Writing an Operating System

How do I do it

>>80
Search your feelings, you know that I am right.

>>81
Anyone can spout lofty rhetorical nonsense.  Your ideas fail any test of reason.

>>83
Please test me. I write these things in order to be tested. It seems that nobody can answer my questions directly. It seems that there is a pattern of not directly addressing my specific assertion.

>>83
I don't think you have an assertion. Enjoy your empty rethorics.

How do I live in freedom when I require permission to help myself?
The answer depends on your definitions of ``freedom'' and ``helping onself''. If, to you, they mean being able to take other people's software and release it under the GPL, then there's really nothing we can say that is going to make any sense in your world.

GPL: Operation Enduring Freedom

I downloaded a torrent with Photoshop CS4 and there is absolutely nothing Adobe can realistically do about it.

Enjoy your GIMP

>>87
The fact that they haven't really sued people over piracy in the past doesn't mean they can't ruin you and your immediate family if they decide to. The RIAA took care of the ground work.

>>88
But it's never going to happen.  Piracy will last FOREVER AND EVER!

(Unless we end up living in a real police-state and there truly is no such thing as privacy for anyone at all.)

Not a single anonix reference in an OS thread except in >>20 and >>47

>>90
Back to REchan, Cudder.

>>89
Won't change anything.  Just means that the ones doing the pirating will be the authority figures in the police state.

>>91
Won't change anything.  Just means that the ones doing the Anonix OS will be the authority figures in the police state.

The answer depends on your definitions of ``freedom'' and ``helping onself''.
Freedom 0 - the right to run the program as you wish _{for any purpose}. Users of proprietary software often require permission to run software according to the purpose they use it for for example, personal home use vs. school use or commercial business use vs. government use. Without this implied permission, the user is subject to the master's goodwill and so, the user cannot live in freedom. To operate the program without the master's goodwill means that the citizen is no longer living freely but living underground.

Freedom 1 - the right to learn from, study and tinker with the program. Some reasons that require programmers to tinker with programming code include fixing software bugs; a change in user circumstances which result in a change software requirements; make some changes to the software to bring the usefulness closer to perfection.

Without programming source code, users cannot hope to get a program improved in any practical manner. Without programming source code, users depend upon the master's goodwill for help. Without programming source code, users cannot live in freedom.

I downloaded a torrent with Photoshop CS4 and there is absolutely nothing Adobe can realistically do about it.
That's right, Adobe cannot do anything realistic to prevent you personally from using your ^{unlicensed copy of Photoshop}. It doesn't change the fact that you must keep this action hidden as long as you lack Adobe's authority to use this software as you wish. You have to live underground as long as you lack this authority; you are not living in freedom.

>>94,95
Jesus. Where is the sagebomb guy when you need him?

>>95
I once read about a guy who physically walked into Adobe offices and stated that he uses pirated copies of their software. They all enjoyed a good laugh.

>>97
Link please. Besides that, Photoshop is just an example. Try the same stunt with any other software manufacturer that values their IP.

UBANTO

100GET

Bro, broget, bro.

Just steal the code from SCO. All the cool guys are doing it.

Just hax my anus. All the cool guys are doing it.