Frankly, I'm getting tired of hearing about "business" this and "business" that.
Who cares.
The GPL, Linux et al. were not originally intented to make money. If you can make money using them and contribute in the process, good for you. But don't bore me with the "but it's hard/impossible to make money", because frankly, no one "who gets it" cares anymore.
This comment applies also to all the Linux companies as well (witness VA Linux). If VA Linux dies because they couldn't figure out how to make $ from Linux, well, that's just too bad - I feel for the employees.
But beyond that, it's irrelevant. I still have great software to use.
It think the whole "Open Source" candy coating spear-headed by ESR was a big mistake. It subverts the original goal of having great software - LIBRE.
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I remember reading that and thinking that ESR should have waited until he had the money in his pocket before crowing.
Re-reading just now, you just have to love the line Gee, remember when we wondered "how do we make money with this?" Indeed, VA still hasn't figured it out.
In 1997, I saw ESR "live" at the Atlanta Linux Symposium, doing the "Cathedral and the bazaar". Interesting paper, but I thought he was a terrible speaker. At the time, I didn't really know who he was and I was shocked to see him become "the" spokesperson for the OSS movement.
Most companies can't be bothered to make their web site render properly on all browsers and platforms, let alone changing CODECs to accomodate alternative operating systems.
As well, this new CODEC would have to start shipping on Mac and Wintel boxes for your argument to hold. Fat chance of that happening, eh.
Except that most files out there are encoded with the Sorenson CODEC, so even if we had our own, we're still locked out of most/all content out there.
Let's face it - Apple has no commercial interest in allowing Linux users to view Sorenson-encoded AVIs, so it won't allow Sorenson to license it out to anyone else (that's my understanding of the situation, according to the Xanim site). And since commercial entities are incapable of altruism, it's a moot point to discuss it further.
But writing "our own" wouldn't suddenly make CNN start using it or whatever...
Nowhere in these links is there ANY mention of VGS running on Linux. All it is VirtualPC, FOR THE MAC, will now ship with RedHat bundled. In other words, Rob didn't do any fact checking... again.
Indeed ! They've sure changed from the early days when NO matrox board were supported, and calls and request for specs to their head office were never returned or acknowledged. Good on them ! I know what MY next board will be !
I think Linus forgot to mention Apple's half-hearted attempt at Open Source.
Sure, they open sourced part of their attempt at a me-too modern OS, but it's only to try to leverage some free work from the community. It's obvious that there's no real commitment to the Open Source principles.
If Apple wants to get taken seriously, they should release something unique and ground-breaking, like QuickTime 4 and QuickTimeVR.
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Frankly, I'm getting tired of hearing about "business" this and "business" that.
Who cares.
The GPL, Linux et al. were not originally intented to make money. If you can make money using them and contribute in the process, good for you. But don't bore me with the "but it's hard/impossible to make money", because frankly, no one "who gets it" cares anymore.
This comment applies also to all the Linux companies as well (witness VA Linux). If VA Linux dies because they couldn't figure out how to make $ from Linux, well, that's just too bad - I feel for the employees.
But beyond that, it's irrelevant. I still have great software to use.
It think the whole "Open Source" candy coating spear-headed by ESR was a big mistake. It subverts the original goal of having great software - LIBRE.
I remember reading that and thinking that ESR should have waited until he had the money in his pocket before crowing. Re-reading just now, you just have to love the line Gee, remember when we wondered "how do we make money with this?" Indeed, VA still hasn't figured it out. In 1997, I saw ESR "live" at the Atlanta Linux Symposium, doing the "Cathedral and the bazaar". Interesting paper, but I thought he was a terrible speaker. At the time, I didn't really know who he was and I was shocked to see him become "the" spokesperson for the OSS movement.
Ah.
Most companies can't be bothered to make their web site render properly on all browsers and platforms, let alone changing CODECs to accomodate alternative operating systems.
As well, this new CODEC would have to start shipping on Mac and Wintel boxes for your argument to hold. Fat chance of that happening, eh.
Except that most files out there are encoded with the Sorenson CODEC, so even if we had our own, we're still locked out of most/all content out there.
Let's face it - Apple has no commercial interest in allowing Linux users to view Sorenson-encoded AVIs, so it won't allow Sorenson to license it out to anyone else (that's my understanding of the situation, according to the Xanim site). And since commercial entities are incapable of altruism, it's a moot point to discuss it further.
But writing "our own" wouldn't suddenly make CNN start using it or whatever...
Nowhere in these links is there ANY mention of VGS running on Linux. All it is VirtualPC, FOR THE MAC, will now ship with RedHat bundled. In other words, Rob didn't do any fact checking... again.
Indeed ! They've sure changed from the early days when NO matrox board were supported, and calls and request for specs to their head office were never returned or acknowledged. Good on them ! I know what MY next board will be !
It's a KFC in Lees Summit, Missouri... www.555-1212.com told me so... Probably some disgruntled chicken-flippin' employee.
Well, the fan on my laptop doesn't go on, unless Netscape freaks out (again) and pin the CPU to 100%...
Can't wait for Mozilla and/or Opera to come out.
I think Linus forgot to mention Apple's half-hearted attempt at Open Source.
Sure, they open sourced part of their attempt at a me-too modern OS, but it's only to try to leverage some free work from the community. It's obvious that there's no real commitment to the Open Source principles.
If Apple wants to get taken seriously, they should release something unique and ground-breaking, like QuickTime 4 and QuickTimeVR.
a hole in his sock, too ! At $500 a pop, you'd think he could get some good socks...