And coffee, dear American/.-readers, is NOT the hot water in which a sole coffeebean did some skinny dipping, like the stuff you regularly tend to find in the US. Order a triple espresso at Starbuck's, and then you might know what coffee should taste like.;)
So if you want to have the same results in the US, you can easily drink 3 times the amount mentioned in the Italian report.
I thought the site came in pretty quick. If not, read Clemens' reaction to all the opposition.
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Free stuff vs. free stuff
Of course my letter to Aiden is prompting some opposition. It may be worth noting that a very large proportion of the code that I write ends up being public and there's more stuff brewing as we speak. There is little need to educate me about giving. I am an educator. Sharing insight and therefore sharing manifestations of that insight in form of source code is my mission and part of my business. But this is not the business my clients are in and neither is it the business of most of the thousands of developers I am honored to speak for at conferences each year. Their business is about being paid for writing software. If they weren't paid, I wouldn't be paid. My job description is to figure out fundamental stuff and use my natural "understand very complex things thoroughly and rapidly" skill that I was luckily blessed with, so that I can explain those things to them and they can focus on solving customer problems. My free stuff helps my customers and is also playing a marketing role for me an my company. Our free stuff is a calculated investment. We can and do attach a number to it. dasBlog is a freebie for others but represents a significant investment that's worth several tens of thousands of Euros. It's not free, at all.
We support a project that brings us some indirect value. However, we do not in any way force any code republishing requirements upon the folks who'd like to reuse our code (we have a strict "no GPL" policy; our code is BSD licensed). We don't depend on a community of volunteers to turn dasBlog into a dominant blogging tool that we can benefit from by commerically supporting it. We believe that if we wanted to benefit from the software directly, we would have to rearchitect and rebuild it (or at least restrict ourselves to newtelligence contributions) and then sell it as a fully supported commercial product. My personal sense of respect and fairness tells me that I will not and should not exploit the others guys that have contributed to the free version of dasBlog. It's their hobby and their work is their work. I think a company like Red Hat, which is a public company (which did yield a significant "going public benefit" to their founders) and is profiting from the work of countless unpaid volunteers and enthusiasts, is a very clever, but deeply unethical entity.
I do believe in giving and I do believe that there is value for the community at large in sharing insight through source code. But we don't share the view that software is free or should be free. Someone pays for it. We have an investment in software that is free for others to use, MySQL has, HP has, IBM has, Sun has and - believe it or not - even Microsoft has. We do that as part of a well thought out and well understood business strategy.
I understand open source. I do open source. I do so because I am aware of what it can and can not do for a company. I think I have a pretty good understanding on what's going on in this business. If it becomes the norm that the people providing outsourcing, system administration, hardware, and consulting make orders of magnitudes more money than the creative force, the software engineers and architects who are envisioning and building the foundation for this industry, something is stinking. And it stinks a lot already.
Also, if you say that I am confusing "free software" and "open source". I am not. "Open" is the political argumentation line, "free" is the economic argumentation line of the same thing. If this sort of confusion exists for mostly everyone and one of the most often repeated line in OSS arguments is "you don't understand the difference", then that's caused by the simple fact that these terms are simply two angles of looking at the same story. The OSS "eco-system" only functions because both is true.
Matthew, selfish is not the one who wants to get a tangible reward for his work. Selfish is the one who denies that reward.
"Is it really this bad that you think we all walk around on wooden shoes and live in windmills?"
I wear wooden shoes, when I code in my tulip-decorated windmill-office. Don't you? And I took my finger out of the dyke last week, and look what happened...
"After the rover arm pressed soil down, the top layer of dust hardly moved, a finding that suggests something may be binding the dust like some type of salt or thin cement."
Interesting, as the marks of the airbags are clearly visible on all pics. Or am I missing the point of a rover-arm having less force than a bouncing-lander-in-an-airbag?
Is this the same that Eazel tried with Nautilus? Unfortunately, they failed.
So far, the Linux community exists modtly out of tech-people. When you look at Apple Computer, they have a separate division that purely focusses on human interface design.
Won't it be possible for people like that to spend some time on a better enduser-experience? Can GUI-development be organised in the same way as Linux' kernel-development is?
We really don't need another full linux distro running on a cube and nobody is going to connect it up to a network
I think you do miss the point here. It's purely done to show that the Cube CAN run Linux. The chances that people will run Linux on it as their main OS is very small.
Superior hardware doesn't make the Xbox a superior platform. If so, sales would have been much higher. So far, the Xbox is the 3rd console and it's share in the gamingmarket is decreasing (in percentages).
That's just an artifact of the JPEG compression that was used on the images.
That's what I thought too, until I tried to reproduce that. Try it with Photoshop or another photo-editing app, you will not be able to get a sharp pixelated line like that when using JPEG-compression.
UPDATE! In JUST the last few seconds both images have been replaced with images of the following texts
Yup, that's the same what I see now.
Ah who cares, I am having a good day now, knowing that the person that has been terrorising my mailbox for months, has doubled his/her bloodpressure because of the "bad" things that have been done to his/her "business":-)
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Translucent? That's what I call tea. :-)
So if you want to have the same results in the US, you can easily drink 3 times the amount mentioned in the Italian report.
Now there ya go! Drop that doomed programming-job, and hop on to become a real Coca Cola truckdriver yea!
I thought the site came in pretty quick. If not, read Clemens' reaction to all the opposition.
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Free stuff vs. free stuff
Of course my letter to Aiden is prompting some opposition. It may be worth noting that a very large proportion of the code that I write ends up being public and there's more stuff brewing as we speak. There is little need to educate me about giving. I am an educator. Sharing insight and therefore sharing manifestations of that insight in form of source code is my mission and part of my business. But this is not the business my clients are in and neither is it the business of most of the thousands of developers I am honored to speak for at conferences each year. Their business is about being paid for writing software. If they weren't paid, I wouldn't be paid. My job description is to figure out fundamental stuff and use my natural "understand very complex things thoroughly and rapidly" skill that I was luckily blessed with, so that I can explain those things to them and they can focus on solving customer problems. My free stuff helps my customers and is also playing a marketing role for me an my company. Our free stuff is a calculated investment. We can and do attach a number to it. dasBlog is a freebie for others but represents a significant investment that's worth several tens of thousands of Euros. It's not free, at all.
We support a project that brings us some indirect value. However, we do not in any way force any code republishing requirements upon the folks who'd like to reuse our code (we have a strict "no GPL" policy; our code is BSD licensed). We don't depend on a community of volunteers to turn dasBlog into a dominant blogging tool that we can benefit from by commerically supporting it. We believe that if we wanted to benefit from the software directly, we would have to rearchitect and rebuild it (or at least restrict ourselves to newtelligence contributions) and then sell it as a fully supported commercial product. My personal sense of respect and fairness tells me that I will not and should not exploit the others guys that have contributed to the free version of dasBlog. It's their hobby and their work is their work. I think a company like Red Hat, which is a public company (which did yield a significant "going public benefit" to their founders) and is profiting from the work of countless unpaid volunteers and enthusiasts, is a very clever, but deeply unethical entity.
I do believe in giving and I do believe that there is value for the community at large in sharing insight through source code. But we don't share the view that software is free or should be free. Someone pays for it. We have an investment in software that is free for others to use, MySQL has, HP has, IBM has, Sun has and - believe it or not - even Microsoft has. We do that as part of a well thought out and well understood business strategy.
I understand open source. I do open source. I do so because I am aware of what it can and can not do for a company. I think I have a pretty good understanding on what's going on in this business. If it becomes the norm that the people providing outsourcing, system administration, hardware, and consulting make orders of magnitudes more money than the creative force, the software engineers and architects who are envisioning and building the foundation for this industry, something is stinking. And it stinks a lot already.
Also, if you say that I am confusing "free software" and "open source". I am not. "Open" is the political argumentation line, "free" is the economic argumentation line of the same thing. If this sort of confusion exists for mostly everyone and one of the most often repeated line in OSS arguments is "you don't understand the difference", then that's caused by the simple fact that these terms are simply two angles of looking at the same story. The OSS "eco-system" only functions because both is true.
Matthew, selfish is not the one who wants to get a tangible reward for his work. Selfish is the one who denies that reward.
"Once you write a successful application, you have book deals"
Looking at your nickname, I fully understand why free-code coders can make money out of manua^H^H^H^H^H^H books. :)
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I wear wooden shoes, when I code in my tulip-decorated windmill-office. Don't you? And I took my finger out of the dyke last week, and look what happened...
I geloof dat I like those translators you have gebruikt. Grote chance that no hond er one reet van understands. :-)
I thought the temperature of Mars was -15 degrees Celsius at it's coldest, and +5 degrees Celsius at it's hotest (according to temperatures received from Spirit)
Eric S. Rayrnond struck again :-)
And meanwhile we all will wonder what color you beer will have...
So Spirit tripped and drowned in a puddle of mud?
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Too bad people can't appreciate jokes like this. Though the joke is over now, I expect to see appear a 'rniguel de icaza' or 'CrndrTaco' soon. ;-)
Interesting, as the marks of the airbags are clearly visible on all pics. Or am I missing the point of a rover-arm having less force than a bouncing-lander-in-an-airbag?
Argh, that should be "Human Interaction Design"..
So far, the Linux community exists modtly out of tech-people. When you look at Apple Computer, they have a separate division that purely focusses on human interface design.
Won't it be possible for people like that to spend some time on a better enduser-experience? Can GUI-development be organised in the same way as Linux' kernel-development is?
Your "+3 Funny"-score has decreased to +1 rapidly. I think the other female Slahdottees with mod-points will take care of those final 2... ;-)
Nope, that is not the point in this Linux/GameCube-case. Again, the point was to actually get Linux running on a GameCube. Nothing more, nothing less.
Superior hardware doesn't make the Xbox a superior platform. If so, sales would have been much higher. So far, the Xbox is the 3rd console and it's share in the gamingmarket is decreasing (in percentages).
So let's try it again:
"Can you imagine an Xgrid-cluster of these?"
Thank you.
Whether or not I was using the right words for my question, you DID understand what I was talking about ;-)
So yes, I meant the sharp boundary.
Apple sueing Fiona ?
That's what I thought too, until I tried to reproduce that. Try it with Photoshop or another photo-editing app, you will not be able to get a sharp pixelated line like that when using JPEG-compression.
That should read as: At least I couldn't :-)
Yup, that's the same what I see now.
Ah who cares, I am having a good day now, knowing that the person that has been terrorising my mailbox for months, has doubled his/her bloodpressure because of the "bad" things that have been done to his/her "business" :-)