I'm not to up-to-date on the details of the Mono project, but it sounds like a huge undertaking, and if getting Intel on board to lend a hand is what it's going to take to get the job done (and within reasonable time) then this is a Good Thing(tm), especially as this is a project which is taking a direct competitive stance against Micro$oft.
Sure, OSS purists (read: RMS) will get a bee under their bonnet about this, but the source remains open... you can still take the source code, make changes, release it. You also then get the additional choice of whether to open (or close) source your project.
In a perfect world we could GPL everything, but this is just not the case.
.. except that Weta is a company based in NZ, and if the machines are leased, then there may be a taxbreak, but it won't be federal;)
I have a friend who recently spent some time at Weta, and by the sounds of it the boxes are all high spec, and therefore probably not going to any developing nations anytime soon
How hard would it be to set the kernel to be pre-emptable as a choice, when you're doing a "make menuconfig" or whatever... that way you could keep both the server and the desktop people happy....?
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I'm not to up-to-date on the details of the Mono project, but it sounds like a huge undertaking, and if getting Intel on board to lend a hand is what it's going to take to get the job done (and within reasonable time) then this is a Good Thing(tm), especially as this is a project which is taking a direct competitive stance against Micro$oft.
Sure, OSS purists (read: RMS) will get a bee under their bonnet about this, but the source remains open... you can still take the source code, make changes, release it. You also then get the additional choice of whether to open (or close) source your project.
In a perfect world we could GPL everything, but this is just not the case.
I can only hope that they're on some kinda flat-rate connection plan!!!
.. except that Weta is a company based in NZ, and if the machines are leased, then there may be a taxbreak, but it won't be federal ;)
I have a friend who recently spent some time at Weta, and by the sounds of it the boxes are all high spec, and therefore probably not going to any developing nations anytime soon
How hard would it be to set the kernel to be pre-emptable as a choice, when you're doing a "make menuconfig" or whatever... that way you could keep both the server and the desktop people happy....?
This is going to lend a lot of weight to the argument for less privacy for individuals..
Also, some photos here
Gang of Four Patterns catalouged
... [et al.]. "
Title: "Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software / Erich Gamma
Published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995.
ISBN: 0201633612 (acid-free paper)
Show them how to find pr0n!!!!!