The fact that slashdot anonymous posters are biased against the corrupt, oppressive, and dishonest government of China, doesn't make them biased against the people of China.
And the current "market value" numbers are already being skewed by the import of employees.
I believe that high-quality coders and hardware designers should be commanding top-notch salaries, not these executives.
That's the real problem here. It's easier to lobby to death, to be allowed to import 3rd world workers, and pay them just above the poverty line (Silicon valley, anyway.. cost of living is far higher than most places), than it is to pay what an American worker would expect to get.
correction: execs of IPOs and budding pre-IPO companies, bleeding in red ink, and desperate to work employees to the bone, are desperate for experienced workers with relatively low standards.
They're just not willing to pay the high salaries that *good* software and hardware engineers *ought* to command.
I have more karma than I need, far more, so I can afford to lose one or two points to get this off my chest.
Boo hoo hoo, people who come to America to get jobs at below-market wages (the usual H situation) have trouble! What a tragedy!
If H1 visa holders don't like it... I'm sure all the people who are suffering in Dilbertian conditons, because there exists too much foreign labor pressure to leverage change, will be HAPPY to see them go!
Were all working under the auspices of modern government, and
Marx
advocated revolt, and replacement of current government with the new one. I'm surprised you didn't mention Mao, because Mao's early stuff pretty much followed Marx.
It's ironic that users of the the operating system with the most open license (BSD) are practically begging for SCSL software, when IBM is handing the world real Open Source.
Seems to me that your criticizing open source development, not documentation.
For a properly maintained, fully staffed project, there's no reason that docs cannot be kept up-to-date with the current release code.
The problem is that open source projects aren't "staffed" at all, usually. People just do what they can, and need to get done.
Am I mis-reading you, ralphclark or are you actually oppsed to documentation? What about documention embedded in the source, like kdoc, javadoc, perl pod, and the like? Do those solve your synchronisation complaints?
Seems to me that a low-power (10-100 watt) station would be no different, really, than just playing a CD on my porch, with loud stereo.
Fair use would probalby apply.
Personally, I've always wanted that sort of thing, just so I could listen to my stuff anywhere, with just a little (power-conserving) radio. Shower radios exist too, after all:-)
The lawyers have fought the rogue registration, and the lawyers who are now defending Linus' registration, are not working pro bono, are they?
Somebody (Linus' email didn't explain) must be paying for the lawyers, who are working so diligently to defend the Linux trademark. Whether Linus is paying for them himself, or if some benevolent organisation is paying on Linus' behalf...
People see the Linux trademark as a symbol to the world not only of the kernel itself, but as a symbol of the whole "Free Software", "Open Source", "Bazaar" community. As Linus said, "I'd rather not apologize for it", it being our beloved community.
Linus likes linux, too. And he wants more people to like linux. So he's jumped through the legal hoops. and laid down the cash, to turn linux into Linux (tm).
Linux (tm) is just another name for the kernel. So when Slashdot editors write "our beloved Linux Trademark"... just read it as "our beloved Linux".
Graphing calculators have just given the ability to calculate to a larger group of people... the people who'd figure out how to graph e^(-3t) cos(t) can still do it... it's just that the calculators let more students work with such functions, who otherwise couldn't.
Probably the easiest thing to do in the long run, would be to install linux.:-)
Grab any of the many PGP or GPG enabled mail readers (including KMail, which supports PGP by default, and does support GPG if you use a patch). If you want whole-disk protection, grab the kerneli.org crypto patches, and use the encrypted filesystem features.
I'd add that parents, being responsible for their children in every way, must keep tabs.
It'd be wrong for society to hold parents responsible for raising children (in some cases holding them criminally accountable for children's behavior) without giving parents the right to check up on everything.
As the current web designer and Open Source consultant for http://qualityassistant.com, I'm confident that the answer is yes.
Let's take Red Hat as an example. Since Red Hat does do some design work (RPM, boot disks, and other utilities they write), their coding practices, design procedures, and such would have to be documented, and audited. (Gee, does that mean Alan Cox would have to follow procedures? That would have to be worked out... probably just by omitting Cox's work enviroment from the scope of the certification)
Otherwise, they just have to document how they produce the CDs, manuals and such. Then, they have to make sure that the products end up the way they're supposed to. Their support staff, and everything, would also have to have documented procedures.
Red Hat, were they going for certification, would just have to come up with a way of approving their suppliers of code. Perhaps their only qualification would be that it run on the version of linux they ship... Auditors don't make up the details, they just check to ensure that the procedures you write, are followed.
I hate to be pedantic, but ARTS is being dropped from KDE 2, at least for now. ARTS is based on CORBA, and KDE 2 has dropped all CORBA dependencies.
Personally, I've been pretty impressed by what I've read about ARTS. It seems to have quite a clean, flexible, and powerful design. I kinda hope the KDE 2 ends up giving support for ARTS as an option, as ARTS has the potential for being a standard sound interface for all of Linux.
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The fact that slashdot anonymous posters are biased against the corrupt, oppressive, and dishonest government of China, doesn't make them biased against the people of China.
Once China gets to the moon, do they plan to put some meaning behind the phrase "The Red Planet"?
And from whom does the INS get its numbers, hmmm?
And the current "market value" numbers are already being skewed by the import of employees.
I believe that high-quality coders and hardware designers should be commanding top-notch salaries, not these executives.
That's the real problem here. It's easier to lobby to death, to be allowed to import 3rd world workers, and pay them just above the poverty line (Silicon valley, anyway.. cost of living is far higher than most places), than it is to pay what an American worker would expect to get.
correction: execs of IPOs and budding pre-IPO companies, bleeding in red ink, and desperate to work employees to the bone, are desperate for experienced workers with relatively low standards.
They're just not willing to pay the high salaries that *good* software and hardware engineers *ought* to command.
I have more karma than I need, far more, so I can afford to lose one or two points to get this off my chest.
Boo hoo hoo, people who come to America to get jobs at below-market wages (the usual H situation) have trouble! What a tragedy!
If H1 visa holders don't like it... I'm sure all the people who are suffering in Dilbertian conditons, because there exists too much foreign labor pressure to leverage change, will be HAPPY to see them go!
Note that
Hitler
Stalin
Napoleon
Were all working under the auspices of modern government, and
Marx
advocated revolt, and replacement of current government with the new one. I'm surprised you didn't mention Mao, because Mao's early stuff pretty much followed Marx.
Which is less fearsome? The power of the individual, or the power of a group?
I think that history has shown that governments have the power to do far greater harm, than lone nuts.
I guess my facetiousness was lost on the moderator. Oh, well...
Linux *is* more popular. Get used to it. Learn to love your anti-social, slightly weird, people-stare-blankly-at-your-boot-screen status.
It's ironic that users of the the operating system with the most open license (BSD) are practically begging for SCSL software, when IBM is handing the world real Open Source.
go figure
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Basically, you're saying you trust Sun's roadmap, over IBM's.
That's fine.
However, given Sun's recent track record with Sun (removing it from standards consideration for example), I don't trust them.
IBM has shown itself perfectly willing to make money USING Open Source software, rather than by denouncing it. I trust them.
So what do you propose? Government intervention?
Attorney General Janet Reno, or her *fill in country here* equivalent, deciding for you whether you "need" that much computing power?
Government psychological profiling, deciding who's a "likely hacker"?
Seems to me that your criticizing open source development, not documentation.
For a properly maintained, fully staffed project, there's no reason that docs cannot be kept up-to-date with the current release code.
The problem is that open source projects aren't "staffed" at all, usually. People just do what they can, and need to get done.
Am I mis-reading you, ralphclark or are you actually oppsed to documentation? What about documention embedded in the source, like kdoc, javadoc, perl pod, and the like? Do those solve your synchronisation complaints?
Seems to me that a low-power (10-100 watt) station would be no different, really, than just playing a CD on my porch, with loud stereo.
:-)
Fair use would probalby apply.
Personally, I've always wanted that sort of thing, just so I could listen to my stuff anywhere, with just a little (power-conserving) radio. Shower radios exist too, after all
being the purist that I am, alpha still holds more appeal for me.
running a GUI on an x86? bah!
running floating point calculations on an x86? bah!
I like having one processor for everything. a nice clean instruction set. no stupid 32 bit overflow problems.
alpha makes sense.
(moral of the story: price matters.)
The lawyers have fought the rogue registration, and the lawyers who are now defending Linus' registration, are not working pro bono, are they?
Somebody (Linus' email didn't explain) must be paying for the lawyers, who are working so diligently to defend the Linux trademark. Whether Linus is paying for them himself, or if some benevolent organisation is paying on Linus' behalf...
People see the Linux trademark as a symbol to the world not only of the kernel itself, but as a symbol of the whole "Free Software", "Open Source", "Bazaar" community. As Linus said, "I'd rather not apologize for it", it being our beloved community.
Do you like linux? good.
Linus likes linux, too. And he wants more people to like linux. So he's jumped through the legal hoops. and laid down the cash, to turn linux into Linux (tm).
Linux (tm) is just another name for the kernel. So when Slashdot editors write "our beloved Linux Trademark"... just read it as "our beloved Linux".
Things really haven't collapsed much...
Graphing calculators have just given the ability to calculate to a larger group of people... the people who'd figure out how to graph e^(-3t) cos(t) can still do it... it's just that the calculators let more students work with such functions, who otherwise couldn't.
Probably the easiest thing to do in the long run, would be to install linux. :-)
Grab any of the many PGP or GPG enabled mail readers (including KMail, which supports PGP by default, and does support GPG if you use a patch). If you want whole-disk protection, grab the kerneli.org crypto patches, and use the encrypted filesystem features.
I'd add that parents, being responsible for their children in every way, must keep tabs.
It'd be wrong for society to hold parents responsible for raising children (in some cases holding them criminally accountable for children's behavior) without giving parents the right to check up on everything.
As the current web designer and Open Source consultant for http://qualityassistant.com, I'm confident that the answer is yes.
Let's take Red Hat as an example. Since Red Hat does do some design work (RPM, boot disks, and other utilities they write), their coding practices, design procedures, and such would have to be documented, and audited. (Gee, does that mean Alan Cox would have to follow procedures? That would have to be worked out... probably just by omitting Cox's work enviroment from the scope of the certification)
Otherwise, they just have to document how they produce the CDs, manuals and such. Then, they have to make sure that the products end up the way they're supposed to. Their support staff, and everything, would also have to have documented procedures.
Red Hat, were they going for certification, would just have to come up with a way of approving their suppliers of code. Perhaps their only qualification would be that it run on the version of linux they ship... Auditors don't make up the details, they just check to ensure that the procedures you write, are followed.
I hate to be pedantic, but ARTS is being dropped from KDE 2, at least for now. ARTS is based on CORBA, and KDE 2 has dropped all CORBA dependencies.
Personally, I've been pretty impressed by what I've read about ARTS. It seems to have quite a clean, flexible, and powerful design. I kinda hope the KDE 2 ends up giving support for ARTS as an option, as ARTS has the potential for being a standard sound interface for all of Linux.