'...
I've worked in the U.S., Japan, and now Germany. In a few years time, I hope to move to India to work for a little while, then head back to Australia to do what I can to build up the national market for technology...'
to non-aus (with exception to kiwis and other antipodeans) this comment reflects reality for a number of reasons.
Firstly for any scientific or technical work one of ways to get any recognition back home is to work overseas in a foreign company. It is a dilemma that faces many in country where business is timid clubby and insular and mono cultural. It is also a chance to get some $$$ in a country where pay for workers relatively to business exe s is pretty poor. Flame away...
'... then head back to Australia to do what I can to build up the national market for technology..'
highlighting another problem(s) that exist - complete apathy in recognising the skills these people typically bring back (inside knowledge) and lack of interest by the business and political heads of the need to build a environment suitable for success.
Global markets will smash australian business that fail to adapt to the upcoming competitors. So new blood, tempered with international experience is *needed* back into aus.
steaming ahead - taking back distribution
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I purchased the game via Steam and downloaded it in the space of about three hours. I have experienced no problems in playing the game.
Just as I predicted. In Buying the latest build comment in the Half-Life 2 Finally Activated thread. Posters bemoaned the *cost* of steam compared to the boxed set in stores. "Why is the cost the same?" was a common question. Well the cost reflects the latest build.
It is great to see a e-version superior product
compared to the boxed version. With the uptake of broadband resellers beware. Your power is being eroded by metcalf, moore and coarse.
read and drool: AGC, DSKY and more
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'... The games available at release and soon after do not look very interesting...'
yes the Japanese games are different but there is a good reason. Firstly the system is not capable of running a full blown title as per PS2. So the designers are really forced to rethink their game style (and do they think) to fit the limitations of the hardware format. Take for instance konami with MG. They release MG but not *solid*, but Acid.
Same franchise, different game style (with a card twist).
Konami already make a slew of GBA games so they pretty well unersand their market. Its a different market to PS/XB.
Remember Digimon , small animals, monsters fighting, computers and CARDS... it's a bit like a digital D&D for those old enough/young enough to remember. All appeal to a very specific market.
After attending a ACMI game time symposium in Melbourne this year
I had the chance to hear/see Tetsuya Mizuguchi [gamespot interview] ). He talked for about an hour about game design and a bit about some upcoming titles for PSP. I now understand a bit more about *Japanese* game style and take my hat off to true innovators. No cheesy ports of your [insert your top 10 title here] PS2, PC games here. All *new* original ideas.
For the first releases the games are squarely aimed at *kids* and certainly those with a sense for Japanse style (manga, pokemon, digimon, cards, et.-al.) and good taste (read the paul graham article, taste to understand what I mean).I already have a 6 year old drooling over my shoulder wondering how to get one of these.
it at least makes people that would have been otherwise unaware of some aspects of science aware of it.
what aspects of science? I often wonder about factual content of *drama* television. If you talk to real scientists discussing CSI this year on www.RRR.org.au (radio live to web) you would get comments like 'equipment product placement', 'test that take days, weeks are solved in hours', 'people who happen to have expert knowledge in too many areas'. I cant find the exact link to the show but a couple of forensic scientists working in St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne ripped the shreds as to the factual content let alone scient content.
Real science is about discovery, measuring, observing then (the kicker) do some experiments, observe and write it up. The closest I see on television that emulates this is the BBC nature programmes started by David Attenborough. Though Americans may probably be more familiar to that other David, Canadas own David Suzuki.
Watch a show from one of these blokes and you will see the difference b/w the candy-coated hollywood version and the real messy world. Which leads me to my next observation...
So where does CSI rate on the geek scale for you?
inbetween miami vice and the simpsons
economist: Return of the homebrew coder
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and a good article from the economist giving more examples of homebrew coders and how they fit in.
yeah the price is steep (think of this in $AUS dollars) but wait for a while when a patch or update comes out. Everyone with a *physical* copy will have to get a patch and install it.
the price is reflecting *the best most up to date build* not some snapshot weeks or months old.
'... By early September 2004, I was spending a good portion of the time I'd normally be working online flat on my back instead...'
one of the surest signs you have to do something about it. It is a problem that is stopping you what you normally can do.
'... Being an ex-smoker, worries of lung cancer were starting to consume my thoughts...'
So you realise your mortal and you like living. Nothing wrong there.
Now for the sermon: get someone to find out what is wrong. don't stop until your satisfied. get another practioner if they give you the bums rush or cant be bothered to solve your problem.
repeat after me programmers, hackers: Look after the health of your system and yourself. I dont want to read another opensource contributor obituary.
Well Patrick - get yourself well. write it up and I'll promise to get a full commercial version of slack instead of the cheapscate versions I usually get:)
it's frustrating to hear the old "if you don't know it now, you never will" line. It's just downright anti-intellectual.
but be prepared to spend the 3yrs or so to be proficeint in the theory and practice. Then more time on top of that undertaking large projects. For this reason I dont see much programmer/artist overlap
Sure, for immediate results, it's best to hire someone who already has experience under his/her belt
Artists are sometimes born but most of the time are trained. Art and design require application of theory and skills that cannot just be picked up by the layman. It takes *time* to develop them. If you invest the time, sure. How many programmers are going to invest the 3yrs+ ? Then continuosly invest time to do this?
I think the hardest aspect is the medium. You can come up with a design using analog tools (pen, pencil and paper). People have lots of experience with tactile media such as paper, cardboard. But computers are a funny media to work with. With art/design the biggest hurdle is the input, manipulation of the medium. Draw on paper and you control your pencil directly with your hand. Use a computer you have to use a stupid mouse. This is why you see *get a input FOO... get a output BAR*. This is probably one of the only areas the programmer may have some understanding of. The rest (design process, colour, etc) is just going to be someone scraping the surface and wondering just how those *artists* do it!
sometimes when a challenge like this comes along I've got to take it up. Just got a mandelbrot demo working on my ps2 with the 6yo. It was based on the sample demo program that shipped with the demo disk
how
with yabasic of course. with every ps2 shipped into AUS (and UK and some other euro countries with PAL TV systems) a copy of the yabasic interpreter was bundled along with the demo disk.
btw the input via the ps2 controller is as bad as my ZX80 bubble keyboard. I don't have a USB keyboard (or a Datel PS2 XPort). Now for pong. It takes slashdot to get the young bloke to input games I played 25yrs ago:)
Re:When you are a abusive monopoly...
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your right here. I noticed yesterday upgrading my *older version* of fox-1pre to fox1 on a win2k box, the start page linked to a specific *mozilla* enhanced *google* start page:
The article comes across as a bit of a puff peice. Expect more of these as the *olympics* draws near.
Before we rejoice the *technical prowess* of China it help to consider how China addresses problems that will cripple any attempts to modernise.
Rural poverty: '... sixty million Chinese living in rural and remote areas eke out a miserable existence on a meagre $90 a year...' (China - Black River: 11/6/1996 Reporter: Jane Hutcheon)
Pollution: '... total destruction of the Huai river - around which 1/10th of China's population live... Seven million tonnes of untreated affluent are dumped into it every year. A sludge so toxic that it is not merely entering the food chain - it is killing aquatic life and crops outright...' (China - Qinghai Province 7/7/1998 Reporter: Jane Hutcheon)
Human rights: (China - China Workers: 15/07/2003 Reporter: Eric Campbell)'...It wasn't so long ago that the West saw Communist China as a brutal, cold war adversary.... The Communists have wholeheartedly embraced capitalism. Last November, China even joined the global capitalist club, the World Trade Organisation.... But what's often been ignored in the rush to do business with China is the price being paid by many farmers and State workers....
Untold millions have lost their livelihood as officials, and factory managers have grown rich from corruption. Any attempt by workers to form trade unions to defend their rights has been crushed without mercy....'
If you look at the distributions on the shelves, SuSE is KDE, Mandrake is KDE, Linsipre is KDE (with modifications). You can't buy Fedora at PC World. Any new user getting interested in Linux would probably go here first, and by consequence they're going to get KDE.
this is wrong. you can still install GNOME in Mandrake. do you mean 'default install' or 'not included in the distro'?
I have installed and used GNONE (and KDE) from commercial Mandrake 10 release.
Why? What's illegal about posting the names and addresses of delegates to political conventions?
Is it? Your statement depends on the laws (american) that exist and is open to interpretation. Also it is not clear what exact information was released.
an anonymous poster to nyc.indymedia.org published the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 1,600 delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York City along with a message for anti-RNC groups to use the information "in whatever way they see fit.
this was reported by the 'post-gazette'. No mention was made of the address type (work or home). But in the context read above it can be interpreted as a potential *threat*. In the current climate and US elections coming up this reported incident will certainly trigger this kind of (heavy handed) response.
Also consider that the source of the information may also be the *interest*. Cynics among you may well think the info (if harmless) maybe a plant to shut indimedia down for a bit:)
'... On Aug. 18, an anonymous poster to nyc.indymedia.org published the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 1,600 delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York City along with a message for anti-RNC groups to use the information "in whatever way they see fit."...' [As noted in this previous post, 10464479 ]
Kiddies this is pretty much the quickest way to get your hardware confiscated.
'... I have been using Linux off and on as a desktop, but have been using MacOS X as my main desktop for about 2 years now. You can't even compare the two....'
With all its advantages please mention the disadvantages when comparing it to other os's. like:
price
platforms it can run on
choice of desktops flavours
did I mention price
Apple lost me ever since the ][e with greedy dealerships, multiple $'000 price tag, closed hardware and limited peripheral market. (Though it was fun having a *cr-apple* re-assembled by a mate who shipped an apple clone over from singapore as electronic parts). I realise for those who want a *consumer grade* product and are willing to pay good money for it (though I note iMacs go for $400-$800 AUD) this may be a *sensible choice* to spend their $$$.
'... Linux is a great desktop, provided you want to only use the software that you are given by the distributor and/or have someone to maintain it for you...'
But I also appreciate and enjoy having my software COSHER. PS: I realise with osx you have to a degree have this option, but how many consumers would realise they can take full advantage?
I'm not sure about the timing but Orcale had, AFAIK, no Linux offerings that long ago. It's possible that the database backend came about when Orcale offered it's first Linux versions back in 2000, around 4 years ago.
I was interested to see how late/early oracle alligned with linux. This is what I found ~ 50 DEFINING MOMENTS: 30. Lining Up for Linux (October 1998)
...Anticipating the immense popularity of the new open source operating system, Linux, Oracle releases Oracle8 and Oracle Application Server 4.0 for Linux (Oracle8i for Linux will appear within several months). Demand for the new Linux products is indeed high--Oracle reports that more than 20,000 developers register for test copies of the Linux port of the database through the Oracle Technology Network () during the first two weeks of the product's release.
So you sceticism is founded:) I've found references to oracle and linux back to about '96 but nothing to suggest mainstream usage.
Mono with the.NET, ASP.NET and ADO.NET compatibility layers might run into trouble in the long run because those libraries are patent encumbered.
Mono with GTK#, Gnome, Mozilla and other libraries doesn't have that problem because the only thing that it uses from Microsoft is the ECMA standard C# language implementation.
And the beaut think about that is the *potentially encumbered* libraries are in a different part of the build tree, ready to be pulled if a MS (FUD) patent does get served.
... A REAL geek is running a web server on a 386SX...
been there. done that. I eventaully got that 3.3 obsd box running on a '94 - 486 as a firewall - the same one that I saw in the museum along with CSIRAC. But lets face it. Unless you have plenty of time on hand and you want to reexamine old hardware is it really that geeky?
It's just time consuming and hard work trying to locate old hardware and getting it to talk together. Going back to '94 (and earlier hardware) is getting harder. MTBF eventually catchs up.... Geekiness is all about resourcefulness...
to a point... but after that its more wasteful of time. True geekiness would be emulating the hardware in software:)
'... Microsoft has historically bent over backwards to make their software backwards compatibile...'
Do not assume the status quo as the norm. If you take a look at jos and his article on 'how ms lost the api war' - 'The Two Forces at Microsoft', you might better appreciate that within microsoft the, Chen (backwards compatability at os level)vs the MSDN Magazine (who dish out microsoft spagetti recipies) is as unified as many make it out to be.
'... wouldn't you agree Linus got a measly sum compared to Steve Jobs...'
the salesman different generation, different locale. Jobs was around at the birth of the PC revolution. He's had plenty of time to create products (hardware + software), make mistakes and sell to a large domestic then international market. I dont think Jobs has ever given away code. Jobs has a knack (and the appropriate reality distortion field) to foster an ideas environment, root out the better ones (for good or bad: read Insanly Great and think Andy Herzfeldt (And another thing)), take a punt and back the idea to the hilt.
For that Apple, Next, Pixar have delivered big bucks.
the engineer Compared to Jobs and Apple, Linus and Linux are babies. Linux is a product of it's time. Just like in Victorian England where amateur gentleman had the time (and money) to ponder, think, question and execute their way into the industrial revolution, Linus tucked away in his
bedroom with a donated '386 and copy of GCC gave heart and life to the GNU suite of tools in the form of the Linux kernal.
This is one big block in the Information revolution that is now occuring. And while Linus maybe currently *worth less* than Jobs the potential for Linux to generate new wealth is staggering.
In Killer App, Downes and Mui argue that moore + metcalf = law of disruption + coase. Linux and the birth of the Internet has in a way directly influenced this. Anyone who can exploit these effects and sell products stand to make $$$.
Linux is a product. How Linus utilises his time, programming and creating or selling: Its up to him.
'... Beyond that, make $$$ by selling some commercial software that people are not willing to write for their own enjoyment or use....'
think diesel not ford or to put in a different light... produce software that others have yet to think of or cannot do for themselves. Not everyone want's to sit behind a keyboard and have to understand computers. But to think you can make a living the old way, ignoring mr more and metcalf and hope that distruption and coase go away is shere lunacy.
I like to think of Linux as revolutionary as the Diesel engine (which by the way was not patented and possibly led to the early death of Rudolf
Slashdot Mirror
to non-aus (with exception to kiwis and other antipodeans) this comment reflects reality for a number of reasons.
Firstly for any scientific or technical work one of ways to get any recognition back home is to work overseas in a foreign company. It is a dilemma that faces many in country where business is timid clubby and insular and mono cultural. It is also a chance to get some $$$ in a country where pay for workers relatively to business exe s is pretty poor. Flame away ...
Pria Viswalingam did a great doco, 'She'll be right boss' highlighting this problem.
'... then head back to Australia to do what I can to build up the national market for technologyhighlighting another problem(s) that exist - complete apathy in recognising the skills these people typically bring back (inside knowledge) and lack of interest by the business and political heads of the need to build a environment suitable for success.
Global markets will smash australian business that fail to adapt to the upcoming competitors. So new blood, tempered with international experience is *needed* back into aus.
Just as I predicted. In Buying the latest build comment in the Half-Life 2 Finally Activated thread. Posters bemoaned the *cost* of steam compared to the boxed set in stores. "Why is the cost the same?" was a common question. Well the cost reflects the latest build.
It is great to see a e-version superior product compared to the boxed version. With the uptake of broadband resellers beware. Your power is being eroded by metcalf, moore and coarse.
for those who where not around here's some links to the AGC, DSKY and more:
*Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
*slash article with source code listing
*Simulation of Apollo Guidance Computer
*DSKY
yes the Japanese games are different but there is a good reason. Firstly the system is not capable of running a full blown title as per PS2. So the designers are really forced to rethink their game style (and do they think) to fit the limitations of the hardware format. Take for instance konami with MG. They release MG but not *solid*, but Acid. Same franchise, different game style (with a card twist).
Konami already make a slew of GBA games so they pretty well unersand their market. Its a different market to PS/XB.
Remember Digimon , small animals, monsters fighting, computers and CARDS ... it's a bit like a digital D&D for those old enough /young enough to remember. All appeal to a very specific market.
After attending a ACMI game time symposium in Melbourne this year I had the chance to hear/see Tetsuya Mizuguchi [gamespot interview] ). He talked for about an hour about game design and a bit about some upcoming titles for PSP. I now understand a bit more about *Japanese* game style and take my hat off to true innovators. No cheesy ports of your [insert your top 10 title here] PS2, PC games here. All *new* original ideas.
For the first releases the games are squarely aimed at *kids* and certainly those with a sense for Japanse style (manga, pokemon, digimon, cards, et.-al.) and good taste (read the paul graham article, taste to understand what I mean).I already have a 6 year old drooling over my shoulder wondering how to get one of these.
what aspects of science? I often wonder about factual content of *drama* television. If you talk to real scientists discussing CSI this year on www.RRR.org.au (radio live to web) you would get comments like 'equipment product placement', 'test that take days, weeks are solved in hours', 'people who happen to have expert knowledge in too many areas'. I cant find the exact link to the show but a couple of forensic scientists working in St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne ripped the shreds as to the factual content let alone scient content.
Real science is about discovery, measuring, observing then (the kicker) do some experiments, observe and write it up. The closest I see on television that emulates this is the BBC nature programmes started by David Attenborough. Though Americans may probably be more familiar to that other David, Canadas own David Suzuki.
Watch a show from one of these blokes and you will see the difference b/w the candy-coated hollywood version and the real messy world. Which leads me to my next observation ...
So where does CSI rate on the geek scale for you?inbetween miami vice and the simpsons
and a good article from the economist giving more examples of homebrew coders and how they fit in.
yeah the price is steep (think of this in $AUS dollars) but wait for a while when a patch or update comes out. Everyone with a *physical* copy will have to get a patch and install it.
the price is reflecting *the best most up to date build* not some snapshot weeks or months old.
one of the surest signs you have to do something about it. It is a problem that is stopping you what you normally can do.
'... Being an ex-smoker, worries of lung cancer were starting to consume my thoughtsSo you realise your mortal and you like living. Nothing wrong there.
Now for the sermon: get someone to find out what is wrong. don't stop until your satisfied. get another practioner if they give you the bums rush or cant be bothered to solve your problem.
repeat after me programmers, hackers: Look after the health of your system and yourself. I dont want to read another opensource contributor obituary.
Well Patrick - get yourself well. write it up and I'll promise to get a full commercial version of slack instead of the cheapscate versions I usually get :)
but be prepared to spend the 3yrs or so to be proficeint in the theory and practice. Then more time on top of that undertaking large projects. For this reason I dont see much programmer/artist overlap
Sure, for immediate results, it's best to hire someone who already has experience under his/her belt
Artists are sometimes born but most of the time are trained. Art and design require application of theory and skills that cannot just be picked up by the layman. It takes *time* to develop them. If you invest the time, sure. How many programmers are going to invest the 3yrs+ ? Then continuosly invest time to do this?
I think the hardest aspect is the medium. You can come up with a design using analog tools (pen, pencil and paper). People have lots of experience with tactile media such as paper, cardboard. But computers are a funny media to work with. With art/design the biggest hurdle is the input, manipulation of the medium. Draw on paper and you control your pencil directly with your hand. Use a computer you have to use a stupid mouse. This is why you see *get a input FOO ... get a output BAR*. This is probably one of the only areas the programmer may have some understanding of. The rest (design process, colour, etc) is just going to be someone scraping the surface and wondering just how those *artists* do it!
beagle is the offshoot indexing and searching engine part of dahsboard.
dashboard . ms is going to be the last to the party. A good overview description can be found here.
sometimes when a challenge like this comes along I've got to take it up. Just got a mandelbrot demo working on my ps2 with the 6yo. It was based on the sample demo program that shipped with the demo disk
howwith yabasic of course. with every ps2 shipped into AUS (and UK and some other euro countries with PAL TV systems) a copy of the yabasic interpreter was bundled along with the demo disk.
The ps2 homebrew programming community is pretty strong with yabasic and ps2linux.
input and pongbtw the input via the ps2 controller is as bad as my ZX80 bubble keyboard. I don't have a USB keyboard (or a Datel PS2 XPort). Now for pong. It takes slashdot to get the young bloke to input games I played 25yrs ago :)
- http://www.google.com.au/firefox?client=firefox-a
& rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
after I installed it.The article comes across as a bit of a puff peice. Expect more of these as the *olympics* draws near.
Before we rejoice the *technical prowess* of China it help to consider how China addresses problems that will cripple any attempts to modernise.
this is wrong. you can still install GNOME in Mandrake. do you mean 'default install' or 'not included in the distro'?
I have installed and used GNONE (and KDE) from commercial Mandrake 10 release.
Is it? Your statement depends on the laws (american) that exist and is open to interpretation. Also it is not clear what exact information was released.
this was reported by the 'post-gazette'. No mention was made of the address type (work or home). But in the context read above it can be interpreted as a potential *threat*. In the current climate and US elections coming up this reported incident will certainly trigger this kind of (heavy handed) response.
Also consider that the source of the information may also be the *interest*. Cynics among you may well think the info (if harmless) maybe a plant to shut indimedia down for a bit :)
'... On Aug. 18, an anonymous poster to nyc.indymedia.org published the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 1,600 delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York City along with a message for anti-RNC groups to use the information "in whatever way they see fit."
[As noted in this previous post, 10464479 ]
Kiddies this is pretty much the quickest way to get your hardware confiscated.
With all its advantages please mention the disadvantages when comparing it to other os's. like:
Apple lost me ever since the ][e with greedy dealerships, multiple $'000 price tag, closed hardware and limited peripheral market. (Though it was fun having a *cr-apple* re-assembled by a mate who shipped an apple clone over from singapore as electronic parts). I realise for those who want a *consumer grade* product and are willing to pay good money for it (though I note iMacs go for $400-$800 AUD) this may be a *sensible choice* to spend their $$$.
'... Linux is a great desktop, provided you want to only use the software that you are given by the distributor and/or have someone to maintain it for you
But I also appreciate and enjoy having my software COSHER.
PS: I realise with osx you have to a degree have this option, but how many consumers would realise they can take full advantage?
I was interested to see how late/early oracle alligned with linux. This is what I found ~ 50 DEFINING MOMENTS: 30. Lining Up for Linux (October 1998)
So you sceticism is founded :) I've found references to oracle and linux back to about '96 but nothing to suggest mainstream usage.
Mono with GTK#, Gnome, Mozilla and other libraries doesn't have that problem because the only thing that it uses from Microsoft is the ECMA standard C# language implementation.
And the beaut think about that is the *potentially encumbered* libraries are in a different part of the build tree, ready to be pulled if a MS (FUD) patent does get served.
been there. done that. I eventaully got that 3.3 obsd box running on a '94 - 486 as a firewall - the same one that I saw in the museum along with CSIRAC. But lets face it. Unless you have plenty of time on hand and you want to reexamine old hardware is it really that geeky?
It's just time consuming and hard work trying to locate old hardware and getting it to talk together. Going back to '94 (and earlier hardware) is getting harder. MTBF eventually catchs up. ... Geekiness is all about resourcefulness ...
to a point ... but after that its more wasteful of time. True geekiness would be emulating the hardware in software :)
Do not assume the status quo as the norm. If you take a look at jos and his article on 'how ms lost the api war' - 'The Two Forces at Microsoft', you might better appreciate that within microsoft the, Chen (backwards compatability at os level) vs the MSDN Magazine (who dish out microsoft spagetti recipies) is as unified as many make it out to be.
read How MS lost the API war to see a longer explanation.
the salesman
different generation, different locale. Jobs was around at the birth of the PC revolution. He's had plenty of time to create products (hardware + software), make mistakes and sell to a large domestic then international market. I dont think Jobs has ever given away code. Jobs has a knack (and the appropriate reality distortion field ) to foster an ideas environment, root out the better ones (for good or bad: read Insanly Great and think Andy Herzfeldt (And another thing)), take a punt and back the idea to the hilt.
For that Apple, Next, Pixar have delivered big bucks.
the engineer
Compared to Jobs and Apple, Linus and Linux are babies. Linux is a product of it's time. Just like in Victorian England where amateur gentleman had the time (and money) to ponder, think, question and execute their way into the industrial revolution, Linus tucked away in his bedroom with a donated '386 and copy of GCC gave heart and life to the GNU suite of tools in the form of the Linux kernal.
This is one big block in the Information revolution that is now occuring. And while Linus maybe currently *worth less* than Jobs the potential for Linux to generate new wealth is staggering.
In Killer App, Downes and Mui argue that moore + metcalf = law of disruption + coase . Linux and the birth of the Internet has in a way directly influenced this. Anyone who can exploit these effects and sell products stand to make $$$.
Linux is a product. How Linus utilises his time, programming and creating or selling: Its up to him.
'... Beyond that, make $$$ by selling some commercial software that people are not willing to write for their own enjoyment or use. ...'
think diesel not ford ... produce software that others have yet to think of or cannot do for themselves. Not everyone want's to sit behind a keyboard and have to understand computers. But to think you can make a living the old way, ignoring mr more and metcalf and hope that distruption and coase go away is shere lunacy.
or to put in a different light
I like to think of Linux as revolutionary as the Diesel engine (which by the way was not patented and possibly led to the early death of Rudolf
shouldn't that be ... Duke Nukem: *coming soon* with Google-style weapons lookup!