Rebellion? Anti-establishment? What the hell does any of that have to do with the post you replied to?
Nothing!
Read my response to him. This whole argument is totally rediculous, as the competition with windows really has nothing to do with the Linux community, but rather the distro companies themselves.
RedHat is an OS. Mandrake is an OS. SuSE is an OS. They all have their own "standardized" desktop. They are the ones competing with windows, and each other(!), not the community. The community just makes software for itself to use.
That's an oversimplification, of course, but that's basically how it is.
That is possibly the best post regarding LInux desktops I have read in over a year. Thanks.
I'd like to add to that, that distros themselves are competing with each other, and part of that competition is delivering the best desktop they can. Take RH for example, they have unified (sort of) GNOME and KDE and created a very usable desktop. SuSE, Mandrake, etc., all have their own default desktop.
My point is that Linux doesn't compete with anyone, although Linux distrobution companies might. Said companies create their own desktop, and it has nothing to do with GNOME, KDE, E, WM, etc.
BTW, I am a command line man myself. I run GNOME but don't touch a single GUI config tool, except for GNOME itself. But today I have been playing with a server that came preloaded with RH 8, and from what I've seen so far, it is an excellent desktop. Everything is so simple and easy to configure; it's easier than windows. It's even got a complete set of tools for setting up all the server software.
To reiterate, the competition lies with the distros, not the community, and the distros have their own desktops that compete against windows and other distros.
There is absolutely 0 evidence that HP is "in bed" with SCO, and indeed, the article that prompted that notion actually said something to the opposite effect that was misinterpreted.
From the looks of things, HP has told SCO to "fuck off", and is continuing to roll out Linux installations.
No it's not. It's a horrible misfeature. When people link to images that are a specific resolution, they mean for them to be at that resolution(unless they're just stupid). For years, the company I work for has been producing images for clients to view. These images have to be readable, and they are quite large. Resizing them makes them totally unreadable.
Image resizing should be a non-default and obvious user option.
Browsers don't rewrite html to make web pages look different, and they shouldn't do that with images.
Anything that alters the way a user sees the web from what was intended should be a non-default user option.
Well, Big Tobacco(TM) got caught lying in court, yet nothing happened. They have also harassed and made threats of violence against people.
Ever see "The Insider?" It's a dramatization, but most of the facts are fairly accurate. As long as nothing directly links the threats to the top brass, I don't think there's anything the law can really do to seriously hurt the corporation...
And as we all know, rich people don't get in trouble for perjury, which gives them a lot of leeway in the event of investigation.
She seems to like to take cheap shots at Republicans for no other reason than the fact that they are Republicans! Then she claims to be so much more fair than other politicians, but she's just the same, ie. too stupid to know when to STFU.
I can't believe people are taking her seriously. I suppose most people are just to naive when it comes to politics...
Like someone else said, she's no geek, she's just telling geeks what they want to hear.
This kind of thing really boils my blood. The sheer impudence just makes me want to... do things that would make a court order me to take an anger management class:)
Seriously, I think McBride deserves a swift kick to the head, by everyone in the FOSS community.
Some other interesting things to ponder...
*snipped* because it could be misinterpreted as advocating murdering the SOB.
Whatever company steps up to the plate first against SCO should countersue and try to have an injunction placed on SCO preventing them from filing more lawsuits for Linux royalties, until the code in question is ruled in court to belong to SCO. IANAL, is that possible? It would make sense, as their case against IBM is still pending!
First, their lawsuit against IBM has to be successful, and then they have to prove that it constitutes more than just breach of contract, ie. copyright infringement.
Until they do that, they have no grounds to go after Linux users. The fact that they are pursuing users of Linux right now should be a heads up to the FTC and SEC.
1. not accidentally cooking part of yourself
2. not getting part of yourself caught in a belt sander
3. preventing wind/sunburn
4. hiding it when it's cold
I have a request to make of all window maker users. Would you please stop crapflooding all the theme sites with your pathetic themes that all look exactly the same except with different backgrounds.
Actually, this also applies to all users of.*box as well.
Thanks.
Seriously, WM is not nearly as configurable as AS. I don't use AS, but I'm going to check it out just for the heck of it.
I think the headline was meant to be slighly humorous, or an ironic twist on the original article. Since it is still factually correct, I think you shouldn't get your panties in a bunch about it./. is slanted. Using MS's own words (and not taking them out of context or anything silly like that) against them is quite humorous, IMO.
Please don't pull stuff like that out of your ass, it stinks. Just leave it up there, until you find a restroom(or bush...) so you can properly relieve yourself.
So, RCU and NUMA are the infringing technologies? Ok, IBM bought Sequent, which developed both these technologies, but nevermind that for now.
RCU and NUMA are VERY recent additions to the Linux kernel, and most machines running kernel 2.4 are NOT USING RCU AND NUMA!
Furthermore, SCO's claim that Linux is "derivative" is completely ludicrous now, as RCU and NUMA can be removed easily, even in the 2.6 kernel. It would remove some nice features for SMP systems, but that is all, from what I understand.
SCO's claim to ownership of those technologies is dubious at best, and I'm sure IBM will be victorious in court.
That's why I *always* compile everything from source myself. I avoid the whole hassle of updating glibc and other libs that really don't need to be updated so often. I generally wait until there's a critical security bug that affects me before upgrading those things. When new features become useful and programs depend on them, that's another sign it's time to upgrade.
IMO, people should build programs for distribution on the lowest common denominator, ie. glibc 2.1.x, gcc 2.95.3, etc. That should run on most systems.
Maybe it's because, surprise, they honestly don't think it's quite good enough?
It's not compatible with the GPL, which prevents all the GPLed projects from using it, which is a valid concern for most FOSS developers.
Seriously, you're just running your mouth about things you seem to know very little about, as you are wont to do when the discussion has anything to do with the FSF. Shut up. Prick.
Maybe, maybe not. Remember, SCO shut Novell up by showing them a document wherein Novell assigned copyrights of certain things over to SCO. The funny thing is, Novell has no record of said documents. So who knows, maybe some sort of foul play is involved.
You need to find a good surgeon to remove the stick from your ass...
Basically, what you're saying is that you aren't confident enough with your security measures that anyone inside your network can wreak havok? In a big company, that's pretty fuckin' pathetic; a rogue user had better not be that big of a security concern!
the users don't own their machines - the company does. if they want to piss around with _any_ os, let them do it on their own time, on their own network, and on their own equipment.
IMO, this is exactly what is wrong with corporate America. You're not a person, you're a drone, don't try to learn anything.
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Nothing!
Read my response to him. This whole argument is totally rediculous, as the competition with windows really has nothing to do with the Linux community, but rather the distro companies themselves.
RedHat is an OS. Mandrake is an OS. SuSE is an OS. They all have their own "standardized" desktop. They are the ones competing with windows, and each other(!), not the community. The community just makes software for itself to use.
That's an oversimplification, of course, but that's basically how it is.
Cheers.
I'd like to add to that, that distros themselves are competing with each other, and part of that competition is delivering the best desktop they can. Take RH for example, they have unified (sort of) GNOME and KDE and created a very usable desktop. SuSE, Mandrake, etc., all have their own default desktop.
My point is that Linux doesn't compete with anyone, although Linux distrobution companies might. Said companies create their own desktop, and it has nothing to do with GNOME, KDE, E, WM, etc.
BTW, I am a command line man myself. I run GNOME but don't touch a single GUI config tool, except for GNOME itself. But today I have been playing with a server that came preloaded with RH 8, and from what I've seen so far, it is an excellent desktop. Everything is so simple and easy to configure; it's easier than windows. It's even got a complete set of tools for setting up all the server software.
To reiterate, the competition lies with the distros, not the community, and the distros have their own desktops that compete against windows and other distros.
There is absolutely 0 evidence that HP is "in bed" with SCO, and indeed, the article that prompted that notion actually said something to the opposite effect that was misinterpreted.
From the looks of things, HP has told SCO to "fuck off", and is continuing to roll out Linux installations.
Cheers.
Image resizing should be a non-default and obvious user option.
Browsers don't rewrite html to make web pages look different, and they shouldn't do that with images.
Anything that alters the way a user sees the web from what was intended should be a non-default user option.
That's just my ignorant opinion anyway :)
Ever see "The Insider?" It's a dramatization, but most of the facts are fairly accurate. As long as nothing directly links the threats to the top brass, I don't think there's anything the law can really do to seriously hurt the corporation...
And as we all know, rich people don't get in trouble for perjury, which gives them a lot of leeway in the event of investigation.
or at least stay under the bridge, where trolls belong.
I can't believe people are taking her seriously. I suppose most people are just to naive when it comes to politics...
Like someone else said, she's no geek, she's just telling geeks what they want to hear.
Seriously, I think McBride deserves a swift kick to the head, by everyone in the FOSS community.
Some other interesting things to ponder...
*snipped* because it could be misinterpreted as advocating murdering the SOB.
First, their lawsuit against IBM has to be successful, and then they have to prove that it constitutes more than just breach of contract, ie. copyright infringement.
Until they do that, they have no grounds to go after Linux users. The fact that they are pursuing users of Linux right now should be a heads up to the FTC and SEC.
These bastards belong in jail...
2. not getting part of yourself caught in a belt sander
3. preventing wind/sunburn
4. hiding it when it's cold
Have you folks learned nothing? Did you think for a second this guy was anything else? Want to buy a bridge?
Sorry I misunderstood you.
Cheers.
Actually, this also applies to all users of .*box as well.
Thanks.
Seriously, WM is not nearly as configurable as AS. I don't use AS, but I'm going to check it out just for the heck of it.
Please don't pull stuff like that out of your ass, it stinks. Just leave it up there, until you find a restroom(or bush...) so you can properly relieve yourself.
RCU and NUMA are VERY recent additions to the Linux kernel, and most machines running kernel 2.4 are NOT USING RCU AND NUMA!
Furthermore, SCO's claim that Linux is "derivative" is completely ludicrous now, as RCU and NUMA can be removed easily, even in the 2.6 kernel. It would remove some nice features for SMP systems, but that is all, from what I understand.
SCO's claim to ownership of those technologies is dubious at best, and I'm sure IBM will be victorious in court.
IMO, people should build programs for distribution on the lowest common denominator, ie. glibc 2.1.x, gcc 2.95.3, etc. That should run on most systems.
Doesn't IBM design the PPC chips that your precious Mac runs on?
I haven't read the whole counterclaim yet; it's pretty long so I don't think I will :)
It's not compatible with the GPL, which prevents all the GPLed projects from using it, which is a valid concern for most FOSS developers.
Seriously, you're just running your mouth about things you seem to know very little about, as you are wont to do when the discussion has anything to do with the FSF. Shut up. Prick.
Heh, I'm just fuckin' with ya :)
Here's a suggestion that I am proposing for Darl McBride, which he is free to use without paying royalties to myself:
I would pay good money for that!Or he could just be blowing smoke :)
Seriously, when I have to use Win2K, those problems you listed are what really gets to me.
Thank Jebus I only have to use win2k once every month or so... except for about 2 minutes every monday and tuesday.
You need to find a good surgeon to remove the stick from your ass...
Basically, what you're saying is that you aren't confident enough with your security measures that anyone inside your network can wreak havok? In a big company, that's pretty fuckin' pathetic; a rogue user had better not be that big of a security concern!
the users don't own their machines - the company does. if they want to piss around with _any_ os, let them do it on their own time, on their own network, and on their own equipment.
IMO, this is exactly what is wrong with corporate America. You're not a person, you're a drone, don't try to learn anything.