To be fair, Bush administration has done good for the space exploration. For instance NASA is getting as much funds (inflation corrected) for the new moon landings/moon base building as during the Apollo program.
Well, what else can you expect from a paper the name of which has become synonymous with extreme capitali$m and greed?
Of course they are not going to like Free software and its flagship, Linux. Sure OpenBSD is open software (not as free as Linux, of course, but I digress) and they don't like it either, but why not use one open source camp to attack another?
What a bunch of lies! Let me address each one of them, one by one...
The Linux community gauges everything in terms of fear and threat.
We don't fear anything. Us geeks will survive together with Linux even if the commercial world turns its back to us.
Fear of getting physicallly beaten. Fear of having their lunch money stolen. Fear of still being a virgin when they turn 30.
Ah. So, how does it feel now that you're pumping gas (or is it ass? hehheh...) in bumwipe Alabama when we are working together, side by side on something that will revolutionize software business...
a game of D&D but this form of real human interaction is rare.
As you say, what else is D&D if not human interaction? I wouldn't call a drunken jock party human interaction.
Why can't we all just get along without worrying about what threatens us? Hmmm?
I take it you mean proprietary $oftware theatens us? Well, you're right. You wouldn't be posting here if someone had been bugging the founding fathers of the internet with crap like intellectual property rights. Sometimes one is confronted by something so hideous, so outrageous that you can't just lie down and live a life of an appeaser. This is war. If free software does not prevail, there will be no software to hack in the future. Is that what you want, eh?
What exactly is wrong with Gimp? Why would you want to buy crippled, proprietary software by a convicted monopolist instead of giving Gimp developers a few hints of what you'd like to see in the software. Or, even better yet, why won't you help in the development of the code like the rest of us do?
If you want to use software on your P-III shouldn't you be supporting Free Software instead?
Ha-ha, you little troll. You're not as funny as you think.
The security track record of free software has already clobbered that of the closed source products and we're going to leave you even further behind in the future. Why? Because it is inevitable and we have the moral higher ground.
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Well, yes, but it is twisted freedom in the same sense as the freedom to own slaves: you take someone's work but don't reward him/her for it. There must be limits to freedom, otherwise freedom becomes a meaningless concept.
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It's hardly about ego. Don't you think that the guy deserves a credit for his brilliant copyleft idea?
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Well, quite frankly, BSD licensed software is not truly free -- what's the point in free software if you can turn it into a non-free product?
Don't get me wrong. BSD is a fine license all right, but nothing special compared to the protected freedom of GPL.
Isn't this incredible. A few years ago they wouldn't have touched Linux with a ten foot pole and now they're embracing Free Software.
This, people, is a bloodless revolution in action. Something to tell your grandchildern about. "What's that grandpa? How could software have been anything but free?"
And also prevents good honest people from playing their perfectly legal, original media on an operating system of their choice. Do you think the corps will give Linux developers, for instance, access to DRM specs and code that will facilitate communication with media drives? I don't think so.
While they didn't do it this time, they've shown their cards in the sense that they're hellbent on implementing those nasty DRM schemes in the near future. Yet another reason not to buy Intel.
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To be fair, Bush administration has done good for the space exploration. For instance NASA is getting as much funds (inflation corrected) for the new moon landings/moon base building as during the Apollo program.
Of course they are not going to like Free software and its flagship, Linux. Sure OpenBSD is open software (not as free as Linux, of course, but I digress) and they don't like it either, but why not use one open source camp to attack another?
And that's a good thing because otherwise we'd have Jesus-states, secular-states, gun-nut states and so on.
The Linux community gauges everything in terms of fear and threat.
We don't fear anything. Us geeks will survive together with Linux even if the commercial world turns its back to us.
Fear of getting physicallly beaten. Fear of having their lunch money stolen. Fear of still being a virgin when they turn 30.
Ah. So, how does it feel now that you're pumping gas (or is it ass? hehheh...) in bumwipe Alabama when we are working together, side by side on something that will revolutionize software business...
a game of D&D but this form of real human interaction is rare.
As you say, what else is D&D if not human interaction? I wouldn't call a drunken jock party human interaction.
Why can't we all just get along without worrying about what threatens us? Hmmm?
I take it you mean proprietary $oftware theatens us? Well, you're right. You wouldn't be posting here if someone had been bugging the founding fathers of the internet with crap like intellectual property rights. Sometimes one is confronted by something so hideous, so outrageous that you can't just lie down and live a life of an appeaser. This is war. If free software does not prevail, there will be no software to hack in the future. Is that what you want, eh?
What possible advantage would such a system have over Linux? Linux supports, for instance, much more hardware than Solaris.
But if the document can't be found in the digital search, who will know that a written text still exists?
What strange thing. No one seems to be objecting to the fact that the game was played on Xbox...
No doubt this is also seen by certain parties as an opportunity to blank out certain unpleasant incidents in our history.
If you want to use software on your P-III shouldn't you be supporting Free Software instead?
The security track record of free software has already clobbered that of the closed source products and we're going to leave you even further behind in the future. Why? Because it is inevitable and we have the moral higher ground.
Well, yes, but it is twisted freedom in the same sense as the freedom to own slaves: you take someone's work but don't reward him/her for it. There must be limits to freedom, otherwise freedom becomes a meaningless concept.
It's hardly about ego. Don't you think that the guy deserves a credit for his brilliant copyleft idea?
Don't get me wrong. BSD is a fine license all right, but nothing special compared to the protected freedom of GPL.
Isn't this incredible. A few years ago they wouldn't have touched Linux with a ten foot pole and now they're embracing Free Software.
This, people, is a bloodless revolution in action. Something to tell your grandchildern about. "What's that grandpa? How could software have been anything but free?"
Are you sure you're on the right site, buddy?
But seriously. What good is free software that can be locked down by some corp the moment it is released?
RH is a model of a successful Open Source company. I, for one, would love to work for such a company after I graduate.
Maybe it's because there are plenty of people like me who love Gnome. It's innovative, it works and looks great, too.
And also prevents good honest people from playing their perfectly legal, original media on an operating system of their choice. Do you think the corps will give Linux developers, for instance, access to DRM specs and code that will facilitate communication with media drives? I don't think so.
While they didn't do it this time, they've shown their cards in the sense that they're hellbent on implementing those nasty DRM schemes in the near future. Yet another reason not to buy Intel.
Here you go, sir. Pure open source goodness.