"But don't reap the benefits of someone elses work by stealing it either like Napster."
Dude, I think you just converted me. Wait, no...it was just my stomach. You obviously don't understand the concept of Open Source. It's not stealing if the creator gives it away. Microsoft is basically wanting to make giving stuff away illegal.
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microsoft had a glorious run at the top of the heap..."
Along with that statement theat refers to "standing on the shoulders of giants." I think Microsoft is running out of shoulder to run on and they're gonna come crashing back down to earth real soon.
Dude, you totally missed the point. Under the idea of Open Source, if Stephen King wanted to allow people to use his plots and characters, he can! Under Microsoft, his plots and characters would become the property of the corporation and he would receive only meager amounts of compensation.
True, under Open Source, he may receive nothing at all, but the point is...he made that choice.
"Mr. Allchin... Go away. You bother me." "But, but... [tears well up in Allchin's eyes]" "Grow a sac, you baby."
Yes, Microsoft is afraid...and rightfully so. They even admitted that Linux is better than Windows (or at least dipped into the public view that Linux is better). Microsoft is fighting against innovation. They are the ones trying to stifle iinnovation, and they're too blinded by insanity and fear to realize it.
Who's paying the person that invented the wheel? Who's paying the person that made the wheel smoother? How about the person that invented the arrow head?
Human beings existed and evolved just fine without "copyrights" and "intellectual property".
Ok... Look at open-source and closed-source development as a Lego(TM) set.
With closed-source, you get the set, pre-built, and super glued together so that you can't modify it. You may not like the look, but tough shit, you're stuck.
On the other hand, open-source gives you the set, pre-built, but not super glued together. You have the ability to modify to your liking.
In a way, open-source it's a do-it-yourself approach. Some people prefer it that way. Others don't. They'd prefer that someone tell them what's good and what's bad. That's why I think both systems will co-exist for quite some time.
They are alternatives to each other. Not entirely a threat, but money does rule all.
The only innovation Microsoft is interested in is their own. If it can't be boxed with their company name, put on a shelf and sold, it's not innovation...it's a threat.
Microsoft, as a company, has gone insane. Megalomaniacal...
Whoa... Man, you actually frightened me.:o/ Everything you said, I could see happening and the path it'll take to get there. It's like in those movies where the goodguy suddenly realizes exactly what the badguy is doing and why...
Well put. I myself am quite disappointed that anyone representing Microsoft would claim to stand for the American Way(TM). No one knows what that is anymore. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are much too simple to answer even the most common questions.
It's sad to say, but the U.S. is sitting atop a [now] outdated and decrepid foundation. Without much needed improvements and rework, it will eventually fail.
"Catastrophic failure" (I like that phrase, dunno why) I love my country. It's the government I loathe.
Just another way the American people have been bullshitted. "We're free, and we're proud." Free? You can't even make a good idea better without getting a dick in your ass.
He didn't have to make us an infinite being right at the start. In fact, we are far from that, but to deny us the ability to reach such a capacity - to become better than we are, or will be - sounds like repression to me. And as history has shown countless times, humans won't stand for it.
"Ok, votes are in... Buckle up everyone. We're goin' for a little ride."
...or you'll get a big argument over which world leader gets to push the gas pedal that gets the asteroid moving. At which point it will explode into full-out warfare in which every living thing on the planet is killed. Huh...and things were looking so good, too.
One point I do have to bring up is... Everyone seems to assume that the world (political, economical, etc.) will be exactly the same as it is today. I guarantee the human race will be inhabiting hundreds of other worlds by then and intermingling with alien civilizations. Most humans will no longer be "Earth-born" and probably wouldn't even give a rat's ass about our mother-planet.
I find it rather odd that the benevolent being that God is supposed to be would prefer to stunt our intellectual growth and keep us "below" Him. Doesn't sound like a very good-intentioned being to me.
I'd personally be quite happy with a creation of mine reaching the same capacity as (or even beyond) me. Maybe He has an inferiority complex...?
I think what he meant was... Why worry about something we can't even begin to prepare for when, right now, it is more than possible (in fact necessary) to take care of current problems that we've been shoving aside for a hundred years?
Yeah, I know... It's a lot easier (and more fun) to come up with theories than it is to implement real procedures.
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You're not an English teacher, are you? I hate them...
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Dude, I think you just converted me. Wait, no...it was just my stomach. You obviously don't understand the concept of Open Source. It's not stealing if the creator gives it away. Microsoft is basically wanting to make giving stuff away illegal.
If you want a clue, you can gladly send me $100.
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"We can build a better product than Linux, but we'd rather just trample it underfoot."
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True, under Open Source, he may receive nothing at all, but the point is...he made that choice.
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"But, but... [tears well up in Allchin's eyes]"
"Grow a sac, you baby."
Yes, Microsoft is afraid...and rightfully so. They even admitted that Linux is better than Windows (or at least dipped into the public view that Linux is better). Microsoft is fighting against innovation. They are the ones trying to stifle iinnovation, and they're too blinded by insanity and fear to realize it.
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Human beings existed and evolved just fine without "copyrights" and "intellectual property".
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With closed-source, you get the set, pre-built, and super glued together so that you can't modify it. You may not like the look, but tough shit, you're stuck.
On the other hand, open-source gives you the set, pre-built, but not super glued together. You have the ability to modify to your liking.
In a way, open-source it's a do-it-yourself approach. Some people prefer it that way. Others don't. They'd prefer that someone tell them what's good and what's bad. That's why I think both systems will co-exist for quite some time.
They are alternatives to each other. Not entirely a threat, but money does rule all.
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Open Source definitely has the potential to be better. That's what Microsoft is afraid of.
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Microsoft, as a company, has gone insane. Megalomaniacal...
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Also reminds of Taco Bell in Demolition Man. :o)
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It's sad to say, but the U.S. is sitting atop a [now] outdated and decrepid foundation. Without much needed improvements and rework, it will eventually fail.
"Catastrophic failure" (I like that phrase, dunno why)
I love my country. It's the government I loathe.
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Is anyone else as scared as I am?
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Just another way the American people have been bullshitted. "We're free, and we're proud." Free? You can't even make a good idea better without getting a dick in your ass.
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Why not arrest every last person on the planet? We all know we have the potential to be criminals, and many of us are in one way or another...
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He didn't have to make us an infinite being right at the start. In fact, we are far from that, but to deny us the ability to reach such a capacity - to become better than we are, or will be - sounds like repression to me. And as history has shown countless times, humans won't stand for it.
Cloning is irrelevant...
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...or you'll get a big argument over which world leader gets to push the gas pedal that gets the asteroid moving. At which point it will explode into full-out warfare in which every living thing on the planet is killed. Huh...and things were looking so good, too.
One point I do have to bring up is... Everyone seems to assume that the world (political, economical, etc.) will be exactly the same as it is today. I guarantee the human race will be inhabiting hundreds of other worlds by then and intermingling with alien civilizations. Most humans will no longer be "Earth-born" and probably wouldn't even give a rat's ass about our mother-planet.
Interesting theory, yet utterly pointless.
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I find it rather odd that the benevolent being that God is supposed to be would prefer to stunt our intellectual growth and keep us "below" Him. Doesn't sound like a very good-intentioned being to me.
I'd personally be quite happy with a creation of mine reaching the same capacity as (or even beyond) me. Maybe He has an inferiority complex...?
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Yeah, I know... It's a lot easier (and more fun) to come up with theories than it is to implement real procedures.
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