Organised codebase and system layout. It seems like every Linux distribution has it's own unique layout and defaults. This inconsistency can make it a nightmare moving from one distro to another.
Are you familiar with the LSB? Oh, and how easy is it to move from FreeBSD to, say, OpenBSD? Troll.
Superb documentation
I notice you didn't try to make a comparison to the major Linux distributions here, like SuSE or Debian. I'm actually rather surprised you didn't try to put FreeBSD side by side with some obscure Linux distribution with 10 developers.
Ports tree.
Yawn. emerge, apt-get, Debian pool, etc.
So you get to keep all the fuzzy benefits of FreeBSD
Yes, they are rather fuzzy. As in nebulous. Your post did nothing to elucidate them.
Can you fucking read? I said remote root vulnerability. Is your best argument an obscure mailer that isn't in the default install of any known distribution?
When's the last time a Linux distribution had a remote root vulnerability? Does Linux get immediately infected with viruses when attaching it to the internet to download updates?
Let's check the facts here - this guy claims to have written a mac emulator that runs at 80% native speed, all by himself... in 4 months?!! He's either a frickin' genius, or he's "embraced" some code from somewhere - and I think we all know where...
Yeah, you might think he's Fabrice Bellard or something.
Given that the NT architecture had very nice subsystem/kernel personality support in its design, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to incorporate some sort of Linux emulation. However, I think at one point they had a POSIX subsystem in NT, and it ended up being removed in Win2k or WinXP. Probably didn't like all that portability and platform-neutrality jazz.
If our friend here spent $50,000, sure it would do some good, but not nearly as much as requiring everyone of means to do a little to help the less fortunate.
"Helping the less fortunate" is not equivalent to "giving money to those who squander what is given to them and do nothing but demand more handouts". The former is noble, the latter is regarded a crime in every place except when the government does it.
Yeah, the fact that the debates are funded and operated by the RNC and DNC couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that third parties get no exposure, could it now?
The nice thing about SDL, however, is that the Windows version acts as an abstraction layer to the very same DirectX calls they are probably using anyway.
And the beautiful part is in order to do something crazy like uninstall software, you just drag the puppy in the trash.
What's even more beautiful is that a virus can now infect your software because it's all installed in single folders under your user account. Bring on the Windows virus ports!
for example those XGI people could capture the market by opens sourceing the drivers
XGI released a driver package that has an open source DRM and framebuffer driver. Unfortunately, the XAA and DRI components are binary only. Get it here
If software is to be patented, I think sourcecode should be provided and sealed in a vault (digital and/or physical) until the patent expires, then that sourcecode becomes public domain.
Making patents secret is the wrong approach. Seal patents in a vault and there's no way to find out if your code is infringing on the patent outside of a lawsuit.
Let's flip that around, and ask. Why should society suffer the effects of your bad decisions? Even if you only harm yourself. Society has to pay the costs of picking up your body. Doing the autopsy. Putting your needle-tracked body into a hole in the ground.
Actually, in most locales your relatives are responsible for costs incurred upon your death. Hence things like "final cost insurance". You could use this same argument against any risky behavior that leads to a higher probability of death. Unfortunately, just about everything we do is risky in one way or another, and for most things we probably aren't even aware of the risks yet.
I've long contended that the primary lobbyists behind anti-drug laws and the "war on drugs" are *the drug lords themselves*
Where are you getting this information? Show us the flow of money, i.e. from opensecrets.org. As far as I know, it's well established that donations from Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, and the pharmaceutical industry are correlated with a politician supporting the WoD.
By continuing to install the software after a modified EULA, they are implicitly agreeing to the changes. If they didn't want you to modify the EULA, they should checksum it and refuse to install otherwise. The current model is just like you crossing stuff out and handing the contract to them, and then they sign it without paying any attention to what you crossed out. Is their lack of vigilance supposed to be my problem?
If EULAs are going to be held enforceable under contract law, then the same rules that apply to contract law should apply. Namely, if I delete (cross out) the parts of the EULA that I don't like and agree to the remainder, that should be legally binding. You can do just that by editing textareas in web forms and by editing EULA.TXT before installing a piece of software. Unfortunately the courts aren't smart enough about technology to see a reasonable equivalency there.
Freedom is a problem because it allows people to act in manners contradictory to human welfare. Privacy is a problem because it means society cannot hold a person accountable for his wrongdoings.
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Can you fucking read? I said remote root vulnerability. Is your best argument an obscure mailer that isn't in the default install of any known distribution?
When's the last time a Linux distribution had a remote root vulnerability? Does Linux get immediately infected with viruses when attaching it to the internet to download updates?
Given that the NT architecture had very nice subsystem/kernel personality support in its design, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to incorporate some sort of Linux emulation. However, I think at one point they had a POSIX subsystem in NT, and it ended up being removed in Win2k or WinXP. Probably didn't like all that portability and platform-neutrality jazz.
You can do just that with Synchronet. I wrote the code to run external doors through DOSEMU.
Hmm, I don't recall having to rebuild my GNOME desktop after a crash. That's something I don't miss about WPS.
Yeah, the fact that the debates are funded and operated by the RNC and DNC couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that third parties get no exposure, could it now?
No. Just do the right thing and use addslashes on the input when it is appropriate to do so.
Is submitting to a BSA audit really that much worse than submitting to a GPL audit?
It wouldn't be a difficult exercise to develop a new computer language specifically for the purpose of expressing patented algorithms.
By continuing to install the software after a modified EULA, they are implicitly agreeing to the changes. If they didn't want you to modify the EULA, they should checksum it and refuse to install otherwise. The current model is just like you crossing stuff out and handing the contract to them, and then they sign it without paying any attention to what you crossed out. Is their lack of vigilance supposed to be my problem?
If EULAs are going to be held enforceable under contract law, then the same rules that apply to contract law should apply. Namely, if I delete (cross out) the parts of the EULA that I don't like and agree to the remainder, that should be legally binding. You can do just that by editing textareas in web forms and by editing EULA.TXT before installing a piece of software. Unfortunately the courts aren't smart enough about technology to see a reasonable equivalency there.
Freedom is a problem because it allows people to act in manners contradictory to human welfare. Privacy is a problem because it means society cannot hold a person accountable for his wrongdoings.