binzing said:
Completely disregarding what I said, eh?
Not at all. Notice that communication in this forum is asynchronus; I did not see your lengthy reply yesterday.
Yeah, cause I'm not so literal. (OCD/borderline autistic if you ask me...)
It is choice to blame a diagnosis and accept your shortcomings, or instead you could work and practice to improve your own ability to use language.
I'm sure there's plenty of open sourcers (the one's who actually do this stuff) who aren't as literal
Not everyone is as careful in their usage as I am, but I am far from being alone on this issue:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Since when does software, or the people that make it, give a damn about the "freedom" of the user?
This is one of the core reasons why people release software under free software licenses.
Here is a website from a free software programmer who is creating a CD Ripping / Encoder application. When you read that, do you see that he cares about the freedom of the users?
And this man is? Yourself?
I was thinking of Stallman, the man who "in 1983 launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Stallman thinks it is a good idea to use the term 'free software' only for software that respects the freedoms of the user, as I have recommended in this thread.
You recommend against preventing viruses, therefore you want people to get viruses? Cause, unlike human lives, neither virus programmers, nor AV companies care about how many computers get "killed"...
No, I said I recommend against virus scanners. To prevent viruses, I suggest getting educated about computers. Configuring a firewall and using smart practices is sufficient protection even for users of Windows XP. There really is no way to get a virus other then by making obvious mistakes.
What did you learn from the last virus you had?
As turbo said, there are PEOPLE who RELY on this for INCOME, it is they're LIVELIHOOD. Now, if you have the money to pay all of the programmers better than they're closed source, corporate employer, do it! By all means.
I don't, but other people do, which is why you are using firefox, openOffice, etc. Mozilla and IBM both PAY people who RELY on INCOME.
I don't even understand why you are arguing about whether people can make money from free software. The fact is that they do.
What part of my hardware am I missing out on using windows? What exactly is being restricted? Is there some feature I am not getting that I could with linux?
Why doesn't windows recovery have an option to save an image of my hard drive as .ISO and restore from it at a later time? A perfectly exact image, that I can burn on a series of DVDs, so that as soon as my main windows partition goes haywire I can put the disc in the machine, restart the computer, and come back to a fresh install with all my programs installed and settings configured exactly how I want them.
This would be convenient for the user, but the answer is that we can't have it because MS is worried that we would use it for piracy. Fortunately I can do this with Linux, and I can even use Linux to do this to someones Windows partition (but doing so breaks the licenses of most windows software).
Another feature linux has is called a package manager. This is a program that is built into the OS, that when you open it has a list of 20,000 freely downloadable software utilities. To install software, you just select the packages you want with a check mark and click 'install', then the downloading and installing happens automatically with absolutely no further bothering you. You don't have to click through a pointless 'installShield wizard', and you don't have to use the internet browser to go to a website and find the page to download the executable. All this is possible because the software is free.
Another problem with windows is that it is not unix. For its first 20 years, Unix was a supercomputer OS because personal computers could not handle the truly secure, multi-user, multi-tasking, behemoth back in the early eighties. I have a dual core laptop, and with linux I can run four HD 720p videos at once smoothly. You can encode video while you work and visit the web with no loss of performance. I can use the arrow keys to control a fullscreen video, and pause/fast foward etc with millisecond latency, making it easy to catch freeze frames. When I found my laptop could do this I played with it for a few minutes, since I had never felt so directly in control of any machine; a freaking stopwatch has higher latency.
