have happened. pc makers like dell and compaq and gateway might never have been born or made PCs because IBM would never have shown them it was profitable because IBM didn't have the OS. if not for AOL alot of you might never have learned of the internet or Linux. if not for aol possibly linux might not have happened. because the internet boom might never have happened and possibly Linus would have just posted his message on a local bbs or maybe over fidonet and it would have been missed. without IBMs success due to MS-DOS, IBM PC compatibles would never have been built and maybe we would have amigas and apples. and you'd only be able to use them in school cause they were to expensive for the regular person.
so please kill the immature rants about linux and against aol and microsoft and all the rest and realize you'd be taking truck driving lessons now and not learning perl if not for those very entities that you rail against.
p.s. who wants games by committee? open source doesn't work for eveything and in the long run i don't think it will work for most things.
ok, so there are a ton of things that go missing from the book to the movie. but. think of this. the only reason i read the book and all the subsequent books was because i saw the movie. I also happen to have the three issue comic version. Of course if i could get my hands on the full blown movie i would go apesh*t. Now we can knock the movie sure but that could potentially turn others away from herbert altogether. And lastly (thought i would go on forever didn't you) without the movie some people would never get an idea of Herbert. They might just go on thinking that the only sci-fi in the world revolves around the Enterprise and is fought with light sabers. Frankly (no pun intended) I'd take a bad Dune movie over a good Star Wars flick any day (especially the new ones) Star wars is good for the kiddies but gimmes a break.