Palm is going to Linux I can hardly wait to see how that works out.
What we're not doing. We're not open sourcing Palm OS®; we're going to implement it as a software layer that runs on top of Linux. Our business model will be licensing that layer, with hardware companies that use the layer in a device paying us royalties. We don't charge developers a license fee to create software that is compatible with Palm OS. Our development tools are also free; they are built on Eclipse, and we are a member of the Eclipse Foundation.
Hey, they finally marked my submission about Baystar asking SCO for their money back (that's not the one I posted) as "accepted", so expect a year-old dupe of that story a week in the mysterious future...
Re:It is probably to protect the company.
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Seriously, drinking desalted urine is actually an acceptable method for dealing with a lack of water.
After the Neal Stephenson interview a while ago, I went and read Skeletons on the Zahara just because I like a good shipwreck story. The characters involved were reduced to, um, "recycling" for quite a while. That being said, I would really rather not hear about it anymore. Can we stop this thread right now? Please?
"Our technology turns the computer into a private server that allows you to share files securely in a small, invite-only group," Felser said in an interview with eWEEK.com. Each group becomes an encrypted peer-to-peer network that allows one-click access to browse and download files.
The reason that P2P networks are useful is because the speeds are fast and there is a TON of material out there. I'm sorry but a private network that is invite only just won't cut it.
Not that I RTFA, but you never used hotline, did you? "Click this banner, then the username is the fifth word of the second paragraph and the password is the fourth word of the third paragraph on the welcome page"
Or, for more modern pirates, suprnova.
Now, about that spell check feature that needs to be added to slashdot...
That spell check feature should be on your own machine.
Use konqueror and [iah]spell. Set it up in the KDE control center under KDE Components->Spell Checker. Every textarea on every website spellchecked as you type.
In short, you would end up with a bunch of people who could then say "yes, this is Linux, but its from the can-be-secret version of the license."
From reading the thread (last week. was there a story about this then, as well?) it sounds like he wants a BSD license to Linux so that he doesn't have to release his changes.
But what I'd really like is the easy graphical installer.
The rc2 installer was shockingly simple. Still text-mode, but who cares? I believe I *had* to answer four questions:
installer language (English)
language dialect (I could choose between American, British, and something else)
partitioning -- 1 big partition or manual?
any additional software?
That was it. I rebooted, gave it an admin password, set up a regular user account, and could start working. Expert mode (not the default) still allows you to go through the whole "this is too complicated for crybabies" process.
MacTCP wasn't released for free until way late in the game. I know I ended up with a less than legal copy back in '93 (I want to say I got it from some unsecured university FTP site, but I don't honestly remember) when it cost $100 a copy
".As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software.........Most directly, the thing you do is theft."
I appreciate the sentiment, but this has nothing to do with open source software. This is quoted from "An Open Letter To Hobbyists", something BG wrote to complain about the fact that people were pirating MS BASIC for the Altair back in 1976.
I type this even as I recover from the nausea, vomitting and sickness caused by the new colour scheme
The people who keep complaining about this should go to http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and check the "Light" settings box. You'll end up with black text on a white background, and the only usage of the color scheme you'll see is the preferences block between the story and the comments.
On the hardware side, a major shift to Linux wouldn't reduce the number of niche hardware platforms that they'd have to support; indeed, it should increase it. Linux, as open source, will naturally be ported to a huge number of architectures, even more than it has been already.
Linux is Free Software/Open Source. I suspect that Oracle's database server isn't:) Their download page has links for Linux x86 and Itanium (and a preview for OS X, I should mention). I'm not going to sign up for a download account, because I have no need for Oracle's software (the only databases I interact with don't come anywhere near needing Oracle), but I wouldn't be surprised if the stuff is packaged as RPMs for RedHat AS and SUSE Enterprise or whatever it's called (*cough* Novell *cough*... at least the GroupWise java client survived the trip through alien).
I rather doubt anyone in the market for Oracle's software is going to demand to run it on, oh, a Mac LCIII.
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What we're not doing. We're not open sourcing Palm OS®; we're going to implement it as a software layer that runs on top of Linux. Our business model will be licensing that layer, with hardware companies that use the layer in a device paying us royalties. We don't charge developers a license fee to create software that is compatible with Palm OS. Our development tools are also free; they are built on Eclipse, and we are a member of the Eclipse Foundation.
Hey, they finally marked my submission about Baystar asking SCO for their money back (that's not the one I posted) as "accepted", so expect a year-old dupe of that story a week in the mysterious future...
I hope Bill Sienkiewicz is doing the artwork.
After the Neal Stephenson interview a while ago, I went and read Skeletons on the Zahara just because I like a good shipwreck story. The characters involved were reduced to, um, "recycling" for quite a while. That being said, I would really rather not hear about it anymore. Can we stop this thread right now? Please?
Not that I RTFA, but you never used hotline, did you? "Click this banner, then the username is the fifth word of the second paragraph and the password is the fourth word of the third paragraph on the welcome page" Or, for more modern pirates, suprnova.
Destroy him, my robots!
From reading the thread (last week. was there a story about this then, as well?) it sounds like he wants a BSD license to Linux so that he doesn't have to release his changes.
It's not the Rs or the Ds with the plan-- it's selective service itself: see here.
I only caught a part of it yesterday, but Mythbusters was dropping various electrical items into a bathtub and recording the output. Fun stuff!
That would be tasksel's job.
Don't hate the Google, hate the net.
MacTCP wasn't released for free until way late in the game. I know I ended up with a less than legal copy back in '93 (I want to say I got it from some unsecured university FTP site, but I don't honestly remember) when it cost $100 a copy
It's full of good stuff, but it's high traffic (IMHO). I was subscribe for a couple days shy of a month, and ended up with 3425 messages.
Only those of us who read the article. Or any of the links in the article.
Who posted this informative?
Which is the default in Debian.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this has nothing to do with open source software. This is quoted from "An Open Letter To Hobbyists", something BG wrote to complain about the fact that people were pirating MS BASIC for the Altair back in 1976.
Al-TV Eminem interview
No, but his video for "UHF" parodied the video for "When Doves Cry", among others.
The people who keep complaining about this should go to http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and check the "Light" settings box. You'll end up with black text on a white background, and the only usage of the color scheme you'll see is the preferences block between the story and the comments.
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o filename.rm rtsp://realserver.example.com/real.rm
works for mms:// as well.
William S. Burroughs' writing really went downhill after he died.
Robotic cat + Robotic toast = perpetual motion machine!
Alex Chiu should get in on this!
Linux is Free Software/Open Source. I suspect that Oracle's database server isn't :) Their download page has links for Linux x86 and Itanium (and a preview for OS X, I should mention). I'm not going to sign up for a download account, because I have no need for Oracle's software (the only databases I interact with don't come anywhere near needing Oracle), but I wouldn't be surprised if the stuff is packaged as RPMs for RedHat AS and SUSE Enterprise or whatever it's called (*cough* Novell *cough*... at least the GroupWise java client survived the trip through alien).
I rather doubt anyone in the market for Oracle's software is going to demand to run it on, oh, a Mac LCIII.