You are an idiot. There is in fact a multi-trillion dollar industry revolving around Linux. Just ask Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, the list goes on and on. This industry revolves around Linux because any alternative would be less efficient, less flexible, and less reliable. If the big boys could switch to BSD easily they would, trust me.[1] And Linux is just one of the important GPL projects involved. But the most important one by far.
[1] Apple switched to BSD from something much crappier, and would likely benefit from dropping the other shoe and switching to Linux.
More like the entire internet which these days is mostly Linux powered, and Linux got where it is in large part because of the GPL, which is the work of RMS.
Actually, it is pragmatic. He knows that his endorsement does not carry a huge weight, but it carries some, so he uses it to draw attention. Which it did.
The only way this claim would be valid is if large amounts of FOSS software had actually adopted GPLv3. To date, not that much has, and certainly nothing really important.
Samba is not important? And many other examples. Better revise your argument.
My Xoom gets considerably more use than my Nexus 7. I take it on biz trips now instead of a laptop. The Xoom keyboard (can't get any more) is a solid piece of gear.
The chargers fail, and the tablet can get itself into a state where it won't charge without doing a weird combination of press and holds and other arcanery. No back facing camera and no micro SD slot. Otherwise, it was a good price at the time and there isn't much else positive to say about it. I do not regret picking it up, but only by a slim margin.
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By the way, show me where Linus said that software freedom doesn't matter. You can't, because he never said that, or anything like that.
By the way, RMS has his place in history, unlike you.
You are an idiot. There is in fact a multi-trillion dollar industry revolving around Linux. Just ask Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, the list goes on and on. This industry revolves around Linux because any alternative would be less efficient, less flexible, and less reliable. If the big boys could switch to BSD easily they would, trust me.[1] And Linux is just one of the important GPL projects involved. But the most important one by far.
[1] Apple switched to BSD from something much crappier, and would likely benefit from dropping the other shoe and switching to Linux.
Idiot, this thread is about my needs, not the grand scheme of things. Chrome does not meet my needs.
Except that multi-trillion dollar industry has nothing to do with software freedom...
Hahaha, you are a real stand-up comedian, I like your style. Thanks for lightening my day.
A multi-trillion dollar industry is hardly clutching at straws. Rather, what I see from you is denial.
They will have to version even harder to catch up with Windows, which is already at version 10. Even Android is ahead!
Node has all the hype of Ruby on Rails, minus the joy that is Ruby
Plus the efficiency that Ruby doesn't have.
minus the part where you can use it to create working websites.
That seems wildly wrong.
More like the entire internet which these days is mostly Linux powered, and Linux got where it is in large part because of the GPL, which is the work of RMS.
So little respect, shameful.
Why difference does it make? He got your attention.
Nothing except achieve world domination.
Somebody doesn't call Steve Jobs a jackass?
Entirely incorrect. 30 years ago you would have been on your way to Club Med instead of signing up with Ashley Madison.
See, there's a whole economy that revolves around RMS.
In an OOP world every sock would have an attached washing machine.
Gah, you fail. Sock would be subclassed from apparel and washing machine would have a method taking apparel as a parameter.
Actually, it is pragmatic. He knows that his endorsement does not carry a huge weight, but it carries some, so he uses it to draw attention. Which it did.
Probably a better description: pragmatic idealist.
And the beneficiaries of the multi-trillion dollar economy that revolves around GPL licensed software.
The only way this claim would be valid is if large amounts of FOSS software had actually adopted GPLv3. To date, not that much has, and certainly nothing really important.
Samba is not important? And many other examples. Better revise your argument.
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I think he has already became a liability.
You sound like a garden variety RMS critic of the kind that has chirping away since the day there was a way to chirp away. Nothing new to see here.
I typically have several hundred tabs and Chrome is unusable
Chrome's limited number of tabs by itself is enough to keep me on Firefox as primary browser.
It's pretty much accepted that even slow jets have better survivability than rotary wings.
My Xoom gets considerably more use than my Nexus 7. I take it on biz trips now instead of a laptop. The Xoom keyboard (can't get any more) is a solid piece of gear.
The chargers fail, and the tablet can get itself into a state where it won't charge without doing a weird combination of press and holds and other arcanery. No back facing camera and no micro SD slot. Otherwise, it was a good price at the time and there isn't much else positive to say about it. I do not regret picking it up, but only by a slim margin.