Actually the Government currently owns the land and can sell it to any one they would like to, which isn't government interference Telling YOU who to sell to is. When the government does sell the land, they should want to sell it to whomever will in the end make the most sense for the people. And just getting more money for the land (or resources or radio spectrum) is not always what is in the best interest of the population. It might be better to sell to a large group of hunters who want and need a large, healthy population to continue hunting and therefore will protect the land.
In other words libertarians would say:
1) The government should not have owned the land in the first place but does and that should be dealt with.
2) The best way to deal with government ownership of land is to sell the land.
3) Decisions made by the government should be in the best interest of the people
4) Any owner has the right to decide what qualifies as the best deal for their land. It might not be cold hard cash. It could be two cents and a perpetual trust to take care of the resources. (Which would be bid by the buyers and agreed to by the seller/government.)
5) Once all public land is privatized the government won't have to make decisions about what's best to do with public property, thus it can worry about other things and we save a little money on taxes.
(ok taxes may not be important in this specific case but saving money is always nice)
Because Apple isn't against Open source. I use a powerbook at work and at home, but except for the few games I've purchased I've spent a grand total of 25 dollars for closed source software. (I've donated enough to FOSS that I may get a tax break.) Almost all of it runs on my macintosh, So can afford to have a power book, and still get work done.
In other words Linux is good for apple.
(they barely have the resources to support OS X on just the recent Mac models)
Your point is true, but Apple Care actually makes a profit (not a large one) because they only support OS X on a limited number of systems. I know its splitting hairs but in a world thats turning to service and out sourceing, an American support center that pays for itself is amazing
I don't think that crigley realizes how crisis management in the linux community works. When the Debian servers were compromised things went like this: 1. Announce the the problem 2. Research the problem 3. Find the fix 4. Announce the fix, the cause and any errata (Over-simplified, I know)
With SCO things went like this 1. SCO anounced their lawsuit 2. Groklaw was created. 3. IBM and others worked on the legal front 4. News is getting out and code has been analized
This would be over if not for the lack of speed in the US legal system. While noone would disagree that getting verbally kicked in the pants is not a crisis when done often enough, lives where not on the line so there was no reason to panic. Thats where Cringely got it wrong. Crisis != panic in in the FOSS Comunity
Porting OS X to x86 platforms makes absolutly no sense for Apple. They make hardware. They make tons of money off of that hardware and then make software so that their hardware will continue to make them money. Porting would take away some of the value of Apples main product (ie that it runs OS X). Why would they want to shoot themselves in the foot.
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Actually the scariest part is checking that your back up ran properly last night and is usuable. BUt that's the case no matter what os you use.
Of course, The Computer told me to tell him.
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Damn it! In Texas running over politians is not a game. It's a duty. It's just so hard to hit them with all the ammo flying!.
Actually the Government currently owns the land and can sell it to any one they would like to, which isn't government interference Telling YOU who to sell to is. When the government does sell the land, they should want to sell it to whomever will in the end make the most sense for the people. And just getting more money for the land (or resources or radio spectrum) is not always what is in the best interest of the population. It might be better to sell to a large group of hunters who want and need a large, healthy population to continue hunting and therefore will protect the land.
In other words libertarians would say:
1) The government should not have owned the land in the first place but does and that should be dealt with.
2) The best way to deal with government ownership of land is to sell the land.
3) Decisions made by the government should be in the best interest of the people
4) Any owner has the right to decide what qualifies as the best deal for their land. It might not be cold hard cash. It could be two cents and a perpetual trust to take care of the resources. (Which would be bid by the buyers and agreed to by the seller/government.)
5) Once all public land is privatized the government won't have to make decisions about what's best to do with public property, thus it can worry about other things and we save a little money on taxes.
(ok taxes may not be important in this specific case but saving money is always nice)
Because Apple isn't against Open source. I use a powerbook at work and at home, but except for the few games I've purchased I've spent a grand total of 25 dollars for closed source software. (I've donated enough to FOSS that I may get a tax break.) Almost all of it runs on my macintosh, So can afford to have a power book, and still get work done. In other words Linux is good for apple.
(they barely have the resources to support OS X on just the recent Mac models)
Your point is true, but Apple Care actually makes a profit (not a large one) because they only support OS X on a limited number of systems. I know its splitting hairs but in a world thats turning to service and out sourceing, an American support center that pays for itself is amazing
This is blatant FUD. Those little feet only cost $25 dollars for 4 which is perfectly in line with similar quality PC laptop feet
Ah high Quality feet!
1. You can not play games on it.
Playing games rarely makes money. But it will run office suites and internet browsers
2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
My grandmother uses it. Perhaps yours just needs a little help from her geek grandchild.
3. It lacks a GUI of any usabillity
KDE and Gnome work pretty well. better than the default for XP in my opinion
4. There is no support available for it.
Red hat and SuSE would beg to differ.
5. It is an assortment of fragmented distros.
But you only have to run one of them!
6. It cannot be run on the TCPA platform.
IBM is a member of TCPA so you never know but until then I'm gonna stick with AMD
7. You have to compile everything and know C++.
Granny hasn't compiled anything thanks to Yast
I use Apt-get my self
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
Which hardware? It runs on most $400 boxes and has plug an play support my usb camera and palm work
9. It is incompatiable with Windows/OSX
You mean you can't run Open office... uhm wait.
10. It is shit!
No. It's software. Feces is shit
I don't think that crigley realizes how crisis management in the linux community works.
When the Debian servers were compromised things went like this:
1. Announce the the problem
2. Research the problem
3. Find the fix
4. Announce the fix, the cause and any errata
(Over-simplified, I know)
With SCO things went like this
1. SCO anounced their lawsuit
2. Groklaw was created.
3. IBM and others worked on the legal front
4. News is getting out and code has been analized
This would be over if not for the lack of speed in the US legal system.
While noone would disagree that getting verbally kicked in the pants is not a crisis when done often enough, lives where not on the line so there was no reason to panic. Thats where Cringely got it wrong. Crisis != panic in in the FOSS Comunity
Porting OS X to x86 platforms makes absolutly no sense for Apple. They make hardware. They make tons of money off of that hardware and then make software so that their hardware will continue to make them money. Porting would take away some of the value of Apples main product (ie that it runs OS X). Why would they want to shoot themselves in the foot.