Nothing can. Hands down. They have the laws, and they have the hearts and minds of ma and pa kettle.
They don't just have advantages; they own every sphere; wether it's on the political, financial or lobbyist front.
I don't think that they should be forcibly 'open sourced'; but I think that to say that it is possible for MS and OSS to co-exist in any way at all is highly, highly out of touch with the realities of the computing and legislative worlds.
if we didn't have legislators who've proposed allowing law enforcement to hack into people's computers "just 'cos" and that it would be ok to destroy them.
It'll be funny, and I'll laugh when things reach a point where this would be absurd
Ok, I set a variable in *BSD to point to the packages at the main ftp site and I can simply do a pkg_add packagename.
What site do you have to point to in order to download the binary packages for gentoo? That's something I could not figure out when I tried it, personally speaking.
Ok, so you get a warm, fuzzy feeling from watching the compiler output of a './configure && make && make install'... hell, that's about as unix as running the rain program and watching that output.
it's worth mentioning that the BSDs are excellent for pre-packaged packages. adding something like export PACKAGE_DIR="ftp://netbsd.org/pub/path-to-packages " and then being able to run pkg_add gnome is IMHO much more the unix way (which is to use several small, simple components to do a larger job.)
The only real reason to roll your own before was for speed or to add components into your kernel. However, these days most OSs come with modules (or lkms or what have you) so compiling a kernel is unncessary, and machines are fast enough that any speed increase will be negligble (and will be offset by a potential lack of stability)
Instead of circle jerking on slashdot--if you really care about this issue, send a copy of the study to your local congress-critters. Yes, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what the RIAA shovels at them, but it's at least more tangable than "mp3s @r3 t3h r0x0r" and it's a damned sight better than nothing!
I'm 37, I haven't owned a tv since I got onto the internet; just fwiw.
Side note, one thing that's interesting is I pay $50 a month for cable internet, instead of $50 a month for basic cable;so while the channels are losing out, the access providers certainly aren't.
Are the television studios going to begin offering a variety of compelling content, or will the internet dumb down and homoginize to the point of utter worthlessness?
Having been on the net for 8 years; my money's on the latter, personally.
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It's a fake they're making using string, legos, bedsheets and people going "wwwwooooosh" off-camera.
I would be happy if I found out I won the lottery, but that ain't going to happen either. For a variety of reasons, SVG has lost out to more proprietary options; and while you and I lose out as linux users - we can't pretend that the market has made its' decision.
Anyone else feel a little nervous that the usenet archives are in the hands of a private company, which could potentially fold or go under -instead of being made freely available in a federally funded repository?
Personally speaking, this unease returned to me when Google made its' first noises about an IPO, and I realised how many IPOs either crash, or go downhill in quality.
aren't Novell giving away the store here? Just the same way that frustrated OpenBSD users distribute unauthorised OpenBSD iso's, now frustrated SuSE fans will be legally able to distribute home-rolled SuSE isos...or worse yet: Steal YaST lock stock and barrel and take away Novell's market.
Is this really such a good thing, in the long run?
No one's going to know (I assume) if you run an instance of ftpd or apache on your own server. However, if you decide to go publicHulver did on his DSL line...sooner or later someone would be bound to wonder why the traffic is suddenly spiking...
Running an instance of apache is great for practice, I guess...but what's the point of having a server if no-one can legally (TOS legal, I mean) connect to it?
I have mediacom cable internet. Quite fast but if DSL was here, I'd consider taking it. Why? because mediacom does not allow servers.
Reading through thier various offers is interesting. Not only do they not want home users to run servers, but they even want to limit servers to certain business users, too.
In my opinion, this is going to lead to less people offering content on the web, as the bandwidth becomes more restrictive, and your choices decrease down to a few broadband options.This is in direct contrast to the mid-90's promise of the net where it was seen that anyone would be able to put up any thing.
I feel very sad, myself: I pay boupcoup bucks for a good connection (at least, compared to dialup) but I can't do jack shit with it (at least I can't do 2/3rds of what any healthy geek would want). Barely seems worth it.
Funny about that; my last girlfriend has two computers hooked up to the net (one for her, and the other for me) and she did all the set up -other than buying the router, which I fucked up (by buying one that is too slow)...
On my own, I just have the one computer and connection (however, I am smart enough to not have roommates;-)).
Novell's vision of one Net As opposed to now, where we have all these incompatible nets, like your web-net and your irc-net and your google-groups-net and your yahoo-chat-net and...
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing can. Hands down. They have the laws, and they have the hearts and minds of ma and pa kettle.
They don't just have advantages; they own every sphere; wether it's on the political, financial or lobbyist front.
I don't think that they should be forcibly 'open sourced'; but I think that to say that it is possible for MS and OSS to co-exist in any way at all is highly, highly out of touch with the realities of the computing and legislative worlds.
We don't care how long you lasted; we care about how long they did. ;-)
couldn't this have been posted tomorrow?
-a disgruntled gateway customer
I thought the golden rule was WWJS.
if we didn't have legislators who've proposed allowing law enforcement to hack into people's computers "just 'cos" and that it would be ok to destroy them.
It'll be funny, and I'll laugh when things reach a point where this would be absurd
isn't this a case of the patsy using a patsy? What I wanna know is who is going to be the patsy for this paty's patsy.
No, it's important to have distros like knoppix around for people like your Dad whom you want to try to have test-drive Linux.
I'm sure mandrake is a very nice OS (I haven't tried it), but when I think of what I'd use to introduce someone to Linux, I always think of Knoppix.
The though of "theo flavour"ed anything is going to give me nightmares for the next 4 weeks. Thanks!
Ok, I set a variable in *BSD to point to the packages at the main ftp site and I can simply do a pkg_add packagename.
What site do you have to point to in order to download the binary packages for gentoo? That's something I could not figure out when I tried it, personally speaking.
Ok, so you get a warm, fuzzy feeling from watching the compiler output of a './configure && make && make install' ... hell, that's about as unix as running the rain program and watching that output.
s " and then being able to run pkg_add gnome is IMHO much more the unix way (which is to use several small, simple components to do a larger job.)
it's worth mentioning that the BSDs are excellent for pre-packaged packages. adding something like export PACKAGE_DIR="ftp://netbsd.org/pub/path-to-package
The only real reason to roll your own before was for speed or to add components into your kernel. However, these days most OSs come with modules (or lkms or what have you) so compiling a kernel is unncessary, and machines are fast enough that any speed increase will be negligble (and will be offset by a potential lack of stability)
So, I just install packages and go.
Instead of circle jerking on slashdot--if you really care about this issue, send a copy of the study to your local congress-critters. Yes, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what the RIAA shovels at them, but it's at least more tangable than "mp3s @r3 t3h r0x0r" and it's a damned sight better than nothing!
I'm 37, I haven't owned a tv since I got onto the internet; just fwiw.
Side note, one thing that's interesting is I pay $50 a month for cable internet, instead of $50 a month for basic cable;so while the channels are losing out, the access providers certainly aren't.
Are the television studios going to begin offering a variety of compelling content, or will the internet dumb down and homoginize to the point of utter worthlessness?
Having been on the net for 8 years; my money's on the latter, personally.
It's a fake they're making using string, legos, bedsheets and people going "wwwwooooosh" off-camera.
I would be happy if I found out I won the lottery, but that ain't going to happen either. For a variety of reasons, SVG has lost out to more proprietary options; and while you and I lose out as linux users - we can't pretend that the market has made its' decision.
OH, proprietary extentions to our audio format? what? Hey, LOOK -- shiny surround sound. ooooo surround sound.
most "militas" I've encountered tend to overlook the "well regulated" bit. I'd imagine this ebay fraud militia is no different...
Anyone else feel a little nervous that the usenet archives are in the hands of a private company, which could potentially fold or go under -instead of being made freely available in a federally funded repository?
Personally speaking, this unease returned to me when Google made its' first noises about an IPO, and I realised how many IPOs either crash, or go downhill in quality.
aren't Novell giving away the store here? Just the same way that frustrated OpenBSD users distribute unauthorised OpenBSD iso's, now frustrated SuSE fans will be legally able to distribute home-rolled SuSE isos...or worse yet: Steal YaST lock stock and barrel and take away Novell's market.
Is this really such a good thing, in the long run?
If you feel so sad, why not join me on my network? Invisible to your ISP, and unrestricted. :-/
Because I'm a friendless USian.
No one's going to know (I assume) if you run an instance of ftpd or apache on your own server. However, if you decide to go publicHulver did on his DSL line...sooner or later someone would be bound to wonder why the traffic is suddenly spiking...
Running an instance of apache is great for practice, I guess...but what's the point of having a server if no-one can legally (TOS legal, I mean) connect to it?
I have mediacom cable internet. Quite fast but if DSL was here, I'd consider taking it. Why? because mediacom does not allow servers.
Reading through thier various offers is interesting. Not only do they not want home users to run servers, but they even want to limit servers to certain business users, too.
In my opinion, this is going to lead to less people offering content on the web, as the bandwidth becomes more restrictive, and your choices decrease down to a few broadband options.This is in direct contrast to the mid-90's promise of the net where it was seen that anyone would be able to put up any thing.
I feel very sad, myself: I pay boupcoup bucks for a good connection (at least, compared to dialup) but I can't do jack shit with it (at least I can't do 2/3rds of what any healthy geek would want). Barely seems worth it.
Funny about that; my last girlfriend has two computers hooked up to the net (one for her, and the other for me) and she did all the set up -other than buying the router, which I fucked up (by buying one that is too slow)...
;-)).
On my own, I just have the one computer and connection (however, I am smart enough to not have roommates
Novell's vision of one Net ...
As opposed to now, where we have all these incompatible nets, like your web-net and your irc-net and your google-groups-net and your yahoo-chat-net and