Famine is not really a product of a prolonged drought. It's the product of a disorganised society, typically one where there is no effective government, or the government is a dictatorship that doesn't give a damn about the population that supports it.
An organised society doesn't succumb to anything but a really major drought. The problem in most places isn't growing the food, but rather one of distribution; warlords and criminal gangs steal the food instead of letting it go the market. This is the major reason that most international aid efforts fail.
Sticking to principles under every conceivable circumstance is called dogma. In the real world, people compromise.
Stallman himself has stated that it is okay, in his opinion, to use proprietary software where there is no alternative. Of course, he qualified that by saying that you should work to create the alternative. The example he cited was the development of gcc; until gcc became self-compiling, it was necessary to compile it with proprietary tools.
If you want to link to Apple APIs, then you have to link to their libraries. Don't like that? Well, don't link (after all, there's always X11), or write your own interface to Aqua (difficult but not impossible).
By dropping support for PPC, the GNU-Darwin guys have violated their own stated mission. An interesting choice, to say the least.
Still, there's no use complaining. Anyone who wants to see a PPC-based darwin can fork a NNG-Darwin (NNG, of course, being NNG's Not GNU) off the current source base and keep going.
Got to agree with this. There is nothing wrong with a plaintiff sueing from inside their own jurisdiction, but they can't get to pick and choose what that jurisdiction is.
Publishers have the choice to publish in a less liable area, so it's not sufficient to say that it's strictly the publisher's jurisdiction that counts. This will merely result in 'publishing-shelter regimes' (ala tax-shelter regimes). However, if plaintiffs can move around too, it becomes a farce.
I am sure everytime I apply for a job, employers scan through Google searching for my name. After all, it was what this article [slashdot.org] was about.
Damn, I hope no employer does this for me. The current top Google page for my name points to a guy (not me!) with a MCSE!
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Famine is not really a product of a prolonged drought. It's the product of a disorganised society, typically one where there is no effective government, or the government is a dictatorship that doesn't give a damn about the population that supports it.
An organised society doesn't succumb to anything but a really major drought. The problem in most places isn't growing the food, but rather one of distribution; warlords and criminal gangs steal the food instead of letting it go the market. This is the major reason that most international aid efforts fail.
Sticking to principles under every conceivable circumstance is called dogma. In the real world, people compromise.
Stallman himself has stated that it is okay, in his opinion, to use proprietary software where there is no alternative. Of course, he qualified that by saying that you should work to create the alternative. The example he cited was the development of gcc; until gcc became self-compiling, it was necessary to compile it with proprietary tools.
If you want to link to Apple APIs, then you have to link to their libraries. Don't like that? Well, don't link (after all, there's always X11), or write your own interface to Aqua (difficult but not impossible).
By dropping support for PPC, the GNU-Darwin guys have violated their own stated mission. An interesting choice, to say the least.
Still, there's no use complaining. Anyone who wants to see a PPC-based darwin can fork a NNG-Darwin (NNG, of course, being NNG's Not GNU) off the current source base and keep going.
It's on Google News! ;)
Got to agree with this. There is nothing wrong with a plaintiff sueing from inside their own jurisdiction, but they can't get to pick and choose what that jurisdiction is.
Publishers have the choice to publish in a less liable area, so it's not sufficient to say that it's strictly the publisher's jurisdiction that counts. This will merely result in 'publishing-shelter regimes' (ala tax-shelter regimes). However, if plaintiffs can move around too, it becomes a farce.
I am sure everytime I apply for a job, employers scan through Google searching for my name. After all, it was what this article [slashdot.org] was about. Damn, I hope no employer does this for me. The current top Google page for my name points to a guy (not me!) with a MCSE!