Let's create an open source everything...i mean open source is the cure for world hunger, right?
Some people on slashdot need to get severely beaten with a clue stick...open source is great for some software...but not all software...and certainly not much else...aparently all you have to do to get slashdot's attention is announce that you're going to have an open source X where X can be any damn thing you please...when will this pointless hype-fest end?
Isn't it kinda easy to forge emails and say that they are from the government? And couldn't someone along the way simply alter it? At least with snail mail it's easier to determine if it's been tampered with....just my $0.02
And how's wrtiting emacs make someone a genius? And how does writing a damn text editor make you a genius...huh there's a genius working at microsoft too...whoever the hell wrote notepad, right? Come on yeah he's smart...but no smarter than say linus torvalds or bill gates.
Is it just me or is Free a really really dumb word to describe his ideology...the GPL is one of the most restrictive licenses available...when I think free I think more of public domain...that's true freedom (do whatever the hell you want with my code i don't care) as opposed to GPL Freedom (do whatever the hell you want with my code as long as all derivative works use this license too). It's certainly not the most restrictive license out there...but it's close...by intuition one would find licenses like the MIT, BSD, and ZLib to be freer as they put far fewer restrictions on code use.
note that i said IBM is a minor player when it comes to PCs...and that is true...in other areas like mainframes and services and support and research they're very huge...but as far as PCs they have very little influence...IBM could drop completely out of the PC market with little effect on the rest of the PC sector
IBM in general is a major player in the industry...they dominate the mainframe sector...however when it comes to PCs they're a mere shadow of what they were...they really do not have the influence to implement a new hardware interface by themselves, for instance, like Compaq...well HPaq now...or Dell could.
Microsoft will probably self-destruct do to their own incompetence, just like every other powerful computer company before it. IBM once seemed impenetrable...now they're just a minor player in the PC industry. Apple once seemed to be the future of personal computing...they're just now returning to the upswing. Sun and all the *NIX vendors are dying slow and painful deaths.
If nothing else, license restrictions and dramatically increased licensing costs will make many corporations think twice about continuing to use Microsoft products. Microsoft's user base is eroding at both ends. Apple on the consumer market...free *nix on the high end.
A GNU-style contract? Hmm...does that mean that all bands that released music under this contract would have to release sheet music and tablature and lyrics? (The musical equivalent of source code)
I don't think GNU would work well outside the software industry.
Well no crap...I didn't say they were part of the stack...my point was that Microsoft uses open source code all the time...I just used the example of BSD
I concur...the BSD folks were far more visionary...they kinda invented the concept of built-in networking and made a very nice portable interface for networking (sockets)...they invented the visual editor (vi)...and they wrote the first alternative to the Bourne shell (csh)
Now those are visionaries...I appreciate the work of Linus and crew, but for all intents and purposes they're rewriting UNIX...the BSD folks did that more than 20 years ago.
The problem with this code is that it checks to see if there is enough space in dest after doing the strcpy. This is a horrible idea, because if the buffer overflows (strcpy just assumes there's plenty of space for copying instead of actually checking) the damage will already be done and there will be no good way of handling the error.
The solution is to do the length check before the strcpy.
AMD is all fine and good...but there are at least two reasons why Intel's gonna win this race...they have clout, like it or hate it, what Intel says is as good as gospel...and second, they have the reasources to lose money on Itanium in the short run to get it into the marketplace.
How long will Hammer last if Microsoft refuses to deliver a version of Windows for Hammer? Yeah, yeah, Linux, xBSD, blah blah blah...love it or hate it, it's a wintel world...and how long will AMD last if Intel sells Itaniums at a loss for a little while just to undercut them?
Just because you intend your computer to be used at home doesn't mean you can't order a business computer. The only difference is marketing and a slightly less multimedia-y handholding experience which doesn't matter if you order linux on it anyway.
Even OpenBSD seems to have more releases with security audits, new features, etc.
Actually, OpenBSD is on a strict 6-month release schedule and it has a project leader that determines what gets included and what doesn't after the cut-off. Debian as far as I know doesn't have such procedures in place.
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HAHA!!! Smith & Wesson doesn't make 12 guages...hehe...you would sue Remington or Winchester instead!!!
Some people on slashdot need to get severely beaten with a clue stick...open source is great for some software...but not all software...and certainly not much else...aparently all you have to do to get slashdot's attention is announce that you're going to have an open source X where X can be any damn thing you please...when will this pointless hype-fest end?
how is this a troll? i didn't support microsoft or insult free software?
Isn't it kinda easy to forge emails and say that they are from the government? And couldn't someone along the way simply alter it? At least with snail mail it's easier to determine if it's been tampered with....just my $0.02
And how's wrtiting emacs make someone a genius? And how does writing a damn text editor make you a genius...huh there's a genius working at microsoft too...whoever the hell wrote notepad, right? Come on yeah he's smart...but no smarter than say linus torvalds or bill gates.
Is it just me or is Free a really really dumb word to describe his ideology...the GPL is one of the most restrictive licenses available...when I think free I think more of public domain...that's true freedom (do whatever the hell you want with my code i don't care) as opposed to GPL Freedom (do whatever the hell you want with my code as long as all derivative works use this license too). It's certainly not the most restrictive license out there...but it's close...by intuition one would find licenses like the MIT, BSD, and ZLib to be freer as they put far fewer restrictions on code use.
Correct me if I'm wrong...but isn't there some sort of prioritization header field somewhere?
note that i said IBM is a minor player when it comes to PCs...and that is true...in other areas like mainframes and services and support and research they're very huge...but as far as PCs they have very little influence...IBM could drop completely out of the PC market with little effect on the rest of the PC sector
IBM in general is a major player in the industry...they dominate the mainframe sector...however when it comes to PCs they're a mere shadow of what they were...they really do not have the influence to implement a new hardware interface by themselves, for instance, like Compaq...well HPaq now...or Dell could.
If nothing else, license restrictions and dramatically increased licensing costs will make many corporations think twice about continuing to use Microsoft products. Microsoft's user base is eroding at both ends. Apple on the consumer market...free *nix on the high end.
A GNU-style contract? Hmm...does that mean that all bands that released music under this contract would have to release sheet music and tablature and lyrics? (The musical equivalent of source code)
I don't think GNU would work well outside the software industry.
Well no crap...I didn't say they were part of the stack...my point was that Microsoft uses open source code all the time...I just used the example of BSD
even if that is true, ftp, telnet, and several other command-line network utilities are obviously of almost pure BSD origin.
Richard Stallman? Dick, is that you?
Where do ya think their tcp/ip stack came from...might be BSD...hmmm
Now those are visionaries...I appreciate the work of Linus and crew, but for all intents and purposes they're rewriting UNIX...the BSD folks did that more than 20 years ago.
Plus you get a DVD player too!
It sounds like a perfectly fine investment to me....indeed.
People who buy these should be savagely beaten with a clue stick!!!
The solution is to do the length check before the strcpy.
Unfortunately some of us run ancienthardware like Pentium 120's and 486s and stuff like that...and on that type of hardware X is anything but snappy.
Also, embedded X is not even really the same animal as a desktop X server...and you'll certainly never get something as bloated as Gnome on a PDA.
By using a minimal window manager like Blackbox or WindowMaker I can almost get the performance of Windows on my machine.
gotta love capitalism!
How long will Hammer last if Microsoft refuses to deliver a version of Windows for Hammer? Yeah, yeah, Linux, xBSD, blah blah blah...love it or hate it, it's a wintel world...and how long will AMD last if Intel sells Itaniums at a loss for a little while just to undercut them?
1: AMD...AMD doesn't have the influence to go it's own way and survive for long...expect either bankruptcy or an itanium clone from them.
2: IBM...PowerPC's will live as long as Apple does...and probably longer since they power a decent chunk of IBM high-end hardware.
3: Intel...obviously Intel's gonna win this one...but IBM ain't going anywhere.
That's just my $0.02
Actually, OpenBSD is on a strict 6-month release schedule and it has a project leader that determines what gets included and what doesn't after the cut-off. Debian as far as I know doesn't have such procedures in place.