Post by The_WHHAAAMMMM_Burgler on Oct 16, 2009 1:18:27 GMT -5
As for the future of open source, it is of my opinion that it will remain a scattered and hobbyist movement. Any form of mass coordination or organization will be shattered in a clash of egos and extremism. The end result being stagnation and ultimately obscurity, what a shame.
The RMS brand of extremism has done irreversible harm to applicable ideology. Its goals were warped to little more than enforcing RMS’s own view of the world and technological standards. The well has been poisoned as to say. Small groups of individuals may be unaffected but they pale in comparison to the zealotry seen today.
I actually use open source software:
WinMerge: text comparison software, shoddy integration with 7-Zip
7-Zip: I prefer WinRAR though
K-Lite Codec Pack: everyone needs those codec’s
Privoxy: The successor to Junkbuster
FireFox: A good browser, needs help with handling memory leaks though, hoary for noscript
Ubuntu Linux 9.04: When I feel like torturing myself with a crap brown color scheme
Mandriva Linux Free 2009 Spring: When I feel like torturing myself with a blue color scheme
Loonix zeliots on FSTDT board! Oh no, take your cultism and get out.
Bluefinger, have you ever tried wine?
In any case as for software, a lot of times i find the open source alternatives to usually be better and less buggy. I switched to Linux partailly becuase, I didn't want to upgrade to VIsta and found that it was more stable. Before that, I used Open source applications such as Firefox and open office. I guess to make the switch you should try to start using Open source alternatives and getting used to them
Gimp vs Photoshop, can you say curb stomp in favor of Photoshop
FireFox on Wine runs faster than the native build:
www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
Here is what others and I have experienced of FireFox on Ubuntu 9.04:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btje_M8kz40&fmt=18
Distind, free software doesn't mean free as as inb eer but freedom:) Stillman's phrase. You can still charge money for it. That's why it is possible that open source corporations exist such as Red Hat. I like LInux better because, its not controlled by one entity, so it can't force me to upgrade if I don't want to, Vista comes to mind. Ever heard of LInus's law?
THE IRONY IT BURNS!!
“I like LInux better because, its not controlled by one entity, so it can't force me to upgrade if I don't want to...”
Until your old version distro or TLS version is no longer supported. Then you are one kernel fork or update away from being forced to upgrade due to broken compatibility. Ubuntu (Canonical corporation) is notorious for this.
That's how Redhat made their money early on, and still do today; you can get their operating system for free, but if you want help maintaining it or guarantees on uptime, you pay for it, because those are things that require human beings, and humans aren't nearly as easy to copy as a piece of software (some would say that this adds to their charm).
Red Hat sells support, support is not a product. It is a service. Fedora is free, the enterprise version you must purchase.
The developers that contribute to a project for which they don't get payed, but which is open-source, benefit in the fact that they now have a fully functional system, which they understand, and of which they can make unlimited deployments, for free. They "payed" for it by contributing (even though they didn't have to), and this puts them in a better position than mere users of a project- they know it inside and out, and can offer service/support for that product.
Until someone up and forks all of their efforts. This undermines the value of their time and development, see CentOS
www.centos.org/
“CentOS is a distribution that deals in long-term stability and security. Branched off as a free version of the vastly popular RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS is everything the most important server distribution is, except the expensive, official support from the vendor. Speaking of support, CentOS 5.x versions, which are all based on RHEL5.x versions, are going to be supported until 2014, a total of seven years since the major release launch in 2007.”
It’s always copies of copies of copies.
My feelings about open source appear to be mutual, and I've yet to have someone figure out how I can crash Linux with my presence, or why I can get Firefox to lock up when I have no issues with IE.
How to crash Linux by The WHHAAAMMMM Burglar
Install Ubuntu 9.04 on a vm
Attempt to hibernate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQLEFNF1m0&fmt=18
The RMS brand of extremism has done irreversible harm to applicable ideology. Its goals were warped to little more than enforcing RMS’s own view of the world and technological standards. The well has been poisoned as to say. Small groups of individuals may be unaffected but they pale in comparison to the zealotry seen today.
I actually use open source software:
WinMerge: text comparison software, shoddy integration with 7-Zip
7-Zip: I prefer WinRAR though
K-Lite Codec Pack: everyone needs those codec’s
Privoxy: The successor to Junkbuster
FireFox: A good browser, needs help with handling memory leaks though, hoary for noscript
Ubuntu Linux 9.04: When I feel like torturing myself with a crap brown color scheme
Mandriva Linux Free 2009 Spring: When I feel like torturing myself with a blue color scheme
Loonix zeliots on FSTDT board! Oh no, take your cultism and get out.
In any case as for software, a lot of times i find the open source alternatives to usually be better and less buggy. I switched to Linux partailly becuase, I didn't want to upgrade to VIsta and found that it was more stable. Before that, I used Open source applications such as Firefox and open office. I guess to make the switch you should try to start using Open source alternatives and getting used to them
Gimp vs Photoshop, can you say curb stomp in favor of Photoshop
FireFox on Wine runs faster than the native build:
www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
Here is what others and I have experienced of FireFox on Ubuntu 9.04:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btje_M8kz40&fmt=18
THE IRONY IT BURNS!!
“I like LInux better because, its not controlled by one entity, so it can't force me to upgrade if I don't want to...”
Until your old version distro or TLS version is no longer supported. Then you are one kernel fork or update away from being forced to upgrade due to broken compatibility. Ubuntu (Canonical corporation) is notorious for this.
That's how Redhat made their money early on, and still do today; you can get their operating system for free, but if you want help maintaining it or guarantees on uptime, you pay for it, because those are things that require human beings, and humans aren't nearly as easy to copy as a piece of software (some would say that this adds to their charm).
Red Hat sells support, support is not a product. It is a service. Fedora is free, the enterprise version you must purchase.
The developers that contribute to a project for which they don't get payed, but which is open-source, benefit in the fact that they now have a fully functional system, which they understand, and of which they can make unlimited deployments, for free. They "payed" for it by contributing (even though they didn't have to), and this puts them in a better position than mere users of a project- they know it inside and out, and can offer service/support for that product.
Until someone up and forks all of their efforts. This undermines the value of their time and development, see CentOS
www.centos.org/
“CentOS is a distribution that deals in long-term stability and security. Branched off as a free version of the vastly popular RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS is everything the most important server distribution is, except the expensive, official support from the vendor. Speaking of support, CentOS 5.x versions, which are all based on RHEL5.x versions, are going to be supported until 2014, a total of seven years since the major release launch in 2007.”
It’s always copies of copies of copies.
My feelings about open source appear to be mutual, and I've yet to have someone figure out how I can crash Linux with my presence, or why I can get Firefox to lock up when I have no issues with IE.
How to crash Linux by The WHHAAAMMMM Burglar
Install Ubuntu 9.04 on a vm
Attempt to hibernate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQLEFNF1m0&fmt=18
