I like/. you fucking idiot. BUT I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS ON IT. I don't like linux either. BSD is much better But i still read/. Hmm I don't like any of the presidental candidates...maybe i should move to the UK or Canada. I don't like you...stop breathing.
No...thats mass consumerism. And the only reason this article was posted is that its from the Dilbert people. And that is commodification. If they were good...Post this on a fucking food website. Post it on the Dilbert website. Hmm if Tommy Hilfiger made a PDA, lets all go out and buy one. And if you think Russia had socialism....YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT. I don't remember socialism or communism requiring secret police. Capitalism is basically free enterprise...where ideally...people buy the best product for the cheapest price available. This crap is just the Dilbert guy making money of his cartoon in a different way. Remember Star Wars? it was a good movie trilogy All the Phantom Menace existed as was a TOY COMMERCIAL. But people only went to see it because it was part of Star Wars.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." should be changed to "New Products. Stuff you can buy." Can we go one day without a non-computer related marketable product? PUULLLLLLEEEAAASE?
Ack. i could have summed that up in like 3 sentences... Its not "Free". "Free" means "no strings attached". You just aren't giving them money anymore for the product; you're giving them your personal information as the commodity for exchange.
Sheesh....I guess you havn't thought about what this does to Borland. How many of you would buy that product? Now, you can get it for free You have to "sign up" for it... Then they send you e-mails trying to get you to buy the rest of their crap. I did notice a link to "move up to C++ Builder or something. Everyone remember that X10 promotion??? (its been a limited time offer for like 2 years now btw.) Sure I love my $6 x-10 kit, i would have never gotten one except at that cheap price. If i would have never gotten one...I would never want to buy any of their other products. Borland is giving it away to get free advertising, and introduce more people to their products. Plain and Simple. If they would provide the source code, it would be a little different...maybe enough to not be bitching like i am now. I used to like Maxim magazine in its early days because it was funny and amusing which made it ok for some ads and crap. Now its a pretty much a stupid magazine with a whole lot of ads and crap and very little content. Guess what...Linux is going to go the same route (if it already hasn't) Free beer without Free Speech usually means i have to sign up for a credit card, phone card, internet service, or some other crap or watch 10 minutes of commercials for 30 of content.
I kinda agree...X just looks ghetto to me. I think they should opensource the Be GUI. I love the Be GUI, but Be only supports like 2 video cards and maybe 3 nics. Thats what i would like... Linux (ok...BSD..i would prefer BSD) with the Be GUI instead of X. That would 0wn.
I posted a comment on the earlier news about NT and linux testing...And stated that it isn't reliable with old HW and various HW. Macintosh on the other hand, has control over both the SW and HW, therefore has the ABILITY to give a better product and not spend so much time on figuring out drivers and the like...They have a great opportunity to make an excellent system....But I guess Murphy was right =) You really can't do anything like that and survive in this business. But they aren't really doing it right. Like I said...Linux should come out with its own HW. Then watch the rest fall like dominoes.
Im by no means a fan of Macintosh, But the reason they lost the OS/machine war is the same reason they have the ability for a great product. You can't go on any test like this since both sides could argue about the HW being used. Maybe they didnt have good drivers for this or that piece of HW. But..Apple has complete control over both the HW and the SW. Not that they have made the best progress with that idea, but imagine if Linux or BSD made its own HW. It would really be something AMAZING! So my comment to make this not be an -1 offtopic is that these tests should be conducted by perhaps a means of mutually agreed upon HW. Or better put... They should use HW that is well supported by both systems as well as NEW HW. These were old pentiums... EVEN BETTER IDEA...do the same tests on a SPARC...wait...MS can't figure out SPARC.... -FIN
I dont like ViM or Emacs. I like Vi. I like Pico too. And i'm a BSD junkie, no leenuchs here. Seriously... Linux will never replace windows on the desktop AND IMHO you should tell people your likes and dislikes about a particular package, and then let them decide Subjectively Objective...interesting...
Linux is more reliable that NT. Reliabilty..something my body needs anyways...I like that. =) I want to see a comparison of NT, Linux, and BSD. But wait...This could make an excellent game of Rock,Paper,Scissors!!!! microsoft is better than sun(from M$ FUD). BSD runs hotmail. And linux beats M$. But to make it a good game...we'd have to agree on something that actually beats M$.
So by those facts...MS is used more than SUN in the enterprise... I guess popularity means better. Let me throw away all my Beethoven cd's because they suck...because more people listen to the BackStreet Boys at the moment. While I am at it...I should throw away Casablanca and Apocalypse Now...since Titanic was soo much more popular and well that means its the best! Why can't i get the Leonardo DeCaprio Operating System??? Its the most popular OS among a poll of 100,000 12 year old girls. Sorry that i can't provide serious comments to this story....What do you say to someone that says the Holocaust didn't happen...You don't say anything, because they are too stupid to waste your breath and thoughts on. -Fin
Then a daemon approached the 2 and killed little bill and the penguin and the daemon rode off in to the sunset. -FIN oops...you could look at that two ways...either the daemon killed bill...then the daemon and the penguin rode off into the sunset... OR...the daemon killed bill and the penguin...then he alone rode off into the sunset. Hehe oops sorry to make that ambigious.
Microsoft is MORE reliable than Sun. and as little Bill walked through the forest...He came upon a Penguin. He said to the penguin: "I am more reliable than the sun! Becuase if you look at it...it goes down once a day. Penguin replied..."NO...the Sun is constant...It doenst go down...Its just that our world is revolving. "But, I still think im the king on our OS planet!" And thus spoke the penguin: "NO, my little jedi...you are just a little whore." "Why do you say that master?", replied Bill with a surprised look. "Because whenever you get a chance...you like go down. And after that...you eventually fuck whoever you're with." And Bill spoke:"Ohh..I never thought about that." Then a daemon approached the 2 and killed little bill and the penguin and the daemon rode off in to the sunset. -FIN
I've been using OpenBSD for about half a year now, both 2.5 and the relatively new 2.6. I find it much faster than and linux dist. How many OS'es come pre-installed with crypto AND ssh? OpenBSD....and....thats it! The only features i would like to see implemented are support for mounting smb shares (namely SMBFS in the kernal) and SMP support. I also have FreeBSD 3.4 on another machine and it runs quite well too. Maybe if i wanted every possible service running post-install and a lack of security as well as having the fun of applying the root exploit patch of the week...I would run RedHat. enough said
Ok, now that some of you have provided insight... I wasn't really pushing on the fact that Sony made a lot of money from the consoles. I was just pointing out..that if any money is made from the console sale, its only sony...walmart,ebx,egghead, etc dont make money from it. And i forgot about the cost to develop games for PSX. Im not sure what those stores get the games for, but im sure Sony makes a lot of money regardless The point i was making, is that Sony controls the PSX. They control which companies make games for it, what games are made, as well as the console itself. BUT...buy buying a PSX, you must accept those facts. As in...You are buying a game that was developed via a charge from Sony, on a disc that Sony made money from, as well as on a console that Sony made money from. Once again to compare it to CSS...If sony made an emulator or even a emulation HW device, I could see a point to Connectix if they didn't offer it for your HW or OS. I am not sympathetic towards Sony in any way though. I am just stating that I don't agree that Connectix should have won the case. They reversed engineered the Bios, which i will state that it should fall under the fair use policy. But...using it to recreate it and sell it isn't what i call fair use. Think about it...you create something, and someone takes a major part of it and modifies it to run on something else and then sells it? No, this isn't Darwin's Thoery...It's niekze's theory. Sure...we took the whole survival of the fittest idea as well as the whole random breeding part and currently selling it under our name... So here is my whole argument in one chunk If they would have figured out the Bios info themselves, without reverse engineeering it, OR released it without any intent to make profit...I wouldn't have a problem with the decision. Did Linus reverse engineer the Unix kernel? Did Linus sell a modified reversed engineered Unix kernel? And thats why i don't have a problem with Linus.
Ok..now to be serious... I actually think Sony should have won this case. Look at it...Sony makes most of its money off of the systems. The stores don't make crap off selling the systems, thats why everystore sells them for the same price. Thats because they are making little to no profit of the systems. But if you buy a system at store 'x', you will probably buy another controller, a memory card, and a game or two. But the stores make profit off of those. The DeCSS was different. He wanted to play DVD movies on his linux machine, but couldnt because they only had players for windoze and crapintosh. But...the PSX games are made for the PSX console. Sure, i can agree its grey area to its legality, but i don't see it near the scope of anything like MP3 or DeCSS. Especially when DeCSS is free...no profit involved. But Connectix is making money off its reverse engineer of the Sony Bios. I wouldnt say that it is fair. Maybe if Sony made their own PC PSX software emulator it would be different and easier to judge. I don't really see a tyranny here. Maybe if some nobody would have done it and released it GPL, it would be easier to defend. But, if that would have happened, Sony would have probably won the case. I definently have to evaluate this situation a little bit more and get more/.'ers opinions and facts before I give it a final judgement.
Here we are in a major rut of the RIAA, MPAA, and the media/corporate conglomerate as well as the justice system...and something like this happens. If only they would have lost, we would have something else to get upset over. I mean...sheesh...these last 2 weeks have been "downers" for everything... But..now that i think about it... Sony must feel pretty stupid. In this day and age, you gotta hire a retarded monkey to lose a law suit if you are mr. big corporation. Hell...even O.J. got aquitted. Maybe if Natalie Portman sued Slashdot for its reader's slanderous comments...then it would really round out this legislative/corporate/media circus. Maybe some UK/.'er will have a e-mail of some slanderous info encrypted in e-mail encoded with CSS on a pirated DVD he downloaded from his 14.4 modem after he took down half the net with his DoS attacks just so he could clear out his route to mp3.com to download all those pirated and illegal mp3's that the RIAA is telling us about. Did i forget anything?
ahh..but thats the whole point. Sure its happened to you and i before as well as scores of other people. But when it happened...it sucked, your modem cut off and you just went on. Thats the net...its crazy. But, now big companies are getting attacked. Seems the whole world wants "justice". Only the corporate sector gets attention. Sure you could say that is because it is more noticeable, but with that advantage, The big get bigger. I read about that kid who got into the AOL system and downloaded some shots of the upcoming 6.0 release...AOL didn't like that he put it on his site. And for some reason, he was DoS'ed for hours....I didn't see that on CNN, NBC, ABC, or CBS...
Are these attacks really illegal? Are companies really loosing money? I see this as a form of protest (possibly) and if you were going to buy a cd from amazon and it was down...you could always come back later or go somewhere else. So what type of individual(s) do you think are responsible...perhaps a profile?
"It is not exactly as if the police would come knocking at your door and asking for codes if you have done nothing wrong now is it?" And the Nazi's had a right to search and arrest people as well.....those crazy jews, gypsy, homosexuals, invalids, mentally handicapped, and others were ALL suspicious. As well as the asians who were put in detention centers IN AMERICA during WWII. As well as people in china who get arrested and search for their heinous actions of such things like free thought and political action. As well as the former soviet union, iran, iraq, yemen, cuba, etc. Hmm it seems its fair if they have a reason. But with that mentality...What are the qualifications for those suspicions and reasons? You've already lost your right to secure encryption and well....if they want to see your encrypted documents, they must have a good reason. But you would probably reply (since you are an idiot) That things like this are not the same as those past and present activities. You can't equate this to Nazi germany... But...was Nazi germany built in one day? Did they wake up one morning and decide that the gov't/police state should have all rights over citizens in all affairs? Was it as bad in 1936 as it was in 1939? as it was in 1941? remember...Freedom is a binary type concept. You either have it or you don't. More freedom and less freedom are meaningless and incorrect terms. Freedom entails no control from the outside. If ANY control is lost, then that thing does not have FREEDOM. You could say less restrictive, but by no means FREE. Bend over...here comes the government! Bend over...here comes the corporate sector! If you have nothing to hide...load up smbd or file/sharing in 'doze and give read access to all for all your data. You have nothing to hide right? It shouldn't be a problem.
Interesting that they Chose FreeBSD. Obviouly, they would choose BSD for its less restrictive (or more, depending on which side you look at it) license. But why FreeBSD? It only supports x86 and Alpha at the moment (last time i checked) and its no where close to the security of OpenBSD. On the other hand, NetBSD has been ported to every mechanical device ever made. The only reasons I could think of that they would use FreeBSD over the other (better) 2 is that i don't think OpenBSD (dont know about netbsd, but since they started from the same origins...) supports SMP yet and most un-enlightened folks don't know about the other two. And I must say that BSD users aren't annoying little children like that glue sniffing crack-whore with the penguin ascii from the earlier posts. I bet the little script kiddie hasn't even used BSD. I bet he is running redhat with every possible service running with his L33t w4r3z ftp and his k-r4d eggdrop bot. Atleast the Natalie Portman comments are funny, but that guy is just an idiot who hurts the image of the whole linux community.
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I like /. you fucking idiot. BUT I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS ON IT. /.
I don't like linux either.
BSD is much better
But i still read
Hmm I don't like any of the presidental candidates...maybe i should move to the UK or Canada.
I don't like you...stop breathing.
No...thats mass consumerism.
And the only reason this article was posted is that its from the Dilbert people.
And that is commodification.
If they were good...Post this on a fucking food website.
Post it on the Dilbert website.
Hmm if Tommy Hilfiger made a PDA, lets all go out and buy one.
And if you think Russia had socialism....YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT.
I don't remember socialism or communism requiring secret police.
Capitalism is basically free enterprise...where ideally...people buy the best product for the cheapest price available.
This crap is just the Dilbert guy making money of his cartoon in a different way.
Remember Star Wars? it was a good movie trilogy
All the Phantom Menace existed as was a TOY COMMERCIAL.
But people only went to see it because it was part of Star Wars.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." should be changed to "New Products. Stuff you can buy."
Can we go one day without a non-computer related marketable product? PUULLLLLLEEEAAASE?
Ack. i could have summed that up in like 3 sentences...
Its not "Free".
"Free" means "no strings attached".
You just aren't giving them money anymore for the product; you're giving them your personal information as the commodity for exchange.
Sheesh....I guess you havn't thought about what this does to Borland.
How many of you would buy that product?
Now, you can get it for free
You have to "sign up" for it...
Then they send you e-mails trying to get you to buy the rest of their crap.
I did notice a link to "move up to C++ Builder or something.
Everyone remember that X10 promotion??? (its been a limited time offer for like 2 years now btw.)
Sure I love my $6 x-10 kit, i would have never gotten one except at that cheap price.
If i would have never gotten one...I would never want to buy any of their other products.
Borland is giving it away to get free advertising, and introduce more people to their products.
Plain and Simple.
If they would provide the source code, it would be a little different...maybe enough to not be bitching like i am now.
I used to like Maxim magazine in its early days because it was funny and amusing which made it ok for some ads and crap. Now its a pretty much a stupid magazine with a whole lot of ads and crap and very little content.
Guess what...Linux is going to go the same route (if it already hasn't) Free beer without Free Speech usually means i have to sign up for a credit card, phone card, internet service, or some other crap or watch 10 minutes of commercials for 30 of content.
I kinda agree...X just looks ghetto to me. I think they should opensource the Be GUI. I love the Be GUI, but Be only supports like 2 video cards and maybe 3 nics. Thats what i would like... Linux (ok...BSD..i would prefer BSD) with the Be GUI instead of X. That would 0wn.
I posted a comment on the earlier news about NT and linux testing...And stated that it isn't reliable with old HW and various HW. Macintosh on the other hand, has control over both the SW and HW, therefore has the ABILITY to give a better product and not spend so much time on figuring out drivers and the like...They have a great opportunity to make an excellent system....But I guess Murphy was right =)
You really can't do anything like that and survive in this business. But they aren't really doing it right. Like I said...Linux should come out with its own HW. Then watch the rest fall like dominoes.
Im by no means a fan of Macintosh, But the reason they lost the OS/machine war is the same reason they have the ability for a great product.
You can't go on any test like this since both sides could argue about the HW being used. Maybe they didnt have good drivers for this or that piece of HW.
But..Apple has complete control over both the HW and the SW.
Not that they have made the best progress with that idea, but imagine if Linux or BSD made its own HW. It would really be something AMAZING!
So my comment to make this not be an -1 offtopic is that these tests should be conducted by perhaps a means of mutually agreed upon HW. Or better put... They should use HW that is well supported by both systems as well as NEW HW. These were old pentiums...
EVEN BETTER IDEA...do the same tests on a SPARC...wait...MS can't figure out SPARC.... -FIN
I dont like ViM or Emacs. I like Vi. I like Pico too. And i'm a BSD junkie, no leenuchs here.
Seriously...
Linux will never replace windows on the desktop
AND
IMHO you should tell people your likes and dislikes about a particular package, and then let them decide
Subjectively Objective...interesting...
Linux is more reliable that NT. Reliabilty..something my body needs anyways...I like that. =)
I want to see a comparison of NT, Linux, and BSD.
But wait...This could make an excellent game of Rock,Paper,Scissors!!!! microsoft is better than sun(from M$ FUD). BSD runs hotmail. And linux beats M$. But to make it a good game...we'd have to agree on something that actually beats M$.
So by those facts...MS is used more than SUN in the enterprise...
I guess popularity means better.
Let me throw away all my Beethoven cd's because they suck...because more people listen to the BackStreet Boys at the moment.
While I am at it...I should throw away Casablanca and Apocalypse Now...since Titanic was soo much more popular and well that means its the best!
Why can't i get the Leonardo DeCaprio Operating System??? Its the most popular OS among a poll of 100,000 12 year old girls.
Sorry that i can't provide serious comments to this story....What do you say to someone that says the Holocaust didn't happen...You don't say anything, because they are too stupid to waste your breath and thoughts on. -Fin
Then a daemon approached the 2 and killed little bill and the penguin and the daemon rode off in to the sunset. -FIN
oops...you could look at that two ways...either the daemon killed bill...then the daemon and the penguin rode off into the sunset...
OR...the daemon killed bill and the penguin...then he alone rode off into the sunset.
Hehe oops sorry to make that ambigious.
Microsoft is MORE reliable than Sun. and as little Bill walked through the forest...He came upon a Penguin.
He said to the penguin: "I am more reliable than the sun! Becuase if you look at it...it goes down once a day.
Penguin replied..."NO...the Sun is constant...It doenst go down...Its just that our world is revolving.
"But, I still think im the king on our OS planet!"
And thus spoke the penguin: "NO, my little jedi...you are just a little whore."
"Why do you say that master?", replied Bill with a surprised look.
"Because whenever you get a chance...you like go down. And after that...you eventually fuck whoever you're with."
And Bill spoke:"Ohh..I never thought about that."
Then a daemon approached the 2 and killed little bill and the penguin and the daemon rode off in to the sunset. -FIN
I've been using OpenBSD for about half a year now, both 2.5 and the relatively new 2.6. I find it much faster than and linux dist. How many OS'es come pre-installed with crypto AND ssh? OpenBSD....and....thats it! The only features i would like to see implemented are support for mounting smb shares (namely SMBFS in the kernal) and SMP support.
I also have FreeBSD 3.4 on another machine and it runs quite well too. Maybe if i wanted every possible service running post-install and a lack of security as well as having the fun of applying the root exploit patch of the week...I would run RedHat. enough said
I'm a bsd obsessed geek. wise up stoopid.
Ok, now that some of you have provided insight... I wasn't really pushing on the fact that Sony made a lot of money from the consoles. I was just pointing out..that if any money is made from the console sale, its only sony...walmart,ebx,egghead, etc dont make money from it. And i forgot about the cost to develop games for PSX. Im not sure what those stores get the games for, but im sure Sony makes a lot of money regardless
The point i was making, is that Sony controls the PSX. They control which companies make games for it, what games are made, as well as the console itself. BUT...buy buying a PSX, you must accept those facts. As in...You are buying a game that was developed via a charge from Sony, on a disc that Sony made money from, as well as on a console that Sony made money from.
Once again to compare it to CSS...If sony made an emulator or even a emulation HW device, I could see a point to Connectix if they didn't offer it for your HW or OS.
I am not sympathetic towards Sony in any way though. I am just stating that I don't agree that Connectix should have won the case. They reversed engineered the Bios, which i will state that it should fall under the fair use policy. But...using it to recreate it and sell it isn't what i call fair use.
Think about it...you create something, and someone takes a major part of it and modifies it to run on something else and then sells it?
No, this isn't Darwin's Thoery...It's niekze's theory. Sure...we took the whole survival of the fittest idea as well as the whole random breeding part and currently selling it under our name...
So here is my whole argument in one chunk
If they would have figured out the Bios info themselves, without reverse engineeering it, OR released it without any intent to make profit...I wouldn't have a problem with the decision. Did Linus reverse engineer the Unix kernel? Did Linus sell a modified reversed engineered Unix kernel? And thats why i don't have a problem with Linus.
Ok..now to be serious... /.'ers opinions and facts before I give it a final judgement.
I actually think Sony should have won this case. Look at it...Sony makes most of its money off of the systems. The stores don't make crap off selling the systems, thats why everystore sells them for the same price. Thats because they are making little to no profit of the systems.
But if you buy a system at store 'x', you will probably buy another controller, a memory card, and a game or two. But the stores make profit off of those.
The DeCSS was different. He wanted to play DVD movies on his linux machine, but couldnt because they only had players for windoze and crapintosh. But...the PSX games are made for the PSX console.
Sure, i can agree its grey area to its legality, but i don't see it near the scope of anything like MP3 or DeCSS.
Especially when DeCSS is free...no profit involved. But Connectix is making money off its reverse engineer of the Sony Bios. I wouldnt say that it is fair. Maybe if Sony made their own PC PSX software emulator it would be different and easier to judge.
I don't really see a tyranny here. Maybe if some nobody would have done it and released it GPL, it would be easier to defend. But, if that would have happened, Sony would have probably won the case.
I definently have to evaluate this situation a little bit more and get more
Here we are in a major rut of the RIAA, MPAA, and the media/corporate conglomerate as well as the justice system...and something like this happens. If only they would have lost, we would have something else to get upset over. /.'er will have a e-mail of some slanderous info encrypted in e-mail encoded with CSS on a pirated DVD he downloaded from his 14.4 modem after he took down half the net with his DoS attacks just so he could clear out his route to mp3.com to download all those pirated and illegal mp3's that the RIAA is telling us about. Did i forget anything?
I mean...sheesh...these last 2 weeks have been "downers" for everything...
But..now that i think about it...
Sony must feel pretty stupid. In this day and age, you gotta hire a retarded monkey to lose a law suit if you are mr. big corporation.
Hell...even O.J. got aquitted.
Maybe if Natalie Portman sued Slashdot for its reader's slanderous comments...then it would really round out this legislative/corporate/media circus. Maybe some UK
ahh..but thats the whole point. Sure its happened to you and i before as well as scores of other people. But when it happened...it sucked, your modem cut off and you just went on. Thats the net...its crazy.
But, now big companies are getting attacked. Seems the whole world wants "justice". Only the corporate sector gets attention. Sure you could say that is because it is more noticeable, but with that advantage, The big get bigger.
I read about that kid who got into the AOL system and downloaded some shots of the upcoming 6.0 release...AOL didn't like that he put it on his site. And for some reason, he was DoS'ed for hours....I didn't see that on CNN, NBC, ABC, or CBS...
Are these attacks really illegal? Are companies really loosing money? I see this as a form of protest (possibly) and if you were going to buy a cd from amazon and it was down...you could always come back later or go somewhere else. So what type of individual(s) do you think are responsible...perhaps a profile?
"It is not exactly as if the police would come knocking at your door and asking for codes if you have done nothing wrong now is it?" And the Nazi's had a right to search and arrest people as well.....those crazy jews, gypsy, homosexuals, invalids, mentally handicapped, and others were ALL suspicious. As well as the asians who were put in detention centers IN AMERICA during WWII. As well as people in china who get arrested and search for their heinous actions of such things like free thought and political action. As well as the former soviet union, iran, iraq, yemen, cuba, etc. Hmm it seems its fair if they have a reason. But with that mentality...What are the qualifications for those suspicions and reasons? You've already lost your right to secure encryption and well....if they want to see your encrypted documents, they must have a good reason. But you would probably reply (since you are an idiot) That things like this are not the same as those past and present activities. You can't equate this to Nazi germany... But...was Nazi germany built in one day? Did they wake up one morning and decide that the gov't/police state should have all rights over citizens in all affairs? Was it as bad in 1936 as it was in 1939? as it was in 1941? remember...Freedom is a binary type concept. You either have it or you don't. More freedom and less freedom are meaningless and incorrect terms. Freedom entails no control from the outside. If ANY control is lost, then that thing does not have FREEDOM. You could say less restrictive, but by no means FREE. Bend over...here comes the government! Bend over...here comes the corporate sector! If you have nothing to hide...load up smbd or file/sharing in 'doze and give read access to all for all your data. You have nothing to hide right? It shouldn't be a problem.
Thats as ironic as the fact that the 'wonderful-folks-who-gave-you-windows' run unix and Apache for their hotmail servers.
Interesting that they Chose FreeBSD. Obviouly, they would choose BSD for its less restrictive (or more, depending on which side you look at it) license. But why FreeBSD? It only supports x86 and Alpha at the moment (last time i checked) and its no where close to the security of OpenBSD. On the other hand, NetBSD has been ported to every mechanical device ever made. The only reasons I could think of that they would use FreeBSD over the other (better) 2 is that i don't think OpenBSD (dont know about netbsd, but since they started from the same origins...) supports SMP yet and most un-enlightened folks don't know about the other two. And I must say that BSD users aren't annoying little children like that glue sniffing crack-whore with the penguin ascii from the earlier posts. I bet the little script kiddie hasn't even used BSD. I bet he is running redhat with every possible service running with his L33t w4r3z ftp and his k-r4d eggdrop bot. Atleast the Natalie Portman comments are funny, but that guy is just an idiot who hurts the image of the whole linux community.
Clever. And he does it just in time to install OpenBSD 2.6