Unless you ARE Richard Stallman, whether or not Stallman has that attitude is irrelevant to whether the GPL or any other license is a good fit for your needs. Your choice of a license is based on the goals of your project, your business, and you, as they are served by the terms of the license.
The article (second link in summary) about ways to increase productivity doesn't mention multiple monitors, and appears to have relevant research backing up all of its suggestions.
The Advice column (first link) does appear to be something a lazy writer pulled our of his or her... uh... ear.
Overall, the summary is exactly the quality I expect to find on Slashdot.
You're either for software freedom or your not. GPL restricts what you can, therefor is not free.
This kind of "either you see it my way our you're wrong" statement is NOT a good argument.
There are real reasons why the GPL versions (and other licenses) are problematic for various folks, and this kind of assertion acknowledges none of them.
You can learn the factual basis for arguments against or in favor of various open source or free software licenses at the OSI site and at the FSF site.
Dude, I know you oldtimers had the decency not to read the article, but please don't worry. Most of us newcomers didn't read it either. Besides, there's no specific evidence that the GP actually read the article, only that he or she followed the link. And checked the profile of the other user.
Wait, seriously? Slashdot has a user profile section? Whoah, look... all my old comments are there....;-)
That and if you really want to, you can remove the key caps and wash them just like you'd wash the dishes. The Model M: Introduced in 1984 and still the best fucking keyboard ever made by a such a wide margin that nothing else should be permitted to be called a keyboard. My Model M was born on May 3rd, 1990. It shows no sign of wearing out.
Yeah, freakin' awesome. Would you please remember to go on mute when you're on the phone?
HP's deep patent warchest would make them a significantly less appealing target than such patent lightweights as Barnes and Noble, Foxconn, or Inventec.. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, Microsoft has cross-licensing agreements with most major computer companies that specifically prevent many lawsuits of this sort.
It isn't clear to me if the "foundation of teaching over there" was referring to the PLATO system, or to the Khan Academy, which are very different approaches.
Apparently Bill never saw the episode where Bart is mistaken for a genius after he steals Martin Prince's IQ test answers and gets sent to a genius school. The entire foundation of teaching over there was based on this system.
Would you please clarify what you mean by: 1. "over there" 2. "this system"
I don't think I'm getting the meaning of your comment without those pieces. Thanks!
A person would be awful boring if they only discussed ideas. What if all their ideas are crap? Are they then a great mind? Just asking...
1. "Great minds discuss ideas" does not mean "all people who discuss ideas have great minds." 2. Many people find discussion of ideas boring. 3. The fact that most "great minds" do not have television shows where people can watch them discuss ideas is probably related to 2. 4. The proliferation of television shows where crap ideas are discussed highlights the truth of 1.
Anyone consider that some of the alleged "throttling" may bedue to service provider infrastructure that's overloaded to the point where the performance isn't good anymore?
Hmmm... Sounds as if it's Canonical that wants GNOME's help, but some of the GNOME leads don't want to give it.
In any case, Canonical will likely do better to support and work with Freedesktop.org than tying themselves to a single desktop implementation.
At the end of the day, Ubuntu will succeed because it is well funded, and because it has something similar to the great virtue of Apple; a technically involved leader who has the final say on the user experience.
Parent said he was using RAID to mitigate failure, not to provide backup. One might use a RAID setup as part of a data backup system, but this was not described by the parent post.
And if you bought them all at the same time from the same place, chances are, when one finally dies from old age, more than one may perish simultaneously.
The likelihood of two devices failing at the same time due to old age is incredibly small, unless by "old age" you mean something like "a meteorite striking the storage system".
The expectation is an increased number of Firefox releases after version 4, but the changes between any two releases may not be as dramatic as the current approach.
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You're either for software freedom or your not. GPL restricts what you can, therefor is not free.
This kind of "either you see it my way our you're wrong" statement is NOT a good argument.
GP didn't make a qualitative categorization of the rightness or wrongness of either position. You did that.
I made a "qualitative categorization" of the argument, not of the "rightness or wrongness of either position".
"either you see it my way our you're wrong"
Isn't that pretty much what RMS and FSF say?
Unless you ARE Richard Stallman, whether or not Stallman has that attitude is irrelevant to whether the GPL or any other license is a good fit for your needs. Your choice of a license is based on the goals of your project, your business, and you, as they are served by the terms of the license.
The article (second link in summary) about ways to increase productivity doesn't mention multiple monitors, and appears to have relevant research backing up all of its suggestions.
The Advice column (first link) does appear to be something a lazy writer pulled our of his or her... uh... ear.
Overall, the summary is exactly the quality I expect to find on Slashdot.
You're either for software freedom or your not. GPL restricts what you can, therefor is not free.
This kind of "either you see it my way our you're wrong" statement is NOT a good argument.
There are real reasons why the GPL versions (and other licenses) are problematic for various folks, and this kind of assertion acknowledges none of them.
You can learn the factual basis for arguments against or in favor of various open source or free software licenses at the OSI site and at the FSF site.
Dude, I know you oldtimers had the decency not to read the article, but please don't worry. Most of us newcomers didn't read it either. Besides, there's no specific evidence that the GP actually read the article, only that he or she followed the link. And checked the profile of the other user.
Wait, seriously? Slashdot has a user profile section? Whoah, look... all my old comments are there.... ;-)
... dropping calls in mid-sentence is simply known as "using AT&T wireless service". Zing!
That and if you really want to, you can remove the key caps and wash them just like you'd wash the dishes. The Model M: Introduced in 1984 and still the best fucking keyboard ever made by a such a wide margin that nothing else should be permitted to be called a keyboard. My Model M was born on May 3rd, 1990. It shows no sign of wearing out.
Yeah, freakin' awesome. Would you please remember to go on mute when you're on the phone?
HP's deep patent warchest would make them a significantly less appealing target than such patent lightweights as Barnes and Noble, Foxconn, or Inventec.. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, Microsoft has cross-licensing agreements with most major computer companies that specifically prevent many lawsuits of this sort.
Science is a method of study. Religion is a set of beliefs.
Dogma is antithetical to the practice of science, but is a foundation of nearly every organized religion.
Your post is so far down the slashdot page that few people will be distracted from their rants against the imagined Apple monopolistic conspiracy.
Let the mindless flames continue!
Very Montessori-like. Interesting.
Thank you for the explanation.
Marketing solution: "The first HD cellular data network"
+1 - The Onion reference
Insightful! Is there a registry of "this is the download/upload speed I get for X network in my area"?
What, other than a PC, does Mac OS X run on?
It isn't clear to me if the "foundation of teaching over there" was referring to the PLATO system, or to the Khan Academy, which are very different approaches.
Thank you for trying to clarify, though.
Apparently Bill never saw the episode where Bart is mistaken for a genius after he steals Martin Prince's IQ test answers and gets sent to a genius school. The entire foundation of teaching over there was based on this system.
Would you please clarify what you mean by:
1. "over there"
2. "this system"
I don't think I'm getting the meaning of your comment without those pieces. Thanks!
A person would be awful boring if they only discussed ideas. What if all their ideas are crap? Are they then a great mind? Just asking...
1. "Great minds discuss ideas" does not mean "all people who discuss ideas have great minds."
2. Many people find discussion of ideas boring.
3. The fact that most "great minds" do not have television shows where people can watch them discuss ideas is probably related to 2.
4. The proliferation of television shows where crap ideas are discussed highlights the truth of 1.
Anyone consider that some of the alleged "throttling" may bedue to service provider infrastructure that's overloaded to the point where the performance isn't good anymore?
"This method took a little more work out of the user, but it was still simple enough for a 12 year old to figure out."
Huh? When I was 12, I was programming in assembler.
So... this would have been simple enough for you to figure out when you were 12. Right?
Hmmm... Sounds as if it's Canonical that wants GNOME's help, but some of the GNOME leads don't want to give it.
In any case, Canonical will likely do better to support and work with Freedesktop.org than tying themselves to a single desktop implementation.
At the end of the day, Ubuntu will succeed because it is well funded, and because it has something similar to the great virtue of Apple; a technically involved leader who has the final say on the user experience.
Furthermore, the 71% figure has no apparent relationship with the other numbers mentioned in the article.
The article is nearly as brain-dead as the summary.
Raid is not a backup, FYI.
Parent said he was using RAID to mitigate failure, not to provide backup. One might use a RAID setup as part of a data backup system, but this was not described by the parent post.
And if you bought them all at the same time from the same place, chances are, when one finally dies from old age, more than one may perish simultaneously.
The likelihood of two devices failing at the same time due to old age is incredibly small, unless by "old age" you mean something like "a meteorite striking the storage system".
Poster misunderstood the changing Firefox release strategy
The expectation is an increased number of Firefox releases after version 4, but the changes between any two releases may not be as dramatic as the current approach.
... nothing will.
Correct! We have a winner!