Re: Paying For Linux !!?? (was Re: USB installation - MD5s for RHEL 5.3 Fail)

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Sidney Lambe wrote:
Johnny Rebel <rebel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sidney Lambe wrote:
Allen Kistler <ackistler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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BTW, Red Hat's subscription fees are not version-specific. If
you paid for RHEL5, you can switch to RHEL3.
The world is indeed coming to an end. People are paying for Linux.
Nothing wrong with that at all, it is all in the spirit of the GPL.
The best thing is, you don't have to pay for it, it is your choice.
Yes, there is something wrong with it. They are paying for avoiding learning Linux.

Do you service your own car? _Perform your own lobotomies_? Slaughter your
own cattle?

Hey! Maybe you have stumbled upon the explanation.


well at least YOU spotted it!

Point is, I have (bar the lobotomies) done all these things, yea even unto writing an operating system for a microcomputer, and an interepreter fr a language.

Come to think of that, I wrote the OS for a minicomputer (a DDP-224) that controlled a real-time TV camera as an input device and a real-time TV monitor as an output device. In the late 1960s. This required running two DMA devices (called Fully Buffered Channels by the manufacturer) in parallel with the computation. Keeping up with a TV camera that produced 2 bytes per microsecond by a computer that had a 1.9 microsecond cycle time and required 2 cycles for most instructions was no mean feat. The computer was only a part of the entire system that included a 1024 track magnetic drum, some magnetostrictive delay line memories, and such. We had to synchronize the drum to the TV camera that was, in turn synchronized to the power line frequency. That was a trick, too, because the drum had an induction motor, so we had to build a "61 cycle" power supply to drive it so the slip in the motor would come out with exactly 3600 rpm of the drum.

I am happy to pay others to do these things now.



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