Making OSS dev is hardly a competition sport, so why do this? Kudos is one thing, but that should come from the community, not from some database.
The "Kudos" is given by the community. And I like the inclusion of objective criteria to supplement the popularity contest. [ And if you don't think "number of commits" is an objective criteria, you don't know the meaning of the word "objective". ]
Some people will get a shiny glory and some will feel annoyed bbecause their projects/contributions have not been tracked. Yeah, teenage angst. They need to get over it.
There are facilities in ohloh to map aliases. It seems everyone can do it. I don't know if there is any conflict management, they seem to take wiki approach throughout their database.
I don't seem a problem in that free software contributions you want not to be associated with your legal name, won't be associated with your legal name.
A better analogy would be "if you can't patent chemical compounds, you shouldn't be able to patent drugs, as drugs are nothing more than chemical compounds".
Software is just a subset of math, just as drugs is a subset of chemical compounds. Your analogy make it sound like math is at a totally different level of abstraction than software. It isn't.
Or maybe we need a car analogy to make it perfectly clear...
Oh, if just Linux had been proprietary like the other Unix lookalikes of the time, it might today have enjoyed the same propagation on the desktop as, say, Coherent or Xinu.
BTW: Linux does ship today with more computer based products than MS Windows, just not on the most visible platform of them all, the PC desktop.
on the hardware it supports. A few run primarily MS Windows on their Mac's, but they are a clear minority.
Comparing the marketshare of MacOS with MS Windows (for which almost all desktop computers are build), or Linux (which supports more hardware than any other operating system in existence) makes no sense.
Such duplicates is, or can be, good management. It allows decoupling of development, so important bug fixes in one part of the tool chain can be released without waiting for another part of the tool chain which might be under a major rewrite.
Major free software packages like gcc does the same, include their own copy of various utilities and libraries. Doing so provides the best of two worlds, it allows code sharing at the development plane, while avoiding the coupling usually associated with using some other projects code.
There is a tiny price in disk usage for the end user, but a price worth paying for not having to wait an additional year for new features, because release schedules have to get synchronized.
To get the full benefit it is necessary to have established clear ownership of the various components, and have a strong ethics with regard to making sure changes are propagated back "upstream". Such an ethics is evolving in the free software world.
I have no idea if the situation is similar inside Microsoft, but the basic mechanisms favoring decoupling certainly exists within a large company as well.
It seems like a large part of the design process for the game consisted of of trying a lot of ideas, and selecting the one that worked as a base of future experiments. And that description could be extended to previous generations of games, each generation consisting of thousands of games, most fails in the marketplace, and those that survives form the basis for the next generation of games.
That is may main irritation as a professional designer of the whole "intelligent design" pseudo debate. Any intelligent designer is aware that evolution is the most important design tool, especially for complex systems.
There was a playable demo at the 2006 e3. Vaporware is software that doesn't exist outside the marketing department, not just software that has not yet been released.
But the FPS and RTS genres (which are the examples Will Wright used) are the same age. At least, Wolfenstein 3D and Dune II was both released in 1992 (a great year for gaming).
I'd imagine FSF without RMS would be like FSF Europe. I know nothing about FSF Europe apart from the fact that it exists, despite being a FSF associate member and European.
I must admit that a discussion of the OSI network model seen as a "political or religious movement" intrigued me (yes, I also had the christmas tree book in networking class), until I realized they were talking about the open source initiative.
Yes, most "small" language culture (and thus, small languages) is not able to survive in a free (global) market *anyway*, the unauthorized copying is not that much of an issue.
Most "small language" populations are not willing to pay for the true cost of local language culture directly, but are willing to pay indirectly for it through taxes.
The interesting corollary is that since the culture has already been financed indirectly through taxes, there is no reason to attempt to extract direct payment through distribution restrictions (copyright law). By removing the distribution restrictions one would also increase the added value of the culture, as per standard economic theory (the added value is the difference between the price of the product, and the value of the product to the buyer).
and since piracy is hugely prevalent in europe, i wonder what the epxerience has been for danish movie, czech music, etc. Culture in most European countries is heavily subsidized. Since you ask specifically for Danish movies, I can tell that for commercial movies the state pay two thirds of the production costs, and for "artsy" movies more than that. Danish language books and TV is also heavily subsidized, so any negative effect of unauthorized copying is marginal.
Music is also heavily subsidized, although indirectly, through a "blank media tax". The media tax is distributed to commercial artists based on how much they sell, so that is affected by unauthorized copying. It is also totally unfair, as people creating free music (or Linux distributions) get no part of the media tax. Unlike books, movie, and TV, this tax does not seem intended to preserve Danish language and culture, rather to enrich (mostly foreign) distribution companies. It is insane, I have no idea how they got that system established.
I wish they would replace it with something similar to the system they use for books: only Danish language books are subsidized, the money goes directly to the authors (not the publishers), and the amount is propertional how popular the book is on the public libraries, not to its price.
I suspect the situation is different for Czech music, but their situation is also different in general. They were part of a communist country not that long ago, the country is relatively poor (but rich compared with other post-communist areas), and their president (Vaclav Klaus) is a Libertarian, or as close as you get in Europe, and thus likely opposed to any kind of subsidizes.
The tele2 tech guys I know are quite competent. It is just that it is not in their, not in their employers, interest to implement an effective filter. So they do the absolutely minimal amount of work they have to do, in order to comply with this "small claims" court order.
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Actually, the choice of a center is entirely arbitrary, so within the context of US politics (which is almost entirely contained within the upper right quadrant) Clinton would be a right-leaning liberal, while McCain would be left-leaning conservative.
I had my boss sign that disclaimer when I worked at AT&T. It was not difficult.
He needed 5 seconds to read it, and then 5 additional seconds to convince himself that AT&T had absolutely no economic interest in an Emacs mode for mapping between Danish and US keyboard layouts. And at that point it was easier for him to just sign it, than to come up with a reason not to (or convince himself that he doesn't need to give a reason).
If you make it longer or more complicated than that, your boss will have to think about it and look for traps, and then it will be easier to invent an excuse for just say no.
It is a general hint for dealing with a bureaucracy (and any organization is a bureaucracy): Make it less work for the bureaucrats to make the decision that goes your way, than to make a decision that goes against you.
3) By stressing the word "federal" I can hopefully avoid alienate voters by coming out as pro-drugs (which is an issue not important to me), and instead stress my stand on "small government" (which is important to me).
4 and 5) The issues are not important to me. Obviously a balance between rewarding creation and the interest of the public is needed. I'll figure out what that balance is after I get elected president.
You seem to have this delusion that Free/Libre software is anti-corporate, which has never been even remotely true.
Of course it is. Have you read anything by Stallman and company? Stallman is a socialist, but you are using Raymond's metaphors, and Raymond is as far from socialist as you can get (he is libertarian).
And Raymond was writing explicitly about the development process, and the development process fro Linux (the canonical "Bazaar" example) has become more like the development process described as "Bazaar" in TCatB, mostly thanks to first Bitkeeper and then git, which has decentralized the process further. If you want some weak irony, Emacs (the canonical Cathedral project) has also become more bazaar-like as the terms are used in the book, as the (still centralized) development has opened up. Emacs is roughly today where Linux was when the book was written.
Your comment seems to be based entirely by poor guesswork on the meaning of the bazaar and cathedral metaphor, combined with some justified but generalized prejudices about the free software community, but which you came to an "irony" that doesn't really exist your head.
The fact is that the leading ideologist, even on the socialist camp, has always welcomed corporate involvement. FSF helped start Cygnus, a company with the intended purpose of profit from free software. The founder, Michael Tiemann, read the GNU Manifesto and saw a business plan. Cygnus did contract work for FSF in the beginning when business was poor, later when they were established they helped FSF both directly with donations, and indirectly by doing the contract work for free they used to be paid for, finally they were bought by Red Hat, and helped Red Hat make their first profit. And if you read RMS' rants, he has always seen especially hardware manufactures as natural allies who just needed to be educated about their own interest.
And the other ideologist, Raymond, is firmly behind (and as the whole "open source" term is based solely upon) the idea the free software is good for business and business is good for free software.
One kid was charged with DKK 200,000 (US$ 40,000) for putting links on his home page pointing to sites where you could download music unauthorized. He was never sentenced though, as he died before the case was closed, and the Danish RIAA at least had the decency not to charge his parents.
For another example, Google News is available in all Scandinavian languages, except Danish. During the bubble a similar Danish news aggregating service was shut down by the courts by a decision that could be taken as out ruling deep linking altogether.
The scary thing for me is that there see to be a strong degree of acceptance of this situation in the nerd community. There seem to be a huge gab between us and Sweden in this regard.
Denmark is also where Microsoft domination is most firm, and before that, the one market where OS/2 really penetrated. We love out corporate masters. Every action taken against corporate abuse seems to come through EU, never the Danish government (no matter their political composition).
But what if we get a president that uses Emacs? That would be great! Think of the wars we could avoid, if the president could simply 'M-x doctor <ret>':
Potus> I wan't to invade Iraq!
Doctor> Why do you say you wan't to invade iraq?
Potus> Because I hate Saddam Hussein!
Doctor> Is it because you hate saddam hussein that you came to me?
Potus> Yes, the bastard tried to assasinate my dad!
Doctor> Earlier you said you hate saddam hussein?
Potus> Did I? That seems so negative. Maybe I should reconsider.
See how much better the world would be with an Emacs using president.
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The "Kudos" is given by the community. And I like the inclusion of objective criteria to supplement the popularity contest. [ And if you don't think "number of commits" is an objective criteria, you don't know the meaning of the word "objective". ] Some people will get a shiny glory and some will feel annoyed bbecause their projects/contributions have not been tracked. Yeah, teenage angst. They need to get over it.There are facilities in ohloh to map aliases. It seems everyone can do it. I don't know if there is any conflict management, they seem to take wiki approach throughout their database.
I don't seem a problem in that free software contributions you want not to be associated with your legal name, won't be associated with your legal name.
I wrote this goal oriented guide for picking a free software license some years ago. It is slightly out of date (I would out suggest QPL anymore).
A better analogy would be "if you can't patent chemical compounds, you shouldn't be able to patent drugs, as drugs are nothing more than chemical compounds".
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Software is just a subset of math, just as drugs is a subset of chemical compounds. Your analogy make it sound like math is at a totally different level of abstraction than software. It isn't.
Or maybe we need a car analogy to make it perfectly clear
Oh, if just Linux had been proprietary like the other Unix lookalikes of the time, it might today have enjoyed the same propagation on the desktop as, say, Coherent or Xinu.
BTW: Linux does ship today with more computer based products than MS Windows, just not on the most visible platform of them all, the PC desktop.
on the hardware it supports. A few run primarily MS Windows on their Mac's, but they are a clear minority.
Comparing the marketshare of MacOS with MS Windows (for which almost all desktop computers are build), or Linux (which supports more hardware than any other operating system in existence) makes no sense.
Such duplicates is, or can be, good management. It allows decoupling of development, so important bug fixes in one part of the tool chain can be released without waiting for another part of the tool chain which might be under a major rewrite.
Major free software packages like gcc does the same, include their own copy of various utilities and libraries. Doing so provides the best of two worlds, it allows code sharing at the development plane, while avoiding the coupling usually associated with using some other projects code.
There is a tiny price in disk usage for the end user, but a price worth paying for not having to wait an additional year for new features, because release schedules have to get synchronized.
To get the full benefit it is necessary to have established clear ownership of the various components, and have a strong ethics with regard to making sure changes are propagated back "upstream". Such an ethics is evolving in the free software world.
I have no idea if the situation is similar inside Microsoft, but the basic mechanisms favoring decoupling certainly exists within a large company as well.
This is not capitalism at work, it's predatory behavior
Make up your mind.It seems like a large part of the design process for the game consisted of of trying a lot of ideas, and selecting the one that worked as a base of future experiments. And that description could be extended to previous generations of games, each generation consisting of thousands of games, most fails in the marketplace, and those that survives form the basis for the next generation of games.
That is may main irritation as a professional designer of the whole "intelligent design" pseudo debate. Any intelligent designer is aware that evolution is the most important design tool, especially for complex systems.
There was a playable demo at the 2006 e3. Vaporware is software that doesn't exist outside the marketing department, not just software that has not yet been released.
But the FPS and RTS genres (which are the examples Will Wright used) are the same age. At least, Wolfenstein 3D and Dune II was both released in 1992 (a great year for gaming).
I'd imagine FSF without RMS would be like FSF Europe. I know nothing about FSF Europe apart from the fact that it exists, despite being a FSF associate member and European.
To me, RMS is the FSF.
I must admit that a discussion of the OSI network model seen as a "political or religious movement" intrigued me (yes, I also had the christmas tree book in networking class), until I realized they were talking about the open source initiative.
Yes, most "small" language culture (and thus, small languages) is not able to survive in a free (global) market *anyway*, the unauthorized copying is not that much of an issue.
Most "small language" populations are not willing to pay for the true cost of local language culture directly, but are willing to pay indirectly for it through taxes.
The interesting corollary is that since the culture has already been financed indirectly through taxes, there is no reason to attempt to extract direct payment through distribution restrictions (copyright law). By removing the distribution restrictions one would also increase the added value of the culture, as per standard economic theory (the added value is the difference between the price of the product, and the value of the product to the buyer).
Music is also heavily subsidized, although indirectly, through a "blank media tax". The media tax is distributed to commercial artists based on how much they sell, so that is affected by unauthorized copying. It is also totally unfair, as people creating free music (or Linux distributions) get no part of the media tax. Unlike books, movie, and TV, this tax does not seem intended to preserve Danish language and culture, rather to enrich (mostly foreign) distribution companies. It is insane, I have no idea how they got that system established.
I wish they would replace it with something similar to the system they use for books: only Danish language books are subsidized, the money goes directly to the authors (not the publishers), and the amount is propertional how popular the book is on the public libraries, not to its price.
I suspect the situation is different for Czech music, but their situation is also different in general. They were part of a communist country not that long ago, the country is relatively poor (but rich compared with other post-communist areas), and their president (Vaclav Klaus) is a Libertarian, or as close as you get in Europe, and thus likely opposed to any kind of subsidizes.
The tele2 tech guys I know are quite competent. It is just that it is not in their, not in their employers, interest to implement an effective filter. So they do the absolutely minimal amount of work they have to do, in order to comply with this "small claims" court order.
Actually, the choice of a center is entirely arbitrary, so within the context of US politics (which is almost entirely contained within the upper right quadrant) Clinton would be a right-leaning liberal, while McCain would be left-leaning conservative.
If so, you can configure gmail to pull mail from your hotmail account.
I had my boss sign that disclaimer when I worked at AT&T. It was not difficult.
He needed 5 seconds to read it, and then 5 additional seconds to convince himself that AT&T had absolutely no economic interest in an Emacs mode for mapping between Danish and US keyboard layouts. And at that point it was easier for him to just sign it, than to come up with a reason not to (or convince himself that he doesn't need to give a reason).
If you make it longer or more complicated than that, your boss will have to think about it and look for traps, and then it will be easier to invent an excuse for just say no.
It is a general hint for dealing with a bureaucracy (and any organization is a bureaucracy): Make it less work for the bureaucrats to make the decision that goes your way, than to make a decision that goes against you.
1) The affairs of others are not our concern.
2) Could you please rephrase that as a question?
3) By stressing the word "federal" I can hopefully avoid alienate voters by coming out as pro-drugs (which is an issue not important to me), and instead stress my stand on "small government" (which is important to me).
4 and 5) The issues are not important to me. Obviously a balance between rewarding creation and the interest of the public is needed. I'll figure out what that balance is after I get elected president.
Of course it is. Have you read anything by Stallman and company? Stallman is a socialist, but you are using Raymond's metaphors, and Raymond is as far from socialist as you can get (he is libertarian).
And Raymond was writing explicitly about the development process, and the development process fro Linux (the canonical "Bazaar" example) has become more like the development process described as "Bazaar" in TCatB, mostly thanks to first Bitkeeper and then git, which has decentralized the process further. If you want some weak irony, Emacs (the canonical Cathedral project) has also become more bazaar-like as the terms are used in the book, as the (still centralized) development has opened up. Emacs is roughly today where Linux was when the book was written.
Your comment seems to be based entirely by poor guesswork on the meaning of the bazaar and cathedral metaphor, combined with some justified but generalized prejudices about the free software community, but which you came to an "irony" that doesn't really exist your head.
The fact is that the leading ideologist, even on the socialist camp, has always welcomed corporate involvement. FSF helped start Cygnus, a company with the intended purpose of profit from free software. The founder, Michael Tiemann, read the GNU Manifesto and saw a business plan. Cygnus did contract work for FSF in the beginning when business was poor, later when they were established they helped FSF both directly with donations, and indirectly by doing the contract work for free they used to be paid for, finally they were bought by Red Hat, and helped Red Hat make their first profit. And if you read RMS' rants, he has always seen especially hardware manufactures as natural allies who just needed to be educated about their own interest.
And the other ideologist, Raymond, is firmly behind (and as the whole "open source" term is based solely upon) the idea the free software is good for business and business is good for free software.
> slightly off topic, but how did he die?
All that was mentioned in the press was that his death was "not related to the suit".
Not sure how they could conclude that, with such certainty.
One kid was charged with DKK 200,000 (US$ 40,000) for putting links on his home page pointing to sites where you could download music unauthorized. He was never sentenced though, as he died before the case was closed, and the Danish RIAA at least had the decency not to charge his parents.
For another example, Google News is available in all Scandinavian languages, except Danish. During the bubble a similar Danish news aggregating service was shut down by the courts by a decision that could be taken as out ruling deep linking altogether.
The scary thing for me is that there see to be a strong degree of acceptance of this situation in the nerd community. There seem to be a huge gab between us and Sweden in this regard.
Denmark is also where Microsoft domination is most firm, and before that, the one market where OS/2 really penetrated. We love out corporate masters. Every action taken against corporate abuse seems to come through EU, never the Danish government (no matter their political composition).
Potus> I wan't to invade Iraq!
Doctor> Why do you say you wan't to invade iraq?
Potus> Because I hate Saddam Hussein!
Doctor> Is it because you hate saddam hussein that you came to me?
Potus> Yes, the bastard tried to assasinate my dad!
Doctor> Earlier you said you hate saddam hussein?
Potus> Did I? That seems so negative. Maybe I should reconsider.
See how much better the world would be with an Emacs using president.