Let's be realistic folks. We've seen how Intel operates. There's a bunch of ex-Intel employee web sites that tell tales of how they recruit kids out of college and work em to death. They've bullied various companies to not make, sell, other x86 CPUs, chipsets, etc.
They've got money, they'll do what will get them more, such as making you pay many hundreds of dollars per CPU to have an SMP system. Many people here like/run Linux, and there's bunches of other architectures to do it on. Alphas aren't all that much more expensive. Athlons will be around enough to buy, perhaps with some SMP boards, early next spring. There's all those Mac ports (do G3/4's do SMP?). Aside from an old Asus T2P4 motherboard, I've lived a long time now without Intel. I can compile kernels in six minutes, play a variety of games, etc. They'll go where the money is, and what you pay for your Celerons doesn't bring in all that much, so they'll only allow P2's and up to do SMP.
The chip was released what, June 28 or so? Once people started listing them on Pricewatch, I called a few. They were pre-ordering them and expected to have them mid to late July. A recent inquiry, and they still don't have them at these stores.
So Asus releases a board at the end of September, it'll be what, 3-6 months before any stores get them and thus, until we get to run Linux on them. Sure it's good a bunch of companies are saying they'll make boards, but I'm not getting my hopes too high just yet.
They probably don't know because they just don't have to. They install (or have a guru install) Mandrake, Suse, OpenLinux, etc and just use it, never doing a "ldd `which kwm`". Knowledge of libraries isn't necessary for the user or non-coders. As many of the respondents appear to be Windows developers and perhaps use (not necessarily develop) Linux, it's not all that surprising. The use Linux, like it, see a future in Linux apps, so they want to use the same Borland tools they use in Windows. Once they do start making apps, then they'll learn more about what a toolkit is and all, but right now they don't care.
The article said how the NT machine was sending fake DNS packets down to Australia. I assumed that's how they got all the passwords and any other information they wanted from the NT box. A virus, trojan email, back oriface, etc can easily get installed (depending on the user's competence). After that, the rest is all downhill...
And the eight seconds bit is certainly enlightening. They had to have had a way of knowing exactly what was on this box (notably KDE's buffer overflow problem) to get in, do it's thing, and get out. Perhaps it could be BO, they could sit back and watch the user for a couple days, grabbing passwords, watching what they do when the SSH in, etc. Hmmm
FYI, the kde buffer overflow has been fixed, though I'm not sure if it was back in December when this survey was running. I'm sure a browse of the KDE mail lists would reveal exact dates (www.kde.org) if anyone else is that interested.:)
You see, there I would have to say you're wrong. Linux and this whole free software/open source stuff has been around for quite a while now. The companies you list, and anyone getting in now has got to have asked themselves, "What if someone copies what I do and makes it better?" The thing about the GPL, is they must release the better code as well. RedHat recognizes this, Mandrake recognizes this. If RedHat wants to include Mandrake changes in updated RPMs, fine. Everyone gets a better product in the end.
At Comdex back in April, Bob Young was asked this sort of question during one of the panels, he basically said this same thing, I don't have an exact quote is all. But for a more recent quote (yesterday), visit LinuxWorld's web site. When Nick Petreley asked:
Donnie Barnes replied that Mandrake had asked Red Hat if they had a problem with this, and they do not. Red Hat is actually pleased, because under the GPL, Red Hat can incorporate the improvements. This is an example of the open source model working, and it is the responsibility of companies using the model to help new companies coming into the open source community. Larry Augustin voiced his agreement and added "this is a credit to the (open source) culture." Giving up control, which would drive a traditional company crazy, actually results in better products. (Donnie Barnes is from RedHat.)
I can't say it better myself. Once you leave that, "I'm being cheated" attitude and realize all of what Open Source means, you'll get it too.
Borland's recent poll (targetting developers) showed that KDE was wanted/thought about more than GNOME for future apps, porting from Windows, what's used currently, etc. It's just as unscientific as a Slashdot poll would be, but it gives you a feel what some developers want.:)
Check out the results: http://www.borland.com/linux/survey/
Currently using: KDE 50.1%, GNOME 27.5% Interested in developing for: KDE 41.0%, GNOME 28.3%
I tried doing a Debian install once, but I didn't see anything to do a FTP or HTTP install of it. So I was stuck, without a CDROM on that computer. Has at least this much been improved? I've seen other distributions have everything from those two, to SMB, NFS, etc.
Right on! But let's be honest here. We can't just blame the Mandrake team, it's that damned GPL license that's the root cause of all this shinanigans. Since those evil Mandrake folks could look at the source code for everything in RedHat, fix and change things, recompile with Pentium optimizations; that's the real evil here. And it's all RMS's fault. Sharing code, sheesh, that's bullhonkey.
And now that RedHat has bunches of millions from the IPO, they should take everything and put it under a no-source-code-no-modifying license. They don't need any of this stinkin Open Source stuff. And they will get the awards they truely deserve. The stock owners will love it when they get all the awards, and the stock will go even higher!
And while they're at it, they should buy out every other distribution. Why are there 4300 distributions? That's anarchy! Unix split into a bunch of different versions, and look at it now. You can't go to Best Buy and buy a computer with or a box of HP-UX or AIX. Do we want to end up like them?? This is chilling proof that this anarchy must be reigned in. If there is only one choice, users will be happy, stockholders will be happy. Just look at Windows; those people are in utter bliss.
That's the only way to solve this. Which world would you want to live in?
Who hasn't seen this coming? The American public takes a very passive role in these things.
Take the high school shootings, for instance. Dolts clamor about saying, "We've got to do something to stop this from happening." Do what? Shooting people, kids having guns, bomb making, etc are all illegal already. Very few people I've talked to, or seen interviewed on TV had anything useful to suggest. The only constructive idea was to ban guns altogether. Then you're stuck with asking, will a criminal or someone set on killing people abide by a no-guns-allowed law? Sure it won't work, but at least they are thinking enough to come up with an idea.
I live near Peoria, Illinois. Recall a few weeks ago that weirdo (Matt Smith, Mike Smith, something like that; his real name was Benjamin but he though that sounded too Jewish so changed it) went shooting Asians, Jews, etc in Illinois and Indiana. It turns out that that he was rejected from buying a gun lawfully because of a background check. So, he visits an unauthorized gun dealer and is able to go on his shooting spree. Now I look at this as the laws working perfectly. There will always be an illegal means to get material that is banished. It isn't too difficult to see what would happen if guns were outlawed. You just wouldn't be able to purchase them at a store.
And this brings us to Matt Hale's little church of wackos that this Mr. Smith subscribed to. Matt hasn't been on the evening news in quite a while here, since he left Bradley University. So, to get his message out he turned to the Internet. (Aha, more proof the Internet is evil!) And, in this country's mood of non-involvement, they turn to legislatures to solve this problem. One woman on television said something like, "How can they have this sort of material available for anyone to see?"
I don't have any kids yet, but I've done a lot of watching of family/friends. When parents are involved in a kid's life, teaching them what is right/wrong, what is/isn't appropriate material, etc the kids are able to handle themselves well when confronted with it. But that's asking a lot when careers and possessions are more revered than children.
So, for those lazy-asses out there, we need laws that make them feel warm and fuzzy when they drop their kids off at the library and go off to have their nails done. These people don't know how to turn on a monitor, let alone how millions of computers all over the world interconnect to be able to spread a wealth of information across the globe in a fraction of a second. We understand that it isn't technically feasible to ban porn (or whatever) in the US when you can just point the browser to Sweden. I'd wager these sort of people think you have to fly to Sweden to see Sweden's internet.:) But these people don't have any useful suggestions to curb violence, racism, porn, etc. They just "want something done to stop it."
Jason Burke has started a Linux Mentors program to teach kids the wonders of Linux and all that. He wrote up a piece that's on Linux.com in the LUGs section. The important thing is to just keep trying. Talk to businesses and stuff, somewhere there's people eager to get rid of some 486s or low Pentiums that have collected dust in their storeroom.
Some talk radio stations will do these sort of things as well. I just have't ran into them myself on the street when asking questions.
But's it is funny listening to people fumble over things like, "Who's the President of the United States?" And then they throw in something like asking about whatever is going on with Friends and they can spout that off without skipping a beat.
What I've always believed is that by default, people are stupid. It takes work to think, learn something new, etc. And most Americans are just too busy (and don't really care about anything but) watching Friends to sit down and analyze what "right mouse button" means. (That was the hardest part of a phone Windows tech support line I worked at, describing to people how to click that button, sheesh.) I'd wager that more people know everything about the final Seinfeld episode than can recall anything about the Challenger accident
This is getting weird, but links people post like you did have been pointing to http://slashdot.org in comments. Did you have an article, or just like pointing us to Slashdot?
Are there any web sites with business case studies of implementing open source solutions, be it good or bad? It's important to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with regard to open source things. I've often wondered just how much say Samba, various MTAs, etc can handle. One central resource for this sort of stuff would be quite useful for me a least.
Not server related, but I worked at one site of a very large manufacturer. For MS support they had to sign a support contract and pay for the pleasure, call a 1-900 number and pay again, and only one person was allowed to call it, or pay even more. The combination of having to pay for support, that one guy was usually sick/at "training"/etc, and the typical MS answer, "What, you installed non-MS software on this computer?? We can't help you," made for some interesting conversations with the boss. It was just accepted among the support staff that you delete/reinstall programs or the whole system anytime a problem got too complicated. I just can't understand how that is acceptable behavior for something so basic to your company's computer systems. Yet, every year they get themselves more and more entrenched in MS products and headaches.
Seriously though, I've been trying to get my damned foot in the door for quite a while now with no luck. Even for low-level Jr Admin type jobs, I get shooed out because I don't have 2-3 years active experience in Unix Sys Admining. It just seems to me, if I did have 2-3 years in, I wouldn't be going after these measily $40k Jr level jobs. If it's not that, then the companies want someone with business experience in NT Admin, 3 or 4 types of Unix Admin, Novell, know everything about configuring LAN/WAN equipment, and many other things for $30-40k. Yet there appears to be people with MCSE, Novel certs, etc going after these things. What the heck's it take to catch a break 'round here??
I've played a fair bit of games from my Win98 box behind the IP Masq, and for many newer games they work just fine (playing, not hosting).
Those that don't need to get their act together.:) This has some explanations of a method to use UDP packets and work beautifully with different NAT systems.
Things that I have played just fine recently (read, I at least see their CDs lieing around my desk, more work but I can't think of em all right now): Half-Life, Quake 3, Myth 1 and 2, Tribes, F22 Lightnine 3 Demo, even 2am.com's group of free games. I did pop in my old SWAT 2 and that one didn't work. Some game companies at least have a tech support FAQ that may tell what ports to redirect or anything to help. I say we start petitioning companies that refuse to make Linux ports to at least make compatible multiplayer gaming...
Where I last worked, they had some remote control tools. Netfinity from (I think) IBM has the checkbox for asking a user before taking over the desktop unchecked by default. With no visible indication that RC is taking place (nothing in the systray, etc) it also is just as stealthy, although it is much less useful than last year's Back Oriface. Then the company started moving to IBM's Tivoli program. It as well requires a checkbox to ask the user before establishing a connection. So it too should be either banished or welcomed.
It all comes down to who cDc is. They probably will never be taken as a legitimate organization, so their products will be labelled as virii/trojans...
What's to stop you from doing it too? Loki in various interviews have said there's plenty of games out there to go around.
I guess the hardest part would be getting the foot in the door, getting that first company to fork over the source code to you. Then you can prove yourself.
The generation tags put upon this man are a result of the media doing their best to assign people what they should think. The media, in all their liberalness, find people in the public eye and take them to unfathomable heights.
From what I've seen of JFK Jr over the years, he certainly seems like a nice guy. He didn't seek out to be the next King Arthur. He just wanted to live life on his own, making an identity for himself as something more than the son of JFK. When asked if he'll run for office, he would dodge the question saying basically, "Maybe someday." The minute he is presumed dead, he is named Senator, Governor, President, and THE primary symbol for an entire generation of young Americans -- exactly the thing he always avoided in his life.
Rush Limbaugh (no matter what you think of him) had a clip of a woman saying that since she wasn't alive in the 60's, she has been cheated out of experiencing history in the making. Let alone events like Communism collapsing, the Berlin wall going down, espionage at many levels of our military, Mother Teresa, the President being impeached. These are nothing to many people today because the media hasn't treated them as anything. What events are momentous (in media coverage) for this generation? Diana and JFK Jr dieing, cigarettes/guns/video games causing their associated evils, Michael Jackson touching little boys, OJ Simpson.
The media used to be about reporting objectively, now it all about politics -- getting you to think they way they want you to. Unfortunately, all too many people are lazy and make decisions like voting based on sound clips and such they see on the local news. There is also the motive of outdoing each other. One network has cameras looking at a ship several miles out, so they all do. Over three hours were dedicated to staring at tiny ships when the families were dumping the ashes. Out one side of their mouths they were saying, "We are respecting the families' wishes to not be around during this," meanwhile having cameras with 40 foot lenses so they can zoom in as much as possible. It's all about hype, not fact.
To add to that, please, do more than just think of a new idea. Do some research, find related material (how a filesystem works if you want another one supported by this program, or hardware info if you want a driver, etc) to help out programmers. If you do some things like this, you'll have a better chance of catching a developer's attention. If I just see, "I want X," it's doubtful I will pay you any attention.
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Let's be realistic folks. We've seen how Intel operates. There's a bunch of ex-Intel employee web sites that tell tales of how they recruit kids out of college and work em to death. They've bullied various companies to not make, sell, other x86 CPUs, chipsets, etc.
They've got money, they'll do what will get them more, such as making you pay many hundreds of dollars per CPU to have an SMP system. Many people here like/run Linux, and there's bunches of other architectures to do it on. Alphas aren't all that much more expensive. Athlons will be around enough to buy, perhaps with some SMP boards, early next spring. There's all those Mac ports (do G3/4's do SMP?). Aside from an old Asus T2P4 motherboard, I've lived a long time now without Intel. I can compile kernels in six minutes, play a variety of games, etc. They'll go where the money is, and what you pay for your Celerons doesn't bring in all that much, so they'll only allow P2's and up to do SMP.
The point is, move on already.
The chip was released what, June 28 or so? Once people started listing them on Pricewatch, I called a few. They were pre-ordering them and expected to have them mid to late July. A recent inquiry, and they still don't have them at these stores.
So Asus releases a board at the end of September, it'll be what, 3-6 months before any stores get them and thus, until we get to run Linux on them. Sure it's good a bunch of companies are saying they'll make boards, but I'm not getting my hopes too high just yet.
They probably don't know because they just don't have to. They install (or have a guru install) Mandrake, Suse, OpenLinux, etc and just use it, never doing a "ldd `which kwm`". Knowledge of libraries isn't necessary for the user or non-coders. As many of the respondents appear to be Windows developers and perhaps use (not necessarily develop) Linux, it's not all that surprising. The use Linux, like it, see a future in Linux apps, so they want to use the same Borland tools they use in Windows. Once they do start making apps, then they'll learn more about what a toolkit is and all, but right now they don't care.
The article said how the NT machine was sending fake DNS packets down to Australia. I assumed that's how they got all the passwords and any other information they wanted from the NT box. A virus, trojan email, back oriface, etc can easily get installed (depending on the user's competence). After that, the rest is all downhill...
And the eight seconds bit is certainly enlightening. They had to have had a way of knowing exactly what was on this box (notably KDE's buffer overflow problem) to get in, do it's thing, and get out. Perhaps it could be BO, they could sit back and watch the user for a couple days, grabbing passwords, watching what they do when the SSH in, etc. Hmmm
FYI, the kde buffer overflow has been fixed, though I'm not sure if it was back in December when this survey was running. I'm sure a browse of the KDE mail lists would reveal exact dates (www.kde.org) if anyone else is that interested. :)
two words... sat ire.
You see, there I would have to say you're wrong. Linux and this whole free software/open source stuff has been around for quite a while now. The companies you list, and anyone getting in now has got to have asked themselves, "What if someone copies what I do and makes it better?" The thing about the GPL, is they must release the better code as well. RedHat recognizes this, Mandrake recognizes this. If RedHat wants to include Mandrake changes in updated RPMs, fine. Everyone gets a better product in the end.
At Comdex back in April, Bob Young was asked this sort of question during one of the panels, he basically said this same thing, I don't have an exact quote is all. But for a more recent quote (yesterday), visit LinuxWorld's web site. When Nick Petreley asked:
Donnie Barnes replied that Mandrake had asked Red Hat if they had a problem with this, and they do not. Red Hat is actually pleased, because under the GPL, Red Hat can incorporate the improvements. This is an example of the open source model working, and it is the responsibility of companies using the model to help new companies coming into the open source community. Larry Augustin voiced his agreement and added "this is a credit to the (open source) culture." Giving up control, which would drive a traditional company crazy, actually results in better products. (Donnie Barnes is from RedHat.)
I can't say it better myself. Once you leave that, "I'm being cheated" attitude and realize all of what Open Source means, you'll get it too.
Borland's recent poll (targetting developers) showed that KDE was wanted/thought about more than GNOME for future apps, porting from Windows, what's used currently, etc. It's just as unscientific as a Slashdot poll would be, but it gives you a feel what some developers want. :)
Check out the results: http://www.borland.com/linux/survey/
Currently using: KDE 50.1%, GNOME 27.5%
Interested in developing for: KDE 41.0%, GNOME 28.3%
I tried doing a Debian install once, but I didn't see anything to do a FTP or HTTP install of it. So I was stuck, without a CDROM on that computer. Has at least this much been improved? I've seen other distributions have everything from those two, to SMB, NFS, etc.
Right on! But let's be honest here. We can't just blame the Mandrake team, it's that damned GPL license that's the root cause of all this shinanigans. Since those evil Mandrake folks could look at the source code for everything in RedHat, fix and change things, recompile with Pentium optimizations; that's the real evil here. And it's all RMS's fault. Sharing code, sheesh, that's bullhonkey.
And now that RedHat has bunches of millions from the IPO, they should take everything and put it under a no-source-code-no-modifying license. They don't need any of this stinkin Open Source stuff. And they will get the awards they truely deserve. The stock owners will love it when they get all the awards, and the stock will go even higher!
And while they're at it, they should buy out every other distribution. Why are there 4300 distributions? That's anarchy! Unix split into a bunch of different versions, and look at it now. You can't go to Best Buy and buy a computer with or a box of HP-UX or AIX. Do we want to end up like them?? This is chilling proof that this anarchy must be reigned in. If there is only one choice, users will be happy, stockholders will be happy. Just look at Windows; those people are in utter bliss.
That's the only way to solve this. Which world would you want to live in?
Who hasn't seen this coming? The American public takes a very passive role in these things.
:) But these people don't have any useful suggestions to curb violence, racism, porn, etc. They just "want something done to stop it."
Take the high school shootings, for instance. Dolts clamor about saying, "We've got to do something to stop this from happening." Do what? Shooting people, kids having guns, bomb making, etc are all illegal already. Very few people I've talked to, or seen interviewed on TV had anything useful to suggest. The only constructive idea was to ban guns altogether. Then you're stuck with asking, will a criminal or someone set on killing people abide by a no-guns-allowed law? Sure it won't work, but at least they are thinking enough to come up with an idea.
I live near Peoria, Illinois. Recall a few weeks ago that weirdo (Matt Smith, Mike Smith, something like that; his real name was Benjamin but he though that sounded too Jewish so changed it) went shooting Asians, Jews, etc in Illinois and Indiana. It turns out that that he was rejected from buying a gun lawfully because of a background check. So, he visits an unauthorized gun dealer and is able to go on his shooting spree. Now I look at this as the laws working perfectly. There will always be an illegal means to get material that is banished. It isn't too difficult to see what would happen if guns were outlawed. You just wouldn't be able to purchase them at a store.
And this brings us to Matt Hale's little church of wackos that this Mr. Smith subscribed to. Matt hasn't been on the evening news in quite a while here, since he left Bradley University. So, to get his message out he turned to the Internet. (Aha, more proof the Internet is evil!) And, in this country's mood of non-involvement, they turn to legislatures to solve this problem. One woman on television said something like, "How can they have this sort of material available for anyone to see?"
I don't have any kids yet, but I've done a lot of watching of family/friends. When parents are involved in a kid's life, teaching them what is right/wrong, what is/isn't appropriate material, etc the kids are able to handle themselves well when confronted with it. But that's asking a lot when careers and possessions are more revered than children.
So, for those lazy-asses out there, we need laws that make them feel warm and fuzzy when they drop their kids off at the library and go off to have their nails done. These people don't know how to turn on a monitor, let alone how millions of computers all over the world interconnect to be able to spread a wealth of information across the globe in a fraction of a second. We understand that it isn't technically feasible to ban porn (or whatever) in the US when you can just point the browser to Sweden. I'd wager these sort of people think you have to fly to Sweden to see Sweden's internet.
And why are they all on either coast? It makes so much more sense to meet in the middle. :)
Comdex in Chicago was nice (for being put by ZD), but I want a pure Linux show near here too...
Jason Burke has started a Linux Mentors program to teach kids the wonders of Linux and all that. He wrote up a piece that's on Linux.com in the LUGs section. The important thing is to just keep trying. Talk to businesses and stuff, somewhere there's people eager to get rid of some 486s or low Pentiums that have collected dust in their storeroom.
Some talk radio stations will do these sort of things as well. I just have't ran into them myself on the street when asking questions.
But's it is funny listening to people fumble over things like, "Who's the President of the United States?" And then they throw in something like asking about whatever is going on with Friends and they can spout that off without skipping a beat.
What I've always believed is that by default, people are stupid. It takes work to think, learn something new, etc. And most Americans are just too busy (and don't really care about anything but) watching Friends to sit down and analyze what "right mouse button" means. (That was the hardest part of a phone Windows tech support line I worked at, describing to people how to click that button, sheesh.) I'd wager that more people know everything about the final Seinfeld episode than can recall anything about the Challenger accident
This is getting weird, but links people post like you did have been pointing to http://slashdot.org in comments. Did you have an article, or just like pointing us to Slashdot?
Are there any web sites with business case studies of implementing open source solutions, be it good or bad? It's important to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with regard to open source things. I've often wondered just how much say Samba, various MTAs, etc can handle. One central resource for this sort of stuff would be quite useful for me a least.
Not server related, but I worked at one site of a very large manufacturer. For MS support they had to sign a support contract and pay for the pleasure, call a 1-900 number and pay again, and only one person was allowed to call it, or pay even more. The combination of having to pay for support, that one guy was usually sick/at "training"/etc, and the typical MS answer, "What, you installed non-MS software on this computer?? We can't help you," made for some interesting conversations with the boss. It was just accepted among the support staff that you delete/reinstall programs or the whole system anytime a problem got too complicated. I just can't understand how that is acceptable behavior for something so basic to your company's computer systems. Yet, every year they get themselves more and more entrenched in MS products and headaches.
Or at least get paid like one.
Seriously though, I've been trying to get my damned foot in the door for quite a while now with no luck. Even for low-level Jr Admin type jobs, I get shooed out because I don't have 2-3 years active experience in Unix Sys Admining. It just seems to me, if I did have 2-3 years in, I wouldn't be going after these measily $40k Jr level jobs. If it's not that, then the companies want someone with business experience in NT Admin, 3 or 4 types of Unix Admin, Novell, know everything about configuring LAN/WAN equipment, and many other things for $30-40k. Yet there appears to be people with MCSE, Novel certs, etc going after these things. What the heck's it take to catch a break 'round here??
So he manually types up converted packets as they go out, are you saying that's impossible??
I've played a fair bit of games from my Win98 box behind the IP Masq, and for many newer games they work just fine (playing, not hosting).
:) This has some explanations of a method to use UDP packets and work beautifully with different NAT systems.
Those that don't need to get their act together.
Things that I have played just fine recently (read, I at least see their CDs lieing around my desk, more work but I can't think of em all right now): Half-Life, Quake 3, Myth 1 and 2, Tribes, F22 Lightnine 3 Demo, even 2am.com's group of free games. I did pop in my old SWAT 2 and that one didn't work. Some game companies at least have a tech support FAQ that may tell what ports to redirect or anything to help. I say we start petitioning companies that refuse to make Linux ports to at least make compatible multiplayer gaming...
Where I last worked, they had some remote control tools. Netfinity from (I think) IBM has the checkbox for asking a user before taking over the desktop unchecked by default. With no visible indication that RC is taking place (nothing in the systray, etc) it also is just as stealthy, although it is much less useful than last year's Back Oriface. Then the company started moving to IBM's Tivoli program. It as well requires a checkbox to ask the user before establishing a connection. So it too should be either banished or welcomed.
It all comes down to who cDc is. They probably will never be taken as a legitimate organization, so their products will be labelled as virii/trojans...
What's to stop you from doing it too? Loki in various interviews have said there's plenty of games out there to go around.
I guess the hardest part would be getting the foot in the door, getting that first company to fork over the source code to you. Then you can prove yourself.
The generation tags put upon this man are a result of the media doing their best to assign people what they should think. The media, in all their liberalness, find people in the public eye and take them to unfathomable heights.
From what I've seen of JFK Jr over the years, he certainly seems like a nice guy. He didn't seek out to be the next King Arthur. He just wanted to live life on his own, making an identity for himself as something more than the son of JFK. When asked if he'll run for office, he would dodge the question saying basically, "Maybe someday." The minute he is presumed dead, he is named Senator, Governor, President, and THE primary symbol for an entire generation of young Americans -- exactly the thing he always avoided in his life.
Rush Limbaugh (no matter what you think of him) had a clip of a woman saying that since she wasn't alive in the 60's, she has been cheated out of experiencing history in the making. Let alone events like Communism collapsing, the Berlin wall going down, espionage at many levels of our military, Mother Teresa, the President being impeached. These are nothing to many people today because the media hasn't treated them as anything. What events are momentous (in media coverage) for this generation? Diana and JFK Jr dieing, cigarettes/guns/video games causing their associated evils, Michael Jackson touching little boys, OJ Simpson.
The media used to be about reporting objectively, now it all about politics -- getting you to think they way they want you to. Unfortunately, all too many people are lazy and make decisions like voting based on sound clips and such they see on the local news. There is also the motive of outdoing each other. One network has cameras looking at a ship several miles out, so they all do. Over three hours were dedicated to staring at tiny ships when the families were dumping the ashes. Out one side of their mouths they were saying, "We are respecting the families' wishes to not be around during this," meanwhile having cameras with 40 foot lenses so they can zoom in as much as possible. It's all about hype, not fact.
If su lets you do destructive things, then that better be flagged as a trojan horse too. ;)
To add to that, please, do more than just think of a new idea. Do some research, find related material (how a filesystem works if you want another one supported by this program, or hardware info if you want a driver, etc) to help out programmers. If you do some things like this, you'll have a better chance of catching a developer's attention. If I just see, "I want X," it's doubtful I will pay you any attention.