I don't understand what people don't like about ICANN. People opposed either seem to 1) make unsubstantiated name-calling slurs, 2) have strong monetary reasons they don't like ICANN, or 3) want the United States to rule the Internet.
To further paraphrase what Stephenson said: he changed the name to "Finux" so this slashdot story wouldn't be full of people saying "Stephenson is an idiot because the Linux boot prompt _actually_ looks different from in the book, and Linux has feature x and not feature y like in the book".
Tymm Twillman, the author of BottleRocket, has confirmed for me that his software works with this kit. In fact, this is specifically what he wrote it for.
People get all tripped up on the money thing. Linux isn't about communism, it's about democracy. (Or meritocracy, at least.) The traditional corporate model most closely resembles the feudal system of the middle ages - not exactly a forward-thinking political structure.
There's a huge difference between an X station and a diskless client. With a diskless workstation, the programs are still run locally -- so sound is no problem.
A key difference between Linux/Open Source/Free software and the movements Metcalfe compares it to is: we don't need to fight anyone. If businesses stop using OSS as the fight-MS catchphrase of the day, and if mainstream people don't switch, that isn't going to stop Linux. If Red Hat's IPO flops, and the company folds, so what? There will still be thousands of world-class programmers willing to put their time into the project -- some because it's an ideological belief, but some because hey, it's fun to hack.
The thing is, Linux can't be beaten. It may not become the mainstream OS, but it will keep becoming better and better. In fact, it's very likely that within several years it will exceed all other choices on all fronts - whether it's successful in the market or not. And at that point, even if the current OSS fad fizzles, the market won't be able to ignore us.
What in the world do they mean by "runs on a hybrid operating system, taken from both Linux and BeOS"?
Are they licensing some features of BeOS and making them run on Linux? Highly doubtful. Did they write something from scratch? Yeah right. Do they have some sort of BeOS-looking GUI that runs on Linux? (non-X-based?)
Can someone explain what is so "scary" about this? I'm not really that frightened -- the "huge ethical questions" raised seem to have simple answers. (Are clones human? Well, yes. Do they have full human rights? Well, yes. Huh. That seems to end the discussion.)
Sure, Netscape/Sun/AOL want to defeat Microsoft. That doesn't mean that their plans are in actual reality likely to damage Microsofts' desktop OS stranglehold.
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"Despite the significant consumer enthusiasm". Ha ha.
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I don't understand what people don't like about ICANN. People opposed either seem to 1) make unsubstantiated name-calling slurs, 2) have strong monetary reasons they don't like ICANN, or 3) want the United States to rule the Internet.
Several points to consider:
So what's people's problem?
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http://mlug.missouri.edu/~tymm/. Probably others will work too, if it's basically standard X10.
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A key difference between Linux/Open Source/Free software and the movements Metcalfe compares it to is: we don't need to fight anyone. If businesses stop using OSS as the fight-MS catchphrase of the day, and if mainstream people don't switch, that isn't going to stop Linux. If Red Hat's IPO flops, and the company folds, so what? There will still be thousands of world-class programmers willing to put their time into the project -- some because it's an ideological belief, but some because hey, it's fun to hack.
The thing is, Linux can't be beaten. It may not become the mainstream OS, but it will keep becoming better and better. In fact, it's very likely that within several years it will exceed all other choices on all fronts - whether it's successful in the market or not. And at that point, even if the current OSS fad fizzles, the market won't be able to ignore us.
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What in the world do they mean by "runs on a hybrid operating system, taken from both Linux and BeOS"?
Are they licensing some features of BeOS and making them run on Linux? Highly doubtful. Did they write something from scratch? Yeah right. Do they have some sort of BeOS-looking GUI that runs on Linux? (non-X-based?)
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http://www.gateway.com/promotion
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Ha ha.
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Java certainly changes the picture -- I've got to stretch to use more than two megs with normal palm os apps.
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