Agreed. RMS's advice seems to be to run your own server, but how many people can or will do that? If he presented a viable alternative for the masses I'd be more sympathetic.
Openly is definitely better. I think that it is reasonable for companies to charge users more when they use more bandwidth. The real root solution is keeping the market competitive by allowing people to easily switch providers and maintaining net neutrality.
Because I can't absorb all the free information as it is. As said in a recent SlashDot
artical, there is only so much attention the public can provide, and the free information
uses it all up.
Hear hear! No programmer can confidently write
a large program and expects it to compile and
run on a variety of platforms.
My $0.02 - standards are not enough. We need a
program that enforces the standard and says
definitively whether or not something is valid
C++. I've seen too many tables showing "to what
degree" a compiler is standard. Look at the
Mozilla portability guide http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html
which starts with "Don't use C++ templates."
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So how is this approach different from GNU Hurd? http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
Agreed. RMS's advice seems to be to run your own server, but how many people can or will do that? If he presented a viable alternative for the masses I'd be more sympathetic.
Openly is definitely better. I think that it is reasonable for companies to charge users more when they use more bandwidth. The real root solution is keeping the market competitive by allowing people to easily switch providers and maintaining net neutrality.
Because I can't absorb all the free information as it is. As said in a recent SlashDot artical, there is only so much attention the public can provide, and the free information uses it all up.
Could the next version of C++ make Purify less important? The fact that this product line exists indicates a C++ usability problem.
Hear hear! No programmer can confidently write a large program and expects it to compile and run on a variety of platforms. My $0.02 - standards are not enough. We need a program that enforces the standard and says definitively whether or not something is valid C++. I've seen too many tables showing "to what degree" a compiler is standard. Look at the Mozilla portability guide http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html which starts with "Don't use C++ templates."