2) is the same thing that happens with Windows and you don't see (for example) Canon trying to root my machine when I install my Powershot A620 drivers.
The Star Trek franchise is not exhausted. It is only as exhausted as the people who come up with ideas for it allow it to be. There are PLENTY of ideas that haven't been explored yet - how about something that only tangentially involves Starfleet? Maybe a show about Section 31? Maybe one about life on the frontier of known space?
All that is required is a little imagination. Bring back Ron Moore! Throw Braga down the well!
Hope you don't count Enterprise as "Regular Star Trek" either then. Malcolm was a prig, T'Pol was a freaking drug addict, and Archer was arguably a little unstable.
What is the hardware manufacturers' motivation for not releasing the data necessary to write open-source drivers?
Also, suppose all hardware manufacturers started releasing binary-only drivers and made them free-as-in-beer, but not to decompile. Would you support their incorporation into Linux distros?
Do you put GBA-type carts in the bottom of the DS or the top? Because if it's the bottom it would be pretty nifty if they put a keyboard sticking out the back of the cartridge. Yes, it would make the cartridge much bigger, but who cares? Keyboard! Room for storage, too.
There are essentially only two graphics card companies that count in the world: ATi and NVidia. If ATi documents their card interfaces well enough that open-source drivers can be written, NVidia WILL steal their technology, and vice-versa.
This isn't so much a threat to business models in the software business because there is WAY more competition and charging for support is a valid way to make cash.
What do you want them to do? Give away the hardware and charge for support? Yeah. Good luck with that.
I bet it would be amazing what we'd learn about supporting ecosystems from a colony on the Moon where the only things you can pull in are regolith and possibly some water ice.
I am the last person to disagree with (sane) environmentalists on just about anything, but this is absurd.
A) There is no biosphere on the Moon to disturb, silly. B) Suppose that to learn how to take care of the Earth properly, we first need to explore and understand how processes on other planets work? Suppose that a source of virtually unlimited offplanet resources (like the Moon and asteroid belt) would give us the "buffer" we need to learn how to exist in a state of environmental peace with this planet?
One thing I can promise you is what this WON'T result in:
A) The ability to manipulate the phone hardware B) The ability to control how your phone interacts with the network C) The ability to do anything useful with Bluetooth or any of the other peripherals D) The ability to anything cool at all, really.
Wireless companies are dead-set against locking the consumer out of decisions on how hardware which lives on their networks operates.
This isn't going to be nearly as great as you think it will. Mark my words.
I'm fairly certain I'm not stupid. I'm also growing increasingly more certain that you're mean.
Beyond that, however, I *am* interested in having a serious conversation about this. How do you propose to build a hardware system out of existing components that uses all-libre drivers?
... did you just "foe" me because I advocated making friends with recalcitrant hardware companies?
Lame, man.
By running with closed source blobs crammed into their systems they make the hardware companies feel secure in their choice to distribute those blobs and encourages them to not give proper documentation or open source drivers.
This is unlikely to happen. What is MORE likely to happen is that Linux will continue to grow on both the desktop and server, and soon enough all hardware companies will start documenting their products properly for Linux.
How many hardware companies REALLY provide open-source drivers? There is a big problem with doing this for some companies, especially graphics ones, because doing so exposes some of the trade secrets that allows them to produce their hardware in the first place.
Hardware is not software. There is a fundamental difference between the business model of selling each.
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2) is the same thing that happens with Windows and you don't see (for example) Canon trying to root my machine when I install my Powershot A620 drivers.
The Star Trek franchise is not exhausted. It is only as exhausted as the people who come up with ideas for it allow it to be. There are PLENTY of ideas that haven't been explored yet - how about something that only tangentially involves Starfleet? Maybe a show about Section 31? Maybe one about life on the frontier of known space?
All that is required is a little imagination. Bring back Ron Moore! Throw Braga down the well!
Hope you don't count Enterprise as "Regular Star Trek" either then. Malcolm was a prig, T'Pol was a freaking drug addict, and Archer was arguably a little unstable.
What is the hardware manufacturers' motivation for not releasing the data necessary to write open-source drivers?
Also, suppose all hardware manufacturers started releasing binary-only drivers and made them free-as-in-beer, but not to decompile. Would you support their incorporation into Linux distros?
Seriously!
Then what is the business justification for not publishing the interfaces and allowing open-source development, if not to protect their engineering?
Do you put GBA-type carts in the bottom of the DS or the top? Because if it's the bottom it would be pretty nifty if they put a keyboard sticking out the back of the cartridge. Yes, it would make the cartridge much bigger, but who cares? Keyboard! Room for storage, too.
There are essentially only two graphics card companies that count in the world: ATi and NVidia. If ATi documents their card interfaces well enough that open-source drivers can be written, NVidia WILL steal their technology, and vice-versa.
This isn't so much a threat to business models in the software business because there is WAY more competition and charging for support is a valid way to make cash.
What do you want them to do? Give away the hardware and charge for support? Yeah. Good luck with that.
I can't believe it took THAT many comments for someone to riff on the name.
That would usually be the END of one of those sentences, not the beginning.
........ is the day mp3s will have the same importance as genocide or nuclear holocaust."
i.e. "The day that
Gotta love it.
I don't get it. Your dad does this to your house?
Isn't ReactOS open-source?
I wonder why it's illegal to send humans through the mail.
Either way, the STS needs to go. It's 30-year-old technology, is not truly reusable, and can't do anything at all out of LEO.
We can do far, far better. End the Shuttle program, put the orbiters into museums, and put its operating budget into R&D for a new spacecraft.
Why would they bother? People are going to want to use Citrix, SSH, ftp, etc. - surely they knew that when they installed it.
I bet it would be amazing what we'd learn about supporting ecosystems from a colony on the Moon where the only things you can pull in are regolith and possibly some water ice.
What was the benefit of having a maximum speed?
I am the last person to disagree with (sane) environmentalists on just about anything, but this is absurd.
A) There is no biosphere on the Moon to disturb, silly.
B) Suppose that to learn how to take care of the Earth properly, we first need to explore and understand how processes on other planets work? Suppose that a source of virtually unlimited offplanet resources (like the Moon and asteroid belt) would give us the "buffer" we need to learn how to exist in a state of environmental peace with this planet?
With T9 it's not so bad.
I'm just pretty certain that putting Linux on these things, whatever it does, won't give any more control to the user.
One thing I can promise you is what this WON'T result in:
A) The ability to manipulate the phone hardware
B) The ability to control how your phone interacts with the network
C) The ability to do anything useful with Bluetooth or any of the other peripherals
D) The ability to anything cool at all, really.
Wireless companies are dead-set against locking the consumer out of decisions on how hardware which lives on their networks operates.
This isn't going to be nearly as great as you think it will. Mark my words.
Liar. Everyone knows there are no women on the internet.
This could help with that multi-party system you're afraid of.
I'm fairly certain I'm not stupid. I'm also growing increasingly more certain that you're mean.
Beyond that, however, I *am* interested in having a serious conversation about this. How do you propose to build a hardware system out of existing components that uses all-libre drivers?
What do you do about graphics? Neither ATI nor NVIDIA provide OSS drivers.
... did you just "foe" me because I advocated making friends with recalcitrant hardware companies?
Lame, man.
By running with closed source blobs crammed into their systems they make the hardware companies feel secure in their choice to distribute those blobs and encourages them to not give proper documentation or open source drivers.
This is unlikely to happen. What is MORE likely to happen is that Linux will continue to grow on both the desktop and server, and soon enough all hardware companies will start documenting their products properly for Linux.
How many hardware companies REALLY provide open-source drivers? There is a big problem with doing this for some companies, especially graphics ones, because doing so exposes some of the trade secrets that allows them to produce their hardware in the first place.
Hardware is not software. There is a fundamental difference between the business model of selling each.