Posted on 12/10/2006 2:19:05 PM PST by ShadowAce
Ubuntu here I come!
I have a dual boot, having both XP in one drive and Ubuntu on the second drive.
Seeing open source has driven most of the innovation in "need for greed" world (M$ invented nearly nothing, and stole or reverse engineered almost everything) I see a pretty big war on the horizon.
Microsoft never wants to actually compete on merit.
Their monopoly is built on the fact that the PC user community was short-sighted enough to let MS proprietary "standards" become de facto public standards.
Now MS wants to use the threat of patent enforcement to deter Linux. What a crock! I'll bet MS "borrowed" far more from unix than vice versa. Now they want to play this little game where they claim IP infringement but refuse to say what the infringing code is. Baloney! That's comparable to a shop owner accusing you of shoplifting but refusing to say what it is you actually shoplifted!
The whole idea that "free" software is somehow "anti-capitalistic" is nonsense, by the way -- unless you think that breathing air without paying for it is anti-capitalistic too!
If you think software sucks now, just wait until what's available depends completely on who has the best lawyers.
Yup. I thought this article foretells a sorry future for software in general.
"If you think software sucks now, just wait until what's available depends completely on who has the best lawyers."
Or who has the most money to pay for them. Gosh, I wonder who that would be?
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ImGE - Improved Golden Eagle simulator v.03
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Did somebody mention Jokelaw? We don't need their kind stinking up the place.
Linux has ripped off concepts from Windows and someday that's going to come back to haunt them. I can't get anymore specific than that, because I'm not very well informed. I'm just pulling crap out of my *ss, like usual.
I just wish I could get Steve Balmer in a room with Linus Torvalds so Steve could pitch a chair at the little commie.
Why are you so anxious to give your money to billionaire Balmer when "commie" Torvalds is trying to give you something for nothing?
The main idea behind capitalism and free enterprise is that the seller generally tries to maximize price while the buyer tries to minimize it. If you are a "consumer" of software, you should be tickled pink that someone wants to give it away for free -- especially when the quality is far superior to what you would otherwise have to pay for.
The reason Torvalds can afford to give his software away, of course, is that the marginal cost per copy is essentially zero for all practical purposes. And that is why the cost of software should be going down faster than the cost of hardware were it not for the MS monopoly, which people like you support through ignorance.
Are you familiar with Golden Eagle and/or shadowman99? That post was satire aimed at GE.
Regards, Ivan
And if your idea of capitalism is sending your money to a billionaire for something you can get for free, you missed a key point somewhere.
Regards, Ivan
Leftists like Stallman who want to just do away with all laws regarding intellectual property can whine all they want, but those laws aren't going away. "Copyleft" will never succeed "copyright", at least not here in the US, although the mad Russians of the world probably feel differently.
So we're better off without billionaires, and left relying on others for our needs according to their definition of "free"?
Disproved in an earlier thread. The GPL itself relies on strong "intellectual property" (actually, copyright) laws. Try again.
And you might just want to retract your knowingly false statement about another person with intent to disparage him. But I know you won't because you're the king of libel on this board, as you still haven't retracted .
According to Stallman and others. Most people think the world is fine with a mix of billionaires and free software, and with differing levels of "free" -- from code that is initially free but can be made non-free (BSD), to code that is guaranteed to always be free (GPL and MPL).
The decision of the license is up to the copyright holder, the decision of what to use is up to the user, and the decision of what license developers want to use for derivative works is up to the developers (pay for proprietary, or use free). I, unlike you and Stallman, respect that people can make their own choices.
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