It's not. As absurd as spam seems, it works. There are millions of people who think they were specially selected to recieve that email and go out and by whatever junk they were mailed. Besides, look at all the junk snail mail you get every day, do you think that's going away any time soon?
What, so no one is going to produce an AIDS drug because there might be competition? That would be like saying a car manufacturer won't create a car because they don't hold the patent to 4 wheels and an engine. If a pharmacutical company doesn't have a monopoly on a new drug, they will just have to compete with other companies, by offering lower prices, better quality drugs, better service. There are many other ways to compete than to just have a drug itself.
Case 1: Sklyarov writes a program which demonstrates the lack of security in a programs piece of software. This shows that the developers of the software have to rewrite their code to fix this problem, this also prevents consumers from buying faulty software which could leak important information.
Case 2: Consumer Reports buys a car, test drives the car and tips it over. They publish a report showing that the car is defective. The cars engineers have to redesign the car and this also prevents consumers from buying a defective car and injuring themselves.
So when Consumer Reports announces that a car is defective, how come they don't get arrested and jailed? They are releasing information against the companies interests in order to protect consumers, damaging the companies reputation and sales of the car. I'm sure any company would want to prevent this information from being released. Sylyrov was not arrested for reasons of immoral acts or destructive behavior. Sklyrov was arrested because he released information that was against a companies interest in order to protect consumers, and the company used a new law which applied to this type of information to prevent it.
A leader is a figure head for a community. You can 't put the entire open source community into a room with all the other citizens of the united states and sign bills and pass laws everyone can agree on. No, you need one, or a few, people to represent the community. We need a leader to talk to politicians, senators, etc. Other leaders who need to be convinced of our ideas.
Yes I did say the 'P' word, politics. Most of the people in this world can't understand technology, and so that's why we need politics, to convince all the techno-illiterate that technology is really a good thing. Do you really want to convince your average human being about your standpoint on technology? Read this first.
The OpenSource community needs an intermediary to water down its views of technology so that the average person can understand it. There's more stupid people in the world than techno-literate people.
Don't ask them little trivia questions like "What does this utility do?". A sysadmin is more than just a person who does routine tasks every day, they have to solve new problems as they arise. You should interview a person by asking them problems and how they would solve them. Ask them about big problems they encountered in the past and their solution to them, or problems they weren't able to solve.
What you want to find is someone who is interested in what they do and can learn new things as new problems arise. You don't want someone who just memorized a book and some man pages, because what will they do if something happens that wasn't in the book they read?...
Microsoft has ruined the word Windows because of the quality of their products they release. So shouldn't the window industry be able to sue MS now? Sure they are completely unrelated, but so are toys and surgical instruments.
"There's no room for small companies to do big things anymore,"
Maybe Open Source and Free Software can start doing the "big things" now. Gnutella is still alive, while it's not as good as Napster, it hasn't been sued to death.
We need decentralized projects that can't be attacked by corporations. If a company in one country tries to attack a project, just change the project leaders to someone in another country. A project isn't a physical item, only the leaders are, and if all the project leaders are attacked, the whole project will go down. Setting up a project with a few close project leaders is putting all your eggs in one basket.
1. Find an existing successful product and try to use it's marketing success. We'll choose X Windows for Linux.
2. Since we can't use the exact same name, let's add an extra character in there. XP Windows.
3. Still too similar, so let's swap two of the words. Windows XP.
Although I still think it means Windows eXtra Pitiful.
People have been getting information off the net for free for so long that people don't want it to change. Change always faces confrontations, especially when the change means paying for something that people have been getting for free.
Advertising will not pay for everything. Do you have to pay for newspapers? Magazines? Yes, even though they have advertising. Why is a website different? It costs money to run a website. The admin has to eat and pay for bandwidth.
I say, for all you people who think all these websites should be free, I'd like to see you run a website and charge nothing. Then compare yourself to a website with a web team that gets paid to work 40 hours a week on just that one site. We'll see who has the better content in the end.
I know when I went job hunting I had open source and Linux on my resume as my strong points. I didn't get many offers for interviews. One person that interviewed me asked me why I worked on Open Source software rather than "normal" software. After that I decided to minimize my OS and Linux involvement on my resume. I suddenly got lots of offers for interviews and a few job offers.
I think many employers think Linux users and Open Source programmers are too "fanatical" to hire on and so many people that realize this might try to hide their OS involvement from their resume.
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A lot of people use the LGPL in their software, this allows people to modify source code and sell the final program, as long as they provide the source code of the original LGPLed source (usually a library). Loki does this with all their games with the SDL library. All their games they port are proprietary closed source programs, but they can sell the games with the SDL library packaged with it as long as they allow people free access to the source code of the library.
Ok now I know that Loki owns the SDL library, but other companies can do this too. They can use and modify the SDL library in their programs, provided they give access to the changes they made to the library. "Intellectual property" is preserved in their proprietary section of code while still being required to release changes to the original source back to the community.
Screw what's affecting space probes that NASA can't figure out, how about some informed comments on a cure for cancer? Clearly there's a slashdotter somewhere just waiting to spill out the answer to that if you just ask.
Why bother porting or emulating when you can write for both platforms natively at the same time? This is what the SDL library is for. It allows you to write a program once and be able to compile it natively for each platform (Linux/Windows/Mac/etc). If developers started writing games to be cross platform they could release the game on all platforms simultaniously. Here is a research project on designing cross platform software: http://www.wpi.edu/~mongoose/mqp/latex_doc/mqp.pdf
Designing and writing a cross platform application is not difficult. Actually the main problem that the research found was the companies didn't want to write applications for Linux because they didn't want to have to support Linux. Linux was too hard for companies to support do to all the various distros, writing the code though was the easy part.
Article: "And Microsoft knows this. Every time we fly off the collective handle when they do something threatening and they can just sit back and say 'see how unreasonable those people are? See how derisive the keepers of this Linux technology can be?'"
This is very true, I know many people that have been turned off from Linux simply by reading Slashdot. Most people don't like ideas that are assciated with advocates and fanatics, which is what most people see from slashdot postings. They think of Linux as a cult of some sort, you know those groups that rant and rave about the world and then kill themselves off because they can't handle society. I'm not saying this is the Linux community, but what I am saying is that the Linux community needs a more professional aura around it. People should look at the Linux community as something they can comfortably come into and talk with, not something they have to worry about getting their head bitten off by if they say the wrong thing.
It's true, they don't care about what porn sites you browse or how you cheated on your final. If your not going to blow up a major city or assasinate government officials then you have no need to hide anything.
If all intellectual properties were taken away from a company so that anyone could use the product that was previously protected, then the company will go out of business and no one will sell that product. Right? No not really... Someone is still going to create the product that was previously protected. Just because a company can not monopolize the product does not mean they will not make any money off of it. Just look at cars. No one has a monopoly on car engines or bodies or airbags. You can get most features in any car in any other car. Yet when you look at the road, there are 100's of different types of cars from so many different manufactures.
If IP rights were taken away from all companies, I don't see it as the Doom of the information age, I see companies having to compete for quality products. IP rights only cover an idea, companies then have to implement that idea into a product. Companies can then compete on the quality of their product, not just the one little idea the product holds. And for companies that fear people stealing their code if they open source it, you can't cut and paste quality out of a product.
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How many $millions$ will have to be spent to get the mice back so that the animal rights people don't try to shut down NASA?
When's it going to stop?
It's not. As absurd as spam seems, it works. There are millions of people who think they were specially selected to recieve that email and go out and by whatever junk they were mailed. Besides, look at all the junk snail mail you get every day, do you think that's going away any time soon?
...and sell them under the name PowerHouse 2200's.
What, so no one is going to produce an AIDS drug because there might be competition? That would be like saying a car manufacturer won't create a car because they don't hold the patent to 4 wheels and an engine. If a pharmacutical company doesn't have a monopoly on a new drug, they will just have to compete with other companies, by offering lower prices, better quality drugs, better service. There are many other ways to compete than to just have a drug itself.
Case 1: Sklyarov writes a program which demonstrates the lack of security in a programs piece of software. This shows that the developers of the software have to rewrite their code to fix this problem, this also prevents consumers from buying faulty software which could leak important information.
Case 2: Consumer Reports buys a car, test drives the car and tips it over. They publish a report showing that the car is defective. The cars engineers have to redesign the car and this also prevents consumers from buying a defective car and injuring themselves.
So when Consumer Reports announces that a car is defective, how come they don't get arrested and jailed? They are releasing information against the companies interests in order to protect consumers, damaging the companies reputation and sales of the car. I'm sure any company would want to prevent this information from being released. Sylyrov was not arrested for reasons of immoral acts or destructive behavior. Sklyrov was arrested because he released information that was against a companies interest in order to protect consumers, and the company used a new law which applied to this type of information to prevent it.
A leader is a figure head for a community. You can 't put the entire open source community into a room with all the other citizens of the united states and sign bills and pass laws everyone can agree on. No, you need one, or a few, people to represent the community. We need a leader to talk to politicians, senators, etc. Other leaders who need to be convinced of our ideas.
Yes I did say the 'P' word, politics. Most of the people in this world can't understand technology, and so that's why we need politics, to convince all the techno-illiterate that technology is really a good thing. Do you really want to convince your average human being about your standpoint on technology? Read this first.
The OpenSource community needs an intermediary to water down its views of technology so that the average person can understand it. There's more stupid people in the world than techno-literate people.
Don't ask them little trivia questions like "What does this utility do?". A sysadmin is more than just a person who does routine tasks every day, they have to solve new problems as they arise. You should interview a person by asking them problems and how they would solve them. Ask them about big problems they encountered in the past and their solution to them, or problems they weren't able to solve.
What you want to find is someone who is interested in what they do and can learn new things as new problems arise. You don't want someone who just memorized a book and some man pages, because what will they do if something happens that wasn't in the book they read?...
Microsoft has ruined the word Windows because of the quality of their products they release. So shouldn't the window industry be able to sue MS now? Sure they are completely unrelated, but so are toys and surgical instruments.
If they ran Windows instead of Linux, it would have been amusing if it bluescreened in a room with noxious fumes.
Blue would be appropriate.
...ok now, let's see how long it takes someone to shout conspiracy.
"There's no room for small companies to do big things anymore,"
Maybe Open Source and Free Software can start doing the "big things" now. Gnutella is still alive, while it's not as good as Napster, it hasn't been sued to death.
We need decentralized projects that can't be attacked by corporations. If a company in one country tries to attack a project, just change the project leaders to someone in another country. A project isn't a physical item, only the leaders are, and if all the project leaders are attacked, the whole project will go down. Setting up a project with a few close project leaders is putting all your eggs in one basket.
1. Find an existing successful product and try to use it's marketing success. We'll choose X Windows for Linux.
2. Since we can't use the exact same name, let's add an extra character in there. XP Windows.
3. Still too similar, so let's swap two of the words. Windows XP.
Although I still think it means Windows eXtra Pitiful.
PC makers have identified XP as a key factor for breathing new life into stalled PC sales.
"We are hoping for and preparing for a jump in the (PC sales) category with the launch of XP,"
Has the general computer using population been brainwashed into thinking they have to buy a new PC to run a new operating system?
People have been getting information off the net for free for so long that people don't want it to change. Change always faces confrontations, especially when the change means paying for something that people have been getting for free. Advertising will not pay for everything. Do you have to pay for newspapers? Magazines? Yes, even though they have advertising. Why is a website different? It costs money to run a website. The admin has to eat and pay for bandwidth. I say, for all you people who think all these websites should be free, I'd like to see you run a website and charge nothing. Then compare yourself to a website with a web team that gets paid to work 40 hours a week on just that one site. We'll see who has the better content in the end.
But wow have a lot of people cried over this. As if crying is going to make any of this stop.
But, it did just make it stop.
I know when I went job hunting I had open source and Linux on my resume as my strong points. I didn't get many offers for interviews. One person that interviewed me asked me why I worked on Open Source software rather than "normal" software. After that I decided to minimize my OS and Linux involvement on my resume. I suddenly got lots of offers for interviews and a few job offers.
I think many employers think Linux users and Open Source programmers are too "fanatical" to hire on and so many people that realize this might try to hide their OS involvement from their resume.
A lot of people use the LGPL in their software, this allows people to modify source code and sell the final program, as long as they provide the source code of the original LGPLed source (usually a library). Loki does this with all their games with the SDL library. All their games they port are proprietary closed source programs, but they can sell the games with the SDL library packaged with it as long as they allow people free access to the source code of the library.
Ok now I know that Loki owns the SDL library, but other companies can do this too. They can use and modify the SDL library in their programs, provided they give access to the changes they made to the library. "Intellectual property" is preserved in their proprietary section of code while still being required to release changes to the original source back to the community.
How about we all demand the data back that we put into the database?
Screw what's affecting space probes that NASA can't figure out, how about some informed comments on a cure for cancer? Clearly there's a slashdotter somewhere just waiting to spill out the answer to that if you just ask.
You can't hack into a Windows system right out of the box, at least not until you install the networking drivers.
Why bother porting or emulating when you can write for both platforms natively at the same time? This is what the SDL library is for. It allows you to write a program once and be able to compile it natively for each platform (Linux/Windows/Mac/etc). If developers started writing games to be cross platform they could release the game on all platforms simultaniously. Here is a research project on designing cross platform software: http://www.wpi.edu/~mongoose/mqp/latex_doc/mqp.pdf
Designing and writing a cross platform application is not difficult. Actually the main problem that the research found was the companies didn't want to write applications for Linux because they didn't want to have to support Linux. Linux was too hard for companies to support do to all the various distros, writing the code though was the easy part.
Article:
"And Microsoft knows this. Every time we fly off the collective handle when they do something threatening and they can just sit back and say 'see how unreasonable those people are? See how derisive the keepers of this Linux technology can be?'"
This is very true, I know many people that have been turned off from Linux simply by reading Slashdot. Most people don't like ideas that are assciated with advocates and fanatics, which is what most people see from slashdot postings. They think of Linux as a cult of some sort, you know those groups that rant and rave about the world and then kill themselves off because they can't handle society. I'm not saying this is the Linux community, but what I am saying is that the Linux community needs a more professional aura around it. People should look at the Linux community as something they can comfortably come into and talk with, not something they have to worry about getting their head bitten off by if they say the wrong thing.
It's true, they don't care about what porn sites you browse or how you cheated on your final. If your not going to blow up a major city or assasinate government officials then you have no need to hide anything.
If all intellectual properties were taken away from a company so that anyone could use the product that was previously protected, then the company will go out of business and no one will sell that product. Right? No not really... Someone is still going to create the product that was previously protected. Just because a company can not monopolize the product does not mean they will not make any money off of it. Just look at cars. No one has a monopoly on car engines or bodies or airbags. You can get most features in any car in any other car. Yet when you look at the road, there are 100's of different types of cars from so many different manufactures.
If IP rights were taken away from all companies, I don't see it as the Doom of the information age, I see companies having to compete for quality products. IP rights only cover an idea, companies then have to implement that idea into a product. Companies can then compete on the quality of their product, not just the one little idea the product holds. And for companies that fear people stealing their code if they open source it, you can't cut and paste quality out of a product.