You seem to forget that some of us make a living on selling closed programs because if we opened them we would have no control of it's use. For example no laws or no enforcement of the laws. That's my case, I would love to open all up and get all the benefits of Open source, but I simply Can't at this point. It's unfair that I can't use GPL'd code because my country's laws suck or because I don't have the time or money to sue anyone. I respect the intent of someone that uses GPL and I will use it when I can, but I also would expect that the author would kindly let me use his code if I asked. In exchange for money or something else? Ok. But don't expect me to open my programs anytime soon. I just cant't, you get it?
< after a while, I'd think that
< people outside the USA would get sick of
< little things like this!
Yes, and probably it's been a while already! I'm from Costa Rica, we're kind of used to it in a "again those idi*ts, oh well" kind of way. I didn't even notice this time, but sure it would be nice if US people would see that we ARE HERE. Just look at the voting polls, there are lots of "foreigners" out there. That's why I'm suggesting a survey of the slashdot community.
that otherwise useless poll square on my screen could be used to collect info about the comunity like country,age,sex basic stuff, in a public,anonymous survey. Internet comunities have the problem that they don't know these basic facts about themselves. Sure they are probably irrelevant most of the time, but I think it would be useful to better who we're hanging arround with.
From the Visibility page link on the story I get "Sorry, not visible" for my city. Why? I live in San José, Costa Rica, that's 10 degrees North of the Equator, I would have thought that that thing passed over here sometime, no?
Slashdot Mirror
At least it has a .wmv extension. Is there an mpg or something somewhere?
At 2001-03-16 02:22:22 I will hide under my bed and wait for at least an hour before coming out to see if I won.
You seem to forget that some of us make a living on selling closed programs because if we opened them we would have no control of it's use. For example no laws or no enforcement of the laws. That's my case, I would love to open all up and get all the benefits of Open source, but I simply Can't at this point. It's unfair that I can't use GPL'd code because my country's laws suck or because I don't have the time or money to sue anyone. I respect the intent of someone that uses GPL and I will use it when I can, but I also would expect that the author would kindly let me use his code if I asked. In exchange for money or something else? Ok. But don't expect me to open my programs anytime soon. I just cant't, you get it?
< after a while, I'd think that
< people outside the USA would get sick of
< little things like this!
Yes, and probably it's been a while already! I'm from Costa Rica, we're kind of used to it in a "again those idi*ts, oh well" kind of way. I didn't even notice this time, but sure it would be nice if US people would see that we ARE HERE. Just look at the voting polls, there are lots of "foreigners" out there. That's why I'm suggesting a survey of the slashdot community.
that otherwise useless poll square on my screen could be used to collect info about the comunity like country,age,sex basic stuff, in a public,anonymous survey. Internet comunities have the problem that they don't know these basic facts about themselves. Sure they are probably irrelevant most of the time, but I think it would be useful to better who we're hanging arround with.
From the Visibility page link on the story I get "Sorry, not visible" for my city. Why? I live in San José, Costa Rica, that's 10 degrees North of the Equator, I would have thought that that thing passed over here sometime, no?