Isn't this a violation of anti-trust. They aren't allowing distribution of one product (a media player) to other markets because it potentially hurts their other product (windows.)
At this point its no longer a point of it not being economically viable - they have the port - you just can't use it with competition.
An open source programming language, like Python, Perl or PHP. That and you can also use rotor, microsoft's.NET environment which works natively on FreeBSD.
AllTheWeb has always had paid listings. They are labeled "Sponsored Results." My thoughts on the issue:
http://www.edwardbear.org/blog/archives/000071.htm l
I have, and i don't understand a word of finnish (I'm told that I'm not missing much). And yes, you're right, they can't be separated, they are already separate...
Sounds dumber than the rantings of a drunken finn at the bar.
The whole idea of cathedral and the bazaar is development methods, not copyright law. Certain licenses, "Open Source" or "Free Software" licenses, do help allow for this type of development. The author sounds confused, not insightful. Wonder why he got posted to the frontpage...
Fear. Uncertainty. Disorder.
Your just expressing your personal opinion? Well, I guess if that's your justification for sounding like an idiot, I won't get in your way.:-)
wrong. wrong. wrong.
PEAR is basically the same as CPAN (although its smaller at this point.) Go to http://pear.php.net, and do the minimum research before you post FUD.
That way at least the FUD will be halfway believable.
err, no. I'm not talking about the kernel, but rather the system. UNIX is not just a kernel, its an environment, and from an environment perspective, the UNIX apis are *much* better (as you mentioned the Win32 API is complete and utter crap).
Also, in the more specific phase: you can design a solid server (apache or thttpd for example) on a UNIX system without even bothering with Kernel level system calls, on Windows, while this can be done, its not as efficient. Furthermore, where do you think a lot of the MS kernel codebase comes from? Where do you think they got their TCP/IP implementation (FreeBSD)?
Saying that one kernel is better than another would be silly, they are each better in different ways, and I'm certainly not starting a war. What I will say is that the overall architecture that is now in place for Linux, is much better than the Windows architecture.
Well, perhaps if windows users get used to using a shell, then the switch to UNIX won't be too hard for them, it certainly makes it easier for the Linux movement if there are more similiarities than differences between the windows *gui* and the linux *gui*, as a large majority of Linux's advantages are more in respects to the underlying architecture, philospy[1].
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[1] Actually, I happen to think that the linux desktop is much better than the windows desktop, if you shy away from GNOME, KDE and try some of the non-standard desktops. I've been using WindowMaker on my laptop for a year now, and I see no reason to ever switch (it just fits the way I work). Furthermore, once you go shell, you never go back.
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Isn't this a violation of anti-trust. They aren't allowing distribution of one product (a media player) to other markets because it potentially hurts their other product (windows.) At this point its no longer a point of it not being economically viable - they have the port - you just can't use it with competition.
An open source programming language, like Python, Perl or PHP. That and you can also use rotor, microsoft's .NET environment which works natively on FreeBSD.
For those of you wondering, that's a Vonnegut reference. Surprising that Linus would know it, I don't know many europeans who read/know Vonnegut.
AllTheWeb has always had paid listings. They are labeled "Sponsored Results." My thoughts on the issue: http://www.edwardbear.org/blog/archives/000071.htm l
I have, and i don't understand a word of finnish (I'm told that I'm not missing much). And yes, you're right, they can't be separated, they are already separate...
Sounds dumber than the rantings of a drunken finn at the bar. The whole idea of cathedral and the bazaar is development methods, not copyright law. Certain licenses, "Open Source" or "Free Software" licenses, do help allow for this type of development. The author sounds confused, not insightful. Wonder why he got posted to the frontpage...
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Fear. Uncertainty. Disorder. Your just expressing your personal opinion? Well, I guess if that's your justification for sounding like an idiot, I won't get in your way. :-)
wrong. wrong. wrong. PEAR is basically the same as CPAN (although its smaller at this point.) Go to http://pear.php.net, and do the minimum research before you post FUD. That way at least the FUD will be halfway believable.
err, no. I'm not talking about the kernel, but rather the system. UNIX is not just a kernel, its an environment, and from an environment perspective, the UNIX apis are *much* better (as you mentioned the Win32 API is complete and utter crap). Also, in the more specific phase: you can design a solid server (apache or thttpd for example) on a UNIX system without even bothering with Kernel level system calls, on Windows, while this can be done, its not as efficient. Furthermore, where do you think a lot of the MS kernel codebase comes from? Where do you think they got their TCP/IP implementation (FreeBSD)? Saying that one kernel is better than another would be silly, they are each better in different ways, and I'm certainly not starting a war. What I will say is that the overall architecture that is now in place for Linux, is much better than the Windows architecture.
Well, perhaps if windows users get used to using a shell, then the switch to UNIX won't be too hard for them, it certainly makes it easier for the Linux movement if there are more similiarities than differences between the windows *gui* and the linux *gui*, as a large majority of Linux's advantages are more in respects to the underlying architecture, philospy[1].
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[1] Actually, I happen to think that the linux desktop is much better than the windows desktop, if you shy away from GNOME, KDE and try some of the non-standard desktops. I've been using WindowMaker on my laptop for a year now, and I see no reason to ever switch (it just fits the way I work). Furthermore, once you go shell, you never go back.