The OIN aquires patents, so if google is bought it can start to be an asshole with any new patents, but the patents it has already owned will be the property of the OIN as far as I know...
And if google drops out of the OIN does that not leave them open to be sued by the OIN for using those very patents or is that an exception?
I know nothing about patent law but that's my interpretation
Anyone know where I can see some good screenshots, slow-ish connection so I don't really want to download it until 4.0... But would be nice to see some progress, probably a bit early though
It's a pretty nice file manager. I've used it for about a year, and tended to prefer it over Konqueror, at least until I found Krusader. But it's not as though Konqueror will lose its capabilities to be a file manager; it just won't be the default choice in KDE 4.0. Actually I think they are planning to remove the file manager capabilities if I understand correctly, maybe not, but I thought I heard it said that konqueror would be faster if they removed the file manager, not sure, maybe I heard form an unreliable source?
Microsoft aren't entirely truthful?
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I think I may have seen a story like that somewhere else on/.
What we need is more stories comparing Linux and Windows, preferablt by someone getting paid by either Microsoft or a Linux vendor, that's another topic that's hardly ever covered here
isnt it weird that the linux fanboys claim that xp crashes alot, and the xp fanboys never say anything about linux because they couldnt care less..
allow me to say something as a BSD user... linux crashed for me far more than xp did, and xp only ever crashed once, and that was my fault, but since BSD is by far the most powerfull OS of the 3... this is where i lie for now. XP crashes about once a week on my computer, and it doesn't get used nearly as much as Linux, Linux crashed 4 times since Ubuntu 6.06. And yes, BSD is by far the most powerful, but I don't need a powerful computer, I'd rather stick to something I can use easily and crashes every few months than something which never crashes but which I can't use properly.
And in response to your first statement, I don't know any XP fanboys, I've only ever seen one or two people say it's better, and they weren't being fanboys, they were complaining about hardware support on Linux, something which BSD can't claim to be better at
Well IE loads faster than Firefox on Windows at least, but probably because it's built into XP.
Firefox loads faster on Linux than Windows for me, Linux boots up slightly faster, to my login screen, and when I login it just becomes way faster than Windows.
Linux and Windows were installed within a week on my PC, and were both about the same speed (Linux still slightly faster), and Linux has been used much more, and probably had much more stuff installed on it, however this doesn't seem to slow down Linux, it certainly slows down Windows when you install stuff, and within a few months it became way too slow for me to bear and I just stopped using it.
So maybe it's just my computer, but personally, even if it is only faster for me, it surely can't be considered slow?
If Linux is too full of "Enterprise Crap" to be used on a desktop, why does it run so much faster and crash so much less than Windows XP on my Desktop?
Could it possibly be that Microsoft will soon out-take Apple in terms of who sells more OSes???
Well then how long before it overtakes Linux? In fact could it be that someday Over 95% of all computer will use something that Microsoft wrote?
All joking aside, how can something this obvious and pointless possibly count as news? Everyone here knew that Vista will quickly overtake all alternatives and people will just blindly accept DRM and unexplained connections to DoD computers(never seen proof so not neseccarily true, but heard people claim it happened) as security
There are ways of utilising the bandwidth for good purposes, there's SETI(good if you believe that your bandwidth can actually find aliens) and Folding@Home(a bit more useful, helps understand diseases development)
I kinda have to agree there, the program itself is horrible, I can't play music on it unless I close all open programs and open them again, however I found it very helpful to look through the code for learning purposes, if I actually want to listen to music I use Amarok or the in-browser player they provide, which works fine
I'm just a 15 year old with a basic knowledge of C++, I've cracked open some source packages to test how much I know from time to time and Amarok seemed fairly well done to me, though that is of course compared to other packages, I still hyad to do a little bit of searching around to understand it.
Also the Last.fm player seems fairly well done, though for both these programs I didn't look through the full code or change anything, so maybe I just happened to stumble across the only 2-3 human-readable source files?
I just sent them an email saying I'm interested in seeing the code as it is open source and asking whether they have a page up yet to download it from...
I wonder how they'll respond... I didn't mention anything about my knowledge that the code hasn't been released yet or anything to do with Slashdot, just that I'd be interested in seeing the improvements they made
The bot-lovers may start targeting Mac and Linux but they may not be successful, I've seen many many reports explaining, in great technical, verifiable detail explaining why linux is in general safer in every way and harder to infect.
And while I don't use a Mac I'm sure it has a lot more in common with Linux than with Windows
The argument of only reaching a doctor or lawyer by email is an example of how important mail could be blocked, that example is made up and the author explained it, he then went to elaborate on how HE needs to send 50,000 people mail twice a week and explained it would cost him about $1000 to do that each month.
But if you need a different example, what if you ran a large shop and ordered 10,000 chairs to sell, but then realised you made a mistake and only needed 8000... This would cost you a huge amount of money, and if the ISP had access to the email the blackmail could be huge, however it still needs to be paid to save thousands more dollars...
That is, it would have to be paid if it wasn't illegal, but there are going to be people who pay quietly without looking up laws or consulting a lawyer.
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I mean How the hell is anyone supposed to understand it
The OIN aquires patents, so if google is bought it can start to be an asshole with any new patents, but the patents it has already owned will be the property of the OIN as far as I know...
And if google drops out of the OIN does that not leave them open to be sued by the OIN for using those very patents or is that an exception?
I know nothing about patent law but that's my interpretation
I don't know much about the legal implications of it, but this seems like they may actually just be doing it for the good of the community?
I'm as surprised as you are... Though software patents don't exist in Europe so I suppose it's kinda useless for everyone except Americans?
But the ad on the right felt to need to cover up half the text of the article
Anyone know where I can see some good screenshots, slow-ish connection so I don't really want to download it until 4.0... But would be nice to see some progress, probably a bit early though
I'm a frickin' GENIUS
I think I may have seen a story like that somewhere else on /.
What we need is more stories comparing Linux and Windows, preferablt by someone getting paid by either Microsoft or a Linux vendor, that's another topic that's hardly ever covered here
allow me to say something as a BSD user... linux crashed for me far more than xp did, and xp only ever crashed once, and that was my fault, but since BSD is by far the most powerfull OS of the 3... this is where i lie for now. XP crashes about once a week on my computer, and it doesn't get used nearly as much as Linux, Linux crashed 4 times since Ubuntu 6.06.
And yes, BSD is by far the most powerful, but I don't need a powerful computer, I'd rather stick to something I can use easily and crashes every few months than something which never crashes but which I can't use properly.
And in response to your first statement, I don't know any XP fanboys, I've only ever seen one or two people say it's better, and they weren't being fanboys, they were complaining about hardware support on Linux, something which BSD can't claim to be better at
Well IE loads faster than Firefox on Windows at least, but probably because it's built into XP.
Firefox loads faster on Linux than Windows for me, Linux boots up slightly faster, to my login screen, and when I login it just becomes way faster than Windows.
Linux and Windows were installed within a week on my PC, and were both about the same speed (Linux still slightly faster), and Linux has been used much more, and probably had much more stuff installed on it, however this doesn't seem to slow down Linux, it certainly slows down Windows when you install stuff, and within a few months it became way too slow for me to bear and I just stopped using it.
So maybe it's just my computer, but personally, even if it is only faster for me, it surely can't be considered slow?
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If Linux is too full of "Enterprise Crap" to be used on a desktop, why does it run so much faster and crash so much less than Windows XP on my Desktop?
Could it possibly be that Microsoft will soon out-take Apple in terms of who sells more OSes???
Well then how long before it overtakes Linux? In fact could it be that someday Over 95% of all computer will use something that Microsoft wrote?
All joking aside, how can something this obvious and pointless possibly count as news? Everyone here knew that Vista will quickly overtake all alternatives and people will just blindly accept DRM and unexplained connections to DoD computers(never seen proof so not neseccarily true, but heard people claim it happened) as security
You coudl easily do it, but it'd get patched by MS quicker than if you only sold it to black-hats
There are ways of utilising the bandwidth for good purposes, there's SETI(good if you believe that your bandwidth can actually find aliens) and Folding@Home(a bit more useful, helps understand diseases development)
I kinda have to agree there, the program itself is horrible, I can't play music on it unless I close all open programs and open them again, however I found it very helpful to look through the code for learning purposes, if I actually want to listen to music I use Amarok or the in-browser player they provide, which works fine
I'm just a 15 year old with a basic knowledge of C++, I've cracked open some source packages to test how much I know from time to time and Amarok seemed fairly well done to me, though that is of course compared to other packages, I still hyad to do a little bit of searching around to understand it.
Also the Last.fm player seems fairly well done, though for both these programs I didn't look through the full code or change anything, so maybe I just happened to stumble across the only 2-3 human-readable source files?
Is there a Linux version or would that just be redundant, I'd like to know how much open source software there is in Mandriva Free
I guarantee within a year at least one person will accidentally replace their virus-scanners with this software.
"Oh no, you've got Firefox, reformat your drive before they get your CC numbers"
RTE covered it, Irish company Irish news, make sense?
I just sent them an email saying I'm interested in seeing the code as it is open source and asking whether they have a page up yet to download it from...
I wonder how they'll respond... I didn't mention anything about my knowledge that the code hasn't been released yet or anything to do with Slashdot, just that I'd be interested in seeing the improvements they made
The bot-lovers may start targeting Mac and Linux but they may not be successful, I've seen many many reports explaining, in great technical, verifiable detail explaining why linux is in general safer in every way and harder to infect. And while I don't use a Mac I'm sure it has a lot more in common with Linux than with Windows
The argument of only reaching a doctor or lawyer by email is an example of how important mail could be blocked, that example is made up and the author explained it, he then went to elaborate on how HE needs to send 50,000 people mail twice a week and explained it would cost him about $1000 to do that each month.
But if you need a different example, what if you ran a large shop and ordered 10,000 chairs to sell, but then realised you made a mistake and only needed 8000... This would cost you a huge amount of money, and if the ISP had access to the email the blackmail could be huge, however it still needs to be paid to save thousands more dollars...
That is, it would have to be paid if it wasn't illegal, but there are going to be people who pay quietly without looking up laws or consulting a lawyer.
If this doesn't get modded as funny instead of informative I've given up all hope on humanity
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