It is valuable to complain about and publicise each event, so that no one gets the idea that Microsoft has reformed.
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Yeah, human sacrifice. Mmm. Which history books did you read?
And in exchange for the "Ok-ing" of a specific, unpopular version of Christianity, we got... The Dark Ages! Filled with book burning, infanticide, war, and bloody sports.
I go offroading in the family minivan oh... whenever I'm driving it. Freaks oiut my wife. Kids love it. I also have a Honda CRV (best SUV available... fuel efficient even!) and it can do a couple more things, like get out of 18" deep mud, than the Caravan can, but in general, the need for a 4x4 truck-type vehicle for "off roading" -- which is usually just "dirt roading" -- is over-stated. Now, I wouldn't go across an unknown field with the van, but I might with the CRV.
What a real non-road vehicle needs is better underbody protection.
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Re:Ready, Fire, Aim! I protest!
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Yay, Literalist Christianity, which taught the West that martyrdom was good and that open-minded rational discussion was bad.
Windows XP is a great example - people are snapping that up - not because everyone else has it (they obviously dont, it just came out) but because they feel compelled for some reason to purchase it
WinXP is not available yet. But you illustrate the mentality I alluded to splendidly.
And I have no doubt that people feel "compelled" to purchase it.
Yep. I'm all for capitalism, which includes free markets, and not for socialism, which features (government) controlled markets (using "market" loosely).
A market dominated by a single entity is not free.
From: "Gephardt, Richard"
To: (me)
Subject: RE: test
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:37:55 -0400
Thank you for your e-mail. I appreciate hearing
from you.
Due to the high volume of e-mails my office receives, I cannot guarantee a response to every message. However, if you reside in the Third Congressional District of Missouri, which I represent, and would like a written response, please resubmit your comments through
http://www.house.gov/writerep. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you reside in the Third Congressional District of
Missouri and wish to request Capitol/White House tours, or if you have a problem with a Federal agency, please contact one of my congressional offices.
What a couple of assholes. They're passing a law saying we have to put up with spam, because Companies Got Rights, and they don't even have email addresses themselves.
"For example, the Cheetah web server built on top of XOK performs eight times faster than NCSA or Harvest and three to four times faster than IIS running on Windows NT Enterprise Edition."
Yeah, there's probably a reason that they're called "berkeley sockets."
The news isn't that Hotmail uses FreeBSD, but that it still uses FreeBSD, after Microsoft announced that it has completely replaced FreeBSD with Windows, and that it got caught in this discrepancy while in the middle of its anti-free-software campaign.
Liar liar stock on fire.
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Re:Star Trek similarities unsurprising.
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Or, "pizza boy falls into suspended animation unit and awakens 1,000 years later."
Fair enough. And I agree to some extent, although "karma" is superstitious (are you really expecting to reincarnate in a higher state because you use the BSDL?)
For instance, codecs are good things to release under the BSDL, LGPL, or to the Public Domain, purely as a pragmatic excercise in dominating a market with an acceptable (from the point of view of quality, price, non-encumberance, whtever) format.
In response to your specific example, though, I would say that faster web surfing would be the reward for using Free code as opposed to proprietary code. If the crucial differentiators the Free code has are included in the proprietary code as well, and the authors of the proprietary code don't share their crucial differentiators with you, then it's not exactly a fair trade.
Although the proprietary code writers may reincarnate as toads or something.
You absolutely have a moral right to give away your property in any way you choose.
Altruism != self-interest. By definition. And if you derive value from releasing your software under the BSDL, then it's not altruism. Altruism would be where it's a total loss for you and a gain for someone else. What value do you realize, exactly, from releasing your own software under the BSDL?
I would say the GPL is an example of enlightened selfishness, and the BSDL is an example of altruism. GPL is based on trade; an author gives his code to anyone who wants it, in exchange for any enhancements or other work that uses his code. It's payment in kind. the BSDL is altruism; the author did all that work, and expects nothing in return.
I prefer the GPL. Altruism is a moral dead end, and doesn't promote, protect or respect freedom or people's effort and lives at all. The GPL inherently respects people's effort and right to be compensated for their labor. The compensation is more likely to come inthe form of more software rather then money, but it's still compensation.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone care to explain why a Konq screenshot would be of the Galeon home page?
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http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/galeon.pn g
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http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/galeon.j
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"The kissing disease."
:)
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It is valuable to complain about and publicise each event, so that no one gets the idea that Microsoft has reformed.
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Yeah, human sacrifice. Mmm. Which history books did you read?
And in exchange for the "Ok-ing" of a specific, unpopular version of Christianity, we got... The Dark Ages! Filled with book burning, infanticide, war, and bloody sports.
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Wow! I bow at your feet, oh offroading master.
I go offroading in the family minivan oh... whenever I'm driving it. Freaks oiut my wife. Kids love it. I also have a Honda CRV (best SUV available... fuel efficient even!) and it can do a couple more things, like get out of 18" deep mud, than the Caravan can, but in general, the need for a 4x4 truck-type vehicle for "off roading" -- which is usually just "dirt roading" -- is over-stated. Now, I wouldn't go across an unknown field with the van, but I might with the CRV.
What a real non-road vehicle needs is better underbody protection.
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Yay, Literalist Christianity, which taught the West that martyrdom was good and that open-minded rational discussion was bad.
Thanks, Constantine. Love ya. Mean it.
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Why should the U.S. have its own TLD when all its states have their own code? oh, wait... there is no .alabama
.it.eu, .uk.eu, etc. when it's a federal republic.
... maybe the EU countries will one day have
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Its not that complicated folks
It's simplistic, even!
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Windows XP is a great example - people are snapping that up - not because everyone else has it (they obviously dont, it just came out) but because they feel compelled for some reason to purchase it
WinXP is not available yet. But you illustrate the mentality I alluded to splendidly.
And I have no doubt that people feel "compelled" to purchase it.
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Mmmm... and they swim on land, too.
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Here's the sign:
The market goes wherever Microsoft wants it to. How could they keep people on their upgrade treadmill if there were "viable alternatives?"
And there are viable alternatives, as long as you never get locked into the Microsoft solution.
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Yep. I'm all for capitalism, which includes free markets, and not for socialism, which features (government) controlled markets (using "market" loosely).
A market dominated by a single entity is not free.
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Raise your hands if you use Caldera as your desktop. Yeah... thought so.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, I even said it in Random's conference room in Utah:
Caldera is run by fucking idiots.
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I noticed the complete and total lack of an email address of any type on his site. I found "gephardt@" using Google.
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From: "Gephardt, Richard"
To: (me)
Subject: RE: test
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:37:55 -0400
Thank you for your e-mail. I appreciate hearing
from you.
Due to the high volume of e-mails my office receives, I cannot guarantee a response to every message. However, if you reside in the Third Congressional District of Missouri, which I represent, and would like a written response, please resubmit your comments through
http://www.house.gov/writerep. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you reside in the Third Congressional District of
Missouri and wish to request Capitol/White House tours, or if you have a problem with a Federal agency, please contact one of my congressional offices.
St. Louis: (314) 894-3400
Washington, D.C.: (202) 225-2671
Festus: (636) 937-6399
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According to this, his email address is gephardt@mail.house.gov
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What a couple of assholes. They're passing a law saying we have to put up with spam, because Companies Got Rights, and they don't even have email addresses themselves.
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We just need to make corporations not-people again.
Sony has first amenedment rights? Sad but true. And wrong.
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"For example, the Cheetah web server built on top of XOK performs eight times faster than NCSA or Harvest and three to four times faster than IIS running on Windows NT Enterprise Edition."
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Yeah, there's probably a reason that they're called "berkeley sockets."
The news isn't that Hotmail uses FreeBSD, but that it still uses FreeBSD, after Microsoft announced that it has completely replaced FreeBSD with Windows, and that it got caught in this discrepancy while in the middle of its anti-free-software campaign.
Liar liar stock on fire.
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Or, "pizza boy falls into suspended animation unit and awakens 1,000 years later."
But at least it has Bender!
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Fair enough. And I agree to some extent, although "karma" is superstitious (are you really expecting to reincarnate in a higher state because you use the BSDL?)
For instance, codecs are good things to release under the BSDL, LGPL, or to the Public Domain, purely as a pragmatic excercise in dominating a market with an acceptable (from the point of view of quality, price, non-encumberance, whtever) format.
In response to your specific example, though, I would say that faster web surfing would be the reward for using Free code as opposed to proprietary code. If the crucial differentiators the Free code has are included in the proprietary code as well, and the authors of the proprietary code don't share their crucial differentiators with you, then it's not exactly a fair trade.
Although the proprietary code writers may reincarnate as toads or something.
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You absolutely have a moral right to give away your property in any way you choose.
Altruism != self-interest. By definition. And if you derive value from releasing your software under the BSDL, then it's not altruism. Altruism would be where it's a total loss for you and a gain for someone else. What value do you realize, exactly, from releasing your own software under the BSDL?
And what else are you not clear about?
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I would say the GPL is an example of enlightened selfishness, and the BSDL is an example of altruism. GPL is based on trade; an author gives his code to anyone who wants it, in exchange for any enhancements or other work that uses his code. It's payment in kind. the BSDL is altruism; the author did all that work, and expects nothing in return.
I prefer the GPL. Altruism is a moral dead end, and doesn't promote, protect or respect freedom or people's effort and lives at all. The GPL inherently respects people's effort and right to be compensated for their labor. The compensation is more likely to come inthe form of more software rather then money, but it's still compensation.
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