If they really consider the policy to be a net negative, they'd reverse the policy. You figure out what they really think about the policy and you come to the conclusion that this is just a PR move.
The word "source" doesn't even appear on the frontpage of that, nor on the "learn more" page. The Download page says the toolkit is shared-source but none of the other stuff mentions the source. Docs don't mention source at all. Looking at the terms of use page, this is hardly a free license, and it's certainly not opensource unless they've really managed to bury it within the site somewhere.
"One console in 10 years"? I remember back in 1993 or so everyone was arguing "there will only be Nintendo in 10 years, Sega will be dead." and "Sega will crush Nintendo, in 10 years Sega will be the only one." Then Sony came along and both groups looked foolish.
Right now it may be "pointless" for someone looking at it. It is certainly not "pointless" for contributing to it. Posting it to/. , technocrat, and similar means that it will get exposed to a lot of potential contributors.
If you don't use Word macros, yes. If you do use Word macros (or certain Excel functions that are designed for the european market), probably not.
If all you need is a standard word processing program, spreadsheet, and presentation maker (which is true of almost everyone that uses Office) then OO is the way to go.
238 people (16%) of those polled said there were too many distributions. I am far too lazy to count the number of distributions there that got 0 votes, but that list certainly doesn't help matters. How many of those are defunct, extremely targeted (Damn Small Linux and Edubuntu for instance), or otherwise intentionally unsuited to the typical linux user? I also note that they include BSD distributions on the list, so they should have said "Free Software poll" instead of "Linux poll". KANOTIX 36 0.02 Ubuntu 357 0.24 Fedora 121 0.08 Debian 188 0.13 KNOPPIX 36 0.02 2X 1 0 Arch 3 0 BackTrack 1 0 "BIG LINUX" 1 0 BinToo 1 0 CentOS 1 0 CRUX 1 0 FreeBSD 12 0.01 Freespire 5 0 Gentoo 98 0.07 GentooTH 2 0 Gentoox 3 0 Grafpup 4 0 Knopperdisk 2 0 Kubuntu 11 0.01 LFS 2 0 Mandriva 71 0.05 MCNLive 4 0 MEPIS 48 0.03 Mint 2 0 NetBSD 4 0 "Novell SLE" 8 0.01 nUbuntu 1 0 Olive 1 0 OpenBSD 14 0.01 openSUSE 71 0.05 ParallelKnoppix 8 0.01 PC-BSD 5 0 PCLinuxOS 4 0 Quantian 3 0 "Red Hat" 30 0.02 redWall 12 0.01 ROCK 2 0 Sabayon 8 0.01 Slackware 73 0.05 SLAX 3 0 "SME Server" 4 0 Sorcerer 1 0 "Source Mage" 56 0.04 StartCom 10 0.01 "Symphony OS" 21 0.01 "Ubuntu CE" 64 0.04 Ututo 7 0 "White Box" 2 0 Xandros 10 0.01 Xubuntu 7 0 Zenwalk 5 0 ZoneCD 16 0.01 This is the same chart with all the 0's taken out. I'll do a bit more numbercrunching on this, and will reply to my post with a couple of links to charts and stuff in a few minutes.
The problem with leaving it up to the states is that some states (hi, Deep South) will take away all sorts of freedom, and you end up with a country that's not even remotely close to free in 80% of the places.
Fourth, with the caveat that libertarians should stop supporting the "right" of businesses to trample over the rights of individuals. Instead of democrats and republicans, if we had Libertarians and Socialists as the two political parties in the US, things would be far better.
Oh, good catch. I missed that. If this is "true" then I'd just expect Microsoft to just not release Windows in Australia anymore. Or just get the Aussie court system to look the other way.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they didn't actually "let" anyone put those in there (without forking)- they have to have some reason that people would want to pay for the proprietary version. If people edit the source code and ship patches back to them, and they don't like what's in the patches, they won't put it in the app and will force a fork, which is probably bad for everyone involved. This is of course just speculation on my part, and we'll see if they do things honestly or not.
If this turns out to be true, it could have some pretty far-reaching effects, potentially damaging Microsoft, Apple, and even certain F/OSS projects. There seems to be quite the firestorm of controversy over the BSD license lately- perhaps it'd just be better to use a license that isn't so controversial- MIT if you want something to be available for use in closed-source products, or GPL if you don't.
OOXML is not an ISO format. The OpenDocument Format that OpenOffice.Org uses, on the other hand, is. You tell me which one people should upgrade to "so they can view the latest ISO documents".
This is taking "freeware" to another level- Free/Opensource the low-quality version, while requiring people to pay for the "professional" version?
The following list shows the features that are unique to the closed-source edition of VirtualBox. Note that this list may change over time as previously closed source features are made available for the open source version as well.
* Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server
This component implements a complete RDP server on top of the virtual hardware and allows users to connect to a virtual machine remotely using any RDP compatible client.
* USB support
VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and supports passing through USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to virtual machines.
* USB over RDP
This is a combination of the RDP server and USB support allowing users to make USB devices available to virtual machines running remotely.
* Shared Folders
With the use of Shared Folders, users can share directories on their host system with guest systems.
* iSCSI initiator
VirtualBox contains a builtin iSCSI initiator making it possible to use iSCSI targets as virtual disks without the guest requiring support for iSCSI.
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If they really consider the policy to be a net negative, they'd reverse the policy. You figure out what they really think about the policy and you come to the conclusion that this is just a PR move.
there is no way to trust the dynamic source enough to cite it.W ._Bush&oldid=103495632
Except... you can cite specific articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_
Why the hell are we still using coins and bills? Fiat currency is arbitrary anyway, can we please just move over to plastic entirely?
Whoever modded this needs to go back and re-read Shakespeare. This is another way of saying "Old news." Redundant maybe, not offtopic.
The word "source" doesn't even appear on the frontpage of that, nor on the "learn more" page. The Download page says the toolkit is shared-source but none of the other stuff mentions the source. Docs don't mention source at all.
Looking at the terms of use page, this is hardly a free license, and it's certainly not opensource unless they've really managed to bury it within the site somewhere.
Note: Dell does not support non-Dell installed operating systems.
In short: "We won't even give you tech support for the FreeDOS that comes in the package. All we'll do is replace your hardware if it breaks."
I think XFCE is the favored DE of some BSD flavors.
Except in Mario and a lot of other games, where up does nothing and you have to press A to jump.
"One console in 10 years"? I remember back in 1993 or so everyone was arguing "there will only be Nintendo in 10 years, Sega will be dead." and "Sega will crush Nintendo, in 10 years Sega will be the only one." Then Sony came along and both groups looked foolish.
Right now it may be "pointless" for someone looking at it. It is certainly not "pointless" for contributing to it. Posting it to /. , technocrat, and similar means that it will get exposed to a lot of potential contributors.
Hi. How many times have you posted this? Shut the fuck up already.
If you don't use Word macros, yes. If you do use Word macros (or certain Excel functions that are designed for the european market), probably not.
If all you need is a standard word processing program, spreadsheet, and presentation maker (which is true of almost everyone that uses Office) then OO is the way to go.
I would just like to remind everyone that Democrats are not liberals. Look at this vote for proof.
This is a chart I made with the linux (and BSD) distros from the poll, ignoring the approximately 300 that didn't have any results.
238 people (16%) of those polled said there were too many distributions. I am far too lazy to count the number of distributions there that got 0 votes, but that list certainly doesn't help matters. How many of those are defunct, extremely targeted (Damn Small Linux and Edubuntu for instance), or otherwise intentionally unsuited to the typical linux user? I also note that they include BSD distributions on the list, so they should have said "Free Software poll" instead of "Linux poll".
KANOTIX 36 0.02
Ubuntu 357 0.24
Fedora 121 0.08
Debian 188 0.13
KNOPPIX 36 0.02
2X 1 0
Arch 3 0
BackTrack 1 0
"BIG LINUX" 1 0
BinToo 1 0
CentOS 1 0
CRUX 1 0
FreeBSD 12 0.01
Freespire 5 0
Gentoo 98 0.07
GentooTH 2 0
Gentoox 3 0
Grafpup 4 0
Knopperdisk 2 0
Kubuntu 11 0.01
LFS 2 0
Mandriva 71 0.05
MCNLive 4 0
MEPIS 48 0.03
Mint 2 0
NetBSD 4 0
"Novell SLE" 8 0.01
nUbuntu 1 0
Olive 1 0
OpenBSD 14 0.01
openSUSE 71 0.05
ParallelKnoppix 8 0.01
PC-BSD 5 0
PCLinuxOS 4 0
Quantian 3 0
"Red Hat" 30 0.02
redWall 12 0.01
ROCK 2 0
Sabayon 8 0.01
Slackware 73 0.05
SLAX 3 0
"SME Server" 4 0
Sorcerer 1 0
"Source Mage" 56 0.04
StartCom 10 0.01
"Symphony OS" 21 0.01
"Ubuntu CE" 64 0.04
Ututo 7 0
"White Box" 2 0
Xandros 10 0.01
Xubuntu 7 0
Zenwalk 5 0
ZoneCD 16 0.01
This is the same chart with all the 0's taken out. I'll do a bit more numbercrunching on this, and will reply to my post with a couple of links to charts and stuff in a few minutes.
The problem with leaving it up to the states is that some states (hi, Deep South) will take away all sorts of freedom, and you end up with a country that's not even remotely close to free in 80% of the places.
If more people believed in principles rather than rules, the world would be a better place.
Fourth, with the caveat that libertarians should stop supporting the "right" of businesses to trample over the rights of individuals. Instead of democrats and republicans, if we had Libertarians and Socialists as the two political parties in the US, things would be far better.
It should be considered Treason. Treason is punishable by death, for what it's worth.
Oh, good catch. I missed that. If this is "true" then I'd just expect Microsoft to just not release Windows in Australia anymore. Or just get the Aussie court system to look the other way.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they didn't actually "let" anyone put those in there (without forking)- they have to have some reason that people would want to pay for the proprietary version. If people edit the source code and ship patches back to them, and they don't like what's in the patches, they won't put it in the app and will force a fork, which is probably bad for everyone involved. This is of course just speculation on my part, and we'll see if they do things honestly or not.
If this turns out to be true, it could have some pretty far-reaching effects, potentially damaging Microsoft, Apple, and even certain F/OSS projects. There seems to be quite the firestorm of controversy over the BSD license lately- perhaps it'd just be better to use a license that isn't so controversial- MIT if you want something to be available for use in closed-source products, or GPL if you don't.
OOXML is not an ISO format. The OpenDocument Format that OpenOffice.Org uses, on the other hand, is. You tell me which one people should upgrade to "so they can view the latest ISO documents".
If you upgrade to Office 2007, the chair-throwing terrorist wins.