Yeah, I agree. Data should be guarded by high priests who keep it pure and untainted by the common people.
That used to be the attitude that programmers use to take before PC's. Fortunately those days are over and we all have to opportunity to participate, and even *gasp*, make mistakes.
I know nothing about databases, but I use them. Maybe not as efficiently as some guy in his white tower, but it works. They seem rather simple to me, certainly not something to base a career out of.
Game, and all other pure "shrinkwrap" box) developers, make their money by keeping the source (and other IP) closed. Period. If iD and another software developer decide that the need "help" developing a common game core or that they may benefit, then they can sign a development agreement to share their IP. There is no need to extend that agreement to others who may use that game core to compete against them.
You may belive otherwise, but the marketplace says differently. If there were true benefits to going opensource, then the software houses would do it.
"Over the long term, increasing productivity is the strongest factor in determining a country's overall wealth."
I used to believe that. Now, I ask myself what do we mean about the "country's overall wealth"? Where is the weath shifted to? Certainly not to the worker who lost his job or the guy who puts in more hours to increase productivity. Most likely it shifts to the owners of the enterprise.
Of course, we are talking about a city government here - so the owners are the taxpayers. In general though, I am skeptical about those who talk about increasing the overall wealth of a country.
Be careful too when you rely on unemployment numbers. Not only are they not terribly accurate - they do not indicate the quality of those remaining jobs. We should be concerned about the fact that we have given many of our maufacturing expertise (jobs) here in the West (North America/Europe).
Maybe people are starting to wake up to the fact that the majority of people care about free as in beer and not free as in free? Maybe the developers are sick and tired of putting in long hours on a project without getting anything back? If he was smart, he should have kept the whole thing closed source. The author of mirc has a good reputation and also several hundreds of thousands as dollars to show for his hard work.
Er, where do you think all those cheap goods at Walmart are coming from? Where do you think 90% of the clothing sold in the U.S. is coming from?Free market economies that pay a "fair wage"? Nope, Vietnam, China, Mexico. All hell hole places I wouldn't want to live in.
Um, dude, this is just the blog of a guy who fixes bugs at Microsoft. He isn't the chief architect of the company or the guy that designed Word. Don't read too much into it. Not everyone at Microsoft thinks the same way.
A more apt comparision would be open source is like an author writing a book and the publisher making it free to copy and redistribute. Of course puslishers don't do this, it would be financial disaster - as OSS is. The people (service/support companies) profiting from OSS aren't nescessarily the same people who are writing the software. Think about that the next time you consider making something you wrote OSS.
Why would Sun open themselves up to such patent liabilities by acquiring a software company that has invested so much in Linux? According to the Open Source Risk Management corporation (who groklaw.net cofounder and linux evangelist Pamela Jones is an executive), Linux may infringe on as many as 283 patents! See here for more info:
Admits implies that they were "caught" doing something untoward and revealed something that they would rather not reveal. In this case, the simply "announced" it, and their reasons are valid. If you have five equal links, why wouldn't you put your affiliate at the top? It makes sense to do so.
"measles, smallpox,and plague,those were epidemics where almost everyone who contracted the disease passed it on, and 99% of everyone who got the disease died"
Huh, 99% of people with measles, smallpox or plague die?
In South Africa, from 2000 to 2003 the overall death rate increased by 24.3%. Is that enough of a rocket for you?
BTW, Magic takes Combvir (which contains AZT), so you and you wierdo anti-HIV freaks can get stuffed. HIV DOES cause AIDS, and yes it is a major issue in Africa. Please go visit and see for yourself.
Yeah, right. The doctor had METHADONE on his equipment when he was preparing food at some point? When was this doctor preparing food with methadone in it and for what purpose? You know what methadone is don't you? It doesn't commonly go in food.;-)
Oh darn, how did those steriods get into the powerbars? Maybe the farmer who grew the oats accidentally dropped a few grams of steriods out of his pocket when he was fertilizing the field. Yeah, thats it!
Hero worship knows no boundariesI guess for some people.
Uh, I think his point is that it is unlikely that these "athles" (as you called them) ingested drugs without them knowing about it. As you said yourself, their diets are tightly controlled and everything they take is recorded by the teams. Therefore it is silly to day that he tested positive for METHADONE for chrissakes by eating something. These guys are all taking some sort of performance enhancing substance - admit it.
Its not decadent to want something that works NOW, rather than waiting for something that may never arrive, and may not provide any benefits. Kernels are a tool to acheieve an end goal: to support an OS that will run applications. The end user doesn't care if its microkernel or not.
It is also illogical for you assume a microkernel design is superior since you haven't seen one true example succeed. Most likely there is a reason for this, and I doubt it can be blamed on the culture. After all, work on the HURD has been continuing for over 20 years with no evidence of technical superiority. How long should a customer wait?
Yes, but if this "contribution back" actually occurs and is so beneficial to everyone involved, then the person that forks the BSD code would be compelled to contribute back anyway. It would be in their best interest to do so, according to those who belive in the GPL and the OSS concept. However, if they used GPL code, they would be *forced by the GPL* to contribute back not only their changes to the code they used, but also any code that "touched" that code (within limits of course), which is clearly may not in the best interest of the developer.
In the real world this is a significant different and makes the BSD license *more free* to me. I personally think the GPL is much less useful because of this, and this difference is why so many other licenses are used for significant OSS from commercial sources.
Of course, if you live in an academic world (like Richard Stalin (I mean Stallman), you are not concerned with these issues so the GPL seems reasonable.
Interesting. The 64 bit version will enforce the NX data segment capabilities that is the cause of so many buffer overflows. This can only enhance the security of our servers, no matter what OS they are running. Although SP2 has added this, Linux and the BSD's also can leverage this feature.
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Yeah, I agree. Data should be guarded by high priests who keep it pure and untainted by the common people.
That used to be the attitude that programmers use to take before PC's. Fortunately those days are over and we all have to opportunity to participate, and even *gasp*, make mistakes.
I know nothing about databases, but I use them. Maybe not as efficiently as some guy in his white tower, but it works. They seem rather simple to me, certainly not something to base a career out of.
Out of interest, what type of company do you work for? Do you work for an open source company?
Game, and all other pure "shrinkwrap" box) developers, make their money by keeping the source (and other IP) closed. Period. If iD and another software developer decide that the need "help" developing a common game core or that they may benefit, then they can sign a development agreement to share their IP. There is no need to extend that agreement to others who may use that game core to compete against them. You may belive otherwise, but the marketplace says differently. If there were true benefits to going opensource, then the software houses would do it.
"Over the long term, increasing productivity is the strongest factor in determining a country's overall wealth."
I used to believe that. Now, I ask myself what do we mean about the "country's overall wealth"? Where is the weath shifted to? Certainly not to the worker who lost his job or the guy who puts in more hours to increase productivity. Most likely it shifts to the owners of the enterprise.
Of course, we are talking about a city government here - so the owners are the taxpayers. In general though, I am skeptical about those who talk about increasing the overall wealth of a country.
Be careful too when you rely on unemployment numbers. Not only are they not terribly accurate - they do not indicate the quality of those remaining jobs. We should be concerned about the fact that we have given many of our maufacturing expertise (jobs) here in the West (North America/Europe).
Maybe people are starting to wake up to the fact that the majority of people care about free as in beer and not free as in free? Maybe the developers are sick and tired of putting in long hours on a project without getting anything back? If he was smart, he should have kept the whole thing closed source. The author of mirc has a good reputation and also several hundreds of thousands as dollars to show for his hard work.
Uh, if the GPL is found to be invalid or legally non-binding, then you are not violating copyright law.
Er, where do you think all those cheap goods at Walmart are coming from? Where do you think 90% of the clothing sold in the U.S. is coming from?Free market economies that pay a "fair wage"? Nope, Vietnam, China, Mexico. All hell hole places I wouldn't want to live in.
Um, dude, this is just the blog of a guy who fixes bugs at Microsoft. He isn't the chief architect of the company or the guy that designed Word. Don't read too much into it. Not everyone at Microsoft thinks the same way.
Maybe it is due to your poor spelling. You know, it does make a difference in life.
A more apt comparision would be open source is like an author writing a book and the publisher making it free to copy and redistribute. Of course puslishers don't do this, it would be financial disaster - as OSS is. The people (service/support companies) profiting from OSS aren't nescessarily the same people who are writing the software. Think about that the next time you consider making something you wrote OSS.
All those issues have been fixed in the newest version. Hans told me so. Please upgrade.
Corrected link: http://news.com.com/Group%3A+Linux+potentially+inf ringes+283+patents/2100-7344_3-5291403.html?tag=ne fd.top
Why would Sun open themselves up to such patent liabilities by acquiring a software company that has invested so much in Linux? According to the Open Source Risk Management corporation (who groklaw.net cofounder and linux evangelist Pamela Jones is an executive), Linux may infringe on as many as 283 patents! See here for more info:
i nf ringes+283+patents/2100-7344_3-5291403.html?tag=ne fd.top
http://news.com.com/Group%3A+Linux+potentially+
Admits implies that they were "caught" doing something untoward and revealed something that they would rather not reveal. In this case, the simply "announced" it, and their reasons are valid. If you have five equal links, why wouldn't you put your affiliate at the top? It makes sense to do so.
"measles, smallpox,and plague,those were epidemics where almost everyone who contracted the disease passed it on, and 99% of everyone who got the disease died"
Huh, 99% of people with measles, smallpox or plague die?
In South Africa, from 2000 to 2003 the overall death rate increased by 24.3%. Is that enough of a rocket for you?
BTW, Magic takes Combvir (which contains AZT), so you and you wierdo anti-HIV freaks can get stuffed. HIV DOES cause AIDS, and yes it is a major issue in Africa. Please go visit and see for yourself.
Yeah, right. The doctor had METHADONE on his equipment when he was preparing food at some point? When was this doctor preparing food with methadone in it and for what purpose? You know what methadone is don't you? It doesn't commonly go in food. ;-)
Oh darn, how did those steriods get into the powerbars? Maybe the farmer who grew the oats accidentally dropped a few grams of steriods out of his pocket when he was fertilizing the field. Yeah, thats it!
Hero worship knows no boundariesI guess for some people.
Uh, I think his point is that it is unlikely that these "athles" (as you called them) ingested drugs without them knowing about it. As you said yourself, their diets are tightly controlled and everything they take is recorded by the teams. Therefore it is silly to day that he tested positive for METHADONE for chrissakes by eating something. These guys are all taking some sort of performance enhancing substance - admit it.
Maybe they don't want to damage the books by slapping a sticker on them? Some of these books are very old.
Because:
a) Maybe these guys don't want to work for Microsoft
b) There isn't a significant amount of people switching from Windows to Linux on the desktop.
Its not decadent to want something that works NOW, rather than waiting for something that may never arrive, and may not provide any benefits. Kernels are a tool to acheieve an end goal: to support an OS that will run applications. The end user doesn't care if its microkernel or not.
It is also illogical for you assume a microkernel design is superior since you haven't seen one true example succeed. Most likely there is a reason for this, and I doubt it can be blamed on the culture. After all, work on the HURD has been continuing for over 20 years with no evidence of technical superiority. How long should a customer wait?
Yes, but in his case he hasn't one a *single* presidential campaign. As a matter of fact, all the campaigns listed were dismal failures.
Why are you laughing? Do you know if their claims have merit, or are you just assuming it to gain karma?
Yes, but if this "contribution back" actually occurs and is so beneficial to everyone involved, then the person that forks the BSD code would be compelled to contribute back anyway. It would be in their best interest to do so, according to those who belive in the GPL and the OSS concept. However, if they used GPL code, they would be *forced by the GPL* to contribute back not only their changes to the code they used, but also any code that "touched" that code (within limits of course), which is clearly may not in the best interest of the developer.
In the real world this is a significant different and makes the BSD license *more free* to me. I personally think the GPL is much less useful because of this, and this difference is why so many other licenses are used for significant OSS from commercial sources.
Of course, if you live in an academic world (like Richard Stalin (I mean Stallman), you are not concerned with these issues so the GPL seems reasonable.
Interesting. The 64 bit version will enforce the NX data segment capabilities that is the cause of so many buffer overflows. This can only enhance the security of our servers, no matter what OS they are running. Although SP2 has added this, Linux and the BSD's also can leverage this feature.
Do these guys work for SCO too?