I am pleased that you were able to post in this article. As this is a Katz piece it is quite long. Now that your post is here and the page width is fucked up, those with lousy screen resolution will have to scoll themselves into a coma to read it all.
A) Manufacturers don't think they can pull that trick, they know they can. They know that if they wanted to take all of their old GPL'd code and claim that it is now proprietary there is no one who will stand up to them. You guys might lambaste them on Slashdot but that is as far as it will go. The GPL has not gone to court because there is no one in the community with enough money to take it there. It is essentially worthless.
B) Companies sticking to their OSS guns isn't hard to understand, it is impossible to use as a business model. I'm sure you think that there is money to be made in OSS, but of course you have never made any and neither has anyone else. Services or no, no one is going to make any money selling to the 'Free as in I'm broke' community.
I am suprised that a Linuxite would fuck up ASCII graphics, as those are the most advanced type that your operating system is capable of displaying. I'm also sure that despite the obvious flaws in your post (the backward S, the worthless first line, etc.) you will claim that it is the best post for virtually all applications.
Of course you'll claim that even though it looks like shit and it doesn't work very well, it is technically superior to the 'LINUX SUCKS' post above. In reality your post is a technical mess, and future posts from you will probably just be worse.
WTO agreed with this because here in Brasil drugs AIDS are distributed for free (as beer) by the government, with no costs for carent families.
You don't have a lick of economic sense do you son? To you, there are no costs associated with drugs distributed by the government. You're the reason why Napster's for-pay service would never work, why micropayments aren't feasible, why DVDs have to be encrypted. You are too foolish to realize that somewhere some cash has to change hands in order for damn near everything to exist.
Someone mod this up as Insightful for fucks sake, this is one of the most coherent, non-drivel laced, least annoying posts I have ever read on Slashdot.
Really, the author of this post summed up myriad of emotions in a mere 5 sentences. He told a spellbinding epic, from the Fall of the House of Usheresque first line to the jaw dropping conclusion it reads like the masterpiece that it is. Suspense, thrill, overwheling joy and great sadness. This piece has it all.
Big MF Stick writes "CmdrTaco @ goatse.cx has written a piece on the development of GUIs. Like most other articles on slashdot.org it is fairly non-technical, but annoying nonetheless."
Ah, yet another wonderful idea from the Open Source crowd. Yet another hopeless attempt to unseat the Cathedral.
Mobs, forges, lone genius. None of that is going to rescue your precious development model, it is inherently flawed. People want things. They want recognition, which you cover fairly well. They want to do good things, you have that. Unfortunately for you, they also want money. Lots and lots of money so they can buy all of the shiny objects that their neighbors have. You don't have that base covered and you never will, thus nothing of merit will come out of your system.
I can give you all credit for trying. RMS has foregone brushing his teeth for years, just to prove that a person doesn't need to earn enough to afford even the cheapest toothpaste. The majority of people don't have the kind of dedication and resolve your RMS does though, they want fresh breath. You people should give it up.
While we are offering our congratulations to IBM, worshipping them and what not, we should also thank them for dropping the AMD processor from their PC lineup. Now that they have an Intel-only product offering we'll all be a lot safer. The fewer marginal quality machines attached to the internet the better, I know I wouldn't want one running my favorite site.
Slashdot runs things that fit with the political ideology of the Slashdot crowd. When an article shows up that allows them to use phrases like "the human spirit of innovation and creativity", they post it. If not, no post. The content of the article doesn't really matter, all they want to to create an emotional reaction so they can get some page impressions.
While we're on the subject of "the human spirit of innovation and creativity", lets take a look at whether those qualities will bring about the wonderful love fest of bandwidth that Slashbots think it will:
Exactly how is innovation and creativity going to topple Verizon or AT&T? What you people want is for someone to provide a lot of bandwidth that has absolutely no restrictions on use, so you can run web sites or FTP servers or IRC chat rooms or whatever. You also demand 24/7 reliability, good tech support, DoS protection, Open source servers, and low latency. All of that and maybe you'd like to spend about $20 per month with the possible alternative of having the government legislate it all into a 'right' so the wealthy can subsidize it for you.
The funny thing is that you actually think that "the human spirit of innovation and creativity" is going to deliver that. As if those are the qualities that are needed to survive in the business world. As if some guy who uses his "human spirit of innovation and creativity" isn't just going to sell out to Verizon, or get crushed by them in a marketplace dominated by people who base their decisions about which ISP to use on TV commercials or what they saw on the side of a NASCAR car. Face it, no matter how much you whine on a weblog your TOS will always be the same, you'll always have to pay a lot for boradband access, and you'll always send your money to a company you hate.
You grind your beans the night before? Are you insane? Why not just buy them ground for you at the store you weak palleted jackass?
On second though, just buy Folgers freeze dried and be done with it. You must be one of those people who think 'buying whole beans is so trendy, all the cool kids are doing it so I will too', yet you have no idea why. Let me clue you in: fresh ground beans taste better. Not beans ground last year, not beans ground a week ago, not beans ground last night, fresh ground beans. Not that you could tell, you'd probably be just as happy drinking chai. Your pallete has become so desensitized from cheeseburgers and sour patch kids you couldn't tell a cup of fresh ground Jamaican Wallenford from last night's bacon renderings.
Stop grinding your beans you neanderthal. Give yourself over to convenience, buy some crystallized, freeze dried, pre-bagged packets and live like a the tasteless white trash ghetto dweller you are.
Hooray, you people figured out another conduit through which to pipe your stolen goods and kiddie porn. Pat yourselves on the back.
No serious web browser, no serious database, no serious anything, but you can steal with the best of them. Pirate anime wants to be free, and all that.
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They do make weapons out of hot grits, trolls do anyway. You need to read Geekizoid more often.
Please keep up the fine work.
B) Companies sticking to their OSS guns isn't hard to understand, it is impossible to use as a business model. I'm sure you think that there is money to be made in OSS, but of course you have never made any and neither has anyone else. Services or no, no one is going to make any money selling to the 'Free as in I'm broke' community.
Why can't they? Has the GPL been proven in court?
Just admit it, the GPL is worthless. Proprietary is the only way to go.
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Or a Debian CD. Or a VA server.
I am suprised that a Linuxite would fuck up ASCII graphics, as those are the most advanced type that your operating system is capable of displaying. I'm also sure that despite the obvious flaws in your post (the backward S, the worthless first line, etc.) you will claim that it is the best post for virtually all applications.
Of course you'll claim that even though it looks like shit and it doesn't work very well, it is technically superior to the 'LINUX SUCKS' post above. In reality your post is a technical mess, and future posts from you will probably just be worse.
I hate to kick you in the face but did you happen to notice that this sentence containd no commas?
You don't have a lick of economic sense do you son? To you, there are no costs associated with drugs distributed by the government. You're the reason why Napster's for-pay service would never work, why micropayments aren't feasible, why DVDs have to be encrypted. You are too foolish to realize that somewhere some cash has to change hands in order for damn near everything to exist.
Fucking dumbass.
Andover is now paying employee salaries with ThinkGeek products since the bank accounts have dried up. That DVD burner was Hemos' week check.
He didn't actually buy the drive, its a Slashdot infomercial. Its like how if you went to Ron Popiel's house there would be no pasta machine.
Really, the author of this post summed up myriad of emotions in a mere 5 sentences. He told a spellbinding epic, from the Fall of the House of Usheresque first line to the jaw dropping conclusion it reads like the masterpiece that it is. Suspense, thrill, overwheling joy and great sadness. This piece has it all.
Give it up you moderators, this is the real deal.
Big MF Stick writes "CmdrTaco @ goatse.cx has written a piece on the development of GUIs. Like most other articles on slashdot.org it is fairly non-technical, but annoying nonetheless."
Mobs, forges, lone genius. None of that is going to rescue your precious development model, it is inherently flawed. People want things. They want recognition, which you cover fairly well. They want to do good things, you have that. Unfortunately for you, they also want money. Lots and lots of money so they can buy all of the shiny objects that their neighbors have. You don't have that base covered and you never will, thus nothing of merit will come out of your system.
I can give you all credit for trying. RMS has foregone brushing his teeth for years, just to prove that a person doesn't need to earn enough to afford even the cheapest toothpaste. The majority of people don't have the kind of dedication and resolve your RMS does though, they want fresh breath. You people should give it up.
You continue to completely miss the point, you have attained the fabled 'Slashvana' so sought after by most bots.
While we are offering our congratulations to IBM, worshipping them and what not, we should also thank them for dropping the AMD processor from their PC lineup. Now that they have an Intel-only product offering we'll all be a lot safer. The fewer marginal quality machines attached to the internet the better, I know I wouldn't want one running my favorite site.
While we're on the subject of "the human spirit of innovation and creativity", lets take a look at whether those qualities will bring about the wonderful love fest of bandwidth that Slashbots think it will:
Exactly how is innovation and creativity going to topple Verizon or AT&T? What you people want is for someone to provide a lot of bandwidth that has absolutely no restrictions on use, so you can run web sites or FTP servers or IRC chat rooms or whatever. You also demand 24/7 reliability, good tech support, DoS protection, Open source servers, and low latency. All of that and maybe you'd like to spend about $20 per month with the possible alternative of having the government legislate it all into a 'right' so the wealthy can subsidize it for you.
The funny thing is that you actually think that "the human spirit of innovation and creativity" is going to deliver that. As if those are the qualities that are needed to survive in the business world. As if some guy who uses his "human spirit of innovation and creativity" isn't just going to sell out to Verizon, or get crushed by them in a marketplace dominated by people who base their decisions about which ISP to use on TV commercials or what they saw on the side of a NASCAR car. Face it, no matter how much you whine on a weblog your TOS will always be the same, you'll always have to pay a lot for boradband access, and you'll always send your money to a company you hate.
That is just in your mind. In reality, the rant fully supports my position with Microsoft.
Most Slashbots got arrested for public masturbation first, then tried to wire together their home appliances while they were on house arrest.
On second though, just buy Folgers freeze dried and be done with it. You must be one of those people who think 'buying whole beans is so trendy, all the cool kids are doing it so I will too', yet you have no idea why. Let me clue you in: fresh ground beans taste better. Not beans ground last year, not beans ground a week ago, not beans ground last night, fresh ground beans. Not that you could tell, you'd probably be just as happy drinking chai. Your pallete has become so desensitized from cheeseburgers and sour patch kids you couldn't tell a cup of fresh ground Jamaican Wallenford from last night's bacon renderings.
Stop grinding your beans you neanderthal. Give yourself over to convenience, buy some crystallized, freeze dried, pre-bagged packets and live like a the tasteless white trash ghetto dweller you are.
No serious web browser, no serious database, no serious anything, but you can steal with the best of them. Pirate anime wants to be free, and all that.
Or gbd even, Hemos really.
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