Sir, you missed my point entirely.
I've had my share of scanners "go brick" because the driver fell out of currency.
The point is that the demonization of companies would have more weight if, to pick from your list, RMS had actual executive experience running a company like S3.
The GPL makes wonderful common sense, hence the existence of OSDL.
And I agree that, as a customer, it sucks to have hardware requirements unmet by the vendor.
However, I don't think my own "baby with a full diaper" arguments constitute the full picture of how my crappy hardware got there, or how the development/distribution/market/maintenance/regula tion cycle works: there is just more to the situation than my whining.
a conspiracy of companies to restrict the public - to restrict the public's access to technology. Such conspiracies ought to be a crime. The executives of those companies should be tried, and if convicted, sent to prison for conspiring to restrict the public's access to technology. However, that sort of policy would have required leaders that believe in government of the people, by the people, for the people. What we have today is government of the people, by the flunkies, for the corporations.
For a thought experiment, it would be fun to force RMS to run a company producing some hardware for a while.
There would need to be an incentive, say, the threat of being forced to use vi on Windows, or no technology at all, if he didn't dedicate himself sincerely to protecting shareholder value or expanding the market for the product.
Because, while I find myself admiring and agreeing with RMS quite often, I also feel that he fails to appreciate the merits of any opposing viewpoints. Experience beyond his catbird seat as chief agitator of the FSF might temper the fellow nicely.
Most examples we've seen of communism so far have just been modern versions of feudalism, with little in common with actual communism
You may be missing my point: the actual examples seen in history are the actual examples of communism. I offer the unwillingness of communist adherents to accept the reality as proof that communism is more or less a religion. The system is novel in the abstract, but goes feudal (or fascist) when combined with Real Live People: it models the human spirit poorly on a good day.
Interestingly, some American and European capitalistic companies have found giving some control to the workers a god incentive (stocks/options) for better productivity, and thereby, greater shared wealth.
See, that's ironic.
I would call it more fractal than ironic, when individual companies incentivize employees with options.
Also criminal, when an Enron uses natural self-interest as a means to mug employees.
The irony, IMHO, is that communism's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" becomes "if I can't have it, you can't have it" in practice.
Oh, they have everything to do with communism, once the system interacts with the human soul.
The cliche: "the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory" has never been more darkly underscored than by this communist theory.
Which is not to say that a lot of the criticsm of capitalism is unfounded, either. It just (arguably) has a less-worse batting average.
The "pill du jour" is what has me mildly concerned.
Do you:
Feel inadequate and scared when someone cuts you off in traffic?
Experience diminished self-esteem when you try to compile some code, and the compiler yells at you?
Need a new emotion management system to help you navigate social experience choices?
ask your doctor if Soma is right for you.
[cue Van Halen knockoff, doing "Soma's here / and the time is right / for dancin' in the streets" ]
Remember, Soma may not be a swift call for anyone interested in: reproducing; retaining their intellectual faculties; or their basic humanity.
A Venn diagram of "religion" and Communism would reveal significant overlap. The Communists may have rejected the traditional "opium", but they were definitely pushing something.
We can get a littler closer to Carlin with this one:
Redomond's flaccid sales have thus far failed to prick a hole in the stiff market-share erected by those Cupertino pricks.
This is "negative" publicity intended to call attention to the project
MoneyCentral is staffed by folks for whom all things are tactical, and the concept of a strategic project with payoffs in the decade range are like, totally too hard, dude.
The HOR is meant to have a higher election frequency and reflect the tactical, knee-jerk feelings of the people.
I was going to bracket the TLA with 'w' and 'e', but that would be too accurate.
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Sir, you missed my point entirely.a tion cycle works: there is just more to the situation than my whining.
I've had my share of scanners "go brick" because the driver fell out of currency.
The point is that the demonization of companies would have more weight if, to pick from your list, RMS had actual executive experience running a company like S3.
The GPL makes wonderful common sense, hence the existence of OSDL.
And I agree that, as a customer, it sucks to have hardware requirements unmet by the vendor.
However, I don't think my own "baby with a full diaper" arguments constitute the full picture of how my crappy hardware got there, or how the development/distribution/market/maintenance/regul
There would need to be an incentive, say, the threat of being forced to use vi on Windows, or no technology at all, if he didn't dedicate himself sincerely to protecting shareholder value or expanding the market for the product.
Because, while I find myself admiring and agreeing with RMS quite often, I also feel that he fails to appreciate the merits of any opposing viewpoints. Experience beyond his catbird seat as chief agitator of the FSF might temper the fellow nicely.
BSD alive?
Another year or five.
Who would want
Monoculture jive?
Burma Shave
Encore? OK.9 31006
Wrote this today: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207698&cid=16
Goofball moderators
Sheared me, sine
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RTFA?
The hell, you say.
'Tis slashdot, bucko:
No read-read today.
Always for good suds we pray.
Burma Shave
White and Nerdy Gore?
Sacrificial chore.
Overton Window
Opens more
Major changes
Hopefully in store
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Software Mindshare?
Should we go there?
Seek your freedom!
The GPL dare!
Burma Shave
Yahoo! in print?
How 'bout a stint
Along the roads
As drivers squint?
Burma Shave
Core of Cancer?
Easy answer.
Research me closer,
Tiny dancer.
Burma Shave
Ironically, if you read the Acts of the Apostles, the early Christian Church in Jerusalem appears to have been a highly communal living arrangement.
Also criminal, when an Enron uses natural self-interest as a means to mug employees.
The irony, IMHO, is that communism's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" becomes "if I can't have it, you can't have it" in practice.
Oh, they have everything to do with communism, once the system interacts with the human soul.
The cliche: "the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory" has never been more darkly underscored than by this communist theory.
Which is not to say that a lot of the criticsm of capitalism is unfounded, either. It just (arguably) has a less-worse batting average.
Do you:
- Feel inadequate and scared when someone cuts you off in traffic?
- Experience diminished self-esteem when you try to compile some code, and the compiler yells at you?
- Need a new emotion management system to help you navigate social experience choices?
ask your doctor if Soma is right for you.[cue Van Halen knockoff, doing "Soma's here / and the time is right / for dancin' in the streets" ]
Remember, Soma may not be a swift call for anyone interested in: reproducing; retaining their intellectual faculties; or their basic humanity.
A Venn diagram of "religion" and Communism would reveal significant overlap. The Communists may have rejected the traditional "opium", but they were definitely pushing something.
In Soviet Redmond, your new borg overlords...ah, to hell with...oh, wait, they're aethist...
I, for one, welcomed the Web 4.0 holdout overlords long ago.
You, for one, have clearly ventured into Soviet Rootkit territory: your new PCI overlord welcomes you!
We can get a littler closer to Carlin with this one:
Redomond's flaccid sales have thus far failed to prick a hole in the stiff market-share erected by those Cupertino pricks.
When all of the religious fanaticism about licensing became a global suppository.
Butt FLOSS: it's not just for beaches anymore.
Aye, laddie, but can your pipe move Mt. Fuji?
- This is "negative" publicity intended to call attention to the project
- MoneyCentral is staffed by folks for whom all things are tactical, and the concept of a strategic project with payoffs in the decade range are like, totally too hard, dude.
Probably a blend of the two.I did mean the former, but if it was too oblique to stand on its own, then I guess we'll just have to insert it into the next appropriations bill.
wHORe
The HOR is meant to have a higher election frequency and reflect the tactical, knee-jerk feelings of the people.
I was going to bracket the TLA with 'w' and 'e', but that would be too accurate.