>But that won't change the fact that in my spare time, I'll still be helping out on projects and chatting with other developpers on IRC.
I'm curious how much spare time you'll have after two temp jobs spread over an 12 hour workday.
Why do you think there are so few OSS developers (in proportion to overall PC&Internet-enabled population figures) in Asia? People are surviving and overtiming for free. There's not much energy left for donating to the world.
Of course, the free and commercial version are not 100% compatible because they don't want them to be - they're made in such way so that people still have to buy SLES to run most commercial software.
The same thing is with Fedora - you're welcome to beta test and debug it for Red Hat to build their Enterprise Linux version upon, and then when you want to use Linux in enterprise environment, please line up for RHEL which starts at $299 (if I'm not mistaken).
I fail to realize why would anyone want to fuck around with these distros with a 6 month lifetime, instead of contributing to freeer distros with longer lifespans such as Ubuntu, Debian or CentOS.
Instead of running OS's with a long upgrade cycle and spending time on debugging and improving apps, people spend 20% of their time re-installing/upgrading OS and other rundimentary shit that does little to improve Linux.
When you think of it, it's almost 100% sure that there are many Linux systems out there being used for human rights-surpressing purposes by the Chinese government.
Which makes me think what would happen if the community (or Linus himself) got pissed off and revoked licenses to use the kernel (or certain GPL packages, or the OS itself)...
I wouldn't mind if the license costs the same as support for the HPC version of enterprise Linux - do you think they get the Linux OS for free? Wait till MS releases their HPC edition, I'm sure it'll be very competitive.
The "cost" to a PC maker cosists of both royalties and preloading the system (add to that other expenses such as making CD media and documentation, etc.)
They probably have to internally order and manually preload those "free" systems with software, which is essentially customization and very expensive (even more than a Windows license).
I'd say it's rather the fact that it's easier to use Linux to replace those UNIX in such uniform environments - clients are mostly browsers or terminals, clients don't need any special features (as long as they can connect), and servers/apps were UNIX-based anyway, so it really is easy to switch and doesn't matter to the IT guys - as long as it is cheap, it works, and can do what they want, they don't care what it is.
If Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle and DB2 supported BSD, it could have as well been BSD. I don't think they're Linux funs or anything like that. Business as usual.
The thing is, if they only recoup the cost (or stop making profit), they won't be able to provide maintenance without incurring loss. And there won't be money for development of the next version. Just imagine (their slowness nonwithstanding) the cost of Longhorn development - probably 2-3 billion dollars (my wild guess). That's a lot of licenses.
# uses Google Suggest when you search # adds links to competitors ("Try your search on Yahoo...") # rewrites links to point straight to the images in Google Images # removes image copying restrictions in Google Print # secures Gmail, switches to https # anonymize your Google userid (disabled by default) # removes ads (disabled by default) # adds a result counter in search result (disabled by default) # filters spammy websites from search results # add link to WayBack Machine (webpage history) NEW # 10 locales: en-US, it-IT, sv-SE, de-DE, tr-TR, ja-JP, es-ES, es-AR, nl-NL, nl-BE NEW
I still wonder, sometimes, if the same happens with domain registrars. If it were true, it'd still be harmless for most of us - that is, if you think you're smarter than most, yes, then it'd be dangerous for you!
Just this morning, I was wondering the same question.
There's this bulletin board software that I use. It's open source, it's popular, it's free, but it is an unsecure piece of shit. There's a security fix for it every fucking month and once I got hacked because I didn't have time to update it for like 3 days (luckily the hackers - nice of them - only defaced the home page and left the mySQL DB untouched)
So this morning I concluded it SHOULD be free because I really wouldn't wanna pay or donate a single cent for that crap.
A lot of free software is worth nothing. I know I'll get modded down for this, but really - think how much you would suffer if (for example) Postfix became commercial - you'd probably switch to qmail or whatever in no time. Big deal. So for those free software that costs nothing, the value is probably equal to cost of switching to alternative. For irreplacable free software, hmm, is there such thing?
>because their old PII is incapable of running XP, let alone Vista
I doubt people will wants to keep an old, noisy, heat-creating and power-wasting PII when new systems are so cheap. And most new ones come bundled with a MS OS anyway.
> Could the on-duty-editor-at-the-moment PLEASE add small note after the links IF TFA is in fact A PDF file.
1. Position your cursor or mouse pointer over the link. 2. Look at the bottom of your browser. If the link ends with.pdf, that is most likely a PDF file
> Why does the share of employees running Mac OS X increase as the company gets bigger?
Because of compatibility problems? You get one, then you get annoyed by having to deal with a single Mac box, then you get one more so that you don't have to convert/transfer/whatnot, and so on and so forth and in the end you end up with a big number of Mac boxes.
>Still, if you compare the cost of Exchange to the alternatives, you might as well switch as the alternatives are likely to be more stable and secure,
How so?
I rarely hear Exchange customers complain about unstable service and Exchange vulns aren't much more common that those of "the alternatives" (for example on the MTA side, Postfix and sendmail have fairly frequent security problems).
From years of experience I can say that the (non-GPL) alternatives are cheaper because they aren't as good. Were they as good as Exchange, I bet they would cost about the same minus the "MS premium" (15%).
Are you insane? What you're saying is sub-human, not transhuman.
For those intereseted, the article concerning Lagrage points is on page 48 of the PDF linked from the article. It contains interesting parallels with naval warfare ("an ocean is where navies go"). The article on China's space weapons strategy on page 18 is an interesting one, too.
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I think I said we shouldn't mess with Fedora because it's wasteful and should instead contribute to CentOS instead (which I do).
>But that won't change the fact that in my spare time, I'll still be helping out on projects and chatting with other developpers on IRC.
I'm curious how much spare time you'll have after two temp jobs spread over an 12 hour workday.
Why do you think there are so few OSS developers (in proportion to overall PC&Internet-enabled population figures) in Asia?
People are surviving and overtiming for free. There's not much energy left for donating to the world.
Of course, the free and commercial version are not 100% compatible because they don't want them to be - they're made in such way so that people still have to buy SLES to run most commercial software.
The same thing is with Fedora - you're welcome to beta test and debug it for Red Hat to build their Enterprise Linux version upon, and then when you want to use Linux in enterprise environment, please line up for RHEL which starts at $299 (if I'm not mistaken).
I fail to realize why would anyone want to fuck around with these distros with a 6 month lifetime, instead of contributing to freeer distros with longer lifespans such as Ubuntu, Debian or CentOS.
Instead of running OS's with a long upgrade cycle and spending time on debugging and improving apps, people spend 20% of their time re-installing/upgrading OS and other rundimentary shit that does little to improve Linux.
Try Becky - excellent IMAP/POP/SMTP MUA (I assume you're a Windows user).
It can copy sent mails to the Sent folder and has many other nice features.
http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm
When you think of it, it's almost 100% sure that there are many Linux systems out there being used for human rights-surpressing purposes by the Chinese government.
Which makes me think what would happen if the community (or Linus himself) got pissed off and revoked licenses to use the kernel (or certain GPL packages, or the OS itself)...
Can it be more unobtrusive and user-friendly than with Firefox and Customize Google script?
y -google-scripts/
http://www.googletutor.com/2005/05/15/greasemonke
I wouldn't mind if the license costs the same as support for the HPC version of enterprise Linux - do you think they get the Linux OS for free?
Wait till MS releases their HPC edition, I'm sure it'll be very competitive.
Wrong!
The "cost" to a PC maker cosists of both royalties and preloading the system (add to that other expenses such as making CD media and documentation, etc.)
They probably have to internally order and manually preload those "free" systems with software, which is essentially customization and very expensive (even more than a Windows license).
As always, MS is late.
Enterprise Linux vendors have been checking their OS for piracy for years now (Red Hat Network).
... and they don't run even close to 3Gb/s.
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Yet another useless submission.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2
I'd say it's rather the fact that it's easier to use Linux to replace those UNIX in such uniform environments - clients are mostly browsers or terminals, clients don't need any special features (as long as they can connect), and servers/apps were UNIX-based anyway, so it really is easy to switch and doesn't matter to the IT guys - as long as it is cheap, it works, and can do what they want, they don't care what it is.
If Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle and DB2 supported BSD, it could have as well been BSD. I don't think they're Linux funs or anything like that. Business as usual.
The thing is, if they only recoup the cost (or stop making profit), they won't be able to provide maintenance without incurring loss. And there won't be money for development of the next version. Just imagine (their slowness nonwithstanding) the cost of Longhorn development - probably 2-3 billion dollars (my wild guess). That's a lot of licenses.
Well, compare that with Ubuntu, Gentoo and whathaveya, and you'll feel much, much better.
Here's the cure for their business model:
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
# uses Google Suggest when you search
# adds links to competitors ("Try your search on Yahoo...")
# rewrites links to point straight to the images in Google Images
# removes image copying restrictions in Google Print
# secures Gmail, switches to https
# anonymize your Google userid (disabled by default)
# removes ads (disabled by default)
# adds a result counter in search result (disabled by default)
# filters spammy websites from search results
# add link to WayBack Machine (webpage history) NEW
# 10 locales: en-US, it-IT, sv-SE, de-DE, tr-TR, ja-JP, es-ES, es-AR, nl-NL, nl-BE NEW
I still wonder, sometimes, if the same happens with domain registrars.
If it were true, it'd still be harmless for most of us - that is, if you think you're smarter than most, yes, then it'd be dangerous for you!
Just this morning, I was wondering the same question.
There's this bulletin board software that I use.
It's open source, it's popular, it's free, but it is an unsecure piece of shit. There's a security fix for it every fucking month and once I got hacked because I didn't have time to update it for like 3 days (luckily the hackers - nice of them - only defaced the home page and left the mySQL DB untouched)
So this morning I concluded it SHOULD be free because I really wouldn't wanna pay or donate a single cent for that crap.
A lot of free software is worth nothing.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but really - think how much you would suffer if (for example) Postfix became commercial - you'd probably switch to qmail or whatever in no time. Big deal.
So for those free software that costs nothing, the value is probably equal to cost of switching to alternative.
For irreplacable free software, hmm, is there such thing?
>because their old PII is incapable of running XP, let alone Vista
I doubt people will wants to keep an old, noisy, heat-creating and power-wasting PII when new systems are so cheap.
And most new ones come bundled with a MS OS anyway.
> Could the on-duty-editor-at-the-moment PLEASE add small note after the links IF TFA is in fact A PDF file.
.pdf, that is most likely a PDF file
1. Position your cursor or mouse pointer over the link.
2. Look at the bottom of your browser. If the link ends with
> Why does the share of employees running Mac OS X increase as the company gets bigger?
Because of compatibility problems?
You get one, then you get annoyed by having to deal with a single Mac box, then you get one more so that you don't have to convert/transfer/whatnot, and so on and so forth and in the end you end up with a big number of Mac boxes.
>"What happens if someone in a crowd is unable for whatever reason to move away from the beam?"
Thank god I have no body piercings.
I had the same problem like the grandparent post.
Makes one wonder how they can claim availability of fixes when they aren't really available.
>You're correct. It was discovered by a white hat.
Incorrect. What is known that the flaw was announced or made public by a white hat.
For all we know, it might have been discovered by a black hat months ago...
>Still, if you compare the cost of Exchange to the alternatives, you might as well switch as the alternatives are likely to be more stable and secure,
How so?
I rarely hear Exchange customers complain about unstable service and Exchange vulns aren't much more common that those of "the alternatives" (for example on the MTA side, Postfix and sendmail have fairly frequent security problems).
From years of experience I can say that the (non-GPL) alternatives are cheaper because they aren't as good. Were they as good as Exchange, I bet they would cost about the same minus the "MS premium" (15%).
"Now he's so angry that moments of levity actually cause him pain; give him headaches.. html)
Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts."
(http://www.atlyrics.com/quotes/c/conair
Are you insane? What you're saying is sub-human, not transhuman.
For those intereseted, the article concerning Lagrage points is on page 48 of the PDF linked from the article. It contains interesting parallels with naval warfare ("an ocean is where navies go").
The article on China's space weapons strategy on page 18 is an interesting one, too.
Oracle Unbearable, perhaps.
/. trashing whatsoever. Interesting.
They probably have the worst security track record among major databases and yet they get no