I'm not disputing your point; merely the original poster was correct in so far as Linux kernels do release buggy, incomplete versions as part of the development process. I agree with you that advanced users are the only people who will use them, and that is one of the great things of the OSS "model".
*sigh* Yes, let's go completely out of the topic of discussion. *rolls eyes* I KNOW MS wouldn't make Office or whatever OS, but this topic is debating whether they would do or not, and the parent was following a post questioning why MS would go OSS when someone could just copy it, and was saying that people wouldn't just be able to copy it.
Of course you could... You would still have to say OpenBSD everywhere where you took code, just you could maybe call it something different.
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RMS was presented with these very same questions a few months ago on LWN, & like a broken computer program, all he could say was ``It's not the same thing" & talk around the question.
Well, it isn't the same thing - Linux was written by Linus so he could use the GNU OS. I'm no "RMS fanboy", but that point does make sense in my view.
FWIW, this only covers 4 days of logs (I think something's b0rked) but here's my OS stats:
Windows XP 16063 42.9 %
Windows 98 9889 26.4 %
Windows Me 4664 12.4 %
Windows 2000 4193 11.2 %
Windows NT 655 1.7 %
Unknown 621 1.6 %
Windows 95 422 1.1 %
Mac OS 397 1 %
Mac OS X 146 0.3 %
FreeBSD 134 0.3 %
Linux 72 0.1 %
RISC OS 53 0.1 %
WebTV 33 0 %
Sun Solaris 18 0 %
Dreamcast 13 0 %
Windows 3.xx 10 0 %
OS/2 8 0 %
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I'm not disputing your point; merely the original poster was correct in so far as Linux kernels do release buggy, incomplete versions as part of the development process. I agree with you that advanced users are the only people who will use them, and that is one of the great things of the OSS "model".
*sigh*
Yes, let's go completely out of the topic of discussion. *rolls eyes*
I KNOW MS wouldn't make Office or whatever OS, but this topic is debating whether they would do or not, and the parent was following a post questioning why MS would go OSS when someone could just copy it, and was saying that people wouldn't just be able to copy it.
Yeah, I know, IAOPSMNS, IHBT, I'll HAND...
I don't quite think it's ready to be integrated into anything yet ;)
My current PC is a PII 400. It's the second fastest PC in the house. I'd LOVE a PIII :-P.
Linux does have different versions, and so it is true that they do release "buggy incomplete software".
Umm...not under most OSS licences...
"Raise", you say?
Hehehe...
Of course you could... You would still have to say OpenBSD everywhere where you took code, just you could maybe call it something different.
Well, it isn't the same thing - Linux was written by Linus so he could use the GNU OS. I'm no "RMS fanboy", but that point does make sense in my view.
If it was my mum, she'd be saying "At last when the thingy goes wrong, it doesn't mess up the whole thingy..."
FWIW, this only covers 4 days of logs (I think something's b0rked) but here's my OS stats:
Windows XP 16063 42.9 %
Windows 98 9889 26.4 %
Windows Me 4664 12.4 %
Windows 2000 4193 11.2 %
Windows NT 655 1.7 %
Unknown 621 1.6 %
Windows 95 422 1.1 %
Mac OS 397 1 %
Mac OS X 146 0.3 %
FreeBSD 134 0.3 %
Linux 72 0.1 %
RISC OS 53 0.1 %
WebTV 33 0 %
Sun Solaris 18 0 %
Dreamcast 13 0 %
Windows 3.xx 10 0 %
OS/2 8 0 %
In an e-mail? IANALOW [IANAL or "worker"... can't think of any better term] but I'd get it in writing. ..
Because people kept asking GIMP developers/users for help with Film GIMP, which they obviously couldn't provide.
vi isn't feature ritch? o_O
You missed "Gnultella" ;).
Uhh... it runs fine on my PC which is a PII 400/256MB RAM, without hogging CPU...
Or about how Windows BSODs all the time... ...oh, wait...
Either that or they used a variable over 7,000 times and the developer decided to change that ;).
I think the popups take care of profit :P.
More than that - it has a PageRank of 6 (OK, not that much) and is in the Google Directory
Uhh... I'd rather they didn't actually...