Red Hat's "Bluecurve" is a trademark. There are plenty of copies of Red Hat's artwork out there, but they just can't call it Bluecurve (Debian, for example, has a theme called lighthouseblue).
Really? I guess you haven't met their pals, the loonies on the other side of the spectrum where Mr. Bush can do no wrong, and any criticism of the United States of America is taken to mean the poster is an Anti-American terrorist wannabe if they're foreign, or simple unpatriotic if they're a yank. Too often it's because they decided that because you had the gall to criticize something the USA is doing, you must want to see the USA destroyed (which is generally a pretty silly conclusion).
My point is, basically, we have a wide variety of loonies here, and they're usually the most vocal group.
Moreover, it's destructive criticism because of those same points. On the board on the page, many people have asked what is the card, who made the computer, etc, because they were willing to try and give him some help on getting Linux working on that machine. Mr. Langa has consistently ignored those requests and attacked any silly conspiracy theory that posters have suggested.
It may have been a still birth, but Intel is trying it again. Look at EFI sometime. Byte code drivers stored in firmware. I believe it's only for storage devices, but it's still happening. The boot process needs to be modernized, but I have my doubts that EFI is the correct modernization.
Uhm.... If someone was to complain that USB isn't supported in Win95 (and it wasn't until OSR2 and later, and doesn't work with all USB devices either), it's triply true for NT4.0. There's some strange drivers for some printers that bring in their own USB stack and such, but that's about it, and I'd hate to think what would happen to such a system if you wanted to try to combine that with "Legacy Emulation" for USB keyboards/mice.
What? You mean like USA PATRIOT act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) or VICTORY act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations act) or HEROS act (Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students act) or CAN-SPAM act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing act) or the BLAST act (Ballistics, Law Assistance and Safety Technology act) or.... And that's only examples from the last three years.
Mostly in setting standards, I'd say. What side of the road everyone will drive on, what the road signs will look like, penalties for crimes that everyone agrees is wrong, etc. Another good role would be perhaps reducing the tendancy of people to be xenophobic. I don't know about history of the US states, but in Canada, individual provinces in the past have tried to set up inter-provincial trade tarrifs, despite them being prohibited.. Basically encouraging everyone to play nice with each other.
Then again, I'm Canadian, and really like the federal health care system. Not being financially ruined because of a health problem is nice.
I think you're wrong about the order of things. It seems to me that treaties get proposed by WIPO members, then WIPO member governements act like they have NO CHOICE but to implement this law. It's a clever way to pass laws that the corporate elite want passed, while passing all the blame to a faceless organization that no one ever voted for.
It's also for roads, maintaining the sewage system, fire dept, etc. Most of these things would be too expensive to let people 'opt out' of. If you don't pay your fire dept fees, and your building catches fire, the fire dept would only be making more work for themselves if they let your building burn to the ground, because it would contantly be threatening the neighbouring buildings. Likewise, it makes more sense for there to be one authority on the construction material, width, etc of the road around your property, and the sewage system needs to all be hooked up properly. It may be hard for libertarians to believe, but sometimes there are things that central control via a government just works better.
I'd hate to think of how a privately owned road system would work like. Death of a thousand paper cuts seems to spring to mind.
Sort of. Anyone can make bread that tastes like, smells like, and looks like Wonderbread, as long as they don't call it Wonderbread. However, no one except those authorized by the Tolkien estate can make a movie that looks like, sounds like, or acts like a LOTR story.
Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.
Of course the arrogance of this vendor probably stemmed from those who were saying the GPL has never been proven in court. Proof, once again, that you should never get legal advice from someone who is not your lawyer. Even if it's from a lawyer who was quoted in a paper, it's still not legal advice. However, I've always felt that 'never proven in court' would make pretty shoddy legal advice. It's basically a way to avoid the question being asked. I doubt a judge would think you were acting in good faith if you took legal 'advice' like that to mean you can violate the licence with impunity. Then again, IANAL either.
This is all true, except when one particular manufacturer has a monopoly on a product, exactly the way copyright allows. Only Disney can authorize the reproduction of Disney movies, and if Disney decides they want to put them all on volitile discs that will be damaged easily, it's their choice. If you decide you want a Disney movie, you'll have no choice but to buy one of their discs that are designed to fail, or make an illegal copy yourself on a more durable medium. Copyright based industries don't compete with each other in the same way other industries do because their products are non-substitutable. When I buy bread, I can substitute any of the different brands with any other. If I want a LOTR movie, I can only get it from New Line Video, regardless of which store I go to.
Yes, I know I can do that, and I know I can right click to sort the start menu, too. I was merely pointing out a instance where GUIs isn't innately discoverable. The Start Menu on Windows is simply chaos. Microsoft has guidelines on what shortcuts one should make in the start menu, the format, etc, but no one, Microsoft included, tends to follow them. Some use "Vendor\Application\Appname", others use "Vendor Application\Appname", others still use merely "Vendor Appname" or "Appname".
My point is that just because something's a GUI doesn't make it easy to use or easy to learn. If I were to sit in front of Autocad, just about the only thing I'd be able to accomplish would be to exit the program. Sit me in front of an accouting package, and I may not even get that far.
I'm not sure if Windows is any better in this regard. I don't know how many times I've 'lost' PowerDVD because the start menu menu it gets filed under is 'CyberLink PowerDVD', or how many games get lost on that maze because I can't remember the publisher/developer of that particular game. I can go through each and every one, but is that any better than looking at all 2545 options that would at least be in alphabetical order (the Windows start menu rarely is these days).
You think Itanic will ever be ready for the desktop? I'd bet that the AMD x86-64 wouldn't even really exist today if the Intel Itanic had lived up to something near it's marketing hype. The Itanic is a dog. It came out extremely late, and with a low clockspeed, which allowed Intel's other processors to beat it in nearly all benchmarks, had limited OS support, and provided little or no 'bang for the buck'. Even the 'early adopters' had no reason to get Itanic chips. It would've been nice to get away from the i386 instruction set, but Intel messed up any chance of that happening.
Don't give Micheal that much credit. Let's be honest, he saw a great publicity stunt that was wide open there. By naming his product Lindows, he forced Microsoft to take action against him, which provided more free advertising than anyone could ever really ask for. All he has to do is shoot out press releases about how Microsoft is bullying his poor little company.
This scheme was really a no-brainer for Mr. Robertson. He probably figured he could win the battle against Microsoft eventually, but didn't really anticipate them suing him in every other country in the world. Microsoft's timing of this was rather lousy, though, and their international lawsuit campaign against Lindows, while claiming they should be immune to anti-trust laws in europe, is making them look like a hypocrite.
Don't forget the middlemen. I think the only ones that have benefitted from the CPCC's levy have been the middlemen at the CPCC. Have they sent out those cheques to the artists yet? Or did they need to fly their entire staff back out to France to attend another conference on intellectual property?
A lot of the stuff in the 'General Server' category includes things that are standard on Windows desktop products. In particular, there's a large number of remote administration protocols in there, along with the services on Windows responsible for enumerating computers in the workgroup/domain, DirectPlay, SMB, Windows Update, etc. And most of the protocols in that package are also provided by the standard edition of Windows Server ($999), or even the gimpy Windows Server 2003 Web Edition ($399). You don't need the $3,999 'Enterprise Edition' to get those protocols. Even Windows XP Professional has most of them.
Vehicle safety regulations are an excellent example of regulations that both raise the barrier to entry, and benefit the public at large. I'm betting neither you or I am qualified or capable of evaluating the safety of the design of any given vehicle, and so long as companies are given the right to lie to the public and call it free speech. Yes, prices have increased and competition has decreased because of this, and hasn't made every single vehicle on the roads safe to drive, but it has inproved the baseline safety by requiring things like seatbelts be installed, daytime running lights in new vehicles, etc. While it's true that not everyone agrees with those two safety measures, the fact remains that they've saved lives or reduced accidents.
Removing all government regulation won't create a perfect utopia any more than creating those regulations did. Anyone who claims otherwise is full of it, or has a stake in getting them removed.
I still doubt it. It's probably just something Microsoft threw into the settlement because they got more benefit from it. If you want more proof, look at Microsoft's pricing for the Microsoft Communications Protocols Program. If you want to use any of their "General Server" protocols, the minimum payment per unit is $40. If you're competing with Microsoft Windows, that's probably expensive enough to put you out of the running.
Don't bother. There's likely only one reason why Microsoft wanted Sun to sign up. That is, so Microsoft can claim they're no longer an abusive monopoly by showing a nice big list of people who've signed up for the program. Up until recently, it's only been Microsoft partners who were pressured into signing up, this is probably the first competitor to sign up (as long as you ignore the fact it was via a lawsuit settlement).
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Red Hat's "Bluecurve" is a trademark. There are plenty of copies of Red Hat's artwork out there, but they just can't call it Bluecurve (Debian, for example, has a theme called lighthouseblue).
My point is, basically, we have a wide variety of loonies here, and they're usually the most vocal group.
Moreover, it's destructive criticism because of those same points. On the board on the page, many people have asked what is the card, who made the computer, etc, because they were willing to try and give him some help on getting Linux working on that machine. Mr. Langa has consistently ignored those requests and attacked any silly conspiracy theory that posters have suggested.
It may have been a still birth, but Intel is trying it again. Look at EFI sometime. Byte code drivers stored in firmware. I believe it's only for storage devices, but it's still happening. The boot process needs to be modernized, but I have my doubts that EFI is the correct modernization.
Uhm.... If someone was to complain that USB isn't supported in Win95 (and it wasn't until OSR2 and later, and doesn't work with all USB devices either), it's triply true for NT4.0. There's some strange drivers for some printers that bring in their own USB stack and such, but that's about it, and I'd hate to think what would happen to such a system if you wanted to try to combine that with "Legacy Emulation" for USB keyboards/mice.
What? You mean like USA PATRIOT act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) or VICTORY act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations act) or HEROS act (Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students act) or CAN-SPAM act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing act) or the BLAST act (Ballistics, Law Assistance and Safety Technology act) or.... And that's only examples from the last three years.
Then again, I'm Canadian, and really like the federal health care system. Not being financially ruined because of a health problem is nice.
I think you're wrong about the order of things. It seems to me that treaties get proposed by WIPO members, then WIPO member governements act like they have NO CHOICE but to implement this law. It's a clever way to pass laws that the corporate elite want passed, while passing all the blame to a faceless organization that no one ever voted for.
I'd hate to think of how a privately owned road system would work like. Death of a thousand paper cuts seems to spring to mind.
Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.
Of course the arrogance of this vendor probably stemmed from those who were saying the GPL has never been proven in court. Proof, once again, that you should never get legal advice from someone who is not your lawyer. Even if it's from a lawyer who was quoted in a paper, it's still not legal advice. However, I've always felt that 'never proven in court' would make pretty shoddy legal advice. It's basically a way to avoid the question being asked. I doubt a judge would think you were acting in good faith if you took legal 'advice' like that to mean you can violate the licence with impunity. Then again, IANAL either.
This is all true, except when one particular manufacturer has a monopoly on a product, exactly the way copyright allows. Only Disney can authorize the reproduction of Disney movies, and if Disney decides they want to put them all on volitile discs that will be damaged easily, it's their choice. If you decide you want a Disney movie, you'll have no choice but to buy one of their discs that are designed to fail, or make an illegal copy yourself on a more durable medium. Copyright based industries don't compete with each other in the same way other industries do because their products are non-substitutable. When I buy bread, I can substitute any of the different brands with any other. If I want a LOTR movie, I can only get it from New Line Video, regardless of which store I go to.
My point is that just because something's a GUI doesn't make it easy to use or easy to learn. If I were to sit in front of Autocad, just about the only thing I'd be able to accomplish would be to exit the program. Sit me in front of an accouting package, and I may not even get that far.
I'm not sure if Windows is any better in this regard. I don't know how many times I've 'lost' PowerDVD because the start menu menu it gets filed under is 'CyberLink PowerDVD', or how many games get lost on that maze because I can't remember the publisher/developer of that particular game. I can go through each and every one, but is that any better than looking at all 2545 options that would at least be in alphabetical order (the Windows start menu rarely is these days).
or DevC++ if you need an IDE like VS.
You think Itanic will ever be ready for the desktop? I'd bet that the AMD x86-64 wouldn't even really exist today if the Intel Itanic had lived up to something near it's marketing hype. The Itanic is a dog. It came out extremely late, and with a low clockspeed, which allowed Intel's other processors to beat it in nearly all benchmarks, had limited OS support, and provided little or no 'bang for the buck'. Even the 'early adopters' had no reason to get Itanic chips. It would've been nice to get away from the i386 instruction set, but Intel messed up any chance of that happening.
This scheme was really a no-brainer for Mr. Robertson. He probably figured he could win the battle against Microsoft eventually, but didn't really anticipate them suing him in every other country in the world. Microsoft's timing of this was rather lousy, though, and their international lawsuit campaign against Lindows, while claiming they should be immune to anti-trust laws in europe, is making them look like a hypocrite.
You lie! There's never been a war on corporate corruption!
Of course. They want you to rebuy your entire music collection on DVD-Audio, just as you did with CDs when cassettes were the norm.
Don't forget the middlemen. I think the only ones that have benefitted from the CPCC's levy have been the middlemen at the CPCC. Have they sent out those cheques to the artists yet? Or did they need to fly their entire staff back out to France to attend another conference on intellectual property?
A lot of the stuff in the 'General Server' category includes things that are standard on Windows desktop products. In particular, there's a large number of remote administration protocols in there, along with the services on Windows responsible for enumerating computers in the workgroup/domain, DirectPlay, SMB, Windows Update, etc. And most of the protocols in that package are also provided by the standard edition of Windows Server ($999), or even the gimpy Windows Server 2003 Web Edition ($399). You don't need the $3,999 'Enterprise Edition' to get those protocols. Even Windows XP Professional has most of them.
Removing all government regulation won't create a perfect utopia any more than creating those regulations did. Anyone who claims otherwise is full of it, or has a stake in getting them removed.
I still doubt it. It's probably just something Microsoft threw into the settlement because they got more benefit from it. If you want more proof, look at Microsoft's pricing for the Microsoft Communications Protocols Program. If you want to use any of their "General Server" protocols, the minimum payment per unit is $40. If you're competing with Microsoft Windows, that's probably expensive enough to put you out of the running.
Don't bother. There's likely only one reason why Microsoft wanted Sun to sign up. That is, so Microsoft can claim they're no longer an abusive monopoly by showing a nice big list of people who've signed up for the program. Up until recently, it's only been Microsoft partners who were pressured into signing up, this is probably the first competitor to sign up (as long as you ignore the fact it was via a lawsuit settlement).
Well, given the fact we're talking about GOVERNMENT, you never can be too sure. Some would tax air, if they could figure out how to account for it.