um... in FreeBSD one of their major philosophies is a consistent well defined file heirarchy. This is one of *most* BSD users complaints with Linux,there doesn't seem to be any standardized file structure which lends to chaos. It is my experiance that it is much easier to find binaries in FreeBSD (granted you do have to learn the system to start with) than in Linux Distros.
I think that this is inevitable, whether sooner or later unless we find a way to adapt quickly the result could be detrimental. Could this result in another dark ages for us?
I don't know why people bother with Richar Stallman. His ideas in many ways show hippy idealism and are often strongly related to Communism.
Since when did it become "ethically wrong" to charge for work that you did? The GPL is destroying an industry that was once thriving. Just recently we heard from a bitter programmer at the Linux Router Project (LPR) about how he couldn't put food on the table and about a month ago another open source developer committed suicide because he couldn't find a job.
When will we realize that free software may sound like a nice idea but in the real world it is crap. It may be nice to get something free; but, people must spend considerable time and effort developing those things and they deserve the right to be able to put food on the table and pay the morgtage. It stands opposed to capitalism and we should not support it because it is literally killing people. If anything that sounds ethically wrong to me.
I don't know if SCO's intellectual property has been violated but if has been then I do stand behind them in their efforts to protect what is theirs.
Maybe so. However, in a controversy the persons involved do feel the pressure to make some kind of general statement. It's respectible that the leaders of the FreeBSD development team do not want to drag Matt's name through the mud, despite the fact that something bad obviously happened causing the leadership to take action and revoke his commit privileges.
It is a sad situation on all sides. We should not blame the FreeBSD leadership for being noble and attempting to keep Matt's life private and not defame him.
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um... in FreeBSD one of their major philosophies is a consistent well defined file heirarchy. This is one of *most* BSD users complaints with Linux,there doesn't seem to be any standardized file structure which lends to chaos. It is my experiance that it is much easier to find binaries in FreeBSD (granted you do have to learn the system to start with) than in Linux Distros.
I think that this is inevitable, whether sooner or later unless we find a way to adapt quickly the result could be detrimental. Could this result in another dark ages for us?
Since when did it become "ethically wrong" to charge for work that you did? The GPL is destroying an industry that was once thriving. Just recently we heard from a bitter programmer at the Linux Router Project (LPR) about how he couldn't put food on the table and about a month ago another open source developer committed suicide because he couldn't find a job.
When will we realize that free software may sound like a nice idea but in the real world it is crap. It may be nice to get something free; but, people must spend considerable time and effort developing those things and they deserve the right to be able to put food on the table and pay the morgtage. It stands opposed to capitalism and we should not support it because it is literally killing people. If anything that sounds ethically wrong to me.
I don't know if SCO's intellectual property has been violated but if has been then I do stand behind them in their efforts to protect what is theirs.
Maybe so. However, in a controversy the persons involved do feel the pressure to make some kind of general statement. It's respectible that the leaders of the FreeBSD development team do not want to drag Matt's name through the mud, despite the fact that something bad obviously happened causing the leadership to take action and revoke his commit privileges.
It is a sad situation on all sides. We should not blame the FreeBSD leadership for being noble and attempting to keep Matt's life private and not defame him.