> Kinda like do you get married or rent a woman...
Kinda like you'd be outta yer mind to buy a cow when all ya really want is a glass of milk, right?
Actually, both are just forms of ownership - the former is usually just over a longer time period than the latter. I don't understand the male need to possess females as if they were just more 'stuff'. Or females that wanna be the possession of some dude. I dunno if my attitude is PC or not on this subject.
This attitude comes from being married for 25 years but now I'm living with these two beautiful women. Ya can't own, try to bribe, pay or otherwise control women like these two. That would just fuck up your relationship. It's really great just to hang out and share their beds with them . My buddies can't believe what a kinky little arrangement we have. (To be honest. I can't either..;) What makes this work out so well is our mutual attitude about "ownership".
My point not being about ownership, but about continually paying for something which you could pay for once - or not at all...:)
Have fun in your menage a trois!!
I'd rather buy and own. That goes for anything - The house that I live in, the car that I drive, the clothes that I wear (unless I'm attending a one-off function) THE MUSIC THAT I LISTEN TO etc.
Kinda like do you get married or rent a woman...
Ok, so this is slashdot...
Can someone answer this question?
A quick look at the licences in various KDE apps shows it to be the (L)GPL circa 1991 and contains text to the effect that the licence may be copied but *not* changed. Part of that licence gives copyright to the Free Software Foundation, rather than the author of the work.
Now, I may be misunderstanding this, but in order to use the GPL, must one give copyright of ones work to the FSF?
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re: Article. More and more it's becoming apparent that this whole SCO case is the result of sour grapes by SCO (as opposed to Caldera) because SCO fought and lost the battle for *nix OSes on intel. They tried FUD, they tried a Linux Kernel Personality patch and they failed. The final curtain was being taken over by Caldera - a Linux company.
Unfourtanately, the old and unrepentant SCO management have taken over the company following an internal coup, renamed it SCO, busted Ransom Love out and restarted their fight to protect their rapidly declining market. Unfourtanately for them they have a Linux product line and that's causing some serious problems for their latest strategy.
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I used to live in Bristol, too. There used to be some airbus aiecraft parked up on the field near the road. Wonder if they're still there?
That road they close is notorious for having a speed limit which is way too low - and the freaking rozzers love to stake it out with their spped cameras...
We shall not spend some fat-ass 'espense o' time
B4 we reckon wit' yo' several loves,
An' make us even wit' yo' ass. Mah thanes an' kinsmen,
Hencefort' be earls, da fust dat eva' Scotland
In such some honour named. Whut's mo' t' do,
Which would be planted newly wit' da damn time,
As callin' crib our 'esiled homies abroad
Dat fled da damn snares o' watchful tyranny;
Producin' fort' da damn cruel minista's
O' dis wo'm food butcha' an' wassups fiend-likes queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self an' violent hands
Done took off ha' life; dis, an' whut needful else
Dat calls upon us, by da grace o' Grace,
We will puh'form in maisure, time an' place, dig dis:
So's, thanks t'all at once an' t'aich one,
Whom we invite t' spot us crown'd at Scone.
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, who but struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is gone - unless he is a 19yr old Finnish Computer Science student, in which case he achieves immortality"
"tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, Linux World Domination is all I see before me"
This whole Canopy thing is a Red Herring. Ray Noorda, the former Novell supremo, owns this venture capitalist co. As we all know, Caldera sprung from Novell, so it's not unreasonable to assume that Noorda funded Caldera through Canopy. Caldera merged with SCO, thus diluting the Canopy shareholding.
As we also know, following the.com bust, SCO execs made a power play inside Caldera and effectively took over management of the company, removing Ransome Love. These same execs are the ones who have been fighting a desperate rearguard action against Linux on Intel for the past 5 years. First they ridiculed it, then they tried to co-opt it with the Linux Kernel Personality for OpenServer. That didn't work and now find themselves in a corner and this is the final roll of the dice to save the SCO business - not the Caldera Linux business.
And as someone has pointed out above, Canopy own only 5.3% of Trolltech, as an investment partner - they're not pulling anymore strings at Troll than they are at SCO.
I wish Perens would get his facts straight before diving in feet first.
I totally agree. Every experience I've had with Caldera/SCO products was horrible... granted, it was their Linux products (I know nothing of their Unix).
No, you're wrong. Caldera was actually a rather good Linux distribution and Caldera were innovative in pushing corporate Linux.
SCO, on the other hand, had a group of terrible Unix products which ran on Intel processors. Naturally, these awful products (esp OpenServer) could not compete against Linux on Intel - especially in terms of cost and quality.
Linux boomed, Caldera took over SCO to cannibalise their distribution channel. Following the.com bust, when linux fell as a value proposition, the SCO lot within Caldera took over, renamed the company SCO and took up the old fight against Linux. This is the final play in that fight.
...and then you tried to scale your system across 12 application servers and three replicated databases. What happened then?
(Don't say you recoded it in.NET)
but do they really use Word?
Of course they do. MS office is *the* business standard.
Any sites which require docs to be submitted usually ask for them to be in Word format, cos while everyone has the free PDF reader, less people have a PDF doc generator.
Word' is in use. It's there, it works (most of the time), everyone uses it. OK, so it's not ideal. X isn't either, but it's there, it works (most of the time) and everyone uses it!
2) Can I write a closed source program in KDE without having to pay QT 1500 USD? NOT LIKELY....
No, you probably couldn't. But that hasn't stopped Adobe , amongst others has it?
Could it be that QT's flexibility, solid design, and ease of use make sound business sense to non-hobbyist developers? Could it be that these same qualities are what originally attracted the KDE developers?
Sun may back GNOME, but they've made so many bad judgement calls in the past that I wonder if GNOME wasn't just another...
A traditional web project? Has the web been around that long!?
This book seems to assume that customers
a) Know what they want
b) Are capable of helping to formulate a realistic iterative dev plan
In my experience, customers tend to want fixed price projects because they know how much they'll pay up front, but then they also want changes made at a whim if they don't like something, they often expect the developers to be able to read their minds regarding ill defined requirements and they expect it all to be defined, developed and delivered yesterday.
The key to successful fixed price development is to make sure that the client understands their own requirements and understands that anything outside of that understanding is a Change Request for which they will pay over and above the originally decided project cost.
Regarding Extreme Programming - one cornerstone of XP seems to be two developers working at one machine developing one Unit together. You'd have a hard time trying to convice someone managing a fixed price project to sign up to this as instantly, your costs for each unit double (managers can't see time savings).
I think that if a customer can be persuaded to go Time and Materials and a realistic agreement can be made re: milestones between the developer and the customer, then you have the best of all worlds.
a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers
This seems like good news. However, is this really Linux as we know it? Probably not. I assume (hope) that this will be some kind of stripped down Linux kernel, which is small and efficient and stable enough to reliably power a mobile device.
People tend to forget that most of the ability to scale Linux up to mainframes etc or down to mobile devices and wristwatches is undertaken by corporates who intend to profit from doing so.
(IBM, Motorola etc)
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> Kinda like do you get married or rent a woman... Kinda like you'd be outta yer mind to buy a cow when all ya really want is a glass of milk, right? Actually, both are just forms of ownership - the former is usually just over a longer time period than the latter. I don't understand the male need to possess females as if they were just more 'stuff'. Or females that wanna be the possession of some dude. I dunno if my attitude is PC or not on this subject. This attitude comes from being married for 25 years but now I'm living with these two beautiful women. Ya can't own, try to bribe, pay or otherwise control women like these two. That would just fuck up your relationship. It's really great just to hang out and share their beds with them . My buddies can't believe what a kinky little arrangement we have. (To be honest. I can't either.. ;) What makes this work out so well is our mutual attitude about "ownership".
:)
Have fun in your menage a trois!!
My point not being about ownership, but about continually paying for something which you could pay for once - or not at all...
That's why it's called alpha. .BILL-GATES..er..I mean MONO is pre-alpha.
You know, the way
Anyway, you ain't the real Miguel, you's just a troll..
I'd rather buy and own. That goes for anything - The house that I live in, the car that I drive, the clothes that I wear (unless I'm attending a one-off function) THE MUSIC THAT I LISTEN TO etc.
Kinda like do you get married or rent a woman...
Ok, so this is slashdot...
Can someone answer this question? A quick look at the licences in various KDE apps shows it to be the (L)GPL circa 1991 and contains text to the effect that the licence may be copied but *not* changed. Part of that licence gives copyright to the Free Software Foundation, rather than the author of the work. Now, I may be misunderstanding this, but in order to use the GPL, must one give copyright of ones work to the FSF? ------------ re: Article. More and more it's becoming apparent that this whole SCO case is the result of sour grapes by SCO (as opposed to Caldera) because SCO fought and lost the battle for *nix OSes on intel. They tried FUD, they tried a Linux Kernel Personality patch and they failed. The final curtain was being taken over by Caldera - a Linux company. Unfourtanately, the old and unrepentant SCO management have taken over the company following an internal coup, renamed it SCO, busted Ransom Love out and restarted their fight to protect their rapidly declining market. Unfourtanately for them they have a Linux product line and that's causing some serious problems for their latest strategy.
when you laugh at posts like the parent post.
Yeah, X11 has been superceded by XP already...
heh heh... you'd better pray Sierra isn't porting DNF to the Mac...
Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs
I would have thought Reduced Instruction Sets and less transistors would be the "key" to cooling crazy hot CPUs...
I used to live in Bristol, too. There used to be some airbus aiecraft parked up on the field near the road. Wonder if they're still there? That road they close is notorious for having a speed limit which is way too low - and the freaking rozzers love to stake it out with their spped cameras...
Concorde also flys (flew) twice weekly to Barbados, West Indies. Says alot about the status of the island.
We shall not spend some fat-ass 'espense o' time B4 we reckon wit' yo' several loves, An' make us even wit' yo' ass. Mah thanes an' kinsmen, Hencefort' be earls, da fust dat eva' Scotland In such some honour named. Whut's mo' t' do, Which would be planted newly wit' da damn time, As callin' crib our 'esiled homies abroad Dat fled da damn snares o' watchful tyranny; Producin' fort' da damn cruel minista's O' dis wo'm food butcha' an' wassups fiend-likes queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by self an' violent hands Done took off ha' life; dis, an' whut needful else Dat calls upon us, by da grace o' Grace, We will puh'form in maisure, time an' place, dig dis: So's, thanks t'all at once an' t'aich one, Whom we invite t' spot us crown'd at Scone.
I have a Sun Netra X1 in my basement feeding four sunrays throughout my house
You must be rich...or is your name Scott?
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, who but struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is gone - unless he is a 19yr old Finnish Computer Science student, in which case he achieves immortality"
"tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, Linux World Domination is all I see before me"
I thought the title said, "Library of Congress to Hold DMCA Herrings"
Just proves you see what you want to see...
Excellent! Now I can play Monty on the Run and Sanxion in Death Match mode..
This whole Canopy thing is a Red Herring. Ray Noorda, the former Novell supremo, owns this venture capitalist co. As we all know, Caldera sprung from Novell, so it's not unreasonable to assume that Noorda funded Caldera through Canopy. Caldera merged with SCO, thus diluting the Canopy shareholding. .com bust, SCO execs made a power play inside Caldera and effectively took over management of the company, removing Ransome Love. These same execs are the ones who have been fighting a desperate rearguard action against Linux on Intel for the past 5 years. First they ridiculed it, then they tried to co-opt it with the Linux Kernel Personality for OpenServer. That didn't work and now find themselves in a corner and this is the final roll of the dice to save the SCO business - not the Caldera Linux business.
As we also know, following the
And as someone has pointed out above, Canopy own only 5.3% of Trolltech, as an investment partner - they're not pulling anymore strings at Troll than they are at SCO.
I wish Perens would get his facts straight before diving in feet first.
I totally agree. Every experience I've had with Caldera/SCO products was horrible... granted, it was their Linux products (I know nothing of their Unix). .com bust, when linux fell as a value proposition, the SCO lot within Caldera took over, renamed the company SCO and took up the old fight against Linux. This is the final play in that fight.
No, you're wrong. Caldera was actually a rather good Linux distribution and Caldera were innovative in pushing corporate Linux.
SCO, on the other hand, had a group of terrible Unix products which ran on Intel processors. Naturally, these awful products (esp OpenServer) could not compete against Linux on Intel - especially in terms of cost and quality.
Linux boomed, Caldera took over SCO to cannibalise their distribution channel. Following the
...and then you tried to scale your system across 12 application servers and three replicated databases. What happened then? (Don't say you recoded it in .NET)
but do they really use Word?
Of course they do. MS office is *the* business standard. Any sites which require docs to be submitted usually ask for them to be in Word format, cos while everyone has the free PDF reader, less people have a PDF doc generator. Word' is in use. It's there, it works (most of the time), everyone uses it. OK, so it's not ideal. X isn't either, but it's there, it works (most of the time) and everyone uses it!
2) Can I write a closed source program in KDE without having to pay QT 1500 USD? NOT LIKELY....
No, you probably couldn't. But that hasn't stopped Adobe , amongst others has it? Could it be that QT's flexibility, solid design, and ease of use make sound business sense to non-hobbyist developers? Could it be that these same qualities are what originally attracted the KDE developers?
Sun may back GNOME, but they've made so many bad judgement calls in the past that I wonder if GNOME wasn't just another...
..I wasn't nerdy or unpopular at 12. Which is more than I can say 17 years later. Sheesh...it all went wrong when i discovered C++...
...yet another Murder and Acqusition.
Yes :0)
A traditional web project? Has the web been around that long!?
This book seems to assume that customers
a) Know what they want
b) Are capable of helping to formulate a realistic iterative dev plan
In my experience, customers tend to want fixed price projects because they know how much they'll pay up front, but then they also want changes made at a whim if they don't like something, they often expect the developers to be able to read their minds regarding ill defined requirements and they expect it all to be defined, developed and delivered yesterday.
The key to successful fixed price development is to make sure that the client understands their own requirements and understands that anything outside of that understanding is a Change Request for which they will pay over and above the originally decided project cost.
Regarding Extreme Programming - one cornerstone of XP seems to be two developers working at one machine developing one Unit together. You'd have a hard time trying to convice someone managing a fixed price project to sign up to this as instantly, your costs for each unit double (managers can't see time savings).
I think that if a customer can be persuaded to go Time and Materials and a realistic agreement can be made re: milestones between the developer and the customer, then you have the best of all worlds.
a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers
This seems like good news. However, is this really Linux as we know it? Probably not. I assume (hope) that this will be some kind of stripped down Linux kernel, which is small and efficient and stable enough to reliably power a mobile device. People tend to forget that most of the ability to scale Linux up to mainframes etc or down to mobile devices and wristwatches is undertaken by corporates who intend to profit from doing so. (IBM, Motorola etc)