Please, read the website and expand your horizons just a little. Calling SMU a "Christian Church" is like saying "Oh, those nice boys who play football for Notre Dame must be such good Catholics..."
I know that we are all about law-and-order in this country now, ( except for businesspeople ) but does 10 years of prison under the Electronic Espionage Act sound like a resonably penalty for stealing cable television?
ok, I'm gonna drop this soon. But before I do, I'll leave a quote from "Freedom as in Free," a book about rms and the GNU stuff.
"More compilation album than operating system, it was comprised of a hacker medley of greatest hits: everything from GCC, GDB, and glibc (the GNU Project's newly developed C Library) to X (a Unix-based graphic user interface developed by MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science) to BSD-developed tools such as BIND (the Berkeley Internet Naming Daemon, which lets users substitute easy-to-remember Internet domain names for numeric IP addresses) and TCP/IP. The arch's capstone, of course, was the Linux kernel-itself a bored-out, super-charged version of Minix. Rather than building their operating system from scratch, Torvalds and his rapidly expanding Linux development team had followed the old Picasso adage, "good artists borrow; great artists steal." Or as Torvalds himself would later translate it when describing the secret of his success: "I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to take credit for things other people actually do."
http://www.faifzilla.org/ch10.html
Does anyone seriously believe that without the Free Software Foundation's work on the GNU project, we would have Linux in anything even REMOTELY close to the form it exists today?
The majority isn't going to care? That's also completely assinine. How much "real world" press coverage has Linux received? No GNU project == no gcc == no linux. Please attempt to be somewhat aware of reality.
"They can't give their software away."
Sure... unless you count Emacs, gcc, gdb, gmake, bash, etc, etc, etc. Please, in your quest to show everyone what a hardcore dude you are, try not to be a complete moron. Sure, the GNU people are guilty of certain excesses, and pompously announcing that they aren't going to continue developing Darwin on the ppc platform is one of them. But anyone who uses Linux should recognize that there would be *no* Linux without the efforts of gnu.org.
wow, you sure smacked me down. Yes, the post was pasted from their website. No, I don't get any rewards from getting people to use their product. Yes, you need to get a life.
NetReg is an automated system that requires an unknown DHCP client to register their hardware before gaining full network access. Through a simple web interface, the client is prompted for their user identification. Powerful scripts then retrieve the client's network fingerprint and store it along with the user's information in a database. The database provides administrators with real-time information for troubleshooting and auditing their networks. The entire system was developed utilizing unmodified, open-source servers and in-house developed CGI programs.
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Please, read the website and expand your horizons just a little. Calling SMU a "Christian Church" is like saying "Oh, those nice boys who play football for Notre Dame must be such good Catholics..."
I know that we are all about law-and-order in this country now, ( except for businesspeople ) but does 10 years of prison under the Electronic Espionage Act sound like a resonably penalty for stealing cable television?
I'm planning to read slashdot and hopefully see my karma get better and better until I am carried into the heavens on a chariot drawn by penguins.
ok, I'm gonna drop this soon. But before I do, I'll leave a quote from "Freedom as in Free," a book about rms and the GNU stuff.
"More compilation album than operating system, it was comprised of a hacker medley of greatest hits: everything from GCC, GDB, and glibc (the GNU Project's newly developed C Library) to X (a Unix-based graphic user interface developed by MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science) to BSD-developed tools such as BIND (the Berkeley Internet Naming Daemon, which lets users substitute easy-to-remember Internet domain names for numeric IP addresses) and TCP/IP. The arch's capstone, of course, was the Linux kernel-itself a bored-out, super-charged version of Minix. Rather than building their operating system from scratch, Torvalds and his rapidly expanding Linux development team had followed the old Picasso adage, "good artists borrow; great artists steal." Or as Torvalds himself would later translate it when describing the secret of his success: "I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to take credit for things other people actually do."
http://www.faifzilla.org/ch10.html
Does anyone seriously believe that without the Free Software Foundation's work on the GNU project, we would have Linux in anything even REMOTELY close to the form it exists today?
The majority isn't going to care? That's also completely assinine. How much "real world" press coverage has Linux received? No GNU project == no gcc == no linux. Please attempt to be somewhat aware of reality.
"They can't give their software away." Sure... unless you count Emacs, gcc, gdb, gmake, bash, etc, etc, etc. Please, in your quest to show everyone what a hardcore dude you are, try not to be a complete moron. Sure, the GNU people are guilty of certain excesses, and pompously announcing that they aren't going to continue developing Darwin on the ppc platform is one of them. But anyone who uses Linux should recognize that there would be *no* Linux without the efforts of gnu.org.
wow, you sure smacked me down. Yes, the post was pasted from their website. No, I don't get any rewards from getting people to use their product. Yes, you need to get a life.
NetReg is an automated system that requires an unknown DHCP client to register their hardware before gaining full network access. Through a simple web interface, the client is prompted for their user identification. Powerful scripts then retrieve the client's network fingerprint and store it along with the user's information in a database. The database provides administrators with real-time information for troubleshooting and auditing their networks. The entire system was developed utilizing unmodified, open-source servers and in-house developed CGI programs.
http://www.netreg.org