If you scroll down in the screenshot page you will see a shot of the 'new' finder, aka Internet Explorer. Am I mistaking or is micro$oft damaging the great big TEN (X) too ?
Having played with the PB myself, i can attest that it is not as insidious as you may think or imply, although the subliminal is there. What you see is simply the behavior of the "new" finder. What this version of the finder does (which is very much like TkDesk that i onced used on my linux box ~'96/97) Is when you select something with a single click, the far right pane displays a larger icon of that program/picture/folder &tc's icon there. This icon is double clickable as well. If for example instead of IE it was QIII that was selected, the icon would merely be the QIII icon.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
No, it's not faster for non-SMP tasks. I don't need SMP (yet) to run Word. HOWEVER, Phtoshop takes advantage of both SMP and Altivec. I've used Photoshop on a dual-G4 machine. It's amazing.
If my understanding is correct, it is not SMP you are talking about, but AMP or AsMP, as in Asymmetric. I have a feeling that is the correct name. It will not be untill OS X (March) ships that those who have Apple H/W can play with non beta SMP OS. (As a side note: I have a Duron on my desk and a Gen1 iBookSE that i carry around with me.)
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
And please, no one pull out the stupid integer performance tests and try and tell me 500Mhz PPC = 1Ghz x86!
If you do not want integer tests, how about a number crunching solution, that is perhaps equally optimised on both sides of the fence. How about Distributed.net client?
Some g4 rsults:
Power PC_7400_G4 433 3,903,000
Power PC_7400_G4 450 3,794,467
Power PC_7400_G4 500 4,383,581
Power PC_7400_G4 733 6,529,242
Some intel PIII results:
Intel Pentium III 1000 2,818,393
Intel Pentium III 850 2,379,094
Intel Pentium III 733 2,034,363
Intel Pentium III 500 1,383,202
I am not trolling, but i am trying to point out that for properly optimised code, you can get decent real world scientific FAST crunching from the G4 processors, even though they operate at 1/2 the clock.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I have a feeling that most of the MS bitching about broadband competition and lack thereof down here, means that there is a spanner in the works for one of their potential markets.
Unless i am terribly mistaken the collective's.NET strategy, patches, and Subscription based services will probably require a nigh on 100% access to the net with a really fat pipe for all their shit^H^H^H^H Bloat to travel through!
This is just my personal guess tho'. Hell i HATE u/g my OS, i HATE WinME so bad that i keep Win98SE for my games and Slashdot trolling, it is ppl like me that the collective HATE:)
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I have a funny feeling that Microsoft whinging about broadband startups and costs involved in getting up and running MAY relate to MS's involvement in StarBand (as mentioned on Slashdot within the last two weeks.
We are a large wide open country that is populated mostly on the coast in large cities. Hell the only places that qualified for broadband (until recently) were The East Coast cities Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney. And now that SOME places in Adelaide (where i live) now have broadband, even IF i lived in the right place to get it, i would not be able to afford it.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Hell yeah! i just recently switched back from OS X to OS9 on my iBook, as i found the Aqua to be nice looking, but just not useable enough. Kind of irritating, nothing really that i can place my finger apon, i just seems to have departed to far from what i like about MacOS
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I expect to be working with the G4 in a Powerbook some time next month without using clock pacing tricks like Intel has had to implement in the Pentium portables. (a trick by the way implemented by Apple sometime back in 1991 for their powerbooks at the time).
Unless i am mistaken the way that Apple's method of implimentation varies significantly to Intels, apple is able to (at least on my iBook) change the CPU speed to relatively anything based apon how much is currently needed to do the work, and is very dynamic, this is done to get better batterly life. Intels solution (i think i am correct here) is LAME, they just run the processor at (2) Two different speeds, eg: 600MHz when plugged into power point, and say 400MHz when running of the battery. (Those specific examples may be incorrect, but illustrate the point).
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Maybe you are thinking of Apple Unix, A/UX? That untill now was the only OS from Apple that supported more than one CPU/had SMP support.
Dont know about A/UX having SMP support, but apple at the time that the previous guy mentions (PPC 604e X4)the machines running MacOS, were able to use the extra processors providing the Program ie: PhotoShop had been written to support the multi procs, i believe though that instead of SMP it was Asyncronous MP or something with an A, that did not mean Apple.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
They busted the Primus and One-Tel's balls for slagging off the compeditors with their door to door salesmen. And now this, they are saying regionalisation is a crock of shit (duh!) and are attempting to do something about it.
Just as i lost all faith over that damn internet bill that was passed back in Q1.
:- --- one happy man from OZ, me!
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
The link is broken, here is an accurate one.
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Beer In Space
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· Score: 2
For those afraid of goats:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/space/2000/12/i tem20001221103834_1.htm
Pentium 4 recall, just announced! Or to be precise a recall of systems w/ P4s, cause the BIOS is bad.
MMMM i wonder if the BIOS is really all that bad, or if the chip has some instructions that are fscked up. And the "BIOS" reasons for recall are so that intel can impliment a microcode update here?
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I agree with your sentiments there. Hell even Ol' Billy boy himself said when he was here in.AU for the olympics that in about 10 years (well something that was longer than i wanted) we will have enough bandwidth (to the home) avail to everyone to enable us to use the "cool shit" in WinME. I mean that has got to mean that we DONT have a chance of being able to run Office10.NET, and we would have to buy Office10.CD (if we were to use Office at all). So i really can not for see MS ricking loosing ANY customer base, untill there is enough bandwidth to their core/major market segments. I am pleased to see that MS does view all computer users as more than just USA. (Approx only.001% of AC's are able to do this correctly, and maybe 55% of Logged in users:-)
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
If I'm in a race with someone and they're heartbeat is faster than mine it doesn't mean s/he's quicker.
I have a feeling that you are preaching to the converted here, not wishing to sound like a flame (but probably will anyway) Most of the readers on slashdot understand the differences that BUS speeds, the different implimentations of the x86 that intel and AMD have chosen (as far as transistors, &tc, not the actual set.) But what is needed is careful education of the public. mmm tough jobbie that one:(
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
The most interesting & missing parts of the story.
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In my opinion the most interesting part of the article was where it states What is known is that AMD will begin pushing into the 64-bit market during the fourth quarter of 2000, when the company readies Clawhammer for introduction in the first quarter of 2001. This interests me much, i had NO idea that they were that soon to announce that they would threaten to release the chip in Q1 2001 (which i read as some time 2001).
The dissapointing thing about the release is that they did not touch on improved branch prediction &tc in the new cores, or a valid reason to drop mustang. All i see this as is a Plot to make my new mobo obsolete asap. Mmm kind of like other companies too:(.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
The reason why the unit is priced at $600 is that it costs a fair bit of money to put together:
A suitably small motherboard
A suitably large touch-sensitive LCD screen
Some sort of storage that fits in...
A case built specifically to integrate all of the above into one handheld package that might survive dropping it onto the floor.
Dont foget that this device is probably not SUBSIDISED by AOL, like say the netpliance. I am figuring that GateWay are aiming for $50-100 profit on it, so that when some Linux Hax0r buys one, opens 'er up, and does not read the license agreement, and works out a way to make it useful, they wont loose money on it.
Now taking the bets, how long after it release will it be before someone has a HDD in it, connected to their home network, and runing a multitufe of OS's?
Within One day 50:1
Within One Week 5:1
Within One month 10:1
Within One Year 100000000000:1 (be a damn site before this)
Never (10^10^10^10^10)^10:1
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Well, you're right and you're wrong. Transmeta does do something; as mentioned before, they produce chips that practically no company wants to use. Their Crusoe chip has been snubbed by IBM, Toshiba, and Compaq. Why? Perhaps the benefit of having their computer's battery life prolonged by 10 minutes doesn't outweigh the fact that the Crusoe CPU has the raw processing power of a Wal-Mart cordless phone.
Not having ever seen/touched/played with a Transmeta CPU, but having looked at a few links on the web, esp places who have played with them esp. the C`t article/benchmark, i personally believe the above remark to be unfounded. If the chip auto scales its speed, and when required can even play DVD movies, it certainly has sufficient power for WebSurfing &tc, hell i mean even when it is running at full speed (if what i read is correct) it draws squat all power, when it is compared to Intel procs (the stoopid speed-step included), it is lean mean and fast. As for the 10 minutes extension, hell, in the real world, it is likely to be a bit more than that, (turn down the brightness of the LCD a bit) and even if it is a 50% increase of battery life (as i am inclined to believe it is) of those laptops that only last 2-3 hiours that is 1-1.5 hours, a damn fuine effort that
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Forgive me if i responded to a troll, but...
What makes AOL think this is going to work?
Why would it not work? They know the nessesary protocols to enable stuff to connect to their proprietory network &tc, they get linux, they screw with the stuff that connects. IE: They modify netscape, (wonder if this has anything to NS6.0 being released). They dont bother with a WM (nfi if this is true.) They rig the machine to boot into runlevel 5 (x i think), they ask for a uname/passwd and viola connection to the net taht is no worse than Win/IE, and i am sure a damn site harder for the ^Luser to screw up.
I sincerely hope that somewhere in Linus's code is something akin to:
if (IsAol(this)) delete this;
Yes this would be great wouldnt it, i mean that would make linux look just beautiful to any company that is considering using Linux anywhere, i am aware that what you said is probably a joke, but it is akin to saying, well if we dont like you we reserve the right to not let you use the OS for anything, coz i/we/me/us dont agree with your business (letting idiots connect to the net) or it practices (how damn big are they again?)
Its nice to see the big boys using linux, but to run AOL? What a waste.
A waste? Well let me see what this MAY lead to:
better H/W support for linux, did/does not gateway need to ensure that the h/w will work with linux??
With that many ppl who use AOL, (hell even in AU they must be getting ppl thanx to their new adverts on the tube), who would not consider porting some new WonderApp(TM)to Linux, esp if they can get it to work on this AOL box (any answers there?). So running AOL is bad in what way? I mean on this box, not for you but for Grandma? It is not like you have to buy one, it does not hurt linux.
In Summary my thoughts on what this box may do:
* Better h/w support.
* Better application support.
* If it is a success, a huge public offering that everyone can see is running, linux, IE: Free Publicity.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Church of Scientology: the only religion ever started on a bet
Now that you mention that me and some friends have been thinking about starting our own religion, mmm what will it be based on? "Pay us money, be faithful and we will grant for you that windows will run stable?" mmm.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Actually the GPL does not FORCE you to give away your source. If i sit down and write "The Next Big Thing"(TM). And decided to release it under the GPL what this means is that anyone who derives anything from my released source, IE:"A Bigger and Better Thing", THEY are forced to GPL it, thus protecting me from exploitation. I as the COPYRIGHT holder of the first have the option to relicense, resell, modify &tc MY original work. BUT I can not effect the second and derivate work, so it is kept free, and no big company can just TAKE the first work and do what they wish. The GPL is actually very good at protecting rights.
What i am interested in is WHO owns for example the copyright to Linux (the kernel) does linus? I ask this because as i understand the GPL, (if linus does own the kernel as it is today,) if Linus was to hypothetically to pull the GPL on Linux it would be able to continue, as a forked project (as at the point of the last GPL'd release) and that the new forked project was irrovokably GPL forever.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Anyway, Windows is not the only product Microsoft sells. Source code from Office was also compromised. I can imagine why competitors might want to look at how certain features work, given the feature-list "checkbox wars" that go on in the industry.
Actually the MSNBC article says that it was an as yet unreleased, and underdevelopment project, that Microsoft said, that the intruder came across the source code for the computer program under development. Microsoft said it was not part of the company's core products. hell have the quote from the web site.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Slashdot Mirror
If you scroll down in the screenshot page you will see a shot of the 'new' finder, aka Internet Explorer. Am I mistaking or is micro$oft damaging the great big TEN (X) too ?
Having played with the PB myself, i can attest that it is not as insidious as you may think or imply, although the subliminal is there. What you see is simply the behavior of the "new" finder. What this version of the finder does (which is very much like TkDesk that i onced used on my linux box ~'96/97) Is when you select something with a single click, the far right pane displays a larger icon of that program/picture/folder &tc's icon there. This icon is double clickable as well. If for example instead of IE it was QIII that was selected, the icon would merely be the QIII icon.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
No, it's not faster for non-SMP tasks. I don't need SMP (yet) to run Word. HOWEVER, Phtoshop takes advantage of both SMP and Altivec. I've used Photoshop on a dual-G4 machine. It's amazing.
If my understanding is correct, it is not SMP you are talking about, but AMP or AsMP, as in Asymmetric. I have a feeling that is the correct name. It will not be untill OS X (March) ships that those who have Apple H/W can play with non beta SMP OS. (As a side note: I have a Duron on my desk and a Gen1 iBookSE that i carry around with me.)
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
And please, no one pull out the stupid integer performance tests and try and tell me 500Mhz PPC = 1Ghz x86!
If you do not want integer tests, how about a number crunching solution, that is perhaps equally optimised on both sides of the fence. How about Distributed.net client?
Some g4 rsults:
Power PC_7400_G4 433 3,903,000
Power PC_7400_G4 450 3,794,467
Power PC_7400_G4 500 4,383,581
Power PC_7400_G4 733 6,529,242
Some intel PIII results:
Intel Pentium III 1000 2,818,393
Intel Pentium III 850 2,379,094
Intel Pentium III 733 2,034,363
Intel Pentium III 500 1,383,202
Some TBird (AMD K7) reults:
AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 1200 4,283,940
AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 1000 3,549,885
AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 850 3,021,021
AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 450 1,589,342
I am not trolling, but i am trying to point out that for properly optimised code, you can get decent real world scientific FAST crunching from the G4 processors, even though they operate at 1/2 the clock.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I have a feeling that most of the MS bitching about broadband competition and lack thereof down here, means that there is a spanner in the works for one of their potential markets.
Unless i am terribly mistaken the collective's
This is just my personal guess tho'. Hell i HATE u/g my OS, i HATE WinME so bad that i keep Win98SE for my games and Slashdot trolling, it is ppl like me that the collective HATE
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I have a funny feeling that Microsoft whinging about broadband startups and costs involved in getting up and running MAY relate to MS's involvement in StarBand (as mentioned on Slashdot within the last two weeks.
We are a large wide open country that is populated mostly on the coast in large cities. Hell the only places that qualified for broadband (until recently) were The East Coast cities Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney. And now that SOME places in Adelaide (where i live) now have broadband, even IF i lived in the right place to get it, i would not be able to afford it.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Hell yeah! i just recently switched back from OS X to OS9 on my iBook, as i found the Aqua to be nice looking, but just not useable enough. Kind of irritating, nothing really that i can place my finger apon, i just seems to have departed to far from what i like about MacOS
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I expect to be working with the G4 in a Powerbook some time next month without using clock pacing tricks like Intel has had to implement in the Pentium portables. (a trick by the way implemented by Apple sometime back in 1991 for their powerbooks at the time).
Unless i am mistaken the way that Apple's method of implimentation varies significantly to Intels, apple is able to (at least on my iBook) change the CPU speed to relatively anything based apon how much is currently needed to do the work, and is very dynamic, this is done to get better batterly life. Intels solution (i think i am correct here) is LAME, they just run the processor at (2) Two different speeds, eg: 600MHz when plugged into power point, and say 400MHz when running of the battery. (Those specific examples may be incorrect, but illustrate the point).
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Maybe you are thinking of Apple Unix, A/UX? That untill now was the only OS from Apple that supported more than one CPU/had SMP support.
Dont know about A/UX having SMP support, but apple at the time that the previous guy mentions (PPC 604e X4)the machines running MacOS, were able to use the extra processors providing the Program ie: PhotoShop had been written to support the multi procs, i believe though that instead of SMP it was Asyncronous MP or something with an A, that did not mean Apple.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
They busted the Primus and One-Tel's balls for slagging off the compeditors with their door to door salesmen. And now this, they are saying regionalisation is a crock of shit (duh!) and are attempting to do something about it.
:- --- one happy man from OZ, me!
Just as i lost all faith over that damn internet bill that was passed back in Q1.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
For those afraid of goats:i tem20001221103834_1.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/space/2000/12/
Beer in space, at ABC.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
It would be interesting if IBM would donate some time as a form of charity
I'm sure that they would do it if the following conditions were met:
* There were no paying projects waiting.
* There were to be some sweet publicity for them.
* They could claim some huge tax deduction.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Pentium 4 recall, just announced! Or to be precise a recall of systems w/ P4s, cause the BIOS is bad.
MMMM i wonder if the BIOS is really all that bad, or if the chip has some instructions that are fscked up. And the " BIOS " reasons for recall are so that intel can impliment a microcode update here?
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Emu
EEEp, cats urine that stuff!
Coopers now they can make some beer, and Hahn Ice is pretty damn smooth!
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
I agree with your sentiments there. Hell even Ol' Billy boy himself said when he was here in .AU for the olympics that in about 10 years (well something that was longer than i wanted) we will have enough bandwidth (to the home) avail to everyone to enable us to use the "cool shit" in WinME. I mean that has got to mean that we DONT have a chance of being able to run Office10.NET, and we would have to buy Office10.CD (if we were to use Office at all). So i really can not for see MS ricking loosing ANY customer base, untill there is enough bandwidth to their core/major market segments. I am pleased to see that MS does view all computer users as more than just USA. (Approx only .001% of AC's are able to do this correctly, and maybe 55% of Logged in users :-)
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Clock rate is like a heart beat.
:(
If I'm in a race with someone and they're heartbeat is faster than mine it doesn't mean s/he's quicker.
I have a feeling that you are preaching to the converted here, not wishing to sound like a flame (but probably will anyway) Most of the readers on slashdot understand the differences that BUS speeds, the different implimentations of the x86 that intel and AMD have chosen (as far as transistors, &tc, not the actual set.) But what is needed is careful education of the public. mmm tough jobbie that one
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
In my opinion the most interesting part of the article was where it states What is known is that AMD will begin pushing into the 64-bit market during the fourth quarter of 2000, when the company readies Clawhammer for introduction in the first quarter of 2001. This interests me much, i had NO idea that they were that soon to announce that they would threaten to release the chip in Q1 2001 (which i read as some time 2001).
:(.
The dissapointing thing about the release is that they did not touch on improved branch prediction &tc in the new cores, or a valid reason to drop mustang. All i see this as is a Plot to make my new mobo obsolete asap. Mmm kind of like other companies too
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Does it run on Mac? No?
Actually, i am confused. I just booted my iBook, to answer this question, and i get : (from java -version)
java version "1.2.2"
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.3.0, mixed mode, internal release build)
The reason I am posting this is because when i did java -version the 1.3 stuck in my head. Sorry
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Dont foget that this device is probably not SUBSIDISED by AOL, like say the netpliance. I am figuring that GateWay are aiming for $50-100 profit on it, so that when some Linux Hax0r buys one, opens 'er up, and does not read the license agreement, and works out a way to make it useful, they wont loose money on it.
Now taking the bets, how long after it release will it be before someone has a HDD in it, connected to their home network, and runing a multitufe of OS's?
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Well, you're right and you're wrong. Transmeta does do something; as mentioned before, they produce chips that practically no company wants to use. Their Crusoe chip has been snubbed by IBM, Toshiba, and Compaq. Why? Perhaps the benefit of having their computer's battery life prolonged by 10 minutes doesn't outweigh the fact that the Crusoe CPU has the raw processing power of a Wal-Mart cordless phone.
Not having ever seen/touched/played with a Transmeta CPU, but having looked at a few links on the web, esp places who have played with them esp. the C`t article/benchmark, i personally believe the above remark to be unfounded. If the chip auto scales its speed, and when required can even play DVD movies, it certainly has sufficient power for WebSurfing &tc, hell i mean even when it is running at full speed (if what i read is correct) it draws squat all power, when it is compared to Intel procs (the stoopid speed-step included), it is lean mean and fast. As for the 10 minutes extension, hell, in the real world, it is likely to be a bit more than that, (turn down the brightness of the LCD a bit) and even if it is a 50% increase of battery life (as i am inclined to believe it is) of those laptops that only last 2-3 hiours that is 1-1.5 hours, a damn fuine effort that
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Forgive me if i responded to a troll, but...
What makes AOL think this is going to work?
Why would it not work? They know the nessesary protocols to enable stuff to connect to their proprietory network &tc, they get linux, they screw with the stuff that connects. IE: They modify netscape, (wonder if this has anything to NS6.0 being released). They dont bother with a WM (nfi if this is true.) They rig the machine to boot into runlevel 5 (x i think), they ask for a uname/passwd and viola connection to the net taht is no worse than Win/IE, and i am sure a damn site harder for the ^Luser to screw up.
I sincerely hope that somewhere in Linus's code is something akin to: if (IsAol(this)) delete this;
Yes this would be great wouldnt it, i mean that would make linux look just beautiful to any company that is considering using Linux anywhere, i am aware that what you said is probably a joke, but it is akin to saying, well if we dont like you we reserve the right to not let you use the OS for anything, coz i/we/me/us dont agree with your business (letting idiots connect to the net) or it practices (how damn big are they again?)
Its nice to see the big boys using linux, but to run AOL? What a waste.
A waste? Well let me see what this MAY lead to: better H/W support for linux, did/does not gateway need to ensure that the h/w will work with linux??
With that many ppl who use AOL, (hell even in AU they must be getting ppl thanx to their new adverts on the tube), who would not consider porting some new WonderApp(TM)to Linux, esp if they can get it to work on this AOL box (any answers there?). So running AOL is bad in what way? I mean on this box, not for you but for Grandma? It is not like you have to buy one, it does not hurt linux.
In Summary my thoughts on what this box may do:
* Better h/w support.
* Better application support.
* If it is a success, a huge public offering that everyone can see is running, linux, IE: Free Publicity.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Church of Scientology: the only religion ever started on a bet
Now that you mention that me and some friends have been thinking about starting our own religion, mmm what will it be based on? "Pay us money, be faithful and we will grant for you that windows will run stable?" mmm.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Actually the GPL does not FORCE you to give away your source. If i sit down and write "The Next Big Thing"(TM). And decided to release it under the GPL what this means is that anyone who derives anything from my released source, IE:"A Bigger and Better Thing", THEY are forced to GPL it, thus protecting me from exploitation. I as the COPYRIGHT holder of the first have the option to relicense, resell, modify &tc MY original work. BUT I can not effect the second and derivate work, so it is kept free, and no big company can just TAKE the first work and do what they wish. The GPL is actually very good at protecting rights.
What i am interested in is WHO owns for example the copyright to Linux (the kernel) does linus? I ask this because as i understand the GPL, (if linus does own the kernel as it is today,) if Linus was to hypothetically to pull the GPL on Linux it would be able to continue, as a forked project (as at the point of the last GPL'd release) and that the new forked project was irrovokably GPL forever.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Anyway, Windows is not the only product Microsoft sells. Source code from Office was also compromised. I can imagine why competitors might want to look at how certain features work, given the feature-list "checkbox wars" that go on in the industry.
Actually the MSNBC article says that it was an as yet unreleased, and underdevelopment project, that Microsoft said, that the intruder came across the source code for the computer program under development. Microsoft said it was not part of the company's core products. hell have the quote from the web site.
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
damn where did my little HTML wakka things go?? Me == Lame, i better go eat cheezypoofs!
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.
Me Too!!!!
How every version of MICROS~1 Windows(TM) comes to exist.