No, I'm not who you're replying to... but I'll bite anyway.
really? Bill Gates donates billions of dollars a year to many charatable causes. What does RMS donate?
RMS founded - and works for - a charity. What do you think their paychecks look like side-by-side? You have to take it in before you can donate it. Would you rather RMS rob Peter to pay Paul?
I can bet you have used at least one computer today that has a Microsoft operating system installed. I would say that Bill Gates is clearly more intelligent than RMS. Otherwise, we would all be using GNU software.
I haven't. And your argument , if you can call what you wrote an argument, that Gates is more intelligent that Stallman is probably the worst cliché I've ever witnessed. Troll.
RHEL2.1 has a lot of the same stuff that Woody has, and a lot of Red Hat's customer's prefer RHEL2.1 to RHEL3 *because* that software is older.
Right, Fedora is more stable than Debian unstable. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Fedora Core releases are... releases? Go track rawhide for a few months and tell me some stories about it. I certainly have my share - I use rawhide at work. I use unstable at home (I have only one machine). One definitely breaks more than the other. And about 'stability' - it has nothing to do with crashes - that's called 'bugginess'. People in software talk about stability to indicate API and ABI compatibility.
Debian releases based on critical bug counts. Politics are a problem, but they don't affect release schedules as much as you think. Fedora releases don't generally slip for any reason.
If "nobody uses" invariant sections, front-cover or back-cover texts, and those parts of the license make it nonfree, then why are they in the license?
Even if it were true, that nobody uses them is irrelevant. If someone specified "GFDL with no invariant sections or *-cover texts" then Debian is okay with that anyway.
Please do not kid yourself. 'Piracy' has been a 'problem' for well over a decade, and it's only gotten worse. You'd have to lock up the Internet to even have a change of stopping it.
Exeem will be a failure. By keeping the source locked up and Windows-biased, you alienate that very segment of users whose OSes are stable enough to actually stay running for more than 24 hours at a time.
A few years back I thought the same thing. Then the CDs I had just burned my entire mp3 collection onto under a month earler, so that I could make more space on my hard disk, stopped being readable. Better get to ripping...
Does your mom need './configure'? Do you think the Windows kernel has even read-only support for ext2? You may have had a point, but you picked some really crappy examples is all. Give me an example of something your mom would need the terminal for, in Fedora Core 3, and I will be satisfied.
Don't pretend you've never downloaded an app that came as a zip file full of shit instead of an actual installer, and had the executable fail on you because you didn't have some runtime you needed. Windows apps need packaging, and have dependencies, too.
Also, *everything* for Windows "isn't on the list."
To install Mono on Debian I just search for 'mono' in my package manager, click install, wait 60 seconds, and... done. No.exe file to delete off the desktop, no need to reboot.
What was that you were saying about "Linux installation?" You do know there's no such thing, right? Some distributions have superior packaging systems, and some packages have superior packagers. If either one is broken, blame it and not some nonexistent entity called "Linux installation."
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Open Source without government? Copyleft without copyright? And you're a teacher? I can see you're earning your twenty-four grand a year... ;P
No, I'm not who you're replying to... but I'll bite anyway.
really? Bill Gates donates billions of dollars a year to many charatable causes. What does RMS donate?
RMS founded - and works for - a charity. What do you think their paychecks look like side-by-side? You have to take it in before you can donate it. Would you rather RMS rob Peter to pay Paul?
I can bet you have used at least one computer today that has a Microsoft operating system installed. I would say that Bill Gates is clearly more intelligent than RMS. Otherwise, we would all be using GNU software.
I haven't. And your argument , if you can call what you wrote an argument, that Gates is more intelligent that Stallman is probably the worst cliché I've ever witnessed. Troll.
I don't know anyone who doesn't get violent after seeing what their "upgrade" from WMP9 to WMP10 got them.
"The Windows logo and the Apple logo are WORLDS APART from a big, red cartoon character devil with a pitchfork."
Yeah? And you're aware that Apple's logo is a reference to Alan Turing's suicide?
I'm not sure if Italian trains will ever run on time ;)
"Il fascismo dovrebbe più appropriatamente chiamarsi Corporativismo perché è una fusione tra Stato e potere corporativo."
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini, Encyclopedia ItalianaRHEL2.1 has a lot of the same stuff that Woody has, and a lot of Red Hat's customer's prefer RHEL2.1 to RHEL3 *because* that software is older.
Right, Fedora is more stable than Debian unstable. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Fedora Core releases are... releases? Go track rawhide for a few months and tell me some stories about it. I certainly have my share - I use rawhide at work. I use unstable at home (I have only one machine). One definitely breaks more than the other. And about 'stability' - it has nothing to do with crashes - that's called 'bugginess'. People in software talk about stability to indicate API and ABI compatibility.
Debian releases based on critical bug counts. Politics are a problem, but they don't affect release schedules as much as you think. Fedora releases don't generally slip for any reason.
You clearly have no idea what 'stable' means. Look into how often RHEL changes.
If "nobody uses" invariant sections, front-cover or back-cover texts, and those parts of the license make it nonfree, then why are they in the license?
Even if it were true, that nobody uses them is irrelevant. If someone specified "GFDL with no invariant sections or *-cover texts" then Debian is okay with that anyway.
If something that I stated was present in your post, I didn't see it. Are you sure you wrote what you think you wrote? I'm confused...
Well, sure. You do know I was joking, don't you ...?
You just know the PHBs will still use an entire disc to walk a 37KB spreadsheet thirty feet down the hall ;)
Oh, yeah, and Avalon will be available on XP and 2k3, not just Longhorn.
So will Cairo. Remember that GTK+ is cross-platform. =D
Maybe the rest of those machines were crap... but the laptops in the article don't seem to hot either.
Please do not kid yourself. 'Piracy' has been a 'problem' for well over a decade, and it's only gotten worse. You'd have to lock up the Internet to even have a change of stopping it.
Exeem will be a failure. By keeping the source locked up and Windows-biased, you alienate that very segment of users whose OSes are stable enough to actually stay running for more than 24 hours at a time.
Er, OpenOffice and KDE 3.2 on 128MB of RAM is not fine, in my experience. :)
A few years back I thought the same thing. Then the CDs I had just burned my entire mp3 collection onto under a month earler, so that I could make more space on my hard disk, stopped being readable. Better get to ripping...
Does your mom need './configure'? Do you think the Windows kernel has even read-only support for ext2? You may have had a point, but you picked some really crappy examples is all. Give me an example of something your mom would need the terminal for, in Fedora Core 3, and I will be satisfied.
Yeah, I hear ya - DOS commands are a piece of fucking cake. Why can't Linux be this easy?
Don't pretend you've never downloaded an app that came as a zip file full of shit instead of an actual installer, and had the executable fail on you because you didn't have some runtime you needed. Windows apps need packaging, and have dependencies, too.
Also, *everything* for Windows "isn't on the list."
Fedora doesn't ship with APT or Synaptic. I think you skipped a dozen steps or so.
To install Mono on Debian I just search for 'mono' in my package manager, click install, wait 60 seconds, and... done. No .exe file to delete off the desktop, no need to reboot.
What was that you were saying about "Linux installation?" You do know there's no such thing, right? Some distributions have superior packaging systems, and some packages have superior packagers. If either one is broken, blame it and not some nonexistent entity called "Linux installation."
Sweet, I can have two then ;)
Ah, crap. I had em on shuffle, and I thought I'd heard that longer ago than I did ;)