And the answer is, "I'm not." But the problem is the person getting the question has to prove a negative and is simultaneously labeled.
The baseline premise is "Sexism exists in FOSS" and then comes the denials and the denials are variously flamed.
Are there very bad actors in FOSS? Yes. But it's not unique to FOSS or any other social group. Do they need to be admonished and probably 'banished' in some way? Yes. Because the behavior is entirely inappropriate regardless of gender.
If you want to approach issues like this as 'generally innapropriate behavior' I'm on board. If you want to correct someone by telling them, "Don't write X because to my group it means bad thing Y' I'm on board. I'm NOT on board when an article starts with a premise that cannot be altered.
wish Symbian would die already, its a horrible system and all apps require certification from Symbian
Oh really? THen how would the MAME port for Symbian ever work on my phone? How about any one of a number of openSSH clients for Symbian?
Windows Mobile I still except to stick around, it's quite nice system and you can run any apps WTF? I know a few people that have regretted buying Microsoft's offering inside a phone. I know I'm not alone.
Seriously, you guys don't know what you have been missing with Symbian devices. Tons of applications, stable OS, excellent media Freedom.
Now that the OS is supposed to be GPL'd at some point, it might help it's case against more rudimentary products from Apple and Google.
I would argue Intel's strength relies a little on the U.S. intellectual property laws and procedures. If the country loosened intellectual property law, Nvidia might have a chance in hell.
But this is also about a global market where 80% of product comes from maybe 10% of all possible manufacturers and there are few laws preventing Intel from doing all kinds of market shenanigans in places like China.
I know the loosening of intellectual property laws would help Nvidia's case, but I don't think it would bring about a semi-competitive marketplace because this market (global OEM) has few legal constraints.
As much as I do really believe that Linux is the right choice, the summary is not accurate. The London Stock Exchange acquired a Sri Lankan dev shop who will write the exchange software and the outsourced dev work is suddenly made a whole lot cheaper.
It seems to me you have a deep psychological drive to be in abusive relationships. You have engaged the one of the worst actors in the software business and then defend them. Did you have an abusive parent? Because that's what Microsoft is in this situation.
A reasonable person NOT in your situation would see that Microsoft is hostile to all other software alternatives. You have taken the slightest appearances of 'good' and defend them to the point you look like a fool because a reasonable person sees the obvious, consistently hostile, abuse Microsoft heaps on all other software alternatives. Nowhere is this more evident in the patent minefield Microsoft has laid out around your Mono project.
This isn't healthy for you. I know it may seem perfectly normal, because it is if you are used to abusive relationships. There's a reason you get flamed every single time you try to add anything to defend your position. It's because all of those people see what Microsoft is and you are replying using the crazy-think of someone who is in an abusive, neglectful relationship.
I'll give you a hint, their customers are not the admins who actually have to comprehend and create policy/procedure to abide by License terms. They have two primary customers. 1. The retail consumer who doesn't read EULA's and willfully violates them. 2. The purchasing manager/executive class.
Sysadmins aren't on that list.
Moreover, Mr. Ballmer is giving the implicit nod to violate the terms of the license agreements. Guess who loses on that deal? The sysadmin!
you need to access the PlayStation Store to buy games. This kills price competition and used game sales in one fell swoop, Ahhh sweet, sweet capitalism. Manufacturers go to great lengths to eliminate competition. This is a big win for Sony, consumers won't care.
while also making owners of any original PSP games unable to play them on the new hardware. That's the point. Buy expensive Sony hardware today! Yesterday's purchase means nothing to them.
They also decry the switch to proprietary cables ditto. Sony's not going to get rich on this, but they are taking advantage of consumers pleasure of owning expensive jails. Many./ers will get one and tons more kids will have them.
This will go over good-enough. Sony will certainly come out richer for it. We, as consumers, are poorer for it.
The SIM card has cryptographic functions. Now, the bazillion dollar question is there a vaguely consistent cryptographic hook at the phone application layer?
The follow-on statement for us Yanks is this will never happen. Any attempts to make it so will be summarily ignored by the carriers. Why? Because it contributes to the idea that the carrier is not necessary.
I've used snort to do this passively in a couple of different shops. I don't know why client software is even necessary when I have traffic destinations in a pretty web gui via BASE.
After I heard about I was like "oh damn it. They got write what all these LAMP Stack PHP applications couldn't think of: LDAP, Kerberos, and the ability to turn binary documents into readable searchable articles."
My gut feeling is there are some details missing. LDAP and Kerberos are not interdependent. Especially for web applications. However, in Microsoft's world, it is.
This suggests you were trying, like *many* before and after you, to connect a LAMP stack with a Microsoft identity stack. Microsoft makes this intentionally difficult, so there should be little surprise that it's an epic fail.
GeekLog was a prime example of how Linux developers could have stopped the sharepoint nightmare before it started. If it was that simple, Microsoft would have been in the has-been ranks populated by Novell a long time ago.
Microsoft drowns out competing platforms and even their own developer-base when the market is big enough roughly in this order. 1. They bring consistently inferior product to market, then spend their way into the market segment. The disconnect here is that their core market is where the purchasing manager is totally disconnected from IT. That is most big IT shops. 2. Microsoft AND the executive class who bought the license blames IT for bungling the deployment.
Sales people's job is to move widgets. Sell more widgets == more take-home pay.
-They aren't paid to be factual. -They aren't paid to keep the best interests of the consumer in mind. -The job, as designed, requires no training. In fact it rewards the absence of training.
This is the same all over. Laptops, packaged investments, American health insurance. Doesn't matter.
You seem to be a bit personally affected by this kind of speech. I've never seen it work out well. Now, I'm only one person with limited experiences. Otherwise, I have a great job and no immediate job stability worries.
Mea culpas like this are a way to soothe customers and not do anything about it.
'New talent' claims are especially suspicious because the problem, typically, is a more global work environment issue brought on by the executive staff who, coincidentally, never change.
Two years from now it will be the same speech. 5 years from now, same speech. Why? culture won't have changed.
1. Why should software go through Ubuntu to get validated by UI Experts? I'm thinking he's trying to herd cats in order to create the mythical 'consistent user interface.'*
2. If he wants to make Ubuntu financially self-sustaining, Linux desktops that play well with media conglomerates aren't going to get anywhere.
Bottom line, I get the feeling he sees himself as the great entrepreneurial hope for all of Free Software and that it, in general, will be successful when his company is successful. Well, Mr. Shuttleworth, they were doing fine without you.
*A consistent user interface doesn't exist. Mac's Finder UI looks remarkably similar to the Disk Utility, it doesn't help you work with either one! If anything, one builds expectations the other fails to deliver.
The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function. What, exactly, is logical about the Home ribbon in Excel then? SMASHED in with cut/paste is formatting and sorting. None of which are particularly clue-ful or present any sense of order whatsoever.
How come there isn't a 'File' tab with lots of file functions smashed together?
In addition, every common action can be performed in two mouse clicks or less: one to select the ribbon governing what you would like, and one more to select the specific action.
Opening a file? at least three clicks. Printing? three clicks. Sorting? At least two, probably more clicks for most sorts. Data activities? Three clicks at least. Stop spreading misinformation
I'll give you the undo/redo buttons conform to your claims, and there is 'buttonizing' of some things that Microsoft probably had complaints about, but as broadly as you make your claims they are materially false.
Please, don't change the scope of your sweeping declarations in order to for your claims to approximate truthiness.
If it's not *specific* company policy, then don't say a word.
1. Because no good deed goes unpunished. 2. Humans are incredibly stubborn. Informing them of risks with almost no career consequences AND they'll probably do anyway will be mostly wasted breath. 3. Sharing remotely related information is not the purpose of the meeting. I have an idea, have the meeting finish on time or early. Incredible, right? It's amazing what happens when people respect the boundaries established by the meeting time.
I would take the advice and put it on paper, (no corporate letterhead) and call it 'helpful information.' End the meeting by announcing it as a 'bonus gift!' Interested people will take one. Publish a PDF for the international people.
I doubt there is that much variance between a "modern" top notch violin and what he created.
There's actually lots of differences. The listening scenario is playing the same song on two different instruments by the same player. It's obvious then, but that doesn't make a good performance that people are willing to pay for. NPR did a story like that one Sunday morning.
Also remember that modern violins are played at a higher pitch with modern strings that appeal more to listeners than really old violins. Old instruments are, for sure, a subculture buried deep inside a niche.
You know, the Stradivarius like most instruments in the > $10,000 range (they go way up from there) has a sound that intuitively appeals to classical players/listeners. But there are a bunch of other makers that make very distinctive instruments of equal stature. They just don't have the celebrity status of Stradivarius.
Anyway, back to your blind sound test. The paying listener, is hearing the instrument in context of a song, so its characteristics aren't obvious. There is so much that goes into a single performance that attracts lots of paying customers, a Stradivarius in the first chair isn't relevant. Who's in the first chair? What songs will they play? etc.
Also keep in mind consumers of classical music prefer the sound of a modern violin. the tension of the strings has increased meaningfully over the centuries and so has the pitch. So a Stradivarius isn't really built to handle the tension or modern strings.
While there is some interest in playing classical instruments strung with animal-based strings and tuned like they were centuries ago, it's a tiny niche.
a) Run a typical distro only recompiled or is a lot of software x86-specific? Debian has an ARM version of their distro. From personal experience, I found everything to run an nslu2 server without exception. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Very, very efficient platform. The nslu2 had no crypto coprocessor, so ssl stuff was slow, but still, the nslu2 was one of the most useful devices ever. b) Run wine? No. Wine isn't an emulator, so all of those x86 Windows compiled apps won't work. c) Run virtualbox w/windows? Depends. If virtualbox is an emulator, then you will be good to go. If it isn't, then you run into the wine problem. d) Be able to use w32codecs so everything plays? Probably not. Again, the whole x86 thing gets in the way.
What's more important to keep in mind are the binary blobs buried in some Linux drivers/applications. Epson's Linux driver is the perfect example. Not only is it a bear to build because it needs an ancient tool chain, but there are x86 blobs in the sources as provided by Epson. So, Epson printers are a total waste of money on arm.
HP's drivers build perfectly on ARM though. So, not only do you get an easily networked printer, but an easily networked scanner too.
the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
You know, that's the perfect kind of demagogue that Science can use to rise again. Except, no basic research would ever get funded because it won't make anyone happy. Simply ignore unpleasant aspects of reality because it compromises my happiness.
The general idea being there is a lack of discord in fields of research because the money for research comes with strings attached in the form of corporate sponsored research or politically motivated public-sector grant processes.
Science's irrelevance is some of the long-time-in-coming consequences of a society that emphasizes short-term, extremely self-interested value system with a repudiation of the notion of social plurality.
Unless they adapt by supporting cavemen and women riding dinosaurs or hitching a ride on some other demagogue, Science remains irrelevant.
After all, I don't benefit from science in any special way. Where's my flying car so I (alone) can leave the unwashed masses on the ground. How about my super-smart pill so only my children and I don't have to work very hard?
I mean c'mon... This science thing is bunk unless I alone profit at the expense of everyone else.
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And the answer is, "I'm not." But the problem is the person getting the question has to prove a negative and is simultaneously labeled.
The baseline premise is "Sexism exists in FOSS" and then comes the denials and the denials are variously flamed.
Are there very bad actors in FOSS? Yes. But it's not unique to FOSS or any other social group. Do they need to be admonished and probably 'banished' in some way? Yes. Because the behavior is entirely inappropriate regardless of gender.
If you want to approach issues like this as 'generally innapropriate behavior' I'm on board. If you want to correct someone by telling them, "Don't write X because to my group it means bad thing Y' I'm on board. I'm NOT on board when an article starts with a premise that cannot be altered.
wish Symbian would die already, its a horrible system and all apps require certification from Symbian
Oh really? THen how would the MAME port for Symbian ever work on my phone? How about any one of a number of openSSH clients for Symbian?
Windows Mobile I still except to stick around, it's quite nice system and you can run any apps
WTF? I know a few people that have regretted buying Microsoft's offering inside a phone. I know I'm not alone.
Seriously, you guys don't know what you have been missing with Symbian devices. Tons of applications, stable OS, excellent media Freedom.
Now that the OS is supposed to be GPL'd at some point, it might help it's case against more rudimentary products from Apple and Google.
I would argue Intel's strength relies a little on the U.S. intellectual property laws and procedures. If the country loosened intellectual property law, Nvidia might have a chance in hell.
But this is also about a global market where 80% of product comes from maybe 10% of all possible manufacturers and there are few laws preventing Intel from doing all kinds of market shenanigans in places like China.
I know the loosening of intellectual property laws would help Nvidia's case, but I don't think it would bring about a semi-competitive marketplace because this market (global OEM) has few legal constraints.
Therefore, please send a royalty of $5 USD for each infringement (aka view) to my papal account www-data@localhost.
Will anyone else be surprised when Microsoft backs out on today's agreement when they take exception to some fuzzy detail?
This is a classic delay tactic. Meanwhile the EU is conditioned to accept their misbehavior thus paving the way for more abuse.
As much as I do really believe that Linux is the right choice, the summary is not accurate. The London Stock Exchange acquired a Sri Lankan dev shop who will write the exchange software and the outsourced dev work is suddenly made a whole lot cheaper.
It seems to me you have a deep psychological drive to be in abusive relationships. You have engaged the one of the worst actors in the software business and then defend them. Did you have an abusive parent? Because that's what Microsoft is in this situation.
A reasonable person NOT in your situation would see that Microsoft is hostile to all other software alternatives. You have taken the slightest appearances of 'good' and defend them to the point you look like a fool because a reasonable person sees the obvious, consistently hostile, abuse Microsoft heaps on all other software alternatives. Nowhere is this more evident in the patent minefield Microsoft has laid out around your Mono project.
This isn't healthy for you. I know it may seem perfectly normal, because it is if you are used to abusive relationships. There's a reason you get flamed every single time you try to add anything to defend your position. It's because all of those people see what Microsoft is and you are replying using the crazy-think of someone who is in an abusive, neglectful relationship.
I'll give you a hint, their customers are not the admins who actually have to comprehend and create policy/procedure to abide by License terms. They have two primary customers.
1. The retail consumer who doesn't read EULA's and willfully violates them.
2. The purchasing manager/executive class.
Sysadmins aren't on that list.
Moreover, Mr. Ballmer is giving the implicit nod to violate the terms of the license agreements. Guess who loses on that deal? The sysadmin!
you need to access the PlayStation Store to buy games. This kills price competition and used game sales in one fell swoop,
Ahhh sweet, sweet capitalism. Manufacturers go to great lengths to eliminate competition. This is a big win for Sony, consumers won't care.
while also making owners of any original PSP games unable to play them on the new hardware.
That's the point. Buy expensive Sony hardware today! Yesterday's purchase means nothing to them.
They also decry the switch to proprietary cables ./ers will get one and tons more kids will have them.
ditto. Sony's not going to get rich on this, but they are taking advantage of consumers pleasure of owning expensive jails. Many
This will go over good-enough. Sony will certainly come out richer for it. We, as consumers, are poorer for it.
The SIM card has cryptographic functions. Now, the bazillion dollar question is there a vaguely consistent cryptographic hook at the phone application layer?
The follow-on statement for us Yanks is this will never happen. Any attempts to make it so will be summarily ignored by the carriers. Why? Because it contributes to the idea that the carrier is not necessary.
I've used snort to do this passively in a couple of different shops. I don't know why client software is even necessary when I have traffic destinations in a pretty web gui via BASE.
They are exactly right. The only thing that matters is that the ad might register with some purchasing manager. Accuracy be damned.
Meanwhile the honest db developer/supporter is irreparably harmed. They can't possibly defend it.
After I heard about I was like "oh damn it. They got write what all these LAMP Stack PHP applications couldn't think of: LDAP, Kerberos, and the ability to turn binary documents into readable searchable articles."
My gut feeling is there are some details missing. LDAP and Kerberos are not interdependent. Especially for web applications. However, in Microsoft's world, it is.
This suggests you were trying, like *many* before and after you, to connect a LAMP stack with a Microsoft identity stack. Microsoft makes this intentionally difficult, so there should be little surprise that it's an epic fail.
GeekLog was a prime example of how Linux developers could have stopped the sharepoint nightmare before it started.
If it was that simple, Microsoft would have been in the has-been ranks populated by Novell a long time ago.
Microsoft drowns out competing platforms and even their own developer-base when the market is big enough roughly in this order.
1. They bring consistently inferior product to market, then spend their way into the market segment. The disconnect here is that their core market is where the purchasing manager is totally disconnected from IT. That is most big IT shops.
2. Microsoft AND the executive class who bought the license blames IT for bungling the deployment.
Microsoft wins!
Sales people's job is to move widgets. Sell more widgets == more take-home pay.
-They aren't paid to be factual.
-They aren't paid to keep the best interests of the consumer in mind.
-The job, as designed, requires no training. In fact it rewards the absence of training.
This is the same all over. Laptops, packaged investments, American health insurance. Doesn't matter.
You seem to be a bit personally affected by this kind of speech.
I've never seen it work out well. Now, I'm only one person with limited experiences. Otherwise, I have a great job and no immediate job stability worries.
Mea culpas like this are a way to soothe customers and not do anything about it.
'New talent' claims are especially suspicious because the problem, typically, is a more global work environment issue brought on by the executive staff who, coincidentally, never change.
Two years from now it will be the same speech. 5 years from now, same speech. Why? culture won't have changed.
1. Why should software go through Ubuntu to get validated by UI Experts? I'm thinking he's trying to herd cats in order to create the mythical 'consistent user interface.'*
2. If he wants to make Ubuntu financially self-sustaining, Linux desktops that play well with media conglomerates aren't going to get anywhere.
Bottom line, I get the feeling he sees himself as the great entrepreneurial hope for all of Free Software and that it, in general, will be successful when his company is successful. Well, Mr. Shuttleworth, they were doing fine without you.
*A consistent user interface doesn't exist. Mac's Finder UI looks remarkably similar to the Disk Utility, it doesn't help you work with either one! If anything, one builds expectations the other fails to deliver.
Mod parent down.
The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function.
What, exactly, is logical about the Home ribbon in Excel then? SMASHED in with cut/paste is formatting and sorting. None of which are particularly clue-ful or present any sense of order whatsoever.
How come there isn't a 'File' tab with lots of file functions smashed together?
In addition, every common action can be performed in two mouse clicks or less: one to select the ribbon governing what you would like, and one more to select the specific action.
Opening a file? at least three clicks. Printing? three clicks. Sorting? At least two, probably more clicks for most sorts. Data activities? Three clicks at least. Stop spreading misinformation
I'll give you the undo/redo buttons conform to your claims, and there is 'buttonizing' of some things that Microsoft probably had complaints about, but as broadly as you make your claims they are materially false.
Please, don't change the scope of your sweeping declarations in order to for your claims to approximate truthiness.
If it's not *specific* company policy, then don't say a word.
1. Because no good deed goes unpunished.
2. Humans are incredibly stubborn. Informing them of risks with almost no career consequences AND they'll probably do anyway will be mostly wasted breath.
3. Sharing remotely related information is not the purpose of the meeting. I have an idea, have the meeting finish on time or early. Incredible, right? It's amazing what happens when people respect the boundaries established by the meeting time.
I would take the advice and put it on paper, (no corporate letterhead) and call it 'helpful information.' End the meeting by announcing it as a 'bonus gift!' Interested people will take one. Publish a PDF for the international people.
I doubt there is that much variance between a "modern" top notch violin and what he created.
There's actually lots of differences. The listening scenario is playing the same song on two different instruments by the same player. It's obvious then, but that doesn't make a good performance that people are willing to pay for. NPR did a story like that one Sunday morning.
Also remember that modern violins are played at a higher pitch with modern strings that appeal more to listeners than really old violins. Old instruments are, for sure, a subculture buried deep inside a niche.
Stradivarius is just the most well-known name.
You know, the Stradivarius like most instruments in the > $10,000 range (they go way up from there) has a sound that intuitively appeals to classical players/listeners. But there are a bunch of other makers that make very distinctive instruments of equal stature. They just don't have the celebrity status of Stradivarius.
Anyway, back to your blind sound test. The paying listener, is hearing the instrument in context of a song, so its characteristics aren't obvious. There is so much that goes into a single performance that attracts lots of paying customers, a Stradivarius in the first chair isn't relevant. Who's in the first chair? What songs will they play? etc.
Also keep in mind consumers of classical music prefer the sound of a modern violin. the tension of the strings has increased meaningfully over the centuries and so has the pitch. So a Stradivarius isn't really built to handle the tension or modern strings.
While there is some interest in playing classical instruments strung with animal-based strings and tuned like they were centuries ago, it's a tiny niche.
Most things actually.
a) Run a typical distro only recompiled or is a lot of software x86-specific?
Debian has an ARM version of their distro. From personal experience, I found everything to run an nslu2 server without exception. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Very, very efficient platform. The nslu2 had no crypto coprocessor, so ssl stuff was slow, but still, the nslu2 was one of the most useful devices ever.
b) Run wine?
No. Wine isn't an emulator, so all of those x86 Windows compiled apps won't work.
c) Run virtualbox w/windows?
Depends. If virtualbox is an emulator, then you will be good to go. If it isn't, then you run into the wine problem.
d) Be able to use w32codecs so everything plays?
Probably not. Again, the whole x86 thing gets in the way.
What's more important to keep in mind are the binary blobs buried in some Linux drivers/applications. Epson's Linux driver is the perfect example. Not only is it a bear to build because it needs an ancient tool chain, but there are x86 blobs in the sources as provided by Epson. So, Epson printers are a total waste of money on arm.
HP's drivers build perfectly on ARM though. So, not only do you get an easily networked printer, but an easily networked scanner too.
the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
You know, that's the perfect kind of demagogue that Science can use to rise again. Except, no basic research would ever get funded because it won't make anyone happy. Simply ignore unpleasant aspects of reality because it compromises my happiness.
The general idea being there is a lack of discord in fields of research because the money for research comes with strings attached in the form of corporate sponsored research or politically motivated public-sector grant processes.
Here's a nice example of one way the social science of economics has become irrelevant.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/09/why-economists-rarely-saw-bad-things-about-the-fed.html
Science's irrelevance is some of the long-time-in-coming consequences of a society that emphasizes short-term, extremely self-interested value system with a repudiation of the notion of social plurality.
Unless they adapt by supporting cavemen and women riding dinosaurs or hitching a ride on some other demagogue, Science remains irrelevant.
After all, I don't benefit from science in any special way. Where's my flying car so I (alone) can leave the unwashed masses on the ground. How about my super-smart pill so only my children and I don't have to work very hard?
I mean c'mon... This science thing is bunk unless I alone profit at the expense of everyone else.