It remains to be seen weather the non free products will be able to keep pace with the free ones. I don't think that it was a coinsidence that Star Office, KDE, Mozilla, Interbase etc all changed their license to the GPL. Let's face it it's very hard to compete with Microsoft's pool of thousands of programmers and SUN by open sourcing a product that they paid big bucks for has pretty much admitted that they did not have to resources to keep up with MS office.
Time will tell if that money apple is charging for their OS will buy enough brain power to compete against windows. So far the open source developers have made a go with linux and BSD. My guess is that charging a few bucks for an OS is a loosing proposition when MS has a few billion to throw around. If SUN, netscape/aol, borland can't do it how do you think apple will?
Also remember that Bill G makes a couple of hundred dollars for every mac sold. Once people find out that by making improvements to darwin they are actually putting money in Bills pocket how much will they want to participate?
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Hey now wait a minute.
Apple took free stuff (BSD) and mucked around with it some and gave it back!. Hardly some great act of generocity. I don't want to belittle what they did but let's be honest here they only gave back what they took in the first place.
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Yes there needs to be good explanation page for these. I won't go into it but it has to do with the fact unix started in universities with many users and systems. A lot of the applications were shared and NFS mounted into various parts of the file system. It all makes great sense when you learn about it and it's a rather elegant way to configure and manage multiple servers and multiple users.
I am hoping the people at Apple have made provisions for that. If they are targeting their OS at end users and as a desktop operating system then fine redesign the current file tree it makes good sense to simplify it. OTOH if they are targeting the enterprise they are going to need robust ways to manage multiple machines and users.
Say what you want about X (a lot of people gripe about it) but I would sorely miss being able to throw the graphical output of my applications to different machines.
Do you know if the MAC GUI is remotable like X is? It would be super cool if they built a PDF based remote viewing system.
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Without enforcement of some kind you can not get anything done. Even private entitites must have enforcement power. Lets say that there is a conflict over a contract. Once a judgement goes against you does it really matter who does the enforcing? Either way someone is going to force you to do something you don't want to. A non coersive society is a dream it will never happen. Even non contact sports have referees.
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"it's not about accumulation of wealth, it's about cooperation through trade, efficient and equitable division of labor, and promoting *voluntary* interactions between humans instead of coercive ones."
I read this three times and I don't think that even you believe it. Look around you and tell me that capitalism promotes an equitable division of labor, voluntary interaction between humans. Sure maybe in some deep bowels of esoteric text this ideal is put forth but in real life it breed insane accumulation of wealth. It breeds an laughably uneven divison of labor as well as of wealth. Maybe you are right and manybe just like the russians corrupted communism the americans have corrupted capitalism but the end result is the same.
"I know this is gonna piss you off, but the truth is that capitalism is 100% about individual sovereignity"
Hey that does not piss me off I am an atheist I don't belive in a higher power. What it should piss off are the christians and the moslems who do not believe that humans are 100% sovereign. This was my point exactly. Capitalism was the only philosophy able to completely turn the religious tomes upside down and inside out. Take a look at the techings of Christ or the budha they are full of exhultations to serve the poor and to work for the good of the society. Adam Smith and his followers were able to smash this idealogy to bits!.
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I am going through this right now. It's a long and ardous process. Start with the server leave the clients to the end.
First switch the file and print services.
Next tackle the database server switching from SQL server will be pain in the butt but if you switch to oracle the migration workbench claims to do most of the work for you. Switching to postgres will be a laborious process but postgres is actually fun to work with as opposed to SQL server which makes me want to kill puppies.
After all your back end is done you can start on the clients by then klyx will be out and your developers can start porting their VB apps to klyx. This way they can support both linux and windows clients with the same code.
OK go to it!. Seriously it's taking a while but it's possible so far we have converted file print, mail, ftp, name server, web server. The database is next!
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Staggering how the word ethical has been corrupted. I stand in awe of Adam Smith (and his followers) who turned two thousand years of Christian, budhist and Islamic philosophy upside down in one fell swoop by elevating greed, gluttony, avarice, envy, covetousness, pride etc into virutes. No major religion (except for satanism of course and that is not a major religion) advocated accumulation of wealth as a virtue or an ethical standard to strive towards. In fact both Christ and Buddha spoke out constantly against accumulation of wealth and preached a life of near poverty.
All philosophers who railed against a religion based ethical structure and who advocated a more humanist/atheist structure failed miserably whereas Adam Smith smashed the religions so hard there is not one modern religious leader who will speak out against mindless greed. Jesus chased the money changers and Fallwell raises money for the republicans. As an atheist it makes me warm all over.
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MS owns 90% of the desktops. If 90% of the desktops can not connect to the internet cisco will rush to patch their OS to conform to the MS "standard" Once Cisco routers are patched the rest of internet has no choice but to follow. Sure I can hope that the sysadmins would simply block out all the MS users and tell them to complain to MS but you and I know that will not happen. MS owns the computer market and therefore a standard is whatever MS says it is plain and simple.
They have shown that they have no respect for any standard and will in most likelyhood break this one too. We will wait and see what happens but I don't expect eggs from pigs and I don't expect ethical behaviour out of Microsoft.
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Bruce did not say that Dan had no right to distribute his code under any license he chooses. He just stated that it was not open source. So what is the big deal? Was he wrong?
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I also usually explicitly deny packets from offensive hosts like flycast, doubleclick etc. These days it's also probably a good idea to not let everything out. If somehow somebody lobbed something in you don't want them to initiate a connection out.
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If you are right then the IPv6 implementation will be fully standards compliant and will interoperate with all the other operating systems and routers. If you are wrong then MS IPV6 will break the existing standard. If I was a betting man I would vote that you are wrong. MS has a lousy track record with interoperability and they are not going to pass up this opportunity to own the new inernet.
Let's check back here when it's out and see who was right.
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But my conscience is clean. I never threw gasoline on to burning building like that sadistic bastard.
A Dick and a Bush.. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
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Screw the republicans and screw the democrats. Nader is with me on all the issues I care about. He is adamantly opposed to corporate control, he is for breaking up MS, he is an ardent environmentalist, he is pro tolerance, and most of all he is against establishing a theocracy or a faith based government.
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You want to smuggle bibles into countries that are already torn by religious strife? This is your idea of charity? Did you forget religious carnage that took place in bosnia? How many people were killed in the name of god there?
You are a sick sadist.
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It's really hard to support hatch if you care about the environment, if you have gay friends, if you are not a christian etc. In this case supporting Hatch would be supporting a lesser evil for me and most liberals. Why not Nader?
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You can also hurt corporations by organizing. You can organize a boycott campaign, you can organize a labor union (they hate that), you can organize a letter writing campaign. You are absolutely right when you say that corporations exist to make money. They have no souls, and no ethical or moral imperitives see firestone for an example.
As a human being with a soul your biggest tool in fighting a soul-less, imortal, and amoral being is to join together with other beings with souls. In the end you will win because soul-less beings are ugly when exposed to the glare of public scrutiny. All soul-less beings want to keep a low profile remember that.
Here is a though for you. If you are a liberal person why would you shop at wal-mart and help support republicans? Why would you watch fox tv and help Murdock give even more money to politicians you hate? Same goes in reverse if you are conservative why would you give Ted turner money by watching CNN?
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You missed the most important point. If Amazon tags you as a sucker (person willing to pay more then they have to) then they will most likely sell sucker lists to other e-tailers. You will then start paying more for everything on the internet and not even know it! Mail order companies already do this. They compile lists of people who buy stupid useless stuff (nose hair clippers for one) and sell it to each other. In fact they have "indicator items" (the aformentioned clippers) that they use to flag people as suckers.
It's kind of a stupidity tax really. Browse with cookies on, pledge loyalty to a corporation or a brand and pay more.
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You are wrong. The anti linux pro MS posts get modded up!. Look at the top rated posts on this topic they are all anti open source, anti linux. This used to be a community of open source advocates now it's nothing but a bunch of trolls, ms astroturfers, and a bunch of retards who think gross picures are cool.
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He is an old man with old ideas. He is unable to grasp new ways of thinking and doing things and uses his fame to put them down. Have you read some of his older articles? They are nothing but thinly veiled racism and frightning mcarthyism. He keeps contantly refering to open source as being "un american" and "communist" he compares RMS and ESR to lenin and stalin for chrissake. Imagine comparing a programmer to a mass murderer. It's clear neither his mindset nor his vocabulary has advanced since the 40s and fifties.
He probably thinks blacks are still 2/3rd of a human being and women shouldn't be able to vote.
We should just ignore these relics and get on with it.
A Dick and a Bush.. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
spoken like a man who has never had to actually deal with ms support or MCSEs. Having dealth with both I can tell you they both are a useless waste of money.
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Time will tell if that money apple is charging for their OS will buy enough brain power to compete against windows. So far the open source developers have made a go with linux and BSD. My guess is that charging a few bucks for an OS is a loosing proposition when MS has a few billion to throw around. If SUN, netscape/aol, borland can't do it how do you think apple will?
Also remember that Bill G makes a couple of hundred dollars for every mac sold. Once people find out that by making improvements to darwin they are actually putting money in Bills pocket how much will they want to participate?
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
Apple took free stuff (BSD) and mucked around with it some and gave it back!. Hardly some great act of generocity. I don't want to belittle what they did but let's be honest here they only gave back what they took in the first place.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
I am hoping the people at Apple have made provisions for that. If they are targeting their OS at end users and as a desktop operating system then fine redesign the current file tree it makes good sense to simplify it. OTOH if they are targeting the enterprise they are going to need robust ways to manage multiple machines and users.
Say what you want about X (a lot of people gripe about it) but I would sorely miss being able to throw the graphical output of my applications to different machines.
Do you know if the MAC GUI is remotable like X is? It would be super cool if they built a PDF based remote viewing system.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
I read this three times and I don't think that even you believe it. Look around you and tell me that capitalism promotes an equitable division of labor, voluntary interaction between humans. Sure maybe in some deep bowels of esoteric text this ideal is put forth but in real life it breed insane accumulation of wealth. It breeds an laughably uneven divison of labor as well as of wealth. Maybe you are right and manybe just like the russians corrupted communism the americans have corrupted capitalism but the end result is the same.
"I know this is gonna piss you off, but the truth is that capitalism is 100% about individual sovereignity"
Hey that does not piss me off I am an atheist I don't belive in a higher power. What it should piss off are the christians and the moslems who do not believe that humans are 100% sovereign. This was my point exactly. Capitalism was the only philosophy able to completely turn the religious tomes upside down and inside out. Take a look at the techings of Christ or the budha they are full of exhultations to serve the poor and to work for the good of the society. Adam Smith and his followers were able to smash this idealogy to bits!.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
First switch the file and print services.
Next tackle the database server switching from SQL server will be pain in the butt but if you switch to oracle the migration workbench claims to do most of the work for you. Switching to postgres will be a laborious process but postgres is actually fun to work with as opposed to SQL server which makes me want to kill puppies.
After all your back end is done you can start on the clients by then klyx will be out and your developers can start porting their VB apps to klyx. This way they can support both linux and windows clients with the same code.
OK go to it!. Seriously it's taking a while but it's possible so far we have converted file print, mail, ftp, name server, web server. The database is next!
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
All philosophers who railed against a religion based ethical structure and who advocated a more humanist/atheist structure failed miserably whereas Adam Smith smashed the religions so hard there is not one modern religious leader who will speak out against mindless greed. Jesus chased the money changers and Fallwell raises money for the republicans. As an atheist it makes me warm all over.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
They have shown that they have no respect for any standard and will in most likelyhood break this one too. We will wait and see what happens but I don't expect eggs from pigs and I don't expect ethical behaviour out of Microsoft.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
Let's check back here when it's out and see who was right.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
School prepares students for life by teaching them to sit quitely at their desks and do what they are told.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
You are a sick sadist.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
As a human being with a soul your biggest tool in fighting a soul-less, imortal, and amoral being is to join together with other beings with souls. In the end you will win because soul-less beings are ugly when exposed to the glare of public scrutiny. All soul-less beings want to keep a low profile remember that.
Here is a though for you. If you are a liberal person why would you shop at wal-mart and help support republicans? Why would you watch fox tv and help Murdock give even more money to politicians you hate? Same goes in reverse if you are conservative why would you give Ted turner money by watching CNN?
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
It's kind of a stupidity tax really. Browse with cookies on, pledge loyalty to a corporation or a brand and pay more.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
He probably thinks blacks are still 2/3rd of a human being and women shouldn't be able to vote.
We should just ignore these relics and get on with it.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.