The good news is that most of those patents are violated by MONO and when Microsoft hoists them up as an example the debate on whether that was ever a good idea will be settled once and for all.
"Another system" would be another application that the user has already authenticated to - an employee portal, for instance. "preauth keys" are basically an encrypted session key that tells zimbra that a trusted application has authenticated the user and can vouch for their identity.
"Preauth" is a hook that will allow Zimbra to share authentication with pretty much anything. It's an API so it can be as secure (or insecure) as you like.
Seems rather disingenuous to use TiVo as the poster child for this issue when Linus doesn't necessarily agree with RMS on this and it's primarily the license of his software that's being "trampled all over".
Torvalds: TiVo has the DRM issue (media companies have strong-armed them into not being as useful as they could be), but the thing that clashes with some in the FOSS community is that they make it hard to upgrade their box with another version of Linux. Which I personally think is OK--they made the box, they choose how to upgrade it. I only care that they give the source code back, not that they make it easy, or necessarily even possible, to play with their hardware. Again, it's the "reciprocity of source code" versus the "freedom of software" thing.
Is it the position of the GNU folks that nobody should be able to use GPL software to provide services for a profit, or that if they do, they shouldn't be able to secure it against hacking that would permit theft of that service?
Rubbish. The MS fan boys have been hand waving away legitimate concerns about patent and licensing liability in Mono since day one. Now Novell has made it absolutely clear that Mono has patent and/or licensing liabilities and they still want to dismiss very real issues as FUD.
Not all parts of the.Net environment are covered under ISO/ECMA standards. Even if it were completely covered, the notion that Microsoft won't violate it's own standards or ignore a toothless standards organization if it pleases is just foolish.
You can't "fix" a patent violation. Once it's done, it's done and you're liable. Assuming that there's some work-around you might be able to remove future liability but depending on the nature of the patent there's no guarantee that's practical or even possible.
One of the common excuses for directing OSS mindshare to MicroSoft IP encumbered technology has been that "Java is just as bad." That excuse has now been eliminated. It's time to stop wasting OSS resources helping Microsoft and Novell build elaborate IP traps.
That's nice to hear, but unfortunately the Fedora project is well down the primrose path called Mono, so you've already compromised for short-term convenience.
Add OpenNMS to the list of stuff that this duplicates or overlaps with. Not that anyone in OSS needs permission to reinvent the wheel. You've got an itch - you scratch as it pleases you.
...there is nothing that says Parrot has less patent problems than Mono.
This is pure FUD. Please be more specific on patented technologies and algorithms that are used by both Mono and Parrot. Bytecode? There are plenty of langauges that use bytecode through either JIT or VM mechanisms and I haven't seen any indication that any of them have run into patent problems over that technology. There's just too much prior art.
Mono is reproducing patented.Net APIs. The Mono folks are allowing themselves to be led into a maze of patents and IP where Microsoft defines the start and end points at will.
This is the same way we handle it. Each application has a user and group. We allocate a filesystem (or two, or three) for that application and they have ownership. They have sudo rights to su to the application user and to run as that user (sudo -u).
Once you take away the root crutch the developers learn to work in an environment with group access control. They get used to it and the need for outside intervention for chmods and such becomes minimal.
One of the rare instances where actual root access is needed are for servers that require low port access. In that case we give them sudo rights to run a startup script that is controlled by that admins.
Same with the file dialog. Apparently it's too "confusing" to let users
just type the filename. So gnome forces you to do the icon selection
thing, never mind that it's a million times slower.
Not really true. If you bring up a Gnome file dialog and just start typing a file name Gnome will open a text box and allow you to enter the file name with tab completion.
It's a very slick example of what Gnome needs to do more of. Gnome has focused its efforts on simplifing the interface for the masses. They've made good progress but the masses seem unimpressed.
It's time to think about finding elegant ways to put that power back in while keeping it transparent to the masses.
The Rio Karma plays MP3s gapless. It also had Ogg Vorbis support and a parametric equalizer. But nobody cares about audio features. Only old farts want to listen to entire albums and old farts don't buy DAPs. So Rio went belly up.
The good news is that their firmware developers got sold off to Sigmatel so there is hope that the Karma feature set could show up on other players eventually.
I would bet on it to be the other way around. But the iPodd Ano will look so damn cool hanging out your ass that all your cool friends will want one. Absolutely everyone who is anyone will be walking around in assless pants to show how hip they are with their rectums stuffed full of 20 gig worth of DRM'd dreck.
Yep. They're fishing for PR. Image thumbnailing is fair use and Google has a process for responding to complaints of infringement. Nobody is going to declare the entire concept of a search engine as infringing.
Maybe Google should counter-sue "Perfect 10" for false advertising. None of their girls are Perfect and most of them aren't "tens".
Since it's in danger of getting lost among all the "My desktop can beat up yours" rubbish, it bares repeating: RedHat has not reduced their support for GNOME. They still ship GNOME as the default desktop in their Enterprise Desktop and Workstation products.
Spinning off Fedora has nothing to do with ReHat's support for GNOME. The editors should be ashamed for posting a submission that implies that it does without calling BS.
Reading about politics on slashdot is like reading about technology on politicalforum.com. The only thing funnier than some of the opinions is what geeks will mod to "Insightful".
You've hit the nail on the head, but failure to adapt great technology into good products was just a symptom of a larger problem.
All of the Ma Bell spin-offs suffered from a corporate culter born and bred in a monopoly. In that environment you can afford developing technology that never turns into a viable product. As long as you're meeting the needs of your business and the equipment lasts 20 years, it's all good.
But beyond failing to transform technology into product, the challenge for the Ma Bell spin-offs was transforming their entire management culture. Turning Bell System managers dedicated to putting in their 25 years and then collecting their pension into managers who could thrive in a competitive marketplace was no easy task. Hanging on waiting for your pension or your buy-out was the real management goal for most AT&T management after the break-up.
So most of the spin-offs ended up bringing in outside management who brought with them hot flavor-of-the-month ideas that they had picked up in the latest management seminars. They padded their bank accounts and stock portfolios and then they packed up their buzz words and moved on to the next '90s boom company opportunity.
So can Russo Lucent turn into viable company? I don't know. "Services company" sounds like a lot of the buzz words that have gone before. Ultimately someone has to make the products that those services are applied to and it would be a shame if the legacy of Bell Labs was no longer a big part of that.
Mod grandparent up. The great grandparent is a misinformed idiot. The moron who modded it up to "Informative" is also a misinformed idiot. It's likely that nobody but misinformed idiots will get the opportunity to metamoderate the misinformed idiot. That means the misinformed idiot mod will get positive feedback which will further reinforce his ability to spread his idiocy.
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The good news is that most of those patents are violated by MONO and when Microsoft hoists them up as an example the debate on whether that was ever a good idea will be settled once and for all.
"Another system" would be another application that the user has already authenticated to - an employee portal, for instance. "preauth keys" are basically an encrypted session key that tells zimbra that a trusted application has authenticated the user and can vouch for their identity.
"Preauth" is a hook that will allow Zimbra to share authentication with pretty much anything. It's an API so it can be as secure (or insecure) as you like.
Is it the position of the GNU folks that nobody should be able to use GPL software to provide services for a profit, or that if they do, they shouldn't be able to secure it against hacking that would permit theft of that service?
Not all parts of the .Net environment are covered under ISO/ECMA standards. Even if it were completely covered, the notion that Microsoft won't violate it's own standards or ignore a toothless standards organization if it pleases is just foolish.
You can't "fix" a patent violation. Once it's done, it's done and you're liable. Assuming that there's some work-around you might be able to remove future liability but depending on the nature of the patent there's no guarantee that's practical or even possible.
One of the common excuses for directing OSS mindshare to MicroSoft IP encumbered technology has been that "Java is just as bad." That excuse has now been eliminated. It's time to stop wasting OSS resources helping Microsoft and Novell build elaborate IP traps.
That's nice to hear, but unfortunately the Fedora project is well down the primrose path called Mono, so you've already compromised for short-term convenience.
Add OpenNMS to the list of stuff that this duplicates or overlaps with. Not that anyone in OSS needs permission to reinvent the wheel. You've got an itch - you scratch as it pleases you.
If it puts a bullet in the head of the programming roach motel that is "Mono" it will be JIT as far as I'm concerned.
Is there some kind of quota of IE7 stories that you guys have to meet? Because otherwise I'm not sure why anyone would consider this news.
Mono is reproducing patented .Net APIs. The Mono folks are allowing themselves to be led into a maze of patents and IP where Microsoft defines the start and end points at will.
This is the same way we handle it. Each application has a user and group. We allocate a filesystem (or two, or three) for that application and they have ownership. They have sudo rights to su to the application user and to run as that user (sudo -u).
Once you take away the root crutch the developers learn to work in an environment with group access control. They get used to it and the need for outside intervention for chmods and such becomes minimal.
One of the rare instances where actual root access is needed are for servers that require low port access. In that case we give them sudo rights to run a startup script that is controlled by that admins.
It's a very slick example of what Gnome needs to do more of. Gnome has focused its efforts on simplifing the interface for the masses. They've made good progress but the masses seem unimpressed.
It's time to think about finding elegant ways to put that power back in while keeping it transparent to the masses.
With cable card threatening to obsolete cable boxes I would bet that Cisco's primary interest is in the head end, not the set-top box.
The Rio Karma plays MP3s gapless. It also had Ogg Vorbis support and a parametric equalizer. But nobody cares about audio features. Only old farts want to listen to entire albums and old farts don't buy DAPs. So Rio went belly up.
The good news is that their firmware developers got sold off to Sigmatel so there is hope that the Karma feature set could show up on other players eventually.
I would bet on it to be the other way around. But the iPodd Ano will look so damn cool hanging out your ass that all your cool friends will want one. Absolutely everyone who is anyone will be walking around in assless pants to show how hip they are with their rectums stuffed full of 20 gig worth of DRM'd dreck.
Yep. They're fishing for PR. Image thumbnailing is fair use and Google has a process for responding to complaints of infringement. Nobody is going to declare the entire concept of a search engine as infringing.
Maybe Google should counter-sue "Perfect 10" for false advertising. None of their girls are Perfect and most of them aren't "tens".
Since it's in danger of getting lost among all the "My desktop can beat up yours" rubbish, it bares repeating: RedHat has not reduced their support for GNOME. They still ship GNOME as the default desktop in their Enterprise Desktop and Workstation products.
Spinning off Fedora has nothing to do with ReHat's support for GNOME. The editors should be ashamed for posting a submission that implies that it does without calling BS.
And I'm glad I was one of the poor saps who shelled out $50 bucks for the game and then enjoyed the hell out of it.
So you think it's crap, who cares?
Me too. D3 runs great on Cedega. Glad I didn't wait for the "real soon now" Linux binaries.
Reading about politics on slashdot is like reading about technology on politicalforum.com. The only thing funnier than some of the opinions is what geeks will mod to "Insightful".
You've hit the nail on the head, but failure to adapt great technology into good products was just a symptom of a larger problem.
All of the Ma Bell spin-offs suffered from a corporate culter born and bred in a monopoly. In that environment you can afford developing technology that never turns into a viable product. As long as you're meeting the needs of your business and the equipment lasts 20 years, it's all good.
But beyond failing to transform technology into product, the challenge for the Ma Bell spin-offs was transforming their entire management culture. Turning Bell System managers dedicated to putting in their 25 years and then collecting their pension into managers who could thrive in a competitive marketplace was no easy task. Hanging on waiting for your pension or your buy-out was the real management goal for most AT&T management after the break-up.
So most of the spin-offs ended up bringing in outside management who brought with them hot flavor-of-the-month ideas that they had picked up in the latest management seminars. They padded their bank accounts and stock portfolios and then they packed up their buzz words and moved on to the next '90s boom company opportunity.
So can Russo Lucent turn into viable company? I don't know. "Services company" sounds like a lot of the buzz words that have gone before. Ultimately someone has to make the products that those services are applied to and it would be a shame if the legacy of Bell Labs was no longer a big part of that.
And since Microsoft has said that it's not possible to separate the browser from the OS, that would mean...
Right. No blackout here in Columbus. Sort of calls into question the usefulness of the photo.
Mod grandparent up. The great grandparent is a misinformed idiot. The moron who modded it up to "Informative" is also a misinformed idiot. It's likely that nobody but misinformed idiots will get the opportunity to metamoderate the misinformed idiot. That means the misinformed idiot mod will get positive feedback which will further reinforce his ability to spread his idiocy.
MCI will probably save a bundle by building the Iraqi network with GSM equipment being forklifted out to make room for WCDMA "upgrades".
Whatever the future may be, it's certainly not "GSM" as we know it today.