Naw, we don't do it for beautiful women. That's a troll. Any geek knows that beautiful women are attracted to money, not the fruits of the labor of Open Source.
Some say we do it for hubris.
We do it because we don't wanna grow up. Grown ups do things for money. We do it for love, pure and unabashed. Like children do what they do.
We are geeks. As youngsters, we were isolated from the popular people BY THEIR CHOICE. We sat alone at lunchtime, ignored. We played by ourselves on the playgrounds, we read books and found libraries, instead of all the cool things that popular people do. We took electronic things apart, rather than hang out with friends, since we had no friends. We are geeks.
Then one day, the whole world started looking at us, wondering what we would do next. Popularity is not why we are here. We are here to be kind to those folks who were mean to us. We do it because we want to be nicer to others than they were to us. We sat there and watched you popular people for all those years, thinking, gee, if only I had friends, I would be nice to EVERYONE.
As a programmer who doesn't lobby, but who appreciates your efforts, I am curious to know what kinds of software we produce makes your job easier.
What kind of 'attitude' in programming makes it easy to lobby the open source cause? RMS? JWZ?/.? ESR? In other words, what kinds of things can we do in the natural course of programming, which help you do what you do?
"It seems that three hours later, the slashdotting was over, and all the people who were frustrated went back to their lives of frustration with no audience."
Gadzooks, you make it sound like a slashdotting is comparable to a rolling blackout. Get over it. Life is too short to complain about things which are over in a few hours.
Some of us click it twice when we see things like this. Bugzilla people, take a break. Step outside and smell the air, look into the sun, pick a flower.
Telling people to stop clicking on a slashdot link is like asking a hurricane to please come back next week.
Hey, dude. Blaming other people for your problems ain't gon' to solve'm any faster. Don't think you got an inside track to Slashdot editor's whims just because you workin' on Mozilla, which we're all waiting for.
So you got slashdotted. Take a break. Go for a walk, enjoy the sunlight a little.
A trinary hardware system moves data more efficiently than a binary one.
Here is a site I recently found with all the hardware schematics you need to build such a system. Is this going to happen any time soon? What material would you use to build a trinary system? The same as binary?
Orson Scott Card weaves religion into some of his works in a similar manner. He is a Mormon, which holds Jesus Christ to be the center of the universe, with an American spin to it.
Your sig is: "Any sufficiently advanced man is indistiguishable from God." Haven't read the book of Job lately, have ye? Does wonders for the ego of one who thinks God status is anywhere close to achievable.
No. You don't build the swimming pool in the first place. Not if you have any virtue left. Instead, you spend the money in a manner that lets poor people know they're building their own swimming pool. I'm poor. I don't wanna build your dang ol' swimming pool. I'm just as human as you: I wanna build my own. But I have to build fifty of yours before I can afford one of my own. Wouldn't it be a more meaningful life if you forsook a few of your toys to come help me build a toy I wanted just as much as you? Meaning in life comes from sacrifice of selfishness.
The problem with wealth is that it makes people selfish. All the dreams you have of what you're going to do with the money when you get it? All those dreams seem silly when you actually have the money in your hand. You go skiing instead.
There is virtue in being poor. There is no virtue in being rich.
That would be like studying nosehairs to find out about astronomy. Study of economics is a subset of capitalism, not the other way around. The world is bigger than economics, I'll have ya know.
I know a hawk from a handsaw when the wind blows from the south east.
Nope not starting any new ism. Just doing the one that works, and doing it with all my heart. Capitalism works... up to a point. Then it leaves ya realizing that in order for me to get all this money in my pockets, I hadda pry it out of the hands of people who would use it for food instead of a new swimming pool. (Replace swimming pool with RV if you live in Canada).
That is the sad end of capitalism. And as the man's sig says "Faith is the last resort of a desperate man."
The first resort of a wise one.
Water Paradoxism: "Give me water or I will tell you about how much I like Perl again."
Spoken by a true slacker. As a hacker, I do read the EULAs. I do not read every one. But I read them, and find them fascinating. So much of the personality of the company is revealed in the EULA.
Like any stranger I might meet on the street, in a bar, anywhere, I look at the company carefully before I open up a relationship with 'em. Microsoft can NOT claim me as a friend, simply because they distrust me so much. When their EULAs are not built around distrust of me, I'll be more friendly to them in exchange...
Slashdot Mirror
Naw, we don't do it for beautiful women. That's a troll. Any geek knows that beautiful women are attracted to money, not the fruits of the labor of Open Source.
Some say we do it for hubris.
We do it because we don't wanna grow up. Grown ups do things for money. We do it for love, pure and unabashed. Like children do what they do.
-Water Paradox
We are geeks. As youngsters, we were isolated from the popular people BY THEIR CHOICE. We sat alone at lunchtime, ignored. We played by ourselves on the playgrounds, we read books and found libraries, instead of all the cool things that popular people do. We took electronic things apart, rather than hang out with friends, since we had no friends. We are geeks.
Then one day, the whole world started looking at us, wondering what we would do next. Popularity is not why we are here. We are here to be kind to those folks who were mean to us. We do it because we want to be nicer to others than they were to us. We sat there and watched you popular people for all those years, thinking, gee, if only I had friends, I would be nice to EVERYONE.
Not just the ones who give us money.
We do it for love, clear and simple.
That's why.
-Water Paradox
As a programmer who doesn't lobby, but who appreciates your efforts, I am curious to know what kinds of software we produce makes your job easier.
/.? ESR? In other words, what kinds of things can we do in the natural course of programming, which help you do what you do?
What kind of 'attitude' in programming makes it easy to lobby the open source cause? RMS? JWZ?
-Water Paradox
Finally, a little clarity on the subject.
"It seems that three hours later, the slashdotting was over, and all the people who were frustrated went back to their lives of frustration with no audience."
Gadzooks, you make it sound like a slashdotting is comparable to a rolling blackout. Get over it. Life is too short to complain about things which are over in a few hours.
Some of us click it twice when we see things like this. Bugzilla people, take a break. Step outside and smell the air, look into the sun, pick a flower.
Telling people to stop clicking on a slashdot link is like asking a hurricane to please come back next week.
Deal with it with grace.
Is Slashdotting a force of nature?
-Water Paradox
Hey, dude. Blaming other people for your problems ain't gon' to solve'm any faster. Don't think you got an inside track to Slashdot editor's whims just because you workin' on Mozilla, which we're all waiting for.
So you got slashdotted. Take a break. Go for a walk, enjoy the sunlight a little.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
-Water Paradox
Sounds like a woman writing. They just don't get it, do they, guys? :-)
Cmdr Taco et al.
Life is bigger than a day. Link to whomever you please.
-Water Paradox
This revolution began on the shoulders of the
insane, people like Richard Stallman, who hold so
firmly to their points that everyone who doesn't
get the point says "oh, i get it, he's insane."
Then a whole bunch of money got thrown at us, and
everyone tried to make us insane people the
saviors of the world. Now that is collapsing, and
it's back on the shoulders of the insane folks to carry
the free software/open source revolution.
I say, welcome back. I prefer the company of
geeks who work for no money anyways.
A man without a God thinks he is God.
Whence your .sig? I laid some ancient lines once...
Orson Scott Card weaves religion into some of his works in a similar manner. He is a Mormon, which holds Jesus Christ to be the center of the universe, with an American spin to it.
Your sig is: "Any sufficiently advanced man is indistiguishable from God." Haven't read the book of Job lately, have ye? Does wonders for the ego of one who thinks God status is anywhere close to achievable.
The problem with wealth is that it makes people selfish. All the dreams you have of what you're going to do with the money when you get it? All those dreams seem silly when you actually have the money in your hand. You go skiing instead.
There is virtue in being poor. There is no virtue in being rich.
What was that about Alcohol and Catholics? I mished it...
Better yet; it does the same when you click Yes.
It's about time Stalin had a friend.
That would be like studying nosehairs to find out about astronomy. Study of economics is a subset of capitalism, not the other way around. The world is bigger than economics, I'll have ya know.
I know a hawk from a handsaw when the wind blows from the south east.
-Water Paradox
That is the sad end of capitalism. And as the man's sig says "Faith is the last resort of a desperate man."
The first resort of a wise one.
Water Paradoxism: "Give me water or I will tell you about how much I like Perl again."
That's why it works. It's the only thing that ALWAYS works. Never fails.
Praise God! By his selfishness, Gates is doing what Perens and Stallman together couldn't do: unite the open source / free software community.
-Jared
Like any stranger I might meet on the street, in a bar, anywhere, I look at the company carefully before I open up a relationship with 'em. Microsoft can NOT claim me as a friend, simply because they distrust me so much. When their EULAs are not built around distrust of me, I'll be more friendly to them in exchange...
-Jared