I'm a big fan of the "near future" space genre. Another show I remember fondly was Space:above and beyond, which had a fairly short life on fox in the early 90's. I'm not sure if it stands the test of time, but I remember loving the boxy/square capital ships. No magical shields. The "bad guys" were mysterious and acted completely alien -which aliens should do-. And enjoyed how they current day plot lines i.e. racism, into the story arc. E.g. There were serious racial problems between the humans, and the "cloned human soldiers".
Pretty cool stuff! Wish there was a box set or even a torrent I could find this stuff at.
Also, if you're into that sort of sci-fi, there's a series of books called "the gap" by Stephen R. Donaldson which are just incredible! And they only get better from book to book!
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Some things I don't get about open source
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This is one of the things I don't get about open source. Don't the developers of Mozilla open them selves for exploitation developing these projects and then allowing companies like AOL to basically take all their hard work, re-brand it, then make money off of it?
We have a few "internet appliances" in the office which are basically just Linux distributions with a fancy web gui to control them. Yet these companies make boatloads of money selling other people's work. The original programmers don't even get credited!
Is it time for some sort of new GNU? Something that protects the effort these buys put into everything by ensuring that the projects they create can't make _someone else_ rich?
Or am I totally ignorant to how this all works?
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I'm a big fan of the "near future" space genre. Another show I remember fondly was Space:above and beyond, which had a fairly short life on fox in the early 90's. I'm not sure if it stands the test of time, but I remember loving the boxy/square capital ships. No magical shields. The "bad guys" were mysterious and acted completely alien -which aliens should do-. And enjoyed how they current day plot lines i.e. racism, into the story arc. E.g. There were serious racial problems between the humans, and the "cloned human soldiers". Pretty cool stuff! Wish there was a box set or even a torrent I could find this stuff at. Also, if you're into that sort of sci-fi, there's a series of books called "the gap" by Stephen R. Donaldson which are just incredible! And they only get better from book to book! W00t!
This is one of the things I don't get about open source. Don't the developers of Mozilla open them selves for exploitation developing these projects and then allowing companies like AOL to basically take all their hard work, re-brand it, then make money off of it? We have a few "internet appliances" in the office which are basically just Linux distributions with a fancy web gui to control them. Yet these companies make boatloads of money selling other people's work. The original programmers don't even get credited! Is it time for some sort of new GNU? Something that protects the effort these buys put into everything by ensuring that the projects they create can't make _someone else_ rich? Or am I totally ignorant to how this all works?