I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
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Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
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If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
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We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
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The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
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I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
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I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
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I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
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Regrets
I left my youth and teeth;
I regretted.
I left my beloved and civil life;
I regretted.
Parents and youngsters left me;
I regretted.
I shall be lost after death;
I now regret.
After death, where is the thought,
To regret?
02.10.2004
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
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Binary Star Brown Dwarf
“wisdom dictates
classified files
ultra death seals
are not played
out in public arena”
trump disclosure
is brown dwarf
Marduk course
is magnetic pole
migration
poles shift
symptoms
associated
brown dwarf
sun binary star
nearing
center of
our solar
system...
for once
in 3600-year
orbit
around
our sun
binary stars
are often
detected optically
visual binaries
many visual binaries
have long orbital
periods
of several
centuries
or millennia
therefore
have orbits
which are
uncertain
poorly
understood
according to NASA
over 80%
of all solar systems
have multiple suns
multiple sun norms
multiple suns
are solid rule
not an exception
is it possible
we on earth live
in a binary
solar system
with two suns
long orbit lost?
If our known sun
is a binary star
why will NASA
not tell uninformed world
governments make no
disclosure confirmation?
poem by Terence George Craddock
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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
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