Microsoft would have released the code for systems like DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11 for Work Groups, 95, 98 or 98 SE.
Yes, because companies never change their minds. Just because they haven't is not a set-in-stone guarantee that they never will (Not that I think it will ever happen)
Sure, not supporting Linux, *BSD, and dirivatives will cut into their profits if the Year of Linux on the Desktop ever comes, but they don't need to open source Windows. They can delay that Year by releasing Windows as freeware or make a Linux port.
Why are you bothering to patent it? Doesn't that kinda contravene the point of making it "open" and "free for all"?
Not at all. Ogg is patented, yet open.
I mean, once you publish it and implementations using it, it becomes prior art and no one else can patent it, either.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Is it really worthy of patent protection? Is it really that new and novel to deserve 20 years of government-mandated monopolistic protection? Do the development costs justify it?
Patenting it allows time for this standard to become adopted on a widespread basis before it can be hijacked.
The coordinates of my file server, Spathiwa, are 241.6.36.87, and the ultra-secret root password, which is known only by me and several billion other Spathi, is `Huffi-Muffi-Guffi'
Hey! Thanks a lot. I had neglected to write that down.
Anybody else seeing black text on a black background? Or perhaps more accurately, not seeing it?
Anyways: I used to name my machines acronyms (SNAFU), but I later decided on naming them after AIs. My laptop is called Microvac (formerly Hal 9000 but I decided it wasn't a good name for a laptop) and my desktop is P1.
the printer also uses good old fashioned elbow grease to move the grounds cartridge back and forth. Sounds like a novelty that will die quickly as human sloth reasserts itself.
I would be much more willing to uses a stationary bicycle than a handcrank.
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And I'd like to point out CentOS.
Microsoft would have released the code for systems like DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11 for Work Groups, 95, 98 or 98 SE.
Yes, because companies never change their minds. Just because they haven't is not a set-in-stone guarantee that they never will (Not that I think it will ever happen)
Sure, not supporting Linux, *BSD, and dirivatives will cut into their profits if the Year of Linux on the Desktop ever comes, but they don't need to open source Windows. They can delay that Year by releasing Windows as freeware or make a Linux port.
Why are you bothering to patent it? Doesn't that kinda contravene the point of making it "open" and "free for all"?
Not at all. Ogg is patented, yet open.
I mean, once you publish it and implementations using it, it becomes prior art and no one else can patent it, either.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Is it really worthy of patent protection? Is it really that new and novel to deserve 20 years of government-mandated monopolistic protection? Do the development costs justify it?
Patenting it allows time for this standard to become adopted on a widespread basis before it can be hijacked.
It wasn't mine. Noisy little bugger just wouldn't go away. Thank you. It should make a nice trophy.
Some homeless person...is going to help you how?
Another $50 should get you a place and time.
"Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
...and This Complete Breakfast.
Would probably motivate people to get off their asses and exercise so they can even have a chance in the fights that they would come up with.
Duals don't need to use swords or guns. I suppose it could be a StarCraft tournament.
The constitution would further state that no taxes of any kind or any amount may be levied for any reason...
So how will you fund it? Donations? Bonds?
...that the government may consist ONLY of elected people (no appointees or hire)...
Great. When is the election date for the office intern?
There is no executive...
So... nobody to enforce the rules?
While the copyright situation in the US is dismal, it is deteriorating at a slower rate than nations with a similar quality of life.
MS's funding of SCO didn't stop them from making their own claim.
Yeah right....ok, how many new countries have we annexed in the past couple of decades...go ahead...I'm waiting.
Hawaii. 1959, so about 5 decades ago.
You might be able to count Texas and California as well, although they aren't recent acquisitions.
Although I agree with you overall.
It's one of the few explicit powers of Congress in the Constitution, important enough that the Founders put it right there in Article I, Section 8.
How in the world does a 100+ year copyright term "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
So you mean there was absolutely no wind in the world before 1776?
Actually, the authors released it as OSS and it was ported.
Why not Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Thorin, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori, and Ori?
And perhaps because of a certain background process you keep running in the background?
My list is rather short (zero), but that is a product of cowardice rather than actual rejection.
Surprisingly few distros are named after penguin species.
Learn to read the Subject line.
If you have a cluster of 2048 servers you name them with numbers, perhaps row/cab/U-number.
And then you name the cluster after the Borg Collective or the Matrix.
No, natural blondes that have dyed their hair.
The coordinates of my file server, Spathiwa, are 241.6.36.87, and the ultra-secret root password, which is known only by me and several billion other Spathi, is `Huffi-Muffi-Guffi'
Hey! Thanks a lot. I had neglected to write that down.
Anybody else seeing black text on a black background? Or perhaps more accurately, not seeing it?
Anyways: I used to name my machines acronyms (SNAFU), but I later decided on naming them after AIs. My laptop is called Microvac (formerly Hal 9000 but I decided it wasn't a good name for a laptop) and my desktop is P1.
the printer also uses good old fashioned elbow grease to move the grounds cartridge back and forth. Sounds like a novelty that will die quickly as human sloth reasserts itself.
I would be much more willing to uses a stationary bicycle than a handcrank.