RMS insisted on GPL as it provides the ``freedom'' for programmers. No matter what the software is, if it's GPLed, I can be assured that it comes with the source.
People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks of open source projects) wind up injuring only themselves
We just can't sit and wait for them to hurt themselves. They can't steal the code without having to show theirs. The world need GPL as long as people try to close up their source and make loads of money.
People have some predefined conceptions and opinions when it comes to Microsoft products. Being crappy, buggy and insecure are some of the deep-rooted features. We just can't say "No" to them. Come on Longhorn guys - I want features that might burn down my computer:)
"Is there even a desire for Google competitors? Reading/. it would seem the answer is no, that people are willing to let Google be the only software company."
I wasn't even born when Mircosoft started to emerge as "The Software Company". And we know now why it should've been avoided. With Google "Don't be Evil", things could be different. Let's give it a shot.
Considering the pace at which Google is moving with it's new products, looks like future computers will be needing just a web-browser to do most of the daily work. Pity we need an OS to run a browser.
"With both of them getting ready to pay for lots and lots of lawyer-izing? It'll be a miracle if prices don't go up"
I'd bet my butt that this case will be settled out-of-court and then the prices would come down.
We got 64-bit processors, dual-core processors and dual-core dual processors. Now we got a legal fight. This sure is fun. Wait a second, either one of them planning to lower the prices? I'm all for the spoils:-)
It's not really desirable for a developing country like Vietnam to tie-up it's IT development with Microsoft. Get hooked to Windows and set back your country's progress by a decade? No thanks. Plus, any Windows products with Vietnamese language support yet?
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run."
As high as 85% of Linux users I know don't really care about the code. Linux works the way I expect it to work for me; let other's do the coding. As long as Linux works for me, I don't really care about it's quality. I tried switching to FreeBSD once but the damn thing refused to recognize my ext3 partitions. So, still glued to linux.
For Dell to see MacOS, won't they have to give a make-over to their hardware? Hell, it would end up as much as buying an Apple. I'd rather have the Apple if it came to that:-)
Blocking information in this century is really a grave mistake. We've finally reached a stage where the entire data is at our fingers - if Douglas Adams were alive, he'd say Earth has finally finished calculating the ultimate question. Why is a govt. afraid of it's online content? Sounds like those Nazi days of Germany when it was previleged to have uncensorsed information about the rest of the world. The Chinese need to do something.
When the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were making wakes, the PC industry was still a baby and there were enough chances for everyone. Can a college drop-out still become a Steve Jobs in today's world? I bet you got to really really good at what you do to get that kind of opportunities.
This news is pretty damn old and was reported in Indian Newspapers like a month ago. Well, it came in UK Times too.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2- 1571664,00.html
SMS's really suck. They are too damn annoying in public places where cellphones ring at random. This is probably the most annoying technology ever!!!
Sweet 60's here I come baby..yeaaaah. Get ready to see an Electric Aston Martin in the next James Bond movie. OK, may be not the next. I bet Austin Powers would switch over too. Now, this post is a total troll!!!
I suggest you read Albert Speer's own Memoirs "Inside the Third Reich". It's a very insightful book and there's much detailed discussion about the Atomic Bomb.
Also, the book by Beevor "Berlin - The Downfall 1945" is the *only* book I've read so far that talks about Stalin's motives to capture Nazi research intact. Not that I don't believe Beevor, it would be nice to see more documented proof.
I've recently read Cornelius Ryan's "The Last Battle" - also dealing with Battle for Berlin and covers the Allies, Soviets and Germans. That's also the first time I've read about a certain "Project Eclipse" that describes probably the real reasons and politics behind the Soviet drive for Berlin. A good reading.
First of all, Hitler shrugged off nuclear physics as "Jewish Physics" and refused to have anything to do with it. And according to Albert Speer, Reichsminister for War and Armaments, the research to build a Nuclear bomb was in preliminary phases only. USSR knew that US was building an A-bomb and Stalin wanted one for himself too. That was the prime motive for Soviet Union's amazing drive towards Berlin. Anyway,let's be thankful that Hitler had no nukes or there would have been no Slashdot today:-)
See, my Penguin don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you are laughin' at him. Now, if you apologize, like I know you are going to, I might convince him you didn't really mean it.
*long pause...I take out my Colts and shoot 4 Windows users*
Always wanted to do that.
Well, I totally agree that Mac's are worth their price. But it would be great if I can cut down on the software - OpenOffice works for me and I have no idea if it runs on Mac or not. Anyways, the customer service of Apple India is very very limited (only available in a few places like Bangalore - not yet reached Hyderabad). That's just my way of not feeling bad about not owning a Mac:-)
You seem to be overestimating the money-making of an average Indian. No offense but I make Rs.4,000 *a month* working as a part-time sys. admin/research assistant. And Mac does cost Rs. 50,000+:((
I've to confess I've never used an Apple (Mac or anything else they might've made). But when I saw a Mac for the first time, I feel insanely in love with it. The only thing stopping me from buying a Mac is it's price - it's too high (well, it would be if you convert the price to Indian Rupees. $1 ~ Rs. 43). If Intel brings an Apple clown and if we can get GNU/Linux or any other FOSS OS running on it, won't it be cheaper? Lot of if's and but's but the future sure looks coluorful:-)
Harrison Ford is 63 years old. And as a matter of fact, he doesn't look his age and hasn't lost *any* of his old charms. It would be hard to imagine some one else as Indy. Can't express all my anxiety looking forward to the next Indy movie. Hey, Sean Connery is still playing Henry Jones right? The Last Crusade was by far the best Indy movie out of the three (Temple of Doom the worst, BTW). I hope the 4th one would top the list.
What sort of moron would switch from Linux to Windows? Why would anyone do that? Wait, may be for a reduced productivity. Linux makes me more productive, anytime. I'm fairly good at 5 programming/scripting languages, thanks to free software. My system doesn't crash absurdly. And I don't pay ridiculous amounts for any software.
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Can I have Bill Haley and His Comet's "Rock Around The Clock" plese? :-)
...life sure sucks in Taiwan
RMS insisted on GPL as it provides the ``freedom'' for programmers. No matter what the software is, if it's GPLed, I can be assured that it comes with the source.
People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks of open source projects) wind up injuring only themselves
We just can't sit and wait for them to hurt themselves. They can't steal the code without having to show theirs. The world need GPL as long as people try to close up their source and make loads of money.
People have some predefined conceptions and opinions when it comes to Microsoft products. Being crappy, buggy and insecure are some of the deep-rooted features. We just can't say "No" to them. Come on Longhorn guys - I want features that might burn down my computer :)
"Is there even a desire for Google competitors? Reading /. it would seem the answer is no, that people are willing to let Google be the only software company."
I wasn't even born when Mircosoft started to emerge as "The Software Company". And we know now why it should've been avoided. With Google "Don't be Evil", things could be different. Let's give it a shot.
Considering the pace at which Google is moving with it's new products, looks like future computers will be needing just a web-browser to do most of the daily work. Pity we need an OS to run a browser.
"With both of them getting ready to pay for lots and lots of lawyer-izing? It'll be a miracle if prices don't go up"
I'd bet my butt that this case will be settled out-of-court and then the prices would come down.
We got 64-bit processors, dual-core processors and dual-core dual processors. Now we got a legal fight. This sure is fun. Wait a second, either one of them planning to lower the prices? I'm all for the spoils :-)
What's the point if this Slashdot article is filtered in China? Apparently no Chinese blog would know about it.
It's not really desirable for a developing country like Vietnam to tie-up it's IT development with Microsoft. Get hooked to Windows and set back your country's progress by a decade? No thanks. Plus, any Windows products with Vietnamese language support yet?
The 'experiments' they've done are simulations.
I've been saying that about Windows. My friends won't listen.
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run."
As high as 85% of Linux users I know don't really care about the code. Linux works the way I expect it to work for me; let other's do the coding. As long as Linux works for me, I don't really care about it's quality. I tried switching to FreeBSD once but the damn thing refused to recognize my ext3 partitions. So, still glued to linux.
For Dell to see MacOS, won't they have to give a make-over to their hardware? Hell, it would end up as much as buying an Apple. I'd rather have the Apple if it came to that :-)
Blocking information in this century is really a grave mistake. We've finally reached a stage where the entire data is at our fingers - if Douglas Adams were alive, he'd say Earth has finally finished calculating the ultimate question. Why is a govt. afraid of it's online content? Sounds like those Nazi days of Germany when it was previleged to have uncensorsed information about the rest of the world. The Chinese need to do something.
When the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were making wakes, the PC industry was still a baby and there were enough chances for everyone. Can a college drop-out still become a Steve Jobs in today's world? I bet you got to really really good at what you do to get that kind of opportunities.
This news is pretty damn old and was reported in Indian Newspapers like a month ago. Well, it came in UK Times too. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2- 1571664,00.html
SMS's really suck. They are too damn annoying in public places where cellphones ring at random. This is probably the most annoying technology ever!!!
Sweet 60's here I come baby..yeaaaah. Get ready to see an Electric Aston Martin in the next James Bond movie. OK, may be not the next. I bet Austin Powers would switch over too. Now, this post is a total troll!!!
I suggest you read Albert Speer's own Memoirs "Inside the Third Reich". It's a very insightful book and there's much detailed discussion about the Atomic Bomb. Also, the book by Beevor "Berlin - The Downfall 1945" is the *only* book I've read so far that talks about Stalin's motives to capture Nazi research intact. Not that I don't believe Beevor, it would be nice to see more documented proof. I've recently read Cornelius Ryan's "The Last Battle" - also dealing with Battle for Berlin and covers the Allies, Soviets and Germans. That's also the first time I've read about a certain "Project Eclipse" that describes probably the real reasons and politics behind the Soviet drive for Berlin. A good reading.
First of all, Hitler shrugged off nuclear physics as "Jewish Physics" and refused to have anything to do with it. And according to Albert Speer, Reichsminister for War and Armaments, the research to build a Nuclear bomb was in preliminary phases only. USSR knew that US was building an A-bomb and Stalin wanted one for himself too. That was the prime motive for Soviet Union's amazing drive towards Berlin. Anyway,let's be thankful that Hitler had no nukes or there would have been no Slashdot today :-)
See, my Penguin don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you are laughin' at him. Now, if you apologize, like I know you are going to, I might convince him you didn't really mean it. *long pause...I take out my Colts and shoot 4 Windows users* Always wanted to do that.
Well, I totally agree that Mac's are worth their price. But it would be great if I can cut down on the software - OpenOffice works for me and I have no idea if it runs on Mac or not. Anyways, the customer service of Apple India is very very limited (only available in a few places like Bangalore - not yet reached Hyderabad). That's just my way of not feeling bad about not owning a Mac :-)
You seem to be overestimating the money-making of an average Indian. No offense but I make Rs.4,000 *a month* working as a part-time sys. admin/research assistant. And Mac does cost Rs. 50,000+ :((
I've to confess I've never used an Apple (Mac or anything else they might've made). But when I saw a Mac for the first time, I feel insanely in love with it. The only thing stopping me from buying a Mac is it's price - it's too high (well, it would be if you convert the price to Indian Rupees. $1 ~ Rs. 43). If Intel brings an Apple clown and if we can get GNU/Linux or any other FOSS OS running on it, won't it be cheaper? Lot of if's and but's but the future sure looks coluorful :-)
Harrison Ford is 63 years old. And as a matter of fact, he doesn't look his age and hasn't lost *any* of his old charms. It would be hard to imagine some one else as Indy. Can't express all my anxiety looking forward to the next Indy movie. Hey, Sean Connery is still playing Henry Jones right? The Last Crusade was by far the best Indy movie out of the three (Temple of Doom the worst, BTW). I hope the 4th one would top the list.
What sort of moron would switch from Linux to Windows? Why would anyone do that? Wait, may be for a reduced productivity. Linux makes me more productive, anytime. I'm fairly good at 5 programming/scripting languages, thanks to free software. My system doesn't crash absurdly. And I don't pay ridiculous amounts for any software.