Re:Free as in Freedom? WTF?
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Linus on DRM
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He says that Open Source "cite only short-term practical benefits as the reasons for what they do." while Free Software "embodies the firm philosophy of the free software movement" which means ensuring that the software, including future versions, forks and derives will remain free. All Free Software licenses are Open Source licenses, but far from all Open Source licenses are Free Software licenses.
"mp3: 1MB/min of audio Unless you are a recording artist, none of it is your data."
Duh, I've ripped all of my legally purchased CDs (about 300 of them) to my computer.. I love the fact that I can now put 50 CDs in my XMMS playlist and play them at random.. I haven't used my regular CD-player in more than 2 years...
many have been verbally warned that phrases like: "sex workers," "men who sleep with men," "anal sex" and "needle exchange," may cause the government to withhold grant money.
Instead they were requested to use phrases like "hookers", "faggots", "buttfucking" and "junkies".
"You and I know damn well that 99% of people 'modifying' their X-Boxes and PS2s are doing so for the purpose of playing copied games."
Damn wrong! At least 50% of the people modding their X-Boxes do so to be able to watch their downloaded DivX-movies on it.;-)
But that's besides the point. Even if it's true that most people mod it to run illegal copies, just modding it shouldn't be illegal. Actually playing the pirated games on it should be (and is already) illegal, but not just modding the hardware, because there are fair reasons to do so!!!
almost no applications can really take advantage of the fastest chips available...unless you're into 3D graphics, videoediting or stuff like that.. Or if you're a developer and need to compile a lot of code very often.. Or if you're a warezkiddie and rips a lot of DVDs... Or if bla bla bla.. There are lots of reasons to have a faster computer.. The target market isn't people like your sister though...
I don't know about that.. I don't know a single person in Sweden who uses AIM.. Most people don't even know what it is.. Everyone I know with an internet connection is using ICQ, which is almost synonymous with "instant messaging" here.. But it is slowly changing to MSN because it comes with the default install of Windows..:P
How many geeks hack Qt? Almost none I'd say, except for the geeks that are paid by Trolltech.. Do you think that Filmgimp would have been created if The Gimp was under a license which restricted distribution? Would FVWM (or most other WMs until about 1998) have existed if TWM was more restricted? What about XEmacs? egcs a few years ago (until it re-merged with gcc)? Would AtheOS have a webbrowser? If you don't use any of the things above is beside the point..
It wouldn't even be possible for distributions to include it under such a license, except maybe sourcebased distros like Gentoo..
The main point about Free Software/Open Source is about cooperation, code-reuse and freedom to modify, fork and redistribute... Take those things away and you come up with something similar to Microsofts "Shared source"...
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He says that Open Source "cite only short-term practical benefits as the reasons for what they do." while Free Software "embodies the firm philosophy of the free software movement" which means ensuring that the software, including future versions, forks and derives will remain free.
All Free Software licenses are Open Source licenses, but far from all Open Source licenses are Free Software licenses.
"mp3: 1MB/min of audio
Unless you are a recording artist, none of it is your data."
Duh, I've ripped all of my legally purchased CDs (about 300 of them) to my computer.. I love the fact that I can now put 50 CDs in my XMMS playlist and play them at random.. I haven't used my regular CD-player in more than 2 years...
many have been verbally warned that phrases like: "sex workers," "men who sleep with men," "anal sex" and "needle exchange," may cause the government to withhold grant money.
Instead they were requested to use phrases like "hookers", "faggots", "buttfucking" and "junkies".
Buy me a Windows-license and I'll dualboot for games also.. :P
That's just the kind of stupidity that takes place in open sores world.
Yes, making a better threading system is really stupid...
Yes, but it doesn't include the copyprotection-stuff so you can only run cracked versions of the games with it...
"You and I know damn well that 99% of people 'modifying' their X-Boxes and PS2s are doing so for the purpose of playing copied games."
;-)
Damn wrong!
At least 50% of the people modding their X-Boxes do so to be able to watch their downloaded DivX-movies on it.
But that's besides the point. Even if it's true that most people mod it to run illegal copies, just modding it shouldn't be illegal. Actually playing the pirated games on it should be (and is already) illegal, but not just modding the hardware, because there are fair reasons to do so!!!
almost no applications can really take advantage of the fastest chips available ...unless you're into 3D graphics, videoediting or stuff like that..
Or if you're a developer and need to compile a lot of code very often..
Or if you're a warezkiddie and rips a lot of DVDs...
Or if bla bla bla.. There are lots of reasons to have a faster computer.. The target market isn't people like your sister though...
It seems most of the world uses AIM
:P
I don't know about that.. I don't know a single person in Sweden who uses AIM.. Most people don't even know what it is.. Everyone I know with an internet connection is using ICQ, which is almost synonymous with "instant messaging" here.. But it is slowly changing to MSN because it comes with the default install of Windows..
Bondage? You're probably thinking about BDSM, not BGDM...
BDSM = BDDSSM = Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, SadoMasochism.
...especially for these girls. ;-)~
That was not a Goatse-link! That was just a link to a equally nasty picture on rotten.com.. Keep your facts straight!
Make sure you have gtk2 in your USE-flag and recompile Mozilla 1.3.1-r1 (r1 fixed some bad gtk2-bugs)
I completed Sam'n'Max just a few weeks ago using ScummVM! It worked great!
If MS Office was Open Source, you'd problably be able to compile it with: ./configure --without-clippy
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I think that's the biggest reason we want Microsoft to make Office Open Source...
How do you get a kernel panic that writes "KERNEL PANIC" in your browser and presses "Submit"? That's a pretty cool kernel panic... *g*
Why would I want to do that?
How many geeks hack Qt? Almost none I'd say, except for the geeks that are paid by Trolltech..
Do you think that Filmgimp would have been created if The Gimp was under a license which restricted distribution?
Would FVWM (or most other WMs until about 1998) have existed if TWM was more restricted?
What about XEmacs? egcs a few years ago (until it re-merged with gcc)? Would AtheOS have a webbrowser? If you don't use any of the things above is beside the point..
It wouldn't even be possible for distributions to include it under such a license, except maybe sourcebased distros like Gentoo..
The main point about Free Software/Open Source is about cooperation, code-reuse and freedom to modify, fork and redistribute... Take those things away and you come up with something similar to Microsofts "Shared source"...
That is a very BAD idea...
That would mean that I can't use use code from it in other projects without forbidding binary distribution of those projects also...
"Geeks get to hack on it"... Nope, geeks WON'T hack on it... Why should they? They wouldn't be able to reuse the code anyway...
If you can't be romantic you'll never give her an orgasm, sorry.
;D
LOL! Wanna make a bet?
I'm so goth my black is blacker than your black. I call it "black black."
I'm so goth, I don't say "black," I say "blahhwwwkkk."
I'm so goth I have actually seriously uttered the phrase, "the darkest dark of the dark darkness."
;)
My favourite one is a bit off topic but it has to be mentioned..
I'm so goth that bats hang little plastic me's from their ceiling.
Give her an orgasm, that usually works...
Yes I know.. But QNX is used in systems like this much more often... Maybe for a reason?
"Well, what else? Who in his right mind would like to have his brain fondled by a MS product?"
There are more than Linux and MS out there.... How about QNX for example?
It does? I wanna go to Canada!! ;)