Roger Stallman, the lesser known younger brother of Richard Stallman is a constant embarrassment to his older brother, affectionately called, "Richard the GNU Hearted". Roger is always dabbling in Java or C# and running Windows XP Home. It doesn't make the news very often, because of the sympathetic press, but in the private circles everyone knows that a reference to "Roger" sends Richard into a tirade until he breaks down into a sobbing heap, asking, rhetorically, "Why? Why me?!"
Recently, Richard snuck an exemption into version 3.0a of the GPL which allows Roger to continue using GPL'ed code as if it were a BSD license. The caused quite a stirr amongst the insiders in the Free Software GNUvement and Richard nearly lost not only the FSF position but maintainership of EMACS.
And, most recently, Roger has again slapped Richard in the face with his friendship with Eric Raymond, which blossomed as the pair worked on CLM2 in preparation for final submission to Linus.
He's jealous that the Linux/Free/Open Source movement has gained the hearts of the young technical elite (h4X0r jokes aside), instead of himself. Remember the 80's when BillG was every nerds hero because he beat IBM? Now he's IBM of the 80's and can't stand being on the receiving end of the angst.
[While written as if I know the man and have a basis for analysing his psyche, I really am just blowing air... But I bet it's not too far from the truth.]
Agreed. I consulted for a company in 1997 and found it impossible to coordinate work with the principals because the CEO disallowed anyone from having any Internet access including email access. So I asked the CEO one day if he thought light created rats.
"What?", he asked. I responded, "If you slowly open the cellar door, and turn on the lights after counting to three you'll never see any rats downstairs. But if you quickly fling open the door and flip on the lights you may see a rat. So, did turning on the lights quickly create a rat?" No. "The moral is, it is not a new situation that causes defects in character; these new situations only expose it." Then I added, if your employees would waste the day with the Internet, they're already doing it now without it."
Everyone got Internet access.
And this rat needs to stop posting on/. and get back to work!
It's a nasty way of asking the question, "What's more important to you, the life of a stranger that you'll never otherwise come in contact with, or a million dollars?"
I think of it more as "Does your conscience have a price?" That's the real question.
Under a million is not ridiculous money. A 4 bedroom house in Southern California that sits on a tiny lot and is accessible practically solely from a toll-way costs between $365k and $450k. A nice house will run you $600k.
If you have a group of people, say the principals in a small company or somesuch and each contributes $50,000 (meaning you'd need about 20 people) you could afford to buy and maintain this plane. Kinda like a timeshare. This means that smaller companies can have a "corporate plane". That's cool.
Say you're the steward(ess) and the passengers are really giving you grief and you decide you can't take it anymore. You grab the controls of the camera and begin pointing down and zooming, slowly, toward the ground. Eventually you make and annoucement to prepare for a crash landing and start really zooming in on terrain. Wait until sheer panic ensues and the rat bastards begin to wail like babies in distress. Then switch the monitor feed to a Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Eh? What's up, Doc?"
Unauthorized manipulation of the camera: your job and accrued senority
Making terrorist threats: 10 to 20 years in federal prision
The look on the passengers' faces and fecal odor from their general direction: pricessless.
I've neutered cattle...looked/sounded painful. It's the process that turns the yound bull into a good eating steer. The ranch hands always collected them and ate them for dinner - Rocky Mountain Fried Osyters, incase you ever wondered what RMFO were (not to be confused with ROFLMAO, which is what one does after initiating the corporate execs from NY/Boston in the finer foods in Texas...they often don't make it to the restroom before..., you know...)
I've still got mine, though, and my two boys are a testament to that fact (they even look a little like me, in case you think my wife is as cheap as yours!:)
Do any of you OSX folks download the Apache source and do your own compile?
Not from Apple. Only Darwin is Open Source. But there is Fink (see SourceForge) which provides all the GNU GNoods you're used to.
Does OSX still ship with a development environment?
Not with the latest machines (this year), but the developer tools are freely downloadable (after registering and having your flesh branded with the Apple logo.....just seeing if you're paying attention....).
Thanks for posting this - I just installed the AirPort update and wouldn't have tried again for a week or so.
And it was sure nice to get an update that didn't require a restart! What's up with all the restarts required, anyway? This is Unix...I'm not used to restarting all the time (except kernel upgrades; but those are rare for me)
You entered two periods instead of one (for a sentence terminator) or three (for an ellipse). Nanny-nanny-boo-boo! You are quite moronic--just how hard is the period to master?
Coward.
(offered in the spirit of, "If you can't beat [the crap out of] them join 'em.")
Absolutely correct. MS is attempting to play off the courts lack of technical savvy by substituting abysmal support for 5 year old Java (Hell, I hate 1 hour old java myself--cold or burnt in the carafe; sorry) for the Sun-requested current support for Java on modern MS systems.
What I'd like to see is the court to rule that MS can meet the requirements by supporting 5 year old Java only if it restricts itself to releasing 5 year old Windows...
Good point. However, the Open Source projects that I allow to comprise my company's infrastructure (Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, Perl, Mozilla, OpenOffice, et al) are exceptions to the single-digit critical contributors rule, which is precisely why I *allow* them a key role.
Do I use other Open Source software? Sure, but not in critical roles. Will I keep an eye on XWT--you bet. XWT is what I want to use. When it's ready.
Google today is what Yahoo was in 1994--the, not a, way to find something on the web. When Google tommorrow becomes Yahoo today, there will be a new service that will dominate.
[Don't tell me about WebCrawler as the way to find something in the early web days. It wasn't as important as Yahoo.]
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- For some reason, I think his 40 billion makes him not care to much...
They don't call him "Bill" for nothing...Recently, Richard snuck an exemption into version 3.0a of the GPL which allows Roger to continue using GPL'ed code as if it were a BSD license. The caused quite a stirr amongst the insiders in the Free Software GNUvement and Richard nearly lost not only the FSF position but maintainership of EMACS.
And, most recently, Roger has again slapped Richard in the face with his friendship with Eric Raymond, which blossomed as the pair worked on CLM2 in preparation for final submission to Linus.
[While written as if I know the man and have a basis for analysing his psyche, I really am just blowing air... But I bet it's not too far from the truth.]
You do know the source, don't you? C.S. Lewis.
You cared enough to fly off and write a response...
never did well on those reading comprehension thingies
- But we use Windows NT for everything but our accounting system
So, what do you use for your accounting system?I thought so until I found light, fast, easy putty.
"What?", he asked. I responded, "If you slowly open the cellar door, and turn on the lights after counting to three you'll never see any rats downstairs. But if you quickly fling open the door and flip on the lights you may see a rat. So, did turning on the lights quickly create a rat?" No. "The moral is, it is not a new situation that causes defects in character; these new situations only expose it." Then I added, if your employees would waste the day with the Internet, they're already doing it now without it."
Everyone got Internet access.
And this rat needs to stop posting on /. and get back to work!
I think of it more as "Does your conscience have a price?" That's the real question.
If you have a group of people, say the principals in a small company or somesuch and each contributes $50,000 (meaning you'd need about 20 people) you could afford to buy and maintain this plane. Kinda like a timeshare. This means that smaller companies can have a "corporate plane". That's cool.
- cameras could be pointed ahead, behind, or down,
Say you're the steward(ess) and the passengers are really giving you grief and you decide you can't take it anymore. You grab the controls of the camera and begin pointing down and zooming, slowly, toward the ground. Eventually you make and annoucement to prepare for a crash landing and start really zooming in on terrain. Wait until sheer panic ensues and the rat bastards begin to wail like babies in distress. Then switch the monitor feed to a Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Eh? What's up, Doc?"Wow. I remember that sequence well. (Sorta like the "agony of defeat" ski jumper...).
I've still got mine, though, and my two boys are a testament to that fact (they even look a little like me, in case you think my wife is as cheap as yours! :)
- Do any of you OSX folks download the Apache source and do your own compile?
Not from Apple. Only Darwin is Open Source. But there is Fink (see SourceForge) which provides all the GNU GNoods you're used to.- Does OSX still ship with a development environment?
Not with the latest machines (this year), but the developer tools are freely downloadable (after registering and having your flesh branded with the Apple logo.....just seeing if you're paying attention....).And it was sure nice to get an update that didn't require a restart! What's up with all the restarts required, anyway? This is Unix...I'm not used to restarting all the time (except kernel upgrades; but those are rare for me)
I'm not everyone. And I'm not going to base my company's infrastructure on a Beta product out of principle.
You entered two periods instead of one (for a sentence terminator) or three (for an ellipse). Nanny-nanny-boo-boo! You are quite moronic--just how hard is the period to master?
Coward.
(offered in the spirit of, "If you can't beat [the crap out of] them join 'em.")
Absolutely correct. MS is attempting to play off the courts lack of technical savvy by substituting abysmal support for 5 year old Java (Hell, I hate 1 hour old java myself--cold or burnt in the carafe; sorry) for the Sun-requested current support for Java on modern MS systems.
What I'd like to see is the court to rule that MS can meet the requirements by supporting 5 year old Java only if it restricts itself to releasing 5 year old Windows...
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I bet you processed both the "You're" and the "it's" twice to make sure they were used correctly.
It's fun to use "anal" when speaking of homonyms...asshole
Through me for a loop when I was 12.
Do I use other Open Source software? Sure, but not in critical roles. Will I keep an eye on XWT--you bet. XWT is what I want to use. When it's ready.
Google today is what Yahoo was in 1994--the, not a, way to find something on the web. When Google tommorrow becomes Yahoo today, there will be a new service that will dominate.
[Don't tell me about WebCrawler as the way to find something in the early web days. It wasn't as important as Yahoo.]
Bill O'Reilly is faced with this reality every day on his radio program...