You have the freedom to purchase security with your mandetory income tax deductions.
WTF?
If I'm your competition I have the freedom to purchase the rights to your creation or create some competition to weaken your profit motive, most likely your only motive to create. So I think it is in my best interest to prevent your creation from distribution at any cost.
You only can only buy what I'm willing to sell. And you are perfectly free to create and compete. That is progress.
Of course they don't repersent natural rights. Software and books don't happen withour human intervention.
But contrary to your FUD there is no inherant loss associated with selling software as opposed to giving it away. You can't count something as a loss if you never had it to begin with. While there is the possibility for a net losses associated with selling software. Abandonware and illegal monopolies com to mind. But for the most part those are the exception rather than the rule.
My right to control how my creations are distributed is granted to me in exchange for my creation of the works. So its as natural a right, and the creation of the software.
There are other ways of monitoring what software is doing, other than open source.
If you think software is affecting other software on your system, run tripwire.
If you think software is sending your personal data across the network, run sniffer and a firewall, its your network.
All of these methods are potentially easier than searching though source code and looking for other sniffers.
There should be laws protecting your system from malicious intent, ALA Sony DRM. Software developers should be required by law to tell you up front what information that are collecting about you. If they fail to do so they need to be held criminally liable.
None the less, just because you think its kewl, if a little broken, in not case should be have the right to re-distribute my creation as you see fit without my permission.
Please explain how am I taking away somebody's freedom by selling them the right to use my code when the explicitly do not have that right to beging with?
Now that Apple is turning itself into a threat to Microsoft, Microsoft is going to start dropping support for Apple. First Windows Media. I give Office one more realease on Apple at the most, but even that release will be annoying, Office for OSX already sucks. MS will just make sure that many of the enhancements in Office don't work as expected, or don't work/integrate at all to get people to buy Windows and the Windows version of their software.
I have an iBook, I have used Linux for 8 years, before that HP-UX, and NetBSD. I have no intention of putting a PPC distro on it.
Now get me an Alienware laptop and windoze is gone.
The biggest nusance I've found with OS-X are: trying to admin it like either a Linux, a Windows, or pervious Apple OS. And installing anything from Microsoft on it, especially Office. After running office under OS-X I'm convinced that the only reasone they ported Office was to get people to change over to Windows.
Personaly I think the article is one of the worst articles I've seen from IBM. Omitting features from LILO, and failing to elaborate how complicated GRUB's command line interface can actually be.
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
compact
default=Linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=Linux
root=/dev/hdb3
read-only
password=linux
other=/dev/hda
label=WindowsXP
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$opeVt0$Y.br.18LyAasRsGdSKLYlp1
title Red Hat Linux
password --md5 $1$0peVt0$Y.br.18LyAasRsGdSKLYlp1
root (hd1,2)
kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Windows XP
password --md5 $1$0peVt0$Y.br.18LyAasRsGdSKLYlp1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
God could, by definition he's omnipotent afterall, have forged the fossil record
Assume this is true, this is also a requirement for ID.
The Christian's bible says, do not lie. Verbage depends on translation.
Falsifying fossil records is lying.
By doing this God is exhibiting the same behavior as Satan.
The entire straw man falls apart because God is good and Satan is evil, therefore the assumption is false.
If we continue with the arguement as accept that God really is lying and creating forged fossils, (And photons, and interstellar remenants.) That proves that we can not believe that what is in the Bible is true either, because if God lies, why shouldn't his followers? This in fact turns the entire bible into false doctorine.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Only is as much as the current administration can get away with ignoring it.
Also remember the even though there is no provision in the Constitution for it, except "executive power" it takes a 2/3rds vote by Congress to countermand it because they have to override the Persidential veto.
This is false on it's face. People have physical access to ATM machines all the time. Many of them run Windows now. There are tons of ways to secure machines from physical attack and make the game far from over. Granted it's not Windows thats doing it but it *is* Windows that is being secured.
Sorry but you don't have physical access to computer inside the ATM machine. It's locked in a steel box, designed to prevent access and aleart authorties when you try to gain access.
I think a person would move to Debian because they want to enjoy power over their computing experience.
If the point of Debian is to give users power over their computing experience, why do they 'standardize' on a brain-dead interface like GNOME?
KDE has more flexibility and integration, with both it and QT being GPL.
The only reason I can see for this is politics. The Copywrite to QT is owned by Troll Tech, and the FSF can't control it. And the FSF is all about control, that's why they asked the maintainer of Xemacs to hand over his copywrite. That's also why they insist on bundling their utilities as part of GNOME rather than part of the window manager/system.
I'm actually about the freedom to choose. I choose to run Linux, not GNU/Linux as the FSF is trying to get control over the name as well.
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WTF?
Because of the system in place, they do no happen without copywrite.
The happen without copywrite because people have the freedom to decline the copywrite.
Of course they don't repersent natural rights. Software and books don't happen withour human intervention.
But contrary to your FUD there is no inherant loss associated with selling software as opposed to giving it away. You can't count something as a loss if you never had it to begin with. While there is the possibility for a net losses associated with selling software. Abandonware and illegal monopolies com to mind. But for the most part those are the exception rather than the rule.
My right to control how my creations are distributed is granted to me in exchange for my creation of the works. So its as natural a right, and the creation of the software.
There are other ways of monitoring what software is doing, other than open source.
If you think software is affecting other software on your system, run tripwire.
If you think software is sending your personal data across the network, run sniffer and a firewall, its your network.
All of these methods are potentially easier than searching though source code and looking for other sniffers.
There should be laws protecting your system from malicious intent, ALA Sony DRM. Software developers should be required by law to tell you up front what information that are collecting about you. If they fail to do so they need to be held criminally liable.
None the less, just because you think its kewl, if a little broken, in not case should be have the right to re-distribute my creation as you see fit without my permission.
Please explain how am I taking away somebody's freedom by selling them the right to use my code when the explicitly do not have that right to beging with?
Dick is the one who misses the point.
"open source" and "Free" software are about freedom.
Freedom also means that you don't have to make your software "open source" or "Free" if you don't want to.
Now that Apple is turning itself into a threat to Microsoft, Microsoft is going to start dropping support for Apple. First Windows Media. I give Office one more realease on Apple at the most, but even that release will be annoying, Office for OSX already sucks. MS will just make sure that many of the enhancements in Office don't work as expected, or don't work/integrate at all to get people to buy Windows and the Windows version of their software.
Easy Rider would have been a good movie if it weren't for the pointless film school ending, of course I guess that pretty much describes the movie.
But really I guess there's no good way to end a movie like that, either film school or a cliche.
My suggestion would have been to have them arrested and taken to jail. :-P
I hope they keep doing it.
I've been saying garbage since 1995-1996, maybe people will actually start to believe it. I put yahoo users in exactly the same category as AOL users.
I have an iBook, I have used Linux for 8 years, before that HP-UX, and NetBSD. I have no intention of putting a PPC distro on it.
Now get me an Alienware laptop and windoze is gone.
The biggest nusance I've found with OS-X are: trying to admin it like either a Linux, a Windows, or pervious Apple OS. And installing anything from Microsoft on it, especially Office. After running office under OS-X I'm convinced that the only reasone they ported Office was to get people to change over to Windows.
Judge for yourself which is cleaner.
Personaly I think the article is one of the worst articles I've seen from IBM. Omitting features from LILO, and failing to elaborate how complicated GRUB's command line interface can actually be.
boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=100 compact default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 label=Linux root=/dev/hdb3 read-only password=linux other=/dev/hda label=WindowsXP default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz password --md5 $1$opeVt0$Y.br.18LyAasRsGdSKLYlp1 title Red Hat Linux password --md5 $1$0peVt0$Y.br.18LyAasRsGdSKLYlp1 root (hd1,2) kernelThey use MySQL V4.1.14 for their info, and feature comparison. Then in the conclusion the recomend V 5.0. WTF?
If your going to do comparisons, at least pick the best from the set you're comparing.
Because most people are not DBAs. Why does everyone use Windows? Why are there so many people building VB applications out there?
Because most people running webhosting companies are sysadmins, not DBAs
Because most people running webhosting companies are sysadmins.
Don't get me wrong, MySQL is great, but only under certain circumstances.
MySQL is the Visaul Basic of the Database world, making in very comprable to MS Access.
When I write Python I feel like I'm writing COBOL.
If Java were to stop paying the bills and I couldn't get a job doing Ruby, I would rather code C#, TCL or Perl than do Pybol.
But the people in charge were actually interested in finding Beagle 2.
ID Proves that God does not exist.
Assume this is true, this is also a requirement for ID.
The Christian's bible says, do not lie. Verbage depends on translation.
Falsifying fossil records is lying.
By doing this God is exhibiting the same behavior as Satan.
The entire straw man falls apart because God is good and Satan is evil, therefore the assumption is false.
If we continue with the arguement as accept that God really is lying and creating forged fossils, (And photons, and interstellar remenants.) That proves that we can not believe that what is in the Bible is true either, because if God lies, why shouldn't his followers? This in fact turns the entire bible into false doctorine.
Only is as much as the current administration can get away with ignoring it.
Also remember the even though there is no provision in the Constitution for it, except "executive power" it takes a 2/3rds vote by Congress to countermand it because they have to override the Persidential veto.
An Executive Order carries the weight of law, unless countermanded by a law created by Congress.
How many people have NOT gotten scammed on ebay?
Yet people continue to do business with both them and paypal.
Sorry but you don't have physical access to computer inside the ATM machine. It's locked in a steel box, designed to prevent access and aleart authorties when you try to gain access.
You want an unbiased opinion?
Don't ask us.
For one its not GNU/Linux Desktop. It's KDE vs GNOME.
KDE runs under BSD as well as Linux. Gnome runs under Solaris.
Of course the GNU people probably want to start calling *BSD running GNOME GNU/*BSD because of all the GNU code in it.
Oh, wait. Its not that popular.
Good prop for a Lensman movie. I think E.E. Doc. Smith would be pleased.
If the point of Debian is to give users power over their computing experience, why do they 'standardize' on a brain-dead interface like GNOME?
KDE has more flexibility and integration, with both it and QT being GPL.
The only reason I can see for this is politics. The Copywrite to QT is owned by Troll Tech, and the FSF can't control it. And the FSF is all about control, that's why they asked the maintainer of Xemacs to hand over his copywrite. That's also why they insist on bundling their utilities as part of GNOME rather than part of the window manager/system.
I'm actually about the freedom to choose. I choose to run Linux, not GNU/Linux as the FSF is trying to get control over the name as well.
And your point is?
Sorry but some geeks want to move out out their parents basement.
In order to do this you have several options.
TT has chosen the latter. You may not like the way they've done it, but they want to pay the rent.