As far as I understand he was not willing to sell, but if he had to he estimated that his cost for business cards, marketing, creating web presense etc was "at least worth $10000". So he would consider selling the domain if M$ helped him regain that cost. IANAL but this sounds like a slam dunk for Mr Rowe.
You are correct, that is exactly what I meant to say. You can do anything you want with GPL'd software as long as you do not redistribute it. What a difference a few words make to the semantics.
Technically the libraries are LGPL and that is what makes it possible for you to link with them in your application. If gcc libraries were GPL your software would probably be GPL. That does not apply to the use of Postgres, PHP, Perl etc since they are as stated tools used to create or run your software and you can use any license you desire for your software.
Yeah, that's right. He stated that he didn't think/. had more than 10000 subscribers and I pointed out that he is subscriber 300k and change. That likely means that there are more than 100k subscribers (i.e. one order of magnitude up...)
You install Winblows TTF fonts and it will look excactly like what they sent... And that still leaves the people who insists in sending Word when text is more than enough. In that case a word file actually does not do the job equally well since it is a lot bigger and not everyone (even on Windows) has M$ Orifice installed... I honestly see no reason to use Microsoft.
How can you possibly say that M$ Orifice is better when I can save as PDF and even Flash from OpenOffice. Functionality wise I would call them even (with the exception of the missing virusexecution in OOo) My company is rather small and we just cannot afford being shut down due to a worm, virus or security hole. Therefore strictly no Microsoft.
In my company there is not a single machine that runs Microsoft because it is expensive to run software that is full of security holes!! Linux, Apache and Postgres is stable and secure thank you very much.
As much as I despise Mr. Gates, I have to correct you. The infamous "640kB should be enough" was not in fact stated by Billy Bub, it was someone at IBM or Panasonic (who actually created the PC). Bill agreed, kinda, but he did not state that 640 was enough.
Here in Canada we are taking active measures to fight terrorism:
CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
As we all know, the Taliban considers it a sin for a man to see amnaked woman who is not his wife.
So, this Sunday at 2:00 PM Eastern time all Canadian women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.
Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort. All men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they are not Taliban, demonstrate that they think it's okay to see nude women other than their wife and to show support for all Canadian women.
And since the Taliban also does not approve of alcohol, a cold six-pack at your side is further proof of your anti-Taliban sentiment. The Canadian Government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.
It was rather the French using the only scale available that filled two requirements:
Scale that fit the metric idea
Not taken by either Brits or Royal French
Incidentally, Fahrenheit could be construed as filling the first req. It's based on melt and boil of something other than water, but anyway. It did not fill the second req.
0-40C. (That's 32-104F for people who hate the French Actually that would be Swedes, since the inventor of the International Standard for temperature was a Swedish scientist named Anders Celsius.
Actually the parent post talked about stopping DDoS. A Distributed Denial of Service is done by hijacking many user boxes and from each bombarding a server with hundreds of bogus requests per second. This throttle would likely choke that (unless the server being DDoS'd is on this users list of known servers)
This is like saying that "I hate Chevys, they're just clones of Fords" That would be correct, taken out of context. However, if you said "Chevy is a truly original product". I would be correct saying "Chevy is based on an idea by Ford, who BTW copied it from Opel" That would not be aimed at Chevy or even Ford and not even you, but at your statement that Chevy is an original product.
Fighting over who did what first is pretty pointless. Software inspires others software. Look at all the open source projects that exist only to ape their existing commercial counterparts No argument, I was just trying to enlighten the poster who seems to belive that MS Office is original software. It isn't and neither is OOo. Visi-Calc was truly innovative software and you are right the other parts of Visi-On (mainly Text) did not really make any lasting impression.
Copying isn't always a bad thing. Copying and subverting (a'la MS Embrace-and-Extend) is.
And dont forget, Access was only there to kill dBase. The only Office program I cannot think of as a rip would be PowerPoint. I'm sure it is a ripoff, I just can't think of what the original product would have been. Now that may be because I'm not a manager and don't actually use that kind of S/W:-)
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As far as I understand he was not willing to sell, but if he had to he estimated that his cost for business cards, marketing, creating web presense etc was "at least worth $10000".
So he would consider selling the domain if M$ helped him regain that cost. IANAL but this sounds like a slam dunk for Mr Rowe.
You are correct, that is exactly what I meant to say. You can do anything you want with GPL'd software as long as you do not redistribute it.
What a difference a few words make to the semantics.
Technically the libraries are LGPL and that is what makes it possible for you to link with them in your application. If gcc libraries were GPL your software would probably be GPL. That does not apply to the use of Postgres, PHP, Perl etc since they are as stated tools used to create or run your software and you can use any license you desire for your software.
OK, you are correct ;-)
Yeah, that's right. He stated that he didn't think /. had more than 10000 subscribers and I pointed out that he is subscriber 300k and change. That likely means that there are more than 100k subscribers (i.e. one order of magnitude up...)
Consider the fact that you are subscriber # 300k and change.... :-)
No it looks like a good honest slashdotting
You install Winblows TTF fonts and it will look excactly like what they sent...
And that still leaves the people who insists in sending Word when text is more than enough. In that case a word file actually does not do the job equally well since it is a lot bigger and not everyone (even on Windows) has M$ Orifice installed...
I honestly see no reason to use Microsoft.
How can you possibly say that M$ Orifice is better when I can save as PDF and even Flash from OpenOffice. Functionality wise I would call them even (with the exception of the missing virusexecution in OOo)
My company is rather small and we just cannot afford being shut down due to a worm, virus or security hole. Therefore strictly no Microsoft.
In my company there is not a single machine that runs Microsoft because it is expensive to run software that is full of security holes!!
Linux, Apache and Postgres is stable and secure thank you very much.
Running only Linux at home and my own business, I am safe....
The new Ontario health care system
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This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.
I knew MS software is bad, but this bad??
As much as I despise Mr. Gates, I have to correct you. The infamous "640kB should be enough" was not in fact stated by Billy Bub, it was someone at IBM or Panasonic (who actually created the PC). Bill agreed, kinda, but he did not state that 640 was enough.
Here in Canada we are taking active measures to fight terrorism:
CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
As we all know, the Taliban considers it a sin for a man to see amnaked woman who is not his wife.
So, this Sunday at 2:00 PM Eastern time all Canadian women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.
Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort. All men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they are not Taliban, demonstrate that they think it's okay to see nude women other than their wife and to show support for all Canadian women.
And since the Taliban also does not approve of alcohol, a cold six-pack at your side is further proof of your anti-Taliban sentiment.
The Canadian Government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.
God Bless Canada !
IT IS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO PASS THIS ON!
Actually I think M$ owns NBC...
Yeah, that's what I got too...
Big Corporations telling their customers to buy their stuff rather than getting it from the competition (free or not)
Minor detail, Ericsson is Swedish
Incidentally, Fahrenheit could be construed as filling the first req. It's based on melt and boil of something other than water, but anyway. It did not fill the second req.
0-40C. (That's 32-104F for people who hate the French
Actually that would be Swedes, since the inventor of the International Standard for temperature was a Swedish scientist named Anders Celsius.
Actually the parent post talked about stopping DDoS.
A Distributed Denial of Service is done by hijacking many user boxes and from each bombarding a server with hundreds of bogus requests per second. This throttle would likely choke that (unless the server being DDoS'd is on this users list of known servers)
This is like saying that "I hate Chevys, they're just clones of Fords"
That would be correct, taken out of context. However, if you said "Chevy is a truly original product". I would be correct saying "Chevy is based on an idea by Ford, who BTW copied it from Opel"
That would not be aimed at Chevy or even Ford and not even you, but at your statement that Chevy is an original product.
Fighting over who did what first is pretty pointless. Software inspires others software. Look at all the open source projects that exist only to ape their existing commercial counterparts
No argument, I was just trying to enlighten the poster who seems to belive that MS Office is original software. It isn't and neither is OOo.
Visi-Calc was truly innovative software and you are right the other parts of Visi-On (mainly Text) did not really make any lasting impression.
Copying isn't always a bad thing. Copying and subverting (a'la MS Embrace-and-Extend) is.
Enlighten me! I remember using WordPerfect around 84-85. I am not saying you are wrong, I just want to know if I am wrong. (horrible thought ;-)
And dont forget, Access was only there to kill dBase. :-)
The only Office program I cannot think of as a rip would be PowerPoint. I'm sure it is a ripoff, I just can't think of what the original product would have been. Now that may be because I'm not a manager and don't actually use that kind of S/W