Do you think it's a good idea to be a kernel maintainer at your age? I mean, do you actually realise how incredibly unlikely you are to get laid?! Chicks really don't dig this sort of thing.
Every few days, the Katz machine churns out another big chunk of crap, weaving whatever is upsetting the geeks into some great conspiracy involving the "Corporate Republic". What exactly is he trying to acheive?
Oh no! Napster got shut down! "Blame the corporate republic".
Oh no! Somebody's sponsoring a University! "It's all the fault of money! Be communist!"
Oh no! Some mad kids went and shot a load of people! "Blame closed source!"
He's like a UFO spotter or some other kind of lunatic conspiracy theorist - nothing but hot air, and an inablility to see how unreasonable he sounds, all the time.
Frankly, it's dull. It's boring. It's the same crap every week. The reason nobody plays "Guess what Katz wrote this week" is that the game is far too easy.
And, like most Americans, he concentrates entirely on what's going on within the borders of his little country. One day, he might actually realise that there's a whole world out there which doesn't care about what goes on in the United States of Overinflated Egos.
The Linux people don't seem too bright, either. Didn't the Slackware guy bump up the version number from 4 because he was sick of being asked when he was going to start distributing 'Linux 6'?
I know feeding the trolls is bad, but I have to respond to this.
The whole Linux/BSD argument is fundamentally flawed. The real 'argument' (if you can call an obvious forgone conclusion an argument) is Windows/Unix.
One more reason why Windows wins the argument is that it presents a unified product range to the user. It's Windows or Windows. The user doesn't have to debate the relative 'merits' of This Linux/That Linux/This BSD/That BSD/Other Unix. Never mind what each one is best for, Windows is a single product which is suitable for everything.
The reason is simple - jumped-up fools who constantly ram their poor-man's OS down everyone's throat.
"How do I add support for this device?" "Easy, just recompile the kernel, reinstall it and reboot. DUH!" (er... remember that next time you bitch about Windows needing a reboot after installing new drivers)
"This Linux stuff is hard" "IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!"
Until this elitist bunch of zealots, who try and push this so-called OS on the one hand, while intentionally trying to make it as hard as humanly possibly with the other, continue to operate, Linux will never be a success.
Linus should stop giving it away for free (who ever heard of free software being successful?), charge for it, and fund some HCI research with the money. Then you might start to see a real growth in Linux usage compared to Windows
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Do you think it's a good idea to be a kernel maintainer at your age? I mean, do you actually realise how incredibly unlikely you are to get laid?! Chicks really don't dig this sort of thing.
And you really can't see the problem with this...?
Yup.
Is that the best you can do? You realise that data recovery agencies all around the world are laughing at you right now?
Well said.
The USA has got so bad that I wouldn't be suprised if UK subjects were to start celebrating "Thank God We Got Rid Of Them Day" on July 4th
Every few days, the Katz machine churns out another big chunk of crap, weaving whatever is upsetting the geeks into some great conspiracy involving the "Corporate Republic". What exactly is he trying to acheive?
Oh no! Napster got shut down! "Blame the corporate republic".
Oh no! Somebody's sponsoring a University! "It's all the fault of money! Be communist!"
Oh no! Some mad kids went and shot a load of people! "Blame closed source!"
He's like a UFO spotter or some other kind of lunatic conspiracy theorist - nothing but hot air, and an inablility to see how unreasonable he sounds, all the time.
Frankly, it's dull. It's boring. It's the same crap every week. The reason nobody plays "Guess what Katz wrote this week" is that the game is far too easy.
And, like most Americans, he concentrates entirely on what's going on within the borders of his little country. One day, he might actually realise that there's a whole world out there which doesn't care about what goes on in the United States of Overinflated Egos.
The Linux people don't seem too bright, either. Didn't the Slackware guy bump up the version number from 4 because he was sick of being asked when he was going to start distributing 'Linux 6'?
I know feeding the trolls is bad, but I have to respond to this.
The whole Linux/BSD argument is fundamentally flawed. The real 'argument' (if you can call an obvious forgone conclusion an argument) is Windows/Unix.
One more reason why Windows wins the argument is that it presents a unified product range to the user. It's Windows or Windows. The user doesn't have to debate the relative 'merits' of This Linux/That Linux/This BSD/That BSD/Other Unix. Never mind what each one is best for, Windows is a single product which is suitable for everything.
And you wonder why it's so popular...
"How do I add support for this device?" "Easy, just recompile the kernel, reinstall it and reboot. DUH!" (er... remember that next time you bitch about Windows needing a reboot after installing new drivers)
"This Linux stuff is hard" "IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!"
Until this elitist bunch of zealots, who try and push this so-called OS on the one hand, while intentionally trying to make it as hard as humanly possibly with the other, continue to operate, Linux will never be a success.
Linus should stop giving it away for free (who ever heard of free software being successful?), charge for it, and fund some HCI research with the money. Then you might start to see a real growth in Linux usage compared to Windows
Let's face it - most users recognise the superiority of Windows. You get what you pay for, and there's no a way a hacked-up free OS can ever compete.
Given a choice between running Linux, and needing more diskspace for Windows apps, Linux will be deleted.