When predicting the future, the present is a good guide. However, one must examine the correct components of the present. Extrapolating from the wrong stuff will make you seem like a loony thirty years from now. The list of right things to look at invariably places people at the top of the list, with technology a few places lower down.
Sure we'll have faster processors and larger hard drives. But so what? That has nothing to do with what the future will be like.
Sure we'll have the capability to integrate computers, telephones, televisions, game consoles, refrigerators and kitchen sinks into one small pocket sized device. But who the hell would want one? Extrapolating from the "featuritus" of the present is fraught with error.
Instead, you have to look at the people. People don't change. What are people (not corporations) excited about? What are they standing in line to buy? Stay away from the expos, pundits and technophiles. Look at what common everyday people are doing.
It is very hard to "move" code, with the exception of code designed to be moved. The BSD TCP/IP stack is code that was designed to be moved. There is no contradiction.
Maybe if you read closer instead of just skimming over the first words of paragraphs, you wouldn't be so disinterested.
I'm in California. They say I can pick my own company, but in *reality* it just changes who bills you. I have a choice of PGE or a billing company for PGE. That's because it's still PGE that's generating and distributing the power. There was no deregulation in this state, only a change in the nature of the regulation.
That's sort of what you do on your job. You put in the least amount of work for the wage that you can, without going over the line and getting fired. (assuming a job that is relatively uninteresting)
We're all that way. It's called enlightened self interest. Don't blame other people for doing what you yourself do it all the tiem.
The answer is easy. Power companies are monopolies. I don't have a choice with whom I do business. The reality is that you only get a choice of one power company, one local telephone service, and one local cable company, simply because there is only one set of lines coming into your home.
Internet connections, at least in the US, or different. You have an extensive choice of providers. I live in a metropolitan area, and I have a choice of about two dozen providers. A friend who lives in a rural agricultural area still has a choice of four providers, two of which are high speed. You might have to pay a tiny surcharge to your local telco monopoly, but the choice is there.
A provider that gives one person preferential treatment over another for the same fees is going to be at a competitive disadvantage.
To quote what I think is the greatest book ever (Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand):
If you think that book is the greatest ever, you need to seriously broaden your literary horizons! As a novel it's a second rate dystopia. As a philosophy it rivals the Matrix in sophistication. As a cult vehicle, though, it's right up there with Dianetics.
This is also the reason why a recently published right-thinking-tank flamebait (honoured on Slashdot) that the original global warming research is flawed
Maybe if you guys didn't divide the world into left/right, with all right thinking people on the left, we might take you more seriously. For something as large and pervasive and the planet to be politicized into ideological property of the left leads me to think that this is religion more than science.
If you have a disagreement with the current "thinking" on global warming, you are automatically labeled "right wing". Your opinion on environmentalism will determine your opinions on tax cuts, the invasion of Iraq, and gay marriage. The left has divided the world of opinion into two. Although you are given some latitude as to the strength of your opinions, you MUST accept all of their ideology, or none of it.
"You don't believe that global warming is happening?!? I bet you're one of those people who thinks catsup is a vegetable, you nimrod!"
Same thing with SATA. It's one reason my home desktop never got Linux on it, because at the time I built it (only a year ago), no shipping Linux distro would install on it due to the SATA drives.
You're not going to ever have concrete unassailable proof. But you CAN have firm evidence. A process where every committer must claim the code as original helps a lot.
My 2.8 P4 did not come with the heatsink glued on. They came in the same package, to be sure, but they did not come glued together. That I had to do manually with the supplied heat conductive tape.
Of course, a 2.8GHz P4 is grossly obsolete. Perhaps Intel has subsequently changed their packaging.
I must be missing something in amid these posts, because the obvious question to me is, "why not just return the CPU with the fan?" After all, the fan came with the CPU. You have the fan. They are not sold separately.
Okay, you misunderstood me. Go all the way back to the orginal post. It was asking whether CVS logs were sufficient "proof". I replied that they were not. Do you have a problem with this statement?
I was not disparaging CVS. I was only pointing out that it does not do what the original poster thought it did.
When I said "you Linux advocates", I was not referring to you specifically. I was referring to the masses of posts here saying that there isn't a problem. The fact is that there is a problem. Even Linus Torvalds admits it.
I apologize if I singled out your specific instance of this attitude.
That is a fake bogeyman made up by marxists to denigrate popular control of the economy
There is no popular control of the economy. That is because ownership of corporations has been so diluted that the owners no longer control them. You mention popular control and state control, but you don't mention the third option, which is capitalism: private control.
The corporations would exist still, with a slightly different legal status, but with the same size, power, and operation style.
Large businesses whill of course continue to exist. But without the special privileges that governments grant to corporations, they'll be much different beasts. First of all, control will remain with a few owners, instead of diluted among millions of shareholders. While those few owners might still be greedy bastards, at least a human being is there making decisions, instead of some business process. Second, liability will reside with those who make the decisions. As it stands now, no one in a corporation takes responsibility for what a corporation does.
Only partly. The FSF wants copyrights so that it can enforce the GPL on the software it owns. McKusick's argument comes from the other direction. The paper trail is to prevent third parties from laying claim to Linux.
The infrastructure to provide copyright assignments is not going to help in providing the paper trail that is talked about. That's because you typically sign an assignment statement once, and not for every submission.
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When predicting the future, the present is a good guide. However, one must examine the correct components of the present. Extrapolating from the wrong stuff will make you seem like a loony thirty years from now. The list of right things to look at invariably places people at the top of the list, with technology a few places lower down.
Sure we'll have faster processors and larger hard drives. But so what? That has nothing to do with what the future will be like.
Sure we'll have the capability to integrate computers, telephones, televisions, game consoles, refrigerators and kitchen sinks into one small pocket sized device. But who the hell would want one? Extrapolating from the "featuritus" of the present is fraught with error.
Instead, you have to look at the people. People don't change. What are people (not corporations) excited about? What are they standing in line to buy? Stay away from the expos, pundits and technophiles. Look at what common everyday people are doing.
It is very hard to "move" code, with the exception of code designed to be moved. The BSD TCP/IP stack is code that was designed to be moved. There is no contradiction.
Maybe if you read closer instead of just skimming over the first words of paragraphs, you wouldn't be so disinterested.
You mean like on Solaris for x86? Go check again...
I'm in California. They say I can pick my own company, but in *reality* it just changes who bills you. I have a choice of PGE or a billing company for PGE. That's because it's still PGE that's generating and distributing the power. There was no deregulation in this state, only a change in the nature of the regulation.
Bingo! Who cares that it supports GIF and PNG? I want a music player to support MUSIC formats!
So glad to know you're always self sacrificing and always honest.
That's sort of what you do on your job. You put in the least amount of work for the wage that you can, without going over the line and getting fired. (assuming a job that is relatively uninteresting)
We're all that way. It's called enlightened self interest. Don't blame other people for doing what you yourself do it all the tiem.
The answer is easy. Power companies are monopolies. I don't have a choice with whom I do business. The reality is that you only get a choice of one power company, one local telephone service, and one local cable company, simply because there is only one set of lines coming into your home.
Internet connections, at least in the US, or different. You have an extensive choice of providers. I live in a metropolitan area, and I have a choice of about two dozen providers. A friend who lives in a rural agricultural area still has a choice of four providers, two of which are high speed. You might have to pay a tiny surcharge to your local telco monopoly, but the choice is there.
A provider that gives one person preferential treatment over another for the same fees is going to be at a competitive disadvantage.
To quote what I think is the greatest book ever (Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand):
If you think that book is the greatest ever, you need to seriously broaden your literary horizons! As a novel it's a second rate dystopia. As a philosophy it rivals the Matrix in sophistication. As a cult vehicle, though, it's right up there with Dianetics.
Take a look at the punishments handed out by ancient Babylon, and then tell me that sentencing hasn't been lowered over the years :-)
This is also the reason why a recently published right-thinking-tank flamebait (honoured on Slashdot) that the original global warming research is flawed
Maybe if you guys didn't divide the world into left/right, with all right thinking people on the left, we might take you more seriously. For something as large and pervasive and the planet to be politicized into ideological property of the left leads me to think that this is religion more than science.
If you have a disagreement with the current "thinking" on global warming, you are automatically labeled "right wing". Your opinion on environmentalism will determine your opinions on tax cuts, the invasion of Iraq, and gay marriage. The left has divided the world of opinion into two. Although you are given some latitude as to the strength of your opinions, you MUST accept all of their ideology, or none of it.
"You don't believe that global warming is happening?!? I bet you're one of those people who thinks catsup is a vegetable, you nimrod!"
Slices are also used by nearly every other Unix and Unix-like operating system out there.
Same thing with SATA. It's one reason my home desktop never got Linux on it, because at the time I built it (only a year ago), no shipping Linux distro would install on it due to the SATA drives.
BSD is going to die a long slow death if it doesn't stop requiring users to buy an AT&T license!
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so I'm having to prep to pay for licensing since we use postfix with MySQL
According to the GPL, there are no restrictions on use. So why is MySQL making you buy a license?
Development costs do not enter into the margin calculation. Your 10% profit margin figure is baseless.
You're not going to ever have concrete unassailable proof. But you CAN have firm evidence. A process where every committer must claim the code as original helps a lot.
My 2.8 P4 did not come with the heatsink glued on. They came in the same package, to be sure, but they did not come glued together. That I had to do manually with the supplied heat conductive tape.
Of course, a 2.8GHz P4 is grossly obsolete. Perhaps Intel has subsequently changed their packaging.
I must be missing something in amid these posts, because the obvious question to me is, "why not just return the CPU with the fan?" After all, the fan came with the CPU. You have the fan. They are not sold separately.
Okay, you misunderstood me. Go all the way back to the orginal post. It was asking whether CVS logs were sufficient "proof". I replied that they were not. Do you have a problem with this statement?
I was not disparaging CVS. I was only pointing out that it does not do what the original poster thought it did.
Isn't that what I just said? CVS can't possibly know who authored the code.
When I said "you Linux advocates", I was not referring to you specifically. I was referring to the masses of posts here saying that there isn't a problem. The fact is that there is a problem. Even Linus Torvalds admits it.
I apologize if I singled out your specific instance of this attitude.
That is a fake bogeyman made up by marxists to denigrate popular control of the economy
There is no popular control of the economy. That is because ownership of corporations has been so diluted that the owners no longer control them. You mention popular control and state control, but you don't mention the third option, which is capitalism: private control.
The corporations would exist still, with a slightly different legal status, but with the same size, power, and operation style.
Large businesses whill of course continue to exist. But without the special privileges that governments grant to corporations, they'll be much different beasts. First of all, control will remain with a few owners, instead of diluted among millions of shareholders. While those few owners might still be greedy bastards, at least a human being is there making decisions, instead of some business process. Second, liability will reside with those who make the decisions. As it stands now, no one in a corporation takes responsibility for what a corporation does.
Only partly. The FSF wants copyrights so that it can enforce the GPL on the software it owns. McKusick's argument comes from the other direction. The paper trail is to prevent third parties from laying claim to Linux.
The infrastructure to provide copyright assignments is not going to help in providing the paper trail that is talked about. That's because you typically sign an assignment statement once, and not for every submission.