I think that's the principal and only reason for creating the licenses and getting them approved: make a non-GPLv3 license, give people a reason to prefer it (shortness)... after some time, if people are stupid enough (only caring about the word "open"), and Microsoft is lucky enough, most software looks "open", but does not actively attack their monopoly.
Users have as much, if not more, problems reading text in a high-resolution graphical dialog, than typing text into a command line. This is probably a locale-specific problem, though they are still faster at typing a couple of words than reading a couple of paragraphs among bells & whistles and getting something pretty useless in return (Ever tried to install Windows 2000 or XP onto an extended partition? Do not tell me common users don't do that...).
Drivers for the most popular devices are easy to install on GNU/Linux. Probably even without text-mode, let alone CLI, but...
Most GNU/Linux users till today were used to CLI, and are not very proficient at using point-and-click UI, so they answer new users' questions with CLI answers, and then those users do the same.
For some, the default icons are just not pretty enough, and those whom they ask about that don't know or care about the "pretty" ones.
fastfinge> I used to have a program that would play a musical note every time someone hit a port. so for each port it would have a different note
fastfinge> i put it in the dmz
fastfinge> much musical entertainment
fastfinge> I should find the source for that thing again. i could change midi intruments depending on the type of packet.
fastfinge> or maybe create length and timbre data from the source IP?
2006-09-20
Average users don't bother to read any EULA on software. If the product does not work because of that, or if the user is sued because of that, is it the product's problem?
I hope the video tag gets into Firefox and Opera. They (Mozilla) were also going to put the ability to write JS to rotate/drag/resize the video being played -- like that for photos in that Microsoft table demo, whatever it was called. With JavaScript, it should be possible to mix SVG in. Too bad text resizing affects SVG in a bad way now, but as they are implementing full zoom (and it did work already), there is still a chance for Gran Paradiso.
Just wait for the part 4 of the Civil Code, coming here in 2008... It probably is going to kill that site. Not to mention locking 15 years of public domain up into copyright again.
> Moz: "You're using some mods to Mozilla with the official logo, stop it."
I don't know the story for sure, but wouldn't Debian want to never include an official Mozilla logo with the trademark policy, because that violates DFSG?
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I think that's the principal and only reason for creating the licenses and getting them approved: make a non-GPLv3 license, give people a reason to prefer it (shortness)... after some time, if people are stupid enough (only caring about the word "open"), and Microsoft is lucky enough, most software looks "open", but does not actively attack their monopoly.
Not only, though.
Have you never configured a program?..
That means someone else has made this before them.
Thus we had it around a long time ago. When?
Point. Except that:
For some, the default icons are just not pretty enough, and those whom they ask about that don't know or care about the "pretty" ones.
I roll my eyes anytime somebody calls GNU/Linux "CLI".
fastfinge> I used to have a program that would play a musical note every time someone hit a port. so for each port it would have a different note
fastfinge> i put it in the dmz
fastfinge> much musical entertainment
fastfinge> I should find the source for that thing again. i could change midi intruments depending on the type of packet.
fastfinge> or maybe create length and timbre data from the source IP?
2006-09-20
Who cares?
Even if I don't fully agree with the analogy.
"Take a break" programs like those anti-RSI things like gnome-typing-monitor?
It is hardly a question that it will feature a different car, with a different voice, with a different behavior etc.
The first episode will explain that.
But it will be cancelled.
Because the reason would be that...
...after one of those rare accidents where restoration from some hard to find backup is needed...
...it is found to be impossible because of the DRM installed during the last one.
Average users don't bother to read any EULA on software. If the product does not work because of that, or if the user is sued because of that, is it the product's problem?
Do you really want to help AOL, Warner Bros., Time ("The person of the year is... a computer!", "...you!", etc.), CNN?..
I hope the video tag gets into Firefox and Opera. They (Mozilla) were also going to put the ability to write JS to rotate/drag/resize the video being played -- like that for photos in that Microsoft table demo, whatever it was called. With JavaScript, it should be possible to mix SVG in. Too bad text resizing affects SVG in a bad way now, but as they are implementing full zoom (and it did work already), there is still a chance for Gran Paradiso.
That's not an alternative to Flash. That's a free player for a proprietary format, that creates more lock-in.
Wow, there was a news server in the first Tornado BBS versions?!
Just wait for the part 4 of the Civil Code, coming here in 2008... It probably is going to kill that site. Not to mention locking 15 years of public domain up into copyright again.
Screenshots.
"somewhat ironically Novell" -- yes, somewhat. What is Sony doing there?
You are talking about newbie Windows-haters, not FOSSies. You are talking about people who probably don't know what FOSS is, don't you?
> Moz: "You're using some mods to Mozilla with the official logo, stop it."
I don't know the story for sure, but wouldn't Debian want to never include an official Mozilla logo with the trademark policy, because that violates DFSG?
(EPILEPSY WARNING) http://www.ibch.ru/hscool/guru/AtH/index.html http://www.ibch.ru/hscool/guru/AtH/files/HYPNOICE. ZIP
A 119 byte COM file... Very strong. Works best in DOS, though (not good in dosbox on Debian).
...they still couldn't avoid the word "property" in their OSS website announcement.