What confuses me, though, is how Debian expects to cope in the future if it doesn't accept something as the GFDL
You've answered your own question - Debian provides the core free section so you can choose to have a completely FLOSS system, but if you can accept some transgressions of Debian's strict policy, you can add the additional non-free section to your sources list.
my concern here lies with the implementation of IDN support... a solution has not been found for the browsers that already implement it (other than turning it off - not a reasonable trade-off for those who want to use IDN sites).
Firefox has not turned off IDN's, instead opting temporarily to display them in punycode, with the option of fully enabling them.
I'm surprised that no-one seems to have mentioned that Mozilla has an Beta Xforms extension already available, which adds native (i.e. it becomes a core part of the browser) support for Xforms.
Some security through obscurity is a reasonable precaution here IMHO, as part of a wider security policy. Principally, it may protect people using the browser from the scriptkiddies which full disclosure might bring (as others have noted).
One of the main arguments for full disclosure is that, if a vendor isn't fixing a bug (in a reasonable period after you have notified them of it), you can force the issue by making it public.
If security by obscurity was the core of the security policy then I wouldn't be happy about it. However, if you have a look at Mozilla's security bug policy, you will see that the bug reporter can open up their bug if they are not happy with how things are progressing.
If Office 2003 started asking the Win32 API - areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows(). Then MS Windows would return true...
What would Wine get to return?
I'm not convinced...
Wine could reply false, and if $MS_PRODUCT failed to work for that reason then there would be some nice material for anti-trust litigation.
You could argue that the failure to work could be more subtle, like performing some operations more slowly, but as we have the ability to change the value returned to areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows(), we could figure out if it was affecting the programs operation.
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That's what the booze is for...
"...could have the same interface as a calendar developed for a 21" keyboard-and-mouse"
That's a big mouse.
Will Update Manager be able to use CDs, for those with poor connectivity?
Gotta love that innovation...
S L O W
You've answered your own question - Debian provides the core free section so you can choose to have a completely FLOSS system, but if you can accept some transgressions of Debian's strict policy, you can add the additional non-free section to your sources list.
Firefox has not turned off IDN's, instead opting temporarily to display them in punycode, with the option of fully enabling them.
I'm surprised that no-one seems to have mentioned that Mozilla has an Beta Xforms extension already available, which adds native (i.e. it becomes a core part of the browser) support for Xforms.
Guns don't kill people - rappers do
Sounds good to me - maybe, if companies in the USA see that the US's patent system is causing them problems, they'll move to fix the patent system.
It seem analgous to agriculture subsidies - they prop up local/national trade in the short term, but harm long term development and global trade.
I can immediatley think of two good reasons for splash screens:
1) I like them.
2) They are good for branding/marketing purposes. (Increasingly relevant as OSS approaches Joe User.)
Granted they shouldn't be always on top, and for those that don't like splash screens there should be a way to disable them.
Cheers,
Dave.
Asides for the inconvienience of getting your disks back in a completely untrustable state, and having to rebuild everything.
...and now they talk back :-)
Some security through obscurity is a reasonable precaution here IMHO, as part of a wider security policy. Principally, it may protect people using the browser from the scriptkiddies which full disclosure might bring (as others have noted).
One of the main arguments for full disclosure is that, if a vendor isn't fixing a bug (in a reasonable period after you have notified them of it), you can force the issue by making it public.
If security by obscurity was the core of the security policy then I wouldn't be happy about it. However, if you have a look at Mozilla's security bug policy, you will see that the bug reporter can open up their bug if they are not happy with how things are progressing.
Seems like a good comprimise to me...
Dave.
Sounds like the typical Microsoft approach: "we're gonna ignore the topic, and tell you how wonderful our stuff is".
Reminds me of a MS rep at an OSS day, trying to hype their interoperability - using TCP as an example. Muppet.
allow legitimate marketers to thread the gauntlet of spam filters
- run the gauntlet
- thread the needle
choose one.D.
I think the 'must-have' factor relates to the unique features the product provides, and/or non-unique features executed particularly well.
As the reviewer didn't find anything unique or significantly better in the GIMP as compared to PS, it isn't must have.
To someone who wants only FOSS, there is probably a high must-have factor.
If Office 2003 started asking the Win32 API - areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows(). Then MS Windows would return true...
What would Wine get to return?
I'm not convinced...
Wine could reply false, and if $MS_PRODUCT failed to work for that reason then there would be some nice material for anti-trust litigation.
You could argue that the failure to work could be more subtle, like performing some operations more slowly, but as we have the ability to change the value returned to areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows(), we could figure out if it was affecting the programs operation.
I don't think it did actually - the floppy drives were periodically polled, rather than the drives notifying of a disk insertion.
PCs are the same, without the polling (although for a while, MS Windows often wanted a disk in A: for no good reason). Dunno about macs.
Roll-up, roll-up - come and get Microsoft's new "flawed software" technology!
They're still half government owned, so we get the worst of both worlds in that respect
Enough about Microsoft, tell us what you think about Telstra
Nah, MS owns half the government.
I do.
Microsoft, your Windows OS is too much of a pain to maintain, so I'm switching to Linux.
That do ya?
Asa, your karma has to be going through the roof! :-)
Phoenix is adding something for this. It's not fully operational yet - you can't remove extensions, but you can disable them. FAQ
...to bad-mouth a competitor:
It's not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money