The ACLU ignores a number of valuable issues, though. (Gun rights comes to mind, because according to them it's not a "civil liberty".) They're pretty heavily left-biased.
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Good god, do you have any idea how much code is in Firefox? How many people contributing? The entire point of open source is that lots of people can do more work than a single proprietary organization. The downside, of course, is there's too much for a single organization to oversee. Shit happens. You get things fixed by asking for them to get fixed, that includes accidental omissions of credit. It should have been done, but the fact that it wasn't is not a failing of the Mozilla organization. If it's not happening, then Mozilla needs to be hiring managers and coordinators to make it happen. I'll cut a lot of slack for open-source projects that aren't having wheelbarrows full of money trucked to their door. Mozilla has no excuse.
Yet, isn't. In the real world, people do not magically know what they have to do. They do things when asked to do them. Another reason for Mozilla to put on the big boy pants and improve their administration of their project.
-- Looks like Robert Longson slipped up by not copying over contributor information. But I don't see any complaints from your people about that in the bugs. (Note, he's a volunteer, not paid by Mozilla or anyone else.) Would be easy to fix. You're missing the point. The fact that it would be "easy to fix" means nothing. The fact that it wasn't done does. If a volunteer sucks at it--somebody should be being paid to do it. Mozilla's hugely profitable. They have no excuse.
-- Tim Rowley got taken off Firefox SVG work by IBM which partly explains why the patch never got final review. An explanation is nice, but it doesn't solve the problem of it not getting done.
-- I don't see any sign of your displeasure anywhere in these bugs. People are busy, timely hurry-up gripes usually help prioritize things. This is irrelevant, and should be unnecessary.
The Firefox project wants to be treated like a big boy, it needs to act like one.
I think Debian is the parent of enough distros to be "the Distro", so recent events would unfortunately prove your hopes wrong. Simply put: it's not.
As long as it works right in OpenBSD, they're happy, doesn't matter to them if some Linux guys break it in their package. True. OpenSSH is a bad example. Most projects, though...
And it's a fact that SuSE uses more Mono out of the box than Ubuntu. Sure, but that's to be expected for any company with a stake in a project. If Ubuntu sponsored developers to do something, you'd see them putting it in Ubuntu.
But, hey, if you know more about the behind-the-scenes at Novell and SuSE, please do share. Directly, no. But I work with some of them as part of Google Summer of Code, and I haven't seen any indication that the people I work with, at least, have any specific interest in their stuff being put into anything.
I'll continue to install "linux" via the slackware distro, and install it with all the added GUI goodness included that new users want. It's simple, not bloated with shit, and with a well compiled kernel. And then they are bound to you for support, because Slackware is positively user-hostile to maintain unless you've been doing it for a while. Good job.
An argument for a Linux-distro monoculture, though, is that more likely than not a de-facto "main distro" will be scrutinized far more by upstream. If the OpenSSH guys had looked at the Debian changes (because, under this hypothesis, Debian would be THE DISTRO), this error would have been found and fixed far sooner.
If people still prefer the original Quake or Civilisation, etc to the sequels, that just shows that the sequels didn't really improve significantly on the original! Or they're stuck-in-their-ways luddites. Later editions of Civilization are far deeper, more challenging, and more fun than the original, and most of the people I've heard whine that "the original was better" haven't bothered to actually play new releases.
Then you have Quake becoming Nexuiz. A few nice games out there but who wants to make them? Exactly.
Now, a game console with an open source platform would appeal to game developers nicely. Think about a full-featured Minix-driven system with a small graphical subsystem (kdrive for X, with about 10 megs of libraries and X server, with OpenGL support) and a set of libraries to supply a developer's API. Home-brew hackers would try to improve and expand this API, and that would get back to game developers. Useful things would be non-infectious GPL stuff, i.e. BSD or MIT or PD or LGPL. I'd love to see that. That said, you can't demand that all the software on it should be GPL--because GPL will drive everyone else away.
(Attn. mods: the parent's a twitter troll. Be advised.)
That said, I'll feed the troll anyway.
Having trouble reading that ODF? Why not download the real deal, Open Office?
Because OpenOffice is a slow, buggy piece of shit. I know--I've built it using native code, I've run it through a profiler to try to see where snags are so maybe I could write patches--nope. The speed and responsiveness problems are endemic; they're too widespread to actually fix.
(I wonder if twitter even knows what a profiler is.)
That does not work well for you? Works great for me, try a nice GNU/Linux distribution.
OpenOffice works worse on Linux! At least recommend a tool that doesn't suck, like KOffice. And for fuck's sake, take Stallman's cock out of your mouth--it's Linux, not GNU/Linux.
Very, very few people will switch to Linux over some Microsoft action designed to piss off the nerds. Face it: most people don't give a fuck about ODF! They want a document format that everyone can read, and sorry, but ODF isn't it because ODF isn't compatible with Office 2003, Office 2000, or, basically, anything before Office 2007 (and that not even yet). Blah blah install converters, I don't give a damn. It doesn't work out of the box, so no Joe Average user is going to install it. We have a de facto standard. It's the.DOC format. Any "slights" against ODF will elicit the following reaction from your average user:
"Who are you and why do you smell like you haven't bathed in a week?"
Would I like an open standard? Sure, it'd be nice to have, but guess what? When you are the big fish in the small pool, you get to make most of the rules. Microsoft's the big fish. What they push is what gets used.
With vendors jumping on the GNU/Linux bandwagon, the non free software game is almost over.
Yeah, that 95% market ownership is totally fucked.
Free software is in everyone's best interest.
Free software is not in everyone's best interest. I can think of numerous groups who'd say that free software is diametrically opposed to their best interest. The one that comes to mind first is game developers (and, by extension, gamers). F/OSS methodologies don't translate well to game development. Look at FreeCiv--it's been around since 1996 and it doesn't even surpass Civilization II in quality! And while there are some interesting F/OSS shooters like Warsow, keep in mind that the majority of the good ones rely on code written in a closed-source environment by iD Software. The "biggest name" in independent engine development that I know of is the Sauerbraten/Cube 2 team, and while I love what they're doing, it does not, and likely never will, step up to the actual gaming industry.
This is also very, very bad for gamers. The only games with any sort of real profit in this utopic ALL SOFTWARE IS FREE SOFTWARE world are MMOs with servers--and, hell, it'd be hypocritical for the servers not to be open-source as well, so fuck, there goes that profit. Episodic gaming/content generation? It'd be hypocritical for content to be locked up and code not to be, so there goes that profit, too! Advertising? Somebody will just hack the code to hide them, so there goes that, too! And without profits, how are you going to convince anyone to fund quality games? Donations? Yeah, right--show me one free software project where its developers actually get a livable wage off donations. Webcomic authors get more in donations-per-staffer than do the majority of valuable F/OSS software projects.
And I'm not just fucking talking about EA or any of the giants, I'm talking about small-scale companies too. The innovative stuff that comes out of smaller studios that can afford to take risks because they will be paid back if it's good would cease. The Spiderweb Softwares and Activisions of the world alike would die, and
The office team appears to be one of the few (only?) groups at Microsoft that's churning out a better product. The ribbon irks the everloving shit out of me, but I have to agree--the feature set has made a nice step forward. I have to point out, though, that more or less all of MS's development-tools division puts out awesome tools. Even IIS has gotten to the point of being a quality web server. (Yeah, I'm shocked too.)
Also, who the hell would moderate the previous post "troll"? Did twitter get mod points on one of his accounts?
Uhm...sorry to break this to you, but you're wrong. Nature is a very well-respected publication for biological sciences; it's where Watson and Crick first published their work on DNA.
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The ACLU ignores a number of valuable issues, though. (Gun rights comes to mind, because according to them it's not a "civil liberty".) They're pretty heavily left-biased.
As much as I disagree with Obama on almost everything, this is incredibly true. They've done something nobody else has.
(Yet.)
You will recall that the media wrote McCain off too and fell all over Huckabee and Romney. What happened there?
Look, Ronulan, Paul never had a chance.
Just tried. Worked fine. :D
The scary thing is that this information truly is commonplace today.
The Firefox project wants to be treated like a big boy, it needs to act like one.
I thought it was hilarious and more than a little true.
People play it because it's fun and manages to keep being challenging.
You know that popular thing you like? It sucks.
Oh, agreed. That doesn't make it any less so. :P
That's awfully unfortunate, because upstart is quite nice.
The Mono guys don't "aggressively" push their stuff into SuSE. They're not in charge of packaging or software selection.
An argument for a Linux-distro monoculture, though, is that more likely than not a de-facto "main distro" will be scrutinized far more by upstream. If the OpenSSH guys had looked at the Debian changes (because, under this hypothesis, Debian would be THE DISTRO), this error would have been found and fixed far sooner.
No they don't. This is farcical bullshit.
That said, I'll feed the troll anyway.
Having trouble reading that ODF? Why not download the real deal, Open Office?
Because OpenOffice is a slow, buggy piece of shit. I know--I've built it using native code, I've run it through a profiler to try to see where snags are so maybe I could write patches--nope. The speed and responsiveness problems are endemic; they're too widespread to actually fix.
(I wonder if twitter even knows what a profiler is.)
That does not work well for you? Works great for me, try a nice GNU/Linux distribution.
OpenOffice works worse on Linux! At least recommend a tool that doesn't suck, like KOffice. And for fuck's sake, take Stallman's cock out of your mouth--it's Linux, not GNU/Linux.
.DOC format. Any "slights" against ODF will elicit the following reaction from your average user:
Very, very few people will switch to Linux over some Microsoft action designed to piss off the nerds. Face it: most people don't give a fuck about ODF! They want a document format that everyone can read, and sorry, but ODF isn't it because ODF isn't compatible with Office 2003, Office 2000, or, basically, anything before Office 2007 (and that not even yet). Blah blah install converters, I don't give a damn. It doesn't work out of the box, so no Joe Average user is going to install it. We have a de facto standard. It's the
"Who are you and why do you smell like you haven't bathed in a week?"
Would I like an open standard? Sure, it'd be nice to have, but guess what? When you are the big fish in the small pool, you get to make most of the rules. Microsoft's the big fish. What they push is what gets used.
With vendors jumping on the GNU/Linux bandwagon, the non free software game is almost over.
Yeah, that 95% market ownership is totally fucked.
Free software is in everyone's best interest.
Free software is not in everyone's best interest. I can think of numerous groups who'd say that free software is diametrically opposed to their best interest. The one that comes to mind first is game developers (and, by extension, gamers). F/OSS methodologies don't translate well to game development. Look at FreeCiv--it's been around since 1996 and it doesn't even surpass Civilization II in quality! And while there are some interesting F/OSS shooters like Warsow, keep in mind that the majority of the good ones rely on code written in a closed-source environment by iD Software. The "biggest name" in independent engine development that I know of is the Sauerbraten/Cube 2 team, and while I love what they're doing, it does not, and likely never will, step up to the actual gaming industry.
This is also very, very bad for gamers. The only games with any sort of real profit in this utopic ALL SOFTWARE IS FREE SOFTWARE world are MMOs with servers--and, hell, it'd be hypocritical for the servers not to be open-source as well, so fuck, there goes that profit. Episodic gaming/content generation? It'd be hypocritical for content to be locked up and code not to be, so there goes that profit, too! Advertising? Somebody will just hack the code to hide them, so there goes that, too! And without profits, how are you going to convince anyone to fund quality games? Donations? Yeah, right--show me one free software project where its developers actually get a livable wage off donations. Webcomic authors get more in donations-per-staffer than do the majority of valuable F/OSS software projects.
And I'm not just fucking talking about EA or any of the giants, I'm talking about small-scale companies too. The innovative stuff that comes out of smaller studios that can afford to take risks because they will be paid back if it's good would cease. The Spiderweb Softwares and Activisions of the world alike would die, and
Also, who the hell would moderate the previous post "troll"? Did twitter get mod points on one of his accounts?
For what it's worth, Dungeon Keeper II still plays on XP just fine. You can't alt-tab, though, which sucks.
Uhm...sorry to break this to you, but you're wrong. Nature is a very well-respected publication for biological sciences; it's where Watson and Crick first published their work on DNA.