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KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by 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.
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You do realise this system already exists?
Perhaps not word-to-word as you have described, but these open-source projects don't just fall together through some form a hacker black magic you know  ;)
The different project have different command organisation, for example Xfree has an elected board, the kernel team has several hot-shots under Linus, Kde and Gnome have their own things too.

SAJChurchey:
So,

What should we do in the light of all this?  We can't just stand to the side and let Linux be taken down by M$.  We'd be just as guilty as them for our inaction.

 
quote:
  When they came to take the jews, I said nothing.  When they came to take the catholics, I said nothing.  When they came to take the homosexuals, I said nothing.  When they came to take Linux, I said nothing.  When they came for me, nobody was there.

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Or something like that, the point is they're Nazis or some other form of fascist dictatorship waiting to happen in some form or another.

realist:
Open Source software is the future. There will be a lot of gnashing of teeth before then but who cares? Sit back and spectate. Oh and as we all know, Unix Labs tried this exact same lawsuit already against Berkely System Design and they lost. Microsoft's involvement will change nothing unless it is to pay off a corrupt judge and jury.

KernelPanic:
It was Martin Niemoller - he was a German pastor or something.
I love that quote, although SCo can only harm the Corpaorate view of Linux at the moment.
They can't even do that well as their case is going to get shot out of water and they are a laughing stock. A little like Claire Short...
In the words of Atticus Finch 'It's not time to worry yet'

SAJChurchey:
I hope you are right, the both of you.  I agree Open Source is the future, but until M$ is gone, there will always be a threat, and my Tux, aren't we the historian and book-full-of-quotes :)

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