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Linux Trademark Rejected in Australia
daria42 writes "Linus Torvalds' bid to have the word 'Linux' trademarked in Australia has failed, with the local intellectual property regulator sending his lawyer a vitriolic letter deriding efforts to provide evidence the trademark application was legitimate. In the letter, the regulator points out that information from Wikipedia and Google used by the lawyer to support the trademark application is simply not effective in making the case for a trademark to be registered."
I'm sorry, but on what planet is Microsoft a reputable company? It produces substandard products with prices that are the highest of any in the business bar the mainframe world, and it has been proven guilty of illegal business practices often enough that even the average Joe on the street knows that they're sharks when it comes to business practices. As for the rest - "modern concepts in operating systems?" DOS? You've got to be joking. DOS in the 1990 was like CP/M in the 1980s, but without a lot of the functionality. Are you perchance referring to windows 3.0? Windows NT, the well known VMS kernel with a GUI, that wasn't 100% microsoft compatible?
Work like no one is watching. Dance like you've never been hurt. Make love like you don't need the money.
You know that "Last Kiss" is not a Pearl Jam song, right? It was written by Wayne Cochran, and made popular by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in 1964.
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A) you feel lucky when you run an operating system that's kernel is 2-3 years old, uses 2-3 year old programming tricks and is vulnerable to bugs/attacks that have been around for 2-3 years, good for you. i like stuff that is up to date, like the current linux kernel is , having patches for all the stuff that has been discovered until 1-2 months ago (i update my kernel in such intervals on my desktop). i like to have new and fresh ideas available for my programming needs, just as an example , epoll ( a pretty fancy replacement for select() and poll() ), it's enormously faster than anything we had 2-3 years ago with kernel 2.4.x and 2.2.x . and i feel safe when i open my browser not being concerned if a 2 year old into kernel built bitmap parsing algorithm can let a hacker inside my box.
/usr/share/doc/. it's usually there, if it aint, do apt-get install -doc. the windows programs that you fail to use, you just uninstall. the linux programs you cant use, you get pissed off and claim that linux is bad. i think you are bad. just my opinion.
as for isntallers, the dummy installers could also be made for linux, if you have been around enough the gaming world, you probably have seen id software installer for enemyterritory and quake3, they are pretty decent, select directory, click next and there you go. most apps miss this interface because 90% of the linux installers hate such time wasting stuff. apt-get install is much quicker to type and you can have a coffe and donut while it automagically does all by itself
B) if i can avoid it, i dont write any gui stuff at all. gui-s are fancy, sure, but not efficient nor to me nor to my usual software targets. and sometimes when i'm forced to sit behind a windows machine, i miss bash as hell. i cant bash/find/grep/sed and so on unless i have cygwin over there. it's hell. if you are used to get things quickly done without wondering for half an hour where the exact logfile may be where it says why the application XYZ just failed.
C) distro war in the really free linux world is past for a long time already. debian and ubuntu won, the rest as commercial bangers have been cast out. most stuff that you get have also a documentation package with according help files and images. in debian look under
ps. i feel very very very happy that 25% of the power of my machine isn't wasted on virus scanning and spyware searching.
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if you cant handle something, it doesnt mean it's bad, it's just proves that you are nod good enough.
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
OEM software (preloaded on hard disks and on pre-built machines) is NOT FREE. I cannot emphasise this enough. The retail price of OEM windows XP pro is (last time i checked anyway) $219. This isnt very free if you ask me. If that's free, then i'll have "one cent" from you please.
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As usual the law is 20 years later than the real world.
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Doesn't Australia and the US have a treaty in place where these kind of things are observed?
Hey, he asked for it... "I am going to troll the fuck out of slashdot."
So, please, by all means, troll the fuck out of him, heh. Either that, or extremely humorous:
"XP... built from the ground up in the early 1990... without any legacy baggage... available essentially for free... there is no reason to use anything else"
Come on Bill, post without the AC name. You almost sounded like an SCO exec... until you praised XP.
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