A lot of the things they see as benefits, can also be drawbacks. Having the entire repository and all it's history can be quite large on older (or frequently moving) projects. Making local branches, and just lots of branches in general, easy can result is some serious code sprawl as well. And SVN project can often allow for tighter management.
Another vote for SVN (Subversion) here. You can spin up an SVN server on Ubuntu in about 30 minutes. Then add the web front end in another 10. A WEALTH of clients in both GUI and non-GUI for all platforms. And it is lightweight on the client side. (Only has a single version locally) The code is very mature, and you do not have to worry about patches often, and it is just easy to use.
However, it is missing some things on your "Things that would be great" list, but not many. Not at all with some of the larg ammount of tools and addons built for SVN.
Lighter weight, more mature and stable codebase, and a smaller footprint on the clients? Just to name a few things... It is a fool who has only one tool in their toolbox.
Tell that to the many people from California arrested at the border checkpoint in Texas with weed on I-10... These checkpoints are a bad thing, and most Americans live in that border zone. All of the largest cities do. (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston...)
What is the point of very good karma, if you do not risk it occasionally saying what needs to be said? I do that often. I have a few -1s, and if you read them, thay are just against the popular view. But sometimes, it actually makes it through like your post did. Well said.
I am sure the money will be syphoned out as fast as it comes in so the first good lawsuit will shut them down. But the people behind it will be doing just fine.
In the history of technology, the first to develop a technology and attempt to bring it to market is usually not the one that is ultimately successful.
That's why Microsoft was so successful: they let the market test ideas, and then stole, bought, or cloned only proven ideas.
When they did NOT follow this formula, such as for Bob, Zune, their first tablet, and Windows 8 tablet/desktop mishmash, they failed.
Funny that you mention Bob. Yes it was a failure... But one of the marketing team, Melinda French, did all right by it.;) Also, Bob was ported into Office as the "Office Assistants" that created much derision, but also saw a lot of use with non-tech types. And the concept behind it, especially the heuristic learning of behavior tied to content, is what eventually became Cortina.
Treating users in such a horrible way never ends well. These users just won't put up with it. The most talented, experienced and knowledgeable Linux users have already moved to FreeBSD, or are in the process of doing so. These are the kinds of users who are needed the most by Linux; they're the ones who push for its adoption and use. Linux won't disappear all at once, of course, but a gradual decline is inevitable now that these critical users have been forced out.
You can really see this in Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Forums. Back a long time ago...:) There were many active Ubuntu LoCos and knowledgeable people on Ubuntu Forums. Then the LoCo requirements got weird, and regions got arbitrarily changed. (Like Texas being one region since it was one state... Forget the fact that Dallas is closer to Chicago then El Paso.) And the LoCo community started to fall apart. Then Ubuntu Forums got hacked, and they went to the Ubuntu universal account that would not keep you logged in, and was less then elegant about logging in from within a thread... Suddenly help on the forums became less frequent, and much less educated. Then Unity... Now the level of comment on the forums is laughable. And FreeBSD has all the cool kids.
You have got to understand one thing : Linux is the playground of Red Hat. From top to bottom Red Hat does and the others follow or die. The idea that there is freedom in the open source movement is pure illusion. He who has control of the infrastructure components has control of linux. The other guys are just small fish. Even Ubuntu doesn't go anywhere without Debian, and Debian doesn't go anywhere without Red Hat.
Ironic that you post this in an article that is in no way about rpm...:) I think it is more about developers that have become user unfocused. The "We know what they want more then they do" mentality. That never works well.
For this, yes. Not so much for the public information server, also out of space since it runs on an 80gig hard drive as well. If bureaucracy is your only protection, you are in trouble.
A know some handcraft distillers that would pay a lot of money for bottles like that. And I would love a glass picture and glasses set for iced tea. It is beautiful. (Unlike the 3D plastic stuff...)
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A lot of the things they see as benefits, can also be drawbacks. Having the entire repository and all it's history can be quite large on older (or frequently moving) projects. Making local branches, and just lots of branches in general, easy can result is some serious code sprawl as well. And SVN project can often allow for tighter management.
Is that git, or build scripts on the git repository? Which could also be build scripts on a subversion repository.
Everyone also watches Reality TV. That does not make it a good choice.
Another vote for SVN (Subversion) here. You can spin up an SVN server on Ubuntu in about 30 minutes. Then add the web front end in another 10. A WEALTH of clients in both GUI and non-GUI for all platforms. And it is lightweight on the client side. (Only has a single version locally) The code is very mature, and you do not have to worry about patches often, and it is just easy to use.
However, it is missing some things on your "Things that would be great" list, but not many. Not at all with some of the larg ammount of tools and addons built for SVN.
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why would you ever use cvs or svn instead?
Lighter weight, more mature and stable codebase, and a smaller footprint on the clients? Just to name a few things... It is a fool who has only one tool in their toolbox.
Tell that to the many people from California arrested at the border checkpoint in Texas with weed on I-10... These checkpoints are a bad thing, and most Americans live in that border zone. All of the largest cities do. (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston...)
What is the point of very good karma, if you do not risk it occasionally saying what needs to be said? I do that often. I have a few -1s, and if you read them, thay are just against the popular view. But sometimes, it actually makes it through like your post did. Well said.
I am sure the money will be syphoned out as fast as it comes in so the first good lawsuit will shut them down. But the people behind it will be doing just fine.
And I am sure the law would apply to negative superlatives about the government...
Well, VW is not looking so good right now, so perhaps. ;)
My Android didn't know how to spell it either...
"Dears, could you set the encryption on your tunnel to 56 bit please, sir? It is the maximum allowed by law, sir."
The scary part is that many people will...
That's why Microsoft was so successful: they let the market test ideas, and then stole, bought, or cloned only proven ideas.
When they did NOT follow this formula, such as for Bob, Zune, their first tablet, and Windows 8 tablet/desktop mishmash, they failed.
Funny that you mention Bob. Yes it was a failure... But one of the marketing team, Melinda French, did all right by it. ;) Also, Bob was ported into Office as the "Office Assistants" that created much derision, but also saw a lot of use with non-tech types. And the concept behind it, especially the heuristic learning of behavior tied to content, is what eventually became Cortina.
using an analog form of DRM
So, that'd be "RM", then.
In case you're wondering, it was simply that only the rental store could rewind rental tapes (cartridges).
Not so much rights management as blanket functionality removal.
DRM is "blanket functionality removal." That is it's intention. It fails, but that is not the point...
Because I do not know how to make clean water on a large scale. Internet connectivity, however, I know... Stick to what you know.
Treating users in such a horrible way never ends well. These users just won't put up with it. The most talented, experienced and knowledgeable Linux users have already moved to FreeBSD, or are in the process of doing so. These are the kinds of users who are needed the most by Linux; they're the ones who push for its adoption and use. Linux won't disappear all at once, of course, but a gradual decline is inevitable now that these critical users have been forced out.
You can really see this in Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Forums. Back a long time ago... :) There were many active Ubuntu LoCos and knowledgeable people on Ubuntu Forums. Then the LoCo requirements got weird, and regions got arbitrarily changed. (Like Texas being one region since it was one state... Forget the fact that Dallas is closer to Chicago then El Paso.) And the LoCo community started to fall apart. Then Ubuntu Forums got hacked, and they went to the Ubuntu universal account that would not keep you logged in, and was less then elegant about logging in from within a thread... Suddenly help on the forums became less frequent, and much less educated. Then Unity... Now the level of comment on the forums is laughable. And FreeBSD has all the cool kids.
You have got to understand one thing : Linux is the playground of Red Hat. From top to bottom Red Hat does and the others follow or die. The idea that there is freedom in the open source movement is pure illusion. He who has control of the infrastructure components has control of linux. The other guys are just small fish. Even Ubuntu doesn't go anywhere without Debian, and Debian doesn't go anywhere without Red Hat.
Ironic that you post this in an article that is in no way about rpm... :) I think it is more about developers that have become user unfocused. The "We know what they want more then they do" mentality. That never works well.
You're why we don't have flying cars yet.
Oh don't be so dramatic. The real reason Linux is holding up flying cars is shitty drivers.
If they would just share the API so we didn't need a flying car binary blob...
Israel? You mean that place we were talking about not long ago with all of the new desalination plants shipping water to other countries? That Israel?
3) You are a COW
So now the red tape is copy on write?
Wouldn't this be a better link? http://www.ebay.com/sch/Cars-T...
For this, yes. Not so much for the public information server, also out of space since it runs on an 80gig hard drive as well. If bureaucracy is your only protection, you are in trouble.
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I want to know if it can replace the people in the mall that make the pretty handmade hummingbirds and butterflies.
Now that would be neat to own!
You must not be in the US. Molten glass in a shopping mall in the US would draw a pack of salivating lawyers in seconds!
A know some handcraft distillers that would pay a lot of money for bottles like that. And I would love a glass picture and glasses set for iced tea. It is beautiful. (Unlike the 3D plastic stuff...)