BTW. Have you seen the ads on the top of the page ?
They do advertise Stallman coming to Poland for some sort of GNU/Linux event.
I wonder how well, essentially communistic ideas, will be received in a country that was forced into leftist hell for 50 years.
Sure, is owned by a state which is financed from taxes collected from people, 90% of whom engage in free capitalism...
Make no mistake, you are directly benefiting from existence of capitalism.
The real question is: does software benefit from being "public" enterprise ?
My answer is: hardly anything does. There are only few specific fields where not having free market conditions is beneficial to the outcome.
Software development is surely not one of them.
Look at the lighting progress made in computer industry over the last 30 years.
Today, for a less than $1000, I can get in my house processing power that used to run entire corporations merely 20 years ago.
There is no need to change anything, system is working amazingly well.
Heh, one day you will grow up and all this "stealing and IP" will make perfect sense to you.
It did to numerous millions before you.
Just wait for your turn.
To summarize, you just described hobbyist market which btw is nothing new ( certainly nothing as big as Raymond and other "revolutionaries" are claiming it to be.)
"could be set up to employ people in the public interest."
Hey, you DO sound like someone who proposes resurrection of communism.
WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST does not work.
Simple enough?
Has been proven many, many times all over this planet yet some people still bring it up.
People smarter than you and me have tried many different models and, guess what, it turned out that capitalism (or some versions of it) so far has been the best guarantee for across the board increase in standard for living.
Dare to prove otherwise ?
"The core of communism is who controls the means of production. Did the people in the Soviet Union control the means of production? No, they did not. Thus it was not communism. "
True, but simply because communism, as a completely utopian idea, cannot exist in reality.
Human nature alone is a reason enough that communism will never succeed.
There will always be a stronger individual, somebody with enough balls to hijack the entire enterprise and pretend that everything is done "in the name of the people."
It happened every time people tried to implement workable version of communism...
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Open Source and do what ?
How in the world going open source would solve their lack of income problem ?
"There is a very good reason to do the bulk of your computing as a nonprivileged user, and this is it."
Heh, the point is that overwhelming majority of Linux users DO have root account available to them and therefore restricting access to raw sockets only to root means nothing here.
They can do whatever they want anyway.
"I mean, look at a gun (or a picture of one, i certainly don't have any lying around). Do you see many other uses for it, besides fatally injuring someone? "
"It'd be better off in the social security fund, but since Shrub sent it to me, I'm using it some other way to secure my future. "
I don't want sound nasty but if you count on SS, well you have no future.
On the other hand if you believe that investing your money in SS found is a better idea than putting it into some low risk stock then perhaps you deserve to die poor.
With current PC being so powerful, what is the point of overloading your server with work that can easily be done on the client side ?
Sure IT people would be happy having only on or two servers to upgrade instead of 100 workstations but reality is that powerful PCs are here and until that changes we better keep using that power.
Well, the real master can teach truths WHILE still being entertaining, all at the same time.
Judging by first post, the original Planet of the Apes failed in this regard.
"I've seen alot of web developers who can't make heads of tail with of Perl... let alone the DBI. "
You might have a point with COM but claiming that Perl is synonymous with web development is just ridiculous.
If our company is using Java or even StorySever (TCL) to do web development why in the world would I care about our developers not knowing Perl?
Wow , you are missing quite a few things like...
Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Alcoholism, Tornados, bad breath in the morning, the fact that I have and you don't, etc...
Hell man, your anti-G8 buddies will be busy for a while there....
Not even close.
PBS programs are very interesting as long as they stay away from politics or social issues.
As soon as they get into politics their liberal leaning is very visible.
Scouts and gays ? Hell of course scouts were guilty as hell.
Kyoto ? Of course US is wrong.
Religion, of course it has no place in schools.
Etc etc... very predictable.
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"This is why we have kde vs. gnome "
....
Both of which are trying to CATCH up with MS desktop which supposedly is so stagnated because of lack of competition
Dumbass.
Heh, Knight Lore and Ant Attack (3D!) were my utlimate games on Spectrum.
BTW. Have you seen the ads on the top of the page ?
They do advertise Stallman coming to Poland for some sort of GNU/Linux event.
I wonder how well, essentially communistic ideas, will be received in a country that was forced into leftist hell for 50 years.
Sure, is owned by a state which is financed from taxes collected from people, 90% of whom engage in free capitalism ...
Make no mistake, you are directly benefiting from existence of capitalism.
The real question is: does software benefit from being "public" enterprise ?
My answer is: hardly anything does. There are only few specific fields where not having free market conditions is beneficial to the outcome.
Software development is surely not one of them.
Look at the lighting progress made in computer industry over the last 30 years.
Today, for a less than $1000, I can get in my house processing power that used to run entire corporations merely 20 years ago.
There is no need to change anything, system is working amazingly well.
Heh, one day you will grow up and all this "stealing and IP" will make perfect sense to you.
It did to numerous millions before you.
Just wait for your turn.
To summarize, you just described hobbyist market which btw is nothing new ( certainly nothing as big as Raymond and other "revolutionaries" are claiming it to be .)
"could be set up to employ people in the public interest."
Hey, you DO sound like someone who proposes resurrection of communism.
WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST does not work.
Simple enough?
Has been proven many, many times all over this planet yet some people still bring it up.
People smarter than you and me have tried many different models and, guess what, it turned out that capitalism (or some versions of it) so far has been the best guarantee for across the board increase in standard for living.
Dare to prove otherwise ?
"The core of communism is who controls the means of production. Did the people in the Soviet Union control the means of production? No, they did not. Thus it was not communism. "
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True, but simply because communism, as a completely utopian idea, cannot exist in reality.
Human nature alone is a reason enough that communism will never succeed.
There will always be a stronger individual, somebody with enough balls to hijack the entire enterprise and pretend that everything is done "in the name of the people."
It happened every time people tried to implement workable version of communism
Open Source and do what ?
How in the world going open source would solve their lack of income problem ?
"There is a very good reason to do the bulk of your computing as a nonprivileged user, and this is it."
Heh, the point is that overwhelming majority of Linux users DO have root account available to them and therefore restricting access to raw sockets only to root means nothing here.
They can do whatever they want anyway.
So is 99% of personal Linux installations.
What's your point ?
"The thing about government bonds "
Conclusion - nothing beats planned economy.
Great.
"I mean, look at a gun (or a picture of one, i certainly don't have any lying around). Do you see many other uses for it, besides fatally injuring someone? "
Preventing somebody from fatally injuring me ?
"It'd be better off in the social security fund, but since Shrub sent it to me, I'm using it some other way to secure my future. "
I don't want sound nasty but if you count on SS, well you have no future.
On the other hand if you believe that investing your money in SS found is a better idea than putting it into some low risk stock then perhaps you deserve to die poor.
"for what is essentially expressing speech? "
You pushing it here dude.
Dimitry was acting as a salesman for his company.
Pure and simple.
Sounds like current US policy in regard to childrem which are "advised" to report to their teachers spanking and other forms of parental abuse.
With current PC being so powerful, what is the point of overloading your server with work that can easily be done on the client side ?
Sure IT people would be happy having only on or two servers to upgrade instead of 100 workstations but reality is that powerful PCs are here and until that changes we better keep using that power.
Well, the real master can teach truths WHILE still being entertaining, all at the same time.
Judging by first post, the original Planet of the Apes failed in this regard.
"I've seen alot of web developers who can't make heads of tail with of Perl ... let alone the DBI. "
You might have a point with COM but claiming that Perl is synonymous with web development is just ridiculous.
If our company is using Java or even StorySever (TCL) to do web development why in the world would I care about our developers not knowing Perl?
"wages, sweatshops, environmental laws, police brutality, corporate dominance, biotechnology, racism, classism"
...
...
....
Wow , you are missing quite a few things like
Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Alcoholism, Tornados, bad breath in the morning, the fact that I have and you don't, etc
Hell man, your anti-G8 buddies will be busy for a while there
Sure as hell, as soon as you show up here you gonna get your ass canned. ...
Be afraid, be very afraid
hehhehe
And then watch all enterprise and industry leave Texas because lack of copyright protection laws?
"PBS does this all the time"
... very predictable.
Not even close.
PBS programs are very interesting as long as they stay away from politics or social issues.
As soon as they get into politics their liberal leaning is very visible.
Scouts and gays ? Hell of course scouts were guilty as hell.
Kyoto ? Of course US is wrong.
Religion, of course it has no place in schools.
Etc etc
The funny thing is that they ARE fair and balanced.
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