Um, yeah Bill Gates is a hero, but definitely not for that. He is a hero for his contributions to, and management of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Well, it's simple, if you go into suspended animation by the time you wake up everyone else would have solved all of life's problems. So if everyone does it, when they wake up all their problems will be solved... oh wait...
This isn't philanthropy. You do not give a corporation control over education, expecially one as ammoral as M$. Haven't you ever read Animal Farm, were Napoleon was able to "educate the children". I'm not saying M$ is as bad as that, but I wouldn't put it past them to make all software Microsoft based and trying to get as many students turned into Microsoft savants as possible.
Why should they have to be paid in order for us to get to content we already own? I couldn't care less about what few megabytes were shaved of the size of a song, if it means that the software needed to decode them can't be distributed freely. They should not be payed because paying them is the only way to get to your music, but for getting the music down to a small size at little loss of content.
OK, just a heads up. I havn't fully thought this out, but here goes.
Data is not like apples and oranges, there is (almost) nothing lost when someone gives someone else data. All the cost is in the initial development. How about people pool their money together, as sort of a bounty for a certain product. And when someone writes that piece of software, they get that money. I know, who decides if they meet the requirements? How about having some kind of review board, like the lieutenants who deal with the patches to the linux kernel. Obviously there are a lot of details to work out, but I think I've posted the gist of it.
For everyone using firefox, here's a nice little extension to get past this stuff. You can also set it as a googlebot and get all their articles for free.
Here's a quote from their wiki:
"Will OLPC spin-off a commercial subsidiary?
The idea is that a commercial subsidiary could manufacture and sell a variation of the OLPC in the developed world. These units would be marked up so that there would be a significant profit which can be plowed into providing more units in countries who cannot afford the full cost of one million machines.
The discussions around this have talked about a retail price of 3× the cost price of the units. "
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Um, yeah Bill Gates is a hero, but definitely not for that. He is a hero for his contributions to, and management of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Free isn't an unbeatably low price. You could always pay people to use your software.:p
Here is the answer
God forgot to carry the one.
I hate people who use bold for no reason.
You forgot to mention one thing... That it is already patched.
Do we even know how much they are spying on us?
Also send the memo to the guys who designed the X-box 360.
Not to mention degredation of the shows in order to make them digital.
Some Red Hat varient, they do have a nice website. Their wiki has lots of information.
Well, it's simple, if you go into suspended animation by the time you wake up everyone else would have solved all of life's problems. So if everyone does it, when they wake up all their problems will be solved... oh wait...
Because they got tired of all the typos on Slashdot...
Here it is!
Btw, I haven't RTFL but it looks like it fits.
This isn't philanthropy. You do not give a corporation control over education, expecially one as ammoral as M$. Haven't you ever read Animal Farm, were Napoleon was able to "educate the children". I'm not saying M$ is as bad as that, but I wouldn't put it past them to make all software Microsoft based and trying to get as many students turned into Microsoft savants as possible.
Why should they have to be paid in order for us to get to content we already own? I couldn't care less about what few megabytes were shaved of the size of a song, if it means that the software needed to decode them can't be distributed freely. They should not be payed because paying them is the only way to get to your music, but for getting the music down to a small size at little loss of content.
FireFox, 2B or not 2B.
Well, I see Samzenpus's "keep-the-netcraft-comments-to-a-minimum dept" is very effective...
OK, just a heads up. I havn't fully thought this out, but here goes.
Data is not like apples and oranges, there is (almost) nothing lost when someone gives someone else data. All the cost is in the initial development. How about people pool their money together, as sort of a bounty for a certain product. And when someone writes that piece of software, they get that money. I know, who decides if they meet the requirements? How about having some kind of review board, like the lieutenants who deal with the patches to the linux kernel. Obviously there are a lot of details to work out, but I think I've posted the gist of it.
Nah, should happen on the 31st, that way M$ wont just delay the release.
Ok, nevermind, RTFA, the parent is incorrect
For everyone using firefox, here's a nice little extension to get past this stuff. You can also set it as a googlebot and get all their articles for free.
Here's a quote from their wiki: "Will OLPC spin-off a commercial subsidiary? The idea is that a commercial subsidiary could manufacture and sell a variation of the OLPC in the developed world. These units would be marked up so that there would be a significant profit which can be plowed into providing more units in countries who cannot afford the full cost of one million machines. The discussions around this have talked about a retail price of 3× the cost price of the units. "
They do intend to sell a commercial version for like 3x the cost, and have the profits go to getting the kids the laptop.
I know of a way to end this debate once and for all, lets blow up pluto
This is a start.