Comment Re:linux is not freeware (Score 1) 297
if you haven't changed it, then linking the person to provider of the original source would be fine.
"So bank robbers and pickpockets are just capitalists, then?"
Bank robbers are just people who consider the return on investment, or risk vs reward (whichever way they do it) of bank vault monies vs jail time to fall on the side of the bank vault. Most people disagree, and consider the damage to society that the theft would represent to be more than the financial gain of that individual and so a social system of punitive damages (called "the law") was organised along with enforcement measures (police).
Anything can be though of in terms of return on investment. Thats the entire point of having these punitive damages (admittedly, charging someone their entire lifes earnings should discourage people, but that doesn't appear to be working) -- to make the return on stealing a $1 cd to be negative.
anand's review -- http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531 -- shows that random write performance on a good ssd is still 20x better than the best hdd.
That review also covers the cause of the performance drop as the drive ages that most review don't originally consider. The review covers random reads and writes in a variety of patterns.
can someone comment on the leagility of doing something like this?
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