In a move that rocked the open source community, the Marconi Corp. today announced plans toGPL their "Morse Code" telegraphy protocol stack, formerly widely used for telegram transmission.
You laugh, but when Marconi started supplying wireless sets to ships, more than 100 years ago, the contract specifically forbade radio operators from communicating with ships with non-Marconi radio equipment... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Either way, whether Microsoft opens it or not, this clearly shows that the weight of the idea behind open-source software has on the largest software company is far from being negligible. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Who knows? This may bring about more good to Microsoft, too.
Millions of eyes will be trained on Windows bugs, and what may not itch some microserf will mightily itch someone else...
Microsoft may see that there are better OS cores (did I hear someone say "kernel"?) than what it currently offers... So, who knows, it may churn out Microsoft Wine...
This may signal a new beginning of absolute interoperability; software could run easily on much more platforms...
Some zealots could even port Windows for the Macintrash...
Or why doesn't Microsoft realize that it could benefit from OSing it's OSs? It could concentrate on lucrative application markets, and leave the debugging of the software running the servers to the people who have a bigger stake at having it bugless...
Now, I suppose that all Billy Boy would need to do to do that is to stop listening to the lawyers and the MBAs and the marketroïds for 5 minutes... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
1.13 For Open Source applications, which license is most preferable to your organization see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a GNU.ORG perspective of various Open Source licenses
GPL (GNU General Public License)
LGPL (Lesser GPL)
Mozilla
QPL
Any license recognized by the Open Source Initiative
Does not matter
Other
Careful what you say here! Borland/Corel may end-up with a restrictive license!!! -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Browser-like display with individually resizable panes. (Looks a lot like the NeXT-style "Browser View" coming in Mac OS X, doesn't it?)
THIS IS INFURIATING, AND TERMINALLY STUPID!!!
One of the biggest reasons I CANNOT stand the Macintrash is that (on the version of the Finder I used last) when you had a long enough file name, the end of it got hidden under the file size, and that you cannot (could not?) resize the individual columns.
They had solved my principal Macintrash peeve 10 years before I started to use those beige boxen !!!!
Bunch of morons! -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
There was once a project to build a dish antenna (a damn BIG one) for the NSA that was intended to pick up faint radio signals that were being reflected by THE MOON. I believe this project was cancelled. The engineering problems were myriad to say the least.
The one I heard about was about a satellite, whose body is as big as a delivery van, with a parabolic antenna that, deployed, is on the order of 30 meters wide, used to intercept russian microwave links leaks.
The satellite would be on a geostationary orbit. It must have been no mean feat to put that big a thing that high!!! -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Yankees are very quick to denounce France about individual freedoms, but whenever they are TRULY endangered, either by hare-brained governmental schemes (like Echelon), or by big corporations, guess who is the staunchest parangon of individual liberties? Certainly not the country who has Babylon-on-the-Potomac for a capital... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Ultimately I think we need to get completely away from the notion of measuring things in pixels, or defining stored images as arrays of pixels. Once you do that, the problem more or less goes away.
This is a job for... DISPLAY POSTSCRIPT!!! -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Indeed it is not. It's most notable lie is about the Wright Flyer, claimed to be the first "heavier-than-air" aircraft.
Blatantly false! The honour belongs to Clément Ader's Éole, which flew as far back as 1890, in France.
The fact is that the Wright Brothers would not give the Smithsonian their (still) historic Flyer unless the Smithsonian claimed it was the FIRST "heavier-than-air" aircraft.
And you yankees are lucky enough to have the 5th amendment, so you can't be forced to disclose your encryption key!!! -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
This is nice in theory but remember the ISS will be orbiting a few hundred scant miles while the moon is a couple hundred thousand miles and Mars is half an AU. In relative terms the ISS is not a stepping stone, rather a pepple displaced by your foot.
Learn about gravity wells, and then you'll understand that what you just posted is plain nonsense. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
What is needed is a better system for news sharing. Usenet has no decent moderation mechanism (Yes, you can Cancel messages, but it's inefective).
Just define a "X-SCORE:" and a "X-CATEGORY:" header field, and write a newsreader that supports a threshold, and supports moderating along categories, and voilà, Slashdot-style moderated USENET. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
I was getting weary of newsgroups, then french newsgroups started to appear as France is getting hooked-up.
Going there is like going back in time: not only everyone's overly nice to each other, but we regularly organize get-togethers, and, most importantly, when you ask a technical question, you have two or three world authorities on the subject that are more than happy to explain it to you. Just like USENET was back in 1994... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
IBM, after their many year long anti-trust case, seem to have reformed. They are giving the code away, not under their own license, but under the one and only GPL. They can't claim it back. That shows a lot of understanding, and the will to play this game on our terms.
I would say that IBM finally understood what it really is: a hardware company.
Now, when will Apple realize that they really are a software company???
To reiterate: I hope the AOL class-action filers loose.... and I hope that they, their lawyers, their friends, the press, and random people on the street get peeved enough about the loss that public pressure forces the government to dump the UCITA and implement the software equivilent of the automotive "lemon laws" on the books in many states.
You'll probably get a kick out of the http://www.overlawyered.com website, especially in the section about class-action lawsuits... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> Nomad is a powerful computing platform. Its size allows all necessary > processing to be performed on the robot. There are four computers on Nomad > during this expedition. Two PCs running Windows NT control the panoramic > camera, perform landmark based navigation, and run the autonomous > classification software. A third computer running Red Hat Linux > coordinates robot navigation and obstacle avoidance with the stereo > cameras and the laser rangefinder. > Finally, a VME processor cage with a Motorola 68060 processor controls > Nomad's real-time processing, such as translation of driving commands > into servo motor movements and the monitoring of all systems on Nomad.
Now, let's introduce the schizo robot!!!
And I wonder what effet it will have to make the robot look through Microsoft-coloured glasses...
(Now, I wonder that OS runs on the 68060)... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
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Either way, whether Microsoft opens it or not, this clearly shows that the weight of the idea behind open-source software has on the largest software company is far from being negligible.
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Who knows? This may bring about more good to Microsoft, too.
- Millions of eyes will be trained on Windows bugs, and what may not itch some microserf will mightily itch someone else...
- Microsoft may see that there are better OS cores (did I hear someone say "kernel"?) than what it currently offers... So, who knows, it may churn out Microsoft Wine
... - This may signal a new beginning of absolute interoperability; software could run easily on much more platforms...
- Some zealots could even port Windows for the Macintrash...
- Or why doesn't Microsoft realize that it could benefit from OSing it's OSs? It could concentrate on lucrative application markets, and leave the debugging of the software running the servers to the people who have a bigger stake at having it bugless...
Now, I suppose that all Billy Boy would need to do to do that is to stop listening to the lawyers and the MBAs and the marketroïds for 5 minutes...--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Ooops! I guess that Apple's decision to require license fees for each Firewire connector was the first nail in Firewire's coffin...
See what happens when you'te too greedy? People just ignore you...
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One of the biggest reasons I CANNOT stand the Macintrash is that (on the version of the Finder I used last) when you had a long enough file name, the end of it got hidden under the file size, and that you cannot (could not?) resize the individual columns.
They had solved my principal Macintrash peeve 10 years before I started to use those beige boxen !!!!
Bunch of morons!
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
What are grits, anyway???
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The satellite would be on a geostationary orbit. It must have been no mean feat to put that big a thing that high!!!
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Yankees are very quick to denounce France about individual freedoms, but whenever they are TRULY endangered, either by hare-brained governmental schemes (like Echelon), or by big corporations, guess who is the staunchest parangon of individual liberties?
Certainly not the country who has Babylon-on-the-Potomac for a capital...
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
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Blatantly false! The honour belongs to Clément Ader's Éole , which flew as far back as 1890, in France.
The fact is that the Wright Brothers would not give the Smithsonian their (still) historic Flyer unless the Smithsonian claimed it was the FIRST "heavier-than-air" aircraft.
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
And you yankees are lucky enough to have the 5th amendment, so you can't be forced to disclose your encryption key!!!
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
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Going there is like going back in time: not only everyone's overly nice to each other, but we regularly organize get-togethers, and, most importantly, when you ask a technical question, you have two or three world authorities on the subject that are more than happy to explain it to you. Just like USENET was back in 1994...
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Now, when will Apple realize that they really are a software company???
(I wonder what kind of company Micro@£ is...)
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I'll drink to that!
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You'll probably get a kick out of the http://www.overlawyered.com website, especially in the section about class-action lawsuits...
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... can we punch those monkeys????
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Before you never Forth with obviously programmed...
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Lord, can somebody teach those physicists the concept of the paragraph????
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(seen on the p age describing the robot) :
> Nomad is a powerful computing platform. Its size allows all necessary
> processing to be performed on the robot. There are four computers on Nomad
> during this expedition. Two PCs running Windows NT control the panoramic
> camera, perform landmark based navigation, and run the autonomous
> classification software. A third computer running Red Hat Linux
> coordinates robot navigation and obstacle avoidance with the stereo
> cameras and the laser rangefinder.
> Finally, a VME processor cage with a Motorola 68060 processor controls
> Nomad's real-time processing, such as translation of driving commands
> into servo motor movements and the monitoring of all systems on Nomad.
Now, let's introduce the schizo robot!!!
And I wonder what effet it will have to make the robot look through Microsoft-coloured glasses...
(Now, I wonder that OS runs on the 68060)...
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" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "