>We have one of two developer communities left on >the planet, (Microsoft) . Net being the other.
So its Java vs.Net? Everything is so black-and-white to him. Hasnt he forgotten about another community, the one that MS considers its enemy no.1? The one (with the help of IBM) eating Suns launch?
Dude, your are chaneling your anger at the wrong people. All these poor Indian H1Bs and L1s are programmers like yourself just trying what they can to earn a living. I'm by no means a Marxist but this is a classic devide and conquer strategy practiced by the ruling classes to keeps us fighting and bickering among ourselves while ripping the financial benifits of outsourcing/offshoring.
I'm not convinved that open source development model
has any real advantages over the established one. Honestly, I dont see a lot of innovation and creaivity coming from OSS developers. Beside a few
high profile server apps and dev tools with a longtime Unix heritage its mostly K[windows app] or Gno[windows app]. Granted MS itself isnt very innovative but 3rd party windopws developers really shine. In every groupd from individual shareware developers to small dev houses to megacorps you can see examples of applications that have nor rivals in the OSS world.
May I ask you why you decided to open source it? Unfortunetly despite of what Eric writes in "The Cathedral and the Baazar" Free Software developers are still most likely to recieve their reward in fame not $$. It may feel good but the Free Software community has so far failed to work out a way to consistently financially reward the actual developers (not hardware compnaies who bundle Linux with their servers!). Even if your project become popular all you'll get from users is bitching and moaning not meaningful bug reports. Just watch the burnout suffered by Fink, MPlayer and Router floppy authors.
I'v always prefered the look and feel of Gnome desktop and especially gnome apps. Sun choosing Gnome/GTK for its officila distro is a great win for all gnomew developers and users.
Anyone intelligent enough to install and maintain a Linux system knows that asking to pay before getting an actual court ruling is nothing but extortion.
Thereis nothing natural about this trend. Its based on an entirely fucked up econimic model where there is free movement of products and services without free movement of labour. Outsourcing only exists because a guy in Romania is stuck there and has no other choice but work for $300/month. Btw, I'm saying this as a Russian developer making most of my income thru offshore development. IMHO US should grant green card citizenship to any skilled developer so they could come and compete on qeual terms with US guys it will still drive the salaries down but not nearly as much. (simply because you cant sutvive on $300/m in the States)
Junis saYS everything is going well, he's really enjoying his new rights that americans brought, including vodka, awsome western music and treating women as sex objects (no more burkas!!) Please contact me if you want to help Hunis with purchase of a new computer so he can too join the linux revolution in Afganistan!
I can assure you do get it back:) The day I finally got my life back was the happiest of my life so far. If only I had listened to Al Bundy 4 years of my life wouldnt have been wasted...
There is a diffrewnce between being able to express yourself in a language and passing a formal test to gain basoic rights. I'm sure that many US born citizend would not pass a formal test like TOEFL wity a good score. I believe that everyone who was born in Estonia (why should children and grandchildren pay for the sins of their fathers?) should get citizenship. If I was born in the US and my parents only taufht me chinesse or hindi I'd still be considred a US citizen with full rights
As a russian citizens who has relatives leaving in estonia, Id like to comment that human rights only exist for estinians. Children anfd granfchildren of Russians who moved to the ex-soviet republic after 1940 are considred "occuopiers" and denied citizenship, work and often abolity to speak russian. Despite the fact that 40% (!) of estonian population are of russian descent , estonia is refusing to Russian and official status.
What could possibly be a reason for writing such an amzingly content-free article? Either the author is completely bored out of his mind or its what we call in Russia "black PR", could it be coming from Redhat that he seems to be whoring in the "article"? RedHat has apt now Debian is dead? WTF? Does Redhta also provide over 4K packages in stable testing and unstable forms? Or is it just a measely freshrpms depository that is only useful for upgrading standard packages that come with Redhat? Debian will contunue to be used by people who value Freedom and stability based release schedules over push the latest buggiest crap now preferebly couple with unresonblu upping the version number.
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Hey, I live in Siberia too, just wondering city do you live in?
I'd like them to channel their destructive energy towards Zaporozhets another Ukranian invention still roaming russian streets.
Damn Linus looks so fat and scary in this pic!!! He should have stayed in Finland!!!
So its Java vs .Net? Everything is so black-and-white to him. Hasnt he forgotten about another community, the one that MS considers its enemy no.1? The one (with the help of IBM) eating Suns launch?
Dude, your are chaneling your anger at the wrong people. All these poor Indian H1Bs and L1s are programmers like yourself just trying what they can to earn a living.
I'm by no means a Marxist but this is a classic devide and conquer strategy practiced by the ruling classes to keeps us fighting and bickering among ourselves while ripping the financial benifits of outsourcing/offshoring.
I'm not convinved that open source development model has any real advantages over the established one. Honestly, I dont see a lot of innovation and creaivity coming from OSS developers. Beside a few high profile server apps and dev tools with a longtime Unix heritage its mostly K[windows app] or Gno[windows app]. Granted MS itself isnt very innovative but 3rd party windopws developers really shine. In every groupd from individual shareware developers to small dev houses to megacorps you can see examples of applications that have nor rivals in the OSS world.
May I ask you why you decided to open source it?
Unfortunetly despite of what Eric writes in "The Cathedral and the Baazar" Free Software developers are still most likely to recieve their reward in fame not $$. It may feel good but the Free Software community has so far failed to work out a way to consistently financially reward the actual developers (not hardware compnaies who bundle Linux with their servers!). Even if your project become popular all you'll get from users is bitching and moaning not meaningful bug reports. Just watch the burnout suffered by Fink, MPlayer and Router floppy authors.
This dangerous terroristkid is just old enough for death penalty in the US. He's gonna get the CHAIR!
I'v always prefered the look and feel of Gnome desktop and especially gnome apps. Sun choosing Gnome/GTK for its officila distro is a great win for all gnomew developers and users.
Thje bastards deleted all the HURD code!
And why not? After all Cuba now chairs the UN human rights commission.
Anyone intelligent enough to install and maintain a Linux system knows that asking to pay before getting an actual court ruling is nothing but extortion.
Reminds me of the good old times when we had to buy a party approved list of boring books by high ranking communists in order to get a single classic.
Thereis nothing natural about this trend. Its based on an entirely fucked up econimic model where there is free movement of products and services without free movement of labour. Outsourcing only exists because a guy in Romania is stuck there and has no other choice but work for $300/month. Btw, I'm saying this as a Russian developer making most of my income thru offshore development. IMHO US should grant green card citizenship to any skilled developer so they could come and compete on qeual terms with US guys it will still drive the salaries down but not nearly as much. (simply because you cant sutvive on $300/m in the States)
Junis saYS everything is going well, he's really enjoying his new rights that americans brought, including vodka, awsome western music and treating women as sex objects (no more burkas!!) Please contact me if you want to help Hunis with purchase of a new computer so he can too join the linux revolution in Afganistan!
I can assure you do get it back :) The day I finally got my life back was the happiest of my life so far. If only I had listened to Al Bundy 4 years of my life wouldnt have been wasted...
There is a diffrewnce between being able to express yourself in a language and passing a formal test to gain basoic rights. I'm sure that many US born citizend would not pass a formal test like TOEFL wity a good score. I believe that everyone who was born in Estonia (why should children and grandchildren pay for the sins of their fathers?) should get citizenship. If I was born in the US and my parents only taufht me chinesse or hindi I'd still be considred a US citizen with full rights
As a russian citizens who has relatives leaving in estonia, Id like to comment that human rights only exist for estinians. Children anfd granfchildren of Russians who moved to the ex-soviet republic after 1940 are considred "occuopiers" and denied citizenship, work and often abolity to speak russian. Despite the fact that 40% (!) of estonian population are of russian descent , estonia is refusing to Russian and official status.
Sure, along with a 10 page NDA requring not to publish unfavorable benchamrk results.
30K is not unreasonable for a compnay that claims its IP is worth multiple billions $$.
My ppc popermac (7100) that I got in 95 sure didnt have memory protection and it only had cooperative multitasking.
Actually he wrote a 500 line article how Debian used to be great but now is dying because there is atp4rpm.
What could possibly be a reason for writing such an amzingly content-free article? Either the author is completely bored out of his mind or its what we call in Russia "black PR", could it be coming from Redhat that he seems to be whoring in the "article"? RedHat has apt now Debian is dead? WTF? Does Redhta also provide over 4K packages in stable testing and unstable forms? Or is it just a measely freshrpms depository that is only useful for upgrading standard packages that come with Redhat? Debian will contunue to be used by people who value Freedom and stability based release schedules over push the latest buggiest crap now preferebly couple with unresonblu upping the version number.
So is it also ok for me to decrypt and read your gpg encrypted mail passing thru my my mail server?
Maybe you should just give up and admit that you simply dont enjoy MMP? Nothing wrong with it.