People choose art over money in the software world so they can do whatever they want with their projects. OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt is a good example of this. Here's an excerpt of a recent interview recent interview:
Q: Could you elaborate on why the OpenBSD team is so committed to releasing its software free of charge and free of restriction?
The first thing to recognize about OpenBSD is that there are about 80 developers and we do OpenBSD for ourselves only. Lots of other people use OpenBSD, but we use it for ourselves. It's just for ourselves--and that means I want OpenBSD to run on everything I've got. I want OpenBSD to work no matter what things come along in the future. This means that we have to have an outside community that will help us with supporting new devices and new technologies. We can't be too 'fringe.' So that means we have to have a user community. But we have a user community only because it benefits us, ourselves.
It seems Marc Fleury spends too much time listening to stupid people, so much that he starts saying stupid things himself. He happened to pick a certain group of "amateurs" that are writing boring software and doing a mediocre job at it.
He would do better to seek out people who are professional Open Source Vendors like he is, and creative Open Source hobbyists, the kind that write compilers, work on web browsers, GUI toolkits, etc.
If he avoids talking to stupid people at conferences, but instead seeks out the smart group above, maybe his next interview won't have as much nonsensical chatter.
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It may be your goal to impress Joe Windows.
But I value the opinion of mathematicians, hackers, and scientists much more.
Yeah. I find PRGoogleBar invaluable. I have no plans to migrate from PRGoogleBar to the Google-made one.
PageRank, the directory buttons, and the history of things entered in the search box are the three most important features I use.
I especially like pagerank. For one thing, I don't have to send a request to get pages spidered. Another reason is I like to see the popularity of sites I visit.
is the decision that will result in all words up to four letters being TLD's.
Then someone can finally register a.fart domain, and we can declare all of the domain names officially taken.
2. Most homeless people don't deserve any help, so people shouldn't feel obligated to give them help. A lot of them just buy alcohol w/ money given to them and end up killing someone in a DUI accident. I'd judge the person's character a lot more based on how she treated her family and friends.
If anyone is worried about what ESR might be doing for open source, they need to take a look around. Just as he argued, open source is not going to die for lack of developer interest. Besides, if people can't see how superior UNIX is to Windows, we don't need 'em anyhow.
If you care, donate to the EFF - legal action is the biggest threat to open source. If not, just quit your bitching.
I wasn't talking features, I was talking simplicity.
AFAIK, MS SQL and DB2 don't run on many platforms, and are poorly suited to small projects. They also don't have the variety of nice API's that Postgres and MySQL do. So for most people who would be considering MySQL, MS SQL and DB2 free editions don't get them anywhere.
I was thinking about a comparison to car varieties, but I decided not to.
And yes I am aware of some of MySQL's past and present SQL issues. They don't make a huge difference for small projects, though.
For those who don't remember, the sport-utility robots (Bender included) get on a single island and blow fuel from their exhausts (read: asses) to propel the Earth away from the sun.
Ubuntu disables root by default too. Anything that needs to be run as root can be run using sudo. The GUI admin tools ask for the password just like in OS X.
If the Tao is great, then the operating system is great. If the operating system is great, then the compiler is great. If the compiler is greater, then the applications is great. The user is pleased and there is harmony in the world.
I think a researcher should find how much information about chess moves a human is capable of storing and limit the in-game databases to that.
As for experience, I think on top of a limited amount of recallable knowledge, the programmers should be able to throw lots of data at the computer that doesn't wind up being accessible in its original form, but is used to train neural nets.
This would make such a competition more interesting for me.
I found that the Gnome experience varies by distro. I used Gnome under Gentoo and found it to be a mess, so I switched to KDE. Now I switched to Ubuntu and use Gnome. I had to tell it to use Nautilus instead of the spatial file system, but once that was done I found it purty and reliable and I can use it to get work done.
And Gnome is definitely not a mess on Ubuntu. Far from it.
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They seem to have a wider view of web infrastructure, from the list of programs.
What a novel concept!
Q: Could you elaborate on why the OpenBSD team is so committed to releasing its software free of charge and free of restriction?
The first thing to recognize about OpenBSD is that there are about 80 developers and we do OpenBSD for ourselves only. Lots of other people use OpenBSD, but we use it for ourselves. It's just for ourselves--and that means I want OpenBSD to run on everything I've got. I want OpenBSD to work no matter what things come along in the future. This means that we have to have an outside community that will help us with supporting new devices and new technologies. We can't be too 'fringe.' So that means we have to have a user community. But we have a user community only because it benefits us, ourselves.
He would do better to seek out people who are professional Open Source Vendors like he is, and creative Open Source hobbyists, the kind that write compilers, work on web browsers, GUI toolkits, etc.
If he avoids talking to stupid people at conferences, but instead seeks out the smart group above, maybe his next interview won't have as much nonsensical chatter.
But I value the opinion of mathematicians, hackers, and scientists much more.
PageRank, the directory buttons, and the history of things entered in the search box are the three most important features I use.
I especially like pagerank. For one thing, I don't have to send a request to get pages spidered. Another reason is I like to see the popularity of sites I visit.
is the decision that will result in all words up to four letters being TLD's. Then someone can finally register a .fart domain, and we can declare all of the domain names officially taken.
Where do all of these idiots come from?
Personally, I remember up to 3.141592654, and I am happy with that. That's 10 significant digits.
There are dozens of ways to learn, and none should be discounted.
If I thought that pi was 3.14 and didn't know it was 3.141592654, a lot of my understanding of pi, especially the aesthetics of it, would be missing.
The same goes for knowing how to program in C, but having to look up what a union is.
1. The person you replied to was being sarcastic.
2. Most homeless people don't deserve any help, so people shouldn't feel obligated to give them help. A lot of them just buy alcohol w/ money given to them and end up killing someone in a DUI accident. I'd judge the person's character a lot more based on how she treated her family and friends.
If you care, donate to the EFF - legal action is the biggest threat to open source. If not, just quit your bitching.
AFAIK, MS SQL and DB2 don't run on many platforms, and are poorly suited to small projects. They also don't have the variety of nice API's that Postgres and MySQL do. So for most people who would be considering MySQL, MS SQL and DB2 free editions don't get them anywhere.
I was thinking about a comparison to car varieties, but I decided not to.
And yes I am aware of some of MySQL's past and present SQL issues. They don't make a huge difference for small projects, though.
I sent a /. story and they preserved everything except the headline. It could have been the same for him. So you are unfairly judging this dude.
I agree that Postgre is much better than MySQL. But MS SQL and DB2 don't deserve to be linked into the same category.
At what point did you think it was? Pressing a keystroke in the editor?
I hate it when jackasses always have to throw in their ignorant comments.
Thank you, Guido!!!
For those who don't remember, the sport-utility robots (Bender included) get on a single island and blow fuel from their exhausts (read: asses) to propel the Earth away from the sun.
That episode freakin' ruled.
Ubuntu disables root by default too. Anything that needs to be run as root can be run using sudo. The GUI admin tools ask for the password just like in OS X.
From the Tao of Programming, section 1.1:
If the Tao is great, then the operating system is great. If the operating system is great, then the compiler is great. If the compiler is greater, then the applications is great. The user is pleased and there is harmony in the world.
I think a researcher should find how much information about chess moves a human is capable of storing and limit the in-game databases to that.
As for experience, I think on top of a limited amount of recallable knowledge, the programmers should be able to throw lots of data at the computer that doesn't wind up being accessible in its original form, but is used to train neural nets.
This would make such a competition more interesting for me.
And Gnome is definitely not a mess on Ubuntu. Far from it.
Definitely something to think about.
That is funny. I hope somebody is archiving the genius /. comments for posterity.