The motivation to create things doesn't come from profit motives. Look around (look around the internet even) and you'll find tens of thousands of creative works and technological innovations that did not profit (and were not intended to profit) their makers in any way. (e.g. Linux).
How is linux technologically innovative? It's a Unix clone.
It doesn't matter if "the community" supports a Linux fork. If a group of people decide their needs aren't being met by Linus & Co., they are free to start maintaining their own version. That's the "beauty of open source," IMHO.
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How can you call "open source" a revolution when it's been slowly festering for decades? That's like calling Linux revolutionary despite the fact that it's 13-year-old reimplementation of a 25-year-old OS.
you can distribute modified copies without the source. you just have to make it available "for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution."
Every time I go to a tech conference, meeting, etc., it seems like there's always a Microsoft employee who's trying to give me free copies of Visual Studio.
tack on a charge that he's trying to con the Linux community into selling their nestegg to him for a mere pittance of what he would make if the deal went through
It will always "still" be in beta for 2 reasons. One is so they don't have any liability when things like this happen; after all they never said it was stable or secure, it's a work in progress.
like every project on freshmeat and sourceforge.;)
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or that child porn manufacturers should be held responsible for child molestation.
when you abolish exclusive rights to copy, you'll get an absolute surge of COPYING.
i find it amusing that this is faster than Mozilla's autocomplete on my system.
who is "they?"
and so are gossiping bitches in hair salons.
Version 2 isn't, hasn't, and probably never will be tested in court.
It doesn't matter if "the community" supports a Linux fork. If a group of people decide their needs aren't being met by Linus & Co., they are free to start maintaining their own version. That's the "beauty of open source," IMHO.
How can you call "open source" a revolution when it's been slowly festering for decades? That's like calling Linux revolutionary despite the fact that it's 13-year-old reimplementation of a 25-year-old OS.
killing people isn't the point of war.
you can distribute modified copies without the source. you just have to make it available "for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution."
Maybe I'm just special.
we'll probably be seeing a lot more google-bashing articles now, seeing as Slashdot's new partner is Yahoo.
firmware, not drivers. :)
Because it is.
according to these benchmarks, linux 2.6 is faster freebsd 5.1.
PHP programmers are usually just uppity web designers. What do you expect? ;)
i hate to break it to you, but the website is hosted on geocities.
This is almost as cool as SlashdotFS.
Yes, I'm sure Firefox's solid 5% market share has them running scared.
i can't name one piece of software for linux that was developed with codewarrior.