Posted on 10/10/2006 4:56:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
Linux or open source seems to thrive wherever Left governments rule. And as Kerala schools log Microsoft out and boot open source systems, Linux world is buzzing with excitement over possibilities in the communist-ruled states. Though West Bengal and Tripura have to go whole hog to adopt a free software model, ideological closeness is more than evident. Kerala, most insiders’ feel, is turning out to be Richard Stallman's happiest hunting ground. His personal vibes with Velikakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, even from VS's pre-chief minister era, are in play. It’s a picture watching the duo cozying together in a similar attire — Stallman in a crumbled white T-shirt and VS in homely sleeveless white banian. Secretly, people do wonder what Class VII drop-out Marxist patriarch chitchats with whiz-kid of the Red Hat business-model. However, those who attended a Stallman seminar on FOSS, could clearly see that Linux and Left are on the same wavelength.
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Lookee here folks, we have finally gotten to the Brass Buzzard's reason for trolling FR despite his lack of interest in any conservative topic or news events not related to open source software.
The bottom line appears to be Government control of software. I just knew that if we scratched this whackjob long enough we'd find a hard-corp statist underneath.
You were talking conjecture, I was talking legal action. Anyway, all that does is support my point than the legal questions about BSD slowed its adoption, letting Linux take off.
It's on the list for all to see.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1710675/posts?page=397#397
Good, so everyone can see your previous statement was just another one of your lies. All in the defense of communists, of course.
Maybe you're right, I can't find your Microsoft reference. But I did find your post saying:
Use Apple, fine with me, at least that keeps money coming back to America, unlike Linux, which allows the Chinese government to rename Red Hat to Red Flag, and resell it without a dime back to us.Your effective position is that the damage to our security is somehow lessened as long as we make money off of it. So what's your price for giving the Iranians everything on your local SIPRNET (that is if they even allow you onto it)?
You just got bitch-slapped and you claim victory? What are you on, and can I have some?
SGI: only added x86 servers when they were already in real trouble (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/062606-sgi-adds-x86-servers-in.html) Linux has not been what has done damage to SGI
SCO: Have you evere enven used their crap! I have on SCO box we had to bring in for a vendor supplied teleco system and its a nightmare. Maybe if they had concentrated on product improvement rather than lawsuits they might have been aloive longer
Cray: Got pushed by all computers capable of supporting multiple nodes, including Solaris, AIX, and Linux.
No it will only expose your obvious lie in post #117, if you even actually linked to my actual comments, which I'm not even wasting my time checking.
117 wasn't my post. However, I did link to your previous post in mine.
No the leftist Stallman you support endlessly is the one in favor of strictly government controls, he wants a literal "software tax" imposed on everyone to help manage the "free" software. My version of control includes intellectual property rights like patents, which the leftists and I'm sure you stringently oppose.
Sorry that was meant for the flaming dude of death, who posted the lie in #117, though I shouldn't even waste my time correcting his nonsense.
And the legality of the BSD License was cleared up more than a decade ago, it was so clear the companies like MS and Apple include software with the BSD license.
Legality of open source will always be in question, because it is contrary to our normal laws of business
Youll have to show me where in business law a copyright holder can not give away their product with the contingency that if you improve and distribute it you must release the technical details.
and that is why there needs to be greater controls.
Have you quit wrapping yourself in the conservative flag long enough to push government controls over intellectual property, nice..
I'm sure you think it was the "evil" microsoft, even though they weren't even a serious competitor in that market. No it was Linux, only someone denying the communist ties in the parent article would think otherwise.
It happens. I have no idea where he's getting the PP/AIDS thing, but you have previously defended Microsoft's contributions to Planned Parenthood.
Go dig through posts and find one where I implicitly support Stallman or any form of taxation.
No I simply showed a link from an article that claimed none of Gates contributions were used for abortions, as had been claimed by one of the Gates haters. I'd certainly prefer he didn't give to them at all, but at least he's not a total leftist moonbat like Stallman, or his supporters.
One of SGI's really big mistakes was coming out with a line of x86 Windows NT workstations. Although they were faster than PCs with the same CPU, they were a financial disaster.
SGI also tried a move to the Itanium, but the Itanium was very disappointing when SGI needed it to rock. So SGI had to sink far more money into improving their MIPS line in order to remain competitive. Despite this, confidence in SGI waned from these mistakes -- why blow a couple million dollars on a MIPS supercomputer when its own manufacturer doesn't have confidence in the architecture?
On the software side, the killer for them was the port of Maya to Windows, Mac and Linux. SGI bought the companies for Alias|Wavefront, and they put out Maya for all these platforms. It sold a lot of copies, but 3D companies no longer had to buy SGI workstations in order to do their work. Microsoft's only involvement was buying Softimage, which probably pressured SGI to make the purchases and port.
Without the clustering software given away for free by NASA, the communists couldn't build the clusters we're seeing them build now out of the cheap lightweight computers. Withiut the software, cheap hardware can't become a supercomputer. If you don't understand that simple obvious depedency, you have no chance of understanding anything else in this discussion.
As I indicated no other U.S. industry gives infinite use of their product away to communists for free. Your double talk about copyrights in no way changes that fact.
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