Wow, I'm just surprised that somebody cared enough about my post to respond to it. I should post more useless stuff so that more people can respond, and thus have something to do with the obviously extra time they have during the day.
Everybody has their OpenBSD quips, so I may as well add mine.
I've been using OpenBSD since 2.8 and have loved it since. It was the first UNIX-like OS I used. I currently use it on one box for my firewall, but have switched to gentoo for the web & mail servers.
Thats not the best part though. I have some friends who needed a residential gateway, and I set them up with an old box running obsd 3.1, and its been running non-stop (aside from power outages) since, with no problems. I keep telling them I should upgrade them, but it really isn't required.
Anyway, thats my addition. I wonder if anybody will have the paitence to read this far down in the comments. Hmmmm...
What even says it was a 'bad investment decision'? Everybody knows MS hates Linux, and they're doing everything they can to fight against it.
I figure there must be several people out there thinking "hm, good move by microsoft to protect their market share. As an investor, that makes me happy".
So, since I pay "musicians" (record companies) for my digital storage media, I guess that must mean that I can copy all I want... its not like I'm getting it for free after all.
Except that I bet they go after smaller firms... MS, etc would be able to crush them in an instant. But they don't have to go for MS or Gentoo or Debian if they don't want to.
The'll try it on a few small-time firms and crush them, collect the fees, then just sit on the patent until its convienient to use it agian...
Indeed. And in addition, we've seen that many programmers don't even need the promise of a monopoly to develop good software -- look at the open source community.
I think some of the other reply's missed the point of the parent... Would it be good to take over the desktop market? Yeah, of course. That's not the point though. The point is that the structure of the open source community is entirely different from that of a proprietary software company. As such, the OS community doesn't have the ability to say "THIS is the one desktop environment, and THIS is the one http server, and THIS is.. etc". Somebody can try, but nobody has to listen. There is no ONE voice for the entire community.
The movie that made me cringe the most with stupidity was "Evolution". I know its a comedy, and its supposed to be stupid, but it was just too painful to watch that crap. Ug. Gives me the jibblies.
Yeah, here in Canada (Alberta) tax makes up about 50% of gas costs (although that depends on how you calculate it). But of course, gas is still cheap compared to the rest of the world.
True, theres no way many people would drive a massive gas guzzler if they had to fill up with a $100 tank every week.
Could go even further.... everyone who drives a car is technically polluting more than they would if they didn't drive. Or a plane, or a refrigerator, or really anything that uses energy. Lets tax them all! The only person free of pollution tax would be some guy living in a shack in the mountains eating small animals...
Like any new product, the adoption of LEDs will happen, but not overnight... in the end, consumers buy the better product. Well, in most cases anyway... Maybe traditional lightbulb companies will start suing anyone who uses a LED because it infringes on their right to make money (al la RIAA).
Hehe... used to. Until I lost all my stuff one day... never really played again. I think I went outside and ended up having a great day... maybe thats where I got the idea from:)
ya know, maybe there should be a mandatory server crash every once and awhile. Maybe people who play too much might actually go outside... enjoy real life for a change.
Ya know, I have had this sinking feeling for awhile that perahps there is something else going on... I mean, obviously SCO appears to be acting very stupid.
But what if they have some other plan? Maybe they know they won't beat the GPL, and something else is up their sleeves? Or they have some silver bullet that will somehow win the day? Or maybe a plan so thoughtfully mastercrafted that Dr. Evil himself would be impressed...
Hm. It just doesn't make any sense... maybe in 3 or so months we'll all be going "shit... wow we sure got rogered on this one..."
they're going to use, and continue to use, open sourced software when it is good for business. Every publicly traded company has the responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as possible by whatever means possible. Sueing, stealing, lying... all part of the fun the is... Corporate America! Yay!
"People are adopting Linux more and more," Petreley said. "They're switching from Windows to Linux faster. You'd expect that to have slowed down a little bit if it were to be affected by the SCO lawsuit, and the numbers just don't show that kind of slowdown." (from Internetnews article)
It seems consistent in history... every time that something good has tried to be killed with brute force it only goes to make it stronger.
If IBM were serious about addressing the real problems with Linux, it would offer full customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license.
Thats just the kind of language, though, that the people who know of nothing other than money and business listen to. Like chickens with their heads cut off. I thinks its becomming pretty clear that SCO is being used as a martyr by those who fear open sourced software cutting away at their profits.
I certainly liked the idea of sending monopoly money for the license... get a 1000 people to do that, I bet it would piss somebody off:)
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Good, then we agree.
Wow, I'm just surprised that somebody cared enough about my post to respond to it. I should post more useless stuff so that more people can respond, and thus have something to do with the obviously extra time they have during the day.
Everybody has their OpenBSD quips, so I may as well add mine.
I've been using OpenBSD since 2.8 and have loved it since. It was the first UNIX-like OS I used. I currently use it on one box for my firewall, but have switched to gentoo for the web & mail servers.
Thats not the best part though. I have some friends who needed a residential gateway, and I set them up with an old box running obsd 3.1, and its been running non-stop (aside from power outages) since, with no problems. I keep telling them I should upgrade them, but it really isn't required.
Anyway, thats my addition. I wonder if anybody will have the paitence to read this far down in the comments. Hmmmm...
What even says it was a 'bad investment decision'? Everybody knows MS hates Linux, and they're doing everything they can to fight against it.
I figure there must be several people out there thinking "hm, good move by microsoft to protect their market share. As an investor, that makes me happy".
So, since I pay "musicians" (record companies) for my digital storage media, I guess that must mean that I can copy all I want... its not like I'm getting it for free after all.
Except that I bet they go after smaller firms... MS, etc would be able to crush them in an instant. But they don't have to go for MS or Gentoo or Debian if they don't want to.
The'll try it on a few small-time firms and crush them, collect the fees, then just sit on the patent until its convienient to use it agian...
Meh.
I like the ports system n' all, but I certainly like portage a lot better. :)!
I for one am glad to see it
I wonder if you can do the same thing with video... hm.
Hmmmm... perhaps one day they won't even bother writing the agreement.
Hell, they could save $$ on legal fees!
Indeed.
And in addition, we've seen that many programmers don't even need the promise of a monopoly to develop good software -- look at the open source community.
I think some of the other reply's missed the point of the parent...
Would it be good to take over the desktop market? Yeah, of course. That's not the point though. The point is that the structure of the open source community is entirely different from that of a proprietary software company. As such, the OS community doesn't have the ability to say "THIS is the one desktop environment, and THIS is the one http server, and THIS is.. etc". Somebody can try, but nobody has to listen. There is no ONE voice for the entire community.
The movie that made me cringe the most with stupidity was "Evolution". I know its a comedy, and its supposed to be stupid, but it was just too painful to watch that crap. Ug. Gives me the jibblies.
Yeah, here in Canada (Alberta) tax makes up about 50% of gas costs (although that depends on how you calculate it). But of course, gas is still cheap compared to the rest of the world.
True, theres no way many people would drive a massive gas guzzler if they had to fill up with a $100 tank every week.
Could go even further.... everyone who drives a car is technically polluting more than they would if they didn't drive. Or a plane, or a refrigerator, or really anything that uses energy. Lets tax them all! The only person free of pollution tax would be some guy living in a shack in the mountains eating small animals...
Like any new product, the adoption of LEDs will happen, but not overnight... in the end, consumers buy the better product.
Well, in most cases anyway... Maybe traditional lightbulb companies will start suing anyone who uses a LED because it infringes on their right to make money (al la RIAA).
Hehe... used to. :)
Until I lost all my stuff one day... never really played again. I think I went outside and ended up having a great day... maybe thats where I got the idea from
True, true.
ya know, maybe there should be a mandatory server crash every once and awhile. Maybe people who play too much might actually go outside... enjoy real life for a change.
Wow, that matrix speach can be pretty much applied to... anything.
Thats possibly the dumbest moderation ever. Troll? You've gotta be kidding me. Useless shithead.
Now THAT is troll.
Ya know, I have had this sinking feeling for awhile that perahps there is something else going on... I mean, obviously SCO appears to be acting very stupid.
But what if they have some other plan? Maybe they know they won't beat the GPL, and something else is up their sleeves? Or they have some silver bullet that will somehow win the day? Or maybe a plan so thoughtfully mastercrafted that Dr. Evil himself would be impressed...
Hm. It just doesn't make any sense... maybe in 3 or so months we'll all be going "shit... wow we sure got rogered on this one..."
they're going to use, and continue to use, open sourced software when it is good for business. Every publicly traded company has the responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as possible by whatever means possible. Sueing, stealing, lying... all part of the fun the is... Corporate America! Yay!
It seems consistent in history... every time that something good has tried to be killed with brute force it only goes to make it stronger.
Thats just the kind of language, though, that the people who know of nothing other than money and business listen to. Like chickens with their heads cut off. I thinks its becomming pretty clear that SCO is being used as a martyr by those who fear open sourced software cutting away at their profits.
:)
I certainly liked the idea of sending monopoly money for the license... get a 1000 people to do that, I bet it would piss somebody off
All, of course, quite illegal as insider trading... but still.
AFAIK, yep :). For the communications industry, anway.
I bet they'll keep the compression the same but just add a few more hours of "the making of" and unseen footage crap with the extra space.