Hence the "hard to get away with in an arena where you don't enjoy a monopoly" comment. Meaning they're shooting themselves in the foot. The common person will simply decide MSN messenger is broken and switch.
Actually, I'd love to install it. MLB.com is pretty useless without it. ('Course, like Flash, I'd only install it in Firefox and use it for specific sites, while using Opera for normal web browsing.)
The fact that it's been a prerelease with very little apparant progress after a year, and still can't properly impliment silverlight 1.0 when silverlight itself has long since moved on, indicates that it will never be viable. Wine is a prerelease too. Moonlight is the same idea as wine -- an attempt to impliment windows APIs which will never be as good as the real thing.
Newsflash: getting silverlight (moonlight) to actually install on Linux takes a team of experts, and even if you manage that it'll fail on most pages. It's no more accurate to say that there's a silverlight for linux than it is to say that all windows programs run in linux thanks to wine.
The junk in my physical mailbox is more annoying, and such junk mail has been going on for centuries without a solution. So I don't think you can expect a solution to non-physical spam either.
Text editors are a lot nobler a cause than than helping people pollute the environment with their vehicles and drive monster trucks on a hundred miles commute every day, yes.
The hardware testing use shouldn't be underestimated. Non-free drivers that work perfectly right now may break on the next kernel update and not have any new binaries due to the company going bankrupt or the like. I love proprietary software (Opera, Google Earth, etc), but proprietary drivers can be a real pain, as ATI has taught me over the years.
Also, gNewSense is relevant for providing a promise of no legal hassles for new distributions built on top of it.
Somehow I don't think SWF would be very useful to, say, KDE4. Or to just about any scenario where you want a static image that scales to any resolution. I've yet to see flash used for static images anywhere, for good reason. The reports of the demise of SVG are highly exaggerated.
All baseball fans need silverlight... they've paid off mlb.com to prevent watching games without it (though some hackers came up with a python script to bypass that).
He's not eligible to be executed, there have to be special circumstances (like multiple murders, etc). Even if he were, California isn't Texas... it takes 20 years to execute someone here.
Gnome developers duplicating the KDE educational suite wouldn't boost linux adoption, it'd just waste time that could've been used to either improve KDE's educational suite or improve unique things about Gnome. After all, you can run KDE programs from Gnome... native widgets aren't worth that much effort.
The GPL states in its text that you don't have to accept it to use the software, so it's impossible for it to apply to anything beyond the bounds of copyright law.
The low end user simply doesn't pay $600 for any computer, regardless of supposed value. I never have. $300-$400 computers do everything I want, so why waste money? There's absolutely zero value in wifi, blue tooth, optical dolby audio and the like for those of us who wouldn't use them if we had them.
> what's wrong with going to Adobe and
> getting their Flash/Shockwave plugin?
They don't actually have a Shockwave plugin for Linux, though fortunately there aren't many sites left that require it.
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Hence the "hard to get away with in an arena where you don't enjoy a monopoly" comment. Meaning they're shooting themselves in the foot. The common person will simply decide MSN messenger is broken and switch.
Actually, I'd love to install it. MLB.com is pretty useless without it. ('Course, like Flash, I'd only install it in Firefox and use it for specific sites, while using Opera for normal web browsing.)
The fact that it's been a prerelease with very little apparant progress after a year, and still can't properly impliment silverlight 1.0 when silverlight itself has long since moved on, indicates that it will never be viable. Wine is a prerelease too. Moonlight is the same idea as wine -- an attempt to impliment windows APIs which will never be as good as the real thing.
Newsflash: getting silverlight (moonlight) to actually install on Linux takes a team of experts, and even if you manage that it'll fail on most pages. It's no more accurate to say that there's a silverlight for linux than it is to say that all windows programs run in linux thanks to wine.
The junk in my physical mailbox is more annoying, and such junk mail has been going on for centuries without a solution. So I don't think you can expect a solution to non-physical spam either.
In the case of a high profile target like gmail, they're doing it from thousands of IPs in a botnet.
As soon as someone volunteers for a one way, 40,000 year trip.
Text editors are a lot nobler a cause than than helping people pollute the environment with their vehicles and drive monster trucks on a hundred miles commute every day, yes.
The hardware testing use shouldn't be underestimated. Non-free drivers that work perfectly right now may break on the next kernel update and not have any new binaries due to the company going bankrupt or the like. I love proprietary software (Opera, Google Earth, etc), but proprietary drivers can be a real pain, as ATI has taught me over the years.
Also, gNewSense is relevant for providing a promise of no legal hassles for new distributions built on top of it.
MLBViewer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlbviewer/
Somehow I don't think SWF would be very useful to, say, KDE4. Or to just about any scenario where you want a static image that scales to any resolution. I've yet to see flash used for static images anywhere, for good reason. The reports of the demise of SVG are highly exaggerated.
All baseball fans need silverlight... they've paid off mlb.com to prevent watching games without it (though some hackers came up with a python script to bypass that).
3. Space is actually big, and nothing travels faster than light.
He's not eligible to be executed, there have to be special circumstances (like multiple murders, etc). Even if he were, California isn't Texas... it takes 20 years to execute someone here.
Gnome developers duplicating the KDE educational suite wouldn't boost linux adoption, it'd just waste time that could've been used to either improve KDE's educational suite or improve unique things about Gnome. After all, you can run KDE programs from Gnome... native widgets aren't worth that much effort.
The GPL states in its text that you don't have to accept it to use the software, so it's impossible for it to apply to anything beyond the bounds of copyright law.
The low end user simply doesn't pay $600 for any computer, regardless of supposed value. I never have. $300-$400 computers do everything I want, so why waste money? There's absolutely zero value in wifi, blue tooth, optical dolby audio and the like for those of us who wouldn't use them if we had them.
> what's wrong with going to Adobe and > getting their Flash/Shockwave plugin? They don't actually have a Shockwave plugin for Linux, though fortunately there aren't many sites left that require it.