Any individual or company sufficiently skilled in web development to be offering their services on a commercial basis should be aware of WCAG. If a commercial site doesn't achieve WCAG1 prority 1, it's a liability and the liability needs moving from the trading company to the developers/design agency. We've all known about this for years, the reality is that it's just too much like hard work when web developers can get away with delivering garbage.
Cue more: "Waaaahhhhh waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" and pathetic exuses for discrimination.
Microsoft have agreed not to sue Novell customers, following is from here:
Patent licenses are legal fictions. A patent gives its owner the power to exclude others from practicing a claim, but it does not confer an affirmative right to practice it. In essence, then, a patent license is nothing more than an undertaking not to sue the licensee, and such an undertaking is precisely what is needed to enable users of GPL'd code to exercise their rights without fear of liability to upstream distributors for infringement of software patents.
A patent license is by definition a "covenant not to sue". From the preamble of the GPL:
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
Novell are permanently sublicensing the MS patent license to anybody downloading source RPM's (AKA: customers) or they are infringing section 7 of the GPL. I suggest you go and re-read it:-)
if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
MS may think they have found a contestable hole in the GPL, does the agreement not to sue constitute a licensed use of patents?
Doesn't matter, all developers need do is resync against code being redistributed by Novell. Either MSFT just agreed not to sue over this code or Novell is violating the GPL.
I just create an alias in the form of user+company (user-company for web signups where the developers are RFC ignorant). No spam to my personal alias in 2 years and if an account is compromised I just remove the alias which causes mail to that address to be rejected with the "No such user" error.
A mail server usually has to deal with more than one email address, what do those stats represent? Do the stats account for mail rejected during SMTP by blocklists, SPF or because it is addressed to non-existant generic accounts? It's a meaningless list of numbers without that information.
Users? I don't think so, they appear to be a startup. I only heard of jotspot the other day and only then because they sponsor or develop the dojo framework. This move by Google looks to be intended to prevent a competitor from acquiring them.
After YouTube a wiki version of the blogging service... how could we all have missed that great business opportunity? (Note: sarcasm).
Blogs, comments, threaded forums and wiki's are just different ways of organizing, collecting and storing information. Wouldn't a "create miniwiki" function in blogger make more sense or does "jotspot" have a more enterprisey feature set?
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Yeah, they'd better ban SSH too.[/sarcasm]
That was very well said.
Any individual or company sufficiently skilled in web development to be offering their services on a commercial basis should be aware of WCAG. If a commercial site doesn't achieve WCAG1 prority 1, it's a liability and the liability needs moving from the trading company to the developers/design agency. We've all known about this for years, the reality is that it's just too much like hard work when web developers can get away with delivering garbage.
Cue more: "Waaaahhhhh waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" and pathetic exuses for discrimination.
A patent license is by definition a "covenant not to sue". From the preamble of the GPL:
Novell are permanently sublicensing the MS patent license to anybody downloading source RPM's (AKA: customers) or they are infringing section 7 of the GPL. I suggest you go and re-read it
Go read the GPL.
MS may think they have found a contestable hole in the GPL, does the agreement not to sue constitute a licensed use of patents?
Doesn't matter, all developers need do is resync against code being redistributed by Novell. Either MSFT just agreed not to sue over this code or Novell is violating the GPL.
Butchering 2 franchises with one film takes a special "talent".
Now would be a great time for the FBI to reopen their investigation of the Kennedy assisnation.
I just create an alias in the form of user+company (user-company for web signups where the developers are RFC ignorant). No spam to my personal alias in 2 years and if an account is compromised I just remove the alias which causes mail to that address to be rejected with the "No such user" error.
A mail server usually has to deal with more than one email address, what do those stats represent? Do the stats account for mail rejected during SMTP by blocklists, SPF or because it is addressed to non-existant generic accounts? It's a meaningless list of numbers without that information.
Jani was right, Zend are part of the zionist conspiracy.
On a more serious note, nothing good will come of this!
Users? I don't think so, they appear to be a startup. I only heard of jotspot the other day and only then because they sponsor or develop the dojo framework. This move by Google looks to be intended to prevent a competitor from acquiring them.
After YouTube a wiki version of the blogging service... how could we all have missed that great business opportunity? (Note: sarcasm).
Blogs, comments, threaded forums and wiki's are just different ways of organizing, collecting and storing information. Wouldn't a "create miniwiki" function in blogger make more sense or does "jotspot" have a more enterprisey feature set?
An animated GIF replacement with support for alpha transparency is very much in demand. Follow the bugzilla links at the bottom of the article.