You are a weasel, and you are trying to make the world look the way you want it to, rather than the way it _is_.
made me laugh, cause sometimes Linus tries to make the world look the way he wants it to. An example is his Kernel Coding Styles, where he states things like:
Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency is... well... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that (a) K&R are right and (b) K&R are right.
Kevin Mack has captured Torvalds ten most potent comments, and ranked them in order of merit.
December 7, 2003
Summary
Our "Linux Quote of the Week" - chosen yesterday - may be vintage Torvalds, but isn't the best thing Linus has ever said about SCO. So says Kevin Mack, whose has his own Top Ten. LinuxWorld brings it to you here.
10. Not About IP "None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"
9. Custody Battle "SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."
8. Lottery
"we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law "So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."
6. Raelians
"SCO is playing it like the Raelians [the organization backed by Clonaid's founder, known as Rael], saying, 'We'll show you proof in a few weeks, through an expert panel that we trust.' Let's see if there is any baby or not."
5. Jerry Springer "Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women.... Fairly entertaining"
4. Stealing Cars In Bright Daylight
"Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around. With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."
3. Constitution and Marriage "If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"
2. Smoking "They are smoking crack."
And number one, according to Mack...
1. Please Grow Up "we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
I don't agree with random people able to jam the phone signal. However, it makes sense for certain places, like movie theaters, banks, etc, although they should clearly have a sign saying "Warning: Cellphone signal jamming inside the building" or something.
I really prefer to participate in a project which is open sourced rather than closed sourced.
However, I'd like to know if you fellas know about other dev models that could be better in certain circumstances. Or is it just Open Source vs. Closed Source?
I've been using Linux at home since 1995, and enjoyed every moment (even the learning, frustrating ones!); and whenever I can, I try to make my venezuelan friends become aware of GNU/Linux and Free (as in speech) Software.
People at SCO know they are going down. I'm just happy they are not the same ones when they were Caldera, so I'll feel no remorse when they go out of business.
I wrote: "I wonder if any of those guys prosecuting Jon have at least one DVD ripped at home.". Where's the word "illegally" in that sentence?
As you said, it's about your rights to use content you've paid for in the manner you choose. According to that, I can legally own a DVD and rip it for whatever private purpose I have in mind. If you consider it stupid, that's your problem.
He wasn't attacking gnomemeeting. He was attacking the author of the review. Usually she is criticized for doing that kind of reviews ("ugly interface/tried to install, didn't works, so it sucks"). But anyways, I haven't read that much about her, so I can't really tell if that's true.
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You are a weasel, and you are trying to make the world look the way you want it to, rather than the way it _is_.
made me laugh, cause sometimes Linus tries to make the world look the way he wants it to. An example is his Kernel Coding Styles, where he states things like:
Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency is ... well ... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that (a) K&R are right and (b) K&R are right.
I still prefer text based installations, so it will be great if Anaconda will be optional, so Debian will have the best of both worlds.
Does anybody know anything about it?
5.) Don't forget to run something like Spybot or Adaware right after uninstalling Kazaa.
C'mon, guys.... as the RIAA shuts down p2p networks and applications, new ones appear every now and then.
Sherman is doing a similar thing, and won't be the exception.
I guess we'll soon see Kazaa Ultra Lite++++.
That's one of my favorite quotes.
I'm pretty sure McBride saw it coming from everybody else except Linus.
Here's the transcript:
... Fairly entertaining"
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Linus's Top Ten SCO Barbs
Kevin Mack has captured Torvalds ten most potent comments, and ranked them in order of merit.
December 7, 2003
Summary
Our "Linux Quote of the Week" - chosen yesterday - may be vintage Torvalds, but isn't the best thing Linus has ever said about SCO. So says Kevin Mack, whose has his own Top Ten. LinuxWorld brings it to you here.
10. Not About IP
"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"
9. Custody Battle
"SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."
8. Lottery
"we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law
"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."
6. Raelians
"SCO is playing it like the Raelians [the organization backed by Clonaid's founder, known as Rael], saying, 'We'll show you proof in a few weeks, through an expert panel that we trust.' Let's see if there is any baby or not."
5. Jerry Springer
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women.
4. Stealing Cars In Bright Daylight
"Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around. With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."
3. Constitution and Marriage
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"
2. Smoking
"They are smoking crack."
And number one, according to Mack...
1. Please Grow Up
"we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
A large "trusted-mail encryption" database?
Maybe the people at Verisign are drooling over the fact that they didn't think of it first!!
X-D
Yeah, I know we wouldn't be locked to Yahoo!, but I'm pretty sure they would have found a way to monopoly.
Here's another page on the same "cellphone-like" product.
I don't agree with random people able to jam the phone signal. However, it makes sense for certain places, like movie theaters, banks, etc, although they should clearly have a sign saying "Warning: Cellphone signal jamming inside the building" or something.
I really prefer to participate in a project which is open sourced rather than closed sourced.
However, I'd like to know if you fellas know about other dev models that could be better in certain circumstances. Or is it just Open Source vs. Closed Source?
Venezuela also adopted Open Source in its government offices like a year ago.
I've been using Linux at home since 1995, and enjoyed every moment (even the learning, frustrating ones!); and whenever I can, I try to make my venezuelan friends become aware of GNU/Linux and Free (as in speech) Software.
Back to work!
I could use a Palm Thumb.
Here's another review on this book.
Nanotechnology can be really good, but I still find it kinda scary.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of online music retailers!
"I find your lack of bandwidth disturbing..."
And the poor server gets on its knees, gasping.
I already got a "OPEN Hallucigenia Web Site
Leading Edge Design" on the site, and nothing else.... oh, the
People at SCO know they are going down. I'm just happy they are not the same ones when they were Caldera, so I'll feel no remorse when they go out of business.
I wrote: "I wonder if any of those guys prosecuting Jon have at least one DVD ripped at home.". Where's the word "illegally" in that sentence?
As you said, it's about your rights to use content you've paid for in the manner you choose. According to that, I can legally own a DVD and rip it for whatever private purpose I have in mind.
If you consider it stupid, that's your problem.
He wasn't attacking gnomemeeting. He was attacking the author of the review. Usually she is criticized for doing that kind of reviews ("ugly interface/tried to install, didn't works, so it sucks"). But anyways, I haven't read that much about her, so I can't really tell if that's true.
Please introduce me to one of those XD
If any of those guys prosecuting Jon have at least one DVD ripped at home.