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  1. Re: Thanks for asking on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    USENET tried that with the Netiquette FAQ.

    You still had trolls, abusers and the "pity me, I'm not allowed to kill anyone" brigade.

    Fewer of them, but you still had them.

    Such people won, which is why there are so many opposed to Netiquette or decency to others.

  2. There is no war on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    The SJWs are doing nothing against you. They never have. Stop assuming that a lack of victims on a side that never existed is tantamount to you being attacked.

  3. Re: Better than SJW/PC COCs on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 0

    Since nobody outside of a very insignificant minority use political correctness that way (incorrectly), it's fair to assume you are not concerned with either correct use or dominant use.

  4. I've never known Stallman to be wrong on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    If he says a new and improved version is good, then the concept must be good.

  5. Re: IT's all so tiresome on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    How about:

    a) He doesn't assert himself as such
    b) Even if he did, he is a God

  6. No, a distribution such as RHEL is a one-stop shop.

    No, there is only one official kernel, one API, one goal, one vision. (There needs to be a Freddie edition.)

    Since when is LibreOffice a poor imitation? You need to try harder.

    You don't know about their international tour, dissing open source and claiming a lower TCO? Boy, did you miss out on some garbage. It's just just the CEOs didn't.

    Microsoft charge several hundred dollars an install more from every vendor that offers alternatives. They used to offer a refund for unused installs, but rescinded that after Refund Day when people tried to claim. Microsoft claimed they weren't bound by their offer.

    No, it's widely acknowledged, including by ISO, that Microsoft bought themselves a fast track for their Office format and then bought votes from the committee. Telling me I'm wrong is not a substitute for looking this up. Before dismissing things, look.

    Sorry, retraining? I can use a Windows clone window manager for X. LibteOffice requires no retraining. There are Exchange clones, so you get the nifty calendar, but Exchange is on the cloud anyway. Jira is web-based. Firefox doesn't change. SQL tools have very similar interfaces. The difference in syntax between SQL Server and Postgres or Oracle will require a cheat sheet. Most WMs for X provide similar control panels to those under Windows, close enough that it's not retraining but basic familiarization.

    But that still leaves a lot of applications, mostly legacy, that relied on undocumented calls or strange behaviors, making it impossible to run them under a compatibility layer, and where the vendor won't port or no longer exists to.

    I've been in the industry a very long time. Computers and OS' stand or fall by the legacy software available. When Microsoft broke compatibility with OS/2, they eliminated the market for their rival. They got caught and heavily fined for doing the same thing to DRDOS. This is a standard behavior of theirs, which ultimately ended up in two antitrust l lawsuits.

    Microsoft lost both cases. Look it up.

  7. Also, popularity is irrelevant. Plague charms were popular, once. Didn't mean they worked. Something works or it doesn't, the rest is window dressing and salespitch.

  8. Who cares what you make? Past cost of living, money is a number.

    It's how well you work and how positive that is in the broader picture.

    Windows of all kinds is of very low quality. It has a defect density somewhere between ten to a hundred times that of Linux. It is fantastically insecure and unstable. The office suite is so poor, Microsoft had to bribe ISO to recognise the format. The UI for Office is cumbersome and gets in the way of doing anything productive.

  9. That's easy to answer.

    1. Businesses like the fantasy of someone to blame, Linux robs them of that

    2. Linux for the desktop was killed by OSDL and hardware vendors

    3. MacOS, OS/X and Linux don't have the range of applications needed

    4. Microsoft's Truth campaign

    5. Microsoft taxing vendors if they supply rival OS'

    6. Microsoft bribing ISO

    7. Legacy install base

  10. Re: Go backup the older days of SP's also windows on Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Older days, odd number service packs bricked the machine.

  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    This explains everything. The agency obviously rents out bug testers and n managers to companies like Microsoft.

  12. Re: right on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Define perspective and the Blue Peter badge you got for making one earlier.

  13. Re: right on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "I'm sorry you have a headache" doesn't mean the speaker caused it. Although it might.

    Apologizing for historic crimes doesn't mean you possess a TARDIS.

    Hidden meanings, secret codes, this is not a good communication strategy. I suggest saying what you mean, meaning what you say, never using coded messages outside of IPSec, GnuPG or SSL.

  14. Re: right on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Saying sorry means you possess the feeling of sorrow. It means nothing more.

  15. Re: Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I live in a complex one. It's like a real world but it has imaginary components. if

  16. Re: Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the time, the immaturity is a good thing. You can advance nothing if you accept everything.

  17. Re: Wait..what? on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    X11. If your client is on a separate machine, the correct way to run it, then you need a way to send audio to it.

  18. Re: No, it doesn't affect *any* media player on MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability (hackread.com) · · Score: 1

    I greatly appreciate your post and rapid fix.

    Would static checkers have helped?

  19. Would any existing static checker free for use with open source have identified the bug?

    If yes, then there should be an obligation to use them in key software.

    If no, then we need to sort out the lack of testing common in the software industry as a whole.

  20. Nobody uses sourceforge. Outdated codebase. I forget which fork is still open source for gforge, but it's better.

    For commercial projects, Atlassian is now industry standard. It's good for funded open source, too, if a little overkill.

    Of course, a central server on a distributed system like git seems pointless.

  21. Re: so what do these rules have to do with.... on Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We are free to have the freedom we want. This is what we chose. We are entitled to choose. This was not imposed, we demanded those laws. They were OUR choice.

    You imposing your will on us is not free. You are the enemy of freedom by telling us that we aren't allowed to make our own minds up, that you must think for us. Take your bloody nanny state ideas and shove em!

    Your laws restrict you from being free from. Freedom from is as legitimate a freedom as freedom to. But you deny people that freedom because you never understood real freedom. Real freedom is about being able to choose the balance you wish, not have it imposed on you at gun point. Real freedom means you can think and speak, not be shouted down by Libertarian thought police.

  22. Re: Wish we could stop calling it Obamacare on HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That sort of treatment really aught to be done in psych facilities, the person needs to be monitored by people who understand pharmacology in relation to the brain and which effects are good versus really bad. That's the province of the pdoc.

    That treatment, yes, should be early and covered. And strictly done by people who know what they're doing.

  23. Re: Which is why each state has separate car compa on HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you, as far as you've gone, yes. There's nothing intrinsic about a Florida insurance company that means it can't handle a Colorado claim.

    This whole in-State/out-of-State thing is, as you rightly point out, a red herring, a most scarlet fish of our times. That's not where the issues lie and there should be no constraints there.

  24. Re: Nothing exciting or? on HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I... think several of my past jobs qualify as working in security. And nobody works to be OSI compliant, at least not in any of the projects I've worked on. I doubt most people know any relevant OSI standards.

  25. Re: so what do these rules have to do with.... on Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand freedom. The British are free from gun violence, for the most part. That is a legitimate freedom. You would deprive the British of that freedom for something they don't want. How is that free? Imposing your beliefs on others is not giving them freedom but taking it.

    Same with the freedom to roam - it is an absolute British right to go where the damn you please, as long as you violate no privacy, don't cause damage and don't break and enter. Telling us we can't do that is to tell us we aren't free. We are nobody's slaves, you don't get to tell us how we measure our freedom.

    The reason we have governments at all is because taking away freedom from the collective actually takes away freedom. The whole is more than the sum of the parts only when the whole works cooperatively.

    People like you would have outlawed Robert Owens, Joseph Rowntree or Titus Salt, criminalized them, because you cannot tolerate beliefs other than your own.

    Proof of that is the moderation given my prior post. It's no more flamebait than yours. It's modded down because you aren't tolerant. You will not defend to the death my right to say things you don't like, you oppose them vigorously. You do not consider them, you do not even debate them. You are no hero of tolerance.

    No, real freedom comes not with anarchy and deprivation, but with maximal freedom across all entities, individual or otherwise. It's not even as if an "individual" can be defined, except as a transient collective that lasts a few seconds. The gestalt must have equal rights and equal responsibilities.

    Freedom without responsibility, a wise man/golem once wrote, is just a word.