We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better.
That's true. I, personally, am using Linux because the cost of ownership is much higher (it simply needs more service and the software is effectively more expensive), and, last but not least, because the software is much unsafer and more fragile than that of Windows. It's simply fun to have crashing servers, and a workstation with only three applications, two of them not working.
Many people think like me, the worse the software, the higher the expenses, the more fun it is!
...see this post to TheServerSide. A lot of these look like common design patterns and standard Java/J2EE naming conventions.
You can also see Jim Jagielski's response to some questions here about this issue. Sounds pretty reasonable.
Your examples make it really look like just another SCO case. Not much similarity, except for some formalities.
The code parts mentioned in the JBoss' advocate's letter look a little related. I guess it can't prove that one is derived from the other, but the is some degree of similarity that possibly shouldn't be there....
For the sake of Free Software and the karma of some programmers who were fighting on the same side, but under a slightly different flag.... <sigh>
OpenBSD has worst reputation... when it comes to streamlining. Fefe has written an interesting article about BSDs' and Linux' responsiveness in various situations...
Happy Birthday to You, the four-line ditty was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University.
The melody of the song Happy Birthday to You was composed by Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher born in Louisville, KY, on June 27, 1859. The song was first published in 1893, with the lyrics written by her sister, Patty Smith Hill, as "Good Morning To All."
Happy Birthday to You was copyrighted in 1935 and renewed in 1963. The song was apparently written in 1893, but first copyrighted in 1935 after a lawsuit (reported in the New York Times of August 15, 1934, p.19 col. 6)
In 1988, Birch Tree Group, Ltd. sold the rights of the song to Warner Communications (along with all other assets) for an estimated $25 million (considerably more than a song). (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1)
In the 80s, the song Happy Birthday to You was believed to generate about $1 million in royalties annually. With Auld Lang Syne and For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, it is among the three most popular songs in the English language. (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1)
Happy Birthday to You continues to bring in approximately 2 million dollars in licensing revenue each year, at least as of 1996 accounting, according to Warner Chappell and a Forbes magazine article. [Source]
Don't you ever think, something's for free in the United States of America!
Funny, I had the same experiences with older hardware: SCSI always appeared to be faster, subjectively, on a medium load database/web server. I was really impressed about the dimensions (7 to 20 times!); the pure hardware capacity/speed gave no hint.
It'd be nice if Slashdot's MS reporting was a little more balanced. The way it is now, seriously, it's like watching Jerry Springer sometimes.
I think it's worst case for MS now. It's a big risk to set up a Windows box and connect it to the Internet right now. It's only seconds that a more-or-less unvoluntary click makes it a pile of dynamite inside of your LAN.
I can't see how the doubtless biased view of/. can make it any worse - in fact,/.ers rather seem to underestimate the problem at the moment.
Mach has the concept of acquiring privileges instead of losing them, like in Linux or other Unices. (E.g. ftpd in Linux starts as root and later switches to the user who logs in.)
Since Hurd is a Mach-inspired kernel, there should be this feature. Is this the case?
Convinced.
Babenhausium.
Cool cool name. Sounds like: Mud in the forest, and there: big big mud party. Only weasels admitted.
May please someone explain to the foreign readers that Babenhausen and Rodgau are very near locations of Darmstadt, which some people like to call Dharmstadt (what reminds of the wheel of Dharma, the wheel of law)?
Office was MUCH better than WP for Linux. Interoperability with EVERYONE else I knew. No converting and reformatting, no font problems, no nothing. It was fast, easy, and nice. IE was far superior to Mozilla.
I beg your pardon, are you a troll or an idiot? (Or are you a Microsoft employee?)
As a "Linux user" for such a long time, haven't you been able to find about how to install your fonts properly? (I mean, KDE does it, too, for those who don't like to type in commands, and this for more than 1 year. Of course you can use M$ fonts too with Linux, *BSD, and all other OS' which use X11.)
The same is for movies, even if they are in some proprietary formats.
I propose Rodgauium for the name of element 111. This town (Rodgau) is even moring boring than Darmstadt. (No wonder one famous band calls itself the Rodgau Monotones...)
Note fellas, though Bonnnie says reiser4 series is worst, reiserfs is one of the good ones, hanging on above avg in all counts!
Me bit confused here, arent file systems which come new(like ext3 etc) supposed to be better than the older ones!?
Definitely no. The "newer ones" mainly add journaling, and that means, at least meta-data has to be written twice on the physical medium, once into the journal, and once to the "real" place inside the FS' block-allocation and tree structure.
E.g. reiserfs tries to speed up things a little bit by packing very small files together, which indeed speeds up reading of small files (e.g. kernel compilation benchmarks get faster), but it doesn't help with the overall performance.
Reiserfs and others have a big problem with overhead when it comes to nearly empty disks - the database concept doesn't pay off in this case.
Here is how our system works. You walk through a metal detector, get patted down, they put your drivers license under a magnifier/camera, and take your picture, both are saved in their system.
That's funny. In Germany, additionally you need to deposit an amount of not fewer than 4000 Euros before entering a bar. Birth and good-conduct certificate and a signed declaration of intent to enter the Legion in case of any indictable offense, will also help you to get a beer or a whisky.
The best you can say about Freenet (at least in this place) is: Totally unusable, even with several days patience there's nothing to see, absolutely nothing, from nowhere, not even from people three blocks away.
It's a pain in the ass that some people (see Peek-a-booty, see Freenet) try to promote their great ideas by making the impression that they have working software. This is simply not true. They are (maybe) at the beginning of a long development process, but there's nothing yet to see...
The only thing I can imagine that would help against spam is something like the "web of trust", first used with PGP and GnuPG.
Every mail server admin defines a list of people whom he trusts (those might also be institutions), and they delegate their trust further, with different levels.
If spam appears, you kick the trusted person who is the first in the chain to the spammer from your side. He does the same, until the chain breaks... the last one in the chain revokes his key, and that's it.
Needless to say: You don't accept mail from people which you have no trust chain back to.
The software patents directive has been voted on Sep. 23rd ; however the amendments proposed by the FFII have pretty much all gone in, transforming the directive into an anti-software-patents directive. The whole procedure isn't over yet but a little optimism is ok:)
Yes, but I was talking about the IP/copyright directive which is still on its way. Look at ipjustice.org.
Actively obstruct the distribution of the original, e.g. by technical measures, or by starting a big suit about some licensing question, or by threatening the people.
But they cannot copy it into their own software and then let the original starve; that is what Microsoft always tries to do. (See Java, see Stacker, etc.)
Sorry, I'm a FreeBSD-on-desktop user (yes, there are some), and I'm surprised to see they only support Winodze.
Or, maybe, this time again, it means some of us will need to do some reverse-engineering of one more of those primitive tools all these player manufacturers supply...
Excuse me, what's wrong with P.H. not letting other people touch his code? I mean, it works to some extent. What be the reason to make changes?
I have heard that with the DragonFly-BSD project, there is also coming a patch to Poul-Henning Kamp, which is said to bring him to a higher level of co-operation.
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It's simply fun to have crashing servers, and a workstation with only three applications, two of them not working.
Many people think like me, the worse the software, the higher the expenses, the more fun it is!
I am happy finally someone spoke it out.
The code parts mentioned in the JBoss' advocate's letter look a little related. I guess it can't prove that one is derived from the other, but the is some degree of similarity that possibly shouldn't be there. ...
For the sake of Free Software and the karma of some programmers who were fighting on the same side, but under a slightly different flag. ... <sigh>
OpenBSD has worst reputation... when it comes to streamlining. Fefe has written an interesting article about BSDs' and Linux' responsiveness in various situations...
Funny, I had the same experiences with older hardware: SCSI always appeared to be faster, subjectively, on a medium load database/web server. I was really impressed about the dimensions (7 to 20 times!); the pure hardware capacity/speed gave no hint.
Where is this information from?
I can't see how the doubtless biased view of /. can make it any worse - in fact, /.ers rather seem to underestimate the problem at the moment.
The last time I went into an Apple shop, they weren't looking for customers: Customers - are boring.
Since Hurd is a Mach-inspired kernel, there should be this feature. Is this the case?
Convinced. Babenhausium. Cool cool name. Sounds like: Mud in the forest, and there: big big mud party. Only weasels admitted. May please someone explain to the foreign readers that Babenhausen and Rodgau are very near locations of Darmstadt, which some people like to call Dharmstadt (what reminds of the wheel of Dharma, the wheel of law)?
As a "Linux user" for such a long time, haven't you been able to find about how to install your fonts properly? (I mean, KDE does it, too, for those who don't like to type in commands, and this for more than 1 year. Of course you can use M$ fonts too with Linux, *BSD, and all other OS' which use X11.)
The same is for movies, even if they are in some proprietary formats.
I propose Rodgauium for the name of element 111. This town (Rodgau) is even moring boring than Darmstadt. (No wonder one famous band calls itself the Rodgau Monotones...)
E.g. reiserfs tries to speed up things a little bit by packing very small files together, which indeed speeds up reading of small files (e.g. kernel compilation benchmarks get faster), but it doesn't help with the overall performance.
Reiserfs and others have a big problem with overhead when it comes to nearly empty disks - the database concept doesn't pay off in this case.
Paranoia, ahoy!
It's a pain in the ass that some people (see Peek-a-booty, see Freenet) try to promote their great ideas by making the impression that they have working software. This is simply not true.
They are (maybe) at the beginning of a long development process, but there's nothing yet to see...
Every mail server admin defines a list of people whom he trusts (those might also be institutions), and they delegate their trust further, with different levels.
If spam appears, you kick the trusted person who is the first in the chain to the spammer from your side. He does the same, until the chain breaks ... the last one in the chain revokes his key, and that's it.
Needless to say: You don't accept mail from people which you have no trust chain back to.
But it will be. The new copyright directive is on its way...
Years of lobby work finally pay off - in the USA like in Europe.
I didn't know that Bill Gates was Mormon yet, but that's the only reason I can imagine about that...
Actively obstruct the distribution of the original, e.g. by technical measures, or by starting a big suit about some licensing question, or by threatening the people.
Or, maybe, this time again, it means some of us will need to do some reverse-engineering of one more of those primitive tools all these player manufacturers supply...
I have heard that with the DragonFly-BSD project, there is also coming a patch to Poul-Henning Kamp, which is said to bring him to a higher level of co-operation.