A novice told the master: "I have great news! Today we have obtained an injunction against a parody website. Now they can no longer mock us."
The master replied: "You do not understand Tao. Free speech is for all or for none."
The novice went away to contemplate the words of the master.
The next day, the novice came to the master in great distress and said: "I have terrible news! The fashion show organizers have obtained an injunction against our demonstration next week. Now we cannot shame them with fake blood and pictures of dead animals."
Don't forget, natural selection only has meaning in the context of a particular environment. Some of this code may become useful again in the future, and may be useful now for people who otherwise wouldn't have heard of it. It puts stuff in one place which you would otherwise have to hunt for all over the web.
Which is not incompatible with your idea, of course...but I think calling it a museum would tend to reinforce the idea that this stuff is dead, useless, only good for study and salvage. I don't think we should discourage people from trying to breathe life into them.
For those who want a tool enough to pay something for it, there are a couple of sites where you can propose a project and make an offer for it: Cosource.com and The Free Software Bazaar.
In fact this idea could end up harming the project if an inept project manager refuses to step down as the official leader of the project, if and when a more suitable project manager comes along.
So, what is to stop the second person from announcing that he/she is maintaining a code base and accepting patches? There would be a short period while developers decide who they want to work with, then the project would fork. The most clueful developers gradually fall into the new camp while the clueless remain in the old. And before long, one branch has all the credibility and the other becomes irrelevant.
An oversimplification? Certainly. But that's essentially how it would fall out when all the shouting was over. I can't think of any examples, but I bet it's happened before.
Oh mighty guru, please enlighten we poor ignorant ones. Give us a link. Support your claim. Has it been around for years? Has it been used before? If it's so well known, why didn't M. Madore know about it?
Well, why should they be? She didn't design the capsule. She didn't build it. She didn't fly it. She has absolutely nothing to do with the bloody thing except that she happens to be the widow of the guy who flew it, and he didn't even die on that mission, he died in the Apollo 1 fire. She finds it "disgusting" that the family wasn't consulted? Who the hell does she think she is?
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Isn't that what MS is trying to do with kerberos? Only they won't even purchase it. THeir plan is a subversion, not a purchase, of the open source code...
I have tried and failed to find out what license Kerberos is distributed under. Does anyone know? I don't think it's any kind of open-source license because it isn't on Freshmeat.
Jeez, I was wondering if I was the only one who had read it. Clearly you're the first poster who did. Come on, people, get some facts before you spout off!
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Sigh...pity I didn't read about their parody site before I wrote this.
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A novice told the master: "I have great news! Today we have obtained an injunction against a parody website. Now they can no longer mock us."
The master replied: "You do not understand Tao. Free speech is for all or for none."
The novice went away to contemplate the words of the master.
The next day, the novice came to the master in great distress and said: "I have terrible news! The fashion show organizers have obtained an injunction against our demonstration next week. Now we cannot shame them with fake blood and pictures of dead animals."
Upon hearing this, the master fell silent.
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Create killer app
Watch MS eat your market
Penguins just eat fish
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Jesting Pilate asks
"What is truth?" and washes hands
Jack says "I don't know."
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Cosmic sugar found
Glycolaldehyde? how strange
Why not...galactose?
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New kids on the block
Humans stiff competition
Beware, mice from NIMH
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Slowly, carefully
The case is gently opened
A Virgin no more
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Teach ten thousand kids
All they will learn is how to
Code in "C plus warts"
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Orion slave girls
Being green, can still be seen
Pike says: Make it so!
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Outside, glitz and fluff
Inside, much less than it seems
Metaphor for Bill
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Hmm, big shiny package on the outside, very little of value on the inside...sounds like Microsoft, all right. Them, and their software.
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Hmm, I wonder if this would censor the
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Don't forget, natural selection only has meaning in the context of a particular environment. Some of this code may become useful again in the future, and may be useful now for people who otherwise wouldn't have heard of it. It puts stuff in one place which you would otherwise have to hunt for all over the web.
Which is not incompatible with your idea, of course...but I think calling it a museum would tend to reinforce the idea that this stuff is dead, useless, only good for study and salvage. I don't think we should discourage people from trying to breathe life into them.
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For those who want a tool enough to pay something for it, there are a couple of sites where you can propose a project and make an offer for it: Cosource.com and The Free Software Bazaar.
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In fact this idea could end up harming the project if an inept project manager refuses to step down as the official leader of the project, if and when a more suitable project manager comes along.
So, what is to stop the second person from announcing that he/she is maintaining a code base and accepting patches? There would be a short period while developers decide who they want to work with, then the project would fork. The most clueful developers gradually fall into the new camp while the clueless remain in the old. And before long, one branch has all the credibility and the other becomes irrelevant.
An oversimplification? Certainly. But that's essentially how it would fall out when all the shouting was over. I can't think of any examples, but I bet it's happened before.
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He was asking me yesterday about what I knew about MCSE - he's thinking about doing it.
Tell him to go for it! Sounds like he'd fit right in.
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The fact that the book is 15 years old is a pretty good reason.
Oh, I see. Yes, I suppose you're right, if it's that old I'm sure everyone on Earth has read it by now.
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Oh, OTPs have been around since World War One or so. But there's plenty of stuff besides OTPs in his article. Flawed, granted, but original.
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Oh mighty guru, please enlighten we poor ignorant ones. Give us a link. Support your claim. Has it been around for years? Has it been used before? If it's so well known, why didn't M. Madore know about it?
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I'm sure you had an excellent reason for not putting spoiler warnings in that posting. I can't wait to hear what it was.
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I guess her feelings were not taken into account.
Well, why should they be? She didn't design the capsule. She didn't build it. She didn't fly it. She has absolutely nothing to do with the bloody thing except that she happens to be the widow of the guy who flew it, and he didn't even die on that mission, he died in the Apollo 1 fire. She finds it "disgusting" that the family wasn't consulted? Who the hell does she think she is?
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Ahem.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
There, I said it, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???
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Tux won't get you in trouble in Texas!
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Isn't that what MS is trying to do with kerberos? Only they won't even purchase it. THeir plan is a subversion, not a purchase, of the open source code...
I have tried and failed to find out what license Kerberos is distributed under. Does anyone know? I don't think it's any kind of open-source license because it isn't on Freshmeat.
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Jeez, I was wondering if I was the only one who had read it. Clearly you're the first poster who did. Come on, people, get some facts before you spout off!
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