Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. Why can't we keep the adminstrators out of these decisions? They should put their efforts into making the competition open, and let the market make the choices.
As far as reliable storage goes, check out this story from New Scientist. DNA-ROM. No cost mentioned, but give it a few years and I'm sure it'll be reasonable. Maybe they can combine it with cloning or IVF, so that your descendents will have all your data in every one of their cells.
I've worked at MS competitors for years, and this kind of thing looks like an old, old pattern repeating itself. Basically they take a great concept, like open source, and they manipulate its meaning until they can own and then destroy the basic concept that threatened them in the first place. Remember, Microsoft invented "embrace and extend" and FUD.
What does this gain anyone? Being able to see the source code is useless unless there is a way to submit changes. In fact, it's dangerous - find a flaw and you know it'll be months (minimum) before it gets fixed.
I've never really understood what the problem was with this. Surely the chicken came after the egg, but whatever laid that egg wasn't (quite) a chicken.
Rape and pillage? I think the original poster was British, not a Viking. Although, of course, large numbers of the population of the British Isles are descended from Vikings, not least because of their raping and pillaging. It all gets very confusing...
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Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. Why can't we keep the adminstrators out of these decisions? They should put their efforts into making the competition open, and let the market make the choices.
As far as reliable storage goes, check out this story from New Scientist. DNA-ROM. No cost mentioned, but give it a few years and I'm sure it'll be reasonable. Maybe they can combine it with cloning or IVF, so that your descendents will have all your data in every one of their cells.
I stand corrected. Like many other things, though, MS took it and made it their own...
I've worked at MS competitors for years, and this kind of thing looks like an old, old pattern repeating itself. Basically they take a great concept, like open source, and they manipulate its meaning until they can own and then destroy the basic concept that threatened them in the first place. Remember, Microsoft invented "embrace and extend" and FUD.
What does this gain anyone? Being able to see the source code is useless unless there is a way to submit changes. In fact, it's dangerous - find a flaw and you know it'll be months (minimum) before it gets fixed.
I've never really understood what the problem was with this. Surely the chicken came after the egg, but whatever laid that egg wasn't (quite) a chicken.
How about Glinux? Doesn't that conform (more or less) to other GNU-type naming conventions?
Rape and pillage? I think the original poster was British, not a Viking. Although, of course, large numbers of the population of the British Isles are descended from Vikings, not least because of their raping and pillaging. It all gets very confusing...
I didn't realise they had power up there. Oh, hang on. Maybe that's why there's no interference...