C'mon! FLOSS is not an all coders brigade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It covers
anything in a computer, including the legal stuff! Coders, network engrs,
system designers, lawyers, advertisers, artists, social workers, teachers,
students, FLOSS users, People supporting children in Somalia via Vim
contribs, CPI(M) :)), Achu mama, ........ This basically means :
- if one is using GNU/Linux you are a FLOSS guy!
- If one is using Emacs, GCC, Openoffice,... on Windows you are a floss
guy!!!
- If you are using GIMP/Firefox/GCC on Mac you are a floss guys..
- If you help people use FLOSS you are a floss guy,
- If you have passed an ordinace to get GNU/Linux in schools, ......... All
fads, huh??
If I have paid for XYZ software, It hurts to see that I do not own
it,!!! You bought a M$ cow, but you can only take the milk and the dung!!!
And you cannot milk it unless M$ allows you to!!! I donno if they will have
a EULA for the crap:)) If one has a pirated copy of Window$
.......................................!!!! . We stand for
good citizens, not pirates, we stand for *freedom* to milk the cow; to patch
the cow if it's giving less milk and and dung; and create better cows out of
it too :D
I give up here!!!
Binulal
On 1/23/07, Amal Krishnan <alterk0de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have nothing against Apple.... Infact i agree with you about the
> quality of their products. I was just picking on Githin who thinks
> that everything that is not "free" is not worth using.
> Free software is great and it doesn't hurt to have software that's
> closed too. Most of the folks who talk about free software in cec are
> not coders themselves. They are into it like its some kind of a fad!
>
>
> Alter
>
> On 1/23/07, Binulal N Achary < binulal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > M$ =/= Apple. Macs are worth the money, as far as I could experience. I
> > swear to Lucifer I used Safari instead of IE :D ! I am a big fan of the
> > magical Gooey's they churn out. M$ stuff has always been crappy!!!
Apple
> > knows what they write the code for, not like M$ who would blame IBMs and
> > Intels for their closed design. I wonder how amazing the world would
have
> > been if these three players were open early enough towards FLOSS.
Seeing
> > the fall of Sun, I do not think it'll take liong before we see an Open
M$
> > app.
> > A lil' off topic, we have some history/sociology topics like Nehru
and
> > Lalu prasad Yadav....... who could be considered of the same genre as
Gate$
> > - I'm not sure abt Steve, though!!! I'm so impressed by Pixar that I
will
> > think twice if I hear anything negative abt Steve! And the sofistication
> > Macs bring to CG is amazing too. You may have a thousand things against
> > Macs, but many of the Hollywood production studios will stop working if
you
> > don't have those video processing tools and the processing calibre Macs
> > hold. Macs are BIG. And GNU/Linux holds a future (present too, i think!)
> > here, if you can feed it with cpu/gpu cycles. Going back to were we
> > started, I think I read a few months back that Linus uses a G5.. well
> > running Linux on it :p
> >
> > Binoooooooooooooooooooo
> >
> > On 1/23/07, Amal Krishnan <alterk0de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Now don't tell me that you guys haven' t eaten from KFC
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/22/07, Amal Krishnan <alterk0de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Microsoft == Apple ... its only "entropy" that makes them different.
> > > > Anyway, agreed with the more "OPEN" part. But, don't you think,Oh
> > > > mighty creator of eip Eipoop that Apple products are a bit
overpriced
> > > > when compared to MS ?
> > > >
> > > > --snipped--
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > The more "why"s I ask about my self, the more mysterious it becomes.
> >
> > Binoooooooo
>
>
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> AlterK0de
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The more "why"s I ask about my self, the more mysterious it becomes.
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