Respect Freedom, Not Pragmatism
Thu, 18/11/2010 - 6:07am — HomerHaving just discovered this "openrespect" thing, I have to say I find the whole idea rather sinister. It seems to me that Jono Bacon is endorsing a sort of moderation, or more bluntly, censorship of criticism, in order to silence those who oppose pragmatic concessions that undermine our ideals.
Here's the problem: he can't magically make me, or anyone, have respect for him or his ideals. In particular, I have no respect for pragmatism, or the "Open Source" ideology, especially as it edges ever-closer to "Open Core", and panders to the principles of proprietary licensing. I have no respect for it, I have no respect for those who support it, and I have no desire to ever change that view.
My Freedom is more important than diplomacy.
Jono Bacon prefers Windows
Mon, 15/11/2010 - 4:14pm — Homer
"the reason I don't use Linux today is simply because it doesn't serve my needs" ~ Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, and Linux Format columnist.
Give Linux a Windows-style "Registry"
Sat, 23/10/2010 - 5:02am — HomerThe Ultimate Abomination
First of all, let me make it clear that this is only meant to be a joke.
No really, it's a joke.
Please, for the love of God, do not pervert GNU/Linux into Windows, by giving it the worst configuration storage system of all time.
Having said that, it does actually work (FSVO: "work").
The following takes the contents of "/etc" and "$HOME/{userid}/{dotfiles}", and creates a Windows-style "Registry" from them, comprising two Sqlite3 databases: SYSTEM.DAT.db and USER.DAT.db respectively.