You haven't been faithful to Slashdot have you? Otherwise you'd have known this was the forty thousandth appearance of this troll. It's second in popularity only to goatsex.
It seems to me that some time ago governments forced filthy rich tobacco companies to print BIG PROMINENT warnings on their packaging about the dangers of their product. So what are you waiting for govts: prove you're still responsible!
Why the hell is it that every one of the linux zealots that read and post to slashdot BITCH AND MOAN about Microsoft products
Hey, give the other zealots a chance!
...claiming that they're the most worthless piece of shit software company on the planet?
Come on now, convince me they're wrong.
Anyone who has to reinstall a Windows OS every god damn month is just a fucking moron. Anyone who can't keep a Windows machine up for more than a day is also a damn moron.
No he's not - he's just one of hundreds of millions of typical Windoze lusers. But if he does keep it up for 4days 4hrs 55mins 23secs then he's a god!
Sure, you have to reboot to patch and install software, but who the hell cares?
Uh - someone who'd rather it kept running?
Come on, get a damn clue and jump off that damn bandwagon.
You're dead right of course. One of the biggest reasons for OSS's superiority (the "eyes" one), squandered by people too lazy to sumbit bug reports. I must make a note to stop being one of them.
BTW your monospace font makes your post look lousy on konq. Just thought you'd like to know.
The "Open" in OpenGL is clearly misleading and an obvious attempt to cash in on the greater renown of established products such as Open Source(c), the British Open Golf Championship(r), and Open Wide(tm: the Dental Association). Let's club together and sue the pants of the sofabs!
We all can see the hand writing on the wall: *BSD faces a rosy future. In fact there may be no need to wait for the future at all because *BSD is flourishing. Things are looking very good for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to gain market share while red ink flows like a river of blood for other OS's.
FreeBSD is perhaps the most vigorous. Let's look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo understates that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. This ties up with the fact that NetBSD doesn't have a newsgroup. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts, rather surprising when you think there is no such operating system. Therefore there are about 700 users of a phantom operating system called BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is completely inconsistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the closeness of Walnut Creek to FreeBSD, CD sales and so on, FreeBSD gained a lot of business and established closer links with BSDI who sell a supported version of the same OS.
All marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily risen in market share. *BSD is very healthy and its long term survival prospects are very secure. If *BSD is to decline at all, it will be among the mental freaks who frequent the slashdot trolling grounds. *BSD continues to improve. Nothing short of a miracle could stop it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD has it made.
The file system layout in FreeBSD is pretty immutable, but since it's anything but immutable in Linux, maybe the user would just think it was a quirky linux layout. He'd probably start to catch on once he began tuning the config scripts.
MacOS X is not FreeBSD. It may be very good, it may be very bad, it's certainly for the desktop, and when all those MacOS X users come flooding into c.u.b.f.m for help, we'll do all we can for them - but it's not FreeBSD.
Don't. Debian is a good enough OS to not want to change to FreeBSD. But please don't take that as a generalisation that applies to all Linux distributions.
ROFPML - I waded through all that previous crap to get to this gem - but it was worth it:^)
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This group is also a prime target for Sony, since their greater disposable income means they can buy more -- and more expensive -- games. This means Sony will be in a war on two fronts, something both Napoleon and Hitler learned is not a good position in which to be.
That must be the most irrelevant (and inaccurate) piece of drivel I've seen in a long time. What's more, if you want to count the number of fronts Sony is at war on, you certainly don't want to stop at two. Sony is a giant with more than enough resources - and more than enough guile - and more than enough hindsight - and more than enough proven killer instinct - to take on Microsoft and at long last give them the whupping they deserve. That's what I'm hoping at least.
World Co. owns your arses. The manipulation of the DCMA by the Cartel is just one ugly face of corporatism. We need to stamp out the whole of the stinking plague. Absolutism is a curse, whatever name it goes by. Rather than raising a petition we should be raising an army - unless you want to see a house of enterprise (thank you Tad Williams for that chilling thought) alongside the other houses of whatever your parliament is called.
People have fought for a lot less. Aux armes citoyens!
If you want to know what the most far-reaching innovation of the last twenty years is, just save any slashdot page as plain text and do grep "[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]" on it. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the age of the acronym.
I'm really having difficulty imagining who would want to get hold of Micro$ource. If the code was for something GOOD, I could understand. But there are already far superior, open-source OS's out there, so what's the point?
Look how long it took to squeeze anything half-decent out of Netscape's code when there were NOT any good open-source browsers. How long would you have to squeeze without that motivation before anything like a professional product came out of Micro$ource?
So I'll repeat what I said: I'm really having difficulty imagining who would want to get hold of Micro$ource. Does anyone have any scenarios?
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Do I smell an Apple IP lawsuit in the air?
You haven't been faithful to Slashdot have you? Otherwise you'd have known this was the forty thousandth appearance of this troll. It's second in popularity only to goatsex.
Sure they wouldn't be stealing it, but I'd hope they didn't wait a week to break the story.
I would guess they were wise enough to realize that the letter X is already overburdened in the world into which they are entering.
It seems to me that some time ago governments forced filthy rich tobacco companies to print BIG PROMINENT warnings on their packaging about the dangers of their product.
So what are you waiting for govts: prove you're still responsible!
Why the hell is it that every one of the linux zealots that read and post to slashdot BITCH AND MOAN about Microsoft products
Hey, give the other zealots a chance!
Come on now, convince me they're wrong.
Anyone who has to reinstall a Windows OS every god damn month is just a fucking moron. Anyone who can't keep a Windows machine up for more than a day is also a damn moron.
No he's not - he's just one of hundreds of millions of typical Windoze lusers. But if he does keep it up for 4days 4hrs 55mins 23secs then he's a god!
Sure, you have to reboot to patch and install software, but who the hell cares?
Uh - someone who'd rather it kept running?
Come on, get a damn clue and jump off that damn bandwagon.
But that's exactly what we're advocating ;^
BTW your monospace font makes your post look lousy on konq. Just thought you'd like to know.
The "Open" in OpenGL is clearly misleading and an obvious attempt to cash in on the greater renown of established products such as Open Source(c), the British Open Golf Championship(r), and Open Wide(tm: the Dental Association). Let's club together and sue the pants of the sofabs!
Come on, own up ...
Or 01/04 as they say where I come from.
In the main article, Cliff asked Slashdot (I quote) "What would FreeBSD need added to it to make a desktop friendly BSD distribution?"
Saying OS X is a desktop operating system cetainly doesn't answer that question.
There again, Slashdot made a balls-up of the headline - that doesn't help either.
FreeBSD is perhaps the most vigorous. Let's look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo understates that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. This ties up with the fact that NetBSD doesn't have a newsgroup. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts, rather surprising when you think there is no such operating system. Therefore there are about 700 users of a phantom operating system called BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is completely inconsistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the closeness of Walnut Creek to FreeBSD, CD sales and so on, FreeBSD gained a lot of business and established closer links with BSDI who sell a supported version of the same OS. All marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily risen in market share. *BSD is very healthy and its long term survival prospects are very secure. If *BSD is to decline at all, it will be among the mental freaks who frequent the slashdot trolling grounds. *BSD continues to improve. Nothing short of a miracle could stop it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD has it made.
The file system layout in FreeBSD is pretty immutable, but since it's anything but immutable in Linux, maybe the user would just think it was a quirky linux layout. He'd probably start to catch on once he began tuning the config scripts.
MacOS X is not FreeBSD. It may be very good, it may be very bad, it's certainly for the desktop, and when all those MacOS X users come flooding into c.u.b.f.m for help, we'll do all we can for them - but it's not FreeBSD.
Too late - I looked elsewhere and I've discovered WM now, and it seems to run kde applications better than kde...
Don't. Debian is a good enough OS to not want to change to FreeBSD. But please don't take that as a generalisation that applies to all Linux distributions.
Just because someone repeats the same posting many kilotimes over does NOT make belief into BELIEFS!!
P.S. Gnome has always run natively on FreeBSD. The only problem is that it crashes for reasons that are more arcane even than those of Windoze.
C'mon now - you never read Tokien?
I think the article was talking about modern ethernet equipment, not that old 1924 stuff.
ROFPML - I waded through all that previous crap to get to this gem - but it was worth it :^)
That must be the most irrelevant (and inaccurate) piece of drivel I've seen in a long time.
What's more, if you want to count the number of fronts Sony is at war on, you certainly don't want to stop at two. Sony is a giant with more than enough resources - and more than enough guile - and more than enough hindsight - and more than enough proven killer instinct - to take on Microsoft and at long last give them the whupping they deserve. That's what I'm hoping at least.
Absolutism is a curse, whatever name it goes by. Rather than raising a petition we should be raising an army - unless you want to see a house of enterprise (thank you Tad Williams for that chilling thought) alongside the other houses of whatever your parliament is called.
People have fought for a lot less.
Aux armes citoyens!
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the age of the acronym.
<groan>Yet another language to learn.</groan>
Does M-CAM have a patent for their search engine?
So I'll repeat what I said: I'm really having difficulty imagining who would want to get hold of Micro$ource. Does anyone have any scenarios?