"DRM" isn't a part of Windows XP, and you can easily find a "corporate" version of Windows XP pretty much anywhere you look, with no activation. You can order them from a lot of outlets. Vista might be a different story as they changed a lot under the hood, but Windows XP is more like Windows 2000 SP5 than a new OS version.
Hey it's cool, use your old OS that doesn't work with games or have the ability to get OS updates..
Sorry, you lose. There's no way Windows 2000 runs "very snappy" on a 266Mhz mobile Pentium 2 with 96MB RAM.
Only a 600MB footprint? I don't know about you, but my Windows XP installs aren't much bigger. Maybe 100MB more at the most, and if you disable the Windows XP extras, it's not slower than Windows 2000.
Windows XP is nearly identical to Windows 2000 except the fact that you can still actually get new things to run on it, and system updates are available.
I feel it's irresponsible to offer Windows 2000 to someone as a viable operating system these days. If the machine sucks that bad, you're better off running a thin distribution of Linux anyways.
Yea like XP has so many bells and whistles that it's a problem?
Step one: Disable Windows firewall, Themes. Step two: Pretend it says "2000" instead of "XP"
ps. They didn't just "update the documentation" for defrag NTFS on NT4 to Windows 2000. There was no NTFS Defragment tool in NT4. The idea was that NTFS is much less susceptible to fragmentation (it is) that it would not be necessary. Unfortunately, this is untrue in the long-term - even NTFS can't avoid the fact that sometimes there will not be enough continuous blocks free for a file.
Generally speaking, you don't need to run defragmentation tools on servers anyways. It's just not a big enough problem. For a busy file server, perhaps, but back in NT4 land a file server didn't have 1TB of word documents like a medium-large sized company today does.
They added an NTFS defrag to Windows 2000.
ps. There's no built-in defrag tools for Linux ext2/3/etc or MacOS even still. Because, it's just not a huge problem with modern filesystems. But it would be nice to have these tools available for those times when heavy fragmentation has occured.
And you see it all the time. So many product literatures I get from vendors trying to sell us their appliance boxes love to tout how many patents they have or have pending. Personally, I see that number as a bad thing, but many management types might not.
I agree with your statements. I don't believe that IT will ever truly die off. You'll always need some sort of talent in house to deal with the issues. People are human, and don't come with an instinctive ability to use technology no matter how easy it is to use. Even when things are off in Star Trek land when you can talk to the computer in natural language, you'll still need people behind the scenes running the show. You need people that will be hands-on with the direct issues.
That being said, we have an awful lot of ground to cover between now and the 24th century tech and I'm not worried about finding decent IT work in the long term.
Ohh, and you're so much more sophisticated than the rest of us, with such complex skills of reasoning. Gee whiz sir, thanks for sharing.
I didn't say "uh.. better at stuff" - I believe that research and development in this area could be very important the the survival of the the human race. Are there risks? Yes. Are there risks if we did nothing? You bet.
With an actual, real energy crisis looming in our lifetimes, I believe that the risk is worth taking. We may need abundant, easy to grow food for everyone. We may need a cheap crop that can be turned into fuel. When it comes to the survival of the human race, I believe it's worth it.
And even if we're just talking about food doesn't need to be covered in pesticides, I'm fine with that too.
You can go on and on with your hypothetical situations like you're smarter than the entire world (You apparently think that everyone is as dumb as in the movies. You should get out a little bit more.) In the meantime I'll live over here in reality. Good luck to you.
Wow, a 100GB/month cap is practically no cap at all, and if I downloaded 200GB in a month I'd probably feel a little bad. Even with my crazy downloading binges I sometimes go through, I can't say I've ever done that in a month.
I wish I had choices for Internet but I can't get DSL and there's only one cable provider. At least I haven't ever reached a cap with Cox and the speed is usually good. Unfortunately, they block a bunch of ports.. And for that reason I'll switch as soon as an option is available.
I absolutely hate the idea of a download CAP. But, tiered speed is okay with me.
Cox has three tiers of service - entry level (1.5Mbit) at $20/mo, normal (5Mbit) at $30/mo and high speed (20Mbit) for $40/mo. I don't have a problem with this. I pay the $40 a month and my internet is really quick. I do get 20Mbit sometimes, but usually only on multiple downloads (not too many Internet servers let you download at 20 MBit) and so far, I haven't run into any caps (I've downloaded many, many gigabytes in a month and never had a letter or call or anything.)
Then there's my mom, who never needs more than 1.5Mbit at this point. So she gets a deal for that. $20/mo isn't too shabby at all.
Shared bandwidth of Cable Modems can be solved relatively easy for cable companies. They just have to split the nodes. It's not nearly as expensive as the initial roll-outs and it should be considered part of doing business. I mean, Internet bandwidth need is only going to keep growing.
I REALLY don't want a pay-per system like cell phones. If Time Warner does this, it's not about capacity issues it's about greed.
Well I can't vouch for all of Stream, but the BackOffice Support groups were top notch. It probably also had to do with the fact that most of us genuinely wanted to learn this stuff, soak it up, and be as good as possible because the big paying jobs were really starting to roll.
I don't meet a lot of IT people that are as good as some of the people I worked with over there. I mean, most of us could troubleshoot ANY Exchange issue, without once looking at a screen to follow through with a customer. We knew hundreds of event ID's by memory. It was fun =) "Yea, the guy had a bunch of 9316's and 9318's" "Ohh, so it was a dial up site connector, huh?" There's not a lot of things you can truly learn inside and out. I'll probably always know Exchange 5.5 better than any other software.
Yea, I had a copy of that too, but alas I lost it. The old tool used to be called KBQuery, and it was a fairly simple search engine that searched a handful of file shares. If you copied those shares locally, you could run it from there.
The best thing about the KB was that there was a LOT of Partner and MSInternal notes attached to Knowledge Base articles that helped solve problems. I mean, Joe Admin would search web KB all day, and then we'd do a quick KB Query and find all sorts of great information that's hidden from customers. It really stinks, because usually all the useful info was MSInternal. (We had a hack that let us view the MSInternal notes even though we were just Partner.)
I guess they're all pretty outdated now anyways, and Microsoft has shifted their focus away from the KB anyways. After Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000, the software didn't generate as many useful troubleshooting event logs entries, the KB didn't have enough articles, and PSS doesn't appear to be allowed to add them anymore. It's too bad, because even though MS Software has always had trouble, the support structure used to be pretty darned good. Now, you're pretty much on your own if you aren't a premiere customer.
They use the same ticket numbering system, at least, so that tells me there's probably data in whatever system they use now. When I worked for Stream, Microsoft used Clarify from a company called Compass. It was really good, IMO. Although sometimes slow because of the T1 line limitation from Canton, MA to Redmond, it was still easy to use, easy to look up things, etc.
That reminds me of how network security was so much different back then. From our office in Canton, we could open up network Neighborhood and see thousands and thousands of workstations, servers, etc from all over the country. Because of the many support areas, there was also over 5,000 domains on the network - most with just one DC but almost everyone had their own test environment at their desk - a PC as a DC, and in my case another one for Exchange Server.
It was a good job. Good times. Microsoft support back in '98, '99 and '00 was really good. After that, they cancelled the Stream contract, moved a lot of stuff to SSI (terrible!) and eventually off-shore to India.
Yea I get superbly annoyed at the people that don't like the idea of genetically enhanced food. I think it's a good idea. They can make crops immune to diseased insects, they can make them grow faster, and taste better. With continuing research in this area, maybe we can solve the fuel crisis, or solve hunger.
The idea of genetically enhancing food isn't new. It's been done for centuries - we just know a bit more on how it works. Selective breeding is STILL the number one way that scientists use to genetically enhance our food.
I don't have a problem with cloned food, or genetically modified food. If it's better for us, and it still gives us nutrients, I'm all for it.
What I'm really looking forward to is the ability to manufacture beef without growing an entire cow. Wouldn't it be great if they could create a delicious, juicy steak without having to murder animals to get it?
I don't buy any of my own notebooks. I let the state buy them for me. In fact, I'm using a Dell M6300 with 4GB and a Blu-ray Writer to type this right now. It's metal and plastic. I'm using MacOS Leopard. Yea, Leopard hackintoshes can be notebooks, too. It also runs Windows very well, too. Ohh, and it can play MP3's just fine, thank you very much. (And Crysis, too.)
The machine was expensive, but it sure offered a hell of a lot more bang for the buck than this thing.
But I see you're taking this opportunity to bash PC's in general, so whatever~ You say you're not a Mac FanBoy but you sure sound like one. If it looks like shit and smells like shit, hey, I bet it's shit!
You're a nut job. You refuse to actually read what I wrote, and you regurgitate the same argument even though you're actually agreeing with half of what I said.
I said, RIGHT IN MY LAST POST, you CAN SELL FOSS. There's nothing wrong with it. But I guess what you don't realize is that if I buy GPL software from you, I can give it to the world and charge nothing, and give you nothing. In fact, I could sell your software, and charge whatever I want. Of course, the next guy could do the same thing.
One of the points I MADE was that some people make money from charging people to do bug fixes or feature enhancements. Nothing wrong with that, I think it's a good idea.
"You want a developer to spend his time and effort on a project and not even get a thank you in return."
Wait, who said that? I know it wasn't me, so what the fuck are you talking about? Personally, I don't give a shit what a programmer does. If they choose to release their software GPL, then they should expect nothing in return. I've thanked and helped a bunch of OSS project members, but I never felt it was because it was REQUIRED. And they didn't ask for it, like you do.
"am saying that if you use a FOSS program that you should at least thank the developers, help other users, blah blah barf barf"
Then put it in the damned license. "This is a modified GPLv2 which requires that you give thanks to the programmers before using this software." I mean, god damn, if that's what you want, do THAT. Otherwise, keep your fucking mouth shut, and PLEASE don't write FOSS. We don't need whiny bitches like you complaining that you don't get enough money or kissass for what you do.
What's funny is that through all this, you STILL DON'T GET IT and since I can't win an argument with an ignorant man, I'll stop.
Upscale, okay. But there's a lot of people that aren't upscale, and they buy this stuff too. I don't think $85K is rich, and I certainly don't like throwing away money on things that aren't drugs =)
I think Apple rides on their name, on the success of the iPod, and eventually I do believe it'll fall back on top of them. Apple makes decent products and it sucks that they're not willing to sell to the average consumer, on the border of being arrogant. We'll see what happens.
I'm definitely going to go buy an HD-DVD player now. There's several titles on HD-DVD that I've wanted to get but I only had a Blu-Ray player. While I wouldn't spend $300 on a player when I already have Blu-Ray but I'll spend $150. That's only like the cost of 4 movies.
Then I'll have both and I won't have to care.
Personally, I think there's room for two formats and don't see the big deal. I guess some people want decisions made for them.
Don't worry man, I'm with you on this one. I've been extremely satisfied with my PS3 since I purchased it. It's just a fun little machine. People that want to argue that don't have one.
It's true, quite. The first graphical RPG games I played were of course the Ultima series. The re-release of Ultima I, packed with U2 and U3. I was hooked instantly. My favorite of all the Ultima games was Ultima V, and boy did I play that for a looooong time. You get attached. The graphics just told you where you were - your imagination had to show it to you. And you had to keep notes =)
Not sure why you're being moderated as Troll. Oh wait, Apple is popular now.
It's expensive. For a little tiny thing like that, STARTING at $1800, is very expensive. I don't care if the competition is more expensive, that's got nothing to do with it. It's way too much money for a computer these days.
The cost of electronics doesn't go up, so the cost of these small machines shouldn't be sky high. But, as long as the lemmings keep on buying them, they'll keep on setting the prices that high so you can make the CEO's richer and richer.
It looks like a really awesome device. Just not worth $1800 unless it's going to blow me while it downloads movies from the iTunes store.
"FOSS doesn't mean that you give away the software and the source!"
Uhh, actually it does. If you're talking about the GPL, and by naming Richard Stallman, you probably are, then it does. There's limitations on what other people can do to your work (they can't sell it without also releasing the source code changes) but you DO give it away, with the source, under GPL. And once it's out there, you can't say shit about it. People can do what they want.
"FOSS means that if you SELL the software the source and the rights to redistribute go with it!"
This doesn't even make sense. FOSS has nothing to do with SELLING anything. Since when have you have to buy Gnome or KDE or the Linux Kernel in order to get the source code or change it? You CAN sell FOSS, under the GPL, but you don't have to. If you REDISTRIBUTE the software by any means, you have to also make available your changes. If you wrote the software, you always have the choice of releasing something GPL and under another license, too. Simple, right? Apparently not to you.
You must be a Microsoft shill or something. A selfish little man that wants praise and adoration for writing some crappy GPL code. You know what? You should just stop. You worry too much about getting direct returns, so you're in the wrong business. You give GPL software and it's developers a bad name. There's a lot of guys out there doing this that are top guys. I've worked with a lot of them. They aren't selfish like you.
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"DRM" isn't a part of Windows XP, and you can easily find a "corporate" version of Windows XP pretty much anywhere you look, with no activation. You can order them from a lot of outlets. Vista might be a different story as they changed a lot under the hood, but Windows XP is more like Windows 2000 SP5 than a new OS version.
Hey it's cool, use your old OS that doesn't work with games or have the ability to get OS updates..
Sorry, you lose. There's no way Windows 2000 runs "very snappy" on a 266Mhz mobile Pentium 2 with 96MB RAM.
Only a 600MB footprint? I don't know about you, but my Windows XP installs aren't much bigger. Maybe 100MB more at the most, and if you disable the Windows XP extras, it's not slower than Windows 2000.
Windows XP is nearly identical to Windows 2000 except the fact that you can still actually get new things to run on it, and system updates are available.
I feel it's irresponsible to offer Windows 2000 to someone as a viable operating system these days. If the machine sucks that bad, you're better off running a thin distribution of Linux anyways.
Yea like XP has so many bells and whistles that it's a problem?
Step one: Disable Windows firewall, Themes.
Step two: Pretend it says "2000" instead of "XP"
ps. They didn't just "update the documentation" for defrag NTFS on NT4 to Windows 2000. There was no NTFS Defragment tool in NT4. The idea was that NTFS is much less susceptible to fragmentation (it is) that it would not be necessary. Unfortunately, this is untrue in the long-term - even NTFS can't avoid the fact that sometimes there will not be enough continuous blocks free for a file.
Generally speaking, you don't need to run defragmentation tools on servers anyways. It's just not a big enough problem. For a busy file server, perhaps, but back in NT4 land a file server didn't have 1TB of word documents like a medium-large sized company today does.
They added an NTFS defrag to Windows 2000.
ps. There's no built-in defrag tools for Linux ext2/3/etc or MacOS even still. Because, it's just not a huge problem with modern filesystems. But it would be nice to have these tools available for those times when heavy fragmentation has occured.
And you see it all the time. So many product literatures I get from vendors trying to sell us their appliance boxes love to tout how many patents they have or have pending. Personally, I see that number as a bad thing, but many management types might not.
I agree with your statements. I don't believe that IT will ever truly die off. You'll always need some sort of talent in house to deal with the issues. People are human, and don't come with an instinctive ability to use technology no matter how easy it is to use. Even when things are off in Star Trek land when you can talk to the computer in natural language, you'll still need people behind the scenes running the show. You need people that will be hands-on with the direct issues.
That being said, we have an awful lot of ground to cover between now and the 24th century tech and I'm not worried about finding decent IT work in the long term.
Ohh, and you're so much more sophisticated than the rest of us, with such complex skills of reasoning. Gee whiz sir, thanks for sharing.
I didn't say "uh.. better at stuff" - I believe that research and development in this area could be very important the the survival of the the human race. Are there risks? Yes. Are there risks if we did nothing? You bet.
With an actual, real energy crisis looming in our lifetimes, I believe that the risk is worth taking. We may need abundant, easy to grow food for everyone. We may need a cheap crop that can be turned into fuel. When it comes to the survival of the human race, I believe it's worth it.
And even if we're just talking about food doesn't need to be covered in pesticides, I'm fine with that too.
You can go on and on with your hypothetical situations like you're smarter than the entire world (You apparently think that everyone is as dumb as in the movies. You should get out a little bit more.) In the meantime I'll live over here in reality. Good luck to you.
Wow, a 100GB/month cap is practically no cap at all, and if I downloaded 200GB in a month I'd probably feel a little bad. Even with my crazy downloading binges I sometimes go through, I can't say I've ever done that in a month.
I wish I had choices for Internet but I can't get DSL and there's only one cable provider. At least I haven't ever reached a cap with Cox and the speed is usually good. Unfortunately, they block a bunch of ports.. And for that reason I'll switch as soon as an option is available.
I absolutely hate the idea of a download CAP. But, tiered speed is okay with me.
Cox has three tiers of service - entry level (1.5Mbit) at $20/mo, normal (5Mbit) at $30/mo and high speed (20Mbit) for $40/mo. I don't have a problem with this. I pay the $40 a month and my internet is really quick. I do get 20Mbit sometimes, but usually only on multiple downloads (not too many Internet servers let you download at 20 MBit) and so far, I haven't run into any caps (I've downloaded many, many gigabytes in a month and never had a letter or call or anything.)
Then there's my mom, who never needs more than 1.5Mbit at this point. So she gets a deal for that. $20/mo isn't too shabby at all.
Shared bandwidth of Cable Modems can be solved relatively easy for cable companies. They just have to split the nodes. It's not nearly as expensive as the initial roll-outs and it should be considered part of doing business. I mean, Internet bandwidth need is only going to keep growing.
I REALLY don't want a pay-per system like cell phones. If Time Warner does this, it's not about capacity issues it's about greed.
Well I can't vouch for all of Stream, but the BackOffice Support groups were top notch. It probably also had to do with the fact that most of us genuinely wanted to learn this stuff, soak it up, and be as good as possible because the big paying jobs were really starting to roll.
I don't meet a lot of IT people that are as good as some of the people I worked with over there. I mean, most of us could troubleshoot ANY Exchange issue, without once looking at a screen to follow through with a customer. We knew hundreds of event ID's by memory. It was fun =) "Yea, the guy had a bunch of 9316's and 9318's" "Ohh, so it was a dial up site connector, huh?" There's not a lot of things you can truly learn inside and out. I'll probably always know Exchange 5.5 better than any other software.
Yea, I had a copy of that too, but alas I lost it. The old tool used to be called KBQuery, and it was a fairly simple search engine that searched a handful of file shares. If you copied those shares locally, you could run it from there.
The best thing about the KB was that there was a LOT of Partner and MSInternal notes attached to Knowledge Base articles that helped solve problems. I mean, Joe Admin would search web KB all day, and then we'd do a quick KB Query and find all sorts of great information that's hidden from customers. It really stinks, because usually all the useful info was MSInternal. (We had a hack that let us view the MSInternal notes even though we were just Partner.)
I guess they're all pretty outdated now anyways, and Microsoft has shifted their focus away from the KB anyways. After Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000, the software didn't generate as many useful troubleshooting event logs entries, the KB didn't have enough articles, and PSS doesn't appear to be allowed to add them anymore. It's too bad, because even though MS Software has always had trouble, the support structure used to be pretty darned good. Now, you're pretty much on your own if you aren't a premiere customer.
I thought it was pretty clear that I meant insects carrying disease for the plants.
They use the same ticket numbering system, at least, so that tells me there's probably data in whatever system they use now. When I worked for Stream, Microsoft used Clarify from a company called Compass. It was really good, IMO. Although sometimes slow because of the T1 line limitation from Canton, MA to Redmond, it was still easy to use, easy to look up things, etc.
That reminds me of how network security was so much different back then. From our office in Canton, we could open up network Neighborhood and see thousands and thousands of workstations, servers, etc from all over the country. Because of the many support areas, there was also over 5,000 domains on the network - most with just one DC but almost everyone had their own test environment at their desk - a PC as a DC, and in my case another one for Exchange Server.
It was a good job. Good times. Microsoft support back in '98, '99 and '00 was really good. After that, they cancelled the Stream contract, moved a lot of stuff to SSI (terrible!) and eventually off-shore to India.
Yea I get superbly annoyed at the people that don't like the idea of genetically enhanced food. I think it's a good idea. They can make crops immune to diseased insects, they can make them grow faster, and taste better. With continuing research in this area, maybe we can solve the fuel crisis, or solve hunger.
The idea of genetically enhancing food isn't new. It's been done for centuries - we just know a bit more on how it works. Selective breeding is STILL the number one way that scientists use to genetically enhance our food.
I don't have a problem with cloned food, or genetically modified food. If it's better for us, and it still gives us nutrients, I'm all for it.
What I'm really looking forward to is the ability to manufacture beef without growing an entire cow. Wouldn't it be great if they could create a delicious, juicy steak without having to murder animals to get it?
I don't buy any of my own notebooks. I let the state buy them for me. In fact, I'm using a Dell M6300 with 4GB and a Blu-ray Writer to type this right now. It's metal and plastic. I'm using MacOS Leopard. Yea, Leopard hackintoshes can be notebooks, too. It also runs Windows very well, too. Ohh, and it can play MP3's just fine, thank you very much. (And Crysis, too.)
The machine was expensive, but it sure offered a hell of a lot more bang for the buck than this thing.
But I see you're taking this opportunity to bash PC's in general, so whatever~ You say you're not a Mac FanBoy but you sure sound like one. If it looks like shit and smells like shit, hey, I bet it's shit!
Yea I'm sure nothing else will ever use that CPU...
You're a nut job. You refuse to actually read what I wrote, and you regurgitate the same argument even though you're actually agreeing with half of what I said.
I said, RIGHT IN MY LAST POST, you CAN SELL FOSS. There's nothing wrong with it. But I guess what you don't realize is that if I buy GPL software from you, I can give it to the world and charge nothing, and give you nothing. In fact, I could sell your software, and charge whatever I want. Of course, the next guy could do the same thing.
One of the points I MADE was that some people make money from charging people to do bug fixes or feature enhancements. Nothing wrong with that, I think it's a good idea.
"You want a developer to spend his time and effort on a project and not even get a thank you in return."
Wait, who said that? I know it wasn't me, so what the fuck are you talking about? Personally, I don't give a shit what a programmer does. If they choose to release their software GPL, then they should expect nothing in return. I've thanked and helped a bunch of OSS project members, but I never felt it was because it was REQUIRED. And they didn't ask for it, like you do.
"am saying that if you use a FOSS program that you should at least thank the developers, help other users, blah blah barf barf"
Then put it in the damned license. "This is a modified GPLv2 which requires that you give thanks to the programmers before using this software." I mean, god damn, if that's what you want, do THAT. Otherwise, keep your fucking mouth shut, and PLEASE don't write FOSS. We don't need whiny bitches like you complaining that you don't get enough money or kissass for what you do.
What's funny is that through all this, you STILL DON'T GET IT and since I can't win an argument with an ignorant man, I'll stop.
Upscale, okay. But there's a lot of people that aren't upscale, and they buy this stuff too. I don't think $85K is rich, and I certainly don't like throwing away money on things that aren't drugs =)
I think Apple rides on their name, on the success of the iPod, and eventually I do believe it'll fall back on top of them. Apple makes decent products and it sucks that they're not willing to sell to the average consumer, on the border of being arrogant. We'll see what happens.
I'm definitely going to go buy an HD-DVD player now. There's several titles on HD-DVD that I've wanted to get but I only had a Blu-Ray player. While I wouldn't spend $300 on a player when I already have Blu-Ray but I'll spend $150. That's only like the cost of 4 movies.
Then I'll have both and I won't have to care.
Personally, I think there's room for two formats and don't see the big deal. I guess some people want decisions made for them.
I don't understand. Who gives their little kids a DVD? The parents I know put them them in the DVD player themselves. Problem solved.
I also don't know any parents capable of or have any desire to make DVD copies either, so you must live in a yuppie neighborhood or not in reality.
Don't worry man, I'm with you on this one. I've been extremely satisfied with my PS3 since I purchased it. It's just a fun little machine. People that want to argue that don't have one.
It's true, quite. The first graphical RPG games I played were of course the Ultima series. The re-release of Ultima I, packed with U2 and U3. I was hooked instantly. My favorite of all the Ultima games was Ultima V, and boy did I play that for a looooong time. You get attached. The graphics just told you where you were - your imagination had to show it to you. And you had to keep notes =)
Not sure why you're being moderated as Troll. Oh wait, Apple is popular now.
It's expensive. For a little tiny thing like that, STARTING at $1800, is very expensive. I don't care if the competition is more expensive, that's got nothing to do with it. It's way too much money for a computer these days.
The cost of electronics doesn't go up, so the cost of these small machines shouldn't be sky high. But, as long as the lemmings keep on buying them, they'll keep on setting the prices that high so you can make the CEO's richer and richer.
It looks like a really awesome device. Just not worth $1800 unless it's going to blow me while it downloads movies from the iTunes store.
You know what? I don't particularly care if you approve if I approve or not. It's a public forum, deal with it.
It was on the main page on my main page.
Apparently you have more of a problem with my voicing my opinion than I do on having this "news" on the front page. That's telling.
Well, this is a step in that direction. I'm sure you're not the only person excited, obviously, but it doesn't qualify as tech news.
Filtering out the games section will also have the ill effect of filtering out actually GOOD news in regards to games, so that doesn't work.
We can have differing opinions.
"FOSS doesn't mean that you give away the software and the source!"
Uhh, actually it does. If you're talking about the GPL, and by naming Richard Stallman, you probably are, then it does. There's limitations on what other people can do to your work (they can't sell it without also releasing the source code changes) but you DO give it away, with the source, under GPL. And once it's out there, you can't say shit about it. People can do what they want.
"FOSS means that if you SELL the software the source and the rights to redistribute go with it!"
This doesn't even make sense. FOSS has nothing to do with SELLING anything. Since when have you have to buy Gnome or KDE or the Linux Kernel in order to get the source code or change it? You CAN sell FOSS, under the GPL, but you don't have to. If you REDISTRIBUTE the software by any means, you have to also make available your changes. If you wrote the software, you always have the choice of releasing something GPL and under another license, too. Simple, right? Apparently not to you.
You must be a Microsoft shill or something. A selfish little man that wants praise and adoration for writing some crappy GPL code. You know what? You should just stop. You worry too much about getting direct returns, so you're in the wrong business. You give GPL software and it's developers a bad name. There's a lot of guys out there doing this that are top guys. I've worked with a lot of them. They aren't selfish like you.