I tend to disagree. There are a lot of windows users out there who are used to paying for software. They are not used to paying for the operating system because that's there from the start. Those who want higher level applications will still pay for them unless there is an equal that is free and easy to install.
Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source Initiative, said that provisions in three out of five of Microsoft's shared-source licenses that restrict source code to running only on the Windows operating system would contravene a fundamental tenet of open-source licenses as laid out by the OSI. By those rules, code must be free for anyone to view, use, modify as they see fit.
"I am certain that if they say Windows-only machines, that would not fly because that would restrict the field of use," said Tiemann in an interview late Friday.
Google is operating under the DMCA as far as I can see. If they are made aware of copyrighted content for which they do not posses the right to display they take it down. They are under the "safe harbor" stipulation of the DMCA. If Viacom doesn't like this they need to get the DMCA changed. Also, I would not fault Google if they gave Viacom any information they had on the users who upload copyrighted content so that Viacom may pursue them for the copyright violations. This will all lead to some sort of deal being worked out between Viacom and Google for shared ad revenue, in the end.
Not that we need another car analogy but since you brought up... You have to admit it is nice that you can purchase tires for your Nissan or your neighbor's Volvo from multiple tire companies. If one of these companies is having quality issues you can switch to a different brand. Isn't that special? Now if the operating system on your laptop runs into quality issues wouldn't it also be nice to switch to a different company? Choice is always in the best interest of the consumer.
Perhaps Sun will really put Solaris under GPL3 knowing Linus wont be able to use the code in his GPL2 kernel? Sun would start gaining developers who are turning to GPL3 themselves while Linux gets left behind. I think one of the earlier sticking points was Sun being afraid that much of what makes Solaris Solaris would be pulled into Linux without Solaris gaining any new ground. With the licensing differences between kernels Solaris wouldn't have to worry about that.
I have only ever bought albums and don't plan on changing but I have to agree that most of the time there are only a few songs worth listening to on them. However, sometimes I am pleasantly surprised to find great songs that never seemed to have gotten any radio time where I live. "Straight to Hell" by Drivin n' Cryin for example. Maybe it was because I hadn't listened at the right time or right radio station but I had never heard the song before until I bought the album for "Fly Me Courageous". For this reason I plan on continuing with albums for as long as they make them. Sadly, these days there are not that many new bands that interest me enough to purchase their albums.
You know, your right. What the officers did was criminal in my eyes and jail time would be more fitting. I guess I may have been thinking that they wont receive much for punishment, if anything. Perhaps the soldier can go after them in civil court if nothing else comes of it.
This just made me sick to my stomach. But would have this gotten the attention that it did if he had not been a soldier? I have to wonder. Regardless, I hope those to officers end up on the unemployment line. Just because "policy" said it was ok doesn't make it right.
The wool has been pulled over your eyes. Microsoft is only doing this to give it's patent claims some validity. Their stance will be "see, Linux must infringe, all of these distributors have signed patent deals with us". This is a divide and conquer move.
But I see this dark cloud with some silver lining. We will know which companies actually are part of the Linux community and which ones are not. So far Redhat and Ubuntu have vocally expressed that they will not do any such deals with Microsoft. There may be others but I am unaware of any at this time.
It was a while back now but Sys-con allowed Maureen O'Gara to publicly attack PJ of Groklaw fame. I wish I had realized what I was clicking through to before viewing the article. Being bombarded with the ads from their site just helped enforce my dislike of their services. To Sys-con's credit, they did drop O'gara, I guess.
Agreed - I actually was considering Xandros for my parents. Xandros looks very "windows like" and if I recall correctly it came with proprietary codecs as well for DVD playback. It was because of this that I considered them. I also considered Linspire for similar reasons. I wonder if they'll be next on Microsoft's list of converts?
I went with Ubuntu in the end. Now I'm glad I did.
I was hoping for a review of the extensions but only found a summary of what was available. More of the same information can be found by searching for 'phishing' extensions.
But I don't have any other options if I want something other than dial-up. We live about 6 miles out of town. When SBC hooked up our phone line here at home I asked when they'd be getting DSL out to us. The technician said not in our life time. (I hope to have at least another 40 years in me) lol
I don't think they are failing. It's just taking rural families some time to feel that they need something faster than dial-up. In town the municipality has to compete with SBC/Yahoo and Charter cable. Prices there start at $19.95 a month. We pay twice that for our wifi service.
Right now MySpace is beta testing their own instant messenger. What is next? Email @ MySpace? I think Yahoo will find their services being made less and less relevant by MySpace.
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So expecting them to ask for a clean build is asking to much. Their IT department should have known better and done this automatically.
I tend to disagree. There are a lot of windows users out there who are used to paying for software. They are not used to paying for the operating system because that's there from the start. Those who want higher level applications will still pay for them unless there is an equal that is free and easy to install.
I was just visiting the google gears page and they offered it for linux. In beta of course.
Perhaps it is another coincidence that a lot of people searched for olpc today and clicked on the sponsored olpcnews link? :D
Only when posting anonymously. :D
Thank you! I had never seen that before and damn, that was funny! At first I wasn't sure if it was a spoof or if it really was Fox. LoL
Google is operating under the DMCA as far as I can see. If they are made aware of copyrighted content for which they do not posses the right to display they take it down. They are under the "safe harbor" stipulation of the DMCA. If Viacom doesn't like this they need to get the DMCA changed. Also, I would not fault Google if they gave Viacom any information they had on the users who upload copyrighted content so that Viacom may pursue them for the copyright violations. This will all lead to some sort of deal being worked out between Viacom and Google for shared ad revenue, in the end.
Not that we need another car analogy but since you brought up... You have to admit it is nice that you can purchase tires for your Nissan or your neighbor's Volvo from multiple tire companies. If one of these companies is having quality issues you can switch to a different brand. Isn't that special? Now if the operating system on your laptop runs into quality issues wouldn't it also be nice to switch to a different company? Choice is always in the best interest of the consumer.
Is that you Gary? :D
Perhaps Sun will really put Solaris under GPL3 knowing Linus wont be able to use the code in his GPL2 kernel? Sun would start gaining developers who are turning to GPL3 themselves while Linux gets left behind. I think one of the earlier sticking points was Sun being afraid that much of what makes Solaris Solaris would be pulled into Linux without Solaris gaining any new ground. With the licensing differences between kernels Solaris wouldn't have to worry about that.
I have only ever bought albums and don't plan on changing but I have to agree that most of the time there are only a few songs worth listening to on them. However, sometimes I am pleasantly surprised to find great songs that never seemed to have gotten any radio time where I live. "Straight to Hell" by Drivin n' Cryin for example. Maybe it was because I hadn't listened at the right time or right radio station but I had never heard the song before until I bought the album for "Fly Me Courageous". For this reason I plan on continuing with albums for as long as they make them. Sadly, these days there are not that many new bands that interest me enough to purchase their albums.
Is there or isn't there? I'm afraid to look.
You know, your right. What the officers did was criminal in my eyes and jail time would be more fitting. I guess I may have been thinking that they wont receive much for punishment, if anything. Perhaps the soldier can go after them in civil court if nothing else comes of it.
This just made me sick to my stomach. But would have this gotten the attention that it did if he had not been a soldier? I have to wonder. Regardless, I hope those to officers end up on the unemployment line. Just because "policy" said it was ok doesn't make it right.
The wool has been pulled over your eyes. Microsoft is only doing this to give it's patent claims some validity. Their stance will be "see, Linux must infringe, all of these distributors have signed patent deals with us". This is a divide and conquer move.
But I see this dark cloud with some silver lining. We will know which companies actually are part of the Linux community and which ones are not. So far Redhat and Ubuntu have vocally expressed that they will not do any such deals with Microsoft. There may be others but I am unaware of any at this time.
What you gonna do when they come for you?
Please forgive me.
It was to take the place of "Spanish" in "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition". :(
Catholic Excommunication. ;)
It was a while back now but Sys-con allowed Maureen O'Gara to publicly attack PJ of Groklaw fame. I wish I had realized what I was clicking through to before viewing the article. Being bombarded with the ads from their site just helped enforce my dislike of their services. To Sys-con's credit, they did drop O'gara, I guess.
Agreed - I actually was considering Xandros for my parents. Xandros looks very "windows like" and if I recall correctly it came with proprietary codecs as well for DVD playback. It was because of this that I considered them. I also considered Linspire for similar reasons. I wonder if they'll be next on Microsoft's list of converts?
I went with Ubuntu in the end. Now I'm glad I did.
~Dave
I was hoping for a review of the extensions but only found a summary of what was available. More of the same information can be found by searching for 'phishing' extensions.
But I don't have any other options if I want something other than dial-up. We live about 6 miles out of town. When SBC hooked up our phone line here at home I asked when they'd be getting DSL out to us. The technician said not in our life time. (I hope to have at least another 40 years in me) lol I don't think they are failing. It's just taking rural families some time to feel that they need something faster than dial-up. In town the municipality has to compete with SBC/Yahoo and Charter cable. Prices there start at $19.95 a month. We pay twice that for our wifi service.
wait... is the driver from nvidia?
Right now MySpace is beta testing their own instant messenger. What is next? Email @ MySpace? I think Yahoo will find their services being made less and less relevant by MySpace.