Convoluted? In what way. I setup Mandrake in about 5 minutes to file and print share with my other boxes. Oh right, you mean file and print share with Windows clients, yes that is a bit harder, I blame the monopoly. If they used common networking protocols instead of their own badly-documented crud then you wouldn't have a problem and the Samba team would be able to do something better than have to figure out the garbage hack that Microsoft Notworking is (no offence to the Samba boys, you do a fine job, you just shouldn't have to)
I would just like to say that Bill Gates talks about 'innovating' Windows. Although this is an unpleasant mangling of the English language, it shows that they consider Windows the only operating system and therefore in a twisted sense they are innovative. An innovation is either a great new idea or a useful improvement to an existing thing. Windows 98 is an improvement on Windows 95 (less bugs, handy integrated browser) and Win2000 is quite an improvement on NT (although I have had a couple of unexpected automatic reboots - gotta love that feature). So in the world of Windows they are true innovators, only in the whole of the computing world are they bad implementors of good ideas. The Linux community are good implementors of good ideas, that's the real difference.
Ethical does not mean doing the best for your shareholders. Perhaps not professional, but ethical means holding some standards of behaviour as being wrong, e.g. sweatshop or slave labour. Quite frankly I'm tired of being a 'human resource', to be hired and fired on the whims of the almighty market. What happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do I have to start my own company to have that right? Interesting how the high price of lawyers hasn't led to Indians learning US law and coming to the US on H1-Bs. But then you have no senators with an IT background and plenty of them with a legal one.
A similar freedom is exercised by everyone's favourite monopolist. Or would you care to explain why there's only one Linux kernel and three BSD ones. Perhaps because the GPL removes the incentive to be selfish with your innovations. If sharing my ideas for the benefit of everyone is communist then I'm proud to be communist.
That would be a bit skewed. I (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) have to use MonopolyNT at work with IE and so some of my server logs would come from NT and not from Linux. It would still be quite interesting though, I agree.
Can anybody tell me why there is a load of animosity against the French? dons asbestos suit. Having laws designed to prevent their country being swamped by American 'culture' sounds like a good idea to me.
But from my understanding, the GPL is what has prevented RedHat, Caldera and the like from forking Linux and thus giving us yet more Unix splinters instead of a uniform architecture that is currently on around 24% of the world's servers and rising. If there's no obligation to release source, then how does everyone benefit? How does the pool of knowledge increase if everyone is hoarding their own information? Finally, the GPL doesn't require you to release the source when you change it, only if you ship it, so anyone can customise the code for their own use and don't have to release it if they don't want to. Sounds like the only freedom that the BSD license provides over that of the GPL is the ability to keep good ideas to yourself when you ship your closed-source product.
The Federal government should aggressively (!) encourage the development of Open Source software for high end computing;
I can just see the tanks rolling into Redmond now with RMS on top of one making speeches and ESR leading the OSS militia on a raid on the MS source archive. Gotta love that crack
Well, TiVo could market the crippled one in the Democratic Republic of America, and in the non-DMCA'd world they could sell one with an ethernet connection. What US companies should try and remember is that there are 5.8 billion people living outside America and some of them have plenty of money for geek toys (like me).
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My apologies. Just an ignorant limey with an attitude problem here. Nothing to see, move along.
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first a Dopple, then a Tripple, then Quadrupel - when will it stop?
When you get a decent spellchecker I suppose. That should be double, triple and quadruple. Jeez what do they teach kids in school these days.
the name "vinod" is like "john" in india, you pathetic morons.
Well forgive me for not knowing that, after all I don't know any Indians and I've never been there. Was I perhaps making a joke, perhaps you should invest in a sense of humour.
Exactly. We should allow corporations to pay starvation wages, ignore health and safety issues, refuse to grant paid holidays or sick leave, pay no taxes, create predatory cartels and monopolies, produce unsafe or poor-quality products etc etc ad nauseum. The government has to control corporations because, as history has shown, corporations only care about profit and to hell with any other considerations.
Mire the Third World in poverty? What, like they're awash with money at the moment. Please. Multinationals are the biggest exploiters of cheap third world labour and the majority of the profits of these practices don't stay in their country anyway. Are you trying to tell me that Nike sweatshops in Indonesia help anyone except Nike and the corrupt government there.
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For common, read open, documented standard. Just another quibble over semantics, nothing to see here.
Convoluted? In what way. I setup Mandrake in about 5 minutes to file and print share with my other boxes. Oh right, you mean file and print share with Windows clients, yes that is a bit harder, I blame the monopoly. If they used common networking protocols instead of their own badly-documented crud then you wouldn't have a problem and the Samba team would be able to do something better than have to figure out the garbage hack that Microsoft Notworking is (no offence to the Samba boys, you do a fine job, you just shouldn't have to)
I would just like to say that Bill Gates talks about 'innovating' Windows. Although this is an unpleasant mangling of the English language, it shows that they consider Windows the only operating system and therefore in a twisted sense they are innovative. An innovation is either a great new idea or a useful improvement to an existing thing. Windows 98 is an improvement on Windows 95 (less bugs, handy integrated browser) and Win2000 is quite an improvement on NT (although I have had a couple of unexpected automatic reboots - gotta love that feature). So in the world of Windows they are true innovators, only in the whole of the computing world are they bad implementors of good ideas. The Linux community are good implementors of good ideas, that's the real difference.
I bow to your superior knowledge of psychology mumbo-jumbo ;-)
Ethical does not mean doing the best for your shareholders. Perhaps not professional, but ethical means holding some standards of behaviour as being wrong, e.g. sweatshop or slave labour. Quite frankly I'm tired of being a 'human resource', to be hired and fired on the whims of the almighty market. What happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do I have to start my own company to have that right? Interesting how the high price of lawyers hasn't led to Indians learning US law and coming to the US on H1-Bs. But then you have no senators with an IT background and plenty of them with a legal one.
A similar freedom is exercised by everyone's favourite monopolist. Or would you care to explain why there's only one Linux kernel and three BSD ones. Perhaps because the GPL removes the incentive to be selfish with your innovations. If sharing my ideas for the benefit of everyone is communist then I'm proud to be communist.
Incompetent press more like. Their JavaScript generator is a bit crap. Use Mozilla or Galeon, they work fine.
That would be a bit skewed. I (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) have to use MonopolyNT at work with IE and so some of my server logs would come from NT and not from Linux. It would still be quite interesting though, I agree.
It's an automatic reaction based on past experience.
Can anybody tell me why there is a load of animosity against the French? dons asbestos suit. Having laws designed to prevent their country being swamped by American 'culture' sounds like a good idea to me.
But from my understanding, the GPL is what has prevented RedHat, Caldera and the like from forking Linux and thus giving us yet more Unix splinters instead of a uniform architecture that is currently on around 24% of the world's servers and rising. If there's no obligation to release source, then how does everyone benefit? How does the pool of knowledge increase if everyone is hoarding their own information? Finally, the GPL doesn't require you to release the source when you change it, only if you ship it, so anyone can customise the code for their own use and don't have to release it if they don't want to. Sounds like the only freedom that the BSD license provides over that of the GPL is the ability to keep good ideas to yourself when you ship your closed-source product.
The Federal government should aggressively (!) encourage the development of Open Source software for high end computing;
I can just see the tanks rolling into Redmond now with RMS on top of one making speeches and ESR leading the OSS militia on a raid on the MS source archive. Gotta love that crack
And there are no hotheads on /. :)
Or the Greens or the Reform party. Funny how most Americans forget this. Must be a conspiracy or something.
But the RIAA and the MPAA are mostly made up of representatives of the same corporations.
Well, TiVo could market the crippled one in the Democratic Republic of America, and in the non-DMCA'd world they could sell one with an ethernet connection. What US companies should try and remember is that there are 5.8 billion people living outside America and some of them have plenty of money for geek toys (like me).
My apologies. Just an ignorant limey with an attitude problem here. Nothing to see, move along.
first a Dopple, then a Tripple, then Quadrupel - when will it stop?
When you get a decent spellchecker I suppose. That should be double, triple and quadruple. Jeez what do they teach kids in school these days.
Hrrrmm.....Streaming media....homosexuality, where's the connexion, apart from being able to view gay pr0n or something. Or are you just an idiot?
the name "vinod" is like "john" in india, you pathetic morons.
Well forgive me for not knowing that, after all I don't know any Indians and I've never been there. Was I perhaps making a joke, perhaps you should invest in a sense of humour.
Exactly. We should allow corporations to pay starvation wages, ignore health and safety issues, refuse to grant paid holidays or sick leave, pay no taxes, create predatory cartels and monopolies, produce unsafe or poor-quality products etc etc ad nauseum. The government has to control corporations because, as history has shown, corporations only care about profit and to hell with any other considerations.
Mire the Third World in poverty? What, like they're awash with money at the moment. Please. Multinationals are the biggest exploiters of cheap third world labour and the majority of the profits of these practices don't stay in their country anyway. Are you trying to tell me that Nike sweatshops in Indonesia help anyone except Nike and the corrupt government there.
Are you THE Vinod, author of the Halloween Documents?
Sort of like say....a PSX2.
I invented COBOL!
You b*?#!*d!