Microsoft has already tried to settle out of court, but Eolas' goal is to destroy IE.
When you think Microsoft is evil and there is nobody lower, you look at Eols to find that they even sunk below Microsoft. Can't Microsoft just buy Eols and fire all their employees and have this nightmare be over with.
Also, Eolas has only one employee, the president and CEO who's leading the suit. It's a one man operation.
Plus: The worst case scenario would be Eolas being bought by Microsoft because the patent would live on in the hands of Microsoft. The best thing can happen is the small fish biting the big one, even if we think is unfair, but for once the big corporations need to be hit by these stupid patents for the system (read: the people that makes the decisions) to move.
This is a Good Thing, a big player is being threatened by the stupid patent system, so there's hope now for changes to be made.
The sad part is all those small players that have been fscked by the system; the decision makers only listen to the big fish.
Actually any Joe User can install Mandrake 9.2 and use the "High" level of security (which basically closes all ports except for SSH) and have a more secure system than your average Windows installation.
Of course, OpenSSH remote exploits appear once or twice a year, but that would be about it...
In 7 years they have created a wonderful desktop. For some years now we have olny used Linux at home and at office, and my wife (designer) and my son (7 years old) use it comfortably thanks to KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla et al.
Thanks for a wonderful product, and for demonstrating that a holy war (QT license, QT vs GTK, KDE vs Gnome, etc) should not deminish your efforts.
What I would love to see is a 100,000+ lines project written in PHP being mantained by one or two developers. You can't do that without strict typing.
PHP is perfect for small projects, but when you have huge requerements and a ton of lines to mantain, that's when the real scalability shows off. You can build a 1,000,000+ lines project in PHP and run it on a distrubuted server and whatnot. But who the hell is going to mantain it??
Well, sometimes these kind of stuff has to happen to the big corporations to realize how screwed is the system. They usually are in the other side of the fence.
On the other side this can be used by Microsoft to finally close up the browser to anybody else. Most likely what used to be plugins (Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Java) will be incorporated in the browser, so Microsoft will have the final word (and license fee) for including any content provider in their code base.
I just switched from my Evolution+Mozilla setup to a Mozilla only setup for email, contacts and web.
It has _everything_ I need and the security tools are better (in my opinion) than the ones provided with Evolution: Evolution can use the external gpg system to sign, check signatures and encrypt, but the Mozilla Messenger uses RSA and Digital Certificates with the registered CAs and Personal Certificates, which is a better approach.
And is free as in speech and as in beer, works for windows and linux, and has a lot of plugins available.
I dont have bluetooth, nor a bluetooth PDA. I do have a $50 cell phone with a $3/month for WAP access and I read my mail, buy movie tickets, send e-mail and even browse pr0n with it.
That statement is so full of crap. Tha Free Software movement is, by definition, extremist.
How are the GNU ideals lessened for keeping the original views? The GNU project is about freedom, is not about taking over the desktop or making Microsoft go bankrupt. It's about CHOICE, and it has been extremely successful at that.
Do you run Linux, BSD or any othe UNIX clone? chances are that you are using the ls, grep, mv, cp, cd, find, etc versions from the GNU project. Have you ever realised the contribution made from RMS to your day to day work? Maybe if you don't use free software you will not notice, but a lot of us live from it, and we are thankful.
Even if we do not share the same political views as others we can benefit from their achivements. Their ideals may lead them to create and do wonderful things, and in this case RMS deserves all the respect and recognition we can give him.
Kudos to RMS!!! You may not share his views (I DO share them), but no one can argue he has helped to make this a better world
The GNU project is 100% political, it's not about creating a clone of the 'ls' command, is about setting the foundations to a Free Software world.
Hail RMS, for he has done what few of us could have, he has dedicated his life to provide us qith a choice, be it a choice from IBM, UNIX or Microsoft. it's a choice for freedom, and a lot of us, who have made the choice, live and subsist now thanks to it.
Thanks for providing us with the tools that make our jobs easier, and our lives freer. I use GNNU/Linux in a day to day basis, it feeds me and my family, it gives us a roof, it has helped me pay for theschool of my sons and the car we just bought.
Thanks GNU amd Linux... thanks RMS and Linus for giving us a choice, and thanks to all of them who have helped these dreams endure.
When the anthropologists look back on the 1980s and 1990s and do the archaeological digs, and get their callipers and brooms and microscopes out, they will blame the massive reduction in productivity during the 1980s and 1990s entirely on Microsoft Office.
Sad to say I think a lot of EU politicians think the US is cool, it has all the things they care about - rich fatcat politicians, a powerless electorate and media control
A lot of people don't think the US is cool, they are known as "the terrorists".
If your politicians don't like the US then you are living in a dictatorship, terrorist regime. That's the way it is. I'm in Venezuela, I should know....
Thanks a lot, I believe I'll be picking it up as it's the style I'm trying to move right now. I just finished reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's "The Club Dumas".
My reading style has been more of Lovecraft, Thomas Hardy, Bierce, Maupassant, Blackwood, Shelley, Poe and a lot of Gothic writers for the past 3 or 4 years (before that I was busy reading all the Asimov, Tolkien, Arthur C. Clark and the like I could, and even earlier I was on a Dumas, Hammet, Conan Doyle,...).
I have reading cycles and I'm looking for a new style right now. The Club Dumas was alright, but in my opinion focused too little on the book from the devil (and I was left with the feeling that the ending was written on a hurry).
I have read great things about Eco but wanted to do some research before picking it up, but now I really want to read "Island". I have heard about "Rose", maybe I'll pick it up later.
I have never read anything from Umberto Eco, and saw "The island of the day before" on the bookstore and I'm thinking of giving it a shot, is it a good starting point for Eco?
The problem of spam is NOT a technical one. It is a moral one and its solution therefore lies in the legal system
Since when moral problems are a matter of the legal system?. Do you know anything about the Inquisition? Why does the legal system has to get its hands on the moral issues of our societies? Do you agree with the laws that forbid oral sex on some countries? That's a moral issue, and is being addressed with the legal system.
Remember when women could not vote? Back then it was "morally" correct (most males with power were idiots), so is it right to make laws to forbid them from voting? How about african-americans?
The spam problem is in fact a moral problem, but you should not make our society adapt to it, we should adapt our technology to it.
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That line is from Newsradio, not from "soylent green" (they never say "soylent green IS people", do they?).
It's from the Radio-From Outer Space episode
What I am thinking is ... can we use the CowboyNeal option this time?
Greetings fellow Newsradio nerd!!!
Microsoft has already tried to settle out of court, but Eolas' goal is to destroy IE.
When you think Microsoft is evil and there is nobody lower, you look at Eols to find that they even sunk below Microsoft. Can't Microsoft just buy Eols and fire all their employees and have this nightmare be over with.
Also, Eolas has only one employee, the president and CEO who's leading the suit. It's a one man operation.
Plus: The worst case scenario would be Eolas being bought by Microsoft because the patent would live on in the hands of Microsoft. The best thing can happen is the small fish biting the big one, even if we think is unfair, but for once the big corporations need to be hit by these stupid patents for the system (read: the people that makes the decisions) to move.
This is a Good Thing, a big player is being threatened by the stupid patent system, so there's hope now for changes to be made.
The sad part is all those small players that have been fscked by the system; the decision makers only listen to the big fish.
Actually any Joe User can install Mandrake 9.2 and use the "High" level of security (which basically closes all ports except for SSH) and have a more secure system than your average Windows installation.
...
Of course, OpenSSH remote exploits appear once or twice a year, but that would be about it
In 7 years they have created a wonderful desktop. For some years now we have olny used Linux at home and at office, and my wife (designer) and my son (7 years old) use it comfortably thanks to KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla et al.
Thanks for a wonderful product, and for demonstrating that a holy war (QT license, QT vs GTK, KDE vs Gnome, etc) should not deminish your efforts.
This is a spammer. Check for the amazon link:
1 9/ ccats-2010-20
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/01314290
The referres is: ccats-2010-20
Wonder who thinks spam is Informative.
What I would love to see is a 100,000+ lines project written in PHP being mantained by one or two developers. You can't do that without strict typing.
PHP is perfect for small projects, but when you have huge requerements and a ton of lines to mantain, that's when the real scalability shows off. You can build a 1,000,000+ lines project in PHP and run it on a distrubuted server and whatnot. But who the hell is going to mantain it??
Well, sometimes these kind of stuff has to happen to the big corporations to realize how screwed is the system. They usually are in the other side of the fence.
On the other side this can be used by Microsoft to finally close up the browser to anybody else. Most likely what used to be plugins (Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Java) will be incorporated in the browser, so Microsoft will have the final word (and license fee) for including any content provider in their code base.
I just switched from my Evolution+Mozilla setup to a Mozilla only setup for email, contacts and web.
It has _everything_ I need and the security tools are better (in my opinion) than the ones provided with Evolution: Evolution can use the external gpg system to sign, check signatures and encrypt, but the Mozilla Messenger uses RSA and Digital Certificates with the registered CAs and Personal Certificates, which is a better approach.
And is free as in speech and as in beer, works for windows and linux, and has a lot of plugins available.
I dont have bluetooth, nor a bluetooth PDA. I do have a $50 cell phone with a $3/month for WAP access and I read my mail, buy movie tickets, send e-mail and even browse pr0n with it.
No it says: "Why is it called Ovaltine ... it's not round, it's oval, so it should be called Roundtene"
That should be (Score:6E10, Funny) ... now everyone is looking at me at the office ...
... you insensitive clod !!!!
(no, I'm not)
You can call it what you want. No license makes you call it GNU/Linux.
...
Personally I think GNU/Linux is a great nama, that describes exactly what you have: a Linux kernel with a GNU userspace.
But you should be happy with whatever floats your boat
I'm saying I'm making a living out of the GNU project, using and creating solutions based on the original philosophy. And I'm grateful.
Could I possibly make a living without it? maybe, but the fact is, I make a living and my family makes a living. I must thank RMS for starting it all.
That statement is so full of crap. Tha Free Software movement is, by definition, extremist.
How are the GNU ideals lessened for keeping the original views? The GNU project is about freedom, is not about taking over the desktop or making Microsoft go bankrupt. It's about CHOICE, and it has been extremely successful at that.
Do you run Linux, BSD or any othe UNIX clone? chances are that you are using the ls, grep, mv, cp, cd, find, etc versions from the GNU project. Have you ever realised the contribution made from RMS to your day to day work? Maybe if you don't use free software you will not notice, but a lot of us live from it, and we are thankful.
Even if we do not share the same political views as others we can benefit from their achivements. Their ideals may lead them to create and do wonderful things, and in this case RMS deserves all the respect and recognition we can give him.
Kudos to RMS!!! You may not share his views (I DO share them), but no one can argue he has helped to make this a better world
GNU is not about software. GNU is about choice.
The GNU project is 100% political, it's not about creating a clone of the 'ls' command, is about setting the foundations to a Free Software world.
Hail RMS, for he has done what few of us could have, he has dedicated his life to provide us qith a choice, be it a choice from IBM, UNIX or Microsoft. it's a choice for freedom, and a lot of us, who have made the choice, live and subsist now thanks to it.
Thank you RMS
... thanks RMS and Linus for giving us a choice, and thanks to all of them who have helped these dreams endure.
Really, I can't thank hime enough.
Thanks for providing us with the tools that make our jobs easier, and our lives freer. I use GNNU/Linux in a day to day basis, it feeds me and my family, it gives us a roof, it has helped me pay for theschool of my sons and the car we just bought.
Thanks GNU amd Linux
Sad to say I think a lot of EU politicians think the US is cool, it has all the things they care about - rich fatcat politicians, a powerless electorate and media control
....
A lot of people don't think the US is cool, they are known as "the terrorists".
If your politicians don't like the US then you are living in a dictatorship, terrorist regime. That's the way it is. I'm in Venezuela, I should know
I'm your chef!!
Thanks a lot, I believe I'll be picking it up as it's the style I'm trying to move right now. I just finished reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's "The Club Dumas".
...).
My reading style has been more of Lovecraft, Thomas Hardy, Bierce, Maupassant, Blackwood, Shelley, Poe and a lot of Gothic writers for the past 3 or 4 years (before that I was busy reading all the Asimov, Tolkien, Arthur C. Clark and the like I could, and even earlier I was on a Dumas, Hammet, Conan Doyle,
I have reading cycles and I'm looking for a new style right now. The Club Dumas was alright, but in my opinion focused too little on the book from the devil (and I was left with the feeling that the ending was written on a hurry).
I have read great things about Eco but wanted to do some research before picking it up, but now I really want to read "Island". I have heard about "Rose", maybe I'll pick it up later.
Thanks a lot!!!
I have never read anything from Umberto Eco, and saw "The island of the day before" on the bookstore and I'm thinking of giving it a shot, is it a good starting point for Eco?
The problem of spam is NOT a technical one. It is a moral one and its solution therefore lies in the legal system
Since when moral problems are a matter of the legal system?. Do you know anything about the Inquisition? Why does the legal system has to get its hands on the moral issues of our societies? Do you agree with the laws that forbid oral sex on some countries? That's a moral issue, and is being addressed with the legal system.
Remember when women could not vote? Back then it was "morally" correct (most males with power were idiots), so is it right to make laws to forbid them from voting? How about african-americans?
The spam problem is in fact a moral problem, but you should not make our society adapt to it, we should adapt our technology to it.