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That's fine if it were just Tivos. However, what would happen if every piece of hardware you bought was Tivoised? Only properly signed binaries would run at all. I can think of several companies that would love that situation.
Okay, this is now the 42nd "Open Source software translated to African Whistling Language - Microsoft crying softly to self" story I've seen in the past couple of years. If it really started losing them money, how long do you think it would be before Microsoft externalized all language-specific strings, and started giving away software to edit the resources? You could allow collaborative language contributions for free without giving away the software.
While I don't think these translations and niche markets are going to be the undoing of Microsoft, I do think they represent what's fantastic about open source - generally, a company like MS will about something if it matters to their bottom line. Open source allows regular people to port excellent software to Kinyarwanda just because they think it should matter.
Yeah. I think all of us are perfectly aware of the problems of reading proprietary code and then working on open source efforts. Everything from GNU Classpath to ScummVM has these issues, and our favourite lawsuit is keeping in the spotlight too. I have great respect for you guys working on WINE and ReactOS, and I don't expect you to suddenly start losing your heads and appropriating copyrighted code willy nilly. It was just a joke.
Perhaps you know for sure that you wouldn't make a good leader, but perhaps you just need to think about things differently. Read some history and take note of the ages of famous generals and leaders when they first started to lead. It's surprising...
As for chaos and no structure... the nature of non-western countries is often uncertainty and lack of clarity, especially right after a war. I lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, for 11 months in 98-99 (quite a while after the war) - you just have to get used to it. Having grown up overseas, I actually enjoyed the slower pace. At first, knowing you might have to spend an entire morning just to pay your gas or telephone bill is frustrating, but after a while you learn to just accept it, stop and have coffee on the way back, bump into a couple of friends downtown, etc. Dealing with any sort of bureaucratic agency (visas, passports, vehicle registration, etc.) is a real pain - you get a different answer every time you ask the same question. The trick is to keep asking until you get the answers you want!
If you're serious about going over there, perhaps you should look for agencies who might be willing to send you over there - I'm sure the ILUG guy would be able to give you some pointers. Just beware that many humanitarian organizations have a feeling of being there "on a mission", so if you don't like working all the time you might have to be very firm.
Yes, but what OS are they running? I bet it's some future version of Linux.
If it's not, just give the Xbox, PS2 or ipod hackers a couple of weeks, and they'd have that Silon temptress running Perl and serving web pages in no time.
Or perhaps it's actually far enough in the future that Gnu Hurd is viable... nah.
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That's fine if it were just Tivos. However, what would happen if every piece of hardware you bought was Tivoised? Only properly signed binaries would run at all. I can think of several companies that would love that situation.
Okay, this is now the 42nd "Open Source software translated to African Whistling Language - Microsoft crying softly to self" story I've seen in the past couple of years. If it really started losing them money, how long do you think it would be before Microsoft externalized all language-specific strings, and started giving away software to edit the resources? You could allow collaborative language contributions for free without giving away the software.
While I don't think these translations and niche markets are going to be the undoing of Microsoft, I do think they represent what's fantastic about open source - generally, a company like MS will about something if it matters to their bottom line. Open source allows regular people to port excellent software to Kinyarwanda just because they think it should matter.
Yeah. I think all of us are perfectly aware of the problems of reading proprietary code and then working on open source efforts. Everything from GNU Classpath to ScummVM has these issues, and our favourite lawsuit is keeping in the spotlight too. I have great respect for you guys working on WINE and ReactOS, and I don't expect you to suddenly start losing your heads and appropriating copyrighted code willy nilly. It was just a joke.
ReactOS have announced they have hit all upcoming milestones and consider their project "feature complete".
Why not?
Perhaps you know for sure that you wouldn't make a good leader, but perhaps you just need to think about things differently. Read some history and take note of the ages of famous generals and leaders when they first started to lead. It's surprising...
As for chaos and no structure... the nature of non-western countries is often uncertainty and lack of clarity, especially right after a war. I lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, for 11 months in 98-99 (quite a while after the war) - you just have to get used to it. Having grown up overseas, I actually enjoyed the slower pace. At first, knowing you might have to spend an entire morning just to pay your gas or telephone bill is frustrating, but after a while you learn to just accept it, stop and have coffee on the way back, bump into a couple of friends downtown, etc. Dealing with any sort of bureaucratic agency (visas, passports, vehicle registration, etc.) is a real pain - you get a different answer every time you ask the same question. The trick is to keep asking until you get the answers you want!
If you're serious about going over there, perhaps you should look for agencies who might be willing to send you over there - I'm sure the ILUG guy would be able to give you some pointers. Just beware that many humanitarian organizations have a feeling of being there "on a mission", so if you don't like working all the time you might have to be very firm.
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Yes, but what OS are they running? I bet it's some future version of Linux.
If it's not, just give the Xbox, PS2 or ipod hackers a couple of weeks, and they'd have that Silon temptress running Perl and serving web pages in no time.
Or perhaps it's actually far enough in the future that Gnu Hurd is viable... nah.