Wow, so much false information, it's not even funny. First, it is Tim O'Rielly. Second, there is no Solaris in a Nutshell. Third, BSD was not a code fork from Solaris. BSD predates Solaris by ten years, even longer than Linux has existed.
I will move to Linux when it is as stable as FreeBSD, or as secure as OpenBSD, or as portable as NetBSD, or as free as any of them. Linux has a long way to come in the fields that matter most to me.
No, Irix is a code fork from BSD. In fact, Irix was the first BSD derivative to receive POSIX certification.
On a side note, SGI has been releasing Irix code under the GPL. However, this is all for show and to get cheap press. If they really wanted to play the open source game, they'd release their code under a BSD-friendly license as a sort of offering to their roots (so to speak;). Alas, business and the GPL fail us again.
The CIA cannot legally operating inside the United States spying on Americans. Their sole purpose is to spy on non-Americans. This is not to say it doesn't happen, but that's the law.
Be very careful what you say, I do not depend on the GPL to keep any software free. I do not contribute to GPL'd projects because of the license. I also keep the GPL'd software I use to the smallest possible ammount.
How is that different from the fact that it is difficult to create a program with components under both the GPL and QPL? Or with the GPL and BSDL? Or with the GPL and APSL? Or the GPL and MPL? Wait, doh, the GPL is always the problem here, isn't it?
Why not make the GPL more compatible with the GPL? This would have the added benefit of making the GPL more compatible with numerous other licenses and would prevent much of this non-sense in the future. This is especially true considering there are no major sticking points in the QPL which prevent widespread acceptance.
There are only a small number of people who keep crying foul whenever something comes up that does not agree with their base philosophy. Rather than changing their philosphy to be more widly accepted among the broader community, they only sit back and force others to comply with the One True Way. Sounds like an inquisition or a holocaust in the making.
As a BASH user, I find it necessary to point out that doing "advanced software development" with BASH is simply out of the question. In order to do "advanced software development," you must use a real programming language like C, C++, Java, Modula, or some other fully featured language.
No, CT is not from the Netherlands. CT is from Holland, Michigan. It is this little town in the middle of no-where with the second worst school in America nearby (Hope College). In case you are wondering, the worst is Montgomery County Community College in Maryland.
Because Linux forces the user to pass system call arguments in the processor registers (and is it like this on all architectures?), does that mean it is limited in the number of arguments that can be passed?
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Howard, I thought you'd be an expert in Hebrew not Latin ;-)
So now you have to sink to racism that isn't even accurate?
I use FreeBSD on my webserver. I use NetBSD on my Macs. I am putting OpenBSD on my DNS servers which were recently hacked (were Red Hat).
As for freedome. It is also restrictive to those who do not mind others wishing to take and not give back.
Wow, so much false information, it's not even funny. First, it is Tim O'Rielly. Second, there is no Solaris in a Nutshell. Third, BSD was not a code fork from Solaris. BSD predates Solaris by ten years, even longer than Linux has existed.
This sounds more like the user doesn't know Latin. etc translates best to, "and the rest."
I will move to Linux when it is as stable as FreeBSD, or as secure as OpenBSD, or as portable as NetBSD, or as free as any of them. Linux has a long way to come in the fields that matter most to me.
Slashdot covered this back in March of 1999. You can find the original link here.
Heh, I don't have an SGI. But if I did, I'd be all over this :)
No, Irix is a code fork from BSD. In fact, Irix was the first BSD derivative to receive POSIX certification.
On a side note, SGI has been releasing Irix code under the GPL. However, this is all for show and to get cheap press. If they really wanted to play the open source game, they'd release their code under a BSD-friendly license as a sort of offering to their roots (so to speak;). Alas, business and the GPL fail us again.
The CIA cannot legally operating inside the United States spying on Americans. Their sole purpose is to spy on non-Americans. This is not to say it doesn't happen, but that's the law.
Be very careful what you say, I do not depend on the GPL to keep any software free. I do not contribute to GPL'd projects because of the license. I also keep the GPL'd software I use to the smallest possible ammount.
How is that different from the fact that it is difficult to create a program with components under both the GPL and QPL? Or with the GPL and BSDL? Or with the GPL and APSL? Or the GPL and MPL? Wait, doh, the GPL is always the problem here, isn't it?
That first sentence should read, "Why not make the GPL more compatable with the QPL?"
make the QPL compatible with the GPL
Why not make the GPL more compatible with the GPL? This would have the added benefit of making the GPL more compatible with numerous other licenses and would prevent much of this non-sense in the future. This is especially true considering there are no major sticking points in the QPL which prevent widespread acceptance.
There are only a small number of people who keep crying foul whenever something comes up that does not agree with their base philosophy. Rather than changing their philosphy to be more widly accepted among the broader community, they only sit back and force others to comply with the One True Way. Sounds like an inquisition or a holocaust in the making.
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
:)
Meat, all the way through
Actually, it would be nicer to see them released under a BSDish license to prevent license compatability issues with the BSD releases.
On the other hand, the source is now free for non-commercial use.
BBN was an old, old company when they got involved in the Internet. They had been an accoustics company before hand.
Think about, Win32 didn't exist,
Yeah it did. Microsoft just hadn't publically released it yet.
and IBM didn't know MS were going to screw them over with OS/2.
It was pretty clear with the release of Windows 3.0 that Microsoft was a whore.
Amiga were fighting with Atari.
Atari had been dead for five years at this point.
Heck, Tim Lee was thinking maybe Hypertext mught be a cool way to store his university notes, thus was born the web.
The web already two years old.
Usenet didn't contain thousands of porn pictures
The only thing ever posted to Usenet in the past was porn. Nothing has changed.
And still 10 years later, MacOS still is cludgy and can't multitask....I suppose some things just don't change.
You have not used OSX, have you?
As a BASH user, I find it necessary to point out that doing "advanced software development" with BASH is simply out of the question. In order to do "advanced software development," you must use a real programming language like C, C++, Java, Modula, or some other fully featured language.
HAHAHAHA!
No, CT is not from the Netherlands. CT is from Holland, Michigan. It is this little town in the middle of no-where with the second worst school in America nearby (Hope College). In case you are wondering, the worst is Montgomery County Community College in Maryland.
And, while I am at it, are arguments to library calls passed the same way under Linux?
Because Linux forces the user to pass system call arguments in the processor registers (and is it like this on all architectures?), does that mean it is limited in the number of arguments that can be passed?
Okay Nik, what is up with the NP always in the department name?
It would be uncontitutional. :)
No, it's located in Armonk.