You're just ignorant. Linux has been a registered trademark since 1996 and people have always sublicensed it from the Linus through the Linux Mark Institute to use in their business name. The recent snaffu has been as a result of an Australian company attempting to register the trademark down here without Linus' approval so they could demand fees. Linux Australia prevented this from happening and then got companies using the mark in Australia to sign a statutory declaration stating that they support Linux Australia in aquiring the trademark in Linus' name.
Linus hasn't changed any of the "rules". If you want to call your distro, dog, skateboard, girlfriend or whatever Linux, go ahead. But if you wanna call your business Linux you have to get permission.
Never assign to malice that which can be explained by incompetence, especially your own.
And yet there's been a complete and utter failure to get HURD off the ground. A microkernel design is absolutely perfect for a desktop operating system, which is where everyone is competing right now, so HURD should be winning, but it's not. Why? Because the dudes hacking on HURD don't even know what they've got. They're still thinking about time sharing and not having root. The motivations that got them started making HURD 15 years ago.
RTFA. That's the whole point. RMS, the guy who says names are important, now says names are not important. It's straight hypocracy because what he really means is that the GNU name is important but the Linux name is not.
And the same thing just happened in Australia which is why there's been this push to get the trademark assigned to Linus down here recently. If only it wasn't handled so badly.
Imagine how many witty acronyms involing "LUG" wouldn't make sense if we changed them all to "GLUG". My personal favourite witty acronym for a Linux User Group is HUMBUG: the Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group. Notice how they delecately try to include everyone? Theoretically you could go to a HUMBUG meeting with your Windows machine and not get snubbed, as long as you had SFU installed. Oh, and Apple geeks, they've invaded the place since OSX became the norm.
I don't understand how you listen to it at all. I go weeks without hearing any music except the jingles on tv. This assumption that everyone is a rabid consumer of music worries me. People who buy a CD a month are in the minority, are they not?
I didn't say stupid. Usually I don't explain jokes, but for you I'll make an exception: I was describing women.. ya know, irrational, emotional, squishy. If you met a man who acted like most women act you'd keep your distance and consider calling the guys in white coats. That's the joke. Haha. Move along.
Confirming something instead of just assuming it is the case. What's that called again.. oh yeah, Science! Clearly this article is in the wrong section.
I donn't know if you've just stumbled onto this line of reasoning, but you've just participated in the greatest debate raging today. On one side you have the Bob Dole's of the world who believe the only way to keep living on earth for another 100 years is to stop all birth, and all economic growth until the population of earth has receeded to about a billion people and then conserve energy until we've exhausted what we have. Then we all die. On the other side we have the technologists, who believe that any level of growth can be maintained by the continuous application of science. CO2 from coal plants can be pumped underground. Nuclear waste from fission plants can be safely processed. Fusion is viable and the pollution can be delt with. To me, the fact that both sides at least recognise there is a problem is progress. But I can't really say I'm for cowering in the dark with a candle in my hand just because we can do that for a really long time.
It's also wrong. The pyroelectric technique for making fusion may well be scalable to a desktop size, but a petawatt laser is not something you can fit on a kitchen bench!
When I read things like this I have to wonder if there aint uses for fusion beyond the current power station paradigm. I mean productive uses, not research uses. Maybe there's medical uses for neutrino sources or remote sensing uses. And how about fusion rockets? Surely making leaky (but directed) plasma containment is adequate to make fusion powered rockets. You don't even need ignition.. supplying more energy than you get out is fine, as long as you supply the starting energy on the ground and reap the output energy whilst in the air.
I know a bunch of PhD's and most of them aint articulate. In fact, I'd be surprised to find a PhD who wasn't a cave dweller as that's the only way you can make it through 3 years of research on a scholarship without going insane.
I'm sorry, but if a PokerBot can play better than you then the game is too trivial to be gambling on. Let's have a nice game of Go, $200 pot, winner takes all.
The same reason people hack from home. The same reason people shoplift at megastores in the 21st century. It's an addiction. Regardless of the harm a thief knows it will cause themselves they are compelled to keep doing it. That's why so many of the replies in this story scare me. They remind me of the heartless things people say about the homeless. It's not a choice, it's an illness. We should treat these people with consideration so they can become productive members of society, not lock them up or beat them down.
Yeah, like hating people who can't think things through rationally because they're ruled by their emotions to such an extent that they're teatering on the edge of insanity? That's misogyny.
We did that. It wasn't to "sound cooler" though, it was to fuck up the guy's survey in the hope that it would actually have some effect on the world. Even as a kid I had no idea why drugs were illegal, and I still don't, although mind control appears to be the most attractive answer.
ditto. I remember I saved up for a $10 phone and a $5 extension lead. My mum freaked out cause she couldn't understand why a kid would want a phone in their bedroom. After I told her how hard I worked to get the $15 she caved. Couple of months later I heard about modems and managed to save $30 for a 1200/75 baud one for my C64. Now that phone line had a dual purpose. I used it for almost a year before I learnt the fun of scanning 1800 numbers. Telstra sent me a nasty letter which my mum rang up and complained about. "It's not abuse to ring a number that is free. If they don't want people ringing it then don't make it free! No it doesn't matter how many calls he made, it's the principle of the matter!" Unfortunately 6 months later I called a few too many STD numbers and racked up an $800 phone bill. I never got an allowance again.
Over the last two years I think a grand total of one open source MMORPG has been reported on Slashdot. With coverage like that is it any wonder that no open source MMORPG project has managed to attract a critical mass? Of course, it's not like these projects go out of their way to advertise themselves either.
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You're just ignorant. Linux has been a registered trademark since 1996 and people have always sublicensed it from the Linus through the Linux Mark Institute to use in their business name. The recent snaffu has been as a result of an Australian company attempting to register the trademark down here without Linus' approval so they could demand fees. Linux Australia prevented this from happening and then got companies using the mark in Australia to sign a statutory declaration stating that they support Linux Australia in aquiring the trademark in Linus' name.
Linus hasn't changed any of the "rules". If you want to call your distro, dog, skateboard, girlfriend or whatever Linux, go ahead. But if you wanna call your business Linux you have to get permission.
Never assign to malice that which can be explained by incompetence, especially your own.
"Linux Baby Penguin Fur Coats Inc" thank you very much.
And yet there's been a complete and utter failure to get HURD off the ground. A microkernel design is absolutely perfect for a desktop operating system, which is where everyone is competing right now, so HURD should be winning, but it's not. Why? Because the dudes hacking on HURD don't even know what they've got. They're still thinking about time sharing and not having root. The motivations that got them started making HURD 15 years ago.
RTFA. That's the whole point. RMS, the guy who says names are important, now says names are not important. It's straight hypocracy because what he really means is that the GNU name is important but the Linux name is not.
And the same thing just happened in Australia which is why there's been this push to get the trademark assigned to Linus down here recently. If only it wasn't handled so badly.
So err, when do you think? What have you got against silence?
Imagine how many witty acronyms involing "LUG" wouldn't make sense if we changed them all to "GLUG". My personal favourite witty acronym for a Linux User Group is HUMBUG: the Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group. Notice how they delecately try to include everyone? Theoretically you could go to a HUMBUG meeting with your Windows machine and not get snubbed, as long as you had SFU installed. Oh, and Apple geeks, they've invaded the place since OSX became the norm.
RMS claiming that "what you call it doesn't matter" is just so ironic.
We gotta hang out and get drunk sometime.
I don't understand how you listen to it at all. I go weeks without hearing any music except the jingles on tv. This assumption that everyone is a rabid consumer of music worries me. People who buy a CD a month are in the minority, are they not?
I didn't say stupid. Usually I don't explain jokes, but for you I'll make an exception: I was describing women.. ya know, irrational, emotional, squishy. If you met a man who acted like most women act you'd keep your distance and consider calling the guys in white coats. That's the joke. Haha. Move along.
Confirming something instead of just assuming it is the case. What's that called again.. oh yeah, Science! Clearly this article is in the wrong section.
I donn't know if you've just stumbled onto this line of reasoning, but you've just participated in the greatest debate raging today. On one side you have the Bob Dole's of the world who believe the only way to keep living on earth for another 100 years is to stop all birth, and all economic growth until the population of earth has receeded to about a billion people and then conserve energy until we've exhausted what we have. Then we all die. On the other side we have the technologists, who believe that any level of growth can be maintained by the continuous application of science. CO2 from coal plants can be pumped underground. Nuclear waste from fission plants can be safely processed. Fusion is viable and the pollution can be delt with. To me, the fact that both sides at least recognise there is a problem is progress. But I can't really say I'm for cowering in the dark with a candle in my hand just because we can do that for a really long time.
It's also wrong. The pyroelectric technique for making fusion may well be scalable to a desktop size, but a petawatt laser is not something you can fit on a kitchen bench!
When I read things like this I have to wonder if there aint uses for fusion beyond the current power station paradigm. I mean productive uses, not research uses. Maybe there's medical uses for neutrino sources or remote sensing uses. And how about fusion rockets? Surely making leaky (but directed) plasma containment is adequate to make fusion powered rockets. You don't even need ignition.. supplying more energy than you get out is fine, as long as you supply the starting energy on the ground and reap the output energy whilst in the air.
I know a bunch of PhD's and most of them aint articulate. In fact, I'd be surprised to find a PhD who wasn't a cave dweller as that's the only way you can make it through 3 years of research on a scholarship without going insane.
I'm sorry, but if a PokerBot can play better than you then the game is too trivial to be gambling on. Let's have a nice game of Go, $200 pot, winner takes all.
The same reason people hack from home. The same reason people shoplift at megastores in the 21st century. It's an addiction. Regardless of the harm a thief knows it will cause themselves they are compelled to keep doing it. That's why so many of the replies in this story scare me. They remind me of the heartless things people say about the homeless. It's not a choice, it's an illness. We should treat these people with consideration so they can become productive members of society, not lock them up or beat them down.
Yeah, like hating people who can't think things through rationally because they're ruled by their emotions to such an extent that they're teatering on the edge of insanity? That's misogyny.
We did that. It wasn't to "sound cooler" though, it was to fuck up the guy's survey in the hope that it would actually have some effect on the world. Even as a kid I had no idea why drugs were illegal, and I still don't, although mind control appears to be the most attractive answer.
Brilliant.
Yeah, god forbid that we have a market or anything. I always thought it was absurd that prices are so fixed in the music industry.
ditto. I remember I saved up for a $10 phone and a $5 extension lead. My mum freaked out cause she couldn't understand why a kid would want a phone in their bedroom. After I told her how hard I worked to get the $15 she caved. Couple of months later I heard about modems and managed to save $30 for a 1200/75 baud one for my C64. Now that phone line had a dual purpose. I used it for almost a year before I learnt the fun of scanning 1800 numbers. Telstra sent me a nasty letter which my mum rang up and complained about. "It's not abuse to ring a number that is free. If they don't want people ringing it then don't make it free! No it doesn't matter how many calls he made, it's the principle of the matter!" Unfortunately 6 months later I called a few too many STD numbers and racked up an $800 phone bill. I never got an allowance again.
Over the last two years I think a grand total of one open source MMORPG has been reported on Slashdot. With coverage like that is it any wonder that no open source MMORPG project has managed to attract a critical mass? Of course, it's not like these projects go out of their way to advertise themselves either.
Yeah, but there's a hell of a difference between people using a third party product by agreement and having VoIP integrated into a game.