Comment Re:Another Con (Score 1) 262
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is not a word, Ms. Palin:
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you've spent 100 hours installing a piece of software across a network only to find updates and support drops a week later
That's specious. What kind of Open Source project has "support" of the kind that can be "dropped"? Interest and activity wax and wane over time. If it's so big and complex that you'll spend two weeks setting it up, I recommend you figure out whether the community surrounding it is of the kind that you can rely on for guidance.
This is even more of a problem if there is a leading OSS solution that is so well known, no one wants to write competing software for it so when development and support stops, there's a gaping vaccuum in that area.
Never happened. What project are you thinking of? Firefox is a direct contradiction of that idea.
Open Source has to compete with commercial software
No. I've maintained a free software project for many years, and we don't compete with anyone. We work together to create something that otherwise wouldn't exist. That's all, and that's enough.
commercial companies will give you support for the lifespan of a product or until it becomes obsolete
Yeah, except they determine the lifespan. Too bad if you find it useful and they find it nonprofitable. Go ahead and try to get support or source code after that. I'll wait.
treat all McCain voters by some sterotypical image of a bubba in backwoods
"Drill here, drill now" is a nonsolution. So is a gas tax holiday.
Evolution and global warming warming are noncontroversial to literate people.
"Health of the woman" doesn't belong in "quotation marks".
Eliminating earmarks and the corporate income tax and the estate tax will do nothing to solve the budget deficit.
The Republican party has done everything it can in the last 8 years to drive out the thinking person. Look at the election map. Bubba in backwoods is where they won. It's not a sterotype. It's a strategy. Just not a very good one.
Yes. I seem to recall many stories comparing the Republicans' winner-take-all system to the Democrats' voter-share system. Everyone seemed to think McCain would be able to rest up and raise funds while the Democratic contenders exhausted themselves.
I always thought that was foolish and attributed it to the press repeating (as they do so often) a Republican talking point. Media consultants spend a lot of time figuring out how to get free media i.e. press coverage. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Or, as Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.