Do you need to have a new motherboard to use an Alpha chip ? Do you need a new motherboard to get the advantages of a motherboard ? Where can I go to learn more about this ?
I know , for one , that I don't think of Linux as a FREEWARE for all concept . The idea is not to have all software become free but to have a free operating system . Microsoft has used it's power to hold back too many technologies to count . Let's not forget that a number of Nerds that produced a truly superior product ( Netscape , some wonderful vrml subs... ) have been simply blasted out of the industry by Microsoft . You see , on one side there are the users and on the other sider there are the programmers and virtually all of the programmers are forced to jump through whatever hoops Microsoft has put between the two groups . In systems analysis we sometimes refer to this situation as a bottleneck . This has slowed developement and killed some really good ideas as well as restricted developement to less flexible/usable DOS standards ( really there has been no reason for this for 5 or more years ) . For those of us who have programmed to Unix for a while , it is all too easy to imagine where things could be today if we had a single FREE ( that is unrestrictd ) operating system to write to . As for money wasted... Let history decide that . There are typically two phases to the natural evolution of somehting . Those who work in corporations may have noticed this during developement of projects . The explosive and the selective phases . Some of us believe that the software world ( and the internet in specific ) is in an explosive phase of new technologies and will someday face a period of selection where users begin to favor some technologies over others . ( the two phases can and do overlap to a great extent ) . This may make the explosive phase SEEM wasteful but it is not . Without the first phase the secondwould be fruitless .
I have been an advocate of Linux for a while now and I have begun to realize something... People who USE the web ( and those are the ones we sell our services to , eventually ) don't get hostile when they are told that something was "ripped off" from another company or revolutionary . They follow advertising and marketing . ISP's will follow the demands of their customers as will web-hosting companies . Their customers are not impressed by things like stability , open standards or anyhting mutually benficial to a community of users . They are moved by proprietary software and specifications that they can be 'current' on by paying for . Let's not forget that those of us who long for open standards and a free development environment are generally not the ones targeted by the marketing divisions of companies . I have faced up to this fact ; The only reason that the internet is such a success is that it literally snuck up on most of corporate America .
Do you think it would be practicable to receive a computer from , say Compaq , open it up , turn it on , see the license agreement that I have agreed to refuse the license passed on to me ( the user )for use of the software and DEMAND a refund when I ship the computer back to them ? Do I dare try ? : )
No offense but I was never forced to use anything . Maybe I am beating an old drum but it was never the presence of the OS ( easily remedied... can we say low level format !! ) on the system . It was the fact that , whether I got the OS or asked for it to be removed before shipping , I still PAID for Bill's little demon ! I don't have a problem with programmers getting paid , but I prefer that programmers got paid when they write something that I want to buy !! I , personally would like to see the antitrust suit directly address the buy-one-pay-all licensing practices of Microsoft destroyed .
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Do you need to have a new motherboard to use an Alpha chip ? Do you need a new motherboard to get the advantages of a motherboard ? Where can I go to learn more about this ?
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I know , for one , that I don't think of Linux as a FREEWARE for all concept . The idea is not to have all software become free but to have a free ... ) have been simply blasted out of the industry by Microsoft . ... Let history decide that . There are typically two phases to the natural evolution of somehting . Those who work in corporations may have noticed this during developement of projects . The explosive and the selective phases . Some of us believe that the software world ( and the internet in specific ) is in an explosive phase of new technologies and will someday face a period of selection where users begin to favor some technologies over others . ( the two phases can and do overlap to a great extent ) . This may make the explosive phase SEEM wasteful but it is not . Without the first phase the second would be fruitless .
operating system . Microsoft has used it's power to hold back too many technologies to count . Let's not forget that a number of Nerds that produced a truly superior product ( Netscape , some wonderful vrml subs
You see , on one side there are the users and on the other sider there are the programmers and virtually all of the programmers are forced to jump through whatever hoops Microsoft has put between the two groups . In systems analysis we sometimes refer to this situation as a bottleneck
. This has slowed developement and killed some really good ideas as well as restricted developement to less flexible/usable DOS standards ( really there has been no reason for this for 5 or more years ) . For those of us who have programmed to Unix for a while , it is all too easy to imagine where things could be today if we had a single FREE ( that is unrestrictd ) operating system to write to .
As for money wasted
I have been an advocate of Linux for a while now and I have begun to realize something ... People who USE the web ( and those are the ones we sell our services to , eventually ) don't get hostile when they are told that something was "ripped off" from another company or revolutionary . They follow advertising and marketing . ISP's will follow the demands of their customers as will web-hosting companies . Their customers are not impressed by things like stability , open standards or anyhting mutually benficial to a community of users . They are moved by proprietary software and specifications that they can be 'current' on by paying for . Let's not forget that
those of us who long for open standards and a free development environment are generally not the ones targeted by the marketing divisions of companies .
I have faced up to this fact ; The only reason that the internet is such a success is that it literally snuck up on most of corporate America .
Do you think it would be practicable to receive a computer from , say Compaq , open it up , turn it on , see the license agreement that I have agreed to refuse the license passed on to me ( the user )for use of the software and DEMAND a refund when I ship the computer back to them ?
Do I dare try ? : )
No offense but I was never forced to use anything . Maybe I am beating an old drum but it was never the presence of the OS ( easily remedied ... can we say low level format !! ) on the system . It was the fact that , whether I got the OS or asked for it to be removed before shipping , I still
PAID for Bill's little demon ! I don't have a problem with programmers getting paid , but I prefer that programmers got paid when they write something that I want to buy !! I , personally would like to see the antitrust suit directly address the buy-one-pay-all licensing practices of
Microsoft destroyed .