OSS and Linux zealots scream the advantages of using that kind of software, but is it a smart business decision to deploy something that could potentially lose all support if its project manager is in a fatal car accident?
If the software is stable enough, how important is it? For example, gzip, bzip2, and infozip (the zip command on unix). The software does a great job of compressing and decompressing. Bzip2 is not going to stop working suddenly.
Have you ever needed support for your reiser file system? Has your file system stopped working for no reason? Now lets assume that some flaw is found in reiser that has security implications? Plenty of people will be affected by this. As long as one of them has the skillset to fix it, it will get fixed because that person will be motivated to understand Han's code.
The States that make up the original 13 colonies could join the common wealth. France is techincalyl elgible to join as The Crown has declared itself ruler of France for years, even though they never properly managed to kick its ass.
Granted it would be unconstitutional to do so, but the 15 states that make up the original 13 colonies could jsut Seceed from the union.
And of course government is responsible for fixing problems the market isn't fixing, even if it can.
I assume you mean, "even if it can't." The government should figure out who can solve the problems that the market and the government can't. This mean private charities in many cases. There are plenty of rich people that want to go to the moon, or be known as the one that financed the cure of cancer. Government should create a system that encourages this private charity.
After you deal with corporations which service only the "low hanging fruit" and ignore the rest of the market because its profitability is too low to prioritize, you realize that government is necessary to kick business in the ass all the time, or only the richest have opportunities and security.
The thing is, after you grab the low hanging fruit, the second low hanging fruit becomes becomes the loweest hanging. Also, someone will reailze if they buy a ladder, they can corner the high hanginf fruit market. Sure theres the "really hard to get fruit market" That no one will touch, but government should encourage people to invent the "really hard to get fruit picker"
At what point does America need the charity to bail it out? And can we skip all the nasty bits until then?
I hope a private charity bails the gorernment out. Government is getting bigger and bigger. Nothing seems to be shrinking it. Maybe if Clinton's charity is successful, government will deregulate energy and shrink itself in embarassment.
Here is what a government should do: 1) wage war 2) pave roads 3) keep a police force 4) fire and emergency response
Here is what government should not do: 1) Healthcare 2) tax unless absolutly neccessary.
...this development, along with the Bill and Melinda foundation, means we now have extremely large, extremely rich companies doing what our governments should be doing.
I'm sorry, but the government just isn't doing that good of a job. Now I will spare you my libertarian rants, but basically, we have Bush giving alot of money to Christian groups that are against condoms for them to fight against AIDs, so if google or Microsoft starts giving comdoms to poor villages, we can see if the Microsoft village or the Christian village has less aids. If a council of village elders decides that condoms should be outlawed, they would have trouble facing pressure from either Google, or a liberal first world government.
As far as google being evil because of the Chinese, the US cooperates with them and the logic is similar.
And I'd find out who it was, and have a "word" with him before reporting him to HR.
I think the person would have more respecto fro you if you baited a lunch with ex-lax. It isn't chile porn and probally not part of the person's core compentencies. No need to get HR involved.
I've never seen peer reviewed experiments involving "writting up" rats, monkeys or other labratory animals.
But there was already a large codebase of BSD software that could have been used instead.
Compiler? Then again a compiler is one of those undertakings that you only want to do once and perhaps someone would eventually write one.
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The theory behind it is quite sad. It ranks up there with needle exchange for drug addicts. Basically, they want you driving a few years sober so when you inevitably drive drunk, you have skill to compensate for your inebriation.
Makes me as angry as getting a parking ticker in the incorporated village of Valley Stream (Nassau County, NY) for parking on the street between 4:30am and 5:30 am. Of course being its an incorporated town they don't care if I mow down someone on the expressday on my way home, as long as my car isn't parked in front of there houe in the am.
We all use the GNU compiler, GNU tools & the vast body of GNU software. Who is using the OSI compiler, OSI tools and the vast body of OSI software? Nobody - because it doesn't exist. Next time they ask you the difference between what the Free Software Foundation does and what the Open Source Initiative does, mention that.
You have to look at time and circumstances though. There was a need for RMS to build a whole open source system from scratch. When ESR wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazzar," there were GNU/Linux distros already out there.
These days the GNU foundation does alot of advocacy. Most of the user land utilities are pretty stable. The compiler, glibc, classpath and such are actively developed. However, all of those would continue if the FSF were to fold. The FSF is not comissioning any new large scale undertakings at the moment. It does however, accept copyright for open source projects and provides advocacy and legal aide.
The OSI, on the other hand, was born in the midst of a world of Free Software. It's purpose was to question some of the ideals of Free Software, develop its own, more business oriented ones, and advocate them.
Would it be benificial if the OSI started sponsering some open source projects? I think so. I've personally given to the FSF, and never to the OSI, and my beliefs are more in line with the OSI. This is partially due to GCC and such. I outright disagree with software as a basic human right. However, with what the FSF advocates, and the state of the world today, I'm not worried about closed source software being outlawed any time soon.
You can switch between versamail and the "blazer" web browser without a hitch, so I'm not sure why the ssh client (best of breed that I could find) fails to do likewise, but then it also fails to provide a reasonable method of key entry as well, and fails to support multiple sessions to boot.
Well considering that http is a [Open connection],[download],[close], [read the web page] and ssh constantly has a tcp connection going, it makes perfect sense. Ditto for mail which only open the connection to check your mail.
Yup. In choosing a Treo, does one choose a Palm one or a Windows one?
Considering you can active sync you palm treo's now and sync with Outlook, These little reason not to go palm. Of course I reccomend blackberry the least of the three being that Palm and pocket windows both have a plethora of software compared to blackberry.
I disagree on two counts.
On the other hand, if Apple wants to move to generic PCs, porting their user environment to a Linux or BSD kernel might make a lot of sense.
Hardware venors will port their own drivers. If apple switched to Linux or FreeBSD's kernel, (lets assume FreeBSD becasue thats what userland is) they would probally have to release closed source drivers for some products to keep vendors happy. This would outrage a very vocal minority and stick apple in a fight between kernel developers and hardware vendors. Apple has nothing to gain by this. On the other hand, apple could sign deals with intel, broadcom and a few other platers to get them to write OS X drivers, write a few of their own, and not worry about the rest.
In any case, Apple's future is likely in hypervisors--small kernels that allow Linux, Darwin, BSD, and NT to run on top of them. In a sense, that's what Mach was supposed to be from the beginning, but it's being achieved using different technologies now.
I doubt there will be a hypervisor involved, at least a thin one. The CPU can handle OS virtualization, the "hypervisor" can probally live in firmware.
This also ensures you don't waste your time with web development as there is no tool that is right for web development, just tools that suck slightly less than the others.:)
GVIM works pretty well for me. I also use NVU for RAD prototyping. Oh and I auctually wrote a useful webservice in C# using SharpDevelop so that counts as well.
The sad part is vim sucks the least of these three, although SharpDevelop is starting to support the ASP.NET thing pretty well.
Just imagine if all the work that has been going into cleaning up the behemoth OpenOffice codebase had instead been directed at an open source version of ApplixWare.
Just imagine if they opened up the source for Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS. There were third part font managers for it os in about a year you would have something that would talk to your X font server or read your True Type font directory. Some people want the WISIGY, and I don't know how the graphical preview mode could be ported over to the console mode, but these problems could be solved if we could get the code for the SCO port as well.
Uh? You obviously are not a customer of this market. Xen (it is spelled with a X) is nowhere near where it is hyped to be in terms of ease of installation, stability, and performance. In this market, there is currently only one player: VMware ESX Server. Nobody considers Xen seriously.
Uh I do.We've rolled it out on a dual PIII 600mhz running 2 linux virtual machines, one a production web server and the other a development box where I wrote soap clients with gsoap (don't ask using gsoap wasn't my idea.) Yes it is a pain to install. Not being able to boot from a cdroom is definatly a problem. However, performance wise it is great. We are going to go with quemu instead, but thats because of windows support and not performance.
Personally I think the biggest performance boot you can give to any virtual server envirorment is to use raw disks and not loopback images. That seems to make all the difference.
Who da'Punk is in fact the real enemy. He wants to end the bloat at Microsoft and convert it into a lean and mean machine of productivity. Imagine what options open source would have if people in Microsoft where devoted to create great software for the users, instead of pursuing their own petty concerns in the corporate ladder. If Who da'Punk and others like him had their way, Microsoft would be user-centric, but keeping the users always within the Microsoft universe. He's planning a world of happy slaves of Microsoft. Now we are all slaves, but at least not happy. In the unsatisfaction of slaves the seeds of change lay. If everybody was contented, the chances of breaking the Microsoft monopoly would be nil (on the other side, we'd be happier and have great software, but still slaves).
So help him not. Cheer Balmer instead. He's our real ally in this fight.
I call bullshit here. Your point about discontent causing people to rise up is valid. However, we shouldn't hope for bad leadership of our enemies to win the war. We should win the war because our methods are better.
A Napoleon or Hoffer might eventually come along, but they come to pass. Some will see beyond them and continue to their open source ways, just as RMS did many years ago.
good point. Just how unbiased are google (or Yahoo! for that matter) when reporting stories related to their own stocks?
Is there any regulation?
Considering that most(all?) news stories on finance sites are from news feeds like PR newswire and Associated Press the question to ask is what stories don't they report.
Discriminating against online stores to force people who want the single NOW to buy an entire album at inflated cost should be illegal.
Theres no price fixing scheme here. Should it be illegeal for Lucas to release his movies on video in such a way that you end up buying Star Wars "Jeff Portkins shot first edition." Its a free market, and there is no agreement to do this, just studies that show it works. Maybe we should outlaw studies?!
of the world's only foul mouthed, chair throwing, monkey dancing, Executive Officer of a Multibillion Dollar Enterprise. There is a reason why you don't hear of this kind of behavior from heads of Mitsubishi, Ford Motor Company, or the Bank of England: a certain maturity of emotional control and mature behavior is generally considered necessary to properly manage huge assets.
Also, because very few large corporations attract the same kind of love them or hate them reaction from their industry. I think these things happen at other corporations, it just goes unreported.
Personally, I'd go as far as saying I'd prefer in a way to work for someone that throws chairs across a room because at least that person is passionate about his work. They may be passionate about making money, but I can't There are other ways to express that passion, but its better to hasve the passion and need to learn to more constructively channel it. Passion itself is much harder to teach.
I do think Gates and Balmer are very passionate individuals, just passionate about different things than me. Their view of "great software" is also different than mine. Open source people can be just as passionate about their beliefs, and usually are. I tend to believe in there philosophical views more, which is why I tend to support open source more.
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If the software is stable enough, how important is it? For example, gzip, bzip2, and infozip (the zip command on unix). The software does a great job of compressing and decompressing. Bzip2 is not going to stop working suddenly.
Have you ever needed support for your reiser file system? Has your file system stopped working for no reason? Now lets assume that some flaw is found in reiser that has security implications? Plenty of people will be affected by this. As long as one of them has the skillset to fix it, it will get fixed because that person will be motivated to understand Han's code.
The States that make up the original 13 colonies could join the common wealth. France is techincalyl elgible to join as The Crown has declared itself ruler of France for years, even though they never properly managed to kick its ass. Granted it would be unconstitutional to do so, but the 15 states that make up the original 13 colonies could jsut Seceed from the union.
I wonder if he pisses off his wife and then asks for sex. The angry Canadian is married?
Theo's goals are not to get love from intel, just firmware.
And of course government is responsible for fixing problems the market isn't fixing, even if it can.
I assume you mean, "even if it can't." The government should figure out who can solve the problems that the market and the government can't. This mean private charities in many cases. There are plenty of rich people that want to go to the moon, or be known as the one that financed the cure of cancer. Government should create a system that encourages this private charity.
After you deal with corporations which service only the "low hanging fruit" and ignore the rest of the market because its profitability is too low to prioritize, you realize that government is necessary to kick business in the ass all the time, or only the richest have opportunities and security.
The thing is, after you grab the low hanging fruit, the second low hanging fruit becomes becomes the loweest hanging. Also, someone will reailze if they buy a ladder, they can corner the high hanginf fruit market. Sure theres the "really hard to get fruit market" That no one will touch, but government should encourage people to invent the "really hard to get fruit picker"
At what point does America need the charity to bail it out? And can we skip all the nasty bits until then?
I hope a private charity bails the gorernment out. Government is getting bigger and bigger. Nothing seems to be shrinking it. Maybe if Clinton's charity is successful, government will deregulate energy and shrink itself in embarassment.
Here is what a government should do:
1) wage war
2) pave roads
3) keep a police force
4) fire and emergency response
Here is what government should not do:
1) Healthcare
2) tax unless absolutly neccessary.
...this development, along with the Bill and Melinda foundation, means we now have extremely large, extremely rich companies doing what our governments should be doing.
I'm sorry, but the government just isn't doing that good of a job. Now I will spare you my libertarian rants, but basically, we have Bush giving alot of money to Christian groups that are against condoms for them to fight against AIDs, so if google or Microsoft starts giving comdoms to poor villages, we can see if the Microsoft village or the Christian village has less aids. If a council of village elders decides that condoms should be outlawed, they would have trouble facing pressure from either Google, or a liberal first world government.
As far as google being evil because of the Chinese, the US cooperates with them and the logic is similar.
And I'd find out who it was, and have a "word" with him before reporting him to HR.
I think the person would have more respecto fro you if you baited a lunch with ex-lax. It isn't chile porn and probally not part of the person's core compentencies. No need to get HR involved.
I've never seen peer reviewed experiments involving "writting up" rats, monkeys or other labratory animals.
But there was already a large codebase of BSD software that could have been used instead. Compiler? Then again a compiler is one of those undertakings that you only want to do once and perhaps someone would eventually write one.
The theory behind it is quite sad. It ranks up there with needle exchange for drug addicts. Basically, they want you driving a few years sober so when you inevitably drive drunk, you have skill to compensate for your inebriation. Makes me as angry as getting a parking ticker in the incorporated village of Valley Stream (Nassau County, NY) for parking on the street between 4:30am and 5:30 am. Of course being its an incorporated town they don't care if I mow down someone on the expressday on my way home, as long as my car isn't parked in front of there houe in the am.
We all use the GNU compiler, GNU tools & the vast body of GNU software. Who is using the OSI compiler, OSI tools and the vast body of OSI software? Nobody - because it doesn't exist. Next time they ask you the difference between what the Free Software Foundation does and what the Open Source Initiative does, mention that.
You have to look at time and circumstances though. There was a need for RMS to build a whole open source system from scratch. When ESR wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazzar," there were GNU/Linux distros already out there. These days the GNU foundation does alot of advocacy. Most of the user land utilities are pretty stable. The compiler, glibc, classpath and such are actively developed. However, all of those would continue if the FSF were to fold. The FSF is not comissioning any new large scale undertakings at the moment. It does however, accept copyright for open source projects and provides advocacy and legal aide. The OSI, on the other hand, was born in the midst of a world of Free Software. It's purpose was to question some of the ideals of Free Software, develop its own, more business oriented ones, and advocate them. Would it be benificial if the OSI started sponsering some open source projects? I think so. I've personally given to the FSF, and never to the OSI, and my beliefs are more in line with the OSI. This is partially due to GCC and such. I outright disagree with software as a basic human right. However, with what the FSF advocates, and the state of the world today, I'm not worried about closed source software being outlawed any time soon.
You can switch between versamail and the "blazer" web browser without a hitch, so I'm not sure why the ssh client (best of breed that I could find) fails to do likewise, but then it also fails to provide a reasonable method of key entry as well, and fails to support multiple sessions to boot.
Well considering that http is a [Open connection],[download],[close], [read the web page] and ssh constantly has a tcp connection going, it makes perfect sense. Ditto for mail which only open the connection to check your mail.
Yup. In choosing a Treo, does one choose a Palm one or a Windows one? Considering you can active sync you palm treo's now and sync with Outlook, These little reason not to go palm. Of course I reccomend blackberry the least of the three being that Palm and pocket windows both have a plethora of software compared to blackberry.
I disagree on two counts. On the other hand, if Apple wants to move to generic PCs, porting their user environment to a Linux or BSD kernel might make a lot of sense.
Hardware venors will port their own drivers. If apple switched to Linux or FreeBSD's kernel, (lets assume FreeBSD becasue thats what userland is) they would probally have to release closed source drivers for some products to keep vendors happy. This would outrage a very vocal minority and stick apple in a fight between kernel developers and hardware vendors. Apple has nothing to gain by this. On the other hand, apple could sign deals with intel, broadcom and a few other platers to get them to write OS X drivers, write a few of their own, and not worry about the rest. In any case, Apple's future is likely in hypervisors--small kernels that allow Linux, Darwin, BSD, and NT to run on top of them. In a sense, that's what Mach was supposed to be from the beginning, but it's being achieved using different technologies now.
I doubt there will be a hypervisor involved, at least a thin one. The CPU can handle OS virtualization, the "hypervisor" can probally live in firmware.
But ... What does ... Alanis Morisette ... Need with a ..... StarShip
This also ensures you don't waste your time with web development as there is no tool that is right for web development, just tools that suck slightly less than the others. :)
GVIM works pretty well for me. I also use NVU for RAD prototyping. Oh and I auctually wrote a useful webservice in C# using SharpDevelop so that counts as well.
The sad part is vim sucks the least of these three, although SharpDevelop is starting to support the ASP.NET thing pretty well.
Consclusion? Penguins eat polar bears. Even that fluffy tux toy, I got one in my house and no polar bears.
What does his noodley appendage say about this?
CompetIT? Is that a new CA product?
Just imagine if all the work that has been going into cleaning up the behemoth OpenOffice codebase had instead been directed at an open source version of ApplixWare.
Just imagine if they opened up the source for Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS. There were third part font managers for it os in about a year you would have something that would talk to your X font server or read your True Type font directory. Some people want the WISIGY, and I don't know how the graphical preview mode could be ported over to the console mode, but these problems could be solved if we could get the code for the SCO port as well.
Uh? You obviously are not a customer of this market. Xen (it is spelled with a X) is nowhere near where it is hyped to be in terms of ease of installation, stability, and performance. In this market, there is currently only one player: VMware ESX Server. Nobody considers Xen seriously.
Uh I do.We've rolled it out on a dual PIII 600mhz running 2 linux virtual machines, one a production web server and the other a development box where I wrote soap clients with gsoap (don't ask using gsoap wasn't my idea.) Yes it is a pain to install. Not being able to boot from a cdroom is definatly a problem. However, performance wise it is great. We are going to go with quemu instead, but thats because of windows support and not performance.
Personally I think the biggest performance boot you can give to any virtual server envirorment is to use raw disks and not loopback images. That seems to make all the difference.
I call bullshit here. Your point about discontent causing people to rise up is valid. However, we shouldn't hope for bad leadership of our enemies to win the war. We should win the war because our methods are better.
A Napoleon or Hoffer might eventually come along, but they come to pass. Some will see beyond them and continue to their open source ways, just as RMS did many years ago.
good point. Just how unbiased are google (or Yahoo! for that matter) when reporting stories related to their own stocks? Is there any regulation?
Considering that most(all?) news stories on finance sites are from news feeds like PR newswire and Associated Press the question to ask is what stories don't they report.
Discriminating against online stores to force people who want the single NOW to buy an entire album at inflated cost should be illegal.
Theres no price fixing scheme here. Should it be illegeal for Lucas to release his movies on video in such a way that you end up buying Star Wars "Jeff Portkins shot first edition." Its a free market, and there is no agreement to do this, just studies that show it works. Maybe we should outlaw studies?!
Open-apple + i
Does anyone call it open apple anymore. Isn't it pointless considering unlike the apple II there is no closed apple key.
of the world's only foul mouthed, chair throwing, monkey dancing, Executive Officer of a Multibillion Dollar Enterprise. There is a reason why you don't hear of this kind of behavior from heads of Mitsubishi, Ford Motor Company, or the Bank of England: a certain maturity of emotional control and mature behavior is generally considered necessary to properly manage huge assets.
Also, because very few large corporations attract the same kind of love them or hate them reaction from their industry. I think these things happen at other corporations, it just goes unreported.
Personally, I'd go as far as saying I'd prefer in a way to work for someone that throws chairs across a room because at least that person is passionate about his work. They may be passionate about making money, but I can't There are other ways to express that passion, but its better to hasve the passion and need to learn to more constructively channel it. Passion itself is much harder to teach. I do think Gates and Balmer are very passionate individuals, just passionate about different things than me. Their view of "great software" is also different than mine. Open source people can be just as passionate about their beliefs, and usually are. I tend to believe in there philosophical views more, which is why I tend to support open source more.