"look at the Bitkeeper debacle: a tool he mandated blew up in exactly the way fs advocates would predict. "
Because of those FS advocates. It's no different if a friend (and I use the term loosely) tells you not to buy a new Ford Mustang, and then steals it when you do. That's what we call fucked up.
Hey - wait a moment !
If closed-source vendors want to play nice then this should be mutual and, in particular, I expect to see no clauses in EULA that prohibit me from writing any kind of software I choose and I expect the vendors to protect there competitiveness by implementing features that users want themselves instead of trying to lock me in to particular format and going all nutty when someone creates a conversion utility.
Andrew Tridgell was absolutely right in trying to make a utility to extract the metadata in human readable format.
I guess they could not be bothered to do a thorough job and at least copy the behaviour of Tcl/Tk canvas:
pathName addtag tag searchSpec ?arg arg...?
For each item that meets the constraints specified by searchSpec
and the args, add tag to the list of tags associated with the
item if it isn't already present on that list. It is possible
that no items will satisfy the constraints given by searchSpec
and args, in which case the command has no effect. This command
returns an empty string as result.
Microsoft does have monopoly on TCP/IP stacks on Windows. And if you wanted to create a customized version (say with better firewall implementation) you cannot.
Secondly, I said all the software under BSD license. This means that a company that compiles it with some small addon can reasonably claim that what they have is better than competitors and they have something that competitors do not.
Reducing the license count is good, but put those apps under the BSD license instead. That way folks can use your program without their hands being tied.
The important point of GPL is that it lowers entry barriers into the market - as distributors of GPL software must release all their changes back a newcomer with a neat idea can easily release a product that is just like the competition plus one improvement.
If you change all licenses to BSD than the first company that will not be a good corporate citizen
and stop contributing their changes will become a monopoly.
Speaking of monopolies and changes, we know that Microsoft used BSD TCP/IP stack in Windows. Now what were their contributions back ?
and will cooperate fully in helping Google change people's perceptions of its role just as soon as it feels capable of communicating to us how it wishes that role to be seen.
It is an old problem with gods - you don't know what they want..
One side effect we can hope for is that once alternative broadband providers are cut off from existing infrastructure they might decide to put down their own - say fiber optic instead of copper.
Of course, how many will decide to this is uncertain at best.
I often muse on the thought that todays commercial software industry was created to serve people who do not understand computers - and often anything to do with "hard" sciences.
Thus many got used to the idea that even trivial
things are well paid for as they can radically change the productivity of a computer-challenged person.
In a way this is like selling shiny objects to a
forest tribe - they think they are magic and are willing to trade gold for it.
In this situation doing real science cannot produce the same return on investment - as the risk is great and there is no way to tell one shiny object from another.
It is tempting to think that Open Source (and especially Free software) will promote closer communication between users and developers and thus will create market that values real inventions as opposed to innovating new names for old products.
Further, IBM has spent enormous sums of money to ensure that Linux is reliable. IBM will soon discover that this aspect of Linux is the Achille's heel of open source. By using Linux, HP essentially gets a free ride from IBM and need not spend the money to ensure that Linux is reliable. IBM has already done the work.
I don't think they can get away with plain "free ride".
The benefit of having their own developers is that they can offer cutting-edge code after their own in-house testing and thus be ahead of the market.
A competitor having no developers would have to choose between proven stable code and newer code that might be unstable. And they will not be able to offer the newest hardware as the drivers are unlikely to be available yet.
In bad old Soviet Russia, you could go and pee on Lenin's statue while shouting "This is what I think of communism ! Lenin, drink my urine ! Down with Stalin !". You would be executed or sent to Siberia for it, but you could do it.
Actually there was a similary (true ?) story - a child peed in winter so as to write "Stalin" on the snow. He probably heard the name mentioned many times in school.
Actually, when USSR was just opening up they used to broadcast shows of satellite teleconferences between USA and USSR people.
On one of the shows an American asked about sex in Russia.
An indignant Russian woman stood up and said: "There is no sex in USSR!"
The American audience bent over laughing while the carefully-picked Russian audience tried to figure out what is funny (though I bet there were a few people on Russian side that had a hard time keeping straight faces)
Now that I thought a bit more of this, one could also make an argument that placing a lot of kids of the same age in a group creates a monoculture that could be responsible for many of these behaviours.
If we look on them as a sort of virus, then it makes sense that some shrug them off as they leave school and some not..
It is also very easy to read, and doesn't have the lawyer-speak i'd be expecting.
There are two kinds of lawyer-speak - friendly and unfriendly.
The unfriendly kind is the one you are used to seeing in all the EULAs, contracts, etc.
The friendly kind is used when they want the other party to see their way and it is the other party that is in power not them (for example when addressing the judge).
I wonder if each civilization goes through a short RF-detectability phase before they so densely pack the spectrum with so many emitters that they become invisible, too.
Whatever happens, you will still see 50 and 60 Hz..
The fact is that competence and performance can never compete with politics, lock-in and big money. IBM, Sun and a few other corporations like Red Hat are adapting Free/Open Software in the way that actually matters. Cash in on that success, stop whining about the "Microsoft World", play the backstab/lobbying-game to the end and you just might win.
But having won that way would it be any different from losing ?
Strangely enough, but you came across an interesting issue that highlights the differences between closed source and open source software:)
You see, the point of the closed source software
is to leave as much control in the hands of copyright holder as possible.
Using your example, this would be something like: I give you this lollipop in exchange for 1 dollar on the condition that you will only suck it yourself, in the privacy of your own home and will not tell others whether you like it or not.
The point of the open source software is to maximize its usage - in as broad sense as possible. This is really a very fine point as making derivative code is a form of use.
Using your example it would be something like this:
Hey, I made this new exciting type of sugar that smells good, tastes great and makes you 200% smarter. Try this lollipop and tell everyone whether you like it or not.
Oh, and you can read the formula and instructions on the wrapper, so try to make a lollipop or a cake yourself !
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Because of those FS advocates. It's no different if a friend (and I use the term loosely) tells you not to buy a new Ford Mustang, and then steals it when you do. That's what we call fucked up.
Hey - wait a moment !
If closed-source vendors want to play nice then this should be mutual and, in particular, I expect to see no clauses in EULA that prohibit me from writing any kind of software I choose and I expect the vendors to protect there competitiveness by implementing features that users want themselves instead of trying to lock me in to particular format and going all nutty when someone creates a conversion utility.
Andrew Tridgell was absolutely right in trying to make a utility to extract the metadata in human readable format.
I guess they could not be bothered to do a thorough job and at least copy the behaviour of Tcl/Tk canvas:
pathName addtag tag searchSpec ?arg arg ...?
For each item that meets the constraints specified by searchSpec and the args, add tag to the list of tags associated with the item if it isn't already present on that list. It is possible that no items will satisfy the constraints given by searchSpec and args, in which case the command has no effect. This command returns an empty string as result.
Secondly, I said all the software under BSD license. This means that a company that compiles it with some small addon can reasonably claim that what they have is better than competitors and they have something that competitors do not.
Yes, thinking is useful.
The important point of GPL is that it lowers entry barriers into the market - as distributors of GPL software must release all their changes back a newcomer with a neat idea can easily release a product that is just like the competition plus one improvement.
If you change all licenses to BSD than the first company that will not be a good corporate citizen and stop contributing their changes will become a monopoly.
Speaking of monopolies and changes, we know that Microsoft used BSD TCP/IP stack in Windows. Now what were their contributions back ?
It is an old problem with gods - you don't know what they want..
- intellectual property - i.e. control of what others can do with their own intellect
- intellectual property - i.e. having
derived from and/or requiring usage of intellect
We are in a time when the second becomes more and more important, while the laws sadly focus on the first.On the contrary ! Tuning fish can be accomplished by setting parameters in your $HOME/.ssh/config file.
They should also replace actual destruction with playing Batallion - if anything the scale is greater and they will never be shot back at.
One side effect we can hope for is that once alternative broadband providers are cut off from existing infrastructure they might decide to put down their own - say fiber optic instead of copper.
Of course, how many will decide to this is uncertain at best.
Thus many got used to the idea that even trivial things are well paid for as they can radically change the productivity of a computer-challenged person.
In a way this is like selling shiny objects to a forest tribe - they think they are magic and are willing to trade gold for it.
In this situation doing real science cannot produce the same return on investment - as the risk is great and there is no way to tell one shiny object from another.
It is tempting to think that Open Source (and especially Free software) will promote closer communication between users and developers and thus will create market that values real inventions as opposed to innovating new names for old products.
I don't think they can get away with plain "free ride".
The benefit of having their own developers is that they can offer cutting-edge code after their own in-house testing and thus be ahead of the market.
A competitor having no developers would have to choose between proven stable code and newer code that might be unstable. And they will not be able to offer the newest hardware as the drivers are unlikely to be available yet.
Actually there was a similary (true ?) story - a child peed in winter so as to write "Stalin" on the snow. He probably heard the name mentioned many times in school.
Both his parents were executed.
On one of the shows an American asked about sex in Russia.
An indignant Russian woman stood up and said: "There is no sex in USSR!"
The American audience bent over laughing while the carefully-picked Russian audience tried to figure out what is funny (though I bet there were a few people on Russian side that had a hard time keeping straight faces)
If we look on them as a sort of virus, then it makes sense that some shrug them off as they leave school and some not..
In Soviet America people don't have sex !
Wouldn't you agree that many of elementary school behaviors are transitory ?
(Disclaimer - I spent 90% of elementary school having cold..)
There are two kinds of lawyer-speak - friendly and unfriendly.
The unfriendly kind is the one you are used to seeing in all the EULAs, contracts, etc.
The friendly kind is used when they want the other party to see their way and it is the other party that is in power not them (for example when addressing the judge).
Whatever happens, you will still see 50 and 60 Hz..
But having won that way would it be any different from losing ?
You should have been tipped off when Apple switched to Intel chips.
Ok, which planet are you from ?
You see, the point of the closed source software is to leave as much control in the hands of copyright holder as possible.
Using your example, this would be something like: I give you this lollipop in exchange for 1 dollar on the condition that you will only suck it yourself, in the privacy of your own home and will not tell others whether you like it or not.
The point of the open source software is to maximize its usage - in as broad sense as possible. This is really a very fine point as making derivative code is a form of use.
Using your example it would be something like this:
Hey, I made this new exciting type of sugar that smells good, tastes great and makes you 200% smarter. Try this lollipop and tell everyone whether you like it or not.
Oh, and you can read the formula and instructions on the wrapper, so try to make a lollipop or a cake yourself !
What he said was not very thought out..
You could offer him a free trip to a Tattooing salon.
- storre er bedre - larger is better
- mindre er bedre - smaller is better
- Neste side - next page
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