When companies like Novell were first approached by M$, they should have gone to the Linux Foundation, or EFF. Instead they took a payday that inherently casts a doubt of suspision upon the entire Linux community. And while I was a fan of SuSe and many of the things they did, I will never again advocate the use of any Novell products, nor any major distro/vendor that strikes such a deal. I switched... switched from SuSE to Ubuntu, and I recommend Ubuntu/Fedora to most of my friends and colleagues who want to try out Linux. I know this is not going to hurt them, but it's something..
this is one of the reasons why i think india was chosen.
well india has a large number of pirated Windows running on assembled PCs (mainly cos of the cost factor). now m$ doesn't want to go right up and prosecute people and lose market share to Linux (yes! since this is a growing market more people stand a chance to grow up with Linux desktops:)
what does m$ do? well they start to sell PCs which can directly compete with cheap options while giving people the option of Genuine (dis)Advantage..
This includes books too, a famous example was a few years ago, when a biography of soccer star Garrincha was pulled out of bookstores at the request of his daughters. The reason? It was stated in the book, based on his lovers' declarations, that Garrincha's penis was approximately 27 cm (11 inches) long. Now i'm not a grammar fanatic, but: Garrincha had an 11" *****, had a *lover*, AND had daughters?!!
In his blog post, OSI president Michael Tiemann writes: "Enough is enough. Open Source has grown up. 'We just realized how much money is in there.'
Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label." 'Now it is time to exploit it and make some quick bucks. And when we do, people who ignore us will get sued and start running away towards the other (m)$ide. What better time to confuse people with FUD!'
Giving John Doe in software development a raise and stock options will not make Yahoo! the number one search engine. Changing their business plan (if they have one) and offering something that every other search engine doesn't will. and how do you think they'll come up with that 'something innovative'. No matter what kind of process/model you follow it's the *people* who work there that will make the difference. Remember, not everyone is a John Doe, and those special people need to feel like the place where they work is part of them in order to motivate them and get the best. otherwise it's just a matter of time. so i go with GP.
It's just a shame that the right decision comes down on the side of the spammer. if you accept that such rights do exist, then you also have to accept that they are applicable to all people. You can't selectively turn on/off rights, which would be as good as 'no rights'.
IMHO, it's difficult to pin blame on some particular group. It's just that we're trying to apply familiar rules (of our physical society) to a totally new territory, one that just doesn't follow the same dynamics - The Internet (yes, those pipes).
And as far as swords go, how much cooler would it be if we had sword toting bad guys instead of gun toting ones? If our nightly cop dramas (or mob dramas) had lots of guys pulling katanas or rapiers at each other? i hope you really didn't mean it. there are places in this world where instances of 'hacked to death by a gang of X' isn't all that rare.
but i do understand your sentiment of increasing the threshold of the 'ease-of-killing'. but to the really motivated it doesn't matter..
now your are *not* in his definition a 'fanboy', because he was asked to ****off by a fanboy when asked the same topic as here.
Seriously, i don't think the poster was referring to people with knowledge of GNU/Linux as 'fanboy's. it's just that some of the elitist and arrogant (yes, i'm gonna get killed for this) attitude that we show may have caused people to think this. Despite the best intentions of the community, a few people manage to scare off the newbies.
You've pretty much got it. The Shiv Sena and RSS are Hindu chauvinist thugs that aren't taken seriously by anyone educated. Well, that really *is* the point. What percentage of the population in india is really educated? and of that how much really don't care of the crap that is 'someone insulted my God'. i know of really well-qualified people who get into a frenzy over religion.
In such a scenario, it's easy for thugs like the shiv sena to make news and raise an up roar. hopefully sense will prevail (but then we've seen worse).
P.S. if your God is really supreme, wtf is the logic in saying that He/She can be offended or insulted by mere sucking mortals? if there really is a God, this wud look just comic. Go fix the real problems, God can take care of himself.
apart from the initial shock (face it, evryone wants to plug the tube that is the internet), won't this generate more unwanted e-mail traffic? think of all the people who would now send >1 copies of each of their mails just to increase the chances of delivery.
of course it's all assuming that the real intention is not 'end-of-free-emails'(which cud be quite naive)
We have to start only allowing patents that are judged non-obvious by leading experts in the area. the problem with such an approach is the well-known phenomenon "oh, it's so obvious once you see it!". how do you deal with that now.
it's better to wait till technology is sufficiently advanced and you get a spell-checker installed between your eyes & brain. that way everyone gets along well!
of course they need it. but when they have a ruler who rules them in the name of God, surely he can't do wrong. i don't think they realize that they need it.
in fact going by the US policy, all the other countries on the planet seem to need democracy. hoho!
Well, yes & no. It really was Con's RSDL that got ppl looking seriously into changing the mainline scheduler (there already being several out-of-mainline alternatives like nicksched, etc.)
Con's scheduler seemed to work better at higher workloads than the mainline, by just trying to distribute load evenly and not trying pretty interactivity tricks. But several ppl did say it didn't perform well for certain X client workloads. That's when Ingo's CFS was posted.
There really is 2 alternatives Ingo's CFS & Con's SDL that's being simultaneously tested by the kernel developers now, and none is accepted into mainline.
So it wouldn't be fair to say that CFS is *the* next Linux scheduler. It could be SDL as well.
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this is one of the reasons why i think india was chosen.
:)
well india has a large number of pirated Windows running on assembled PCs (mainly cos of the cost factor). now m$ doesn't want to go right up and prosecute people and lose market share to Linux (yes! since this is a growing market more people stand a chance to grow up with Linux desktops
what does m$ do? well they start to sell PCs which can directly compete with cheap options while giving people the option of Genuine (dis)Advantage..
LOL
Windows is renamed to 'Balmer Linux' :)
IMHO, it's difficult to pin blame on some particular group. It's just that we're trying to apply familiar rules (of our physical society) to a totally new territory, one that just doesn't follow the same dynamics - The Internet (yes, those pipes).
but i do understand your sentiment of increasing the threshold of the 'ease-of-killing'. but to the really motivated it doesn't matter..
now your are *not* in his definition a 'fanboy', because he was asked to ****off by a fanboy when asked the same topic as here.
Seriously, i don't think the poster was referring to people with knowledge of GNU/Linux as 'fanboy's. it's just that some of the elitist and arrogant (yes, i'm gonna get killed for this) attitude that we show may have caused people to think this. Despite the best intentions of the community, a few people manage to scare off the newbies.
In such a scenario, it's easy for thugs like the shiv sena to make news and raise an up roar. hopefully sense will prevail (but then we've seen worse).
P.S. if your God is really supreme, wtf is the logic in saying that He/She can be offended or insulted by mere sucking mortals? if there really is a God, this wud look just comic. Go fix the real problems, God can take care of himself.
apart from the initial shock (face it, evryone wants to plug the tube that is the internet), won't this generate more unwanted e-mail traffic? think of all the people who would now send >1 copies of each of their mails just to increase the chances of delivery.
of course it's all assuming that the real intention is not 'end-of-free-emails'(which cud be quite naive)
i have something better
1) patent patches
2) patent tuesdays
3) $Profit$
now we sign our mails. google stores it for ages. now who could use such kind of information..
Duke! you'll never Nuke'em in time.
it's better to wait till technology is sufficiently advanced and you get a spell-checker installed between your eyes
& brain. that way everyone gets along well!
dude.. u need t spend more time with ur girlfriend
of course they need it. but when they have a ruler who rules them in the name of God, surely he can't do wrong. i don't think they realize that they need it.
in fact going by the US policy, all the other countries on the planet seem to need democracy. hoho!
of course it was not the cell phones... it was their laptops exploding
CmdrTaco where are you when we need you!
hmmm, now who'd be interested in that...
Well, yes & no. It really was Con's RSDL that got ppl looking seriously into changing the mainline scheduler (there already being several out-of-mainline alternatives like nicksched, etc.)
Con's scheduler seemed to work better at higher workloads than the mainline, by just trying to distribute load evenly and not trying pretty interactivity tricks. But several ppl did say it didn't perform well for certain X client workloads. That's when Ingo's CFS was posted.
There really is 2 alternatives Ingo's CFS & Con's SDL that's being simultaneously tested by the kernel developers now, and none is accepted into mainline.
So it wouldn't be fair to say that CFS is *the* next Linux scheduler. It could be SDL as well.