Analogy: Linux is to Free Software Distributions, what the first pancake is to batch of pancakes. The first one almost never comes out a perfect as the rest of the batch. It is written in a software engineering tome, "You make one to throw it away." The relevance of this comment to the subject is that in the long term, RedHat and all the other distrobutions are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The Free Software community is just getting started. You aint seen nothing yet. "Watch out McDonald's!" cheers, gbs
This works with an Award BIOS. Press RESET and press Delete key to enter setup. Open the "Power Managmement Settings" menu. Set the "Power Button Override" to "Enable" Save and Exit.
Where is your sense of Yuma?
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As that wise man said, and has been quoted here many times before. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. I have been using GNU/Linux since the days before kernal 1.0 was released. As I have said in this forum many times before, Free Software is the main evolutionary path and M$ is a dead end. The power of Free Software exceeds its own technical superiority because the code does not die when companies go out of business. There is no stopping Free Software now. Three cheers to RMS, Linus, and all the other contributors to the Free Software movement. I also belive that the GNU/GPL is a significant development in world history. Stallman will always be remembered for this triumph of intellectual freedom. Cheers, gbs
Chicago is where the PR firm that M$ used for its infamous AstroTurf campaign is located. Could the same firm be pumping its local press contacts full of this kind of FUD? "Resistance is futile." - well known evil robot war cry. But fortunatly for Free Software, "Persistence is fertile." - gbs.
The no-cost OS and applications frees up money to develop the high-end applications that have not yet been implemented because most people spend too much money M$ software. I belive that busineses have a limited amount of money to spend of software. By getting the OS and some common applications gratis, they have more of a budget for computer consultants, network infrastructure and custom software. The future looks bright for software developers. Only the dinosaur companies like Microsoft have to worry. We mammals are going to take over! gbs
His book "Critical Path" and "GRUNCH of Giants" are a good starting point for any discussion of the success of our species here on "Spaceship Earth." Cheers, GBS
Rather than attempting to convince corporations such as Apple to imbrace free software, it will be far more effective to found new companies that use free software to compete head-on with their proprietary software. While I deeply respect ESR as an individual he definitly does not represent, us, the free software community. At the same time that I disagree with his philosophy and strategy, I would defend to the death his freedom to be as wrong headed as he wants to be. To me, freedom is the thing that is most highly valued. Cheers GBS
If US Govt. software procurement procedures were amended to favor GPL-ed software over proprietary products, then our taxes would be better spent.
Marketplace worship is an act of religous zealot.
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Capitalism is an ideology just as is socialism or many of the other *isms. In the US this ideology is so deeply ingrained that most people mistake it for an objective world-view. It certainly is nothing more one of the many ideologies.
When you read or hear the phrase, "Let the marketplace decide." substitute the phrase, "Let the marketing department with the biggest budget decide for you and I."
No thanks! I value freedom over short-term profits.
Yes Commercial != prorietary and therefore we can't be sure what Ousterhout really means.
I hope that Ousterhout will clarify this point.
I am willing to give Mr. O. the benefit of any doubt based on his fine technical contributions.
cheers
Yep, this is mis-directed and wrong headed.
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RMS seems to be complaining that more media attention should be paid to the _freedom_ that the GNU-GPL brings to software development. Let's not get into a personality/popularity contest. Linus is a great guy, but he is no RMS. RMS has set the software development process free.
Can we all get along? Lets all just keep on writing excellent code.
The hardworking inmates at New Hamshire Correctional Industries are ready to meet all your license plate and signage requirements. They do far more than license plates these days. www.state.nh.us/nhci/index.html
Obviously M$ fears a remedy that would split the company along product lines - something that many of us have long thought necessary to promote open interfaces to their OS. With the cozy relationship between the OS and apps groups M$ has been able to use undocumented API calls to the OS in their apps. This just one of the unfair advantages the have created for their developers.
This reorg means that M$ realizes that they have lost the federal anti-trust trial. Now that M$ is in a defensive posture, they begin to lose their competive edge. It will be interesting to see what remedies the US DOJ requires the software behemoth from Redmond to implement.
trivially disable those annoying features. Instead he invites you to turn on more annoying features.
I recently read somewhere that the future is with leaner apps that have only the essential features so they can run on wearable computers. I believe that freed software has the best chance of implementing the new paradigm. M$ and all the other proprietary vendors are too busy enforcing the status quo to innovate much of anything except cramming another exotic feature down our throats.
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Analogy: Linux is to Free Software Distributions, what the first pancake is to batch of pancakes. The first one almost never comes out a perfect as the rest of the batch. It is written in a software engineering tome, "You make one to throw it away." The relevance of this comment to the subject is that in the long term, RedHat and all the other distrobutions are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The Free Software community is just getting started. You aint seen nothing yet. "Watch out McDonald's!" cheers, gbs
Perhaps your AB-BH6 is an older revision.
This works with an Award BIOS. Press RESET and press Delete key to enter setup. Open the "Power Managmement Settings" menu. Set the "Power Button Override" to "Enable" Save and Exit.
Southwest Arizona perhaps?
As that wise man said, and has been quoted here many times before. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. I have been using GNU/Linux since the days before kernal 1.0 was released. As I have said in this forum many times before, Free Software is the main evolutionary path and M$ is a dead end. The power of Free Software exceeds its own technical superiority because the code does not die when companies go out of business. There is no stopping Free Software now. Three cheers to RMS, Linus, and all the other contributors to the Free Software movement. I also belive that the GNU/GPL is a significant development in world history. Stallman will always be remembered for this triumph of intellectual freedom. Cheers, gbs
Chicago is where the PR firm that M$ used for its infamous AstroTurf campaign is located. Could the same firm be pumping its local press contacts full of this kind of FUD? "Resistance is futile." - well known evil robot war cry. But fortunatly for Free Software, "Persistence is fertile." - gbs.
The no-cost OS and applications frees up money to develop the high-end applications that have not yet been implemented because most people spend too much money M$ software. I belive that busineses have a limited amount of money to spend of software. By getting the OS and some common applications gratis, they have more of a budget for computer consultants, network infrastructure and custom software. The future looks bright for software developers. Only the dinosaur companies like Microsoft have to worry. We mammals are going to take over! gbs
Antitrust suit remedies must include keeping MS out of these emerging markets.
This has been around for many years. Seemed like an appropriate response. http://www.sunshines.com/Humor/programmers_evoluti on.htm
His book "Critical Path" and "GRUNCH of Giants" are a good starting point for any discussion of the success of our species here on "Spaceship Earth." Cheers, GBS
Rather than attempting to convince corporations such as Apple to imbrace free software, it will be far more effective to found new companies that use free software to compete head-on with their proprietary software. While I deeply respect ESR as an individual he definitly does not represent, us, the free software community. At the same time that I disagree with his philosophy and strategy, I would defend to the death his freedom to be as wrong headed as he wants to be. To me, freedom is the thing that is most highly valued. Cheers GBS
Well done! Keep up the good work.
Hey ESR,
Get off your high horse and go back to writing free software.
The "Open Sores" concept has always been more about promoting ESR then about promoting Freedom.
RMS is the man.
ESR is the spam.
If US Govt. software procurement procedures were amended to favor GPL-ed software over proprietary products, then our taxes would be better spent.
Capitalism is an ideology just as is socialism or many of the other *isms. In the US this ideology is so deeply ingrained that most people mistake it for an objective world-view. It certainly is nothing more one of the many ideologies.
When you read or hear the phrase,
"Let the marketplace decide."
substitute the phrase,
"Let the marketing department with the biggest budget decide for you and I."
No thanks!
I value freedom over short-term profits.
Cheers,
smithdog
Quoted from some "old" book.
Yes Commercial != prorietary and therefore we can't be sure what Ousterhout really means.
I hope that Ousterhout will clarify this point.
I am willing to give Mr. O. the benefit of any doubt based on his fine technical contributions.
cheers
RMS seems to be complaining that more media attention should be paid to the _freedom_ that the GNU-GPL brings to software development. Let's not get into a personality/popularity contest. Linus is a great guy, but he is no RMS.
RMS has set the software development process free.
Can we all get along?
Lets all just keep on writing excellent code.
cheers
smithdog
As you rightly pointed out, trying to judge the contributions to GNU-Linux in terms of source-code lines of a commercial distro is absurd.
This is like counting the fuzzy dice that hang from a 57 Chevy rear-view mirror as part of the core Chevrolet distro.
It would be fair if the article mentioned that the author could not have installed _vanilla_ NT or WIN9x on that laptop.
The hardworking inmates at New Hamshire Correctional Industries are ready to meet all your license plate and signage requirements. They do far more than license plates these days. www.state.nh.us/nhci/index.html
Dont be fooled by other "Open-Sores" licneses that claim to be free. Use only 100% genuine GNU-GPL licensed software on your systems.
Freedom is worth far more than all of Bill Gate's M$ stock.
Live Free or Die (New Hampshire state motto).
Obviously M$ fears a remedy that would split the company along product lines - something that many of us have long thought necessary to promote open interfaces to their OS. With the cozy relationship between the OS and apps groups M$ has been able to use undocumented API calls to the OS in their apps. This just one of the unfair advantages the have created for their developers.
This reorg means that M$ realizes that they have lost the federal anti-trust trial. Now that M$ is in a defensive posture, they begin to lose their competive edge. It will be interesting to see what remedies the US DOJ requires the software behemoth from Redmond to implement.
These are interesting times.
trivially disable those annoying features.
Instead he invites you to turn on more annoying features.
I recently read somewhere that the future is with leaner apps that have only the essential features so they can run on wearable computers. I believe that freed software has the best chance of implementing the new paradigm. M$ and all the other proprietary vendors are too busy enforcing the status quo to innovate much of anything except cramming another exotic feature down our throats.
cheers
smithdog
Bruce Springsteen's roadies. The poor old sot...
Too bad for the roadies though...
I do agree that you can't trust any software that you did not build your self.