Some folks are trying to make the best out of software they no longer want, and see declaring it Open as a way to get one final drop of blood out of an old turnip.
But if the authors don't love a piece of software, then why should anyone else?
Alot of this abandoned code was never loved by anyone, and it shows. Who wants the cruft produced by programmers who were just putting in their hours?
Oh, wait, that's supposed to be the best kind of software! It can't be worth anything if you didn't pay for it and people were not forced to work on it grudgingly.
I'd say the most important part of the Free Software movement is that it produces code that is loved by its creators.
Just like children, code that is loved is well adjusted and confident. In this analogy proprietary code is the equivalent of the morally deformed child who spent his early life in an orphanage and wound up spending his teen years in the Hitler youth corps.
Not sure if this has been publicised much, but the WildFire has support for hot swap CPU, RAM, and PCI. You can't hot swap the QBBs (quad building blocks), however.
BUT, you need OS support to do this kind of stuff(duh). And the first OS to support this?? VMS.
You see, the great thing about Compaq buying |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| is that now it's a marketing driven company, whereas |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| was engineering driven. We all know how much engineers suck, so what will a bunch of salesdroids be able to do with these incredible products?? Give them really cool names!
oh, rapture!!
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Try AIX. All modular and configured at boot time, if not on the fly.
By the time d.net gets their client updated Stanford will have long been finished with their analysis.
Case in point: OGR
d.net has effectively halted the original distributed OGR project with their promises of a beta test in April of 1999, which still hasn't materialized.
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But if the authors don't love a piece of software, then why should anyone else?
Alot of this abandoned code was never loved by anyone , and it shows. Who wants the cruft produced by programmers who were just putting in their hours?
Oh, wait, that's supposed to be the best kind of software! It can't be worth anything if you didn't pay for it and people were not forced to work on it grudgingly.
I'd say the most important part of the Free Software movement is that it produces code that is loved by its creators .
Just like children, code that is loved is well adjusted and confident. In this analogy proprietary code is the equivalent of the morally deformed child who spent his early life in an orphanage and wound up spending his teen years in the Hitler youth corps.
BUT, you need OS support to do this kind of stuff(duh). And the first OS to support this?? VMS .
Followed by Tru64, of course.
Now who said VMS was dead??
You see, the great thing about Compaq buying |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| is that now it's a marketing driven company, whereas |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| was engineering driven . We all know how much engineers suck, so what will a bunch of salesdroids be able to do with these incredible products ?? Give them really cool names!
oh, rapture!!
Try AIX. All modular and configured at boot time, if not on the fly.
You must have other problems besides bandwidth. I have ADSL at home and I can stream at >300kbps with both Real and WMP with no problems.
Case in point: OGR
d.net has effectively halted the original distributed OGR project with their promises of a beta test in April of 1999, which still hasn't materialized.
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