Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

I thought you needed three initials to be a presidential assassin?

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

i wonder how long it will take until this thread is about most loved TV series of the 1960s...

i have to admit it's the most gruesome yet mesmerizing thread on ITT so far.

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Since you mentioned it, why not skip the waiting and discuss these series?

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

you wouldn't need to go any further than Get Smart. ;)

there, that didn't take very long, did it?

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Well, obvious. It would have to be Rainbow i would say

Actually no, that was the 70s.

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

If I see one more post on-topic (that is, advocating caring about Linux "ready for the desktop", more or less), I'm liable to puke. So I am (incredibly successfully, I might add) trying to drift it as far away as possible...

Well, completing the list, there's Doctor Who. Now that we got that covered, what's next?

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

More on "free as in beer".

Someone made things a bit more confusing by saving a word. The original phrase must have been "free as in free beer".

Imagine this. Someone puts a sign on a bar, "free beer!" You know what it means, and you go to have a drink. Then you say to the bartender, "by the way, what's the recipe for this beer? I think I can make it better!"

The bartender says, "the recipe is none of your stinking business! It's a family secret! Drink some for free and stop asking questions!"

The beer is free, but not open source.

Now, say someone has a disk with some software on it. You say "nice program! Can I have a copy?" The answer is "no, but I'll give you the source code and you can compile your own copy. Or you can change it as you want!"

The software is "free" in the second sense, in that the "recipe" for making it is open and modifiable. The beer is "free" in the first sense. You can have some, but the recipe is none of your stinking business.

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Don't you mean open sauce?

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

or a presidential assassin's target?

That means Barack Obama should be safe, no self respecting American would dare use his middle initial.

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

I think we need something catchier and shorter if we want linux to succeed on the desktop..uh oh no there I said it.