Having lived on the Pinellas side of the Pinellas/Pasco county line, I have long advocated the use of a toll booth for people entering Pinellas from Pasco. Charge them a dollar to come to Pinellas and give them two when they leave. Now you see why.
While it's easy to find any number of lazy, greedy jerks who simply want to to profit unjustly off the honest work of open source developers, MS is not in that category. MS wants to kill open source utterly and completely. Do not ever forget that.
Exactly. The Android devs have covered a lot of ground very quickly to catch up with and maybe surpass Apples position. It's becoming very clear to me that while open projects have many advantages over closed, the speed at which they can react and respond greatly exceeds that of any of the established closed players. When I try to guess what the landscape may look like 2 years out, I see Android adding lots of features quickly because they are open, I see their app store(s) totally eclipsing anything from Apple because the Android store(s) are open. I see the closed proprietary shops falling further and further behind with each passing day. Then in what seems to be a blink of an eye, you find yourself telling a bunch of young kids about how you remember back in the day that Apple once made operating systems for phones too.
Granted, that may or may not happen. Maybe Google will drop a steaming pile of management on the devs and their work will slow to a snails pace, maybe fragmentation and forking will kill any real innovation with Android, but I'm thinking neither of those things will happen. I'm guessing that all the closed shops, not just Apple will fall so far behind that the best they will be able to muster is a half-hearted "Me Too" approach. At that point no amount of black turtleneck persona (as wonderful as it is) is going to save you.
Open is often free, open is often superior in quality but open is almost always very very quick to respond.
No, no, no. The story is on Slashdot because Clemens was a patent holder. He held three patents. One for a trivia board game, one for some kind of clothing fastener and one for pre-glued scrapbook pages. I once read he sold 25,000 copies of "Mark Twain's Patent Scrapbook".
able to live in luxury, without working, while they collect money off your books for another 50 years.
If only that had happened. Clemens had four children, only one, Clara survived him. Yes, he was forced to endure not only the death of his beloved wife but three of his four children as well.
Clara wrote her own biography of her father and was an accomplished concert singer. She married well and probably had little need of any inheritance from Clemens.
I've got a 71 Torino. It literally has hundreds of feet of rubber vacuum lines controlling things like spark advance, heat, A/C, shaker baffle and headlight doors. Lines that crack, get cut, slip off and are just a general nuisance. I'll take and open OBDII port any day.
This kid is the son of a Tennessee State Representative . I don't think he could be classified as "poor". Sounds like his daddy has simply left him to suffer the consequences of his actions alone and on his own. I suppose in some way you could call that good parenting. My cynical nature requires that I admonish his father with "Mike, you shoulda just called a few favors and sprung the kid."
Can you imagine what would happen if every lame-ass action originating at 4chan resulted in 20 years?
Agreed. My daughter is still playing Halo2 PC. Well, at least I haven't heard her bitching that the servers are down and trust me she would scream and yell. She's quite the Halo player that one.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your thoughts here on/. I was very upset to learn of the conviction but you have helped me understand how and why it happened. Sounds like you and the other 11 jurors worked very hard for a long time to make certain you were doing the right thing. My hat is off to you Sir.
It's only relatively recently that natural breaks have disappeared from our landscape. In the 70's, I would have to wait 20-30 minutes after reading in a box of punch cards to get output from the run. Later, the COBOL compiler I used would take at least ten minutes to complete. Ditto Turbo C if I recompiled the whole project including all dependent programs. Now I use Delphi or Flex Builder and there is no waiting so I take a break now and then anyway.
Sure there's always going to deadlines and other crunch times when you need to go all out, but if you're in this for the long term, you're going to have to pace your schedule so that you don't burn out. Fail to do that and I guarantee that in a few short years you will be ready to chew your own arm off just to get away from that stinking job.
I've long thought of RMS's stance as a far point on one side of the pendulum's swing, pretty much as you have said but you put it better than I can. We do need people like him advocating the extreme position of Free sometimes to counter-balance those on the other end of the spectrum.
In other words, I agree with what you say, thank you for your post and yeah, I'm out of mod points.
Actually, I thought this would be a great idea. I mean now that most of the Zerglings are out rushing with their friends all the time, it's way too quiet around the Spawning Pool if you know what I mean. Seems like every time a get a good thing going, those damn 'Toss show up and ruin it all.
Re:The last we'll hear? Not according to the link.
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From the long version of the report speaking about OSS use in Indonesia:
For example, in March 2009, the Ministry of Administrative Reform (MenPAN) issued Circular Letter No. 1 of 2009 to all central and provincial government offices including State-owned enterprises, endorsing the use and adoption of open source software within government organizations. While the government issued this circular in part with the stated goal to "reduc[e] software copyright violation[s]," in fact, by denying technology choice, the measure will create additional trade barriers and deny fair and equitable market access to software companies.
There they go using backwards English again. They admit that Indonesia was trying to reduce copyright violations with this advice. Then they turn around and claim that adopting OSS solutions creates trade barriers that deny them fair and equitable market access. Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot? Did these guys go to a special school to learn how to talk like that?
If OSS is so hard to compete against maybe you should give some thought to your business model and realize that it needs some serious fixing. No, easier to get the government to take out the competition for you. Lazy Bastards.
When I heard about this ruling last week, I was shocked that this apparently open and shut case had taken so long to conclude. If I recall the details I read about years ago when this all started, it seems that Jacobsen was really being taken advantage of badly. IANAL or a judge but I would have thought this case would have taken all of 45 minutes to decide, not years.
There's something really wrong when someone like Katzer (or SCO) can so completely snow a court. The crux of both cases come down to code ownership/authorship. Is that something that just goes "Whoosh" to all judges?
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Micro Channel wasn't killed, it committed suicide.
Having lived on the Pinellas side of the Pinellas/Pasco county line, I have long advocated the use of a toll booth for people entering Pinellas from Pasco. Charge them a dollar to come to Pinellas and give them two when they leave. Now you see why.
While it's easy to find any number of lazy, greedy jerks who simply want to to profit unjustly off the honest work of open source developers, MS is not in that category. MS wants to kill open source utterly and completely. Do not ever forget that.
It's a quote from a movie.
I always bring mine but I've forgotten why now.
Exactly. The Android devs have covered a lot of ground very quickly to catch up with and maybe surpass Apples position. It's becoming very clear to me that while open projects have many advantages over closed, the speed at which they can react and respond greatly exceeds that of any of the established closed players. When I try to guess what the landscape may look like 2 years out, I see Android adding lots of features quickly because they are open, I see their app store(s) totally eclipsing anything from Apple because the Android store(s) are open. I see the closed proprietary shops falling further and further behind with each passing day. Then in what seems to be a blink of an eye, you find yourself telling a bunch of young kids about how you remember back in the day that Apple once made operating systems for phones too.
Granted, that may or may not happen. Maybe Google will drop a steaming pile of management on the devs and their work will slow to a snails pace, maybe fragmentation and forking will kill any real innovation with Android, but I'm thinking neither of those things will happen. I'm guessing that all the closed shops, not just Apple will fall so far behind that the best they will be able to muster is a half-hearted "Me Too" approach. At that point no amount of black turtleneck persona (as wonderful as it is) is going to save you.
Open is often free, open is often superior in quality but open is almost always very very quick to respond.
No, no, no. The story is on Slashdot because Clemens was a patent holder. He held three patents. One for a trivia board game, one for some kind of clothing fastener and one for pre-glued scrapbook pages. I once read he sold 25,000 copies of "Mark Twain's Patent Scrapbook".
able to live in luxury, without working, while they collect money off your books for another 50 years.
If only that had happened. Clemens had four children, only one, Clara survived him. Yes, he was forced to endure not only the death of his beloved wife but three of his four children as well.
Clara wrote her own biography of her father and was an accomplished concert singer. She married well and probably had little need of any inheritance from Clemens.
"Digital DNA" I don't know if I should snicker or barf. Hey Reuters, Don't give up your day job... Uh oh.
I've got a 71 Torino. It literally has hundreds of feet of rubber vacuum lines controlling things like spark advance, heat, A/C, shaker baffle and headlight doors. Lines that crack, get cut, slip off and are just a general nuisance. I'll take and open OBDII port any day.
This kid is the son of a Tennessee State Representative . I don't think he could be classified as "poor". Sounds like his daddy has simply left him to suffer the consequences of his actions alone and on his own. I suppose in some way you could call that good parenting. My cynical nature requires that I admonish his father with "Mike, you shoulda just called a few favors and sprung the kid."
Can you imagine what would happen if every lame-ass action originating at 4chan resulted in 20 years?
Agreed. My daughter is still playing Halo2 PC. Well, at least I haven't heard her bitching that the servers are down and trust me she would scream and yell. She's quite the Halo player that one.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your thoughts here on /. I was very upset to learn of the conviction but you have helped me understand how and why it happened. Sounds like you and the other 11 jurors worked very hard for a long time to make certain you were doing the right thing. My hat is off to you Sir.
You emphasize? You probably also would resemble any remark I make about your grammar.
It's only relatively recently that natural breaks have disappeared from our landscape. In the 70's, I would have to wait 20-30 minutes after reading in a box of punch cards to get output from the run. Later, the COBOL compiler I used would take at least ten minutes to complete. Ditto Turbo C if I recompiled the whole project including all dependent programs. Now I use Delphi or Flex Builder and there is no waiting so I take a break now and then anyway.
Sure there's always going to deadlines and other crunch times when you need to go all out, but if you're in this for the long term, you're going to have to pace your schedule so that you don't burn out. Fail to do that and I guarantee that in a few short years you will be ready to chew your own arm off just to get away from that stinking job.
Well this is one way to stop people from saying "Zune is the suckiest thing ever".
I am curious though, where are all the MS astro-turfers that usually hit this type of article so early and so hard? Is Mechanical Turk down?
It's Chicago. I can guarantee you nepotism was involved.
That blond chick is kinda hot... Hey! What the Hell is that in her nose? Oh, gross!
I've long thought of RMS's stance as a far point on one side of the pendulum's swing, pretty much as you have said but you put it better than I can. We do need people like him advocating the extreme position of Free sometimes to counter-balance those on the other end of the spectrum.
In other words, I agree with what you say, thank you for your post and yeah, I'm out of mod points.
Actually, I thought this would be a great idea. I mean now that most of the Zerglings are out rushing with their friends all the time, it's way too quiet around the Spawning Pool if you know what I mean. Seems like every time a get a good thing going, those damn 'Toss show up and ruin it all.
Cahn has never heard of the Nazgul?
For example, in March 2009, the Ministry of Administrative Reform (MenPAN) issued Circular Letter No. 1 of 2009 to all central and provincial government offices including State-owned enterprises, endorsing the use and adoption of open source software within government organizations. While the government issued this circular in part with the stated goal to "reduc[e] software copyright violation[s]," in fact, by denying technology choice, the measure will create additional trade barriers and deny fair and equitable market access to software companies.
There they go using backwards English again. They admit that Indonesia was trying to reduce copyright violations with this advice. Then they turn around and claim that adopting OSS solutions creates trade barriers that deny them fair and equitable market access. Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot? Did these guys go to a special school to learn how to talk like that?
If OSS is so hard to compete against maybe you should give some thought to your business model and realize that it needs some serious fixing. No, easier to get the government to take out the competition for you. Lazy Bastards.
Good thing it wasn't the Russians who invented this - there would be 6 of them that fit inside each other.
When I heard about this ruling last week, I was shocked that this apparently open and shut case had taken so long to conclude. If I recall the details I read about years ago when this all started, it seems that Jacobsen was really being taken advantage of badly. IANAL or a judge but I would have thought this case would have taken all of 45 minutes to decide, not years.
There's something really wrong when someone like Katzer (or SCO) can so completely snow a court. The crux of both cases come down to code ownership/authorship. Is that something that just goes "Whoosh" to all judges?