Go look at the fucking site. The "Quality Assurance" is NOT for open source apps, but for COMPANIES that provide services based on OSS. The/. summary is very misleading.
Why does this summary look at open source consortium so critically? Where did unbiased reporting go? They haven't done anything yet and already this summary is using terms like "hype-filled". As far as I can see it is saying that it will do the good job responding to "claims that switching to open source is more expensive than using Microsoft products" and helping "smaller companies compete with Sun and IBM for open source contracts".
Thanks for bringing to my attention that there are optimised builds of firefox. But I cant seem to understand which version I'm supposed to get to have an optimised firefox 1.0. (I googled). Can someone please provide a link or explain what I should download. (I went to the moox website but cant see an optimised build of the stable version)
I looked at the slashdot comments for useful information and opinion on the patent, but found some worthless posts meant to better the poster's karma and some humourless funny posts. I don't know how to read patents, so can anyone please make a useful comment about what the patent actually says? Please don't make funny replies to this with posts like "you must be new here".
India is not a fun place to live no matter how you slice it. Trust me, I am an Indian
I'm an Indian too. I know your kind of people - "India sucks, every other country is better". If I were you I would be ashamed of myself. Looks like your kind of people are more common among Indian IT workers.
and I've visited India enough times to know this.
Exactly. You have visited India, not lived here. People of different countries have different kinds of fun. You can't have the kind of fun you have in USA or Somalia in India.
BTW, in India, diarrhea is so common, it is normal for you to respond to "how are you doing?" with "I have diarrhea"
If slashdot was in India, or if all slashdot mods had visited India, you would have been modded down as troll. This is the first time I'm hearing "Indians have diarrhea". For all the other slashdot readers: This guy deosn't live in India, he has just visited it, so he doesn't know more than any other foreigner who has visited India. If fact he "knows" even less than others because his type of people already have a bad image of India in their minds.
and eating shitty food is not my idea of fun.
This exactly what I am talking about. Calling Indian food shitty is completely baseless. He just thinks it must be bad because its Indian.
Why is it important that this is s filesharing network? What difference would it have made if subscriber had to download files from a central server? This is just a way of distributing legal music which reduces the load of the company's servers. This is just a technical difference. And some hype.
Is he really the most influential executive? It is not a list of the 'best' executives or the most popular executives. It is a list of the most influential executives.
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Slashdot moderating is in the shits. Grandparent has a valid point and it gets modded down as troll. Parent is insightful or interesting but is modded as funny. I suppose most mods just look at what other mods have done and do the same thing.
So you listed some exceptions to the rule. So what? When someone makes a comment about a group of people, he obviously isnt't talking about all the people that belong to that group.
What about the Guy Who Wants to Make a Few Bucks Writing Useful Software So He Can Pay His Rent? He wants to create and share, but would like to earn a living wage doing it. Is he a Bad Guy, too?
First of all he has other ways to earn the same amount of money. But, lets consider a guy who writes closed source software to pay his rent, then earns a lot of money and makes a big corporation, will he now release his software as open source? Can you make a list of very succesful commercial closed source apps that have been made open source? I bet the list wont fill a single page.
GPL v2 worked for all of us for 13 years and it wasn't created by the open process you propose. If they open up the process, it will get fux0r3d. People will want to modify the GPL in a significant way. Making GPL v3 a lot of different than its pevious version is very bad and I'll tell you why - People who released their software under GPL v2 (and included the clause "Under GPL v2 or any later version") did that because they wanted their software to be distributed under the spirit of the GPL. If you make GPL v3 very different, it will break those people's intentions. If someone wants a different licence, he will go to OSI and look for a new licnece. The GPL needs to stay the same in spirit for at least this reason. And I think this will on the minds of Eben Moglen and RMS when they create GPL v3.
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Does Xen have a website yet? It would be nice to have a link.
Please don't start another slashdot cliche joke(I dont't know the exact term). I am already sick of "will it run on linux" and "netcraft confirms it".
And groklaw is read by how many people from the management and marketing department of a company? You know, the people who actually make decisions?
who are you?
Go look at the fucking site. The "Quality Assurance" is NOT for open source apps, but for COMPANIES that provide services based on OSS. The /. summary is very misleading.
Why does this summary look at open source consortium so critically? Where did unbiased reporting go? They haven't done anything yet and already this summary is using terms like "hype-filled". As far as I can see it is saying that it will do the good job responding to "claims that switching to open source is more expensive than using Microsoft products" and helping "smaller companies compete with Sun and IBM for open source contracts".
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anyone wanna guess what the next userfriendly comic strip is going to be about?
a little history
never mind. found it. http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/releasebuilds.htm
Thanks for bringing to my attention that there are optimised builds of firefox. But I cant seem to understand which version I'm supposed to get to have an optimised firefox 1.0. (I googled). Can someone please provide a link or explain what I should download. (I went to the moox website but cant see an optimised build of the stable version)
The "bouncing" thing is on KDE too.
It could be the equivalent of Michelango's David and I'd still turn it off.
Hell, yeah. You DO NOT want to see the image of a naked man before you surf porn. Trust me.
I looked at the slashdot comments for useful information and opinion on the patent, but found some worthless posts meant to better the poster's karma and some humourless funny posts. I don't know how to read patents, so can anyone please make a useful comment about what the patent actually says? Please don't make funny replies to this with posts like "you must be new here".
Can you please elaborate? I seem to be missing something here. How can they make it appear from China if they are "borrowing" US IPs?
India is not a fun place to live no matter how you slice it. Trust me, I am an Indian
I'm an Indian too. I know your kind of people - "India sucks, every other country is better". If I were you I would be ashamed of myself. Looks like your kind of people are more common among Indian IT workers.
and I've visited India enough times to know this.
Exactly. You have visited India, not lived here. People of different countries have different kinds of fun. You can't have the kind of fun you have in USA or Somalia in India.
BTW, in India, diarrhea is so common, it is normal for you to respond to "how are you doing?" with "I have diarrhea"
If slashdot was in India, or if all slashdot mods had visited India, you would have been modded down as troll. This is the first time I'm hearing "Indians have diarrhea". For all the other slashdot readers: This guy deosn't live in India, he has just visited it, so he doesn't know more than any other foreigner who has visited India. If fact he "knows" even less than others because his type of people already have a bad image of India in their minds.
and eating shitty food is not my idea of fun.
This exactly what I am talking about. Calling Indian food shitty is completely baseless. He just thinks it must be bad because its Indian.
Why is it important that this is s filesharing network? What difference would it have made if subscriber had to download files from a central server? This is just a way of distributing legal music which reduces the load of the company's servers. This is just a technical difference. And some hype.
Why isnt parent modded as flamebait or troll.
I completely agree with parent. And Microsoft supporters at least admitt mistakes some times.
Is he really the most influential executive? It is not a list of the 'best' executives or the most popular executives. It is a list of the most influential executives.
Slashdot moderating is in the shits. Grandparent has a valid point and it gets modded down as troll. Parent is insightful or interesting but is modded as funny. I suppose most mods just look at what other mods have done and do the same thing.
So you listed some exceptions to the rule. So what? When someone makes a comment about a group of people, he obviously isnt't talking about all the people that belong to that group.
What about the Guy Who Wants to Make a Few Bucks Writing Useful Software So He Can Pay His Rent? He wants to create and share, but would like to earn a living wage doing it. Is he a Bad Guy, too?
First of all he has other ways to earn the same amount of money. But, lets consider a guy who writes closed source software to pay his rent, then earns a lot of money and makes a big corporation, will he now release his software as open source? Can you make a list of very succesful commercial closed source apps that have been made open source? I bet the list wont fill a single page.
GPL v2 worked for all of us for 13 years and it wasn't created by the open process you propose. If they open up the process, it will get fux0r3d. People will want to modify the GPL in a significant way. Making GPL v3 a lot of different than its pevious version is very bad and I'll tell you why - People who released their software under GPL v2 (and included the clause "Under GPL v2 or any later version") did that because they wanted their software to be distributed under the spirit of the GPL. If you make GPL v3 very different, it will break those people's intentions. If someone wants a different licence, he will go to OSI and look for a new licnece. The GPL needs to stay the same in spirit for at least this reason. And I think this will on the minds of Eben Moglen and RMS when they create GPL v3.
I suppose a google employee taking a shit will also make it frontpage on /. Yeah, thats right, mod me down, everone LOVES google...
I guess cutting class is no longer an option.
Yeah, now it's a necessity.