Though it's still very useful for some things, its time has passed and Joe Public is unlikely to revisit it.
It is really not about Joe Public using it, Joe Public never used gopher in the first place. What Gopher would be used for, I hope, is a no frills presentation of real information. Such as that document, it was perfect for Gopher, it did not require any pictures or links or anything else, just the text.
No company willing to shell out that much money for a domain name will ever buy.biz . Not only does.biz not have as high a profile as.com , but it also looks really stupid. I can't imagine running foocorp.biz instead of foocorp.com .
I have no problem with say Bill Gates (yuck) taking my work and "modifying it for the better" and keeping his changes for himself, because he is not making it better. He is only altering it not making it better, sure maybe he has made it faster, or smaller, or given it one of thoes happy little paper clips. This is bad for both Bill Gates and the Free Software/Open Source community.
It is bad for us because we can get at the source and make changes, see what Bill has done, improve it even more (which in turn, Bill would hopefully do and give it back to us), and distribute it to an ever wider userbase. Bill loses when he keeps the source because the hacker community will go elsewhere for a solution. Now Bill loses the buissnes (that may not be all bad) which he cares about, and the support of a user community.
What is your [canadate] posistion on Napster? Do you support laws like the DMCA?
Also, what do you think about law on the internet in gerneral? How should it be enforced, who enforces it, and should it even exist at all?
Five months to let the evidence sit and look real. More to the point, has anyone every gotten one of their "Freedom to Inovate" newsletters. It would be nice to see that used as evidence against them.
Yes, I agree with you. (Background: Love Linux. But I also like BSD, a lot. Between the two operating systems, I would take *BSD. Between the two licenses(sp?) I would take the GPL. (This does not mean that I think all software should be GPL, and have use BSD style licenses before, and will again.)
RMS is a bit extreme, but if it were not for RMS's radicalism, there would be no FSF and GNU Project. I do not agree with RMS on many issues, but he is still a hero to me. RMS does not have to like other licenses, but respect would be nice.
The last thing the Free Software/Open Source movement needs is RMS vs. ESR vs. the world.
Ok, we have a very good thing now. KDE is turly GPL free. So maybe RMS could have written his article better, but let it be! We could have a f------ holy war over this.
KDE accept RMS's statement. No one is perfect.
The hacker community should convince them to put the Linux source code up there.
And I am assuming that they are putting a CD drive or someother type of device up there?
Personaily, I am torn about the issuse. Cybersquatting is a very bad thing, but I also think that a ruleing body for the internet is a very bad thing. One solution is making the regestring of domain names very expensive. The idea could be altered so that you must provide some proof that you are taking the name in good faith. Both of these are not very good ideas. What I think is a possible soluting is in some way making the internet self policing. I don't really have an idea about the implimentation of this, and I would like to hear some ideas. Right now, I think that the UN should do as most people do, ignore cybersquaters. -------------------------------------------------- Please forgive any spelling errors.
What about other free operating systems?
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I realize that this may be a very stupid question (I know very little about Java), but what about Java on other operating systems, such as BeOS and QNX or AtheOS? I realize that they do not have a large enough following for Sun to care, but is it possible for users of these operating systems to use Java in some way?
This is really not as stupid as you might think. While I prefer Linux over MacOS, and even Windows for GUI reasons only, Apple has put out a very good operating system. Older versions were based to a degree on NeXT, which was based on BSD. The newist version is based on the Mach kernel and has a BSD layer on top, as you can see in the article(which I am sure you read). The easiest place for information is Apples Web Site, another useful site for information is this operating system comparison focusing on comparing Rhapsody (Mac OS X) to Windows NT. Their is also this post on Slashdot. Oh wait, information about Mac OS X is not susposed to be on Slashdot. And in response to your second statement, many of my friends will agree with me on this, if Mac OS X had a better interface we would love to have it on our PCs.
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It would appear that Episode IV was rather aptly named.
It is really not about Joe Public using it, Joe Public never used gopher in the first place. What Gopher would be used for, I hope, is a no frills presentation of real information. Such as that document, it was perfect for Gopher, it did not require any pictures or links or anything else, just the text.
No company willing to shell out that much money for a domain name will ever buy .biz . Not only does .biz not have as high a profile as .com , but it also looks really stupid. I can't imagine running foocorp.biz instead of foocorp.com .
At last, someone who gets it. This must be moderated up.
I have no problem with say Bill Gates (yuck) taking my work and "modifying it for the better" and keeping his changes for himself, because he is not making it better. He is only altering it not making it better, sure maybe he has made it faster, or smaller, or given it one of thoes happy little paper clips. This is bad for both Bill Gates and the Free Software/Open Source community. It is bad for us because we can get at the source and make changes, see what Bill has done, improve it even more (which in turn, Bill would hopefully do and give it back to us), and distribute it to an ever wider userbase. Bill loses when he keeps the source because the hacker community will go elsewhere for a solution. Now Bill loses the buissnes (that may not be all bad) which he cares about, and the support of a user community.
What is your [canadate] posistion on Napster? Do you support laws like the DMCA? Also, what do you think about law on the internet in gerneral? How should it be enforced, who enforces it, and should it even exist at all?
As it is now obvious that they moved, my question is why? Why would anyone give up valuable web space, a .com? Have they run in to legal problems?
Five months to let the evidence sit and look real. More to the point, has anyone every gotten one of their "Freedom to Inovate" newsletters. It would be nice to see that used as evidence against them.
Yes, I agree with you. (Background: Love Linux. But I also like BSD, a lot. Between the two operating systems, I would take *BSD. Between the two licenses(sp?) I would take the GPL. (This does not mean that I think all software should be GPL, and have use BSD style licenses before, and will again.) RMS is a bit extreme, but if it were not for RMS's radicalism, there would be no FSF and GNU Project. I do not agree with RMS on many issues, but he is still a hero to me. RMS does not have to like other licenses, but respect would be nice. The last thing the Free Software/Open Source movement needs is RMS vs. ESR vs. the world.
Ok, we have a very good thing now. KDE is turly GPL free. So maybe RMS could have written his article better, but let it be! We could have a f------ holy war over this. KDE accept RMS's statement. No one is perfect.
The hacker community should convince them to put the Linux source code up there. And I am assuming that they are putting a CD drive or someother type of device up there?
Personaily, I am torn about the issuse. Cybersquatting is a very bad thing, but I also think that a ruleing body for the internet is a very bad thing. One solution is making the regestring of domain names very expensive. The idea could be altered so that you must provide some proof that you are taking the name in good faith. Both of these are not very good ideas. What I think is a possible soluting is in some way making the internet self policing. I don't really have an idea about the implimentation of this, and I would like to hear some ideas. Right now, I think that the UN should do as most people do, ignore cybersquaters. -------------------------------------------------- Please forgive any spelling errors.
I realize that this may be a very stupid question (I know very little about Java), but what about Java on other operating systems, such as BeOS and QNX or AtheOS? I realize that they do not have a large enough following for Sun to care, but is it possible for users of these operating systems to use Java in some way?
This is really not as stupid as you might think. While I prefer Linux over MacOS, and even Windows for GUI reasons only, Apple has put out a very good operating system. Older versions were based to a degree on NeXT, which was based on BSD. The newist version is based on the Mach kernel and has a BSD layer on top, as you can see in the article(which I am sure you read). The easiest place for information is Apples Web Site, another useful site for information is this operating system comparison focusing on comparing Rhapsody (Mac OS X) to Windows NT. Their is also this post on Slashdot. Oh wait, information about Mac OS X is not susposed to be on Slashdot. And in response to your second statement, many of my friends will agree with me on this, if Mac OS X had a better interface we would love to have it on our PCs.
This is definitely a winner. I like MST3K a lot, but I think it is going off the air, or has gone off the air.