That's exactly what he's talking about. Someone says something that's uncomplimentary, yet with a grain of truth to it, and you liken it to personal insults.
I hope the enlightened U.S. legal system gives Joy a break, seeing as he is obviously in a diminished mental state. This whole anti-tech rave he's been on lately has gotten strange. A couple of months back, the guys in my office were reading the Weekly World News (non-USers: this is the newspaper that regularly reports the political stance of various alien races, among the "I was raped by the Loch Ness Monster" stories.) Anyway, one of the stories was "Top Computer Scientist predicts killbots to take over the Future!" It consisted of verbatim quotes from Joy. Sigh.
I just hope his Hippocratic Oath for programmers gets lost in the noise. "First, do no harm"? Oh yeah, we might get to write a program about once a year under that guideline alone. Maybe users could start taking a little responsibility to see that they don't use things in a harmful way? Not in the U.S., of course, but in civilized places.
Why not use Microsoft's EULA? It seems to protect them from any and all responsibility for anything the software does or doesn't do. Certainly if it works for Microsoft, it'll work for Joe Q. Programmer.
Speaking as a big fat idiot:) I would ask the same question. Aside from tieing us into the whole.NET nonsense, why IS Microsoft trying to reinvent both C++ and Java? And the first response to use the word "innovation" loses...
All too true. At least, with Linux, you have the ability to break the packaging system and install stuff yourself. Sure, it sucks, but I find it (marginally) better than MS's version of DLL Hell. It sucks extra when you have to break a great packaging system like Debian's. Oh, well....
Who would ever leave the cool green hills of beloved Europe for the red-indian infested dirtheaps of America? And which language shall we speak there, the decadent French or the German of the Hun? And who shall be King there?
You stay here, chief, those of us who want to go will work these things out.
Binary drivers don't necessarily work with any version of the kernel except the one they were compiled with. Either the company would have to maintain a version of the driver for every kernel in use out there, or users would be locked into the kernel that supports that driver.
It's not some kind of Stallmanite dot-commie devotion to Free Software that makes open drivers a good thing, it's pure practicality.
That's what I'd like to know. It seems to me, that if your double-secret hardware is so great, your competitors are disassembling your windows drivers *now*. They've also got a lab full of your hardware product in various states of disassembly. So, just who are you hurting by acting like your drivers are Secrets of the Gods? Only us, your (potential) customers. Thanks a lot.
ESR does not represent a community, he is part of a community. This gives him the same right to speak about the community that every other member of the community has. I'm frankly pleased there's someone with his elan out there talking for us, otherwise, the Clueless Masses would be forming their ideas about geeks solely on the basis of mass media reporting about Columbine and Mitnick.
Oh, and to paraphrase ESR, if you don't like the job he's doing, then do it yourself. You don't need to be appointed or selected, just get out there and do a better job. I'm sure he'd applaud your efforts. Hell, I would too!
So, the industry is maturing. When's the last time you saw an innovative user interface for an automobile? Do you miss that? Or take a look at the monstrosities developed during the early days of typewriters. New and innovative? Sure they were. Thank god we got over innovation in that field.
I'll bet there are still things to be done in Systems Research, but it looks like the easy stuff has been done.
I think the rationale behind assigning copyright to the FSF up front is to prevent another xemacs situation. The copyright for xemacs is so fragmented, the probability approaches zero that the fork can ever be joined. Preemptive copyright assignation (nifty term, eh?) would keep that from happening again. If you care. Some people don't. I, personally, don't care much either.
*dismissive snort* Lightweight. I prefer threaded interpretive APL on my S360 emulator, although mod_intercal gives slightly better performance for text processing.
While your notional HTML snippet is undoubtedly correct in many cases, it doesn't represent the article under discussion. The author clearly states he likes Postgres, which is both free and ACID-complete.
Good idea. Maybe someone will report you as a kiddie pr0n supplier. Have fun proving you have nothing to hide. Hope you don't need your computer while it sits in a property room for years.
And in typical Stallman fashion, when he gets asked a question about Open Source, he quibbles about the definition and doesn't answer the question. He could have corrected the question and then answered it, and made a good point, but as in every other RMS interview I've ever read, he dodges questions.
Personally, I agree with almost every stand he takes, but his personality practically compels people to splinter away from him.
Now, look at Esperanto: Nicely designed, but does it cover the whole problem space of human to human communications? Now, look at English: need a word or phrase for a construct? Make it up via concatination, acronym, or onomonopia.
Esperanto's word construction toolkit is so rich, it makes English look as though every new word had to be approved of by a public vote, and then seconded by an Academy.
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That's exactly what he's talking about. Someone says something that's uncomplimentary, yet with a grain of truth to it, and you liken it to personal insults.
You're either real good, or real free-time-enhanced....
I hope the enlightened U.S. legal system gives Joy a break, seeing as he is obviously in a diminished mental state. This whole anti-tech rave he's been on lately has gotten strange. A couple of months back, the guys in my office were reading the Weekly World News (non-USers: this is the newspaper that regularly reports the political stance of various alien races, among the "I was raped by the Loch Ness Monster" stories.) Anyway, one of the stories was "Top Computer Scientist predicts killbots to take over the Future!" It consisted of verbatim quotes from Joy. Sigh.
I just hope his Hippocratic Oath for programmers gets lost in the noise. "First, do no harm"? Oh yeah, we might get to write a program about once a year under that guideline alone. Maybe users could start taking a little responsibility to see that they don't use things in a harmful way? Not in the U.S., of course, but in civilized places.
Why not use Microsoft's EULA? It seems to protect them from any and all responsibility for anything the software does or doesn't do. Certainly if it works for Microsoft, it'll work for Joe Q. Programmer.
Better that, than what happened to him in the U.K.
Speaking as a big fat idiot :) I would ask the same question. Aside from tieing us into the whole .NET nonsense, why IS Microsoft trying to reinvent both C++ and Java? And the first response to use the word "innovation" loses...
All too true. At least, with Linux, you have the ability to break the packaging system and install stuff yourself. Sure, it sucks, but I find it (marginally) better than MS's version of DLL Hell. It sucks extra when you have to break a great packaging system like Debian's. Oh, well....
Who would ever leave the cool green hills of beloved Europe for the red-indian infested dirtheaps of America? And which language shall we speak there, the decadent French or the German of the Hun? And who shall be King there?
You stay here, chief, those of us who want to go will work these things out.
Whoa! *bong hit*
If the Internet were alive and intelligent, it would commit suicide.
Never mind your nonsensical christianity, I'm thrilled to see that Black Entertainment Television got its own TLD! (Hint: see poster's email address)
Fuck 'em. Starvation is nature's way of telling you that you're not wanted.
Maybe it's to abstract for people to grasp, but to me it's a nobel pursuit.
:)
So, was that bad spelling or a good pun?
Binary drivers don't necessarily work with any version of the kernel except the one they were compiled with. Either the company would have to maintain a version of the driver for every kernel in use out there, or users would be locked into the kernel that supports that driver.
It's not some kind of Stallmanite dot-commie devotion to Free Software that makes open drivers a good thing, it's pure practicality.
That's what I'd like to know. It seems to me, that if your double-secret hardware is so great, your competitors are disassembling your windows drivers *now*. They've also got a lab full of your hardware product in various states of disassembly. So, just who are you hurting by acting like your drivers are Secrets of the Gods? Only us, your (potential) customers. Thanks a lot.
ESR does not represent a community, he is part of a community. This gives him the same right to speak about the community that every other member of the community has. I'm frankly pleased there's someone with his elan out there talking for us, otherwise, the Clueless Masses would be forming their ideas about geeks solely on the basis of mass media reporting about Columbine and Mitnick.
Oh, and to paraphrase ESR, if you don't like the job he's doing, then do it yourself. You don't need to be appointed or selected, just get out there and do a better job. I'm sure he'd applaud your efforts. Hell, I would too!
Simple. Install her as a server and let other people run her while you.... Uh, never mind.
So, the industry is maturing. When's the last time you saw an innovative user interface for an automobile? Do you miss that? Or take a look at the monstrosities developed during the early days of typewriters. New and innovative? Sure they were. Thank god we got over innovation in that field.
I'll bet there are still things to be done in Systems Research, but it looks like the easy stuff has been done.
Does the concept of knowing how to operate your own property mean anything to you?
Yeah, give him a break for that. Now, as for liking Dr. Who... no mercy. Make him bleed.
I think the rationale behind assigning copyright to the FSF up front is to prevent another xemacs situation. The copyright for xemacs is so fragmented, the probability approaches zero that the fork can ever be joined. Preemptive copyright assignation (nifty term, eh?) would keep that from happening again. If you care. Some people don't. I, personally, don't care much either.
*dismissive snort* Lightweight. I prefer threaded interpretive APL on my S360 emulator, although mod_intercal gives slightly better performance for text processing.
While your notional HTML snippet is undoubtedly correct in many cases, it doesn't represent the article under discussion. The author clearly states he likes Postgres, which is both free and ACID-complete.
Good idea. Maybe someone will report you as a kiddie pr0n supplier. Have fun proving you have nothing to hide. Hope you don't need your computer while it sits in a property room for years.
And in typical Stallman fashion, when he gets asked a question about Open Source, he quibbles about the definition and doesn't answer the question. He could have corrected the question and then answered it, and made a good point, but as in every other RMS interview I've ever read, he dodges questions.
Personally, I agree with almost every stand he takes, but his personality practically compels people to splinter away from him.
Now, look at Esperanto: Nicely designed, but does it cover the whole problem space of human to human communications? Now, look at English: need a word or phrase for a construct? Make it up via concatination, acronym, or onomonopia.
Esperanto's word construction toolkit is so rich, it makes English look as though every new word had to be approved of by a public vote, and then seconded by an Academy.