I'm sitting here using an old pentium pro 200 with 256 megs of ram. It does everything I basicly need it to do. Sure it won't do four VMWare sessions, but it can run netscape 4.75, a dozen eterms and a ssh session for each term, dia, gimp, xmms, apache-ssl, and X11 all at the same time. That's all I really need. I mean really, do I care that this thing can only do quake at 200 fps? No.
I do the same thing day in day out on this machine. Every now then, I might compile a kernel or some other package on this machine, but I have a cluster of dual 600's to build packages on. Of course I wouldn't do compiles on my laptop, and for the love of god not on this machine. Why would I?
When I'm not on my desktop, what will I be doing? Most writing a letter, checking email, ssh'ing into a server, posting on/. , reading Nealz Newz, and IRC'ing becuase grep can't find 'life' anywhere in/proc/sys/marnuke/. What I do need in a laptop is something that can last for hours even days without losing power, not a damn supercomputer.
If I have a choice between four days uptime on a laptop and being able to compile a kernel in a minute, I'll take the four days uptime.
A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
A nation that has such a political order.
A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
A nation that has such a political order.
Often Republic. A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
democracy (d-mkr-s) n., pl.democracies.
Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
A political or social unit that has such a government.
The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
Majority rule.
The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
I believe there is a clear diffenrent between the two. If you don't see it here it is:
Republic - power lies in a body of citizens. (states)
Democracy - Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. (national goverment)
Your statement at the courts is damn wrong. Look around, you tell me. Every law, enforcement of law, ruling on law, not in the constitution, by fedral goverment is superceding the Constitution.
I love it. I completely love it when leftist can't say anything but attack me.
My usage of scum was NOT about agreeing with me or not. I don't care! The usage of scum is the botton of the barrel thinking that it's ok to tax the rich when the person that want to tax the rich won't give money to the drunken in the trailer or the bum in the projects unless they HAVE TO, becuase they KNOW they won't spend it on bettering them selves. They KNOW it becuase if bum wanted to, they wouldn't be living there!
I think the system of higher taxes for the rich and less for the poor would work...
What crap. Rich don't pay taxes. If you vote for that you're voting for yourself paying higher taxes.
I tell you want, if you like giving money to the poor, go to your bank, take all of your money out, and find some bum on the street or a drunk in his trailer home. Give him all of your money, and wait and see what he spends it on.
Go ahead, do it. I dare you. If you come up WITH ANY REASON why you don't want to you're a lier and a cheat, along with being scum.
Not really brainwashed, it's just goes against the brainwashing of the American way. American is about being free. Free to do what you want. Free to do what you want to do with your tax money. In American, you shouldn't be forced to do anything you don't want to do.
Socialism isn't a bad system. Many people around the world love it. They are people who don't value personal freedom. Americans has always value personal freedom. We had brave countryman die for our freedom of choice. America histroy is about freedom. Sure socialism help people, and it provide for people, but it takes away from personal freedom.
Do you see how a personal freedom loving person fear socialism? I do and I fear socialism.
Props for Harry Browne, he's cool as hell. Althrough repealing the War & Emergance Power ACT is something that should be done, his method would crumble American. There has to be some method to get this country back to a constitutional goverment and away form the unlawful social empire goverment we have today (ouch, mod'ing hurt). Harry Browne is the only presidential candidate that is for returning the goverment to what made it great while keeping it modern with the rest of the world.
As far of the 18-24 years old not knowing who is who, I look at like this, they don't feel like there is anything that can be done. They get the same crap every four years. It's boring. Look at tv today, you see two guys on the media: Bush and Gore. Both are drug addicts, one is a lier the other is a whimp, they talk about boring unrelated issues to 18-24 year olds. So they say. What do 18-24 year old want? While most are busy having sex, having a social life, and working towards or for thier jobs. Not to mention it's nerdy to understand goverment and knowing the issue (of course nerds make more money and don't work as hard).
So how do you fix this "problem"? Heck you fix like every other problem in life, education. And you do that by getting people involed.
I can sit here and listen to talk radio until my ear bleed, or read stories until my ear balls hurt, but it won't make a lick of sense until the rest of American wakes up to the truth, see above.
I am so sick and tired of people saying "wasting the vote". Damn it, vote for who you believe in. What does it matter if Bush or Gore is in the office. The fact is:
They are both going to screw you over
They are both going to raise taxes
They are both going to distroy your freedom
They are both going to sieze your money
They are both going to keep with this insane social Security thing
They are both going to look for WAR in the world
They are both going to make bigger goverment
It's all of the matter of how much you want to get rammed up the ass.
And you are saying I would be wasting my vote? Fuck you!! Wasting the vote is voting for these two jerks. I'm going to vote for something better. I'm going to vote for what I BELIEVE IN.
I'm voting Harry Browne if you care to know, and I'm going to help them get 5% of the vote so I can have REAL choice in 2004.
Look damn it, this country was started by a few flakes that wanted freedom. This year, I will be one of the flakes.
...funding for every other ILLEGAL federal program
on
Should You Vote?
·
· Score: 1
So many Americans just don't understand that most of the federal programs are completely ILLEGAL against the Constitution. They also don't understand the Constitution has been abolished, and there is only ONE person running for office that is willing reinstate it. To read more about what I'm talking about go here: http://www.vaix.net/~api/23118.htm
Going back to gad_zuki's post, the Libertarian party is for one thing, the Constitution. If that is evil, then the Foundering fathers are evil and America is evil.
You have no right, you're an enemy of the state, the Constitution has no meaning, you're in a dictoriship, and you are asking if we should be concerned?
This is the best post I have seen. the said fact, bring back the constitution will distroy the country becuase our value of money will be null and void becuase there is no gold to back it up.
The best part about that report is:
Once the emergency is declared, the common law is abolished, the Constitution is abolished and we fall under the absolute
will of Government, public policy. All the government needs to continue is to have public opinion on their side. If public
opinion can be kept, in sufficient degree, on the side of the government, statutes, laws and bills can continue to be passed.
The Constitution has no meaning. The Constitution is suspended. It has been for 60 years. We're not under law. Law has been abolished. We're under a system of public policy, (War Powers). So when you go into that courtroom with your Constitution and the common law in your hand, what does that judge tell you? He tells you that you have no persona standi in judicio. You have no personal standing at law. He tells you not to bother bringing the Constitution into his court, because it is not a Constitutional court, but an executive tribunal operating under a totally different jurisdiction.
Seams as if the goverment has totaly fucked us. I'm moving.
If you want to see unproductive go to the projects or small southen towns where 90% of the people are on welfare. Go ahead, go down there, tell me if they are productive.
The point of it is, we don't our money going to support people that don't support thier selves.
And about that America don't pay the highest taxes, well yeah we don't, that doesn't mean we should start paying 50% of taxes to support the lazy lower class.
Ever notice how it's usually the woman who's expected to "deal with the consequences"?
Well considering the man can have his 10 minutes of fun then hop in a car and drive away never to come back again and live a fulling life not knowing that he has a kid where a female has to "deal with it" for nine months or "deal with" losing the kid or have "to deal with" raising the kid, no I never noticed.
The goverment is growing at 3% to 4% a year. Currenty, 98% of the taxes comes from the top 50% income earners. This year there was a 1.1 trillion dollar surplus. As I write this the congress is spending the surplus on 1000's of new programs that most tax payers will never see and the few that do will see very small little of it. most of this spending will help goverment office and staff. The reason is simple. The way goverment work, is to take more money, spend all of it, and get more money. If a company did this, they would go out of business in a few months. The only way goverment can do this is becuase of thier power. They have the guns.
I would like to see goverment run more effective. What plans do you, as a presidential candidate, for taking steps to slow down this growth or decrease the overall size of the American Goverment and the resulting tax burden?
Greenspan is a bastard. A tax cut would be for the people that pay taxes, the people that make money and incourage more growth becuase of more money injecting into the emocomy.
I don't know about you but I plan on being rich. I plan on having millions. You may be happy making your 30k a year and paying a very little if any in taxes. I rather keep my money. Right now the goverment takes $1000 a PAY PERIOD from me. ONE THOUNDAND DOLLARS!!!!!! That's more then my friend make in a MONTH!!
To pay of the deficit won't improve anything. The intrest is sooo low it doesn't matter. Here's an example, if you have a house, say a big 1/2 million dollar house. By taking a loan at 1% intrest on the house for say, um, 200k, you can take that money, buy renters houses, and easily make hunandard times more money then monthy intrest, but if you pay off the loan in a few months, you'll lose all profit and in the mean time would be unable to make more money.
It make more sense taking the money you have and make more money with it then wasting it paying off some low intrest long term loan. Oh, you went to school, they don't teach money there.
I adgree. Red Hat is ok and has done a lot to push Linux. Without Red Hat, Linux simply wouldn't be as big as it is today.
I bash Red Hat every now and then and I won't run it on my own boxes and I refuse to deal with Red Hat at work. I respect Red Hat for what they have done, but releasing code that breaks a system, that's just plain wrong.
I can understand releasing broken code in a "test", "devel", "unstable", or even "-current", but selling a $79 box with the intent of production usage which is intended for end user use that includes haft broken code is just moraly wrong. It doesn't matter what they are doing or have done which stuff doesn't work.
Maybe some of community code is buggy and half written, that doesn't mean anyone should or haft to release it for retail sells or included as the defualt. Doing so not only make the company look bad but the whole community.
Bob, I respect your company, but if you keep resleasing haft ass distros, it's going to be the end of the Linux community. Secuity and stablity should be number one above everything else at Red Hat.
What would happen if (very big IF) MS actually start producing Linux software that is well wrote and shows off what Linux can do?
I would like to see this but it's unlikely MS to produce well written software for Linux. It's not good business in the OS intrests. If the apps department is totaly disconnected from the OS department I could see Linux getting good, well written programs.
Would the Linux community snub any software simply because of who created it?
I don't think we do anyways. Most of the software we use is written by people that we don't even know in thier bedroom late at night. It's my impression that the Linux community only cares about software how (and how well) it does what they want it to do. Most of us switched becuase we realized the power of the console and freedom of choice, not becuase we hate Micosoft becuase we couldn't buy anything else on a new PC, well least it was that way in my case.
or would they be more impartial and judge the software on its merits?
I judge software on it merits. Take win2k, do you know how much BS you have to deal with that you don't with Linux? I rate software totaly on it merits and how much it does what I want it to do. One think i hate is bloated huge programs sucking up all of my cpu and memory time. Sure I might have a quad AMD Athon 3ghz in a few years, but I don't want netscape or office 2005 to take 90% o my cpu time.
Can practicality overrule principle?
Sure it can when it meets the goals set by an unbaised user. Green eggs and ham, sam I am.
Once again, Red Hat is successfully creating brand recognition - it's not Linux that IBM is selling, it's Red Hat Linux.
In the business world it's about who you know. By saying "We run our company on IBM mainframe using Red Hat Linux" other companys will look at you with big eyes and say "oooowww, cutting edge, w...o...w..." and slowly start handing over money. Most likely becuase they have stock in Red Hat and IBM!!
This is how stock work. You'll able to get more funding and an alience with other corps. You, know the old "I'll strach your back if you strach mine". A corps standing on it own will never get anywhere.
I worked for a company who sole reason for using Redhat and Intel was for the money gained by Red Hat, Intel, and VA Linux stock. They alone did 10% of sale at VALinux in the 1q of 2000. You think they weren't happy? If it wasn't for that, they would have used Solaris on netras, but guess what? Sun wouldn't help them.
This is just the way corps work. It's a fact of life. Live with it, or walk away, but don't put Red Hat or IBM down, they are just out to make money. Sure I put Red Hat down, but I have a reason, thier start up/config scripts suck and I can't stand linuxconf.
Linux on a huge 512 processor with a terabyte of ram big blue iron clad warship of death taking up a room by it self... let me clean myself...
This is great for Linux. This is the best news about Linux I have heard since I started playing around with Linux in 1996.
With this, out the door with "Linux is a toy os." Along with "Linux is for small machines". Considering all the other UNIX and Win2k, I could see a point where you by the best hardware you can, and put linux on it, and know it's going to work. No more of this OS for Hardware stuff, Linux for everything!!
OS's is to computer as gas for cars. Think about, when cars were first invented, you had crude oil, gasoline, diesel, steam, wood, and coal powered "cars". Of course, some rich guy had billions control over the oil refining plants, so we use gasoline now.
The expection here is Linux is free and open. Anyone with skill can do what ever they want with it. Now, I not going to say linux will power 90% of every computer on the planet, but look like it might be the diesel of the automotive world powering the big trucks and cheap cars.
Slashdot Mirror
WITH SPAM!!!
Good stuff at $1.79 for a 7oz can.
Few foods are as versatile as SPAM Luncheon Meat.
I'm sitting here using an old pentium pro 200 with 256 megs of ram. It does everything I basicly need it to do. Sure it won't do four VMWare sessions, but it can run netscape 4.75, a dozen eterms and a ssh session for each term, dia, gimp, xmms, apache-ssl, and X11 all at the same time. That's all I really need. I mean really, do I care that this thing can only do quake at 200 fps? No.
/. , reading Nealz Newz, and IRC'ing becuase grep can't find 'life' anywhere in /proc/sys/marnuke/. What I do need in a laptop is something that can last for hours even days without losing power, not a damn supercomputer.
I do the same thing day in day out on this machine. Every now then, I might compile a kernel or some other package on this machine, but I have a cluster of dual 600's to build packages on. Of course I wouldn't do compiles on my laptop, and for the love of god not on this machine. Why would I?
When I'm not on my desktop, what will I be doing? Most writing a letter, checking email, ssh'ing into a server, posting on
If I have a choice between four days uptime on a laptop and being able to compile a kernel in a minute, I'll take the four days uptime.
n. Abbr. rep., Rep., Repub.
-
- A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
- A nation that has such a political order.
-
- A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
- A nation that has such a political order.
- Often Republic. A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
- An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
- A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
democracy (d-mkr-s)n., pl. democracies.
I believe there is a clear diffenrent between the two. If you don't see it here it is:
Republic - power lies in a body of citizens. (states)
Democracy - Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. (national goverment)
Your statement at the courts is damn wrong. Look around, you tell me. Every law, enforcement of law, ruling on law, not in the constitution, by fedral goverment is superceding the Constitution.
I love it. I completely love it when leftist can't say anything but attack me.
My usage of scum was NOT about agreeing with me or not. I don't care! The usage of scum is the botton of the barrel thinking that it's ok to tax the rich when the person that want to tax the rich won't give money to the drunken in the trailer or the bum in the projects unless they HAVE TO, becuase they KNOW they won't spend it on bettering them selves. They KNOW it becuase if bum wanted to, they wouldn't be living there!
What crap. Rich don't pay taxes. If you vote for that you're voting for yourself paying higher taxes.
I tell you want, if you like giving money to the poor, go to your bank, take all of your money out, and find some bum on the street or a drunk in his trailer home. Give him all of your money, and wait and see what he spends it on.
Go ahead, do it. I dare you. If you come up WITH ANY REASON why you don't want to you're a lier and a cheat, along with being scum.
In the interest of accuracy, here's the actual numbers, on Harry Browne:
States where Browne is on the ballot: 49
States where Browne is not on the ballot, but is a registered write-in candidate: 1 (AZ)
Not really brainwashed, it's just goes against the brainwashing of the American way. American is about being free. Free to do what you want. Free to do what you want to do with your tax money. In American, you shouldn't be forced to do anything you don't want to do.
Socialism isn't a bad system. Many people around the world love it. They are people who don't value personal freedom. Americans has always value personal freedom. We had brave countryman die for our freedom of choice. America histroy is about freedom. Sure socialism help people, and it provide for people, but it takes away from personal freedom.
Do you see how a personal freedom loving person fear socialism? I do and I fear socialism.
BUT it's NOT REALLY a democracy. Read this:
http://www.vaix.net/~api/23118.htm
Props for Harry Browne, he's cool as hell. Althrough repealing the War & Emergance Power ACT is something that should be done, his method would crumble American. There has to be some method to get this country back to a constitutional goverment and away form the unlawful social empire goverment we have today (ouch, mod'ing hurt). Harry Browne is the only presidential candidate that is for returning the goverment to what made it great while keeping it modern with the rest of the world.
As far of the 18-24 years old not knowing who is who, I look at like this, they don't feel like there is anything that can be done. They get the same crap every four years. It's boring. Look at tv today, you see two guys on the media: Bush and Gore. Both are drug addicts, one is a lier the other is a whimp, they talk about boring unrelated issues to 18-24 year olds. So they say. What do 18-24 year old want? While most are busy having sex, having a social life, and working towards or for thier jobs. Not to mention it's nerdy to understand goverment and knowing the issue (of course nerds make more money and don't work as hard).
So how do you fix this "problem"? Heck you fix like every other problem in life, education. And you do that by getting people involed.
I can sit here and listen to talk radio until my ear bleed, or read stories until my ear balls hurt, but it won't make a lick of sense until the rest of American wakes up to the truth, see above.
My vote goes to Harry Browne.
Let me say one damn thing to you,
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT WASTING VOTES!!!
I am so sick and tired of people saying "wasting the vote". Damn it, vote for who you believe in. What does it matter if Bush or Gore is in the office. The fact is:
They are both going to screw you over
They are both going to raise taxes
They are both going to distroy your freedom
They are both going to sieze your money
They are both going to keep with this insane social Security thing
They are both going to look for WAR in the world
They are both going to make bigger goverment
It's all of the matter of how much you want to get rammed up the ass.
And you are saying I would be wasting my vote? Fuck you!! Wasting the vote is voting for these two jerks. I'm going to vote for something better. I'm going to vote for what I BELIEVE IN.
I'm voting Harry Browne if you care to know, and I'm going to help them get 5% of the vote so I can have REAL choice in 2004.
Look damn it, this country was started by a few flakes that wanted freedom. This year, I will be one of the flakes.
This is old, I remember seeing this last year!!!
Hold on, maybe I'm in a time wrap...
>$ date
>Fri Oct 20 13:33:43 EDT 2000
Nope! Hmmm,
>$ pwd
>http://slashdot.org
AH!! Ok, I'm not in a subspace bubble...
So many Americans just don't understand that most of the federal programs are completely ILLEGAL against the Constitution. They also don't understand the Constitution has been abolished, and there is only ONE person running for office that is willing reinstate it. To read more about what I'm talking about go here: http://www.vaix.net/~api/23118.htm
Going back to gad_zuki's post, the Libertarian party is for one thing, the Constitution. If that is evil, then the Foundering fathers are evil and America is evil.
You have no right, you're an enemy of the state, the Constitution has no meaning, you're in a dictoriship, and you are asking if we should be concerned?
The best part about that report is:
Once the emergency is declared, the common law is abolished, the Constitution is abolished and we fall under the absolute will of Government, public policy. All the government needs to continue is to have public opinion on their side. If public opinion can be kept, in sufficient degree, on the side of the government, statutes, laws and bills can continue to be passed. The Constitution has no meaning. The Constitution is suspended. It has been for 60 years. We're not under law. Law has been abolished. We're under a system of public policy, (War Powers). So when you go into that courtroom with your Constitution and the common law in your hand, what does that judge tell you? He tells you that you have no persona standi in judicio. You have no personal standing at law. He tells you not to bother bringing the Constitution into his court, because it is not a Constitutional court, but an executive tribunal operating under a totally different jurisdiction.
Seams as if the goverment has totaly fucked us. I'm moving.
Here what the FBI says:
Gun ownership has increased
Violent crime has decreased
Violent crime on college and university campuses has increased. Guess what? Those are places where individuals are not allowed to own or carry guns.
This is too much bullshit in cfish's post.
If you want to see unproductive go to the projects or small southen towns where 90% of the people are on welfare. Go ahead, go down there, tell me if they are productive.
The point of it is, we don't our money going to support people that don't support thier selves.
And about that America don't pay the highest taxes, well yeah we don't, that doesn't mean we should start paying 50% of taxes to support the lazy lower class.
Well considering the man can have his 10 minutes of fun then hop in a car and drive away never to come back again and live a fulling life not knowing that he has a kid where a female has to "deal with it" for nine months or "deal with" losing the kid or have "to deal with" raising the kid, no I never noticed.
How about this, in five to ten years, lets see how has more assets. If you have more, hey, you win.
The goverment is growing at 3% to 4% a year. Currenty, 98% of the taxes comes from the top 50% income earners. This year there was a 1.1 trillion dollar surplus. As I write this the congress is spending the surplus on 1000's of new programs that most tax payers will never see and the few that do will see very small little of it. most of this spending will help goverment office and staff. The reason is simple. The way goverment work, is to take more money, spend all of it, and get more money. If a company did this, they would go out of business in a few months. The only way goverment can do this is becuase of thier power. They have the guns.
I would like to see goverment run more effective. What plans do you, as a presidential candidate, for taking steps to slow down this growth or decrease the overall size of the American Goverment and the resulting tax burden?
Greenspan is a bastard. A tax cut would be for the people that pay taxes, the people that make money and incourage more growth becuase of more money injecting into the emocomy.
I don't know about you but I plan on being rich. I plan on having millions. You may be happy making your 30k a year and paying a very little if any in taxes. I rather keep my money. Right now the goverment takes $1000 a PAY PERIOD from me. ONE THOUNDAND DOLLARS!!!!!! That's more then my friend make in a MONTH!!
To pay of the deficit won't improve anything. The intrest is sooo low it doesn't matter. Here's an example, if you have a house, say a big 1/2 million dollar house. By taking a loan at 1% intrest on the house for say, um, 200k, you can take that money, buy renters houses, and easily make hunandard times more money then monthy intrest, but if you pay off the loan in a few months, you'll lose all profit and in the mean time would be unable to make more money.
It make more sense taking the money you have and make more money with it then wasting it paying off some low intrest long term loan. Oh, you went to school, they don't teach money there.
I adgree. Red Hat is ok and has done a lot to push Linux. Without Red Hat, Linux simply wouldn't be as big as it is today.
I bash Red Hat every now and then and I won't run it on my own boxes and I refuse to deal with Red Hat at work. I respect Red Hat for what they have done, but releasing code that breaks a system, that's just plain wrong.
I can understand releasing broken code in a "test", "devel", "unstable", or even "-current", but selling a $79 box with the intent of production usage which is intended for end user use that includes haft broken code is just moraly wrong. It doesn't matter what they are doing or have done which stuff doesn't work.
Maybe some of community code is buggy and half written, that doesn't mean anyone should or haft to release it for retail sells or included as the defualt. Doing so not only make the company look bad but the whole community.
Bob, I respect your company, but if you keep resleasing haft ass distros, it's going to be the end of the Linux community. Secuity and stablity should be number one above everything else at Red Hat.
I would like to see this but it's unlikely MS to produce well written software for Linux. It's not good business in the OS intrests. If the apps department is totaly disconnected from the OS department I could see Linux getting good, well written programs.
Would the Linux community snub any software simply because of who created it?
I don't think we do anyways. Most of the software we use is written by people that we don't even know in thier bedroom late at night. It's my impression that the Linux community only cares about software how (and how well) it does what they want it to do. Most of us switched becuase we realized the power of the console and freedom of choice, not becuase we hate Micosoft becuase we couldn't buy anything else on a new PC, well least it was that way in my case.
or would they be more impartial and judge the software on its merits?
I judge software on it merits. Take win2k, do you know how much BS you have to deal with that you don't with Linux? I rate software totaly on it merits and how much it does what I want it to do. One think i hate is bloated huge programs sucking up all of my cpu and memory time. Sure I might have a quad AMD Athon 3ghz in a few years, but I don't want netscape or office 2005 to take 90% o my cpu time.
Can practicality overrule principle?
Sure it can when it meets the goals set by an unbaised user. Green eggs and ham, sam I am.
Hemos' ass crack!!!
I would like to see a machine work in such a hellish harsh environment.
In the business world it's about who you know. By saying "We run our company on IBM mainframe using Red Hat Linux" other companys will look at you with big eyes and say "oooowww, cutting edge, w...o...w..." and slowly start handing over money. Most likely becuase they have stock in Red Hat and IBM!!
This is how stock work. You'll able to get more funding and an alience with other corps. You, know the old "I'll strach your back if you strach mine". A corps standing on it own will never get anywhere.
I worked for a company who sole reason for using Redhat and Intel was for the money gained by Red Hat, Intel, and VA Linux stock. They alone did 10% of sale at VALinux in the 1q of 2000. You think they weren't happy? If it wasn't for that, they would have used Solaris on netras, but guess what? Sun wouldn't help them.
This is just the way corps work. It's a fact of life. Live with it, or walk away, but don't put Red Hat or IBM down, they are just out to make money. Sure I put Red Hat down, but I have a reason, thier start up/config scripts suck and I can't stand linuxconf.
Linux on a huge 512 processor with a terabyte of ram big blue iron clad warship of death taking up a room by it self... let me clean myself...
This is great for Linux. This is the best news about Linux I have heard since I started playing around with Linux in 1996.
With this, out the door with "Linux is a toy os." Along with "Linux is for small machines". Considering all the other UNIX and Win2k, I could see a point where you by the best hardware you can, and put linux on it, and know it's going to work. No more of this OS for Hardware stuff, Linux for everything!!
OS's is to computer as gas for cars. Think about, when cars were first invented, you had crude oil, gasoline, diesel, steam, wood, and coal powered "cars". Of course, some rich guy had billions control over the oil refining plants, so we use gasoline now.
The expection here is Linux is free and open. Anyone with skill can do what ever they want with it. Now, I not going to say linux will power 90% of every computer on the planet, but look like it might be the diesel of the automotive world powering the big trucks and cheap cars.