The Globe article actually lays as much blame on the recording industry as on Napster, pointing out that the industry's pricing and sales tactics (singles albums padded with shite) are largely to blame for consumer's behaviour. All in all, it took a fairly anti-record-industry stance.
Reading Mark's comments, I can't help but see similarities between his experience with volunteer development and my experience organizing a volunteer-based social-justice group. We have had almost the same problems, and have unfortunately discovered that a somewhat dictatorial system is actually far more workable and rewarding than a consensus or democratic process. Those running similar groups -- whose members often act like OpSrc programmers -- might be well advised to look into the comments of people like Mark. I know I will.
From what I've been able to tell, Darwin handles all transactions between the OS (ie. what we refer to as OS X, including Aqua, Quartz, etc.) and the hardware. In that case, it seems to me that if Darwin recompiles, than recompiling the rest should be fairly simple (note the "fairly"). But I'm no engineer. I'm merely going by what I've read in every article about the new OS. --NRagaz
For myself, I enjoy all of Katz' columns, in the same way that I enjoy reading almost anything that has a semblance of readability (and that's not to say that Katz writes with only a semblance of such -- I find the grammatical problems mentioned by others to be far less prominent than might be. Certainly less prominent than the grammar/spelling problems in most of the posts). I think that the most useful aspect of this article is that it makes you think. Read the posts. Even the people who disagree often have something to contribute to a discussion about the issue -- how to categorize something so vast, and quite possibly an entity innately immune to the human tendency to categorize (for more on that, read the vast "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker). If I found myself in Katz' admittedly privileged position I would almost certainly take advantage of the opportunity to create discussion around topics that I would like to know more about. And this is precisely what he has done with this piece. Whether he agrees with the categories he has proposed, and whether he sees them as the be all and end all of categorization, I'll leave to the philosophers.
Nicholas Ragaz
This is not a shining example of grammatical perfection, but please ignore that for now. Thanks.
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The Globe article actually lays as much blame on the recording industry as on Napster, pointing out that the industry's pricing and sales tactics (singles albums padded with shite) are largely to blame for consumer's behaviour. All in all, it took a fairly anti-record-industry stance.
Reading Mark's comments, I can't help but see similarities between his experience with volunteer development and my experience organizing a volunteer-based social-justice group. We have had almost the same problems, and have unfortunately discovered that a somewhat dictatorial system is actually far more workable and rewarding than a consensus or democratic process. Those running similar groups -- whose members often act like OpSrc programmers -- might be well advised to look into the comments of people like Mark. I know I will.
From what I've been able to tell, Darwin handles all transactions between the OS (ie. what we refer to as OS X, including Aqua, Quartz, etc.) and the hardware. In that case, it seems to me that if Darwin recompiles, than recompiling the rest should be fairly simple (note the "fairly"). But I'm no engineer. I'm merely going by what I've read in every article about the new OS.
--NRagaz
For myself, I enjoy all of Katz' columns, in the same way that I enjoy reading almost anything that has a semblance of readability (and that's not to say that Katz writes with only a semblance of such -- I find the grammatical problems mentioned by others to be far less prominent than might be. Certainly less prominent than the grammar/spelling problems in most of the posts). I think that the most useful aspect of this article is that it makes you think. Read the posts. Even the people who disagree often have something to contribute to a discussion about the issue -- how to categorize something so vast, and quite possibly an entity innately immune to the human tendency to categorize (for more on that, read the vast "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker). If I found myself in Katz' admittedly privileged position I would almost certainly take advantage of the opportunity to create discussion around topics that I would like to know more about. And this is precisely what he has done with this piece. Whether he agrees with the categories he has proposed, and whether he sees them as the be all and end all of categorization, I'll leave to the philosophers.
Nicholas Ragaz
This is not a shining example of grammatical perfection, but please ignore that for now. Thanks.