On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
times.
Well, that's good to know. :)
Just curious, did you get a chance
Of interest...
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net wrote:
I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3911/125/
Apparently, Canada is an enemy, too.
When they put Massachusetts on the list, I'm hiding.
-Original Message-
From: Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org
Of interest...
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net
wrote:
I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor.
Title: All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run
open-source software.
I need examples
Piffle.
From that article:
I know open source has a tendency to be linked to socialist
ideals, but I also think it's an example of the free market in
action.
The US Department of Defense appears to agree with the author, cf.:
We need to check to see if the People's Republik of Cambridge is on the
list.
On 02/24/2010 04:12 PM, Susan Cragin wrote:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3911/125/
Apparently, Canada is an enemy, too.
When they put Massachusetts on the list, I'm hiding.
-Original Message-
Yes, we know that it is crap and we know that FOSS is commercial
software, but the enemies of FOSS (and this includes free information)
have lots of money, hire lots of lobbyists, who takes lots of people to
dinner and whisper things in their ear.
It all sounds on the up-and-up. The Business
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
Yes, we know that it is crap and we know that FOSS is commercial
software, but the enemies of FOSS (and this includes free information)
have lots of money, hire lots of lobbyists, who takes lots of people to
dinner and whisper things in their ear.
Man.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
The US Department of Defense appears to agree with the author [accepting Open
Source]
Keep in mind that the US DoD is a huge organization -- one of the
biggest in human history. Some factions love FOSS and hate
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net wrote:
... the National Security Agency, uses Linux and only Linux ...
That's flat-out wrong. Heck, their *web site* runs IIS 6.0. With
respect, please check your facts before petitioning the NH government.
If you
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade lifetimes.
That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
assembly, just with different firmware, or maybe a different PCB.
Despire
P.S.:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Michael Bilow
mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote:
At this point, an unreadable block encountered on a block device is
handled at a very high level, usually the file system, well above
where things like AWRE on the hardware can occur.
Heck, it's not even
Man. If FOSS is so great, how come *we* don't have all of that money
to do all of those things?
Very simple. Proprietary software is written for investors by
non-users. FOSS, for the most part, is written by the customers for
the customers.
FOSS is written by the people that have the itch
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