But isn't Manhatan a rather wealthy part of New York? For some reason I'm thinking that the story a while back about Laos and their network was more justified than this. And public access cable really sucks.
Don't believe me... I'll send you a tape of the "Hallelujia" woman. She sits there sings something in Spanglish... then screams "Hallelujia" at the top of her lungs, does a chirpy scream... turns on the guitar distortion... rocks out to something that resembles a beeat... and then declares her love to the baby jesus, not the later years of course.
I don't know if she's doing like story reviews "Obviously baby jesus was more likeable than dying on the cross jesus"...
Obviously going off topic here, but who gives a shit? I guess if you don't like it don't read it, but I read it and I just don't see any reason why this gets a spot on slashdot. Compressing a movie to mpeg-4 than transfering it over "wireless" internet has been done before on many occassions.
If you wanted to impress me, you would have used pigeon carcasses and shoestrings.
It's not that the Columbia exploded over Texas and the world lost Seven extremeley talented scientists. It was a conspiracy to further the 1980's star wars program.
Sometimes I think people need to realize that even with all the "straight-talk" and analyzation ther were seven people burned alive that didn't do anything wrong except want to explore the unknown and make strives for science. These seven people were family members, friends, teachers, and of a rare breed of astronaut who had joined the handful before them to enter space. Many have been lost in the name of science and discovery, but to assume that maybe they're lives were lost in vain would be to me one of the worst things ever.
Take a step back, realize what's being said and move on, they're collecting the wreckage because someone or a whole lot of someones are going to be losing their jobs because of this. NASA does everything right, and this was something done wrong. For every scientist in NASA there are thousands at the door ready to take their place and for every astronaut there are thousands ready to take their place. NASA is the home of the eleet and the best of the best, failure or mistakes are not taken lightly.
All IBM's are backwards compatible since 1985, the homebrewed STARS and WIUP applications (written in cobol) have the same functionality they did in the mid 80's when the system was designed.
Obviously you're a fucking expert because you used to follow IBM products??? Then you would know about the backwards compatibility.
Ugh sometimes I really wonder how some of you people survived this long...
I think it'll be a great way to put MP3s in your stereo.
Since when has this been a problem? Is the minijack to rca converter plugged into the line in of your stereo that shoddy of a setup? Does the numerous articles on putting a computer in your home entertainment center seem "too hard" or "not as cool" ??? As far as mp3's with a set top box, my DVD player, dreamcast, and laptop (which are all hooked up to the entertainment "glop" in my room) all have the ability to play mp3's I don't need another solution.
I'm not bashing the article I'm all about hacking, but the constant fucking comments about "my home entertainment center needs something to play mp3's" has been solved!! I don't know of any reason why anyone would need another solution??
You can come work at my school, we haven't upgraded our computing system in nearly 18 years.
Western Illinois University UIMS
University Information Management Systems uses an IBM Multiprise 3000 model 7060-H50(S/390) processor to support host-based administrative information systems. The H50 system's suite of operating system software is based on IBM's z/OS. More..
The four members of the systems staff select, install, test, maintain, implement, and trouble shoot a wide variety of z/OS based products on test and production systems. Over eighty products from about twenty vendors make up this system. A separate z/OS system is maintained on the same machine for use by WIU students enrolled in programming classes. More..
While these systems may not seem so out of date you have to remeber they're all COBOL backwards compatible from 1985 and up. So don't like upgraded, don't do it! Upgrading to a new system would be completely impossible right now as tied in as the entire thing is. The best case scenario for switching to something not so old would be a phase out plan, which is not in place.
The day that open source became something that RMS couldn't control. Where the war of Free Software is not Open Source Software. The day that Open Source strayed away from Free, when not making mention of BSD (who did open source right from the get go). Open Source means that it's a decision not a forced dictatorship of tainted code with no freedom except for everyone else.
The Open Source movement made it acceptable to an individual who wanted to give the source openly, but didn't want to give in to the propaganda of GNU/FSF.
Think I'm a troll, then ask yourself with such a wonderful model of GPL, why was Open Source neccessary?
Okay so this is a contest to make a program where you have no idea what the program does by the source code?
Hell wouldn't that be like 60% of the open source projects out there? Don't belive me?? Open up one of those.cpp or.c files next time you "Download the source" and never take a look at it.
I can't confirm/deny this because I only got to see one program by "anonymous" who seems to post here on slashdot a whole lot.
But yeah this seems... kinda cool, but goes against every coding practice/standard I've ever seen, seems to me this is comparable in non-geek terms to a upside down watermellon eating contest.
Don't piss in their wheaties!
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The RIAA and MPAA are exactly what we need in America. These groups are looking out for copyright laws which means they are helping to protect the artists they represent...
Wait one gosh darn minute there... Don't the people who run the RIAA/MPAA own the copyrights to the stuff... they're just looking to make sure they get every last sent out of someone elses work. Damn it and I thought they were trying to protect my intelectual property with all these strict copyright laws.
I think the artists (and no I don't mean britney) should take a stand... and forget their old stuff and the souls they sold... and move on and make some great new music they own the rights to... I think the music industry needs to follow the book industry and be publishers, ONLY.
I'm tired of the MPAA/RIAA throwing billions of dollars to buy their laws, if they want to impress me they'd just shut the fuck up and lower the price of their shit.
That just had to be the topic for this comment... best line of the day.
As far as the coffee and women jokes go... I get my women the same way I get my coffee, bitter and cold, but not by choice have you.
Anyways it seems that everyone thinks this is a bad idea, and I'm going to go on a little soapbox here on why I think it's a great idea.
Food that is "good for you" tastes like shit, no one really wants to have a salad with no dressing or a bowl full of water for a meal. We enjoy fatty and sweet foods because they taste good. Now sit back and think, this type of technology being added to a dressing for a salad... if you can make my sensors think that I'm not eating a bowl full of plant leaves that taste god awful, I'll buy the whole lot of it.
This has many many applications for dealing with losing weight. I've been throwing the idea around as of late of becoming not-fat, but I really do hate the taste of things that are good for me, if I could get past the taste thing and actually enjoy eating things that are good for me, IE free of sugar, salt, fat, etc, then maybe I wouldn't dred the idea of giving up a 24 oz. steak with a side of french fries and a triple chocolate cake slice for desert, all washed down with a nice guiness. If you want a taste of heaven... you'll have that for a meal...
Obviously this isn't going to be a good thing, but eating right makes what you've already screwed up start to work better, maybe a little indegestion is a small price to pay.
Alright, this seems really nice and fancy except, who the hell has time to do all of this? This is the same crap that I keep getting in college in my "Concepts of Leisure" class. Where the hippie commie teacher keeps telling us to drop out of college to move to the country and eat wholesome dirt to truly be happy in our dismal consumer controlled lives.
We have war to worry about, losing our jobs to worry about, getting a job to worry about, and many other things where as much as I feel like a heartless bastard, I just don't care about how much trash I leave in a landfill somewhere I can't see it.
Out of sight and out of mind, we're all going to continue to use plastic and styrofoam, buy fast food, and dump god only knows what down the drains. As much as "every little bit counts" how much can you expect? I mean... really.
In all seriousness I don't understand how they can tell if a worm was "more serious" than code red. The best thing about most worms is that most of them are "so wonderful" that they leave out a few details and never make it anywhere but the authors test system.
It's not worms I'm afraid of, it's next gen virii. With problem solving and logic bots that use AI it's just a matter of time before you train a program to do malicious things and give it multiple ways of accomplishing one goal of infection with a prime directive of selfpreservation, that would be the 'ultimate' worm.
We've all seen the AI programs ability to play chess, and that is impressive all in itself, can you imagine the same type of system loaded with every exploit ever documented, and then the ability to gain access via that list? Or imagine if somehow the program were able to recieve the notices of bugs (Cert, bugtraq, errata, and MS) and then learn of new potentially unpatched systems.
The problem would be not implementing the worm, nor stopping, but finding a reason for it's existence. Would it be used as a proof-of-concept only to be more horribly enacted in version 2? Would it be used for a massive DDoS attack on key internet systems thus disabling the net for a small amount of time? Or would the system dump all valueable information on a centralized server and then essentially commit suicide?
The only problem is how could this bug be 'harmful' to a host system if the prime directive was self perseverance? It's a little bit too deep of thinking for a friday morning, but we have yet to see what virii are actually capable of.
Well lets recap the previous year of linux. Things have stopped being appealing just because they _use_ linux. The only thing I can even think to remember is actually going on more than a year old and that's the zarus. I think people are stating to find that the linux hype is over and it's time for real world examples, that happens to be with IBM. HP/Compaq/Digital/Whatever is a loose cannon. Who knows where they stand on anything (ref: iPaq and Jornada, ref: tru64 and linux).
No presence from BSD??? Well no shit, guess what, BSD isn't another linux distro, they are in fact their own operating systems, that they only thing they have in common with linux is some of the same software runs on both systems. BSD does not "sellout" and doesn't have a buncha weirdo zealots running around claiming it is going to replace windows.
As far as expo's go, they're a good thing, but they only help to get the word out, not much more. Most everything covered at the expo was already known facts that were resaid to the public.
If someone is to create something that they feel is theirs then they should not be forced to give up their rights to it after an expiration of a legal copyright. However, releasing a product in the public domain means anyone can benifit from your work, which if you aren't happy with all aspects of life will cause a person to wonder why someone else should be benifiting from their work.
There is no solution to this problem, there will forever be the marxists who believe everything should be for free and for the betterness of humanity, but then there are those who believe to the victor go the spoils and whoever gets their first wins. Greed and capitalism will always but heads against socialism and communism. Hence why the copyright debate will never be over.
Okay... compare what you're doing to drug dealing...
If not dealing and whording the stash is considered evil, and a fellow new to dealing and trading drugs has nothing to deal, then for a fellow without a large cash flow or the drug factory to produce my own product, how is is possible then to deal drugs on the street without appearing "evil"?
Drug Dealing is bad... what is stealing movies and distributing them? How about you go to a bank and rob them, then you give out the money to everyone who asks for it, does that make it right?
So they're going to market this version of windows as more secure than they're previous products. I would almost be offended that a company would admit they've been screwing me over for years, but now they think they've fix their security problem.
You know what I think? I think the net has suffered enough DDOS attacks, Worm Spreads, and Virii for the last 10 years because of OS's from MS the this next "Secure" release should be free to anyone who was made unsecure before from MS.
So I want to mail them a copy of Windows 98 and I want this new "Secure" version for free because I already paid for an operating system which was supposed to be more "stable and secure" and now what? This should be free to everyone who had to suffer data loss from the fault of MS.
Or I guess I could get an upgrade to a secure OS for free... www.openbsd.org...
$50 mil for R&D
$50 mil for Engineering and Design
$50 mil for Advertising
make 100 million of them... end product costs $1.50 to make.
Pending all 100 million are bought. I don't understand exactly how this system works, but yeah it is very possible that a radeon 9700 costs ati $17 overall to make. Will they ever admit it? Hell no they won't.
... a good way to throw $100 out the window. I know that this is a hardware hack that actually is rather impressive, but lets face it people, not everyone is really meant to use a soldering iron. This mod is nothing really new as things have been overclockable/upgradeable for quite some time.
The one thing that bothers me is the "Turn your 9500 into a 9700" that's not really true, see a 9700 was meant to run like a 9700 and a 9500 is meant to run like a 9500, this will be more or less a memory/speed upgrade for a 9500.
I seriously doubt that ATI would try to keep the market inflated by purposefully dumbing down a high end card, this sort of thing doesn't happen in real life. It's not like Intel has ever used a pIII chip with the cache disabled/ripped out for celerons before. I mean jeeze people why would a hardware company want to make something intentionally slower, it's not as if 3 steps from the top cards cost nearly 200% less. Next someone is going to tell me it costs roughly $18 to manufacture a Radeon 9700. I tell you, it's all lies, all lies.
But, if they aren't willing to play nice with the other people in the Linux community, the other people in the Linux community won't play nice with them, and they will eventually fail.
Actually how could the linux community pull their support, put a clause in the GPL that says "free to everyone except lindows"??
How would GPL/Free Software prohibit a company/group from using their software? That's the whole point of open source.
"Linux is going to takeover the desktop computer market and bring the empire of microsoft down!!" - Said a local linux enthusiast
Here's the question of the day. How does linux takeover the desktop market if it doesn't become corperate in the sense that there is support and advertisement?
Oh no, the evil MP3.com one of the most visited sites on the internet's former CEO is now the CEO of a Linux company, the travisty obviously this man cares not for the community but for his own pocketbook. Yet look at that... Lindows is the new hype word, even beats redhat in most not-in-the-know IT types.
So lindows wants to start its own summit and doesn't want the other vendors to jump on their turf, is this surprising?
Entirely Too Much Money ...
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SAUNAAB
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First they rip apart a saab, but that's not the entirely too much money comment...
the last picture, is that not a bottle of Dom?? Wow, enough money to drink dom in a sauna car.
And as usual, here's my opinion, I think turning a car into a sauna is stupid. Since I have made an ontopic post that has a negative not so funny undertone, I will automatically be troll/flaimbait.
GNU/FSF is ran by RMS who feels that the world should be free, but GNU now wants to support the windows platform officially? If you can run these popular tools on windows will RMS be emailing windows and telling them to rename windows GNU/Windows?
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Don't believe me ... I'll send you a tape of the "Hallelujia" woman. She sits there sings something in Spanglish ... then screams "Hallelujia" at the top of her lungs, does a chirpy scream ... turns on the guitar distortion ... rocks out to something that resembles a beeat ... and then declares her love to the baby jesus, not the later years of course.
I don't know if she's doing like story reviews "Obviously baby jesus was more likeable than dying on the cross jesus" ...
Obviously going off topic here, but who gives a shit? I guess if you don't like it don't read it, but I read it and I just don't see any reason why this gets a spot on slashdot. Compressing a movie to mpeg-4 than transfering it over "wireless" internet has been done before on many occassions.
If you wanted to impress me, you would have used pigeon carcasses and shoestrings.
Sometimes I think people need to realize that even with all the "straight-talk" and analyzation ther were seven people burned alive that didn't do anything wrong except want to explore the unknown and make strives for science. These seven people were family members, friends, teachers, and of a rare breed of astronaut who had joined the handful before them to enter space. Many have been lost in the name of science and discovery, but to assume that maybe they're lives were lost in vain would be to me one of the worst things ever.
Take a step back, realize what's being said and move on, they're collecting the wreckage because someone or a whole lot of someones are going to be losing their jobs because of this. NASA does everything right, and this was something done wrong. For every scientist in NASA there are thousands at the door ready to take their place and for every astronaut there are thousands ready to take their place. NASA is the home of the eleet and the best of the best, failure or mistakes are not taken lightly.
there ... fucking slashdot posting morons.
All IBM's are backwards compatible since 1985, the homebrewed STARS and WIUP applications (written in cobol) have the same functionality they did in the mid 80's when the system was designed.
Obviously you're a fucking expert because you used to follow IBM products??? Then you would know about the backwards compatibility.
Ugh sometimes I really wonder how some of you people survived this long ...
I think it'll be a great way to put MP3s in your stereo.
Since when has this been a problem? Is the minijack to rca converter plugged into the line in of your stereo that shoddy of a setup? Does the numerous articles on putting a computer in your home entertainment center seem "too hard" or "not as cool" ??? As far as mp3's with a set top box, my DVD player, dreamcast, and laptop (which are all hooked up to the entertainment "glop" in my room) all have the ability to play mp3's I don't need another solution.
I'm not bashing the article I'm all about hacking, but the constant fucking comments about "my home entertainment center needs something to play mp3's" has been solved!! I don't know of any reason why anyone would need another solution??
Nick Burns your companies computer guy.
I'd so go off on you now if you didn't offer such a wonderful service :)
Cobol on the OS/390: By "not so out of date" the system was still withdrawn from service in 1994, that was 9 years ago.
You can come work at my school, we haven't upgraded our computing system in nearly 18 years.
Western Illinois University UIMS
University Information Management Systems uses an IBM Multiprise 3000 model 7060-H50(S/390) processor to support host-based administrative information systems. The H50 system's suite of operating system software is based on IBM's z/OS. More..
The four members of the systems staff select, install, test, maintain, implement, and trouble shoot a wide variety of z/OS based products on test and production systems. Over eighty products from about twenty vendors make up this system. A separate z/OS system is maintained on the same machine for use by WIU students enrolled in programming classes. More..
While these systems may not seem so out of date you have to remeber they're all COBOL backwards compatible from 1985 and up. So don't like upgraded, don't do it! Upgrading to a new system would be completely impossible right now as tied in as the entire thing is. The best case scenario for switching to something not so old would be a phase out plan, which is not in place.
So obviously this doesn't affect EVERYONE!
The Open Source movement made it acceptable to an individual who wanted to give the source openly, but didn't want to give in to the propaganda of GNU/FSF.
Think I'm a troll, then ask yourself with such a wonderful model of GPL, why was Open Source neccessary?
Hell wouldn't that be like 60% of the open source projects out there? Don't belive me?? Open up one of those .cpp or .c files next time you "Download the source" and never take a look at it.
I can't confirm/deny this because I only got to see one program by "anonymous" who seems to post here on slashdot a whole lot.
But yeah this seems ... kinda cool, but goes against every coding practice/standard I've ever seen, seems to me this is comparable in non-geek terms to a upside down watermellon eating contest.
Wait one gosh darn minute there ... Don't the people who run the RIAA/MPAA own the copyrights to the stuff ... they're just looking to make sure they get every last sent out of someone elses work. Damn it and I thought they were trying to protect my intelectual property with all these strict copyright laws.
I think the artists (and no I don't mean britney) should take a stand ... and forget their old stuff and the souls they sold ... and move on and make some great new music they own the rights to ... I think the music industry needs to follow the book industry and be publishers, ONLY.
I'm tired of the MPAA/RIAA throwing billions of dollars to buy their laws, if they want to impress me they'd just shut the fuck up and lower the price of their shit.
As far as the coffee and women jokes go ... I get my women the same way I get my coffee, bitter and cold, but not by choice have you.
Anyways it seems that everyone thinks this is a bad idea, and I'm going to go on a little soapbox here on why I think it's a great idea.
Food that is "good for you" tastes like shit, no one really wants to have a salad with no dressing or a bowl full of water for a meal. We enjoy fatty and sweet foods because they taste good. Now sit back and think, this type of technology being added to a dressing for a salad ... if you can make my sensors think that I'm not eating a bowl full of plant leaves that taste god awful, I'll buy the whole lot of it.
This has many many applications for dealing with losing weight. I've been throwing the idea around as of late of becoming not-fat, but I really do hate the taste of things that are good for me, if I could get past the taste thing and actually enjoy eating things that are good for me, IE free of sugar, salt, fat, etc, then maybe I wouldn't dred the idea of giving up a 24 oz. steak with a side of french fries and a triple chocolate cake slice for desert, all washed down with a nice guiness. If you want a taste of heaven ... you'll have that for a meal ...
Obviously this isn't going to be a good thing, but eating right makes what you've already screwed up start to work better, maybe a little indegestion is a small price to pay.
We have war to worry about, losing our jobs to worry about, getting a job to worry about, and many other things where as much as I feel like a heartless bastard, I just don't care about how much trash I leave in a landfill somewhere I can't see it.
Out of sight and out of mind, we're all going to continue to use plastic and styrofoam, buy fast food, and dump god only knows what down the drains. As much as "every little bit counts" how much can you expect? I mean
In all seriousness I don't understand how they can tell if a worm was "more serious" than code red. The best thing about most worms is that most of them are "so wonderful" that they leave out a few details and never make it anywhere but the authors test system.
It's not worms I'm afraid of, it's next gen virii. With problem solving and logic bots that use AI it's just a matter of time before you train a program to do malicious things and give it multiple ways of accomplishing one goal of infection with a prime directive of selfpreservation, that would be the 'ultimate' worm.
We've all seen the AI programs ability to play chess, and that is impressive all in itself, can you imagine the same type of system loaded with every exploit ever documented, and then the ability to gain access via that list? Or imagine if somehow the program were able to recieve the notices of bugs (Cert, bugtraq, errata, and MS) and then learn of new potentially unpatched systems.
The problem would be not implementing the worm, nor stopping, but finding a reason for it's existence. Would it be used as a proof-of-concept only to be more horribly enacted in version 2? Would it be used for a massive DDoS attack on key internet systems thus disabling the net for a small amount of time? Or would the system dump all valueable information on a centralized server and then essentially commit suicide?
The only problem is how could this bug be 'harmful' to a host system if the prime directive was self perseverance? It's a little bit too deep of thinking for a friday morning, but we have yet to see what virii are actually capable of.
No presence from BSD??? Well no shit, guess what, BSD isn't another linux distro, they are in fact their own operating systems, that they only thing they have in common with linux is some of the same software runs on both systems. BSD does not "sellout" and doesn't have a buncha weirdo zealots running around claiming it is going to replace windows.
As far as expo's go, they're a good thing, but they only help to get the word out, not much more. Most everything covered at the expo was already known facts that were resaid to the public.
Here's why ...
If someone is to create something that they feel is theirs then they should not be forced to give up their rights to it after an expiration of a legal copyright. However, releasing a product in the public domain means anyone can benifit from your work, which if you aren't happy with all aspects of life will cause a person to wonder why someone else should be benifiting from their work.
There is no solution to this problem, there will forever be the marxists who believe everything should be for free and for the betterness of humanity, but then there are those who believe to the victor go the spoils and whoever gets their first wins. Greed and capitalism will always but heads against socialism and communism. Hence why the copyright debate will never be over.
If not dealing and whording the stash is considered evil, and a fellow new to dealing and trading drugs has nothing to deal, then for a fellow without a large cash flow or the drug factory to produce my own product, how is is possible then to deal drugs on the street without appearing "evil"?
Drug Dealing is bad ... what is stealing movies and distributing them? How about you go to a bank and rob them, then you give out the money to everyone who asks for it, does that make it right?
You know what I think? I think the net has suffered enough DDOS attacks, Worm Spreads, and Virii for the last 10 years because of OS's from MS the this next "Secure" release should be free to anyone who was made unsecure before from MS.
So I want to mail them a copy of Windows 98 and I want this new "Secure" version for free because I already paid for an operating system which was supposed to be more "stable and secure" and now what? This should be free to everyone who had to suffer data loss from the fault of MS.
Or I guess I could get an upgrade to a secure OS for free ... www.openbsd.org ...
All in a days work.
*SNIFF* "God I love the smell of napalm^H^H^H^H^H^H severs burning in the morning"
$50 mil for R&D $50 mil for Engineering and Design $50 mil for Advertising
make 100 million of them ... end product costs $1.50 to make.
Pending all 100 million are bought. I don't understand exactly how this system works, but yeah it is very possible that a radeon 9700 costs ati $17 overall to make. Will they ever admit it? Hell no they won't.
The one thing that bothers me is the "Turn your 9500 into a 9700" that's not really true, see a 9700 was meant to run like a 9700 and a 9500 is meant to run like a 9500, this will be more or less a memory/speed upgrade for a 9500.
I seriously doubt that ATI would try to keep the market inflated by purposefully dumbing down a high end card, this sort of thing doesn't happen in real life. It's not like Intel has ever used a pIII chip with the cache disabled/ripped out for celerons before. I mean jeeze people why would a hardware company want to make something intentionally slower, it's not as if 3 steps from the top cards cost nearly 200% less. Next someone is going to tell me it costs roughly $18 to manufacture a Radeon 9700. I tell you, it's all lies, all lies.
Actually how could the linux community pull their support, put a clause in the GPL that says "free to everyone except lindows"??
How would GPL/Free Software prohibit a company/group from using their software? That's the whole point of open source.
Here's the question of the day. How does linux takeover the desktop market if it doesn't become corperate in the sense that there is support and advertisement?
Oh no, the evil MP3.com one of the most visited sites on the internet's former CEO is now the CEO of a Linux company, the travisty obviously this man cares not for the community but for his own pocketbook. Yet look at that... Lindows is the new hype word, even beats redhat in most not-in-the-know IT types.
So lindows wants to start its own summit and doesn't want the other vendors to jump on their turf, is this surprising?
Wait a minute, could the evil and fearless RIAA/MPAA take on the mighty Microsoft?
This reminds me of something ...
the last picture, is that not a bottle of Dom?? Wow, enough money to drink dom in a sauna car.
And as usual, here's my opinion, I think turning a car into a sauna is stupid. Since I have made an ontopic post that has a negative not so funny undertone, I will automatically be troll/flaimbait.
GNU/FSF is ran by RMS who feels that the world should be free, but GNU now wants to support the windows platform officially? If you can run these popular tools on windows will RMS be emailing windows and telling them to rename windows GNU/Windows?