The purpose of a trademark is to identify a product uniquely; this is done in order to help buyers, not to help companies.
As long as customer is not misled about what he is buying, the use of the trademark is OK. So, if someone responds to a search for "FirePond" with an ad for "SmokeLake", that's not a problem. They can even talk about "FirePond" and why "SmokeLake" is so much better.
It would cross the line if SmokeLake made a web site that looked like it belonged to FirePond and customers might actually be misled into buying SmokeLake when they intend to buy FirePond.
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I have a mac and my peripherals all work great.
Well, then you should be really happy with Linux, because Linux supports a lot more peripherals than OS X.
See, manufacturers rarely write new drivers for OS X, they just declare those devices that they sell that happen to use standard interfaces and protocols (e.g., USB storage, USB camera, etc.) to be "Mac compatible".
In fact, usually, when looking for Linux hardware and I can't find anything that is explicitly Linux compatible, I just look for Mac hardware: it usually just works on Linux as well.
How exactly do you define a "single server"? Computers are moving towards multiple cores, multiple memory subsystems, and high speed serial interconnects. Those are essentially already "multiple servers", they just happen to be tightly coupled. But you still can't write simple, sequential code on them if you want your code to run reasonably fast.
Amazon's Kindle model is fundamentally broken: it's an outdated pricing model, outdated format, and outdated display technology for people who still pine for books. The book reader of the future is a web browser on an Android phone, iPhone, or tablet, and it's not going to come with DRM.
I doubt you'll be able to charge $50 for a textbook much longer, book piracy or not. Such prices used to be supported by the difficulty of printing etc. People are going to be less and less willing to pay them.
Facebook quizzes are indeed highly deceptive and a serious invasion of privacy; the best thing is to kill them with a Greasemonkey script (or not use Facebook at all).
It only makes sense to spend the money on patenting something if there is a realistic possibility of other people infringing. When it comes to Dean's ego, I don't think anybody else is capable of infringing...
"Should have" in what sense? Yes, what he did provoked further complications. Nevertheless, what he did was legal and correct. What REI and the police did probably was not.
The freedom to photograph things and not get arrested for it is very important in our society, and it's getting more important as everybody now carries cameras.
REI may have a posted no-pictures-in-store policy. Or they may not. In any case, the only thing they can do when you take a picture violating their policy is ask you to leave (permanently if they choose). You aren't trespassing unless you refuse to leave. They can't take the camera or force you to erase the picture.
I suspect this person has a case against the Seattle PD, if he wants to go through the trouble of going through with it.
Why would that society be any different from the one we have today? Almost everybody has enormous amounts of power available to them for nearly free today compared to 100 years ago. We still have poverty, crime, and wars. That's because human desires always grow beyond what's available.
It's not going to happen. Qt makes sense if you develop in C++. Gnome is going to move gradually to Python and C# development; C++ is just not on its roadmap.
That horrible GNOME/GTK of yours drove Trolltech into relicensing Qt to GPL
No, what drove Trolltech into relicensing Qt under the GPL was that KDE had built on Qt assuming that it was open source and then discovered that the Qt license was incompatible with KDE. If Trolltech hadn't relicensed Qt, KDE would have been dead, and that would have been very, very bad for Qt.
Both projects thrive from eachother and the constant "battles" drive devs to find out new creative ways
Qt and KDE were a major incentive for Gnome to get its act together. I think Qt/KDE are now collapsing under their own weight and under the enormous numbers of features being added to them. The fact that they are C++ based is also a significant issue.
I think the Linux desktop race is effectively over. And I also don't see Qt having a lot of impact on mobile devices anymore either.
Yes, but I'm thinking more of an updated version of it: as thin as an Amazon DX, running Linux, with a nearly full-sized (if flat) membrane keyboard, a decent LCD screen, and maybe just a thicker tube at the top for holding the batteries. And all for a bit less money than an EEE PC.
Annecdotal evidence is just that annecdotal. The amount of returns on the Aspire Linux netobooks however is enough to tell you that Linux still isn't at the user-friendly stage of Windows or OS X.
I have owned several Linux netbooks. Yes, their Linux installations have been crappy, not because of anything wrong with Linux, but because the vendors did a piss-poor job installing and configuring it. The same hardware runs like a charm with Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
The other reason some people return Linux netbooks is because they expected Windows and didn't get it. Or they bought the Linux netbook hoping to install a pirated version of Windows and failed. On the other hand, many Windows-based netbooks have Windows erased from them and Linux installed.
The idea that Windows is more user friendly than something like Ubuntu or SuSE is ludicrous. Even OS X is at best a tie with Ubuntu or SuSE.
The minute you tell someone that in order to do a routine option you've got to go command line bashing is enough of a barrier for most consumers.
Well, good thing that Linux doesn't require that; everything people would want to configure on a netbook, they can configure through the GUI on a modern Linux installation.
However, if you have ever provided support to non-technical users, you'd actually know that the option of telling people to open up a terminal and type a couple of commands (or even just to send them a script) is nice to have.
I have noticed that most "free, gratis, and open source software" is crap,
Yes, free software shares that with commercial software. It's because most software is crap. Whether people charge for it or not is an unrelated property of the software.
Apparently, you don't understand the words you are using.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between paying for a software license and paying for support.
I really don't care whether it's offensive to your religion. You have a right to practice your religion, you have a right not to be subject to discrimination, but you do not have a right to be protected from offense.
Quite to the contrary, offending people is a necessary and intrinsic part of political and religious change. Or do you think that the Reformation and Enlightenment happened without offending anybody? Without offending Catholics, we'd still be stuck in the Dark Ages.
The problem with free (gratis) is that it doesn't pay the bills for the developer.
If it didn't pay the bills, people wouldn't actually be doing it so much.
My experience has been that free, gratis, and open source software has considerably more staying power and commercial support than most commercial software.
The distributed revenue sharing part we already solved with FairSoftware
Linux has printer drivers for most printers built in. Adding a printer is simpler than in Windows, where it searches for drivers, asks for CDs, and then often still doesn't work. Printing itself just works. Incidentally, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use the same print spooling software that Macintosh uses.
The same is true for a lot of other hardware. Hardware and driver support in Linux alone is a reason why it is such a great choice. Standards-conforming hardware (printers, modems, 3G, cell phones, drives, etc.) just plug in and work.
My parents have had big problems with both Windows and OS X; despite the advertising claims, those systems are not easy to use and don't "just work". Since I switched them to Ubuntu, everything just works, and they can even safely use new software and hardware when they want to. They aren't going back.
The "netbook craze" started with the EEE PC. There was no "craze" before then because small laptops were expensive.
If there was anything like the netbook craze before, it may have been the Tandy Model 100, a small, lightweight, inexpensive computer with built-in modem that's popular even today with writers. In fact, I think a netbook in that form factor (flat, screen and keyboard open, AA battery powered) would still be nice.
Linux can do virtualization and backwards compatibility at the API level, as in user mode linux, via virtualization with a JIT, and via hardware virtualization. Why can't Windows 7 do any of those with XP?
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The purpose of a trademark is to identify a product uniquely; this is done in order to help buyers, not to help companies.
As long as customer is not misled about what he is buying, the use of the trademark is OK. So, if someone responds to a search for "FirePond" with an ad for "SmokeLake", that's not a problem. They can even talk about "FirePond" and why "SmokeLake" is so much better.
It would cross the line if SmokeLake made a web site that looked like it belonged to FirePond and customers might actually be misled into buying SmokeLake when they intend to buy FirePond.
I have a mac and my peripherals all work great.
Well, then you should be really happy with Linux, because Linux supports a lot more peripherals than OS X.
See, manufacturers rarely write new drivers for OS X, they just declare those devices that they sell that happen to use standard interfaces and protocols (e.g., USB storage, USB camera, etc.) to be "Mac compatible".
In fact, usually, when looking for Linux hardware and I can't find anything that is explicitly Linux compatible, I just look for Mac hardware: it usually just works on Linux as well.
What C really needs is variants of malloc and mem* that actually explicitly and officially keep track of the sizes of the allocated buffers.
Right now, you can get that during debugging with valgrind, but you don't get those checks at runtime.
How exactly do you define a "single server"? Computers are moving towards multiple cores, multiple memory subsystems, and high speed serial interconnects. Those are essentially already "multiple servers", they just happen to be tightly coupled. But you still can't write simple, sequential code on them if you want your code to run reasonably fast.
Used book sales have gotten much more efficient in recent years with the Internet.
Furthermore, each individual book has a strong decline in sales as the new and used markets saturate, and this book has been around for a while.
Amazon's Kindle model is fundamentally broken: it's an outdated pricing model, outdated format, and outdated display technology for people who still pine for books. The book reader of the future is a web browser on an Android phone, iPhone, or tablet, and it's not going to come with DRM.
I doubt you'll be able to charge $50 for a textbook much longer, book piracy or not. Such prices used to be supported by the difficulty of printing etc. People are going to be less and less willing to pay them.
Facebook quizzes are indeed highly deceptive and a serious invasion of privacy; the best thing is to kill them with a Greasemonkey script (or not use Facebook at all).
It only makes sense to spend the money on patenting something if there is a realistic possibility of other people infringing. When it comes to Dean's ego, I don't think anybody else is capable of infringing...
"Should have" in what sense? Yes, what he did provoked further complications. Nevertheless, what he did was legal and correct. What REI and the police did probably was not.
The freedom to photograph things and not get arrested for it is very important in our society, and it's getting more important as everybody now carries cameras.
REI may have a posted no-pictures-in-store policy. Or they may not. In any case, the only thing they can do when you take a picture violating their policy is ask you to leave (permanently if they choose). You aren't trespassing unless you refuse to leave. They can't take the camera or force you to erase the picture.
I suspect this person has a case against the Seattle PD, if he wants to go through the trouble of going through with it.
Why would that society be any different from the one we have today? Almost everybody has enormous amounts of power available to them for nearly free today compared to 100 years ago. We still have poverty, crime, and wars. That's because human desires always grow beyond what's available.
Is there any kind of Mercurial hosting for open source projects you can recommend?
It's not going to happen. Qt makes sense if you develop in C++. Gnome is going to move gradually to Python and C# development; C++ is just not on its roadmap.
That horrible GNOME/GTK of yours drove Trolltech into relicensing Qt to GPL
No, what drove Trolltech into relicensing Qt under the GPL was that KDE had built on Qt assuming that it was open source and then discovered that the Qt license was incompatible with KDE. If Trolltech hadn't relicensed Qt, KDE would have been dead, and that would have been very, very bad for Qt.
Both projects thrive from eachother and the constant "battles" drive devs to find out new creative ways
Qt and KDE were a major incentive for Gnome to get its act together. I think Qt/KDE are now collapsing under their own weight and under the enormous numbers of features being added to them. The fact that they are C++ based is also a significant issue.
I think the Linux desktop race is effectively over. And I also don't see Qt having a lot of impact on mobile devices anymore either.
If they made that a lot thinner, made the screen a bit bigger, and put Linux on it, I think it would be OK, even at that price.
Yes, but I'm thinking more of an updated version of it: as thin as an Amazon DX, running Linux, with a nearly full-sized (if flat) membrane keyboard, a decent LCD screen, and maybe just a thicker tube at the top for holding the batteries. And all for a bit less money than an EEE PC.
Annecdotal evidence is just that annecdotal. The amount of returns on the Aspire Linux netobooks however is enough to tell you that Linux still isn't at the user-friendly stage of Windows or OS X.
I have owned several Linux netbooks. Yes, their Linux installations have been crappy, not because of anything wrong with Linux, but because the vendors did a piss-poor job installing and configuring it. The same hardware runs like a charm with Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
The other reason some people return Linux netbooks is because they expected Windows and didn't get it. Or they bought the Linux netbook hoping to install a pirated version of Windows and failed. On the other hand, many Windows-based netbooks have Windows erased from them and Linux installed.
The idea that Windows is more user friendly than something like Ubuntu or SuSE is ludicrous. Even OS X is at best a tie with Ubuntu or SuSE.
The minute you tell someone that in order to do a routine option you've got to go command line bashing is enough of a barrier for most consumers.
Well, good thing that Linux doesn't require that; everything people would want to configure on a netbook, they can configure through the GUI on a modern Linux installation.
However, if you have ever provided support to non-technical users, you'd actually know that the option of telling people to open up a terminal and type a couple of commands (or even just to send them a script) is nice to have.
I have noticed that most "free, gratis, and open source software" is crap,
Yes, free software shares that with commercial software. It's because most software is crap. Whether people charge for it or not is an unrelated property of the software.
Apparently, you don't understand the words you are using.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between paying for a software license and paying for support.
I really don't care whether it's offensive to your religion. You have a right to practice your religion, you have a right not to be subject to discrimination, but you do not have a right to be protected from offense.
Quite to the contrary, offending people is a necessary and intrinsic part of political and religious change. Or do you think that the Reformation and Enlightenment happened without offending anybody? Without offending Catholics, we'd still be stuck in the Dark Ages.
The problem with free (gratis) is that it doesn't pay the bills for the developer.
If it didn't pay the bills, people wouldn't actually be doing it so much.
My experience has been that free, gratis, and open source software has considerably more staying power and commercial support than most commercial software.
The distributed revenue sharing part we already solved with FairSoftware
And how is that working for you?
Linux has printer drivers for most printers built in. Adding a printer is simpler than in Windows, where it searches for drivers, asks for CDs, and then often still doesn't work. Printing itself just works. Incidentally, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use the same print spooling software that Macintosh uses.
The same is true for a lot of other hardware. Hardware and driver support in Linux alone is a reason why it is such a great choice. Standards-conforming hardware (printers, modems, 3G, cell phones, drives, etc.) just plug in and work.
My parents have had big problems with both Windows and OS X; despite the advertising claims, those systems are not easy to use and don't "just work". Since I switched them to Ubuntu, everything just works, and they can even safely use new software and hardware when they want to. They aren't going back.
Any Symbian S60 phone will do this with Joikuspot (a $20 software add-on).
It's occasionally useful; most of the time, Bluetooth or a USB cable are better, because they drain the battery less.
The "netbook craze" started with the EEE PC. There was no "craze" before then because small laptops were expensive.
If there was anything like the netbook craze before, it may have been the Tandy Model 100, a small, lightweight, inexpensive computer with built-in modem that's popular even today with writers. In fact, I think a netbook in that form factor (flat, screen and keyboard open, AA battery powered) would still be nice.
http://oldcomputers.net/trs100.html
Linux can do virtualization and backwards compatibility at the API level, as in user mode linux, via virtualization with a JIT, and via hardware virtualization. Why can't Windows 7 do any of those with XP?