It's interesting to note one thing about articles like this is that the author(s) attempt to provide a direction for the furter development of linux and its surrounding applications.
Ones first thought is that "who are they to attempt to dictate where linux goes from here", and ones second thought is that is the whole point behind linux is that they are free to try.
A freedom that Microsoft or any other OS vender doesn't give its customers. Linux is the OS created by us and for us, and I think one of the reasons that journalists are starting to get into linux is that they can do more than just comment on the revolution.
Please forgive me if this is a silly question, as I know next to nothing about stocks and such. I do know that public companies set aside a certain amount of their stocks for employee purchase, which is set at a certain rate per quarter, often cheaper than it's actual value. This is called Stock Options yes? It's a great way to get rich if you're an employee of a up and coming company.
My silly question is this. Is it possible for say, Red Hat to sell stock options to free software developers who are not employees of the company, but obviously contribute to it's value. I suppose the SEC has rules against such a thing, but I think it would be really neat if free software developers could purchase stock like employee stock options if their software is used in the companies product, as if they themselves were actual employees.
That way, free software developers, who I would assume are mostly not rich, could actually get in on the ground floor of a Red Hat IPO. It would go a long way towards solving the problem of how to compensate free software developers I would think.
Like kernel compile times or something. I'm not particularly interested in "Winbench" scores. I also wish they had thrown in some K6-2 scores so I could see how much better the K6-3 is over what I have now.
Even if the K6-3 isn't as fast as a celeron for 3D, if AMD gets the price down quick enough, it still might be a good buy. I beleive the PIII is going to be too expensive for most.
Can you read? I said _illegal_ overclockers, as in the kind that take PII 233Mhz CPU's and relabel them as PII 300Mhz CPU's and sell them like PII 300 CPU's.
If some moron wants to overclock and is willing to suffer the consequences, this ID number will do nothing to stop them. This is in fact much better than forcing the CPU to a specific clock, since it does allow the home user to overclock.
This is provided that Intel actually registers each ID number with the CPU's speed and provides that information via the web. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't though.
Actually the technically best solution (for end users) would be to encode the chip with a unique identification code that would tell you what speed the CPU is supposed to run at, but wouldn't prevent fools from doing what they will with it.
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It's interesting to note one thing about articles like this is that the author(s) attempt to provide a direction for the furter development of linux and its surrounding applications.
Ones first thought is that "who are they to attempt to dictate where linux goes from here", and ones second thought is that is the whole point behind linux is that they are free to try.
A freedom that Microsoft or any other OS vender doesn't give its customers. Linux is the OS created by us and for us, and I think one of the reasons that journalists are starting to get into linux is that they can do more than just comment on the revolution.
Please forgive me if this is a silly question, as I know next to nothing about stocks and such. I do know that public companies set aside a certain amount of their stocks for employee purchase, which is set at a certain rate per quarter, often cheaper than it's actual value. This is called Stock Options yes? It's a great way to get rich if you're an employee of a up and coming company.
My silly question is this. Is it possible for say, Red Hat to sell stock options to free software developers who are not employees of the company, but obviously contribute to it's value. I suppose the SEC has rules against such a thing, but I think it would be really neat if free software developers could purchase stock like employee stock options if their software is used in the companies product, as if they themselves were actual employees.
That way, free software developers, who I would assume are mostly not rich, could actually get in on the ground floor of a Red Hat IPO. It would go a long way towards solving the problem of how to compensate free software developers I would think.
There's parady and then there's shameless copyright violation with no redeeming value whatsoever. This falls squarely in the former case.
> Doncha hate seeing Lawyers win?
Not this time.
Like kernel compile times or something. I'm not particularly interested in "Winbench" scores. I also wish they had thrown in some K6-2 scores so I could see how much better the K6-3 is over what I have now.
Even if the K6-3 isn't as fast as a celeron for 3D, if AMD gets the price down quick enough, it still might be a good buy. I beleive the PIII is going to be too expensive for most.
Can you read? I said _illegal_ overclockers, as in the kind that take PII 233Mhz CPU's and relabel them as PII 300Mhz CPU's and sell them like PII 300 CPU's.
If some moron wants to overclock and is willing to suffer the consequences, this ID number will do nothing to stop them. This is in fact much better than forcing the CPU to a specific clock, since it does allow the home user to overclock.
This is provided that Intel actually registers each ID number with the CPU's speed and provides that information via the web. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't though.
No more illegal overclockers... Finally.
Actually the technically best solution (for end users) would be to encode the chip with a unique identification code that would tell you what speed the CPU is supposed to run at, but wouldn't prevent fools from doing what they will with it.