geekowl's comments

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients

A doctor should be allowed to go by what you tell them. Full stop. I may not want to tell someone about the fact I eat tons of red meat, for example. I may not want my test results to be shared with the insurance company, who will then charge me more. Too much shared information is dangerous.

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients

Should be illegal. Full stop. This "must know everything" nonsense is ridiculous.

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: The New York Times Redesign is Live

They removed the Technology link from the main page...

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

This is one of the reasons for being a fully independent distro with no ties to a "corporation". Debian comes to mind, as does Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, a couple of others. Being able to go about your business as a distro without corporate oversight is desirable these days.

CentOS now has a "master" where before, the GPL allowed them to simply take the source, remove trademarks, and re-compile as CentOS, getting the benefits of a corporately-funded distro without the legal constraints of evil IP and what not.

RH also may choose to play ball with certain organizations that I don't agree with. This may affect CentOS in some way. An indy distro can give them the finger and tell them to get bent. My goal is not money, it's freedom from oversight, freedom to do as I please, freedom to have an unencumbered distro not tainted by the likes of the false notion of IP, legal nonsense, you name it. Debian is growing for a reason. One of those reasons is because it's an indy distro.

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

The idea is to have a distro with no "corporate" oversight -- an independent distro. This is the reasons why I heavily lean Debian and OpenBSD, because they are independent.

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

The concern isn't to have anything new and creative. That's not always the goal of OSS. The goal is the have free and open equal alternatives to corporate-controlled software. Debian, for example, is likely the last of the truly unencumbered distros.

geekowl | 12 years ago | on: CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

I see this as RH not wanting competition and/or wanting to somehow control CentOS. It's no wonder, honestly, that Debian is gaining in popularity as they are the last of the main Linux distros who control their own destiny. I feel very awkward about this news.