OK. This is supposed to be news for nerds, yet, nearly every comment so far has been negative.
So what if it's 32bit, not Open Source and isn't 'Quake 3 ready'. Its small, fast and free. How about checking it out, sending the guys an email, or, just for the hell of it, throw it on a floppy and try it in VMWare. Perhaps some of you 1337 c0d3rZ would enjoy writing some fast clean programs, instead of the library loving crap that is *nix software these days.
And, lest we forget, 30 year old legacy code is not exactly 'freshmeat'.
'Enemies' Pardon me, but, we are discussing SOFTWARE!!! If you must BATTLE FOR A CAUSE , how about putting it in perspective and choosing a REAL problem, like abortion, or teen pregnancy, or the starving.
This babbling rhetoric is neverending./. readers/users are some of the most technically adept persons in this industry, and it simply belittles their reputations to toss about phrases like 'destroy' and 'enemies'.
As badly as you want 'The Matrix' to come true, it will never happen. Most PC users are AOLJunkies that can't even create a birthday card or a formatted letter, much less compile a kernel or install a non-RPM piece of software.
What would happen to this forum if MS DID lose? If it were destoyed? Who would be the next evil empirer? Yep. AOL/Sun. Laughable. The cartoonishly goofy McNealy and the LOL funny AOL servers.
Yes, I KNOW I am rambling, but,oh well.
BTW, what is to be thought of RedHat going public? Are they now the enemy too? I mean, heck, first they dump on Rasterman, and now they strive to make money!!!
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OK. This is supposed to be news for nerds, yet, nearly every comment so far has been negative.
So what if it's 32bit, not Open Source and isn't 'Quake 3 ready'. Its small, fast and free.
How about checking it out, sending the guys an email, or, just for the hell of it, throw it on a floppy and try it in VMWare. Perhaps some of you 1337 c0d3rZ would enjoy writing some fast clean programs, instead of the library loving crap that is *nix software these days.
And, lest we forget, 30 year old legacy code is not exactly 'freshmeat'.
'Enemies'
/. readers/users are some of the most technically adept persons in this industry, and it simply belittles their reputations to toss about phrases like 'destroy' and 'enemies'.
Pardon me, but, we are discussing SOFTWARE!!!
If you must BATTLE FOR A CAUSE , how about putting it in perspective and choosing a REAL problem, like abortion, or teen pregnancy, or the starving.
This babbling rhetoric is neverending.
As badly as you want 'The Matrix' to come true, it will never happen. Most PC users are AOLJunkies that can't even create a birthday card or a formatted letter, much less compile a kernel or install a non-RPM piece of software.
What would happen to this forum if MS DID lose?
If it were destoyed?
Who would be the next evil empirer?
Yep. AOL/Sun. Laughable. The cartoonishly goofy McNealy and the LOL funny AOL servers.
Yes, I KNOW I am rambling, but,oh well.
BTW, what is to be thought of RedHat going public?
Are they now the enemy too?
I mean, heck, first they dump on Rasterman, and now they strive to make money!!!
BOYCOTT RedHat!!!!!!!