You see kids, we live in a world of capitalism. In capitalism, there is the desire of a company to reap the benefits of its labors. In this case, while Linux is of course, and was created as, a free, open source OS, RH got its grubby little capitalist hands on it to start innovating it. They made getting Linux on your computer much easier, by going to the store and paying a nominal fee for the CD and the Manual.
Now, SUSE, as well as many others have taken this same step towards inovation. So, what is RH to do one may ask to stay competitive? After all, RH IS a company with employees and owners who want to make $$. Well, by golly, they will put some stuff in their distro that no one else has! They sprinkle in a little bit of RPM, and a little bit of anything else they may make on their own.
For now, RH is content to let others see what they have done, and change and build on it. However, the day will come when RH will realize that they keep spending money and innovating, only to have the other Linux distros come and "borrow" their technology which RH put manhours and $$ into.
Before long, we see RH, with all of its fancy bells and whistles that make it the #1 Linux Distro, start to get cranky about these other distros copying their stuff and repackaging it! Next, RH starts slowly, by putting a patent on the RPM format, and maybe some other minor things which other distros already offer, so it isn't seen as a big deal.
Next, RH sees a fledgling Linux distro company, maybe SUSE, maybe Mandrake. They see the potential and talent at thost companies. Fortunately, as one of the more successful linux distro's, RH has the capital to buy one of these companies up, and merge their technologies to make an even better software product. They now have twice as much talent, and twice as much product.
With another competitor or two out of the way, RH keeps gaining steam, making a user friendly OS that can actually compete with the no-hassle MS Windows. RH has established itself and turned a profit, and has a stable product that can't be found though any other linux distro. They want to expand on what they have, and start selling CD's and manuals to Dell and IBM to put on their computers when they go out the door.
I am sure you can see where the story goes from here. Just because an OS is free doesn't mean that it doesn't make a profit. Be DAMNED sure that the kids are RH aren't out there developing software for all of you nerds just so that you will think they are cool.
The owners of RH can be just as stuffy as any suit from MS, and why wouldn't they want to be. Its the american dream. Create, and Innovate, and reap the rewards of your labors. Turn a profit, make consumers happy and make consumers WANT to buy your CD's full of open source software.
Open source was doomed to fail from the beginning. It was a noble cause, but legal loopholes will eventually make Open Source about as meaningful as saying Linux is actually easier to install than windows. If you want to sit on your computer and crank out totally free software to impress a bunch of computer nerds for the rest of your life, go ahead, have fun. But rest assured, companies like RH don't need to impress nerds, they need to impress real life consumers, and they will. However, it will come at a price.
I started out in College as a CS Education Major (CS Teacher)... then changed to Comp. Info Sys (Business major)... but I realized i liked the physical technology so much more than the coding. Then, I found out that CS is nothing more than the first four years of the rest of your life... instead of starting out getting paid for crappy work, you can pay a school to learn how to do the crappy work. Its just not worth it, I changed over to Politcal Science... I will become a lawyer and represent the software companies... I think its the best way to make money in teh high tech field these days.
Don't dare call yourself an architect until you have gone to professional school four more years after your undergrad. Until then, push down your insecurities, and admit you are a coder!
If you have all of that $hit on your computer desk, maybe you need to take 3 steps back and look at yourself. I mean, come on, if one person needs 7 computers, we aren't working very efficiently... Whats wrong, cant get all 7 things to run on one linux box? aww... sorry, too bad.
I am going to start a new stand up comedy routine, called you might be a nerd if, and a loser asking for a computer desk might me my first shtick...
I think it is good that we fire off all of the Linux workers. When you put money into the Free OS equation, it becomes all dirty, just like Microsoft. If Linuxloosers really love their free os so much, they should work for hp and compaq for free so that we may all soon be enlightened by the overwhelming greatness that is linux. Amen
In todays day and age, I don't think that 198 Bytes saved in a download of any document is worth the trouble of implementation. Even on a 56K connection, this only takes 1 point something seconds to download 200 BYTES... is it really worth the second to put hours and hours of energy into saving that little bit of bandwidth? Granted, when multiplied by millions of users, it is a good chunck of bandwidth, but even better would be to devote this time to better video compressions or even image compression. ONE SECOND PEOPLE... ONE SECOND!!!
Give it up, linux was great when it came about, but I has no Consumer Appeal. It may be free, but when the Joe Computer buyer buys a computer, he already has free software on it! So, stop whining about how Linux will never become great, because that has been apparent since Day 1!!
Feel free to respond if you have the guts!
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Give me a break, you think we go out and spend $50000 just to expand our minds?!?!
I am hereby patenting the color Yellow. It is the last color I can think of that hasn't been used by Apple! If they do decide to use it in any future iMacs, or iBooks, they will have to realize that using the Color yellow, especially on a computer, was my Idea first... I will sue!!!
You know, the slashdot posting was good until that last line where emmett gets all pissy with the comment about it being linux's fault. Maybe its not linux's fault, but what the article is saying is that becasue of the way linux is, it has an inherent potential to be changed, whereas M$ Windows doesn't (or Novell, or many other OS's for that matter). I like open source and a lot of linux, bsd, etc systems, but I wish you linux people would get off of your high horse. You think that linux is the best thing that has ever come along in the computer world, and shun other OS's becasue they cost money and don't give you the source code. I am getting sick of all of you Tux Lovers. You don't see people being all nice and posting 30 articles a week about FreeBSD, and people being all defensive of it (even though, in many ways it is an equal, if not better os)! Argh, you guys just piss me off with your linux worship sometimes. You are really no better than Microsoft with you pushing an OS onto people that don't want or need it!
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You see kids, we live in a world of capitalism. In capitalism, there is the desire of a company to reap the benefits of its labors. In this case, while Linux is of course, and was created as, a free, open source OS, RH got its grubby little capitalist hands on it to start innovating it. They made getting Linux on your computer much easier, by going to the store and paying a nominal fee for the CD and the Manual.
Now, SUSE, as well as many others have taken this same step towards inovation. So, what is RH to do one may ask to stay competitive? After all, RH IS a company with employees and owners who want to make $$. Well, by golly, they will put some stuff in their distro that no one else has! They sprinkle in a little bit of RPM, and a little bit of anything else they may make on their own.
For now, RH is content to let others see what they have done, and change and build on it. However, the day will come when RH will realize that they keep spending money and innovating, only to have the other Linux distros come and "borrow" their technology which RH put manhours and $$ into.
Before long, we see RH, with all of its fancy bells and whistles that make it the #1 Linux Distro, start to get cranky about these other distros copying their stuff and repackaging it! Next, RH starts slowly, by putting a patent on the RPM format, and maybe some other minor things which other distros already offer, so it isn't seen as a big deal.
Next, RH sees a fledgling Linux distro company, maybe SUSE, maybe Mandrake. They see the potential and talent at thost companies. Fortunately, as one of the more successful linux distro's, RH has the capital to buy one of these companies up, and merge their technologies to make an even better software product. They now have twice as much talent, and twice as much product.
With another competitor or two out of the way, RH keeps gaining steam, making a user friendly OS that can actually compete with the no-hassle MS Windows. RH has established itself and turned a profit, and has a stable product that can't be found though any other linux distro. They want to expand on what they have, and start selling CD's and manuals to Dell and IBM to put on their computers when they go out the door.
I am sure you can see where the story goes from here. Just because an OS is free doesn't mean that it doesn't make a profit. Be DAMNED sure that the kids are RH aren't out there developing software for all of you nerds just so that you will think they are cool.
The owners of RH can be just as stuffy as any suit from MS, and why wouldn't they want to be. Its the american dream. Create, and Innovate, and reap the rewards of your labors. Turn a profit, make consumers happy and make consumers WANT to buy your CD's full of open source software.
Open source was doomed to fail from the beginning. It was a noble cause, but legal loopholes will eventually make Open Source about as meaningful as saying Linux is actually easier to install than windows. If you want to sit on your computer and crank out totally free software to impress a bunch of computer nerds for the rest of your life, go ahead, have fun. But rest assured, companies like RH don't need to impress nerds, they need to impress real life consumers, and they will. However, it will come at a price.
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I started out in College as a CS Education Major (CS Teacher)... then changed to Comp. Info Sys (Business major)... but I realized i liked the physical technology so much more than the coding. Then, I found out that CS is nothing more than the first four years of the rest of your life... instead of starting out getting paid for crappy work, you can pay a school to learn how to do the crappy work. Its just not worth it, I changed over to Politcal Science... I will become a lawyer and represent the software companies... I think its the best way to make money in teh high tech field these days.
Don't dare call yourself an architect until you have gone to professional school four more years after your undergrad. Until then, push down your insecurities, and admit you are a coder!
If you have all of that $hit on your computer desk, maybe you need to take 3 steps back and look at yourself. I mean, come on, if one person needs 7 computers, we aren't working very efficiently... Whats wrong, cant get all 7 things to run on one linux box? aww... sorry, too bad.
I am going to start a new stand up comedy routine, called you might be a nerd if, and a loser asking for a computer desk might me my first shtick...
I think it is good that we fire off all of the Linux workers. When you put money into the Free OS equation, it becomes all dirty, just like Microsoft. If Linuxloosers really love their free os so much, they should work for hp and compaq for free so that we may all soon be enlightened by the overwhelming greatness that is linux. Amen
In todays day and age, I don't think that 198 Bytes saved in a download of any document is worth the trouble of implementation. Even on a 56K connection, this only takes 1 point something seconds to download 200 BYTES... is it really worth the second to put hours and hours of energy into saving that little bit of bandwidth? Granted, when multiplied by millions of users, it is a good chunck of bandwidth, but even better would be to devote this time to better video compressions or even image compression. ONE SECOND PEOPLE... ONE SECOND!!!
Well, unfortunately, a bigger problem is that you cannot get into hotmail... this seems like it must be related to M$'s DNS problems
Give it up, linux was great when it came about, but I has no Consumer Appeal. It may be free, but when the Joe Computer buyer buys a computer, he already has free software on it! So, stop whining about how Linux will never become great, because that has been apparent since Day 1!! Feel free to respond if you have the guts!
Give me a break, you think we go out and spend $50000 just to expand our minds?!?!
I am hereby patenting the color Yellow. It is the last color I can think of that hasn't been used by Apple! If they do decide to use it in any future iMacs, or iBooks, they will have to realize that using the Color yellow, especially on a computer, was my Idea first... I will sue!!!
You know, the slashdot posting was good until that last line where emmett gets all pissy with the comment about it being linux's fault. Maybe its not linux's fault, but what the article is saying is that becasue of the way linux is, it has an inherent potential to be changed, whereas M$ Windows doesn't (or Novell, or many other OS's for that matter). I like open source and a lot of linux, bsd, etc systems, but I wish you linux people would get off of your high horse. You think that linux is the best thing that has ever come along in the computer world, and shun other OS's becasue they cost money and don't give you the source code. I am getting sick of all of you Tux Lovers. You don't see people being all nice and posting 30 articles a week about FreeBSD, and people being all defensive of it (even though, in many ways it is an equal, if not better os)! Argh, you guys just piss me off with your linux worship sometimes. You are really no better than Microsoft with you pushing an OS onto people that don't want or need it!