everyone's a pundit » Technology http://www.clank.org/pundit No opinions, just strongly held personal convictions. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The FSF is still relevant http://www.clank.org/pundit/2010/01/27/the-fsf-is-still-relevant/ http://www.clank.org/pundit/2010/01/27/the-fsf-is-still-relevant/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:31:20 +0000 scottr http://www.clank.org/pundit/?p=208 No, really!

iPad is iBad for freedom

]]> http://www.clank.org/pundit/2010/01/27/the-fsf-is-still-relevant/feed/ 0 How the GPL self-limits to irrelevance http://www.clank.org/pundit/2009/09/15/how-the-gpl-self-limits-to-irrelevance/ http://www.clank.org/pundit/2009/09/15/how-the-gpl-self-limits-to-irrelevance/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:14:12 +0000 scottr http://www.clank.org/pundit/?p=197 Via TuxRadar, “OpenSolaris vs Linux“:

Linux has no ZFS support in the kernel because the Free Software Foundation doesn’t consider it free enough to be bundled with GPL software,[...]

ZFS is one of the more interesting developments in the *NIX world in this first decade of the 21st century. While efforts like the Linux ext4fs filesystem directly address very practical problems with its predecessors, ZFS instead tries to build an entirely new – and better – way of organizing storage. It’s hard to imagine any incentive for volunteers to invest the resources required to build something like ZFS from the ground up. Instead, continuing the previous thought,

… in Linux you have to mount the ZFS filesystem with Fuse as a filesystem in userland.

This sort of also-ran treatment of such a significant new technology seems to be representative of the status quo for Linux; that is, to see innovation and emulate, rather than to actually innovate. This will need to change at a fundamental level before Linux can be taken seriously.

]]> http://www.clank.org/pundit/2009/09/15/how-the-gpl-self-limits-to-irrelevance/feed/ 0 Linux as a viable alternative http://www.clank.org/pundit/2006/01/16/linux-as-a-viable-alternative/ http://www.clank.org/pundit/2006/01/16/linux-as-a-viable-alternative/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:30:54 +0000 scottr http://www.clank.org/pundit/?p=100 I’m not going to be popular for saying this, but… while Linux-based systems are arguably more stable than Windows, I’m still not impressed, given my experience as of late.

Me: Server is bouncier than ever.

Friend:Yeah. we should upgrade to Linux. :)

Me: Oh, that would help.

“Doctor, when I walk, my feet hurt.”
“Your feet?”
“Yes, my feet hurt, even if i’m taking it easy.”
“Why would you want to walk on your feet?! You should either walk on your hands, or if you must, only walk on your feet for 3 minutes every hour.”

That about sums up my feelings about Linux.

Friend: Well, it would at least give us justification to complain.

Amen to that, brother. A-men.

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