Comment What about a law (Score 1) 245
Patches exist. A big country could pass a law to force MS to publish them in the sake of national interest, or pay a huge daily a fine (or give up the market in that big country).
IPFilter or PacketFilter on NetBSD. I am a bit redundant since it was already proposed for OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but NetBSD was missing
I must add that BSD are good systems to learn. They take no initiatives and most of the time stick to common Unix tools instead of reinventing the wheel. That means for instance that knowledge acquired on NetBSD can be useful on Linux
It's all a question of perspective.
I would say it is a question of territory: it is not the same thing to blow up an invader in your own country, and or in the invader's country.
It is also a question of nationality: it is not the same thing to blow up an invader and to blow your fellow nationals
From TFA
the government carnage will soon follow. How can it not, when only old people pay sales tax, fewer citizens obtain their incomes from traditional easy-to-tax jobs, and large corporate taxpayers start folding like daily newspapers? Without big business, big government can't function.
This is so childish! Indeed, many things in government will cease to function if nobody pays for public goods. Roads, schools, justice... how will that be provided with 3D printing?
We speak about open source. Bugs can be fixed does not mean you can fix it. If you cannot, then perhaps you could pay someone to fix it?
Faced with a choice between clean, safe power for people (France's nuclear power plants)
That is true, but there is one problem: France has no Uranium Uranium supply in its own territory. What I do not know is how much reserve is available, in case of a supply problem (because of a war in supplier country, for instance)
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
