Aren't the North Koreans the evil communists? Isn't South Korea home to the free market, and hence antithetical to all open source and free software?:-)
While we're on the topic of microkernels, wouldn't it be a good idea to gradually make the linux kernel less monolithic, finally turning it into a nifty microkernel based OS? Is there anything going on in this direction?
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Slightly off-topic, but what impact will Sun's open-sourcing of the JVM have? We already have several Open Source JVMs, Kaffe and IBM's RVM(Research Virtual Machine). Since the Java specs are anyway open, is there any point if Sun opens up the JVM implementation?
Seems like we've come full circle, back to the days of "dumb" clients/terminals and central servers. Personally, I don't see myself making my boxes dependent on a network, leave alone a server farm run by one company. Can the convenience be worth the dependence involved?
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Aren't the North Koreans the evil communists? Isn't South Korea home to the free market, and hence antithetical to all open source and free software? :-)
While we're on the topic of microkernels, wouldn't it be a good idea to gradually make the linux kernel less monolithic, finally turning it into a nifty microkernel based OS? Is there anything going on in this direction?
The kernel is the last missing piece? What's the first piece, an integrated browser?
Link based ranking might have worked once upon a time, but for truly relevant results, the search has to primarily focus on page content and analyze it. Current link-based ranking means that the search engine is relying on what other websites (and indirectly, webmasters) think of the site in question.
IBM's implementation is under the CPL and is completely open-source. No proprietary code anywhere.
Slightly off-topic, but what impact will Sun's open-sourcing of the JVM have? We already have several Open Source JVMs, Kaffe and IBM's RVM(Research Virtual Machine). Since the Java specs are anyway open, is there any point if Sun opens up the JVM implementation?
Seems like we've come full circle, back to the days of "dumb" clients/terminals and central servers. Personally, I don't see myself making my boxes dependent on a network, leave alone a server farm run by one company. Can the convenience be worth the dependence involved?