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Re: [News] New CUPS from Apple, New DSL, New Sidux, Mint KDE, and Pioneer Explorer

____/ yttrx on Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:02 : \____

> Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:06:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> But the Firefox _code_, unlike the _name_, is F/OSS. So the Debian
>>>> developers rebranded it with different names, different pictures,
>>>> different icons, and that's about it. Iceweasel. Oh, and "Icedove"
>>>> instead of "Thunderbird", same reason.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the strength of the GPL, specifically linux.  To my knowledge,
>>> the same could be done with the linux kernel, if anyone bothered to.
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Actually this is the weakness.
>> 
>> More copy cat programs stealing the hard work from someone else. Another
>> set of documentation. Another suite of "like but not quit like" issues
>> where no one is quite sure who is responsible.
> 
> Spoken very much like a programmer.
> 
> Your "hard work", hadrin, is owned by the company you work for---so it is
> not YOUR hard work, but instead the hard work of your puppet masters.
> 
> You get nothing but a salary (that could be better) and some benefits
> (though somehow never *quite* enough), and absolutely no recognition at
> all.  No one CARES who wrote the original unsharp mask for Adobe.

*Bingo*

+2.

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