You are obviously an asshole. Please actually _READ_ Machiavelli, Machiavelli was being CRITICAL, you can't take what he said VERBATIM, he was questioning the power of the government at the time. It's called Sarcasm, read about it some day.
Well, actually the Main OS of the Free Software Movement is GNU. It's called Linux by many, but that fact doesn't change what it is.
About Linus not working anymore on linux is not really that important, there are lots out there working on the kernel. And there are still a lot of pigs out there that have the same twisted ideas and lack of moral that Linus has, and that will continue to deny the existence of GNU.
Yes, the same happends to me. It sucks and i still have it in my firefox's sidebar. About other sites, try OSNews, it's to serious for my taste, but combined with/. it's ok.
It's so fun when US Citizens talk about mass murder. They are the biggest killers ever, but seems to allways remember masacrees done by others. Oh, i forgot, they masacrees are "Crusades for world peace", like their sponsorhip of the dictatorships in Latin America, The masacree Nicaragua, or the was of Iraq.
m... geez, i don't understand how people can mix up words written in a brain-dead language that is only spoken in a few places over this world... may be there are actually people living outside the US?. I heard once about them on the CNN. A magic race of people that are not US Citizens, how weird!.
No. I Said all this stuff when he was alive, years ago. Thank you.
AFAIK the name of my father wasn't "Satan". Get this into your head: There is No god, There is no Satan. You are on your own, if you are to weak to assume Life, then just kill yourself, you looser.
There is a project. That project is named GNU. They develop the majority of the software. Other people CONTRIBUTES pieces of software to this project. That does justify a name change?, NO. It's still called GNU. Suddenly, people FORGETS ABOUT GNU and forgets about WHAT GNU MEANS, and just calls the system Linux, leaving behind all the philosofical background. Then, GNU advocates proposte that peoples call the system GNU/Linux, when actually should be just GNU, in order to try to agree on a name and stop the discussion. I Don't really care about the name, if the name was something trivial, that didn't have some other value. We previously had Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. It doens't matter. The name doesn't have any special meaning. But, in this case, it does. GNU has a strong philosofical background. Linux Doesn't. That's why the system should be called GNU, or GNU/Linux if you want to give credit to Torvalds.
What contribution are you talking about?. He was a religious person, that's more than enough to diserve death. Then, he was a catholic. Then, he was the head of the single most corrupt organization ever (the catholic church), responsible for more deaths and other atrocitys than any other organization / company / state / person. He was a right wing asshole that just diserved to die. Celebrate the death of this motherfucker. And, don't post more offtopic shit.
Every asshole out there is calling the GNU System + the Linux kernel just "Linux". When people refers to GNU/Linux, they say "Linux is an operating system". When people refers to GNU, they say "It's a project to create a free operating system". Hello?; A "Project", it sounds as it was never finished, the system is here, and you are using it !!! All this misconception was created by Torvadls and other "Open Source" advocates, if you don't beleive me, just read the release notes for some _old_ versions of Linux, from even before distributions existed, and see how Torvalds talks about his kernel as a full operating system, and only mentions that 'some pieces of software where taken from gnu'
I Said he gives a shit about FREE SOFTWARE. Free Software IS NOT THE SAME as Open Source. Free Software is a movement started by RMS More than 20 years ago, that deffends the FREEDOM of the users of Computers. Open Source is a movement started allmost a decade later than Free Software, by Linus Torvalds & Co. in order to STEAL the efforts of the Free Software movement, forgeting the ethical reasons that created GNU, leaving ONLY the practical advantages of the development model created by Free Software. Go read some history.
It's not really that ironic. If they would be employing RMS, then that would be Ironic, but Mr. Torvalds is not really against proprietary software, he actually uses propritetary software, and gives a shit about users freedom. He just used the Free Software comunity to get his project done. He really doesn't care about our philosofy.
I Know that Linux uses it, and i Know that Linux is not really Free Software. GNU/HURD is allmost usable now, if it doesn't get stable soon, i will go for OpenBSD, i really hate Open Source, and if i can't have my GNU Operating System, i will go for BSD, but you and your Linux can go fuck yourselves.
Jokes stop being funny at some point, where they start being annoying. And This joke was never fun in the same place, since this kind of behavior from the editors is the kind we get everyday in/. (dupes, false historys, etc.), only today they are actually making an effort to do it worse than they do everyday.
/. is posting dups, and storys that doesn't make sense, are false, are badly written, and have lots of typos... They forgot that today is Aprils 1st?, They should be doing something special;-)
Bitkeeper is PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE. How is this a good thing?. It doesn't matter if they get to pay for it or not. The most popular Free Software Desktop now depends on a proprietary tool to exist?. This doesn't really make any sense. They went through this nightmare once with QT (Back in the time where QT was proprietary), didn't they learn a damn thing?
I have serious concerns about GPLFlash, because of two reasons:
1) The SWF format, i'm not sure it's legal to read/write in this format, i would like to know what patents Macromedia holds over Flash, and over SWF specifically-
2) Each time there is a proprietary format, and some Free Software development tries to interact with it, the company changes the app that creates those files to break interoperability. Also, since there is a Free player, but not a Free aplication that let's you create this files, you, by seing SWF files, are encouraging the use of a proprietary aplication (Flash itself, used to create SWF files) and a proprietary format (SWF)
If Macromedia Ports they software to GNU/Linux, they would be actually HURTING our comunity, because they would be trying to give us proprietary software. This is not about software availability for a specific plataform, this is about users freedom to use the software, we don't need more restrictive software runing under a free plataform, we need more software that let's it's users be free. If Macromedia wants to help our comunity, then they should release their software under a Free Software license.
They present a new piece of Free Software, that is supossed to help the hacker community, and they use proprietary software (Flash) to show the software to the public?. This kind of thing hurts the GNU Project, because it makes people think that using proprietary software is ok.
Yes, and that's the other solution. Get really high and just imagine that you can see through your computer:)
The Camera idea wouldn't work. That is, it wouldn't look real. The color depth and definition of webcams usually suck, also, the lens of the camera would be about 10 cm away from the screen in the case of LCDs, let's not even talk about CRTs, So you would se an image that doesn't actually fit the context.
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You are obviously an asshole. Please actually _READ_ Machiavelli, Machiavelli was being CRITICAL, you can't take what he said VERBATIM, he was questioning the power of the government at the time. It's called Sarcasm, read about it some day.
You are lucky that Uncle RMS doesn't read /. ;-)
You messed with ALMAFUERTE, obviously you don't know who he was, you seem to have burned your history books.
BTW, The Bible is a book. I Don't burn Books. I prefere to burn the people that beleives that shit, they diserve it, the books don't.
Well, actually the Main OS of the Free Software Movement is GNU. It's called Linux by many, but that fact doesn't change what it is.
About Linus not working anymore on linux is not really that important, there are lots out there working on the kernel. And there are still a lot of pigs out there that have the same twisted ideas and lack of moral that Linus has, and that will continue to deny the existence of GNU.
Yes, the same happends to me. It sucks and i still have it in my firefox's sidebar. About other sites, try OSNews, it's to serious for my taste, but combined with /. it's ok.
schizophrenia.
It's so fun when US Citizens talk about mass murder. They are the biggest killers ever, but seems to allways remember masacrees done by others. Oh, i forgot, they masacrees are "Crusades for world peace", like their sponsorhip of the dictatorships in Latin America, The masacree Nicaragua, or the was of Iraq.
m ... geez, i don't understand how people can mix up words written in a brain-dead language that is only spoken in a few places over this world ... may be there are actually people living outside the US?. I heard once about them on the CNN. A magic race of people that are not US Citizens, how weird!.
No, I'm not. I'm an Atheist, YOU sir, are the ignorant that beleives in God.
No. I Said all this stuff when he was alive, years ago. Thank you.
AFAIK the name of my father wasn't "Satan". Get this into your head: There is No god, There is no Satan. You are on your own, if you are to weak to assume Life, then just kill yourself, you looser.
There is a project. That project is named GNU. They develop the majority of the software. Other people CONTRIBUTES pieces of software to this project. That does justify a name change?, NO. It's still called GNU. Suddenly, people FORGETS ABOUT GNU and forgets about WHAT GNU MEANS, and just calls the system Linux, leaving behind all the philosofical background. Then, GNU advocates proposte that peoples call the system GNU/Linux, when actually should be just GNU, in order to try to agree on a name and stop the discussion.
I Don't really care about the name, if the name was something trivial, that didn't have some other value. We previously had Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. It doens't matter. The name doesn't have any special meaning. But, in this case, it does. GNU has a strong philosofical background. Linux Doesn't. That's why the system should be called GNU, or GNU/Linux if you want to give credit to Torvalds.
What contribution are you talking about?.
He was a religious person, that's more than enough to diserve death. Then, he was a catholic. Then, he was the head of the single most corrupt organization ever (the catholic church), responsible for more deaths and other atrocitys than any other organization / company / state / person. He was a right wing asshole that just diserved to die.
Celebrate the death of this motherfucker. And, don't post more offtopic shit.
Every asshole out there is calling the GNU System + the Linux kernel just "Linux". When people refers to GNU/Linux, they say "Linux is an operating system". When people refers to GNU, they say "It's a project to create a free operating system". Hello?; A "Project", it sounds as it was never finished, the system is here, and you are using it !!!
All this misconception was created by Torvadls and other "Open Source" advocates, if you don't beleive me, just read the release notes for some _old_ versions of Linux, from even before distributions existed, and see how Torvalds talks about his kernel as a full operating system, and only mentions that 'some pieces of software where taken from gnu'
I Said he gives a shit about FREE SOFTWARE. Free Software IS NOT THE SAME as Open Source. Free Software is a movement started by RMS More than 20 years ago, that deffends the FREEDOM of the users of Computers. Open Source is a movement started allmost a decade later than Free Software, by Linus Torvalds & Co. in order to STEAL the efforts of the Free Software movement, forgeting the ethical reasons that created GNU, leaving ONLY the practical advantages of the development model created by Free Software. Go read some history.
It's not really that ironic. If they would be employing RMS, then that would be Ironic, but Mr. Torvalds is not really against proprietary software, he actually uses propritetary software, and gives a shit about users freedom. He just used the Free Software comunity to get his project done. He really doesn't care about our philosofy.
I Know that Linux uses it, and i Know that Linux is not really Free Software. GNU/HURD is allmost usable now, if it doesn't get stable soon, i will go for OpenBSD, i really hate Open Source, and if i can't have my GNU Operating System, i will go for BSD, but you and your Linux can go fuck yourselves.
I must respectfully disagree with you, dear sir. Slashdot started sucking years ago. :-)
Jokes stop being funny at some point, where they start being annoying. And This joke was never fun in the same place, since this kind of behavior from the editors is the kind we get everyday in /. (dupes, false historys, etc.), only today they are actually making an effort to do it worse than they do everyday.
/. is posting dups, and storys that doesn't make sense, are false, are badly written, and have lots of typos ... They forgot that today is Aprils 1st?, They should be doing something special ;-)
Bitkeeper is PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE. How is this a good thing?. It doesn't matter if they get to pay for it or not. The most popular Free Software Desktop now depends on a proprietary tool to exist?. This doesn't really make any sense. They went through this nightmare once with QT (Back in the time where QT was proprietary), didn't they learn a damn thing?
I have serious concerns about GPLFlash, because of two reasons:
1) The SWF format, i'm not sure it's legal to read/write in this format, i would like to know what patents Macromedia holds over Flash, and over SWF specifically-
2) Each time there is a proprietary format, and some Free Software development tries to interact with it, the company changes the app that creates those files to break interoperability. Also, since there is a Free player, but not a Free aplication that let's you create this files, you, by seing SWF files, are encouraging the use of a proprietary aplication (Flash itself, used to create SWF files) and a proprietary format (SWF)
If Macromedia Ports they software to GNU/Linux, they would be actually HURTING our comunity, because they would be trying to give us proprietary software.
This is not about software availability for a specific plataform, this is about users freedom to use the software, we don't need more restrictive software runing under a free plataform, we need more software that let's it's users be free. If Macromedia wants to help our comunity, then they should release their software under a Free Software license.
They present a new piece of Free Software, that is supossed to help the hacker community, and they use proprietary software (Flash) to show the software to the public?. This kind of thing hurts the GNU Project, because it makes people think that using proprietary software is ok.
Yes, and that's the other solution. Get really high and just imagine that you can see through your computer :)
The Camera idea wouldn't work. That is, it wouldn't look real. The color depth and definition of webcams usually suck, also, the lens of the camera would be about 10 cm away from the screen in the case of LCDs, let's not even talk about CRTs, So you would se an image that doesn't actually fit the context.
World Domination?, You mean France, Google, or Micro$oft? ;-)