For those that don't live here Microsoft is the computer. For about 10 years I have never heard of anyone else using Linux in the UK (I mean walking around or in real life. Not over the internet), then this year suddenly walking around the university everyone's laptops have Ubuntu or Fedora or SUSE. Even my university has SUSE in one of their labs. Now that is a first!
There was a piece from 2005 in which it talks about the government seriously thinking of switching all its software to open source.
Read my comment history.. do I look like an MS fan boy to you? No, quite the opposite.
You! on the other hand is the reason the Linux community looks so bad. You're an overzealous asshole that blindly attacks people and doesn't fact check at all.
.... All that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while......
In return, you will receive a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree.
Q: Can you write a driver for my [insert device name here] to get it to work? It isn't made anymore and no one has the specs for it.
A: Sorry, but this project is for devices in which we have the specification and hopefully the manufacturer's support. We don't have the time or effort that is needed to reverse engineer the device on our own, sorry.
Now STFU about reverse engineering userspace drivers.
When I bought STALKER in Thailand for 800 baht it came with a Thai manual but that's about it. A Thai version would suck and no one would buy it. It's cool to have western stuff.
That's great but if you look at Sugar OS, it was designed for children that can't read English and is culturally independant and has limited functionality just for the class room which is what these laptops are for. They're being built for educational purposes.
Don't you think it's completely stupid to wack XP on them? What is "Start" what is "Programs"? How do I draw things? How do I get web pages? Windows XP demands that you know how to read and it just wasn't designed for what the XO is trying to do.
Why the valve hate for some old german gits who think video game violence is such a threat that they have to have a police raid on the Crytek offices in full battle gear?
I heard video game developers in Germany get spit on. Your issue has nothing to do with valve.
You're purchasing the right to do what they say you can do with their game. How is that your game? You own the box and CD but you sure as hell don't own what's on the CD.
I own countless pieces of software which are closed-source
You own squat. You own the rights to play that game from that specific disk but you don't own it and you never will. For example if you bought the game and then downloaded it because it's not at your current location you're still infringing the publishers copyright because you weren't given the right to do that.
You'll see on almost ever game you bought that it will say "This..... gives you the exclusive right to do only x,y,z with our game"
but they would have to PHYSICALLY COME TO MY HOUSE AND REMOVE THE PROGRAM
No they don't. They just have to disable you access to that game via steam or disable your CD key. Oh you mean remove the program not run it? Well what's the point of having a binary you can't run. Actually I don't get what you are talking about here, the article was about how steam is disabling people's abilities to play the games they bought.
then I hate to point out to you that there are far bigger problems in the world than the open or closed-ness of the software.
OK everyone on slashdot! Drop what you're doing! First we have to stop world hunger then we'll eventually get on to other things! Go outside and grow your corn!
In short, closed source does not fucking mean that you're going to get bent over by every company that makes a program, stop pretending it does.
It has numerous disadvantages in that they force you to play the game on the system they want you to. That if the company goes bankrupt you can not get bug fixes, the game running on the latest OS, or check for security problems. For example I have read about a lot of people complaining about no 64bit windows binary.
I am currently having problems getting the source code for a 10 year old game which the company when bankrupt. The copyright on the source code has passed so many hands that no one knows who actually owns it and it's worthless anyway. If they released the source with the game then I wouldn't be in the problem I am today.
Why do you need to keep the binary closed source in the first place? When you purchase a game you're buying into the world they create around you. Yeah someone could rip them off but copyright protects that kind of thing in the first place and by the time any competitors had figured out from the source code what they had done and shipped their own product the games sales would have dropped from their peek anyway.
Should I also try and stop people looking at the HTML in my web pages which combines sound, images and annoying moving flash objects?
Expect your argument falls apart because I worked in Thailand for $633.2 a month. $300 on rent, $50 on transport, $50 for the visa, $100 on food (or something like that). In other words after the landlord and the Government got their dos there wasn't much left for me which meant I was living month-to-month.
So it's not okay to ban my account when I go back home becauase:
a) When I was there that's all I could afford b) I was living there not shipping it to another country.
Over 25 Million foreigners live in Thailand, so please explain why I should have my account banned and have to re-buy the game, again, for what I could afford at my standard of living.
and that, my friend, is why Linux will never take hold on the desktop. It's made by people for whom the CLI is no problem, to solve their problems and meet their needs.
Here's a cluestick, try FOSS and Linux out before you comment on it. Your ignorance on the subject is bewildering.
They need to take a page out of the book of marketing a movie. You market your games 2 months to release and until then keep quiet about it.
I really don't get why no one has learned this. Surely it would be pointless to hype something up over so many years because we all know what happens when it goes wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Create new Technology ....
2) Hype the Tech to oblivion
3) Get bored and pronounce it dead
4)
5) PROFIT!!
List of the currently deceased off the top of my head..
Java, ODF, SecondLife, Linux, Web 2.0
Dear Mr IT Director you're fired for not choosing the ISO standard which happens to be ODF.
Same here. I had my Hitachi Hard drive that came with the laptop die. Not was if it was the OS though.
It is when it comes to EA though.
They got to protect it by law or lose it.
I wonder if Ubuntu will replace Microsoft on school computers.
I just saw that Tesco UK is selling Ubuntu PCs as well! This is a first in England.
For those that don't live here Microsoft is the computer. For about 10 years I have never heard of anyone else using Linux in the UK (I mean walking around or in real life. Not over the internet), then this year suddenly walking around the university everyone's laptops have Ubuntu or Fedora or SUSE. Even my university has SUSE in one of their labs. Now that is a first!
There was a piece from 2005 in which it talks about the government seriously thinking of switching all its software to open source.
Read my comment history.. do I look like an MS fan boy to you? No, quite the opposite.
You! on the other hand is the reason the Linux community looks so bad. You're an overzealous asshole that blindly attacks people and doesn't fact check at all.
All this political in-fighting between the XP and Vista communities just proves that Windows is not ready for desktop.
No it's because they signed up to do open source divers for commercial companies that had no experience, budget or time to make their own drivers.
Running around screaming "LOL no printer drivers11!!oneone" isn't relevant at all to the goals of the project.
They SPECIFICALLY signed up to do kernel work for free to manufacturers with or without an NDA.
This was mentioned on slashdot awhile ago. The only bullshit is coming from you.
from the main announcement..
from the main FAQ...
Now STFU about reverse engineering userspace drivers.
The only reason there are so many devs in the first place is because they signed up to the project to donate time to do kernel work.
The statements on this story are just really retarded.
Have a nice day!
I have never seen a Thai version of Windows.
When I bought STALKER in Thailand for 800 baht it came with a Thai manual but that's about it. A Thai version would suck and no one would buy it. It's cool to have western stuff.
That's great but if you look at Sugar OS, it was designed for children that can't read English and is culturally independant and has limited functionality just for the class room which is what these laptops are for. They're being built for educational purposes.
Don't you think it's completely stupid to wack XP on them? What is "Start" what is "Programs"? How do I draw things? How do I get web pages? Windows XP demands that you know how to read and it just wasn't designed for what the XO is trying to do.
Why the valve hate for some old german gits who think video game violence is such a threat that they have to have a police raid on the Crytek offices in full battle gear?
I heard video game developers in Germany get spit on. Your issue has nothing to do with valve.
You're purchasing the right to do what they say you can do with their game. How is that your game? You own the box and CD but you sure as hell don't own what's on the CD.
It's against Slashdot moderation rules to mod people troll just because you disagree with them.
You'll see on almost ever game you bought that it will say "This
I am currently having problems getting the source code for a 10 year old game which the company when bankrupt. The copyright on the source code has passed so many hands that no one knows who actually owns it and it's worthless anyway. If they released the source with the game then I wouldn't be in the problem I am today.
Why do you need to keep the binary closed source in the first place? When you purchase a game you're buying into the world they create around you. Yeah someone could rip them off but copyright protects that kind of thing in the first place and by the time any competitors had figured out from the source code what they had done and shipped their own product the games sales would have dropped from their peek anyway.
Should I also try and stop people looking at the HTML in my web pages which combines sound, images and annoying moving flash objects?
Expect your argument falls apart because I worked in Thailand for $633.2 a month. $300 on rent, $50 on transport, $50 for the visa, $100 on food (or something like that). In other words after the landlord and the Government got their dos there wasn't much left for me which meant I was living month-to-month.
So it's not okay to ban my account when I go back home becauase:
a) When I was there that's all I could afford
b) I was living there not shipping it to another country.
Over 25 Million foreigners live in Thailand, so please explain why I should have my account banned and have to re-buy the game, again, for what I could afford at my standard of living.
Make Three,
I also move from country to country, that's just stupid and they're just assuming their customers are trying to cheat them.
I think the fact that not many people know about the project and it isn't really that sexy to hack on have delayed GEGL?
They need to take a page out of the book of marketing a movie. You market your games 2 months to release and until then keep quiet about it.
I really don't get why no one has learned this. Surely it would be pointless to hype something up over so many years because we all know what happens when it goes wrong.