He is a license purist in the sense that he only distributes software that he is allowed to, by license. This is why OpenBSD has pf. The ipf author made a special exception for OpenBSD and said everyone can ship modified sources of ipf, except for OpenBSD. OpenBSD can only ship ipf as is. Since OpenBSD had a bunch of patches for ipf, they were screwed.
TOP OF THE NEWS --OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks (11 April 2003) (Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
“One of the BSD variants — OpenBSD (www.openBSD.org) — was constituted with security as its premise,” says Marcus Ranum. “They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible, gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring. They subsequently got fixed, but it was a huge reality check for the community.
Because when I quote from LOTR, I know it's not real. However, I don't think as many people who quote The Bible is aware that it is not real. YMMV of course.
Obviously someone who has never worked with Theo. Theo simply does not suffer fools and will call you out for being stupid.
That is it.
I have asked beginner level questions, and he had answered them politely. But if you come in with an attitude, or as a know-it-all and did not even bother to read the FAQ, he will treat you like the turd you are.
For whatever reason, people seem to think that's being an asshole. Theo's not your paid support monkey, and has no need to waste his time on people who refuse to read.
1) Because it had cosmetic issues (in USA anyway, I'm aware of the bad directions in Japan, etc) in the past, it is forever damned? 2) That's why their sales keep going down, right? And that's why they completely lose the user satisfaction surveys. Why, the iPads only came in on the #1 spot in South Korea in terms of user satisfaction. On Samsung's home turf... Oh my.
Apple uses FreeBSD as it core, and still pushes patches back to FreeBSD. Apple did fork KDE's browser, but KDE itself is now using the fork, WebKit. LLVM, etc.
Apple wrote Grand Central Dispatch themselves, and open sourced it as well.
You assume the people with update rights in that github repository are not interested in patches you submit? Because until that happens, there's no need to fork.
The article did not state that the people who originally created that github are the same people who wrote open NI. Presumably the people who created the github *are* interested in making things better, since they took the trouble to put it on github.
*IF* they are not interested in maintaining it, then yeah, fork it.
Do you think at a stock holder meeting, voting is by the number of people, or by the number of shares? No wonder you had to post as AC, such stupidity.
Each share gets one vote. 2.95% of the vote gets you nothing. Especially when you are just trying to raise your own profile by being an asshole at Apple's shareholder meeting.
Help me understand what you are smoking, you seem to be suggesting that the board should have a contentious relationship with the CEO? Why? If the board doesn't like the CEO, the board should just fire the CEO.
Since the board is voted in by the shareholders, how is he stacking the board? Is he pointing a gun at the shareholders of the ~900 million shares and telling them to vote his way?
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He is a license purist in the sense that he only distributes software that he is allowed to, by license. This is why OpenBSD has pf. The ipf author made a special exception for OpenBSD and said everyone can ship modified sources of ipf, except for OpenBSD. OpenBSD can only ship ipf as is. Since OpenBSD had a bunch of patches for ipf, they were screwed.
So they dumped ipf and wrote pf.
Doubt if this is something he can answer as I assume he spends his time coding, rather than playing with the different linux distros.
This has been answered before, on slashdot too.
Link? Marcus Ranum seemed to like OpenBSD. A quick search gave me the following:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
TOP OF THE NEWS
--OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks
(11 April 2003)
(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
“One of the BSD variants — OpenBSD (www.openBSD.org) — was constituted with security as its premise,” says Marcus Ranum. “They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible, gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring. They subsequently got fixed, but it was a huge reality check for the community.
Because when I quote from LOTR, I know it's not real. However, I don't think as many people who quote The Bible is aware that it is not real. YMMV of course.
Obviously someone who has never worked with Theo. Theo simply does not suffer fools and will call you out for being stupid.
That is it.
I have asked beginner level questions, and he had answered them politely. But if you come in with an attitude, or as a know-it-all and did not even bother to read the FAQ, he will treat you like the turd you are.
For whatever reason, people seem to think that's being an asshole. Theo's not your paid support monkey, and has no need to waste his time on people who refuse to read.
Right, like BMW's sales are down as a percentage of total car sales. They are making more money than ever. You might have missed that memo.
1) Because it had cosmetic issues (in USA anyway, I'm aware of the bad directions in Japan, etc) in the past, it is forever damned?
2) That's why their sales keep going down, right? And that's why they completely lose the user satisfaction surveys. Why, the iPads only came in on the #1 spot in South Korea in terms of user satisfaction. On Samsung's home turf... Oh my.
And it's different with Android how? Or will Windows Phone solve this problem?
Wow. You can't deal with facts. Sad.
As BasilBrush pointed out, others are committing code to the code posted at GitHub.
It is really sad that you are so damned sure of yourself that you refuse to consider any other alternatives. Perhaps you will grow up one day.
Says who? Apple bought CUPS - it's still going strong at http://www.cups.org/
Apple uses FreeBSD as it core, and still pushes patches back to FreeBSD. Apple did fork KDE's browser, but KDE itself is now using the fork, WebKit. LLVM, etc.
Apple wrote Grand Central Dispatch themselves, and open sourced it as well.
http://opensource.apple.com/
Did Apple put it on github? I don't think so. Forking the github repo doesn't make sense if the people who did the original commit are maintaining it.
You assume the people with update rights in that github repository are not interested in patches you submit? Because until that happens, there's no need to fork.
The article did not state that the people who originally created that github are the same people who wrote open NI. Presumably the people who created the github *are* interested in making things better, since they took the trouble to put it on github.
*IF* they are not interested in maintaining it, then yeah, fork it.
Why fork it? As the summary clearly says, it is still available on github.
Do you have reading comprehension problems?
I think you are missing the point I'm trying to make.
Do you think at a stock holder meeting, voting is by the number of people, or by the number of shares? No wonder you had to post as AC, such stupidity.
I thought ganja smokers are more mellow and not obsess over money?
You need to put down that ganja dude.
Each share gets one vote. 2.95% of the vote gets you nothing. Especially when you are just trying to raise your own profile by being an asshole at Apple's shareholder meeting.
Help me understand what you are smoking, you seem to be suggesting that the board should have a contentious relationship with the CEO? Why? If the board doesn't like the CEO, the board should just fire the CEO.
Since the board is voted in by the shareholders, how is he stacking the board? Is he pointing a gun at the shareholders of the ~900 million shares and telling them to vote his way?
2.95% said yes. 97.05% said no. What in the world are you smoking to think that 2.95% drives the agenda?
If Scots think Scotland is a bit small to be functionally viable, then maybe they shouldn't be looking at independence then. These people are idiots.
Unfortunately I had commented already, but you deserve modpoints.
Are you really that much of an idiot? Using two colors to differentiate between a SMS and a non SMS message is simple and logical.
And you go all crazy on us. How do you function in the real world?
How do you think companies, and even countries intercept https traffic?