what's up with the attack on liberals in the pages? he never shows how non-liberals would be better, or why liberals would dislike tesla. ditto for the politically correct comments.
how does it benefit jaguar to sponsor a grand prix team? how does it benefit 3com to sponsor a us football stadium? how does it benefit eircom to sponsor a sports stadium? how does it benefit various companies to sponsor charities in their communities?
i suggest people think a little deeper. explore the term "enlightened self interest." above and beyond advertising, consider that va linux is a successful company if the free software community is healthy. where health is determined by communication, infrastructure, and open access.
and now that i think of it, considering this a community built around people giving away free what many consider amazingly valuable, questioning va's motives here is well past the top of the treeline of mount stupid.
how many women are involved in free software? how many men? women make up slightly more than 50% of the population
something must be stopping them.
what is it?
and on that topic, what makes free software as good as it is? more eyes == shallow bugs. more minds == better ideas.
rms hacked a great editor, and a great bit of copyright law. linus hacked a great os. so did theo de raadt. robert young did a pretty good company hack - the first ipo with the gpl in it is pretty good.
so i wonder... who's going to hack the community and open up the "open" community?
Here's what the "commercialisation of Linux" means to me: I can offer a solution based on Linux and not have to fight *political* and *non-technical* battles tooth and nail. Three months ago an AIX consulting crowd claimed we were "brave" to use Linux. Our management told them it fit our needs technically and to shove off.
*That's* what commercialisation means.
As for loyal employees, ethical companies, etc., well I doubt you'd see those whether or not Linux even existed. I hate to rain on anyone's parade but employees and companies are out to make cash. The rest is just frosting tomake everyone involved feel all warm and cuddly - and quite a few people don't care for warmth or cuddles.
The current state of Linux and free software is that it has a wider range of acceptance, it has a license that keeps it free (speech not beer), and beyond that I don't much care. If you *really* are concerned about free software do the world a favor and send your two cents to somewhere useful: http://www.fsf.org/
it's been suggested that someone in germany did the hack, not yourself. who did what?
in another interview you were asked why decss was written for windows when the idea was to make a player for windows. you stated it was made for windows while linux's ability to deal with the dvd fs was being sorted. why didn't you just copy the vob file? (not enough disk space?) did the computers the police took have linux versions of the decss code?
lastly i think it would be good to get a bitof tech clarification since i know next to nothing about dvd's. say a person was able to decrypt the vob. what exactly could they do with the resulting file? just watch the movie? or are the value added features on dvd's contained in the vob? perhaps a quick run through of dvd tech,or a link to it would be enlightening to those of us not up on dvd.
er, there are great advances in mathematics and they can't get patents. that field seems to do ok w/o patents and it has less of a money making potential...
You garnered a lot of fame for the first disk drivers for Apple floppy drives. Free OS developers like those working on Linux, FreeBSD, and others have a great number of problems getting specs and developing drivers for their systems. As a person who has written drivers *with* specs, you seem best able to appreciate what those developers have accomplished, and yet you've also worked for a company that produces hardware and so you can understand a hardware company's needs as well. What's your thoughts on the problems faced by hardware companies afraid to release specs, and consumers/developers that want to author open drivers for them?
i found it a very unique look at the whole story of alien contact and human exploration. of course i read it about a year ago and submitted my own review back then. congrats to the reviewer for an excellent review and the ability to withstand the blackhole that is/. book reviews...
yes, and please help redhat do their i18n work. the following bug has beenopen for two months and is either abug in the locale files or in glibc. i've detailed my bug hunting, feel free to add to it:
yes, i would pay for ms's domain if i noticed it had lapsed. people use it as a resource, though i admit it has some rather mean spirited stuff on it as well.
sure it would get fame. and i'd pay for linux.com thinking i'd get the same notoriety. but i'd mainly help out any major info site because i'm a fan of info spreading around.
my first response to the guy paying for passport.com was, "damn, why didn't i notice that?!"
as far as linux community spirit,i have several friends who are nt admins. they never think to trawl the net for support. most unix/linux admins think that first off. unix/linux developers look to stevens and others if they want to do net programming, nt developers shell out thousands for msdn cd's.
look at media and how it bashes linux: depending on community support. they don't grok that community support is a viable option on linux. not just viable, but in some ways second to none. i watched #linux on an irc server for the first time today and saw dozens of questions answered in less then a minute. normally i use google, grep, or my local lug mailing list, but the irc thing was real time people. pretty cool.
i've never really been involved in the windows world, but over the past few months i've really come to realise that windows users have no concept of community orcommunity support. too bad i didn't realise it several years ago when arguing for linux with windows pushing managers.
thanks for the technical reason. now, does the gnustep project have anything to contribute to what lacks? are you talking about something similar to a widget set and possibly a class lib that needs porting or does these frameworks go farther? also, any idea if apple would be able to help or will offer linux equivs of those frameworks, and if developers are asking apple to do so?
as far as i know pretty much every gnu app will compile under next. in fact next gave gcc it's objective c support. i'm currently hunting a bug in tcsh and i note that it supports NeXT. so the free software community is doing it's bit.
and i wasn't aware that asking for what seems to me is a non-trivial port was an "attack."
so i'll ask again, where are the linux ports? are there tech reasons for them not to exist?
gee, over here in ireland we happen to think he's an ok sort of guy. thanks to his ability to get people talking, and by appointing george mitchell, we now have done a great deal to stop killing and bombing in n. ireland.
he's been president while the us was having a period of very large growth, and has tried to get y'all a sensible health care system. sure he has personal problems, but bertie ahern has a mistress and we focus more on what he does wrt his *job* and not what he does with his family life. america was founded by people that the english found to be too uptight - and it still shows.
otoh you have people in congress like jesse helms, strom thurmond, and a host of other sleazebags. and that newt gingrich character, whew, scary guy.
back on topic: the us army computers. are there issues with the large ram requirements? and you can dump the video card. set up redhat w/ kickstart and a serial terminal and if need be use a term server to watch over them and admin them in cases where the network connection fails. the nice part here is that you can use the term server connections to test uptime, etc.
came across a lot of apps. they seem to be nextstep/darwin apps... what, no linuxport? what;s the difficulty in offering linux versions if darwin is supposed to be unixy?
Browse/., linux today, lwn.net, and others; find "clued" journalists. Then drop them a line letting them know what's going on: just a link to chris dibona's site would be good.
Slashdot Mirror
what's up with the attack on liberals in the pages? he never shows how non-liberals would be better, or why liberals would dislike tesla. ditto for the politically correct comments.
SELL THEM TO US!!!!!!
WE WANT TO BUY THEM!!!! WE WANT TO SPEND MONEY!!!! YOUR ADVERTISING BUDGET WILL BE A MAIL MESSAGE TO LINUX-KERNEL!!!!!
ahem
thanks
how does it benefit jaguar to sponsor a grand prix team? how does it benefit 3com to sponsor a us football stadium? how does it benefit eircom to sponsor a sports stadium? how does it benefit various companies to sponsor charities in their communities?
i suggest people think a little deeper. explore the term "enlightened self interest." above and beyond advertising, consider that va linux is a successful company if the free software community is healthy. where health is determined by communication, infrastructure, and open access.
and now that i think of it, considering this a community built around people giving away free what many consider amazingly valuable, questioning va's motives here is well past the top of the treeline of mount stupid.
get a clue!
how many women are involved in free software? how many men? women make up slightly more than 50% of the population
something must be stopping them.
what is it?
and on that topic, what makes free software as good as it is? more eyes == shallow bugs. more minds == better ideas.
rms hacked a great editor, and a great bit of copyright law. linus hacked a great os. so did theo de raadt. robert young did a pretty good company hack - the first ipo with the gpl in it is pretty good.
so i wonder... who's going to hack the community and open up the "open" community?
i wonder if the true meaning of "innocent until proven guilty" actually registers with some people...
Here's what the "commercialisation of Linux" means to me: I can offer a solution based on Linux and not have to fight *political* and *non-technical* battles tooth and nail. Three months ago an AIX consulting crowd claimed we were "brave" to use Linux. Our management told them it fit our needs technically and to shove off.
*That's* what commercialisation means.
As for loyal employees, ethical companies, etc., well I doubt you'd see those whether or not Linux even existed. I hate to rain on anyone's parade but employees and companies are out to make cash. The rest is just frosting tomake everyone involved feel all warm and cuddly - and quite a few people don't care for warmth or cuddles.
The current state of Linux and free software is that it has a wider range of acceptance, it has a license that keeps it free (speech not beer), and beyond that I don't much care. If you *really* are concerned about free software do the world a favor and send your two cents to somewhere useful: http://www.fsf.org/
it's been suggested that someone in germany did the hack, not yourself. who did what?
in another interview you were asked why decss was written for windows when the idea was to make a player for windows. you stated it was made for windows while linux's ability to deal with the dvd fs was being sorted. why didn't you just copy the vob file? (not enough disk space?) did the computers the police took have linux versions of the decss code?
lastly i think it would be good to get a bitof tech clarification since i know next to nothing about dvd's. say a person was able to decrypt the vob. what exactly could they do with the resulting file? just watch the movie? or are the value added features on dvd's contained in the vob? perhaps a quick run through of dvd tech,or a link to it would be enlightening to those of us not up on dvd.
er, there are great advances in mathematics and they can't get patents. that field seems to do ok w/o patents and it has less of a money making potential...
for speed: you have the source, fix it.
for size: you have the source, fix it.
for running something else underneath it: you have the source, build it.
one of the things i like about free software is that it really highlights the whiners from the doers...
"my college project turned into a huge success, so now i'm going to __________."
"since the recent monster ipo we've found it much easier to pick up ________."
"in spite of it all, my parents still wish i would _______."
"if you had it all to do over again, the name of your site would be ________."
and lastly, i'm sure it's been asked a hundred times already, but what's you're favourite linux system call and why?
You garnered a lot of fame for the first disk drivers for Apple floppy drives. Free OS developers like those working on Linux, FreeBSD, and others have a great number of problems getting specs and developing drivers for their systems. As a person who has written drivers *with* specs, you seem best able to appreciate what those developers have accomplished, and yet you've also worked for a company that produces hardware and so you can understand a hardware company's needs as well. What's your thoughts on the problems faced by hardware companies afraid to release specs, and consumers/developers that want to author open drivers for them?
i found it a very unique look at the whole story of alien contact and human exploration. of course i read it about a year ago and submitted my own review back then. congrats to the reviewer for an excellent review and the ability to withstand the blackhole that is /. book reviews...
obviously word from the stunningly obvious community just wasn't enough...
it's ~1400 lines. post it to usenet, put it on guest books, mail a floppy to the court house.
yes, and please help redhat do their i18n work. the following bug has beenopen for two months and is either abug in the locale files or in glibc. i've detailed my bug hunting, feel free to add to it:
i ?id=6000
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cg
yes, i would pay for ms's domain if i noticed it had lapsed. people use it as a resource, though i admit it has some rather mean spirited stuff on it as well.
sure it would get fame. and i'd pay for linux.com thinking i'd get the same notoriety. but i'd mainly help out any major info site because i'm a fan of info spreading around.
my first response to the guy paying for passport.com was, "damn, why didn't i notice that?!"
as far as linux community spirit,i have several friends who are nt admins. they never think to trawl the net for support. most unix/linux admins think that first off. unix/linux developers look to stevens and others if they want to do net programming, nt developers shell out thousands for msdn cd's.
look at media and how it bashes linux: depending on community support. they don't grok that community support is a viable option on linux. not just viable, but in some ways second to none. i watched #linux on an irc server for the first time today and saw dozens of questions answered in less then a minute. normally i use google, grep, or my local lug mailing list, but the irc thing was real time people. pretty cool.
i've never really been involved in the windows world, but over the past few months i've really come to realise that windows users have no concept of community orcommunity support. too bad i didn't realise it several years ago when arguing for linux with windows pushing managers.
yet another example of how helpful linux and other free software users/developers/admins can be compared to their windows counterparts.
would a windows person think to pay for linux.com's domain? (or other linux related domains)
thanks for the technical reason. now, does the gnustep project have anything to contribute to what lacks? are you talking about something similar to a widget set and possibly a class lib that needs porting or does these frameworks go farther? also, any idea if apple would be able to help or will offer linux equivs of those frameworks, and if developers are asking apple to do so?
how about posting the css-auth code in random guest books around the world? just to increase the number of locations...
apparently included in the ms investment, ms gave apple "some really good tcp/ip stack programmers."
as far as i know pretty much every gnu app will compile under next. in fact next gave gcc it's objective c support. i'm currently hunting a bug in tcsh and i note that it supports NeXT. so the free software community is doing it's bit.
and i wasn't aware that asking for what seems to me is a non-trivial port was an "attack."
so i'll ask again, where are the linux ports? are there tech reasons for them not to exist?
"the pres. is a prick"
gee, over here in ireland we happen to think he's an ok sort of guy. thanks to his ability to get people talking, and by appointing george mitchell, we now have done a great deal to stop killing and bombing in n. ireland.
he's been president while the us was having a period of very large growth, and has tried to get y'all a sensible health care system. sure he has personal problems, but bertie ahern has a mistress and we focus more on what he does wrt his *job* and not what he does with his family life. america was founded by people that the english found to be too uptight - and it still shows.
otoh you have people in congress like jesse helms, strom thurmond, and a host of other sleazebags. and that newt gingrich character, whew, scary guy.
back on topic: the us army computers. are there issues with the large ram requirements? and you can dump the video card. set up redhat w/ kickstart and a serial terminal and if need be use a term server to watch over them and admin them in cases where the network connection fails. the nice part here is that you can use the term server connections to test uptime, etc.
came across a lot of apps. they seem to be nextstep/darwin apps... what, no linuxport? what;s the difficulty in offering linux versions if darwin is supposed to be unixy?
Browse /., linux today, lwn.net, and others; find "clued" journalists. Then drop them a line letting them know what's going on: just a link to chris dibona's site would be good.
Let the press know our side ASAP!!!!
redhat also used to do this, but free software developers have written too much code!