Truly. Some joke about giving up the rayt race years ago, and having retired to pursue the sublime goal of implementing a web server in SAS would have been funnier.
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation (Based in Utah)
No, man--Santa Cruz is in California. I guess their non-command of things like source code and licenses matches their non-command of geography.
God bless the American school system.
Parent and previous replies piont to the fact that the whole dialogue is purely religious.
Pick your belief system, preach it fanatically, and use fatwahs/subpoenas on anyone that disagrees.
Under no circumstances should you consider this question dispassionately.
Furthermore, it is completely impossible to blend open/proprietary software schemes in a business model. Can't be done. Give it up.
Look man, engineering and marketing are orthogonal.
How many well-engineered products have died on the vine for wont of touting,
and how much debris floats in the market, buoyed by marketing savvy that could have Saddam Houssein smiling while eating gefultefish?
I just want to go down and buy hardware and movies and not be continuously beat with a bunch of input power format inconsistencies.
Give me something whose only 'personality' twitch is the shape of the power plug in the country the box is sitting in.
Make it PAL/NTSC/HDTV agnostic, supporting the various major formats for CD and DVD.
What am I quaffing? Absinthe: it makes the tongue grow blond.
its a matter of not jumping on people for this kind of mistake, because they are going to make it, repeatedly.
True, true. It's called a learning curve.
On the one hand, things like mount, case-sensitivity, and granular permissions are very sensible.
Having cut teeth in a c:\DontCareAboutPermissions.exe world, these ideas took a little while to get the mind around.
I was trying to explain why I was downloading ACE to mom (who is really pretty technically competent), but the discussion couldn't get past the crayon level. The details Just Didn't Matter.
Linux for folks like mom comes in the form of Knoppix: 'Here, boot this'.
Financial Software I use Quicken and TurboTax mainly because I have for years and I think they are both very good products. I know GNU Cash (www.gnucash.org) is an option and I am actually playing around with it right now but it will be a hard move for me. Not only because of differences in features but the learning curve.
[Bruce Perens writes: I haven't looked at these closely yet. I actually still have one Windows machine in my home, and need it for TurboTax. I still have Quicken on it, but think I could move off of Quicken if I had to.]
Yes, the lack of an Open Source tax program with the stature of GNUCash is one reason that old LoseME laptop still kicks around.
Does GNUCash use an RDBMS on the back-end? It would be cool to have everything in SQLite, so that you could write arbitrary queries against it.
So many cool ideas, finite lifespan.:(
Aye, when you try to boot another partition and find out that not only has 'Doze installer wiped out your boot loader, it rendered your other partitions unbootable!
Boo, boo, boo!
The only question is how many people are developing for linux or macs vs. windows....
A better question is, why are people developing for specific platforms?
Write your application in C++ using Boost, and use Boost.Python to script it for a particular GUI.
There are a bazillion other good ways to solve problemns in a platform independent way.
When was the last time you spared a though for your BIOS? Why can't the OS assume nearly as low a profile in the overall scheme of things?
Why not package this product as an.iso? I'd love to park a CD with Cygwin on it next to the Knoppix disc; when forced to use products from the Monopoly Source, these make life bearable.
...to constitute an ad hominem denial of service attack?
SCO, as <ahem's> meat puppet, has reachback into some pockets of functionally infinite depth.
They can pretty much implement the death of Open Source by capilliary bleeding through litigation.
Slashdot Mirror
Truly. Some joke about giving up the rayt race years ago, and having retired to pursue the sublime goal of implementing a web server in SAS would have been funnier.
Way, way, way out of line.
That would be cool.
While I hate to see anyone feed the sharks^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers, at least Lindows may score some free advertising on the matter.
...to provide this BIOS on new systems.
Or is there some Mysterious Subterfuge preventing this?
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation (Based in Utah)
No, man--Santa Cruz is in California. I guess their non-command of things like source code and licenses matches their non-command of geography.
God bless the American school system.
What language? What libraries? Cross-plaform development is doable, if you plan for it.
Two, but don't ask them how they got there, or they'll screw YOU
The presumptions going down the page seem to exclude the idea that somebody screwed up.
Sure, the software flaws, but what if the compromise is human error, or even internal subterfuge?
Confident about all of the network elements beetween those machines, then?
Parent and previous replies piont to the fact that the whole dialogue is purely religious.
Pick your belief system, preach it fanatically, and use fatwahs/subpoenas on anyone that disagrees.
Under no circumstances should you consider this question dispassionately.
Furthermore, it is completely impossible to blend open/proprietary software schemes in a business model. Can't be done. Give it up.
And is not the Inertia party the political arm of the Semi-Conscious Liberation Army?
Look man, engineering and marketing are orthogonal.
How many well-engineered products have died on the vine for wont of touting,
and how much debris floats in the market, buoyed by marketing savvy that could have Saddam Houssein smiling while eating gefultefish?
I just want to go down and buy hardware and movies and not be continuously beat with a bunch of input power format inconsistencies.
Give me something whose only 'personality' twitch is the shape of the power plug in the country the box is sitting in.
Make it PAL/NTSC/HDTV agnostic, supporting the various major formats for CD and DVD.
What am I quaffing? Absinthe: it makes the tongue grow blond.
Yes, but it's award winning, 1337, h|p573r garbage.
its a matter of not jumping on people for this kind of mistake, because they are going to make it, repeatedly.
True, true. It's called a learning curve.
On the one hand, things like mount, case-sensitivity, and granular permissions are very sensible.
Having cut teeth in a c:\DontCareAboutPermissions.exe world, these ideas took a little while to get the mind around.
I was trying to explain why I was downloading ACE to mom (who is really pretty technically competent), but the discussion couldn't get past the crayon level. The details Just Didn't Matter.
Linux for folks like mom comes in the form of Knoppix: 'Here, boot this'.
Pig-squeal
Yes, the lack of an Open Source tax program with the stature of GNUCash is one reason that old LoseME laptop still kicks around.
Does GNUCash use an RDBMS on the back-end? It would be cool to have everything in SQLite, so that you could write arbitrary queries against it.
So many cool ideas, finite lifespan.
You know that the FreeMesons are a Satanic cult bent on world takeover? Fear!
SQL != Stupid Question Language?
Leo on this? That would be a killer app.
But do you really need to run Linux for that, or can you just install Python on a stock iPaq?
Aye, when you try to boot another partition and find out that not only has 'Doze installer wiped out your boot loader, it rendered your other partitions unbootable!
Boo, boo, boo!
Why not crib the kernel configuration menu system and apply it to the whole distro? Do any presently do this?
Write your application in C++ using Boost, and use Boost.Python to script it for a particular GUI.
There are a bazillion other good ways to solve problemns in a platform independent way.
When was the last time you spared a though for your BIOS? Why can't the OS assume nearly as low a profile in the overall scheme of things?
Why not package this product as an .iso?
I'd love to park a CD with Cygwin on it next to the Knoppix disc; when forced to use products from the Monopoly Source, these make life bearable.
...to constitute an ad hominem denial of service attack?
SCO, as <ahem's> meat puppet, has reachback into some pockets of functionally infinite depth.
They can pretty much implement the death of Open Source by capilliary bleeding through litigation.