Hell, if they only wanted the code, they could just fork it, and work on their own fork. But a company is not source code. They don't just want middleware source code, they want middleware developers to take that middleware to the places they want it to go. Thus, it makes more sense to buy both the source (which they could get for free) and the developers (which they can't) in one go.
But don't worry, if you don't like the direction RedHat are taking JBoss, you can fork from their version at any point.
Or you can piss and moan about it, take the moral high ground, denounce RedHat, but do nothing and contribute nothing yourself.
Actually, it won't. Enlightenment's copy/paste is the standard X copy/paste. That's great for text, but any attempt to copy/paste anything resembling multimedia content will fail horrendously. If that qualifies as full-featured in the 21st century, I'm Ernest Borgnine.
When Jerry Garcia popped his clogs The Sun went with "Dead Man Dies".
Viz, a comic with fake newspaper overtones, once ran a fake story about a failed assassination attempt on Paul McCartney under the headline "Top Pop Mop-Top Pot-Shot Plot Flops"
I did it in a course on difference equations in my first year as an undergrad, and most of it stuck. Sadly, that was considerably longer than three years ago for me.
I don't know why the FSF's lawyers bother to take these cases to court. There are hundreds of qualified, informed judges here on slashdot, just waiting for their inevitable promotion to the Supreme Court.
This is FC3, because FC5 is a brand new release, but : [gowen@localhost] sudo yum install pine Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos <snip due to lameness filter> Reading repository metadata in from local files dries : 3312/3312 dag : 4359/4359 updates-re: 910/910 legacy-bas: 1652/1652 extras : 2297/2297 legacy-upd: 742/742 base : 2622/2622 Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for pine to pack into transaction set. pine-4.64-1.1.fc3.rf.i386 100% 13 kB 00:00 ---> Package pine.i386 0:4.64-1.1.fc3.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved Transaction Listing:
Install: pine.i386 0:4.64-1.1.fc3.rf - dag Total download size: 4.6 M Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages: (1/1): pine-4.64-1.1.fc3. 100% 4.6 MB 00:20 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: pine 100 % done 1/1
Especially when talking about religious faith, "believe" is not a synonym for "believe to be possible", it's a synonym for "convinced of" or "accept as revealed truth."
Just some of the things that Red Hat spends a ton of money to create or enhance: - gcc - glibc - SELinux - udev - Xen - GNOME - Many other parts of the kernel - X.org - Fedora Directory Server (bought for millions, open sourced, development continues) - NetworkManager - Dogtail - Open Source Java (gcj and Classpath) - Internationalization (Input Methods, Translation, Localization, etc.)
Goddamn Red Hat, and their secret plans to under mine Open Source by throwing money at it:)
I believe the literal understanding of Genesis is the most likely explanation of what happened, although it.... may be figurative or symbolic or something.
Look, if you truly believe the literal understanding of Genesis, then you don't think its figurative or symbolic. That's what literal means. It means "not figurative or symbolic".
So, you either believe the literal word of Genesis, or you believe it might be figurative. And if you're truly a fundamentalist, its the former.
The aforementioned repeated and unnecessary mentions of the specific party the editor chose to use
The vote split on party lines. The Democrats for, the Republicans against. It's not pejorative to observe that that is what happened : partisan voting happens all the time, and both sides are as bad as each other. This time, the fact is that the Republicans voted a Democrat measure down.
Yeah, I hate it when they said "EVIL" and "RUIN". Oh, wait. That's not in the article, its solely your invention. The actual article makes no comment on whether its good or bad, and gives space to both pro- and anti- viewpoints.
It's a factual article with little evidence of bias. And you're an idiot.
As Frank Zappa once said : stupidity is the most plentiful substance in the universe.
If you have a problem with stupidity, it's going to impinge on practically every facet of your life, and generally make you depressed and miserable about humanity.
As long as someone's stupid beliefs (astrology, divining, creationism, a perverse desire to start land wars in Asia) doesn't directly impinge on the greater good, I'll let it be. To allow oneself to get too worked about it would be... relatively unintelligent.
But at least they have the honesty to be creationists. I've no problem with people who actively and honestly choose to believe their religion over science, as long as they're honest about what they're doing. Pretending their religion is science; now thats dangerous.
On the other hand how the hell did Malaria figure out it's life cyclus?
In short : Random mutation attempted all life cycles, and the one that was successful are the ones that survived. Evolution isn't a process of "figuring out", it's a process of throwing an enormous number of mutations at a wall, and seeing which stick.
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Hell, if they only wanted the code, they could just fork it, and work on their own fork. But a company is not source code. They don't just want middleware source code, they want middleware developers to take that middleware to the places they want it to go. Thus, it makes more sense to buy both the source (which they could get for free) and the developers (which they can't) in one go.
But don't worry, if you don't like the direction RedHat are taking JBoss, you can fork from their version at any point.
Or you can piss and moan about it, take the moral high ground, denounce RedHat, but do nothing and contribute nothing yourself.
Actually, it won't. Enlightenment's copy/paste is the standard X copy/paste.
That's great for text, but any attempt to copy/paste anything resembling multimedia content will fail horrendously. If that qualifies as full-featured in the 21st century, I'm Ernest Borgnine.
When Jerry Garcia popped his clogs The Sun went with "Dead Man Dies".
Viz, a comic with fake newspaper overtones, once ran a fake story about a failed assassination attempt on Paul McCartney under the headline "Top Pop Mop-Top Pot-Shot Plot Flops"
I did it in a course on difference equations in my first year as an undergrad, and most of it stuck. Sadly, that was considerably longer than three years ago for me.
I have acronym dyslexia. I can spell normal words properly, but whenever I have to type acronyms I get the letters all wrong.
Fortunately, the Acronym Dyslexia Support Group (ZQLM) is available to help me.
I don't know why the FSF's lawyers bother to take these cases to court. There are hundreds of qualified, informed judges here on slashdot, just waiting for their inevitable promotion to the Supreme Court.
This is FC3, because FC5 is a brand new release, but :
[gowen@localhost] sudo yum install pine
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
<snip due to lameness filter>
Reading repository metadata in from local files
dries : 3312/3312
dag : 4359/4359
updates-re: 910/910
legacy-bas: 1652/1652
extras : 2297/2297
legacy-upd: 742/742
base : 2622/2622
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for pine to pack into transaction set.
pine-4.64-1.1.fc3.rf.i386 100% 13 kB 00:00
---> Package pine.i386 0:4.64-1.1.fc3.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
Install: pine.i386 0:4.64-1.1.fc3.rf - dag
Total download size: 4.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): pine-4.64-1.1.fc3. 100% 4.6 MB 00:20
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: pine 100 % done 1/1
Installed: pine.i386 0:4.64-1.1.fc3.rf
Complete!
There's only one word for that : hellish
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The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Especially when talking about religious faith, "believe" is not a synonym for "believe to be possible", it's a synonym for "convinced of" or "accept as revealed truth."
So, you either believe the literal word of Genesis, or you believe it might be figurative. And if you're truly a fundamentalist, its the former.
Votes are nice and everything, but unmarked non-sequential banknotes are forever.
How would you like that to be described?
Yeah, I hate it when they said "EVIL" and "RUIN".
Oh, wait. That's not in the article, its solely your invention.
The actual article makes no comment on whether its good or bad, and gives space to both pro- and anti- viewpoints.
It's a factual article with little evidence of bias.
And you're an idiot.
As Frank Zappa once said : stupidity is the most plentiful substance in the universe.
... relatively unintelligent.
If you have a problem with stupidity, it's going to impinge on practically every facet of your life, and generally make you depressed and miserable about humanity.
As long as someone's stupid beliefs (astrology, divining, creationism, a perverse desire to start land wars in Asia) doesn't directly impinge on the greater good, I'll let it be. To allow oneself to get too worked about it would be
But at least they have the honesty to be creationists.
I've no problem with people who actively and honestly choose to believe their religion over science, as long as they're honest about what they're doing. Pretending their religion is science; now thats dangerous.
Slashcode prevents me from putting that link in an HREF : anyway http://web.archive.org/web/20000818081805/http://w ww.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm
They've been saying exactly this since http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm">at least 2000 (Courtesy of the wayback machine).
It just means you need the Makefiles / install scripts etc.
The rules are simple : reciprocate or fuck off.