Basically, my question is, why shouldn't the MPAA have the right to use whatever boneheaded methods they want to prevent people from seeing their media?
I'm sorry sir but you cannot read that comic book w/o using our BrandX 3-D Glasses. We will see you in court.
I hope that clarifies things a little. If I pay for a product, I own that product. Note Own, not license, OWN!
And drop the copying BS you don't need a German speaking photocopier to copy a note written in German. It's just another medium, same laws of Physics, Ethics, and Logic.
X86 = processor platform. Solaris, Mac OS 8, Linux, BSD, Windows, BeOS, DOS and others run on x86.
x86 is ruling the market right now. Intel, AMD, Rise, IDT, make x86 clones to stay in the market. Neither of them make straight x86 CPUs, not even Intel. They all do x86 compatibility over a RISC design because of the code on the market. They all realize x86 is a mangled twisted beast grown out of pure laziness in design. Alpha is straight RISC, which is why it beats x86 compatibles hands down.
As for Open Source/Free Speech CPUs. Ever heard of SPARC? Built by students at a university.
This is 2000. You do not need raw materials to design anymore. And you only need Emacs to make a mask which is getting cheaper and cheaper. It can be done. Plus if it's so difficult to make a chip, by your argument how could anyone compete with you in the first place even if they made one off your designs. The worst it would be is free advertising.
The speakers cannot produce real square waves they either ditort or compensate. So maybe you have a saw toothe but the speaker thanks to StepMother in Law Physics smooths it out.
Why? You coming from that American Interent where all 'mericans go?
I said that because I don't see any relevance of nationality in this situation, not even on the classic question of national bias. They're stealing industrial secrets.
Granted I've been on a spot-the-poster's-lure kick for the last few days.
Why? You coming from that American Interent where all 'mericans go?
I'm GLAD we're spying on France
I'm not it means we'll see the legacy of James Bond ruined again by Hollywood milking the hype monster.
It's also "primitive" like the trench warfare that gained.234546576 inches for two weeeks then lost.9987556765 inches of territory the next week, or the espionage of Cold war.
and I don't understand why so many slashdotters are anti-Echelon.
I think you do understand Mr. AC. It has been explained a bazillion times. Echelon spies on American citizens (course they can't defend w/o flaming), Australian citizens (course they can't care), and Brits (course they don't care).
Seriously, don't you think it's in your best interest for your government to be well-informed about the global situation?
WTF does the global situation have to do with businessmen? If you're going to spy on arms tech then do it discretely. They have no reason to be spying on household items.
You would be deluding yourself if you thought that friends don't spy on friends; you can certainly bet that France would spy on YOU if they had the technology. If you're still not convinced, go pick up Sun Tzu's The Art of War and read it until you finally get it...it's much better to be prepared for a conflict that never happens than to be surprised by your ignorance.
Yes, they're going to attack us with our secret Heinz Ketchup recipe.
Besides, we're at the edge, anything developed tomorrow is obsolete yesterday computers are making inventing so easy everything will be an obvious non patentable idea in the next 5 years.
Look this is about industrial espionage. When it gets to arms we'll call you.
CARE THAT I CARE? I'm getting tired of you paranoid oversensitive couch potatoes moaning and groaning that someone ruined the peacefulness of what might have been an otherwise serene slashdot front page.
Cryptography is only useful if you happen to be a spy or have an actual internet connection (ie the use of pgp to sign, encrypt, or both messages with it).
Good God, you're full of X-Files hype. Agents good. People civilized. Criminals encrypt. Two words. Blow me.
It's lazy moaning and groaning (so who cares, all this guy ever says in his posts) fuckoffs like these that make go crazy. I'm going to injest a warm liquid and go to sleep I need to calm down.
Why do you care that I care? I care cuz I've seen it first hand at its extremes, your lack of interest sort of bothers me, but that's your business. I'm however getting tired of people flaming me because I choose to lift a finger because I GIVE A FUCKING damn.
Time for slashdot to distribute itself massively. Rob&Co don't have to lift a finger therefore they're not responsible. Instead of lazily leeching the slashdot submit queue, get your own site up.
I have an idea for an educational site that reduces computing to very simple concepts like:
The monitor is a machine that uses electronic signals to mix red, green, and blue in a rectangle of dots.
The printer is a machine that uses electronic signals to mix black and white dots or mix red, green, and blue dots on paper.
The sound card is a machine that uses electronic signals mix sounds in the speakers.
The scanner is a machine that separates colors on paper into red, green, and blue which it sends to the computer.
The device driver is a software machine that tells devices what to do with signals and what to send to the outside world.
The reason I want to do this is, there's got to be a way to take complete computer virgins and get them educated the right way rather than being elitists and just teaching them how to get on the net like good consumers then leaving them helpless and dependent.
Also a project i'm working on is to put the finishing touches on the all devices are files idea to allow interfaces like OCR to voice to be designed with a few lines of script code or even a simple drag of an file icon to a device icon (note unlike windows dragging a file to a device is exactly what the software is doing. In windows you need some redundant program for every different combination of tasks you might want to do)
Repeat after me MS copies, copies, copies, copies, copies, copies. Read your history books. Hmm... No one writes history books about consumer products, only wars, fancy that...
Bottom line: when MS says Linux is only good for Word Processing it's because that's all they know considering they keep copying, copying, copying, copying, copying.
If it has a 19" screen, chances are it's not a PC, it's a workstation.
Ah, yes. Fun with buzzwords. I kinda like playing everything from Quake 3 to 5or6 muds at the same time on my 19" monitor.
The word workstation is an old mid 80's ideology intended to separate consumers from producers. The only thing that will drive Palm, notebook, and wireless devices is comfort. That's it.
It's the middle-of-the-road, consumer PCs you find at Best Buy that we should be ushering out. These are the equivalent of a 1979 Malibu six-cylinder, too underpowered for its size, too big and gas-guzzling to be a daily driving car, but since it was the smallest and cheapest thing on the showroom floor, you drove it home. Consumers buy these midgrade or lowgrade $1000 machines basically because that's all Best Buy has.
Wrong again. When I grew up I'd had it with people telling me that some day I'd goto graduate school and learn about computers. I said fuck it. My parents got me a cheapo machine I built into a monster. Then I got another cheapo. Souped up that baby good. Finally, I know enough now that I should have gotten an AMIGA. Would never need to soup those up. B-U-T-ful.
Average users don't really like PCs (or Macs). They're big and bulky, they are FURNITURE (they take up a whole desk), they're slow (no other appliance in the house takes 2 minutes to start up), and they never really quite do what they want. They'd rather play video games and watch movies on the TV, do their checkbook at the kitchen table or on the desk in the bedroom (using some smaller portable unit), and sit in the easy chair to surf the Web.
What are you? clairvoyant? DIVX died because people do not want the Net to become TV. Push technology died also for the same reason. Booting is like preheating. People have no problem doing something else while it gets ready. And frankly I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm up and running in under 30 seconds on my Cyrix 133 so called 3 year old out of date system that still seems to be chugging along quite well.
The modern PC isn't that far removed from an old room-sized mainframe - the PC often expands to fill the room it's in. You can't bring it to you, you must go to it, which means it, its data, and all the media you see or hear on it must remain forever trapped in whichever room you put it - which in most households, is never the same room as the entertainment center. You pay the price for its flexibility by concentrating much of your activities in that room, at that desk.
I live in a modest $100K home. The entertainment room is the same as the computer room. If it wasn't I'd get a wireless LAN set up in minutes thanks to Mandrake 7.0 I have no hassles. Plus realize you're grabbing at straws. You're blaming the PC because you put it some place other than the TV room? Get a grip. Like I said before it's a matter of comfort and in the last 30 years the industry has proven they can't mix business (coding) with pleasure (FOX-drooling).
Laptops aren't the answer for this - they're downscaled PCs, saddled with the additional limitations of battery life, tiny screens, sick keyboards, and high price tags. And they're the solution to the wrong problem - they take the PC on the road. I don't want to take a PC on the road, I want to take it to my easy chair.
So take the laptop top your easy chair. I don't get your point. As for battery life, heh. If you knew some of the boneheaded lazy designs for mobos you'd see why it's like that.
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Therein lies the revolution.
There's no revolution. It's the same old cycle. Two parallel ways to make money. Comfort the users. Empower the builders. I say do both for both.
If the woman has a case, she will win. If she's whining like a bitch, she won't. End of. It's like a free market, only it's better than a free market because the smartest lawyer with the best argument always wins. How many other industries are there where the best product always wins? Not software.
Where in the bowels of hell did you get that crock?
This bullshit happens everytime a fucking company thinks they can get away with it. It's not the lawyer's fault except when you get shit like 18- year olds can't use software (ie. Corel), grievances filed over a hot cup of coffee, I mean come on! Where do you stop?
Don't get me wrong I know lawyers who give a fuck whop try their hardest (one woman I met tried to help a young girl who was molested, the kid told her she would lie in court because she was afraid.)
Frankly, I've had enough of the lipservice. Freedom of Information act. Bullshit, who's got the time the money and the PhD required to get through the red tape.
As for stock options. Why not? I hardly can believe you don't.
As for freedom, I don't see it. Until every human being can affrord a legal counsel for a four year term without losing everything including their house, I refuse to accept anyone telling me this is freedom.
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Something like coding something useful. Like taking the/. code years earlier and building a site as opposed to leeching submit queues like a lazy bum and use up/.'s bandwidth in a way similar to the bug that downed AT&T's entire phone network years earlier. Not a crack, an actual bug which proved centralization where it's not needed is dangerous. Course I can name countless non-technological examples of such.
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The only guy who needs the source is the guy wants to fix it.
See, her bill is not about sex, it is about turning people from the opposite gender to their own! It's like cannibalism. See, she has an agenda! She wants to make sure that the college campus produces men that are open about their feelings and women who kick each other and fight dirty! INGENIOUS!
The BSD License is often criticized for allowing commercial vendors from benefitting from the work of free software authors
Not so fast:)! BSD is criticized for allowing unassociated parties to just grab source change and keep it.
The GPL as I've read it says take my stuff change it but when you give binaries to someone you must give the source. It also says that the next in line gets the same rights as the previous person to receive the source. Note the word same. That's a BIG word. Now I read that as, unless otherwise noted, I can charge someone if they change source I have downloaded and edited from someone else and they want to take my generation and go binary only w/ their changes. See the thing is that as long as the original author (ie FSF) made no requirement of transfering back copyrights, I can charge people if they want to change the license on their generation. BSD I can't.
Your main code gets GPLed. Modules get GPLed. However, there's a convenience tax:) Anyone who wants the binary to install must pay for it. The source itself is what the GPL covers as I've read it.
The funny thing about Linux/BSD is that while the resources required for running software can be low, compile jobs require a considerable amount of power.
And even permanently connected machines cannot be in continous update mode. And no one running a business would 1) waste the bandwidth nor would they 2) waste the resources constantly recompiling the only thing available, the source.
As for the approved patches only approach, the Linux source is maintained exactly this way. Nothing new here.
So I guess what I'm saying is if someone is going to try to skip on the price for the binaries, they'll have to invest in some serious hardware. It isn't exactly the best option for a business tho even if they do make money. Any resources they have have to be allocated to handle customers' needs.
(I sort of have the idea that if somebody is going to go the hard way, might as well reward them for investing their time in their own education. Every business has certain things they do inside and other things they depend on others. It goes with the territory of whatever type of business your in. There is no business that can last going the easy way at all times. Companies have to commit to the mundane/time consuming stuff if they want to be taken seriously as well as keep up with the rest of the world.)
One thing you might want to look into: Your main code gets GPLed. Modules get GPLed. However, there's a convenience tax:) Anyone who wants the binary to install must pay for it. The source itself is what the GPL covers as I've read it. The funny thing about Linux/BSD is that while the resources required for running software can be low, compile jobs require a considerable amount of power. And even permanently connected machines cannot be in continous update mode. And no one running a business would 1) waste the bandwidth nor would they 2) waste the resources constantly recompiling the only thing available, the source. As for the approved patches only approach, the Linux source is maintained exactly this way. Nothing new here. So I guess what I'm saying is if someone is going to try to skip on the price for the binaries, they'll have to invest in some serious hardware. It isn't exactly the best option for a business tho even if they do make money. Any resources they have have to be allocated to handle customers' needs. (I sort of have the idea that if somebody is going to go the hard way, might as well reward them for investing their time in their own education. Every business has certain things they do inside and other things they depend on others. It goes with the territory of whatever type of business your in. There is no business that can last going the easy way at all times. Companies have to commit to the mundane/time consuming stuff if they want to be taken seriously as well as keep up with the rest of the world.)
The Net was financed by companies to help BSDers and other Unixers protocol's out.
As another person/poster noted. AOL DID NOT WANT TO GET ON THE NET.
AOL had nothing to do with e-commerce. Their debut was a bandwidth disaster, they used inferior technologies, they co-branded Netscape 1.2.1 wqhen 3.0 was the major browser used. WebTV is still guilty of that.
I could care less about its own content. It's class of content that counts. One of these days AOL will be forced to open the gates and build its business from the other end. Online as they claim to be.
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Why can't I?
Basically, my question is, why shouldn't the MPAA have the right to use whatever boneheaded methods they want to prevent people from seeing their media?
I'm sorry sir but you cannot read that comic book w/o using our BrandX 3-D Glasses. We will see you in court.
I hope that clarifies things a little. If I pay for a product, I own that product. Note Own, not license, OWN!
And drop the copying BS you don't need a German speaking photocopier to copy a note written in German. It's just another medium, same laws of Physics, Ethics, and Logic.
Darwin will be Mac OS X (10)
X86 = processor platform. Solaris, Mac OS 8, Linux, BSD, Windows, BeOS, DOS and others run on x86.
x86 is ruling the market right now. Intel, AMD, Rise, IDT, make x86 clones to stay in the market. Neither of them make straight x86 CPUs, not even Intel. They all do x86 compatibility over a RISC design because of the code on the market. They all realize x86 is a mangled twisted beast grown out of pure laziness in design. Alpha is straight RISC, which is why it beats x86 compatibles hands down.
As for Open Source/Free Speech CPUs. Ever heard of SPARC? Built by students at a university.
Get with the program, it's not rocket science.
Rares Marian
This is 2000. You do not need raw materials to design anymore. And you only need Emacs to make a mask which is getting cheaper and cheaper. It can be done. Plus if it's so difficult to make a chip, by your argument how could anyone compete with you in the first place even if they made one off your designs. The worst it would be is free advertising.
The speakers cannot produce real square waves they either ditort or compensate. So maybe you have a saw toothe but the speaker thanks to StepMother in Law Physics smooths it out.
Why? You coming from that American Interent where all 'mericans go?
I said that because I don't see any relevance of nationality in this situation, not even on the classic question of national bias. They're stealing industrial secrets.
Granted I've been on a spot-the-poster's-lure kick for the last few days.
I'm a US Citizen
.234546576 inches for two weeeks then lost .9987556765 inches of territory the next week, or the espionage of Cold war.
Ok? so what? (incid. so am I)
as I'm guessing most Slashdotters are?
Why? You coming from that American Interent where all 'mericans go?
I'm GLAD we're spying on France
I'm not it means we'll see the legacy of James Bond ruined again by Hollywood milking the hype monster.
It's also "primitive" like the trench warfare that gained
and I don't understand why so many slashdotters are anti-Echelon.
I think you do understand Mr. AC. It has been explained a bazillion times. Echelon spies on American citizens (course they can't defend w/o flaming), Australian citizens (course they can't care), and Brits (course they don't care).
Seriously, don't you think it's in your best interest for your government to be well-informed about the global situation?
WTF does the global situation have to do with businessmen? If you're going to spy on arms tech then do it discretely. They have no reason to be spying on household items.
You would be deluding yourself if you thought that friends don't spy on friends; you can certainly bet that France would spy on YOU if they had the technology. If you're still not convinced, go pick up Sun Tzu's The Art of War and read it until you finally get it...it's much better to be prepared for a conflict that never happens than to be surprised by your ignorance.
Yes, they're going to attack us with our secret Heinz Ketchup recipe.
Besides, we're at the edge, anything developed tomorrow is obsolete yesterday computers are making inventing so easy everything will be an obvious non patentable idea in the next 5 years.
Look this is about industrial espionage. When it gets to arms we'll call you.
CARE THAT I CARE? I'm getting tired of you paranoid oversensitive couch potatoes moaning and groaning that someone ruined the peacefulness of what might have been an otherwise serene slashdot front page.
Cryptography is only useful if you happen to be a spy or have an actual internet connection (ie the use of pgp to sign, encrypt, or both messages with it).
Good God, you're full of X-Files hype. Agents good. People civilized. Criminals encrypt. Two words. Blow me.
Cooolies
It's lazy moaning and groaning (so who cares, all this guy ever says in his posts) fuckoffs like these that make go crazy. I'm going to injest a warm liquid and go to sleep I need to calm down.
Why do you care that I care? I care cuz I've seen it first hand at its extremes, your lack of interest sort of bothers me, but that's your business. I'm however getting tired of people flaming me because I choose to lift a finger because I GIVE A FUCKING damn.
Microsoft just dumped the sales responsibility to the hardware makers.
Gah I hate hearing the biggest noninnovator (DirectX was stolen like all else) get credit. But I a coder not a flamer. hehe...
Time for slashdot to distribute itself massively. Rob&Co don't have to lift a finger therefore they're not responsible. Instead of lazily leeching the slashdot submit queue, get your own site up.
I have an idea for an educational site that reduces computing to very simple concepts like:
The monitor is a machine that uses electronic signals to mix red, green, and blue in a rectangle of dots.
The printer is a machine that uses electronic signals to mix black and white dots or mix red, green, and blue dots on paper.
The sound card is a machine that uses electronic signals mix sounds in the speakers.
The scanner is a machine that separates colors on paper into red, green, and blue which it sends to the computer.
The device driver is a software machine that tells devices what to do with signals and what to send to the outside world.
The reason I want to do this is, there's got to be a way to take complete computer virgins and get them educated the right way rather than being elitists and just teaching them how to get on the net like good consumers then leaving them helpless and dependent.
Also a project i'm working on is to put the finishing touches on the all devices are files idea to allow interfaces like OCR to voice to be designed with a few lines of script code or even a simple drag of an file icon to a device icon (note unlike windows dragging a file to a device is exactly what the software is doing. In windows you need some redundant program for every different combination of tasks you might want to do)
Any takers?
Repeat after me MS copies, copies, copies, copies, copies, copies. Read your history books. Hmm... No one writes history books about consumer products, only wars, fancy that...
Bottom line: when MS says Linux is only good for Word Processing it's because that's all they know considering they keep copying, copying, copying, copying, copying.
If it has a 19" screen, chances are it's not a PC, it's a workstation.
Ah, yes. Fun with buzzwords. I kinda like playing everything from Quake 3 to 5or6 muds at the same time on my 19" monitor.
The word workstation is an old mid 80's ideology intended to separate consumers from producers. The only thing that will drive Palm, notebook, and wireless devices is comfort. That's it.
It's the middle-of-the-road, consumer PCs you find at Best Buy that we should be ushering out. These are the equivalent of a 1979 Malibu six-cylinder, too underpowered for its size, too big and gas-guzzling to be a daily driving car, but since it was the smallest and cheapest thing
on the showroom floor, you drove it home. Consumers buy these midgrade or lowgrade $1000 machines basically because that's all Best Buy has.
Wrong again. When I grew up I'd had it with people telling me that some day I'd goto graduate school and learn about computers. I said fuck it. My parents got me a cheapo machine I built into a monster. Then I got another cheapo. Souped up that baby good. Finally, I know enough now that I should have gotten an AMIGA. Would never need to soup those up. B-U-T-ful.
Average users don't really like PCs (or Macs). They're big and bulky, they are FURNITURE (they take up a whole desk), they're slow (no other appliance in the house takes 2 minutes to start up), and they never really quite do what they want. They'd rather play video games and watch movies on the TV, do their checkbook at the kitchen table or on the desk in the bedroom (using some smaller portable unit), and sit in the easy chair to surf the Web.
What are you? clairvoyant? DIVX died because people do not want the Net to become TV. Push technology died also for the same reason. Booting is like preheating. People have no problem doing something else while it gets ready. And frankly I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm up and running in under 30 seconds on my Cyrix 133 so called 3 year old out of date system that still seems to be chugging along quite well.
The modern PC isn't that far removed from an old room-sized mainframe - the PC often expands to fill the room it's in. You can't bring it to you,
you must go to it, which means it, its data, and all the media you see or hear on it must remain forever trapped in whichever room you put it -
which in most households, is never the same room as the entertainment center. You pay the price for its flexibility by concentrating much of your
activities in that room, at that desk.
I live in a modest $100K home. The entertainment room is the same as the computer room. If it wasn't I'd get a wireless LAN set up in minutes thanks to Mandrake 7.0 I have no hassles. Plus realize you're grabbing at straws. You're blaming the PC because you put it some place other than the TV room? Get a grip. Like I said before it's a matter of comfort and in the last 30 years the industry has proven they can't mix business (coding) with pleasure (FOX-drooling).
Laptops aren't the answer for this - they're downscaled PCs, saddled with the additional limitations of battery life, tiny screens, sick
keyboards, and high price tags. And they're the solution to the wrong problem - they take the PC on the road. I don't want to take a PC on the
road, I want to take it to my easy chair.
So take the laptop top your easy chair. I don't get your point. As for battery life, heh. If you knew some of the boneheaded lazy designs for mobos you'd see why it's like that.
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Therein lies the revolution.
There's no revolution. It's the same old cycle. Two parallel ways to make money. Comfort the users. Empower the builders. I say do both for both.
If the woman has a case, she will win. If she's whining like a bitch, she won't. End of. It's like a free market, only it's better than a free market
because the smartest lawyer with the best argument always wins. How many other industries are there where the best product always wins? Not software.
Where in the bowels of hell did you get that crock?
This bullshit happens everytime a fucking company thinks they can get away with it. It's not the lawyer's fault except when you get shit like 18- year olds can't use software (ie. Corel), grievances filed over a hot cup of coffee, I mean come on! Where do you stop?
Don't get me wrong I know lawyers who give a fuck whop try their hardest (one woman I met tried to help a young girl who was molested, the kid told her she would lie in court because she was afraid.)
Frankly, I've had enough of the lipservice. Freedom of Information act. Bullshit, who's got the time the money and the PhD required to get through the red tape.
As for stock options. Why not? I hardly can believe you don't.
As for freedom, I don't see it. Until every human being can affrord a legal counsel for a four year term without losing everything including their house, I refuse to accept anyone telling me this is freedom.
left undone?
/. code years earlier and building a site as opposed to leeching submit queues like a lazy bum and use up /.'s bandwidth in a way similar to the bug that downed AT&T's entire phone network years earlier. Not a crack, an actual bug which proved centralization where it's not needed is dangerous. Course I can name countless non-technological examples of such.
Something like coding something useful. Like taking the
Rares
The only guy who needs the source is the guy wants to fix it.
See, her bill is not about sex, it is about turning people from the opposite gender to their own! It's like cannibalism. See, she has an agenda! She wants to make sure that the college campus produces men that are open about their feelings and women who kick each other and fight dirty! INGENIOUS!
Ok, now all of us who want the source, rush to the courthouse and photocopy it! Ingenious!
The BSD License is often criticized for allowing commercial vendors from benefitting from the work of free software authors
:)! BSD is criticized for allowing unassociated parties to just grab source change and keep it.
Not so fast
The GPL as I've read it says take my stuff change it but when you give binaries to someone you must give the source. It also says that the next in line gets the same rights as the previous person to receive the source. Note the word same. That's a BIG word. Now I read that as, unless otherwise noted, I can charge someone if they change source I have downloaded and edited from someone else and they want to take my generation and go binary only w/ their changes. See the thing is that as long as the original author (ie FSF) made no requirement of transfering back copyrights, I can charge people if they want to change the license on their generation. BSD I can't.
One thing you might want to look into:
:) Anyone who wants the binary to install must pay for it. The source itself is what the GPL covers as I've read it.
Your main code gets GPLed. Modules get GPLed. However, there's a convenience tax
The funny thing about Linux/BSD is that while the resources required for running software can be low, compile jobs require a considerable amount of power.
And even permanently connected machines cannot be in continous update mode. And no one running a business would 1) waste the bandwidth nor would they 2) waste the resources constantly recompiling the only thing available, the source.
As for the approved patches only approach, the Linux source is maintained exactly this way. Nothing new here.
So I guess what I'm saying is if someone is going to try to skip on the price for the binaries, they'll have to invest in some serious hardware. It isn't exactly the best option for a business tho even if they do make money. Any resources they have have to be allocated to handle customers' needs.
(I sort of have the idea that if somebody is going to go the hard way, might as well reward them for investing their time in their own education. Every business has certain things they do inside and other things they depend on others. It goes with the territory of whatever type of business your in. There is no business that can last going the easy way at all times. Companies have to commit to the mundane/time consuming stuff if they want to be taken seriously as well as keep up with the rest of the world.)
One thing you might want to look into: Your main code gets GPLed. Modules get GPLed. However, there's a convenience tax :) Anyone who wants the binary to install must pay for it. The source itself is what the GPL covers as I've read it. The funny thing about Linux/BSD is that while the resources required for running software can be low, compile jobs require a considerable amount of power. And even permanently connected machines cannot be in continous update mode. And no one running a business would 1) waste the bandwidth nor would they 2) waste the resources constantly recompiling the only thing available, the source. As for the approved patches only approach, the Linux source is maintained exactly this way. Nothing new here. So I guess what I'm saying is if someone is going to try to skip on the price for the binaries, they'll have to invest in some serious hardware. It isn't exactly the best option for a business tho even if they do make money. Any resources they have have to be allocated to handle customers' needs. (I sort of have the idea that if somebody is going to go the hard way, might as well reward them for investing their time in their own education. Every business has certain things they do inside and other things they depend on others. It goes with the territory of whatever type of business your in. There is no business that can last going the easy way at all times. Companies have to commit to the mundane/time consuming stuff if they want to be taken seriously as well as keep up with the rest of the world.)
No we won't stop complaining. why should we not protect our interests the same way the companies claim to do?
Thank you for your precious time. Geez.
The Net was financed by companies to help BSDers and other Unixers protocol's out.
As another person/poster noted. AOL DID NOT WANT TO GET ON THE NET.
AOL had nothing to do with e-commerce. Their debut was a bandwidth disaster, they used inferior technologies, they co-branded Netscape 1.2.1 wqhen 3.0 was the major browser used. WebTV is still guilty of that.
I could care less about its own content. It's class of content that counts. One of these days AOL will be forced to open the gates and build its business from the other end. Online as they claim to be.