Well, AOL could buy Slack, RH, Mandrake, Suse AND Debian and still have enough money left to send me 4 discs a month. I don't think getting a deal is the issue here.:)
Hahahahaha. Richest how? Biggest discrepancy between rich and poor? Highest infant mortality rate for a "developed" nation? Or do you mean most TVs and nuclear missiles per capita? Your cherished capitalism isn't the be-all end-all of civilization you know. Especially when your people are starving and your culture is non-existent.
I'm not sure releasing the source in this case would do anything to their business interests. The type of person that gets AOL is looking for a certain type of experience, which AOL has pretty much dominated. Basically what their distribution would be is a bunch of programs that facilitate connecting to the AOL network, along with Abiword or something that you can get anyway. Nobody else has the infrastructure to really compete with that, which is why I don't think they'd worry about it.
Maybe they'll even put pressure on the Winmodem manufacturers to release Linux drivers
Excellent point. I can't count the number of times I've evangelized Linux to somebody, only to have them say "and can I surf the net and stuff?," only to have to reply with chagrin, "well, that depends..." People (especially someone for whom AOL is an answer to anything) don't understand the politics or the technology behind Windmodems. They just want it to dial up to check their mail. I think if AOL could make Linux simple enough for Joe User, it would be great. They're not forcing you to use it.
I agree wholeheartedly, but just to emphasize the point - "now and again" ?! Our most respected kernel hackers screw up all the time! Just try not to submit it if it's b0rked on your system. Kernel 2.4.11 anyone?
Think back to what kind of system you were using 10 years ago, and how quickly we have gotten to where we are.
Ten years ago I was running a 486/66 with 16M of RAM, and a 340M hard drive that eventually filled up. Right now I'm on an Athlon 950 with half a gig of ram, and ~50 gigs of hard drive that's just about full. The programs you run are always going to drive development of the equipment you run it on. It doesn't matter how much space you have- you'll fill it.
Unfortunately, it's not the job of Federal Marshals to be "hired" and enforce software licensing for a company convicted of overcharging for its products. Is there no other crime that can be targeted, that we have to have Federal Governmental police support for a company?
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Or tell that to OVER HALF of Quebec, as indeed over half of its citizens want to secede.
Uhh, ok. That's why they've voted not to secede in every referendum they've done so far, right?
Well, AOL could buy Slack, RH, Mandrake, Suse AND Debian and still have enough money left to send me 4 discs a month. I don't think getting a deal is the issue here. :)
If the rest of the internet worked like this we'd still be dialing in to BBSes.
Would that be so bad though, really? I've been needing a fix of The Pit recently...
Hahahahaha. Richest how? Biggest discrepancy between rich and poor? Highest infant mortality rate for a "developed" nation? Or do you mean most TVs and nuclear missiles per capita? Your cherished capitalism isn't the be-all end-all of civilization you know. Especially when your people are starving and your culture is non-existent.
Gotcha. It all makes sense now. I can sleep tonight. :)
How's your German?
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/jfkberl.htm
but there are only two choices for high end graphics
Maybe I'm reading you wrong, but huh? If there's only two as you claim, Nvidia ain't one of them.
Here?
Sorry. I had to.
Maybe they'd pump 100 million bucks into writing a spellchecker for Taco.
I'm not sure releasing the source in this case would do anything to their business interests. The type of person that gets AOL is looking for a certain type of experience, which AOL has pretty much dominated. Basically what their distribution would be is a bunch of programs that facilitate connecting to the AOL network, along with Abiword or something that you can get anyway. Nobody else has the infrastructure to really compete with that, which is why I don't think they'd worry about it.
I don't see the problem. Don't like it? Don't run it. It's a hell of a lot easier to port apps from RedHAOL to Slack than from Windows to anything.
Maybe they'll even put pressure on the Winmodem manufacturers to release Linux drivers
Excellent point. I can't count the number of times I've evangelized Linux to somebody, only to have them say "and can I surf the net and stuff?," only to have to reply with chagrin, "well, that depends..." People (especially someone for whom AOL is an answer to anything) don't understand the politics or the technology behind Windmodems. They just want it to dial up to check their mail. I think if AOL could make Linux simple enough for Joe User, it would be great. They're not forcing you to use it.
Oho, so you're the guy that coded the Olympics site!
down in the ring of Karma. My sig looks so puny now. I'm sad.
Or you could just cut off your thumbs and flush them down the toilet when you see the Gest^H^H^H^Hpolice coming. Poof! No password!
No new exploits? Like UPnP or something, you mean?
And Microsoft does what, give up? Your idea is fine by me, but they might not take it so easily.
I agree wholeheartedly, but just to emphasize the point - "now and again" ?! Our most respected kernel hackers screw up all the time! Just try not to submit it if it's b0rked on your system. Kernel 2.4.11 anyone?
Your formatting reminds me of this post from alt.(somethingorother).metallica in '93 or so. It looked so poetic that I saved it. Check it out:
Well about two months ago
I found Garage Days Re-revisited
on tape in a used record shop
for about ten dollars
I came back two weeks later and
found Kill 'Em All with the two extra
songs-on tape for 3.50
I came back last week and found a rare
Soundgarden CD (Badmotorfinger w/the
Somm EP) for around 15.00
SO, hope is alive, those albums are still
floating around in some form
Yeah, but Windows doesn't have kernels like "Greased-Turkey," so there, nyah. Who wants to run "kernel32?" Boooooring!
So what would you propose instead?
...it's high time that our governments took advantage of its investment in these quality resources.
:)
That's speech material right there. Has a beautiful ring to it.
Think back to what kind of system you were using 10 years ago, and how quickly we have gotten to where we are.
Ten years ago I was running a 486/66 with 16M of RAM, and a 340M hard drive that eventually filled up. Right now I'm on an Athlon 950 with half a gig of ram, and ~50 gigs of hard drive that's just about full. The programs you run are always going to drive development of the equipment you run it on. It doesn't matter how much space you have- you'll fill it.
Unfortunately, it's not the job of Federal Marshals to be "hired" and enforce software licensing for a company convicted of overcharging for its products. Is there no other crime that can be targeted, that we have to have Federal Governmental police support for a company?
That Stumpy. Never thinking ahead. He should never have pissed off ol' KnickKnack Wotherspoon, his disgruntled employee. No wonder he got reported.
I love automated letters. You can always tell who sold their mailing list when you start getting mail for "Firstname Lastname."