We believe that a distributed operating system,
based on a few principles pervasively applied, could address
these problems. Such a system would enforce extreme location
transparency--any code fragment might run anywhere, any data
object might live anywhere--and the system would manage the
locality, replication, and migration of computations and data.
The system would be self-configuring, self-monitoring, and
self-tuning.
Which means that once a worm got into the system it would automatically be everywhere. And it could reconfigure and tune things so that you couldn't get rid of it. And it could turn off monitoring of its activities so you wouldn't know it was there. Great. Just what I need after a whole week of fighting the Nimda worm.
I just found a speech online by a guy named Kirk McKusick who calls what you call copyforward "copycenter." You just take the code down to the copy center and make all of the copies you want for any reason you want, no questions asked. If you want to make a better product out of it then that is cool. This sounds as if it is better for businesses 'cause it doesn't force them to give away what they do. Maybe Mandrake would have made it if they used that code instead.
I was just laid off from a dot.com that was shut down by the VCs because they did not think we would make money on account of the GPL. They stopped development right in the middle. We had a good product but the VCs were scared to pay for development because they thought that someone like Eazel would come along and do the same thing for free. Yes they might fail like Eazel did but they would take us down with them. They used Eazel as an example because Mandrake had not announced layoffs yet. I am one of the voices on Slashdot that agrees with you.
You don't get it, I guess. You say that you want people to play fair but it is the GPL that doesn't play fair. It kills the businesses of good people who are trying to do good work and it does not do it for any good reason. It does it out of sheer anger and nastyness.
Do not try to round up the usual suspects like Microsoft etc. We would have had a chance to compete with Microsoft except for the GPL.
Yes the GPL is viral. And I know that it is going to be sacrilege to say this on Slashdot but if you can put your religion aside for a minute and think it through.... The GPL exploits programmers the same way the RIAA exploits musicians.
Yes I know I might get flamed up and down for this by the people who believe that the GPL is the Holy Writ but I have got to say this. The GPL makes it so that you can't make money from writing code but only from selling CDs or selling support. Middleman stuff. Tedious stuff. Stuff that you don't even need to be a skilled programmer to do. And this is the same thing that the RIAA does to bands! The musicians are lucky if they make any money at all from their music and if they do they have to tour and sweat and it takes years before they earn out their advances and pay off the production costs. But the middleman record label that makes the disks and does advertising makes millions.
This is what the GPL does, and Richard Stallman (who tried to come onto me at a party with my boyfriend there but that's a story for another day) even says so. He says in his GNU Manifesto (look it up and read it on the FSF Web site) that he wants decent pay for programmers to be banned.
That is also why the really good programmers from our former company are out on the street right now looking for new jobs. The VCs wrote us off. They said that writing code was not a good way to make money especially with the GPL.
I hardly ever post in places like Slashdot because the flamers are so aggressive and there always seems to be such a mob psychology here but I think I really have to speak my piece here. Of ******course***** Linus, Bruce, and Eric are going to gang up on Microsoft because they have made their careers trashing that company and they all do things that compete with it. But they never say that in their speeches, all they do is talk about the supposed purity of open source as if they have no vested interests. I think they might be as guilty of spreading FUD as Microsoft, probably more so, because they do not tell about the things the GPL is intended to do, like destroy all software companies not just Microsoft. I was just laid off from a dot.com that is failing because the VCs do not believe that anyone will buy software anymore, they think that they can either get it for free or rip it off or do a copy under the GPL. I am taking a long vacation and staying with a friend and deciding whether to get out of the software business. I think the answer is yes because so long as there are Stallman and Perens around only Microsoft is going to be able to make it, the small companies will not. The GPL hurts programmers and I can't believe that people are believing Stallman and the others when they lie about it. Does anyone need a sysadmin?
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Which means that once a worm got into the system it would automatically be everywhere. And it could reconfigure and tune things so that you couldn't get rid of it. And it could turn off monitoring of its activities so you wouldn't know it was there. Great. Just what I need after a whole week of fighting the Nimda worm.
I just found a speech online by a guy named Kirk McKusick who calls what you call copyforward "copycenter." You just take the code down to the copy center and make all of the copies you want for any reason you want, no questions asked. If you want to make a better product out of it then that is cool. This sounds as if it is better for businesses 'cause it doesn't force them to give away what they do. Maybe Mandrake would have made it if they used that code instead.
I was just laid off from a dot.com that was shut down by the VCs because they did not think we would make money on account of the GPL. They stopped development right in the middle. We had a good product but the VCs were scared to pay for development because they thought that someone like Eazel would come along and do the same thing for free. Yes they might fail like Eazel did but they would take us down with them. They used Eazel as an example because Mandrake had not announced layoffs yet. I am one of the voices on Slashdot that agrees with you.
Do not try to round up the usual suspects like Microsoft etc. We would have had a chance to compete with Microsoft except for the GPL.
Yes I know I might get flamed up and down for this by the people who believe that the GPL is the Holy Writ but I have got to say this. The GPL makes it so that you can't make money from writing code but only from selling CDs or selling support. Middleman stuff. Tedious stuff. Stuff that you don't even need to be a skilled programmer to do. And this is the same thing that the RIAA does to bands! The musicians are lucky if they make any money at all from their music and if they do they have to tour and sweat and it takes years before they earn out their advances and pay off the production costs. But the middleman record label that makes the disks and does advertising makes millions.
This is what the GPL does, and Richard Stallman (who tried to come onto me at a party with my boyfriend there but that's a story for another day) even says so. He says in his GNU Manifesto (look it up and read it on the FSF Web site) that he wants decent pay for programmers to be banned.
That is also why the really good programmers from our former company are out on the street right now looking for new jobs. The VCs wrote us off. They said that writing code was not a good way to make money especially with the GPL.
I hardly ever post in places like Slashdot because the flamers are so aggressive and there always seems to be such a mob psychology here but I think I really have to speak my piece here. Of ******course***** Linus, Bruce, and Eric are going to gang up on Microsoft because they have made their careers trashing that company and they all do things that compete with it. But they never say that in their speeches, all they do is talk about the supposed purity of open source as if they have no vested interests. I think they might be as guilty of spreading FUD as Microsoft, probably more so, because they do not tell about the things the GPL is intended to do, like destroy all software companies not just Microsoft. I was just laid off from a dot.com that is failing because the VCs do not believe that anyone will buy software anymore, they think that they can either get it for free or rip it off or do a copy under the GPL. I am taking a long vacation and staying with a friend and deciding whether to get out of the software business. I think the answer is yes because so long as there are Stallman and Perens around only Microsoft is going to be able to make it, the small companies will not. The GPL hurts programmers and I can't believe that people are believing Stallman and the others when they lie about it. Does anyone need a sysadmin?