Anyway, using closed source isn't as bad as slavery, especially if migration is trivial. Usually migration from closed to open source is easier than from open to closed (you get a couple issues like Exchange that are the exception), and in many cases, both directions aren't hard. So what if the users can't edit the source code? In most cases, they can't edit/comprehend the open source software's code either, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO, so the ability to view the code grants them no advantage. If the ability to view the code granted them a sufficient advantage, then they would use or switch to open source software.
I've had too much trouble with OO.Org and saving page margins properly, superscript and subscript formatting, and, in spreadsheets, saving the foreground color of tooltips from the OS/UI default, but not the background color (I change tooltip colors because of my vision).
These, while seemingly small, has elimnated OO.Org from use as a spreadsheet editor, and limited my use of it for word processing.
If you want the source of all derived works to be available to all, and encourage more community development, then you want GPL.
If you want the source of the original work to be available to all, but allow the option of closed source for derived works (give more options to the authors of/direct/ derivatives, allow it to fit into more business and distribution models), MIT and BSD are "more open".
So, "it", is defined by what your primary goals are. I tend to prefer modified BSD/MIT style licenses myself, but the GPL certainly has a place for a lot of development models.
but what about the guy acting a lot like he was taking a leak, but was actually showing off to some kids?
Sadly, I knew someone who did exactly that. Then again, as in his case, once you get multiple arrests for that kind of thing, your story wears a little thin.
Tapping on one of the 'pins' dropped on to the map brings up a photograph of the offender, as well as their address, date of birth and list of convictions.
The risk of jamming is lower if all people obey the rules than if they all disobey them, according to the analysis, but jamming risk is lowest when about 40 percent of people drive like jerks.
People wonder why I don't install flash, all web sites have a perfectly usable non-flash variant of the site, and get extremely PISSED OFF when an enterprise software manufacturer requires the use of flash for important parts of their site.
5 out of 10 users know what they want, but can't express it in a manner that communicates it sufficiently well to achieve it. 4 out of 10 users haven't a clue what they want, but think they do. 1 out of 1 users know what they want and can express it.
And then you have the developers, who want to make something with nice nifty features, but don't want to be bothered with the polish.
This reminds me of a friend who is a senior analyist has a paper on her cube wall, I've seen two variants of the theme. It has a picture of a sports car with the caption "What the users want". This is followed by the picture of a UFO (in some variants a fighter jet) with "What the developers want to make". This is followed by "What the company is willing to spend money on" and it has some small compact car. And then finally, a picture of a really funny looking "tricked out" tricycle with the caption "What ends up being produced".
The Mono packages (including libgdi+) come in at 26MB
Java weighs in at around 57MB (jdk 1_5_0_16 bin and src, required for install on my system, I won't bother adding in the patches required for FreeBSD since they aren't required on other systems.)
Java is 15MB on windows (full install), 20MB on Linux.
Now, here's something that I can say for caring about the language used: Java uses the system regular expression library. I was trying to figure out why an app I was using worked differently in Windows XP, Linux and HPUX. Turns out, it was using the regex based find function. I decompiled the bastard, and added in my own custom find function. It was slower, but identical input provided identical output.
I've not had that issue with.NET/Mono, provided the application wasn't built on the most recent Visual Studios release. Even if it was in the most recent VS release, if it worked, it worked fine, but some apps would only work in Windows.
Neither is perfect. Pick your preferred bugs. At 26MB for mono, it's a better option on FreeBSD, but Java is smaller on Windows and Linux. In either case, unless you are on a system that 8-10 years old, or an embedded system, that amount of disk space isn't really a huge deal.
You can use 10, 15, 20, etc. year averages, you can look at trends.
You can also look at weather patterns in an area, and determine how likely, historically, those weather patterns lead to storms, and then compare that to how likely they lead to storms "after treatment".
Determining success/failure won't be trivial, but it won't be anything resembling impossible either.
Ostensibly taxes are supposed to go towards things that help everyone, not an individuals profit. Private sector business tends to take money for profit.
In this case, there's a bit of both. But in the end, if the private sector gets less money from the tax payers through the government, then the government (hopefully) will lower taxes since it's not allocating money for those projects. Well, ostensibly anyway, in this case, some government group or political action group would probably find some "beneficial use for everyone" expenditure.
Yes, stop trying to defend your actions and justify them, instead look around and see what YOU did that caused the issue.
You are trying to blame the problem on everyone but the primary cause. Yes there are other issues, and you aren't the only one contributing to the issue, but it if weren't for your initial contribution, and your (apparent) inability to accept that you could do something less than perfect, then you wouldn't get all the downmods.
Notice how even the people that say things that side with you on at least part of the issue, side with you only with certain caveats and reservations. Either we are all idiots or you are making/have made a mistake. Well, it could be a bit of both I guess. Think about it before just responding.
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Sorry, I don't buy how that makes it slavery.
Anyway, using closed source isn't as bad as slavery, especially if migration is trivial. Usually migration from closed to open source is easier than from open to closed (you get a couple issues like Exchange that are the exception), and in many cases, both directions aren't hard. So what if the users can't edit the source code? In most cases, they can't edit/comprehend the open source software's code either, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO, so the ability to view the code grants them no advantage. If the ability to view the code granted them a sufficient advantage, then they would use or switch to open source software.
Wow. Take some of your own advise.
I stated the disadvantages and advantages without any hyperbola or rhetoric. You couldn't do the same and make your point.
Software doesn't think and isn't self aware, comparing to slavery is ridiculous. Please, as you said, call a spade a spade.
I've had too much trouble with OO.Org and saving page margins properly, superscript and subscript formatting, and, in spreadsheets, saving the foreground color of tooltips from the OS/UI default, but not the background color (I change tooltip colors because of my vision).
These, while seemingly small, has elimnated OO.Org from use as a spreadsheet editor, and limited my use of it for word processing.
It depends on what you want to be open.
If you want the source of all derived works to be available to all, and encourage more community development, then you want GPL.
If you want the source of the original work to be available to all, but allow the option of closed source for derived works (give more options to the authors of /direct/ derivatives, allow it to fit into more business and distribution models), MIT and BSD are "more open".
So, "it", is defined by what your primary goals are. I tend to prefer modified BSD/MIT style licenses myself, but the GPL certainly has a place for a lot of development models.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for people who do stupid things while drunk.
They chose to take an action which they knew would impair their judgment. They can accept the consequences.
but what about the guy acting a lot like he was taking a leak, but was actually showing off to some kids?
Sadly, I knew someone who did exactly that. Then again, as in his case, once you get multiple arrests for that kind of thing, your story wears a little thin.
Like what is stated in TFS.
Yeah, I must be new here.
In most of the places I've been, with the two carriers I've had experience with, if you are...
(a) out in the coutnry, you want Verizon
(b) in a fairly croweded city area, you want Sprint.
So, which is the most reliable? It's up to you.
Reliability to me is based on dropped/not-dropped calls, and quality of signal (noticeable fraction of words dropped = unreliable)
Unless they use a truly novel approach of stopping spam before it hits the server.
I suggest an AK-47.
I think they did.
As long as they stay away like that, I'm fine?
What if they have greenfly?
People wonder why I don't install flash, all web sites have a perfectly usable non-flash variant of the site, and get extremely PISSED OFF when an enterprise software manufacturer requires the use of flash for important parts of their site.
It probably has something to do with accuracy.
Here in the US, the 0.02% increase in accuracy of the really expensive equipment can make up for the cost differential in reduced litigation.
You forgot C-Pox, what you get, hopefully as a kid and not an adult.
So everybody has programmed a web browser, word processor or PDF reader?
Can you hack a barebones lynx?
And no technology can fix a bad coder who makes more than the minimum number of request calls.
Probably due to the new marketing phrase
"Is that an iPod in your pants or are you really happy to see me?"
Or Draft-N will be a subset of N such that N compliance implies Draft-N compliance.
Good thing you had that key at the end. I thought I would be payed in time on your server farm, not some silly mod points.
I'm not answering you now :-P
because, desecration of the dead isn't about the dead - it's about psychology and the survivors.
It's against the Geneva Conventions because of it's impact on the living.
I think a bit better of a way to put it:
5 out of 10 users know what they want, but can't express it in a manner that communicates it sufficiently well to achieve it.
4 out of 10 users haven't a clue what they want, but think they do.
1 out of 1 users know what they want and can express it.
And then you have the developers, who want to make something with nice nifty features, but don't want to be bothered with the polish.
This reminds me of a friend who is a senior analyist has a paper on her cube wall, I've seen two variants of the theme. It has a picture of a sports car with the caption "What the users want". This is followed by the picture of a UFO (in some variants a fighter jet) with "What the developers want to make". This is followed by "What the company is willing to spend money on" and it has some small compact car. And then finally, a picture of a really funny looking "tricked out" tricycle with the caption "What ends up being produced".
The Mono packages (including libgdi+) come in at 26MB
Java weighs in at around 57MB (jdk 1_5_0_16 bin and src, required for install on my system, I won't bother adding in the patches required for FreeBSD since they aren't required on other systems.)
Java is 15MB on windows (full install), 20MB on Linux.
Now, here's something that I can say for caring about the language used: Java uses the system regular expression library. I was trying to figure out why an app I was using worked differently in Windows XP, Linux and HPUX. Turns out, it was using the regex based find function. I decompiled the bastard, and added in my own custom find function. It was slower, but identical input provided identical output.
I've not had that issue with .NET/Mono, provided the application wasn't built on the most recent Visual Studios release. Even if it was in the most recent VS release, if it worked, it worked fine, but some apps would only work in Windows.
Neither is perfect. Pick your preferred bugs. At 26MB for mono, it's a better option on FreeBSD, but Java is smaller on Windows and Linux. In either case, unless you are on a system that 8-10 years old, or an embedded system, that amount of disk space isn't really a huge deal.
You can use 10, 15, 20, etc. year averages, you can look at trends.
You can also look at weather patterns in an area, and determine how likely, historically, those weather patterns lead to storms, and then compare that to how likely they lead to storms "after treatment".
Determining success/failure won't be trivial, but it won't be anything resembling impossible either.
Ostensibly taxes are supposed to go towards things that help everyone, not an individuals profit. Private sector business tends to take money for profit.
In this case, there's a bit of both. But in the end, if the private sector gets less money from the tax payers through the government, then the government (hopefully) will lower taxes since it's not allocating money for those projects. Well, ostensibly anyway, in this case, some government group or political action group would probably find some "beneficial use for everyone" expenditure.
Yes, stop trying to defend your actions and justify them, instead look around and see what YOU did that caused the issue.
You are trying to blame the problem on everyone but the primary cause. Yes there are other issues, and you aren't the only one contributing to the issue, but it if weren't for your initial contribution, and your (apparent) inability to accept that you could do something less than perfect, then you wouldn't get all the downmods.
Notice how even the people that say things that side with you on at least part of the issue, side with you only with certain caveats and reservations. Either we are all idiots or you are making/have made a mistake. Well, it could be a bit of both I guess. Think about it before just responding.