The morale of this is that people will hopefully realize what a
control freak and raging manic Stallman is. Don't trust him. As soon
as something isn't in line with his view he'll stab you in the back.
*NEVER* voluntarily put a project you work on under the GNU umbrella
since this means in Stallman's opinion that he has the right to make
decisions for the project.
For even more context, look at the patch. The "negative impact" is a couple extra microseconds of cpu time to memset 20 bytes instead of 3. I guess 32-bit x86 ought to be enough for anyone.
Win 2K was successful. (I consider it the high point, though XP is ok when you turn off the crap and make it work like 2K). It wasn't marketed as a consumer OS, but I used it at work and at home. Hell, I still use it for a couple apps via virtual box.
The people have spoken; whether they be users or developers, they prefer GPL to BSD. *BSD sat around languishing in obscurity for years, Linux comes along with a superior license and bingo! Eats *BSD's lunch. BSD is not irrelevant, but it is less relevant.
You must have selective hearing. Let's look at popularity:
Windows
OS X
Linux
*BSD
miscellaneous
HURD
Evidence says, users and developers seem to prefer closed source over either GPL or BSD. OS X (with a BSD/Mach kernel) is more popular than linux. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are more popular than HURD.
If it was just a matter of the license, why aren't you telling us about HURD and it's superior license?
If you want to be honest, you're recognize that there was a confluence of factors (BSD being in a legal limbo, the rise of the internet, etc). If BSD wasn't under a legal taint, Linux wouldn't exist today. If Minix was under a more free license, Linux wouldn't exist today. If the FSF had gotten their HURD shit together, Linux wouldn't exist today.
A new PR department? You can't polish a turd (try it sometime). Microsoft needs a new management structure for development and new development priorities.
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Well... The thing is if you're running a jailed version of Firefox on OpenBSD the probability that someone could jailbreak it is really, really low.
especially since OpenBSD doesn't have jails. Oh, wait, they have fake jails which are implemented in userland and are vulnerable to race conditions and other attacks.
Yep. GPL talks the talk, but BSD walks the walk. Thanks and congratulations to all the BSD contributors throughout the years. This is a more FREE world thanks to your time and efforts.
Not exactly. GPL vs BSD vs Apache only matters when there is distribution. A business can customize GPL software and use it (internally) as a competitive advantage without giving anything back.
But since open source is a superior development model (right?), any private fork will lag behind the open source version, regardless of the license. Unless that company wants to maintain their own fork, it's to their benefit to contribute back, regardless of the license.
The average programmer spends most of that day in meetings or researching/analyzing/testing before modifying existing code to fix a bug or add new features.
The experience of Massachusetts is instructive. Under a far-reaching 2006 law, the state succeeded in reducing the number of uninsured. But many who gained coverage have been struggling to find primary care doctors, and the average waiting time for routine office visits has increased.
Some of the newly insured patients still rely on hospital emergency rooms for nonemergency care,. said Erica L. Drazen, a health policy analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation.
Also, Taxation isn't the only way to pay. There is also inflation.
Aside from borrowing record amounts of money, the federal reserve has been printing new dollars at an increased rate. Currently, those dollars are being hoarded, so there's no inflation, but once the economy recovers, there will be noticable inflation from those new dollars and that TARP money that's sitting in banks.
It's not just business taxes. The capital gains tax rate affects investment. Raising it will decrease investment, decrease profit, and (consequently) decrease tax revenue. Barack Obama doesn't think it's "fair" for some people to make more money than others.
This is a transcript from the Philadelphia Democratic debate (between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama).
MR. GIBSON: All right.
You have however said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, "I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was 28 percent."
It's now 15 percent. That's almost a doubling if you went to 28 percent. But actually Bill Clinton in 1997 signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.
SENATOR OBAMA: Right.
MR. GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.
SENATOR OBAMA: Right.
MR. GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.
And what I want is not oppressive taxation. I want businesses to thrive and I want people to be rewarded for their success. But what I also want to make sure is that our tax system is fair and that we are able to finance health care for Americans who currently don't have it and that we're able to invest in our infrastructure and invest in our schools.
And you can't do that for free, and you can't take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children and our grandchildren and then say that you're cutting taxes, which is essentially what John McCain has been talking about. And that is irresponsible.
You know, I believe in the principle that you pay as you go, and you don't propose tax cuts unless you are closing other tax breaks for individuals. And you don't increase spending unless you're eliminating some spending or you're finding some new revenue. That's how we got an additional $4 trillion worth of debt under George Bush. That is helping to undermine our economy, and it's going to change when I'm president of the United States.
MR. GIBSON: But history shows that when you drop the capital gains tax, the revenues go up.
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, that might happen or it might not. It depends on what's happening on Wall Street and how business is going. I think the biggest problem that we've got on Wall Street right now is the fact that we've got a housing crisis that this president has not been attentive to and that it took John McCain three tries before he got it right.
And if we can stabilize that market and we can get credit flowing again, then I think we'll see stocks do well, and once again I think we can generate the revenue that we need to run this government and hopefully to pay down some of this debt.
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The morale of this is that people will hopefully realize what a control freak and raging manic Stallman is. Don't trust him. As soon as something isn't in line with his view he'll stab you in the back. *NEVER* voluntarily put a project you work on under the GNU umbrella since this means in Stallman's opinion that he has the right to make decisions for the project.
s/Stallman/Ulrich Drepper/g
From their faq:
the EGLIBC maintainers regularly merge GLIBC changes into EGLIBC.
For even more context, look at the patch. The "negative impact" is a couple extra microseconds of cpu time to memset 20 bytes instead of 3. I guess 32-bit x86 ought to be enough for anyone.
are these ass clowns still planning on using \ for namespaces?
hell, back in the late 50s people were doing pong-like games on their oscilloscopes.
Win 2K was successful. (I consider it the high point, though XP is ok when you turn off the crap and make it work like 2K). It wasn't marketed as a consumer OS, but I used it at work and at home. Hell, I still use it for a couple apps via virtual box.
9:33 AM: gotta drop the kids off at the pool
9:53 AM: shit, no tp
every time there's a review of a css book (such as Friday?), there's a comment to the effect: "my house made of css books is almost complete"
There's a second reason: muslims and jews don't eat pork. I say, fuck them and fuck the pig farmers. It's swine flu.
The people have spoken; whether they be users or developers, they prefer GPL to BSD. *BSD sat around languishing in obscurity for years, Linux comes along with a superior license and bingo! Eats *BSD's lunch. BSD is not irrelevant, but it is less relevant.
You must have selective hearing. Let's look at popularity:
Evidence says, users and developers seem to prefer closed source over either GPL or BSD. OS X (with a BSD/Mach kernel) is more popular than linux. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are more popular than HURD.
If it was just a matter of the license, why aren't you telling us about HURD and it's superior license?
If you want to be honest, you're recognize that there was a confluence of factors (BSD being in a legal limbo, the rise of the internet, etc). If BSD wasn't under a legal taint, Linux wouldn't exist today. If Minix was under a more free license, Linux wouldn't exist today. If the FSF had gotten their HURD shit together, Linux wouldn't exist today.
Kathleen Fent can usually guess what I ate when I shit in her mouth.
A new PR department? You can't polish a turd (try it sometime). Microsoft needs a new management structure for development and new development priorities.
Seems like an interesting rorschach test.
Well... The thing is if you're running a jailed version of Firefox on OpenBSD the probability that someone could jailbreak it is really, really low.
especially since OpenBSD doesn't have jails. Oh, wait, they have fake jails which are implemented in userland and are vulnerable to race conditions and other attacks.
Yep. GPL talks the talk, but BSD walks the walk. Thanks and congratulations to all the BSD contributors throughout the years. This is a more FREE world thanks to your time and efforts.
But since open source is a superior development model (right?), any private fork will lag behind the open source version, regardless of the license. Unless that company wants to maintain their own fork, it's to their benefit to contribute back, regardless of the license.
s/trollmagnet/cocksocket/
The average programmer spends most of that day in meetings or researching/analyzing/testing before modifying existing code to fix a bug or add new features.
If a man with free healthcare breaks his leg in the forest and there's no doctor to treat it, does he still have free healthcare?
The New York Times recently reported:
The experience of Massachusetts is instructive. Under a far-reaching 2006 law, the state succeeded in reducing the number of uninsured. But many who gained coverage have been struggling to find primary care doctors, and the average waiting time for routine office visits has increased.
Some of the newly insured patients still rely on hospital emergency rooms for nonemergency care,. said Erica L. Drazen, a health policy analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation.
Also, Taxation isn't the only way to pay. There is also inflation.
Aside from borrowing record amounts of money, the federal reserve has been printing new dollars at an increased rate. Currently, those dollars are being hoarded, so there's no inflation, but once the economy recovers, there will be noticable inflation from those new dollars and that TARP money that's sitting in banks.
a lot of moderators were wondering if pembo13 prefers ajax or java.
Unfortunately, google's pagerank gives points for older pages, which is detrimental when dealing with a fast-moving target like linux.
It's not just business taxes. The capital gains tax rate affects investment. Raising it will decrease investment, decrease profit, and (consequently) decrease tax revenue. Barack Obama doesn't think it's "fair" for some people to make more money than others.
This is a transcript from the Philadelphia Democratic debate (between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama).
MR. GIBSON: All right.
You have however said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, "I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was 28 percent."
It's now 15 percent. That's almost a doubling if you went to 28 percent. But actually Bill Clinton in 1997 signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.
SENATOR OBAMA: Right.
MR. GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.
SENATOR OBAMA: Right.
MR. GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.
And what I want is not oppressive taxation. I want businesses to thrive and I want people to be rewarded for their success. But what I also want to make sure is that our tax system is fair and that we are able to finance health care for Americans who currently don't have it and that we're able to invest in our infrastructure and invest in our schools.
And you can't do that for free, and you can't take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children and our grandchildren and then say that you're cutting taxes, which is essentially what John McCain has been talking about. And that is irresponsible.
You know, I believe in the principle that you pay as you go, and you don't propose tax cuts unless you are closing other tax breaks for individuals. And you don't increase spending unless you're eliminating some spending or you're finding some new revenue. That's how we got an additional $4 trillion worth of debt under George Bush. That is helping to undermine our economy, and it's going to change when I'm president of the United States.
MR. GIBSON: But history shows that when you drop the capital gains tax, the revenues go up.
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, that might happen or it might not. It depends on what's happening on Wall Street and how business is going. I think the biggest problem that we've got on Wall Street right now is the fact that we've got a housing crisis that this president has not been attentive to and that it took John McCain three tries before he got it right.
And if we can stabilize that market and we can get credit flowing again, then I think we'll see stocks do well, and once again I think we can generate the revenue that we need to run this government and hopefully to pay down some of this debt.
actually, companies are loading up code with the GPL virus in order to encourage developers to license a less restrictive closed source version.
The GPL doesn't keep software FREE, the community does. If the open source model is superior to the closed source model, there's no need for the GPL.
Back in the day, Mike Tyson did. Of course, the last round was also the first round.