Actuall because my only windows bux runs on my mame cabinet attached to a television I know windows will not work at 640x480 up to the point of the resolution dialog wont fit on the screen so you can easily fix it. I just have to memorize the key strokes to change the resoultion to 800x600.
The problem is that full cost will go up. enough people will take the subsidized version that the demand for one at full cost will go down driving the price up, witch will cause more people to go for the subsidized one makeing the price go up on the commercial free one. Eventually the commercial free would be 10x the cost of what it should be and most people will have settled for commercials when they would rather of paid a fair price that demand could have warrented otherwise.
This is why so many things are catering to lowest common denominator. Average quality in many things these days has been moved to a fringe market segment. Decent fair priced items can't seem to compete with cheap crap items due to loss of demand cause the fair price to go up to unfair rates.
The big American astroid was spactacular lage and confortable but unable to do the job. The Indian astroid was smaller faster and cheaper. What busness man in his right mind woldn't outsource to India?
ohh yea, I forgot how much better it was 30 years ago in the mid 1970s or ohh yea even 80 years ago in the mid 1920s. Life was so much better back then.
Tax software. Is there a good tax package for Linux, allowing those millions of accountants, small business owners and middle-class Joe's like you and me file their taxes?
www.turbotax.com online. I've been using it for years now.
You describe our current system almost exactly. Joe billionaire employess thousands of bottom guys who take their new found wealth and pump it back into the system. If Joe bottom guy does so wisely he has the chance to become Joe billionaire.
Wasn't this the "Invisable Hand" theory of economics from Adams?
Why can't software be free? I road can be free from obstruction. You can set an imagination free. You can free a path through a jungle. (examples taken from dictionary.com) Why again can't software be free? and why can't there be rules in place to keep that freedom?
Ok, the brick analogy is at best overly contrived. Let me see if I can help it out a little because it doesn't quite fit.
If you take bricks from the public domain pile you can create new bricks based on the old ones and build a house and tell everyone you built the bricks. It is then up to you how other people get the new bricks witch were original free but you added something small to it. (no restrictions on locking doors or windows or allowing access)
if you take from the BSD pile it is the same as the public domain pile except you can tell everyone you built them you have to say you got them from the BSD pile and made some modifications, but you don't have to explain your modifications.
If you take bricks from the GPL pile you can create new bricks based on the old ones and build a house. It is then ok for people to take you bricks (remeber they are magical and never run out) and create their own house with them or create new better bricks if they wish. (again no restictions on locking doors or windows or allowing access, my Linux box doesn't restrict me from using passwords to protect my servers)
But, like I said at first it isn't a good analogy.
More importantly cut software pantents time frame down to a more realistic technology time frame. 7 years is long enough to own the entire life of a software product. If the pantes were something more like 7-12 months the patents would server there pourpus of "I inveneted it, I should be alowed first to market." whilte not providing a long term (in software time) monopoly.
The real difference between BSD vs. GPL is who it is freeing.
The BSD license frees the developer (current and future) to do whatever they want with the code. Insuring that the Developer is free.
The GPL license frees the code to always be available to anyone for free. Insuring that the code stays free.
Which one is more free is really a stupid apples to oranges argument. One is applying freedom to the developer while restricting freedom of the code by enabling it to be enslaved in proprietary works. While the other is applying freedom of the code while enslaving the developer to always release derivative works.
wow this would be cool if I could use a ups for internet access in case the power goes out. Broadband of UPS. Then I could just carry a UPS around with my laptop and have complete mobile, although heavy, broadband anywhere in the world.
I remeber the junior high days of using combonations of |, \,/, ==>, and 0 to make ascii porn on our brand new trs-80s in BASIC. Ohh the days of cheap easy programed porn.
google for litestep there are other explore.exe shell replacements that will change your windows desktop to other things. I haven't used them in years Win98 was the last time I used windows but give at a look.
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The analogy in nature? Ants can carry 50 times their weight, but we can't.
I could easily care 50x an ants weight. you weakling.
Ohh, good I'm glad it's all old privacy violating data rather than something new. That sure clears my worries.
Actuall because my only windows bux runs on my mame cabinet attached to a television I know windows will not work at 640x480 up to the point of the resolution dialog wont fit on the screen so you can easily fix it. I just have to memorize the key strokes to change the resoultion to 800x600.
we need a year of helicopter vs dragon films. the one that came out just didn't hold up well enough. It could have been so much more fun.
The problem is that full cost will go up. enough people will take the subsidized version that the demand for one at full cost will go down driving the price up, witch will cause more people to go for the subsidized one makeing the price go up on the commercial free one. Eventually the commercial free would be 10x the cost of what it should be and most people will have settled for commercials when they would rather of paid a fair price that demand could have warrented otherwise.
This is why so many things are catering to lowest common denominator. Average quality in many things these days has been moved to a fringe market segment. Decent fair priced items can't seem to compete with cheap crap items due to loss of demand cause the fair price to go up to unfair rates.
no because if you search for "free x pictures of 86 year old wemon" you get xfree86.org.
The big American astroid was spactacular lage and confortable but unable to do the job. The Indian astroid was smaller faster and cheaper. What busness man in his right mind woldn't outsource to India?
Here is your funding....one penny.
If your PS/2 is still working after 2 years that is something to celegrate. The damn drive allignment problem is horrid on those things.
ohh yea, I forgot how much better it was 30 years ago in the mid 1970s or ohh yea even 80 years ago in the mid 1920s. Life was so much better back then.
Tax software. Is there a good tax package for Linux, allowing those millions of accountants, small business owners and middle-class Joe's like you and me file their taxes?
www.turbotax.com online. I've been using it for years now.
You describe our current system almost exactly. Joe billionaire employess thousands of bottom guys who take their new found wealth and pump it back into the system. If Joe bottom guy does so wisely he has the chance to become Joe billionaire.
Wasn't this the "Invisable Hand" theory of economics from Adams?
Why can't software be free? I road can be free from obstruction. You can set an imagination free. You can free a path through a jungle. (examples taken from dictionary.com) Why again can't software be free? and why can't there be rules in place to keep that freedom?
Ok, the brick analogy is at best overly contrived. Let me see if I can help it out a little because it doesn't quite fit.
If you take bricks from the public domain pile you can create new bricks based on the old ones and build a house and tell everyone you built the bricks. It is then up to you how other people get the new bricks witch were original free but you added something small to it. (no restrictions on locking doors or windows or allowing access)
if you take from the BSD pile it is the same as the public domain pile except you can tell everyone you built them you have to say you got them from the BSD pile and made some modifications, but you don't have to explain your modifications.
If you take bricks from the GPL pile you can create new bricks based on the old ones and build a house. It is then ok for people to take you bricks (remeber they are magical and never run out) and create their own house with them or create new better bricks if they wish. (again no restictions on locking doors or windows or allowing access, my Linux box doesn't restrict me from using passwords to protect my servers)
But, like I said at first it isn't a good analogy.
or better yet, stuff that happend in the past to your windows box that you had no controll over at the time come back to haunt you later.
wow I had to hand roll an
apt-get install gnome-cups-manager
then run it. simiar to windows and it has far more built in drivers than windows does.
More importantly cut software pantents time frame down to a more realistic technology time frame. 7 years is long enough to own the entire life of a software product. If the pantes were something more like 7-12 months the patents would server there pourpus of "I inveneted it, I should be alowed first to market." whilte not providing a long term (in software time) monopoly.
The real difference between BSD vs. GPL is who it is freeing.
The BSD license frees the developer (current and future) to do whatever they want with the code. Insuring that the Developer is free.
The GPL license frees the code to always be available to anyone for free. Insuring that the code stays free.
Which one is more free is really a stupid apples to oranges argument. One is applying freedom to the developer while restricting freedom of the code by enabling it to be enslaved in proprietary works. While the other is applying freedom of the code while enslaving the developer to always release derivative works.
I think you got that backwards, re-read your comment and s/GPL/BSD\/MIT/
BSD people are the one trying to make the "My code is freeer than yours" statement.
wow this would be cool if I could use a ups for internet access in case the power goes out. Broadband of UPS. Then I could just carry a UPS around with my laptop and have complete mobile, although heavy, broadband anywhere in the world.
sense SCO decided not to sue them.
Lindows is only 7 letters, ha patent avoided...
Ohh, that would have been the best:
Lindo~1
lindo-tildy-one
beter than
lindash
I remeber the junior high days of using combonations of |, \, /, ==>, and 0 to make ascii porn on our brand new trs-80s in BASIC. Ohh the days of cheap easy programed porn.
0 0
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never said I was good at it.
google for litestep there are other explore.exe shell replacements that will change your windows desktop to other things. I haven't used them in years Win98 was the last time I used windows but give at a look.