Ok, why is your company taking away your office and putting you in a cube? I'd find that intolerable! Action must be taken! Get the office back. Get a desktop computer. Heck, get them to give you many more computers and gadgets, but get the office back or head out the door.
Any company that respects it workers won't put them in cubes. Humans at times need privacy during their work day and that means an office that one can close for quite, and closed blinds for that extra special private moment.
Really though, why did they take away your office? Is it a message that it's time to leave? Was the glass ceiling exceeded, temporarily, on your part? What's up with that?
If your work requires you to have many gadgets then make the case that you require an office for corporate security reasons. Gotta keep those trade secrets secret.
The front door looks good. Find a company that will give you the resources that you need to make both of you wealthy. If you're not wealthy within two years at a company, get out.
Yes, the pessimist would think that it's too late and that it's just, er to use your unique phrasing, "power to the people moon babble".
There are ways to use the system itself to force it to conform to "new standards" of behavior. It might take time.
There is also the notion that "WE THE PEOPLE" has some meaning; and using that meaning have a national referendum signed by a majority of citizens in a verifiable way would be a clear message of "WE THE PEOPLE". Bypass the "elected representatives" since they aren't "representing" very well. Vote out your president. Alter his policy. \ Don't stand still and let your country kill in your name on a mass scale.
What are the uses of radioactive cats? Hmmm... gaming the system of course....
Strictly speaking as a security paranoid individual here.. one could have many decoy cars with radioactive cats lead the real vehicle that contains, er, well that contains something else, namely, that which won't be named here.
Too many false positives will likely dampen their responses. The watchers, not the cats.
It's now the watchers that need watching. ALL government people, who ever they are and whatever role they play in ANY level or BRANCH of government MUST BE VIDEO and AUDIO recorded for their actions to be valid government actions. In addition these videos and audios must be published in REALTIME to the PUBLIC and replicated to government watch dog web sites set up by any interested party (such as the ALCU or GreenPeace or _fill_in_the_blank_). This provides a proper and valid check on the people who are acting on behalf of the abstract notion of government. Remember real people are pretending that they are the government; they must be watched for corruption and overstepping their bounds. By video recording everything they do they will constrain their actions.
Remember the US Constitution was simply a written piece of paper signed by a tiny group of people. The US Government is a myth created by a declaration. It starts with "WE THE PEOPLE" - THUS WE THE PEOPLE can easily override CONGRESS and the PRESIDENT by a NATIONAL REFERENDUM LEAD BY THE PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE FROM ANY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT! That's right, a people's referendum taken up and get out there getting signatures to override your governments at ALL LEVELS.
The same goes for most other counties in the world.
IF the leaders want a surveillance state, let's put them and all their underlings and supporters and funders and power brokers etc... under 24x366 surveillance for the entire public to see! Unedited of course! N million C-SPAN channels... For every camera they put on us, have ten cameras put on them!
It's a recursive debunking. Debunking the paper that beer improves productivity while drinking beer itself debunks his own debunking thus nullifying his analysis. This of course leaves us with a quandary that can only be solved by drinking more beer.
Track ALL government people no matter which branch of government they are in at ALL times with Video and Audio Cameras! Only that business which is ON CAMERA and MADE PUBLIC at the time it's recorded is valid government business! POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
REVOKE your governments powers to make war. Revoke your governments powers to make arbitrary laws that impact your rights. Revoke! Take back your government from those who are in it! Record and publish everything online in real time.
Of course which language matters. Sure many are pretty much the same. Sure it helps to know various paradigms of programming. It always matters which language you code in. It always matters which methodology you perform analysis, design and codding in.
In the simple cases almost all languages are the same, especially within that particular language's paradigm and the group of languages that are similar.
It always matters to the results what language you use.
Sure I can code successfully in almost any programming language, given a month or two of learning curve to grok it's library and weird syntax, or bizarre paradigm; but do I want to? Only if it makes me wealthy doing so. Otherwise, in the general case it does matter to me what language I use.
In fact no one language meets my needs for the systems that I envision. Thus a new language is being born that stands upon the shoulders of giants. In fact I'd rather not create a language at all but that's the nature of computing when you push the limits beyond what others so boringly call the mainstream cutting edge.
One dimensional text based languages are out. New environment based programming paradigms are in. Languages that use text are out; they are so old. Sure the new language under construction will use text as one form of representing computer programs, but it's really only meant for the program rewriting system not for human consumption; at least it's not really meant for the vast majority of programmers, just an automatic programming system to store it's programs and data in an efficient manner that can be read by humans as in the rare cases where it's needed - such as during the bootstrapping of this new system. Once there is enough built up the text based representation can be jettisoned as an artifact of the past. Video game interfaces are the wave of programming in the future - text is just so old.
As two famous advertisers like to say: "Just Do IT! Think Different!".
So while your arguments are well reasoned for the current paradigms of languages, look out and catach the wave of the future or get crushed by the next generation of interactive systems that self program while you use them.
In the village in the village in the village life repeats itself, life repeats itself.
There is sunlight; there is darkness. The dark repeats itself,
the light repeats itself; planting repeats itself, harvest repeats itself. Yet life is never dull.
It pats the drum-hide of the night and is satisfied. It listens for footfalls when the dogs bark
in the village in the village in the village In the village in the village in the village
life repeats itself, life undoes itself and then does itself up in the same guise.
We are careful not to fail to repeat the same salutations, the same farewells our parents and our parents' parents use. They are wise; we are small and the day long.
Death comes but once but when it comes to life no one would be unwilling to repeat in the village in the village in the village
1) RMS's cult following are not, in general, following RMS. They are cult members of the GPL/GNU cult, which is just as religious as Scientology, although likely not as harmful to it's members. The point is that GPL/GNU members are fanatics when it comes to defending their "cause". Heck, they usually can't even stand to have someone say "oh, wait a moment, this GPL license thingi isn't really about free software after all, it's about forming and maintaining a socialistic collective to use legal force to keep software and all it touches within the collective." Nope, they just hate the truth, which is one sign that they are in a cult. It's the cult that was started and run by RMS and his legal partner in arms, Eben Morgan.
2) Yes, I agree with what you say about the usage of "troll", and as I'm not intentionally attempting to raise hackles I do not fit that definition. However, with Slashdot's limited comment ranking system this like any other comments that aren't popular with the Nerd Hurd will be marked as a "troll". It's there way of suppressing free speech since there are negative consequences of having the troll label applied to the karma nonsense. Again, it's an example of a "system of control" designed for one purpose, keeping intentional inflamers out, being used to suppress free speech when the speech isn't popular. I think that slashdot should have a non-popularity based moderating system implemented so that the majority can't suppress an unpopular opinion - let the viewers decide for themselves which tags (interesting, troll, etc...) they want to see rather than the site deciding. Again true freedom in the hands of the reader this time not in the hands of the programmer.
2b) FUD. It's strange to use that I would agree.
3) The BSD license was in existence LONG BEFORE RMS showed up on the world stage. While there is much more free software now the blight of the GPL has spread it's legal grip far and wide within the ranks of the programmers who write code. It's a scourge just as Scientology is a scourge, albeit Scientology is at least 100 times worse. They are the same though in that they attempt (and succeed to varying degrees) to limit and restrict actual freedom of people. They are systems of control. Like any system of control they have a dark side as well as any positives their adherents believe in.
True freedom is based upon the notion that you don't need a system of control! When you set it free it will come back to you by it's choosing (well, in the case of software by the choosing of other programmers who make modifications to it) and that's the important part of true freedom, that the other parties choose what to contribute back; what and when to return to the nest. That's the benefit.
Your software with a truly free license (BSD, ICS, MIT, Apache, Public Domain, etc...) will get into places that no GPL'd software will ever penetrate.
4) While everyone is FREE to choose which license to use, as soon as you put your code out into the wild with a particular license there are consequences. When you put it out into the wild with the GPL you've joined the socialistic movement and commune that the GNU project is all about. Is that a bad thing? Obviously not to you if you choose the GPL, but here is one of many voices saying, yes the GPL is a BAD THING as it limits freedom of that code forever. To us GPL'd code is off limits, it's tainted forever, just as plain copyrighted code (leaked or stolen or otherwise obtained) would be.
The best choice of course is Public Domain. That really is putting it out there without restrictions.
However, if you want to use the code of others and be able to choose what to do with it AFTER you incorporate it into your system then ALL GPL code (including LGPL) is OFF the list as a possibility. Unless you contact the original authors and ask them for an actual free licenese such as BSD.
Now of course people, like you, are free to license your code any way you want. It's just that if you license your code with a restrictive license like the GPL there is a large community that will never use it since there are way too many restrictions on the code licensed that way. That's why there are entire operating systems using the BSD or other actually free licenses.
If you really want your code to be free then make it so by not choosing the GPL (or variants), choose a actual free license. Other programmers might actually surprise you by contributing changes back to you without the "legal requirement" to do so as dictated by a license term. I think it makes for a much more dynamic project as the people involved base their relationship on trust rather than having the stick of a complex legal document. Apache is a prime example of it working as are OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD plus many more systems.
However, if you want to keep your code in the collective of a socialistic commune and bind it up forever with the GPL then by all means you can choose to put your code under the GPL's tightening legal grip. If you want the tightest legal grip to keep your code within the socialistic/communistic collective then choose the GPLv3 as it has even more restrictions than you can shake a hat at.
The choice is yours, it's just that there are actual consequences to which choice you make.
Messages just like yours? That is what "this" referred to isn't it? Just kidding. I liked your comment.
I'm glad that I made your day as RMS made my day by stopping his work on emacs. Now if he could only make our year by ending the GNU-GPL project work. Oh, damn that's not likely to happen as there are too many commune cult followers of his out there. Sigh... oh well, I can co-exist with them... they just need to learn to live with those of us who value real freedom of choice in our software, and in our thoughts.
Oh, sorry to disappoint you, I've never trolled in my life. While I love to eat sushi I prefer if someone else catches it.;--)
My intention is simply to point out that it will be a good day when RMS steps down from the GNU and GPL commune cult projects. I'm glad that he's turning over the emacs to someone else - hopefully it's a start of a better direction for him. The simple fact is that not everyone in the free and open software game is enamored with the work that RMS has done on things like emacs, hurd, etc..., and especially his work on the GPL and GNU projects. You see, I actually like the freedom to make my own decisions with the code that I incorporate into my systems - that's a really important point and is real freedom since it gives freedom of choice AFTER code has been included into a project.
Maybe RMS has changed. People do. However one look at the more aggressive and restrictive GPLv3 demonstrates the changes were in the wrong direction. Maybe that's what the mainstream of "nerds" want, but it's not for me. Anyone in the Nerd Hurd can of course follow RMS as much or as little as they want; watch out for cliffs though as the GPL-GNU wagon train could get treacherous with all those legal chasms along the trail.
Choose as you wish. I support you in making an informed choice.
I'd rather he step down from his GPL pulpit. There is nothing worse than a man with a religious cause. RMS fits that bill. GPL has set back free open software back hundreds of years by focusing on the rights of the "end user" rather than the rights of the "programmer". By placing too many legal and contractual restrictions on the scope of decisions that a programmer can do with GPL'd code it means that for many programmers GPL'd code is poison that must be carefully watched out for and avoided as much as proprietary code.
Now I know that some of you will step up to defend the GPL and that's fine (since I support your right to free speech) but how about listening quietly for a change and just absorbing the facts that the GPL has a dark side.
The challenge of letting your code out into the world is trusting people will make changes and contribute them back. The GPL assumes the worst of people. I guess that's why the Apache Project is such a success with it's freer license? It's trust of your fellow programmers without limiting what they can do.
Once RMS visited the town where I live and I went to see him speak about the open source software. This was, oh, a long time ago, maybe ten years... Afterwards he took questions and he and I had an interaction regarding innovation and the X Window System. The gist of it being that stagnation was fine for him. RMS accepts no more change. X was fine. X was perfect. To him, not to me. From my view X is bloated and archaic. Worst of all X's design and code base are cryptic. What I discovered about RMS is that he likes cryptic rather than keeping it simple as possible but not simplistic. What I discovered about RMS is that he likes silly catch phrases about "beer" and cryptic nonsense like recursive acronyms such as GNU. What I discovered about RMS is that he's likely ten times as anachronistic as he seems. Now any of these aspect of his person would be fine with me except that he is also a cult leader leading the cult of GNU and GPL. Now we end up with a wild, crazy and cryptic legal nonsense of the GPL (et. al.) that has really messed up the free software license space with rules that limit rather than rules that empower those who really count: programmers. While RMS is a genius he is one genius the world would have been better off never hearing about. Since that isn't the way that things have transpired and he does exist and he did inflict upon the universe his wacky crypticisms (emacs, GPL, GNU, Hurd, etc...) we have to live with it. Above all though, the worst thing I learned about RMS is that he didn't care about improving software systems he had worked on, and to top that off, he didn't even care if anyone else did either. I discovered that RMS didn't care about innovation as much as he cared about his religious quest for GNU and GPL. That's when he lost me and when I really examined the GPL and his motives to the eye opening discovery that the GPL was a lock down of rights rather than an opening of rights.
If Microsoft is the BORG, RMS is the AntiBORG; and, much like Christ and the Anti-Christ both must be avoided like the plague otherwise one's freedom of thought is compromised as one is swallowed up into their cult of dogma. I choose to live free of religious dogma no matter where it comes from: RMS (et. al.) or the Bible (et. al.).
The reason that these discoveries about RMS were sad for me was that I expected more from someone who said that they supported free software. Unfortunately every paragraph of what he supports goes against real freedom. As a result the truly massive code base of infected code is off limits. What a waste. However, it's typical of cults that have a deceptive message in them.
May you choose what ever you want for your software license. Please just be aware that your choices can have a dark side to them especially if they are going the way of a cult group.
True freedom comes from trust. True freedom comes from letting others choose their path. The movie Born Free says it quite well; if you set it free it w
Ah, yeah, I know what they say failed on the shuttle.
The aspect that I was pointing out was that Feynman said that he was told by a general what failed and to present it at the public presentation of the investigating panel - which he then did. What Feynman said when interviewed about it was that he didn't like the "answers" being feed to him (I'm paraphrasing as I can't find the video clip at the moment) by political people. He said that he felt "used" by them. In essence he felt "hoodwinked".
If I recall from watching video interviews with Richard Feynman he said that the general who got him involved in the challenger accident investigation already knew the problem about the O-Ring. He asked (or ordered?) Richard to present it to the panel. Richard didn't like being played by the political powers that be. The general thought that people would listen when they saw it demonstrated by Feynman and heard it from Feynman.
I suppose the powers that be thought it would be good to hoodwink Feynman for a change.
The interviews with Richard Feynman are fascinating to watch. If you find the one where he talks about the challenger accident please add the link with a reply to this comment. Thanks. http://youtube.com/results?search_query=feynman&search_type=
Maybe someone could invent a couch potato or laptop computer potato lamp/generator for use while sitting all day at your computer. Since a typical couch potato weighs in at 200 to 300+ lbs it would be quite an energy source.
There is this guy, Rhys Paul Hovey, up in Vancouver, BC, Canada who claims to hear voices in his apartment. His theory is that some group, such as Scientology, is beaming voices at him. He claims that a few of his friends also hear these voices. He claims to have recorded them off of a metal door in his apartment.
It's more likely either a prank by Ryhs himself, a friend of his, a neighbor he might have pissed off, an enemy of his, or - oh, could it be the case - that he really needs care, possibly with medications? Maybe he stopped taking his meds?
So now all those that hear voices have a plausible explanation what are their therapists to do?
Given the technology of sound projection, voice projection into heads with lasers, what do you do when someone claims that they are hearing voices? What do you do?
Usually launching a rocket is what generates the smoke; in this case it's the smoking that leads to the rockets.
Firing the ubiquitous, two-litre plastic container usually consigned to the recycle bin into space might create a whole new definition for space junk...
Yeah, not a Chinese-Junk, but a pop-bottle-junk. The cheap mans way to get into orbit, although BC grass is cheaper.
In the unlikely event that he attains orbit with these it'll be the great bottle rocket space race. Maybe there'll be a X Prize for bottle rockets?
So, Rush thinks that his biggest bugs are with his computer, maybe he should take a deeper look when he looks in the mirror the next time or take a good listen to the nonsense he peddles.
It's a shame to use a Mac for such tripe as his.
Oh yeah, Steve Jobs, while you're fixing Rush's bugs please, please, please, make the Apple OSX Mach X(e)NU Kernel less like XENU and more like Minix3 - PLEASE put the drivers into their own protected processes so that the darn Mac's don't crash every few days/week. (My Mac has crashed 40+ times in the year that I've had it - sigh).
It's about evolving out of the cult of death into the cult of life with no one left behind.
Again your being indoctrinated into the cult of death since your birth limits the possible thoughts that you can come up with. A cult belief system is a limiting straight jacket. I invite you to take the red pill and choose the cult of life.
Yes, by extension paying taxes to Governments that kill is a direct form of support for death, murder, kill, injustice, repression and other crimes. So yes, that's why it's important to stop Government death cults and encourage your political representatives to support life based policies. To do otherwise brings responsibility to bear upon you, although people like Bush have a lot more responsibility to take (such as a life sentence for the hundreds of thousands of people he has murdered - or by extension ordered to be murdered - as President).
Do the math. Count the dead. Society must change otherwise we'll all end up under the nuclear cloud of death.
Choose life. Choose death. It's up to you. and you. and you. and you. and me. I choose life. What do you choose?
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Ok, why is your company taking away your office and putting you in a cube? I'd find that intolerable! Action must be taken! Get the office back. Get a desktop computer. Heck, get them to give you many more computers and gadgets, but get the office back or head out the door.
Any company that respects it workers won't put them in cubes. Humans at times need privacy during their work day and that means an office that one can close for quite, and closed blinds for that extra special private moment.
Really though, why did they take away your office? Is it a message that it's time to leave? Was the glass ceiling exceeded, temporarily, on your part? What's up with that?
If your work requires you to have many gadgets then make the case that you require an office for corporate security reasons. Gotta keep those trade secrets secret.
The front door looks good. Find a company that will give you the resources that you need to make both of you wealthy. If you're not wealthy within two years at a company, get out.
Yes, the pessimist would think that it's too late and that it's just, er to use your unique phrasing, "power to the people moon babble".
There are ways to use the system itself to force it to conform to "new standards" of behavior. It might take time.
There is also the notion that "WE THE PEOPLE" has some meaning; and using that meaning have a national referendum signed by a majority of citizens in a verifiable way would be a clear message of "WE THE PEOPLE". Bypass the "elected representatives" since they aren't "representing" very well. Vote out your president. Alter his policy.
\
Don't stand still and let your country kill in your name on a mass scale.
What are the uses of radioactive cats? Hmmm... gaming the system of course....
Strictly speaking as a security paranoid individual here.. one could have many decoy cars with radioactive cats lead the real vehicle that contains, er, well that contains something else, namely, that which won't be named here.
Too many false positives will likely dampen their responses. The watchers, not the cats.
It's now the watchers that need watching. ALL government people, who ever they are and whatever role they play in ANY level or BRANCH of government MUST BE VIDEO and AUDIO recorded for their actions to be valid government actions. In addition these videos and audios must be published in REALTIME to the PUBLIC and replicated to government watch dog web sites set up by any interested party (such as the ALCU or GreenPeace or _fill_in_the_blank_). This provides a proper and valid check on the people who are acting on behalf of the abstract notion of government. Remember real people are pretending that they are the government; they must be watched for corruption and overstepping their bounds. By video recording everything they do they will constrain their actions.
Remember the US Constitution was simply a written piece of paper signed by a tiny group of people. The US Government is a myth created by a declaration. It starts with "WE THE PEOPLE" - THUS WE THE PEOPLE can easily override CONGRESS and the PRESIDENT by a NATIONAL REFERENDUM LEAD BY THE PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE FROM ANY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT! That's right, a people's referendum taken up and get out there getting signatures to override your governments at ALL LEVELS.
The same goes for most other counties in the world.
IF the leaders want a surveillance state, let's put them and all their underlings and supporters and funders and power brokers etc... under 24x366 surveillance for the entire public to see! Unedited of course! N million C-SPAN channels... For every camera they put on us, have ten cameras put on them!
It's a recursive debunking. Debunking the paper that beer improves productivity while drinking beer itself debunks his own debunking thus nullifying his analysis. This of course leaves us with a quandary that can only be solved by drinking more beer.
Track ALL government people no matter which branch of government they are in at ALL times with Video and Audio Cameras! Only that business which is ON CAMERA and MADE PUBLIC at the time it's recorded is valid government business! POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
REVOKE your governments powers to make war. Revoke your governments powers to make arbitrary laws that impact your rights. Revoke! Take back your government from those who are in it! Record and publish everything online in real time.
Peace.
What a load of well reasoned crap.
Of course which language matters. Sure many are pretty much the same. Sure it helps to know various paradigms of programming. It always matters which language you code in. It always matters which methodology you perform analysis, design and codding in.
In the simple cases almost all languages are the same, especially within that particular language's paradigm and the group of languages that are similar.
It always matters to the results what language you use.
Sure I can code successfully in almost any programming language, given a month or two of learning curve to grok it's library and weird syntax, or bizarre paradigm; but do I want to? Only if it makes me wealthy doing so. Otherwise, in the general case it does matter to me what language I use.
In fact no one language meets my needs for the systems that I envision. Thus a new language is being born that stands upon the shoulders of giants. In fact I'd rather not create a language at all but that's the nature of computing when you push the limits beyond what others so boringly call the mainstream cutting edge.
One dimensional text based languages are out. New environment based programming paradigms are in. Languages that use text are out; they are so old. Sure the new language under construction will use text as one form of representing computer programs, but it's really only meant for the program rewriting system not for human consumption; at least it's not really meant for the vast majority of programmers, just an automatic programming system to store it's programs and data in an efficient manner that can be read by humans as in the rare cases where it's needed - such as during the bootstrapping of this new system. Once there is enough built up the text based representation can be jettisoned as an artifact of the past. Video game interfaces are the wave of programming in the future - text is just so old.
As two famous advertisers like to say: "Just Do IT! Think Different!".
So while your arguments are well reasoned for the current paradigms of languages, look out and catach the wave of the future or get crushed by the next generation of interactive systems that self program while you use them.
In the Village
In the village in the village in the village
life repeats itself, life repeats itself.
There is sunlight;
there is darkness.
The dark repeats itself,
the light repeats itself;
planting repeats itself,
harvest repeats itself.
Yet life is never dull.
It pats the drum-hide of the night and is satisfied.
It listens for footfalls when the dogs bark
in the village in the village in the village
In the village in the village in the village
life repeats itself, life undoes itself
and then does itself up in the same guise.
We are careful not to fail to repeat
the same salutations, the same farewells
our parents and our parents' parents use.
They are wise; we are small and the day long.
Death comes but once but when it comes to life
no one would be unwilling to repeat
in the village in the village in the village
- Andrew Oerke
That says it all.
1) RMS's cult following are not, in general, following RMS. They are cult members of the GPL/GNU cult, which is just as religious as Scientology, although likely not as harmful to it's members. The point is that GPL/GNU members are fanatics when it comes to defending their "cause". Heck, they usually can't even stand to have someone say "oh, wait a moment, this GPL license thingi isn't really about free software after all, it's about forming and maintaining a socialistic collective to use legal force to keep software and all it touches within the collective." Nope, they just hate the truth, which is one sign that they are in a cult. It's the cult that was started and run by RMS and his legal partner in arms, Eben Morgan.
2) Yes, I agree with what you say about the usage of "troll", and as I'm not intentionally attempting to raise hackles I do not fit that definition. However, with Slashdot's limited comment ranking system this like any other comments that aren't popular with the Nerd Hurd will be marked as a "troll". It's there way of suppressing free speech since there are negative consequences of having the troll label applied to the karma nonsense. Again, it's an example of a "system of control" designed for one purpose, keeping intentional inflamers out, being used to suppress free speech when the speech isn't popular. I think that slashdot should have a non-popularity based moderating system implemented so that the majority can't suppress an unpopular opinion - let the viewers decide for themselves which tags (interesting, troll, etc...) they want to see rather than the site deciding. Again true freedom in the hands of the reader this time not in the hands of the programmer.
2b) FUD. It's strange to use that I would agree.
3) The BSD license was in existence LONG BEFORE RMS showed up on the world stage. While there is much more free software now the blight of the GPL has spread it's legal grip far and wide within the ranks of the programmers who write code. It's a scourge just as Scientology is a scourge, albeit Scientology is at least 100 times worse. They are the same though in that they attempt (and succeed to varying degrees) to limit and restrict actual freedom of people. They are systems of control. Like any system of control they have a dark side as well as any positives their adherents believe in.
True freedom is based upon the notion that you don't need a system of control! When you set it free it will come back to you by it's choosing (well, in the case of software by the choosing of other programmers who make modifications to it) and that's the important part of true freedom, that the other parties choose what to contribute back; what and when to return to the nest. That's the benefit.
Your software with a truly free license (BSD, ICS, MIT, Apache, Public Domain, etc...) will get into places that no GPL'd software will ever penetrate.
4) While everyone is FREE to choose which license to use, as soon as you put your code out into the wild with a particular license there are consequences. When you put it out into the wild with the GPL you've joined the socialistic movement and commune that the GNU project is all about. Is that a bad thing? Obviously not to you if you choose the GPL, but here is one of many voices saying, yes the GPL is a BAD THING as it limits freedom of that code forever. To us GPL'd code is off limits, it's tainted forever, just as plain copyrighted code (leaked or stolen or otherwise obtained) would be.
The best choice of course is Public Domain. That really is putting it out there without restrictions.
GPL-GNU, Just Say No To Tainted Code!
Yes, if you write the code you can do that.
However, if you want to use the code of others and be able to choose what to do with it AFTER you incorporate it into your system then ALL GPL code (including LGPL) is OFF the list as a possibility. Unless you contact the original authors and ask them for an actual free licenese such as BSD.
Now of course people, like you, are free to license your code any way you want. It's just that if you license your code with a restrictive license like the GPL there is a large community that will never use it since there are way too many restrictions on the code licensed that way. That's why there are entire operating systems using the BSD or other actually free licenses.
If you really want your code to be free then make it so by not choosing the GPL (or variants), choose a actual free license. Other programmers might actually surprise you by contributing changes back to you without the "legal requirement" to do so as dictated by a license term. I think it makes for a much more dynamic project as the people involved base their relationship on trust rather than having the stick of a complex legal document. Apache is a prime example of it working as are OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD plus many more systems.
However, if you want to keep your code in the collective of a socialistic commune and bind it up forever with the GPL then by all means you can choose to put your code under the GPL's tightening legal grip. If you want the tightest legal grip to keep your code within the socialistic/communistic collective then choose the GPLv3 as it has even more restrictions than you can shake a hat at.
The choice is yours, it's just that there are actual consequences to which choice you make.
Messages just like yours? That is what "this" referred to isn't it? Just kidding. I liked your comment.
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I'm glad that I made your day as RMS made my day by stopping his work on emacs. Now if he could only make our year by ending the GNU-GPL project work. Oh, damn that's not likely to happen as there are too many commune cult followers of his out there. Sigh... oh well, I can co-exist with them... they just need to learn to live with those of us who value real freedom of choice in our software, and in our thoughts.
Oh, sorry to disappoint you, I've never trolled in my life. While I love to eat sushi I prefer if someone else catches it.
My intention is simply to point out that it will be a good day when RMS steps down from the GNU and GPL commune cult projects. I'm glad that he's turning over the emacs to someone else - hopefully it's a start of a better direction for him. The simple fact is that not everyone in the free and open software game is enamored with the work that RMS has done on things like emacs, hurd, etc..., and especially his work on the GPL and GNU projects. You see, I actually like the freedom to make my own decisions with the code that I incorporate into my systems - that's a really important point and is real freedom since it gives freedom of choice AFTER code has been included into a project.
Maybe RMS has changed. People do. However one look at the more aggressive and restrictive GPLv3 demonstrates the changes were in the wrong direction. Maybe that's what the mainstream of "nerds" want, but it's not for me. Anyone in the Nerd Hurd can of course follow RMS as much or as little as they want; watch out for cliffs though as the GPL-GNU wagon train could get treacherous with all those legal chasms along the trail.
Choose as you wish. I support you in making an informed choice.
I'd rather he step down from his GPL pulpit. There is nothing worse than a man with a religious cause. RMS fits that bill. GPL has set back free open software back hundreds of years by focusing on the rights of the "end user" rather than the rights of the "programmer". By placing too many legal and contractual restrictions on the scope of decisions that a programmer can do with GPL'd code it means that for many programmers GPL'd code is poison that must be carefully watched out for and avoided as much as proprietary code.
Now I know that some of you will step up to defend the GPL and that's fine (since I support your right to free speech) but how about listening quietly for a change and just absorbing the facts that the GPL has a dark side.
The challenge of letting your code out into the world is trusting people will make changes and contribute them back. The GPL assumes the worst of people. I guess that's why the Apache Project is such a success with it's freer license? It's trust of your fellow programmers without limiting what they can do.
Once RMS visited the town where I live and I went to see him speak about the open source software. This was, oh, a long time ago, maybe ten years... Afterwards he took questions and he and I had an interaction regarding innovation and the X Window System. The gist of it being that stagnation was fine for him. RMS accepts no more change. X was fine. X was perfect. To him, not to me. From my view X is bloated and archaic. Worst of all X's design and code base are cryptic. What I discovered about RMS is that he likes cryptic rather than keeping it simple as possible but not simplistic. What I discovered about RMS is that he likes silly catch phrases about "beer" and cryptic nonsense like recursive acronyms such as GNU. What I discovered about RMS is that he's likely ten times as anachronistic as he seems. Now any of these aspect of his person would be fine with me except that he is also a cult leader leading the cult of GNU and GPL. Now we end up with a wild, crazy and cryptic legal nonsense of the GPL (et. al.) that has really messed up the free software license space with rules that limit rather than rules that empower those who really count: programmers. While RMS is a genius he is one genius the world would have been better off never hearing about. Since that isn't the way that things have transpired and he does exist and he did inflict upon the universe his wacky crypticisms (emacs, GPL, GNU, Hurd, etc...) we have to live with it. Above all though, the worst thing I learned about RMS is that he didn't care about improving software systems he had worked on, and to top that off, he didn't even care if anyone else did either. I discovered that RMS didn't care about innovation as much as he cared about his religious quest for GNU and GPL. That's when he lost me and when I really examined the GPL and his motives to the eye opening discovery that the GPL was a lock down of rights rather than an opening of rights.
If Microsoft is the BORG, RMS is the AntiBORG; and, much like Christ and the Anti-Christ both must be avoided like the plague otherwise one's freedom of thought is compromised as one is swallowed up into their cult of dogma. I choose to live free of religious dogma no matter where it comes from: RMS (et. al.) or the Bible (et. al.).
The reason that these discoveries about RMS were sad for me was that I expected more from someone who said that they supported free software. Unfortunately every paragraph of what he supports goes against real freedom. As a result the truly massive code base of infected code is off limits. What a waste. However, it's typical of cults that have a deceptive message in them.
May you choose what ever you want for your software license. Please just be aware that your choices can have a dark side to them especially if they are going the way of a cult group.
True freedom comes from trust. True freedom comes from letting others choose their path. The movie Born Free says it quite well; if you set it free it w
Ah, yeah, I know what they say failed on the shuttle.
The aspect that I was pointing out was that Feynman said that he was told by a general what failed and to present it at the public presentation of the investigating panel - which he then did. What Feynman said when interviewed about it was that he didn't like the "answers" being feed to him (I'm paraphrasing as I can't find the video clip at the moment) by political people. He said that he felt "used" by them. In essence he felt "hoodwinked".
It's the person not the tech that has the addictive properties!!!
It's the person not the gun.
It's the person not the blackberry.
It's the person not the _____.
If I recall from watching video interviews with Richard Feynman he said that the general who got him involved in the challenger accident investigation already knew the problem about the O-Ring. He asked (or ordered?) Richard to present it to the panel. Richard didn't like being played by the political powers that be. The general thought that people would listen when they saw it demonstrated by Feynman and heard it from Feynman.
I suppose the powers that be thought it would be good to hoodwink Feynman for a change.
The interviews with Richard Feynman are fascinating to watch. If you find the one where he talks about the challenger accident please add the link with a reply to this comment. Thanks.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=feynman&search_type=
Maybe someone could invent a couch potato or laptop computer potato lamp/generator for use while sitting all day at your computer. Since a typical couch potato weighs in at 200 to 300+ lbs it would be quite an energy source.
There is this guy, Rhys Paul Hovey, up in Vancouver, BC, Canada who claims to hear voices in his apartment. His theory is that some group, such as Scientology, is beaming voices at him. He claims that a few of his friends also hear these voices. He claims to have recorded them off of a metal door in his apartment.
Here are his self made videos on YT:
http://youtube.com/user/rhyspaulhovey
Plus he was seen at an Anonymous demonstration on Feb 10th. He's starts his ranting away at 43 seconds into the video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfzYgiKKpQ&feature=related
It's more likely either a prank by Ryhs himself, a friend of his, a neighbor he might have pissed off, an enemy of his, or - oh, could it be the case - that he really needs care, possibly with medications? Maybe he stopped taking his meds?
So now all those that hear voices have a plausible explanation what are their therapists to do?
Given the technology of sound projection, voice projection into heads with lasers, what do you do when someone claims that they are hearing voices? What do you do?
Shooting his rocket on poppers, eh?
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Usually launching a rocket is what generates the smoke; in this case it's the smoking that leads to the rockets.
Firing the ubiquitous, two-litre plastic container usually consigned to the recycle bin into space might create a whole new definition for space junk
Yeah, not a Chinese-Junk, but a pop-bottle-junk. The cheap mans way to get into orbit, although BC grass is cheaper.
In the unlikely event that he attains orbit with these it'll be the great bottle rocket space race. Maybe there'll be a X Prize for bottle rockets?
That's what they like doing in BC. They also like toys to assist with that endeavor.
So, Rush thinks that his biggest bugs are with his computer, maybe he should take a deeper look when he looks in the mirror the next time or take a good listen to the nonsense he peddles.
It's a shame to use a Mac for such tripe as his.
Oh yeah, Steve Jobs, while you're fixing Rush's bugs please, please, please, make the Apple OSX Mach X(e)NU Kernel less like XENU and more like Minix3 - PLEASE put the drivers into their own protected processes so that the darn Mac's don't crash every few days/week. (My Mac has crashed 40+ times in the year that I've had it - sigh).
And the sheep do nothing about their masters in the government as all their liberties are taken away one by one.
Yes, indeed. A question is: how to have everyone not play? That's the trick, isn't it.
It's about evolving out of the cult of death into the cult of life with no one left behind.
Again your being indoctrinated into the cult of death since your birth limits the possible thoughts that you can come up with. A cult belief system is a limiting straight jacket. I invite you to take the red pill and choose the cult of life.
Yes, by extension paying taxes to Governments that kill is a direct form of support for death, murder, kill, injustice, repression and other crimes. So yes, that's why it's important to stop Government death cults and encourage your political representatives to support life based policies. To do otherwise brings responsibility to bear upon you, although people like Bush have a lot more responsibility to take (such as a life sentence for the hundreds of thousands of people he has murdered - or by extension ordered to be murdered - as President).
Do the math. Count the dead. Society must change otherwise we'll all end up under the nuclear cloud of death.
Choose life. Choose death. It's up to you. and you. and you. and you. and me. I choose life. What do you choose?