It's a common thing that when sending files to a service bureau for ripping, that you give the service bureau your fonts, or you make sure they are *embedded* in your postscript output. I have never heard that this is considered *copyright infringement*. Actually, that's illegal.
Actually, this is sad. When someone, or something, a couple hundred years from now will tell their litle children about mankind history and culture in the old 'post information revolution' age, they will have to put on a box a note to mention that 'in those times, the cultural context was so primitive that man tried to restric the use of the most basic and worthless things such as software routines or computer fonts'
Oh, I asked for a pricing quote a month ago and the prices and conditions they proposed me showed that it isn't better than exchange because of the following items:
It isn't any cheaper than Exchange Server. Actually, it would cost more than maintaining my client's setup.
It isn't free or open source
It implements only the server side of exchange, client still depends on MS Exchange client.
It is kept by Samsung, which isn't a software development company, so the product can be discontinued if Samsung itself decides they should ditch Exchange.
Oh well, this could work, cause main reason to send spam is that it is cheap and that it would be very hard to punish someone for doing such a thing.
A law like that one could stop spammers, but it will not, just because, spam, as well as mp3 sharing, can be done with the use of a remote host, which can be anywhere outside Utah, outside the US (outside earth? not yet.... )
Im not sure on how to stop spam, blocking lists seems to be a good option, but the law just don't reach the Internet.
Are you one of these who thinks Linus should be burn in the Inquisition fire just because he created the OS you and me use and made some money out of it? Are you one of those who believes that a man have always to say right and nice things about everything or otherwise his words arent worth trust?
Oh no, I see, you are just the anonymous coward, why am I bothering?
Oh well, I'm surprized slashdot reviewers let that one in... Linus is just a man, with a reputation. Would it take him out his freedom of speach? Can't him just say what he thinks, what he wishes on a given moment that everyone on earth feels free to make conclusions out of his words?
Oh my, the man was just trying to show to his fellow co-woker that changing some things in the kernel isn't just a matter of one mans whishes, that there are many things to be considered, including which 64-bit implementation will prevail.
From this to people saying he says that because he works at transmeta, or because he has no gratitude towards Intel which sponsored Linux and himself its a clear demosntration on how much a reputation can become a burden and makes me think how strong a man has to be to keep moving on, like he does.
Finding an article at Slashdot over brazilian efforts to make computing and information systems available to the poor is very nice, but isn't surprising or amazing. No at all.
I work for an Open Source development company in Brazil, Async Open Source and we are making good money providing low cost open source software, such as Stoq to brazilian companies and institutions.
The message I want to make through is: open source and poor countries are a special combination. We have an incredible number of companies running ilegal copies of Windows, SQL server and all the proprietary software they might need. The technological gap of the solutions provided along with those platforms, when you look at the latest applications available to the rich country nations is huge. It all together make Open Source a excelent way of getting rid of licensing problems as well as a shortcut to lessen that gap.
Every day, more and more companies are realizing that Open Source might be a good option, and they are spending money to help companies like Async to develop and deploy software they need.
Goverments part has been very important. This notice over almost cheap hardware is just one among many decisions that have been made in the last 2 years. There is a law submitted to the national congress which says that public institutions must try to adopt free software (like they say here) instead of proprietary solutions. There is also banks and data processing companies sucha as Banrisul and Procergs which are making heavy use of Open Source.
The most famous success case is Conectiva a brazilian Linux distribution which have grown from a small Red Hat portuguese distro version to one of the biggest Linux players in Latin America.
People from other coutries, and specially those involved in Open Source should stop looking at Brazil as a forest populated with poor monkeys and start thinking about coming to work and make profit here. The opensource movement must see that Brazil might be a valuable adition to its cause.
So if it's clear that the there is not enough power, that new power plants are too expensive and harms the enviroment and that computers have a low power consumption we could think for a while and realize that the time for ideas like getting power from the sun or from the wind has come. If we finish our homework and make such technologies available for consumers, people and also companies could start producing energy they need.
Why all that worry? First you can choose and you can actually use more than one browser. If you like IE/Windows, there will be a bunch of amazing, overfeatured and insightful sites to browse. If you don't you can use Lynx and browse slashdot.
Ok, I agree that there might be some good reasons to plant backdoors on software but the costumer must be informed that it's possible to the vendor to access costumer data/system.
There was a blurb about Microsoft being able to access Win95 registry when a user is connected to the Internet and thus gathering information about non-licensed MS software installed. I don't know if it's true but is the kind of procedure I'd expect from Redmond and that I think it's extremely wrong.
Most of the old school software houses have compiled in some back door or provided an hidden way to get access to users systems all over the years. In my opinion it's common practice. They just love to have this kind of control/power over consumers.
Loosing this kind of control is one among other things that make industry afraid of going open...
Ok at _this_moment_ Microsft might be the right option, _but_ the question is what you are supporting today might not be better tomorow.
Giving away Microsoft Software will cetainly increase the number of computer users who are familiar with Windows and therefore do not want to try changing to a better (yet more complicated) SO
In the other hand, making things difficult today may give this people oportunity to learn and deal with real quality software (not only the SO but all applications around it) and thus strenghtening the power of Open Source
ok, it's not about news over Napster, but how it works. Yes, Napster is a Peer to Peer sevice, BUT it's index is centralized.
In order to get access to the other peers you have to logon on a Napster server, which contains the index of logged users. So if Napster wants to charge users is just a question of charging the index access.
To charge for download of specific artists material is a more complicated issue, in my point of view there are a few options
setting up a server (which would act like a peer) make the songs available from there and register users who dowloaded it
monitoring users activities to see if they are downloading songs from registred artists
making available songs which need some kind of signature or authentication to play, and them charging for those keys
No one of that options are efficient and reliable, so I'm also curious to find whow did them made it possible against a system which is not designed for that.
Hey brother, which world are you living in???? I just can't understand from where you have the perception that major software companies can deliver custom solutions at finger point ? This just doesn't happen!
The opposite way is quite more likelly, the software vendors will probably ask you to change the way your company works or recommend a version upgrade of your system, which will require more hardware and new changes...
In the Linux word you at least have the chance to try. If the company who priovides you support isn't good enough you can always look for someone else or do it in-house.
What is that ? This article is a joke or ABC is publishing every crap story just because it's written by some Real Famous Moody ? The article does not have arguments, it's entirely based on some bug track from a company working for we don't know who. What about everything else that makes an OS ? Linux might not be the best just because there is no best one but, for servers, it is certainly better than Windows...
So, everytime someone tries to do something good for the other there comes the pessimists to say it won't work... Mozilla is not about market shares and not for comercial use, it's for us who think free have a browser and be able to use it without signing a nda. Instead of saying bad things about Mozilla the guys up there should try to help or just stay quiet and use MS Explorer, how do you like it ?
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It's a common thing that when sending files to a service bureau for ripping, that you give the service bureau your fonts, or you make sure they are *embedded* in your postscript output. I have never heard that this is considered *copyright infringement*.
Actually, that's illegal.
Actually, this is sad.
When someone, or something, a couple hundred years from now will tell their litle children about mankind history and culture in the old 'post information revolution' age, they will have to put on a box a note to mention that 'in those times, the cultural context was so primitive that man tried to restric the use of the most basic and worthless things such as software routines or computer fonts'
yeah. thats the spirit
****LOL****
Yes, this one works, and by the way, the featured cientist, Cynthia Breazeal, is a girl that I wish was working for the same company as me....
I can't remember seeing such a beautiful girl working on AI before.
Is there anybody out there actually using MS Exchange scheduling tool? I haven't heard or seen any so far.
proposed me showed that it isn't better than exchange because of the following
items:
than maintaining my client's setup.
Exchange client.
product can be discontinued if Samsung itself decides they should ditch
Exchange.
A law like that one could stop spammers, but it will not, just because, spam, as well as mp3 sharing, can be done with the use of a remote host, which can be anywhere outside Utah, outside the US (outside earth? not yet.... )
Im not sure on how to stop spam, blocking lists seems to be a good option, but the law just don't reach the Internet.
What about you?
Are you one of these who thinks Linus should be burn in the Inquisition fire just because he created the OS you and me use and made some money out of it? Are you one of those who believes that a man have always to say right and nice things about everything or otherwise his words arent worth trust? Oh no, I see, you are just the anonymous coward, why am I bothering?
His article's web page has gray background and light green font face.... almost impossible to read!
Oh my, the man was just trying to show to his fellow co-woker that changing some things in the kernel isn't just a matter of one mans whishes, that there are many things to be considered, including which 64-bit implementation will prevail.
From this to people saying he says that because he works at transmeta, or because he has no gratitude towards Intel which sponsored Linux and himself its a clear demosntration on how much a reputation can become a burden and makes me think how strong a man has to be to keep moving on, like he does.
Finding an article at Slashdot over brazilian efforts to make computing and information systems available to the poor is very nice, but isn't surprising or amazing. No at all.
I work for an Open Source development company in Brazil, Async Open Source and we are making good money providing low cost open source software, such as Stoq to brazilian companies and institutions.
The message I want to make through is: open source and poor countries are a special combination. We have an incredible number of companies running ilegal copies of Windows, SQL server and all the proprietary software they might need. The technological gap of the solutions provided along with those platforms, when you look at the latest applications available to the rich country nations is huge. It all together make Open Source a excelent way of getting rid of licensing problems as well as a shortcut to lessen that gap.
Every day, more and more companies are realizing that Open Source might be a good option, and they are spending money to help companies like Async to develop and deploy software they need.
Goverments part has been very important. This notice over almost cheap hardware is just one among many decisions that have been made in the last 2 years. There is a law submitted to the national congress which says that public institutions must try to adopt free software (like they say here) instead of proprietary solutions. There is also banks and data processing companies sucha as Banrisul and Procergs which are making heavy use of Open Source.
The most famous success case is Conectiva a brazilian Linux distribution which have grown from a small Red Hat portuguese distro version to one of the biggest Linux players in Latin America.
People from other coutries, and specially those involved in Open Source should stop looking at Brazil as a forest populated with poor monkeys and start thinking about coming to work and make profit here. The opensource movement must see that Brazil might be a valuable adition to its cause.
So if it's clear that the there is not enough power, that new power plants are too expensive and harms the enviroment and that computers have a low power consumption we could think for a while and realize that the time for ideas like getting power from the sun or from the wind has come. If we finish our homework and make such technologies available for consumers, people and also companies could start producing energy they need.
Why all that worry? First you can choose and you can actually use more than one browser. If you like IE/Windows, there will be a bunch of amazing, overfeatured and insightful sites to browse. If you don't you can use Lynx and browse slashdot.
Ok, I agree that there might be some good reasons to plant backdoors on software but the costumer must be informed that it's possible to the vendor to access costumer data/system.
There was a blurb about Microsoft being able to access Win95 registry when a user is connected to the Internet and thus gathering information about non-licensed MS software installed. I don't know if it's true but is the kind of procedure I'd expect from Redmond and that I think it's extremely wrong.
Most of the old school software houses have compiled in some back door or provided an hidden way to get access to users systems all over the years. In my opinion it's common practice. They just love to have this kind of control/power over consumers.
Loosing this kind of control is one among other things that make industry afraid of going open...
Ok at _this_moment_ Microsft might be the right option, _but_ the question is what you are supporting today might not be better tomorow.
Giving away Microsoft Software will cetainly increase the number of computer users who are familiar with Windows and therefore do not want to try changing to a better (yet more complicated) SO
In the other hand, making things difficult today may give this people oportunity to learn and deal with real quality software (not only the SO but all applications around it) and thus strenghtening the power of Open Source
- setting up a server (which would act like a peer) make the songs available from there and register users who dowloaded it
- monitoring users activities to see if they are downloading songs from registred artists
- making available songs which need some kind of signature or authentication to play, and them charging for those keys
No one of that options are efficient and reliable, so I'm also curious to find whow did them made it possible against a system which is not designed for that.Hey brother, which world are you living in???? I just can't understand from where you have the perception that major software companies can deliver custom solutions at finger point ? This just doesn't happen!
The opposite way is quite more likelly, the software vendors will probably ask you to change the way your company works or recommend a version upgrade of your system, which will require more hardware and new changes...
In the Linux word you at least have the chance to try. If the company who priovides you support isn't good enough you can always look for someone else or do it in-house.
What is that ? This article is a joke or ABC is publishing every crap story just because it's written by some Real Famous Moody ?
The article does not have arguments, it's entirely based on some bug track from a company working for we don't know who. What about everything else that makes an OS ? Linux might not be the best just because there is no best one but, for servers, it is certainly better than Windows...
So, everytime someone tries to do something good for the other there comes the pessimists to say it won't work... Mozilla is not about market shares and not for comercial use, it's for us who think free have a browser and be able to use it without signing a nda.
Instead of saying bad things about Mozilla the guys up there should try to help or just stay quiet and use MS Explorer, how do you like it ?
This *%%$^$@#@ just has no opinion at all.