Private Sub cmdButton1_Click() If strInsult="glorified data entry clerk" Then txtBox1="Hey! Stop insulting me!" Else txtBox1="Quit picking on me!" EndIf End Sub
I don't like to wear ties OR suits because they cost money that would better be spent on hardware. Going from a jeans/t-shirt environment to a suit environment can easily cost $2000.
The advantage of peer review is that we will have a decent OS in the future. It's kind of like that in every other area of research; why not computer science? How many times have corporations taken advantage of publicly-funded university research to make money?
The big diff, of ocurse, is that 18 years ago, IBM was the only maker of PCs, so they could act as king maker. Now, in the PC world, they're one player among many. Now, if IBM, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, and Packard Bell, all back Red Hat, THEN you're analogy would hold water. Remember that IBM also backed MicroChannel and OS/2.
If you had a recording of what sounds were being played on the windows, you could use it to filter the sounds picked up by the laser mike. The spooks would have to trust you (the proprietor) not to provide foreign inteligence agencies with those recordings.
Of course, you wouldn't do anything like play back a recording on the windows, would you? You'd generate white noise using a random number generator that was regularly re-seeded by way radioactive decay. Still, you'd have to get the spooks to trust that you were doing that, and to not record the noises played on the window. Perhaps you could cover the windows with plywood; that would also defeat a laser mike.
It doesn't really matter to me if you run Linux or NT Server - Enterprise. What does matter to me is that the Linux kernel be protected against commercial interests who would take the code and hijack it if they could. This is not as farfetched as it sounds. Imagine this -
Microsoft Linux. Linux at the core, with loads and loads of MS extensions built in. Per the GPL, they release their mods to the kernel, with great fanfare - "MS has joined the Linux community!" However, all their mods amount to would be APIs for their proprietary, non-GPL, non-free modules. They would ship this as part of Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, etc. Suddenly, MS- Linux (tm) is shipping on 50,000 machines per day, and before too long, thanks to the MS marketing machine, "Linux", in the mind of the computing public, means "MS-Linux". Naturally, all the commercial software provideers would jump on THIS bandwagon, and Linux would be back to being a niche OS. All the gains made in the marketplace in the last year would be lost, as Linux was uninstalled and MS-Linux was installed on servers throughout the corporate world.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being a niche OS. It's just that I have this dream that someday EVERYONE will have free software, not just the techno-elite who feel that if you can't write a browser in PERL then you barely deserve to compute:)
IF they distribute a work derived from Linux, they MUST do so under the terms of the GPL.
The only practical exception I can come up with is if the Israeli governmental-military-industrial-research complex says "This is for us, it's classified, you can't have it!"
Copyright law? What copyright law? We have this fission bomb, see, and we're just itchin' to use it...
What is to prevent the MOSIX guys from "forking the tree" and making their own Linux kernel, releasing it under the GPL, and claiming the exact same "binary module" rules?
I dunno. What's to prevent MS from firing all their programmers? It's the same situation.
The Mosix people, if they fork the code, keep the benefits of Free Software (think speech not beer), but lose most of the benefits of the Open Source development of Linux. In short, what they have to lose is the massive free (think beer not speech) labor of all the developers who have worked on Linux up to this point, and who will continue to improve Linux in years to come.
With respect to copyright law, what Linus says about works derived from the Linus kernel is pretty irrelevant, since he does not control the copyright to the entire kernel.
The 40-hour work week is a joke. I live in Missouri (USA) and have no idea what the law is elsewhere, but an employer here can hand you as much overtime as he wants. Your options are to work the overtime or quit. There is nothing in Missouri law (or US law) that says anything like "Employees don't have to work more than 40 hours if they don't want to." If you have a 40-hour work week, great. I'm glad for everyone who does. But it is NOT guaranteed to you unless you are lucky enough to have a contract.
Funny thing, that Gateway outsourcing. They don't outsource support for their corporate clients. Only for the peon clients who don't really matter, except in a collective sense.
YEAH! Go AC! You tell those guys! Why don't THEY make Linux and GNU and all that stuff free? Why don't THEY talk about how Microsoft is a monopoly that won't let other OSs have a chance? Why don't they cut the license costs to zero for OEMs who preinstall Linux? Cause they're too busy being GEEKS, THAT's why. Let's hear it for the suits! GO SUITS!
Let me quote the relevant portion of Mr. Gassee's offer: We end with a real-life offer for any PC OEM that's willing to challenge the monopoly: Load the BeOS on the hard disk so the user can see it when the computer is first booted, and the license is free.
In order to get the free license, OEMs don't have to load only BeOS on the machine. It doesn't even have to be the default OS. Users merely have to have the option of using the BeOS when the machine is first booted. And I would bet next month's paycheck that no OEMs take him up on the offer.
I worked for Gateway 2000 for three years, and I'm aware that there would be lots of other costs involved in placing BeOS on the system besides the license - there's compatibility testing, manufacturing downloads, and support. I estimate that it would cost $50/box (or more) to install BeOS on all of Gateway's consumer systems, and there's not enough demand to justify hiking everyone's prices by $50.
In the consumer space, Windows is not one of many operating systems; it is its own category. Microsoft is the only company that offers Windows. No other company has any product that can replace Windows in the consumer market. It is a de facto monopoly, even if it is not a de juris one (and I'm pretty much convinced it's both).
...salary information is company-confidential data.
From an email I got yesterday from my employer: "Dissemintation of any company confidential information, (including...hourly rates...)... will be grounds for immediate termination and may result in litigation."
I find the easiest way to deal with them is to give them a standard line - "Call me back when an employer looking for skill set X is willing to pay Y."
The following was up at www.traya.net at 5:15 Eastern Standard time: ------------------------------------------------ -----------------
Earth to the world this was a joke. Apple does not own this domain nor did they have anything to do with registering it.
When I heard about the appleimac.com issue with Apple I went to the web site and looked around. The individuals who had registered the domain were using the company "Tray Networks". In looking around I saw a list board and on that list board someone men tioned that they didn't own traya.net. So at this point in time I decided hey wouldn't it be funny to register the name and put Apple's name on it? So I did. At any rate it looks like someone has noticed my joke. I got a call this morning from Apple's lawyers asking me to change the registrant name on the domain. I'll add they asked very nicely.
Can you believe that News.com published this?
I received an email from the reporter that wrote the article a few minutes after the story was published. I thought you were supposed to check your facts before you published.
Slashdot has apparently picked up the story, even though they also have it wrong. *sigh*.
AT&T et al. bribe Congress, who funds the FCC. If the bribes dry up, so does the funding. On the other hand, maybe the FCC has decided that cablecos are the future, and figures they'll bribe Congress even more than the telcos.
Free software is for EVERYONE and CAN'T be stolen
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Whoever said that the free software community exists to provide software to lazy and greedy people? The free software comunity exists to provide free software. What the mass of computing humanity chooses to do with it is beside the point. Kind of like free speech. You either give everyone free speech, or you don't have free speech; you can't limit it.
Why should people put hard work into GPL'd software if some company just comes along and steals it You can't steal free software. It belongs to everyone. If you're concerned about someone "stealing" your work, you could copyright it and hide the source code.:)
If you work for freedom, rest assured that the majority of those who benefit from it will abuse it, take it for granted, and will not appreciate your contribution. That goes for free software just as much as it goes for political and economic freedom.
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om a language design standpoint, Perl is not a pretty language at all.
Neither is English.
My favorite programming lanauge is pseudocode.
Can you recommend a good compiler for that?
I'll bet you speak Esperanto, too.
Private Sub cmdButton1_Click()
If strInsult="glorified data entry clerk" Then
txtBox1="Hey! Stop insulting me!"
Else
txtBox1="Quit picking on me!"
EndIf
End Sub
I'm sure the women prefer you at your best :)
I don't like to wear ties OR suits because they cost money that would better be spent on hardware. Going from a jeans/t-shirt environment to a suit environment can easily cost $2000.
IT'S NOT UNDERWATER BASKET-WEAVING, IT'S UNDERWATER FIRE PREVENTION!!!
sorry - pet peeve of mine.
The advantage of peer review is that we will have a decent OS in the future. It's kind of like that in every other area of research; why not computer science? How many times have corporations taken advantage of publicly-funded university research to make money?
The big diff, of ocurse, is that 18 years ago, IBM was the only maker of PCs, so they could act as king maker. Now, in the PC world, they're one player among many. Now, if IBM, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, and Packard Bell, all back Red Hat, THEN you're analogy would hold water. Remember that IBM also backed MicroChannel and OS/2.
Or perhaps somebody could port Carmageddon...
If you had a recording of what sounds were being played on the windows, you could use it to filter the sounds picked up by the laser mike. The spooks would have to trust you (the proprietor) not to provide foreign inteligence agencies with those recordings.
Of course, you wouldn't do anything like play back a recording on the windows, would you? You'd generate white noise using a random number generator that was regularly re-seeded by way radioactive decay. Still, you'd have to get the spooks to trust that you were doing that, and to not record the noises played on the window. Perhaps you could cover the windows with plywood; that would also defeat a laser mike.
It doesn't really matter to me if you run Linux or NT Server - Enterprise. What does matter to me is that the Linux kernel be protected against commercial interests who would take the code and hijack it if they could. This is not as farfetched as it sounds. Imagine this -
:)
Microsoft Linux. Linux at the core, with loads and loads of MS extensions built in. Per the GPL, they release their mods to the kernel, with great fanfare - "MS has joined the Linux community!" However, all their mods amount to would be APIs for their proprietary, non-GPL, non-free modules. They would ship this as part of Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, etc. Suddenly, MS- Linux (tm) is shipping on 50,000 machines per day, and before too long, thanks to the MS marketing machine, "Linux", in the mind of the computing public, means "MS-Linux". Naturally, all the commercial software provideers would jump on THIS bandwagon, and Linux would be back to being a niche OS. All the gains made in the marketplace in the last year would be lost, as Linux was uninstalled and MS-Linux was installed on servers throughout the corporate world.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being a niche OS. It's just that I have this dream that someday EVERYONE will have free software, not just the techno-elite who feel that if you can't write a browser in PERL then you barely deserve to compute
IF they distribute a work derived from Linux, they MUST do so under the terms of the GPL.
The only practical exception I can come up with is if the Israeli governmental-military-industrial-research complex says "This is for us, it's classified, you can't have it!"
Copyright law? What copyright law? We have this fission bomb, see, and we're just itchin' to use it...
What is to prevent the MOSIX guys from "forking the tree" and making their own Linux kernel, releasing it under the GPL, and claiming the exact same "binary module" rules?
I dunno. What's to prevent MS from firing all their programmers? It's the same situation.
The Mosix people, if they fork the code, keep the benefits of Free Software (think speech not beer), but lose most of the benefits of the Open Source development of Linux. In short, what they have to lose is the massive free (think beer not speech) labor of all the developers who have worked on Linux up to this point, and who will continue to improve Linux in years to come.
With respect to copyright law, what Linus says about works derived from the Linus kernel is pretty irrelevant, since he does not control the copyright to the entire kernel.
The 40-hour work week is a joke. I live in Missouri (USA) and have no idea what the law is elsewhere, but an employer here can hand you as much overtime as he wants. Your options are to work the overtime or quit. There is nothing in Missouri law (or US law) that says anything like "Employees don't have to work more than 40 hours if they don't want to." If you have a 40-hour work week, great. I'm glad for everyone who does. But it is NOT guaranteed to you unless you are lucky enough to have a contract.
Funny thing, that Gateway outsourcing. They don't outsource support for their corporate clients. Only for the peon clients who don't really matter, except in a collective sense.
YEAH! Go AC! You tell those guys! Why don't THEY make Linux and GNU and all that stuff free? Why don't THEY talk about how Microsoft is a monopoly that won't let other OSs have a chance? Why don't they cut the license costs to zero for OEMs who preinstall Linux? Cause they're too busy being GEEKS, THAT's why. Let's hear it for the suits! GO SUITS!
Let me quote the relevant portion of Mr. Gassee's offer:
We end with a real-life offer for any PC OEM that's willing to challenge the monopoly: Load the BeOS on the hard disk so the user can see it when the computer is first booted, and the license is free.
In order to get the free license, OEMs don't have to load only BeOS on the machine. It doesn't even have to be the default OS. Users merely have to have the option of using the BeOS when the machine is first booted. And I would bet next month's paycheck that no OEMs take him up on the offer.
I worked for Gateway 2000 for three years, and I'm aware that there would be lots of other costs involved in placing BeOS on the system besides the license - there's compatibility testing, manufacturing downloads, and support. I estimate that it would cost $50/box (or more) to install BeOS on all of Gateway's consumer systems, and there's not enough demand to justify hiking everyone's prices by $50.
In the consumer space, Windows is not one of many operating systems; it is its own category. Microsoft is the only company that offers Windows. No other company has any product that can replace Windows in the consumer market. It is a de facto monopoly, even if it is not a de juris one (and I'm pretty much convinced it's both).
Go to www.be.com. Read and learn.
THINK FREE SPEECH, NOT FREE BEER!
thanks - i feel better now...
...salary information is company-confidential data.
... will be grounds for immediate termination and may result in litigation."
From an email I got yesterday from my employer:
"Dissemintation of any company confidential information, (including...hourly rates...)
I find the easiest way to deal with them is to give them a standard line - "Call me back when an employer looking for skill set X is willing to pay Y."
The following was up at www.traya.net at 5:15 Eastern Standard time:- -----------------
-----------------------------------------------
Earth to the world this was a joke.
Apple does not own this domain nor did they have anything to do with registering it.
When I heard about the appleimac.com issue with Apple I went to the web site and looked around. The individuals who had registered the domain were using the company "Tray Networks". In looking around I saw a list board and on that list board someone men tioned that they didn't own traya.net. So at this point in time I decided hey wouldn't it be funny to register the name and put Apple's name on it? So I did. At any rate it looks like someone has noticed my joke. I got a call this morning from Apple's lawyers asking me to change the registrant name on the domain. I'll add they asked very nicely.
Can you believe that News.com published this?
I received an email from the reporter that wrote the article a few minutes after the story was published. I thought you were supposed to check your facts before you published.
Slashdot has apparently picked up the story, even though they also have it wrong. *sigh*.
Bribes. Oh sorry, "Campaign contributions."
AT&T et al. bribe Congress, who funds the FCC. If the bribes dry up, so does the funding. On the other hand, maybe the FCC has decided that cablecos are the future, and figures they'll bribe Congress even more than the telcos.
Whoever said that the free software community exists to provide software to lazy and greedy people?
:)
The free software comunity exists to provide free software. What the mass of computing humanity chooses to do with it is beside the point. Kind of like free speech. You either give everyone free speech, or you don't have free speech; you can't limit it.
Why should people put hard work into GPL'd software if some company just comes along and steals it
You can't steal free software. It belongs to everyone. If you're concerned about someone "stealing" your work, you could copyright it and hide the source code.
If you work for freedom, rest assured that the majority of those who benefit from it will abuse it, take it for granted, and will not appreciate your contribution. That goes for free software just as much as it goes for political and economic freedom.