"When Adam Smith said: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest", he was accurately describing a world in which self-interest creates mutually-beneficial structures."
Adam Smith alas never took into account the benevolence of the cow, wheat, hops or the planet in his calculations. Failing to account for the natural resources used to drive economy was his greatest shortcoming and one still actively avoided by his fans.
It's a shame such a flawed philospohy became so powerful and so widely adapted. The world would be a much better and different place if Adam Smith thought for one second that there were not going to be an infinate amount of cows, trees, clean water, and arable land and that those things need to be accounted for just like every other aspect of economy.
He created the GPL and the FSF in order to change the world. I don't think anybody can argue about the impact of those things, they clearly changed the world.
SQL server is a piece of garbage. Sorry but it's true. It won't even support more then two gigs of ram unless you have enterprise edition which chosts 16K per processor. Aside from that the publish subscribe replication is buggy and broke. Oh and no such thing as shared nothing clustering.
Compared to oracle it's a toy. You'd be better off the postgres.
Yes I do. If you take a look you will notice that all the socialist countries in the world are living a very high standard of living. Those that are less socialist live in much lower standards. Take a look at countries where there is no minimum wage, no free education, no welfare, no social security and no govt subsidies for private enterprise and you will see abject poverty and miserable populations.
Notice I said "socialism is a relatively new invention". Socialism has been around for around two hundred years. Before that mankind lived under different forms of capitalism for thousands of years. We all know how capitalism always end up. Few control everything and eventually the population rises up and revolutions occur.
Socialism has finally been able to end that cycle of violence.
If you don't agree then I submit you are ignorant of thousands of years of mankinds history. Socialism is a new invention, before that capitalism ruled the world. In every single case without fail capitalism ended up as dictatorship, fiefdoms, monarchy, or an oligarchy of some sort. That's because in capitalism the rich always get richer.
"Also, I certainly wouldn't carry a grudge against someone merely because they have become successful."
That's kind of irrelevent. I hold grudges against lots of people for lots of reasons. So what?
"There are still capitalists in the US"
Of course there are. There are also flat earthers, people who believe in aliens and all kinds of other people. Alas reason and evidence shows that the earth is round, there are no aliens and capitalism does not work. Never has, never will. SOcialism is the only form of govt that has proven to work in the long term.
Capitalism is a tidy theory that has led to complete disaster every time it's been put into practice. All capitalist nations have always ended up with a handful of families owning all of the land and natural resources of a nation and eventual revolution where those families have been run out or killed.
that's why today no nation practices capitalim. The US which is the least socialist modern state has a robust welfare system, free education for all, progressive taxation, social security, welfare, medicare, and subsidies for every known industry.
I am afraid socialism has proven to be the only system that has worked and it has worked rather well in europe, asia, and the US. Right now socialism is the most widely practiced system of governance in the world. There are still capitalistic holdout nations in africa and other parts of the third world but they will forever be held back with contants coups, civil wars, and rebellions against the ruling class who control all the wealth.
Capitalism doesn't work, never has, never will. That's why the US is a socialist govt.
Let's pretend the welfare receient does one minute of "work" of some sort every day. At that rate bill gates does less to earn more. Do the math. Even if Bill Gates works 24 hours a day to earn his money it still doesn't add up right.
The economy is a zero sum game it's just the costs are not calculated properly so it doesn't seem like that.
You see every economic activity makes impact on natural resources. Since there is a finite amount of natural resources available the expansion of the economy comes at the cost of natural resources.
So the economy is a zero sum game when you properly take into account the depletion of natural resources. This is the big ugly secret no economist wants to talk about. They would much rather pretend there is an alternate universe with infinate amount of money in it and that it's possible for every person in the world to be zillionaires!. It's a rising tide folks, everybody can be rich!
WOW, they sure are getting a fantastic deal from the US govt. the top 21% of the earners in this country control over 90% of the wealth and yet only pay 55.9% of the taxes.
First time MS tried passport Sun objected and quickly put together a powerful alliance of technology and banking companies to propose a competing effort. Although the effort ultimately produced nothing it spread enough doubt to derail passport.
This time MS is better prepared. They already bought sun for all proactical purposes. With Sun now officially a MS lapdog who will stand in opposition to this venture? Of course the open source community will but they don't own enough politicians to do anything.
It will be interesting to see if any members of the liberty alliance object to this. My guess is that unless some tech company takes the lead they will simply jump on the MS bandwagon.
It's amazing what a few billion can buy you these days. MS by dumping a fistfull of dollars into Suns lap got them out of the way and now will be in full control of the identitiy of everybody in the US.
COngratulations astro turfer. You got modded up to five by basically telling lies. Whoever said slashdot is anti MS is smoking crack. Not only are shills like you spreading MS FUD other shills are modding you up!.
Other people have pointed out lies so I won't go into them.
Ha Ha. Man that's hilarious. Hello MS? Yes. My computer store told me call you. About what? My fonts are all screwed up in word. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is this joe? Cmon man cut it out I have work to do. No I am serious my fonts are all screwed up and my computer store told me you were going to help me fix it.
I wanted to test the same thing with Microsoft Office. I went to the Microsoft web site and tried for four hours to find a download for Microsoft office but I could not.
Needless to say this means I was not able to install Microsoft office at all. Apparently you have to actually go and buy the thing! not only that but MS won't even sell it to you!. You have to either go to a store or buy it online. Then you have to stick the CD in your PC and install it from there.
At that point I said to myself screw it, I can buy the Open office CD for $6.99 at cheapbytes.com so why should I pay $400.00 for open office.
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We know astro turfing is going to go overdrive but one would think slashdot would remain immune to such manipulation. I guess not anymore.
" The GPL and FSF aren't code"
So what? The GPL is a hack of the copyright system and a brilliant one at that.
"When Adam Smith said: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest", he was accurately describing a world in which self-interest creates mutually-beneficial structures."
Adam Smith alas never took into account the benevolence of the cow, wheat, hops or the planet in his calculations. Failing to account for the natural resources used to drive economy was his greatest shortcoming and one still actively avoided by his fans.
It's a shame such a flawed philospohy became so powerful and so widely adapted. The world would be a much better and different place if Adam Smith thought for one second that there were not going to be an infinate amount of cows, trees, clean water, and arable land and that those things need to be accounted for just like every other aspect of economy.
He created the GPL and the FSF in order to change the world. I don't think anybody can argue about the impact of those things, they clearly changed the world.
"You think that furthers FOSS and does not perpetuate a negative image?"
Yes, furthermore it's not anywhere near "hysterical".
"I'm a corporate shill"
Yes I do.
"Hint: there are many FOSS supporters and advocates who cringe when RMS speaks in public."
Not many, some, few, but not many.
"And no you do not seem a fan, you seem a fanboi."
And you seem to be shill.
"So hows that list of corporate speaking engagements coming along?"
You can do your research right? Just ask your boss for one. I would think they keep close track of his movements.
WOW. All the MS shills are getting modded up to five today!.
SQL server is a piece of garbage. Sorry but it's true. It won't even support more then two gigs of ram unless you have enterprise edition which chosts 16K per processor. Aside from that the publish subscribe replication is buggy and broke. Oh and no such thing as shared nothing clustering.
Compared to oracle it's a toy. You'd be better off the postgres.
Your characterization of his analogy as "hysterical" blows what little credibility you may have left.
It's amazing how he seems to raise the hackles of corporate shills everywhere. We need more people like him. If that makes me a fan then so be it.
"I'm under the impression that it is primarily from Linux user groups, academia, and other parts of the FOSS community."
Well then you are under the wrong impression.
"Thank you for blowing any credibility you may have had. End of conversation."
I think you blew any credibility you may have had with your pointless bashing of RMS.
Over 90% believe in God.
Is it just the Americans or are all human beings that gullable.
Yes I do. If you take a look you will notice that all the socialist countries in the world are living a very high standard of living. Those that are less socialist live in much lower standards. Take a look at countries where there is no minimum wage, no free education, no welfare, no social security and no govt subsidies for private enterprise and you will see abject poverty and miserable populations.
What do you do about the mouse? It seems like the travel from keyboard to mouse would be even longer with that keyboard.
"It's no surprise RMS is ignored outside of portions of the FOSS community."
Really? Ignored? I was under the impression there was a tremendous amount of invitation for Mr Stallman to speak at all kinds of functions.
BTW you forgot to call him smelly and a communist. Please do better next time OK?
Notice I said "socialism is a relatively new invention". Socialism has been around for around two hundred years. Before that mankind lived under different forms of capitalism for thousands of years. We all know how capitalism always end up. Few control everything and eventually the population rises up and revolutions occur.
Socialism has finally been able to end that cycle of violence.
" I do not agree that capitalism does not work."
If you don't agree then I submit you are ignorant of thousands of years of mankinds history. Socialism is a new invention, before that capitalism ruled the world. In every single case without fail capitalism ended up as dictatorship, fiefdoms, monarchy, or an oligarchy of some sort. That's because in capitalism the rich always get richer.
"Also, I certainly wouldn't carry a grudge against someone merely because they have become successful."
That's kind of irrelevent. I hold grudges against lots of people for lots of reasons. So what?
"There are still capitalists in the US"
Of course there are. There are also flat earthers, people who believe in aliens and all kinds of other people. Alas reason and evidence shows that the earth is round, there are no aliens and capitalism does not work. Never has, never will. SOcialism is the only form of govt that has proven to work in the long term.
Capitalism is a tidy theory that has led to complete disaster every time it's been put into practice. All capitalist nations have always ended up with a handful of families owning all of the land and natural resources of a nation and eventual revolution where those families have been run out or killed.
that's why today no nation practices capitalim. The US which is the least socialist modern state has a robust welfare system, free education for all, progressive taxation, social security, welfare, medicare, and subsidies for every known industry.
I am afraid socialism has proven to be the only system that has worked and it has worked rather well in europe, asia, and the US. Right now socialism is the most widely practiced system of governance in the world. There are still capitalistic holdout nations in africa and other parts of the third world but they will forever be held back with contants coups, civil wars, and rebellions against the ruling class who control all the wealth.
Capitalism doesn't work, never has, never will. That's why the US is a socialist govt.
Let's pretend the welfare receient does one minute of "work" of some sort every day. At that rate bill gates does less to earn more. Do the math. Even if Bill Gates works 24 hours a day to earn his money it still doesn't add up right.
The economy is a zero sum game it's just the costs are not calculated properly so it doesn't seem like that.
You see every economic activity makes impact on natural resources. Since there is a finite amount of natural resources available the expansion of the economy comes at the cost of natural resources.
So the economy is a zero sum game when you properly take into account the depletion of natural resources. This is the big ugly secret no economist wants to talk about. They would much rather pretend there is an alternate universe with infinate amount of money in it and that it's possible for every person in the world to be zillionaires!. It's a rising tide folks, everybody can be rich!
WOW, they sure are getting a fantastic deal from the US govt. the top 21% of the earners in this country control over 90% of the wealth and yet only pay 55.9% of the taxes.
First time MS tried passport Sun objected and quickly put together a powerful alliance of technology and banking companies to propose a competing effort. Although the effort ultimately produced nothing it spread enough doubt to derail passport.
This time MS is better prepared. They already bought sun for all proactical purposes. With Sun now officially a MS lapdog who will stand in opposition to this venture? Of course the open source community will but they don't own enough politicians to do anything.
It will be interesting to see if any members of the liberty alliance object to this. My guess is that unless some tech company takes the lead they will simply jump on the MS bandwagon.
It's amazing what a few billion can buy you these days. MS by dumping a fistfull of dollars into Suns lap got them out of the way and now will be in full control of the identitiy of everybody in the US.
COngratulations astro turfer. You got modded up to five by basically telling lies. Whoever said slashdot is anti MS is smoking crack. Not only are shills like you spreading MS FUD other shills are modding you up!.
Other people have pointed out lies so I won't go into them.
Ha Ha. Man that's hilarious.
Hello MS?
Yes.
My computer store told me call you.
About what?
My fonts are all screwed up in word.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is this joe? Cmon man cut it out I have work to do.
No I am serious my fonts are all screwed up and my computer store told me you were going to help me fix it.
Or I could just call you a liar. The latter seems more plausable and easier to accomplish.
" And how would you install new software to hundreds of desktops"
I would not. I would seek a solution where that was not the normal way of distributing applications.
I wanted to test the same thing with Microsoft Office. I went to the Microsoft web site and tried for four hours to find a download for Microsoft office but I could not.
Needless to say this means I was not able to install Microsoft office at all. Apparently you have to actually go and buy the thing! not only that but MS won't even sell it to you!. You have to either go to a store or buy it online. Then you have to stick the CD in your PC and install it from there.
At that point I said to myself screw it, I can buy the Open office CD for $6.99 at cheapbytes.com so why should I pay $400.00 for open office.