RSA is itself an algorithm yes. In order to implement that algorithm on a computer, you need to express it as source code.
RSA is not just code, it is both an algorithm and an expression of that algorithm (or multiple expressions.) In much the same way as my textbook has an expression of quite a few (patented even) text-searching algorithms.
The difference is really very simple. I as an artist will see absolutely no money from any of this. I might see a couple of extra tickets at a gig, but for the multi-state touring acts those are usually at a loss anyway, and done just to promote album sales.
Sure I don't get a large enough cut of the album sales, but since they made me pay to record and produce the record in the first place...
Maybe I don't need the money (although I actually do) but I sure deserve it for my work. It's not like I can open-source my music and then go make money doing consulting on my songs?
Just because someone posts on usenet does not mean they don't know what they are talking about. Sure as more and more people get online the signal-to-noise ratio is decreasing, and that is unfortunate. Real professionals with a geek side are often found posting to appropriate newsgroups.
Usually when someone turns to a support type newsgroup it is because they have just discovered something traumatic or been through a difficult to deal with problem. More often than not they just want to know there are other people like them out there. If you ever read any of the "advice" given there you will see that often times "see a doctor/professional" is part of it.
The truth of the matter is the quality of service/advice received has nothing to do with a persons right to seek it out. In addition for many things it is not in a person's best interest to have their identity associated with certain inquiries.
I can understand you're frustration sometimes, but I must differ when you say that Eric Raymond believes that all non OSS sucks.
Like yourself he probably gave it a try, and sees that the technology of it is simply amazing. The BeOS is built to do stuff that Linux is not, yet. I don't know if Linux will ever be able to do the Media stuff BeOS can do, or if the BeOS will have the following that Linux does. I can hope for both though.
For those that believe in OSS as a better way of doing things, they might see it as more of a shame that BeOS is not open-source because they would like to see it succeed, but don't see the future of closed source software.
Me, I would like Be to succeed, and I will be putting my money into it as soon as I am able. I don't believe all software needs to be open source, as long as the company is open to ideas. There is no company more open to its developers than Be at least not any I have ever worked with. That's enough for me to invest my money and my time.
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RSA is itself an algorithm yes. In order to implement that algorithm on a computer, you need to express it as source code.
RSA is not just code, it is both an algorithm and an expression of that algorithm (or multiple expressions.) In much the same way as my textbook has an expression of quite a few (patented even) text-searching algorithms.
The difference is really very simple. I as an artist will see absolutely no money from any of this. I might see a couple of extra tickets at a gig, but for the multi-state touring acts those are usually at a loss anyway, and done just to promote album sales.
Sure I don't get a large enough cut of the album sales, but since they made me pay to record and produce the record in the first place...
Maybe I don't need the money (although I actually do) but I sure deserve it for my work. It's not like I can open-source my music and then go make money doing consulting on my songs?
Just because someone posts on usenet does not mean they don't know what they are talking about. Sure as more and more people get online the signal-to-noise ratio is decreasing, and that is unfortunate. Real professionals with a geek side are often found posting to appropriate newsgroups.
Usually when someone turns to a support type newsgroup it is because they have just discovered something traumatic or been through a difficult to deal with problem. More often than not they just want to know there are other people like them out there. If you ever read any of the "advice" given there you will see that often times "see a doctor/professional" is part of it.
The truth of the matter is the quality of service/advice received has nothing to do with a persons right to seek it out. In addition for many things it is not in a person's best interest to have their identity associated with certain inquiries.
I can understand you're frustration sometimes, but I must differ when you say that Eric Raymond believes that all non OSS sucks.
Like yourself he probably gave it a try, and sees that the technology of it is simply amazing. The BeOS is built to do stuff that Linux is not, yet. I don't know if Linux will ever be able to do the Media stuff BeOS can do, or if the BeOS will have the following that Linux does. I can hope for both though.
For those that believe in OSS as a better way of doing things, they might see it as more of a shame that BeOS is not open-source because they would like to see it succeed, but don't see the future of closed source software.
Me, I would like Be to succeed, and I will be putting my money into it as soon as I am able. I don't believe all software needs to be open source, as long as the company is open to ideas. There is no company more open to its developers than Be at least not any I have ever worked with. That's enough for me to invest my money and my time.