I know that complete ignorance of the "enemy" is the in-thing on Slashdot, but if you must know, NTFS5 supports symlinks. And it's about time, too. Here's a free tool for creating them: http://www.sysinternals.com/misc.htm#junction
Although Slashdot may make him out to be a cuddly old bear with a sense of humor, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is actually a dangerous psychopath with a racist streak a mile wide. Look up his "terribly funny quotes" from the early nineties about Zionism and what he would like to do to recover the former Soviet empire. Hemos - please get a clue.
It looks too well-documented to be a complete hoax, but... Where's the source? Binary-only versions of Mame should not be given this much attention until the actual modifications are made public.
I have seen a lot of comments in the press and in the DOJ trial about Microsoft destroying the web browser market by taking a product that obviously costs time and money to develop (Internet Explorer, IIS) and "dumping" it for free on the market.
Most analysts critical to Microsoft claim that this is a bad thing for consumers in the long run, even if in the short term they (the consumers) benefit from the monetarily free program. The reason it's a bad thing is because other companies no longer have the incentive to create web servers and browsers; thus competition is destroyed and innovation stifled.
My question for ESR is the following: is he concerned that these same accusations might apply to the OSS community and its abundant production of monetarily free software? Furthermore, does the issue of "dumping" bother him with regards to OSS, or does he believe that software "dumping" is a legitimate practice, or does the question simply not apply?
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I know that complete ignorance of the "enemy" is the in-thing on Slashdot, but if you must know, NTFS5 supports symlinks. And it's about time, too. Here's a free tool for creating them: http://www.sysinternals.com/misc.htm#junction
Subject says all. :-)
And the very valid article the moron was flaming was marked down as 'flamebait'. Moderation, sigh...
Although Slashdot may make him out to be a cuddly old bear with a sense of humor, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is actually a dangerous psychopath with a racist streak a mile wide. Look up his "terribly funny quotes" from the early nineties about Zionism and what he would like to do to recover the former Soviet empire. Hemos - please get a clue.
Yeesh, talk about Linux uber alles. Time to find a nicer guy, Trish?
So if you think Microsoft is bad, where does that leave Real?
It looks too well-documented to be a complete hoax, but... Where's the source? Binary-only versions of Mame should not be given this much attention until the actual modifications are made public.
Most analysts critical to Microsoft claim that this is a bad thing for consumers in the long run, even if in the short term they (the consumers) benefit from the monetarily free program. The reason it's a bad thing is because other companies no longer have the incentive to create web servers and browsers; thus competition is destroyed and innovation stifled.
My question for ESR is the following: is he concerned that these same accusations might apply to the OSS community and its abundant production of monetarily free software? Furthermore, does the issue of "dumping" bother him with regards to OSS, or does he believe that software "dumping" is a legitimate practice, or does the question simply not apply?
Thank you.