So your local businesses and stores have some kind of right to your business? And for that, you support government coercion to stomp on the corporations' ability to contract with whom they please?
...our schools do not have the ability to generate new dollars to fund projects or pay for employees,the lawmakers wrote." Well, what's that thing where they take money from people in the district and send them to jail if they don't comply? The oldest racket in the book? C'mon, someone help me out here...
What really changes in the toolchain besides GCC? For that matter, how much more whizbang can a friggin C compiler be? They could take what's on the GNU ftp site right now and ride easy for a few years just fixing the occasional security bug; big iron type OS's do it all the time.
From what I heard, AT&T pretty much threw a few features into the blender with SunOS and slapped the System V name on the result. Then again, the whole Berkeley/AT&T argument is academic anyways; Windows NT won.
Sun cannot enforce patents on the ZFS implementation in FreeBSD (and likely Apple) because that code is still covered under the CDDL, which grants the patent license (I'd complain about code purity here, but they've got friggin binary nForce and Atheros drivers in there already, so what difference does it make?). I'm really not worried about the Linux guys tho. Either they'll get the patents straightened out or they'll create their own super whamodyne filesystem/lvm thingie.
Funny enough, I've heard similar about nuclear reactor operators. When I was a Navy nuke, word went around the smoke pit that the difference between female and male birthrates with nuke fathers was different enough to be statistically significant.
They can't be compatible (without the "or any later version" clause, which is in essence a dual GPLvX/GPLvY license). To incorporate GPLv2-only code into a GPLv3 project causes it to be under additional restrictions, which violates GPLv2, and vice versa.
As for BSD, the four-clause variant is outdated (except for NetBSD), and the third clause in the three-clause variant prohibits something that is prohibited anyways, so really any BSD license in modern use is pretty much the same. Ditto with the MIT or ISC licenses.
NetBSD's "stagnation" was Charles Hannum trying to fuck the project over and engage in a massive sympathy ploy before he got shitcanned for doing stupid things to the CVS tree.
I used to do that when I had a Slack box, until I realized that I was spending ~15 minutes (between downloading, untarring, make oldconfig, make, copy everything around and update grub menus) for something that saved me 15 seconds at most at boot-up time, and little if any change to reponsiveness. Not to mention that kernel updates were about the only time I bounced my system. With FreeBSD it's a bit of the same (although it's a little simpler and more time-intensive, since the userland has to be rebuilt at the same time), although at least the changes tend to happen in bursts rather than the kernel-of-the-week nonsense.
No shit. Gentoo's decent, I guess, but they seem to do a lot of things ass-backwards. You really don't learn much of anything about system admin in general, just how to use Gentoo's custom tools. Slack's probably hands-down the best when it comes to teaching actual Linux/*nix stuff (though the no-dependencies bit can be a bit painful at times, and getting HAL/pmount to work was a four-hour process). I switched to FreeBSD though, and never really looked back. I can automate the upgrading of trivial shit without fucking with the base system, and no Linux distribution ever beat a BSD when it came to high-quality docs.
True enough. I'd add that in the rare case that a monopoly does hold up in a free market, it likely means they're doing something right. Look at MS, somewhere between 13 and 27 years as a "monopoly" power, yet software prices haven't shot up; they've gone down if anything (especially when adjusted for inflation). Either way, there's no real call to interfere, and the main purpose of the Sherman Act and all it's evil little brothers is to destroy unconnected, competent businesses at the behest of connected, incompetent ones.
Ultimately, the thing that led to the erosion of the Republican Party of yore was the inherent contradiction between their mysticism, and the small-government, capitalist, rhetoric. The two just don't work. One is built upon the belief that men have inalienable rights and are an end in and of themselves, and the other is build upon the belief that we are simply chattel to some invisible guy in the sky who alternates between loving and vengeful when he isn't taking his lithium. So they've gone welfare-statist while still talking small government, while pushing "social" issues to swing the religious vote.
And of course, there's nowhere to go between the mysticism of the right, and what amounts to little more than nihilism on the left.
I say keep criminals out, keep people with infectious diseases out, and other than that, don't worry about it. Employers should be free to contract with whoever they please; no one has a "right" to an exclusive market for their labor. I don't care about the tax issue because I feel no pride in money being taken from me at the risk of imprisonment or being shot in a police standoff. I don't care about healthcare because the government has no business in what should be a matter of contract between provider and patient. "Border security" is by and large a false issue; when the next wave of hijackers arrives, they'll probably be here with student visas like the last wave.
In other words, you want Windows, and you want it for free no less. Ah well, if Ubuntu does nothing else, it shields the rest of us from people like you.
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So your local businesses and stores have some kind of right to your business? And for that, you support government coercion to stomp on the corporations' ability to contract with whom they please?
They should, but it matters little in both cases where the lion's share of the 'aid' is taken by threat of force.
I don't recall them consulting you as to whether or not they should exist. It's not your time or your money, and it's not your concern.
Don't forget Mozilla Suite/Netscape holdouts...
What really changes in the toolchain besides GCC? For that matter, how much more whizbang can a friggin C compiler be? They could take what's on the GNU ftp site right now and ride easy for a few years just fixing the occasional security bug; big iron type OS's do it all the time.
From what I heard, AT&T pretty much threw a few features into the blender with SunOS and slapped the System V name on the result. Then again, the whole Berkeley/AT&T argument is academic anyways; Windows NT won.
What do you expect? He's good copy. It beats the hell out of RMS giving the same talk 15 times a year.
Sun cannot enforce patents on the ZFS implementation in FreeBSD (and likely Apple) because that code is still covered under the CDDL, which grants the patent license (I'd complain about code purity here, but they've got friggin binary nForce and Atheros drivers in there already, so what difference does it make?). I'm really not worried about the Linux guys tho. Either they'll get the patents straightened out or they'll create their own super whamodyne filesystem/lvm thingie.
All right, he's convinced me. Can't we move this guy back to Tibet and get him his slaves back?
Funny enough, I've heard similar about nuclear reactor operators. When I was a Navy nuke, word went around the smoke pit that the difference between female and male birthrates with nuke fathers was different enough to be statistically significant.
They can't be compatible (without the "or any later version" clause, which is in essence a dual GPLvX/GPLvY license). To incorporate GPLv2-only code into a GPLv3 project causes it to be under additional restrictions, which violates GPLv2, and vice versa.
As for BSD, the four-clause variant is outdated (except for NetBSD), and the third clause in the three-clause variant prohibits something that is prohibited anyways, so really any BSD license in modern use is pretty much the same. Ditto with the MIT or ISC licenses.
That's why nVidia doesn't release binary blobs. They release a bag of bytes that can be used to make your own binary blob.
Because nv is obfusticated crap.
NetBSD's "stagnation" was Charles Hannum trying to fuck the project over and engage in a massive sympathy ploy before he got shitcanned for doing stupid things to the CVS tree.
Well at least they got rid of /usr/X11. Now if we can call for a public execution of /opt, we should be set.
I used to do that when I had a Slack box, until I realized that I was spending ~15 minutes (between downloading, untarring, make oldconfig, make, copy everything around and update grub menus) for something that saved me 15 seconds at most at boot-up time, and little if any change to reponsiveness. Not to mention that kernel updates were about the only time I bounced my system. With FreeBSD it's a bit of the same (although it's a little simpler and more time-intensive, since the userland has to be rebuilt at the same time), although at least the changes tend to happen in bursts rather than the kernel-of-the-week nonsense.
apt also isn't written in python, or dependent upon shell scripts running in bash.
No shit. Gentoo's decent, I guess, but they seem to do a lot of things ass-backwards. You really don't learn much of anything about system admin in general, just how to use Gentoo's custom tools. Slack's probably hands-down the best when it comes to teaching actual Linux/*nix stuff (though the no-dependencies bit can be a bit painful at times, and getting HAL/pmount to work was a four-hour process). I switched to FreeBSD though, and never really looked back. I can automate the upgrading of trivial shit without fucking with the base system, and no Linux distribution ever beat a BSD when it came to high-quality docs.
True enough. I'd add that in the rare case that a monopoly does hold up in a free market, it likely means they're doing something right. Look at MS, somewhere between 13 and 27 years as a "monopoly" power, yet software prices haven't shot up; they've gone down if anything (especially when adjusted for inflation). Either way, there's no real call to interfere, and the main purpose of the Sherman Act and all it's evil little brothers is to destroy unconnected, competent businesses at the behest of connected, incompetent ones.
Ultimately, the thing that led to the erosion of the Republican Party of yore was the inherent contradiction between their mysticism, and the small-government, capitalist, rhetoric. The two just don't work. One is built upon the belief that men have inalienable rights and are an end in and of themselves, and the other is build upon the belief that we are simply chattel to some invisible guy in the sky who alternates between loving and vengeful when he isn't taking his lithium. So they've gone welfare-statist while still talking small government, while pushing "social" issues to swing the religious vote.
And of course, there's nowhere to go between the mysticism of the right, and what amounts to little more than nihilism on the left.
No, because the main factor in the Indian "genocide" was smallpox, which was brought here by the Spanish 400 years ago.
I say keep criminals out, keep people with infectious diseases out, and other than that, don't worry about it. Employers should be free to contract with whoever they please; no one has a "right" to an exclusive market for their labor. I don't care about the tax issue because I feel no pride in money being taken from me at the risk of imprisonment or being shot in a police standoff. I don't care about healthcare because the government has no business in what should be a matter of contract between provider and patient. "Border security" is by and large a false issue; when the next wave of hijackers arrives, they'll probably be here with student visas like the last wave.
In other words, you want Windows, and you want it for free no less. Ah well, if Ubuntu does nothing else, it shields the rest of us from people like you.
It's faster and easier to just ignore them. Choose your OS, choose your fate.