'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
But it's OK if it's diluted by centuries of discrimination by caste.
No doubt such a development would devastate Oracle. It's not as if they have ever had to maintain a DB product without a volunteer community. Oh wait...
In the Slashdot world there is only one true command-line OS - UNIX. Of course the mystery is how there can be n operating systems in one UNIX (kind of like the trinity in religion).
It's always been hard. Every company other than Atari that created video games for the 2600 had to do this (or pay somebody else to do it) because the specs were a trade secret.
So you think hypocrisy is going to disappear as well? Managers are quite willing to fire you for doing the same things they do. That's why they call it "Power".
Yes, teenagers aren't concerned about a lot of things - no news there. But someday they grow up and have to start facing the consequences of their actions. Then they will be concerned for their privacy.
I've often wondered why more reverse engineering isn't done to create Linux drivers rather than just complaining about the manufacturer of the hardware. The only unfortunate thing about this project is that Linux drivers already exist (according to other posts here).
Wouldn't it be better to reverse-engineer hardware to create Linux drivers that don't exist?
"The primary value I personally derive from licensing my software under the GPL is the feature enhancements and bug fixes I receive back whenever someone makes changes and re-releases my code."
The problem is that how much you receive back and its economic value is very much a matter of speculation. Much more convoluted an argument than saying I sell X copies a month at $Y a copy.
Stac had plenty of money to continue if they had wanted to. The problem was that they were a one-hit-wonder company with a product whoose days were numbered regardless of MS's actions. Who would pay money to compress their hard drives today?
I wish I had MS do something wrong to me to the tune of about 200 million dollars. Given the brief time that stacker was a relevant product (due to ever-expanding disk sizes), they may have made more money with MS's patent violations than they would have otherwise.
"You named one author, odd that there are thousands of others who write Operating System books and write them far better then Andrew S. Tanenbaum."
Now you know the danger of making overbroad generalizations. Perhaps you should of said "none of the OS book authors that I'm familiar with". Oops, I guess that doesn't work either since you claim to know that Tanenbaum is a bad author.
"And if for some reason you didn't take a Linux course..."
It would have been rather difficult for me to take a Linux course in college given the fact that it didn't exist then. Yes, there were operating systems before Linux and before UNIX.
If Linux and Unix are the only OSs covered, no wonder young CS students have a bias for them - there's a whole world of OSs that have been omitted.
"In fact I want someone to prove to me that Linux and Unix are not the best designed Operating Systems."
Sorry, bub. If you state that Linux and Unix are the best designed Operating Systems it's your burden of proof, not mine. I suggest you confine your proof to those operating systems and don't mention Windows at all since it's irrelevant.
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If you're not talking about economics then you're not talking about socialism.
I think you mean "If capitalism is good then socialism is necessarily evil".
There is no "contract of employment". They pay you what they want to pay you and get rid of you at will.
The only contracts involved are the ones that say you can't work for a competitor or use the knowledge you gained on the job to get a better one.
Presumably they pay you with all the fruit. Paying isn't labor.
Straw-men can break easily if you stretch them too far.
Yes, I think corporations are going to figure this out eventually and stop buying open source projects.
I think the business viability of open source is still not proven.
"Are you suggesting that the rulings are different if you are from a different caste?"
Are you suggesting that no such thing has ever happened in India?
My insight is that people in glass houses ...
Perhaps you should write to the judge and tell him that mentioning equality in his ruling was off topic.
'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
But it's OK if it's diluted by centuries of discrimination by caste.
"GP is probably a paid shill or works for Oracle."
So if they're a paid shill but don't work for Oracle who's paying them?
No doubt such a development would devastate Oracle. It's not as if they have ever had to maintain a DB product without a volunteer community. Oh wait ...
The problem is that on Slashdot many of the "old-timers" aren't that old.
In the Slashdot world there is only one true command-line OS - UNIX. Of course the mystery is how there can be n operating systems in one UNIX (kind of like the trinity in religion).
Well, sometimes Linux supporters claim that the work is mostly done by paid professionals, not by volunteers. Sometimes the claims go the other way.
It seems that the assertion given on any occasion is the one that puts Linux in the best light given the current discussion.
"Because these days it's really, really hard."
It's always been hard. Every company other than Atari that created video games for the 2600 had to do this (or pay somebody else to do it) because the specs were a trade secret.
So you think hypocrisy is going to disappear as well? Managers are quite willing to fire you for doing the same things they do. That's why they call it "Power".
Yes, teenagers aren't concerned about a lot of things - no news there. But someday they grow up and have to start facing the consequences of their actions. Then they will be concerned for their privacy.
I've often wondered why more reverse engineering isn't done to create Linux drivers rather than just complaining about the manufacturer of the hardware. The only unfortunate thing about this project is that Linux drivers already exist (according to other posts here).
Wouldn't it be better to reverse-engineer hardware to create Linux drivers that don't exist?
It's rather arrogant and insulting to suggest that somebody wants to steal something they haven't even expressed any interest in.
You should be so lucky to have written code someone thought was worthy of stealing.
"The primary value I personally derive from licensing my software under the GPL is the feature enhancements and bug fixes I receive back whenever someone makes changes and re-releases my code."
The problem is that how much you receive back and its economic value is very much a matter of speculation. Much more convoluted an argument than saying I sell X copies a month at $Y a copy.
Stac had plenty of money to continue if they had wanted to. The problem was that they were a one-hit-wonder company with a product whoose days were numbered regardless of MS's actions. Who would pay money to compress their hard drives today?
I wish I had MS do something wrong to me to the tune of about 200 million dollars. Given the brief time that stacker was a relevant product (due to ever-expanding disk sizes), they may have made more money with MS's patent violations than they would have otherwise.
"Linux never bought into this idea of blurring the line between data and programs."
Actually any OS that allows you to run code out of RAM is doing exactly that, Linux included.
"You named one author, odd that there are thousands of others who write Operating System books and write them far better then Andrew S. Tanenbaum."
Now you know the danger of making overbroad generalizations. Perhaps you should of said "none of the OS book authors that I'm familiar with". Oops, I guess that doesn't work either since you claim to know that Tanenbaum is a bad author.
"And if for some reason you didn't take a Linux course ..."
It would have been rather difficult for me to take a Linux course in college given the fact that it didn't exist then. Yes, there were operating systems before Linux and before UNIX.
If Linux and Unix are the only OSs covered, no wonder young CS students have a bias for them - there's a whole world of OSs that have been omitted.
"In fact I want someone to prove to me that Linux and Unix are not the best designed Operating Systems."
Sorry, bub. If you state that Linux and Unix are the best designed Operating Systems it's your burden of proof, not mine. I suggest you confine your proof to those operating systems and don't mention Windows at all since it's irrelevant.