Its only a gray area to those who don't want to pay.
Edison's lawyers said the same thing to the people who 'pirated' Edison's movie-making technology. Who fled New York and went to Hollywood. It has been proven time and time again that copyright infringers help the economy. How many graphic designers pirate Photoshop? Probably about 90% of the ones who use Photoshop.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Is that sig a reference to something? I googled "working side by side to fight back the night" and got nothing.
Experience. Name an open source project that is directly comparable feature-for-feature to a commercial software product, has similar reliability, and took less than five years to get there.
Firefox. Started in 2003, 1.0 release in 2004. If you want to include Mozilla itself, development(this was a complete rewrite, they had to do as such to get rid of proprietary code) started in 1998. And the suite was at about 1.5 or so in 2003 and has many more features than IE.
Also GNU. Development started in 1984, and by 1990 a lot of people already prefered it to the proprietary userlands it had.
The Linux kernel. Started in
If the project doesn't produce actual code, why isn't it a failure?
If it doesn't produce any code, it can hardly be called a project. It's the equivalent of a "Coming Soon" page on the internet that's been up there for ten years. If you included all the equivelants of that on the closed-source world that 48% figure would go way up.
Jack O'Neill is a General now, I really doubt he'll be up there saving us all. Cameron Mitchell is much more likely. But if there's an Ori invasion, we can have all the fighters in the world up there and the toilet's beams will pound right through them...
I call bullshit. Where does this 'ten years' crap come from? And where does this 99% come from? Only count projects that have some semblance of actual code. And I think you left out the Bubble from your closed-source figures.
I've gotten much more of that type of abuse from Mac users than from users of any other operating system. Except, instead of claiming the problem is a lack of RTFM like you sometimes get from Linux/BSD groups, you get people demanding that you're not actually having a problem, when you are.
I have rarely seen any atheist spend the amount of time on this consideration.
The majority of atheists used to be part of some religion. The majority of atheists who aren't, have had religion stuffed in their faces. Flip through the TV channels. How many preachers do you see talking about Christianity? How many atheists do you see talking about atheism? The only atheism I ever see on TV are the recently-freed Jaffa pissed off at false gods.
Actually, your experience is supported by evidence--people who concentrate on a problem right before going to sleep often figure out the solution to the problem after waking up.
You just proved you know jack shit about the Founding Fathers. Go read what they said about churches. The Founding Fathers attacked Churches as pretty much the same thing Karl Marx attacked churches for--being a method of control. (Incidentially, a Gnostic Gospel(Thomas) claims that Jesus also hated organized religion.)
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But if you die in FOSS, do you die in real life?
Crap, didn't realize I didn't finish my entry on Linux. Started in 91, Red Hat started in 94, no, wait, nevermind.
what can't be defined, can be ignored.There are a plethora of Eastern religions that would disagree with you on that point.
Also GNU. Development started in 1984, and by 1990 a lot of people already prefered it to the proprietary userlands it had.
The Linux kernel. Started in If it doesn't produce any code, it can hardly be called a project. It's the equivalent of a "Coming Soon" page on the internet that's been up there for ten years. If you included all the equivelants of that on the closed-source world that 48% figure would go way up.
second-world countries no longer exist, and haven't since christmas 1991.
except it can be controlled in a few days. CO2 takes over a century to cycle, water vapor takes barely over a week.
Anybody saying "Eurabia" should be forced into the body of a Palestinian in Israel about to get killed by an Israeli tank.
Jack O'Neill is a General now, I really doubt he'll be up there saving us all. Cameron Mitchell is much more likely. But if there's an Ori invasion, we can have all the fighters in the world up there and the toilet's beams will pound right through them...
I haven't owned a console since the days of PS1. I just know that the 360 is a bigger flop than the PS3.
That's the Hydra, not Medusa, buddy. Medusa's the one that, if you look at her, you turn to stone. The Hydra's the one with a bunch of heads.
I call bullshit. Where does this 'ten years' crap come from? And where does this 99% come from? Only count projects that have some semblance of actual code. And I think you left out the Bubble from your closed-source figures.
I've gotten much more of that type of abuse from Mac users than from users of any other operating system. Except, instead of claiming the problem is a lack of RTFM like you sometimes get from Linux/BSD groups, you get people demanding that you're not actually having a problem, when you are.
Turn e-e-electricity! into h-h-heat!
How is that Offtopic? I could possibly see a Troll or Flamebait for that(although it's Funny to me) but how the hell is that Offtopic?
Not by the people on TV and not by the courts.
The PS2 is still selling better than the XBox 360. That's all that needs to be said about the 360.
Actually, people put in total isolation will get a 30-hour sleep/wake cycle.
Actually, your experience is supported by evidence--people who concentrate on a problem right before going to sleep often figure out the solution to the problem after waking up.
The end of the world as we know it? (Sorry, couldn't resist the joke.)
The Soviet Union disproved Karl Marx about as much as the Third Reich disproved Fredrich Nietzsche.
You just proved you know jack shit about the Founding Fathers. Go read what they said about churches. The Founding Fathers attacked Churches as pretty much the same thing Karl Marx attacked churches for--being a method of control. (Incidentially, a Gnostic Gospel(Thomas) claims that Jesus also hated organized religion.)
JFK was a Democrat and if it weren't for his speech we probably wouldn't have gotten on the moon in 1969.