while it's true there are lots of people taking BSD code and not contributing anything back,chances are they aren't doing anything you'd want anyway.
BSD is obviously worthy, look at apache and all the *bsd os's. all highly successful
what ever his goals are it doesn't matter. the second bin liaden pokes his head up it'll get blown off 10 times over, so any plans he had are ruined. the best they can hope for is a never ending gorilla war, but most likely they will end up inciting extreme hatred of thier race
iuse a freebsd desktop, it's superior to windows in every way.
there is one single reason people need windows - office.
once office has open xml formatted documents, it's domination will end.
people have the right to choose the products they buy based on any critiria they want. other wise YOUR fucking up the system.
the only way to pressure companies is with our spending dollar. are you suggesting just because a company makes a great product it should be allowed to do anything it wants?
as a side note, companies that do treat their employee's poorly always end up failing anyway, due to them not being able to keep any decent or well trained staff.
you don't see google crying about ads being blocked do you.
thats because it's ads are often useful, and the only ones i've EVER clicked on. they also do not popup over, attempt to track me all over the web OR flash or try to mislead people into click on them.
firefox's popup blockers only means the END of fuck wits like double click.
hah, if you raise your children properly you won't ever have to worry about them wanting to go into a channel called "13 year old girls for much older men"
if any children went in there, it does not reflect on yahoo one single bit, but on the parents of those children.
however, yahoo chat rooms were always just a waste of bandwidth anyway, i'm not sad to see them go.
you couldn't be more wrong.
just subscribe to the freebsd-questions list and you will see 100's oh helpful answers to questions ever day from install problems to ports problems.
by contrast many times i have asked questions on various linux channels and i was given the retort "we don't spoon feed".
i have also found freebsd's install to be far suprior to any linux distro, it has a simple yet freindly ncurses menu system.
it's handbook is also a major help, being kept well up to date and with relivant accurate information.
i found openbsd to be the hardest of the 3 bsd's to use and install, and it's hardware support IS limited. i will also say that the user community is no where near as helpful, and often very painful. but on the whole it is still a worthy OS with many merits.
but give freebsd another go i doubt it will disapoint
land of the free indeed.
such idea's come from idiot pencil pushers with no technical savy.
if i was to engage in an activity which i didn't want to be monitored, i'd encrypt the traffic and i sure as hell wouldn't be using my home internet account to do it.
a law like this is going to be used to spy on it' citizens and deny them liberty, not to catch criminals.
it's more complex then it seems, and is one of the reasons the internet is turning traditional law upside down and judges are contantly getting it wrong, as well as law makers.
what about isp's proxies, if it's cached on their hd are they responsible, by your reasoning their are just by the fact it's on a hd in their possesion.
and what about all the IE exploits, popups and url highjacking that goes on, people can't be held accountable when their webbrowsers get highjacked.
anything which has clearly been cached should not be considered being in possesion. it's like saying because a crack addict spilt some crack on you bathroom floor, your in possesion of it. it's absurd.
however, i think judges should be given some leverage on these things of cases. if someone has a cache FULL of kiddie porn, there is no arguement that they were acivitly viewing the stuff. i think it shouldn't be considered a crime in itself, but it should be considered valid evidence.
win2k is plenty good enough for people who need that kind of thing.
there is certainly no reason to move to 2003, unless forced by ms using pricing. which just illustrates the trap of closed source systems.
i run win2k systems and freebsd systems, i certainly will not be planning to move to anything past win2k, i am just biding my time till i can move those systems to freebsd.
what do you think i do for a living? i write bloody software.
i'm well aware of the mentality that keeps spec's secret.
what it boils down to, is managment aren't bright enough to grasp that any other company can reproduce their product regardless.
and i can't taste the difference between most of the cola's, so its a poor example.
i argee on the video cards, it's less then 1% of the market for them and maybe not worth it.
however these arguments that IP is valuable. thats just secret sauce bullshit. what do they honestly think they are so super clever that no one else has or can think up the same designs. it's just so bogus. it's the same kind of nonsense that had the USA restricting encryption software being exported. they thought they were the only ones clever enough to develope such things.
"More than likely, the lost profits from not reaching the 10 percent of the market willing to pay only for devices with public documentation are less than the lost profits from incurring the expense of cleaning up internal documents."
total nonsense. just look at netcraft stats alone, look at howmany webservers are running *bsd and linux. are you saying that is an insignificant number?
uni is a total waste of bloody money. the quality of graduates is far below par, they certainly aren't turning out anything useful on a whole.
your much better off doing a trade
encryption
crypt those private emails, if they want to know whats in it, say none of your god damn business.
corperations have this idea that they are the only ones entitled to rights and that signing a piece of paper is the most meaningful thing in the word.
because these song have proven popular and made these companys billions, they feel the need to have the law changed just for them, so they can make a few billion more?
oh boo fucking hoo for them.
this will lead to someone patenting something totally obvious and bring main stream attention to this business of software patents, and hopfully end it.
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while it's true there are lots of people taking BSD code and not contributing anything back,chances are they aren't doing anything you'd want anyway. BSD is obviously worthy, look at apache and all the *bsd os's. all highly successful
what ever his goals are it doesn't matter. the second bin liaden pokes his head up it'll get blown off 10 times over, so any plans he had are ruined. the best they can hope for is a never ending gorilla war, but most likely they will end up inciting extreme hatred of thier race
iuse a freebsd desktop, it's superior to windows in every way. there is one single reason people need windows - office. once office has open xml formatted documents, it's domination will end.
people have the right to choose the products they buy based on any critiria they want. other wise YOUR fucking up the system. the only way to pressure companies is with our spending dollar. are you suggesting just because a company makes a great product it should be allowed to do anything it wants? as a side note, companies that do treat their employee's poorly always end up failing anyway, due to them not being able to keep any decent or well trained staff.
:O then i must be dreaming or in a martix style world because according to you my bsd skills didn't help me get this job!
you don't see google crying about ads being blocked do you. thats because it's ads are often useful, and the only ones i've EVER clicked on. they also do not popup over, attempt to track me all over the web OR flash or try to mislead people into click on them. firefox's popup blockers only means the END of fuck wits like double click.
1.buy a company which has a large linux business base 2.drop it's linux products. 3.profit? fyi they did this not long ago to ravantivirus
sounds like a nice made up tale just to prove your own bias
hah, if you raise your children properly you won't ever have to worry about them wanting to go into a channel called "13 year old girls for much older men" if any children went in there, it does not reflect on yahoo one single bit, but on the parents of those children. however, yahoo chat rooms were always just a waste of bandwidth anyway, i'm not sad to see them go.
you couldn't be more wrong. just subscribe to the freebsd-questions list and you will see 100's oh helpful answers to questions ever day from install problems to ports problems. by contrast many times i have asked questions on various linux channels and i was given the retort "we don't spoon feed". i have also found freebsd's install to be far suprior to any linux distro, it has a simple yet freindly ncurses menu system. it's handbook is also a major help, being kept well up to date and with relivant accurate information. i found openbsd to be the hardest of the 3 bsd's to use and install, and it's hardware support IS limited. i will also say that the user community is no where near as helpful, and often very painful. but on the whole it is still a worthy OS with many merits. but give freebsd another go i doubt it will disapoint
land of the free indeed. such idea's come from idiot pencil pushers with no technical savy. if i was to engage in an activity which i didn't want to be monitored, i'd encrypt the traffic and i sure as hell wouldn't be using my home internet account to do it. a law like this is going to be used to spy on it' citizens and deny them liberty, not to catch criminals.
it's more complex then it seems, and is one of the reasons the internet is turning traditional law upside down and judges are contantly getting it wrong, as well as law makers. what about isp's proxies, if it's cached on their hd are they responsible, by your reasoning their are just by the fact it's on a hd in their possesion. and what about all the IE exploits, popups and url highjacking that goes on, people can't be held accountable when their webbrowsers get highjacked. anything which has clearly been cached should not be considered being in possesion. it's like saying because a crack addict spilt some crack on you bathroom floor, your in possesion of it. it's absurd. however, i think judges should be given some leverage on these things of cases. if someone has a cache FULL of kiddie porn, there is no arguement that they were acivitly viewing the stuff. i think it shouldn't be considered a crime in itself, but it should be considered valid evidence.
win2k is plenty good enough for people who need that kind of thing. there is certainly no reason to move to 2003, unless forced by ms using pricing. which just illustrates the trap of closed source systems. i run win2k systems and freebsd systems, i certainly will not be planning to move to anything past win2k, i am just biding my time till i can move those systems to freebsd.
what do you think i do for a living? i write bloody software. i'm well aware of the mentality that keeps spec's secret. what it boils down to, is managment aren't bright enough to grasp that any other company can reproduce their product regardless. and i can't taste the difference between most of the cola's, so its a poor example.
i argee on the video cards, it's less then 1% of the market for them and maybe not worth it. however these arguments that IP is valuable. thats just secret sauce bullshit. what do they honestly think they are so super clever that no one else has or can think up the same designs. it's just so bogus. it's the same kind of nonsense that had the USA restricting encryption software being exported. they thought they were the only ones clever enough to develope such things.
"More than likely, the lost profits from not reaching the 10 percent of the market willing to pay only for devices with public documentation are less than the lost profits from incurring the expense of cleaning up internal documents." total nonsense. just look at netcraft stats alone, look at howmany webservers are running *bsd and linux. are you saying that is an insignificant number?
uni is a total waste of bloody money. the quality of graduates is far below par, they certainly aren't turning out anything useful on a whole. your much better off doing a trade
they are a fucking multi BILLION DOLLAR company, dont' they DARE try and cry about being short on man hours.
why the fuck do you have an ad for intel in your sig
encryption crypt those private emails, if they want to know whats in it, say none of your god damn business. corperations have this idea that they are the only ones entitled to rights and that signing a piece of paper is the most meaningful thing in the word.
because these song have proven popular and made these companys billions, they feel the need to have the law changed just for them, so they can make a few billion more? oh boo fucking hoo for them.
because leaving it in the sand might cause it to sink deeper and projects like this, it's so cool you'd spend your life on it
don't you know, we can put malicous code in all those open source programs and take over the world!
this will lead to someone patenting something totally obvious and bring main stream attention to this business of software patents, and hopfully end it.
it's more likely they killed them when they started burning large tracts of forest. so much to the aboriginal "living in harmony with nature" bullshit