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Just have to Vent
suselinux:
I read that not only was MS going to buy roghts to use UNIX, but they might buy out SCO
Then they would have Unix and Caldera
Creepy no?
SAJChurchey:
Unfortunately Solo,
I'm not sure how many computer engineers we actually have as members here. As a comp. sci. major going into my sophmore year, I do not personally have the capabilites to make drivers, as much as I would like to, but I plan on supporting open source however I can.
I've done some lobbying about TIA and open source to local governments, and I have e-mailed congressmen. Legal research is not my strong point either, but I'm sure if anyone here is capable and willing to use up good deals of their time in research. I certainly welcome it, and will help out if I can.
I think it is time for MES to take a more pro active stance then bitching about M$ in these forums. I think it's time to lobby and try to convert people to the superior platforms of Linux and Mac.
I am glad to see RH has taken a stance in the SCO matter, shortly after the proposal by M$ (and they say we are the only ones that see a conspiracy brewing ;). RH has not been officially sued yet,but they see the storm coming.
Let us rally the troops and create a plan of action. I say we start listing our skills, finding a way to consolidate them to this cause, and begin doing what we can.
solo:
I certainly dont have a computer science degree (I am still in high-school) but I believe if I took some time to learn how the drivers worked, how the interfaces worked etc I could write them. Not to say that the first ones I wrote would be good . I do understand what you are saying though, all with the not many people able to do drivers. But maybe more in general we could have a network of general coders. Let's say Microsoft/Apple comes up with some good feature or in M$'$ ca$e buy the $oftware that ha$ the cool feature. We could direct the community to help the important projects implement the features quickly (one of the big reasons features take awhile is because most of the developers that contribute are busy or not interested. If we had a large base of developers willing to code more generally on projects, we could get a killer feature implemented in KDE/GNOME or Redhat/SUSE/Mandrake/Slack etc very quickly and synchronously.
Ok let's pretend people are just getting the XP leak builds now (travel back in time people). There are reports of a cool multi-display system for multiple users. A proper group of people are recruited from the developer network to research and implement a similiar feature in XFree86. Each member in the group is assigned a position, such as Research leader, Engineering (implementation) leader, and coders. The positions would be based on the skill and amount of free time the developer has. The Engineering leader instructs the coders to wait for further instructions, and gives them the email address of the Research leader. Meanwhile the research leader is looking through the code and looking for the ways it could be done, designs an X extension, etc, and brings his/her ideas to the Engineering leader. The engineering leader creates a report on the way it will be implemented, and takes feedback from the coders. The coders begin implementing the changes (perhaps on a different CVS server for the dev network). Once the code is stable, the engineering leader performs the proper steps to submit the code to XFree86.
SAJChurchey:
You realize that when it comes to major projects such as KDE, GNOME, and Linux in general, there are hundreds, if not thousands of developers working on the many features. There is close to 3 million or so lines of code to GNOME alone. To add a feature takes familiarity w/ the code, and massive amounts of time to spend on getting it to work w/ everything else, and just working on the projects is not going to get rid of M$ and quicker.
People have to start widely using and standardizing on open source projects.
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by SAJChurchey:
Unfortunately Solo,
I'm not sure how many computer engineers we actually have as members here. As a comp. sci. major going into my sophmore year, I do not personally have the capabilites to make drivers, as much as I would like to, but I plan on supporting open source however I can.
I've done some lobbying about TIA and open source to local governments, and I have e-mailed congressmen. Legal research is not my strong point either, but I'm sure if anyone here is capable and willing to use up good deals of their time in research. I certainly welcome it, and will help out if I can.
I think it is time for MES to take a more pro active stance then bitching about M$ in these forums. I think it's time to lobby and try to convert people to the superior platforms of Linux and Mac.
I am glad to see RH has taken a stance in the SCO matter, shortly after the proposal by M$ (and they say we are the only ones that see a conspiracy brewing ;). RH has not been officially sued yet,but they see the storm coming.
Let us rally the troops and create a plan of action. I say we start listing our skills, finding a way to consolidate them to this cause, and begin doing what we can.
--- End quote ---
That is the aim of OpenOpen, where have you been ;)
Read through this thread.
Links to their page are toward the end.
Happy reading :D
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