I was a Windows user forever, and thought, what the hey, I'll try Linux again. For the first time I found a distro that I can feel comfortable using as my day to day OS. Now I have a Windows partition that I never use.
The folks at #fedora who were so friendly to a "noob" deserve a lot of the credit for making me want to use Linux.
I really disagree with this post. While I think that it is a tragedy for companies to hoarde away works that would be interesting you use, I don't think that a creator should have to vigorously defend his/her works or risk losing their copyright. Furthermore, I don't think that copyrights should be local. They are within the United States and all Berne Convetion contries a universal right, and that they should maintain. I also do agree with the, "use it or lose it" theory. If I create something and I show it to some people, that is my right. If Ithen decide that I don't want anyone else to see it, I should have the right (and currently I do) to lock that work away from the world and thumb my nose at you. I think that what everyone is so upset about is that "big corporations" are using their financial muscle to do what they want with the copyrights they hold. If I created something of value, I would probably do the same thing even though I am not a "big corporation" nor do I have financial muscle.
That's really a fairly lame thing to say. The simple fact is that there is a lot of stuff out there in relation to Linux that even keeping track of it all sometimes blows my mind. Then you have to know how to code. I think it's asinine at best to assume that every Linux user needs to be a programmer. Not everyone who wants to use a robust quality OS like Linux has the time or inclination or knowledge to write code.
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I was a Windows user forever, and thought, what the hey, I'll try Linux again. For the first time I found a distro that I can feel comfortable using as my day to day OS. Now I have a Windows partition that I never use.
The folks at #fedora who were so friendly to a "noob" deserve a lot of the credit for making me want to use Linux.
-Kevin
It is an adjective... I forgot to pay attention in English class. I also use the wrong "there"... I should have said their.
All I know is in there "Vision for the new internet" they used the pronoun "kewlest" and that can't ever be good.
I really disagree with this post. While I think that it is a tragedy for companies to hoarde away works that would be interesting you use, I don't think that a creator should have to vigorously defend his/her works or risk losing their copyright. Furthermore, I don't think that copyrights should be local. They are within the United States and all Berne Convetion contries a universal right, and that they should maintain. I also do agree with the, "use it or lose it" theory. If I create something and I show it to some people, that is my right. If Ithen decide that I don't want anyone else to see it, I should have the right (and currently I do) to lock that work away from the world and thumb my nose at you. I think that what everyone is so upset about is that "big corporations" are using their financial muscle to do what they want with the copyrights they hold. If I created something of value, I would probably do the same thing even though I am not a "big corporation" nor do I have financial muscle.
That's really a fairly lame thing to say. The simple fact is that there is a lot of stuff out there in relation to Linux that even keeping track of it all sometimes blows my mind.
Then you have to know how to code. I think it's asinine at best to assume that every Linux user needs to be a programmer. Not everyone who wants to use a robust quality OS like Linux has the time or inclination or knowledge to write code.