I have to wait for community written software in the form of an ISO because I am poor? Isn't that creating false scarcity? Information wants to be "free". Charge for support, not our software.
Yeah, minor issue though - SourceForge is owned by VA Software (LNUX on Nasdaq) who has reaped millions from their IPO. Sourceforge is no more open source than www.microsoft.com is.
#3 is very important! I can't believe that Slashdotters don't seem to care about this issue. VASoftware is actively selling SourceForge as an "offshoring" tool (not even "outsourcing", but OFFSHORING).
Yeah, they are all out to get you - just you in your 96 Camaro. Its funny how if "No one, and I mean no one" slows down and there is "a cop car often in the same spot" yet the cops don't just pull them ALL over and ticket them - just you. After all its all about the revenue right? Why would they just "pick you out of the crowd" if it was all about the revenue? Wouldn't they ticket the entire crowd instead?
Oh please. Get over yourself. You are not as important as you think you are. If you are, then just sit in the firehouse all day because GOD FORBID your precious pager malfunctions or batteries die.
Yeah, yeah, I know: "I hope you still feel that way when I save your kid from a creek". Whatever.
I don't understand this. What is so smart about clicking on an icon to bring up a program and mashing computer keys to put symbols into a writing program? Gorilla's can do that and even form sentences.
The entire article is idiotic. No one has ever said that it is hard to double click on an icon in Linux to bring up a program.
Not all software is not freely copyable, it is in fact illegal to do so when prohibited by the license. So software is not a public good, unless it is.
Re:Per-Seat pricing is fine.
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Wrong. You cannot legally take a copy of RHEL and install it on 20 machines if you only have 1 license, not matter who is providing support for the other 19 machines. This is what we are talking about. Redhat is selling something that a lot of people put work into for free. Suckers.
No, they would be detained because their fingerprints matched those on the terrorism watch list. Most of the 9/11 hijackers would have been stopped and 9/11 would not have happened.
"If Individual A joins a terrorist group, but keeps his head low, he won't be on any of the lists. If he's careful, there'll be no way to say that he is a terrorist"
Wrongo. Almost all the Sept 11 terrorist were on the terrorism watch list. However there was no system in place to match those people to the watch list. Now there is a system in place.
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I have to wait for community written software in the form of an ISO because I am poor? Isn't that creating false scarcity? Information wants to be "free". Charge for support, not our software.
I need Mandrake ISO's but I don't want to pay to be in the club. Where can I get some?
POS systems aren't *fun* to develop. We only work on things that are fun for us. After all, we are doing this for fun - in our spare time.
VALinux claims to make money from sourceforge.net (not their commercial closed source product). See their 10Q's for more info.
"And while VA Software may have "reaped millions from their IPO," one may wonder where all of that money is now."
A lot of it went into the pockets of the executives when they exercised their options on their stock.
Yeah, minor issue though - SourceForge is owned by VA Software (LNUX on Nasdaq) who has reaped millions from their IPO. Sourceforge is no more open source than www.microsoft.com is.
VA doesn't even call it "outsourcing". They call it "offshoring". So much for supporting the "community".
#3 is very important! I can't believe that Slashdotters don't seem to care about this issue. VASoftware is actively selling SourceForge as an "offshoring" tool (not even "outsourcing", but OFFSHORING).
decent, not descent.
Nonsense. "Artists" survive due to the marketing abilities of the record companies and the RIAA. They need the RIAA more than the RIAA needs them.
Yes, of course. What is your point?
Yeah, they are all out to get you - just you in your 96 Camaro. Its funny how if "No one, and I mean no one" slows down and there is "a cop car often in the same spot" yet the cops don't just pull them ALL over and ticket them - just you. After all its all about the revenue right? Why would they just "pick you out of the crowd" if it was all about the revenue? Wouldn't they ticket the entire crowd instead?
Oh please. Get over yourself. You are not as important as you think you are. If you are, then just sit in the firehouse all day because GOD FORBID your precious pager malfunctions or batteries die.
Yeah, yeah, I know: "I hope you still feel that way when I save your kid from a creek". Whatever.
Actually they are. Check out:
http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/
Chimps have been communicating with computers in experiments since the 1970's.
What do you mean? That is a sentence with a grammatical error.
Uh, how is taking code from your personal code library copying code without permission? Where do you work? Do you actually work in the industry?
I don't understand this. What is so smart about clicking on an icon to bring up a program and mashing computer keys to put symbols into a writing program? Gorilla's can do that and even form sentences.
The entire article is idiotic. No one has ever said that it is hard to double click on an icon in Linux to bring up a program.
Question from a Yank: how does RyanAir charge 99p or nothing for a flight and make money? Is there a catch?
"Sadly, scientists, like most people, are more interested in being right"
Yeah, I hate those people. Imagine trying to be right, instead of wrong. Bastards.
OK, thats the most stupid thing I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Not all software is not freely copyable, it is in fact illegal to do so when prohibited by the license. So software is not a public good, unless it is.
His point is that his "out-of-date" programming knowledge is not out of date at all. It still applies in XP land as it did in 3.1 land.
zumwalt not kumwalt
Wrong. You cannot legally take a copy of RHEL and install it on 20 machines if you only have 1 license, not matter who is providing support for the other 19 machines. This is what we are talking about. Redhat is selling something that a lot of people put work into for free. Suckers.
No, they would be detained because their fingerprints matched those on the terrorism watch list. Most of the 9/11 hijackers would have been stopped and 9/11 would not have happened.
"If Individual A joins a terrorist group, but keeps his head low, he won't be on any of the lists. If he's careful, there'll be no way to say that he is a terrorist"
Wrongo. Almost all the Sept 11 terrorist were on the terrorism watch list. However there was no system in place to match those people to the watch list. Now there is a system in place.
Have fun in Africa. I heard its wonderful!