I'll use this in class to point out the importance of good backup strategies. And security: this data should not have left the company. Imaass I'll assume you mean physical security and not network security. Because I was on the IT team at Infocom (then it was called Data Processing), and I can vouch that all security measures were followed. How those drives physically left their control, I don't know as I had moved on to bigger and better things by then. But remember the year - 1989. Our primary server (yes, there was only one) was a NetWare 3.2 server. The security on that drive was primarily handled through the NetWare Bindery. Secure at the time, but now a few minutes with Google and a base knowledge of IPX/SPX can get you the data off of that drive. But that was then, not now. So please don't be so condescending and start criticizing our secrity via 2008 standards. You did and excellent job with the materials we had.
Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.
... and a long way towards the US ever developing another alternate fuel source. I'm sorry, but this country *needs* a fuel crisis, to spur us into action. Another band-aid on the oil crisis (read: environmental crisis) does little to solve the problem. Americans can be unbelievably innovative, but generally only when the have too. Interrupt our convenience or their lifestyle, and we'll figure it out. $5 a gallon, and we'll figure out how to make a car run on something other than gasoline. This oil deposit find is a bad thing.
Oh please, I tire of this ridiculous and I've already seen it several times for this article. Look, Linux is a damn fine OS. And it can be a reasonable substitute for Windows IF you qualify PC use as "web, email, word processing and music." I can make a really fucking long list of shit I can't do with Ubuntu that I can do with Windows. And don't give me that Wine emulation bullshit, because that isn't realistic.
- Play Call of Duty 4 - World of Warcraft. Using my 360 controller so that I relax my big fat ass with my feet up. - use X-Fire to find all my gaming friends. - Run my boyfriend/lifepartner's gradebook for school. - use AutoGK to compress all my porno movies to share on shady websites. - Play GameTap - Run 3DMark benchmarks - Get SLI to work - Have up to date video drivers - Get any of that shitty video software that came with my digital camera to run. - Use NetFlix video on demand. - Use SnapStream Beyond TV as either a client or server. MythTV?! Fucking PUH-LEEZE. I want to watch TV, not fuck around with confuration files all fucking day. - Pretty much run any fucking piece of software that's been released in the past 10 years. Yeah yeah, I know there's always an open source Linux equivalent, but you know what? It's not as fucking good!! EVER!! My CD copying program works great, my DVD copying program works great, my fucking everything under windows works fucking great. If I have a problem with the Linux shitty rip-off, I can pray that maybe the three other mutherfuckers who are using it have the same problem and maybe it will be fixed in about 100 years. - Same thing goes for hardware. IF it works, it'll be missing half the fucking features it has under Windows.
So, enough of this bullshit. People use Windows because they do things with their computers. Only slashdot fags "use" an operating system. People want to do things, and they do it with software, and that software is on Windows. So eat a turd instead of posting that OMG Linuxx rulx!! bullshit next time, k?
OSI is generally recognized as the organization that tells you if a license claiming to be Open Source actually is Open Source or if it's in some way giving you less rights than should come with Open Source. Those rights being defined in something I created 10 years ago called the Open Source Definition, which people seem to mostly still agree with. The main function of that board is to interpret those rules and certify licenses.
I think the "student council" nature of this is because the board is self-elected. Otherwise, there would be some formal structure that you could see around the election. The last time I asked Mike Tieman, the closest definition I got of when the election is was "before the April board meeting", which I think is April 2.
I don't know that MS is a candidate, indeed I have not been told about any candidates. I don't think they'd win, so far. I trust most of the current board not to elect them. I have been on other commitees with Microsoft folks, for example the patent policy board at W3C. Unfortunately, they still like to play dirty. Someone like me can help to balance them.
OSI hasn't told me the names of anybody else who is running. And probably most of those folks would rather die than let MS on the board. But some wouldn't.
Please send me an email with some pictures of yourself. If you are fat and hairy, please save the bandwidth - you can directly over to my house then. We can talk about OSI over wine, and then we can try to program an open source version of pong using our testicles as paddles and a gerbil as the ball.
I do thank you for your support. Our community needs more people like you.
Joe,
I thank you for your support. Please email me some more of your comments, and I will consider if they have a part in my platform and I embark on this run. Also, include some pictures of yourself. Any pictures you have are fine, so if you're in a swimsuit of a wrestling singlet or something like that, don't worry about it and send them to me anyway. Also, a list of your favorite wines and things you like to do on the weekend.
Together, we can make something special happen. Thanks again for your interest.
SWEEEET, I now have parens' phone number! I'm going to show it off to all my friends!!! zomg!;)
It really isn't that hard to get. I frequently write it on the mortar in the men's bathroom at Barnes and Nobels, right next to the words "BJ tap foot."
Well, lawyers deal in theory, most of us here on slashdot are in the trenches dealing with the reality of it on a day to day basis. And if you truly believe that money should be the barrier standing between our beliefs and what truly should be a part of our lifestyles, well then I feel sorry for you. One of the benefits of living in America is the ability to live our lives however we choose, without government interference and hopefully without social oppression.
Wait a minute. Oh, you said homoeopathic copyright, not homerotic. I don't know anything about that. My bad.
It is alot like a high school run, only probably more juvenile. I wonder why I'm putting myself through this. But I think it's for the greater good, it is something I believe in.
Unlike student council, and unlike most of the anonymity on the internet, I'm willing to expose myself to question and even criticiasm. I usally respond to Slashdot comments if I see them. But you are also welcome to call me at 510-984-1055, or to email bruce at perens dot com . The phone rings in my office and home, and stops ringing when we would be sleeping. I am particularly interested in hearing from you if you're a young man, unattached, and between the ages of 12-16. I love to personally help today's youth get started on a programming or IT career. Pictures are preferred.
I imagine that 99% of the folks at Microsoft have their heart in the right place. Certainly most of the ones I meet do. There are a few who do not at the top, and unfortunately the rest have to take orders sometimes. As we can see from the recent bullshit around the ISO vote, Microsoft has not given up its habit of playing dirty. Despite all this, I'd love to work for them. Bill, who I have personally met, has done some wonderful humanitarian work. And I honestly believe that MS has gotten an unfair rap from the EU. And let's face it - Windows Vista, despite all the press claiming otherwise, is a damn nice OS. I'd like to work on it as a MS employee instead of a hacker.
I have been on committees with them before, for example the patent policy board at W3C. I know how to deal with it professionally.
This would be exceptionally harmfull to Ubuntu, and the open source movement as a whole. I should know, I pretty much invented the idea of open source. Oracle has a long history of protecting (in a boad way) informations, of shutting down ideas, of limiting the exchange of information. I know Larry Ellison, and while I find him most agreeable on a personably level I strongly disagree with him on the role open source software plays in contemporary IT. Hu publicallyviews it as a capitalistic product to be exploited for profit, while I (dare I say we?) recognize that the benefits of open systems reach far beyond financial gain, and into realms that benefit humanity as a whole. Imagine if everyone had an affordable computer with a open source OS running on it - we'd all be more productive and happier. This ideal suits Ubuntu exactly, but not Oracle and Larry who need to answer to stock holders.
This would be a non-issue if both AMD and Intel would open up the code to their CPUs. Open souce, open code, and the free sharing of information is good for the community, and I don't just mean the computing community either. I mean the global community. I should know, I'm the inventor of open source. Hobbyist programmers could re-write Windows for both AMD and Intel CPUS to increase the efficiency and productivity of ALL the products, and then no antitrust lawsuit would exist.
Information such as this has been widely available for some time, but it is only now being made public. Archeologists should share their findings under the GPL, so that other scientists may asses the data and draw their own conclusions. I have no doubt that we wpould have a cure for cancer, AIDs, or maybe even death itself if people didn't hoard their information and findings under such a closed system. I should know, I invented open source. Information should be free, be it a program, knowledge, or newly discovered data.
DRM would not exist and HD-DVD writers would be common place if they would open the format. Hobbyist programmers could make set-top boxes with embedded ROMS that you could purchase on eBay.
Listen, I - above anyone else in the universe - am capable of commenting on this issue with authority since I pretty much created the open source movement. Open means OPEN; it is a question of community and the limitations of what people explect to do with their software. Closed software, be it drivers or an application, limit the freedome people have when using their PCs. Closed drivers are analogous to wearing handcuffs on a nude beach. Until ATI and NVidia open up the source they have no part of any Linux distro, with the obvious exception of Ubuntu, due to that distro's amazing and unflinching focus on decreased user interaction with the OS.
The Free Software Definition published by FSF did not exist when I created the Debian Free Software Guidlines. It still did not exist when I later re-labeled the DFSG to be the Open Source Definition. Dick put it up later, I think years later. I guess he got it up because felt a need to differentiate from Open Source. Eric Raymond tried to drive an IMO entirely unnecessary rift between Free Software and Open Source, and some of Dick's later reaction sperms from that.
Yes, but don't forget that the GPL can be applied to things other than code - easy to forget here on slashdot. You could, for example, make a GPL-protected book, and I mean a physical book and not an e-book. Then someone could theoretically change the book... add new characters, whatever. The "preferred method of the work" would, indeed, be paper. Now when you request the original it could, or even should be provided on paper! The author is allowed, however, to ask for a reasonable compensation for raw materials. There are subsections of the GPL designed just for hard-publishing... obviously one-off source printouts can be quite costly, preventing reasonable acquistion of the source. You are allowed to create a library when it comes to books, in a sense borrowing the source. Electronic distribution is allowed in cases like this, to help avoid these logistical entanglements.
And yet people constantly claim that the GPL is not anti-business.
Well, it is anti-business. But that isn't our intent, just a side effect. The GPL is designed to protect the author of a work, not to promote or advance business. You could make a million dollars from it or it could ruin your company, I don't care. What I do care about is that you're not stealing from somebody, especially by violating the GPL. Arguements about how it fits into the business world are auxilary - worthy of discussion, yes, but not withing the context of the nature of the GPL itself. Business and the GPL has about as much relevence as orange peels have to it. There may be a connection, but I don't care what it is.
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We should start a program like this for blow jobs.
... and a long way towards the US ever developing another alternate fuel source. I'm sorry, but this country *needs* a fuel crisis, to spur us into action. Another band-aid on the oil crisis (read: environmental crisis) does little to solve the problem. Americans can be unbelievably innovative, but generally only when the have too. Interrupt our convenience or their lifestyle, and we'll figure it out. $5 a gallon, and we'll figure out how to make a car run on something other than gasoline. This oil deposit find is a bad thing.
Oh please, I tire of this ridiculous and I've already seen it several times for this article. Look, Linux is a damn fine OS. And it can be a reasonable substitute for Windows IF you qualify PC use as "web, email, word processing and music." I can make a really fucking long list of shit I can't do with Ubuntu that I can do with Windows. And don't give me that Wine emulation bullshit, because that isn't realistic.
- Play Call of Duty 4
- World of Warcraft. Using my 360 controller so that I relax my big fat ass with my feet up.
- use X-Fire to find all my gaming friends.
- Run my boyfriend/lifepartner's gradebook for school.
- use AutoGK to compress all my porno movies to share on shady websites.
- Play GameTap
- Run 3DMark benchmarks
- Get SLI to work
- Have up to date video drivers
- Get any of that shitty video software that came with my digital camera to run.
- Use NetFlix video on demand.
- Use SnapStream Beyond TV as either a client or server. MythTV?! Fucking PUH-LEEZE. I want to watch TV, not fuck around with confuration files all fucking day.
- Pretty much run any fucking piece of software that's been released in the past 10 years. Yeah yeah, I know there's always an open source Linux equivalent, but you know what? It's not as fucking good!! EVER!! My CD copying program works great, my DVD copying program works great, my fucking everything under windows works fucking great. If I have a problem with the Linux shitty rip-off, I can pray that maybe the three other mutherfuckers who are using it have the same problem and maybe it will be fixed in about 100 years.
- Same thing goes for hardware. IF it works, it'll be missing half the fucking features it has under Windows.
So, enough of this bullshit. People use Windows because they do things with their computers. Only slashdot fags "use" an operating system. People want to do things, and they do it with software, and that software is on Windows. So eat a turd instead of posting that OMG Linuxx rulx!! bullshit next time, k?
Stay the hell away from the recent Diamond sound cards. I've had to down Direct Sound acceleration in several games to prevent lockups.
Alright guys, let's get FIRED UP!!
We're number FOUR!
We're number FOUR!
We're number FOUR!!
We're one less than bronze!! YEAH!!
You mean, get yourself a wife?
I'll still have to run Crysis at medium detail.
OSI is generally recognized as the organization that tells you if a license claiming to be Open Source actually is Open Source or if it's in some way giving you less rights than should come with Open Source. Those rights being defined in something I created 10 years ago called the Open Source Definition, which people seem to mostly still agree with. The main function of that board is to interpret those rules and certify licenses.
I think the "student council" nature of this is because the board is self-elected. Otherwise, there would be some formal structure that you could see around the election. The last time I asked Mike Tieman, the closest definition I got of when the election is was "before the April board meeting", which I think is April 2.
I don't know that MS is a candidate, indeed I have not been told about any candidates. I don't think they'd win, so far. I trust most of the current board not to elect them. I have been on other commitees with Microsoft folks, for example the patent policy board at W3C. Unfortunately, they still like to play dirty. Someone like me can help to balance them.
OSI hasn't told me the names of anybody else who is running. And probably most of those folks would rather die than let MS on the board. But some wouldn't.
Please send me an email with some pictures of yourself. If you are fat and hairy, please save the bandwidth - you can directly over to my house then. We can talk about OSI over wine, and then we can try to program an open source version of pong using our testicles as paddles and a gerbil as the ball.
I do thank you for your support. Our community needs more people like you.
Joe, I thank you for your support. Please email me some more of your comments, and I will consider if they have a part in my platform and I embark on this run. Also, include some pictures of yourself. Any pictures you have are fine, so if you're in a swimsuit of a wrestling singlet or something like that, don't worry about it and send them to me anyway. Also, a list of your favorite wines and things you like to do on the weekend. Together, we can make something special happen. Thanks again for your interest.
It really isn't that hard to get. I frequently write it on the mortar in the men's bathroom at Barnes and Nobels, right next to the words "BJ tap foot."
Well, lawyers deal in theory, most of us here on slashdot are in the trenches dealing with the reality of it on a day to day basis. And if you truly believe that money should be the barrier standing between our beliefs and what truly should be a part of our lifestyles, well then I feel sorry for you. One of the benefits of living in America is the ability to live our lives however we choose, without government interference and hopefully without social oppression.
Wait a minute. Oh, you said homoeopathic copyright, not homerotic. I don't know anything about that. My bad.
It is alot like a high school run, only probably more juvenile. I wonder why I'm putting myself through this. But I think it's for the greater good, it is something I believe in.
Unlike student council, and unlike most of the anonymity on the internet, I'm willing to expose myself to question and even criticiasm. I usally respond to Slashdot comments if I see them. But you are also welcome to call me at 510-984-1055, or to email bruce at perens dot com . The phone rings in my office and home, and stops ringing when we would be sleeping. I am particularly interested in hearing from you if you're a young man, unattached, and between the ages of 12-16. I love to personally help today's youth get started on a programming or IT career. Pictures are preferred.
I imagine that 99% of the folks at Microsoft have their heart in the right place. Certainly most of the ones I meet do. There are a few who do not at the top, and unfortunately the rest have to take orders sometimes. As we can see from the recent bullshit around the ISO vote, Microsoft has not given up its habit of playing dirty. Despite all this, I'd love to work for them. Bill, who I have personally met, has done some wonderful humanitarian work. And I honestly believe that MS has gotten an unfair rap from the EU. And let's face it - Windows Vista, despite all the press claiming otherwise, is a damn nice OS. I'd like to work on it as a MS employee instead of a hacker.
I have been on committees with them before, for example the patent policy board at W3C. I know how to deal with it professionally.
Thanks
Bruce
This would be exceptionally harmfull to Ubuntu, and the open source movement as a whole. I should know, I pretty much invented the idea of open source. Oracle has a long history of protecting (in a boad way) informations, of shutting down ideas, of limiting the exchange of information. I know Larry Ellison, and while I find him most agreeable on a personably level I strongly disagree with him on the role open source software plays in contemporary IT. Hu publicallyviews it as a capitalistic product to be exploited for profit, while I (dare I say we?) recognize that the benefits of open systems reach far beyond financial gain, and into realms that benefit humanity as a whole. Imagine if everyone had an affordable computer with a open source OS running on it - we'd all be more productive and happier. This ideal suits Ubuntu exactly, but not Oracle and Larry who need to answer to stock holders.
This would be a non-issue if both AMD and Intel would open up the code to their CPUs. Open souce, open code, and the free sharing of information is good for the community, and I don't just mean the computing community either. I mean the global community. I should know, I'm the inventor of open source. Hobbyist programmers could re-write Windows for both AMD and Intel CPUS to increase the efficiency and productivity of ALL the products, and then no antitrust lawsuit would exist.
Information such as this has been widely available for some time, but it is only now being made public. Archeologists should share their findings under the GPL, so that other scientists may asses the data and draw their own conclusions. I have no doubt that we wpould have a cure for cancer, AIDs, or maybe even death itself if people didn't hoard their information and findings under such a closed system. I should know, I invented open source. Information should be free, be it a program, knowledge, or newly discovered data.
DRM would not exist and HD-DVD writers would be common place if they would open the format. Hobbyist programmers could make set-top boxes with embedded ROMS that you could purchase on eBay.
Listen, I - above anyone else in the universe - am capable of commenting on this issue with authority since I pretty much created the open source movement. Open means OPEN; it is a question of community and the limitations of what people explect to do with their software. Closed software, be it drivers or an application, limit the freedome people have when using their PCs. Closed drivers are analogous to wearing handcuffs on a nude beach. Until ATI and NVidia open up the source they have no part of any Linux distro, with the obvious exception of Ubuntu, due to that distro's amazing and unflinching focus on decreased user interaction with the OS.
The Free Software Definition published by FSF did not exist when I created the Debian Free Software Guidlines. It still did not exist when I later re-labeled the DFSG to be the Open Source Definition. Dick put it up later, I think years later. I guess he got it up because felt a need to differentiate from Open Source. Eric Raymond tried to drive an IMO entirely unnecessary rift between Free Software and Open Source, and some of Dick's later reaction sperms from that.
Now, will the real Bruce Perens please stand up?
Certainly. All you had to do was ask.
Yes, but don't forget that the GPL can be applied to things other than code - easy to forget here on slashdot. You could, for example, make a GPL-protected book, and I mean a physical book and not an e-book. Then someone could theoretically change the book ... add new characters, whatever. The "preferred method of the work" would, indeed, be paper. Now when you request the original it could, or even should be provided on paper! The author is allowed, however, to ask for a reasonable compensation for raw materials. There are subsections of the GPL designed just for hard-publishing ... obviously one-off source printouts can be quite costly, preventing reasonable acquistion of the source. You are allowed to create a library when it comes to books, in a sense borrowing the source. Electronic distribution is allowed in cases like this, to help avoid these logistical entanglements.
And yet people constantly claim that the GPL is not anti-business.
Well, it is anti-business. But that isn't our intent, just a side effect. The GPL is designed to protect the author of a work, not to promote or advance business. You could make a million dollars from it or it could ruin your company, I don't care. What I do care about is that you're not stealing from somebody, especially by violating the GPL. Arguements about how it fits into the business world are auxilary - worthy of discussion, yes, but not withing the context of the nature of the GPL itself. Business and the GPL has about as much relevence as orange peels have to it. There may be a connection, but I don't care what it is.