It's overpaid. Like the music industry. 99% of its output is garbage, and those of us who like unshitty music have to pay $17 a disc anyway, when we could get it for $5 a disc if so much time, money and effort weren't spent producing mindless stuff that's really popular with teenage girls.
Software and book authorship, in my view, are similar tasks. As one who writes, I don't want to give my stuff away free UNLESS someone is also giving to me a reasonable living, free. Since the latter is unlikely, I find it useful to explore a solution in the middle between "anti-OSS" and "OSS worship."
Whoever this Neil Gunton dude is... you've impressed me with your candor and analysis.
The best way to disprove someone whose opinions you hate is by destroying their web site. That lets them know that not every opinion is acceptable in a climate of the free exchange of ideas.
That's why. Cheaper to purchase, cheaper to operate, and all of the business world uses it. And fewer backward compatibility problems. See if they'll let you install BeOS, OpenVMS, Linux or BSD.
I switched from Netscape 4.72 to IE back in 1999 and I haven't looked back. It's nice someone finally standardized the web, since the Netscape folks weren't going to do it. I hear they have a new browser... I also just heard that I don't give a damn. Let someone new into the browser market. Hail Opera, Lynx, whatever... but not anything Netscape-y. They had their chance, and blew it. Bury them.
Didn't the "Mac" (PARC) revolution tell us this? Or the WWW being so popular? People don't want to become masters of computers; they want to use computers to master other things.
Probably smoking whatever Steve Jobs was smoking during the Apple III and Lisa days:)
NS 4.72 was a bug-ridden disaster, and IE moved ahead. I'd like to see an IE alternative, but only if given logical reasons to do so. Otherwise, it makes sense to standardize on a browswer layout format -- something not possible if NS gains market share, since it's incompatible with IE's HTML/XHTML requirements.
It's nice to see passion, but do we need religion? Computer programs have no soul; developers do, and it influences what their goals are. Microsoft wants to dominate the market, and this guy wants to make a better browser, but using religious terminology is reminiscent of Apple, who aren't doing so well these days.
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I have always thought a strong black community, with its own police force, was the solution. Keep whitey out.
It's overpaid. Like the music industry. 99% of its output is garbage, and those of us who like unshitty music have to pay $17 a disc anyway, when we could get it for $5 a disc if so much time, money and effort weren't spent producing mindless stuff that's really popular with teenage girls.
This is better than that "bug chasing" story. Well, maybe not.
Software and book authorship, in my view, are similar tasks. As one who writes, I don't want to give my stuff away free UNLESS someone is also giving to me a reasonable living, free. Since the latter is unlikely, I find it useful to explore a solution in the middle between "anti-OSS" and "OSS worship." Whoever this Neil Gunton dude is... you've impressed me with your candor and analysis.
The best way to disprove someone whose opinions you hate is by destroying their web site. That lets them know that not every opinion is acceptable in a climate of the free exchange of ideas.
That's why. Cheaper to purchase, cheaper to operate, and all of the business world uses it. And fewer backward compatibility problems. See if they'll let you install BeOS, OpenVMS, Linux or BSD.
Why such bias to American/English metal? No Bathory, or Pestilence, or Celtic Frost?
That's not heavy metal. That's nu-metal. Or something worse. Bring back the real music, please.
I switched from Netscape 4.72 to IE back in 1999 and I haven't looked back. It's nice someone finally standardized the web, since the Netscape folks weren't going to do it. I hear they have a new browser... I also just heard that I don't give a damn. Let someone new into the browser market. Hail Opera, Lynx, whatever... but not anything Netscape-y. They had their chance, and blew it. Bury them.
Didn't the "Mac" (PARC) revolution tell us this? Or the WWW being so popular? People don't want to become masters of computers; they want to use computers to master other things.
Sounds almost like Microsoft. Or Red Hat. Where, oh where, can I find a conspiracy big enough for all of these degenerates?
And, if people want it, is there a profit model for it?
Does he mean "take them" in a Biblical sense? As in priests 'n' choirboys getting frisky in the vestry?
Soon voting records will also be tools of the terrorists.
I can't wait to crash at five times the speed for five times the price.
But not to burn a joint. Sad.
So those who do, can, and those who smoke something funny can be out of sight and red-eyed all afternoon...
"What is BeBits for, anyway? tbd " http://www.bebits.com/faq Hehe.
...especially the corporate sponsorship of otherwise obvious projects. Oh, this isn't a sarcastic message. Nope.
Heh. Not on my stereo. You have to be dumb as a brick to waste money on that "music."
Great. Maybe soon a house that blocks most RF will be available :)
Edit Pad Lite http://www.editpadlite.com/ I don't have loyalty to Windows or Linux, but, if you talk shit about my editor, you're eating dirt, pig.
Time to get out the byte editor and fix that browser identity string!
Probably smoking whatever Steve Jobs was smoking during the Apple III and Lisa days :)
NS 4.72 was a bug-ridden disaster, and IE moved ahead. I'd like to see an IE alternative, but only if given logical reasons to do so. Otherwise, it makes sense to standardize on a browswer layout format -- something not possible if NS gains market share, since it's incompatible with IE's HTML/XHTML requirements.
It's nice to see passion, but do we need religion? Computer programs have no soul; developers do, and it influences what their goals are. Microsoft wants to dominate the market, and this guy wants to make a better browser, but using religious terminology is reminiscent of Apple, who aren't doing so well these days.