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the liar, software thief and racist Clippy (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann...
Why do people fear Free software
Seems to me that a lot of people, as typified by the trolls in COLA, are afraid of Free software. I wonder why that should be. After...
Why do people fear Free software 13226
Give the devil his due, amos! You have to accept the reality. How IE got in front is not all that important. IE6 and IE7 are not the same as the IE3 and IE4 that...
Why do people fear Free software 13227
You're just pee and wind, you know that, bill? You yap a lot, but you say nothing...
Why do people fear Free software 13228
You have no clue, Kier! MacDonalds advertises their Happy Meal as the ultimate delight and Chick-Filet claims that their food is healthier than burgers and all the other companies in the world go about...
Why do people fear Free software 13229
Kier Most of them have no clue what they are talking about. Much like Harold Hill in the Music Man, who preached the evils of Pool in order...
Why do people fear Free software 13230
On 25 Oct 2005 04:18:47 -0700, Kier I know that several companies i've worked with are afraid of GPL'd Software (not free software) because they're afraid...
Why do people fear Free software 13231
Erik Funkenbusch Then theys should be more careful. And frankly, the word 'tainting' is unneccesarily pejorative. Exactly. Don't. A weak...
Why do people fear Free software 13232
On 25 Oct 2005 15:52:34 -0700, Kier It's the industry standard term. The Linux kernel maintainerrs use it describe modules that are not GPL...
Why do people fear Free software 13233
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:16:50 -0500, If you are afraid that your subcontractors are slipping in GPL code...
Why do people fear Free software 13234
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:49:27 -0700, Jim Richardson Such code is not usually easily acquireable. The key problem is one of understanding...
Why do people fear Free software 13235
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:54:40 -0500, That's a tad disingenuos. Sure, a "lot" of people who don't code might think...
Why do people fear Free software 13236
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:04:04 -0700, Jim Richardson I think you are grossly misunderestimating this. Most people simply don't read licenses, and that includes programmers. Not everyone is as embedded in GPL...
Why do people fear Free software 13237
Wow. You have a strange apprehension of logic. Given only the sentence: "You may use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this license." the commercial software producer...
Why do people fear Free software 13238
Even though I think Jesse F. Hughes had a good -- and fun -- point, I'm more than willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on this. So buttuming you're right, and there is...
Why do people fear Free software 13239
You've been talking (so far in this thread) about how someone who misread-misunderstood the GPL could end up with problems because of that misreading-misunderstanding. My point is...
Why do people fear Free software 13240
on Oct 26 2005 22:02 Erik Funkenbusch Fud injection: The political GPL :) Fud injection: The political semantical GPL :) Line #12: "the GNU General Public License is intended to...
Why do people fear Free software 13241
On 27 Oct 2005 05:48:44 -0700, Daeron Precisely my point. This doesn't explicitly say anything about having to redistribute your own code. If...
Why do people fear Free software 13242
Erik Funkenbusch Bull. poo. "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these...
Why do people fear Free software 13243
On 25 Oct 2005 13:07:49 -0400, Ray Ingles Can I provide examples of unknown GPL'd code in applications? How...
Why do people fear Free software 13244
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 18:48, Peter Köhlmann stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I hate to confirm what...
Why do people fear Free software 13245
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:59, winnotlin stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: It isn't a bad thing. It's a good thing. But good things are often depicted as bad...
Why do people fear Free software 13246
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:49, Thomas Wootten stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Grr.. Okay, one more reply to this clueless racist... Of the people who never had...
Why do people fear Free software 13247
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:52, John A. Bailo stood up and spoke the following words to the...
Why do people fear Free software 13248
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on 25 Oct 2005 15:13:21 -0700 Freedom in this context is a very strange concept. Admittedly, I prefer it to the alternative, but there are some very strange issues here...
Why do people fear Free software 13249
DFS Why is it 'more likely'? I suppose you think everyone has your lack of principles. You can't prove Stallman uses commercial code. Anyone else you...
Why do people fear Free software 13250
Kier Because you can't get away from it. Unless he's running LinuxBIOS, his computer BIOS is commercial code. If he has a video card...
Why do people fear Free software 13251
DFS BIOS, maybe. But there's no way of avoiding that - and he would if there was. As for the rest - how do you know what video card he has, and what driver it uses...
Why do people fear Free software 13252
Kier Are you blind? I just said LinuxBIOS. Look it up. Then there's the firmware in...
Why do people fear Free software 13253
DFS So how do you know he doesn't use it? Tell me how he's to avoid any of that, when no alternative actually...
Why do people fear Free software 13254
That does seem to be the case, doesn't it? And probably that won't change completely. Hopefully, though, Free...
Why do people fear Free software 13255
tab Really? This is rather rich, coming from someone who can barely manage to post in coherent sentences. I doubt you're...
Why do people fear Free software 13256
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:45:28 -0700, tab Opinions are like buttholes - so you must be an expert. BWAAHAAHAA!! Trolling Usenet is business? Let me talk to your supervisor...
NYC LOCAL: CHANGE OF DATE NOTICE, NOW: Thursday 27 October 2005 NYU Free Culture Club
The NYU Free Culture Club will protest DRM on Thursday 27 October 2005 at the Virgin Record Store on 14th Street and Broadway in...
Trolls on Linux groups a few archetypes
Trolls are increasingly beginning to infest Usenet in general and Linux newsgroups in particular. 1. Type...
Trolls on Linux groups a few archetypes
Madhusudan Singh I guess I'm not in this category. When I need to convince somebody (for whatever reason) that Linux is crap, I tell them to...
Too much advocacy
I was just wondering if you guys ever though their could be "too much" advocacy sometimes. What I mean is sometimes you get people that are very computer illiterrat trying to...
Too much advocacy
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 19:05, zekolas stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: True, but sadly enough, that won't stop them. I generally try...
Iowa clbutt action steams ahead
This could be an interesting case. Keep in mind that Judge Kolar-Kotelley specifically structured her judgement so that cases like this...
Micros~1 is learning from Linux
wrote on 26 Oct 2005 07:39:29 -0700 That works if one doesn't play "swap-n-mutate". Presumably...
Free software nothing to do with Open Source says Ballmer
Daeron Microsoft can't even comply with court ordered disclosures of a few PROTOCOL Specifications. They really expect the development community to TRUST...
My next step as a newbie LFSGentoo
You guys by now know that I installed linux on a machine that's not connected to the net. Well, I installed...
U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13266
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:55:34 +0100, Mark Kent It is a shame the U.N hasn't stopped the genocide in...
U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13267
begin oeprotect.scr I see no reason to trust the US. Can you supply any reason why the net should be in the control of a foreign power? Yes...
U.S. says, "We own the Internet
10-31-2005 How about being thrown out of the USAF for wearing religiously required head gear? How about being required to...
U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13268 plus 1
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:38:32 +0100, Mark Kent I don't either. That's why I think it should remain with the US. name one. Flawed premise...
Gnome goodness 13271
tab Talking to yourself again? Tell me why I should give a f*** about Fat drives when I have a totally Linux laptop (in fact, I have...
Gnome goodness 13272
Kier Hmmmm interesting... The desktop argument always falls into two camps. Simple and uncluttered v. complex and fully featured. Me I'm the fully featured camp that thinks every glowing phosphor dot should...
Managing Linux Systems from Inside Windows Networks
I was thinking Cygwin-X Let's face it, if you have any decent number of Linux servers, you probably don't want to go "console switching...
Does multiplatormness matter anymore 13274
Yes, Apple is going Itanium. Sun is going Opteron. Both of these are the 64 bit chips. HP is also going with 64 bit AMD-Intel...
Does multiplatormness matter anymore 13275
And they stopped trying to be portable at all. To address multiplatform support, they had to spin off...
Does multiplatormness matter anymore 13276
GreyCloud (Mac users... insert comment here!) Always great when what works in theory also works in practice. An old...
Does multiplatormness matter anymore 13277
GreyCloud Actually, at that time, MS did not have a monopoly - and MS had no 'monopoly powers'. MS came out...
Does multiplatormness matter anymore 13278
Grug And that's where most of the IT world got swindled into believing win3.1 was great. Why? Because no one had any idea of how poorly it was...
The Experience 13279
John A. Bailo It's not about the apps.? Wow you Linux nuts are sooooooo out of touch with...
The Experience 13280
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, GreyCloud wrote on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:40:51 -0600 We know about John Bailo, already. :-P He does have a point, though. Of...
NEW to LINUX
Hello, This is my first post to this group. I must confess that I have been reading it for a good while now. Mostly for the comic relief...
NEW to LINUX 13282
OLDDINO Do you also get paid well? IBM sure didn't feel that way 15 years ago...
NEW to LINUX 13283
OLDDINO It's not nonsense. Of course I can't stop cola bozos from posting lies about MS and Windows, but I can counter some of them. About 75% of...
NEW to LINUX 13284
OLDDINO OK. And? I do contract work for a large company (2004 revenue of $2.2 billion pounds), and they don't use Linux (at their Americas headquarters anyway). I already...
NEW to LINUX 13285
amosf Hell no. I *used* to work for these 7 companies: 00010100 00101110 00100010 00100110 01100011 00000011 00101101 00100011 00101100 00111101 00101101 00110101 00101100...
NEW to LINUX 13286
amosf What a silly copout. Of course I don't have 4 million of anything in buttets. But I have plenty enough money to make...
NEW to LINUX 13287
DFS wrote something like: Ah, okay, so even if I was going to bet on something with you (and I wouldn't on the current issue because you may well be a contract cleaner for...
NEW to LINUX 13288
DFS wrote something like: You are amazingly chicken. You must live in a vault. How cowardly do you have to be to not disclose your name or what...
NEW to LINUX 13289
amosf What possible reason could you have for wanting my name, my email address and my employer? You want...