Generally there is no enforcment for the standards, if you don't follow them you don't get to play in the playground. You won't be interoperable with everyone else. This is the problem with proprietary extensions to these open standards. If some company in a monopolistic position(Names witheld to protect the guilty) were to impliment their own proprietary extension it throws the whole thing out the window. This is why it's the USERS responsibility to make sure that the products they by are from companies who play nicely otherwise they are only hurting themselves by squashing innovation(hmm....)
UNIX was not designed to protect the user from his/herself. Instead it was designed to allow the user to protect him/herself. You can run everything you want as root, but you obviously know what will likely happen in the end. If you are conserned with security simply don't run everything from root. Just because you are running a single user system doesn't mean you need to be root all the time (believe me I learned the hard way:)
What I see a need for is sites getting more specific than/. or freshmeat. I don't want to have to sift through 5000 calucators for X to find if there is an algebraic computing project in open source development. Perhaps a site dedicated to Mathematical news and software, or Political news and software.. etc.
I suppose an analogy would be yoursite::slashdot as perljornal::Linux.com
I believe this is exactly what has allowed open source to thrive. Without these pitfalls in the true "free" open source software there would be nowhere to make any money. For such a long time the argument was Open source can't be profitable. This has obviously been proven wrong, by people making money supporting and writing wrappers. Why by Red Hat or S.U.S.E? because they're easier to install then Debian. To many people(Me included) that's worth 30-40 bucks. Linux et al. deserve great credit for being free and open but without companies like Red Hat etc the popularity would not be what it is(opinion don't flame) so, to get to my point The OSS can be looked at as a tool, where people can add on and make it easier as it goes. Keep the functionality where it is, and eventually someone will make it easier to use.
I believe this is exactly what has allowed open source to thrive. Without these pitfalls in the true "free" open source software there would be nowhere to make any money. For such a long time the argument was Open source can't be profitable. This has obviously been proven wrong, by people making money supporting and writing wrappers. Why by Red Hat or S.U.S.E? because they're easier to install then Debian. To many people(Me included) that's worth 30-40 bucks. Linux et al. deserve great credit for being free and open but without companies like Red Hat etc the popularity would not be what it is(opinion don't flame) so, to get to my point The OSS can be looked at as a tool, where people can add on and make it easier as it goes. Keep the functionality where it is, and eventually someone will make it easier to use.
The way I see it there are two possible situations with MP3's either: 1) People will trade them like crazy and nobody will buy CD's. 2) People will be exposed to more music and perhaps purchase more of it. Personally I don't have the luxury of an mp3 player at my car, work, home, school, gym, etc... so when I hear something I like I buy the CD. As a matter of fact I buy more cd's now that I listen to more music. Another possibility could be the recent trend in the mass marketing of music. If you haven't noticed all the radio stations are being bought up by a small group of companies since degregulation occured. There is no more local marketing to specific groups or regions, we are now spoon fed what they think will sell to the most people. Perhaps MP3's are a threat to this monopolostic tendency? I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just suggesting that there is probably more to the story than meets the eye. The movie and music industry has survived tapes(video and audio) as well as cd burners. Plus only part of the money they make is from cd purchases. There must be more than meets the eye. What do you think fellow/. readers?
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How can you say that programming skill has nothing to do with uptime? It can't all be luck. Bugs cause crashes, crashes cause downtime.
I believe that the recording industry isn't woried about losing record sales, they're woried about losing their monopoly on distribution. A monopoly is much more valuable than the actual CD's.
Given the themes of his previous albums Radio K.A.O.S and Amused to death. Both of which had to do with the idea that we're messing ourselves up. Perhaps his writing an album about the net isn't such a good thing. Don't get me wrong the man is a Diety but don't be surprised if his view of the net is somewhat fatalistic.
True, but if I was selling something on Ebay(which I've done). I would be more interested in people seeing my product. Isn't that the point of their promotional displays?
Anyone who ever asks you why open source software has an advantage point them to this story. I'm willing to bet if only the binaries for the ssh protocol were sent this still would not be a known problem. Thanks to whomever took the time to find this security hole!
Just curious as to everyones opinion here. ebay makes more money the higher the bids go. Why wouldn't they embrace this free advertising? I could understand if someone was stealing products from them but how could they. Also ebay doesn't have advertising(do they?) so they're not losing anything there. Perhaps they're afraid that people will notice links to other auction sites on these listings? What are your thoughts?
from the article. 7. How Can I Make Linux More Like Windows? Hmmm. Rebuild the kernel to use every memory-hogging feature you can find. Reboot every couple of days whether you need to or not. And every 18 months or so, send a check for $99 to Bill Gates. That should do the trick. thought i'd post it for people who didn't read the whole thing.
For any lawyers out there, is there a reasonable basis for legal action if these accusations are true? Maybe it's time we did more than just complain and flame about it?
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I didn't see it:)
Generally there is no enforcment for the standards, if you don't follow them you don't get to play in the playground. You won't be interoperable with everyone else. This is the problem with proprietary extensions to these open standards. If some company in a monopolistic position(Names witheld to protect the guilty) were to impliment their own proprietary extension it throws the whole thing out the window. This is why it's the USERS responsibility to make sure that the products they by are from companies who play nicely otherwise they are only hurting themselves by squashing innovation(hmm....)
First of all let me thank you for many MANY hours
of fantastic entertainment from your books to your games to your videos. Now the question.
I have always thought of your work as some of the most unique and original I have found. What do you use to inspire your wonderful ranting.
P.S. ||||| thanks for my signature too.
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Vogon poetic licence:)
Gee how often do you find yourself asking... Now just how do I get THAT virus?!?
UNIX was not designed to protect the user from his/herself. Instead it was designed to allow the user to protect him/herself. You can run everything you want as root, but you obviously know what will likely happen in the end. If you are conserned with security simply don't run everything from root. Just because you are running a single user system doesn't mean you need to be root all the time (believe me I learned the hard way:)
What I see a need for is sites getting more specific than /. or freshmeat. I don't want to have to sift through 5000 calucators for X to find if there is an algebraic computing project in open source development. Perhaps a site dedicated to Mathematical news and software, or Political news and software.. etc.
I suppose an analogy would be yoursite::slashdot as perljornal::Linux.com
I think Amazon holds that patent If I'm not mistaken.
(Oh come on somebody had to say it).
Does this make Erwin(Re: Userfriendly) a monkeys uncle?
I believe this is exactly what has allowed open source to thrive. Without these pitfalls in the true "free" open source software there would be nowhere to make any money.
For such a long time the argument was Open source can't be profitable. This has obviously been proven wrong, by people making money supporting and writing wrappers.
Why by Red Hat or S.U.S.E? because they're easier to install then Debian. To many people(Me included) that's worth 30-40 bucks.
Linux et al. deserve great credit for being free and open but without companies like Red Hat etc the popularity would not be what it is(opinion don't flame) so, to get to my point The OSS can be looked at as a tool, where people can add on and make it easier as it goes. Keep the functionality where it is, and eventually someone will make it easier to use.
I believe this is exactly what has allowed open source to thrive. Without these pitfalls in the true "free" open source software there would be nowhere to make any money. For such a long time the argument was Open source can't be profitable. This has obviously been proven wrong, by people making money supporting and writing wrappers. Why by Red Hat or S.U.S.E? because they're easier to install then Debian. To many people(Me included) that's worth 30-40 bucks. Linux et al. deserve great credit for being free and open but without companies like Red Hat etc the popularity would not be what it is(opinion don't flame) so, to get to my point The OSS can be looked at as a tool, where people can add on and make it easier as it goes. Keep the functionality where it is, and eventually someone will make it easier to use.
The way I see it there are two possible situations with MP3's either: 1) People will trade them like crazy and nobody will buy CD's. 2) People will be exposed to more music and perhaps purchase more of it. Personally I don't have the luxury of an mp3 player at my car, work, home, school, gym, etc... so when I hear something I like I buy the CD. As a matter of fact I buy more cd's now that I listen to more music. Another possibility could be the recent trend in the mass marketing of music. If you haven't noticed all the radio stations are being bought up by a small group of companies since degregulation occured. There is no more local marketing to specific groups or regions, we are now spoon fed what they think will sell to the most people. Perhaps MP3's are a threat to this monopolostic tendency? I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just suggesting that there is probably more to the story than meets the eye. The movie and music industry has survived tapes(video and audio) as well as cd burners. Plus only part of the money they make is from cd purchases. There must be more than meets the eye. What do you think fellow /. readers?
How can you say that programming skill has nothing to do with uptime? It can't all be luck. Bugs cause crashes, crashes cause downtime.
Don't listen to this please. The less downtime you guys have the better! Everyone else go ahead.
I believe that the recording industry isn't woried about losing record sales, they're woried about losing their monopoly on distribution. A monopoly is much more valuable than the actual CD's.
Given the themes of his previous albums Radio K.A.O.S and Amused to death. Both of which had to do with the idea that we're messing ourselves up. Perhaps his writing an album about the net isn't such a good thing. Don't get me wrong the man is a Diety but don't be surprised if his view of the net is somewhat fatalistic.
True, but if I was selling something on Ebay(which I've done). I would be more interested in people seeing my product. Isn't that the point of their promotional displays?
Happily undiscovered by whom? If the wrong person happened to stumble across the bug and didn't say anything they could cause all sorts of havoc.
Anyone who ever asks you why open source software has an advantage point them to this story. I'm willing to bet if only the binaries for the ssh protocol were sent this still would not be a known problem. Thanks to whomever took the time to find this security hole!
Just curious as to everyones opinion here. ebay makes more money the higher the bids go. Why wouldn't they embrace this free advertising? I could understand if someone was stealing products from them but how could they. Also ebay doesn't have advertising(do they?) so they're not losing anything there. Perhaps they're afraid that people will notice links to other auction sites on these listings? What are your thoughts?
from the article. 7. How Can I Make Linux More Like Windows? Hmmm. Rebuild the kernel to use every memory-hogging feature you can find. Reboot every couple of days whether you need to or not. And every 18 months or so, send a check for $99 to Bill Gates. That should do the trick. thought i'd post it for people who didn't read the whole thing.
Why would they care?
For any lawyers out there, is there a reasonable basis for legal action if these accusations are true? Maybe it's time we did more than just complain and flame about it?
What do you mean when you were a kid? I'm 26 and still trying to turn the channel with my psychic powers!:) I'll make a post when I figure it out.
woot? I haven't heard that in a while