They do. They make decisions regardless of what consumers want (iMac floppy), that are bad for their own business (Mac clones), and will enivitabely cause their future bankrupcy (inability to work well with others). If they want Quicktime to be popular, then they have to let other people use it. Are they morons or something? Eventually people are just going to stop using Quicktime (I really don't know why anyone uses it in the first place).
I thought Apple was warming up to Linux by supporting LinuxPPC/mkLinux. You'd think they'd want Quicktime to be a CROSS-PLATFORM video codec. But no, Apple is just being Apple - stupid.
Oh well, I give em 5 more years before they shoot themselves in the head once in for all.
I think they want to get rid of the GNU part
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Cygnus Name Change
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I guess they don't want to be so closely associated with the Open Source community that it alienates other companies. I can see the reasoning.
MS Access, IIS, Front Page should be expected
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Yes this is a good assumption. I'll bet they're developing a whole suite of tools for Linux: Office, IE, Front Page, IIS, MS Access Database, all rolled into a complete MS-Linux distribution shrink wrapped in stores for $300.
This will be Microsoft's answer to Linux... and it will probably work.
MS is trying to cover their ass, just in case this Linux fad actually does destroy the Windows era. They obviously aren't going to sit around and watch their empire decay. MS can always be counted on for a very strong retaliation.
I have absolutely no doubt that Microsoft has a special task force of psychologists, mad scientists, mathematitions, analysts and prophets, who's sole duty is to draw up conclusions and predictions of the future Microsoft and come up with new business models - basically thinking up diabolical plans to penetrate into sacred areas of the computing industry where it does not belong.
Microsoft can very well see into the future as much as we can. They are obviously planning ahead for the future demise of Windows. They need to get their feet wet with Linux, so that they can further develop a plan and orchaestrate a systematic envasion of the Linux OS - similarly to what they did (or at least tried) to do with Java. Good thing that backfired on them, hopefully that'll keep them cautious.
It'll be interesting to see how it unravels though. The prospect of MSOffice for Linux will bring a new wave of interest, and make it truely viable for many businesses to make their desktop systems all Linux.
Well propriety wasn't what I meant - rather the software that it produced. Yes any GPL'd software is open source and such. But by using it for all their software, we'll have to install Gnome and such to take advantage of RedHat's software (I like linuxconf/netcfg etc, which were by RedHat were they not?). It's just a simple example of how a big company can influence everyone. Good thing for the GPL though it will help moderate this influence.
Red Hat's rise to Linux power is a perfect example of modern day Darwinian Selection. Eventually one distribution *has* to win. Just as Microsoft Windows won the DOS/OS2/Mac/Amiga race of the 80's/90's, Red Hat is winning the Linux race of today. One team comes up with a solution that's better than the rest, and then everyone start standardizing on them, and then anyone who doesn't is left up the creek without a paddle. Is this a bad thing? Maybe. But it's something that we have to accept if we want Linux in the corporate/commercial arena.
I've already been experiencing "Red Hat Monopoly Syndrome", albeit minor, when a very large program (that I'm not willing to compile on my slow computer) is distributed only in Redhat binary packages, and for some reason or other the rpm's won't install under any other distribution except Red Hat. I'm pretty sure all the packages on Red Hat's CD's were purposely built this way to discourage installing them in other distributions.
Red Hat also appears to be using it's weight to kill KDE. We all know the Qt story. Redhat wants to control the desktop. And they will no doubt encourage/force (whichever is your choice of words) its users to use Gnome and Enlightenment (the stuff it's putting money/time into) by making all of it's proprietory software Gnome compliant. And since most people will probably standardize on whatever Red Hat uses we will be stuck in a world full of mostly Gnome and E. Not to speak harshly about Gnome or E though, they're kinda cool. I can live with that but I don't want KDE, WindowMaker and others to shrivel up and die.
These issues should concern us. We can learn what not to do by observing Microsoft. They have a monopoly, and eventually all monoplies must come crashing down. We can already see the walls holding up Microsoft starting to buckle. And I certainly don't want RedHat to become the next Microsoft.
I propose to start "The Coilition Against First Post AC's". Some tactics I can think of to rid/. of this scum:
Insert code into the comments coding check the first 10 or so comments posted.
If any of these messages...
(1) are from an AC (2) contain any of the following words: "first, post, 1st, yahoo, whoopie, loser, lamer" (3) are less than 100 characters
...then delete the message entirely.
I also propose that/. run a Poll asking what to do about these obviously pathetic forms of life with nothing better to do than to abuse a wonderfully informative website.
I've been having various problems mostly due to required libraries for rpm installs, programs that won't work worth a darn, rpms that don't find libraries that I in fact do have, in both RedHat and SuSE. I end up having to --force every rpm to install, and then things get really messed up. I can't back out of an install because it breaks the compatibility of many other programs linked to it and in the end everything becomes a huge, blurred, irrevicably damaged mess of links and duplicate files and so on and the RPM database is rendered useless.
Is Debian's packager better in these respect?
Until I recieve a court order, I'm doing nothing
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I wrote my own Tetris a while ago, so this issue is of particular concern to me. I have it on my website, but don't charge for it (how the hell are ya going to get anyone to buy a regular tetris game anyway?). I have not made a penny from making it, and never will - only wrote it for something fun to program and play. And until I recieve a court order to remove it, it's going to stay right where it is.
I assume this is a small company, there's no way they have the resources to take every person who's ever written a tetris-like game to court. So I believe this is mostly a bluff.
I don't understand why they have such a beef with us "tetris cloners" anyway. Why don't they spend their time making a newer version and sell it rather than removing all tetris clones and not making any money.
How could they not think that they'd run into legal issues? I might not be smart enough to write an emulator, but I'm certainly not brainless enough to know that it would probably cause a lot of legal/financial troubles down the line.
If it was just for the fun and challenge of writing such an emulator, they should have just distributed UltraHLE anonymously under an alias instead of posting it on their website.
I am planning to buy a TNT based video card soon. I have been contemplating which one to buy, but seeing this news makes the choice a whole lot easier.
Creative is moving in the right direction, I hope they reconsider and open-source the drivers... although I guess they don't want release Linux drivers for their cards and thus support every manufacturer's other card that uses the same chipset. Their work/time/money would be benifit other companies as much as it would their own. I can sympathize.
Really what should happen is the chip makers release generic drivers for the chipsets. Overall this is good though. In the long run it won't really be an issue though, eventually every chip maker/manufacturer will be forced to make Linux drivers due to demand (it'll happen). Those who don't will be at a weakness as Linux support is viewed more and more important.
...when I can go onto the net, and download the complete album from any mainstream artist for like 5 bucks, and all that money goes straight to the artist rather than me paying most of my money to the record label, distributors etc. I know that's what mp3.com and goodnoise are trying to do, but it'll take a while before this happens with mainstream bands.
David Bowie must be so rich by now, why doesn't he drop is label and be the first "big-time" artist to do this?
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They do. They make decisions regardless of what consumers want (iMac floppy), that are bad for their own business (Mac clones), and will enivitabely cause their future bankrupcy (inability to work well with others). If they want Quicktime to be popular, then they have to let other people use it. Are they morons or something? Eventually people are just going to stop using Quicktime (I really don't know why anyone uses it in the first place).
I thought Apple was warming up to Linux by supporting LinuxPPC/mkLinux. You'd think they'd want Quicktime to be a CROSS-PLATFORM video codec. But no, Apple is just being Apple - stupid.
Oh well, I give em 5 more years before they shoot themselves in the head once in for all.
I guess they don't want to be so closely associated with the Open Source community that it alienates other companies. I can see the reasoning.
I dunno all these american terms.
Yes this is a good assumption. I'll bet they're developing a whole suite of tools for Linux: Office, IE, Front Page, IIS, MS Access Database, all rolled into a complete MS-Linux distribution shrink wrapped in stores for $300.
This will be Microsoft's answer to Linux... and it will probably work.
MS is trying to cover their ass, just in case this Linux fad actually does destroy the Windows era. They obviously aren't going to sit around and watch their empire decay. MS can always be counted on for a very strong retaliation.
I have absolutely no doubt that Microsoft has a special task force of psychologists, mad scientists, mathematitions, analysts and prophets, who's sole duty is to draw up conclusions and predictions of the future Microsoft and come up with new business models - basically thinking up diabolical plans to penetrate into sacred areas of the computing industry where it does not belong.
Microsoft can very well see into the future as much as we can. They are obviously planning ahead for the future demise of Windows. They need to get their feet wet with Linux, so that they can further develop a plan and orchaestrate a systematic envasion of the Linux OS - similarly to what they did (or at least tried) to do with Java. Good thing that backfired on them, hopefully that'll keep them cautious.
It'll be interesting to see how it unravels though. The prospect of MSOffice for Linux will bring a new wave of interest, and make it truely viable for many businesses to make their desktop systems all Linux.
Well propriety wasn't what I meant - rather the software that it produced. Yes any GPL'd software is open source and such. But by using it for all their software, we'll have to install Gnome and such to take advantage of RedHat's software (I like linuxconf/netcfg etc, which were by RedHat were they not?). It's just a simple example of how a big company can influence everyone. Good thing for the GPL though it will help moderate this influence.
Red Hat's rise to Linux power is a perfect example of modern day Darwinian Selection. Eventually one distribution *has* to win. Just as Microsoft Windows won the DOS/OS2/Mac/Amiga race of the 80's/90's, Red Hat is winning the Linux race of today. One team comes up with a solution that's better than the rest, and then everyone start standardizing on them, and then anyone who doesn't is left up the creek without a paddle. Is this a bad thing? Maybe. But it's something that we have to accept if we want Linux in the corporate/commercial arena.
I've already been experiencing "Red Hat Monopoly Syndrome", albeit minor, when a very large program (that I'm not willing to compile on my slow computer) is distributed only in Redhat binary packages, and for some reason or other the rpm's won't install under any other distribution except Red Hat. I'm pretty sure all the packages on Red Hat's CD's were purposely built this way to discourage installing them in other distributions.
Red Hat also appears to be using it's weight to kill KDE. We all know the Qt story. Redhat wants to control the desktop. And they will no doubt encourage/force (whichever is your choice of words) its users to use Gnome and Enlightenment (the stuff it's putting money/time into) by making all of it's proprietory software Gnome compliant. And since most people will probably standardize on whatever Red Hat uses we will be stuck in a world full of mostly Gnome and E. Not to speak harshly about Gnome or E though, they're kinda cool. I can live with that but I don't want KDE, WindowMaker and others to shrivel up and die.
These issues should concern us. We can learn what not to do by observing Microsoft. They have a monopoly, and eventually all monoplies must come crashing down. We can already see the walls holding up Microsoft starting to buckle. And I certainly don't want RedHat to become the next Microsoft.
I propose to start "The Coilition Against First Post AC's". Some tactics I can think of to rid /. of this scum:
/. run a Poll asking what to do about these obviously pathetic forms of life with nothing better to do than to abuse a wonderfully informative website.
Insert code into the comments coding check the first 10 or so comments posted.
If any of these messages...
(1) are from an AC
(2) contain any of the following words:
"first, post, 1st, yahoo, whoopie, loser, lamer"
(3) are less than 100 characters
...then delete the message entirely.
I also propose that
I've been having various problems mostly due to required libraries for rpm installs, programs that won't work worth a darn, rpms that don't find libraries that I in fact do have, in both RedHat and SuSE. I end up having to --force every rpm to install, and then things get really messed up. I can't back out of an install because it breaks the compatibility of many other programs linked to it and in the end everything becomes a huge, blurred, irrevicably damaged mess of links and duplicate files and so on and the RPM database is rendered useless.
Is Debian's packager better in these respect?
I wrote my own Tetris a while ago, so this issue is of particular concern to me. I have it on my website, but don't charge for it (how the hell are ya going to get anyone to buy a regular tetris game anyway?). I have not made a penny from making it, and never will - only wrote it for something fun to program and play. And until I recieve a court order to remove it, it's going to stay right where it is.
I assume this is a small company, there's no way they have the resources to take every person who's ever written a tetris-like game to court. So I believe this is mostly a bluff.
I don't understand why they have such a beef with us "tetris cloners" anyway. Why don't they spend their time making a newer version and sell it rather than removing all tetris clones and not making any money.
How could they not think that they'd run into legal issues? I might not be smart enough to write an emulator, but I'm certainly not brainless enough to know that it would probably cause a lot of legal/financial troubles down the line.
If it was just for the fun and challenge of writing such an emulator, they should have just distributed UltraHLE anonymously under an alias instead of posting it on their website.
I am planning to buy a TNT based video card soon. I have been contemplating which one to buy, but seeing this news makes the choice a whole lot easier.
Creative is moving in the right direction, I hope they reconsider and open-source the drivers... although I guess they don't want release Linux drivers for their cards and thus support every manufacturer's other card that uses the same chipset. Their work/time/money would be benifit other companies as much as it would their own. I can sympathize.
Really what should happen is the chip makers release generic drivers for the chipsets. Overall this is good though. In the long run it won't really be an issue though, eventually every chip maker/manufacturer will be forced to make Linux drivers due to demand (it'll happen). Those who don't will be at a weakness as Linux support is viewed more and more important.
...when I can go onto the net, and download the complete album from any mainstream artist for like 5 bucks, and all that money goes straight to the artist rather than me paying most of my money to the record label, distributors etc. I know that's what mp3.com and goodnoise are trying to do, but it'll take a while before this happens with mainstream bands.
David Bowie must be so rich by now, why doesn't he drop is label and be the first "big-time" artist to do this?