What, nobody wants to join the chorus "spatial browser"? Nothing made me laugh as much as that stupid idea until this new stupid non-configurable auto-resizeable input area idiocy came along!
If you're unlucky (and that is becoming more and more frequent) to have a buyer "give up" on your auction after winning it, be very, very careful with what you click. If you're a inexperienced seller, you might assume the FVF (final value fee) reversal link, which shows after a dispute is ended, would revert the final fee to you - when in fact it gives the FVF irrevocably to ebay. And they don't care - after all, what alternatives you have in Europe?
And now with the end of sellers giving feedback on buyers, this kind of abuse will only increase, the only hope honest buyers and sellers have is that the complains will be so many that ebay will finally be hit where it hurts, on its corporate pocket.
Anyone willing to start a worldwide (or even only EC wide) alternative?
Besides taking away one of the differences from Red Hat? That is the main problem, the beauty that was the kde support in SuSE gave it a advantage, that Novell threw away just to please the Ximian developers. Also, there is the problem that the main technology in SuSE that might infringe MSFT patents is mono, and gnome is getting more and more based in mono.
So, becoming another Red-Hat wannabe instead of a differentiated distribution hurts SuSE, at least in my view. After all, if they become similar and there is no distinguishing factor, why not choose the market leader?
For me, Novell had already shot themselves in the foot big time when they kicked out all the SuSE developpers and testers and let Ximian run the linux side of the business. Their first decision to make gnome the default desktop instead of kde removed at once one of the main advantages of SuSE.
This "agreement" with Microsoft, receiving money in exchange for legitimating software patents, is just another nail in the coffin. Of course for MS it is a huge victory - now they have defanged some of the oposition to software patents in europe, and their commissioners will be presenting another version of the software patents bill soon.
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What, nobody wants to join the chorus "spatial browser"? Nothing made me laugh as much as that stupid idea until this new stupid non-configurable auto-resizeable input area idiocy came along!
If you're unlucky (and that is becoming more and more frequent) to have a buyer "give up" on your auction after winning it, be very, very careful with what you click. If you're a inexperienced seller, you might assume the FVF (final value fee) reversal link, which shows after a dispute is ended, would revert the final fee to you - when in fact it gives the FVF irrevocably to ebay. And they don't care - after all, what alternatives you have in Europe? And now with the end of sellers giving feedback on buyers, this kind of abuse will only increase, the only hope honest buyers and sellers have is that the complains will be so many that ebay will finally be hit where it hurts, on its corporate pocket. Anyone willing to start a worldwide (or even only EC wide) alternative?
Besides taking away one of the differences from Red Hat? That is the main problem, the beauty that was the kde support in SuSE gave it a advantage, that Novell threw away just to please the Ximian developers. Also, there is the problem that the main technology in SuSE that might infringe MSFT patents is mono, and gnome is getting more and more based in mono. So, becoming another Red-Hat wannabe instead of a differentiated distribution hurts SuSE, at least in my view. After all, if they become similar and there is no distinguishing factor, why not choose the market leader?
For me, Novell had already shot themselves in the foot big time when they kicked out all the SuSE developpers and testers and let Ximian run the linux side of the business. Their first decision to make gnome the default desktop instead of kde removed at once one of the main advantages of SuSE. This "agreement" with Microsoft, receiving money in exchange for legitimating software patents, is just another nail in the coffin. Of course for MS it is a huge victory - now they have defanged some of the oposition to software patents in europe, and their commissioners will be presenting another version of the software patents bill soon.