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Not according to their own website they are not: http://www.fsf.org/

First bullet point.
LLVM is being used as a JIT in Open Shading Language, a DSL for advanced 3D renderers. The JIT + resulting code was so fast, the OSL team dropped their batch rendering API altogether. (The resulting shaders are 25% faster than the hand-coded C language shaders they replaced.)

Currently, the LLVM JIT-powered OSL is now responsible for 100% of the shading duties at Sony Pictures Imageworks. I'd say that's a resounding success for LLVM as a JIT.
You can say a lot of things about RMS, but coward is not one of them.

RMS has been saying very public things about Apple for almost 30 years. If he met Steve Jobs in person, he would not have hesitated to say much, much worse.
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I guarantee UAV's are not running XP or Windows 2000. The government has heard of things called RTOS.
His ideas have influenced a lot of people. Isn't that being a leader (of opinion?).

He may not be a very good spokesman, but he has been very influential (I agree his influence has diminished a lot in the last few years).
And yet it says it might be used to build such, and this thread contains disagreement amongst the developers of the original purposes and the meaning of "virtual machine".

I'm just a developer who has looked into LLVM in the recent past for possible use in cross-platform projects and come away more confused than enlightened, and this thread just magnified it. Interpreting that as "FUD" is wildly unhelpful.
It is one part of their business model but there is also a pretty extensive consumer direct beta program that I'm still part of.
I'm slightly disappointed that RMS said this, but I'm not altogether surprised. RMS is, as others on this and the other thread have mentioned, someone who is not big on comprise. He has done a lot for computing (GNU, Emacs, GPL) but Jobs also did a lot for computing and was certainly more well known then RMS; to RMS, that good Jobs did is negated by whatever 'bad' he did (proprietary software, etc.)

Whatever non-free/non-open source Jobs did is up for debate on whether that's 'bad' or not, but that would still not wipe out any good. Of course, RMS is perfectly entitled to his opinion, but as he is the spokesperson for the FSF he could be a bit more diplomatic without going as far as saying 'Apple software is fine with us.' Something like 'Although Apple restricted user rights with proprietary software and DRM in its products, Mr. Jobs was one of the first to popularize personal computing and certainly had an impact on the tech world. My condolences to his family.' or similar would have looked a helluva lot better than what he wrote. Appearances to some degree do matter for the FSF right now

Even if you disagree that Jobs had any profound or otherwise impact on technology, he did just die. Have a bit more respect for his friends and family.
http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership

Not debating what you are saying. Just putting this here.
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Most people who've made an impact on society at any scale are free to have their legacy examined and criticized when they die. This can hopefully be done without criticizing the person behind the legacy. For instance, Hitchens wrote a scathing piece on the legacy of Reagan right after he passed. But people who make impacts on our world are often so married to their legacies that it is difficult to criticize that legacy without criticizing the person. Steve Jobs is one of those whose legacy is indistinguishable from himself partly because he led an intensely private life. From reading Stallman's comments, I found nothing that specifically mentioned the man, only his methods. I think that's perfectly okay. I can only guess that most people who find fault in his words are probably just caught up in the emotions produced from seeing one of the largest figures in our time move on in front of our eyes. So I've got to call RRW out on this. They posted this as the usual linkbait we're all accustomed to. (i.e. Manufactured outrage for attention.)
The most popular option in the poll I ran a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041

PG replied here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822860

He feels that nothing needs to be done.
From what I understand they use or at least used to use Mysql internally. So they have experience scaling Mysql.
RMS has stated publicly that GNU Hurd has been significantly deprioritized for some time due to the introduction of Linux. Specifically noting that the deficiencies Linux suffers would not be resolved by the completion of GNU Hurd.

On the other hand, a friend of mine does use GNU Hurd on one of his machines. He's a little loopy though.
We have been passing a douchey-looking book called "How to Make it in Software" around work as a joke for the last few days. On page 79 there is a picture of RMS sitting in a chair, mouth agape, in bare feet, with both hands on his dick.
On this lowest end model, it's $30. On the Kindle Touch, it's $40. On the Kindle Keyboard 3G, it's $50. Kinda strange, since you would think the value of the ads would be constant.
This was actually the case in most of the world when the USA was still using a register. It's relatively recently that the USA has signed up to what the rest of the world has been doing for a while ... just for a change.

Of course there are some places that haven't signed the Berne Convention and don't have a copyright treaty through TRIPS or something similar.
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I don't doubt they've met each other on several occasions and that RMS has told Steve to his face that he disagreed with him. They moved in a lot of overlapping circles and RMS is many things, but certainly not a coward or a hypocrite. He has always put his money where his mouth is.
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Paul, in your Mixergy interview (http://mixergy.com/featured-interviews/) I heard you mentioned a document describing how to do well at the interview. Is this document public/online?

We're obviously not at this point yet but I'd still like to understand more about the process.
The Court said that the CEO's statement that patent infringement is "being taken too seriously sometimes" was "an affront to the U.S. patent system" (a direct quote). The rest of those details about the two damage awards aren't particularly relevant.

It's reminds me of that time when, in grade school, a seriously disturbed kid attacked me for no reason. We were both then punished for "fighting" in spite of the fact that I never hit back and just tried to block. What I mean by that story is that you appear to be telling us that they got off easy here when I don't see why they should be punished for a comment like that at all.

Sometimes, being "fair" isn't.
OpenBSD has attempted this throughout the years, but mostly to align with Theo's idea of secure C and architecture. Last I checked, though, this was not entirely successful; they're still using gcc.

Honestly, the first thing I do on a new BSD system is to install the GNU userspace. It's more code, but it does more, and that makes me more productive.

But there are plenty of projects attempting to rewrite the UNIX userspace, so join one of those and make it happen if you see "quite a lot of value in that personally". But by writing high-quality Free software, you'd still be advancing Stallman's agenda to let all computer users use the computer the way they want to.
I think you're missing an important distinction here: Stallman has not, in fact, died. The writer of the article is talking about a living person. That fundamentally changes what you're allowed, in polite society, to say about him.
>I guess the older the audience, the more pronounced the effect. //

Was this a tested hypothesis or is it literally a guess?
Why did the last few minutes of the video still have an audio soundtrack while playing with the plasma speaker? I want to hear the noises coming out of that, not the background audio.
Sure. deprioritized. Whatever. HURD blows.
Albeit this seems to allow the user to control several social networking tools at once, it doesn't seem to allow you to explore a comprehensive aggregate of all recent interactions of a specific user across all these tools.
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We send it to people we invite to interviews.
For what it's worth, I have the non-ads current generation Kindle and the screensavers are not famous authors anymore, but instead macro shots of writing instruments. Pencils, quills, typewriter heads, etc.
Is the quality good enough? It seems like 9 out of 10 people make their screensaver their SO or kids. If the average use case is going to have people going "ugh, this screen is terrible", it's probably not a good idea.
Daisey's website links to articles that provide a deeper look into the factories and their work conditions. He's a performer no doubt, and hopefully the short bio doesn't get in the way of his message or preclude anyone from seeing The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. It was a passionate, thought-provoking show, and I recommend checking it out if given the opportunity.
(Reply to bluekeybox). I appreciate the compliment and advice. I may tone my language down but I figured I should be honest! :)
That says that you can't work on a related product. It doesn't say that you can't work at a company which happens to have a related product.

Do you know if this is current? It's dated from 13 years ago.
I'm pretty sure we've always had free software, from the moment people started writing software.

Surely most of us started out downloading free software from BBSes? Remember fractint?

Sorry, but if Stallman hadn't done anything, we'd still have Linux, and all the other software we enjoy today.
I love this op-ed, I've harbored similar feelings since the rise of iTunes and haven't owned an apple product since its arrival. I have always readily admitted the superiority of Apple's design and user experience and I admire Jobs for everything he has accomplished but Apple has never, in my eyes, been a company truly deserving of celebration.
I dunno, Linus does pretty well, doesn't he?

For those of us who've been around a while, GNU wasn't very notable until the Linux kernel came around. I figure Linux has probably done more for GNU PR than rms or anyone else.
This seems largely misguided. Stuff like merging duplicate memory spots (such as that reserved for future use by applications) seems to question programmer judgment in the aim of saving available memory.

If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no?
Sure, you're absolutely right. Regardless, both versions exist, and I don't care for creepy pictures of Jules Verne so I'm going for the ads!
Nope. You can agree with people, or be convinced by them without following them.

RMS doesn't lead anybody. And with his rhetoric, doesn't seem to want to.
HN is extremely useful for early information and expert insight on technology. I find this site useful to understand mainstream perception of the impact of technology innovation and related issues.
I think rms was speaking strictly from a utilitarian perspective-- that is, Jobs' absence is overall a good thing for the FOSS movement (even though that might not actually be true, unless Cook is more committed to FOSS than Jobs). I can see how some find his statement tactless, but I'm not offended by it because Jobs was not an important person in my life. That doesn't mean that his life had no value, but his life wasn't more valuable to me than the life of any of the thousands of people who die every day from preventable causes. I honestly don't understand why so many people claim to be sad because Jobs is gone. Why did they feel so connected to a CEO?
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I'm curious how this even came up. Did the prospective employee make the mistake of actively asking the former employer for permission? Not many companies are monitoring their former interns closely enough to even notice where they end up later. Even if they did look, they wouldn't typically hear about it until past the interview stage, unless I'm missing some reason the interview invitation would be publicly accessible.

A non-lawyer guess at a reasonable course of action: Unless you're a high-level employee with particularly sensitive knowledge, it's probably not a good idea to try to pre-clear future employment with the former employer. That just gives them an excuse to over-interpret the scope and tell you "no". Instead it'd make more sense to evaluate compliance yourself, and if in your judgment the job doesn't violate your agreements, go ahead and take it. No reason to go out of your way to even tell the former employer about it; the odds are heavily against them noticing and caring enough to sue a low-level employee.
Even if the intern is justified in doing so, taking legal/regulatory action might not be the best way to start a career. A company this unreasonable may actually enjoy personal and professional destruction.
Keep in mind this isn't a review of the competition for the NST, which is the Kindle Touch. This is a review of the non-touch Kindle, which B&N has no competition for, espeically at a price that is $60 less.
"HURD blows."

Be careful, I think you just agreed with RMS there. ;)

On a more serious note, you seem to be doing some pretty heavy trolling today. Why don't you step back from the computer and go get some air? Life is good.
"The open source path" includes many steps before you actually see any source from people. Once they've released source, it's a little late to go back. But they might be turned away from going through the trouble and risk of releasing source in the first place if they perceive that Richard Stallman is the type of person they'd be appeasing.

But more to the point, Stallman does not just want open-source software. He wants free software, and just based on my informal observations, his ideas of free software seem to be losing traction these days. Yeah, there's a lot of open-source software, but BSD, Apache, MIT and other open-source-but-not-free licenses are taking the lion's share.

Even among projects that do use GPL, they mostly seem to prefer v2 rather than the more-free GPL3 and AGPL.
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>People are hitting back in this case because it is about Steve Jobs.

I'm hitting back because it's just another in a very long line of events that suggests Stallman is something other than a 'people person'. I've made the point before that I thought he was a poor choice to speak for the FSF, and was downvoted for it, iirc.

I don't think what he said about Jobs was that bad, but I think he showed incredibly poor judgement as a public figure in saying it. It's indicative of a lack of suitability for the role he's chosen.
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I don't pay attention to people like RMS who eat stuff off their feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Stallman's comments remind me a bit of Malcom X's comments regarding JFK's death. The lesson is the same, you're going to anger and alienate a lot of people unless you keep your tone respectful when criticizing a recently deceased beloved public figure.
I don't think Stallman did anything wrong. Jobs undeniably set back the Free Software community by making really good software that people were willing to trade their freedom for. For most people, it doesn't make a difference whether or not something is free, so these people happily accepted phones that couldn't run Unapproved software and OSes that contain code specifically to prevent you from tracing certain pieces of software that send information about your computer back to Apple.

This is counter to everything that Stallman has spent his life on, so he says, "I'm glad Jobs isn't around anymore, because he was really good at fucking my movement over".
The closest he had to a business mentor was probably Mike Markkula who was Apple's angel investor (he also was CEO for a few years).

Not strictly mentors, but two of his biggest influences were Paul Rand (who designed the logos for IBM and NeXT) for graphic design and Dieter Rams (who started the Functionalist School of industrial design) for product design.
I know the F22 runs windows on top of a RTOS. I imagine many other planes and such are similar.
Apple products are not forced on anyone. Anyone interested in free software can buy whatever they like and run whatever they want; those interested in the advantages (both actual and perceived) of Apple products can get Macs, iPads, and iPhones. This is called freedom of choice; for someone so dedicated to freedom of software, it's surprising that RMS doesn't respect it.
I believe "beard" is a metaphor for "particular trait (lack of tact) about a person (Stallman) that I find objectonable".

See "bikeshedding".
This was the dealbreaker for me. I hate plugging devices in and use Instapaper a lot, so I chose the Kindle even though the Simple Touch looked nicer.
> Even though his quip about Jobs's death was tacky

There's a big difference between being tacky out of ignorance and immaturity and deliberately hurtful in a public forum with a measured audience. Coupled with a sense of timing and purpose, any sane and intelligent person would be able to make that distinction.

And much like a car-bomber at a funeral, what sets Stallman aside from the rest of us is the opportunistic cowardice with which he operates. If he truly felt harmed by Steve Job's actions whilst living, why didn't he make a case for him to die sooner rather than waiting for his death to be fait accompli?
And this so far hasn't taken off.

The problem is not that we need a communication aggregating tool. The problem is that we have too many methods to communicate. The second problem will solve itself once a method solves all problems and starts to dominate.
Day by day, statement after statement, he sounds more and more like a religious fundamentalist nut. Sigh...
seriously, I don't get it. There are tons of off-the-shelf electronic kits that already do this (ARM, PIC, AVAR, etc)... And most of this is just simple logic. Follow a light beam, follow color, bla, bla, bla... Anything really useful, to me, appears one would need a bit more than a smart phone. Honda's robot comes to mind and that quadraped that supposedly is suppose to help military carry heavy things through tough terrain.
Bingo. Stallman, and many of his supporters, are just missing the nuance. You simply don't say, "I'm glad he's gone" a day and a half after someone dies. Even if you are, and even if you don't mean you're glad he's dead. It's one of those unspoken rules of human interaction that Stallman just doesn't seem to get.
You don't have to wonder what this guy said. Per the article, the CEO said that patent infringement is "being taken too seriously sometimes."
"He manages to offend common decency (...) and insult millions of Apple users simultaneously."

I highly doubt that common decency as an abstract concept feels much offended. And even if it did, I am sure it would be able to sleep at night. As to Apple users, if they feel offended by the insult, I would advise them to watch this little clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycXuYzmzNg
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To add a little nitpicking to your nitpicking, it should've been a right single quotation mark (’, U+2017). In fact it's not an accent (´, U+00B4), but a prime (′, U+2032).

Since none of these characters can be easily produced on a standard US keyboard, I suspect that the blame belongs not on the author but on his publishing system that thought he meant "4 feet" (or perhaps "4 arcminutes").
I might argue that Mac OS X has been a gateway "drug" to Free Software/Open Source for many who would otherwise be on Windows (which isn't a slight against Windows, but much of the most popular OSS software is at home on *NIX).
I have always been surprised as to why people think its offensive to talk ill of someone just because the person is dead. Death does not change character. If a person could be criticized for something when he was alive, he should not be immune to that after death.

I am definitely not saying that Steve Jobs was a jerk. I admire the man. But it seems insensible when the OP says it "offends common decency".

Also, IMHO, Stallman wasn't reckless about choosing his words. He says, he's not glad he's dead (referring to the fact that wishing death upon someone is not good), but he's glad he's gone (referring here to Jobs as a symbol of antithesis of the free software movement).

The OP offers an alternate version of what Stallman could have said. Its says:

"I didn't share Steve Jobs' vision of computing, and I wish he'd chosen to embrace free software. I'm very sorry that he's gone and we've lost the opportunity to have that conversation. My sympathies are with his family at this time."

When a person says something, it embodies his style and personality. Stallman shouldnt have to say something that is not his style. Also "I am very sorry he's gone and we've lost the opportunity to have that conversation" indicates that Stallman wanted to engage Jobs in conversation. Who knows? Maybe Stallman doesnt want to keep engaging in conversation. Maybe he views it as a tough battle and is sincerely relieved that people against the fsf philosophy dont exist anymore. If someone with similar beliefs dies tomorrow, he will count it as one more step towards progress.

There are very few people in the world who do not offer veiled opinions. Stallman seems to be one of them. Let us not tell him what he needs to say - but instead think about why he said it.
And Greenpeace pickets Japanese whalers.

Realistically, these sorts of organizations are not looking for outside support. They thrive on controversy and know their target audience well.

I don't financially support the FSF, I don't financially or intellectually support Greenpeace, and I think the politics of groups like The Yes Men are tedious. I also don't think any of them are going to change the world.

I do respect the hell out of all of them though.
Not to get too nitpicky here, but bookmarking twitter.com/longreads and reading excellent long-form articles on the go is an excellent Kindle use case. This was another selling point for me over the NST.
Non-competes don't prevent you from working at other companies. They only prevent you from actively pursuing work elsewhere. If you signed a non-compete for working on the iPhone you would be allowed to accept a job at HTC, but you couldn't go "I work at Apple and know all their secrets so hire me!" Additionally they can't prevent you from finding work. If you had a very specific expertise on phone antennas, and you had a non-compete for working on the iPhone, the contract would virtually have no relevance.
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>"No one is flaming about it vs. vmware or whatever, or telling you what to use."

Well saying virtualbox is garbage is pretty much flaming. It doesn't bother me but I imagine those working on virtualbox won't exactly be happy about it.
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you know what. i think that's a good idea.
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But the computers controlling the Drones seem to be running some sort of Windows variant. There's no real need to control the drones directly if you can control the computer that controls the drones.
"The start-up, which has no revenue to speak of yet and is still in invite-only mode, has become the latest hot start-up of late in Silicon Valley."

Jesus Christ. Are we serious? Are we REALLY serious?

I'm speechless.
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" RMS is a low life pig and a coward and I won't be surprised if people piss in his grave after he dies a lonely death"

So.. did you say this to his face ?