"The BitKeeper licence [lwn.net] prohibits attempts to reverse engineer the product, or to enable anyone else to do so."
And this is precisely why Linus should never have required anyone but himself to use it.
And since Tridge never was bound by that license, since he did not own the product, he has no culpability in any event.
Whether others provided him with data from which he could reverse engineer the product is irrelevant. The issue here is whether people should have been required by Linus to use software which has such a provision in it.
I notice everybody on Linus's side in this are totally ignoring Samba. Samba would not exist if Linus was paying Microsoft to use it and Tridge reverse-engineered it. That simple. Do you think Microsoft didn't have some legal claim not to reverse-engineer the SMB and CIFS protocols?
What we have here are "IP" zealots who want all development on OSS halted until every little i is dotted and t is crossed. And we have people who are making money and supposedly supporting OSS who, when an OSS project is started on "their tuff", get upset and pull the plug.
"Any open source revision control system will have to be maintained by the Linux community in perpetuity, draining resources away from Linux development and maintenance,"
Oh, BULLSHIT! That's like saying that maintaining the GCC compiler "drains resources away from Linux development".
"where as BitKeeper was funded by the commercial users, ie commercial users of BitKeeper were indirectly subsidising Linux development. That subsidy has now been removed, and in practical terms it is a loss for the Linux community (in the short run, medium run and long run)."
More horseshit. Commercial users were paying for their use of a proprietary product. If Larry wanted to support OSS, he would continue to do so. In reality, when his product was threatened with obsolescence by someone reverse-engineering his protocol, he pulled the plug. Which is EXACTLY why OSS should NOT rely on proprietary products or any side-line "support" from them.
This applies to SUN, IBM, and the current case.
It has NOTHING to do with "ideology" (except for those ideologues who make it so) - it has to do with strict pragmatism and protecting yourself from the actions of others. OSS is about being independent of proprietary company actions. Linus was wrong to violate this concept.
If he had used the product only for his OWN use, no problem. He can use any proprietary software he wants - that's his lookout. By requiring OTHER developers to do so, he caused a problem for OSS. Tridge's actions were merely the logical consequence of OSS - reverse-engineer a possibly useful protocol. Larry's reaction was the usual paranoid reaction of a commercial developer. Linus's reaction - accusations that Tridge "destroyed" Larry's product - is out of line.
Well, my relatively new Lite-On 1213S DVD burner won't detect most of the brand-new top-of-the-line FujiFilm Taiyo Yuden-based discs I put into it. Nor will it read ANY DVD it has just burned itself!
I'm going to have to pitch it (or use it elsewhere as a CD burner - which works fine).
The other Lite-On DVD reader I have reads everything okay.
And any browse of www.cdfreaks.com will show you that thousands of people are having incredible difficulties getting DVD burners to work.
It's obvious that the industry has pushed too far too fast, and they need to start getting their act together before people give up on DVD burning altogether. The quality control sucks on both media and drives.
And more and more consumer stores are stocking low quality DVD media which are bound to fail in more drives.
Thank you for your concise and interesting review.
Now fuck off.
You're the moron who comes out of EVERY movie theater I've ever been in saying, loudly, so everyone in the lobby can hear, "Well, THAT SUCKED!"
Nobody gives a shit what you think.
Besides which, your review is crap because you obviously have no fucking clue what the story was about because you have no fucking clue why the characters did what they did.
In America, we invade entire countries, destroy them, then bill the taxpayer $200 billion to repair them and pass all the money on to the guys who elected us (with a couple billion on the side for ourselves, of course.)
THEN we take a few hundred billion out of Social Security, pass it to our friends in the stock market, and reap the kickbacks!
"OpenOffice is essentially attempting to force Microsoft to make their products free"
Horseshit.
"Force" is taking MS to court and demanding they open their formats or sell their products for free.
Making a compatible format or even decoding the format and duplicating it with their own code is not "forcing" MS to do anything except react to customer demand. And MS ISN'T doing anything of significance because of it and probably never will.
Aah, has anybody on/. ever heard of the phonebook?
"Personal information"? WHAT personal information?
Your phone number? Phonebook.
Your address? Cross-reference phonebook.
Your kid's names? Your local school paper. The kid next door. His teacher.
Just because it's on a blog and therefore on the Internet doesn't mean you are automatically going to be kidnapped and murdered - or even spammed.
This survey is bullshit for two reasons:
1) It's obviously an attempt to link blogs with "things that are bad" - like child kidnappers or terrorists - in other words, anybody who isn't under TOTAL CONTROL.
2) Second, ANYBODY should be allowed to post ANYTHING about ANYONE ANYWHERE. Period. That includes your IQ, your bra size, your waist size, whether you use Grecian Formula (and WHERE you use Grecian Formula), whether you wear ladies' underwear (whether you are female or male), who you sleep with, who you used to sleep with, and anything else that somebody can find out about you. If you don't like it, take security measures so that people don't find out what you don't want them to find out.
Telling people NOT to find out things about you - especially if you're some kind of asshole that people want to know about - and then telling them NOT to publish it is simply fucking stupid and fascist to boot.
You morons REALLY DO want the Federal government to tell you how to take a shit in the morning, don't you? You REALLY have no personal responsibility and no conception of same, right?
No, I KNOW what your problem is - you're monkeys who, as William Burroughs once said, just HAVE to be RIGHT. Because if you're not "right", you're scared (to death - the death of everybody else but you, apparently) you'll end up dead, so everybody else has to be "wrong" and only you can be "right".
Which means any fucking little picayune trivial issue that comes up that you can use to establish your fucking superiority in the eyes of "the gods" over somebody (and everybody) else, you'll seize on it like it's free pizza and beer. Never mind the economic or social or historical or any other consequences - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead to you're being RIGHT!
Read my lips, monkeys.
Fuck you.
You got worse problems than bloggers coming down the track when we Transhumans get it together.
Small businesses are run by people directly responsible for the revenue and expenses.
Huge companies are run by people only interested in their stock's value and who don't give a damn what the "techies" do, so they let Linux in.
Mid-size companies are run by people who aren't responsible for anything but their incompetence but don't want anyone rocking the boat.
Their problem is that as Linux takes over small business and huge business, they're going to have to deal with it anyway because those other businesses are who they have to do business with.
Otherwise, the study is just more propaganda - "Look! No one's using Linux! You better not!"
Bullshit. That attitude is WHY you're a mid-level business and not a big business - you're not willing to push forward hard enough.
Feel free to substitute her for any the first five!
Believe me, it was not easy coming up with the ten I came up with. I could have switched several others in and out - but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it - just a/. post, you know...:-)
Interesting. My current problem with FC3, which I installed last night, is that while it recognizes both NIC cards, it won't bring the interfaces up.
It detects the onboard Avance sound card fine and played the sample sound. I haven't tried MP3's yet since FC3 doesn't support them out of the box. I have to deal with that later.
If I get any more grief from FC3, though, I'll try Mandrake 10.1 or SUSE 9.2, which I have. I'm hesitant to try SUSE 9.2, because supposedly they have taken the MP3 disabling to new levels which are harder to fix than on FC3.
I was appalled to find that apparently they have STILL done NOTHING about the partition bug that surfaced in FC2 (and other distros) because the 2.6 kernel reports the hard disk geometry differently and parted apparently hasn't been updated. The bug didn't touch me, fortunately, but I checked the Net to refresh my knowledge about it, and found that several people have partition problems with FC3 which are very similar to FC2 (ie, unable to boot Windows after a dual-boot install with FC.)
'I installed these Microsoft tested and Microsoft signed drivers WRITTEN BY MICROSOFT, my system crashed, damn you M$.'
I got a DVD burner here that won't even see most of my top of the line Taiyo Yuden blank DVDs, probably courtesy of Microsoft (jury is still out since I haven't tested it on K3B on Fedora Core 3.)
One or more of the Gnostic cults postulated that the "God" who created this Earth was a "blind, idiot God" and that there was a (female, IRRC) deity above him that would set things right eventually.
And I've been out of high school since 1967. While I have limited emotional control, I have considerably more logical ability than you do.
There are NO "core" problems or barriers in Linux. There are some annoyances caused by the idiots who run corporations who refuse to license or create hardware drivers for anything other than Windows. That's it. Period.
The rest of your comment is mindless MS trolling. Your point appears to rest on the notion that you and the rest of the MS shills are too stupid to use anything but a dumbed down OS that can't even get the partition table right (see my previous complaints about Windows 2000 Service Pack 3).
"Real" people use Windows because they're ignorant. Real way to promote the use of Windows, dude. Very smart.
Heh, heh, reminds me of Zarqawi - whom nobody has ever seen and nobody can find even though he was sitting in one town for months (supposedly) - and who has the extraordinary ability to plan a dozen major operations at once with a handful of associates without once leaving a trail of resources.
Otherwise known as the "boogey man".
Supposedly in the employ of the OTHER "boogey man", bin Laden - who at least is known to have existed at one point - when he was working for the CIA.
Ron Enderle is a fucking asshole and I've seen (and received) the e-mails to prove it.
DiDio may think (and you may think) that she is some kind of "competent analyst". First, that's not necessarily true even in the simple meaning of the terms.
Second, it doesn't she mean she can't be totally wrong.
Third, it doesn't mean she can't be professionally compromised - as any number of media assholes have been in the past year.
Fourth, it doesn't mean she can't be a total asshole when it comes to certain topics - and free software seems to be one of them.
Fifth, her behavior vis-a-vis the SCO case and other matters HAS to seriously raise questions about her so-called "objectivity".
Also, if someone claims "Linux rocks and Windows sucks", you can ignore that as partisanship - particularly since the party involved is rarely claiming "objectivity". When someone who DOES claim - and works in a profession requiring - "objectivity" essentially does the same thing - as she does in this report - then her "objectivity" has to be dismissed.
Finally, you claim that converting from Windows to Linux would incur costs that would not occur if the switch did not occur. The point of converting to Linux is to AVOID costs that will otherwise be UNAVOIDABLE no matter what you do - namely Bill Gates's extracting every goddamn dime from your pocket that he can. It seems very few people in the "analyst" community, the media, or in a lot of corporations can comprehend this simple concept: Pay now to avoid paying later.
Or as people in the IT community have said for the last forty years: "If you don't have time - or money - to do it right, you don't have time - or money - to do it over."
And that's why people hate these clowns like DiDio - because these clowns are fundamentally vicious assholes who think nothing of lying and stealing and using the state to crush their opponents.
Back in the 1960's, one of the Situationist International people made the point that the hot violence of mobs and riots - so often derided as mindless violence - was precisely the right antidote to the cold, malicious thwarting of human potential which the state and the corporations DELIBERATELY engage in for their own benefit.
And as Bush and his cronies have demonstrated, these kind of people will kidnap you, torture you, and kill you and everyone around you to get their way - and then smirk about it at press conferences.
Unfortunately for them, so will I (leaving out the press conferences). Worse, I'm willing to wait for the right technology to perform a "Final Solution" on their asses.
Meanwhile, you are correct that the appropriate response is to keep producing good stuff and show it to people. Things will keep getting better if we do.
And that's why, as someone else posted, DiDio is "squealing like a pig" - and so is Bill.
Nut jobs threaten to assassinate everyone running the country, and blow up everything else while kidnapping Hollywood babes to turn them using the Stockholm syndrome.
I know.
MY court-appointed psychologist said, "We're lucky we stopped you in time."
DiDio wouldn't be breathing today if I was out there running my old program.
Gimme a break. This asshole has been spinning anti-Linux, pro-Microsoft BULLSHIT for several years now.
She's a PAID SHILL - nothing more. Do I mean she directly gets a check from Bill? Maybe not - but she knows which side her bread is buttered on and she "reports" accordingly.
This latest is nothing more than another attempt to run down Linux by running down its supporters - another tack that other MS shill asshole Rob Enderle probably taught her.
To me, when Windows starts slowing down, gets totally lost in what's doing to the point where I can't even get the Task Manager up in less than a minute to find out what it's doing, that's a "crash" necessitating a reboot.
I HAVE seen Windows XP and every other Windows OS just totally DIE on the spot - bam, right to the black screen and a reboot.
I have never seen Linux do that. Admittedly I have been using Windows more than Linux for the last couple years - mostly because I've spent a HUMONGOUS amount of time DAILY battling screwups in either Microsoft software or third-party software running on Windows.
I was intending to upgrade my Red Hat 7.3 bit by bit so I could get more experience doing so, but this has been made impossible by the amount of time I spent wrestling with Windows.
Just in the past week on Windows, I've had a DVD burner that won't see blank DVDs, an antivirus whose email scanner mysteriously turns itself off, and the sound quality of my MP3's and DVDs went into the toilet necessitating total reinstall of my codecs and players. I suspect ALL of this bullshit has to do with the goddamn Windows registry which can be corrupted by breathing on the machine.
So now I'm going to install Fedora Core 3 (or SUSE 9.2 or Mandrake 10 - I haven't decide yet), get the latest and greatest, and then start moving over my daily work to Linux.
And thank God for independent text-based config files!
No, dummy, if you are fighting an attacker, that is self defense. Has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I'm talking about.
Your wife and children have value to you - not to mention your own life. To put yourself in harm's way then is necessary - although being prepared to prevent it is much better.
To throw yourself on a grenade for some other guy (as long he isn't your boyfriend) makes no sense to me. Especially if you went looking for the guys with the grenades in the first place.
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"The BitKeeper licence [lwn.net] prohibits attempts to reverse engineer the product, or to enable anyone else to do so."
And this is precisely why Linus should never have required anyone but himself to use it.
And since Tridge never was bound by that license, since he did not own the product, he has no culpability in any event.
Whether others provided him with data from which he could reverse engineer the product is irrelevant. The issue here is whether people should have been required by Linus to use software which has such a provision in it.
I notice everybody on Linus's side in this are totally ignoring Samba. Samba would not exist if Linus was paying Microsoft to use it and Tridge reverse-engineered it. That simple. Do you think Microsoft didn't have some legal claim not to reverse-engineer the SMB and CIFS protocols?
What we have here are "IP" zealots who want all development on OSS halted until every little i is dotted and t is crossed. And we have people who are making money and supposedly supporting OSS who, when an OSS project is started on "their tuff", get upset and pull the plug.
"Any open source revision control system will have to be maintained by the Linux community in perpetuity, draining resources away from Linux development and maintenance,"
Oh, BULLSHIT! That's like saying that maintaining the GCC compiler "drains resources away from Linux development".
"where as BitKeeper was funded by the commercial users, ie commercial users of BitKeeper were indirectly subsidising Linux development. That subsidy has now been removed, and in practical terms it is a loss for the Linux community (in the short run, medium run and long run)."
More horseshit. Commercial users were paying for their use of a proprietary product. If Larry wanted to support OSS, he would continue to do so. In reality, when his product was threatened with obsolescence by someone reverse-engineering his protocol, he pulled the plug. Which is EXACTLY why OSS should NOT rely on proprietary products or any side-line "support" from them.
This applies to SUN, IBM, and the current case.
It has NOTHING to do with "ideology" (except for those ideologues who make it so) - it has to do with strict pragmatism and protecting yourself from the actions of others. OSS is about being independent of proprietary company actions. Linus was wrong to violate this concept.
If he had used the product only for his OWN use, no problem. He can use any proprietary software he wants - that's his lookout. By requiring OTHER developers to do so, he caused a problem for OSS. Tridge's actions were merely the logical consequence of OSS - reverse-engineer a possibly useful protocol. Larry's reaction was the usual paranoid reaction of a commercial developer. Linus's reaction - accusations that Tridge "destroyed" Larry's product - is out of line.
Your statements are utter nonsense.
Everything you've said implies that there is NO VALUE IN OSS AT ALL!
You're saying that just because it costs less to use proprietary software than to develop your own, that no one should develop their own.
Reread what you wrote and amaze yourself at how stupid your entire post is.
And as for the time spent developing an OSS version of BitKeeper, how about the time spent developing Reiser or anything else in OSS?
Get a fucking clue.
You've just described George Bush.
Thank you.
And the reason is, as usual, "featuritis".
"My drive can write faster than yours!"
Well, my relatively new Lite-On 1213S DVD burner won't detect most of the brand-new top-of-the-line FujiFilm Taiyo Yuden-based discs I put into it. Nor will it read ANY DVD it has just burned itself!
I'm going to have to pitch it (or use it elsewhere as a CD burner - which works fine).
The other Lite-On DVD reader I have reads everything okay.
And any browse of www.cdfreaks.com will show you that thousands of people are having incredible difficulties getting DVD burners to work.
It's obvious that the industry has pushed too far too fast, and they need to start getting their act together before people give up on DVD burning altogether. The quality control sucks on both media and drives.
And more and more consumer stores are stocking low quality DVD media which are bound to fail in more drives.
It's a fucking nightmare of incompetence.
Thank you for your concise and interesting review.
Now fuck off.
You're the moron who comes out of EVERY movie theater I've ever been in saying, loudly, so everyone in the lobby can hear, "Well, THAT SUCKED!"
Nobody gives a shit what you think.
Besides which, your review is crap because you obviously have no fucking clue what the story was about because you have no fucking clue why the characters did what they did.
Take your no fucking clueless self elsewhere.
Canada? BAH! Canada is small potatoes!
In America, we invade entire countries, destroy them, then bill the taxpayer $200 billion to repair them and pass all the money on to the guys who elected us (with a couple billion on the side for ourselves, of course.)
THEN we take a few hundred billion out of Social Security, pass it to our friends in the stock market, and reap the kickbacks!
Now, THAT'S soaking somebody!
You guys are just amateurs...
There's an idea - freeze some of the
Oh, wait, that might slow down the first posters...
"OpenOffice is essentially attempting to force Microsoft to make their products free"
Horseshit.
"Force" is taking MS to court and demanding they open their formats or sell their products for free.
Making a compatible format or even decoding the format and duplicating it with their own code is not "forcing" MS to do anything except react to customer demand. And MS ISN'T doing anything of significance because of it and probably never will.
Home addresses?
Aah, has anybody on
"Personal information"? WHAT personal information?
Your phone number? Phonebook.
Your address? Cross-reference phonebook.
Your kid's names? Your local school paper. The kid next door. His teacher.
Just because it's on a blog and therefore on the Internet doesn't mean you are automatically going to be kidnapped and murdered - or even spammed.
This survey is bullshit for two reasons:
1) It's obviously an attempt to link blogs with "things that are bad" - like child kidnappers or terrorists - in other words, anybody who isn't under TOTAL CONTROL.
2) Second, ANYBODY should be allowed to post ANYTHING about ANYONE ANYWHERE. Period. That includes your IQ, your bra size, your waist size, whether you use Grecian Formula (and WHERE you use Grecian Formula), whether you wear ladies' underwear (whether you are female or male), who you sleep with, who you used to sleep with, and anything else that somebody can find out about you. If you don't like it, take security measures so that people don't find out what you don't want them to find out.
Telling people NOT to find out things about you - especially if you're some kind of asshole that people want to know about - and then telling them NOT to publish it is simply fucking stupid and fascist to boot.
You morons REALLY DO want the Federal government to tell you how to take a shit in the morning, don't you? You REALLY have no personal responsibility and no conception of same, right?
No, I KNOW what your problem is - you're monkeys who, as William Burroughs once said, just HAVE to be RIGHT. Because if you're not "right", you're scared (to death - the death of everybody else but you, apparently) you'll end up dead, so everybody else has to be "wrong" and only you can be "right".
Which means any fucking little picayune trivial issue that comes up that you can use to establish your fucking superiority in the eyes of "the gods" over somebody (and everybody) else, you'll seize on it like it's free pizza and beer. Never mind the economic or social or historical or any other consequences - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead to you're being RIGHT!
Read my lips, monkeys.
Fuck you.
You got worse problems than bloggers coming down the track when we Transhumans get it together.
Small businesses are run by people directly responsible for the revenue and expenses.
Huge companies are run by people only interested in their stock's value and who don't give a damn what the "techies" do, so they let Linux in.
Mid-size companies are run by people who aren't responsible for anything but their incompetence but don't want anyone rocking the boat.
Their problem is that as Linux takes over small business and huge business, they're going to have to deal with it anyway because those other businesses are who they have to do business with.
Otherwise, the study is just more propaganda - "Look! No one's using Linux! You better not!"
Bullshit. That attitude is WHY you're a mid-level business and not a big business - you're not willing to push forward hard enough.
Feel free to substitute her for any the first five!
Believe me, it was not easy coming up with the ten I came up with. I could have switched several others in and out - but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it - just a
Interesting. My current problem with FC3, which I installed last night, is that while it recognizes both NIC cards, it won't bring the interfaces up.
It detects the onboard Avance sound card fine and played the sample sound. I haven't tried MP3's yet since FC3 doesn't support them out of the box. I have to deal with that later.
If I get any more grief from FC3, though, I'll try Mandrake 10.1 or SUSE 9.2, which I have. I'm hesitant to try SUSE 9.2, because supposedly they have taken the MP3 disabling to new levels which are harder to fix than on FC3.
I was appalled to find that apparently they have STILL done NOTHING about the partition bug that surfaced in FC2 (and other distros) because the 2.6 kernel reports the hard disk geometry differently and parted apparently hasn't been updated. The bug didn't touch me, fortunately, but I checked the Net to refresh my knowledge about it, and found that several people have partition problems with FC3 which are very similar to FC2 (ie, unable to boot Windows after a dual-boot install with FC.)
No, I go:
'I installed these Microsoft tested and Microsoft signed drivers WRITTEN BY MICROSOFT, my system crashed, damn you M$.'
I got a DVD burner here that won't even see most of my top of the line Taiyo Yuden blank DVDs, probably courtesy of Microsoft (jury is still out since I haven't tested it on K3B on Fedora Core 3.)
You obviously know nothing about Gnosticism.
One or more of the Gnostic cults postulated that the "God" who created this Earth was a "blind, idiot God" and that there was a (female, IRRC) deity above him that would set things right eventually.
I think Angelina Jolie is her.
10. Salma Hayek.
9. Catherine Zeta-Jones.
8. Monica Belucci.
7. Alessandra Ambrosio.
6. Victoria Silvstedt.
5. Elizabeth Hurley.
4. Angelina Jolie.
3. Caroline Corr.
2. Andrea Corr.
1. Sharon Corr.
Microsoft sucks.
And I've been out of high school since 1967. While I have limited emotional control, I have considerably more logical ability than you do.
There are NO "core" problems or barriers in Linux. There are some annoyances caused by the idiots who run corporations who refuse to license or create hardware drivers for anything other than Windows. That's it. Period.
The rest of your comment is mindless MS trolling.
Your point appears to rest on the notion that you and the rest of the MS shills are too stupid to use anything but a dumbed down OS that can't even get the partition table right (see my previous complaints about Windows 2000 Service Pack 3).
"Real" people use Windows because they're ignorant. Real way to promote the use of Windows, dude. Very smart.
Moron.
Heh, heh, reminds me of Zarqawi - whom nobody has ever seen and nobody can find even though he was sitting in one town for months (supposedly) - and who has the extraordinary ability to plan a dozen major operations at once with a handful of associates without once leaving a trail of resources.
Otherwise known as the "boogey man".
Supposedly in the employ of the OTHER "boogey man", bin Laden - who at least is known to have existed at one point - when he was working for the CIA.
Yaawwwnnnn...
Troll.
Bye.
You're right - that is going too far.
Ron Enderle is a fucking asshole and I've seen (and received) the e-mails to prove it.
DiDio may think (and you may think) that she is some kind of "competent analyst". First, that's not necessarily true even in the simple meaning of the terms.
Second, it doesn't she mean she can't be totally wrong.
Third, it doesn't mean she can't be professionally compromised - as any number of media assholes have been in the past year.
Fourth, it doesn't mean she can't be a total asshole when it comes to certain topics - and free software seems to be one of them.
Fifth, her behavior vis-a-vis the SCO case and other matters HAS to seriously raise questions about her so-called "objectivity".
Also, if someone claims "Linux rocks and Windows sucks", you can ignore that as partisanship - particularly since the party involved is rarely claiming "objectivity". When someone who DOES claim - and works in a profession requiring - "objectivity" essentially does the same thing - as she does in this report - then her "objectivity" has to be dismissed.
Finally, you claim that converting from Windows to Linux would incur costs that would not occur if the switch did not occur. The point of converting to Linux is to AVOID costs that will otherwise be UNAVOIDABLE no matter what you do - namely Bill Gates's extracting every goddamn dime from your pocket that he can. It seems very few people in the "analyst" community, the media, or in a lot of corporations can comprehend this simple concept: Pay now to avoid paying later.
Or as people in the IT community have said for the last forty years: "If you don't have time - or money - to do it right, you don't have time - or money - to do it over."
You're completely in error on all points.
You're absolutely correct on every point.
And that's why people hate these clowns like DiDio - because these clowns are fundamentally vicious assholes who think nothing of lying and stealing and using the state to crush their opponents.
Back in the 1960's, one of the Situationist International people made the point that the hot violence of mobs and riots - so often derided as mindless violence - was precisely the right antidote to the cold, malicious thwarting of human potential which the state and the corporations DELIBERATELY engage in for their own benefit.
And as Bush and his cronies have demonstrated, these kind of people will kidnap you, torture you, and kill you and everyone around you to get their way - and then smirk about it at press conferences.
Unfortunately for them, so will I (leaving out the press conferences). Worse, I'm willing to wait for the right technology to perform a "Final Solution" on their asses.
Meanwhile, you are correct that the appropriate response is to keep producing good stuff and show it to people. Things will keep getting better if we do.
And that's why, as someone else posted, DiDio is "squealing like a pig" - and so is Bill.
Well, no.
Nut jobs threaten to assassinate everyone running the country, and blow up everything else while kidnapping Hollywood babes to turn them using the Stockholm syndrome.
I know.
MY court-appointed psychologist said, "We're lucky we stopped you in time."
DiDio wouldn't be breathing today if I was out there running my old program.
She's lucky. We aren't.
Gimme a break. This asshole has been spinning anti-Linux, pro-Microsoft BULLSHIT for several years now.
She's a PAID SHILL - nothing more. Do I mean she directly gets a check from Bill? Maybe not - but she knows which side her bread is buttered on and she "reports" accordingly.
This latest is nothing more than another attempt to run down Linux by running down its supporters - another tack that other MS shill asshole Rob Enderle probably taught her.
So who cares what she says?
She's no different than any Windows troll on
Read my HTTP, Laura.
Fuck you.
There are crashes and then there are "crahes".
To me, when Windows starts slowing down, gets totally lost in what's doing to the point where I can't even get the Task Manager up in less than a minute to find out what it's doing, that's a "crash" necessitating a reboot.
I HAVE seen Windows XP and every other Windows OS just totally DIE on the spot - bam, right to the black screen and a reboot.
I have never seen Linux do that. Admittedly I have been using Windows more than Linux for the last couple years - mostly because I've spent a HUMONGOUS amount of time DAILY battling screwups in either Microsoft software or third-party software running on Windows.
I was intending to upgrade my Red Hat 7.3 bit by bit so I could get more experience doing so, but this has been made impossible by the amount of time I spent wrestling with Windows.
Just in the past week on Windows, I've had a DVD burner that won't see blank DVDs, an antivirus whose email scanner mysteriously turns itself off, and the sound quality of my MP3's and DVDs went into the toilet necessitating total reinstall of my codecs and players. I suspect ALL of this bullshit has to do with the goddamn Windows registry which can be corrupted by breathing on the machine.
So now I'm going to install Fedora Core 3 (or SUSE 9.2 or Mandrake 10 - I haven't decide yet), get the latest and greatest, and then start moving over my daily work to Linux.
And thank God for independent text-based config files!
No, dummy, if you are fighting an attacker, that is self defense. Has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I'm talking about.
Your wife and children have value to you - not to mention your own life. To put yourself in harm's way then is necessary - although being prepared to prevent it is much better.
To throw yourself on a grenade for some other guy (as long he isn't your boyfriend) makes no sense to me. Especially if you went looking for the guys with the grenades in the first place.