Yup...this pretty much says it all. From the article, "The choice is yours." I think it is fantastic that CNN posted this tory. It is pretty deep for them. Although, it appears IDG did all of the work in the analysis. They seem to be very impartial and leave it to the reader in the end. I like this. State some information and let the reader decide. Don't decide for the reader.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I looked at the title and read the description of the story and thought Ohmigosh!! sengan must be back. Where have you been man? The content on Slashdot has somewhat gotten away from the more "hardcore" aspects of science and technology. This is just the type of stuff that you used to post to Slashdot quite often. Did you take a long sabatical? Glad to have you and your type of stories back on Slashdot.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I submitted this story back when it first appeared on Ars. Glad somebody else was able to submit it at the "right" time. By the way, I couldn't find one at my local Circuit City. I even had the guy check in the computer system and no good there either. Oh well.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I've read an early release version of it and really liked it. I was very insightful and I saw a lot of myself in the characters. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS! to Jon. Job well done. Thanks also for the early release book. I give it 5 penguins out of 5.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Another reason they may worry is because MP3's are not recorded to a piece of media and that media distributed, they are of course downloadable where you can burn them to a CD or simply store them on your hard drive. With cassettes and CD's, you still have to purchase the media to put the copies on. Although this was relatively cheap, it was still an obstacle. Additionally, MP3's can be spread infinitely faster with software such as Napster. I was thinking awhile back, if everyone on the Internet would buy one CD and a different CD from everyone else and then share that CD on the Internet with something like Napster, everyones CD/MP3 collection would grow exponentially for about the low, low price of $15. Basically, no more need for the music companies. This has got to scare the fsck out of them. I was watching a show awhile back that prompted me to think that this is not such a bad idea in some ways. Chuck D from Public Enemy was on the show and said (paraphrasing) that it is the goal of the record companies to keep both sides as ignorant of the whole process as possible. Keep the customers and the artists in the dark as to the inner workings of the business so they can continue to make beaucoup $$. He seemed to think that this will all change with the advent of MP3's. The distribution channels will open up. Artists who currently have no way to be heard under the current system will now have their music broadcast literally around the world for all to hear. The music industry will definitely change due to the new technology. Whether the record companies will survive depends on their ability to adapt in a positive manner. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I believe the CEO is actually the "manager" of the entire company and the Chairman is the head of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. I'm not sure, but I think the board decides the direction of the company and the CEO decides and maps out how it will get there. Somebody feel free to correct if I'm wrong.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I don't think this is significant in the way most people think. Certainly, this is a huge deal. No doubt about it, one of the biggest ever, BUT I think this is only the first of it's kind. This is just part of the growth of the Internet (which don't forget, AOL is not, as much as they would like their customers to believe otherwise.) The true Internet is currently so much larger than AOL and will only continue to grow. This was bound to happen at one time or another. The merging of old media with the new. I would look for there to be other mega-mergers of this sort down the road. You can look at it also as a sort of "validation" (if you will) of the Internet as having finally arrived. Until now and perhaps for awhile yet, the Internet has been an experiment, compared to the potential it has yet to realize. The Internet is still having growing pains. Witness the multitude of problems with online shopping during the past holiday season. The Internet is still so very young and relatively wide open where business is concerned. I dare say it has a long, long way to go. Sure, in the future, we'll look back at this merger as being a major turning point (similar to what the open sourcing of Netscape's browser did for Open Source software) in the growth and acceptance of the Internet, but I think it will be seen as just that and not the beginning of the end. (The end being an AOL dominated Internet. Nope, not gonna happen.)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
It seems your company has a lot on its plate. Beginning as "just" a hardware company, you've now grown into one of the largest Linux-oriented businesses around. Hiring such high-profile indivduals as Carsten "Raster" Haitzler, Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison, and Trae "OctobrX" McCombs, acquiring the Linux.com domain, as well as getting behind the Debian distribution. I'm sure you have much more than this going on that I'm not even aware of.
My question: Where do you see the company focusing its efforts in the future? Can you be as elaborate as possible in your answer? Thank you.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How about an "Article Overflow" page where stories that just didn't quite make the main page get sent to. These stories could be graded/moderated by the readership and possibly moved to the main page if enough interest is generated. I think there are many articles that we geeks would be interested in that are not being posted to the main page. Obviously, you can't post every story to the main page, but it seems that there are many stories that are submitted and not being posted. I might or might not be interested in reading about them, but please let me decide.:-)
Otherwise, great job on all fronts. Keep up the fantastic work and thanks for allowing us the opportunity to post our ideas and critques.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Obviously, you guys get a lot of submissions for stories everyday, all day long. You, being the entire Slashdot team, have to wade through all of these to find the ones "most worthy" of getting posted to the main page. I have submitted quite a few stories myself that I was interested in and I'm sure other geeks/nerds would have found them interesting as well, yet they were never posted. Obviously, you cannot post every story submitted, but if I've submitted stories that I found interesting and they were never posted, I have wonder how many other geeks posted stories that I would have been interested in and never had the opportunity to read?
My question: Is there some way we, the readers, could view a larger portion of the submitted stories whether they get posted to the main page or not?
Kind of an overflow buffer, if you will. Obviously, duplicates and nonsense stories referencing "grits" would have to be done away with, but I feel that Slashdot could provide much more information than it currently does. From the reader perspective, more quality content is definitely better and from a business standpoint, more stories equals more valid page hits for Slashdot. We would all benefit.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Not just uninformed, but apathetic. People just don't seem to care anymore. That is just plain sad. I sincerely fear for our liberties in the future due to this more than anything.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
From what I've read, you are very involved with children and their education and technology seems to play a major role in the basis of that education. Personally, I think that next to being loved adaquately, education is the most important factor in a developing child's life. In America we seem to take education for granted and are very far behind other countries in regard to the quality of the education that our children receive. Technology in general and more specifically, computers and the Internet, are fantastic tools with a great potential for drastically improving education.
My question: How do you see education making better use of technology and technology making education better?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Yes and I love it. Thanks for sharing your opinions with me. I genuinely like hearing from others and what they think. I'm very stubborn concerning my own opinions but always open to listen to other people.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"...Katz's pieces are content-free, in the sense that they are less about the subject than they are about provoking a response..."
This was precisely my point. I've always thought that Slashdot was about provoking responses from the readers, thereby stimulating discussion. As a by-product, if this happens to generate a lot of hits, I think that's okay. I don't see how this can be thought of as troll-like. I think what Jon does is consistent with the "spirit" of the site and what the site was designed around.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Hey! That's the definition I'm familiar with, I just thought the other guy may have "made up" a new one. Does he really think that Jon Katz lives under bridges and eats Billy Goats?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How could he be considered a "Troll" for doing this? I consider what Katz is doing to be merely creating stimulating discussion. What is a "Troll" anyway?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Like him or not, you have to give him credit. He has posted some of the most interesting and "post-ridden" stories that Slashdot has presented. As another poster put it, he likes to "stir it up" which is a good thing. Isn't that what Slashdot is based on? The sparking of discussion? I, for one, like to hear the opinions of others whether I agree with them or not. Maybe I'm one of the few, but I like his stuff.
By the way, I'm currently reading his new book, "Geeks" and I like it quite well.
Keep up the good work Jon.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How about the software no one wants to write? By this, I mean the software that most programmers would consider "boring", yet is truly essential to the further growth of Linux as a desktop and server OS. It's great that we have so many window managers, office suites, browsers, etc. both existing and coming down the pike, but what about the other stuff that's just not as exciting? The stuff you really have to pay people to write? Maybe third party vendors with paid employees are the answer, but will all of those companies want to make their software truly Open Source?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I'm proud to say that I voted for Miguel and very I'm pleased to see him win. He's done so much and really deserves the award. He seems to have that "benevolent dictator" aire about him that Linus exhibits. I think he's another excellent leader/coder. Keep up the good work Miguel.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I used the Borland C++ Builder in school and it was very nice. Been wanting to learn Java and now is as good a time as any. Cannot wait to try this out.
Things just keep getting better for Linux. Woo-hoo!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
It was only a matter of time until this happened. Considering how "big business" has traditionally had a ruthless streak (like certain companies who shall remain nameless, because we're all tired of hearing about them) I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner. It may have already happened and who would know? I would think this would be one of the problems with open source vs. closed source. With a piece of software being closed source and provided to the public only in binary form, who's to say some open source code hasn't already been "borrowed" without credit being given to the original author or any changes that were made, being made open. As well, this case or a similar one is bound to end up in court and what will happen then? I, for one, hope we will have some good lawyers who can argue effectively for the open source position. Lawyers that understand what it is really all about and can convey that message to a judge effectively so he can make an truly informed decision.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
If Netscape's marketshare were to increase outside of U.S. borders (which is obviously a much larger market than the U.S.), might this possibly help with MS I.E.'s adhereance to the WWW3's standards that we are all concerned about MS "embracing and extending"? It seems it may also give Netscape a better foothold in the international market which will help Netscape 5/Mozilla's adoption (re-adoption)when they are released.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Just how can music be Open Sourced? I understand that the lyrics and notes could be copied, changed, redistributed, etc. but that doesn't make much sense to me. Music is more than the lyrics and notes. It's about the performance by the artist. The sum of it's parts, if you will. For instance, I could take a Beatles song, not change the lyrics, play just the music tracks (without the voices) and record my own vocals over it. It still wouldn't be the Beatles and I'm almost certain no one would pay any money for it.
To get from under record companies, whether they be major or indie labels, I think the artists should promote themselves over the Internet. I saw an interview with Chuck D of Public Enemy and he's all for the free distribution of MP3's. He thinks it will give many artists from all over the world the chance to have their music heard whereas with the old regime, that would have been virtually impossible. I tend to agree with him. As far as how the artists would make money, I think a small fee for the download of the song (say $1 per) is reasonable. Kind of like shareware, where software is concerned. If you like it, be respectful and send the artist their due. If an artist truly loves their art, they'll continue to do it whether they get paid or not. However, if they expect to make a living from it, they better produce a decent product that people like or they'll end up like the cliched "starving artist". Another way to make money and propagate the success of their music could be tours. I would think that a major source of revenue for today's artists is touring. If they have fans and those fans would like to see the artist live, they will pay for that experience. Again, the cream will rise to the top (just like Open Source software) and the people making good music, could conceivably make a living.
Or am I just plain crazy?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Roblimo, do you stay up 24/7? I see you post stories at all hours. Myself, I work the 12mid-12noon shift and often, you're posting all night long. What's up with that? Insomnia? Work-aholic? Just curious;-)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Yup...this pretty much says it all. From the article, "The choice is yours."
I think it is fantastic that CNN posted this tory. It is pretty deep for them. Although, it appears IDG did all of the work in the analysis. They seem to be very impartial and leave it to the reader in the end. I like this. State some information and let the reader decide. Don't decide for the reader.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I looked at the title and read the description of the story and thought Ohmigosh!! sengan must be back. Where have you been man? The content on Slashdot has somewhat gotten away from the more "hardcore" aspects of science and technology. This is just the type of stuff that you used to post to Slashdot quite often. Did you take a long sabatical? Glad to have you and your type of stories back on Slashdot.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I submitted this story back when it first appeared on Ars. Glad somebody else was able to submit it at the "right" time.
By the way, I couldn't find one at my local Circuit City. I even had the guy check in the computer system and no good there either. Oh well.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I've read an early release version of it and really liked it. I was very insightful and I saw a lot of myself in the characters. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS! to Jon. Job well done. Thanks also for the early release book. I give it 5 penguins out of 5.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Another reason they may worry is because MP3's are not recorded to a piece of media and that media distributed, they are of course downloadable where you can burn them to a CD or simply store them on your hard drive. With cassettes and CD's, you still have to purchase the media to put the copies on. Although this was relatively cheap, it was still an obstacle. Additionally, MP3's can be spread infinitely faster with software such as Napster. I was thinking awhile back, if everyone on the Internet would buy one CD and a different CD from everyone else and then share that CD on the Internet with something like Napster, everyones CD/MP3 collection would grow exponentially for about the low, low price of $15. Basically, no more need for the music companies. This has got to scare the fsck out of them. I was watching a show awhile back that prompted me to think that this is not such a bad idea in some ways. Chuck D from Public Enemy was on the show and said (paraphrasing) that it is the goal of the record companies to keep both sides as ignorant of the whole process as possible. Keep the customers and the artists in the dark as to the inner workings of the business so they can continue to make beaucoup $$. He seemed to think that this will all change with the advent of MP3's. The distribution channels will open up. Artists who currently have no way to be heard under the current system will now have their music broadcast literally around the world for all to hear. The music industry will definitely change due to the new technology. Whether the record companies will survive depends on their ability to adapt in a positive manner. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I believe the CEO is actually the "manager" of the entire company and the Chairman is the head of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. I'm not sure, but I think the board decides the direction of the company and the CEO decides and maps out how it will get there. Somebody feel free to correct if I'm wrong.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I don't think this is significant in the way most people think. Certainly, this is a huge deal. No doubt about it, one of the biggest ever, BUT I think this is only the first of it's kind. This is just part of the growth of the Internet (which don't forget, AOL is not, as much as they would like their customers to believe otherwise.) The true Internet is currently so much larger than AOL and will only continue to grow. This was bound to happen at one time or another. The merging of old media with the new. I would look for there to be other mega-mergers of this sort down the road. You can look at it also as a sort of "validation" (if you will) of the Internet as having finally arrived. Until now and perhaps for awhile yet, the Internet has been an experiment, compared to the potential it has yet to realize. The Internet is still having growing pains. Witness the multitude of problems with online shopping during the past holiday season. The Internet is still so very young and relatively wide open where business is concerned. I dare say it has a long, long way to go. Sure, in the future, we'll look back at this merger as being a major turning point (similar to what the open sourcing of Netscape's browser did for Open Source software) in the growth and acceptance of the Internet, but I think it will be seen as just that and not the beginning of the end. (The end being an AOL dominated Internet. Nope, not gonna happen.)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
It seems your company has a lot on its plate. Beginning as "just" a hardware company, you've now grown into one of the largest Linux-oriented businesses around. Hiring such high-profile indivduals as Carsten "Raster" Haitzler, Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison, and Trae "OctobrX" McCombs, acquiring the Linux.com domain, as well as getting behind the Debian distribution. I'm sure you have much more than this going on that I'm not even aware of.
My question: Where do you see the company focusing its efforts in the future? Can you be as elaborate as possible in your answer? Thank you.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How about an "Article Overflow" page where stories that just didn't quite make the main page get sent to. These stories could be graded/moderated by the readership and possibly moved to the main page if enough interest is generated. I think there are many articles that we geeks would be interested in that are not being posted to the main page. Obviously, you can't post every story to the main page, but it seems that there are many stories that are submitted and not being posted. I might or might not be interested in reading about them, but please let me decide. :-)
Otherwise, great job on all fronts. Keep up the fantastic work and thanks for allowing us the opportunity to post our ideas and critques.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Obviously, you guys get a lot of submissions for stories everyday, all day long. You, being the entire Slashdot team, have to wade through all of these to find the ones "most worthy" of getting posted to the main page. I have submitted quite a few stories myself that I was interested in and I'm sure other geeks/nerds would have found them interesting as well, yet they were never posted. Obviously, you cannot post every story submitted, but if I've submitted stories that I found interesting and they were never posted, I have wonder how many other geeks posted stories that I would have been interested in and never had the opportunity to read?
My question: Is there some way we, the readers, could view a larger portion of the submitted stories whether they get posted to the main page or not?
Kind of an overflow buffer, if you will. Obviously, duplicates and nonsense stories referencing "grits" would have to be done away with, but I feel that Slashdot could provide much more information than it currently does. From the reader perspective, more quality content is definitely better and from a business standpoint, more stories equals more valid page hits for Slashdot. We would all benefit.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Not just uninformed, but apathetic. People just don't seem to care anymore. That is just plain sad. I sincerely fear for our liberties in the future due to this more than anything.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
From what I've read, you are very involved with children and their education and technology seems to play a major role in the basis of that education. Personally, I think that next to being loved adaquately, education is the most important factor in a developing child's life. In America we seem to take education for granted and are very far behind other countries in regard to the quality of the education that our children receive. Technology in general and more specifically, computers and the Internet, are fantastic tools with a great potential for drastically improving education.
My question: How do you see education making better use of technology and technology making education better?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Yes and I love it. Thanks for sharing your opinions with me. I genuinely like hearing from others and what they think. I'm very stubborn concerning my own opinions but always open to listen to other people.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"...Katz's pieces are content-free, in the sense that they are less about the subject than they are about provoking a response..."
This was precisely my point. I've always thought that Slashdot was about provoking responses from the readers, thereby stimulating discussion. As a by-product, if this happens to generate a lot of hits, I think that's okay. I don't see how this can be thought of as troll-like. I think what Jon does is consistent with the "spirit" of the site and what the site was designed around.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Hey! That's the definition I'm familiar with, I just thought the other guy may have "made up" a new one. Does he really think that Jon Katz lives under bridges and eats Billy Goats?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How could he be considered a "Troll" for doing this? I consider what Katz is doing to be merely creating stimulating discussion. What is a "Troll" anyway?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Like him or not, you have to give him credit. He has posted some of the most interesting and "post-ridden" stories that Slashdot has presented. As another poster put it, he likes to "stir it up" which is a good thing. Isn't that what Slashdot is based on? The sparking of discussion? I, for one, like to hear the opinions of others whether I agree with them or not. Maybe I'm one of the few, but I like his stuff.
By the way, I'm currently reading his new book, "Geeks" and I like it quite well.
Keep up the good work Jon.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
How about the software no one wants to write?
By this, I mean the software that most programmers would consider "boring", yet is truly essential to the further growth of Linux as a desktop and server OS. It's great that we have so many window managers, office suites, browsers, etc. both existing and coming down the pike, but what about the other stuff that's just not as exciting? The stuff you really have to pay people to write? Maybe third party vendors with paid employees are the answer, but will all of those companies want to make their software truly Open Source?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I'm proud to say that I voted for Miguel and very I'm pleased to see him win. He's done so much and really deserves the award. He seems to have that "benevolent dictator" aire about him that Linus exhibits. I think he's another excellent leader/coder. Keep up the good work Miguel.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
I used the Borland C++ Builder in school and it was very nice. Been wanting to learn Java and now is as good a time as any. Cannot wait to try this out.
Things just keep getting better for Linux. Woo-hoo!
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
It was only a matter of time until this happened. Considering how "big business" has traditionally had a ruthless streak (like certain companies who shall remain nameless, because we're all tired of hearing about them) I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner. It may have already happened and who would know? I would think this would be one of the problems with open source vs. closed source. With a piece of software being closed source and provided to the public only in binary form, who's to say some open source code hasn't already been "borrowed" without credit being given to the original author or any changes that were made, being made open. As well, this case or a similar one is bound to end up in court and what will happen then? I, for one, hope we will have some good lawyers who can argue effectively for the open source position. Lawyers that understand what it is really all about and can convey that message to a judge effectively so he can make an truly informed decision.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
If Netscape's marketshare were to increase outside of U.S. borders (which is obviously a much larger market than the U.S.), might this possibly help with MS I.E.'s adhereance to the WWW3's standards that we are all concerned about MS "embracing and extending"? It seems it may also give Netscape a better foothold in the international market which will help Netscape 5/Mozilla's adoption (re-adoption)when they are released.
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Just how can music be Open Sourced? I understand that the lyrics and notes could be copied, changed, redistributed, etc. but that doesn't make much sense to me. Music is more than the lyrics and notes. It's about the performance by the artist. The sum of it's parts, if you will. For instance, I could take a Beatles song, not change the lyrics, play just the music tracks (without the voices) and record my own vocals over it. It still wouldn't be the Beatles and I'm almost certain no one would pay any money for it.
To get from under record companies, whether they be major or indie labels, I think the artists should promote themselves over the Internet. I saw an interview with Chuck D of Public Enemy and he's all for the free distribution of MP3's. He thinks it will give many artists from all over the world the chance to have their music heard whereas with the old regime, that would have been virtually impossible. I tend to agree with him. As far as how the artists would make money, I think a small fee for the download of the song (say $1 per) is reasonable. Kind of like shareware, where software is concerned. If you like it, be respectful and send the artist their due. If an artist truly loves their art, they'll continue to do it whether they get paid or not. However, if they expect to make a living from it, they better produce a decent product that people like or they'll end up like the cliched "starving artist". Another way to make money and propagate the success of their music could be tours. I would think that a major source of revenue for today's artists is touring. If they have fans and those fans would like to see the artist live, they will pay for that experience. Again, the cream will rise to the top (just like Open Source software) and the people making good music, could conceivably make a living.
Or am I just plain crazy?
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Roblimo, do you stay up 24/7? I see you post stories at all hours. Myself, I work the 12mid-12noon shift and often, you're posting all night long. What's up with that? Insomnia? Work-aholic? Just curious ;-)
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein