iTunes actually works, unlike Amarok, which not only looks real shitty, but can randomly crash or not play your music at all. Impressive. And it's all about the whole sales model thing. Buying songs, downloading podcasts, having an extension called iPod. You know. The stuff everybody loves. Except you, the Linux fanboy (probably) that can't even watch podcasts because you probably don't even have video on your computer, because, in all these years, for all the whooppeeee I'm a "Linux hacker", we've not seen any fucking decent codecs from this community chock full of genius programmers who, I'm guessing, is full of C hackers that don't even grok a Fourier transform, so how the fuck are they gonna deliver us some cutting edge wavelet algorithm for video/audio? That's right. Can't do it. Too hard. You can't be a "hacker", you gotta actually know shit, otherwise you do like the GNOME dudes, you produce failure. Not enough incentives. For you. Apple's got 'em. Microsoft's got 'em. What does F/OSS have? GCC? I know, I know. The terminal. Yeah, you're terminal.
KDE and GNOME are not competing, you idiot! One can't grab the other's market share because said market share is not monetized upon you moron. There is no KDE/GNOME market share.
The Linux market is about server software infrastructure. No-one buys Linux, let alone for the desktop (you can blame the lame SuSE, Mandriva, Red Hat, etc. for that...).
They don't listen to anyone. They don't even read bug reports. You would know this if you had been following GNOME for the last few years. You'd have read the huge debate about how they have stuck their heads up their asses a long time ago.
Except that Microsoft actually tests their GUI usability on normal humans with focus groups for months. GNOME, OTOH, was using an outdated guideline plagiarized right out of Mac OS 8 and today just makes shit up.
Windows 7 is not XP or Windows 95.
Face it. Microsoft got their shit together. Superior GUI. Superior methods in software engineering. Even superior security, some might argue.
Linux? Just look at it. It's what happens when you're stuck in the 70s.
And you probably know quite a few ex-Linux power users that feel all smug and warm with their Apple computers.
Wow. I stopped reading when you wrote that Amarok is amazing. Wow. Dude. Buy a notebook with Mac OS X. Really. Try iTunes. Fuck. Amarok looks and works really bad...Really, get a fucking clue from the world around you. Amarok would make any iPod-dependent teenager puke and become a crystal meth addict.
The GUI in Windows is all important and not an afterthought. This allows software houses to take advantage and make products that piggyback on any Windows feature and applications, such as Excel, offering great integration. Actually, the same goes for Mac OS (but it has zero penetration in corporations).
This, for instance, is why in Windows you can have a seamless electronic document management experience that Linux "hackers" haven't even seen in their basement life. Also explains, amongst other things, why, OpenOffice.org being free and all, not a single big corporation gives a fuck about it, or about Linux (with the sole exception of server infrastructure).
GNOME should just die. That way, the free Unix desktop can at least start to play catching up with Mac OS or Windows 7 (Windows XP is no more, remember that).
ok how every item in the menu is truncated. It's all "Home..." and "OpenO..." and "Docu..."
GNOME is pure genius. You just don't have the IQ for that. It's made by and for linux hackers. They're not you. They're supersmart nerds, working through a collective mind that automatically understands truncated names.
No, seriously...A decade from now we will have brain-computer interfaces in at least half the desktops and these morons still can't program a fucking menu. Somebody tell them to quit, please. Just quit, GNOME guys. Just quit. Please.
I agree. I wish GNOME was made by Debian "developers". That way, Linux fans might be spared the stupidity until KDE gets their shit together and finally releases something that looks like a half-assed Mac OS X or Windows 7 with some tech that works approximately close to Quartz on Apple. GNOME can just die.
Here's my proposal: millionaire Shuttleworth buys the GNOME boys lots and lots of books about human-computer interaction and funds usability studies. He would actually make normal humans use that shit. Wait...It's better if he funds KDE. At least they're not clueless, just a bit slow and lacking manpower. Oh, that and the C++ fixation Apple and Microsoft got over years ago.
How long do GNOME boys they think they can keep up with that moronic idea of delivering a GUI programmed in C (!), for fsck's sake! (Meanwhile, Apple has moved to garbage collection in their Objective-C and Microsoft is miles away with their C# and CLI (that's Common Language Interface, in case your frozen in a time capsule and think it's "Command Line Interface").
Yeah, the technology lag in Linux is kinda showing...And you know what? It'll only get worse, much worse. It looks pathetic now, but I dare not think where we will be in a decade. I'm guessing dead and buried on the desktop (and it doesn't matter - Linux has never been a priority on the desktop - we can all buy a perfectly fine Unix for desktops made by Apple, right?)
And you what I find *amazing*: how GNOME developers just make shit up as they go along, without any regard to usability or any empirical evidence collected by them that takes into account usage patterns by normal humans. Really, really good. Because, of course, in Linux, you're a "hacker." You just make shit up as you go. And that goes for GUIs, file systems, packaging systems, X, whatever...
With over a decade of Linux usage, I'm getting to the point I might actually buy myself a Windows notebook and just forget about the whole experience. It's made by clueless people, with the exception of the kernel people that work for hardware companies that would like Sun Microsystems to fold.
I think the way forward fot Linux distros is by paying up for distros so that they can make commercial deals with sellers of proprietary software we might need (codecs, compilers, engineering, virtualization, whatever).
But that's just me. I'm in the minority.
BTW, I think it's absolutely fabulous how people like Stallman were able to instill the mentality in kids that go to good universities across the world that they should pay LESS (or ZERO) for the tools of their trade than any other working category would pay. Linux fanboyism is such a mental disorder that a graduate from computer science wants to pay less to set up shop then a carpenter, an automechanic, a painter - not to speak of doctors and engineers. (You might want to look up how much a Zeiss optical microscope costs, or how much you'd have to chip in for an oscilloscope - and yet you refuse to pay for the people in the same work class as you for their work - IDEs, compilers, etc.)
How can that be? Well...That's what happens when you get dazzled by the likes of Mr. Stallman.
You will have to be a bit more precise when it comes to the "commercial applications" bit.
Oh, let me try to give you a clue:
Commercial applications: CAD/CAM software, image processing software, video processing software, professional music studio software, professional mathematics software, biomedical software, software for electronics, operations research software, software for trading stocks, spreadsheet software, software for guaranteeing your software is safe, hard real time software, software for the automotive industry, electronic document management and workflow software, video games, word processors, typesetting and professional publishing software, specialized proprietary IDEs, high-performance proprietary compilers for Fortran, Ada, Eiffel, etc. The whole gazillion software applications that are available for Windows (and to a lesser extent Macintoshes).
I'm pretty sure you weren't aware of them. Is it because your job is: 1) sysadmin; 2) PHP web guy; 3) Linux kernel hacker; 4) other job that means you're completely clueless as to what other human beings use computers for.
As long as Linux is something developed for and by people who are completely clueless as well as having this complete lack of critical thinking capacity, it will always remain a software for servers. In fact, due to the stupidity of the GPL, I have no hope anymore that this year, the next year, or the next decade will be "the year of Linux on the desktop." For a variety of reasons (economical, technical and - sadly - political), Linux is a complete failure in creating a healthy ecosystem of economically-viable software houses around the penguin OS (sysadmins selling support for the horrible headaches that is maintaining and installing Linux don't count - and dual-license scams don't either).
Stupid Linux fanboyism will destroy. Or, Linus' and Stallman's egos will inflate so much with dangerous gases, it will all go out in flames in a flash.
Fanboys, here's my advice (from someone who's used Linux for a decade now): you try and convince Joe Bloe, granny and mom and dad that your OS is coooler than Windows 7 and Mac OS. Good luck with Gnome and KDE. Happy C/C++ hacking. Yeah, that's the way forward.
If you are any good, compiling source and building packages is a COMPLETELY AUTOMATED.
If that is like you say, then please explain why, e.g., Debian has a whole legion of people they call "developers" whose sole purpose in life is to take sources from other people and create deb packages?
So what if the user has a "centralized repository" that, for all I care, has outdated versions (and my options are doing the work for the package maintainer who's out in Mexico in the dope trip of his life) or doesn't have what I want *at all*?
And then, when you try to compile shit, shit breaks all over in Linux (Linux ain't Solaris and they don't care if what you have will break - but free is free, right?)
So...I guess you must be one of those super-genius Linux whiz kids who, when porting Unix software:
1) never experienced incompatibilities among different library versions between Linux and other Unixen or between Linux distros themselves
2) never faced any problems with makefiles in your entire life
3) never experienced problems due to different compiler versions or the infamous GCC bugs
4) never ever used expensive professional proprietary engineering software on Linux, only to see it break in the next release (ABI hell) (and please take a moment to consider why Windows is dominant in engineering labs)
5) your linux distro has absolutely all the packages you could possibly wish for, and their release numbers are all synched with upstream all the time (please tell me which one that is - it's certainly not Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, or any other big one).
You do realize your argument in based entirely on a conclusion? You take ARM and argue against fat binaries as if your argument would apply to all scenarios. Are you even a programmer? It doesn't look like you grok logic...
Not it's not "harmless". Read the research on package management.
Debian has been documented to uninstall the kernel (yes, the odd event, but it happened).
Start here and then use THE GOOG for more research (BTW, this doesn't reference the paper with the find I mentioned above - might wanna search/. and dig up other posts of mine):
Now for the fun parts: "This shows that the solution set is order dependent, which is not stated in the documentation, and is quite surprising for a user. (...) " 99.9999% of Debian "developers" do not know how their system works, and it undocumented.
The authors continue, with a trace in which apt-get wants to zap the users x-windows-system and x-windows-system-core.
I paste the results for your reading pleasure:
"Another point we want to stress is the extreme user-unfriendliness of the APT tool in the rare occasions when upgrading or installing one package ends up into a major overhaul of the user installation⦠Here follows a real-world example recorded by one of the authors of this report during his daily running of his beloved Debian-based machine.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
autoconf2.13 frozen-bubble frozen-bubble-lib gconf2 gnomemeeting
itk3.1-dev libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libdigest-md5-perl
Wow. The new generation has turned to privately-owned web sites in search for answers, instead of Usenet.
I didn't know karma-whoring could be so powerful. Weee! 100.000 points! I must be *great!* (My mom loves me...)
But, hey! What happens when StackOverflow folds (which it will, eventually)?
Then, suddenly, all the knowledge contracts and contracts to a single point until it goes "POOF!" - nada, zero.
It's called the Inverse Topological Asshole Theorem. Otherwise knows as the You've Been Suckered Theorem. The Advertisement Industry Underground Sex Ring knows *all* about it (you can find them on Facebook, did you know?). Wet dreams...
Is it true what they say about under-30s in America, thinking they are so smart when in fact, they're not?
Likewise, other products by The GOOG kinda aren't half of what they could be, such as Google Docs (the other day I was trying to do a Gantt chart on the spreadsheet). Can I sort a column skipping every two cells? Can I do regex search or them? Can I do crazy things? No, The GOOG does not allow crazy such as why, why, oh why there ain't no official Ruby support on The GOOG? etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Editor's note: InfoWorld tried to interview Richard Stallman, who runs the Free Software Foundation that created and manages the GPL, on this issue, but he demanded control of what we published, so we declined.
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iTunes actually works, unlike Amarok, which not only looks real shitty, but can randomly crash or not play your music at all. Impressive. And it's all about the whole sales model thing. Buying songs, downloading podcasts, having an extension called iPod. You know. The stuff everybody loves. Except you, the Linux fanboy (probably) that can't even watch podcasts because you probably don't even have video on your computer, because, in all these years, for all the whooppeeee I'm a "Linux hacker", we've not seen any fucking decent codecs from this community chock full of genius programmers who, I'm guessing, is full of C hackers that don't even grok a Fourier transform, so how the fuck are they gonna deliver us some cutting edge wavelet algorithm for video/audio? That's right. Can't do it. Too hard. You can't be a "hacker", you gotta actually know shit, otherwise you do like the GNOME dudes, you produce failure. Not enough incentives. For you. Apple's got 'em. Microsoft's got 'em. What does F/OSS have? GCC? I know, I know. The terminal. Yeah, you're terminal.
Talk about clearing things...making the desktop all black, truncating names...
Congrat... GNO...! Tha... wa... awes...!
Yeah. Fuck you all double-click haters. You can all single-click your way to hell.
What competition are you talking about ?!
KDE and GNOME are not competing, you idiot! One can't grab the other's market share because said market share is not monetized upon you moron. There is no KDE/GNOME market share.
The Linux market is about server software infrastructure. No-one buys Linux, let alone for the desktop (you can blame the lame SuSE, Mandriva, Red Hat, etc. for that...).
KDE/GNOME... they just doin' it for the the lulz.
And the joke is on you.
They don't listen to anyone. They don't even read bug reports. You would know this if you had been following GNOME for the last few years. You'd have read the huge debate about how they have stuck their heads up their asses a long time ago.
You're the fucking troll.
Except that Microsoft actually tests their GUI usability on normal humans with focus groups for months. GNOME, OTOH, was using an outdated guideline plagiarized right out of Mac OS 8 and today just makes shit up.
Windows 7 is not XP or Windows 95.
Face it. Microsoft got their shit together. Superior GUI. Superior methods in software engineering. Even superior security, some might argue.
Linux? Just look at it. It's what happens when you're stuck in the 70s.
And you probably know quite a few ex-Linux power users that feel all smug and warm with their Apple computers.
Wow. I stopped reading when you wrote that Amarok is amazing. Wow. Dude. Buy a notebook with Mac OS X. Really. Try iTunes. Fuck. Amarok looks and works really bad...Really, get a fucking clue from the world around you. Amarok would make any iPod-dependent teenager puke and become a crystal meth addict.
The GUI in Windows is all important and not an afterthought. This allows software houses to take advantage and make products that piggyback on any Windows feature and applications, such as Excel, offering great integration. Actually, the same goes for Mac OS (but it has zero penetration in corporations).
This, for instance, is why in Windows you can have a seamless electronic document management experience that Linux "hackers" haven't even seen in their basement life. Also explains, amongst other things, why, OpenOffice.org being free and all, not a single big corporation gives a fuck about it, or about Linux (with the sole exception of server infrastructure).
GNOME should just die. That way, the free Unix desktop can at least start to play catching up with Mac OS or Windows 7 (Windows XP is no more, remember that).
ok how every item in the menu is truncated. It's all "Home..." and "OpenO..." and "Docu..."
GNOME is pure genius. You just don't have the IQ for that. It's made by and for linux hackers. They're not you. They're supersmart nerds, working through a collective mind that automatically understands truncated names.
No, seriously...A decade from now we will have brain-computer interfaces in at least half the desktops and these morons still can't program a fucking menu. Somebody tell them to quit, please. Just quit, GNOME guys. Just quit. Please.
You failed.
s/Interface/Infrastructure
I agree. I wish GNOME was made by Debian "developers". That way, Linux fans might be spared the stupidity until KDE gets their shit together and finally releases something that looks like a half-assed Mac OS X or Windows 7 with some tech that works approximately close to Quartz on Apple. GNOME can just die.
Here's my proposal: millionaire Shuttleworth buys the GNOME boys lots and lots of books about human-computer interaction and funds usability studies. He would actually make normal humans use that shit. Wait...It's better if he funds KDE. At least they're not clueless, just a bit slow and lacking manpower. Oh, that and the C++ fixation Apple and Microsoft got over years ago.
How long do GNOME boys they think they can keep up with that moronic idea of delivering a GUI programmed in C (!), for fsck's sake! (Meanwhile, Apple has moved to garbage collection in their Objective-C and Microsoft is miles away with their C# and CLI (that's Common Language Interface, in case your frozen in a time capsule and think it's "Command Line Interface").
Yeah, the technology lag in Linux is kinda showing...And you know what? It'll only get worse, much worse. It looks pathetic now, but I dare not think where we will be in a decade. I'm guessing dead and buried on the desktop (and it doesn't matter - Linux has never been a priority on the desktop - we can all buy a perfectly fine Unix for desktops made by Apple, right?)
And you what I find *amazing*: how GNOME developers just make shit up as they go along, without any regard to usability or any empirical evidence collected by them that takes into account usage patterns by normal humans. Really, really good. Because, of course, in Linux, you're a "hacker." You just make shit up as you go. And that goes for GUIs, file systems, packaging systems, X, whatever...
With over a decade of Linux usage, I'm getting to the point I might actually buy myself a Windows notebook and just forget about the whole experience. It's made by clueless people, with the exception of the kernel people that work for hardware companies that would like Sun Microsystems to fold.
I think the way forward fot Linux distros is by paying up for distros so that they can make commercial deals with sellers of proprietary software we might need (codecs, compilers, engineering, virtualization, whatever).
But that's just me. I'm in the minority.
BTW, I think it's absolutely fabulous how people like Stallman were able to instill the mentality in kids that go to good universities across the world that they should pay LESS (or ZERO) for the tools of their trade than any other working category would pay. Linux fanboyism is such a mental disorder that a graduate from computer science wants to pay less to set up shop then a carpenter, an automechanic, a painter - not to speak of doctors and engineers. (You might want to look up how much a Zeiss optical microscope costs, or how much you'd have to chip in for an oscilloscope - and yet you refuse to pay for the people in the same work class as you for their work - IDEs, compilers, etc.)
How can that be? Well...That's what happens when you get dazzled by the likes of Mr. Stallman.
You will have to be a bit more precise when it comes to the "commercial applications" bit.
Oh, let me try to give you a clue:
Commercial applications: CAD/CAM software, image processing software, video processing software, professional music studio software, professional mathematics software, biomedical software, software for electronics, operations research software, software for trading stocks, spreadsheet software, software for guaranteeing your software is safe, hard real time software, software for the automotive industry, electronic document management and workflow software, video games, word processors, typesetting and professional publishing software, specialized proprietary IDEs, high-performance proprietary compilers for Fortran, Ada, Eiffel, etc. The whole gazillion software applications that are available for Windows (and to a lesser extent Macintoshes).
I'm pretty sure you weren't aware of them. Is it because your job is: 1) sysadmin; 2) PHP web guy; 3) Linux kernel hacker; 4) other job that means you're completely clueless as to what other human beings use computers for.
As long as Linux is something developed for and by people who are completely clueless as well as having this complete lack of critical thinking capacity, it will always remain a software for servers. In fact, due to the stupidity of the GPL, I have no hope anymore that this year, the next year, or the next decade will be "the year of Linux on the desktop." For a variety of reasons (economical, technical and - sadly - political), Linux is a complete failure in creating a healthy ecosystem of economically-viable software houses around the penguin OS (sysadmins selling support for the horrible headaches that is maintaining and installing Linux don't count - and dual-license scams don't either).
Stupid Linux fanboyism will destroy. Or, Linus' and Stallman's egos will inflate so much with dangerous gases, it will all go out in flames in a flash.
Fanboys, here's my advice (from someone who's used Linux for a decade now): you try and convince Joe Bloe, granny and mom and dad that your OS is coooler than Windows 7 and Mac OS. Good luck with Gnome and KDE. Happy C/C++ hacking. Yeah, that's the way forward.
You've got to be kidding? Super-easy installation and automatic security updates for all applications is 'awkward'?
You've got to be kidding. How many times was it the Debian repositories were hacked into? Remember that?
Big fucking deal. I remember the time when I used to walk around with 7 cds just of Debian stuff. So you carry around 7 DVDs. So what?
If you are any good, compiling source and building packages is a COMPLETELY AUTOMATED.
If that is like you say, then please explain why, e.g., Debian has a whole legion of people they call "developers" whose sole purpose in life is to take sources from other people and create deb packages?
So what if the user has a "centralized repository" that, for all I care, has outdated versions (and my options are doing the work for the package maintainer who's out in Mexico in the dope trip of his life) or doesn't have what I want *at all*?
And then, when you try to compile shit, shit breaks all over in Linux (Linux ain't Solaris and they don't care if what you have will break - but free is free, right?)
So...I guess you must be one of those super-genius Linux whiz kids who, when porting Unix software:
1) never experienced incompatibilities among different library versions between Linux and other Unixen or between Linux distros themselves
2) never faced any problems with makefiles in your entire life
3) never experienced problems due to different compiler versions or the infamous GCC bugs
4) never ever used expensive professional proprietary engineering software on Linux, only to see it break in the next release (ABI hell) (and please take a moment to consider why Windows is dominant in engineering labs)
5) your linux distro has absolutely all the packages you could possibly wish for, and their release numbers are all synched with upstream all the time (please tell me which one that is - it's certainly not Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, or any other big one).
Yeah.. I can tell you've got years of experience.
You do realize your argument in based entirely on a conclusion? You take ARM and argue against fat binaries as if your argument would apply to all scenarios. Are you even a programmer? It doesn't look like you grok logic...
The need for the repository separation and testing, which you correctly point out, seems to indicate that the tool is not reliable.
Not it's not "harmless". Read the research on package management.
Debian has been documented to uninstall the kernel (yes, the odd event, but it happened).
Start here and then use THE GOOG for more research (BTW, this doesn't reference the paper with the find I mentioned above - might wanna search /. and dig up other posts of mine):
http://www.mancoosi.org/edos/manager.html
Now for the fun parts: "This shows that the solution set is order dependent, which is not stated in the documentation, and is quite surprising for a user. (...) " 99.9999% of Debian "developers" do not know how their system works, and it undocumented.
The authors continue, with a trace in which apt-get wants to zap the users x-windows-system and x-windows-system-core.
I paste the results for your reading pleasure:
"Another point we want to stress is the extreme user-unfriendliness of the APT tool in the rare occasions when upgrading or installing one package ends up into a major overhaul of the user installation⦠Here follows a real-world example recorded by one of the authors of this report during his daily running of his beloved Debian-based machine.
sudo apt-get install debhelper
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
armagetron armagetron-common autoconf bonobo-activation codebreaker
debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils dialog esound-common fb-music-high
fontconfig frozen-bubble-data grepmail gv intltool-debian
libaiksaurus-data libaiksaurus0c102 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev
libbonobo-activation4 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libdb3
libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libeel2-data libesd0
libfilehandle-unget-perl libfontconfig1 libforms1 libfreetype6
libfreetype6-dev libgcc1 libgcrypt1 libgdbm3 libgladexml-perl
libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgnome-perl libgnutls7 libgsf-1
libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtk1.2-dbg
libhtml-parser-perl libice-dev libice6 libidl0 liblinc1
liblocale-gettext-perl liblzo1 libmagick5.5.7
libmail-mbox-messageparser-perl libmysqlclient12 libncurses5
libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-perl libnewt0.51
libogg-dev libogg0 liborbit2 libpaper1 libplrpc-perl libpng12-0
libpopt-dev libpopt0 libsdl-console libsdl-gfx1.2 libsdl-image1.2
libsdl-ttf1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-oss
libsm-dev libsm6 libsmpeg0 libssl0.9.7 libstartup-notification0
libstdc++5 libt1-5 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtiff-tools libwmf0.2-7 libwww-perl libx11-6
libx11-dev libxaw7 libxaw7-dev libxcursor1 libxext-dev libxext6
libxft1 libxft2 libxi-dev libxi6 libxml-parser-perl libxml2 libxmu-dev
libxmu6 libxmuu-dev libxmuu1 libxp-dev libxp6 libxpm-dev libxpm4
libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 libxrender-dev libxrender1 libxt-dev libxt6
libxtrap-dev libxtrap6 libxtst-dev libxtst6 libxv-dev libxv1 lyx
lyx-common lyx-xforms perl perl-base perl-modules perlmagick pkg-config
pm-dev po-debconf render-dev tcl8.4 tcl8.4-dev tktable transfig ucf
whiptail x-dev xaw3dg xbase-clients xfig xfree86-common xlibmesa-dri
xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa4 xlibs xlibs-data
xpdf-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
autoconf2.13 frozen-bubble frozen-bubble-lib gconf2 gnomemeeting
itk3.1-dev libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libdigest-md5-perl
LOL.
"UOWLKGEASOS is Not Linux."
Hmmm. Didn't work.
"ULOWFREEBSDKGEASOS" is not Linux.
Hmmm. NOW I GET IT!
Do you see, people, why Stallman calls Linux his GNU operating system?
Wow. The new generation has turned to privately-owned web sites in search for answers, instead of Usenet.
I didn't know karma-whoring could be so powerful. Weee! 100.000 points! I must be *great!* (My mom loves me...)
But, hey! What happens when StackOverflow folds (which it will, eventually)?
Then, suddenly, all the knowledge contracts and contracts to a single point until it goes "POOF!" - nada, zero.
It's called the Inverse Topological Asshole Theorem. Otherwise knows as the You've Been Suckered Theorem. The Advertisement Industry Underground Sex Ring knows *all* about it (you can find them on Facebook, did you know?). Wet dreams...
Is it true what they say about under-30s in America, thinking they are so smart when in fact, they're not?
Likewise, other products by The GOOG kinda aren't half of what they could be, such as Google Docs (the other day I was trying to do a Gantt chart on the spreadsheet). Can I sort a column skipping every two cells? Can I do regex search or them? Can I do crazy things? No, The GOOG does not allow crazy such as why, why, oh why there ain't no official Ruby support on The GOOG? etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Editor's note: InfoWorld tried to interview Richard Stallman, who runs the Free Software Foundation that created and manages the GPL, on this issue, but he demanded control of what we published, so we declined.
I LOLed.