Can someone please explain what his motives are? He is espousing free, but non-open source software. Under this scheme, the ideal Stallman software is something like MS-Office, only given away for free. It seems that under his philosophy, open source but pay-for-it software would be bad.
So under this setup, programmers and developers should perform complicated feats of software engineering (which things like Mac and Windows ARE, whether you like/use them or not), but then give it away for free. What are these programmers supposed to live on? Do they eat floppy disks and old toner cartridges? Sleep under their desks?
Stallman provides no rational justification for how/why this method would work. Sure, you can give something away if you write it in your spare time, you're not starving to death because you're not working for pay. But even those man-hours devoted to that project are YOUR time, which is freely yours to do with as you please.
Stallman seems to advocate a sort of software Marxism - "from each according to his ability, but to each according to his need". What he doesn't realize is that the people of ability are not dependent on those who simply "need" the product. They can simply trade with other people of ability. If you produce a software package and charge $500 for it, other producers will be able to pay. The person who is unable to produce enough to create $500 of wealth does not automatically have some magic claim against the producer.
On top of all this, Stallman has created a sort of self-proclaimed (and advocate-supported) ministry, where he becomes final arbiter of what is Good, and what Sucks.
I propose a new licensing scheme - if the code is yours, do whatever the hell you want with it - give it to some, sell it to others, whatever. Take a stand against those who would decree the particulars of how you can distribute it. It's YOURS - you can do whatever you like, including not develop, or develop, and run it on just your own box. The results of your own efforts are YOURS.
You can apply the backports for AGP support, USB support and ATA66/100 support to the existing kernel.org 2.2.17 kernel source, and it all works fine.
How is the SMP clearly better? My box is 100% stable under SMP running 2.2.17.
Sounds like you're waiting for a distribution based on 2.4, so you get all the magic toys like USB support, X4, etc. etc. set up - but they're all there now for 2.2.x if you want to do your homework.
This is a constant criticism of IPv4, yet every month, more and more companies are setting up DSL service, cable modem service, and more and more businesses are registering domain names and getting little/28 subnets. All these people out there are consuming (essentially) a static address. It's not like a/24 pool of addresses is feeding 1000 dialup users. These are full time connecitons.
So are we really running out? I mean, we won't have enough IPv4 for every person in China to have their own static IP I'm thinking, but that's also a non-issue, due to their Great Firewall. Heck, they could IPMasq the whole country! (probably do anyway).
This sounds more and more like a "global warming" scare, or the "global cooling" scare from the 70s.
The human eye's sensitivity to light peaks in the yellow-green area of the visible spectrum. Coincidentally (?) this is the color of the sun. Using yellow or green LEDs, like these would consume less power for the same effect.
They got a lot of heat for the non-GPL stuff they tried to pull. Also, the Promise RAID cards arent supported under Linux as "RAID" cards.... and if Andre Hedrick (the Linux IDE guy), a.k.a. the Donald Becker of IDE chipsets, can't get it to work, I doubt ABit could just "support" the HPT370. Incidentally, the HPT368 also does "RAID", in the same sense.
ABit caught a lot of flak for their dual Celeron board, the BP6, and its instability (at rated clock speeds) under Linux.
And how much is any of this going to change depending on whether Al or George get elected? And do you
think that "Read my lips: no new taxes" Bush is going to actually get anything done, after his tax-cut
plan is watered down and pork-barreled out?
Or am I the only non-college student on here?
etc
And how much is any of this going to change depending on whether Al or George get elected? And do you think that "Read my lips: no new taxes" Bush is going to actually get anything done, after his tax-cut plan is watered down and pork-barreled out?
Like it makes a difference. On one hand you get Al "Info Superhighway" Gore, whose gang preaches that its your duty to help the needy because "society" decrees it a virtue, and on the other hand you have George "Coke Spoon" W. Bush, whose gang says its your duty to work under an effective 40-50% tax rate (see above) to help the needy because "God says its the right thing". And to make matters worse, you have morons like Nader, capitalizing on the whole scene, being LEGITIMIZED by a bunch of sandal wearing trust-fund babies passing out fliers.
Vote for YOURSELF this election - plug in, log on, and drop out.
Ass, Moore's Law is just a statement of what has happened - there's nothing magical or real about it. There's nothing that says that computers couldn't suddenly jump in capacity 10 times. Moore's Law happened, but it is no good for predicting the future.
I did the same thing, only with a copy of Win98 and a Compaq Presuckio laptop. Since I dual-boot, some "system image" CD ain't going to cut the mustard.
The huge "loss" that the companies got to carry on their books for this is because of the insane buy-up the NASDAQ has seen (although not so recently). If Cisco "gives" stock options at $5 a share, and the market (stupidly? you decide) decrees they're now worth $100 a share, then there's a $95/share difference. THATS what creates the multi-billion dollar "loss". And, like 10000 other posters noted, this way it all gets whacked at the capital gains rate for the individual stockholder (in this case employee).
For an idea of what the market did to Cisco's supposed value, click here.
This thing seems to use some sort of http proxy (thats as far as I read the docs). That sucks - I already have a junkbuster/apache filter/cache set up, and I'm not giving that up just to earn some sort of weird currency and get hacked by kidd3z.
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Who cares who runs the ICANN? It's organizations like the courts who decide domain name disputes, and large corporations like AOL and MS (digitaldiva vs. digitaldivas anyone) that fight and win these sorts of things. Other than that, what does ICANN do, and who cares anyway?
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So under this setup, programmers and developers should perform complicated feats of software engineering (which things like Mac and Windows ARE, whether you like/use them or not), but then give it away for free. What are these programmers supposed to live on? Do they eat floppy disks and old toner cartridges? Sleep under their desks?
Stallman provides no rational justification for how/why this method would work. Sure, you can give something away if you write it in your spare time, you're not starving to death because you're not working for pay. But even those man-hours devoted to that project are YOUR time, which is freely yours to do with as you please.
Stallman seems to advocate a sort of software Marxism - "from each according to his ability, but to each according to his need". What he doesn't realize is that the people of ability are not dependent on those who simply "need" the product. They can simply trade with other people of ability. If you produce a software package and charge $500 for it, other producers will be able to pay. The person who is unable to produce enough to create $500 of wealth does not automatically have some magic claim against the producer.
On top of all this, Stallman has created a sort of self-proclaimed (and advocate-supported) ministry, where he becomes final arbiter of what is Good, and what Sucks.
I propose a new licensing scheme - if the code is yours, do whatever the hell you want with it - give it to some, sell it to others, whatever. Take a stand against those who would decree the particulars of how you can distribute it. It's YOURS - you can do whatever you like, including not develop, or develop, and run it on just your own box. The results of your own efforts are YOURS.
You're nuclear-free because you have a big,mean uncle that lives to the south of you. Pay credit where it's due.
No, that's a stupid idea.
How is the SMP clearly better? My box is 100% stable under SMP running 2.2.17.
Sounds like you're waiting for a distribution based on 2.4, so you get all the magic toys like USB support, X4, etc. etc. set up - but they're all there now for 2.2.x if you want to do your homework.
So are we really running out? I mean, we won't have enough IPv4 for every person in China to have their own static IP I'm thinking, but that's also a non-issue, due to their Great Firewall. Heck, they could IPMasq the whole country! (probably do anyway).
This sounds more and more like a "global warming" scare, or the "global cooling" scare from the 70s.
Club of Rome, anyone?
Fork Fork Fork! If they've handed out source, take it and run with it!
ABit caught a lot of flak for their dual Celeron board, the BP6, and its instability (at rated clock speeds) under Linux.
Drive fast, turn left!
- estimate a 22-25% tax bracket
- 15.3% "social security"
- 7% sales tax
- ?? % gasoline tax
- ?? % property taxes
etcAnd how much is any of this going to change depending on whether Al or George get elected? And do you think that "Read my lips: no new taxes" Bush is going to actually get anything done, after his tax-cut plan is watered down and pork-barreled out? Or am I the only non-college student on here?
estimate a 22-25% tax bracket
15.3% "social security"
7% sales tax
?? % gasoline tax
?? % property taxes
etc
And how much is any of this going to change depending on whether Al or George get elected? And do you think that "Read my lips: no new taxes" Bush is going to actually get anything done, after his tax-cut plan is watered down and pork-barreled out?
Or am I the only non-college student on here?
Vote for YOURSELF this election - plug in, log on, and drop out.
Shrug.
Nice to see akamai involved, should help prevent slashdotting.
I did the same thing, only with a copy of Win98 and a Compaq Presuckio laptop. Since I dual-boot, some "system image" CD ain't going to cut the mustard.
$59 mouse? (Score:2, Funny) by Gothmolly on Saturday September 30, @09:32PM EDT (#103) (User #148874 Info)
I don't care if it's "clickless" shopping, I am not paying $59 for a mouse.
Sorry guys, I never see them. Junkbuster prunes them out.
The huge "loss" that the companies got to carry on their books for this is because of the insane buy-up the NASDAQ has seen (although not so recently). If Cisco "gives" stock options at $5 a share, and the market (stupidly? you decide) decrees they're now worth $100 a share, then there's a $95/share difference. THATS what creates the multi-billion dollar "loss". And, like 10000 other posters noted, this way it all gets whacked at the capital gains rate for the individual stockholder (in this case employee). For an idea of what the market did to Cisco's supposed value, click here.
This thing seems to use some sort of http proxy (thats as far as I read the docs). That sucks - I already have a junkbuster/apache filter/cache set up, and I'm not giving that up just to earn some sort of weird currency and get hacked by kidd3z.
If the signal is invisible, then just flame and troll away, you can't tell if you're missing or hitting anyone!
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Who cares who runs the ICANN? It's organizations like the courts who decide domain name disputes, and large corporations like AOL and MS (digitaldiva vs. digitaldivas anyone) that fight and win these sorts of things. Other than that, what does ICANN do, and who cares anyway?
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