On another note, if AG's website IS open source, I guess I can copy it, modify it, and put it up at my own website. Any guesses how long it will take before a lawyer calls about copyright violations?
When people outside of our community hear the term "Free Software" they generally think "Zero cost" software, not Freedom. Open Source is an attempt to clear up that confusion, which you should know since you were a part of it.
Or better yet, they will get the impression that they are on to something with this "Open Source Thang" and start to push even sillier things. This will be good for the entertainment value.
Or it could be bad because they will need to buy more MS IIS servers to handle an additional 20 hits/hour, and give Gates more money.
Or is he trying to just use this to help further his political career by appealing to a voting block & make himself look like he's hip & on the cutting edge?
So it would be ok for me to decide that my name is "God", and insist that people address me as such when asking me questions?
Everybody has a freedom of opinion, but not the freedom that others comply with your opionion.
In your example, a questioner has the right to use the N-word, but since that word is widely held as a pejorative, the questioner would no doubt outrage most of the audience, not just the person he is addressing.
"Linux" is not held as a perjorative, except by an extreme element of the Free software community.
Your employer is paying you to write this. I don't know what you're being paid, but I think it would probably be fair to say several grand total.
Now, if you GPL it, your competitors can get the library for nothing, and use it in a similar product. This gives them a lower barrier to entry, which can hurt your employer in the long run.
France and other countries lean closer towards RMS' beliefs. It is essentially a socialist philosophy
It's communist. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" -Marx, "Software must be freely distributable so you can help your neighbor." -Stallman
Pure Communism is supposed to happen automatically (of course, it doesn't), not with a central authority enforcing it, like under Socialism. When asked "Isn't the government just a logical extension of the community?" in an interview, RMS replied, "Um, no, I don't think of the US government that way.". So I don't think Socialist is a good label for him.
If demanding that people who ask questions at the GNOME release use GNU/Linux rather than Linux is not imposing his beliefs on people is not imposing, then I don't know what is.
No significant number of users want any bugs in Microsoft products fixed.
He based this on the fact that a low percentage of people call the tech support numbers and say "hey, I found a bug!" Of course ignoring the fact that most MS users are not technical enough to know when they've found a bug, they assume that they themselves are doing something wrong.
Why does Slackware equal cluefulness? I never found it particularly difficult to install, just lacking in features, like a good package management tool.
Why does Slackware equal cluefulness? I never found it particularly difficult to install, just lacking in features, like a good package management tool.
Synidicated comic strips have something like a 6-week lead time. Also, the strips on "DilbertZone" ran in the newspapers two weeks prior. There is no way that Scott Adams could have stolen that idea from UF. I don't know what kind of lead time Illiad has, but doesn't he run in a couple of Newspapers?
I find the series absolutly horrible. It tries to turn Dilbert into the "Simpsons" and often tries to force humor, and ends up not being funny. Plus it started repeating after only four or five episodes.
Scott Adams loves the use of irony, and Dilmom is a good example of this. She is highly technical, and often puts Dilbert to shame. The fact that she uses Linux is not surprising at all.
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Especially since the average 45 only contained one song per side, no wonder they never caught on.
It amazes me how shock resistant that thing was, since the technology in those days tended to be rather big and clunky
own website. Any guesses how long it will take before a lawyer calls about copyright violations?
Maybe we should do that to prove a point
Drop the rhetoric already.
When people outside of our community hear the term "Free Software" they generally think "Zero cost" software, not Freedom. Open Source is an attempt to clear up that confusion, which you should know since you were a part of it.
Or better yet, they will get the impression that they are on to something with this "Open Source Thang" and start to push even sillier things. This will be good for the entertainment value.
Or it could be bad because they will need to buy more MS IIS servers to handle an additional 20 hits/hour, and give Gates more money.
Is he really trying to popularize "Open Source"?
Or is he trying to just use this to help further his political career by appealing to a voting block & make himself look like he's hip & on the cutting edge?
Then I could take all the code, post it on another website, and change the text a little, to make it an anti-Gore2000 website.
Somehow, I don't think he would be amused.
I doubt that most self-respecting interviewers would though.
So it would be ok for me to decide that my name is "God", and insist that people address me as such when asking me questions?
Everybody has a freedom of opinion, but not the freedom that others comply with your opionion.
In your example, a questioner has the right to use the N-word, but since that word is widely held as a pejorative, the questioner would no doubt outrage most of the audience, not just the person he is addressing.
"Linux" is not held as a perjorative, except by an extreme element of the Free software community.
Your employer is paying you to write this. I don't know what you're being paid, but I think it would probably be fair to say several grand total.
Now, if you GPL it, your competitors can get the library for nothing, and use it in a similar product. This gives them a lower barrier to entry, which can hurt your employer in the long run.
It's communist. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" -Marx, "Software must be freely distributable so you can help your neighbor." -Stallman
Pure Communism is supposed to happen automatically (of course, it doesn't), not with a central authority enforcing it, like under Socialism. When asked "Isn't the government just a logical extension of the community?" in an interview, RMS replied, "Um, no, I don't think of the US government that way.". So I don't think Socialist is a good label for him.
What? you don't want to start a consulting service for that game you've just written? :)
Seriously though, the only way to guarantee ROI is to charge thousands of dollars for the first few copies.
Also a service-based software industry will lead to poorly written software to guarantee service contracts.
If demanding that people who ask questions at the GNOME release use GNU/Linux rather than Linux is not imposing his beliefs on people is not imposing, then I don't know what is.
No significant number of users want any bugs in Microsoft products fixed.
He based this on the fact that a low percentage of people call the tech support numbers and say "hey, I found a bug!" Of course ignoring the fact that most MS users are not technical enough to know when they've found a bug, they assume that they themselves are doing something wrong.
After all, wasn't Windows 98 itself just an $89 bug fix?
Anyway, there are no bugs in any Microsoft products, just "issues".
CDE is the standard desktop environment for commercial Unix workstations. It's based around Motif.
You can find more information and screenshots at this page.
KDE has little to do with CDE.
As if CDE has a much freer license than KDE
Why does Slackware equal cluefulness? I never
found it particularly difficult to install, just lacking in features, like a good package management tool.
Why does Slackware equal cluefulness? I never
found it particularly difficult to install, just lacking in features, like a good package management tool.
Since when is Dilbert about social change? If it was it would run on the editorial page, not the "Funnies" page in the entertainment section.
(Well my moronic newspaper runs Dilbert on the business page, but I think that's the exception)
Synidicated comic strips have something like a 6-week lead time. Also, the strips on "DilbertZone" ran in the newspapers two weeks prior. There is no way that Scott Adams could have stolen that idea from UF. I don't know what kind of lead time Illiad has, but doesn't he run in a couple of Newspapers?
I find the series absolutly horrible. It tries to turn Dilbert into the "Simpsons" and often tries to force humor, and ends up not being funny. Plus it started repeating after only four or five episodes.
Scott Adams loves the use of irony, and Dilmom
is a good example of this. She is highly technical, and often puts Dilbert to shame. The fact that she uses Linux is not surprising at all.
What's the number of the RFC that explains how to make pigs fly?
No more incompatible versions of PPP (packets by passenger pigeon)! This is a great day for the internet!
The April fools stuff is fine, the problem that I'm seeing is that the real news is looking like April Fools jokes and not being taken seriously.