They could still get you. The US had plans to nuke the moon in the cold war (apparently as a sort of "up yours" to the Soviet Union). If they could do it then they can do it now.
If Bill Joy wrote vi, there is something delightfully ironic about him stating machines can be spiritual. My God, and all the audience did was shout at him? I always thought a (mindless) program had written vi.
I recently ate about half a piece of pizza which I found in the fridge. It was very, very dry, and the anchovies were nearly dust, and it was difficult to distinguish the olives from olive stones.. To be honest, it was disgusting. Later, I worked out it was roughly one week old. Perhaps someone would post a link to a site with a scientific study of why one week old pizza tastes like shite.
The compiler and browser are not being freed with the rest of the package. An IDE without these is not an IDE. Sun is just trying to spin money off of free software.
None of this has any damn thing to do with Linux. (And no, this is not a flame).
Linux is the OS, not a goddamned user interface. Companies like Red Hat, Caldera, etc can do the things this writer is calling for, ie, make it pretty and gentle, if that is what they think their customers want.
He's guilty of stirring it up, but that's his job. Doesn't he put his finger on the "schism" between the FSF and Open Source. RMS says all software should be free (as in speech) if it is to be good, while ESR says Open Source is more efficient, and therefore good. RMS' position is a moral one, while ESR's is a practical one. All the same, I agree with you that his article is not worth getting hot under the colour. I am pretty sure, though, that RMS would not recommend the use of Transmeta's closed source stuff.
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They could still get you. The US had plans to nuke the moon in the cold war (apparently as a sort of "up yours" to the Soviet Union). If they could do it then they can do it now.
If Bill Joy wrote vi, there is something delightfully ironic about him stating machines can be spiritual. My God, and all the audience did was shout at him? I always thought a (mindless) program had written vi.
I recently ate about half a piece of pizza which I found in the fridge. It was very, very dry, and the anchovies were nearly dust, and it was difficult to distinguish the olives from olive stones.. To be honest, it was disgusting. Later, I worked out it was roughly one week old. Perhaps someone would post a link to a site with a scientific study of why one week old pizza tastes like shite.
The compiler and browser are not being freed with the rest of the package. An IDE without these is not an IDE. Sun is just trying to spin money off of free software.
What I want to ask is "is there a TROLL-HOWTO".
ps.Madness takes its troll.
Linux is the OS, not a goddamned user interface. Companies like Red Hat, Caldera, etc can do the things this writer is calling for, ie, make it pretty and gentle, if that is what they think their customers want.
He's guilty of stirring it up, but that's his job. Doesn't he put his finger on the "schism" between the FSF and Open Source. RMS says all software should be free (as in speech) if it is to be good, while ESR says Open Source is more efficient, and therefore good. RMS' position is a moral one, while ESR's is a practical one. All the same, I agree with you that his article is not worth getting hot under the colour. I am pretty sure, though, that RMS would not recommend the use of Transmeta's closed source stuff.
In Denmark, the police want to build a DNA DB of everyone who has been charged, even if there is no conviction. Worrying.