On September 9, 2005, *BSD was finally declared dead. The following obituary appeared in the Berkeley Observer:
* BSD Obituary
* BSD, 28, of Berkeley, CA died Monday, Sept. 19, 2005. Born July 3, 1976, it was the creation of a cluster of pot-smoking hippies who went to Illinois and came home with a reel of tape. Rather than smoke the tape, they uploaded it and hacked on it a little.
* BSD was known for its C shell and early TCP/IP implementation. After being banished from UC Berkeley, it was ported to the x86 platform, where it fell into the hands of heavier pot-smokers who liked to argue. Soon, the project had splintered into 12 different Balkanized projects. Until its death, there was almost constant fighting in and amongst these groups, sometimes degenerating into out-and-out fistfights.
* BSD is survived by its superior, Linux, as well as several commercial unix implementations. It may be missed by some who knew it, although most of them are said to be mere OS dilettante dabblers.
A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Berkeley Chapel on the UC campus, with interment to follow via the burning of the original *BSD tapes and scattering of the ashes over the San Francisco Bay. The Rev. Lou "Buddy" Stubbs will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the funeral home.
This would be interesting if BSD had not been dying. Netcraft now confirms it: It is official;
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
OpenBossa is a division of INdT, a nonprofit research institute in Brazil that was founded by Nokia and the Brazilian government. OpenBossa has close ties with Nokia and is well-known in the Maemo community
Taken from the arstechnica web site that also carried this story
On a related note I think the whole community is becoming more pragmatic. when Eric Raymond commented on the usefulness of the GPL licence and it was covered in a slashdot article peoples arguments were pragmatic. Examples being the GPL is better for business, not religious war on which licence was more free.
I don't agree with everything he says but, if Richard Stallman had not have taken the stance he had, there would not be any free/open source software. A GPL licence is one thing but it wont protect you if there is not an actual threat of legal action, or many eyes watching you're every move. Don't think were in a natural environment, modern open source software, had to be built and nurtured by Stallman and those he inspired. Before anyone mentions software used to be free, that world was changed with the advent of companies such as Microsoft, who incidentally had to work very hard to change that world.
(B) Microsoft shall not enter into any License Agreement that by its terms prohibits or restricts the OEM's licensing, sale or distribution of any non-Microsoft Operating System Software product.
(C) Microsoft shall not enter into any Per Processor License.
Microsoft gets paid, even if you don't you use their operating system, due to the per processor licensing scheme.
To gauge the Governments effectiveness (above rulings were in 1994) read this FINDINGS OF FACT (1998) which
the Court finds the following facts to have been proved by a preponderance of the evidence
Actually I would like to see Open Source/ Creative Commons type licences covering intellectual and creative works. With a good dash of community pooling of resources to sue any big corporation that infringes the above IP. The situation we have now of large companies using the law to lock down markets would change. If they they feel they are being controlled and constrained by laws they initiated, the law will change.
I would rather Ubuntu spent money and time on fixing known issues (in addition to future projects such as this) Hibernate and Suspend did not work through out various editions. I still think Suspend may still not work in Jaunty
I even heard mint Linux have graphics cards such as nvidia working on their platform but Ubuntu has not.
LISP, the world's second oldest high-level programming language.
Sorry its the third oldest this is the oldest.
Designed by Konrad Zuse who also invented the first program-controlled Turing-complete computer. Fortran is the second oldest programming language.
Darwinism depends on the splitting of one species into two, which then diverge and split and diverge and split, over and over again, to produce the branching-tree pattern required by Darwinâ(TM)s theory. And this sort of speciation has never been observed.
This article as written just so this guy can say, we have seen speciation, look at Dog breeds, and seemingly (in his mind have some sort of retort to Creationists). It wont work.
If somehow the recognized breeds existed only as fossils, palaeontologists would consider them not one species but many, certainly more than the thirty-six species of wild dogs that live in nature today.
He brings this up to strengthen his argument for reclassification of dog breeds. Others will then question the fossil records use in classification.
The following is taken form Adobe's website.
Adobe Systems Incorporated and ARM today announced a technology collaboration to optimise and enable Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIRâ for ARM Powered® devices
The joint technology optimisation is targeted for the ARMv6 and ARMv7architectures used in the ARM11â family and the Cortexâ-A series of processors and is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. announcement here
It could easily turn around with a new successful operating system by MS
They could however, there are some key things against them. An example would be the cost advantages of linux, with it being good enough for most uses. You may say so what but there are some ARM based computers in the works (see below) that can be sold for $200 dollars at profitable margins (whether they will be is another matter). Keep in mind that netbooks if cheap enough sell with Linux on them, as 2008 showed (with more windows share for higher priced netbooks, for various reasons). Others will follow if ARM based computers succeed.
Apple is also not stagnant, as can be seen here from their patent applications for a 3D GUI, the register and appleinsider also carry more details. How flat would MS party for windows 7 be if jobs announces this interface as the new interface for snow leopard, just as Linux takes a even bigger chunk of their market share.
Skytone OLPC Pegatron
We will see if this trend continues, it could get much worse before windows 7 is due. If as planned a number of companies, such as Pegatron release in June as planned.
Just imagine the effect if these cheap netbooks sell in numbers, ARM will be the new hotness as far as business would be concerned. They would be cheap (actually at the $200 price point, with enough margin to make a profit). Companies would be queuing to produce computers with ARM chips running Linux. As it is Microsoft is probably losing money due to marketing payola, with not as much revenue comming in from netbook installs (I have heard of only $5 per machine). Lets just hope these ARM netbooks turn up.
You'll get people here saying 3 apps is enough for any one (is enough for any one should raise alarms) but if Microsoft is banking on this limited OS against Linux, ARM CPUs and any cost and power advantages they offer in the market I see problems for them.
We needed to protect the free and open society, and we needed to assure that the future of culture in people's hands instead of in the hands of media companies who want to bring culture lovers in prison.
This is taken from the automaticly translated article.
If these guys are genuine that may be something. By genuine I mean fight intellectual property nonsense, not nut jobs who believe that it is ok to just take others work. They don't sound genuine, however.
I said this before but I say it again.
I think business is good in general, a chronic lack of wealth has a negative effect on sociality. However large corporations (I believe this started in the eighties) now think that to protect their profits they must control a market. This is done through laws that where instituted by means of lobbying, or the extension of laws to areas where they were never meant for. Its OK if there are three or so other big players, then you cant be called a monopoly and be broken up.
These people (like banks) have a short term view of things and can harm the competitiveness of the western world.
You can see this in music, with fees for sampling music. There even a role over rate involved so if an artist has success they pay more for the samples per song, which consumes most of your profit. (the four) Big companies in music are the ones who profit while every one pays out. IP also plays a apart in IT as well, with the added negative (from our view) that companies don't even have to have a strong case, you cant afford 5 million in court fees so you must settle
Unfortunately where stuck with this intellectual property nonsense. I think business is good in general, a chronic lack of wealth has a negative effect on sociality. However large corporations (I believe this started in the eighties) now think that to protect their profits they must control a market. This is done through laws that where instituted by means of lobbying, or the extension of laws to areas where they were never meant for. Its OK if there are three or so other big players, then you cant be called a monopoly and be broken up.
These people (like banks) have a short term view of things and can harm the competitiveness of the western world.
You can see this in music, with fees for sampling music. There even a role over rate involved so if an artist has success they pay more for the samples per song, which consumes most of your profit. (the four) Big companies in music are the ones who profit while every one pays out. IP also plays a apart in IT as well, with the added negative (from our view) that companies don't even have to have a strong case, you cant afford 5 million in court fees so you must settle
Sorry I don't think I made my self clear. BSE and the mixed human cow gene work are not directly linked. However feed mixed with protein (from other dead animals) changes the food chain. The effects of this are/where unknown, this led to effects such as BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The Human Cow hybrids could have many potential problems, as yet unknowns. If work is done to change the genetic make of animals, this can have wide spread consequences. Like the BSE spread their is also a commercial gain which has influence on government regulation (or the lack thereof).
we already have animals into which we have inserted human genes
What would be the effects on health from this, if its true.
A British inquiry into BSEconcluded that the epidemic was caused by cattle, who are normally herbivores, being fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread.
maybe we should think of the consequences of doing the above work. Once the food chain has been altered it is not so easy to reverse, being that the effects are multiplied.
Slashdot Mirror
This would be interesting if BSD had not been dying. Netcraft now confirms it: It is official; One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Prevention is better than cure! It can be averted by less risky behaviour!
Taken from the arstechnica web site that also carried this story
Or proof that some one could have supplanted a fake for the real rock
On a related note I think the whole community is becoming more pragmatic. when Eric Raymond commented on the usefulness of the GPL licence and it was covered in a slashdot article peoples arguments were pragmatic. Examples being the GPL is better for business, not religious war on which licence was more free.
I don't agree with everything he says but, if Richard Stallman had not have taken the stance he had, there would not be any free/open source software. A GPL licence is one thing but it wont protect you if there is not an actual threat of legal action, or many eyes watching you're every move.
Don't think were in a natural environment, modern open source software, had to be built and nurtured by Stallman and those he inspired. Before anyone mentions software used to be free, that world was changed with the advent of companies such as Microsoft, who incidentally had to work very hard to change that world.
You don't have a choice, a us consent decree states that microsoft can not.
Microsoft gets paid, even if you don't you use their operating system, due to the per processor licensing scheme.
To gauge the Governments effectiveness (above rulings were in 1994) read this FINDINGS OF FACT (1998) which
to save you the read not much has changed.
fuck you pay me! - microsoft
Actually I would like to see Open Source/ Creative Commons type licences covering intellectual and creative works. With a good dash of community pooling of resources to sue any big corporation that infringes the above IP.
The situation we have now of large companies using the law to lock down markets would change. If they they feel they are being controlled and constrained by laws they initiated, the law will change.
Which makes it all the more frustrating. It may not be pretty and it wont please RMS but it will benefit people.
I would rather Ubuntu spent money and time on fixing known issues (in addition to future projects such as this) Hibernate and Suspend did not work through out various editions. I still think Suspend may still not work in Jaunty
I even heard mint Linux have graphics cards such as nvidia working on their platform but Ubuntu has not.
Sorry its the third oldest this is the oldest.
Designed by Konrad Zuse who also invented the first program-controlled Turing-complete computer. Fortran is the second oldest programming language.
This article as written just so this guy can say, we have seen speciation, look at Dog breeds, and seemingly (in his mind have some sort of retort to Creationists). It wont work.
He brings this up to strengthen his argument for reclassification of dog breeds. Others will then question the fossil records use in classification.
fuck you, pay me
The govenment
The following is taken form Adobe's website. Adobe Systems Incorporated and ARM today announced a technology collaboration to optimise and enable Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIRâ for ARM Powered® devices
The joint technology optimisation is targeted for the ARMv6 and ARMv7architectures used in the ARM11â family and the Cortexâ-A series of processors and is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. announcement here
They could however, there are some key things against them. An example would be the cost advantages of linux, with it being good enough for most uses. You may say so what but there are some ARM based computers in the works (see below) that can be sold for $200 dollars at profitable margins (whether they will be is another matter). Keep in mind that netbooks if cheap enough sell with Linux on them, as 2008 showed (with more windows share for higher priced netbooks, for various reasons). Others will follow if ARM based computers succeed.
Apple is also not stagnant, as can be seen here from their patent applications for a 3D GUI, the register and appleinsider also carry more details. How flat would MS party for windows 7 be if jobs announces this interface as the new interface for snow leopard, just as Linux takes a even bigger chunk of their market share.
Skytone
OLPC
Pegatron
We will see if this trend continues, it could get much worse before windows 7 is due. If as planned a number of companies, such as Pegatron release in June as planned.
Just imagine the effect if these cheap netbooks sell in numbers, ARM will be the new hotness as far as business would be concerned. They would be cheap (actually at the $200 price point, with enough margin to make a profit). Companies would be queuing to produce computers with ARM chips running Linux. As it is Microsoft is probably losing money due to marketing payola, with not as much revenue comming in from netbook installs (I have heard of only $5 per machine). Lets just hope these ARM netbooks turn up.
You'll get people here saying 3 apps is enough for any one (is enough for any one should raise alarms) but if Microsoft is banking on this limited OS against Linux, ARM CPUs and any cost and power advantages they offer in the market I see problems for them.
Some marketing weenie is going to take this idea and use it in some television advertisement.
This is mad, but something makes me respect the artistry that you have done this with.
This is taken from the automaticly translated article.
If these guys are genuine that may be something. By genuine I mean fight intellectual property nonsense, not nut jobs who believe that it is ok to just take others work. They don't sound genuine, however.
I said this before but I say it again. I think business is good in general, a chronic lack of wealth has a negative effect on sociality. However large corporations (I believe this started in the eighties) now think that to protect their profits they must control a market. This is done through laws that where instituted by means of lobbying, or the extension of laws to areas where they were never meant for. Its OK if there are three or so other big players, then you cant be called a monopoly and be broken up. These people (like banks) have a short term view of things and can harm the competitiveness of the western world.
You can see this in music, with fees for sampling music. There even a role over rate involved so if an artist has success they pay more for the samples per song, which consumes most of your profit. (the four) Big companies in music are the ones who profit while every one pays out. IP also plays a apart in IT as well, with the added negative (from our view) that companies don't even have to have a strong case, you cant afford 5 million in court fees so you must settle
Unfortunately where stuck with this intellectual property nonsense. I think business is good in general, a chronic lack of wealth has a negative effect on sociality. However large corporations (I believe this started in the eighties) now think that to protect their profits they must control a market. This is done through laws that where instituted by means of lobbying, or the extension of laws to areas where they were never meant for. Its OK if there are three or so other big players, then you cant be called a monopoly and be broken up.
These people (like banks) have a short term view of things and can harm the competitiveness of the western world.
You can see this in music, with fees for sampling music. There even a role over rate involved so if an artist has success they pay more for the samples per song, which consumes most of your profit. (the four) Big companies in music are the ones who profit while every one pays out. IP also plays a apart in IT as well, with the added negative (from our view) that companies don't even have to have a strong case, you cant afford 5 million in court fees so you must settle
Sorry I don't think I made my self clear. BSE and the mixed human cow gene work are not directly linked. However feed mixed with protein (from other dead animals) changes the food chain. The effects of this are/where unknown, this led to effects such as BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The Human Cow hybrids could have many potential problems, as yet unknowns. If work is done to change the genetic make of animals, this can have wide spread consequences. Like the BSE spread their is also a commercial gain which has influence on government regulation (or the lack thereof).
What would be the effects on health from this, if its true.
maybe we should think of the consequences of doing the above work. Once the food chain has been altered it is not so easy to reverse, being that the effects are multiplied.
I for one welcome our Human-cow overlords