The USA has already lost the "justice" part of that equation with the largest prison population in the world (nearly 2 million, 1% of the population). The amount of people in US prisons has doubled since 1985. This is most likely a direct result of the USA's "War On Drugs". I sincerely hope the "War On Terrorism" turns out better.
No, you said the rest of the world has a lack of wisdom. Which is a broad, bigoted statement that is not true. In order to show you how bad it sounds I made a broad bigoted statement that is also not true about the US. That was not something I truly believe, I said it to show you how ridiculous and insulting your comment was.
I have not seen anyone in the U.S. burn the flags of other countries.
I can't say I have recently either in the US. However I have seen American's cross the boarder into Canada and burn Canadian flags. That's always a nice way to get your neighbors attention.
Thank you for showing everyone why the rest of the world hates the US.
If you continuously blame someone (or some country), they will end of not caring about your opinion. If no matter what I do, I get yelled at, I will just do whatever I want to do.
Like the US likes to continuously blame China? Maybe you should try looking at your arguments from another persons perspective, and you'd realise how insulting they are to non-americans, not that you'd care.
I'm well aware of the BSD license and how unrestrictive it is. My point was the government should strive to release code under the public domain if it all possible.
BSDL vs. GPL argument aside, if they're spending public tax payers dollars, to improve public property, then the code should be released under the public domain. No license is completely free.
They always stop trading when stocks start to spin out of control. They stopped the trading of MSFT shares which last traded at $74.96, up $3.82, or 5.37 percent. When the stock market over reacts to anything it can turn out pretty bad, this is just a precaution.
I'm generalizing of course, I'm not suggesting that everything should be written in Kylix, nor am I saying that you shouldn't use GCC. I would probably only use Kylix if I was writing a UI for Linux. What I was trying to say was I think programmers should use the best tool for the job at hand, regardless of whether or not the compiler is open or closed source.
Sorry, I didn't really explain myself well, what I meant was the IDE uses winelib as a graphics library. It is true, winelib needs wineserver to operate, however the IDE is a true, native Linux app. Parts of the IDE happen to make calls through winelib. It's no different from making calls through the Qt library. I gathered from your post that you were trying to suggest that the IDE is somehow not a native app, sorry for the confusion. In any case this dependency will be removed from Kylix in the next version.
But the benefits of Open Source extend to the compiler, and not being able to fix a bug in the compiler that causes one of your Free programs to misbehave would be putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation.
If you really think that the best way to promote open source is by insisting on the use open compilers even if they're far worst in performance then closed alternatives then be my guess, but the idea is totally ludicrous. You seem to be suggesting that my open source software when compiled in Kylix is somehow inferior to yours because you used an open compiler, even if it runs twice as fast. That's great, keep on using your open compilers, have fun, don't belittle my work. Just because a compiler is closed doesn't mean if you find a bug the big bad proprietary corporation is going to ignore you, they'll fix it and thank you for finding it. You say I'm putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation. I say you're putting Free Software at the mercy of inefficient, un-optimized code.
The IDE does not run under wineserver, that is FUD. The IDE accesses Wine Lib to translate some calls, and only the IDE uses it (it doesn't have to be distributed with applications).
But any essential component of a free system should be written with a genuinely Free compiler.
Do you mind telling me why? You want to use something that's horrible at optimising code like gcc? Borland writes some of the best compilers out there, what the hell would you want to degrade your quality of work simply because the compiler's "open". Some software developement that is - let's all degrade ourselves to the lowest standard possible, sounds great.
No offense, but you can't seriously compare Free Pascal to Kylix. It'll be years before it even comes close to what Kylix currently offers. Before this year is over Kylix OE (Open Edition) should come out. Kylix OE is free and allows developers to release open source software under the GPL.
if they were doing seriously Wrong things like killing people then they would catch heat.
Really, you think companies get in trouble for killing people? Then why isn't the CEO of Firestone in jail? Most companies have more then enough money to avoid lengthy jail terms. I suppose you could say these companies "catch heat", but settling out of court is nothing compared to the alternatives that a normal person would face.
It's all about control. It's a lot easier and cheaper to hire programmers to create a Napster knock-off then to purchase Napster and hire programmers to dissect their source. The RIAA wants to create its own system from scratch, which includes all the bells and whistles like copy controls and a payment system, probably using a different media format besides mp3. Why would they try to integrate this system into Napster when they can set a precedence in court, kill Napster (and a lot of clones in the process), and launch their own system as a replacement? It makes sense both financially and from a control aspect.
I did a double take when I read the hard drive requirements for storing MP3's.:) I think it's obvious that this article was really biased in the pro-Napster direction. I'd be the first to admit that I steal revenues from record companies, but this article doesn't prove anything.
Of course it's not about free music. It's been the RIAA's intent all along to drive Napster out of business so the music industry can start their own Napster-like service to replace it.
I hate to break it to you but a musician does not live from the music he sells. A musician lives off revenues from live shows and merchandise. If you want to support an indie band go see them live and buy a T-shirt. You're donating little more then a penny to the band by buying their album. You can argue that album sales will effect the price at which a band can sell it's IP (album) to a record label, but the fact remains the band itself makes the majority of its money through live shows and merchandise.
Do you seriously think ISP's enjoy getting spammed, or having spammers as customers? Do you have any idea what this costs ISP's on a daily basis? I used to work for an ISP and it's been my experience that they are very anti-spam, not only because it ticks off their customers, it also costs the ISP a lot of money every month. You'd be surprised by how many domains a typical ISP will blacklist and never tell their customers about in fear of accusations of censorship.
My problem with this article is that it didn't really explain how the emulation was achieved. I'm a FreeBSD user myself and I have no idea if OpenBSD uses a similare method to FreeBSD or not (I would suspect it would). At any rate, if you want more information about the FreeBSD side of things go here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/ handbook/linuxemu.html The "advanced topics" section really explains how the emulation is pulled off, which of course isn't really emulation, just an implementation of an application binary interface (ABI).
The taxes that I pay are a drop in the bucket compared to the services that I receive in return. I may bitch and moan about it on a regular basis but Candian taxes, while high, are for the most part worth it.
Lets see, subsidized health care, sounds great doesn't it? Just hope that the problem you need surgery for is something they consider important... otherwise its not uncommon to wait 3 to 6 months for what that surgery. Ask Canadians (who have socialized medicine) why so many come here for service they have to pay for?
As someone who is Canadian and has received over 1/2 a million dollars worth of operations and tests at no cost to myself, I find you comment both offensive and ridiculous. There are holes in every health care system in the world but for you to insinuate that Canada's health care system is sub-par to the states is totally ignorant. Canadians who are sent to the states for health care do not have to pay for it, it is paid for by the government. Yes there are some serious flaws in Canada's health care system, but attempting to compare it to the health care system of the states is little more then a sick joke.
Don't worry about it, mother nature always has a way of keeping things in balance. Unfortunately that will probably mean some sort of plague that wipes out half of the earths population, but hey, no more over population problem, and we can continue to have fun playing god.:)
There is a way for them to tell exactly what's going over their lines, by analyzing SS7 data. The technologies out there, it just isn't widely used yet.
Then people can probably say Sun Solaris isn't a UNIX system as well, as I'm sure it doesn't have any original source left in it, along with a lot of other UNIX flavors. The fact remains, no matter how much original code is left over from System 6 UNIX, 1BSD forked from it in 1978 (which FreeBSD forked from down the line) and is therefore a UNIX derivative. Just because none of the original code exists doesn't mean the fork never happened. That's the way I've always defined a "UNIX derivative".
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The USA has already lost the "justice" part of that equation with the largest prison population in the world (nearly 2 million, 1% of the population). The amount of people in US prisons has doubled since 1985. This is most likely a direct result of the USA's "War On Drugs". I sincerely hope the "War On Terrorism" turns out better.
something which they probably lost money on
Have you looked at Borland's financial statements lately? They just had a 20% increase in profit, they're not loosing money on any of their products.
No, you said the rest of the world has a lack of wisdom. Which is a broad, bigoted statement that is not true. In order to show you how bad it sounds I made a broad bigoted statement that is also not true about the US. That was not something I truly believe, I said it to show you how ridiculous and insulting your comment was.
I have not seen anyone in the U.S. burn the flags of other countries.
I can't say I have recently either in the US. However I have seen American's cross the boarder into Canada and burn Canadian flags. That's always a nice way to get your neighbors attention.
This is the rest of the world's lack of wisdom.
Thank you for showing everyone why the rest of the world hates the US.
If you continuously blame someone (or some country), they will end of not caring about your opinion. If no matter what I do, I get yelled at, I will just do whatever I want to do.
Like the US likes to continuously blame China? Maybe you should try looking at your arguments from another persons perspective, and you'd realise how insulting they are to non-americans, not that you'd care.
I'm well aware of the BSD license and how unrestrictive it is. My point was the government should strive to release code under the public domain if it all possible.
BSDL vs. GPL argument aside, if they're spending public tax payers dollars, to improve public property, then the code should be released under the public domain. No license is completely free.
They always stop trading when stocks start to spin out of control. They stopped the trading of MSFT shares which last traded at $74.96, up $3.82, or 5.37 percent. When the stock market over reacts to anything it can turn out pretty bad, this is just a precaution.
I'm generalizing of course, I'm not suggesting that everything should be written in Kylix, nor am I saying that you shouldn't use GCC. I would probably only use Kylix if I was writing a UI for Linux. What I was trying to say was I think programmers should use the best tool for the job at hand, regardless of whether or not the compiler is open or closed source.
Sorry, I didn't really explain myself well, what I meant was the IDE uses winelib as a graphics library. It is true, winelib needs wineserver to operate, however the IDE is a true, native Linux app. Parts of the IDE happen to make calls through winelib. It's no different from making calls through the Qt library. I gathered from your post that you were trying to suggest that the IDE is somehow not a native app, sorry for the confusion. In any case this dependency will be removed from Kylix in the next version.
But the benefits of Open Source extend to the compiler, and not being able to fix a bug in the compiler that causes one of your Free programs to misbehave would be putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation.
If you really think that the best way to promote open source is by insisting on the use open compilers even if they're far worst in performance then closed alternatives then be my guess, but the idea is totally ludicrous. You seem to be suggesting that my open source software when compiled in Kylix is somehow inferior to yours because you used an open compiler, even if it runs twice as fast. That's great, keep on using your open compilers, have fun, don't belittle my work. Just because a compiler is closed doesn't mean if you find a bug the big bad proprietary corporation is going to ignore you, they'll fix it and thank you for finding it. You say I'm putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation. I say you're putting Free Software at the mercy of inefficient, un-optimized code.
The IDE does not run under wineserver, that is FUD. The IDE accesses Wine Lib to translate some calls, and only the IDE uses it (it doesn't have to be distributed with applications).
But any essential component of a free system should be written with a genuinely Free compiler.
Do you mind telling me why? You want to use something that's horrible at optimising code like gcc? Borland writes some of the best compilers out there, what the hell would you want to degrade your quality of work simply because the compiler's "open". Some software developement that is - let's all degrade ourselves to the lowest standard possible, sounds great.
No offense, but you can't seriously compare Free Pascal to Kylix. It'll be years before it even comes close to what Kylix currently offers. Before this year is over Kylix OE (Open Edition) should come out. Kylix OE is free and allows developers to release open source software under the GPL.
You do realise that the price of IE is included in the purchase price of Windows operating systems, right? It's not as free as it appears...
if they were doing seriously Wrong things like killing people then they would catch heat.
Really, you think companies get in trouble for killing people? Then why isn't the CEO of Firestone in jail? Most companies have more then enough money to avoid lengthy jail terms. I suppose you could say these companies "catch heat", but settling out of court is nothing compared to the alternatives that a normal person would face.
And knowing is half the battle.
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It's all about control. It's a lot easier and cheaper to hire programmers to create a Napster knock-off then to purchase Napster and hire programmers to dissect their source. The RIAA wants to create its own system from scratch, which includes all the bells and whistles like copy controls and a payment system, probably using a different media format besides mp3. Why would they try to integrate this system into Napster when they can set a precedence in court, kill Napster (and a lot of clones in the process), and launch their own system as a replacement? It makes sense both financially and from a control aspect.
I did a double take when I read the hard drive requirements for storing MP3's. :) I think it's obvious that this article was really biased in the pro-Napster direction. I'd be the first to admit that I steal revenues from record companies, but this article doesn't prove anything.
Of course it's not about free music. It's been the RIAA's intent all along to drive Napster out of business so the music industry can start their own Napster-like service to replace it.
I hate to break it to you but a musician does not live from the music he sells. A musician lives off revenues from live shows and merchandise. If you want to support an indie band go see them live and buy a T-shirt. You're donating little more then a penny to the band by buying their album. You can argue that album sales will effect the price at which a band can sell it's IP (album) to a record label, but the fact remains the band itself makes the majority of its money through live shows and merchandise.
Do you seriously think ISP's enjoy getting spammed, or having spammers as customers? Do you have any idea what this costs ISP's on a daily basis? I used to work for an ISP and it's been my experience that they are very anti-spam, not only because it ticks off their customers, it also costs the ISP a lot of money every month. You'd be surprised by how many domains a typical ISP will blacklist and never tell their customers about in fear of accusations of censorship.
My problem with this article is that it didn't really explain how the emulation was achieved. I'm a FreeBSD user myself and I have no idea if OpenBSD uses a similare method to FreeBSD or not (I would suspect it would). At any rate, if you want more information about the FreeBSD side of things go here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/ handbook/linuxemu.html The "advanced topics" section really explains how the emulation is pulled off, which of course isn't really emulation, just an implementation of an application binary interface (ABI).
The taxes that I pay are a drop in the bucket compared to the services that I receive in return. I may bitch and moan about it on a regular basis but Candian taxes, while high, are for the most part worth it.
Lets see, subsidized health care, sounds great doesn't it? Just hope that the problem you need surgery for is something they consider important... otherwise its not uncommon to wait 3 to 6 months for what that surgery. Ask Canadians (who have socialized medicine) why so many come here for service they have to pay for?
As someone who is Canadian and has received over 1/2 a million dollars worth of operations and tests at no cost to myself, I find you comment both offensive and ridiculous. There are holes in every health care system in the world but for you to insinuate that Canada's health care system is sub-par to the states is totally ignorant. Canadians who are sent to the states for health care do not have to pay for it, it is paid for by the government. Yes there are some serious flaws in Canada's health care system, but attempting to compare it to the health care system of the states is little more then a sick joke.
Don't worry about it, mother nature always has a way of keeping things in balance. Unfortunately that will probably mean some sort of plague that wipes out half of the earths population, but hey, no more over population problem, and we can continue to have fun playing god. :)
There is a way for them to tell exactly what's going over their lines, by analyzing SS7 data. The technologies out there, it just isn't widely used yet.
Then people can probably say Sun Solaris isn't a UNIX system as well, as I'm sure it doesn't have any original source left in it, along with a lot of other UNIX flavors. The fact remains, no matter how much original code is left over from System 6 UNIX, 1BSD forked from it in 1978 (which FreeBSD forked from down the line) and is therefore a UNIX derivative. Just because none of the original code exists doesn't mean the fork never happened. That's the way I've always defined a "UNIX derivative".