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mistermumble··on Book Translates American Minutiae for Russians
I think this has changed over time, from the three-martini lunch of Mad Men in the 1950s, to (say) two-martinis in the 1970s to perhaps one-martini in the late 1990s. I remember a working for a software company years ago where the "old guy" on that particular group would have two beers when we went out to lunch mid-week. The young guys chose caffeine.
mistermumble··on Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"
The bottom line is that CentOS is now a second-class citizen with regard to support from KSplice, compared to Ubuntu and Fedora. See the KSplice download page at http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download in which CentOS is missing.

Regarding the source code, yes the original code was GPLed is still available. But are you saying that Oracle/KSplice will continue to make available ongoing versions of KSplice?

The link you provided is to a source tarball that was mostly last updated in August 2009, except for a small change in July 2011 (removal of zlib detection). Therefore, either the KSplice code is not being maintained at all, or there are ongoing updates to it that will no longer be released in source form.

mistermumble··on Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"
The "guy you're replying to" is Waseem Daher, who was COO and co-founder of KSplice, a startup acquired by Oracle. KSplice provides a mechanism for streaming updates to Linux Kernel and used to support CentOS, Ubuntu and Fedora. After Oracle acquired KSplice, they discontinued support for CentOS while continuing to support the other distros. Oracle also no longer makes available the formerly GPLed code of KSplice.

lxnews.org/2011/07/31/centos-might-re-implement-ksplice/

mistermumble··on As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
I agree that corruption and incompetence can be found in all nominal styles of government. The labels (socialist, capitalist) are distractions from the unpleasant reality.

That said, I wonder: Are farm subsidies in India that much different than farm subsidies in the US?

US farm subsidies seem to be, pardon the expression, sacred cows, supported (or at least not challenged) by both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

Even though they result in lakes of high-fructose corn syrup, youth obesity (especially among lower-income groups), and high health-related costs to society (especially the uninsured).

mistermumble··on Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents

mistermumble··on Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad
Wrong.

Hana came from a company founded in 2000 by Sang Cha, a Stanford University professor, that spent 5 years developing this and was acquired by SAP in November 2005. This acquisition then formed the basis of SAP R&D Korea.

mistermumble··on Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad
some companies are successful because of (rather than despite) "evil sales dept"
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