Funny you should say that, because the GNU foundation has credited the CDDL, which open-source Solaris is licensed under, with being a free (but GPL-incompatible) software license.
Actually, I'm insane enough to use it on my laptop with no other OS. OpenSolaris looks to be very promising, and it's a stable, nice system. I used to use Debian and FreeBSD, and so have found pkg-get to be a great replacement for apt-get and ports. And zones rock...I can run Tomcat and host webapps (my host doesn't support JSP or servlets) in the background without any visible effect.
But you're making several assumptions about your ISP, in that case as well. What's to say that they don't have an automated script running through the mbox files? Many people thought Google could do no wrong at first, but even companies with "Do no evil" among their tenets can become perverted.
All the clues were there: context-sensitive ads in GMail was just an obvious one. If you sign up for an account with Google, you agree to their licensing terms; you do the same when instsalling an operating system from a corporation who shall not be named. If you don't like the idea that Google has access to your email, realize that any other provider has the same privileges; it's just that Google, intelligently (but not necessarily morally defensible), chose to take advantage of them. If you didn't use Google, it would be your ISP or another email provider (unless you have your own server).
I couldn't agree more; it was nicer when there were small communities on servers. There still are, in some pockets (I know of at least one). Perhaps we wouldn't be pining for this if the Multics model of computing-as-a-utility had come out. But if you desire this sort of community, you should actually feel a pleasant sense of deja vu, as server-centric computing (the Sun Grid, for example) comes back into the mainstream.
Dumb terminals all over again, but this time with graphics.
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True, but there are already bootable OpenSolaris distros, and you have a choice: OpenSolaris or Solaris (Sun-supported).
Funny you should say that, because the GNU foundation has credited the CDDL, which open-source Solaris is licensed under, with being a free (but GPL-incompatible) software license.
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Actually, I'm insane enough to use it on my laptop with no other OS. OpenSolaris looks to be very promising, and it's a stable, nice system. I used to use Debian and FreeBSD, and so have found pkg-get to be a great replacement for apt-get and ports. And zones rock...I can run Tomcat and host webapps (my host doesn't support JSP or servlets) in the background without any visible effect.
But you're making several assumptions about your ISP, in that case as well. What's to say that they don't have an automated script running through the mbox files? Many people thought Google could do no wrong at first, but even companies with "Do no evil" among their tenets can become perverted.
Patents are, at their base, protection for ideas. How the organization/corporation that has the patent uses it is another thing.
All the clues were there: context-sensitive ads in GMail was just an obvious one. If you sign up for an account with Google, you agree to their licensing terms; you do the same when instsalling an operating system from a corporation who shall not be named. If you don't like the idea that Google has access to your email, realize that any other provider has the same privileges; it's just that Google, intelligently (but not necessarily morally defensible), chose to take advantage of them. If you didn't use Google, it would be your ISP or another email provider (unless you have your own server).
TANSTAAFL.
I couldn't agree more; it was nicer when there were small communities on servers. There still are, in some pockets (I know of at least one). Perhaps we wouldn't be pining for this if the Multics model of computing-as-a-utility had come out. But if you desire this sort of community, you should actually feel a pleasant sense of deja vu, as server-centric computing (the Sun Grid, for example) comes back into the mainstream. Dumb terminals all over again, but this time with graphics.