Coming from Windows, you will immediately be immersed in a new environment that is sometimes very different from what you are used to. Coding on Windows (as I do, I'm a C# developer at my day job) is a whole lot different than coding for the Mac.
I whole heartedly suggest that you buy a new Mac and dive right in -- but first you must learn how it works. The first thing you'll say to yourself is "everything is on the wrong side!". The icons are on the right, the window buttons on the left. If you think the differences end there, are you in for a surprise!
So first, use the Mac, become very familiar with it, and know it. Read books, visit forums, learn how it works "underneath".
And then start trying to find something to create.
So here are the steps: 1) Learn it 2) Know it 3) Code it
"Technology scares some people it's a fear of the unknown," parent Mary Brower told the newspaper before the meeting. "Any kind of new technology has the potential for misuse, but I feel confident the school is not going to misuse it."
There is no unknown here -- we know exactly what's going on. Get the kids used to being "tagged" -- so that everyone with access knows exactly where they are at all times. Once everyone is used to this kind of Big Brother handling, its easy enough to extend it into "the real world".
2 movies in recent memory depicted this "track every step" mentality as the normal operation of society are:
Minority Report -- in that movie, it has eyeball scanners at every corner, recording who is going where and when. The eyeball scanners were a little overkill -- all they needed were RFID tags.
and
Imposter -- in that movie, the RFID (which was much too large compared with what is available today) was implanted in everyone's back. Tracking stations were everywhere.
If you get into trouble, or if someone wants to know where you are, all they have to do is look you up.
If we don't put into place some very strong laws against this kind of Big Brother attitude, we'll forever be fighting people who try and try again to implement this kind of technology.
I'm sorry, but if people think "it won't happen in this country!", they are wrong. All the government has to do is allow something bad to happen, and in the name of "security", implement these tags. As the opening credits rolled in Imposter, you hear Gary Sinise talking about the beginning of a war with some Alien civilization that was apparently trying to take over the Earth (I'm paraphrasing here):
"Democracy, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties... all gone in the blink of an eye after the first attack."
Wait until Cell processors become the norm... when you have a process that runs around your network looking for resources to run on.... Oracle's sales reps are going to have a field day with that one!
If you doubt my words, think of what MySQL and PostgreSQL were just a year ago. Then think "What will they be like with 5 more YEARS of development?". Then realize that they are free to everyone and you'll see why Oracle is doomed.
Of course, Microsoft will claim it as their victory, but you, me and everyone else not running SQL Server will know better.
Microsoft illegally tied Internet Explorer to Windows and killed Netscape the company.
Now, why would they do that? Because they thought it would be good for their customers? Nope. They simply wanted to kill Netscape before Netscape had a chance to kill Windows.
Netscape was on the virge of having a full blown, cross platform Client/Server based web solution. Using Java, you'd be able to accomplish pretty much anything that you could do with Windows, in a cross platform manner. Microsoft killed Netscape as fast as it possibly could to protect their Windows monopoly.
I believe that this is what you meant by "Being a dick and using illegal monopoly power".
But my mom always told me that everything happens for a reason. Apparently that reason is so that we don't have to pay anything for a web browser, and we get entertained while Microsoft gets their asses handed to them by Firefox.
Otherwise, we'd still be using Netscape for $30 to $50 a pop.
Yes, but he contends that he didn't distribute them... he just wrote them as a proof of concept.
From the article: The purpose of 29A has always been technical progress, invention and innovation of new and technically mature and interesting viruses. 29A distances itself from virus-spreading, since 29A always tried to act as a security group, not any cybergang, as has been portrayed in the media. 29A just wants to share ideas with others, and source code is a way of expression.
So he didn't distribute anything -- he just wrote programs that could cause damage. Big difference.
He's hardly at the same level as a rapist, murderer or bank robber, sheesh. Those kinds of people inflict physical harm on other people. All this guy did was point out to people who make operating systems that they have security problems.
Unless he is proven to have distributed the programs (viruses, as alleged by the government), then all he did was write programs that/could/ cause problems. If he didn't distribute them, then he didn't do anything wrong. Simple as that.
Frank Abignail did steal millions of dollars. He was a criminal. This kid didn't do anything of the sort -- he simply wrote programs that exposed insecurities in operating systems.
Sometimes those programs are called Viruses, sometimes spyware, sometimes worms.. etc. When you put them all in a pot and boil them down to their bare essentials, they all smell the same way -- programs that exploit insecurities in operating systems.
In the end, if he indeed did NOT spread the programs that he wrote, then they weren't viruses at all -- they were just programs that exposed the insecurities of operating systems.
I am of the mind that we absolutely need people like Benny -- someone MUST check the locks to ensure that we are indeed safe. If no-one is checking the locks, then we're just fooling ourselves that what we hold near and dear is safe.
I want a development environment for Mozilla that is as easy and robust as something like JBuilder or VS.NET. I want to be able to visually develop an Internet aware application using their framework that will run on all platforms without so much as a single pixel being different, and without having a huge ramp-up time in becoming acclimated to the system. I want it to be intuitive, easy, powerful.
Basically, I want what the old Netscape could have become, had The Beast from Redmond not interfered.
'There is evidence that infants analyse the statistical distributions of sounds that they hear in ambient language, and use this information to form phonemic categories. They also learn phonotactic rules -- language-specific rules that govern the sequences of phonemes that can be used to compose words.'"
So in other words, babies mimic everything they hear until they get the response that they expect from watching the responses that others get from saying the same thing.
Wow, whoddathunkit?
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It becomes very difficult to reuse stuff not from a coding point of view but because the object you have to work with is never exactly what you wanted.
This means that you just subclass the object that doesn't quite fit your needs and either extend or override the original functionality. That's the beauty of OOP -- plan well, and you're options are unlimited.
Absolutely for real. It happened after I decided to try the cable company's DVR device. I wasn't really happy with the DVR from the cable company, but I was also not willing to spend more money for having a TiVo. I called TiVo to see if I could rattle the cage a little bit, and it took them about 30 seconds to come back with a counter offer -- $6.95 a month, forever.
The cable company's DVR is now safely back in their office, and I'm still enjoying the added benefits of TiVo on my home network.
Don't try to search for an upcoming show by name -- you'll have to hit TVGuide.com for that -- definitely not an integrated experience!
You also won't be seeing any "TiVo suggestions", based on which shows you've given the "thumbs up" to.
You won't be able to modify that cable box, either. TiVo is Linux based, and a LOT of hacks exist, so that you can do more with your equipment. That cable box is NOT your equipment, so just sit back and relax, and hope that you don't ever want to do anything with all that content but watch it on your TV later.
You're missing out on a bit of functionality there -- but go ahead and enjoy your less expensive solution... while I enjoy knowing that what mine is mine, and not rented.
Oh yeah, I only pay $6.95 a month for TiVo service. Just call them up and threaten to leave -- they are more than willing to negotiate. You definitely can't say that for your cable company!
If they are giving away 5% of each sale (5 pennies on the dollar, or ~5 cents per song that you sell for them), then they have to be making more than that for each sale, right?
So basically, Apple (ie. Steve Jobs) lied when he said that Apple doesn't make any money on their music store (I believe he said that they make 1 cent per sale, or some crap like that). That they make all their money from sales of the iPod, and that the iTunes music store was a loss leader to facilitate those sales and to keep Apple's reputation as the "musically enhanced" computer maker.
Well, I'm not buying it. I think that Apple makes a good deal of money off of the sales of their songs -- maybe 25 cents per song. They give you the ~5 cents for reselling their music, and keep the other 20 to themselves, and give the ~80 cents to the record company so that they can stuff it in their bank accounts.
Your inane ranting aside, the underlying statement still rings true. When someone looks at "Linux", they don't even SEE Linux.
I once went to a drag strip and saw some cars that drag racers had modified. There were different makes of cars there -- Chevy, GM, Mopar, Ford, etc. Seeing "Linux" today reminds me of one of the more heavily modified drag cars that I saw. It was a 1976 Ford Maverick, and it had everything a righteous drag car should have -- tubbed rear end and all. The thing that made it way radical is that it was running a Chevy 350 engine under the hood. Looking at the car, you saw a Maverick. When it went down the track, you saw (the taillights, if you unlucky enough to be in the other lane) a Maverick going down the track... and only the most astute of observers would have heard the familiar roar of a Chevy engine.
What we call "Linux" today is exactly like that car. Linux is the engine, and "other software" - X.org, KDE, Gnome, etc - are what the user "sees". Linux users probably wouldn't be able to tell you that they were actually running on FreeBSD without popping up a terminal. Or Solaris, for that matter.
It isn't until you get under the hood that you see which engine is powering the car.
So the question that remains to be answered is (and in keeping with the drag racing analogy) -- when the cars go down the track, will the one running Linux beat the one running Solaris to the finnish line?
This is why the "GNU" part of "GNU/Linux" should NOT be forgotten. People in the Microsoft mind-set immediately think that "Linux" is what they see when they look at a screenshot of X11 running KDE. The situation really sinks in when you realize that Linux is just the kernel, and they could be looking at *BSD, or even Darwin (Mac OS X's base), running X11 and KDE. Why not Solaris? Solaris is going one further though -- how about not having to recompile those apps that have been compiled to run on Linux? Very cool stuff indeed... especially if/when they open source Solaris! If they do it right (meaning - GPL compatible), then we'll see "GNU/Solaris", and Stallman will have a whole new name to complain about...
Quite a lot of innovation came out of Apple in the early Lisa/Mac days, even though the base ideas came from PARC. While PARC came up with the general idea, they certainly didn't give any code to Apple, or let them do more than just come in and look at what they were doing... all for the priviledge of being able to invest in Apple. Xerox made a good chunk of change off of that investment, too. I don't have any profit amounts available, but they invested around $1M and when Apple went public they could have sold it for 20 times that amount... so not a bad deal:-)
If there is any copying going on, it certainly didn't start with Linux copying Windows.
For instance, the Windows Start menu that you mention as if Microsoft created it was ripped off almost entirely from the Apple menu from Mac OS.
Microsoft won the court battle for the windowing interface of Windows when Apple sued them for implementing a nearly identical GUI interface to Mac OS (The Supreme Court refused the case). After declaring victory, Bill Gates could often be heard saying "Make it more like how Mac OS does it!" in Win95 GUI design meetings.
Then, as now, the GUI interface of the Macintosh has been head and shoulders above anything else... the Gold Standard to be copied, so to speak.
"Be dishonest and try to do something sleazy to the American people. I DARE YOU!"
I am an American citizen, and I am ashamed of my government. I think that most Americans have been ashamed of their government since the JFK assassination. Ever since then, the country has gone downhill.
What we need now is a President that doesn't try to make peace by killing people. We need a President who understands that we are NOT the policemen of the world, mostly because we were never ASKED TO BE! We need to get our asses out of other country's business and let them do what they are going to do to themselves... and if we're ever asked to come in and help, we'll direct the request to the U.N. It's there for a reason, and that reason is not just to be ignored, as the US has done in this unjust, cold blooded war.
And for those that don't agree with me, let me make one more point before you fire up your flamethrowers:
Iraq was a country where a cold blooded dictator tortured and killed thousands of his people.
Now Iraq is a country where a cold blooded president is ordering the torture and killing of thousands of Iraq people.
Wow, they must think that we're as stupid as Bush does.
Hopefully both will find out just how smart Americans are later this year. If Bush gets reelected, you'll know Linux's chances of conquering the desktop.
Lord forbid he use Windows XP -- where there are no less than 3 different button types available. You have the XP themed buttons, the normal Win2K buttons, and the buttons that VB6 programs create, which are different from the other 2.
What about Neal Stephenson? He's technically literate, and a very well respected author of some good selling books. I bet he could do an excellent job on something like this.
Its purpose is to provide U.S. leadership with a researched presentation on attribution and intellectual property problems with the hybrid source code model, particularly Linux. It is our hope that leadership would find this document helpful with public policy decisions regarding its future investment in Linux and other hybrid source products.
So they are writing a book of lies to give to non-technical politicians in order to persuade public policy.
So who is going to step forward and write a book, of researched FACTS to counteract this work of FICTION?
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I was you 2 years ago.... so listen up!
Coming from Windows, you will immediately be immersed in a new environment that is sometimes very different from what you are used to. Coding on Windows (as I do, I'm a C# developer at my day job) is a whole lot different than coding for the Mac.
I whole heartedly suggest that you buy a new Mac and dive right in -- but first you must learn how it works. The first thing you'll say to yourself is "everything is on the wrong side!". The icons are on the right, the window buttons on the left. If you think the differences end there, are you in for a surprise!
So first, use the Mac, become very familiar with it, and know it. Read books, visit forums, learn how it works "underneath".
And then start trying to find something to create.
So here are the steps:
1) Learn it
2) Know it
3) Code it
Good luck!
-Steven
"Technology scares some people it's a fear of the unknown," parent Mary Brower told the newspaper before the meeting. "Any kind of new technology has the potential for misuse, but I feel confident the school is not going to misuse it."
There is no unknown here -- we know exactly what's going on. Get the kids used to being "tagged" -- so that everyone with access knows exactly where they are at all times. Once everyone is used to this kind of Big Brother handling, its easy enough to extend it into "the real world".
2 movies in recent memory depicted this "track every step" mentality as the normal operation of society are:
Minority Report -- in that movie, it has eyeball scanners at every corner, recording who is going where and when. The eyeball scanners were a little overkill -- all they needed were RFID tags.
and
Imposter -- in that movie, the RFID (which was much too large compared with what is available today) was implanted in everyone's back. Tracking stations were everywhere.
If you get into trouble, or if someone wants to know where you are, all they have to do is look you up.
If we don't put into place some very strong laws against this kind of Big Brother attitude, we'll forever be fighting people who try and try again to implement this kind of technology.
I'm sorry, but if people think "it won't happen in this country!", they are wrong. All the government has to do is allow something bad to happen, and in the name of "security", implement these tags. As the opening credits rolled in Imposter, you hear Gary Sinise talking about the beginning of a war with some Alien civilization that was apparently trying to take over the Earth (I'm paraphrasing here):
"Democracy, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties... all gone in the blink of an eye after the first attack."
I could only think of what it really looks like..
a big... chrome.... turd.
Wait until Cell processors become the norm... when you have a process that runs around your network looking for resources to run on.... Oracle's sales reps are going to have a field day with that one!
Due to greed and stagnancy, Oracle has maybe 5 years left before the "smell of rot" is all pervasive. When MySQL and PostgreSQL become so common place (think Apache on the net today vs. Netscape's web server from the mid to late '90s), Oracle will be lucky to be a million dollar company.
If you doubt my words, think of what MySQL and PostgreSQL were just a year ago. Then think "What will they be like with 5 more YEARS of development?". Then realize that they are free to everyone and you'll see why Oracle is doomed.
Of course, Microsoft will claim it as their victory, but you, me and everyone else not running SQL Server will know better.
Microsoft illegally tied Internet Explorer to Windows and killed Netscape the company.
Now, why would they do that? Because they thought it would be good for their customers? Nope. They simply wanted to kill Netscape before Netscape had a chance to kill Windows.
Netscape was on the virge of having a full blown, cross platform Client/Server based web solution. Using Java, you'd be able to accomplish pretty much anything that you could do with Windows, in a cross platform manner. Microsoft killed Netscape as fast as it possibly could to protect their Windows monopoly.
I believe that this is what you meant by "Being a dick and using illegal monopoly power".
But my mom always told me that everything happens for a reason. Apparently that reason is so that we don't have to pay anything for a web browser, and we get entertained while Microsoft gets their asses handed to them by Firefox.
Otherwise, we'd still be using Netscape for $30 to $50 a pop.
All's well that ends well, I guess.
Yes, but he contends that he didn't distribute them... he just wrote them as a proof of concept.
From the article:
The purpose of 29A has always been technical progress, invention and innovation of new and technically mature and interesting viruses. 29A distances itself from virus-spreading, since 29A always tried to act as a security group, not any cybergang, as has been portrayed in the media. 29A just wants to share ideas with others, and source code is a way of expression.
So he didn't distribute anything -- he just wrote programs that could cause damage. Big difference.
He's hardly at the same level as a rapist, murderer or bank robber, sheesh. Those kinds of people inflict physical harm on other people. All this guy did was point out to people who make operating systems that they have security problems.
/could/ cause problems. If he didn't distribute them, then he didn't do anything wrong. Simple as that.
Unless he is proven to have distributed the programs (viruses, as alleged by the government), then all he did was write programs that
Wow, such angst. Calm down there, Nelly.
Besides, Benny is now employed as a locksmith. The argument was whether or not he deserved to be. I contend that he does.
Apparently you haven't engaged your brain enough to be able to form a real opinion either way.
It's not like that at all.
Frank Abignail did steal millions of dollars. He was a criminal. This kid didn't do anything of the sort -- he simply wrote programs that exposed insecurities in operating systems.
Sometimes those programs are called Viruses, sometimes spyware, sometimes worms.. etc. When you put them all in a pot and boil them down to their bare essentials, they all smell the same way -- programs that exploit insecurities in operating systems.
In the end, if he indeed did NOT spread the programs that he wrote, then they weren't viruses at all -- they were just programs that exposed the insecurities of operating systems.
I am of the mind that we absolutely need people like Benny -- someone MUST check the locks to ensure that we are indeed safe. If no-one is checking the locks, then we're just fooling ourselves that what we hold near and dear is safe.
I want a development environment for Mozilla that is as easy and robust as something like JBuilder or VS.NET. I want to be able to visually develop an Internet aware application using their framework that will run on all platforms without so much as a single pixel being different, and without having a huge ramp-up time in becoming acclimated to the system. I want it to be intuitive, easy, powerful.
Basically, I want what the old Netscape could have become, had The Beast from Redmond not interfered.
'There is evidence that infants analyse the statistical distributions of sounds that they hear in ambient language, and use this information to form phonemic categories. They also learn phonotactic rules -- language-specific rules that govern the sequences of phonemes that can be used to compose words.'"
So in other words, babies mimic everything they hear until they get the response that they expect from watching the responses that others get from saying the same thing.
Wow, whoddathunkit?
It becomes very difficult to reuse stuff not from a coding point of view but because the object you have to work with is never exactly what you wanted.
This means that you just subclass the object that doesn't quite fit your needs and either extend or override the original functionality. That's the beauty of OOP -- plan well, and you're options are unlimited.
Absolutely for real. It happened after I decided to try the cable company's DVR device. I wasn't really happy with the DVR from the cable company, but I was also not willing to spend more money for having a TiVo. I called TiVo to see if I could rattle the cage a little bit, and it took them about 30 seconds to come back with a counter offer -- $6.95 a month, forever.
The cable company's DVR is now safely back in their office, and I'm still enjoying the added benefits of TiVo on my home network.
For the following reasons:
Don't try to search for an upcoming show by name -- you'll have to hit TVGuide.com for that -- definitely not an integrated experience!
You also won't be seeing any "TiVo suggestions", based on which shows you've given the "thumbs up" to.
You won't be able to modify that cable box, either. TiVo is Linux based, and a LOT of hacks exist, so that you can do more with your equipment. That cable box is NOT your equipment, so just sit back and relax, and hope that you don't ever want to do anything with all that content but watch it on your TV later.
You're missing out on a bit of functionality there -- but go ahead and enjoy your less expensive solution... while I enjoy knowing that what mine is mine, and not rented.
Oh yeah, I only pay $6.95 a month for TiVo service. Just call them up and threaten to leave -- they are more than willing to negotiate. You definitely can't say that for your cable company!
If they are giving away 5% of each sale (5 pennies on the dollar, or ~5 cents per song that you sell for them), then they have to be making more than that for each sale, right?
So basically, Apple (ie. Steve Jobs) lied when he said that Apple doesn't make any money on their music store (I believe he said that they make 1 cent per sale, or some crap like that). That they make all their money from sales of the iPod, and that the iTunes music store was a loss leader to facilitate those sales and to keep Apple's reputation as the "musically enhanced" computer maker.
Well, I'm not buying it. I think that Apple makes a good deal of money off of the sales of their songs -- maybe 25 cents per song. They give you the ~5 cents for reselling their music, and keep the other 20 to themselves, and give the ~80 cents to the record company so that they can stuff it in their bank accounts.
Your inane ranting aside, the underlying statement still rings true. When someone looks at "Linux", they don't even SEE Linux.
I once went to a drag strip and saw some cars that drag racers had modified. There were different makes of cars there -- Chevy, GM, Mopar, Ford, etc. Seeing "Linux" today reminds me of one of the more heavily modified drag cars that I saw. It was a 1976 Ford Maverick, and it had everything a righteous drag car should have -- tubbed rear end and all. The thing that made it way radical is that it was running a Chevy 350 engine under the hood. Looking at the car, you saw a Maverick. When it went down the track, you saw (the taillights, if you unlucky enough to be in the other lane) a Maverick going down the track... and only the most astute of observers would have heard the familiar roar of a Chevy engine.
What we call "Linux" today is exactly like that car. Linux is the engine, and "other software" - X.org, KDE, Gnome, etc - are what the user "sees". Linux users probably wouldn't be able to tell you that they were actually running on FreeBSD without popping up a terminal. Or Solaris, for that matter.
It isn't until you get under the hood that you see which engine is powering the car.
So the question that remains to be answered is (and in keeping with the drag racing analogy) -- when the cars go down the track, will the one running Linux beat the one running Solaris to the finnish line?
This is why the "GNU" part of "GNU/Linux" should NOT be forgotten. People in the Microsoft mind-set immediately think that "Linux" is what they see when they look at a screenshot of X11 running KDE. The situation really sinks in when you realize that Linux is just the kernel, and they could be looking at *BSD, or even Darwin (Mac OS X's base), running X11 and KDE. Why not Solaris? Solaris is going one further though -- how about not having to recompile those apps that have been compiled to run on Linux? Very cool stuff indeed... especially if/when they open source Solaris! If they do it right (meaning - GPL compatible), then we'll see "GNU/Solaris", and Stallman will have a whole new name to complain about...
Quite a lot of innovation came out of Apple in the early Lisa/Mac days, even though the base ideas came from PARC. While PARC came up with the general idea, they certainly didn't give any code to Apple, or let them do more than just come in and look at what they were doing... all for the priviledge of being able to invest in Apple. Xerox made a good chunk of change off of that investment, too. I don't have any profit amounts available, but they invested around $1M and when Apple went public they could have sold it for 20 times that amount... so not a bad deal :-)
If there is any copying going on, it certainly didn't start with Linux copying Windows.
For instance, the Windows Start menu that you mention as if Microsoft created it was ripped off almost entirely from the Apple menu from Mac OS.
Microsoft won the court battle for the windowing interface of Windows when Apple sued them for implementing a nearly identical GUI interface to Mac OS (The Supreme Court refused the case). After declaring victory, Bill Gates could often be heard saying "Make it more like how Mac OS does it!" in Win95 GUI design meetings.
Then, as now, the GUI interface of the Macintosh has been head and shoulders above anything else... the Gold Standard to be copied, so to speak.
It is basically saying to everyone in power:
"Be dishonest and try to do something sleazy to the American people. I DARE YOU!"
I am an American citizen, and I am ashamed of my government.
I think that most Americans have been ashamed of their government since the JFK assassination. Ever since then, the country has gone downhill.
What we need now is a President that doesn't try to make peace by killing people. We need a President who understands that we are NOT the policemen of the world, mostly because we were never ASKED TO BE! We need to get our asses out of other country's business and let them do what they are going to do to themselves... and if we're ever asked to come in and help, we'll direct the request to the U.N. It's there for a reason, and that reason is not just to be ignored, as the US has done in this unjust, cold blooded war.
And for those that don't agree with me, let me make one more point before you fire up your flamethrowers:
Iraq was a country where a cold blooded dictator tortured and killed thousands of his people.
Now Iraq is a country where a cold blooded president is ordering the torture and killing of thousands of Iraq people.
What's the difference? Intent?
Wow, they must think that we're as stupid as Bush does.
Hopefully both will find out just how smart Americans are later this year. If Bush gets reelected, you'll know Linux's chances of conquering the desktop.
Lord forbid he use Windows XP -- where there are no less than 3 different button types available. You have the XP themed buttons, the normal Win2K buttons, and the buttons that VB6 programs create, which are different from the other 2.
Talk about inconsistency!
What about Neal Stephenson? He's technically literate, and a very well respected author of some good selling books. I bet he could do an excellent job on something like this.
SCOintology.... that is GREAT! Perfectly fitting, IMHO.
Its purpose is to provide U.S. leadership with a researched presentation on attribution and intellectual property problems with the hybrid source code model, particularly Linux. It is our hope that leadership would find this document helpful with public policy decisions regarding its future investment in Linux and other hybrid source products.
So they are writing a book of lies to give to non-technical politicians in order to persuade public policy.
So who is going to step forward and write a book, of researched FACTS to counteract this work of FICTION?