Comment Lennart if you don't like open soruce... (Score 0) 993
go work for Apple. Oh wait Apple wouldn't have you. Microsoft then.
Yeah I look forward to the day that happens.
go work for Apple. Oh wait Apple wouldn't have you. Microsoft then.
Yeah I look forward to the day that happens.
I don't know. Certainly he doesn't deserve what is being dealt to him, but I find it a stretch to call him one of the more competent
It does if by competent you mean start a project, convince enough people to make it standard in linux distros then leave it half finished...
The problem is those competitors are hiring in China and India. While being a capitalist at heart, I recognize this as a flaw with capitialism.
Nah. Those were moderate.
The show you wanted to watch for that real psychedelic experience you needed to watch one of variants of the BJ and Dirty Dragon Show. Now that was bizarre!
Now that virtual currencies are getting some traction, Gates waqnts to jump in so he can get credit for being an early backer.
When Bruce Perens was getting questions from slashdot, I asked whether Obamacare should have mandated the use of open source software.
He replied with some BS answer about how great Obamacare is because his children with preexisting conditions can now become independent contractors.
I admit that modifying the system so that healthcare is not tied to your job is a good thing, but it shows how pathetic and how much greed has pervaded politics.
He should have instead focused on what the question was about: requiring open protocols, and open software as a part of Obamacare would go a great way to alleviating cost problems in certain sectors.
Make no mistake that I think that companies should not make money developing medical software, but they should not be making artificially large amounts of money by erecting proprietary walls.
When I first read the headline ti came out as "underwear landslide" not a pretty picture.
haven't read the orignal article yet, but:
It reminds me of the early days of black holes. Einstein, Weyl etc. knew there were degenerate solutions of the Einstein Equations.
Einstein went on to prove that radially collapsing material could never form a black hole. At the same time Oppenheimer was proving that rotating stars would form black holes.
My proceedure for weekly security updates for my computer is: download all packages to be upgraded, then reboot into maintenance mode and physically install them. Basically I run LMDE (debian unstable mostly).
I occasionally check the downloads and see a strange package being downloaded. So I look up the dependencies, and see some of the most bizarre dependencies. For example, that KDE requires CUPS ( I don't have a usable printer ).
So instead of worrying about what needs to be installed first clean up all the dependencies so you don't install packages you don't need or want.
Shit go real keyboard.
Unicomp, Ducky or Filco.
A Corsair RGB if you like bling.
One prime example is Netscape. Microsoft bought Mosaic, called it IE, and gave it away for free. Bill Gates was renowned for "declaring war" on small companies. He is absolutely ruthless when someone says no to him, and lashes out like Stalin on steroids.
That is wrong. MS couldn't give it away. No one wanted it.
Instead MS merged it with Windows and forced people to take it for free,whether they wanted it or not
Gives new meaning to Blue Screen of Death.
OMG! It's a monkey version of Tammy Faye Baker!
Bill Gates didn't do that great a job He produced MSBasic, convinced IBM to hand him a monopoly for software that he bought. They managed to write a few pieces of software for the Mac with support from Apple which they then ported to Windows. From there on it was mainly anticompetitive practices, until the internet came along at which point Gates totally ignored it. Until; it became too popular to be dismissed, then to make up for the huge blunder, they had to engage in anticompetitive practices so onerous the government could not ignore it. Which then handcuffed MS so badly they could not compete in new markets.
In the end under Gates they wrote more dog GUI OS's then they wrote good ones.
So really it's just they got a monopoly and sat on it till momentum brought it down.
My feeling is that SCOTUS has mostly felt that most business methods/software patents should be invalid, but that there are a few which are absolutely justified. They have not wanted to throw the baby out with the bathwater. and were hoping that the CAFC would find some rule that would allow pick out the few worthy patents.
but have given up on this. and are now taking action on their own.
One further thing shaking up the landscape is Rader leaving the CAFC.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
