If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple?
We can only hope. Unity is GPL, as is the vast majority of the Linux ecosphere.....
At least it's GPL unless something happens to cause Canonical to exercise it's rights under the contributor's agreements to relicense all future releases of Unity under some other less-then-free license. They would be within their rights to switch to any license they wish for future releases while retaining all of the contributed code.
Hi. I make network equipment. I know a lot about network equipment. I think a big change is coming to network equipment. I think you should learn to use a lot of network equipment. A whole lot of network equipment. You need more network equipment. Oh, and did I tell you I make network equipment?
That brings back memories. I remember getting started in operations in college and a guy explaining that he was good, but not good enough to write a sendmail config by hand. I'd seen the bat book, but that was about all I understood of it at the time. He then went on to explain how our senior sys-admin could do that and write termcap entries by hand.
I still can't do either without a reference and don't intend to try.
You need a license to drive a car. You have to know how to work the ignition, get into and out of gear, how to signal turns, accelerate and stop, how to add fuel and recognize basic problems like burnt out lights and flat tires. If you can do those sorts of things then no, you have no business driving a car.
I consider this only one example of of Linux made worse by Ubuntu and the like in their quest to appeal to the one they condescendingly refer to as "Joe Sixpack". You can throw things like security, good design and expertise to the wind claiming the average user won't care for only so long before you realize they'll care when it's gone.
You can still find distro's that haven't made all these mistakes, but it's getting way out of the mainstream even for Linux.
I'd consider stalled to be awful similar to broken. If he went into office making promises without considering implementation details or the fact that he had t work with the legislature on some things, then he was making promises he couldn't keep.
OK. I want to see it well tested and all, but my first reaction to the above statement was "That's taking it a little too far!" As I have thought about it more, I have to ask, what exactly would that test case be testing for?
I can't answer for the comment you replied to, but I've bought quite a bit of software. Even though I can legally download for free (no-cost) my OS i've bought it before to get money back to developers. I can look on my shelf and easily count the the cases of over a couple dozen games I've bought. Given the recent trend of download only games by Indy developers I suspect I've bought another couple dozen games that have no cases. For both the Humble Bundles, I beat the average price several times over.
When Transgaming started out claiming that they would be releasing their code when they reach various threshold amounts of money, I was eager to support them. I like the idea of subscriptions to develop Open Source Software where requirements are taken from the subscribers. Once it came out that Transgaming was going to renege and that their software could not be released as Open Source, I lost interest. I will never pay a subscription for any Proprietary Software (otherwise I would also have Vendetta on my shelf).
I do value Open Source but I will tolerate Proprietary for certain uses and under certain conditions. Transgaming did not meet my conditions. Frankly, I no longer care to emulate a windows runtime, so they are too late. They've missed their opportunity with me.
Also, if you only see an interest in "Free as in Beer" from where you sit it might be that you need a better seat. I know several Windows (and Mac) users who pirate software. If they migrate to Linux, it wouldn't surprise me if all they (continued to) care about was getting things for free. Likewise I'm sure Proprietary companies that fear and bad mouth GPL-like licenses in favor of BSD-like licenses are only interested in the "Free as in Beer" nature of Open Source as well. Just because you look around yourself and only see unprincipled cads does not mean there isn't a wealth of folks with principles elsewhere.
I have bought both Humble Bundles. I've paid a few times the Linux average. Both have games that I would not have bought on their own, but in the Bundle I was willing to experiment with them. In one case, I am now awaiting a sequel. I can't say any of the games I have played have been bad or that I feel any were a waste of money. I still haven' played through all of the games from the first Bundle yet, but I have experiment with them. I have tried two older games in the second bundle.
Even with the Bundles, there are still games I will buy and at a good price because I know I like them and I want the developer to keep at it, like the Eschalon series by Basilisk.
My goal as a customer of the Bundle is to experiment with title I otherwise might night try and to hopefully encourage indie developers who meet the Humble Bundle criteria. (Multi-platform, no-drm) Of course I believe it is also important that the Bundles have a mix of interesting games. I wouldn't but a Bundle of 4 Solitaire games and a Pacman clone. I wouldn't mind seeing Annual or Bi-annual Bundles become a reasonable replacement for the large game publishing companies. The Publishers are dead weight and a drag on the game industry.
The only real downside for me is that I am a physical media kind of person. I'm not crazy about downloads, but the lack drm and the price help make of for it. I'd feel safer if I knew the download page would be available indefinitely. The fact that the Humble Bundle now have a backing company helps. I suppose that lack drm also helps should Humble Bundle Inc. ever go under.
Then at what point does destroying someone's ability to run a business become mob/vigilante justice? I suppose you don't believe there's any just way to stop spam either?
I don't mind them complaining incorrectly about EasyDNS. Let them make fools of themselves in the press protesting. Real protesters do that all the time. It's them inhibiting EasyDNS from doing business over the internet as punishment for an act (not even a crime) they did not commit. Come to think of it, I would think the DDOS actually bandwidth costs. It's ok for a mob of mis-guided imbeciles to use the internet this way? If so, would it also be ok for corporations to engage in DDOS attacks? (RIAA v bittorrent developers) How about governments? (US v prisonplanet) Or wealthy individuals? (Rupert Murdoch v you???) Perhaps non-profits organizations? (Religious Organizations v planned parenthood sites) If not why not? You must not draw lines that could inhibit the anyone's right of expression! Even them.
As soon as Michael Moore is in a US prison because of his movies and the things he's said and as soon as anyone who is considered his family or friends are in prison simply for being his friends and family, I'll give consideration to your position that the USA is as bad as Venezuela.
I would expect that the IP addresses will be used to track down the 'activists' involved in the DDOS attacks. Even if it is just 'activism' as I keep seeing here, I would expect these 'activists' to at least spend a night in lock up, post bail, end up doing community service and getting a record, just like anyone else who care enough about something to engage in civil disobedience.
Being that I think this seems more like 'mob justice' I kind of hope for something more substantive. I have too much respect for what was necessary during the civil rights movement in my country do equate these DDOS attacks with it.
Two's late, I'm reading both. Most of the high moderated posts on the prior article now seem to be equating the DDOS to protesting brick & mortar stores. I guess that means EasyDNS got what they deserved?
They didn't jump the shark. They just had a few other candidates they needed to deal with prior to the shark. He'll be award the prize in a couple years.
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Awesome! I am totally going to go claim me a part of the local State Park after work. Here I thought I had to go and buy a cabin.
Dunno. How about Minecraft?
If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple?
We can only hope. Unity is GPL, as is the vast majority of the Linux ecosphere. ....
At least it's GPL unless something happens to cause Canonical to exercise it's rights under the contributor's agreements to relicense all future releases of Unity under some other less-then-free license. They would be within their rights to switch to any license they wish for future releases while retaining all of the contributed code.
They are attempting to get medieval on the manufactures who have been more than just a little evil.
Citation please? Well, ok. So did I, just a second ago, here
What service do MS provide in this case? Netflix provides, the content. The ISP provides the bandwidth. MS provides ...? The system? That was paid for.
Mark third party app 'Gold'.
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Profit!
Guess the Underwear Gnomes where right.
I don't know. I think it is possible to achieve good things through inappropriate means.
Here. Note that it has material that may be challenged or removed as it does not cite any references or sources.
Please expound upon the meaning of Normal here. I think that is important.
Hi. I make network equipment. I know a lot about network equipment. I think a big change is coming to network equipment. I think you should learn to use a lot of network equipment. A whole lot of network equipment. You need more network equipment. Oh, and did I tell you I make network equipment?
That brings back memories. I remember getting started in operations in college and a guy explaining that he was good, but not good enough to write a sendmail config by hand. I'd seen the bat book, but that was about all I understood of it at the time. He then went on to explain how our senior sys-admin could do that and write termcap entries by hand.
I still can't do either without a reference and don't intend to try.
You need a license to drive a car. You have to know how to work the ignition, get into and out of gear, how to signal turns, accelerate and stop, how to add fuel and recognize basic problems like burnt out lights and flat tires. If you can do those sorts of things then no, you have no business driving a car.
I consider this only one example of of Linux made worse by Ubuntu and the like in their quest to appeal to the one they condescendingly refer to as "Joe Sixpack". You can throw things like security, good design and expertise to the wind claiming the average user won't care for only so long before you realize they'll care when it's gone.
You can still find distro's that haven't made all these mistakes, but it's getting way out of the mainstream even for Linux.
I'd consider stalled to be awful similar to broken. If he went into office making promises without considering implementation details or the fact that he had t work with the legislature on some things, then he was making promises he couldn't keep.
OK. I want to see it well tested and all, but my first reaction to the above statement was "That's taking it a little too far!" As I have thought about it more, I have to ask, what exactly would that test case be testing for?
There's a forum thread where a developer of MaXplosion admits that they were inspired by Splosion Man. Isn't that enough of a smoking gun?
I don't think the line "141.6-ish kilometers per hour!" rolls off the tongue nearly as well.
I can't answer for the comment you replied to, but I've bought quite a bit of software. Even though I can legally download for free (no-cost) my OS i've bought it before to get money back to developers. I can look on my shelf and easily count the the cases of over a couple dozen games I've bought. Given the recent trend of download only games by Indy developers I suspect I've bought another couple dozen games that have no cases. For both the Humble Bundles, I beat the average price several times over.
When Transgaming started out claiming that they would be releasing their code when they reach various threshold amounts of money, I was eager to support them. I like the idea of subscriptions to develop Open Source Software where requirements are taken from the subscribers. Once it came out that Transgaming was going to renege and that their software could not be released as Open Source, I lost interest. I will never pay a subscription for any Proprietary Software (otherwise I would also have Vendetta on my shelf).
I do value Open Source but I will tolerate Proprietary for certain uses and under certain conditions. Transgaming did not meet my conditions. Frankly, I no longer care to emulate a windows runtime, so they are too late. They've missed their opportunity with me.
Also, if you only see an interest in "Free as in Beer" from where you sit it might be that you need a better seat. I know several Windows (and Mac) users who pirate software. If they migrate to Linux, it wouldn't surprise me if all they (continued to) care about was getting things for free. Likewise I'm sure Proprietary companies that fear and bad mouth GPL-like licenses in favor of BSD-like licenses are only interested in the "Free as in Beer" nature of Open Source as well. Just because you look around yourself and only see unprincipled cads does not mean there isn't a wealth of folks with principles elsewhere.
I have bought both Humble Bundles. I've paid a few times the Linux average. Both have games that I would not have bought on their own, but in the Bundle I was willing to experiment with them. In one case, I am now awaiting a sequel. I can't say any of the games I have played have been bad or that I feel any were a waste of money. I still haven' played through all of the games from the first Bundle yet, but I have experiment with them. I have tried two older games in the second bundle.
Even with the Bundles, there are still games I will buy and at a good price because I know I like them and I want the developer to keep at it, like the Eschalon series by Basilisk.
My goal as a customer of the Bundle is to experiment with title I otherwise might night try and to hopefully encourage indie developers who meet the Humble Bundle criteria. (Multi-platform, no-drm) Of course I believe it is also important that the Bundles have a mix of interesting games. I wouldn't but a Bundle of 4 Solitaire games and a Pacman clone. I wouldn't mind seeing Annual or Bi-annual Bundles become a reasonable replacement for the large game publishing companies. The Publishers are dead weight and a drag on the game industry.
The only real downside for me is that I am a physical media kind of person. I'm not crazy about downloads, but the lack drm and the price help make of for it. I'd feel safer if I knew the download page would be available indefinitely. The fact that the Humble Bundle now have a backing company helps. I suppose that lack drm also helps should Humble Bundle Inc. ever go under.
Then at what point does destroying someone's ability to run a business become mob/vigilante justice? I suppose you don't believe there's any just way to stop spam either?
I don't mind them complaining incorrectly about EasyDNS. Let them make fools of themselves in the press protesting. Real protesters do that all the time. It's them inhibiting EasyDNS from doing business over the internet as punishment for an act (not even a crime) they did not commit. Come to think of it, I would think the DDOS actually bandwidth costs. It's ok for a mob of mis-guided imbeciles to use the internet this way? If so, would it also be ok for corporations to engage in DDOS attacks? (RIAA v bittorrent developers) How about governments? (US v prisonplanet) Or wealthy individuals? (Rupert Murdoch v you???) Perhaps non-profits organizations? (Religious Organizations v planned parenthood sites) If not why not? You must not draw lines that could inhibit the anyone's right of expression! Even them.
As soon as Michael Moore is in a US prison because of his movies and the things he's said and as soon as anyone who is considered his family or friends are in prison simply for being his friends and family, I'll give consideration to your position that the USA is as bad as Venezuela.
I would expect that the IP addresses will be used to track down the 'activists' involved in the DDOS attacks. Even if it is just 'activism' as I keep seeing here, I would expect these 'activists' to at least spend a night in lock up, post bail, end up doing community service and getting a record, just like anyone else who care enough about something to engage in civil disobedience.
Being that I think this seems more like 'mob justice' I kind of hope for something more substantive. I have too much respect for what was necessary during the civil rights movement in my country do equate these DDOS attacks with it.
How about the DDOS of EasyDNS?
Two's late, I'm reading both. Most of the high moderated posts on the prior article now seem to be equating the DDOS to protesting brick & mortar stores. I guess that means EasyDNS got what they deserved?
They didn't jump the shark. They just had a few other candidates they needed to deal with prior to the shark. He'll be award the prize in a couple years.