Hospital's don't write ECGs or Dialysis machines, they buy them from Philips or GE or Seimans or Toshiba or Mennen or whoever. They don't buy the OS, they by the tool. If the tool is running windows, well the vendor is expected to keep it up. Until you work in a hospital for a while don't even think about discussing why hospitals do what they do. You wouldn't understand.
I work in a fairly overpowering Windows environment. However, I can get approval for Linux but not for a Mac (and both were in my budget request). Why? Because they can standardize on Dell and my GNU/Linux workstation runs on either of the two official configurations.
In the server room, I can get Red Hat on the rackable Dells. I can get Tivoli Storage Manager clients for them and they fit in without causing management to support Yet Another Hardware Platform.
Frankly, I don't care if its OS X or Linux or Hurd, I like the diversity. Why the hell should we fight with each other over Microsoft's crumbs. Let's stand on each others shoulder and get us a real piece of the pie.
That RMS, Founder of the GNU project is accused of a hostile takeover of the GNU libc which was originally written by someone who worked for the FSF. Accused by a fellow who writes "When I started porting glibc 1.09 to Linux... " Where did this glibc come from that he was porting? The moon?
When Mr. Drepper writes
Phrases like
[...] GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
just invites him to screw you when it pleases him. Rip out the "any later version" part and make your own decisions when to use a different license since otherwise he can potentially do you or your
work harm.
He ignores the significant phrase at your option
I doubt any of us really know the full details of the spat, but it is bad form to rip out a blast like this in the release notes. Further, it looks like the hostile takeover is by Drepper... not the original creator of the code.
I've held in my hands a book printed before 1500. Turned the pages, smelled the paper, looked at the illustrations, picked out a few words in latin. I've seen (in Hereford) a manuscript in use in 800. How worthless the old IBM punch cards, 8 inch floppies, disk-packs, etc. seem in comparison. ebooks might have a place, but they seem like the end of literacy to me.
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Hospital's don't write ECGs or Dialysis machines, they buy them from Philips or GE or Seimans or Toshiba or Mennen or whoever. They don't buy the OS, they by the tool. If the tool is running windows, well the vendor is expected to keep it up. Until you work in a hospital for a while don't even think about discussing why hospitals do what they do. You wouldn't understand.
I work in a fairly overpowering Windows environment. However, I can get approval for Linux but not for a Mac (and both were in my budget request). Why? Because they can standardize on Dell and my GNU/Linux workstation runs on either of the two official configurations.
In the server room, I can get Red Hat on the rackable Dells. I can get Tivoli Storage Manager clients for them and they fit in without causing management to support Yet Another Hardware Platform.
Frankly, I don't care if its OS X or Linux or Hurd, I like the diversity. Why the hell should we fight with each other over Microsoft's crumbs. Let's stand on each others shoulder and get us a real piece of the pie.
When Mr. Drepper writes
He ignores the significant phrase at your option
I doubt any of us really know the full details of the spat, but it is bad form to rip out a blast like this in the release notes. Further, it looks like the hostile takeover is by Drepper... not the original creator of the code.
Louis
I've held in my hands a book printed before 1500. Turned the pages, smelled the paper, looked at the illustrations, picked out a few words in latin. I've seen (in Hereford) a manuscript in use in 800. How worthless the old IBM punch cards, 8 inch floppies, disk-packs, etc. seem in comparison. ebooks might have a place, but they seem like the end of literacy to me.