Yes, but "a company" doesn't spring from nowhere. People create it, invest in it, operate it. When you harm a corporation you harm everyone who works there and their families, plus everyone who invested in it and their families.
Before Konqueror, what file manager was there that integrated with KDE?
Kontact was largely contracted by the German government, but before it what was there that integrated with KDE?
If you're suggesting KDE users slum and use any old app that acts its own way, has its own settings, looks its own way, and doesn't even have the same menu structure as the rest of their KDE apps, you miss the entire point of KDE.
KDE was founded to bring consistency and integration to the user. That means writing every app to conform.
This is not meant to be an endorsement of Kontact, Kopete, or JuK, by the way. I'm mostly addressing Konqueror of the four you list.
Regulation of interstate commerce isn't the only power the Congress has. It also has the power "To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States" and "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers" including the counterfeiting power.
Regulation of software capable of counterfeiting is arguably constitutional.
Of course BSD is unpopular here. Slashdot has grown into site full of frustrated, disgruntled people who sit at work on Microsoft Windows machines. They work off their frustration by joining the "Linux" subculture, without actually holding that many beliefs or philosophy in common with the people who made the software.
The evidence of this is everywhere:Slashdot editors telling us that the logs show a majority of MS users; the popularity of Wine, Samba, and OpenOffice; the trust in big corporations like AOL/Netscape, Sun, and IBM despite their having little or nothing in common with what founded this community.
Since BSD isn't a "cool" part of the Linux subculture (except for the occasional person who decides Linux is too popular to be "cool"), it just doesn't get much attention.
No, I don't believe everything I read from news organizations. The:-) in my comment was meant to signal irony.
I draw my conclusions about the British public the same way I draw conclusions I made about the American public: I read a variety of sources and synthesize a viewpoint from them.
I don't even particularly trust the BBC. That's one news site I read *because* I don't trust it; It's a site I read to follow leftist anti-American thought.
Slashdot Mirror
I saw "continuation of FreeBSD 4" and got excited, but then I saw "GCC 3.4" and got disappointed.
Give me a compiler that doesn't require a Quad Xeon to compile KDE in under a month, please!
"CEOs would have to work very hard to prove to me that they had no knowledge of the actions in question."
Guilty until proven innocent, huh? I sure hope that you're not one of those people who gets frothy at the mouth about John Ashcroft and USA PATRIOT.
Yes, but "a company" doesn't spring from nowhere. People create it, invest in it, operate it. When you harm a corporation you harm everyone who works there and their families, plus everyone who invested in it and their families.
I bet the NSA isn't having the Pentagon use AES.
Is it really time to start using such a new cipher like AES yet?
Yes, I know how expensive Triple DES is to compute, but nobody said encryption is free.
Well, President Bush is trying to get resesarch into the nuclear bunker buster...
This sounds like a bad Star Trek:TNG analogy...
If it happens, Q will save us.
Before Konqueror, what file manager was there that integrated with KDE?
Kontact was largely contracted by the German government, but before it what was there that integrated with KDE?
If you're suggesting KDE users slum and use any old app that acts its own way, has its own settings, looks its own way, and doesn't even have the same menu structure as the rest of their KDE apps, you miss the entire point of KDE.
KDE was founded to bring consistency and integration to the user. That means writing every app to conform.
This is not meant to be an endorsement of Kontact, Kopete, or JuK, by the way. I'm mostly addressing Konqueror of the four you list.
"The project is apolitical, without any bias regarding specific cultures
and platforms, independent from economic, emotional and social issues;"
So defacing the home page to oppose the EU Parliament voting for software patents isn't a political, economic, emotional, or
social issue?
Safety in numbers will only prevent the mass attacks. I'll do nothing to stop a targetted worm.
How is a Masters in CS relevant to system administration?
That may be true, but I would argue that no smart businessman uses for his business software he cannot control.
If you can't take your software with you as you adapt to a changing environment, then you're going to be in big trouble sooner or later.
Oh, so GNOME stopped hiding options in its Registry clone?
irb(main):001:0> 2 + "2" TypeError: String can't be coerced into Fixnum from (irb):1:in `+' from (irb):1
Regulation of interstate commerce isn't the only power the Congress has. It also has the power "To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States" and "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers" including the counterfeiting power.
Regulation of software capable of counterfeiting is arguably constitutional.
That's why Microsoft, Sun, and others support laws that make ownership impossible. They want their customers to be licensees, not owners.
Yes, I know Apple uses it. What I'm unsure of is whether Apple invented it.
Don't you mean 4-7?
You don't get it. Plenty of sensible developers DO use real numbers for software versions. Not everyone uses the Apple(?) double-dot numbering.
Of course BSD is unpopular here. Slashdot has grown into site full of frustrated, disgruntled people who sit at work on Microsoft Windows machines. They work off their frustration by joining the "Linux" subculture, without actually holding that many beliefs or philosophy in common with the people who made the software.
:Slashdot editors telling us that the logs show a majority of MS users; the popularity of Wine, Samba, and OpenOffice; the trust in big corporations like AOL/Netscape, Sun, and IBM despite their having little or nothing in common with what founded this community.
The evidence of this is everywhere
Since BSD isn't a "cool" part of the Linux subculture (except for the occasional person who decides Linux is too popular to be "cool"), it just doesn't get much attention.
As long as it's not a three-hour tour.
Same here, only with Centipede. Never could play it in the arcade, liked it at home.
No, I don't believe everything I read from news organizations. The :-) in my comment was meant to signal irony.
I draw my conclusions about the British public the same way I draw conclusions I made about the American public: I read a variety of sources and synthesize a viewpoint from them.
I don't even particularly trust the BBC. That's one news site I read *because* I don't trust it; It's a site I read to follow leftist anti-American thought.
If the Europeans believe that, then they should get behind the wall the Israelis are building.
Yup, I read the BBC every day. :-)