I never said I particularly liked him or his invention... But, you'd be hard pressed to come up with something that has had a more direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the world.
I truly dislike TV, but again, think of the influence that TV has had on the last century.
Time magazine has an excellent tradition of not necessarily recognizing 'good' people. The point is to recognize the person who had the most profound effect on peoples lives. It's hard to argue that ford is at least not high on the list. (But, I've not cast my vote, & I'm very much open to suggestions...)
FWIW, I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for, although I'm struggling to find someone to top Hitler, the Holocaust being only one of a number of reasons for choosing him.
How about Henry Ford? With the possible exception of the television, I can think of no single greater influence on the past century then the Automobile. Certainly Ford ranks high on the list, if not at the top.
You're right. There are hundreds who could have written the kernel. The point is, though, that they didn't. Linus did.
Does he deserve all the credit? Obviously, no. I'm sure he would be the first to agree with that. Does he deserve much of the credit? Obviously yes. Remember, he did alot more then just write a kernel. He shepherded this project from being a toy that he wrote for his own entertainment to the powerful, stable, productive environment that it is today.
And does he deserve to be Man of the Century? You've got to be kidding! Next century, on the other hand...
$30 bucks is about average for a CPU. Since it's an alpha, it's probably fairly well built, so it's probably fairly heavy for it's size. Considering that the case alone would cost at least $20 new, $30 for the case, CPU & MB ain't bad.
Re:Cool. But have you ever seen a YELLOW dog?????
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Haven't ya ever heard of a Yellow Lab? And of course there are yellow Golden Retrievers...
For instance, before a road trip 5 years ago, my friends muffler was draggin on the street. So we got a thick piece of wire, and looped around the muffler to an anchor point under the frame, and were able to stabilize the muffler up. It worked great, though it wasn't necessarily clever.
Technically speaking, that's a Kludge, not a Hack. A kludge is a fix that does the job effectively, but not necessarily elegantly. The terms are often (incorrectly) used interchangeably. Had it been a true hack, the manufacturer would have given you both engineering jobs upon your return. : )
...Spent nuclear fuel is no more radioactive than the rocks from which the fuel was initally mined in hundreds, not thousands, of years...
What A Relief! My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will be safe!
Sorry for the sarcasm, but that has got to be one of the stupidist things I've read today. 'Don't worry, it'll be safe 500 years from now!' Of course we'll all be dead. But, hey! Nuclear power was worth it, right?
Of course, none of this invalidates his point. So he's a little off on his history of the Price-Anderson act, does that mean that his objections to it are any less valid?
Note: I'm not familiar with the act, so I am not stating an opinion on it per-se. I'm only staing my opinion of this reply that is -- intentionally or not -- trying to change the subject without answering the actual challenge.
Re:RMS Never tried to run a company -- Yea, and?
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That's called giving back to the community.
Common sense says that if you take other peoples work, & hope to get rich off of it, it's a good idea to at least go through the motions of giving back to those other people.
If Red Hat were to continue making lot's of money off of Linux without giving back, their already tenous position within the community would evaporate quite quickly.
Perhaps Heller's point perhaps could have been stated better, but it's in no way invalid. Open Source / Free software is a perfectly valid business model, but you can't expect to get something for nothing.
Source has to be made available, though it does not have to actually be distributed with the product.
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3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) -snip-
Since the Linux GUI is written in Tcl/TK, it would be a trivial matter to extend it to include true automation features. Of course this would require your computer to be on, but would also allow fairly complex conditional activation (turn this light on, but only if it's the last tuesday of an alternate leap year...) that I presume ActiveHome does not support. Admittedly, most people probably don't need such features, but the potential is quite cool.
I'm not certain if it's what you're looking for or not, but I've been playing with Metakit a bit lately. According to it's author, "MetaKit is a class library for storage and transport of highly structured containers. Using a truly simple API, you can create very small and efficient stand-alone database applications for Windows, Mac, Unix, and VMS. The datafiles are platform independent, self-repairing, very compact, and can be instantly reorganized. This product has been used in a number of financial applications, CDROM-based catalogs, internet utilities, statistical tools, etc. CatFish and OSAX are both based on this general-purpose database library."
It's also available in versions for Tcl & Python. I've been using the Tcl version & have been quite impressed with it's simplicity & speed. It's distributed as shareware, so it's even inexpensive: $165 for all platforms (includes C++ source code).
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I never said I particularly liked him or his invention... But, you'd be hard pressed to come up with something that has had a more direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the world.
I truly dislike TV, but again, think of the influence that TV has had on the last century.
Time magazine has an excellent tradition of not necessarily recognizing 'good' people. The point is to recognize the person who had the most profound effect on peoples lives. It's hard to argue that ford is at least not high on the list. (But, I've not cast my vote, & I'm very much open to suggestions...)
FWIW, I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for, although I'm struggling to find someone to top Hitler, the Holocaust being only one of a number of reasons for choosing him.
How about Henry Ford? With the possible exception of the television, I can think of no single greater influence on the past century then the Automobile. Certainly Ford ranks high on the list, if not at the top.
You're right. There are hundreds who could have written the kernel. The point is, though, that they didn't. Linus did.
Does he deserve all the credit? Obviously, no. I'm sure he would be the first to agree with that. Does he deserve much of the credit? Obviously yes. Remember, he did alot more then just write a kernel. He shepherded this project from being a toy that he wrote for his own entertainment to the powerful, stable, productive environment that it is today.
And does he deserve to be Man of the Century? You've got to be kidding! Next century, on the other hand...
Man, some people just can't be pleased.
$30 bucks is about average for a CPU. Since it's an alpha, it's probably fairly well built, so it's probably fairly heavy for it's size. Considering that the case alone would cost at least $20 new, $30 for the case, CPU & MB ain't bad.
Haven't ya ever heard of a Yellow Lab? And of course there are yellow Golden Retrievers...
For instance, before a road trip 5 years ago, my friends muffler was draggin on the street. So we got a thick piece of wire, and looped around the muffler to an anchor point under the frame, and were able to stabilize the muffler up. It worked great, though it wasn't necessarily clever.
Technically speaking, that's a Kludge, not a Hack. A kludge is a fix that does the job effectively, but not necessarily elegantly. The terms are often (incorrectly) used interchangeably. Had it been a true hack, the manufacturer would have given you both engineering jobs upon your return. : )
...Spent nuclear fuel is no more radioactive than the rocks from which the fuel was initally mined in hundreds, not thousands, of years...
What A Relief! My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will be safe!
Sorry for the sarcasm, but that has got to be one of the stupidist things I've read today. 'Don't worry, it'll be safe 500 years from now!' Of course we'll all be dead. But, hey! Nuclear power was worth it, right?
Of course, none of this invalidates his point. So he's a little off on his history of the Price-Anderson act, does that mean that his objections to it are any less valid?
Note: I'm not familiar with the act, so I am not stating an opinion on it per-se. I'm only staing my opinion of this reply that is -- intentionally or not -- trying to change the subject without answering the actual challenge.
That's called giving back to the community.
Common sense says that if you take other peoples work, & hope to get rich off of it, it's a good idea to at least go through the motions of giving back to those other people.
If Red Hat were to continue making lot's of money off of Linux without giving back, their already tenous position within the community would evaporate quite quickly.
Perhaps Heller's point perhaps could have been stated better, but it's in no way invalid. Open Source / Free software is a perfectly valid business model, but you can't expect to get something for nothing.
Source has to be made available, though it does not have to actually be distributed with the product.
Since the Linux GUI is written in Tcl/TK, it would be a trivial matter to extend it to include true automation features. Of course this would require your computer to be on, but would also allow fairly complex conditional activation (turn this light on, but only if it's the last tuesday of an alternate leap year...) that I presume ActiveHome does not support. Admittedly, most people probably don't need such features, but the potential is quite cool.
I'm not certain if it's what you're looking for or not, but I've been playing with Metakit a bit lately. According to it's author, "MetaKit is a class library for storage and transport of highly structured containers. Using a truly simple API, you can create very small and efficient stand-alone database applications for Windows, Mac, Unix, and VMS. The datafiles are platform independent, self-repairing, very compact, and can be instantly reorganized. This product has been used in a number of financial applications, CDROM-based catalogs, internet utilities, statistical tools, etc. CatFish and OSAX are both based on this general-purpose database library."
It's also available in versions for Tcl & Python. I've been using the Tcl version & have been quite impressed with it's simplicity & speed. It's distributed as shareware, so it's even inexpensive: $165 for all platforms (includes C++ source code).