Posted on 06/28/2004 9:48:52 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
Open source has expanded into the political world, with open software powering the online operations of the Democratic National Committee and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.
The DNC has embraced open source to run its online operation, including outreach and fund raising, and has been working on this front since 2001 with New York-based consultant Plus Three LP.
This week, the DNC will launch, at www.democrats.org, the third version of its Web site, which is designed to mobilize voters on a national and grass-roots level, grow the party's online database, and raise funds, said David Brunton, Plus Three's vice president and co-founder.
Plus Three's Arcos technology, a business application suite based on the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl) platform, lies at the core of the Democrats' online technology infrastructure, dubbed Demzilla by the DNC.
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A pathetic stretch to try to defend your precious Red Flag Linux program that is being used to build supercomputers based off free copies of Red Hat.
I know what motivates Linux, it's better software. I know what motivates you, it's corporate profits. As you said, you have no problem giving 100% US-made advanced technology to China as long as US corporations make a profit off of it. We know you don't care if the Chinese actually get the technology, because you find corporate sales to be just fine. What you don't like is free software, which the Chinese like everyone else can download and use, although to make a Linux supercomputer cluster, you need a LOT more technology and expertise than just the free Linux OS. I wonder who sold China the switches to make this supercomputer possible (but that's okay because a US company probably sold them). Who set it up? What processors? Intel or AMD (still okay with you)? Their own maybe, built off the technology that Neil Bush greased the rails for China to get from us?
Shouldn't that be using it for their own infernal purposes?
Now you're lying and putting words in my mouth you know aren't true.
I've made it repeatedly clear I don't think any US companies should be building up China's tech infrastructure at all. I think we should treat them just as we did the former USSR, and if you were too young to remember, US tech companies weren't outfitting the Kremlin, especially not for free.
to make a Linux supercomputer cluster, you need a LOT more technology and expertise than just the free Linux OS.
So what, are you saying that justifies giving them one of the basic building blocks for free? Sure looks like it.
Make no mistake, without Linux and the improvements to it given to them for free, China wouldn't be on that Top 10 supercomputer list, yet there they are as of today.
The plants to make such circuitry can easily be modified to make the circuitry for guidance systems and the like - so that those linux-powered missles can hit you.
BS. You apparently don't know much about "television trackers", something I do. Hint - they have nothing to do with internal TV circuitry, and actually provide the required Az El Range data based on computer analysis of something as simple as standard NTSC video output. Analysis done on Linux systems, Red Flag being the official O/S of the PRC, handed to them for free.
Ahem, "Use Apple, use any version of Unix, there's plenty of non-Linux alternatives available for the non-Microsoft buyer, all of which originated in the US, bring dollars back into this country, and can't be legally renamed "Chinese Red Flag"."
"For free" always seems to be your problem. And make no mistake, without us selling them switches and servers, they wouldn't be on that list either, but I don't see you complaining about those.
Especially since the President's brother got them the chipmaking equipment they need. It seems these days almost everything in computers is dual-purpose. I remember a while ago talk about the viability of building a supercomputing cluster out of Sony PlayStation 2s.
Even Rats aren't stupid enough to pay for something when they can legally get it (or its equivalent) free.
Another analogy is that using MS LookOut without changing the defaults and adding third-party security measures is like participating in a bareback orgy in a gay Haitian bathouse.
All I can say is "wow."
Is that too long for a sig?
Theorhetically, perhaps. Still MS helping with APEX televisions is in no way comparable in defense related terms to China getting free software that pushes their supercomputers into the top 10. And to argue it does is absurd.
And it is a problem, to anyone with a brain. What else should we be giving them for free? Don't hold back.
Allowed them to see it, not rename it "Red Flag" and resell it all over Asia with no return revenue to the US. All done in response to Linux, else it would have never happened. Not that you can equate the two anyway, or don't you know "shared source" does not equal "open source"? You should. We hear it all the time.
But it takes Linux to do that, right? So we should be pumping up this code and giving it away to all takers for free?
All the copies of the US Constitution they care to make, to start with.
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