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Slashback: Switchover, EULA, Perspectives
It's the little things. Time for another cumulative patch for IE, it seems. (Mozilla may have its share of security problems, but at least there's a new build broken in unique and exciting ways more frequently :)). Logica writes with a snippet from this ZDNet article, which reads: "Microsoft released a collection of software fixes Monday to plug six security problems in its Internet Explorer browser, including one that could be exploited to take over a victim's computer."
"Users are urged to download the latest patch."
What happened to the tar-and-feather clause? djmurdoch writes "Back in January, Borland promised to come up with new EULAs without some objectionable terms. They've just posted the new EULAs. Gone are the anti-competitive product clause, the right to audit, and the requirement to give up a jury trial. They still have required registration, and you can't use a 2nd hand copy. They've added a requirement that it be licensed to one named user; you need extra licenses to share a copy. Not perfect, but a big improvement."
Keep in the loop as consolidation continues. craig writes: "AT&T Broadband has now posted instructions for their cable modem users to change their e-mail addresses from @mediaone.net to @attbi.com. The instructions have been posted here. The instructions seem to work, and my upgrade has been smooth.
The instructions have been posted on the web, but it looks like they have not been e-mailed to current AT&T Broadband subscribers. It is probably a good idea to follow these instructions before they are mailed to the masses, because chances are, this is migration is going to keep AT&T Broadband customer support very busy. The old @mediaone.net addresses will stop working on March 15, as was mentioned in this previous posting on Slashdot."
And although it's been said many times, many ways ... LiquidPC writes: "Apple's Ernest Prabhakar is reporting that BSD is now 3 times as popular on the desktop as Linux, largely thanks to MacOSX, of course. He also commented that Microsoft now has Office running on a Berkeley UNIX."
Quit letting me have FP! Cock gobblers!
cold pistciles for all!!!!
Another Valentines Day favorite!
Guns n Roses - Since I Don't Have You (cover of oldies song)
I don't have plans and schemes
And I don't have hopes and dreams
I, I, I don't have anything
Since I don't have you
And I don't have fond desires
And I don't have happy hours
I don't have anything
Since I don't have you
Happiness and I guess
I never will again
When you walked out on me
In walked ol' misery
And she's been here since then
(spoken) Yeah, we're fucked!
I don't have love to share
And I don't have one who cares
I don't have anything
Since I don't have you
You, you, you, oh, oh!
You, you, you, oh, oh!
You, you, you, oh, oh!
You, you, you, oh, oh!
You, you, you, oh yeah!
Looks like Linux will be on the way out soon, along with all its fanatical users, I say good riddance.
Patrick> Hello,
;o)
;o)
Patrick> I was wondering if you could direct me to a copy of the JPEG that was
Patrick> once at sarcasta.net of you displaying your bountiful bosom. I need
Patrick> it for a novella I am writing for Slashdot. Thanks in advance.
Patrick> Ciao!
Patrick> Patrick Bateman, Esq.
Kathleen> MY REPLY: You have *got* to be kidding!
Patrick> Hello Kathleen,
Patrick> I must admit that I thought the chance you would honor my request was
Patrick> slim, but I'd like to assure you that the image will undergo only
Patrick> minimal modification, and that all nudity will be tasteful and
Patrick> integral to the plot.
Patrick> Sincerely Yours, Patrick
Kathleen> Um.... maybe you should explain why my "nudity" will be integral to
Kathleen> the plot of this er, "novel" you claim to be writing.
Patrick> Hello again,
Patrick> Just to clarify, I never said "your" nudity will be integral to the
Patrick> plot, I said "all" nudity, which does not necessarily include you.
Patrick> The only well-formed chapter I have that features nudity is a visit
Patrick> by Open Source advocate and communist agitprop activist Richard
Patrick> Stallmann to a clothing-optional abattoir in rural England (where he
Patrick> contracts a nasty case of Foot-and-Mouth disease). I reserve the
Patrick> right to incorporate nudity in other chapters, but I haven't yet.
Patrick> Anywho, without giving away too much of the plot, the novella will
Patrick> contain characters from the Slashdot universe. This includes real
Patrick> people like CmdrTaco, Hemos, JonKatz, spiralx, Sarcasta, etc., as
Patrick> well as their meatspace avatars: "Rob Malda", "Jeff Bates", "Jeffrey
Patrick> Dahmer", "Tony Blair", "Kathleen Fent", etc. Props like the Slashdot
Patrick> Cruiser, Geek Compound, hot grits, and VA Linux stock certificates
Patrick> will also figure prominently.
Patrick> Sincerely Yours, Patrick
Kathleen> Hmmmmm... so why do you need a *picture* if this is a novel?
Kathleen> I am intrigued.
Patrick> For the cover, of course.
Patrick> - Patrick
Kathleen> You're a smooth talker. Bet you're a big hit with the ladies! But
Kathleen> how do I know it's not going to end up with buck teeth and horns
Kathleen> drawn in... or worse yet...
Kathleen> NIPPLES!
Kathleen> *gasp*
Patrick> Well, I'm not sure what to say to convince you that I won't do such a
Patrick> thing (teeth-horns-nipples), but my plan was to add a costume to the
Patrick> picture for the character of Sarcasta.
Patrick> Otherwise the cover will have to be of Stallman and a goat, and there
Patrick> *will* be nipples, teeth, and horns in that one. The purpose of this
Patrick> exercise is satire, not malice, so... no sarcastic nipples.
Patrick> Sincerely, Patrick
Kathleen> OK... I'm sold.
Kathleen> This is too funny. Can't pass it up. Here ya go.
Kathleen> http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagesm.jpg
Kathleen> (I sent him a high-res version)
Patrick> Hello Kathleen,
Patrick> Thanks for the picture! I think you'll be surprised with the results.
Patrick> Ciao! Patrick
Kathleen> Oh, Dear!
Kathleen> What have I gotten myself into?
Air - Casanova 70
<instrumental>
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I did. In the ass.
I used to like Borland.
Looks like users know a good OS when they see one. They don't have to be brow-beathen into using a specific OS just so that thier dork friends won't rag on them. I looks like BSD will be the OS of the future. So long Linux is was nice knowing yah.
Kimberly Herricks, 36, a manager for Donato's Pizza, Lakewood, Ohio, was indicted in December for stealing $38,000 from the company, an amount that included the value of 400 decaying pizzas found in her garage. According to police, she had invented big call-in orders at her store for schools, hospitals, etc., just to get her store's sales figures up and her name in the company newsletter. She would then adjust the books to cover the costs and deliver the pizzas, herself, to her own garage. She was busted when she asked her boss (the owner) to help her move to a new house, and he discovered the rotting pizzas.
Then they have the code, and it'll be an eazy port job. :)
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Does anyone else find it interesting that CmdrTaco proposes to his girlfriend on Slashdot after a recent flury of homosexual accusations?
Not like we care about it or anything - it only has over 1500 comments :)
This patch was mentioned in the recent MSN Messenger "virus" story. Just to recap, the "virus" was no virus at all, but just an exploitation of the old (as in, known since December) document.open bug in MSIE. This was fixed with Monday's patch. Everybody using IE should have installed this already, but those who haven't should do so now.
Actually I do remeber that, something about Kathleen.. Yah thats right, she gives a great hand job!
I think the only valid condition is to remove clauses, or grant further rights, or not to persue breaches of existing conditions.
But then, I am not a lawyer.
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
They'll be divorced in under 5 years, 60% of all first marriges end that way... its just a matter of time...
In next week's news:
Time for another cumulative patch for IE, this time covering 6 security holes found during the last week, including this one. Using that is like having "Come and get me, 'leet script kiddies" stamped on your forehead.
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If *BSD were to take over the desktop that would be wonderful. However, Apple employees telling a conference that thier OSX is number one so *BSD is number one is misleading. True that you can get Darwin under the APSL, but the version that is so popular on the desktop is only available for cold hard cash.
Apple uses good code in MacOS X but it seems telling people *BSD is #1 is an attempt to keep the developer community busy working on Darwin so Apple remains the true victor.
So whats the progress of the Sorenson codec on non-OSX UNIX? How about Aqua themes? How is Apple helping me again?
MS Office X runs with Apple's Carbon compatibility layer (even though it's no longer able to run on MacOS 8 or 9.) This isn't the same as running on Apple's Cocoa Nextstep-based libraries and not at all like running on raw Unix.
So yeah, it's running on Unix, however pretty much entirely within a proprietary Apple compatibility library that is MacOS X specific and itself unlikely and probably unable to be ported to other Unix flavors.
Great for MacOS X folks, not very relevant to the rest of the Unix world.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Yes, I remember those days. Now they make you buy new versions of JBuilder just to get the bugs patched. (Fortunately, there are some good alternatives.)
Remeber when Taco said: "Respect my Anus" and then Katz didn't and we all laughed. Ahhhh.. those were the good old days...
Their info is at http://www.cox.com/info/ My conversion went off without a hitch, and the pretty little box they sent the stuff in has become a favorite toy of my neice. (it looks like a little house. Meanwhile, my @home still works
Many web-caches, firewalls, embedded systems for machine tools, routers... are BSD based, instead of linux based for instance, since the BSD-license is much more corporate-friendly.
But the end result is that no one really notices how widely deployed BSD really is, since it remains hidden by the same persons that sell BSD products, therefore weakning the creative environment witch originated the system.
That's how you really see the advantages of a license like the GPL, forcing others to contribute to the environment in a positive way, instead of being merely predators, and generally getting more steam into the project, instead of simply grabbing others efforts.
Well, just my 2 (euro)cents :-)
You cannot proceed from the informal to formal by formal means
Until one month ago when my powerbook G4 arrived. Now I have XFree86, Gimp, Gnumeric, Octave, Gcc, Xemacs... all my favorites running in BSD. I'll probably install Linux just for the heck of it, but IMHO there's not too much reason to do it. Darwin/XFree86 is absolutely perfect when it comes to development of your own projects. This is because you don't have to worry about some company that owns the libraries and interfaces from changing things and screwing up your code or ruining your knowledge. Since the Darwin/Xfree combo is completely opensourced, I have faith in my fellow progammers that they will continue to support the combo despite Profits or Marketshare.
Anyways, True transparent terminals are pretty cool. So is IPhoto/ITunes. Each recognized my Digital Camera or MP3 player respectively and each has a great intuitive interface. Having a legal DVD player is also a plus.
I guess if there is a point to this post (not much of one), it's that using Darwin/Xfree is using GPL software. The Aqua interface and kewl G4 processor are bonuses. That's why OS X will continue to impress Linux users.
Apple has no control over Sorenson. QuickTime would be on Linux by now it Apple owned Sorenson.
Apple worked hard and spent a lot of their money in the development of that interface. If it was opensource and put together by people not paid by Apple then I would say yes, spread it around.
We must urge companies to open up, but we must not try to force them or criticize them if they don't move as fast or as far as we want. They should want to come to our side.
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Any mutually beneficial 'win-win' situation involves the exchange of value.
So how are you helping Apple again?
Apple helped me, for sure.
I have a kickass laptop, a BSD based OS, good networking functionality, wireless networking, movie, photo, and music applications, good access to BSD and GNU tools, a good developer environment, a pleasant user environment, AppleWorks, Quicktime, DivX, Aqua, Quartz, Sorenson, free email, free online disk space, free webpage, and hopefully RSN, MPEG4, SMB print capability, SMB network browsing, and kickass power management features.
GPL Deconstructed
Their support and service is bad. They had a DHCP server fail, it took them 5 days to get it up and runnning. Having to register the MAC address of the NICs is a pain and not needed.
Fight Spammers!
Actually the number of BSD based network appliances is decreasing and the number of Linux based appliances is increasing.
Basically the older the company, the more likely it is that they run BSD under the covers. Newer companies are choosing Linux.
I haven't asked why, but that's the trend I've seen.
I don't have a solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
What, no update on CmdrTaco's engagement?
Care about electronic freedom? Consider donating to the EFF!
Fans of the minimalist online comic Triangle and Robert will need to be aware of this, as it's hosted on a mediaone.net account. Patrick will inform his readers of the new URL when he knows it, but you'll need to pay attention to the index page before it happens or you'll wind up with an outdated bookmark and no clue as to where to look.
And the brethren went away edified.
I mean, do they really consider Mach and Lites to be BSD? Or is it just good to hear BSD in the press?
OCR it and stick it up on a cheapie mIRC FServe?
:)
--joshua
"I'm more Unix than you will ever be, and more desktop than you will ever get."
Kathleen would be lucky to have you!
Apple is alive through the good graces of MS. If MS wanted, they could have killed Apple years ago. With their investment ontop of the 'deal' they have over MSExplorer and MSOffice - Apple is alive today ONLY because MS and Apple worked out a non-competition arrangment. This provided MS with a the 'image' of having competition.
Fastforward to Corel. Corel decides GNU/Linux is the right place for them to go, they build Corel Linux OS, port Draw && Corel Office (via tonnes of work on Wine). Corel gets in a pinch... and BAM, MS makes a deal with them to work on
A) They can now also control/stear/prop-up Corel as proof of 'competition'
B) They de-ligitimize GNU/Linux by removing Corel's support.
Now, here's the kicker - how are these two things relevant/related??? Well, I personally feel Apple's adoption of BSD is a 'poison pill', encouraged and supported by MS, against GNU/Linux.
You see, with Apple boxes with a relatively Open UNIX (via FreeBSD) MS is effectively capable of stearing users - who WANT A FREE UN*X -- to Apple. MS even supports Explorer and Office on OSX.
Apple adopts FreeBSD because
A) they cant compete w/ GNU/Linux, *BSD or MSWin
B) It makes a strong alternative to GNU/Linux
C) it supports Apple/MS hegemony.
Flight of Fancy? Maybe - but I am really tired of MS swooping in and making sweet deals w/ their former competitiors in order to
A) prop up corpses for the US DoJ
B) further entrench MS Office and MS Win by screwing with the natural course of competition/innovation*.
*eww, i feel all dirty after having used that word now - i mean real innovation, not the chomsky-1984-doublespeak that has loaded the word with propaganda.
So much for RMS' complaints about what he calls "the advertising clause".
Apparently it doesn't work like he wanted us to believe it did.
You are wrong. You think of Communists and communist can vote who is in that goverment (cept the primer and his people) as long as there in the party.
Communism sucks IMBAMFNSHO,AFUYPOFS...AYMT
Soicalism + enough captalism + real democracy = good
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For funzees, watch someone trying to use Word when they actually care what the stuff looks like. Outlook's HTML editing gets pretty demented too.
It would not have happened, if it were not for Microsoft having to follow up and provide Office for the latest mainstream Apple OS. It proves a lot of things: that there is no inherent reason for Microsoft's applications not to run on Unix-based platforms, which has implications for those looking at anti-trust remedies, and such.
And note that even though Linux has wider acceptance than FreeBSD, and far more application support, device support, and so on, this did not happen for Linux first, and it might never happen. This is solely because of the commercializability allowed by the BSD license. GPL'd OS's are far less likely to be embraced by a major player like Apple.
There's a lot of interesting debate between GPL and BSD licensing. I'm a much bigger fan of BSD/X-Windows, etc., licensing, as commercial outcroppings of these are often more interesting, solid and, well, commercial-grade than purely non-commercial products.
And I think this is one of the great examples of where such truly free, and not the forced-freedom of the GPL, achieves a measurable positive result for the industry.
(I think a better overall solution for the industry would be for monopolistic entities to be required to fully open, publish, and standardize the data, interchange, and communication formats and protocols. We have limit choices on what roads to use, but because the specifications are standardized and open, we have a choice of cars to use. I think the government should force proven monopolistic entities to open *all* their interfaces.)
But, in the world of Enron and MS Campaign contributions, and a populace that in general doesn't care (current company, largely excluded
-me
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
"AT&T Broadband has now posted instructions for their cable modem users to change their e-mail addresses from @mediaone.net to @attbi.com. The instructions have been posted here. The instructions seem to work, and my upgrade has been smooth.
Huh huh, he said bi.
All you guys saying we have to call a certain operating system by the name "GNU/Linux" just because major portions of it come from GNU, are now saying MacOSX is not BSD.
Well screw that! MacOSX has more BSD code than Redhat has GNU code. Make up your minds how you're going to name on OS. You can't have it both ways.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
"If you can afford it, buy it. If you can't afford it, try it. If it's any good, recommend it to people who can buy it."
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Microsoft is in the business of making Mac software because it is profitable. Having Apple around to keep the DOJ away is nice, but Microsoft wouldn't stick around if they weren't making cash off of Mac users - but they are. A greater percentage of total Mac users buy (as in pay for) MS Office than do PC users (and Office is Microsoft's real cash cow), generating revenue disproportionate to platform market share.
If making MS Office for Mac ceases to be profitable, I do not doubt for an instant that Microsoft will cease to develop it. I don't really expect that to happen for a long time, though.
-Isaac
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For Entertainment Purposes Only.
Anyway, AT&T ended up selling 8.5 of these things and they're somewhat of a collector's item nowadays. Microsoft however, did release Microsoft Word for the UnixPC, yup, that's right, Microsoft Word for System V Unix.
Yeah, so that was 1985. It shouldn't be too hard to port it now. Word couldn't have changed *that* much, right? I mean it's not like Microsoft's products have gotten bloated...*tries to keep a straight face*
Sheepdot: Open Source good, Closed Source baaaaaaad!
How does that quote go again? "Never ascribe to malice that which is caused by greed and ignorance." -- Cal Keegan
.NET was the One Runtime To Bind Them All, and Corel was auditioning for the role of Isengard. It's hard to tell which caused what, as they all happened within weeks of each other.
.NET announcement could have come out a year earlier. Derek has roughly the same opinion about .NET as Miguel de Icaza, except where open-source/free-software licensing is concerned.
Corel has been "in a pinch" for years, certainly long before anyone in Corel considered the idea of using Linux (remember the Java fiasco?). The enormously huge fall in Corel stock value came months after the enormously huge inflation in Corel stock value--remember it went from $3.50 to $60 (CDN) in just one year for _no good reason at all_, so it's hardly surprising that it came crashing down again.
Aside from stock market capitalization, Corel had no significant revenue from anything Linux--certainly nothing close to the millions they were spending on it. If you spend money without earning revenue, and only earn enough income from selling worthless stock to pay for deficit financing...sooner or later, you'll run out of money. Hard. The insider-trading allegations against Mike currently in front of the OSC are probably just one of many securities-related irregularities waiting to become public knowledge.
Interestingly enough, Corel did produce some actually interesting and profitable products--and quietly sold off those products to other companies. It's like Mike enjoys the challenge of running unprofitable businesses with poor business plans or something...
When Corel was doing the GNU/Linux thing, only two groups of people in the company bought into the idea of "open source" or "free as in speech": one group of people were engineers hired after the decision to do the KDE/Linux (*) thing, and the other group of people I can count on one hand. Except for Mike, all of those people were engineers, QA people, new hires, or bottom-level managers--none people with any real corporate decision-making authority.
* Yes, KDE/Linux...after all, everyone knows KDE is better than GNOME, so why not purge out as many GNU packages as we can while we're at it? Even gcc was targeted at one point, but due to political reasons the alternative never materialized, so gcc was kept.
The general attitude in the company toward Linux was that Linux was either 1) a fad that would find its niche and go away, like Java; 2) a fad that would just go away; 3) possibly a small but important market, like the Mac--but nobody wants to touch it until it becomes a whole lot more like Windows. Understandably this view was held by many of the senior developers on Corel's Windows products, but a number of key Corel Linux people felt that way too.
With one notable exception, the Corel executives had no intention of producing products with any kind of open-source license--some just couldn't grasp the concept of "free as in speech", much less find motivation for actually doing it. They could understand "free as in beer" well enough to use it as a marketing technique, but could not fathom why other people would use "free as in beer" for non-marketing purposes.
Put another way: they seemed to think that open-source people craved attention. These guys really thought they were doing the KDE and Debian people a favor by distributing millions of copies of ancient versions of their free code linked to Corel's non-free code written by inexperienced, fresh-from-Windows, where's-my-Visual-Studio-For-Linux? developers, and they were genuinely surprised each and every time when their license terms ended up being flamebait on Slashdot or gnu-misc-discuss or debian-legal.
They were genuinely disappointed when millions of Linux users failed to immediately make the switch from Red Hat to Corel after the release. They were also disappointed when their lawyers told them that the GPL was "ambiguous"--they were hoping for something more concrete, like "inapplicable" or "unenforceable", not something that could put the company on the losing end of a precedent-setting lawsuit.
At the end, four things happened: the stock crashed, Mike left the company, all the Linux people with any marketable skills left the company, and Derek's first action as new CEO was to declare that Microsoft
Everyone had their personal agendas planned out months in advance anyway. If it wasn't for Mike, the Corel
On the contrary... 1) a visit to JB Patches, will show an entire list of patches, the more recent ones being 'comprehensive' (i.e. across the product, not just highly focused). 2) they offer free downloads of their Ent. Trial (30 day trial?) by which you can see what bugs there are, before laying down your cash. Also available is the free Personal edn, which has no time out. No, it doesn't have the full 'enterprise' feature set. No, its license does not allow it to be used for.... is it "commercial development"? But it also allows for 'try before you buy'. 3) sure their s/w has bugs. sure they charge for subsequent upgrades, where there are both bug fixes and new features. But this was largely true 'back in the good ole days', which you are longing for. It is also true of other 'for profit' companies. 4) Yes, I lament w/ you the loss of the earlier book-type license models. It is your second sentence that I think is not only unfair, but also untrue. However, I also agree w/ your 3rd sentence, so I guess we're in 66% agreement. :-) Competition is good. Let the market place decide. But let it decide based on a true understanding of the facts.
> MacOSX has more BSD code than Redhat has GNU code.
I would be very surpised if that was true. All the proprietary Apple API's and GUI applications tend to be much fatter than the lean and mean BSD code.
In contrast, Red Hat's GUI layer is Gnome, a GNU project.
In fact, I suspect MacOSX has more GNU code than BSD code, if you include the development tools, allthough both are dwarfed by the Apple proprietary code.
Heh - that was my first thought. Borland's licensing terms? Borland's???
My, how times have changed...
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Re: choosing Linux, it's probably for the same reason that most people choose Windows; it's the best-known name in its genre and what "everybody else" is using.
Another reason is that more people have been pre-exposed to Linux than to BSD, so the people implementing the appliance are going to use what they know.
It should be obvious why there is such a trend; if there is little visible difference in suitability for a particular purpose, the more popular alternative will gain popularity and vice versa. Not fair, but just how things work.
Now if I were to build a network appliance, I'd choose BSD because that's something I already know, can easily support and consider more suitable for the purpose.
Actually, you seem to be 100% in agreement with the original poster, and 100% in disagreement with the person who replied.
The original poster only lamented the loss of the book-license, and that he used to like Borland; he didn't say anything about charging for patches, that was the replier.
Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
the answer to your question though is that the groups you mention don't feel the need to form a racist counterculture in response to a racist culture. they prefer to just be economically succesful. as soon as they form a whiteboy hating counterculture, they WILL have tv shows which cater to it.
The state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ~F. Bastiat
Gee, I submitted that story back when they emailed all their subscribers in January. Nice to see it finally show up, if under someone else's name.
I'm glad it went smoothly for you.
"The old @mediaone.net addresses will stop working on March 15"
There are some support staff that only check their mailbox once a month that will be confused...
This guy seems to now do his outlining in vim and writing in Lyx. You might want to give it a look see:
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200201/2
Then the fanatical lusers will come over to *BSD. I say "stay the hell away from us!"
No, talking to Sorenson won't help. A few years back I asked about whether they'd be interested in making a BeOS version of their codec--since BeOS handles such things at the OS level, any media application would immediately have it available for their use. (This was back before Be's infamous focus shift and when they were getting a lot of positive attention in the A/V marketplace.) A Sorenson rep wrote back and said that they couldn't do that, because the codec is exclusively licensed to Apple for use in QuickTime--I was explicitly told the only way to get it on BeOS was to get Apple to port QuickTime to BeOS. Not the QuickTime file format, which a lot of other programs support, but actual QuickTime the program.
I like Apple (sometimes), but I don't really expect them to do much in the way of directly supporting Linux. The only commercial, closed-source app I could imagine them porting to a free Unix would be WebObjects, and I wouldn't be surprised if they ported it to FreeBSD before Linux.
Linux will get benefits from Apple, as you observed, if the Free Software Foundation deigns to accept the work Apple is doing on GCC. Having "one of the biggest GCC compiler design teams in the world and giving all that code back" doesn't mean the FSF is actually going to use it. I hope political considerations won't be an issue, but even without those they tend to be notoriously picky.
Speaking as an off-and-on homosexual, I think this is the funniest and saddest comment on /. After years of listening to rumors about Richard Gere, Axl Rose, Matthew Broderick, et al., the one thing I can say with near-absolute authority is that the best indicator of homosexuality is spreading rumors about other guys being gay.
I hear pbuxton is a stabber of shit.
Oh... bugger me.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
They all change their agreements whenever they want. Hence why I try to find other solutions before I even consider using software that runs on windows platforms. Microsoft changed their agreement as was seen on slashdot last week and I've already seen computers having the patches "downloaded" to it.
I'll stick with my linux software that I know works perfectly and still accomplishes the job.
The instructions have been posted on the web, but it looks like they have not been e-mailed to current AT&T Broadband subscribers.
Just yesterday (the 14th) I received a letter from AT&T discussing the whole changeover. What was changing, why, and what to expect. It was clear, concise, and accurate. Thankfully, they didn't email this to me as I don't use my AT&T email account. Then again, maybe they did.
The instructions on how to change your various settings for your email/web/whatever clients may or may not be accurate - I didn't read them.
So if IE is an integral part of the OS then why the f#$% aren't the patches for it included in Windows Update? For that matter, why the hell aren't all the Post SP# security hotfixes included in Windows Update? Let me get this straight, Mr. Gates, to keep my windows box secure and up-to-date I need to run Windows Update, check the TechNet Security site for any hotfixes, AND check the IE site for any new patches? On what seems to be a daily basis? What else am I missing? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!