What if he's found guilty, and the project is continued by other people, and renamed to avoid infamy, and Reiser loses his first appeal because his lawyer fails to subpoena critical records from the medical examiner's office, and Reiser 4 is finally completed and included in Linux 5.0, but develops stability issues, and around that time Hans is acquitted in a later appeal based on new evidence, and he rejoins the project? Will they change the name back?
If that person has no respect for human life, what assurances does the community have that his software is made with respect to privacy, security, and so on?
...ingenious backdoors have been introduced into open source projects in the past. I'm going on memory--a cursory/. or Google search would reveal more info. Fortunately, as far as I know they were detected in an audit of the code.
you answered your own question. No need for any more detail here.
It is worth pointing out that if Rieser kept the source to himself then a code audit would be very difficult if he was found guilty, and perhaps it wouldn't be trustworthy. The same problem happens with proprietry as well as open source applications, but at least something can always be done if you have the source code.
When Vista gets released, you know what I'll do? I'll go to the toilet and take a dump, then resume my normal life. That's how much Vista will affect the average human being.
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obviously this idea simply isn't enough. Publishers don't care that their copyright is being violated, they just want some extra money without doing much work.
you mention that this ticked off developers, but what about gamers? when I buy a console I want it to last a long time, and not have to buy a new one after a few years
However, at the same time, Microsoft were getting royally worked over by Intel and Nvidia on the original Xbox. I'm not sure if they ever stopped selling them at a loss, but I can understand that they wanted to cut their losses and pull out as quickly as possible.
If they see more success with the 360 they might not be so eager to jump completely onto the next platform.
However, it is Microsoft, so it could go either way
Ok. Show of hands... how many of you are running Windows NT 4.0 on a non-x86 architecture, and want a version of WINE to run those apps on Linux? [the room fills with silence
of course the room is filled with silence since you only asked for a show of hands
he told NASA and everyone who asked that he had no idea what to say. But he knew all along. You don't just make that up on the spot, and you certainly don't just wing it as the first man on the moon.
I imagine that the daughter would be statically linking her simple programs that she's writing and as such would not have any issue in getting it working on anyone elses linux box.
unfortunately, nintendo are protecting their games with some proprietry DRM so that you'll only be able to play the game on one Wii console.
As for playing on the DS, there are plenty of homebrew NES/SNES/etc emulators for the DS if you're willing to put out some money for a supercard or alternative.
really? I must have your secret. I have had this laptop for not even one year yet, and I barely ever use Windows. It's still starting to get sluggish beyond all recognition though. It takes about 4 minutes from logging in to getting a usable desktop. Occasionally programs just don't start up, and only a reboot will fix it. Now obviously I've removed most of the crap that came installed with this thing (Norton was the first to go) and it used to be fine, but Windows just slowly gets worse and worse. I just installed Acrobat professional on another Windows PC and it doesn't start at all, no matter what I try.
Windows generally gets reinstalled about once a year in my history. I could survive longer but the longer you leave it the worse it gets.
in your haste to notify the GP of the fact that the GGP was a joke, you failed to realise that he was simply replying to the joke with a joke of his own
why is the parent modded troll? his post is completely true and not trollish at all. This is exactly the way OSS works (just ask ESR, although his name seems to be pretty muddy around here)
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I know you're probably not being serious, but ies4linux uses wine. Since Wine Is Not an Emulator, it will only run on x86 platforms.
therefore, you can't run ies4linux on sparc. sorry
right click toolbar, customize, and then just drag it wherever you want.
I'm using 2.0 but I'm pretty sure that's possible no matter what version of FF you are using
What if he's found guilty, and the project is continued by other people, and renamed to avoid infamy, and Reiser loses his first appeal because his lawyer fails to subpoena critical records from the medical examiner's office, and Reiser 4 is finally completed and included in Linux 5.0, but develops stability issues, and around that time Hans is acquitted in a later appeal based on new evidence, and he rejoins the project? Will they change the name back?
fud
I'm sure he still uses plenty of applications with a "bus factor" of 0 ;)
you answered your own question. No need for any more detail here.
It is worth pointing out that if Rieser kept the source to himself then a code audit would be very difficult if he was found guilty, and perhaps it wouldn't be trustworthy. The same problem happens with proprietry as well as open source applications, but at least something can always be done if you have the source code.
and how many people laughed when they talked about the miracle cureall antibiotic gel that stopped people bleeding?
actually there was another book that was mentioned more than once. I'd say what it was but the site is slashdotted right now
someone else will have to get it for me
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actually they borrowed books from a public library, IIRC.
completely different kettle of fish
not only that, but it has 15 lines of code and they fixed 23 bugs in it. that's some buggy code!
The other interesting thing I found:
Gnome: 31,000 lines
KDE: 4,500,000 lines
I always thought KDE was bloated (commence flame wars)
oh my god. what a clever idea! why didn't Google think of that?
obviously this idea simply isn't enough. Publishers don't care that their copyright is being violated, they just want some extra money without doing much work.
you mention that this ticked off developers, but what about gamers? when I buy a console I want it to last a long time, and not have to buy a new one after a few years
However, at the same time, Microsoft were getting royally worked over by Intel and Nvidia on the original Xbox. I'm not sure if they ever stopped selling them at a loss, but I can understand that they wanted to cut their losses and pull out as quickly as possible.
If they see more success with the 360 they might not be so eager to jump completely onto the next platform.
However, it is Microsoft, so it could go either way
of course the room is filled with silence since you only asked for a show of hands
(sorry, couldn't resist)
he told NASA and everyone who asked that he had no idea what to say. But he knew all along. You don't just make that up on the spot, and you certainly don't just wing it as the first man on the moon.
heh... looks like a pretty useless machine to me.
I think I'll prefer stick with ubuntu and not have to worry about disinfecting everything before using my PC...
I imagine that the daughter would be statically linking her simple programs that she's writing and as such would not have any issue in getting it working on anyone elses linux box.
unfortunately, nintendo are protecting their games with some proprietry DRM so that you'll only be able to play the game on one Wii console.
As for playing on the DS, there are plenty of homebrew NES/SNES/etc emulators for the DS if you're willing to put out some money for a supercard or alternative.
really? I must have your secret. I have had this laptop for not even one year yet, and I barely ever use Windows. It's still starting to get sluggish beyond all recognition though. It takes about 4 minutes from logging in to getting a usable desktop. Occasionally programs just don't start up, and only a reboot will fix it. Now obviously I've removed most of the crap that came installed with this thing (Norton was the first to go) and it used to be fine, but Windows just slowly gets worse and worse. I just installed Acrobat professional on another Windows PC and it doesn't start at all, no matter what I try.
Windows generally gets reinstalled about once a year in my history. I could survive longer but the longer you leave it the worse it gets.
you mean, they offer incentives for the community around the project to actually make something?
How is this not open source?
hey, I'll take informative ;)
given the strife and discord its discovery created within the land of astronomers
no. It's 3.2 GHZ
you don't add clock speeds
in your haste to notify the GP of the fact that the GGP was a joke, you failed to realise that he was simply replying to the joke with a joke of his own
oh sorry, I forgot this is slashdot... I mean:
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-+- <-- you
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meanwhile microsoft continues to do the opposite
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2006: Beta software is called release
2007: Alpha software is called release
2008: Pre-alpha software is called release
why is the parent modded troll? his post is completely true and not trollish at all. This is exactly the way OSS works (just ask ESR, although his name seems to be pretty muddy around here)