If you can afford a penthouse apartment in Manhattan, you're making an awful lot of money for a computer engineer. Where can the rest of us get jobs like yours?
The idiocy isn't recent. Having it come from people like the CTO of the Linux Foundation is though. Eben Moglen or Dan Ravicher needs to sit him down and explain to him exactly what he should have known before accepting the position, or he needs to protest the gross misquoting he got from Network World.
You're not kidding. This news is so old that some of the people who popluated Wall Street with Linux back in the 90's are probably close to retirement already.
It also assumes that they're not going to put most of the Internet radio industry out of business, which is the most likely outcome. Even loan sharks understand you don't collect anything from the dead, apparently the RIAA and friends haven't got the sense of a common street thug.
News Flash: Linux has been used in "mission critical" applications in the enterprise for at least 8 years now. Anyone who thinks Linux is "almost ready" clearly doesn't know what they're talking about and is nearly a decade behind reality.
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Indeed. The System/38 had this, and was way ahead of its time. I had one pretty much to myself in 1983-84.
That would only happen if you didn't read the license which again, is gross negligence.
This has nothing to do with the license being GPL at all, which is really the point to all this.
This "OMG, It's the GPL!" stuff is FUD. When you're in business, you read the license. Period. The GPL happens to be written to be easily understood, making lawyers unnecessary since you can't possibly read it and not understand that you'll have to release your code under the clearly iterated circumstances. You'd be better served saving those legal budget dollars for licenses that aren't written to be easily understood, but in any case the bottom line is, there's no excuse for not reading the license.
And really, you don't need a lawyer to understand your obligations under the GPL. It's plainly stated what they are, and not written to be obtuse like most licenses are.
Not reading the license is just gross negligence.
His time would be far better spent asking Yahoo why they're so steadfastly blackhat about the spam that comes off their network. Graham here is functioning as an apologist for spam, and the fact that he chooses to use a blackhat provider. Shame on him.
As for SBL, he's mistaken. It has long had a policy that allows the listing of corporate mailservers of spammers. If he wants to know their policy, he should talk to Steve Linford the Spamhaus founder, not John Reid.
Live with it, it's called free speech. I am a businessman and conservative (to the extent that it's visibly so), I know exactly what I'm talking about.
128MB is fine. The problem is they only put it in that one model. Sharp seems oblivious to the fact that that's the one everyone loved. They never offered either 128MB or the clamshell design over here.
Jerks.
Anyway, it's not a matter of adding a card. You can't expand system memory on these. You can only expand file storage.
If you're going to produce a high-end unit that costs a lot of money, you need to understand the needs of the high-end unit buyer. What Sharp has done is a lot like putting a 4 cylinder engine in a Porsche. OF COURSE no one's buying it.
The problem isn't the price. The problem is the lack of RAM that belongs in a device like the Zaurus. Lots of us want to buy one, but we're waiting for these guys to get it right. DUH.
It's only overpriced because it's underequipped. Add more RAM, and the price won't matter.
How can they keep releasing RAM-starved units like this? I'm not buying until they get their heads out of their asses and I'm tired of waiting for them to get this right, it's a show-stopper.
Not to trivialize the issue of bioengineered crops, but to focus on it misses what's probably the more important point... this particular "crop" is designed to allow even more use of toxic chemicals that are poisoning the water supply. It's a big step in the wrong direction. If they're going to bioengineer grass, it should be with the purpose of reducing the need for chemicals in mind.
If it's as bad as the rest of nVidia's Linux support, it's nothing to be excited about. nVidia's drivers taught me why open source drivers are so important.
And they're "good" about Linux support. That just underscores why open drivers are a must.
It fails to distinguish what the code they're asking about does. If a developer copies snippets of mundane code like sorts, that's one thing. If they're copying in-house developed algorithms specific to the client/employer, that's a whole other ball of wax.
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A successful startup? Try again. He's talking about a Manhattan penthouse. That's Trump money not startup money.
If you can afford a penthouse apartment in Manhattan, you're making an awful lot of money for a computer engineer. Where can the rest of us get jobs like yours?
http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
Troll? The only troll here is the meta-moderator who marked the parent as a troll.
The idiocy isn't recent. Having it come from people like the CTO of the Linux Foundation is though. Eben Moglen or Dan Ravicher needs to sit him down and explain to him exactly what he should have known before accepting the position, or he needs to protest the gross misquoting he got from Network World.
I'm hoping he was misquoted.
You're not kidding. This news is so old that some of the people who popluated Wall Street with Linux back in the 90's are probably close to retirement already.
Wall Street has been a Linux stronghold for nearly ten years already. This meeting at the FCA Conference was a gathering of the clueless.
Well we are talking about the Yankee Group, employers of the fabulous anti-FOSS zealot, Laura DiDio.
It also assumes that they're not going to put most of the Internet radio industry out of business, which is the most likely outcome. Even loan sharks understand you don't collect anything from the dead, apparently the RIAA and friends haven't got the sense of a common street thug.
News Flash: Linux has been used in "mission critical" applications in the enterprise for at least 8 years now. Anyone who thinks Linux is "almost ready" clearly doesn't know what they're talking about and is nearly a decade behind reality.
Indeed. The System/38 had this, and was way ahead of its time. I had one pretty much to myself in 1983-84.
That would only happen if you didn't read the license which again, is gross negligence. This has nothing to do with the license being GPL at all, which is really the point to all this. This "OMG, It's the GPL!" stuff is FUD. When you're in business, you read the license. Period. The GPL happens to be written to be easily understood, making lawyers unnecessary since you can't possibly read it and not understand that you'll have to release your code under the clearly iterated circumstances. You'd be better served saving those legal budget dollars for licenses that aren't written to be easily understood, but in any case the bottom line is, there's no excuse for not reading the license.
And really, you don't need a lawyer to understand your obligations under the GPL. It's plainly stated what they are, and not written to be obtuse like most licenses are. Not reading the license is just gross negligence.
Anyone out there using HANK?
His time would be far better spent asking Yahoo why they're so steadfastly blackhat about the spam that comes off their network. Graham here is functioning as an apologist for spam, and the fact that he chooses to use a blackhat provider. Shame on him.
As for SBL, he's mistaken. It has long had a policy that allows the listing of corporate mailservers of spammers. If he wants to know their policy, he should talk to Steve Linford the Spamhaus founder, not John Reid.
Live with it, it's called free speech. I am a businessman and conservative (to the extent that it's visibly so), I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Just unethical, immoral and without a soul, having sold it to Satan in exchange for the support of the religious right and the business lobby.
(that was meant to be funny, no need to argue)
Typical conversation since the 1.0 release "Have you downgraded Firefox back to one that works yet?"
128MB is fine. The problem is they only put it in that one model. Sharp seems oblivious to the fact that that's the one everyone loved. They never offered either 128MB or the clamshell design over here.
Jerks.
Anyway, it's not a matter of adding a card. You can't expand system memory on these. You can only expand file storage.
If you're going to produce a high-end unit that costs a lot of money, you need to understand the needs of the high-end unit buyer. What Sharp has done is a lot like putting a 4 cylinder engine in a Porsche. OF COURSE no one's buying it.
The problem isn't the price. The problem is the lack of RAM that belongs in a device like the Zaurus. Lots of us want to buy one, but we're waiting for these guys to get it right. DUH.
It's only overpriced because it's underequipped. Add more RAM, and the price won't matter.
How can they keep releasing RAM-starved units like this? I'm not buying until they get their heads out of their asses and I'm tired of waiting for them to get this right, it's a show-stopper.
Not to trivialize the issue of bioengineered crops, but to focus on it misses what's probably the more important point... this particular "crop" is designed to allow even more use of toxic chemicals that are poisoning the water supply. It's a big step in the wrong direction. If they're going to bioengineer grass, it should be with the purpose of reducing the need for chemicals in mind.
If it's as bad as the rest of nVidia's Linux support, it's nothing to be excited about. nVidia's drivers taught me why open source drivers are so important.
And they're "good" about Linux support. That just underscores why open drivers are a must.
It fails to distinguish what the code they're asking about does. If a developer copies snippets of mundane code like sorts, that's one thing. If they're copying in-house developed algorithms specific to the client/employer, that's a whole other ball of wax.