Re: Free UNIX for non-commerical use.

From: Dennis Clarke (dclarke_at_blastwave.org)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:33:55 -0400

>the means both technical and authoritative to modify the code to your heart's
>content, the rich, active development community, need I continue?
>I'm not sure what dungeon you live in, surely one that is certified for
>something, but it would behoove you to occasionally let the sun and fresh
>air in.

The same dungeon that you live in, "The Real World". That would be the world
where money grubbing corporations have killed any hope of the HAL9000 being a
reality in 2001 or 2010. One in which bad software is released as product and
then we are forced to pay for the patches, which make things worse. Also, the
same world in which similar large corporation run by grey hair management want
computers made by other big corporations that are considered stable because
the average dolt can NOT make changes as they see fit. Until that very same
grey haired management dies off you should not expect to see anything other
than big monolithic approaches to massive central compute farms run on closed
off operating systems. The alternative is small unstable computers run by
wide-open source operating systems that can't come close to the power and long
term stability of those monoliths.

Oh well, at least HP is shipping the DEC AlphaServer line again. Perhaps we
will have super-computer power at the desktop cheaply on that. Or not. It is
just nice to see the Digital label is still alive somewhere else other than my
DEC VT320 terminal.

Dennis

See www.blastwave.org for the home of open source development and software on
Solaris. Both Intel and Sparc fully supported.

ps: yes I know that I am ranting

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