Can you trust the government? No. That's why we have regular elections to minimize exposure. Can you trust big corporations? No. The CEOs of huge corporations like Google are responsible first and foremost to their share holders. Pissing the government off tends to lead to troublesome inquiries and so on, so fo course Google is going to play ball. Can you trust yourself? Yup. Google is NOT the internet. You can limit the information they have on you. There are other search engines. Duck Duck Go is a good example of this. No free email service is secure, but you can use plugins like thunderbird-enigmail to encrypt and sign your messages, or, if you have the technical chops, run your own mail server in-house. You can use anonymizing technologies like TOR and I2P to keep your browsing habits private. Your privacy is always going to be in far better hands with yourself than with a third party anyway.
They just freed up a bunch of cash for broadband projects. Yours is the type of company that deserves/could use the money the most. I would see about getting some of it or urging your boss to do it.
your just jealous because they actually have money. linfux is for cheap bitches with no cash. but who cares lnux is soon going under! slashdick will soon be gone!!
hey kdawson! go find a job flipping burgers, fucking asshole.
First, don't put words in my mouth, I think the open source model works just fine. My point is Apple does things to benefit the parts of open source it uses while at the same time excluding the open source community from Apple services. Where is iTunes for Linux? Why can you mount a windows partition from OS X but not an Ext2 partition? They take what they need from open source to make their OS work and at the same time discourage people from trying open source.
Its a shame you can't put on an argument without being childish. But anyway, all the projects you listed benefit Apple only, thanks for illustrating my point.
Hello, I followed the link and read the article and this is exactly what I am talking about, all it does is encourage developers to write open souce code that improves OS X but Apple as a company does little to contribute anything back. How may people are or will be discouraged from using Linux because they are worried they won't have a way to sync their iPod? If it wasn't for some hard working people in the open source community that would be the case. The GPL that a good bit of the code Apple includes in its OS is licensed with is designed to encourage two way collaberation that helps everybody involved, Apple only uses it to help themselves and I don't think its right and its certainly not in the spirit of open source. This is my opinion on the matter and you are out of line accusing me of being a troll, I can say any damned thing I like. OS X is a nice OS and Apple does make nice computers but the way they go about some of the things they do sucks.
Uh, no I'm not a troll at all but thats the way I feel about the way Apple does things. Why is it that even though OS X is slam-full of open source software there is no iTunes for Linux? Unix code is very portable, it took more work to make iTunes work on Windows than it ever would on Linux. Why does it take a 3rd party kernel extension for OS X to mount Linux partitions? Why has Apple made it difficult for Linux users to view Quicktime content? They contribute nothing to open source as a whole but take quite alot from it.
I own a Mac and I have to say that OS X is a very nice OS. The reason that it is a nice OS is all the open source programs Apple included in it to make it such. Just to name a few gcc, any of the shells and GNU tar. Apple seems to take what they want from open source and shun the open source community. Until this approach changes they are little more than parasites on open sources back side as far as I am concerned.
It will sure be nice when all these dusty old government officials that have no idea what computers are, what they are for and most importantly how to write sensible laws for them are dead and gone. NONE of them seem to have any idea how to handle technology. Its 2007 and they are fumbling around in the dark. I wish a techno-savy political party would come to be, we sure could use it.
Hello, I received an email today that was supposed to have information about my account in it. It instead contained hundreds of usernames and or emails. I have contacted paypal about this but received no response. I am trying to get the word out where ever I can.
Hello, it only helps to prove that Bill is starting to worry a little more about Linux Now that it is becoming competitive. Also, they are using a well known strategy by attempting to coerce and subdue and enemy they can't beat outright. Rome wasn't deposed by any mighty army but instead consumed from within by people who didn't care about Rome at all. All Microsoft has to do is screw Linux up enough to make the average desktop user sensitive to FUD and they will have snuffed the Linux revolution from within.
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Can you trust the government? No. That's why we have regular elections to minimize exposure. Can you trust big corporations? No. The CEOs of huge corporations like Google are responsible first and foremost to their share holders. Pissing the government off tends to lead to troublesome inquiries and so on, so fo course Google is going to play ball. Can you trust yourself? Yup. Google is NOT the internet. You can limit the information they have on you. There are other search engines. Duck Duck Go is a good example of this. No free email service is secure, but you can use plugins like thunderbird-enigmail to encrypt and sign your messages, or, if you have the technical chops, run your own mail server in-house. You can use anonymizing technologies like TOR and I2P to keep your browsing habits private. Your privacy is always going to be in far better hands with yourself than with a third party anyway.
They just freed up a bunch of cash for broadband projects. Yours is the type of company that deserves/could use the money the most. I would see about getting some of it or urging your boss to do it.
your just jealous because they actually have money. linfux is for cheap bitches with no cash. but who cares lnux is soon going under! slashdick will soon be gone!! hey kdawson! go find a job flipping burgers, fucking asshole.
Couldn't figure out how to use it, could ya?
How about no more Microsoft advertisements. I understand its a money thing but you wouldn't take money from a crack dealer would you?
What a surprise some rich prick is more or less against net neutrality.
First, don't put words in my mouth, I think the open source model works just fine. My point is Apple does things to benefit the parts of open source it uses while at the same time excluding the open source community from Apple services. Where is iTunes for Linux? Why can you mount a windows partition from OS X but not an Ext2 partition? They take what they need from open source to make their OS work and at the same time discourage people from trying open source.
Its a shame you can't put on an argument without being childish. But anyway, all the projects you listed benefit Apple only, thanks for illustrating my point.
Hello, I followed the link and read the article and this is exactly what I am talking about, all it does is encourage developers to write open souce code that improves OS X but Apple as a company does little to contribute anything back. How may people are or will be discouraged from using Linux because they are worried they won't have a way to sync their iPod? If it wasn't for some hard working people in the open source community that would be the case. The GPL that a good bit of the code Apple includes in its OS is licensed with is designed to encourage two way collaberation that helps everybody involved, Apple only uses it to help themselves and I don't think its right and its certainly not in the spirit of open source. This is my opinion on the matter and you are out of line accusing me of being a troll, I can say any damned thing I like. OS X is a nice OS and Apple does make nice computers but the way they go about some of the things they do sucks.
Uh, no I'm not a troll at all but thats the way I feel about the way Apple does things. Why is it that even though OS X is slam-full of open source software there is no iTunes for Linux? Unix code is very portable, it took more work to make iTunes work on Windows than it ever would on Linux. Why does it take a 3rd party kernel extension for OS X to mount Linux partitions? Why has Apple made it difficult for Linux users to view Quicktime content? They contribute nothing to open source as a whole but take quite alot from it.
I own a Mac and I have to say that OS X is a very nice OS. The reason that it is a nice OS is all the open source programs Apple included in it to make it such. Just to name a few gcc, any of the shells and GNU tar. Apple seems to take what they want from open source and shun the open source community. Until this approach changes they are little more than parasites on open sources back side as far as I am concerned.
It will sure be nice when all these dusty old government officials that have no idea what computers are, what they are for and most importantly how to write sensible laws for them are dead and gone. NONE of them seem to have any idea how to handle technology. Its 2007 and they are fumbling around in the dark. I wish a techno-savy political party would come to be, we sure could use it.
The email does not contain any links or ask for any information. Just over 36,000 characters worth of email addresses.
Hello, I received an email today that was supposed to have information about my account in it. It instead contained hundreds of usernames and or emails. I have contacted paypal about this but received no response. I am trying to get the word out where ever I can.
Hello, it only helps to prove that Bill is starting to worry a little more about Linux Now that it is becoming competitive. Also, they are using a well known strategy by attempting to coerce and subdue and enemy they can't beat outright. Rome wasn't deposed by any mighty army but instead consumed from within by people who didn't care about Rome at all. All Microsoft has to do is screw Linux up enough to make the average desktop user sensitive to FUD and they will have snuffed the Linux revolution from within.