Re:But.. GPL IS communistic
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Socialism: It's all of ours, and we rule it all ourselves. Communism: It's all of ours, the people's, with the government controlling the disbursment.
You've got socialism and communism mixed up. Marx and Engels predicted that in order for a real communist society to form the people would first need a government to create order and make sure everyone gets their equal share - a Socialist state.
When the state had become able to support itself the government would fade away and the people would rule themselves - a Communist state.
It seems that most people on this thread are thinking of the Soviet Union and China when they talk about Communism. Both however, were/are socialist dictatorships, not true Marxist Communisms.
Using Cron while having the computer powered down
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Can Linux Do it?
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"The main problem with present distributions is their authors are unable to throw away the old Unix thinking," he says. "Once I suggested to the Red Hat people they should ship another 'cron', [a scheduling program] which doesn't require the box being powered up at 3am for running maintenance tasks.
"They told me: 'No need for powering down the box, Linux is stable enough to run for months and does not need periodic shutdowns like some systems.' They didn't even think people paying the power bills might power down their computers when they are unused."
So they want RedHat to write a new version of Cron that will operate when the computer is turned off?
I don't particularly like this article, but its not like I'll be required to read future articles. I think we might as well keep him for the people who enjoy the articles, and the rest can screen him out.
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Socialism: It's all of ours, and we rule it all ourselves.
Communism: It's all of ours, the people's, with the government controlling the disbursment.
You've got socialism and communism mixed up. Marx and Engels predicted that in order for a real communist society to form the people would first need a government to create order and make sure everyone gets their equal share - a Socialist state.
When the state had become able to support itself the government would fade away and the people would rule themselves - a Communist state.
It seems that most people on this thread are thinking of the Soviet Union and China when they talk about Communism. Both however, were/are socialist dictatorships, not true Marxist Communisms.
"The main problem with present distributions is their authors are unable to throw away the old Unix thinking," he says. "Once I suggested to the Red Hat people they should ship another 'cron', [a scheduling program] which doesn't require the box being powered up at 3am for running maintenance tasks.
"They told me: 'No need for powering down the box, Linux is stable enough to run for months and does not need periodic shutdowns like some systems.' They didn't even think people paying the power bills might power down their computers when they are unused."
So they want RedHat to write a new version of Cron that will operate when the computer is turned off?
Freeciv runs just fine on my 486!!!
I don't particularly like this article, but its not like I'll be required to read future articles. I think we might as well keep him for the people who enjoy the articles, and the rest can screen him out.