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Re: Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.

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Post by Locke1689 » Sat, Jul 31, 2010, 10:50 PM UTC

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> Linux in the kernel level has removed the need for file polling, replacing it with iwatch As long as we're comparing who did what first (as if that's relevant today ), ReadDirectoryChangesW came in Windows 2000. inotify came in 2005. > MS to this day hasn't standardized it's own security structure (EX: runas.exe in XP will have the processes pass on administrator rights to all child processes 7 doesn't neither does…

>As long as we're comparing who did what first (as if that's relevant today), ReadDirectoryChangesW came in Windows 2000. inotify came in 2005. Inotify was a replacement for dnotify. Which was there since 2.4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnotify Also comparing the two subsystems is entirely wrong. ReadDirectoryChangesW is still a polling mechanism, inotify and dnotify are kernel level events. >Amusingly, this just d…

This isn't about Microsoft Research, this is about Microsoft products. This is a completely irrelevant point. MSR is a fine institution which is a great place for academic papers, they don't generally develop products for Microsoft.

Don't talk shit about stuff you know nothing about.

Re: Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.

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Post by avar » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 7:57 AM UTC

JulianMorrison wrote: post #257

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This doesn't really address your main point, but GNOME is part of the GNU project. Which means that most of the both the GUI and command-line UI on e.g. Ubuntu is in fact GNU software. But obviously less so under KDE.

Gnu brands it, the Gnome developers build it, and seemingly Red Hat mostly pays for it. This is what I meant by "not really".

Well, can you name some examples of programs you think GNU really maintains? It has always been an umbrella project, they haven't employed any developers for over a decade now.

While Emacs, GCC and coreutils are more historically "GNU" than say GNOME the vast majority of GNU projects almost from the very beginning has been donated code or projects that otherwise fell under the GNU umbrella.

Re: Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 12:34 PM UTC

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Actually, you traded your freedom to tinker for your ability to play whatever they chose to offer you. I hope you like their offering.

you traded your freedom to tinker What kind of nonsense is this?

Can you alter the music in any way for your consumption? Can you even listen to it in places a Spotify client is not available?