I don't develop for GNUCash, but I do spend much of my own spare time developing other Open Source applications.
I'll tell you want is wrong with Open Source, and it isn't the "fix it yourself" attitude. It is the attitude of people like you who expect something for nothing, and then bitch and moan when they don't get what they want. Most Open Source projects are developed as a hobby, started to "scratch an itch" of the developers. Odds are that the project meets the needs of the developers at least, plus some other group of people that use it. If the software doesn't do what you want, you have three options:
Ask the developers to add the feature
Fix it yourself
Pay someone else to fix it
In case you weren't paying attention, that is two more options than closed source software.
Big-name Open Source projects like the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Apache, etc. all have commercial backing. When you buy from RedHat or Novell/SuSE or IBM or Sun for example, you are helping for them to pay the developers that work on these projects - in effect "pay someone else to fix it". RedHat or IBM doesn't tell it's users that the features they want are trivial or to "do it themselves" either.
But most projects aren't Gnome or KDE, so stop treating the people that run them on their spare time like they are RedHat or Novell (or Intuit). You can be thankful that you have the option to acquire the software for no charge and "fix it yourself" via coding, documentation, packaging etc. or you can pay your money to Intuit and get what they have to offer. The choice is yours to make, but don't go confusing one for the other.
There is no longer a City of Gloucester - it is all the City of Ottawa now. The amalgamation of Ottawa, Gloucester, Nepean, Kanata, Township of West Carleon, Goulbourn Township, etc. etc. was done a few years ago.
It must be nice to live in such a black and white world. I could spend all afternoon debunking this, but lets pick one...
Hussein
So, you would have let Iran win the Iran/Iraq war? You don't think that the US had a vested interest in preventing the middle-east superpower that would have created?
Besides, what about the Russians and French who actively supplied Hussein with arms. In the French case, they even built him a nuclear reactor. Do you think that maybe they share some responsibility?
Saddam was the lesser of several evils for quite some time, and even if he had not received some US support there were enough people supporting him to see him through to 1991 and the gulf war.
For those of you who have no idea where Orleans is in Ontario, its very close to Ottawa
Orleans is part of Ottawa actually - one of the east end suburbs.
Also, the guy alledgedly was planning something in the UK, not the US, so the proximity to the US border isn't really an issue. Besides, something like 90% or our population is within a few hours of the US border.
Do you ever get tired of setting up the same strawman (The Slashdotter: rabid pro-GPL Linux zealot who wants to free use of other copyrighted material) and then burning it down? Does it give you some sort of feeling of moral superiority?
There are hundreds of thousands of slashdot accounts. Probably tens of thousands who post in any given month. Why don't you reply to those handful handful who actually resemble that strawman, instead of tarring everyone with the same brush.
work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software
That is part of the original mission statement for the Fedora Project. As in:
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
WTF does that have to do with being based on RedHat? How does it indicate RedHat ever having lied to anyone?
But at least I now know that Fedora Core 1 is not a complete, general purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software.
If you knew the first thing about FC1 you'd know it did.
All you need to figure out how good Halo is is to look at how it did on the PC: mediocre. Halo is a second-rate FPS in the PC world.
The only reason Halo got impressive sales and press coverage is beacuse it was *the* launch title on the XBox, and if you wanted an FPS on the XBox at the time (heck, if you wanted a good game in general) it was Halo or nothing.
In my opinion consoles remain a secondary platform for FPS and RTS games. Until I see a seminal title for one of those genres as an exclusive on a console I can't see that changing.
I checked, and here are the details for Canada. It appears that you are partially correct - the authors should get most of the money, with a bit going to the performer and the record company.
It still doesn't change the fact that because it is based on sales and airplay that the money is going to be given to a few people and some record companies. It is worth noting that even non-Canadian authors are getting paid by this system - at least what small amount of the money is actually being paid out.
Now excuse my while I pay $0.21 to Celine for backing up my home directory to CD-R:-|
In Canada, the money is theoretically doled out in proportion to album sales. However, if you read this you'll notice that:
Since the regime was established in December 1999, the CPCC has collected over $54 million in levies. According to an article in the Globe and Mail on February 26, 2003, only $6.8 million has been dispersed to copyright holders to date.
My understanding is you also have to be the copyright holder to get the money, which is not many musicians. In other words, both consumers and musicians are being fleeced by this inane law, and the only people making money are record companies and Celine Dion.
This is sadly just another example of influence peddling and corruption with our current government.
"Saving Private Ryan" had about as much historical insight as my lunch did
Apparently your lunch has more historical insight than you do. The characters is Ryan may have been fictional, but the events and surroundings that were the backdrop for the story could probably have not been more real. It gives the viewer incredible and disturbing insight into what Omamha Beach and a firefight in Normandy must have been like. Just because it wasn't a documentary doesn't mean that it doesn't teach you a lesson about history.
If you can't see the difference between senseless violence for the sake of selling video games and the violence in Saving Private Ryan then I really feel sorry for you. I'm not opposed to GTA per se (I think parents should make their own choices about what their children see), but let's call a spade a spade.
Tim Horton was a hockey player. There are Tim Hortons in the US now too - Niagra Falls and Buffalo at least.
I don't know any native Californians, but upstate New York is only 2 hours away I can detect their accent and they can detect mine (i.e. a waitress in a restaurant knows we are from Canada). I notice all sorts of cultural differences when I travel in the US too.
Except for the fact that these clowns accepted sourceforge's TOS and stated the code was under an open source license. Then they tried to retract that while the code was still hosted on sourceforge, stating that if people downloaded it from sourceforge CVS they would be breaking the license.
Sure, you can change the license to your code, but the last GPLed stuff you release remains under the GPL - you can't threaten legal action against people who want to use it.
Also, quite frankly, the code was a steaming pile of crap. It might have worked, but it was 'worthy of an F on a first year comp-sci assignment' type of code quality. If you were trying to duplicate the effort of WarpPipe you'd be better off starting from scratch, maybe using their code if you ran into a specific problem.
We have our not quite up-to-date list of supported devices here. Note that doesn't include SyncML, which works with P800/P900 phones. Nokia phones that sync via SyncML with WBXML aren't really working yet.
It's Opie-based PIMs will support synchronization with Lycoris's Desktop operating systems...
Some of us have been working on that [1][2] for a while. I'm hoping they plan on using that and contributng back.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt - nothing wrong with providing "customizations" on top of Opie, but they need to provide code back. I haven't seen anything yet to say whether this will occur or not.
Too bad nobody at Sharp was listening about the sync portion at least. Syncing with Opie is possible but not great, but at least we are trying to improve it out in the open, rather than changing formats in a closed way like Sharp did.
If you look at the way that Opie and Multisync are headed I think that we will get there eventually on the sync front.
LOL. Did you even read that RFC? Try the preceeding section:
For definitive information on URL syntax and semantics, see "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics," RFC 2396 [42] (which replaces RFCs 1738 [4] and RFC 1808 [11])
Thanks for making my point for me. RFC 2616 describes HTTP 1.1, not URL syntax. Is explicitly defers to RFC 2396 for that - it does not obsolete RFC 2396 in any way.
Even though RFC 2396 supercedes RFC 1738, it still doesn't allow the user:pass@host scheme for http://-URLs. Excerpt from RFC 2396
Wrong. Not recommended for security reasons is not the same as not allowed. Try reading the BNF for the userinfo portion of the URL definition (it doesn't pass the lameness filter so I can't post it), along with:
URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to a specified server on the Internet use a common syntax for the server
component of the URI's scheme-specific data:
<userinfo>@<host>:<port>
where <userinfo> may consist of a user name and, optionally, scheme-specific information about how to gain authorization to access the server. The parts "<userinfo>@" and ":<port>" may be omitted.
The user:pass@host scheme is explicitly defined and absoluteley allowed in the URL syntax. Whether you want to transmit this information in the clear is the issue taken up the paragraph you quoted, not whether the form is allowed. Nice wordsmithing though - apparently the Microsoft apologists amongst the moderators bought it.
I love it when someone quotes an RFC, but doesn't realize that it has been superceded by a more recent RFC.
The practice of sending a username and password is not reccomended, but it is defined in relevant RFC and is explicitly allowed in the URL syntax. Microsoft will be breaking the standard if they disallow this format.
The 11 Mbit and 54 Mbit ratings are theoretical maximums, not something you are going to observe in the field. You have transmission and protocol overhead, interference (even with a few partitions in the way) and your crappy consumer-grade access point and card standing in the way of that kind of performance.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: United Linux is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered United Linux community when IDC confirmed that United Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that United Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. United Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict United Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: United Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for United Linux because United Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for United Linux. As many of us are already aware, United Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO. How many users of TurboLinux are there? Let's see. The number of SCO versus TuboLinux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 TuboLinux users. Connectiva posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of TuboLinux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Connectiva. A recent article put SuSE at about 80 percent of the United Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SuSE users. This is consistent with the number of SuSE Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SuSE, abysmal sales and so on, SuSE went out of business and was taken over by Novell who sell another troubled OS. Now TurboLinux is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that United Linux has steadily declined in market share. United Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If United Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. United Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, United Linux is dead.
Well, the antitrust laws that Microsoft violated are over 100 years old (started with the Sherman anti-trust act). They are designed to protect the consumer by preventing a company in a monopoly position from leveraging that monopoly to prevent competition.
You are of course free to disagree with that law, but instead all you can produce is ad homenim attacks and hasty generalizations. And none of that changes the fact that Microsoft is treated differently than Apple for a well understood legal reason.
I'll ignore your flaming and irrelevant political statement (look who was in charge when the charges were brought) and point something out: it isn't a moralistic determination. It is a legal determination - monopolies have to play by different rules than other companies. Hence the antitrust conviction and consent decree, which was probably violated here.
But hey, don't let facts interfere with your political ranting.
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I don't develop for GNUCash, but I do spend much of my own spare time developing other Open Source applications.
I'll tell you want is wrong with Open Source, and it isn't the "fix it yourself" attitude. It is the attitude of people like you who expect something for nothing, and then bitch and moan when they don't get what they want. Most Open Source projects are developed as a hobby, started to "scratch an itch" of the developers. Odds are that the project meets the needs of the developers at least, plus some other group of people that use it. If the software doesn't do what you want, you have three options:
In case you weren't paying attention, that is two more options than closed source software.
Big-name Open Source projects like the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Apache, etc. all have commercial backing. When you buy from RedHat or Novell/SuSE or IBM or Sun for example, you are helping for them to pay the developers that work on these projects - in effect "pay someone else to fix it". RedHat or IBM doesn't tell it's users that the features they want are trivial or to "do it themselves" either.
But most projects aren't Gnome or KDE, so stop treating the people that run them on their spare time like they are RedHat or Novell (or Intuit). You can be thankful that you have the option to acquire the software for no charge and "fix it yourself" via coding, documentation, packaging etc. or you can pay your money to Intuit and get what they have to offer. The choice is yours to make, but don't go confusing one for the other.
There is no longer a City of Gloucester - it is all the City of Ottawa now. The amalgamation of Ottawa, Gloucester, Nepean, Kanata, Township of West Carleon, Goulbourn Township, etc. etc. was done a few years ago.
It must be nice to live in such a black and white world. I could spend all afternoon debunking this, but lets pick one...
Hussein
So, you would have let Iran win the Iran/Iraq war? You don't think that the US had a vested interest in preventing the middle-east superpower that would have created?
Besides, what about the Russians and French who actively supplied Hussein with arms. In the French case, they even built him a nuclear reactor. Do you think that maybe they share some responsibility?
Saddam was the lesser of several evils for quite some time, and even if he had not received some US support there were enough people supporting him to see him through to 1991 and the gulf war.
For those of you who have no idea where Orleans is in Ontario, its very close to Ottawa
Orleans is part of Ottawa actually - one of the east end suburbs.
Also, the guy alledgedly was planning something in the UK, not the US, so the proximity to the US border isn't really an issue. Besides, something like 90% or our population is within a few hours of the US border.
Do you ever get tired of setting up the same strawman (The Slashdotter: rabid pro-GPL Linux zealot who wants to free use of other copyrighted material) and then burning it down? Does it give you some sort of feeling of moral superiority?
There are hundreds of thousands of slashdot accounts. Probably tens of thousands who post in any given month. Why don't you reply to those handful handful who actually resemble that strawman, instead of tarring everyone with the same brush.
Who upmodded this troll?
work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software
That is part of the original mission statement for the Fedora Project. As in:
WTF does that have to do with being based on RedHat? How does it indicate RedHat ever having lied to anyone?
But at least I now know that Fedora Core 1 is not a complete, general purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software.
If you knew the first thing about FC1 you'd know it did.
All you need to figure out how good Halo is is to look at how it did on the PC: mediocre. Halo is a second-rate FPS in the PC world.
The only reason Halo got impressive sales and press coverage is beacuse it was *the* launch title on the XBox, and if you wanted an FPS on the XBox at the time (heck, if you wanted a good game in general) it was Halo or nothing.
In my opinion consoles remain a secondary platform for FPS and RTS games. Until I see a seminal title for one of those genres as an exclusive on a console I can't see that changing.
MultiSync.
I checked, and here are the details for Canada. It appears that you are partially correct - the authors should get most of the money, with a bit going to the performer and the record company.
It still doesn't change the fact that because it is based on sales and airplay that the money is going to be given to a few people and some record companies. It is worth noting that even non-Canadian authors are getting paid by this system - at least what small amount of the money is actually being paid out.
Now excuse my while I pay $0.21 to Celine for backing up my home directory to CD-R :-|
In Canada, the money is theoretically doled out in proportion to album sales. However, if you read this you'll notice that:
My understanding is you also have to be the copyright holder to get the money, which is not many musicians. In other words, both consumers and musicians are being fleeced by this inane law, and the only people making money are record companies and Celine Dion.
This is sadly just another example of influence peddling and corruption with our current government.
"The Passion" certainly didn't happen like that
Certainly? Says you?
"Saving Private Ryan" had about as much historical insight as my lunch did
Apparently your lunch has more historical insight than you do. The characters is Ryan may have been fictional, but the events and surroundings that were the backdrop for the story could probably have not been more real. It gives the viewer incredible and disturbing insight into what Omamha Beach and a firefight in Normandy must have been like. Just because it wasn't a documentary doesn't mean that it doesn't teach you a lesson about history.
If you can't see the difference between senseless violence for the sake of selling video games and the violence in Saving Private Ryan then I really feel sorry for you. I'm not opposed to GTA per se (I think parents should make their own choices about what their children see), but let's call a spade a spade.
Tim Horton was a hockey player. There are Tim Hortons in the US now too - Niagra Falls and Buffalo at least.
I don't know any native Californians, but upstate New York is only 2 hours away I can detect their accent and they can detect mine (i.e. a waitress in a restaurant knows we are from Canada). I notice all sorts of cultural differences when I travel in the US too.
Except for the fact that these clowns accepted sourceforge's TOS and stated the code was under an open source license. Then they tried to retract that while the code was still hosted on sourceforge, stating that if people downloaded it from sourceforge CVS they would be breaking the license.
Sure, you can change the license to your code, but the last GPLed stuff you release remains under the GPL - you can't threaten legal action against people who want to use it.
Also, quite frankly, the code was a steaming pile of crap. It might have worked, but it was 'worthy of an F on a first year comp-sci assignment' type of code quality. If you were trying to duplicate the effort of WarpPipe you'd be better off starting from scratch, maybe using their code if you ran into a specific problem.
See that post all you penis bird crapflooders? That is how you troll someone :-)
Relax.
Notice how the FSF and the Apache group are discussing the license? They'll work things out - no need for panic mongering.
Thanks for the plug :)
We have our not quite up-to-date list of supported devices here. Note that doesn't include SyncML, which works with P800/P900 phones. Nokia phones that sync via SyncML with WBXML aren't really working yet.
Indeed.
It's Opie-based PIMs will support synchronization with Lycoris's Desktop operating systems...
Some of us have been working on that [1] [2] for a while. I'm hoping they plan on using that and contributng back.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt - nothing wrong with providing "customizations" on top of Opie, but they need to provide code back. I haven't seen anything yet to say whether this will occur or not.
Too bad nobody at Sharp was listening about the sync portion at least. Syncing with Opie is possible but not great, but at least we are trying to improve it out in the open, rather than changing formats in a closed way like Sharp did.
If you look at the way that Opie and Multisync are headed I think that we will get there eventually on the sync front.
LOL. Did you even read that RFC? Try the preceeding section:
Thanks for making my point for me. RFC 2616 describes HTTP 1.1, not URL syntax. Is explicitly defers to RFC 2396 for that - it does not obsolete RFC 2396 in any way.
Even though RFC 2396 supercedes RFC 1738, it still doesn't allow the user:pass@host scheme for http://-URLs. Excerpt from RFC 2396
Wrong. Not recommended for security reasons is not the same as not allowed. Try reading the BNF for the userinfo portion of the URL definition (it doesn't pass the lameness filter so I can't post it), along with:
The user:pass@host scheme is explicitly defined and absoluteley allowed in the URL syntax. Whether you want to transmit this information in the clear is the issue taken up the paragraph you quoted, not whether the form is allowed. Nice wordsmithing though - apparently the Microsoft apologists amongst the moderators bought it.
I love it when someone quotes an RFC, but doesn't realize that it has been superceded by a more recent RFC.
The practice of sending a username and password is not reccomended, but it is defined in relevant RFC and is explicitly allowed in the URL syntax. Microsoft will be breaking the standard if they disallow this format.
The 11 Mbit and 54 Mbit ratings are theoretical maximums, not something you are going to observe in the field. You have transmission and protocol overhead, interference (even with a few partitions in the way) and your crappy consumer-grade access point and card standing in the way of that kind of performance.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: United Linux is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered United Linux community when IDC confirmed that United Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that United Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. United Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict United Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: United Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for United Linux because United Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for United Linux. As many of us are already aware, United Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO leader Darl states that there are 7000 users of SCO. How many users of TurboLinux are there? Let's see. The number of SCO versus TuboLinux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 TuboLinux users. Connectiva posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of TuboLinux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Connectiva. A recent article put SuSE at about 80 percent of the United Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SuSE users. This is consistent with the number of SuSE Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SuSE, abysmal sales and so on, SuSE went out of business and was taken over by Novell who sell another troubled OS. Now TurboLinux is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that United Linux has steadily declined in market share. United Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If United Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. United Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, United Linux is dead.
Fact: United Linux is dying
Well, the antitrust laws that Microsoft violated are over 100 years old (started with the Sherman anti-trust act). They are designed to protect the consumer by preventing a company in a monopoly position from leveraging that monopoly to prevent competition.
You are of course free to disagree with that law, but instead all you can produce is ad homenim attacks and hasty generalizations. And none of that changes the fact that Microsoft is treated differently than Apple for a well understood legal reason.
I'll ignore your flaming and irrelevant political statement (look who was in charge when the charges were brought) and point something out: it isn't a moralistic determination. It is a legal determination - monopolies have to play by different rules than other companies. Hence the antitrust conviction and consent decree, which was probably violated here.
But hey, don't let facts interfere with your political ranting.