Disagree. People can make the world better or worse. They might choose to use software or not to achieve their goals, but in any case, software is just a tool used by people.
You can write software for a company that has the best of intentions, but stuff happens. Perhaps down the road some other people end up in charge of that intellectual property and do things that are bad for humanity with it. Your software didn't suddenly go from good to bad, but it was just a tool used first by well-intentioned people and later my ill-intentioned people.
General Relativity was not a correction to Special Relativity. They're about completely different things! Special Relativity is about the speed of light being a constant in all reference frames and the implications of that. General Relativity is about how mass distorts spacetime giving rise to gravity.
I agree with your point that bans are bad, but stop trying to sound smart using Einstein as an example until you learn more about him, OK?
Yes, this could help Be. That was the first thing I thought about when I read the article. Contrary to what they may say, BeOS will run on a G3, if it is a processor upgrade from an existing 604 or 603 system. It's the supporting chipsets that Be doesn't want to deal with reverse engineering and having Apple change with each and every model.
Most of the Be engineers come from the Mac/PPC world and would love to support the PPC. Management may be another matter. In any case, if some OEMs manufacture new PPC motherboards, then I'm sure they'd be more than happy to share the specs of the chipsets with Be.
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Disagree. People can make the world better or worse. They might choose to use software or not to achieve their goals, but in any case, software is just a tool used by people.
You can write software for a company that has the best of intentions, but stuff happens. Perhaps down the road some other people end up in charge of that intellectual property and do things that are bad for humanity with it. Your software didn't suddenly go from good to bad, but it was just a tool used first by well-intentioned people and later my ill-intentioned people.
People make moral choices. Software does not.
Why is this voted up!?!?
General Relativity was not a correction to Special Relativity. They're about completely different things! Special Relativity is about the speed of light being a constant in all reference frames and the implications of that. General Relativity is about how mass distorts spacetime giving rise to gravity.
I agree with your point that bans are bad, but stop trying to sound smart using Einstein as an example until you learn more about him, OK?
Well, if MS Word was the key in your view, how do you explain the fact that Word was available for the Mac before Windows?
Yes, this could help Be. That was the first thing I thought about when I read the article. Contrary to what they may say, BeOS will run on a G3, if it is a processor upgrade from an existing 604 or 603 system. It's the supporting chipsets that Be doesn't want to deal with reverse engineering and having Apple change with each and every model.
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Most of the Be engineers come from the Mac/PPC world and would love to support the PPC. Management may be another matter. In any case, if some OEMs manufacture new PPC motherboards, then I'm sure they'd be more than happy to share the specs of the chipsets with Be.
I'm cautiously optimistic