Regardless of what he claims, the end result of everyone adopting the GNU philosphy is that noone would make a living writing software.
RHEL is not a good example, they get paid for packaging and support. They do make contibutions to the codebase (thanks, guys!), but they don't get paid for coding directly.
Some companies have been able to support free code from other revenue sources, but do you really think every company could or would do that?
Pure GNUism is just like any other ism, it's a nice ideal but doesn't work well when applied as an absolute. (see extremes of socalism, capitalism, etc.) And it is quite obvious that RMS and followers think of free software as the only acceptable solution. (in this case, it probably was the best solution but a reason for that is the demands of those who think non-free software is immoral)
The price was pretty much zero even before the aptly named WiMP was anything more than a MIDI player. Real seemed to set the standard with their sell the encoder, give away the player strategy.
It seems to me that browsers would be a much better app to pick the fight over. Banning IE (or at least Active X) could only make things better.
This argument rests on the premise that making something "international" automatically makes it better.
There's no evidence that the UN is capable of running things any better by committe than a single company does by decree. Doesn't really matter where said company is loacted. Put it in the UK, or Ubezekstan, for it matters.
That would make sense except it hasn't killed competetion in the media player market. Look at how many there are. Media players seem to be a particularly bad example to jump on.
That does not apply to debit cards or checks (which nowadays can be used like debit cards). People have thier accounts cleaned out, and they have no recourse.
The $50 fraud limit needs to be extended to all electronic money trancactions.
I can do all those things and more on my US phone.(cingular) We have the same abilities here, it's just that few use them. (and some providers lock things so that you are forced to buy from them.... looking at you verison!)
You forgot the important part of segmenting thier products so that no one model has everything you want. Then, of course, you must have the software company jack around with licensees so that they all just give up and go to a competitor.
Considering porting from VB6 to VB.net practically requires a re-write, I don't see how going from 4 to.net can be trivial unless the code itself is trivial.
Why even bother? The language is so different, you might as well go all the way and re-write it in c#.
But even the bottom-end integrated ATI chip is light-years beyond any Intel IGP. "Intel Extreme Graphics" are about as bad as you can get. (and I say this as someone with an i830m equipped Pentium M laptop)
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RHEL is not a good example, they get paid for packaging and support. They do make contibutions to the codebase (thanks, guys!), but they don't get paid for coding directly.
Some companies have been able to support free code from other revenue sources, but do you really think every company could or would do that?Pure GNUism is just like any other ism, it's a nice ideal but doesn't work well when applied as an absolute. (see extremes of socalism, capitalism, etc.) And it is quite obvious that RMS and followers think of free software as the only acceptable solution. (in this case, it probably was the best solution but a reason for that is the demands of those who think non-free software is immoral)
The goggles do nothing!
Care to elaborate?
DOH!!!
ha-HA!
It seems to me that browsers would be a much better app to pick the fight over. Banning IE (or at least Active X) could only make things better.
There's no evidence that the UN is capable of running things any better by committe than a single company does by decree. Doesn't really matter where said company is loacted. Put it in the UK, or Ubezekstan, for it matters.
Not every problem is a nail for the UN hammer.That would make sense except it hasn't killed competetion in the media player market. Look at how many there are. Media players seem to be a particularly bad example to jump on.
What if I don't? Even the instructions think they're superior. I think I'm going to go sulk now.
Oh, wait, it does!
SGI hopefully has some prior art for this. There has to be others as well in the 3d industry who could kick this.
The $50 fraud limit needs to be extended to all electronic money trancactions.
I can do all those things and more on my US phone.(cingular) We have the same abilities here, it's just that few use them. (and some providers lock things so that you are forced to buy from them.... looking at you verison!)
But they look HOT! Great design team, poor execution.
You forgot the important part of segmenting thier products so that no one model has everything you want. Then, of course, you must have the software company jack around with licensees so that they all just give up and go to a competitor.
(to be fair, evil case design seemed to be popular at the time.)
Asking, "do you want fries with that?"
Try looking around. Try looking at all the baseless lawsuits that pop up, like this one. There's even a term for this type: SLAPP.
What pamphlet did you pull that tripe from? It doesn't take much looking to disprove this crap.
It doesn't matter if they have a case, the parents point was that most people cannot afford to defend themselves in civil court.
Why even bother? The language is so different, you might as well go all the way and re-write it in c#.
But even the bottom-end integrated ATI chip is light-years beyond any Intel IGP. "Intel Extreme Graphics" are about as bad as you can get. (and I say this as someone with an i830m equipped Pentium M laptop)
Who the immoral one now?? He isn't longing to kill people, unlike you.
Note how this guy and Ken Lay and others walk free. Do you really think they will get around to doing anything to Lay? LOL!
Yeah, I know, but does anyone buy those anymore? (Except for people using copiers that require them)