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To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.... To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What I still don't understand is why Ubuntu/Canonical wants to invest in this (dash) "experience" when, if you hold them to their stated goal, there are tons of other worthwhile efforts to engage in that need help. Why not leave the "find things that are interesting and relevant to you" to the billion-plus profit companies who have been doing this for over a decade online. When it is an OS vendors job to innovate in this area, unless they are talking out of the side of their mouths? One can only logically conclude they are doing this as a source of revenue, which is totally fine, however this apology is just another instance in which they say one thing and do another thing.
Would you rather go with the GNOME foundation, a democraticly organized organization with multiple corporate and non-profit sponsers who welcome contributions or Canonical, who developed Launchpad for a year in private and who's solution to potential long-term issues is to blog about it then release some code and who's policy and procedure is a verbatim copy of Debian's policy just for the sake of having a referal document, and isn't even followed. At all.
How hard is it to manually count attendance? You have a degree in education but you cannot to the occasional headcount? After a week you should be able to look at your class and recall the *names* of the faces you do not see and deduct that from your total class size.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology, but this sounds like another excuse to spend taxpayer money, in addition to other nefarious motives which will undoubtedly be discussed in this thread.
They don't contribute to GNOME. They don't contribute to the kernel. They didn't create any of the apps they ship with, like libre office, firefox, rhythmbox. They don't give shit to the FSF. Why should I donate to them? So they can use the money campaigning towards getting more binary drivers and proprietary apps on their store?
If youre just looking to upgrade your gaming rig or even your own personal machine, why not? I mean does it really have to be that thought-out for these instances? It's obvious SSD has been created by hopefully intelligent engineers in fortune 500 tech companies, and like everything else tech, their job is to progress to bigger and better things (mostly while reducing/controlling heat).
Fuck yeah I'm gonna get one if I have the money. For work that is just a different matter. Research and show the numbers to whoever, but for my own personal box, there are better things to worry about. I'm not building a huge infrastructure. If you are, by all means research, it's your money.
Ubuntu/Canonical has been the worst type of Karma whores since the beginning.
They built a following by pimping the philosophy of freedom, only to abandon these ideals once the foundation was set.
They have enouraged people to accept non-free video and wireless drivers, while companies like RedHat have tried to work with Vendors and educate folks about why this is a bad thing.
Now with their app store with non-free projects; they've even undone this feat with kneeling towards Redmond (secureboot).
I know not all Linux users care about freedom, but it is sad how even prominent linux users feel like they've accomplished something by getting their local school or whatever to use Ubuntu.
People may complain about the free software philosophy all they want, but soon if Ubuntu continues, its going to be a much lesser degree of the early iterations of Windows with lots of propreitary-ness with bits and pieces of freedom (Windows started out using some BSD code).
tl:dr Shuttleworth and Canonical are hypocrites and karmawhores.
I'm not a FreeBSD user, but I do know they spent some four maybe six years rewritting the kernel because they wanted better SMP. No, this does not make instantly "fucking incredible" like I said, but tracing the history back to grad students at Berkley decades following with some really smart developers, and following their release notes; no I haven't read the kernel source, but their major focus for half a decade was SMP support.
OpenBSD has interested in pcc, but I'm pretty sure they use an older GCC that isn't GPLv3 that they maintain. They kinda do this with a lot of their stuff like htpd and named, but not all for license reasons.
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You think this wasn't discussed? Read the lists, geesh!
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I'm still subscribed to the print edition of 2600 magazine. I moreso collect them than read the new editions. I get the DRM-free PDFs to read.
This book is great. My school used the previous edition for intro to Linux. It's a great distro-agnostic reference.
It just keeps getting more bizzare...
Owncloud 5 is out and it has a builtin RSS reader
So they're going to have one frozen release and a continuous rolling release... just like Debian.
So I assume touchscreen laptops will reduce battery life on all new devices?
To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ... To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
So if this crashes into my house, would that be an act of war?
What I still don't understand is why Ubuntu/Canonical wants to invest in this (dash) "experience" when, if you hold them to their stated goal, there are tons of other worthwhile efforts to engage in that need help. Why not leave the "find things that are interesting and relevant to you" to the billion-plus profit companies who have been doing this for over a decade online. When it is an OS vendors job to innovate in this area, unless they are talking out of the side of their mouths? One can only logically conclude they are doing this as a source of revenue, which is totally fine, however this apology is just another instance in which they say one thing and do another thing.
Have you ever experienced what most would call "anti-semitism"?
All public tweets are archived in the Library of Congress, so why not...
Would you rather go with the GNOME foundation, a democraticly organized organization with multiple corporate and non-profit sponsers who welcome contributions or Canonical, who developed Launchpad for a year in private and who's solution to potential long-term issues is to blog about it then release some code and who's policy and procedure is a verbatim copy of Debian's policy just for the sake of having a referal document, and isn't even followed. At all.
How hard is it to manually count attendance? You have a degree in education but you cannot to the occasional headcount? After a week you should be able to look at your class and recall the *names* of the faces you do not see and deduct that from your total class size. Don't get me wrong, I love technology, but this sounds like another excuse to spend taxpayer money, in addition to other nefarious motives which will undoubtedly be discussed in this thread.
They don't contribute to GNOME. They don't contribute to the kernel. They didn't create any of the apps they ship with, like libre office, firefox, rhythmbox. They don't give shit to the FSF. Why should I donate to them? So they can use the money campaigning towards getting more binary drivers and proprietary apps on their store?
This is a great project that has come a long way! I hope it gains momentum and there is cooperation amoungst projects.
If youre just looking to upgrade your gaming rig or even your own personal machine, why not? I mean does it really have to be that thought-out for these instances? It's obvious SSD has been created by hopefully intelligent engineers in fortune 500 tech companies, and like everything else tech, their job is to progress to bigger and better things (mostly while reducing/controlling heat). Fuck yeah I'm gonna get one if I have the money. For work that is just a different matter. Research and show the numbers to whoever, but for my own personal box, there are better things to worry about. I'm not building a huge infrastructure. If you are, by all means research, it's your money.
Did you know that Firefox has a LTS-esque version? More distros (debian stable and ubuntu LTS) should use this. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
Wasn't this already a feature of the newer GTK+ releases?
Ubuntu/Canonical has been the worst type of Karma whores since the beginning. They built a following by pimping the philosophy of freedom, only to abandon these ideals once the foundation was set. They have enouraged people to accept non-free video and wireless drivers, while companies like RedHat have tried to work with Vendors and educate folks about why this is a bad thing. Now with their app store with non-free projects; they've even undone this feat with kneeling towards Redmond (secureboot). I know not all Linux users care about freedom, but it is sad how even prominent linux users feel like they've accomplished something by getting their local school or whatever to use Ubuntu. People may complain about the free software philosophy all they want, but soon if Ubuntu continues, its going to be a much lesser degree of the early iterations of Windows with lots of propreitary-ness with bits and pieces of freedom (Windows started out using some BSD code). tl:dr Shuttleworth and Canonical are hypocrites and karmawhores.
I'm not a FreeBSD user, but I do know they spent some four maybe six years rewritting the kernel because they wanted better SMP. No, this does not make instantly "fucking incredible" like I said, but tracing the history back to grad students at Berkley decades following with some really smart developers, and following their release notes; no I haven't read the kernel source, but their major focus for half a decade was SMP support.
OpenBSD has few users? How did you quantify this? There are no usage statistics collected.
Shit, not releasing but rather adopting.
OpenBSD has interested in pcc, but I'm pretty sure they use an older GCC that isn't GPLv3 that they maintain. They kinda do this with a lot of their stuff like htpd and named, but not all for license reasons.