Well, the situation sucks, but reading it I'd have to say a lot of it is your own fault. In a business relationship, you have no call for being a "nice guy". Sure be courteous and so on, but a contract is a contract. There is no other basis for your relationship with them. If you have a configuration that you think is necessary to have a stable network then don't work with people until they agree to use it, or at the very least take it into consideration when writing the contract. Don't do things outside the contract. If they have a new office 500 miles away, say you need to change the terms of the contract to accomodate it. etc....
I disagree. "Home computers" were as, or more popular then than gaming consoles are today. Plenty of non-geeks had them. The only difference being you could program a home computer, and most people did, even if it was just something like: 10 print "hello" 20 goto 10
Those who stayed to fight in Nazi Germany ended up dead without changing a thing.
While this is a valid point, Nazi Germany is not the only event in history, though everyone seems to love referring back to it. Even today in the assorted former soviet republics you can see the effects of people who care about democracy staying and demanding change. You win some you lose some though of course everyone has to make a judgement when it has got too hot for themselves to justify staying. However nobody ever got their rights recognised by running away. I think that the USA is still largely democrastic country that respects the rule of law within it's own borders (shame about outside them...). Leaving at this stage doesn't show much stomach for a fight, and is driven more by petulance than a real fear for your safety.
Those reasons are mostly just technical artifacts of the way it's done in linux/unix.
bin, man, lib, var, etc, could just as easily be "virtual directories" (equivalent to views in a database) that scanned your PATH for self contained app directories that obeyed some standard for laying themselves out.
Mounting could be implemented backwards (push instead of pull). Create your website in/data/website, and "reverse mount" it to both/dev/fastdisk and/dev/journaledbackupdisk.
We measure human intelligence by its peaks not lows and so we should do with any AI.
I think you are confusing the entirity of human achievement with individual human intelligence. By your criteria no human would pass the test, never mind a computer.
I'm not American, but can you please explain how moving to Europe is a solution to the erosion of American civil liberties? Seems it would only make things worse to have people who oppse a government leave.
Even if you reduce the issue to an issue of your own personal rights (the rest of America can go to hell), just by moving to most European countries you would be giving up many rights. The right to vote (you are not a citizen), the right to work (unless you can get the required visa), the right to free speech, many states (e.g Germany for neo-nazi stuff) have government imposed restrictions on what you can say, and will put you in jail for breaching it, the right to use encryption for personal communications (france), the right to bear arms (varies, but most countries are significantly more restrictive than the US). I'm sure there are probably others.
Because writing software to do something is a fun hobby you can do in your own time ragardless of whether a dozen people have done the exact same thing before. Why don't people just wait for the crossword answers tomorrow instead of doing it themselves today?
Project managing 8 developers to pull together to make something "viable" is a job, not a hobby. If you were doing that (or indeed working for such a person) you would usually have to be paid to do it -> not compatable with open source software, unless it falls into the narrow niche of being useful to, and fundable by, some business.
I agree that there are many projects on sourceforce that are dead or dying, but except for the fact that sourceforge has a crappy search engine, they are largely not hurting anybody, and "somebody" may find them useful at some stage. Not every piece of software has to be linux or apache.
I don't really agree. If linux is used in a controller for something, then at some point, some individual or company will have had to certify it's suitability for use in an elevator or whatever. It's that party (or the owner of the building using uncertified elevator parts) that carries responsibility.
Seems like a perfectly sensible decision to me. He want's to see a legaly binding document before he distributes his code under it. It's irresponsible to take any other position.
Extrapolating our most recent 100 years of history into the future doesn't make our prospects look very good either. Disease, war, and environmental destruction are likely to thin us out quite a bit or even lead to our extinction.
While there are valid concerns about all those issues, the history of the last 100 years doesn't show that they are having any significant effect on human growth rates. There are more people now than there have ever been. Hardly dwindling towards extinction.
The forking was done when the US started writing their own dictionaries with the express purpose of capturing the language as it was spoken in America, not as it had been spoken in London.
The hacky changes, like having no seperate key for 1 and 0 on a typewriter, disappear, the more sane one's stay.
I think that you mean more entrenched. There is nothing sane about qwerty for instance. It's designed to slow you down. The only thing keeping it around is the fact that every keyboard out there (give or take) is laid out like that.
Ease in getting started. You can say most anything with a knowledge of few hundred words, and remarkably few rules. That you can say the same thing in a more complicated way with a knowledge of a few tens of thousands of words, and many more rules is largely irrelevant.
Kerbdog interview: When his dole officer asked Cormac if he had any outstanding debts he showed them an invoice saying that he personally owed the record company 1.3 million pounds.
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One question, how can it be GPL if it has additional restrictions imposed upon it?
Yeah, but airlines actually go to destinations with breathable atmospheres.
Well, the situation sucks, but reading it I'd have to say a lot of it is your own fault. In a business relationship, you have no call for being a "nice guy". Sure be courteous and so on, but a contract is a contract. There is no other basis for your relationship with them. If you have a configuration that you think is necessary to have a stable network then don't work with people until they agree to use it, or at the very least take it into consideration when writing the contract. Don't do things outside the contract. If they have a new office 500 miles away, say you need to change the terms of the contract to accomodate it. etc....
Do teenagers watch TV? Do adults play PS2 games?
Lazy, or consider your time more valuable than your money.
I disagree. "Home computers" were as, or more popular then than gaming consoles are today. Plenty of non-geeks had them. The only difference being you could program a home computer, and most people did, even if it was just something like:
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
Those reasons are mostly just technical artifacts of the way it's done in linux/unix.
/data/website, and "reverse mount" it to both /dev/fastdisk and /dev/journaledbackupdisk.
bin, man, lib, var, etc, could just as easily be "virtual directories" (equivalent to views in a database) that scanned your PATH for self contained app directories that obeyed some standard for laying themselves out.
Mounting could be implemented backwards (push instead of pull). Create your website in
I'm not American, but can you please explain how moving to Europe is a solution to the erosion of American civil liberties? Seems it would only make things worse to have people who oppse a government leave.
Even if you reduce the issue to an issue of your own personal rights (the rest of America can go to hell), just by moving to most European countries you would be giving up many rights. The right to vote (you are not a citizen), the right to work (unless you can get the required visa), the right to free speech, many states (e.g Germany for neo-nazi stuff) have government imposed restrictions on what you can say, and will put you in jail for breaching it, the right to use encryption for personal communications (france), the right to bear arms (varies, but most countries are significantly more restrictive than the US). I'm sure there are probably others.
Because writing software to do something is a fun hobby you can do in your own time ragardless of whether a dozen people have done the exact same thing before. Why don't people just wait for the crossword answers tomorrow instead of doing it themselves today?
Project managing 8 developers to pull together to make something "viable" is a job, not a hobby. If you were doing that (or indeed working for such a person) you would usually have to be paid to do it -> not compatable with open source software, unless it falls into the narrow niche of being useful to, and fundable by, some business.
I agree that there are many projects on sourceforce that are dead or dying, but except for the fact that sourceforge has a crappy search engine, they are largely not hurting anybody, and "somebody" may find them useful at some stage. Not every piece of software has to be linux or apache.
I don't really agree. If linux is used in a controller for something, then at some point, some individual or company will have had to certify it's suitability for use in an elevator or whatever. It's that party (or the owner of the building using uncertified elevator parts) that carries responsibility.
Seems like a perfectly sensible decision to me. He want's to see a legaly binding document before he distributes his code under it. It's irresponsible to take any other position.
Yeah, breaking it open because it won't fit on your transportation is 100 times worse.
the way they speak?
The forking was done when the US started writing their own dictionaries with the express purpose of capturing the language as it was spoken in America, not as it had been spoken in London.
Ease in getting started. You can say most anything with a knowledge of few hundred words, and remarkably few rules. That you can say the same thing in a more complicated way with a knowledge of a few tens of thousands of words, and many more rules is largely irrelevant.
The third is a usability problem. It pops up a modal dialog box that you have to ok, even from hidden tabs. It's annoying as hell.
Hell, how did a bunch of second hand gossip mongers like slashdot wind up there too.
How about this: There is nothing flawed about DRM on a "trusted computing platform".
Kerbdog interview: When his dole officer asked Cormac if he had any outstanding debts he showed them an invoice saying that he personally owed the record company 1.3 million pounds.