If it's anything like the computer museum here in Jyväskylä, Finland, then actually YES there's huge stacks of 486's everywhere... But those aren't the ones presenting any storage problems - it's the huge hard drives and stuff from the 50's and 60's that you can't move around without a forklift. And they really can't be sold away to make money - some of the craziest drooling slashdottir MIGHT have the hots for some slick 70's rackmount computer, but nobody wants a room-sized pile of junk metal that could maybe store maybe a megabyte, and in a data-seeking competition would lose to a VIC-1541, if you could afford the electricity to turn it on.
Indeed, who cares if you have to multiply by A or C to convert between some units of measure. All this "3E8 equals a kilo" nonsense should be set straight as soon as possible!
RMS: I don't have anything to do with Linux, perhaps you mean GNU. I will happily give an interview, provided you make it clear that the overall operating system is a combination of the two by calling it GNU/Linux.
With the GPL you're giving anyone the right to take your programs and release them in some package that has a completely different name than you originally intended, right?
So basically obsessing over the name issue is like pointing at a flaw in their own license. (I don't consider it a flaw, but the FSF certainly seems to be unhappy with this feature.)
Like the article says, "Linux" could be named "Sally" tomorrow.
Politely asking distros to change their name to give the GNU people the respect they've deserved is fairly reasonable. But ranting about it to innocent Linux-fanboy-reporters and interested people listening to Stallman's copyleft-speeches turns my vote just a little towards "off his rocker!"
That's probably a bit outdated, the prices are coming down fast... At the moment the "normal" home internet choice is probably 512kbit/512kbit for 50e (~$55) a month.
I used to have an "experimental" 1M/1M wireless (IEEE 802.11b) net for 42e per month, but it didn't work too well... So first they made it 8,5e and after about a year of that, they shut the whole experiment down.
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It indexes Java and all the APIs and stuff as well. And you can open it up in a browser inside Eclipse. Wow.
If it's anything like the computer museum here in Jyväskylä, Finland, then actually YES there's huge stacks of 486's everywhere... But those aren't the ones presenting any storage problems - it's the huge hard drives and stuff from the 50's and 60's that you can't move around without a forklift. And they really can't be sold away to make money - some of the craziest drooling slashdottir MIGHT have the hots for some slick 70's rackmount computer, but nobody wants a room-sized pile of junk metal that could maybe store maybe a megabyte, and in a data-seeking competition would lose to a VIC-1541, if you could afford the electricity to turn it on.
Indeed, who cares if you have to multiply by A or C to convert between some units of measure. All this "3E8 equals a kilo" nonsense should be set straight as soon as possible!
So basically obsessing over the name issue is like pointing at a flaw in their own license. (I don't consider it a flaw, but the FSF certainly seems to be unhappy with this feature.)
Like the article says, "Linux" could be named "Sally" tomorrow.
Politely asking distros to change their name to give the GNU people the respect they've deserved is fairly reasonable. But ranting about it to innocent Linux-fanboy-reporters and interested people listening to Stallman's copyleft-speeches turns my vote just a little towards "off his rocker!"
Finland: as high as $165.89
That's probably a bit outdated, the prices are coming down fast... At the moment the "normal" home internet choice is probably 512kbit/512kbit for 50e (~$55) a month.
I used to have an "experimental" 1M/1M wireless (IEEE 802.11b) net for 42e per month, but it didn't work too well... So first they made it 8,5e and after about a year of that, they shut the whole experiment down.