Ya, but the biggest trouble would in the licensing of the planet.
The Open Earth Initiative (OEI) would write an open letter stating their belief in the new Living Earth Public License (LEPL).
The Free Space Foundation (FSF) will challenge the OEI's position while claiming that they're not against some company from selling space ships for the great exodus, but that it is necessary for all people to have free access to shuttles. The bar service and food service would cost though.
"Free Shuttle, not Free Beer" they're heard to say.
They also insist that since the actual shuttles are licensed under the GPL as derived works (from a GNU editor in the 20th century - see: emacs), that the destination planet be called GNU/World.
There are currently 15 licenses in the making, and no real work has commenced outside of angry letters and a couple small border skirmishes. The Asteroid is now easily visible in the day sky in the northern hemisphere.
The latest trajectory reports place the impact in the Western United States near Seattle Washington.
We're not anti-social to any large degree that I can see. I can only speak from my own experiences, and that is that the vast majority of the hackers I work with, live with, etc are more Selectively Social than your average human. We're pickier. We may choose to socialize in different ways, or to resent stupidity when it's put in front of us, or we might prefer electronic communication to human contact. It's refreshing to be able to filter based on need - keeping people you don't need to deal with out. Be it IRC, email, etc etc. However when that same person phones to ask a question they spend 10 minutes talking about the weather, wasting your time to ask a simple question. So when they get hung up on the next time they tend to take it personally. Not very political, perhaps, but not necessarily anti-social.
I sometimes find it troubling that I ghose to take a job I was offered instead of carrying on in school.
But mostly on account of the fact that it's more difficult for a non-grad to obtain working visas, etc.
I spent 3 years studying art and design - covered in charcoal or clay, learning about too many things to count... Chemistry that confused my science major pals, biology that made them wonder, and physics where they couldn't understand the need of it.
More precisely I learned how to learn.
Learning in and of itself is an artform that is all too rarely practiced by a vast majority of "diplomma seekers" who are there simply paying their dues.
School is a fabulous tool, so long as you view it as such. It may not teach you how to code, but look at all it CAN teach you if you let it.
That portion you're referring to does give this impression, but it appears bad editting or poor historical knowledge is more likely to blame.
The author mentions that Unix was once open, but then proprietary versions were made by Sun and HP. It doesn't say that this was at any particlar time though so there could be some confusion.
Linus also didn't plan on supporting non PC hardware or non x86 chip sets.
There's nothing stopping something like this being a compile option or a patch set, etc. Though I don't know anyone who's run into this 'limitation' yet either.
All they've done is shuffled people between projects, appointed some new token VPs. Likely the most noticable effect will be a delay in Windows 2000 since now all the programmers that WERE doing bug fixing on it are now in the department designing "Office Bob 2000."
Will this mean that any of the "groups" won't have privileged access to code, etc? No. They're still MS, and that won't change.
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I'm looking in/bin right now, and yes, technically the programs I use daily are smallish and should be easy to recreate - in Perl even, as one effort is doing.
The fact that they're smallish and easy programs to write individually doesn't invalidate them.... cat, gawk, cp, bash, chmod, dd, df, mail, gunzip, login, grep, etc.... These are programs we'd mostly be lost without (or at least suitable replacements for....)
Actually, they're only charged 20 years from now IF the DIVX system is still available to authorize the viewing.... it's a bizarre little system, and it's all useless if they don't get it to catch on.
Even if you purchase the full release (for ~$20 extra?) for unlimited views, I believe it still has to authenticate off it's central server.
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Ya, cordless. Sure. That cord's often the only thing that keeps things on my desk from being lost forever.
The Open Earth Initiative (OEI) would write an open letter stating their belief in the new Living Earth Public License (LEPL).
The Free Space Foundation (FSF) will challenge the OEI's position while claiming that they're not against some company from selling space ships for the great exodus, but that it is necessary for all people to have free access to shuttles. The bar service and food service would cost though.
"Free Shuttle, not Free Beer" they're heard to say.
They also insist that since the actual shuttles are licensed under the GPL as derived works (from a GNU editor in the 20th century - see: emacs), that the destination planet be called GNU/World.
There are currently 15 licenses in the making, and no real work has commenced outside of angry letters and a couple small border skirmishes. The Asteroid is now easily visible in the day sky in the northern hemisphere.
The latest trajectory reports place the impact in the Western United States near Seattle Washington.
We're not anti-social to any large degree that I can see. I can only speak from my own experiences, and that is that the vast majority of the hackers I work with, live with, etc are more Selectively Social than your average human. We're pickier. We may choose to socialize in different ways, or to resent stupidity when it's put in front of us, or we might prefer electronic communication to human contact. It's refreshing to be able to filter based on need - keeping people you don't need to deal with out. Be it IRC, email, etc etc. However when that same person phones to ask a question they spend 10 minutes talking about the weather, wasting your time to ask a simple question. So when they get hung up on the next time they tend to take it personally. Not very political, perhaps, but not necessarily anti-social.
I sometimes find it troubling that I ghose to take a job I was offered instead of carrying on in school.
But mostly on account of the fact that it's more difficult for a non-grad to obtain working visas, etc.
I spent 3 years studying art and design - covered in charcoal or clay, learning about too many things to count... Chemistry that confused my science major pals, biology that made them wonder, and physics where they couldn't understand the need of it.
More precisely I learned how to learn.
Learning in and of itself is an artform that is all too rarely practiced by a vast majority of "diplomma seekers" who are there simply paying their dues.
School is a fabulous tool, so long as you view it as such. It may not teach you how to code, but look at all it CAN teach you if you let it.
You forgot:
6) Every useless consumer product in the world would have xlock 'plugins' instead of Windows screensavers
7) Perl Quick reference cards on cereal boxes
8) Cartoon series about a group of animals thatsolve crimes and share the source
9) No one make, let alone attend movies like Hackers except perhaps as an openning feature to The Rocky Horror Picture show.
10) WebTV? What's that?
11) MSN would refer only to 'Minnesota Sports Network'
12) Ralph Nader would be testing cars, etc
13) Future Shop / CompUSA / Radio Shack / etc. employees would have to officially not know linux in addition to officially not knowing Windows.
14) And if Linux were created by the media, it'd likely suck.
That portion you're referring to does give this impression, but it appears bad editting or poor historical knowledge is more likely to blame.
The author mentions that Unix was once open, but then proprietary versions were made by Sun and HP. It doesn't say that this was at any particlar time though so there could be some confusion.
LORD has been implemented on the web actually, and it's not half bad. Nice for the nostalgia.
http://www.czone.com
Linus also didn't plan on supporting non PC hardware or non x86 chip sets.
There's nothing stopping something like this being a compile option or a patch set, etc. Though I don't know anyone who's run into this 'limitation' yet either.
Well, there is a COBOL IDE for Pilots:
http://members.aol.com/yoricksys/
And a "software only cellular modem" announcement on www.palmgear.com. A productive April 1 all 'round.
The only one I think isn't a joke so far is the Userfriendly / Bedope / segfault thing.
Ya... something along the lines of "RMS wins the NY State lottery. Rethinks whole philosophy regarding free beer...."
All they've done is shuffled people between projects, appointed some new token VPs. Likely the most noticable effect will be a delay in Windows 2000 since now all the programmers that WERE doing bug fixing on it are now in the department designing "Office Bob 2000."
Will this mean that any of the "groups" won't have privileged access to code, etc? No. They're still MS, and that won't change.
I'm looking in /bin right now, and yes, technically the programs I use daily are smallish and should be easy to recreate - in Perl even, as one effort is doing.
The fact that they're smallish and easy programs to write individually doesn't invalidate them.... cat, gawk, cp, bash, chmod, dd, df, mail, gunzip, login, grep, etc.... These are programs we'd mostly be lost without (or at least suitable replacements for....)
Complete with the continuity errors you'd expect of Hollywood....
Actually, they're only charged 20 years from now IF the DIVX system is still available to authorize the viewing.... it's a bizarre little system, and it's all useless if they don't get it to catch on.
Even if you purchase the full release (for ~$20 extra?) for unlimited views, I believe it still has to authenticate off it's central server.