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  1. Is this the wave of the future? on NY Times Op-Ed Page Goes Subscriber-Only · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this mean in a short while the only source for free online commentary is going to be blogs?

  2. If he keeps spending like this on New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco · · Score: 0

    ...he won't be able to afford to fail for much longer!

  3. Re:Out of curiousity... on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Would that make it a good language for a casual hobbyist programmer to learn, then? I mean for learning off the net and just doing light projects with.

  4. Re:Unfortunately, not a troll on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    ...as long as you can't view your brower's cache.

  5. Re:Unfortunately, not a troll on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, while that's true in theory; the register printed an article that described how the information which you download is still viewable locally.

  6. Re:Honesty - Sys-con Advertisers list on LinuxWorld Senior Editorial Staff Resigns · · Score: 1

    They make game consoles and mice, I think; but I'm not really sure.

  7. Re:Was bound to happen.. on Radio Listening Declining w/ Digital On Its Way Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not bloody likely. Given the current cultural climate of everything becoming more corporate and homogenous it's signifigantly more likely that Clearchannel, et al will simply legislate their way to an online music monopoly posistion and drive out the last bits of online radio diversity.

    Stations like you propose will never come again simply because that is against the interest of the corporate monopolists

  8. Re:Is this so obvious to everyone else in the worl on India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence · · Score: 1

    That answers my previous post; but still, why not use something like the apache license (which, correct me if I'm wrong, includes patent protection) or the CDDL?

  9. What I don't understand is...why? on India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What need is it, exactly, that india requires that isn't met by the GNU or BSD licenses?

    What's next? AmericanNationalLicense? BritishNationalLicense?

    This can only be a bad thing.

  10. linux coders != OSS coders on Myth of Linux Hobby Coders Exposed · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what this says about the larger OSS world (if it says anything at all). Linux is, of course, huge in the enterprise (eg the use of LAMP) so it follows that a large part of Linux is developed and added onto by corporations. However, is the same true once you branch out and look at OpenBSD or FreeBSD (NetBSD is largely developed by a company whose name I forget at the moment)? What about X.org and KDE?

    Of course, I have to applaud anything that acts as a slap upside the head to computer ricers (CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, YO!) who think they're 1337 because they compiled all of gentoo that they're mega-kewl coders.

  11. Re:I, for one, welcome on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 1
    Keep in mind that this is in addition to the fact that he completely raped the original jargon-file.


    Given that it's open-source, can't we simply create a fork from before it was permanently soiled and fill it with less psychotic^W biased definitions?

    Or should we all write it off as a relic of the 80's and use a more contemporary, less biased sources such as urban dictionary which are (IMHO) a better reflection of what internet users think anways?
  12. I think that it's great as an option on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 5, Insightful

    however, I think that if you make it mandatory (no idea if tfa says either way) then I think this could create some very serious damage to any open source unlucky enough to get coerced 'help'.

    also, bear in mind that before you drool over the prospect of conscripts to do the grunt work in X.org or kde that any program worthwhile would probably allow them to choose which projects to help out in; and if they all decide that the best way to spend their time is to develop and perfect a tcl front end to cdrecord, that's their choice.

    Frankly, I'd prefer that OSS help remain completely voluntary. Getting half-hearted help is worse than getting no help at all.

  13. A bit of both, really... on Maui X-Stream at it Again? · · Score: 2, Informative

    as 'free' software pops up on the radar of increasingly unscrupulous people, more violations are taking place. At the same time, as the community gains more experience with people unfairly taking advantage of GNU software, they are becoming more vigilant.

    Not really an interesting question, to me the interesting question is...what the hell made them think they wouldn't get caught again?!?!

  14. Differentiate...? on Canonical Plans a Version-Tracking Tool for Devs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I assume from the sumarry that this means finding a niche that puts them apart from netbsd's pkgsrc and the gentoo system...both of which already address tracking source updates across multiple distros (and even OSes -eg pkgsrc and gentoo on bsd).

    What I would like to know is, are they going to spin it off into a commercial version as well (ala xchat) or simply live off of support or something else?

  15. Re:There will still be reruns in a few years on Trek Producers Will Provide World A Break · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I grew up with TOS in reruns and saw the TNG when it was new. I love both dearly, but the franchise has clearly run out of creative juices.

    A break may be just the thing to clear everyone's head (fan and writer alike) and hopefully come back with some new and interesting stories to tell.

    Plus -speaking of compeition, if they wait a few years, all the interest in star wars will have died out.