* both rely on the principle that working together as a community will produce better results than each man for himself
which is the case, even M$ uses a community to build its software. they just pay their staff.
* both suffer in comparison to the Capitalist competition - the products made by Communists were, and are inferior in build and technology, to those made by Capitalists. So it is with open source software - the Capitalist option is superior to the Communist one - Windows is greatly superior to KDE/Gnome, and Solaris is better than Linux.
horsedung, the commies were the first to put a man in space and have/had a good reputation of producing darn good scientists and products. i am not a commie so i won't defend them too much.
* both perform poorly financially - Linux stocks have fallen through the floor, just as in Communist countries GDP per capita is typically a fifth of that of a Capitalist country.
who cares about stocks???? we just want free software, which, of course, you can't make a lot of money on, the margins are just no big enough. But that is not the point of the free software movement.
* both are bad for humanity - Communism because it results in a lower standard of living for all, and Linux because it stifles innovation - everything in Linux is *copied* (the basic idea, Unix, was copied, the start menu used by the most popular desktop environments, the file manager, all the software, things like Mesa), and if that means that if it succeeds in killing non-free software there will be no innovation - Linux has never produced any thing original.
exactly the point, you got it. we copy the good stuff since we can, because its _free_ (you are clueless aren't you?), and as far as not succeeding in producing anything innovative, uhm, mail, countless procols, png, pgp, some file systems, several operating systems, uhm... god, u have no idea.
* Furthermore, Linux is bad for humanity because it means people will no longer take Computer Science degrees - there won't be any money in Computing because of all the free software, so software will suffer a brain drain.
Hmm, seems you are wrong on that account too.
* both are increasingly being discredited and look to be all but dead - companies are abandoning Linux development, people are finding out that the quality of Linux is very low - distributions like RedHat and Mandrake are very poorly tested; furthermore, they are finding that the makers of the poor quality software cannot be held to account - since it free, you can't complain when you find out it isn't very good.
beside the point. if something is broken, someone will fix it. almost all _stable_ versions of OSes are as they claim, stable. its just that most people like too have the latest features...
* both seem to believe that making money is bad, and have successfully indoctrinated many people with the idea - something anyone would see is wrong.
making money is good, making commercial software is ok too. making free software is fun. jeez,.. lighten up, have a beer.
Blah. Who-or-whatever gave you that opinion. US is the only state where reporters actually ask questions like 'but-what-if-you-did-this?' or 'wouldn't-it-be-better-if-you-would-..?'. CNN not opinionated? Don't make me laugh, CNN=news for wealthy WASP living in USA, you just dont notice since you must fit the description. ok, i'll drop the W there.
Latest crack remark during CNN:
- anchor woman: It seems that over the world people have problems grasping the electoral system.
- anchor man: Well, I guess we gave them a lesson in democracy.
Whoah, and that for a two-party biased old system where the assumption is that people were/are to stupid (read to black) to elect their president directly.
Go check your ideas... Better, go watch BBC instead of CNN...
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Just wonder how long it will take for slashdot to 'ditch' corel ;-)....
it's their problem.. nuff said..
it's their problem.. nuff said
Is this a generation of new bombs? I.e. what happens if I fill the medium with an enormous amount of `light' and release it?
Excuse my ignorance.
sue me, now I did it too ;-)
At least the horses will give you some uptime.
I have yet seen no good remarks why this wouldn't be a Great Way to get the kernel more modular. Someone have an answer?
On a side issue, I for one, would not hesitate to pay in speed if it means that the kernel becomes more flexible.
Of course, we could always base it on SOAP given that we already have such great http support in the kernel...
/. me, I am an illiterate. what does the title mean. oh, and yeah, i am 30 ;-)))
Tell us about it? Was it difficult to install? Does it run all debian packages? Seen any weird quirks?
which is the case, even M$ uses a community to build its software. they just pay their staff.
* both suffer in comparison to the Capitalist competition - the products made by Communists were, and are inferior in build and technology, to those made by Capitalists. So it is with open source software - the Capitalist option is superior to the Communist one - Windows is greatly superior to KDE/Gnome, and Solaris is better than Linux.
horsedung, the commies were the first to put a man in space and have/had a good reputation of producing darn good scientists and products. i am not a commie so i won't defend them too much.
* both perform poorly financially - Linux stocks have fallen through the floor, just as in Communist countries GDP per capita is typically a fifth of that of a Capitalist country.
who cares about stocks???? we just want free software, which, of course, you can't make a lot of money on, the margins are just no big enough. But that is not the point of the free software movement.
* both are bad for humanity - Communism because it results in a lower standard of living for all, and Linux because it stifles innovation - everything in Linux is *copied* (the basic idea, Unix, was copied, the start menu used by the most popular desktop environments, the file manager, all the software, things like Mesa), and if that means that if it succeeds in killing non-free software there will be no innovation - Linux has never produced any thing original.
exactly the point, you got it. we copy the good stuff since we can, because its _free_ (you are clueless aren't you?), and as far as not succeeding in producing anything innovative, uhm, mail, countless procols, png, pgp, some file systems, several operating systems, uhm... god, u have no idea.
* Furthermore, Linux is bad for humanity because it means people will no longer take Computer Science degrees - there won't be any money in Computing because of all the free software, so software will suffer a brain drain.
Hmm, seems you are wrong on that account too.
* both are increasingly being discredited and look to be all but dead - companies are abandoning Linux development, people are finding out that the quality of Linux is very low - distributions like RedHat and Mandrake are very poorly tested; furthermore, they are finding that the makers of the poor quality software cannot be held to account - since it free, you can't complain when you find out it isn't very good.
beside the point. if something is broken, someone will fix it. almost all _stable_ versions of OSes are as they claim, stable. its just that most people like too have the latest features...
* both seem to believe that making money is bad, and have successfully indoctrinated many people with the idea - something anyone would see is wrong.
making money is good, making commercial software is ok too. making free software is fun. jeez,.. lighten up, have a beer.
Blah. Who-or-whatever gave you that opinion. US is the only state where reporters actually ask questions like 'but-what-if-you-did-this?' or 'wouldn't-it-be-better-if-you-would-..?'. CNN not opinionated? Don't make me laugh, CNN=news for wealthy WASP living in USA, you just dont notice since you must fit the description. ok, i'll drop the W there.
Latest crack remark during CNN:
- anchor woman: It seems that over the world people have problems grasping the electoral system.
- anchor man: Well, I guess we gave them a lesson in democracy.
Whoah, and that for a two-party biased old system where the assumption is that people were/are to stupid (read to black) to elect their president directly.
Go check your ideas... Better, go watch BBC instead of CNN...