Yes, but the issue here is that people will use the browser they want. They don't know or care about web standards. They will keep using their favorite browser, while using firefox/another browser for those sites that don't support IE. Less intelligent people will just think the site is broken. Unfortunately, most developers would probably be fired if they refused to support IE. I'd like to think that the open market will work things out but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Ok, let me clear it up, Opera is suing MS over their lack of standards compliance, not browser monopoly. Web standards are probably the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to IE. There aren't many good JS debuggers for IE (there are, but I don't find them very bug free). I think getting organizations to support this is a good thing, although in the end it'll probably slip through the cracks...
I believe so, but remember the notices apply to anything, visible or non-visible to the end user. If you have the license shown on like an 'about' section of the program with a copyright/license notice, that must be kept intact.
4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
So in other words you can modify it and sell it, but if it's copywriten under your name and he removed that, then it's breaking the GPL and you can sue him.
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Yes, but the issue here is that people will use the browser they want. They don't know or care about web standards. They will keep using their favorite browser, while using firefox/another browser for those sites that don't support IE. Less intelligent people will just think the site is broken. Unfortunately, most developers would probably be fired if they refused to support IE. I'd like to think that the open market will work things out but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Ok, let me clear it up, Opera is suing MS over their lack of standards compliance, not browser monopoly. Web standards are probably the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to IE. There aren't many good JS debuggers for IE (there are, but I don't find them very bug free). I think getting organizations to support this is a good thing, although in the end it'll probably slip through the cracks...
I believe so, but remember the notices apply to anything, visible or non-visible to the end user. If you have the license shown on like an 'about' section of the program with a copyright/license notice, that must be kept intact.
4. Conveying Verbatim Copies. You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program. You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee. So in other words you can modify it and sell it, but if it's copywriten under your name and he removed that, then it's breaking the GPL and you can sue him.
but isn't ET:QW primarily developed by Splash Damage?