my ramblings were meant to point out that corporations dont necessarily solve all social problems. to think that the free market will take care of extremely marginalized populations is kind of foolish...whats profitable doesnt always align with nice goals like ending world hunger or ending gun violence etc...
their businesses are based on creating scarcity! they arent interested in feeding starting children in ____ countrie(s) . monsanto etc. want to create genetic mechanisms to lock in farmers to their product; solving world hunger isnt in the game plan.
thats the whole point - the market is fragmented in terms of buyers and sellers. bandwidth is becomming commoditized - it WILL become a widely traded commodity like pork futures etc. within the next 3-7 years.
if you go to www.statmarket.com you will notice that ~ 94% of users are on the win32 platform. therefore, it's more profitable to just go ahead and make software that runs on windows, and possibly mac or redhat if you're really big. i also prefer open formats but businesses tend to make money on closed architectures...
is you think that just because something is in software it isn't _real_ . i.e. if its intellectual property, then you should be able to steal it with impunity. do you shoplift in stores? that said, i think the RIAA and other clueless execs have toface the fact that people will steal ip, they need to figure out how to make money given that people want their product.
THAT said, you're extrapolating too far i wasnt necessarily talking about copyrights.
on the free software issue, i think that you're foolish if you think it will take over everything. i applaud gnu, linux, bsd, apache, perl, etc. but there's a role for high-end vendors as well. also, software and services are merging in interesting ways, and there's no "free" services - requires greedy entrepreneurs to compete to provide those services.
information ISN'T completely free. just cuz you read it on some boardz in the eighties doesnt make it true...
>Open Source will eventually rule all and money >will one day be seen as a passing fancy.
okay, this is taking dot communism _too_ far! oss will make money obsolete???
seriously, i agree that oss has its place but c'mon nobody's gonna do high-end olap tools as oss, or any other number of cutting-edge tools. theres still something to be said for the profit motive (at the risk of exciting those ayn rand fans out there)
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maybe nsa is a front for gray aliens who are conducting underground medical experiments on trailer park residents.
>I think that Linux and the Mac make a great combination
>I don't understand why Apple pulled the plug on clones -- how about because they were making Apple look slow by releasing faster, cheaper machines?
I think you answered your own ? - linuxppc + clonemakers == no revenues for apple!
is it pegasus?
i love the idea of an os with lots of cursing sprinkled throughout! truly, we are killing the phb mentality once and for all...
is relative url's. such as fortune's website etc. i love google but sites that dont have their documents living at one url forever really suck!
surely you jest, ac
there really should be a skr1pt k1ddy translation engine...didnt someone write a script back when rootshell got hax0red?
my ramblings were meant to point out that corporations dont necessarily solve all social problems. to think that the free market will take care of extremely marginalized populations is kind of foolish...whats profitable doesnt always align with nice goals like ending world hunger or ending gun violence etc...
their businesses are based on creating scarcity! they arent interested in feeding starting children in ____ countrie(s) . monsanto etc. want to create genetic mechanisms to lock in farmers to their product; solving world hunger isnt in the game plan.
give this man a 2!
the correct age is now 25 ;)
katz needs all the reinforcement he can get ;)
obviously the moderator needs to recompile his brain with mod_humor installed...
okay this reminds me of those cheesy startrek conventions - we should have a slashdot convention!!!
>Linux has a lot of apps, that's the extent of the appeal.
that sounds an awful lot like [insert crushed desktop os vendor here] talking about windows...
sounds cool
thats the whole point - the market is fragmented in terms of buyers and sellers. bandwidth is becomming commoditized - it WILL become a widely traded commodity like pork futures etc. within the next 3-7 years.
down with M$ dammit ;)
if you go to www.statmarket.com you will notice that ~ 94% of users are on the win32 platform. therefore, it's more profitable to just go ahead and make software that runs on windows, and possibly mac or redhat if you're really big. i also prefer open formats but businesses tend to make money on closed architectures...
dunno, i really prefer gibson's implementation of the cyberspace genre. stephenson isn't as good a write, imho...much more plain, less stylistic
ITS A CONSPIRACY!!! CMDR Taco is being paid under the table by de raadt to post open and flea bsd stories!!!! /. is OBVIOUSLY biased against linux!!!
theyre not bugs theyre features?
p.s. does the billborg really wear that red bionic eye?
is you think that just because something is in software it isn't _real_ . i.e. if its intellectual property, then you should be able to steal it with impunity. do you shoplift in stores? that said, i think the RIAA and other clueless execs have toface the fact that people will steal ip, they need to figure out how to make money given that people want their product.
THAT said, you're extrapolating too far i wasnt necessarily talking about copyrights.
on the free software issue, i think that you're foolish if you think it will take over everything. i applaud gnu, linux, bsd, apache, perl, etc. but there's a role for high-end vendors as well. also, software and services are merging in interesting ways, and there's no "free" services - requires greedy entrepreneurs to compete to provide those services.
information ISN'T completely free. just cuz you read it on some boardz in the eighties doesnt make it true...
>Open Source will eventually rule all and money >will one day be seen as a passing fancy.
okay, this is taking dot communism _too_ far! oss will make money obsolete???
seriously, i agree that oss has its place but c'mon nobody's gonna do high-end olap tools as oss, or any other number of cutting-edge tools. theres still something to be said for the profit motive (at the risk of exciting those ayn rand fans out there)
thats the funniest thing ive heard all day, should be a 2, not a -1 . come on, hemos, rob, whoevers moderating...