There is no clause in the GPL that prohibits using GPL software with comercial or any other non-GPL software. If it RMS though a divorce from comercial software was required, it would be in the GPL. RMS can sit on it and rotate if he doesn't like me writing GPL software for Windows.
I know its too late for anyone to read this but I guess I'll point it out. While all of your say size and complexity of the US government is the issue, I must disagree.
The Fact is that the majority of voters in the US don't care about the government being online. Congress doesn't push for online government because %90 of the voters don't care. Corporations on the other hand with their lobbyists, have pushed the IRS online. If you paid taxes like the corporations do, you would want it to be as efficient as possible so you wouldn't have to pay as many accountants.
Again its not size or complexity, its an issue of who wants it to be done. Remember American Slashdotters, you are a minority if you do everything online. Just because you do it online doesn't mean the rest of America does.
Even if the discovery is finacially worthless, it could still have other finacial benifts. You could for example put the accomplishment on your resume, and get a higher paying job.
This is just like The Statue of Liberty. Its a beautiful Statue, but it would not stand without the steel frame within. Anyone who has taken the tour will tell you the Statue of Liberty is just as beautiful inside as out. The graphics, sounds, and story of a video game are nothing without the code underneath. The code doesn't support the art. The code is part of the art of video games.
Borland's Object Pascal compiler is a single pass compiler. The trick is in the way everything is declared first, this allows the compiler to run through once and know ahead of time that a certain procedure or function does exist before it gets to any code that calls it.
You can make C compile in a single pass if you put main() at the bottom, and all procedures and functions above all the other procedures and functions that call them. This way the compiler can compile FuctionA and then when it gets to main() FunctionA is already compiled. When done the other way, the compiler reads through main() then compiles FunctionA and then comes back and finishes main(). Its all that jumping around that slows down compiling.
I've heard but haven't seen for myself that aranging the procedures and functions like this can also result in a smaller binary. YMMV.
Actually it is much easier to write the app in Kylix first and then port to Delphi. This is because Kylix forces you to write CLX (cross platform) code, and Delphi lets you choose between CLX and VCL (cross platform and not cross platform) code.
Its very simple, the company you buy product X from is only liable for what is in their warranty. Buyer beware.
This is why I almost always buy the product with the best warranty. The better the warranty is the greater the companies confidince that they aren't selling you crap. The real trick is deciding which warranty is best. There are a lot of car comercials these days for cars with 10 year 100,000 mile warranties on them, but if you read them they only cover certain parts of the car. Doorhandle falls off? To bad. Its not in the warranty.
So quit yer whining and read the warranty before you buy something.
I couldn't agree with you more. If there was any indication that people would pay a fair price for downloading music, there would be a way to do it. If people really wanted to compensate the artists, they could always drop an anonymous letter in the mail to the artist with a dollar bill and a note about payment for downloading.
Dear Moby,
I send you this dollar because I downloaded 'Instinct Dance' off napster last week. -Your Fan, Anonymous.
The trick is in "stacks of very thin films of two alternating semiconducting materials" Ok, so how thick is this stack. I would imagine that a stack 2CM thick would be capable of collecting twice the energy of a stack 1CM thick. I suppose if we had a stack 7 meters thick it could easily collect 700 watts (assuming the energy was there to collect in the first place.)
Maybe if we left these out in warm sunlight they would collect energy too? They might be cheaper than photovoltaic cells. (perhaps a layer of photovoltaic with a layer of these behind them might be the ticket?)
In fact, Crowell plans to start buying software from Microsoft on a subscription basis in two years, once he finishes receiving all the upgrades he paid for two years ago.
So what he is saying here is that he won't be buying subscription based software from MS?
Makes me want to write a script that periodically scans my drives and drops some stego garbage into each file that doesn't already have some. Would Spy Agency X really find it worth while to crack every jpeg out there when 99.9999% of them contain useless garbage? Whoopee! lets feed Carnivore to death!
Why does everyone out there seem to think that because the justice department was ordered to stop pursuing a break up, it won't happen? Its not the prosecutions position to decide the sentence. If judge Kollar-Kotelly decides that breakup is the only effective solution, it will be the decision made even if the justice dept. doesn't ask for it.
Personally, I am pretty confident that breakup will probably be the only acceptable solution. We already know that restrictions on behavior aren't enough to tame this beast. With all that in mind discussions about file extension management in the name of antitrust are kind of pointless don't you think?
Its been said that every town need two things to be a town. A graveyard, which we already have via services like Alexa, and a prision, which personally most popup sites qualify as because they try very hard to not let you leave. So cyberspace has a prision and a graveyard. Therefore it is a place.
See now this just bothers me. I make a funny comment about not being able to hear the phone ring. The joke being that a modem user won't hear the phone ring. That was the punchline all by itself. Now a reply saying I need to up my connection because I am presumably a lowly modem luser (which I am not) gets modded up as funny? Does anyone else see the irony in that?
When I am online its is a special magical place completely different from my living room. I loose all contact with the physical world. I know this because I can't hear the telephone ring.
I don't see what the big deal is, having students use a properly set up CVS system will show exactly who made what changes when, and in what order. Of course you do have the issue of students writing code that never gets committed to the repository because it is bad, wrong, or ugly. This to wouldn't be a bad thing because even if it does get committed and then rolled back, rewritten and recommitted it shows that the students saw something that could be better and fixed it. That would be tangible proof that the student actually learned something. What CVS isn't part of the course? Personally version control is something any CS major should understand, and qualified CS teacher (Prof. or T.A.) should be able to teach.
What I mean is they both mention the same details in the same order. Of course if you were really the smart ass you are pretending to be you would have inferred that.
During a fit of mindless channel surfing last night, I stopped on E! and they were doing a review of Zoolander. This review reads as if he just wrote down everything E! had to say about the movie and then trimmed it down 2000 words or less.
Holy Shit Thats a good idea! I bet the real trick here would be getting consumers to recognize this a feature they want. This sort of happens now with some companies. If a software products revenue stream hits 0 they give it away with the hopes that the new users that didn't pay for it will pay for support. Some companies end up giving it away without the hope of support revenue. If that is the case then they sometimes give out the source too. This could easily work if the owner is able to with some accuracy predict when code will no longer make money (or at least not enough to be worth thier while).
If you weren't already modded to 5, and hey?!?!? How come I'm not a moderator?
"we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music"
Anyone else noticed how the record companies are in the 1% that steals music. Ok well maybe its legal theft, but its no better than the antique dealer who will only give you $1 for your ugly old 15th century table with matching chairs. Record companies have a far better idea of what music is worth than the musicians do when they first get signed.
Notice what artists have actually made money. Aerosmith, Madonna, Recently TLC. Each of these artists remained popular after their contracts ran out, and thats when the money started to really come in. I am not talking about the thousands that artist get when they first get popular, (which most of them waste on women/drugs/fast cars/ect.) after their contracts ran out they start making millions.
I just have issues that when I buy a CD, The store gets $5, the warehouse gets $1, the CD Factory gets $2, and the record company gets $8, and the artist gets $0.25. I bet if I just start downloading all my music of then net and send a check for $10 made out to the artist, I would be happy, (Its Cheaper for me), the artist would be happy (they would get more money), and the record company would be red in the face because their "we are protecting the artists" line would be invalid. The only defense they would have after that is "We are protecting our investment.", a statement with which no one would sympathize, but is the real truth.
Yes, college is a service, but 90% of the time it is not being paid for by the attendee. Often it is paid for by Parents (or other family), scholarships, and, as has been already mentioned, taxpayers, or some combination of these. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the students not to waste these gifts. I can say this because I did waste my gifts. Perhaps if someone smacked me around a bit and told me to pay attention 4 years ago, I'd have my degree now.
That being said, unless you are paying 100% of the cost of your education (the odds of which are so close to zero that it makes no difference), STFU.
Ok, Warning, This is post is likely to be flamebait, I am likely to be a troll, and a karma whore, and if thats not enough I'm likely to use profanity. You have been warned.
I have been using computers for more than half my life, Which is easy when you start when you are nine years old. I started with a TRS 80 running of all things Microsoft Basic. It was loads of fun and I liked it. Later for me it was DOS 4.11 on a 12mhz 286. It was loads of fun and I liked it. Everyone remember when microsoft was a pretty good company in New Mexico?
But Windows... Oh the plauge across the land that which is Windows. Windows 3 wasn't so bad, Considering what it did it was advanced for its time, but I personnaly believed it was one of those things that was never ready for prime time. So why did business dive upon windows like buzzards on a fresh corpse? I don't want to hear that bullshit about it running (or even being compatible with) DOS programs. You don't even want to know how many windows programs break upon moving to a higher version number of windows. Notice how I didn't refer to it as upgrade. Upgrading implies moving forward or progress, but a new version of windows in neither of those. I digress the point here is that Windows 3 was no more compatiable with DOS, than Windows ME is with Windows 98. There are lots of programs written for windows 98 that absolutely refuse to run on windows ME. So backwards compatabilty is a sick joke, and the joke is on all of us. Just enough compatabilty for us to think it is real. Not quite enough to keep us from buying more windows.
I personally am absolutely disgusted with Windows. I have been giving myself a mental beating over that fact that I have written windows programs. To continue supporting this monster is unthinkable. It makes me think of the analogy of primative peoples sacrificing virgins to a horrible demon.
Once a week the villagers would leave a virgin sacrifice tied up outside the demon's cave to keep the demon happy. But what the villagers don't know is that if they stop sacrificing villagers the demon is to fat to go out and do anything about it.
Now I am not saying that microsoft is to fat, but I am saying we don't have to keep feeding out dollars to the behemoth. Honestly what are they going to do if everyone decides that they aren't going to pay for this crap anymore? I personally have made this resolution. I will not give microsoft A single Red Penny of mine.
I am in the process of a Microsoft Purge. While unpleasant at the moment it is an enima that the rest of the computing world could use. Everyone needs to stick a big bottle of penguin juice up their ass and flush all the microcrap away. I am converting all my ASF files to DivX with a hacked version of virtual dub, I am retireing all of my Open Source Visual Basic Projects (I have 4 of them, 3 of which are of a usable quality.) Since learning Pascal I have changed my Language of choice to Kylix (which is cool because the GPL is my license of choice) Oh, and if I hear any of that crap about "Free as in speach Compilers", Fuck off, Be happy I give my code away at all. Kylix is cool, I can develope Linux programs in a manner similar to that of Visual Basic, while contiuning to help the unfortunate souls who have yet to recive their bottles of penguin juice.
Somehow I doubt I will ever give up Microsoft Completely. Thats Ok, though, I can dual boot. I have been doing so for a while. I can continue to use what versions of windows I have bought. I'll probably continue to load windows to play some games, but I will certainly buy no game that requires a version of windows I don't have. Hopefully by that time though Linux versions of games will be more that the dream it seems to be now. My point here is it is far more important to stop handing over your hard earned dollars/pounds/yen/rupees/ruples/franc/marks/euros for crap, than to quit using crap cold turkey.
Oh my God using that analogy Windows is like Crack. Makes sense though, While using it you are too doped up to know you are paying something designed to keep you paying for it. Ooh look at the pretty logos!
Maybe one day we will all wake up from this bad trip and find ourselves sitting at our terminals in 1973 and decide that thats a vision of the future we don't want. I can almost understand the retaliation against the Hippie movement when I compare it to windows. I could just see it, its the early 90's and all the wise old hackers are terrified because all those young hippie windows users are going unravel the fabic of society. Both the anti-hippies and the anti-windies were both right and wrong, Windows like, the free-love-sex-drugs-peace mentalaty of the 60's have had both positive effects (like promoting peace and computer literacy) and negative effects (like disco, and computer illiteracy.)
I am getting tired of the Linux evangelists in the world who say "Don't like microsoft?, Use Linux!", Its not enough to just say use Linux. You are so preaching to the chior. Its easy to tell people who use Linux to use Linux. Its hard to go out into the world and teach the ignorant masses that there is a better way. If any one of you out there really wants people to stop using windows, then get out there and do something about it. Write Code, Don't try to tear down the applications barrier around windows. Instead, build a bigger applications barrier around linux. Build Good Freindly applications. Build a wall so high and strong that Bill's 120 Billion dollars could never be enough to bring it down. Host LUGNUT [Linux User Group New User Training for the unitiated] meetings. Advertise the LUGNUTs to the general public. Most newspapers list non-profit community events for free. Coordinate them with local civic centers, libraries, colleges and universities, Highschools, and Career advancement institutions. In your spare time at work implement open source versions of your companies systems if only to prove to the suits it can be done economically. Go out into the world and be a Open Source Missionary. Find the heathens and point them towards the light. If you can do none of these things, offer finiacial support to those who do. Send a few dollars in the way of those who run linux learning centers, or donate hardware to those who need it to teach open source. Send a few dollars to the guy who puts in 40 hours a week into Mozilla, or apache, or bind, or send flowers to Linus, and Alan Cox.
I heave bled my heart out for you. Its all I can do. If you want this open source thing to work, you have to work for it. Nothing this good comes easily. You have to work for it.
Moderators, be kind, I speak only the truth, and I seek only the truth.
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Boycott this ask Ask Slashdot. It is not our job to do someone elses homework. (unless they plan on paying us.)
There is no clause in the GPL that prohibits using GPL software with comercial or any other non-GPL software. If it RMS though a divorce from comercial software was required, it would be in the GPL. RMS can sit on it and rotate if he doesn't like me writing GPL software for Windows.
I know its too late for anyone to read this but I guess I'll point it out. While all of your say size and complexity of the US government is the issue, I must disagree.
The Fact is that the majority of voters in the US don't care about the government being online. Congress doesn't push for online government because %90 of the voters don't care. Corporations on the other hand with their lobbyists, have pushed the IRS online. If you paid taxes like the corporations do, you would want it to be as efficient as possible so you wouldn't have to pay as many accountants.
Again its not size or complexity, its an issue of who wants it to be done. Remember American Slashdotters, you are a minority if you do everything online. Just because you do it online doesn't mean the rest of America does.
Even if the discovery is finacially worthless, it could still have other finacial benifts. You could for example put the accomplishment on your resume, and get a higher paying job.
Most of the guys that started Be and made Be what it is previously worked for Apple.
This is just like The Statue of Liberty. Its a beautiful Statue, but it would not stand without the steel frame within. Anyone who has taken the tour will tell you the Statue of Liberty is just as beautiful inside as out. The graphics, sounds, and story of a video game are nothing without the code underneath. The code doesn't support the art. The code is part of the art of video games.
Borland's Object Pascal compiler is a single pass compiler. The trick is in the way everything is declared first, this allows the compiler to run through once and know ahead of time that a certain procedure or function does exist before it gets to any code that calls it.
You can make C compile in a single pass if you put main() at the bottom, and all procedures and functions above all the other procedures and functions that call them. This way the compiler can compile FuctionA and then when it gets to main() FunctionA is already compiled. When done the other way, the compiler reads through main() then compiles FunctionA and then comes back and finishes main(). Its all that jumping around that slows down compiling.
I've heard but haven't seen for myself that aranging the procedures and functions like this can also result in a smaller binary. YMMV.
Actually it is much easier to write the app in Kylix first and then port to Delphi. This is because Kylix forces you to write CLX (cross platform) code, and Delphi lets you choose between CLX and VCL (cross platform and not cross platform) code.
Read The Fscking Warranty
Its very simple, the company you buy product X from is only liable for what is in their warranty. Buyer beware.
This is why I almost always buy the product with the best warranty. The better the warranty is the greater the companies confidince that they aren't selling you crap. The real trick is deciding which warranty is best. There are a lot of car comercials these days for cars with 10 year 100,000 mile warranties on them, but if you read them they only cover certain parts of the car. Doorhandle falls off? To bad. Its not in the warranty.
So quit yer whining and read the warranty before you buy something.
I couldn't agree with you more. If there was any indication that people would pay a fair price for downloading music, there would be a way to do it. If people really wanted to compensate the artists, they could always drop an anonymous letter in the mail to the artist with a dollar bill and a note about payment for downloading.
Dear Moby,
I send you this dollar because I downloaded 'Instinct Dance' off napster last week.
-Your Fan, Anonymous.
The trick is in "stacks of very thin films of two alternating semiconducting materials" Ok, so how thick is this stack. I would imagine that a stack 2CM thick would be capable of collecting twice the energy of a stack 1CM thick. I suppose if we had a stack 7 meters thick it could easily collect 700 watts (assuming the energy was there to collect in the first place.)
Maybe if we left these out in warm sunlight they would collect energy too? They might be cheaper than photovoltaic cells. (perhaps a layer of photovoltaic with a layer of these behind them might be the ticket?)
In fact, Crowell plans to start buying software from Microsoft on a subscription basis in two years, once he finishes receiving all the upgrades he paid for two years ago.
So what he is saying here is that he won't be buying subscription based software from MS?
Makes me want to write a script that periodically scans my drives and drops some stego garbage into each file that doesn't already have some. Would Spy Agency X really find it worth while to crack every jpeg out there when 99.9999% of them contain useless garbage? Whoopee! lets feed Carnivore to death!
Why does everyone out there seem to think that because the justice department was ordered to stop pursuing a break up, it won't happen? Its not the prosecutions position to decide the sentence. If judge Kollar-Kotelly decides that breakup is the only effective solution, it will be the decision made even if the justice dept. doesn't ask for it.
Personally, I am pretty confident that breakup will probably be the only acceptable solution. We already know that restrictions on behavior aren't enough to tame this beast. With all that in mind discussions about file extension management in the name of antitrust are kind of pointless don't you think?
Its been said that every town need two things to be a town. A graveyard, which we already have via services like Alexa, and a prision, which personally most popup sites qualify as because they try very hard to not let you leave. So cyberspace has a prision and a graveyard. Therefore it is a place.
See now this just bothers me. I make a funny comment about not being able to hear the phone ring. The joke being that a modem user won't hear the phone ring. That was the punchline all by itself. Now a reply saying I need to up my connection because I am presumably a lowly modem luser (which I am not) gets modded up as funny? Does anyone else see the irony in that?
When I am online its is a special magical place completely different from my living room. I loose all contact with the physical world. I know this because I can't hear the telephone ring.
I don't see what the big deal is, having students use a properly set up CVS system will show exactly who made what changes when, and in what order. Of course you do have the issue of students writing code that never gets committed to the repository because it is bad, wrong, or ugly. This to wouldn't be a bad thing because even if it does get committed and then rolled back, rewritten and recommitted it shows that the students saw something that could be better and fixed it. That would be tangible proof that the student actually learned something. What CVS isn't part of the course? Personally version control is something any CS major should understand, and qualified CS teacher (Prof. or T.A.) should be able to teach.
Gee thats odd, I don't remember the article mentioning black holes. I did read the same article as the rest of you guys right?
What I mean is they both mention the same details in the same order. Of course if you were really the smart ass you are pretending to be you would have inferred that.
During a fit of mindless channel surfing last night, I stopped on E! and they were doing a review of Zoolander. This review reads as if he just wrote down everything E! had to say about the movie and then trimmed it down 2000 words or less.
Holy Shit Thats a good idea! I bet the real trick here would be getting consumers to recognize this a feature they want. This sort of happens now with some companies. If a software products revenue stream hits 0 they give it away with the hopes that the new users that didn't pay for it will pay for support. Some companies end up giving it away without the hope of support revenue. If that is the case then they sometimes give out the source too. This could easily work if the owner is able to with some accuracy predict when code will no longer make money (or at least not enough to be worth thier while).
If you weren't already modded to 5, and hey?!?!? How come I'm not a moderator?
"we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music"
Anyone else noticed how the record companies are in the 1% that steals music. Ok well maybe its legal theft, but its no better than the antique dealer who will only give you $1 for your ugly old 15th century table with matching chairs. Record companies have a far better idea of what music is worth than the musicians do when they first get signed.
Notice what artists have actually made money. Aerosmith, Madonna, Recently TLC. Each of these artists remained popular after their contracts ran out, and thats when the money started to really come in. I am not talking about the thousands that artist get when they first get popular, (which most of them waste on women/drugs/fast cars/ect.) after their contracts ran out they start making millions.
I just have issues that when I buy a CD, The store gets $5, the warehouse gets $1, the CD Factory gets $2, and the record company gets $8, and the artist gets $0.25. I bet if I just start downloading all my music of then net and send a check for $10 made out to the artist, I would be happy, (Its Cheaper for me), the artist would be happy (they would get more money), and the record company would be red in the face because their "we are protecting the artists" line would be invalid. The only defense they would have after that is "We are protecting our investment.", a statement with which no one would sympathize, but is the real truth.
Yes, college is a service, but 90% of the time it is not being paid for by the attendee. Often it is paid for by Parents (or other family), scholarships, and, as has been already mentioned, taxpayers, or some combination of these. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the students not to waste these gifts. I can say this because I did waste my gifts. Perhaps if someone smacked me around a bit and told me to pay attention 4 years ago, I'd have my degree now.
That being said, unless you are paying 100% of the cost of your education (the odds of which are so close to zero that it makes no difference), STFU.
Ok, Warning, This is post is likely to be flamebait, I am likely to be a troll, and a karma whore, and if thats not enough I'm likely to use profanity. You have been warned.
s for crap, than to quit using crap cold turkey.
I have been using computers for more than half my life, Which is easy when you start when you are nine years old. I started with a TRS 80 running of all things Microsoft Basic. It was loads of fun and I liked it. Later for me it was DOS 4.11 on a 12mhz 286. It was loads of fun and I liked it. Everyone remember when microsoft was a pretty good company in New Mexico?
But Windows... Oh the plauge across the land that which is Windows. Windows 3 wasn't so bad, Considering what it did it was advanced for its time, but I personnaly believed it was one of those things that was never ready for prime time. So why did business dive upon windows like buzzards on a fresh corpse? I don't want to hear that bullshit about it running (or even being compatible with) DOS programs. You don't even want to know how many windows programs break upon moving to a higher version number of windows. Notice how I didn't refer to it as upgrade. Upgrading implies moving forward or progress, but a new version of windows in neither of those. I digress the point here is that Windows 3 was no more compatiable with DOS, than Windows ME is with Windows 98. There are lots of programs written for windows 98 that absolutely refuse to run on windows ME. So backwards compatabilty is a sick joke, and the joke is on all of us. Just enough compatabilty for us to think it is real. Not quite enough to keep us from buying more windows.
I personally am absolutely disgusted with Windows. I have been giving myself a mental beating over that fact that I have written windows programs. To continue supporting this monster is unthinkable. It makes me think of the analogy of primative peoples sacrificing virgins to a horrible demon.
Once a week the villagers would leave a virgin sacrifice tied up outside the demon's cave to keep the demon happy. But what the villagers don't know is that if they stop sacrificing villagers the demon is to fat to go out and do anything about it.
Now I am not saying that microsoft is to fat, but I am saying we don't have to keep feeding out dollars to the behemoth. Honestly what are they going to do if everyone decides that they aren't going to pay for this crap anymore? I personally have made this resolution. I will not give microsoft A single Red Penny of mine.
I am in the process of a Microsoft Purge. While unpleasant at the moment it is an enima that the rest of the computing world could use. Everyone needs to stick a big bottle of penguin juice up their ass and flush all the microcrap away. I am converting all my ASF files to DivX with a hacked version of virtual dub, I am retireing all of my Open Source Visual Basic Projects (I have 4 of them, 3 of which are of a usable quality.) Since learning Pascal I have changed my Language of choice to Kylix (which is cool because the GPL is my license of choice) Oh, and if I hear any of that crap about "Free as in speach Compilers", Fuck off, Be happy I give my code away at all. Kylix is cool, I can develope Linux programs in a manner similar to that of Visual Basic, while contiuning to help the unfortunate souls who have yet to recive their bottles of penguin juice.
Somehow I doubt I will ever give up Microsoft Completely. Thats Ok, though, I can dual boot. I have been doing so for a while. I can continue to use what versions of windows I have bought. I'll probably continue to load windows to play some games, but I will certainly buy no game that requires a version of windows I don't have. Hopefully by that time though Linux versions of games will be more that the dream it seems to be now. My point here is it is far more important to stop handing over your hard earned dollars/pounds/yen/rupees/ruples/franc/marks/euro
Oh my God using that analogy Windows is like Crack. Makes sense though, While using it you are too doped up to know you are paying something designed to keep you paying for it. Ooh look at the pretty logos!
Maybe one day we will all wake up from this bad trip and find ourselves sitting at our terminals in 1973 and decide that thats a vision of the future we don't want. I can almost understand the retaliation against the Hippie movement when I compare it to windows. I could just see it, its the early 90's and all the wise old hackers are terrified because all those young hippie windows users are going unravel the fabic of society. Both the anti-hippies and the anti-windies were both right and wrong, Windows like, the free-love-sex-drugs-peace mentalaty of the 60's have had both positive effects (like promoting peace and computer literacy) and negative effects (like disco, and computer illiteracy.)
I am getting tired of the Linux evangelists in the world who say "Don't like microsoft?, Use Linux!", Its not enough to just say use Linux. You are so preaching to the chior. Its easy to tell people who use Linux to use Linux. Its hard to go out into the world and teach the ignorant masses that there is a better way. If any one of you out there really wants people to stop using windows, then get out there and do something about it. Write Code, Don't try to tear down the applications barrier around windows. Instead, build a bigger applications barrier around linux. Build Good Freindly applications. Build a wall so high and strong that Bill's 120 Billion dollars could never be enough to bring it down. Host LUGNUT [Linux User Group New User Training for the unitiated] meetings. Advertise the LUGNUTs to the general public. Most newspapers list non-profit community events for free. Coordinate them with local civic centers, libraries, colleges and universities, Highschools, and Career advancement institutions. In your spare time at work implement open source versions of your companies systems if only to prove to the suits it can be done economically. Go out into the world and be a Open Source Missionary. Find the heathens and point them towards the light. If you can do none of these things, offer finiacial support to those who do. Send a few dollars in the way of those who run linux learning centers, or donate hardware to those who need it to teach open source. Send a few dollars to the guy who puts in 40 hours a week into Mozilla, or apache, or bind, or send flowers to Linus, and Alan Cox.
I heave bled my heart out for you. Its all I can do. If you want this open source thing to work, you have to work for it. Nothing this good comes easily. You have to work for it.
Moderators, be kind, I speak only the truth, and I seek only the truth.