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Originally Posted by ofaring

To me, his biggest error in this is saying that he despises "black-and-white" people.

My biggest beef (note: **MY** biggest beef...I don't claim to say this is important to everyone...just me) with Linus' mentality on this topic is that I really don't give a rats about an OS that can glitz me to death on the desktop but stands to be rooted by the first script kiddie that wanders by. Sure, I'm exaggerating some, but let's be realistic here. When a non-security bug is triggered, an application crashes, or (worse) the OS crashes, or somesuch. When a security-related bug is triggered, another intelligent being has potentially gained access to my machine, and all of the data I've placed therein. I don't know if you've ever been the victim of identity theft, ofaring, but I can assure you it is not a fun game. I care very deeply about the security of my machines, and as such my machines run an OS where security is a byproduct of the OS's development cycle, not one where security is a bolt-on after thought.

Posted 11-04-2009 at 11:50 PM by rocket357 rocket357 is offline

The Mythical Desktop Percentage Point

Indeed. Proof that great minds think alike =D

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Now that I've gotten the BS out of the way, I'll just agree that it's quite ironic that we agree on 3 of 4 topics, given that we're both very opinionated.

Oh, and I never said that user-friendliness destroying the expectation of users accomplishing tasks on their own was a bad thing...I simply stated that it wasn't MY thing.

Posted 11-04-2009 at 11:29 PM by rocket357 rocket357 is offline

	The Mythical Desktop Percentage Point Oh yeah. I especially like the mention of bailouts. true true true. I've now read through all the posts of personal interest to me, and I've only disagreed once. Impressive, given that I am also a strongly-opinioned ranter. (Which of course means that we must be smarter than everyone else...ummm, yeah... :P)
	Posted 11-04-2009 at 09:50 PM by ofaring

	The loss of an office That's awesome. I like the ingenuity and the fact that your wife let you put a server cabinet in the living room. You sound like someone after my own heart.
	Posted 11-04-2009 at 09:42 PM by ofaring

	Thoughts on problem solving for new Linux users Very nicely put.
	Posted 11-04-2009 at 09:35 PM by ofaring

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I like the post overall. Good thoughts and perception. However, I don't agree with your final analysis. I suggest reading this article to see what I mean.

Especially notice the last few paragraphs. It's easy for us to get caught in counter-productive zealousness when dealing with open-source related issues, particularly when you and I are involved for idealistic reasons to begin with.

Linus made a mistake, but overall he isn't what is being depicted. To me, his biggest error in this is saying that he despises "black-and-white" people. That's a personality difference he failed to acknowledge or understand, even though they have as much right to breath as he. Not seeing the good those individual also bring about through their intensity is the greater mistake.

It's a good post. Keep 'em coming.

ofaring

Posted 11-04-2009 at 09:21 PM by ofaring ofaring is offline

24 divided by 4 is not an integer power of 2! (WTF Microsoft?)

Sure, we use PostgreSQL and MySQL all the time...but this particular product of ours relies on SQL Server. See, years ago someone made the decision to use SQL Server as a backend for one of our web-based products, and it's now on it's 4th major version revision. The code is a mixed mess of SQL and html/javascript/php. Converting it to PostgreSQL or MySQL would take about as much effort as rewriting the entire project from scratch, so when planning began for the 5.0 revision, a bunch of my FOSS-friendly co-workers and I made the effort to make a presentation to the execs about switching to FOSS.

The 5.0 revision (currently in Beta) is pure FOSS, and all of the database backends are Linux or BSD and PostgreSQL. I can't wait for everyone to upgrade so I can dump Microsoft.

Posted 10-28-2009 at 10:26 AM by rocket357 rocket357 is offline

	24 divided by 4 is not an integer power of 2! (WTF Microsoft?) why didnt you use a FOSS SQL server?
	Posted 10-28-2009 at 03:33 AM by smeezekitty

	Thoughts on problem solving for new Linux users Nicely put... ...thanks!
	Posted 02-03-2009 at 04:07 PM by SrDorothy

Nicely put...