He is just the kind of guy who scares my clients away from Open Source. And I don't believe his slashing attacks are representative of most developers I know, who are rather apolitical and quiet. For Linux to get mainstream we must get rid of the radicals and focus on the quality of the results.
1)Who are your clients and what are they trying to do? A bank, as an example of a capitalist business, could use GPL software all day and all night with no worries at all. 2) Whether your clients use Linux or not, it will still be there. 3) Your clients could use *BSD. FreeBSD has at least one non-GPL C compiler in the packages and ports.
Ok, by US law a corporation (not a partnership or solely owned business) of whatever size is a legal entity unto itself. That is, it has the most of the same legal rights and responsibilities as any other citizen. Now if a citizen should behave in a responsible manner (not keeping the neighbors up, picking up trash in the yard), why shouldn't a corporation?
Does it mean artists wont be able to make money? Hell no. They can still perform. There will always be a market for live performance. If that doesn't pay well enough, then they will either need to change how performing works (charging more, giving artists a greater cut) or...shudder...get day jobs
I can tell a lot of thought went into that. Every band/performer is different. The Grateful Dead always made a lot more money touring than they ever made from record (or cd) sales while the Rolling Stones always considered touring as a loss leader. I doubt Pink Floyd ever made money on the road. The other thing is that some bands (the Dead, Phish, Miles Davis) were/are great live bands while others (Eagles, NiN) are better recording bands. Are you going to punish the not so hot live bands by taking away their income from recordings?
Yeah what are your sources? Somebody who may have worked for th KGB as a janitor? Even if there were files in Moscow implicating these people, are the files accurate? If I was a Soviet agent in the 1950s, I'd pad my reports to make it look like I was really getting somewhere.
Also remember how all that got rolling: concern over how we'd "lost" China (as if it were ever ours) and the search for someone to blame.
"After all, this is happening when the people in power in government are of the first generation to not be able to remember James McCarthy, and the Communist Inquisition, first hand."
You mean Senator Joe McCarthy and the witch hunts of the Senate Un-American Activities Committee? Clearly someone here doesn't remember him.
They were secretly randomly monitering here (University of Wisconsin - Superior)not to stop Napster, but to stop students from viewing porno. If a student was caught, his/her account was frozen until they went to the computer office to justify their actions. This was halted just yesterday. It turned out that the head of the labs had made taken these actions on his own without the knowledge or OK of the chancellor or provost. A few students found out and brought this obnoxous practice out into the open.
I'm a male non-traditional student (for you Brits, that's "mature student") at U Wisconsin-Superior, a small, public, mid-western university. I see many reasons that there are not as many women in CS.
1) Women are still valued more highly for their looks than their brains by men and other women. Brainy women (still, in 2000)do not get the positve feedback that pretty women get. Of course, there are pretty, brainy women, but they seem to get more attention for their looks.
2) Men seem to have more patience with programming exercises than many of the women students. In my school, we are often given projects which have no real outcome other than sorting a list of random integers in order to learn the various algorithms; many of the women students I've talked with believe this to be a waste of their time. Contrast this with a Creative Writing class where you are assigned to write a sonnet; at the end of the day, you have an actual poem that may mean something in addition to having learned a poetic form.
3) Some of the instructors and many of the students here don't believe wwoman want to learn anything "hard".
I tend to use passwords based on songs. One of my favorites was JSfm#!^ which was based on the Grateful Dead song Jack Straw. The first line of the song is "Jack Straw from Witchita (sp) shot his buddy down" The are the characters (on my keyboard) on top of which is Witchita's telephone area code.
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Except for the Grateful Dead and side groups who have actively encouraged fans taping concerts and exchanging tapes.
1)Who are your clients and what are they trying to do? A bank, as an example of a capitalist business, could use GPL software all day and all night with no worries at all.
2) Whether your clients use Linux or not, it will still be there.
3) Your clients could use *BSD. FreeBSD has at least one non-GPL C compiler in the packages and ports.
Ok, by US law a corporation (not a partnership or solely owned business) of whatever size is a legal entity unto itself. That is, it has the most of the same legal rights and responsibilities as any other citizen. Now if a citizen should behave in a responsible manner (not keeping the neighbors up, picking up trash in the yard), why shouldn't a corporation?
I can tell a lot of thought went into that. Every band/performer is different. The Grateful Dead always made a lot more money touring than they ever made from record (or cd) sales while the Rolling Stones always considered touring as a loss leader. I doubt Pink Floyd ever made money on the road. The other thing is that some bands (the Dead, Phish, Miles Davis) were/are great live bands while others (Eagles, NiN) are better recording bands. Are you going to punish the not so hot live bands by taking away their income from recordings?
Also remember how all that got rolling: concern over how we'd "lost" China (as if it were ever ours) and the search for someone to blame.
You mean Senator Joe McCarthy and the witch hunts of the Senate Un-American Activities Committee? Clearly someone here doesn't remember him.
Will somebody moderate the above comment up to atleast a 2 or 3?
The fifth doesn't relate to civil cases, only criminal.
They were secretly randomly monitering here (University of Wisconsin - Superior)not to stop Napster, but to stop students from viewing porno. If a student was caught, his/her account was frozen until they went to the computer office to justify their actions. This was halted just yesterday. It turned out that the head of the labs had made taken these actions on his own without the knowledge or OK of the chancellor or provost. A few students found out and brought this obnoxous practice out into the open.
I'm a male non-traditional student (for you Brits, that's "mature student") at U Wisconsin-Superior, a small, public, mid-western university. I see many reasons that there are not as many women in CS.
1) Women are still valued more highly for their looks than their brains by men and other women. Brainy women (still, in 2000)do not get the positve feedback that pretty women get. Of course, there are pretty, brainy women, but they seem to get more attention for their looks.
2) Men seem to have more patience with programming exercises than many of the women students. In my school, we are often given projects which have no real outcome other than sorting a list of random integers in order to learn the various algorithms; many of the women students I've talked with believe this to be a waste of their time. Contrast this with a Creative Writing class where you are assigned to write a sonnet; at the end of the day, you have an actual poem that may mean something in addition to having learned a poetic form.
3) Some of the instructors and many of the students here don't believe wwoman want to learn anything "hard".
I tend to use passwords based on songs. One of my favorites was JSfm#!^ which was based on the Grateful Dead song Jack Straw. The first line of the song is "Jack Straw from Witchita (sp) shot his buddy down" The are the characters (on my keyboard) on top of which is Witchita's telephone area code.