How dare you try and enforce your standards on me, thats exaclty the kind of crap that the Libertarians are fighting against... oh wait I just read your sig.
Don't forget the fluffy dice and you might want to add some hydraulics to the case lid, so that it can bounce up and down when ever a "Hot Babe tm" walks past.
They'll hate us like the drama kids hated the football players in highschool because the dorks hate jocks.
So you're comparing the US to some big meat head who keeps pushing around those who can't physically stand up to him, but could out think him in a second. Remind me again who your having a go at?
Apropos of nothing, if you enjoy Terry Pratchett books check out the description of the drop bears contained within the "Last Continent" novel, nearly wet myself with that one.
Sorry, we didn't grow up in a culture that says everyone has the right to bear heavy calibre machine guns.
On the snide remark regarding australias armed forces, lets just remember that in the latest american adventure, it was australian special forces doing a lot of the ground work before the invasion even started. You guys couldn't even stop the looters from robbing the local banks
The problem with your post as I see it is that you treat the linux community as one homogenous unit. When the Ogara fracas started there where many so called "sober" responses, many times more than the "She has defamed Linux, she must die!" type.
The problem lies with the fact that sober responses do not get air time, its the lunatic fringe that get heard most because they are by definition more sensational.
Dvorak is a commentator, whos business is driven page impressions, hes not going to get these impressions by holding a reasonable discussion on the merits of Ogaras article vis a vi journalistic ethics, no, he will get much better results by posting articles claiming the linux community is imploding.
Long story short, well known anti-FOSS journalist posted article that was seriously devoid of journalistic ethics as well as attacking the maitainer of the Groklaw blog.
Editorial staff demanded article be withdrawn by the publishers other wise they would walk. Article was pulled as well as all other articles by original author.
Head of publishing company gives interview basically saying the only reason he pulled the articles was due to a threat of a DoS attack. Otherwise he sounds very much like he supports original author in her attack on Groklaws maintainer.
Senior Editors get pissed at latest example of publisher not getting concepts such as ethics or integrity and decide to show him what they mean.
Umm nope, German != Nazi. Otherwise it would be the same as saying American = "Stupid, ignorant lard arse who pushes others around with no idea about what he should be doing".
The code they have released under GPL cannot be "taken back" its out there and anyone who has a copy can redistribute it under the GPL.
What they can do is dual license, as Copy right holders they have the right to release anything they write under what ever terms they like, MySQL has managed to survive doing this by offering a GPL version and a commercially licensed version complete with support contracts.
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Yes because everyone knows that Open Source Software is only developed in the US and Europe and Asia offer cheaper developers.
What the fuck? I mean seriously this got and insightful mod? People get a clue here!
Yeah right on, if I want to run a crack house on my own property and run whores in my front end then fuck the rest of you!
How dare you try and enforce your standards on me, thats exaclty the kind of crap that the Libertarians are fighting against... oh wait I just read your sig.
my girlfriend is a psychologist. What does that mean for our potential kids.
Cheap Therapy?
Urrr, Good Open Source is. Be tempted by the Bill side do not!
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Don't forget the fluffy dice and you might want to add some hydraulics to the case lid, so that it can bounce up and down when ever a "Hot Babe tm" walks past.
It's a bit like calling Genocide "Ethnic Cleansing" makes it sound like your just giving them a bath and a good rub down.
ONe flag a colony does not make. The Dutch claimed a large chunk of Australia back in the seventeenth century but let it lie until the Brits moved in.
Basically a cosmic case of "You snooze you lose".
Secure OS: A shiny white box sitting in the corner without any cables plugged in and completely powered down.
Well they're certainly in a pickle aren't they.
Sorry, Im tired.
I know, its a troll but I gotta take this one.
They'll hate us like the drama kids hated the football players in highschool because the dorks hate jocks.
So you're comparing the US to some big meat head who keeps pushing around those who can't physically stand up to him, but could out think him in a second. Remind me again who your having a go at?
Apropos of nothing, if you enjoy Terry Pratchett books check out the description of the drop bears contained within the "Last Continent" novel, nearly wet myself with that one.
Someone has already started doing this. Melbourne based company.
Nah mate, kangaroos have nothing on the drop bears, enemy walks into the forest, no one walks out.
Sorry, we didn't grow up in a culture that says everyone has the right to bear heavy calibre machine guns.
On the snide remark regarding australias armed forces, lets just remember that in the latest american adventure, it was australian special forces doing a lot of the ground work before the invasion even started. You guys couldn't even stop the looters from robbing the local banks
Sounds like someone didn't get a grant. Awww
Government sponsored research laboritories.
The problem with your post as I see it is that you treat the linux community as one homogenous unit. When the Ogara fracas started there where many so called "sober" responses, many times more than the "She has defamed Linux, she must die!" type.
The problem lies with the fact that sober responses do not get air time, its the lunatic fringe that get heard most because they are by definition more sensational.
Dvorak is a commentator, whos business is driven page impressions, hes not going to get these impressions by holding a reasonable discussion on the merits of Ogaras article vis a vi journalistic ethics, no, he will get much better results by posting articles claiming the linux community is imploding.
Nope but it might pull the rug out from under several of the more viscious rebel groups operating in west africa.
Long story short, well known anti-FOSS journalist posted article that was seriously devoid of journalistic ethics as well as attacking the maitainer of the Groklaw blog.
Editorial staff demanded article be withdrawn by the publishers other wise they would walk. Article was pulled as well as all other articles by original author.
Head of publishing company gives interview basically saying the only reason he pulled the articles was due to a threat of a DoS attack. Otherwise he sounds very much like he supports original author in her attack on Groklaws maintainer.
Senior Editors get pissed at latest example of publisher not getting concepts such as ethics or integrity and decide to show him what they mean.
Or you could be stuck in Wollongong where its a choice of crap, crap or JJJ
Ahh Bud Tingwell, a man who is starting to replace Bill Hunter as the old Australian actor who by law must appear in every Australian film.
Yeah but Godwins law states that any Usenet discussion is immediatly rendered closed the moment someone calls any other poster a Nazi.
German industrial might and the famous german rigidness is a seperate thing to the Nazi idea.
Umm nope, German != Nazi. Otherwise it would be the same as saying American = "Stupid, ignorant lard arse who pushes others around with no idea about what he should be doing".
I leave you to draw your own conclusions
The code they have released under GPL cannot be "taken back" its out there and anyone who has a copy can redistribute it under the GPL.
What they can do is dual license, as Copy right holders they have the right to release anything they write under what ever terms they like, MySQL has managed to survive doing this by offering a GPL version and a commercially licensed version complete with support contracts.