What is it with our culture now? Making mature, considered decisions about something, decisions that require other parties to consider them outside the world of newsbites and so on, is now considered a sign of weakness, is it?!?
Unfortunately, yes. That's what moral relativism seems to be all about. People don't do wrong things; they merely do things "differently".
This is usually known as the tyranny of the majority. Bear this in mind the next time an American goes "Rah-rah" about spreading American democracy everywhere, or when America goes berserk over "teh commies".
I agree with you. Except that GP wrote "Personal information should only be moved between countries with similar protections against abuse."
Actually, I'm not even sure I agree with you fully. You see, just as it's easier enforce laws within a country, it's still easier to stick to your state, or district, or city. If nothing, you don't have to pay for lawyers to travel. Do you make sure your business remains within the city? I think there's a trade-off between efficiency (cost-savings) and how much control you have over your sub-contractor.
Abuse of power by employees is not something new or interesting, but the accountability issue is. Personal information should only be moved between countries with similar protections against abuse. Having said this, I don't know anything about British law on this issue.
Then please STFU. Why do you assume, by default, that India would not have protection against abuse similar to what's available in the UK?
Not really trolling here, but how is a religion with less than 15 million adherents (0.25%) a major world religion? I don't think it's even in the top 10.
Agree with a lot of what you've written, but since when is the GPL the sole Free Software licence? Schwartz detesting the GPL doesn't in any way heighten the fear that Sun could suddenly malevolent and do damage to the Free Software movement. Bringing in such arguments to the table is usually termed creating FUD.
Incidentally, was I the only person who felt that insinuating that PJ's religion was wacko was particularly ironic, given that Maureen's paymasters at SCO were based in Utah, home of the not-exactly-christian-orthodox Church of the Latter Day Saints.
I hope so. Are you somehow claiming that every single employee of SCO (or even all of the SCO bosses) are followers of the Church of the LDS? Even so, how is it at all relevant?
If the mathematician was American or British, it wouldn't have been mentioned in the/. blurb. Since you were so quick to accuse the GP of being a cry-baby, let me point out that the GP was (I think) merely saying that the submitter, an Indian, should broaden his/her mind a little. Yes, just in case it's relevant to you, I'm an Indian too.
Using a closed-source, proprietary SCM while being the poster-child for the open-source movement is a bit hypocritical, no?
No.
Because Linus never wanted Linux to be the poster-child of the open-source movement or the Save the Panda movement or any movement whatsoever. He just wants to write great software. Get it? Huh?
In the wake of Red Hat's withdrawl of a viable free linux distro, Debian should be thriving right now.
You just had to take a potshot at RedHat, didn't you? Lots of people I know have been really happy running Fedora and making use of the resources RedHat provides for Fedora users. I don't see any reason for it to be considered unviable.
P.S. If you're talking about RPM dependency hell, that was a problem even with RedHat, and doesn't prove why RedHat stopping its Desktop distro sales was bad.
Aye, aye. In addition, waste and corruption add the necessary negative feedback to ensure stability; without corruption/waste, if you capture one extra city, you get that much more production, which makes capturing the next city that much easier. The result is steamroller AIs, which makes for very poor gameplay.
they think if they use source control, others can touch their code and make it better, and they won't be needed any more. Job security through obscurity, perhaps.
Um? Distributed development is not the only advantage of using source control.
Personally, I don't like the fact that a company which wears its ethics on its sleeve... would self censor to fit into the demands of a foreign government.
Why is 'foreign' relevant here? How would what Google is doing be any better just because it were the US govt. whose laws it was complying with? Why do I get the feeling that half the comments here (incl. yours) are primarily about a US company being somehow "forced" to actually obey laws made by "foreigners"? That's the way the world works, fellas - you want to do business there, you bloody well obey their laws.
A bit of both. China started liberalising its economy and removing barriers a good 10-15 years before India did (1992). India still has a lot of leftover morass from decades of the "licence Raj". Also, an autocratic government lends itself more easily to introducing new policies and suppressing opposition. In short, democracy can be quite inefficient, although it can be argued that the efficiency an authoritarian regime fosters is at very high cost.
Note that the Economic Times and the Times of India, while part of the same group (Bennett and Coleman Ltd.), are two different newspapers. The former, which carries the article, is a respected (if slightly sensational) business daily, while the latter, which you cite, is just toilet paper.
I agree. The point is that there's a difference between trusting a company to make good products and trusting the drive to keep your data safe. The latter is independent of warranty, unlike what the original post implies.
How would a 3-year warranty help me recover my data in case of failure? If I don't have backups, I don't see how I can trust my data however long the warranty period is.
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Man, this liberal relativism just annoys the heck out of me.
You're right, GP's right, I'm right, we're all right. Yeah, right.
You know, there can be times when only one point of view is correct. Nothing particularly evil about that.
If it was barely a year ago, why install an OS that's 5 years ago, and expect it to have no issues with DVD playback? Why couldn't you install XP?
What is it with our culture now? Making mature, considered decisions about something, decisions that require other parties to consider them outside the world of newsbites and so on, is now considered a sign of weakness, is it?!?
Unfortunately, yes. That's what moral relativism seems to be all about. People don't do wrong things; they merely do things "differently".
This is usually known as the tyranny of the majority. Bear this in mind the next time an American goes "Rah-rah" about spreading American democracy everywhere, or when America goes berserk over "teh commies".
Regarding PHP, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/10.htm l is instructive. Yes, I did confirm from the PHP website that things aren't too different now.
MySQL? The less said, the better.
I agree with you. Except that GP wrote "Personal information should only be moved between countries with similar protections against abuse."
Actually, I'm not even sure I agree with you fully. You see, just as it's easier enforce laws within a country, it's still easier to stick to your state, or district, or city. If nothing, you don't have to pay for lawyers to travel. Do you make sure your business remains within the city? I think there's a trade-off between efficiency (cost-savings) and how much control you have over your sub-contractor.
Then please STFU. Why do you assume, by default, that India would not have protection against abuse similar to what's available in the UK?
Um, open source has little to do with charging money for the product.
Not really trolling here, but how is a religion with less than 15 million adherents (0.25%) a major world religion? I don't think it's even in the top 10.
Agree with a lot of what you've written, but since when is the GPL the sole Free Software licence? Schwartz detesting the GPL doesn't in any way heighten the fear that Sun could suddenly malevolent and do damage to the Free Software movement. Bringing in such arguments to the table is usually termed creating FUD.
I hope so. Are you somehow claiming that every single employee of SCO (or even all of the SCO bosses) are followers of the Church of the LDS? Even so, how is it at all relevant?
Logic, meet gowen; gowen, this is Logic.
If the mathematician was American or British, it wouldn't have been mentioned in the /. blurb. Since you were so quick to accuse the GP of being a cry-baby, let me point out that the GP was (I think) merely saying that the submitter, an Indian, should broaden his/her mind a little. Yes, just in case it's relevant to you, I'm an Indian too.
No.
Because Linus never wanted Linux to be the poster-child of the open-source movement or the Save the Panda movement or any movement whatsoever. He just wants to write great software. Get it? Huh?
Riiiight. And why so? Perhaps because they think Americans are inherently more trustworthy? That's what the GP said.
You just had to take a potshot at RedHat, didn't you? Lots of people I know have been really happy running Fedora and making use of the resources RedHat provides for Fedora users. I don't see any reason for it to be considered unviable.
P.S. If you're talking about RPM dependency hell, that was a problem even with RedHat, and doesn't prove why RedHat stopping its Desktop distro sales was bad.
regime:
1a. A form of government.
1b. A government in power; administration.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
And how many of them have held up in court? Not that they have been struck down either, but the mere existence of EULAs proves jackshit.
Aye, aye. In addition, waste and corruption add the necessary negative feedback to ensure stability; without corruption/waste, if you capture one extra city, you get that much more production, which makes capturing the next city that much easier. The result is steamroller AIs, which makes for very poor gameplay.
Um? Distributed development is not the only advantage of using source control.
Why is 'foreign' relevant here? How would what Google is doing be any better just because it were the US govt. whose laws it was complying with? Why do I get the feeling that half the comments here (incl. yours) are primarily about a US company being somehow "forced" to actually obey laws made by "foreigners"? That's the way the world works, fellas - you want to do business there, you bloody well obey their laws.
A bit of both. China started liberalising its economy and removing barriers a good 10-15 years before India did (1992). India still has a lot of leftover morass from decades of the "licence Raj". Also, an autocratic government lends itself more easily to introducing new policies and suppressing opposition. In short, democracy can be quite inefficient, although it can be argued that the efficiency an authoritarian regime fosters is at very high cost.
Silly me! To think I was thinking India was in Asia all along.
Note that the Economic Times and the Times of India, while part of the same group (Bennett and Coleman Ltd.), are two different newspapers. The former, which carries the article, is a respected (if slightly sensational) business daily, while the latter, which you cite, is just toilet paper.
I agree. The point is that there's a difference between trusting a company to make good products and trusting the drive to keep your data safe. The latter is independent of warranty, unlike what the original post implies.
How would a 3-year warranty help me recover my data in case of failure? If I don't have backups, I don't see how I can trust my data however long the warranty period is.