Yes, you can patent an IDEA.
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Versions of PGP prior to 5 used (formerly) patented RSA and (still) patented IDEA; supporting RSA won't get them any closer to compatibility with pre-5.0 keys until the IDEA patent expires. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Appending ASCII bird graphics to signed mails
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Easy. Just place a cute bird in the mail program's.signature, as I did:
Revise your rule (which currently blocks *.js*) to block *.js without blocking *.jsp, perhaps using indexOf() in conjunction length of the string. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Project Gutenberg redistributes only public domain etexts, but thanks to Disney, nothing written in the US on or after January 1, 1923, will ever enter the public domain. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
I would love it if a new legal finding was made that US Patent Law had to be reinterpreted because the original specification had a faded decimal point - that the intent was to provide patents for 1.7 years instead of 17 years.
Not likely. Back when the original patent law was passed setting the "limited times," decimal for years was not common. The patent law drafters would have written "one (1) year and 255 days" were that their intent.
Even though there is a common Winamp plugin (from vorbis.com) to play.ogg files of my band's music, the Napster client does not recognize.ogg. But there's a workaround, right?
I also wonder if the use of Win4Lin doesn't make your system vulnerable to Windows viruses (such as macro viruses in Word): since these applications now have access to your Linux file systems, they can easily destroy your data.
Only if it runs as root. The article over on LMN (which is running squishdot, a slash clone for zope) doesn't say one way or the other.
Almost, except for the credit clause in older BSD licenses... Don't they have to give credit, or is this only if they claim they're using the BSD code?
IV. The Software, or parts thereof, may be incorporated into other software which is not freely redistributable (i.e. software for which a fee is charged), as long as permission is granted from the authors of the Software.
Now, since people can charge a fee for redistributing GPLed software, the definition of "not freely redistributable software" in Clause IV include both the GPL and any license that can dual-license to the GPL. So Clause IV allows the authors as defined in clause XI to issue any license that allows software to be charged for.
Not necessarily. IANAL, but I remember that "without permission" can mean simply "read the license more closely." Your "permission" is granted in the GNU GPL.
GAS doesn't count; that was obviously intended for a compiler to use and it's extremely painful to write code for it; doubly so if you're used to writing Intel syntax rather than AT&T
The newest releases of DJGPP Binutils reportedly support a switch in as to get support for Intel-style assembly syntax. Ask further on the newsgroup. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
AMD Athlon (the closest x86 equivalent to PowerPC G4) doesn't ship in those all-in-one eMachines-type boxen either.
or any of Apple's portables.
Do you see an Athlon laptop? An Alpha laptop? A Sparc laptop? No. G4 is a workstation/server-oriented processor; it uses too much power and produces too much heat to be practical in a mobile device. If "portable" is extended to "any computer that can be moved from desk to desk very easily" which is often one of the main uses of laptops, would a Power Mac G4 Cube with an LCD qualify?
Windows 2000... delivers the same level of DirectX support.
Windows 2000 simply does not yet have the quality of video drivers that Windows 98 has. Its video drivers run in kernelspace (rather than rootspace/userspace as on *N?X) and can bring down the system, and many display adapters are not yet supported at all higher than 16 colors.
Except Qt is copylefted.
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Because Free Qt is copylefted (choice of QPL or GNU GPL), companies still have to pay the Trolls to be able to port their proprietary winsoftware to free*n?x. GTK+ on the other hand, is lesser copylefted under LGPL; it will be more popular for proprietary apps such as your precious games. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
If Apple had released something like that, Microsoft would have just pulled the plug on Microsoft Office for the Mac, and guaranteed that people would have stuck with them anyway.
Not necessarily. Star Trek was during the Windows 3.0/3.1 days when Windows was just barely starting to actually work (remember the old Windows, which was essentially the Solitaire Shell?). Back then, Office was still selling like hotcakes (this was before the Office 4.2 "bastardized Windows on Mac" debacle).
However, should apple ever port Mac Os X, there would be no technically sound reason to buy apple hardware anymore (at least not at the prices they currently sell it).
Answer: AltiVec. The PowerPC G4 processor used in all current desktop Macintosh computers (Power Mac, Cube, iMac) is twice as fast as Pentium II/III even without AltiVec, but AltiVec provides a sh*tload of 128-bit vector power for Photoshop filters. And there's no x86 frontend overhead on the PowerPC (like there is on the Pentium II/III and Athlon, both of which run x86 in hard emulation) so more of the die can be used for power instead of bassackward compatibility.
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Now, for some reasons not to use GPG:
PGP is more well known
Now, for some reasons not to use GNU/Linux:
Windows is more well known
I don't know; it just came out sounding silly.
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Versions of PGP prior to 5 used (formerly) patented RSA and (still) patented IDEA; supporting RSA won't get them any closer to compatibility with pre-5.0 keys until the IDEA patent expires.
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Easy. Just place a cute bird in the mail program's .signature, as I did:
Adopt a normal bird today!<O
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Please use PNG files for your customized advertisements. If you use GIF, Unisys will hunt you down.
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Don't use GIF. Use a small PNG file instead (provided you have a 4.0 or later browser).
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Revise your rule (which currently blocks *.js*) to block *.js without blocking *.jsp, perhaps using indexOf() in conjunction length of the string.
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Project Gutenberg redistributes only public domain etexts, but thanks to Disney, nothing written in the US on or after January 1, 1923, will ever enter the public domain.
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I would love it if a new legal finding was made that US Patent Law had to be reinterpreted because the original specification had a faded decimal point - that the intent was to provide patents for 1.7 years instead of 17 years.
Not likely. Back when the original patent law was passed setting the "limited times," decimal for years was not common. The patent law drafters would have written "one (1) year and 255 days" were that their intent.
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Why not ignore .mp3 and use .ogg for your encoding?
Even though there is a common Winamp plugin (from vorbis.com) to play .ogg files of my band's music, the Napster client does not recognize .ogg. But there's a workaround, right?
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I also wonder if the use of Win4Lin doesn't make your system vulnerable to Windows viruses (such as macro viruses in Word): since these applications now have access to your Linux file systems, they can easily destroy your data.
Only if it runs as root. The article over on LMN (which is running squishdot, a slash clone for zope) doesn't say one way or the other.
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So what VMware does
Is patented. Which is why this program uses sort of a cross between Wine and VMWare.
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Almost, except for the credit clause in older BSD licenses... Don't they have to give credit, or is this only if they claim they're using the BSD code?
Code licensed under any BSD-style license (even the BSDL 2.0 without the advertising clause) requires the original software's copyright notice (© Regents of UC Berkeley or something like that) to be inserted in the documentation. More BSD copyright information can be found at FreeBSD.org.
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Not necessarily. IANAL, but I remember that "without permission" can mean simply "read the license more closely." Your "permission" is granted in the GNU GPL.
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GAS doesn't count; that was obviously intended for a compiler to use and it's extremely painful to write code for it; doubly so if you're used to writing Intel syntax rather than AT&T
Latest binutils (2.10) reportedly supports Intel syntax with a switch.
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The newest releases of DJGPP Binutils reportedly support a switch in as to get support for Intel-style assembly syntax. Ask further on the newsgroup.
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And [G4] doesn't ship in the iMac
AMD Athlon (the closest x86 equivalent to PowerPC G4) doesn't ship in those all-in-one eMachines-type boxen either.
or any of Apple's portables.
Do you see an Athlon laptop? An Alpha laptop? A Sparc laptop? No. G4 is a workstation/server-oriented processor; it uses too much power and produces too much heat to be practical in a mobile device. If "portable" is extended to "any computer that can be moved from desk to desk very easily" which is often one of the main uses of laptops, would a Power Mac G4 Cube with an LCD qualify?
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Windows 2000 ... delivers the same level of DirectX support.
Windows 2000 simply does not yet have the quality of video drivers that Windows 98 has. Its video drivers run in kernelspace (rather than rootspace/userspace as on *N?X) and can bring down the system, and many display adapters are not yet supported at all higher than 16 colors.
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...that Darwin has been compiled for the Intel target, but the compilation itself was done on a PPC box.
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DR DOS.com and DR DOS.org have more information on DR DOS.
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Because Free Qt is copylefted (choice of QPL or GNU GPL), companies still have to pay the Trolls to be able to port their proprietary winsoftware to free*n?x. GTK+ on the other hand, is lesser copylefted under LGPL; it will be more popular for proprietary apps such as your precious games.
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...Kylix apps can be released under GNU GPL. No more and no less.
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KDE has a far superior architecture to GNOME (its main rival), since it is written in C++
And has no C or Ada/GNAT bindings; do the C++ booksellers have stock in Trolltech?
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The Cubes and the G4 towers are cool, but still roughly double the price of an equivalent PC.
Remember: the G4 is about as fast as a PIII of twice the clock speed (remember the snail commercials?).
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If Apple had released something like that, Microsoft would have just pulled the plug on Microsoft Office for the Mac, and guaranteed that people would have stuck with them anyway.
Not necessarily. Star Trek was during the Windows 3.0/3.1 days when Windows was just barely starting to actually work (remember the old Windows, which was essentially the Solitaire Shell?). Back then, Office was still selling like hotcakes (this was before the Office 4.2 "bastardized Windows on Mac" debacle).
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However, should apple ever port Mac Os X, there would be no technically sound reason to buy apple hardware anymore (at least not at the prices they currently sell it).
Answer: AltiVec. The PowerPC G4 processor used in all current desktop Macintosh computers (Power Mac, Cube, iMac) is twice as fast as Pentium II/III even without AltiVec, but AltiVec provides a sh*tload of 128-bit vector power for Photoshop filters. And there's no x86 frontend overhead on the PowerPC (like there is on the Pentium II/III and Athlon, both of which run x86 in hard emulation) so more of the die can be used for power instead of bassackward compatibility.
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