As someone mentioned in another articles comment..
Did not MS distribute Suse as part of the Novell deal? If they did, do they not loose right to patent infridgement claims or be in violation of GPL (v2)?
What if this "Attempted piracy" is intended to be used against a truck they found filled with copied CDs, that have not yet been sold (and it is the first batch)? Wouldn't that constitute as attempted piracy?
Note please, intended use and reality might differ.
After reading your comment, the thing that comes to my mind is where is this "to foster innovation" that patents are supposed to be about, wrt software.
As time goes on my opinion about SW-patents being invalid and against the spirit of patents grows stronger. A small company's one patent means absolutely nothing against the big boys portfolios that cover everything.
If might be cheap, it might be the norm or/and de facto software, but it is in no way standard. The company behind it go ways to ensure it is not standars compliant.
I do not mind ads that are static images. Ads that are blinking, moving images, flash-animations or some javascript soup that messes with the page are usually blocked right away, especially any form of "intellitext". Oh, and did I mention ads that slows down the page loading, like doubleclick.
I feel I give advertisers a chance, don't misuse that.
This has everything to do about DRM. "Protected process" I see as nothing else than preventing you, the computer owner, from doing what ever please you with your computer. MPAA most likely require that their precious movie on a HD-DVD or Blue-ray disc only be played/viewed with a media player that is a "protected process", otherwise you, the owner of the system, might do something evil like attaching a debugger to the media player process or poking around in its memory to get the decryption key.
Is it a security flaw? Maybe, 1) you, owner or system, regain more control, 2) malware might use this to *stay* running and there is not a thing you can do to stop it (unless you know about this "trick").
Unix/Linux does not have this problem because it doesn't try to stop the owner doing as (s)he wishes, including the case when root want to kill a process belonging to a rootkit.
Sure there would be chaos, but you have to remember that existing installations wouldn't suddenly stop working.
More immediately though - you would see MS stock doing spectacular nose dive, while customers all over the world would at the same time loose trust in MS and start to look at alternatives.
All in all, I would think it might be the one thing that could bankrupt MS.
No surprise? If you want to compare numbers, all is not so black and white.. Take Finland as example: Population density is 16 / sq km (USA 31 / sq km).
Broadband penetration (June 2006) from OECD's report: Finland 25% (USA 19.2%)
If the artist would hold the copyright (as opposed to selling their soul, as it is now) and all the record companies didn't behave as one, there could acctually be competition.
Artist Arr could go to record company B's studio and make a record. After this, Arr could go to studio C and do basicly the same record there, a new version in C's studio.
Maybe the record from B have rougher sound, but it appeals to some more than the more smooth mixed version sold by C. At the same time B and C would need to compete against each other also with price.
Not to downplay OS X at all, but; "... Mac users the last six years because they had this OS that, despite early flaws, was years ahead of its time, but the tech media continued to ignore it."
I would rather say OS X being *at* its time. It really is Windows that is behind in times.
I wonder where we would have been today if there would have been any real competition the last 10 years.
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Democracy in America is working just fine - you'll have to look in the mirror to find a reason for the distinction.
Are you absolutely sure about that?
As an outsider all the stories about Diebold and outright accusations of rigged elections makes me wonder.
GPLv3 doesn't change anything with regard to that, it is illegal with both GPLs.
As someone mentioned in another articles comment..
Did not MS distribute Suse as part of the Novell deal?
If they did, do they not loose right to patent infridgement claims or be in violation of GPL (v2)?
Anyone know more?
What if this "Attempted piracy" is intended to be used against a truck they found filled with copied CDs, that have not yet been sold (and it is the first batch)? Wouldn't that constitute as attempted piracy?
Note please, intended use and reality might differ.
After reading your comment, the thing that comes to my mind is where is this "to foster innovation" that patents are supposed to be about, wrt software.
As time goes on my opinion about SW-patents being invalid and against the spirit of patents grows stronger. A small company's one patent means absolutely nothing against the big boys portfolios that cover everything.
Microsoftejo? ;)
If might be cheap, it might be the norm or/and de facto software, but it is in no way standard. The company behind it go ways to ensure it is not standars compliant.
This in addition to honeypots meaning more code, which usually translates to more potential bugs and security vulnerabilities.
Wouldn't that be ironical - a honeypot leading to a real exploit?
I try to use AdBlock sparsely.
I do not mind ads that are static images.
Ads that are blinking, moving images, flash-animations or some javascript soup that messes with the page are usually blocked right away, especially any form of "intellitext". Oh, and did I mention ads that slows down the page loading, like doubleclick.
I feel I give advertisers a chance, don't misuse that.
You surely mean OpenSUSE 10.3 alpha 3?
10.2 final is old..
Ubuntu this, ubuntu that.. It starts to get tiresome.
Why not try:
Have you tried a any recent GNU/Linux distribution?
Drivers are mostly bound to kernel version so newer distro usually means better hardware support.
Sorry for rant, but I honestly don't see why Ubuntu is so hyped up - there are a lot of other good distros too.
First, I have no personal experience with Vista.
This has everything to do about DRM. "Protected process" I see as nothing else than preventing you, the computer owner, from doing what ever please you with your computer. MPAA most likely require that their precious movie on a HD-DVD or Blue-ray disc only be played/viewed with a media player that is a "protected process", otherwise you, the owner of the system, might do something evil like attaching a debugger to the media player process or poking around in its memory to get the decryption key.
Is it a security flaw? Maybe, 1) you, owner or system, regain more control, 2) malware might use this to *stay* running and there is not a thing you can do to stop it (unless you know about this "trick").
Unix/Linux does not have this problem because it doesn't try to stop the owner doing as (s)he wishes, including the case when root want to kill a process belonging to a rootkit.
It already does for some domains (www.microsoft.com amongst them).
Sure there would be chaos, but you have to remember that existing installations wouldn't suddenly stop working.
More immediately though - you would see MS stock doing spectacular nose dive, while customers all over the world would at the same time loose trust in MS and start to look at alternatives.
All in all, I would think it might be the one thing that could bankrupt MS.
I would guess Opera does ok only because it went for emerging markets like Symbian cellphones. On cellphones Opera is pretty well established now.
No surprise?
If you want to compare numbers, all is not so black and white..
Take Finland as example:
Population density is 16 / sq km (USA 31 / sq km).
Broadband penetration (June 2006) from OECD's report:
Finland 25% (USA 19.2%)
Honest question, does the current line of Ipods support Ogg?
A couple years ago I went for a Samsung player since it supported Ogg and almost all of my CDs are ripped to Ogg.
Maybe they should write campaign speeches for politicians instead?
It translates into:
When they had a chance to provide feedback, they didn't.
When it became a standard, it "couldn't" provide to their needs.
Anyone else see a problem in that?
I would rather say that the peak of Microsoft was at end of 1999.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MSFT
I agree with some exception..
If the artist would hold the copyright (as opposed to selling their soul, as it is now) and all the record companies didn't behave as one, there could acctually be competition.
Artist Arr could go to record company B's studio and make a record.
After this, Arr could go to studio C and do basicly the same record there, a new version in C's studio.
Maybe the record from B have rougher sound, but it appeals to some more than the more smooth mixed version sold by C. At the same time B and C would need to compete against each other also with price.
Oh well, I guess one can dream..
Sorry for very late reply..
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Something relevant I found googling..
http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002646
You can probably find more by googling..
I hope you are aware the todays Macs x86...
So in the end, as the GP said, the difference is that *BSD, Linux and Mac all "derieve" from the same history, whereas Windows is the lonely one..
Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to re-invent it, badly.
Acctually he dumpster dived someone else's code.
Not to downplay OS X at all, but;
"... Mac users the last six years because they had this OS that, despite early flaws, was years ahead of its time, but the tech media continued to ignore it."
I would rather say OS X being *at* its time. It really is Windows that is behind in times.
I wonder where we would have been today if there would have been any real competition the last 10 years.