Stallman will not change his beliefs because they aren't practical.
No sane person would sit down and write their own C compiler+debugger from scratch because he didn't like the licenses of the currently available compilers.
Stallman is gonzo batshit crazy, and that's why he was able to start a movement - normal people would have evaluated the difficulties and not even tried. If his movemement hadn't caught on, Stallman would still be labouring by himself, in obscurity, trying to make his vision a reality.
BTW, the market hasn't been slowly squeezing out Open Source, quite the contrary.
They really do help channel the hatred in a non-destructive way.
And some people will get the hint - when someone comes over to ask a dumb question, they'll notice that the perfectly polite sysadmin is crushing the living fuck out of that stress ball.
PS - Buy 2 or three at a time, they wear out fairly quickly.
I've coded, on average, 70 hours a week, for the last six years. This has been on my own project, which is coming along nicely (after about a dozen complete rewrites, language changes, and overhauls).
After the second complete re-write, you stopped being a poster boy for efficient, sustainable development practices.
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Subject: use of America for the USA
Sure, but AFAIK they aren't actively contributing to the project.
It's more "wouldn't it be nice if there was a BSD-licensed compiler that compiled more quickly than GCC".
PS - I don't think the BSDs are directly involved /w Tendra, are they?
Amen, that's exactly what I was trying to say.
Stallman will not change his beliefs because they aren't practical.
No sane person would sit down and write their own C compiler+debugger from scratch because he didn't like the licenses of the currently available compilers.
Stallman is gonzo batshit crazy, and that's why he was able to start a movement - normal people would have evaluated the difficulties and not even tried. If his movemement hadn't caught on, Stallman would still be labouring by himself, in obscurity, trying to make his vision a reality.
BTW, the market hasn't been slowly squeezing out Open Source, quite the contrary.
Oh come on now.
How many knobs and options and configuration possibilities are there in WinXP?
>Married men live, on average, about ten years longer than men who
>remain single.
Hah.
It just FEELS like 10 more years.
It is surprisingly difficult to ignite a NeXT cube.
IBM model M keyboards have removable keycaps.
Mea culpa.
Or if you prefer, I FAIL IT.
Indeed, Mike!
If Slashdot is teaching you more about writing then school, your school is SERIOUSLY FUCKED.
PS - no offense, your writing skills are fine.
Visicalc was much more useful then either a calculator or the paper spreadsheet, I think of it as something new and innovative. Obviously YMMV.
I wasn't aware of the Fortran stuff in the 60's, very interesting.
Actually, Visicalc was a "first".
There is some innovation, just not very much.
I think the Visicalc people would like a word with you...
| Wordperfect-alike
Anyone know what was the first word processor?
Yeah, if a product is too good, no-one will upgrade. Novell did such a good job with NW3.x that it almost bankrupted them.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I agree with this post!
While you're at it, take a look at which post I'm replying to.
So you prefer the stability of Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.
Could you please let us know which hallucinogens you were using at the time? Must have been some good stuff.
Heh.
How many 1-year olds do you know?
And some people will get the hint - when someone comes over to ask a dumb question, they'll notice that the perfectly polite sysadmin is crushing the living fuck out of that stress ball.
PS - Buy 2 or three at a time, they wear out fairly quickly.
We called it the Management Tool.
It was good for hardware management and personnel management, but we never found a way to use it for software management.
A massive head injury should put you in MBA emulation mode.
Awesome, I know a few bosses who could use some quality time with a noose.
BTW, was the company Anderson?
HTH, HAND.