Dear fellow business persons,
Since those pirates come to our shores and started to download music instead of attacking ships at sea, our god given profit has since diminished. It has been leeched by these onerous high seas scoundrils! Since they will not stop downloading, and since we have been having a little difficulty in shutting down the internet or purchasing it from its misterious owners we must do the next best thing! Pass laws that enable us to put to sleep, or perhaps just put them to prison, for daring to encrouch upon our livelihood!
After all, it is unnatural for the profits to go down, despite better ways of transporting content (don't you just love that word). To maintain our profit margin we must further lower the average contractual wages of musicians from around 8% to around five-ish or so. Perhaps lower. After all, those people just keep making music no matter what, so it is a good thing that we take that money which otherwise would be spent on useless things, like morgages, dental insurance or something. Best to keep them on their toes, begging at our doors to sign the contracts that we make up as we go along (after all, there is no such thing as a standard contract in the music industry, but the musicians don't need to know that).
In closing, I would like to thank our esteemed supporters in the government circles who will be recieving their little purses of joy when their next election comes up.
Best regards,
Nates Reficule,
general manager, Angelic Records inc.
This whole thing sound a lot like what the linux in 3d looks like penguin.
I think that viewing the filesystem as well as all the files connection to each other (symlinks,library dependency etc.) would be a genuinly useful thing to have penguin.
There is also some website that has a 3d view with lined connections between articles on their website, but for the life of me I can't remember what website it was penguin. If anyone can remember and point it out I would be grateful penguin!
Doctor Evil alsa had a medical degree but the medication he sold me over the interweb DIDN'T HELP ME GROW MY PENIS! He is a great big phony and if that telephone number he told I could reach him at weren't the number to the "abused village idiots and pie obsessed people" helpline I would have flailed my arms at him in a fasion showing him that had I the physical strenght to hurt my I would given it considerable thought! Even despite that sharks with the freak'n lazer beams attached to their heads!
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Don't you mean GLUG?;-)
Local User Group. Thanks though, but I did have that covered:)
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Free Software is a subset of Open Source Software, so to say that GCC is Open Source is absolutely correct, if perhaps more general than RMS would prefer.
First of all, it is true that if one only goes by the definition of open source then the GNU compiler collection does fulfill all the conditions of that definition. GCC also fulfills the Free software definition. Since this software package seems to satisfy both we must therefore look at some other facts to see which group this software appropriately belongs to.
Who started writing it and for what reason?
Richard Stallman did so that we could have more freedom. Not because he thought it simply had more technical merit to publish the code. So GCC would not exist if it were not for the philosophical base upon which it was started continues to rely on. GCC was not started because of any open source philosophy.
What about the name of the software package?
Humm, it appears to have the GNU name right at the beginning. I thus deduce that it is strongly involved with the Free software movement.
In the GCC mission statement it says that GCC is not only a Free software project, but more importanly that one of the main goals is Supporting the goals of the GNU project, as defined by the FSF. Not to mention that the copyright of GCC are kept by the Free Software Foundation.
You can make that group as broad as you want or as narrow as you want, but there is a happy medium where the label is non-offensive and clear to any and all that hear it.
First of all, when talking about open source software you are referring to all software that fulfills the open source definition. That is just as specific and narrow as Free software and the free software definition.
Regarding the non-offensive jib. There is absolutely nothing offensive about free software nor is there anything offensive about open source. Although I feel all warm inside whenever I hear about someone spending their lives work in defending and increasing my freedom in a non-violent manner.
Regarding the clarity of "Free software", that is something which is only a problem in the english speaking world. In most other languages the word for freed(dom) and the word for free(of charge) are different.
Open source is not quite as clear to a non insider of the computer idustry. Freedom is something generally a lot more meaningful then "open source(code)", since most people have no idea what source code is nor how it can be more open or closed but do have some grasp of the meaning of freedom. Many people have certainly heard of open source in the media and such but infer no real meaning from it, except perhaps that it "makes your computer go faster or something" (this is something which I have heard many people say when asked about what open source means to them). If you were to ask those same people if they cared about their freedom, I think you would get at least a little more intelligible answers.
Going too narrow may provide more information but at a loss of understanding to your audience.
How can you fail to put across your meaning if you are being as specific, lengtly and clear about your explinations as possible?! This is just nonsense.
RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
Well, the government of my country seemed to care enough for the minestry of education to both endorse his visit and our local LUG (with money and other resources) and to hold a special ministry session were they listened to his recommendations and from that wrote a
I don't mind dupes. I don't mind flamebaits. I don't mind the unending flurry of bad memes, even come to aquire a taste for a few, but this must be the worst plug this website has ever seen, not to mention completely irrelivant to its very purpose.
Besides the fact that this has nothing to do with technology (and please don't point out that it is a multimedia-cd, that is hardly noteworthy) nor does it bring any relative news of any kind of social, legal or political struggle. This is the sort of plug that might appear on foxnews or somesuch. One can only wonder if the poster confused slashdot.org with loveourchildrenusa.org.
This, surely, is the most antithesis to the website's slogan. Newsflash for editors, "stuffit!", say the commentators. Babysitting techniques indeed! Now all they need is our creditcard numbers and expiration dates.
10 years and still no CMYK support, which incidentally is the key feature which is holding the GIMP back from
becoming a serious contender with photoshop. One would think that someone or some group would see the value
of such a feature in a free software graphics program and have it implemented. If for nothing else then to
save money and have a better bargaining position when dealing with vendors of propriatery notoriety.
They have made their bed, and now they must lie in it. If they support software idea patents then they must also be willing to pay dearly to those who will do nothing but litigate using them.
Sooner or later even these big companies must realise that it is more expensive in the long haul to support software patents when there are constantly more and more companies that don't make anything and are only out to litigate; and since crosslicensing with them is useless, since they don't make anything, all they can do is constantly pay up.
I was lucky I was wearing my corset when I read the headline or I fear my sides might have split.
Although it is interesting that for many years now many linux related headlines have been something
like:"Linux makes inroades into windows territory X".
Now suddenly we are seeing microsoft execs talking about making inroads into GNU/linux markets.
I think this, more than any "get the facts" paper points to how Free systems and open standards are
slowly but steadily becoming more common.
password management system. Gives you encryption and a master password. Just put it on a server that you have ssh access to. It's a neat little program. http://passwordms.sourceforge.net/
I think this man's wife really knows her husband well. In fact I believe that her "hint" was her cristmas present to him, knowing his geeky side and how much he enjoyed using his skills to help his loved ones. Of course this is all supposition on my part.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome back Bill!
Black adder, season 3, last episode, the king penguin!
Since those pirates come to our shores and started to download music instead of attacking ships at sea, our god given profit has since diminished. It has been leeched by these onerous high seas scoundrils! Since they will not stop downloading, and since we have been having a little difficulty in shutting down the internet or purchasing it from its misterious owners we must do the next best thing! Pass laws that enable us to put to sleep, or perhaps just put them to prison, for daring to encrouch upon our livelihood!
After all, it is unnatural for the profits to go down, despite better ways of transporting content (don't you just love that word). To maintain our profit margin we must further lower the average contractual wages of musicians from around 8% to around five-ish or so. Perhaps lower. After all, those people just keep making music no matter what, so it is a good thing that we take that money which otherwise would be spent on useless things, like morgages, dental insurance or something. Best to keep them on their toes, begging at our doors to sign the contracts that we make up as we go along (after all, there is no such thing as a standard contract in the music industry, but the musicians don't need to know that).
In closing, I would like to thank our esteemed supporters in the government circles who will be recieving their little purses of joy when their next election comes up.
Best regards,
Nates Reficule,
general manager, Angelic Records inc.
This whole thing sound a lot like what the linux in 3d looks like penguin.
I think that viewing the filesystem as well as all the files connection to each other (symlinks,library dependency etc.) would be a genuinly useful thing to have penguin.
There is also some website that has a 3d view with lined connections between articles on their website, but for the life of me I can't remember what website it was penguin. If anyone can remember and point it out I would be grateful penguin!
I may not know art, but I know what I like!
And they lived happily ever after.
"Mommy, you shouldn't tell nasty lies!".
Doctor Evil alsa had a medical degree but the medication he sold me over the interweb DIDN'T HELP ME GROW MY PENIS!
He is a great big phony and if that telephone number he told I could reach him at weren't the number to the "abused village idiots and pie obsessed people" helpline I would have flailed my arms at him in a fasion showing him that had I the physical strenght to hurt my I would given it considerable thought! Even despite that sharks with the freak'n lazer beams attached to their heads!
Local User Group. Thanks though, but I did have that covered
First of all, it is true that if one only goes by the definition of open source then the GNU compiler collection does fulfill all the conditions of that definition. GCC also fulfills the Free software definition. Since this software package seems to satisfy both we must therefore look at some other facts to see which group this software appropriately belongs to.
Who started writing it and for what reason?
Richard Stallman did so that we could have more freedom. Not because he thought it simply had more technical merit to publish the code. So GCC would not exist if it were not for the philosophical base upon which it was started continues to rely on. GCC was not started because of any open source philosophy.
What about the name of the software package?
Humm, it appears to have the GNU name right at the beginning. I thus deduce that it is strongly involved with the Free software movement.
In the GCC mission statement it says that GCC is not only a Free software project, but more importanly that one of the main goals is Supporting the goals of the GNU project, as defined by the FSF. Not to mention that the copyright of GCC are kept by the Free Software Foundation.
You can make that group as broad as you want or as narrow as you want, but there is a happy medium where the label is non-offensive and clear to any and all that hear it .
First of all, when talking about open source software you are referring to all software that fulfills the open source definition. That is just as specific and narrow as Free software and the free software definition.
Regarding the non-offensive jib. There is absolutely nothing offensive about free software nor is there anything offensive about open source. Although I feel all warm inside whenever I hear about someone spending their lives work in defending and increasing my freedom in a non-violent manner.
Regarding the clarity of "Free software", that is something which is only a problem in the english speaking world. In most other languages the word for freed(dom) and the word for free(of charge) are different.
Open source is not quite as clear to a non insider of the computer idustry. Freedom is something generally a lot more meaningful then "open source(code)", since most people have no idea what source code is nor how it can be more open or closed but do have some grasp of the meaning of freedom. Many people have certainly heard of open source in the media and such but infer no real meaning from it, except perhaps that it "makes your computer go faster or something" (this is something which I have heard many people say when asked about what open source means to them). If you were to ask those same people if they cared about their freedom, I think you would get at least a little more intelligible answers. Going too narrow may provide more information but at a loss of understanding to your audience.
How can you fail to put across your meaning if you are being as specific, lengtly and clear about your explinations as possible?! This is just nonsense.
RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
Well, the government of my country seemed to care enough for the minestry of education to both endorse his visit and our local LUG (with money and other resources) and to hold a special ministry session were they listened to his recommendations and from that wrote a
so long, and thanks for all the fish!
Besides the fact that this has nothing to do with technology (and please don't point out that it is a multimedia-cd, that is hardly noteworthy) nor does it bring any relative news of any kind of social, legal or political struggle. This is the sort of plug that might appear on foxnews or somesuch. One can only wonder if the poster confused slashdot.org with loveourchildrenusa.org. This, surely, is the most antithesis to the website's slogan. Newsflash for editors, "stuffit!", say the commentators. Babysitting techniques indeed! Now all they need is our creditcard numbers and expiration dates.
10 years and still no CMYK support, which incidentally is the key feature which is holding the GIMP back from becoming a serious contender with photoshop. One would think that someone or some group would see the value of such a feature in a free software graphics program and have it implemented. If for nothing else then to save money and have a better bargaining position when dealing with vendors of propriatery notoriety.
"Those who would give up
a little freedom for a little safety,
deserve neither freedom nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy
to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon
the supposition he may abuse it.
--George Washington
You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you!
Don't you mean maybe Microsoft will finally pay someone in Washington to notice (tm)?
They have made their bed, and now they must lie in it. If they support software idea patents
then they must also be willing to pay dearly to those who will do nothing but litigate
using them.
Sooner or later even these big companies must realise that it is more expensive in the long
haul to support software patents when there are constantly more and more companies that
don't make anything and are only out to litigate; and since crosslicensing with them is
useless, since they don't make anything, all they can do is constantly pay up.
I was lucky I was wearing my corset when I read the headline or I fear my sides might have split.
Although it is interesting that for many years now many linux related headlines have been something like:"Linux makes inroades into windows territory X".
Now suddenly we are seeing microsoft execs talking about making inroads into GNU/linux markets. I think this, more than any "get the facts" paper points to how Free systems and open standards are slowly but steadily becoming more common.
I have only one thing to say to you. Bittorrent!
Oh, and Ni!
You sir are gravely mistaken! Correlation does imply causation.
Ramen!
Like Steve Balmer throwing chairs.
I guess HTML must be from Korea then!
Obviously he hasn't been issued his slashdot collar and woman repellant yet!
password management system. Gives you encryption and a master password.
Just put it on a server that you have ssh access to. It's a neat little program.
http://passwordms.sourceforge.net/
Their motto is: We are not evil. Check it out.
I think this man's wife really knows her husband well. In fact I believe that her "hint" was her cristmas present to him,
knowing his geeky side and how much he enjoyed using his skills to help his loved ones. Of course this is all supposition on my part.