The lesson here is don't try and build a product using GPL software because if RMS decides that you don't fit their philosophical outlook they will jerk they will change the license to make you conform to their ideal. Of course... Did you expect them not to change what they considered to be flaws in the liscence? If their own product does not fit their philosophy and if difficulties arise, they will do something about it. Any producer of any product whether it is free or proprietary, software of hardware will make the necissary alterations for their product to fit their policy.
What percentage of Tivo customers are upset that they can't hack their Tivo? That's beside the point. What percentage of software users of any kind modify the code? The percentage is relatively low, but the few who do have an enormous impact. And it's not really relevant that few people want to hack their Tivo. What's important is that people should have the choice to do so.
The inability to run modified code also means an increase in the security of a Tivo placed on the network. Yes that must be why so many products that cannot run modified code are flawless in terms of security... oh wait!
Then you have to wonder what this will do to Linux Cell phones. It shouldn't have to do anything to Linux cell phones. The question is what the producers of Linux cell phones will do to their products. It's on their head, not the Free Software Foundation.
...is probably rolling over in his grave right now. People shouldn't be tracked in any way whether they are students, hospital staff, prisoners or soldiers. It's a fundamental violation of one's right to privacy. I like my "ownlife."
Am I the only one who finds it odd that so many anti-war people use the ammount of dead american soldiers as an argument instead of the ammount of dead iraqi civilians and combatants?
That kind of applied to the CD as well, did it not?
The speed will eventually increase. The potential is beleived to be around 1 Gb/s.
It might be a couple of years away, but I think this will definately be useful when it arrives. Though this news seems a little less interesting when Holographic Versatile Discs developed by Maxell and Optware go as high as 3,9 TB.
So at this point it might be overpriced and slow, but it is not unproven. Give it some time. It's not like it's gonna hit the market for you and me by next week.
Ridiculous argument. I use Opera today because it's quite frankly the best browser out there. If the software changes in ways I don't like, I'll switch to another alternative.
Nobody's forcing anyone to stick with what they're using now, tomorrow. What ever gave you that idea? We have a certain ammount of power as consumers in the choices we make. That applies both for FOSS and for proprietary software. Should I go with the worse alternative today simply because it might be the best tomorrow? Who says you can't change tomorrow?
Don't get me wrong, I use plenty of Free software, and I'm absolutely a supporter of the free software movement, but as long as proprietary software is free of charge for me as a user and provides a better alternative, that's what I choose.
All browsers suck at complying with "standards" because there are so many standards and too many ways to interpret them. Well, not really. Browsers like Opera, Safari and Konqueror comply to the w3c standards relatively well.
As for ACID, I assume you're referring to ACID2, since it's being used these days. Both Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 have problems rendering it properly. Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 can render it properly I hear.
Truth be told, I don't really care about how Firefox does it anyway as long as Opera is easier and quicker to use, that's what I'll use. Opera can handle ACID2 properly as well.
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These face recognition programs are fantastic!
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...is probably rolling over in his grave right now. People shouldn't be tracked in any way whether they are students, hospital staff, prisoners or soldiers. It's a fundamental violation of one's right to privacy. I like my "ownlife."
People could stop shooting each other.
Doesn't mean there won't be micro. Look at SC1. There are no hero units, but good microing is essential to success.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that so many anti-war people use the ammount of dead american soldiers as an argument instead of the ammount of dead iraqi civilians and combatants?
Not criticizm to you, just an observation :)
That kind of applied to the CD as well, did it not? The speed will eventually increase. The potential is beleived to be around 1 Gb/s. It might be a couple of years away, but I think this will definately be useful when it arrives. Though this news seems a little less interesting when Holographic Versatile Discs developed by Maxell and Optware go as high as 3,9 TB. So at this point it might be overpriced and slow, but it is not unproven. Give it some time. It's not like it's gonna hit the market for you and me by next week.
Ridiculous argument. I use Opera today because it's quite frankly the best browser out there. If the software changes in ways I don't like, I'll switch to another alternative. Nobody's forcing anyone to stick with what they're using now, tomorrow. What ever gave you that idea? We have a certain ammount of power as consumers in the choices we make. That applies both for FOSS and for proprietary software. Should I go with the worse alternative today simply because it might be the best tomorrow? Who says you can't change tomorrow? Don't get me wrong, I use plenty of Free software, and I'm absolutely a supporter of the free software movement, but as long as proprietary software is free of charge for me as a user and provides a better alternative, that's what I choose.