nope. sorry. youre wrong no matter how you put it. Consider this : [a] I'm a lone opensource developer. i develop package X under BSD. I put it on geocities. geocities gets bought by yahoo and i cant access my original source and my site gets shut down due to the fact i cant agree to the new licence terms. [b] Since my package was downloaded in binary for convenience, my users dont have my source -- at least none i can find. [c] i look in my backups - oops..forgot to back it up. [d] Company M steps in. They have my source. they offer to sell it back to me for $5000. They also sell a binary version for $500. What do i do ?
Under GPL : [d] I tell a user who bought their software to ask for a source disk. They refuse. i & the FSF threaten to sue. i get my source back.
I understand your arguement -- you want everything with no strings attached and thats an honourable goal - but this is a hostile planet and you have to guard your own interests.
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No..they havent. If you want free java code head over to : GJT. You can also contribute yer code to the GPLed tree.
cos there are very few software developers who understand the smalltalk language at all. most of us can do C, C++ or Java. Besides, smalltalk is about the most unfriendly language ever developed -- even modula-2 would be a better choice since its pascal like.
uuh..look at his website..he's got two patents granted for it. I dont think his idea is going to fly because : [a] paper is flexible and easily destroyed. You can plastic laminate it but you can guarantee dat integrity and certification. [b] Its already been done partially - if you open up a new model casio calculator you will find the all in one integrated circuit with membrane keyboard and chip in one big plastic rectangle which fits below the plastic and metal case -- most of the case is filled with air. Its trivial to move it to the next step but consumers will feel ripped off -- i mean who would pay 40 bucks for a piece of light partially transparent plastic with a small blob of silicon stuck inside ?
hmm..actually stallman recognises that everyone has to eat -- he doesnt discourage commercial software but actually encourages it. read his statements on the subject on his website under the article about "motivation to write free software".
you forget that mandrake has a tendency to ship with PRE-ALPHA software (Gnome/kernel etc) which makes the system completely unstable for use as a server -- its a bleeding edge development distro. RH also has a new update tool and desktop switching is much improved. personally i use redhat since its stable and reasonably secure when updated -- altho that might not be a requirement for everyone.
you need to balance "hard" realtime and "soft" realtime. burning CD's is "soft" realtime with the cd drives buffers and videoconferencing is a "soft" realtime as well (since no one dies if a frame is missed). The "hard" realtime stuff is mainly for embedded apps - *not* your average desktop application which can do well enough with "soft" realtime. No one dies if your app doesnt make a deadline - but the same is not the case for embedded controllers.
whats really important is : [1] Memory protection for the pilot in the OS - paperclips suck, resetting sucks. [2] Better security for the databases - one application can rewrite *all* data right now 0- that sucks. [3] Easier API's, more access to documentation and better testing [4] A full web browser [5] Faster CPU, better battery, slightly larger screen (and less reflective), less scratchy screen, more rugged construction. Adding color is just a waste of resources - improvements need to be made elsewhere.
no it wont. if the GPL cannot be enforced it has a *self-destruct* provision -- read the statement which sez that if the product cannot be released under the terms of the GPL it cannot be released at *all*.
the real problem with that argument is that you end up *paying* M$ or anyone else for the use of your own software if it becomes popular enough -- i mean how many people will pay for Mac OS X who also code BSD and probably wrote important bits of MacOSX/BSD ? At least with the GPL you dont get ripped off legally.
You might want to consider the automated test from 3Com's palmpilot emulator - the gremlin tests where automated inputs are fed to the UI randomly to see what breaks.
just wrap the things in plastic - put a plastic bag and wrapping to fully enclose the case and get waterproof cables (should be available in most outdoor stores). Also try and use a chip that runs cool..something like a cyrix MII with power saving modes and you should be ok. Getting a ruggedised laptop is another way or a mil spec machine.
or better still - let the moderators moderate the input queue on slashdot. let the moderating mejority bash the boring stories to oblivion while the interesting ones make it to the front page.
nope. TiVo uses a special quantum drive that can read and write at the same time as well as special ppc hardware. dont count on putting a 486 or anything else as a digital recording box without tivos add on hardware.
The G4 is hardly faster than any intel at the same clock speed - the only differentiator being the altivec fpu unit which is basically a DSP on a chip.
Obviously you havent been hanging around on bugtraq seeing the massive slew of security holes emerging from the current version of freebsd. FreeBSD is as full of holes as linux and probably more since less people use it - the secure claim indisputably goes to openbsd NOT freebsd. BSD performance is faster on single cpu machines but sucks rocks on multicpu machines due to large grained locks in the kernels (dont believe me - look at the code yerself). Heck OpenBSD cant even do SMP *YET*.
Actually for colon delimited (or any delimited) the column entries all are enclosed by the delimiters. in the first case its not so, while in the second it is - subtle but important.
uuh..did you even read the article ? RMS advocated keeping the default umask at 000 - impossible for a cracker to penetrate. Also he disables remote logns for users and himself.
depends on whether RMS *has* a credit card. he lives pretty frugally.
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what happens when the site is down due to the/. effect and some ppl want to mirror the pages ? Also what about the overhead for/. to cache and keep copies of the original and do the comparision ?
its fairly obvious and it's been stated before on earlier slashdot stories (ESR's for one). anyway, moderation on/. sucks...but i cant think of a better system.
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nope. sorry. youre wrong no matter how you put it.
Consider this :
[a] I'm a lone opensource developer. i develop package X under BSD. I put it on geocities. geocities gets bought by yahoo and i cant access my original source and my site gets shut down due to the fact i cant agree to the new licence terms.
[b] Since my package was downloaded in binary for convenience, my users dont have my source -- at least none i can find.
[c] i look in my backups - oops..forgot to back it up.
[d] Company M steps in. They have my source. they offer to sell it back to me for $5000. They also sell a binary version for $500.
What do i do ?
Under GPL :
[d] I tell a user who bought their software to ask for a source disk. They refuse. i & the FSF threaten to sue. i get my source back.
I understand your arguement -- you want everything with no strings attached and thats an honourable goal - but this is a hostile planet and you have to guard your own interests.
No..they havent. If you want free java code head over to : GJT. You can also contribute yer code to the GPLed tree.
cos there are very few software developers who understand the smalltalk language at all. most of us can do C, C++ or Java. Besides, smalltalk is about the most unfriendly language ever developed -- even modula-2 would be a better choice since its pascal like.
uuh..look at his website..he's got two patents granted for it. I dont think his idea is going to fly because :
[a] paper is flexible and easily destroyed. You can plastic laminate it but you can guarantee dat integrity and certification.
[b] Its already been done partially - if you open up a new model casio calculator you will find the all in one integrated circuit with membrane keyboard and chip in one big plastic rectangle which fits below the plastic and metal case -- most of the case is filled with air.
Its trivial to move it to the next step but consumers will feel ripped off -- i mean who would pay 40 bucks for a piece of light partially transparent plastic with a small blob of silicon stuck inside ?
hmm..actually stallman recognises that everyone has to eat -- he doesnt discourage commercial software but actually encourages it. read his statements on the subject on his website under the article about "motivation to write free software".
becuase your source code compiled and installed breaks the package management databases in a lot of these distros.
you forget that mandrake has a tendency to ship with PRE-ALPHA software (Gnome/kernel etc) which makes the system completely unstable for use as a server -- its a bleeding edge development distro. RH also has a new update tool and desktop switching is much improved. personally i use redhat since its stable and reasonably secure when updated -- altho that might not be a requirement for everyone.
you need to balance "hard" realtime and "soft" realtime. burning CD's is "soft" realtime with the cd drives buffers and videoconferencing is a "soft" realtime as well (since no one dies if a frame is missed). The "hard" realtime stuff is mainly for embedded apps - *not* your average desktop application which can do well enough with "soft" realtime. No one dies if your app doesnt make a deadline - but the same is not the case for embedded controllers.
TiVo, IMHO uses "soft" realtime scheduling as opposed to the more rigorous "hard" realtime scheduling in embedded chips.
whats really important is :
[1] Memory protection for the pilot in the OS - paperclips suck, resetting sucks.
[2] Better security for the databases - one application can rewrite *all* data right now 0- that sucks.
[3] Easier API's, more access to documentation and better testing
[4] A full web browser
[5] Faster CPU, better battery, slightly larger screen (and less reflective), less scratchy screen, more rugged construction.
Adding color is just a waste of resources - improvements need to be made elsewhere.
no it wont. if the GPL cannot be enforced it has a *self-destruct* provision -- read the statement which sez that if the product cannot be released under the terms of the GPL it cannot be released at *all*.
the real problem with that argument is that you end up *paying* M$ or anyone else for the use of your own software if it becomes popular enough -- i mean how many people will pay for Mac OS X who also code BSD and probably wrote important bits of MacOSX/BSD ? At least with the GPL you dont get ripped off legally.
You might want to consider the automated test from 3Com's palmpilot emulator - the gremlin tests where automated inputs are fed to the UI randomly to see what breaks.
just wrap the things in plastic - put a plastic bag and wrapping to fully enclose the case and get waterproof cables (should be available in most outdoor stores). Also try and use a chip that runs cool..something like a cyrix MII with power saving modes and you should be ok. Getting a ruggedised laptop is another way or a mil spec machine.
or better still - let the moderators moderate the input queue on slashdot. let the moderating mejority bash the boring stories to oblivion while the interesting ones make it to the front page.
nope. TiVo uses a special quantum drive that can read and write at the same time as well as special ppc hardware. dont count on putting a 486 or anything else as a digital recording box without tivos add on hardware.
because linux is stable and is equally good compared to freebsd you dumbass. while windoze is a sack of shit.
The G4 is hardly faster than any intel at the same clock speed - the only differentiator being the altivec fpu unit which is basically a DSP on a chip.
Obviously you havent been hanging around on bugtraq seeing the massive slew of security holes emerging from the current version of freebsd. FreeBSD is as full of holes as linux and probably more since less people use it - the secure claim indisputably goes to openbsd NOT freebsd. BSD performance is faster on single cpu machines but sucks rocks on multicpu machines due to large grained locks in the kernels (dont believe me - look at the code yerself). Heck OpenBSD cant even do SMP *YET*.
Actually for colon delimited (or any delimited) the column entries all are enclosed by the delimiters. in the first case its not so, while in the second it is - subtle but important.
uuh..did you even read the article ? RMS advocated keeping the default umask at 000 - impossible for a cracker to penetrate. Also he disables remote logns for users and himself.
depends on whether RMS *has* a credit card. he lives pretty frugally.
what happens when the site is down due to the /. effect and some ppl want to mirror the pages ? Also what about the overhead for /. to cache and keep copies of the original and do the comparision ?
its fairly obvious and it's been stated before on earlier slashdot stories (ESR's for one). anyway, moderation on /. sucks...but i cant think of a better system.
sndconfig is usually called from setup. hence the redhat guys dont mention it explicitly.