Posted on 06/12/2006 5:41:51 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Thanks again or your help a few months ago. I am talking to you from Mepis (which is a really friendly distro -- others were not as helpful).
If nothing else it made a boat anchor into my travel PC.
Windows doesn't deal well with older stuff. And my Mepis has already proven to be much much more stable.
Typical linux fly by. Deny, but offer nothing else. And least you didn't stoop to insults like most.
Of course that's why he did it, he's admitted it all along.
Are you a regular Salon reader? LOL
You're wrong. This article confirms it.
And the full history here also confirms it.
I keep my eye on what leftists are up to, so I don't become one of their pawns. Did you know Howard Dean has hired people from Linux companies, like his campaign manager Joe Trippi, and helped convert the DNC to open source? Here's one of his postings on "slashdot", another favorite hangout of leftists:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70875&cid=6428904
Many programmers are in fact paid to write free software. For example, Apple, IBM, and RedHat pay programmers to work on gcc and other open source projects, because the improvements benefit them. I personally have been paid to enhance an open source product I wrote, by a company that needed specific additional functionality.
Also, the large majority of developers are not producing shrink-wrapped software for resale. Most are developing applications for internal use, or web-based applications that only run on their company's servers. If software copyrights were entirely abolished, there would still be a strong demand for programmers. (Not that that would be a good idea).
Hmm. Just like Microsoft. So what?
From one of your own links:
"1991 In August, Torvalds announces his plans to create a free operating system"
Did you see the word "free"? That was his motivator.
"Linus Torvalds has said that if there had been a free Unix-like operating system on the 386 at the time, he likely would not have created Linux."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
Read the entire history to get a handle on his mindset. He wanted to tinker. Minix helped him get a foot up on the design since it was open. He also wanted others to help.
Free as in libre.
Dean's right hand man, his campaign manager, was hired from a Linux company. Dean coined the phrase "open source politics". Now the DNC is all open source. Hardly coincidence.
Democrats Tap Open Source
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1617712,00.asp?kc=EWNKT0209KTX1K0100440
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/05/technology/05systems.html?position=&ei=5090&en=269f1a83d00e9e51&ex=1246766400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1151518151-G68v1wUAgZtRMMZjpeHDWg
"Linus Torvalds has said that if there had been a free Unix-like operating system on the 386 at the time, he likely would not have created Linux."
You can try to bend the definition of the word "free" all you want, but it's not working.
They'll know I speak honestly.
I don't actually care what you think.
Well hardly anyone thinks the word "free" means "modifiable" outside your tiny circle of linux disciples.
You can deny the nature of words in the English language if you want, but it only makes you look like a dim bulb.
Words can have multiple senses and meanings. Grown-ups know this and have no difficulty accepting it.
au contraire, I have. Go back and read the posts. You just ignored the evidence.
Linux was created by a foreigner so that he wouldn't have to pay the US software companies for our products.
He didn't do it for that reason. Go and read some USENET postings. Some of the reasons included:
If you prefer foreign clones to our existing and superior products, just admit it and be gone.
That's just it. I deny that the roughly equivalent products are superior. That's why I use Linux. Windows is out and out junk and I don't like some of the things about the Mac. Despite its slickness, I don't care for the Mac UI. The gfx are great, but I simply do not like the way things are laid out; I also have something of a keyboard-centric philosophy (which is why I run the Ion WM at the moment). I don't like the philosophy of throw it all together and use a search function, and I don't like the way some of the profile data is stored. Last I tried BSD, it didn't support my PCMCIA network card.
Furthermore, as compared to Mac or Windows, I like being able to tweak my kernel. Sure, you probably don't care, but I like being able to do it.
Unlike you, I look at the technology itself before passing judgement. Granted, my complaints against the Mac were aesthetic, not performance (while I could be wrong about this, I thought that OS X was outperformed by Linux as well), but that is still a valid factor when choosing an OS. All other things being equal, why should I use a UI I don't like as well?
In case you forgot, America was meant to encourage a free market, where the best product wins.
OMG!! I heard Howard Dean invests in stocks and mutual funds. Some Democrats invest in gold. I wouldn't want to be like those Democrats. I guess I'll have to keep my money under my mattress. LOL!
Golden Bird needs to fly a little lower so the higher oxygen level will enable more rational thinking.
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