Interestingly (or not?), the common paper clip was a Norwegian invention from some time before the 2nd world war. During the 2nd world war, it was used as a sign of opposition to the Nazi invasion, by attaching one to the collar of ones coat/jacket/etc.
Although this is a well known historical fact (at least in Norway), http://www.patents.ibm.com lists an immense number of patents concerning the device.
We do not emulate Gnome's slow repaints and flicker, though.
This statement deeply saddens me. I thought the whole point here was to have friendly competition between two desktop environments. As one of the major representatives for the KDE movement, Trolltech should show a little more professionalism than this.
Also, although I am not a GNOME developer, I find the claim that the GNOME Control Center is a clone of the KDE Control Center somewhat unnecessary. It seems Trolltech can not leave the KDE / GNOME debate alone even when talking about a developer tool that is supposed to work on any desktop environment.
Your general message seems to be that the open-source/free software community spends way too much time discussing licensing. This might be true, but a license is like source code - it can always be improved.
With the coming of the New Internet Economy (feel free to hurl), Intellectual Property is becoming an important topic. As companies go to even greater lengths to ensure that nobody else makes a single buck from their "work", it has become equally important that the open-source/free software community makes sure that their own efforts are not abused. This, I presume, is why a new improved version of the GPL is on its way.
I agree, there is no need for endless rants and flames about the subject. However, the community must be able to voice their opinion, however annoying and bad PR this may produce.
Strange coincidence: I just received my first spam-mail through my new mail address at the same time as you print the story about SpamRecycle prosecuting spammers. What seemed strange about the e-mail, which offered me everything from whatever domain name I wanted for free to a free CD with over 6000 programs on it, was that it had a disclaimer at the bottom:
This message is being sent to you in compliance with Federal legislation for commercial email (H.R.4176 - Section 101, Paragraph (e) (1) (a)) and Bill s.1618 Title III passed by the 105th US Congress.
Now, I'm living in Norway, so naturally I'm not very well briefed on US federal law. How can SpamRecycle prosecute when federal law apparently allows the sending of commercial e-mail?
Hey, great speed, guys! I thought it was my ISP that was causing the lag before, but there's definitely an improvement in bandwidth after the server change.
Only one little thing that I've noticed so far. If I search for an old story in the archives, find what I'm looking for and click on it, your server doesn't seem to care about my/. settings and displays the old story in default/. layout.
Ok, so your old server did exactly the same, but I thought since you're already digging in there...
Again, congrats on a new server. You're doing a brilliant job.
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Interestingly (or not?), the common paper clip was a Norwegian invention from some time before the 2nd world war. During the 2nd world war, it was used as a sign of opposition to the Nazi invasion, by attaching one to the collar of ones coat/jacket/etc. Although this is a well known historical fact (at least in Norway), http://www.patents.ibm.com lists an immense number of patents concerning the device.
This statement deeply saddens me. I thought the whole point here was to have friendly competition between two desktop environments. As one of the major representatives for the KDE movement, Trolltech should show a little more professionalism than this.
Also, although I am not a GNOME developer, I find the claim that the GNOME Control Center is a clone of the KDE Control Center somewhat unnecessary. It seems Trolltech can not leave the KDE / GNOME debate alone even when talking about a developer tool that is supposed to work on any desktop environment.
*shiver*
With the coming of the New Internet Economy (feel free to hurl), Intellectual Property is becoming an important topic. As companies go to even greater lengths to ensure that nobody else makes a single buck from their "work", it has become equally important that the open-source/free software community makes sure that their own efforts are not abused. This, I presume, is why a new improved version of the GPL is on its way.
I agree, there is no need for endless rants and flames about the subject. However, the community must be able to voice their opinion, however annoying and bad PR this may produce.
Hey, great speed, guys! I thought it was my ISP that was causing the lag before, but there's definitely an improvement in bandwidth after the server change.
/. settings and displays the old story in default /. layout.
Only one little thing that I've noticed so far. If I search for an old story in the archives, find what I'm looking for and click on it, your server doesn't seem to care about my
Ok, so your old server did exactly the same, but I thought since you're already digging in there...
Again, congrats on a new server. You're doing a brilliant job.