You are missing his point. Communist is a trigger word. Like terrorist. It doesn't matter what it actually means he is using the word because he know how your typical american will react to it.
You are a communist. To the average american this means you belong in jail. That's what he is after.
Every state gets federal dollars. Every state contributes to the federal coffers. The states that take more then they give are the leechers in jesusland. States like CA, NY, NJ etc give more to the federal govt then they take.
The people of jesusland leech off of the people of the northeast and CA.
If the sales don't take off like they are predicting (unlikely) then they might drop the price. Until then it makes no sense to drop the price on something you can't keep on the shelves.
I was looking at building a mini-itx system myself just to run freebsd as a small silent server. I no longer see any point to that. This box costs about the same but way more horsepower. Yowsa!
I hate to tell you but the police will never win. Despite thousands of years of police work crime still exists. Sure sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down but they have not been able to eliminate it.
As long as crime pays people will commit crimes. As long as pirating pays people will pirate.
Lying cheating and stealing is unethical, immoral, and disgusting even if you are doing it to make money.
Also socialism or a little socialism is not the same as communism. Bill Gates called us Communist. He didn't say "open source is a little like socialism". If he had said that I would not have a problem with it.
"And I do not know about you, but I'd buy stocks in a company that would increase MY bottom line."
Then you are definately not like me. I consider the ethical consequences of my investments. You are just greedy and don't care, you just want money. Money is not more important to me then my morals or ethics.
"If you're going to be on a moral highground and judge your investments as Good and Evil, you'd make an absolutely lousy businessman."
I agree with you. To be a successful businessman you have to leave your morals and ethics at home. When you get to work you have to be ready to lie, cheat and steal and treat people like dirt.
"Get over it. Your Opensource software probably cost some guy a job that he was making by writing software you now give away free."
Open source creates jobs.
"Does that make you good or evil?"
It makes me feel good that open source creates jobs.
I am not talking about selfish or selfless acts. I judge the acts not the intentions behind them because the intentions can never really be known. SOmetimes people themselves don't know why they did certain things.
" You're insane if you think IBM's push into Open Source is being done for any idealistic reasons of Good vs Evil."
Read my sig. Evil is as evil does. If IBM is doing good then it makes the world a better place. It does not matter what their intentions are.
Acts are what matters. Acts are what we judge. If IBM gets to make a ton of money by doing good then more power to them. I will definately support that. The alternative is to try and make money buy lying, cheating, stealing, suing, and cpreading evil and chaos which is what MS and SCO does.
Why wouldn't you support IBM over MS/SCO? Really I want to know.
It's high time people stopped informing companies about security holes. It's perfectly OK to let the coders of open source projects know about security holes because they are not going to sue you. If you find a hole in a commercial product just announce it anonymously on the usenet and let it go.
Investing in IBM is hardly throwing away your money.
I for one believe that how you spend you money is 1000 times more important then how you vote. I spend money every day and I get to choose every day whether I am going to make the world a better place or a worse place by my purchases.
Instead of buying MS stock buy IBM stock. Increase the amount of good in the world and decrease the amount of evil.
Besides do you really buy a stock in a company whose CEO calls you a communist?
There is an exception. If you use computers and other means to rip billions of dollars off then you get off scott free. Rob a 7/11 go to jail, rob 400 billion dollars no problem as long as you give some to the party in control of the white house.
In the US all crimes are punishable by multiple forced rape. It does not matter what you are in jail for, it could be dope, it could be writing bad checks. That's what makes the American legal system amongst the worst in the world.
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You are missing his point. Communist is a trigger word. Like terrorist. It doesn't matter what it actually means he is using the word because he know how your typical american will react to it.
You are a communist. To the average american this means you belong in jail. That's what he is after.
How come he doesn't want me to put music to my slideshows?
Keep avoiding the subject.
Every state gets federal dollars. Every state contributes to the federal coffers. The states that take more then they give are the leechers in jesusland. States like CA, NY, NJ etc give more to the federal govt then they take.
The people of jesusland leech off of the people of the northeast and CA.
Wait till it gets to the supreme court. Then you'll see that trend reverse itself.
Nah keep your american citizenship. Leech off of those motherfuckers in jesusland like they leech off of the northeast and california.
"Evolution is a collection of untestable observations"
What exactly is an untestable observation? I observe it but I can't test it?
Nonsense.
If the sales don't take off like they are predicting (unlikely) then they might drop the price. Until then it makes no sense to drop the price on something you can't keep on the shelves.
I was looking at building a mini-itx system myself just to run freebsd as a small silent server. I no longer see any point to that. This box costs about the same but way more horsepower. Yowsa!
I honestly don't know where people come up with these silly ideas. Look how well clones worked out for IBM's PC dominance or for OS/2.
I hate to tell you but the police will never win. Despite thousands of years of police work crime still exists. Sure sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down but they have not been able to eliminate it.
As long as crime pays people will commit crimes. As long as pirating pays people will pirate.
Looks like a perfect job for the new mac.
Lying cheating and stealing is unethical, immoral, and disgusting even if you are doing it to make money.
Also socialism or a little socialism is not the same as communism. Bill Gates called us Communist. He didn't say "open source is a little like socialism". If he had said that I would not have a problem with it.
"And I do not know about you, but I'd buy stocks in a company that would increase MY bottom line."
Then you are definately not like me. I consider the ethical consequences of my investments. You are just greedy and don't care, you just want money. Money is not more important to me then my morals or ethics.
"If you're going to be on a moral highground and judge your investments as Good and Evil, you'd make an absolutely lousy businessman."
I agree with you. To be a successful businessman you have to leave your morals and ethics at home. When you get to work you have to be ready to lie, cheat and steal and treat people like dirt.
"Get over it. Your Opensource software probably cost some guy a job that he was making by writing software you now give away free."
Open source creates jobs.
"Does that make you good or evil?"
It makes me feel good that open source creates jobs.
I don't know about religion but you are a fool if you don't mix ethics with economics.
I am not talking about selfish or selfless acts. I judge the acts not the intentions behind them because the intentions can never really be known. SOmetimes people themselves don't know why they did certain things.
Road to hell is filled with good intentions.
He put his name to it. As I said anounce it anonymously on the usenet.
Read Budha sometime. He uses the word equanimiy a lot oh and compassion.
A very different philosophy then the one touted in the bible.
Excuse me if I take my lessons on morality from the Budha rather the Shakespeare.
" You're insane if you think IBM's push into Open Source is being done for any idealistic reasons of Good vs Evil."
Read my sig. Evil is as evil does. If IBM is doing good then it makes the world a better place. It does not matter what their intentions are.
Acts are what matters. Acts are what we judge. If IBM gets to make a ton of money by doing good then more power to them. I will definately support that. The alternative is to try and make money buy lying, cheating, stealing, suing, and cpreading evil and chaos which is what MS and SCO does.
Why wouldn't you support IBM over MS/SCO? Really I want to know.
If you make proprietary products they will charge you.
It's high time people stopped informing companies about security holes. It's perfectly OK to let the coders of open source projects know about security holes because they are not going to sue you. If you find a hole in a commercial product just announce it anonymously on the usenet and let it go.
Investing in IBM is hardly throwing away your money.
I for one believe that how you spend you money is 1000 times more important then how you vote. I spend money every day and I get to choose every day whether I am going to make the world a better place or a worse place by my purchases.
Instead of buying MS stock buy IBM stock. Increase the amount of good in the world and decrease the amount of evil.
Besides do you really buy a stock in a company whose CEO calls you a communist?
"When did greed become more important than helping someone?"
On the day capitalism was invented.
There is an exception. If you use computers and other means to rip billions of dollars off then you get off scott free. Rob a 7/11 go to jail, rob 400 billion dollars no problem as long as you give some to the party in control of the white house.
In the US all crimes are punishable by multiple forced rape. It does not matter what you are in jail for, it could be dope, it could be writing bad checks. That's what makes the American legal system amongst the worst in the world.