Surely a FLOSS community, anyway? Debian hardly make the role of free software seem insignificant against its media friendly cousin, 'open source' - in fact, Debian is one of the few distributions out there that actively recognises the system as GNU with Linux.
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In years to come...
Kid: 'What were you doing when Steve Irwin was killed, dad?'
Me: 'Reading Slashdot, son.'
Kid: 'What's Slashdot?'
Me: 'It was this magical place where all the news stories were posted two or three times each, where some people would charge in without even reading the story at all and we'd all get a chance to score each others posts, though that was a bit of contentious issue.'
Sometimes when I moderate, I don't understand references to Star Trek, etc because I don't watch them... however, if they make me laugh, or smile, I mod them up, because they remind me what the Internet is about.
No, the software is under GPLv2 or any later version. They could simply take the software, say it's under GPLv3 and distribute it under those terms and that license AFAIK.
Here's one for the Slashdot crowd though, my mate Mark, despite being a huge Nintendo fan and having a variety of import consoles, etc - never had a NES, and yet owned three or four CD-is - how fucked up is that?
I like Bruce too. Did you see there was a story about him here the other day? He came on and replied to lots of posts. It takes a decent person to do that.
What other free software ventures from corporations happened? IIRC, CATB was only one part of the decision. The fact that IE was virtually owning the web, which could allow MS to pollute HTML and prevent Netscape making it actual money from its server products was a large part of it too. AFAIK, "netscape source code as netscape product" (Hecker's paper) hasn't been released publically.
Totally. I'm never entirely sure how ESR got to where he is... he wrote a few utilities and a book or two, but short of maintaining the Jargon file, it's hard to see what he did on a day to day basis that allowed him to be quite so prevelant.
I believe he/she is just saying that when you buy Linspire, you get support. If you give away OpenSuSE, you don't. Of course, I'm sure Novell will sell you a copy of SLED.
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Surely a FLOSS community, anyway? Debian hardly make the role of free software seem insignificant against its media friendly cousin, 'open source' - in fact, Debian is one of the few distributions out there that actively recognises the system as GNU with Linux.
You at Exeter Uni?
That's the first link in TFA ;)
In Soviet Russia, Xenu likes to use you!
In years to come...
Kid: 'What were you doing when Steve Irwin was killed, dad?'
Me: 'Reading Slashdot, son.'
Kid: 'What's Slashdot?'
Me: 'It was this magical place where all the news stories were posted two or three times each, where some people would charge in without even reading the story at all and we'd all get a chance to score each others posts, though that was a bit of contentious issue.'
Kid: 'Oh. Kinda like Digg?'
Fucking a. We need more Leary on /.
Heh, seems the duped story was removed :)
Sometimes when I moderate, I don't understand references to Star Trek, etc because I don't watch them... however, if they make me laugh, or smile, I mod them up, because they remind me what the Internet is about.
Duped already, too. ;)
No, the software is under GPLv2 or any later version. They could simply take the software, say it's under GPLv3 and distribute it under those terms and that license AFAIK.
Someone once told me they'd seen ZX81s, Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs all being used, in metal cases, in various facilties.
I never said anyone would be forced, but what's to stop a distro maker on Day One saying 'Everything that could be, is now under GPLv3'?
Can't go back, only forwards.
Lots of people will use it the day it comes out as an awful lot of software under GPLv2 automatically uses GPLv3 :)
I remember similar things with IE and Netscape.
Here's one for the Slashdot crowd though, my mate Mark, despite being a huge Nintendo fan and having a variety of import consoles, etc - never had a NES, and yet owned three or four CD-is - how fucked up is that?
Don't belittle a person that has written little, what he has written may be very insightful and important.
Granted, I'm just not so sure ESR's writing much in the way of insightfulness or importance. Have you read his blog?
I agree.
I like Bruce too. Did you see there was a story about him here the other day? He came on and replied to lots of posts. It takes a decent person to do that.
Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound! ;)
What other free software ventures from corporations happened? IIRC, CATB was only one part of the decision. The fact that IE was virtually owning the web, which could allow MS to pollute HTML and prevent Netscape making it actual money from its server products was a large part of it too. AFAIK, "netscape source code as netscape product" (Hecker's paper) hasn't been released publically.
Totally. I'm never entirely sure how ESR got to where he is... he wrote a few utilities and a book or two, but short of maintaining the Jargon file, it's hard to see what he did on a day to day basis that allowed him to be quite so prevelant.
Anyway, I think we should buy him an iPod.
emacs *is* better. We've got a vi-mode for those who want to join us! ;)
AFAICT iPod is just a USB disk. Not sure what kind of drivers would be needed that haven't been in the kernel for some time.
I believe he/she is just saying that when you buy Linspire, you get support. If you give away OpenSuSE, you don't. Of course, I'm sure Novell will sell you a copy of SLED.
when I see 'non x86', I think of people like me with a powerpc64. Heh, I should have bought a PC, shouldn't I? Who runs GNU on an iMac G5? Oh well.
This appears to come with proprietary drivers from ATI and Nvidia.. Can someone confirm or deny this?
The GPL has nothing to do with preventing commercial usage. The GPL has everything to do with preventing proprietary usage. Big difference.