That's exactly the point. If you add enough restrictions to the license, it's going to start resembling MS EULA, although I think that "Not to be used for illegal activites" is pretty much implied.
Samba team decided not to prevent SCO from using Samba in their crapware because freedom means even letting asshole like SCO be allowed to use their software.
It's kinda hard to not to be lumped if you work in a small organization like myself. I do everything above except for the sysprogs stuff. Heck, they run to me if the copier breaks down.
And do you pay for your copy of Mozilla/Firefox, too? And how does downloading OpenOffice for free got to do with not paying for support?
Those people who contribute to FOSS does it as a hobby, paid by their employer (i.e. IBM, Novell, Red Hat, etc), by donation, or by offering commerical equivalents (i.e. Star Office, MySQL, Sendmail). If you go out and buy boxed version of a Linux distro, you are not paying for Linux, but rather for the packaging, suppport, and the addons.
Besides, you are more than welcome to send donations to those FOSS organizations or buy the commerical versions of their FOSS products.
I doubt that any serious businesses would run FC2 since it's too bleeding edge. Heck, even I'm willing admin that XP is more stable than FC2. I think that you should give Linux another try by trying another distro.
That's like saying that everone should be given the freedom of speech only if they say things thing that does not offend anyone. Besides, people don't seem to mind civilian use of technologies that were initally created for the military use.
Actually, this statement does have a sliver of truth as there's no good open source alternative to Access, which also happens to be the most expensive part of MS Office.
Don't you know? The Programmer Day is on February 30th. That's the day where you can get laid by just walking up to a babe and saying "I'm a programmer!"
And do you suppose most of the anti-outsurcing geeks drive American made cars (or at lease cars mostly built in the plant located in US) or American made clothing?
For example, if everyone stopped buying Dell until Dell makes all of its computers in the US, Dell WILL start making its computers or go out of business. The problem is that it will drive Dell's prices up and consumers will start buying cheaper foreign made computers.
Because it may offend others who'll sue instead. The point I'm trying to make isn't against crossdress, but rather how much of lawsuit happy many Americans became. Can't employers dictate even a simple dresscode without the fear of getting sued?
Most cross dressers I've seen have better taste in clothes than most geeks I've known, anyhow...
This is another classic case of slashdotters flip floping on their values. Most slashdotters want MS to crash and burn, yet now they are arguing that MS shoudn't outsource because it's bad for it.
Then by your argument, the middle-class should have disapeared in the 80's. Really, middle-class is dying statement is same as Apple is dying; people have said it for years but it somehow never happens.
Getting economic tip from you is like getting a progamming tip from an economists.
Believe it or now, majority of millionaires in US are first generation millionaires. The reason being is that the children of millionaires tend to be spoiled and are more likely to blow their money away.
How about have the government provide a guaranteed income property, why don't you stop pissing away your money on stupid crap and use the money saved to buy your income property? Do you really want to government to chose your investment for you since they did such a great job with Social Security?
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I haven't tried Gentoo so I can't comment on it, but I suggested Slackware since it's supposed to be the most UNIX like Linux.
I tried that but I got the "DON'T_LISTEN_TO_TROLLS" error.
Did you consider switching to Slackware from Red Hat?
That's exactly the point. If you add enough restrictions to the license, it's going to start resembling MS EULA, although I think that "Not to be used for illegal activites" is pretty much implied.
Samba team decided not to prevent SCO from using Samba in their crapware because freedom means even letting asshole like SCO be allowed to use their software.
It's kinda hard to not to be lumped if you work in a small organization like myself. I do everything above except for the sysprogs stuff. Heck, they run to me if the copier breaks down.
And do you pay for your copy of Mozilla/Firefox, too? And how does downloading OpenOffice for free got to do with not paying for support?
Those people who contribute to FOSS does it as a hobby, paid by their employer (i.e. IBM, Novell, Red Hat, etc), by donation, or by offering commerical equivalents (i.e. Star Office, MySQL, Sendmail). If you go out and buy boxed version of a Linux distro, you are not paying for Linux, but rather for the packaging, suppport, and the addons.
Besides, you are more than welcome to send donations to those FOSS organizations or buy the commerical versions of their FOSS products.
I doubt that any serious businesses would run FC2 since it's too bleeding edge. Heck, even I'm willing admin that XP is more stable than FC2. I think that you should give Linux another try by trying another distro.
That's like saying that everone should be given the freedom of speech only if they say things thing that does not offend anyone. Besides, people don't seem to mind civilian use of technologies that were initally created for the military use.
Actually, this statement does have a sliver of truth as there's no good open source alternative to Access, which also happens to be the most expensive part of MS Office.
Don't tell me that you paid for your copy of OpenOffice. If so, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, too!
Systems Adminirator is a broad term that also covers Network Admins. According to the article, that term covers:
Computer Administrators
Network Administrators
Internet Administrators (webmaster)
Telephone (PBX) Administrators
Voice-Mail Administrators
Database Administrators (DBA)
Email System Administrators
Mainframe Systems Programmers ("sysprogs")
Don't you know? The Programmer Day is on February 30th. That's the day where you can get laid by just walking up to a babe and saying "I'm a programmer!"
And use root for log in and I even went through the trouble of setting our root password to match the root password of your workstation.
Sure you can! Just telnet/ssh into our server at 127.43.143.21.
Can you use an external DNS server or did he block that, too?
Reply: Is his daughter hot?
I'll bet that those ad aware companies will use it to have their pop-ups follow your eyes.
I hope their search results don't take as long as their product release cycle.
I agree. If you are interning at a company that you want to work for, would you post the good things about the "big boss" or the bad things?
And do you suppose most of the anti-outsurcing geeks drive American made cars (or at lease cars mostly built in the plant located in US) or American made clothing?
For example, if everyone stopped buying Dell until Dell makes all of its computers in the US, Dell WILL start making its computers or go out of business. The problem is that it will drive Dell's prices up and consumers will start buying cheaper foreign made computers.
Because it may offend others who'll sue instead. The point I'm trying to make isn't against crossdress, but rather how much of lawsuit happy many Americans became. Can't employers dictate even a simple dresscode without the fear of getting sued?
Most cross dressers I've seen have better taste in clothes than most geeks I've known, anyhow...
Can't argue with that!
Hello, I am the lawyer for O'Reilly Publishing.
We are suing you for stealing our book and posting the entire contents on the web.
This is another classic case of slashdotters flip floping on their values. Most slashdotters want MS to crash and burn, yet now they are arguing that MS shoudn't outsource because it's bad for it.
Then by your argument, the middle-class should have disapeared in the 80's. Really, middle-class is dying statement is same as Apple is dying; people have said it for years but it somehow never happens.
Getting economic tip from you is like getting a progamming tip from an economists.
Believe it or now, majority of millionaires in US are first generation millionaires. The reason being is that the children of millionaires tend to be spoiled and are more likely to blow their money away.
How about have the government provide a guaranteed income property, why don't you stop pissing away your money on stupid crap and use the money saved to buy your income property? Do you really want to government to chose your investment for you since they did such a great job with Social Security?