I think Sun has a few more important concerns right now than helping a rather obscure version of BSD run on their proprietary hardware.
I think they may be trying to regain profitability right now and OpenBSD compatability just isn't going to help in that regard.
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I support Amazon.com because I as a good GAWD fearing American support the perpetuation of Intellectual Property and the revenues it brings to our Holy Economy.
Open Source software is so buggy that the fear of an unscrupulous developer inserting bugs purposefully is just unfounded. Thats like fearing some farmer would add fertilizer to the farmlands around the nile river. That farmland is some of the most fertile in the world. Its just not something you need to do.
I'm pretty sure a developer could make more than enough money to buy a ridiculous amount of Bently's and Jaguars from just fixing the inherent bugs in OSS and suppliment that income by adding missing features that have existed in proprietary software for decades now.
Do you really think the admins of most ISP's are goin to give a rats ass about the trolling that goes on at Slashdot? And you expect the Slashdot guys to track down the ISP's of every troll, find the email addresses of all the admins and then email them?
If a site gets Slashdotted by trolls it will just crash really fast and the trolls will get bored and come back to Slashdot. Not really a good solution then is it?
Give it time. When Indians learn that they can ship off older useless relatives who do nothing but drag/hold them down, the nursing home construction boom in India will break all known records in human existence.
Keep in mind that a result of Europe's ridiculously over-regulated labor conditions there is a much higher average of unemployment over there vs. the US.
Having a job is better than not having one. Someday when your social programs are bankrupted due to not enough people having jobs that can create a sustainable tax-base you Europeans will learn that.
Jack Welch's affair has absolutely no bearing on his performance as an executive. His leadership at GE is unparrelled. I couldn't care less about his personal problems. The Indians aren't hiring him to tech them all how to be good husbands. They need him to teach them how to be good businessmen.
Is this what happened after textile jobs, manufacturing jobs, and automaking jobs were sent overseas? No? It isn't? Then why would it happen now with mere tech jobs?
What makes you think a financial job can't be outsourced? There's already talk of outsourcing paralegal work. You send the US legal books over to India, and pay an Indian, Indian wages to do the legal research.
Your trying to tell me that the same can't be done in the financial sector? Dell has already setup Indian call centers and given the operators American sounding names.
I know this proess of outsourcing has already begun but finally its hitting full steam. At long last the arrogant and formerly overpaid techies with arrested social development are getting their comeuppance and how!
No more latte sipping, all black wearing "consultants" pulling in $300/hour. And never again for that matter. The profits shall now go back to the shareholders and executives where they belong!
Now all we have to do is repeat the process for the BioTech industry and enjoy the next boom it will bring us! Then we get to watch as THOSE jobs are exported to Indians who played with chemistry sets all day after school while they were growing up.
After the BioTech Boom/Bust cycle there will be a prolonged global recession that will only be ended when the world's final Boom/Bust scenario begins, the Second Space Race.
Whats this? A company that sells FREE SOFTWARE cannot make enough money to stay in business? I don't know why they can't! Aren't there just millions and millions of people who'd rather pay for software instead of downloading it for free like they've always been able to!?!??
If anyone is able to "milk" the system, then the people who designed the system, the OSS community has no one to blame but themselves. Thats kinda what happens when you give stuff away for free you know. And the BSD license is notorious for allowing just such a thing to happen.
The APSL allows you to take the code and modify it. You can't sell it without permission from Apple though. You can distribute it for free however. This is all perfectly allowed under the BSD license that coverst the code that Apple borrowed from the community. If you don't like it, take it up wtih the BSD guys.
That line of reasoning only applies if you are a communist.
Earning a great deal of wealth is moral neutral. It all depends in how you got it. Not sharing is also not something that makes someone less moral.
Personal accountability is something people like you seem to not be very big on. If you stopped worrying about how much money Mr. Gates makes and more about how much you make you might be doing well enough to not worry about the MS CEO anymore.
And just how is the community supposed to exclude Apple? Open source software is open for anyone to use, including any company. Besides Apple has contributed code back to the KHTML project. Just what will it take to please you whinny ungrateful open sourcers?
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I think Sun has a few more important concerns right now than helping a rather obscure version of BSD run on their proprietary hardware.
I think they may be trying to regain profitability right now and OpenBSD compatability just isn't going to help in that regard.
Wow. She's actually hot!
I support Amazon.com because I as a good GAWD fearing American support the perpetuation of Intellectual Property and the revenues it brings to our Holy Economy.
Will you EVER fucking get over that discussion thread? Do you or do you not have a life?
You are already trying to impress us with your "oh-so -cool not trying to impress anyone" attitude.
:-)
So you're not impressing anyone.
Feudalism is a form of government. I believe the word you were looking for is Futility.
Preference could also be replaced with reference.
Open Source software is so buggy that the fear of an unscrupulous developer inserting bugs purposefully is just unfounded. Thats like fearing some farmer would add fertilizer to the farmlands around the nile river. That farmland is some of the most fertile in the world. Its just not something you need to do.
I'm pretty sure a developer could make more than enough money to buy a ridiculous amount of Bently's and Jaguars from just fixing the inherent bugs in OSS and suppliment that income by adding missing features that have existed in proprietary software for decades now.
Do you really think the admins of most ISP's are goin to give a rats ass about the trolling that goes on at Slashdot? And you expect the Slashdot guys to track down the ISP's of every troll, find the email addresses of all the admins and then email them?
Your're insane
If a site gets Slashdotted by trolls it will just crash really fast and the trolls will get bored and come back to Slashdot. Not really a good solution then is it?
You're going to have to get over that and quickly, before you become annoying.
Someone needs to tell the author that the dotcom days are gone and no amount of WiFi bullshit is going to ever bring them back.
Give it time. When Indians learn that they can ship off older useless relatives who do nothing but drag/hold them down, the nursing home construction boom in India will break all known records in human existence.
Keep in mind that a result of Europe's ridiculously over-regulated labor conditions there is a much higher average of unemployment over there vs. the US.
Having a job is better than not having one. Someday when your social programs are bankrupted due to not enough people having jobs that can create a sustainable tax-base you Europeans will learn that.
Jack Welch's affair has absolutely no bearing on his performance as an executive. His leadership at GE is unparrelled. I couldn't care less about his personal problems. The Indians aren't hiring him to tech them all how to be good husbands. They need him to teach them how to be good businessmen.
He still is the greatest CEO that ever lived.
Is this what happened after textile jobs, manufacturing jobs, and automaking jobs were sent overseas? No? It isn't? Then why would it happen now with mere tech jobs?
What makes you think a financial job can't be outsourced? There's already talk of outsourcing paralegal work. You send the US legal books over to India, and pay an Indian, Indian wages to do the legal research.
Your trying to tell me that the same can't be done in the financial sector? Dell has already setup Indian call centers and given the operators American sounding names.
....Wipro's developers follow Six Sigma practices.
That means they are high quality developers at bargain prices. Not just dollar an hour coders who don't know what they are doing.
Does anyone have a clue as to how American or other Western programmers are supposed to compete with this?
I know this proess of outsourcing has already begun but finally its hitting full steam. At long last the arrogant and formerly overpaid techies with arrested social development are getting their comeuppance and how!
No more latte sipping, all black wearing "consultants" pulling in $300/hour. And never again for that matter. The profits shall now go back to the shareholders and executives where they belong!
Now all we have to do is repeat the process for the BioTech industry and enjoy the next boom it will bring us! Then we get to watch as THOSE jobs are exported to Indians who played with chemistry sets all day after school while they were growing up.
After the BioTech Boom/Bust cycle there will be a prolonged global recession that will only be ended when the world's final Boom/Bust scenario begins, the Second Space Race.
Whats this? A company that sells FREE SOFTWARE cannot make enough money to stay in business? I don't know why they can't! Aren't there just millions and millions of people who'd rather pay for software instead of downloading it for free like they've always been able to!?!??
If anyone is able to "milk" the system, then the people who designed the system, the OSS community has no one to blame but themselves. Thats kinda what happens when you give stuff away for free you know. And the BSD license is notorious for allowing just such a thing to happen.
The APSL allows you to take the code and modify it. You can't sell it without permission from Apple though. You can distribute it for free however. This is all perfectly allowed under the BSD license that coverst the code that Apple borrowed from the community. If you don't like it, take it up wtih the BSD guys.
That line of reasoning only applies if you are a communist.
Earning a great deal of wealth is moral neutral. It all depends in how you got it. Not sharing is also not something that makes someone less moral.
Personal accountability is something people like you seem to not be very big on. If you stopped worrying about how much money Mr. Gates makes and more about how much you make you might be doing well enough to not worry about the MS CEO anymore.
Apple DOES contribute code back. Even to BSD. What are you complaining about exactly? Are you even on the free-bsd mailing lists?
And just how is the community supposed to exclude Apple? Open source software is open for anyone to use, including any company. Besides Apple has contributed code back to the KHTML project. Just what will it take to please you whinny ungrateful open sourcers?
..no to Communism!
So basically, even though you read Slashdot you still don't know how to type and are thus an utter moron?