Departed, came back for some food, departed again
November 9, 2006 @ 02:37
I watched The Departed again today!
It was really enjoyable today again, even though I only last saw it on Saturday. Again, I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it go and watch it.
I’ve now moved both my laptop and desktop to the respective ~arch branches of Gentoo, and both are running fine. I remember a few years ago when I started using Gentoo, using the ~arch branch was suicide, perhaps just due to my inexperience, but now, maybe once a week something breaks, I need to check or file a bug report and roll-back to an existing version, but all that takes me now less than 5 minutes, and I feel I’m doing my bit to make Gentoo a more stable distribution overall.
There’s a lot of fuss been kicked up lately about the whole Novell-Microsoft deal. Basically, it seems they’ve got in bed together, with Microsoft calling a cease-fire on patents with Novell, but warns the other Linux distributions won’t be so lucky. This is a bit of a bummer for me, as Novell was a company I was quite keen on working for, but this is somewhat called into question with recent events. Also, it just seems like more FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) from Microsoft, as, if Linux really infringed so many of their patents, I would be interested to know why they have been yet to file any suits.
The whole SCO debacle has shown that Linux has powerful friends and users, such as IBM, whose patent portfolio threatens Microsoft with MAD if they decide to start suing. It’s also shown that claims of patent infringement seem to be false.
Irregardless, Linux isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Even if Microsoft and pals decide to sue the major distributions, it will stay underground and people will keep hacking on it regardless. It’s a good operating system, and no-one will convince me or many thousands or others otherwise.
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