True. The Zaurus has not done nearly so well in the US as it has in Japan... and I think the reason for that is fairly clear: the Japanese have the clamshell models. And really, everyone here wants the clamshell models too!
I know I'm not the first to say this, but it just makes you wonder how stupid Sharp is to pass up this marketing opportunity.
Good god. You have no idea how irritating PeopleSoft is to work with (unless, of course, you've worked with their software yourself). DePaul uses PeopleSoft for like... everything. And its frustrating to the point where I have considered writing my own version.
Really, it makes me realize why Stallman started the GNU project. God damn. I just WISH I could have access to the code, so I could patch it up. Do I feel my freedom restricted? Oh hell yes. Unfortunately, I am forbidden to make any improvements. Some parts would be so easy to fix, too!
Well spoken with your comments on Free Software.
It seems also that this article actually addresses the point of Free Software versus Open Source.... and yet there is quite a bit of silliness, as above the article there is a little tab, categorizing this article as about "Open Source."
So Xfree has grown out of it's usefulness and like any rudiments in evolutionary process, it must wither away.
And this, my friends, is what RMS meant when he coined the term Free (libre) Software. The freedom to move the software in different directions when the project leaders decide to make bad decisions. The freedom to fix things when things aren't going right.
I do not think I am being radical when I say this is what is happening here.
Remember this about US gas prices
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US gas prices may seem rediculously high... but they actually aren't that bad. In fact, I'd argue that they should be higher. The US government subsidizes oil.
Of course, this concept is almost completely unknown to most people, I find.
Interesting.... especially considering this article of past. Let me just pull off the summary from the article itself... it sums it up pretty well...
Microsoft lawyers have joined the company's campaign against open-source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft programming tools.
So... uh... yeah. What the heck?
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It may be interesting for you to note that IBM prides itself on being the head of the intellectual property world.
Yes, it's easy to get moderator points up the wazoo when you post first:p Not that I've never done a first post myself. I just don't think this is that informative. Stallman isn't complaining about the usage of keycards to open doors... he's complaining about the use of RFID tags in the keycard, and a system that deliberately tracks where a person is going and when.
Why does it aleays happen to the wonderful things???? This is the best reason for going to LAN parties!!!
Uhm..... I kind of go to LAN parties so I can play games.... not so I can sit next to someone whacking off... or fingering him/herself....
Tell ya what. If I ever meet you at a LAN party, let me know, so I can sit very far away from you. And move my precious computer out of any "blast radius." Thanks.
If you ARE attempting to get slashdotted, and you DO, you won't be getting many gains to roll around in.... unless you like rolling on bills, of the non-dollar kind.
Actually, asking for an OGG Vorbis stream isn't too far out there.... my favorite classical music station, WCPE, has a wonderful OGG Vorbis stream. If NPR had an OGG Vorbis stream I'd listen to it all the time, I'd be so happy....
What say we bring up a petition for an OGG Vorbis stream from NPR? I'll gladly sign! I'll get all my friends to sign!
To be fair, I already put up another post similar to this, but you ought to note that Microsoft has used BSD software in its own products since (at least) Windows NT.
Microsoft has taken its stance on the GPL before. I direct you to this article. Here MS is stating that it doesn't think open source software is "cancerous" or dangerous, but that GPL'd software is.
To be fair, there is some truth to what they say about the GPL forcing everyone to release the source code to their product. Of course, that is exactly why I use it on my own software.
Alright, I'm going to forward you to this article. Let me pull a few quotes:
And on the other side you had Microsoft Vice President Craig Mundie straining credulity by insisting that the company's execs really didn't mean it when they said they hated open source.
"It has been reported that Microsoft doesn't like open source," he said at the start of his speech. "But let me be clear: Microsoft has no beef with open source."
What about the time that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open-source software a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," or the time that Jim Allchin, Microsoft's VP for Windows, suggested that open-source software was un-American?
Mundie said those comments were all a big mistake, and furthermore taken out of context by the media. He elaborated on the point in a media Q&A session after the debate: "I know Steve (Ballmer)," Mundie said. "That was an unfortunate choice of words. I don't think he'd use them today."
Ballmer is a very busy man, Mundie added, and sometimes he gives "terse" responses because he's pressed for time. "When he talked about the cancer, he was trying to express the company's concern about the GPL."
Thought you'd like to "hear a few words from the horse's mouth", as the phrase goes. Also note that Microsoft itself uses open source software in Windows... BSD code specifically, for various networking purposes (and I don't know what others).
You are partly right, but you are largely wrong. What you say about "Joe Sixpack" thinking that GNU/Linux is way too difficult is true, and the reason you give for it is true. When my friends come in and see me hacking away at three different terminals, closing processes by running "ps -A" and "kill -9", of course it looks really scary. Then I start to compile packages from scratch, and they run away. Of course, I didn't start out that way in GNU/Linux. I started out with a friendly, ready made setup of Mandrake, which was much easier to use. But yes, my friends often have a hard time believing that. But this "smile image" you suggest? Not going to happen. I am sorry, but we are not willing to give up our freedoms for "marketing" of a project. We do this because we love it, and because we love the freedom within it. Getting rid of tux would be foolishness. You want to turn this into a corporate marketing campaign, and Tux seems outside of the corporate world. You are right, he is. But that is much of the appeal of Linux, and really is Linux's "smile image", if it ever had one. Example, my little sister fell in love with Linux because of Tux. You want to keep all the success of Linux... but the problem is that your approach will remove everything that made Linux successful.
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True. The Zaurus has not done nearly so well in the US as it has in Japan... and I think the reason for that is fairly clear: the Japanese have the clamshell models. And really, everyone here wants the clamshell models too!
I know I'm not the first to say this, but it just makes you wonder how stupid Sharp is to pass up this marketing opportunity.
Good god. You have no idea how irritating PeopleSoft is to work with (unless, of course, you've worked with their software yourself). DePaul uses PeopleSoft for like... everything. And its frustrating to the point where I have considered writing my own version.
Really, it makes me realize why Stallman started the GNU project. God damn. I just WISH I could have access to the code, so I could patch it up. Do I feel my freedom restricted? Oh hell yes. Unfortunately, I am forbidden to make any improvements. Some parts would be so easy to fix, too!
Well spoken with your comments on Free Software.
It seems also that this article actually addresses the point of Free Software versus Open Source.... and yet there is quite a bit of silliness, as above the article there is a little tab, categorizing this article as about "Open Source."
I do not think I am being radical when I say this is what is happening here.
As informative :)
US gas prices may seem rediculously high... but they actually aren't that bad. In fact, I'd argue that they should be higher. The US government subsidizes oil.
Of course, this concept is almost completely unknown to most people, I find.
It may be interesting for you to note that IBM prides itself on being the head of the intellectual property world.
You obviously don't use gentoo :)
yes, I am biased.
A lot of RMS' past is based in MIT... especially the MIT AI hacker lab. I suggest you read "Free as in Freedom"... it is an interesting book.
Yes, it's easy to get moderator points up the wazoo when you post first :p Not that I've never done a first post myself. I just don't think this is that informative. Stallman isn't complaining about the usage of keycards to open doors... he's complaining about the use of RFID tags in the keycard, and a system that deliberately tracks where a person is going and when.
Don't be fooled! The nazis are behind this!
I disagree.
Is it just me, or is gforge.org already slashdotted? gforge might be more secure, but what about stability?
His post says that he is in the hospital. What happened to him?
No wonder that the majority has chosen to speak Mandarin.
Ah, Mandarin, the language of oranges.Now here's proof it runs great on dead animals too!
Tell ya what. If I ever meet you at a LAN party, let me know, so I can sit very far away from you. And move my precious computer out of any "blast radius." Thanks.
If you ARE attempting to get slashdotted, and you DO, you won't be getting many gains to roll around in.... unless you like rolling on bills, of the non-dollar kind.
I don't mind Real as a company or as a format... I just think that OGG Vorbis is so much better.
Actually, asking for an OGG Vorbis stream isn't too far out there.... my favorite classical music station, WCPE, has a wonderful OGG Vorbis stream. If NPR had an OGG Vorbis stream I'd listen to it all the time, I'd be so happy....
What say we bring up a petition for an OGG Vorbis stream from NPR? I'll gladly sign! I'll get all my friends to sign!
To be fair, I already put up another post similar to this, but you ought to note that Microsoft has used BSD software in its own products since (at least) Windows NT.
Microsoft has taken its stance on the GPL before. I direct you to this article. Here MS is stating that it doesn't think open source software is "cancerous" or dangerous, but that GPL'd software is.
To be fair, there is some truth to what they say about the GPL forcing everyone to release the source code to their product. Of course, that is exactly why I use it on my own software.
You are partly right, but you are largely wrong.
What you say about "Joe Sixpack" thinking that GNU/Linux is way too difficult is true, and the reason you give for it is true. When my friends come in and see me hacking away at three different terminals, closing processes by running "ps -A" and "kill -9", of course it looks really scary. Then I start to compile packages from scratch, and they run away.
Of course, I didn't start out that way in GNU/Linux. I started out with a friendly, ready made setup of Mandrake, which was much easier to use. But yes, my friends often have a hard time believing that.
But this "smile image" you suggest? Not going to happen. I am sorry, but we are not willing to give up our freedoms for "marketing" of a project. We do this because we love it, and because we love the freedom within it.
Getting rid of tux would be foolishness. You want to turn this into a corporate marketing campaign, and Tux seems outside of the corporate world. You are right, he is. But that is much of the appeal of Linux, and really is Linux's "smile image", if it ever had one. Example, my little sister fell in love with Linux because of Tux.
You want to keep all the success of Linux... but the problem is that your approach will remove everything that made Linux successful.