The company that he works for is the only one that can legally distribute Moonlight without risking Microsoft suing them into the ground for patent infringement
As opposed to gnash, which nobody can distribute without risk of Adobe suing them into the ground for patent infringement?
But I also know that I am a fan of Free Software. I'd be too happy Gnome could shed non-free software (like Tomboy notes - based on Mono)
Mono is free software. RMS himself says so, in the very mailing list thread that sparked this slashdot discussion. When the list starts working again, you can read RMS saying so here.
It's not precedent for at least two reasons. First, district courts are the low courts on the totem pole--there is no one below for them to set precedent for! Second, the court's writings on what might have been are what is called in legal circles "dicta". That's writings by the court that are not part of the actual legal decision or the supporting reasoning. Think of dicta as being the court giving its personal thoughts or opinions.
Open source phones will take off. They will take off when someone delivers a model that uses a mesh network to render the existing carriers obsolete, at which point most of the existing carriers will go out of business. Pretty obvious if you think about it
OK, I've thought about it, and on the face of it, it seems a pretty silly idea. If the phones themselves form the mesh, then battery life is going to be horrible, as phones will have to stay on to make the mesh work for others even when you aren't talking.
Or did you mean the mesh would be made of fixed devices? In that case, who needs a mesh? The fixed devices can have a regular internet connection, and what you've got this is ordinary public WiFi.
What is doubly sad is that Opera has exclusive contracts with many cellphone and others companies that ensure the Opera browser is the only one on that platform yet they bitch about this.
What is triply sad is that Opera's mobile browser sucks. I dropped my data plan when I had a phone with Opera, because the web was so useless via Opera mobile.
You missed 2.5) Judge looks at the post and all the other evidence offered by the plaintiff and decides if there is sufficient likelihood that the plaintiff would prevail to justify ordering the identity to be revealed.
One problem I hit with a lot of online Linux documentation is the pages don't list the date they were last updates, or don't list the version of the software they apply to.
It's very annoying to find what seems to be just what you are looking for, and then an hour into crafting a solution based on that, you find that it depends on a particular feature of some program, and that feature was substantially changed two years ago.
That's a download of an old beta version of 3.0, made available before they dropped support for Linux. The current version is 3.5, available for Windows and OS X.
Now, the Medium has its detractors, but does printing these comments on paper somehow make them more legitimate or deserving of protection?
The differences are that printing them in a paper with relatively local distribution means that:
They will most likely only be seen by the community of the commentator and the person commented on. These viewers are in a better position to judge the accuracy of the comments than random strangers around the world.
They are less likely to be found several years later by potential employers doing a Google search on a candidate.
Does this mean you'd have no problem if someone was writing anonymously about you being a child molester, and a potential employer found that when googling you, and that was the deciding factor in you not getting the job?
We aren't talking about free speech here. We are talking about slander/libel. Just because the internet makes it easier doesn't mean we should just give up and say "what the hell--slander and libel are OK now".
It's not possible to do dumping with Windows XP. Even if they give it away for $0, that is (1) not lower than the competition, and (2) not lower than than the marginal cost of production.
On comp.os.linux.advocacy, about the only thing the anti-Linux trolls and the pro-Linux trolls agree on is that they aren't trusting their data to the cloud, so Chrome OS is not impressive to them.
WTF? If I'm viewing something on my Mac, I want it to use Safari components, so it will behave like I'm used to on the Mac. If I'm viewing the same thing on Windows, I want it to use IE components, so it will behave like I'm used to on Windows. This is a good thing.
I don't think you are supposed to have guest users. One of the Fedora guys said in the thread cited in the submission, saying why that is not a problem:
This assumes the user is different from a admin, which is not true for a
personal desktop
Apparently, it hasn't occurred to him that some people actually have others living in the same household who might share the computer.
Outside of extreme geekdom, nobody's even heard of it yet
Nonsense. They have had many prime-time TV ads, which have been very well done and very memorable. That's made them well known far outside extreme geekdom.
Just what is Microsoft's angle? Surely they are gaining some advantage here
According to boycottnovell, it is so Microsoft can accuse open source projects of plagiarism and copyright violation. (Evidently, BN doesn't understand the Apache license--they seem to think that it is a "look but don't touch" license).
All you need to read film is a light and a lens; you can't say that about 8" floppy, 5-1/4" floppy, 3-1/2" floppy, Zip, Jaz, Bernoulli, tapes, CD, DVD, or even Blu-Ray
OK, I'll give you light and a lens, but if we are allowed to use several lenses, then all you need are light and lenses to read a CD. The pit size is within the resolving power of optical microscopes.
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The company that he works for is the only one that can legally distribute Moonlight without risking Microsoft suing them into the ground for patent infringement
As opposed to gnash, which nobody can distribute without risk of Adobe suing them into the ground for patent infringement?
But I also know that I am a fan of Free Software. I'd be too happy Gnome could shed non-free software (like Tomboy notes - based on Mono)
Mono is free software. RMS himself says so, in the very mailing list thread that sparked this slashdot discussion. When the list starts working again, you can read RMS saying so here.
When I can stick a reader in my back pocket, toss it on the table, leave it out on the deck overnight and have it get soaked in dew, I'll buy one.
You can do all of that now.
There certainly won't be a market until the prices of the readers come down. $300? You gotta be crazy.
For a heavy reader, buying a couple new books a month in e-book format instead of hardback can save $300 in a year or two.
It's not precedent for at least two reasons. First, district courts are the low courts on the totem pole--there is no one below for them to set precedent for! Second, the court's writings on what might have been are what is called in legal circles "dicta". That's writings by the court that are not part of the actual legal decision or the supporting reasoning. Think of dicta as being the court giving its personal thoughts or opinions.
Open source phones will take off. They will take off when someone delivers a model that uses a mesh network to render the existing carriers obsolete, at which point most of the existing carriers will go out of business. Pretty obvious if you think about it
OK, I've thought about it, and on the face of it, it seems a pretty silly idea. If the phones themselves form the mesh, then battery life is going to be horrible, as phones will have to stay on to make the mesh work for others even when you aren't talking.
Or did you mean the mesh would be made of fixed devices? In that case, who needs a mesh? The fixed devices can have a regular internet connection, and what you've got this is ordinary public WiFi.
What is doubly sad is that Opera has exclusive contracts with many cellphone and others companies that ensure the Opera browser is the only one on that platform yet they bitch about this.
What is triply sad is that Opera's mobile browser sucks. I dropped my data plan when I had a phone with Opera, because the web was so useless via Opera mobile.
You missed 2.5) Judge looks at the post and all the other evidence offered by the plaintiff and decides if there is sufficient likelihood that the plaintiff would prevail to justify ordering the identity to be revealed.
That's breathtakingly stupid. If it worked that way, it would mean that it would not be possible to take any confidential matter to court.
I know a lot of people don't RTFA, but is it to much to ask that you at least read the Slashdot summary?
One problem I hit with a lot of online Linux documentation is the pages don't list the date they were last updates, or don't list the version of the software they apply to.
It's very annoying to find what seems to be just what you are looking for, and then an hour into crafting a solution based on that, you find that it depends on a particular feature of some program, and that feature was substantially changed two years ago.
That's a download of an old beta version of 3.0, made available before they dropped support for Linux. The current version is 3.5, available for Windows and OS X.
Now, the Medium has its detractors, but does printing these comments on paper somehow make them more legitimate or deserving of protection?
The differences are that printing them in a paper with relatively local distribution means that:
Does this mean you'd have no problem if someone was writing anonymously about you being a child molester, and a potential employer found that when googling you, and that was the deciding factor in you not getting the job?
We aren't talking about free speech here. We are talking about slander/libel. Just because the internet makes it easier doesn't mean we should just give up and say "what the hell--slander and libel are OK now".
It would be so nice to be able to use Ruby instead of Javascript
The article had a couple links to Gestalt, which does just that (for both Ruby and Python), for browsers that have Silverlight or Moonlight installed.
It's not possible to do dumping with Windows XP. Even if they give it away for $0, that is (1) not lower than the competition, and (2) not lower than than the marginal cost of production.
Richard Stallman says using cloud apps is stupid.
On comp.os.linux.advocacy, about the only thing the anti-Linux trolls and the pro-Linux trolls agree on is that they aren't trusting their data to the cloud, so Chrome OS is not impressive to them.
WTF? If I'm viewing something on my Mac, I want it to use Safari components, so it will behave like I'm used to on the Mac. If I'm viewing the same thing on Windows, I want it to use IE components, so it will behave like I'm used to on Windows. This is a good thing.
It's been proven time and again that Slashdot cannot get patent stories right.
I don't think you are supposed to have guest users. One of the Fedora guys said in the thread cited in the submission, saying why that is not a problem:
This assumes the user is different from a admin, which is not true for a personal desktop
Apparently, it hasn't occurred to him that some people actually have others living in the same household who might share the computer.
Outside of extreme geekdom, nobody's even heard of it yet
Nonsense. They have had many prime-time TV ads, which have been very well done and very memorable. That's made them well known far outside extreme geekdom.
Just what is Microsoft's angle? Surely they are gaining some advantage here
According to boycottnovell, it is so Microsoft can accuse open source projects of plagiarism and copyright violation. (Evidently, BN doesn't understand the Apache license--they seem to think that it is a "look but don't touch" license).
I was initially impressed by the MS 'open' pledges, until I talked to several coder friends
I'm curious. If you have coding questions, do you talk to your lawyer friends?
Moody says:
Finally, Microsoft has been up to its old tricks of offering special deals for its software
How is that a "trick"? Isn't that what competition is supposed to do--cause vendors to lower price?
All you need to read film is a light and a lens; you can't say that about 8" floppy, 5-1/4" floppy, 3-1/2" floppy, Zip, Jaz, Bernoulli, tapes, CD, DVD, or even Blu-Ray
OK, I'll give you light and a lens, but if we are allowed to use several lenses, then all you need are light and lenses to read a CD. The pit size is within the resolving power of optical microscopes.