No, you've made the decision that suse sucks *for you*. That doesn't mean it's not a good choice for someone else, and without siting something other than aesthetic purposes for the dislike, you're destroying your own credibility.
While I completely agree that those would be excellent places to donate materials to, what does this have to do with Alan Turning being a homosexual? By linking AIDS to homosexuality, you're enforcing a negative stereotype, not contributing to a cause.
I don't know which I find more repulsive, the fact that someone seems to have some bashing campaign against a nice guy, or the fact that they're going about it in a pathetic way. First of all, I'm doubting anyone at QNX has the need to be anonymous. Anyone I've dealt with from that company has been fairly open. In addition, the writer of this post obviously has no idea what QNX has in their product line, since they very obviously sell a GUI that works on their OS, and in fact have been working on a fairly advanced GUI for the Amiga-type (although no longer associated with Amiga) project.
Not so. NVidia released source for a Mesa and glx driver for their chipsets a while back. While a bit slow at this point (XFree86 4.0 promises optimized performance), Q3A and Quake 2 can be played as well.
The whole subject of Bawls was brought up on the majority of web sites that go for that sort of thing six months ago, if not further in the past. I find it ironic that people are still making silly jokes about it. Sure, it's a wacky name. Yes, it comes in an interesting bottle. But it's a beverage, you drink it. Get over it.:) I was always under the impression that trendy beverages originate either on the east or west coast or in another country, meaning by the time it makes it to the midwest US, it's probably not really news. And I hate to say it, but Bawls has been fairly easy to find in Iowa for quite a long time. The real irony is I was just finishing off a bottle as I read this post.
While not a Red Hat user myself, I have no complaints that companies are using it as a "supported" platform. I think one of Miguel's main points, that the platform supported should be an issue as well, is something many people overlook. While people may complain because something is supported only under RH, or because a program doesn't have a libc5 version released as well, for some reason many people forget that there are a minority of Linux users who aren't using x86 platforms. As for what *truly* proprietary would be, imagine this scenario: A new company, JoeCool Linux comes out. They start out with a distribution not unlike Caldera or SuSE, in that they have both open source software and some bundled commercial apps. But the newest version of JoeCool suddenly has a libjoecool with the distribution. While no one knows quite what this does, everyone runs out to buy the new version of a commercial word processor that was "supported" only under JoeCool with past versions. They assume that "runs only on JoeCool" on the box is just wording, since the app will be obviously compatible with any other distribution. But after installation, the user tries to run the program, and finds that it won't work because it seems to be linked against a certain libjoecool, a library that is closed source and only comes with a licensed JoeCool distribution. So you see, if you find anything disagreeable now, things could be a lot worse.
The last I checked, the most commonly entered word in search engines is still "sex". You were expecting something else?:)
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This is the kind of mindless drivel that complete brainwashing results in. According to the majority of those who use free or open source software as a viable system, the only way to profit should be through selling support and documentation. According to your post, Tom should apparently be some sort of pauper, since he obviously shouldn't contribute to books that are sold for *gasp* money. RMS ironically criticized Tom Christiansen once as well. While I was not there, I heard about the incident. Apparently RMS was complaining to Tom that the good Perl documentation must be paid for, and similar topics along that line. For those people who don't know, the standard perl distribution comes with hundreds, if not thousands, of documentation. Free, with the source. RMS was completely unaware of this, but chastised Tom reguardless. Someone had the intelligence to show RMS some of this wonderful documentation, at which point he shut up.
"A handy compendium of code snippets like the ones in this book will help solve the problem at hand, but won't help you design better programs."
If the book was just snippets and descriptions, this would be true. But in most cases, a step-by-step description of how the code works is provided. This allows the reader to learn from the examples, not just blindly copy them.
If you don't have some moral\social\personal problem against using a product that is based on Motif (but works excellently under LessTif), I'd suggest checking out Data Display Debugger (DDD) for a debugging solution. I've found it fairly useful while sorting out problems.
I hate to say it, but idiotic generalizations and misinformation are crap. First of all, the compiler *is* open source. It's based on gcc and therefore *must* be. It's the development environment that may not be. However, as was previously mentioned, Be has included an IDE based on Metrowerks product bundled with R4, and it uses gcc for compiling. Second, didn't you just contradict yourself? You called BeOS both "good" and "crap" in the same sentence. I'd love to hear justification for the crap statement, but I fear that you might have trouble sorting out some personal issues on your own opinions. Just because there are many non-OSS projects that aren't overly great doesn't mean that all OSS is crap. Every company or individual should have the right to choose what license or terms to release their product under, otherwise you lose another freedom.
This would work if the people who were flaming him would be hurt by this. But those people won't be hurt as much as the majority of users who use freshmeat as an excellent source of information.
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No, you've made the decision that suse sucks *for you*. That doesn't mean it's not a good choice for someone else, and without siting something other than aesthetic purposes for the dislike, you're destroying your own credibility.
While I completely agree that those would be excellent places to donate materials to, what does this have to do with Alan Turning being a homosexual? By linking AIDS to homosexuality, you're enforcing a negative stereotype, not contributing to a cause.
I don't know which I find more repulsive, the fact that someone seems to have some bashing campaign against a nice guy, or the fact that they're going about it in a pathetic way. First of all, I'm doubting anyone at QNX has the need to be anonymous. Anyone I've dealt with from that company has been fairly open. In addition, the writer of this post obviously has no idea what QNX has in their product line, since they very obviously sell a GUI that works on their OS, and in fact have been working on a fairly advanced GUI for the Amiga-type (although no longer associated with Amiga) project.
Not so. NVidia released source for a Mesa and glx driver for their chipsets a while back. While a bit slow at this point (XFree86 4.0 promises optimized performance), Q3A and Quake 2 can be played as well.
The whole subject of Bawls was brought up on the majority of web sites that go for that sort of thing six months ago, if not further in the past. I find it ironic that people are still making silly jokes about it. Sure, it's a wacky name. Yes, it comes in an interesting bottle. But it's a beverage, you drink it. Get over it. :)
I was always under the impression that trendy beverages originate either on the east or west coast or in another country, meaning by the time it makes it to the midwest US, it's probably not really news. And I hate to say it, but Bawls has been fairly easy to find in Iowa for quite a long time. The real irony is I was just finishing off a bottle as I read this post.
While not a Red Hat user myself, I have no complaints that companies are using it as a "supported" platform. I think one of Miguel's main points, that the platform supported should be an issue as well, is something many people overlook. While people may complain because something is supported only under RH, or because a program doesn't have a libc5 version released as well, for some reason many people forget that there are a minority of Linux users who aren't using x86 platforms.
As for what *truly* proprietary would be, imagine this scenario:
A new company, JoeCool Linux comes out. They start out with a distribution not unlike Caldera or SuSE, in that they have both open source software and some bundled commercial apps. But the newest version of JoeCool suddenly has a libjoecool with the distribution. While no one knows quite what this does, everyone runs out to buy the new version of a commercial word processor that was "supported" only under JoeCool with past versions. They assume that "runs only on JoeCool" on the box is just wording, since the app will be obviously compatible with any other distribution. But after installation, the user tries to run the program, and finds that it won't work because it seems to be linked against a certain libjoecool, a library that is closed source and only comes with a licensed JoeCool distribution.
So you see, if you find anything disagreeable now, things could be a lot worse.
The last I checked, the most commonly entered word in search engines is still "sex". You were expecting something else? :)
This is the kind of mindless drivel that complete brainwashing results in.
According to the majority of those who use free or open source software as a viable system, the only way to profit should be through selling support and documentation. According to your post, Tom should apparently be some sort of pauper, since he obviously shouldn't contribute to books that are sold for *gasp* money.
RMS ironically criticized Tom Christiansen once as well. While I was not there, I heard about the incident. Apparently RMS was complaining to Tom that the good Perl documentation must be paid for, and similar topics along that line. For those people who don't know, the standard perl distribution comes with hundreds, if not thousands, of documentation. Free, with the source. RMS was completely unaware of this, but chastised Tom reguardless. Someone had the intelligence to show RMS some of this wonderful documentation, at which point he shut up.
"A handy compendium of code snippets like the ones in this book will help solve the problem at hand, but won't help you design better programs."
If the book was just snippets and descriptions, this would be true. But in most cases, a step-by-step description of how the code works is provided. This allows the reader to learn from the examples, not just blindly copy them.
If you don't have some moral\social\personal problem against using a product that is based on Motif (but works excellently under LessTif), I'd suggest checking out Data Display Debugger (DDD) for a debugging solution. I've found it fairly useful while sorting out problems.
I hate to say it, but idiotic generalizations and misinformation are crap.
First of all, the compiler *is* open source. It's based on gcc and therefore *must* be. It's the development environment that may not be. However, as was previously mentioned, Be has included an IDE based on Metrowerks product bundled with R4, and it uses gcc for compiling.
Second, didn't you just contradict yourself? You called BeOS both "good" and "crap" in the same sentence. I'd love to hear justification for the crap statement, but I fear that you might have trouble sorting out some personal issues on your own opinions.
Just because there are many non-OSS projects that aren't overly great doesn't mean that all OSS is crap. Every company or individual should have the right to choose what license or terms to release their product under, otherwise you lose another freedom.
This would work if the people who were flaming him would be hurt by this. But those people won't be hurt as much as the majority of users who use freshmeat as an excellent source of information.