Hating on users by calling them "leaches" for following the contract terms is caustic and harmful to the community.
If you don't want to share, don't share.
What's wrong with wanting to share, but sometimes wanting a little quid pro quo too? Are you following the absolute letter of the licensing by not doing anything in return? Yes. Are you following the intent? No, probably not. While there's no strict obligation to do anything, if you like the project and would like to see it continue, then perhaps (even for your own self-interest) you might consider doing something about it. A bug report, code contribution, small monetary contribution, etc. Hell, even a word of thanks here and there would be nice.
If you want to control the actions of people using your software, don't use a license that respects their Freedom.
If you used a license that does respect their Freedom, and then you find yourself feeling negative emotions about how they use it, stop your whining and meditate about your desire to control people to whom you promised Freedom.
Your strict interpretation of how this works reminds me of a person that wouldn't hold the door for someone. Are you legally required to hold open a door for someone? No, of course not. But that doesn't mean the person behind you won't think you're a proper prick if you let the door slam shut in their face. Of course your response would be "but I didn't have to do that for you."
Why not consider the letter of an agreement vs. the intent of an agreement? And maybe think ahead for more than 5 minutes and realize that if everyone treats FOSS developers like that, eventually there won't be any. And that will hurt you just as much as the developer.
I got user burnout, after having the bugs I reported either brushed away or marked WONTFIX. There's only so much of being resisted you can take before rage quitting the whole thing.
Yes, unfortunately that is a valid complaint too. I try not to do it personally, but I can see that if a developer is approaching burnout then they can resort to doing this. And it's then a self-perpetuating spiral that usually ends badly.
I've been working on a project for almost 20 years at this point, and I definitely feel the same as what's reported here. As the project has gotten more popular and more users come on board, there is now much more demand on our team. And some companies have noticed the usefulness of the project and used it in commercial products. Not that I'm against that (as that's what the GPL basically encourages), but it would be nice at times if there was more contributions back from those that benefit from it.
And I don't necessarily mean money either. Extra help in coding, testing, etc would be nice too. But I suspect that people get used to a product being free, and then asking for anything more once it becomes popular is out of the question for them. But in the long run, it really leads to developer burnout, as more people want more and more, and can't (or won't) contribute. I know I am personally feeling the burden and looking at burnout soon.
Anyway, long story short; I can sympathize with developers in a similar situation.
Never understood who thought this was a good idea.
People under severe memory constraints who need to use pointers that take up only half the space? People under severe performance constraints who can't spare the cycles to copy 64-bit pointers or do 64-bit lookups?
Why are said people using a 64-bit CPU in the first place, then? Let them use a 32-bit ARM CPU or something, and stop gimping the x86_64 architecture.
Autocompletion I can do without (or with, it doesn't really matter to me). But I must have syntax colouring; it makes it so much easier to scan code looking for a certain pattern, that it's now painful if I look at code without it.
I actually have a specific interest in this topic, since I'm an instructor in Computer Science, and we are currently comtemplating just such a move. Similar to you, I'm always amazed at the number of students that are completely lost without the IDE. They want to load up this huge, multi-gigabyte monstrosity of a program (Eclipse, etc) to write a 50 line Java program. Just boggles the mind.
No, they didn't make it up. Just because you don't agree with an opinion, you can't say it is made up. I've also tried compilation in Linux in Windows, and it is much slower. I've determined it's at least related to the abysmal disk I/O speed in Windows compared to Linux. But it _is_ a real problem, and isn't just 'made up'.
What about you have analytics turned off, and don't own a cellphone, and have never had their picture online. Yes, I know it's considered odd nowadays, but I don't (and won't ever) have a cellphone.
Except in the case of Quebec and Canada, French is mandated in all English-primary provinces, but English doesn't enjoy the same privilege in Quebec. So Quebec'ers, special snowflakes that they are, require French in schools, signage, etc everywhere in the country, even in the smallest town/village that has probably never (and probably *will never*) see a French person. Meanwhile, if you try to even speak English in Quebec, they will ignore you. And if you suggest that all signage also include English (as they require for their language in the rest of the ENTIRE country), it amounts to sacrilege.
Personally, I don't think even the French themselves (ie, people actually from France) are as conceited and stuck-up and the French in Quebec.
I had to add "rcu_nocbs=0-15" to the grub kernel arguments. I'm running an 1800x and RX480, so not too different from yours. Previously it was locking up at least twice a day, now it hasn't had one lockup in over a month.
The "point" is that Intel, Microsoft, and many large 'technical' corporations are apparently more concerned with marketing than technical prowess. Consider that Intel spends more on marketing each year than AMDs entire R&D budget.
Maybe if they spent half the time, energy and money on technical stuff as they do on slimy marketing, this issue wouldn't have happened in the first place.
But 4.14.11 doesn't include the fix that disables slowing down AMD processors. That one has been committed for 4.15, but there should also be a 4.14.12 to fix it there too.
This is probably a waste of time, but... When you're typing a message and say "see the p.s. below", it means you _know_ at that point that you will be having a p.s. But in that case you could just place the text where you are, and not _need_ a p.s.
Probably responding to a troll, but for one thing, as has been stated many times in the past, Slashdot is not one single-group-think entity. Plenty of people here respect licensing of all types, whether it's for the Linux kernel or Hollywood movies. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.
I personally work on and maintain several GPLv2 projects, and I expect the license to be followed. And I respect licensing for movies and other software too.
Most desktop work is done in an office suite and/or a Web browser. In both regards, Linux is well covered.
In that case the operating system doesnt matter at all so why bother using something different to all the people in your organization to which the operating system does matter? Case in point there was no reason for Jim Zemlin to use Linux over Mac in his presentation so he just used Mac.
It's called "eating your own dogfood". It's disingenuous to promote a platform without at least using it yourself.
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Hating on users by calling them "leaches" for following the contract terms is caustic and harmful to the community.
If you don't want to share, don't share.
What's wrong with wanting to share, but sometimes wanting a little quid pro quo too? Are you following the absolute letter of the licensing by not doing anything in return? Yes. Are you following the intent? No, probably not. While there's no strict obligation to do anything, if you like the project and would like to see it continue, then perhaps (even for your own self-interest) you might consider doing something about it. A bug report, code contribution, small monetary contribution, etc. Hell, even a word of thanks here and there would be nice.
If you want to control the actions of people using your software, don't use a license that respects their Freedom.
If you used a license that does respect their Freedom, and then you find yourself feeling negative emotions about how they use it, stop your whining and meditate about your desire to control people to whom you promised Freedom.
Your strict interpretation of how this works reminds me of a person that wouldn't hold the door for someone. Are you legally required to hold open a door for someone? No, of course not. But that doesn't mean the person behind you won't think you're a proper prick if you let the door slam shut in their face. Of course your response would be "but I didn't have to do that for you."
Why not consider the letter of an agreement vs. the intent of an agreement? And maybe think ahead for more than 5 minutes and realize that if everyone treats FOSS developers like that, eventually there won't be any. And that will hurt you just as much as the developer.
I got user burnout, after having the bugs I reported either brushed away or marked WONTFIX. There's only so much of being resisted you can take before rage quitting the whole thing.
Yes, unfortunately that is a valid complaint too. I try not to do it personally, but I can see that if a developer is approaching burnout then they can resort to doing this. And it's then a self-perpetuating spiral that usually ends badly.
And this is exactly the type of ass-hattery that I spoke of, that leads people to eventually quit a project.
Congrats for being a perfect example of all that is wrong with volunteerism.
I've been working on a project for almost 20 years at this point, and I definitely feel the same as what's reported here. As the project has gotten more popular and more users come on board, there is now much more demand on our team. And some companies have noticed the usefulness of the project and used it in commercial products. Not that I'm against that (as that's what the GPL basically encourages), but it would be nice at times if there was more contributions back from those that benefit from it.
And I don't necessarily mean money either. Extra help in coding, testing, etc would be nice too. But I suspect that people get used to a product being free, and then asking for anything more once it becomes popular is out of the question for them. But in the long run, it really leads to developer burnout, as more people want more and more, and can't (or won't) contribute. I know I am personally feeling the burden and looking at burnout soon.
Anyway, long story short; I can sympathize with developers in a similar situation.
People under severe memory constraints who need to use pointers that take up only half the space? People under severe performance constraints who can't spare the cycles to copy 64-bit pointers or do 64-bit lookups?
Why are said people using a 64-bit CPU in the first place, then? Let them use a 32-bit ARM CPU or something, and stop gimping the x86_64 architecture.
Let me start playing the worlds smallest violin.
Of course, because it couldn't be some naive, young, female programmers. Girls can't do anything wrong, after all.
Autocompletion I can do without (or with, it doesn't really matter to me). But I must have syntax colouring; it makes it so much easier to scan code looking for a certain pattern, that it's now painful if I look at code without it.
I actually have a specific interest in this topic, since I'm an instructor in Computer Science, and we are currently comtemplating just such a move. Similar to you, I'm always amazed at the number of students that are completely lost without the IDE. They want to load up this huge, multi-gigabyte monstrosity of a program (Eclipse, etc) to write a 50 line Java program. Just boggles the mind.
You don't mean 'decimate' either, as that simply reduces by 10%. I think he meant 'annihilate'.
No, they didn't make it up. Just because you don't agree with an opinion, you can't say it is made up. I've also tried compilation in Linux in Windows, and it is much slower. I've determined it's at least related to the abysmal disk I/O speed in Windows compared to Linux. But it _is_ a real problem, and isn't just 'made up'.
But as capacities increase, we want to create higher and higher resolution videos, so we need the capacity back again.
Pretty sure there's a law or something about that ...
What about you have analytics turned off, and don't own a cellphone, and have never had their picture online. Yes, I know it's considered odd nowadays, but I don't (and won't ever) have a cellphone.
Except in the case of Quebec and Canada, French is mandated in all English-primary provinces, but English doesn't enjoy the same privilege in Quebec. So Quebec'ers, special snowflakes that they are, require French in schools, signage, etc everywhere in the country, even in the smallest town/village that has probably never (and probably *will never*) see a French person. Meanwhile, if you try to even speak English in Quebec, they will ignore you. And if you suggest that all signage also include English (as they require for their language in the rest of the ENTIRE country), it amounts to sacrilege.
Personally, I don't think even the French themselves (ie, people actually from France) are as conceited and stuck-up and the French in Quebec.
I had to add "rcu_nocbs=0-15" to the grub kernel arguments. I'm running an 1800x and RX480, so not too different from yours. Previously it was locking up at least twice a day, now it hasn't had one lockup in over a month.
The "point" is that Intel, Microsoft, and many large 'technical' corporations are apparently more concerned with marketing than technical prowess. Consider that Intel spends more on marketing each year than AMDs entire R&D budget.
Maybe if they spent half the time, energy and money on technical stuff as they do on slimy marketing, this issue wouldn't have happened in the first place.
But 4.14.11 doesn't include the fix that disables slowing down AMD processors. That one has been committed for 4.15, but there should also be a 4.14.12 to fix it there too.
This is probably a waste of time, but ... When you're typing a message and say "see the p.s. below", it means you _know_ at that point that you will be having a p.s. But in that case you could just place the text where you are, and not _need_ a p.s.
Your opinion, not fact. I know what the word 'prevailing' means; I just disagree that it's the case here.
Probably responding to a troll, but for one thing, as has been stated many times in the past, Slashdot is not one single-group-think entity. Plenty of people here respect licensing of all types, whether it's for the Linux kernel or Hollywood movies. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.
I personally work on and maintain several GPLv2 projects, and I expect the license to be followed. And I respect licensing for movies and other software too.
and wa la -> Raid...
Wa la??
Most desktop work is done in an office suite and/or a Web browser. In both regards, Linux is well covered.
In that case the operating system doesnt matter at all so why bother using something different to all the people in your organization to which the operating system does matter? Case in point there was no reason for Jim Zemlin to use Linux over Mac in his presentation so he just used Mac.
It's called "eating your own dogfood". It's disingenuous to promote a platform without at least using it yourself.
Actually, 880K and 1.76MB.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
Hmm ... What ???
Because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_blur