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Author of Linux Patent Study Contradicts Ballmer
An anonymous reader sends us this EWeek story, following-up on the recent Linux patent scare. The author of the patent study is contacted, and says, "Open source faces no more, if not less, legal risk than proprietary software. The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does."
Of course elrong was tempted by the ring - as was Galadriel... But more to the point, it is evil to take the lives of those whose only crime is to fall victim to the ring. This is why nobody ever killed Gollum. Elrond, like Gandalf, was wise and knew this.
That work for you?
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
Isn't that like saying that "It's OK to be a terrorist as long as you're not the ring-leader?".
Fuck that. Elrond should have taken care of the business once and for all.
Then again, the elves took their 3 rings with them across the water, knowing that the 3 were, in the end, controlled by the one.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Study concludes A.
MS decides B.
MS distributes B across the globe, everyone repeats. End of story.
Funny, that's the same thing governments have been doing with marijuana for years.
Scary how effective it is.
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I'm working on it.
,users and desktop configuration. But evrything from netmounts and printer shares to ODBCConfiguration and Startment layouts should be possible
What do you get when you cross knopix, a pc with a Windows install and something that can convert the windows setup into a linux setup (by reading the regestry &co).
Plug and play Linux.
I'm starting with simple things like networe
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Elrond should have taken care of the business once and for all.
If Elrond, or anyone else, had killed Gollum when they had the chance, all of Middle Earth would have fallen to Sauron.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
pointing at George "Read my lips" Bush as a cautionary tale.
Bush did not lie, he broke his promise. Politicians sometimes have to do that, because the situation changes unexpectedly (I have no clue whether Bush Sr. had to, I only want to point out that lying and breaking a promise are two different things).
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." (John Maynard Keynes)