"I know the first thought in *MY* mind is "Why don't you find a REAL cause instead of pretending you have a valid crusade with this free software business"?"
Let me ask you. To save the Pandas from extintion qualifies as a real cause ? Should I support WWF ideals?
However, Why should I worry about Pandas? They live in a remote and small region of the world and their extintion will not affect me nor most people. If they can not addapt to the changing environment they deserve to die. That's nature's rule after all.
But I can see there are lots of economic benefits for humanity from Free Software.
Companys use software because it generates an economic benefit. With Free Software more people will be able to use software, hence more wealth for society (we all know that software is not a phisical object and can be duplicated costless, so any comparison with "free machines" or "free food" makes no sense)
Free Software programmers can use or extend parts of other Free Software programs. If more programmers can use others people code, there will be more programs written with less effort. And as we said, more software means more wealth to society
So, when you are asked "How do you write Non-Free Software and sleep at night?" you say that you do it for the money and because you don't think Free-Software principles are important? This sounds to me the same answer a Panda hunter will give (not mention a slave trader).
The 4 wheel drive truck known as Mitsubishi "Pajero" is named "Montero" on some spanish speaking countries, because "Pajero" is the slang for "masturbator".:-)
"When they started trying to charge people $699 for using code they've been distributing themselves under the GPL for years, you don't think that was maybe a breach of some kind?"
Not a good argument. From the GPL preamble:
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish)...
I personally don't care about ideology. Does slavery actually work ? Is it cheaper to use than paid labor ? That's all that matters to me.
Yes yes, I understand all about freedom, fairness, and other Abolitionist's terms; and I understand that, in theory, I should immediately throw off their chains and stop making them work gratis, because nigers wants to be free. However, in reality, slave labor is still better than whatever employees currently have to offer -- to speak nothing of rented slaves. So, I have a choice: become a martyr, and torture myself with paid people each day, in the name of the Free ideology; or, forget the slogans and use the best way of doing the job. My name is not "Lincoln", so I choose the second option.
I think a major reason why Abolitionism is suffering on the plantations right now is that most Freedom proponents expect people to choose the first option. Well, that's not going to happen. Most people are like me: selfish bastards who just want to get some work done, or be served, or whatever. You can't win them over with just slogans.
"As a final note, having Iraq be free is important to our National Defence because, regardless of what those in DC say,
part of the war in Iraq is securing access to vital resources for the American Economy. In other words oil"
So, what will you do if you need "access" to diamonds and gold? Will you "liberate" soud-africa ? When you need woods and freshwater, will you "liberate" Brazil?
Sorry. Nobody have the right to steel other country resources.
To be the most powerful country in the world is a responsibility, not an advantage to benefit from.
This is stupid. I can show you a lot of hardware that works on Linux and not on Windows 95 (ex. USB devices).
If your sound card is not supported by Linux, then is not a problem of Linux (properly speaking), but of the soundcard manufacturer, that provides only Windows drivers.
"How is unethical to want to get paid for your work?"
It is very ethical to get paid for your work. The same way a mathematician or physicist are paid for their findings. But, it is unethical not to share the results of your work with the society.
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"Photoshop also supports color management through and through- GIMP never has out of the box and never will, because there's no such thing as color management under linux; it's not builtin to X, there are zero calibration devices for linux, etc. Even gamma is something of a mess under Linux."
According the Free Software Foundation, the GPL (the one used by Qt) is better than the LGPL (the one used by GTK+). That's why LGPL means "Lesser General Public License".
The GPL promotes Free software development, because you are only allowed to create Free applications with it.
"2. Every country seems to have its own local flying machine inventor. Good for you,.nz and.br! Why didn't your guys start an aircraft industry there? Perhaps they did not invent a USEFUL flying machine."
Or perhaps because the economy of those countries was not developed enough to sustain an aeroplane industry.
The GPL was designed to promote Free Software. The idea embodied in this licence, is that once a piece of code is put under the GPL, this code and any descendat of it will be free forever.
The GPL is not intended to promote bussiness or propietary software. If that is your intention you need another license.
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For those who don't know what Beagle is (like me) here is a link and some demos.
From the Open Source definition:
Let me ask you. To save the Pandas from extintion qualifies as a real cause ? Should I support WWF ideals?
However, Why should I worry about Pandas? They live in a remote and small region of the world and their extintion will not affect me nor most people. If they can not addapt to the changing environment they deserve to die. That's nature's rule after all.
But I can see there are lots of economic benefits for humanity from Free Software.
So, when you are asked "How do you write Non-Free Software and sleep at night?" you say that you do it for the money and because you don't think Free-Software principles are important? This sounds to me the same answer a Panda hunter will give (not mention a slave trader).
I think your calculations are wrong
100% x (1 - 4min / (30days x 24hrs x 60min)) = 99.99% uptime.
You are two nines short. To achieve 99.9999% uptime (six nines) requieres 4 minutes downtime every 5 years!
Edit prefs.js and add/replace
Or you can enable this by using "about:config" URL
Then go to the address bar and type: "news for nerds[Enter]"
I've seen the same ad. running on Slashdot in the recent past
The 4 wheel drive truck known as Mitsubishi "Pajero" is named "Montero" on some spanish speaking countries, because "Pajero" is the slang for "masturbator". :-)
Sorry, I missed the episode when Brazil was evicted from America
If you would like to get MNG back into Mozilla, then you can follow/vote/contribute to Bugzilla bug 18574
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857 4
(Please don't post useless comments on that bug)
Is that I am free from Microsoft misinformation and I only get insightful, balanced and Linux friendly ads. like this and this
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Like i = sqrt(-1) ?
I personally don't care about ideology. Does slavery actually work ? Is it cheaper to use than paid labor ? That's all that matters to me.
Yes yes, I understand all about freedom, fairness, and other Abolitionist's terms; and I understand that, in theory, I should immediately throw off their chains and stop making them work gratis, because nigers wants to be free. However, in reality, slave labor is still better than whatever employees currently have to offer -- to speak nothing of rented slaves. So, I have a choice: become a martyr, and torture myself with paid people each day, in the name of the Free ideology; or, forget the slogans and use the best way of doing the job. My name is not "Lincoln", so I choose the second option.
I think a major reason why Abolitionism is suffering on the plantations right now is that most Freedom proponents expect people to choose the first option. Well, that's not going to happen. Most people are like me: selfish bastards who just want to get some work done, or be served, or whatever. You can't win them over with just slogans.
So, what will you do if you need "access" to diamonds and gold? Will you "liberate" soud-africa ? When you need woods and freshwater, will you "liberate" Brazil?
Sorry. Nobody have the right to steel other country resources.
To be the most powerful country in the world is a responsibility, not an advantage to benefit from.
This is stupid. I can show you a lot of hardware that works on Linux and not on Windows 95 (ex. USB devices).
If your sound card is not supported by Linux, then is not a problem of Linux (properly speaking), but of the soundcard manufacturer, that provides only Windows drivers.
It is very ethical to get paid for your work. The same way a mathematician or physicist are paid for their findings. But, it is unethical not to share the results of your work with the society.
I recommend anyone interested on these subjects to read "Why Software Should Not Have Owners", Selleing free software, and "Why software should be Free"
You mean color managemnt like this ?
Nope.
"Miguel de Icaza is dead" -- C
The GPL promotes Free software development, because you are only allowed to create Free applications with it.
Or perhaps because the economy of those countries was not developed enough to sustain an aeroplane industry.
The GPL was designed to promote Free Software. The idea embodied in this licence, is that once a piece of code is put under the GPL, this code and any descendat of it will be free forever.
The GPL is not intended to promote bussiness or propietary software. If that is your intention you need another license.
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You can read the history of the Pledge of Allegiance at this page
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