With this OS you have a great TCP/IP small and fast. Better than BSD or anything open source. You also have a small tight http server, ftp server, snmp stack blah blah. Now you license your OS to companies. They are willing to pay X dollars for your OS, because of your great support, overall speed and quality of code. The less engineering work needed and quicker time to market makes paying the money a good deal.
Now, your company does pretty well, so you pay taxes to the government. The government then takes this money and develops a tcp/ip stack(think a publicly funded college). This tcp/ip is in some ways better than yours and in other ways worse. You take the best and incorparate it into your code. If this code was GPL'd you couldn't do this. Public domain you could.
By making it GPL'd the company can't use the software in their product. Therefore you are paying taxes, to pay for a product that you can't use. With public domain software(or BSD) everyone can use it.
I think, rather, you are just blinded by your hatred for MS.
There is a place for open source software in business and government along with closed source(I know other may diagree)
But the licensing cost of software is not the only important cost for most businesses. So saying you get what you pay for is a silly argument, at least to me.
I live in TN, land used to be $1000 an acre, but now it is closer to $10,000 an acre. And rising. I suspect that $10,000/acre is darn cheap compared to another places.
I figured out why the number of inane posts was so high on this thread.
You are jealous. This geek has a girlfriend and you don't. He reads slashdot so now when she thinks of him she will also think of slashdot and the relatinship will soon end.
Way to go.
Also, for you younger geeks out there, many women who find geek hopeless in hs, find them midly attrative once the graduate from college.
That is not a diss on women, their priorties just change from hs to mid 20s.
Just don't become that, I am smarter than everyone else and I hate the world because they are so stupid and shallow, geek.
It really nice to read that unix stuff that drives me crazy(terminals, root, etc), they slam and say why it is so messed up. Granted it is old and most of the problems have been fixed, but still funny.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't take credit for it, I think I read it in
a Marie von Savant(sp?) newspaper article.
But i will look around.
If you have a box filled with big and little spheres the big pieces will rise to the top when shaken.
Yet if you have a cone with the point down, the big pieces will sink to the bottom.
For some reason this makes sense in my mind but I am not sure why.
Why is this flamebait, but my post agreeing with this, is insightful?
Granted, he uses a little less tact but still, -1 flamebait?
Actually no. Married 3 kids born early 70s.
I just can't keep up with NES, SNES, famicon, etc..
And which one was which.
Let's say you make an embedded OS.
With this OS you have a great TCP/IP small and fast. Better than BSD or anything open source.
You also have a small tight http server, ftp server, snmp stack blah blah.
Now you license your OS to companies. They are willing to pay X dollars for your OS, because of your great support, overall speed and quality of code. The less engineering work needed and quicker time to market makes paying the money a good deal.
Now, your company does pretty well, so you pay taxes to the government.
The government then takes this money and develops a tcp/ip stack(think a publicly funded college).
This tcp/ip is in some ways better than yours and in other ways worse. You take the best and incorparate it into your code.
If this code was GPL'd you couldn't do this. Public domain you could.
By making it GPL'd the company can't use the software in their product.
Therefore you are paying taxes, to pay for a product that you can't use. With public domain software(or BSD) everyone can use it.
I think, rather, you are just blinded by your hatred for MS.
I completely agree.
It would be flat out wrong for tax supported software to be made and then not be able to be used by businesses that helped pay for the software.
Tell that to Indianapolis. :-)
Simply not true, at least with software.
There is a place for open source software in business and government along with closed source(I know other may diagree)
But the licensing cost of software is not the only important cost for most businesses.
So saying you get what you pay for is a silly argument, at least to me.
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snes is the one Super Mario Brother/Duck Hunt came with right?
It's not just New York.
I live in TN, land used to be $1000 an acre, but now it is closer to $10,000 an acre. And rising. I suspect that $10,000/acre is darn cheap compared to another places.
Most cities are built near water. Where there is water fertile land is usually nearby.
Most people don't want to live in the desert. Unless, you like to gamble of course.
Problem isn't fertile land as much making good use of the land.
See now that's a useful response.
No flaming or calling the original poster stupid. Gives a nice precise techinal answer without inflating himself.
Well done.
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I have a 800 P3 that runs every game that I played recently with no problems at all.(MOH, Warlords4, Call of Duty, ET, NWN, WarCraft 3)
They all look and play good.
How can you not get it to work?
I'm confused.
hmmm... i guess I haven't been playing long enough for that to be a problem.
Forking as nothing to do with OSS. It has everything to do with software devlopment.
He slammed the guy saying he doesn't get OSS.
I said I thank God. Why? because I have alot of problems with GNU/RMS type of thinking and some of the OSS type of thinking.
This is what RMS says of non-"FREE" software:
"Proprietary software is antisocial, so developing it is wrong."
Evil may be a strong word, but so are RMS statements about non-"FREE" software.
> 2. GNU and RMS have nothing to do with OSS. OSS is the ESR/Perens crowd
I said I may have jumped the gun, too many definitions of software sometimes.
OK I'm tired already.
Hmmm very interesting.
Since, I am happily married with children(3) and get out quite often.
The first post, jumped all over the guy for not being true OSS. I must admit I assumed he was referring to GNU and the RMS type of thinking.
1) I get tired of people slamming other folks because it doesn't fit into their ideal of what OSS is or is not.
2) RMS would say SkyOS is evil, with this I have problems. Yes, I may have jumped the gun.
I didn't post ac why did you?
>They don't get OSS
You mean they don't believe the proprietary software is evil?
I say thank God.
It's free and so far I have been pleased with it.
Team play is crucial and the overall maturity seems higher(relatively) than some games like warcraft and counter-strike.
Also, the different classes allow the not-so-quick trigger-finger-player to still play a vital role.
Folks seem friendly, but that may not last.
I figured out why the number of inane posts was so high on this thread.
You are jealous.
This geek has a girlfriend and you don't.
He reads slashdot so now when she thinks of him she will also think of slashdot and the relatinship will soon end.
Way to go.
Also, for you younger geeks out there, many women who find geek hopeless in hs, find them midly attrative once the graduate from college.
That is not a diss on women, their priorties just change from hs to mid 20s.
Just don't become that, I am smarter than everyone else and I hate the world because they are so stupid and shallow, geek.
>if a visitor downloads a virus to spread, the responsibility is entirely the visitor's
So I poison some candy that I give out at halloween(they came to my house and asked for it) then it's the kids fault?
Can we smack around the legal scholars also?
> I like that they think Bo wouldn't have been anything special were it not for his video game legacy.
You ask most professional sports folks who the great athlete was in the later 1900s and most would say Bo Jackson.
Actually it gets worse, I didn't even realize there were advertising links on the right side of the page, until i saw your post.
I kid not.
Good points.
I really like unix.
But I love that book, quite funny.
It really nice to read that unix stuff that drives me crazy(terminals, root, etc), they slam and say why it is so messed up.
Granted it is old and most of the problems have been fixed, but still funny.
So cable modem lines are shared.
If you got a shell from the modem, could you then sniff the traffic?
Just curious.