The point they're trying to make is: if it was GPL, Microsoft wouldn't be able to get a package managing software developed for free.
Please understand our point of view. Whenever I see "Microsoft" and "Open source" in the same sentence, I'll always remember Halloween Document 2. I am worried, because MS is embracing OSS.
Do you know what was the first thing I thought when reading the article and the project's launchpad? Halloween Document II.
Why does Microsoft need to support Free Software? I mean, they claim to have everything they need, their new shiny should 7 have it all.
This article's summary should be something along the lines of: Microsoft embraces OSS. How long before they extend their dirty tactics to OS? I don't trust them.
The jewels of OSS were built because we, developers, needed them. We needed an OS and made Gnu, and Linux. We needed a web server and made Apache. We needed a GUI and made GNOME, KDE and Compiz. We needed a web browser and made Firefox.
Now Microsoft needs package managing software, and they really believe we are going to build it for them. Laughable.
I am argentinian. "Over here" American tv channels like History Channel and Discovery Channel broadcast an awful lot of propaganda; and in the end most people believe war is widely accepted and encouraged in the USA, as if it was fair and just. The re-election of George Bush did not help to reduce that belief, and now, sadly, there are many who dislike "you".
Unfortunately humans tend to generalize.
Do you remember what happened the last time that a developed country put democracy 'on hold'?
Take a look at the most important armed conflicts of the british empire in the last 60 years.
World War II
(Cold War)
Falklands' War
Gulf War I
Kosovo War
Gulf War II
What do they have in common?
You guessed! Suspended democracy!
It should have been Perfect Software-Econonmy or something like that. The Perfect Software(tm) has zero bugs, and if such a program ever happens, its cost will be very high.
Hi, i'm 18, and I can speak and write in 5 languages. I tried to memorize 5-8 words every day, make sentences using those words, etc. I imagine the most difficult part is learning 5000+ symbols, well, when I learned the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets I memorized each letter by writing it and, at the same time, pronouncing it. It doesn't seem serious, but it helps a lot.
I am new to linux, but I definitely know how to use that fucking google. People who didn't use linux are not retards. Maybe they didn't have a reason to change and are "normal" in every other aspect of life.
Normal people generally try the easiest way to solve a problem, and dont do difficult things unless they have to.
Ubuntu has failed to list the nVidia driver as a possibly required driver manymany, manytimes.
The same happened to me, as a complete novice I had to spend many hours to do a manual installation of the nVidia driver. If I wasn't so enthusiastic about linux I would have returned to windows in no time. That's a bad thing (tm).
It costs over one thousand dollars. And, who wants video calls in such a tiny screen?
Just by googling "watch phone" I found manydifferent waistphones for US$ 250 or less.
My philosophy teacher told me something that blew my mind:
Past is a non-being, because it ceased to exist.
Future is a non-being, because it does not exist yet.
Present lies between two non-beings. Therefore it does not exist.
I think that "time" is one of the most strange, even spiritual things there are. Can we demonstrate it exists? Can we falsify it? Everyone discusses causality and non-contradiction. Time is probably one of the most underrated axioms of human knowledge.
Maybe today we have the original Greek texts, but you have to consider the world in the middle ages. Manuscripts were precious. Greek texts were kept mainly in Byzantium. The Greek language was not widely studied in the West until the renaissance (specifically, after the Ottoman victory a lot of Greek scholars traveled to Venice and from there to the universities of Florence [Medici], Ferrara [Este] and Milan [Sforza]). Of course many people had notions on Aristotle's Logic many centuries before. That's because a Bizantine Emperor (whose name i don't recall right now) had gifted the Caliph of Cordoba some very rare copies of Aristotle, and then Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes) wrote the famous Commentary (see wiki). In it, he explained Aristotle's philosophy, -specially the logic- and criticized Al Farabi, another Arab philosopher. Lots of Arab writings, including Averroes' Comment, were translated into Latin and then spread through Europe.
Many centuries later (during the renaissance), philology emerged as a science. Credit Lorenzo Valla and Nicola Cusano. After that, everyone searched and compared every copy of each work until they could reconstruct the originals.
Linux has already been ported to ARM, Windows has not. And, for what we know about the leaked source code, Microsoft's standards are not optimal: the code is badly commented, etc. It's not like you click a different box in Visual Studio and voilà, ARM code. Who knows how many architecture-specific hacks they have used: all that code needs to be rewritten.
And then you'd had to port Windows' killer apps (IE and Office). GLWT
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The problem is, if something is not notable in the USA, then it is not notable for Wikipedia at all.
The point they're trying to make is: if it was GPL, Microsoft wouldn't be able to get a package managing software developed for free. Please understand our point of view. Whenever I see "Microsoft" and "Open source" in the same sentence, I'll always remember Halloween Document 2. I am worried, because MS is embracing OSS.
Do you know what was the first thing I thought when reading the article and the project's launchpad? Halloween Document II. Why does Microsoft need to support Free Software? I mean, they claim to have everything they need, their new shiny should 7 have it all.
This article's summary should be something along the lines of: Microsoft embraces OSS. How long before they extend their dirty tactics to OS? I don't trust them.
The jewels of OSS were built because we, developers, needed them. We needed an OS and made Gnu, and Linux. We needed a web server and made Apache. We needed a GUI and made GNOME, KDE and Compiz. We needed a web browser and made Firefox.
Now Microsoft needs package managing software, and they really believe we are going to build it for them. Laughable.
It was his fault. He should have dropped his inferior culture and converted to saxonwesternism long ago.
I am argentinian. "Over here" American tv channels like History Channel and Discovery Channel broadcast an awful lot of propaganda; and in the end most people believe war is widely accepted and encouraged in the USA, as if it was fair and just. The re-election of George Bush did not help to reduce that belief, and now, sadly, there are many who dislike "you".
Unfortunately humans tend to generalize.
Take a look at the most important armed conflicts of the british empire in the last 60 years.
What do they have in common?
You guessed! Suspended democracy!
It should have been Perfect Software-Econonmy or something like that. The Perfect Software(tm) has zero bugs, and if such a program ever happens, its cost will be very high.
If it can access the comapny's network and send in exploits and stuff; I bet it can also send the consumption numbers...
Since when a meter needs to have wireless capabilities?
In other news mr Kim is planning a nuclear war with his southern neighbors...
The best integration is with Mac OS.
Hi, i'm 18, and I can speak and write in 5 languages.
I tried to memorize 5-8 words every day, make sentences using those words, etc. I imagine the most difficult part is learning 5000+ symbols, well, when I learned the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets I memorized each letter by writing it and, at the same time, pronouncing it. It doesn't seem serious, but it helps a lot.
pirate == bad?
The law is not 'fair'. It can be changed. It should be changed.
"Don't be evil" =! "Be legal"
And I thought Slashdot would inform me on these topics before my country's printed media.
Nah, it's the real life version of Duke Nukem.
They already use a tablet-laptop (image) and every child in every school has one.
Yeah, old news, is so exciting.
2008 $99 laptop
2009 $99 netbook
2010 $99 ereader
Yes, the ereader will run Linux.
I NEVER saw that popup on first boot
I am new to linux, but I definitely know how to use that fucking google. People who didn't use linux are not retards. Maybe they didn't have a reason to change and are "normal" in every other aspect of life. Normal people generally try the easiest way to solve a problem, and dont do difficult things unless they have to. Ubuntu has failed to list the nVidia driver as a possibly required driver many many, many times.
The same happened to me, as a complete novice I had to spend many hours to do a manual installation of the nVidia driver. If I wasn't so enthusiastic about linux I would have returned to windows in no time. That's a bad thing (tm).
In capitalist argentina, file sharing is a social network.
It costs over one thousand dollars. And, who wants video calls in such a tiny screen?
Just by googling "watch phone" I found many different waistphones for US$ 250 or less.
My philosophy teacher told me something that blew my mind: Past is a non-being, because it ceased to exist. Future is a non-being, because it does not exist yet. Present lies between two non-beings. Therefore it does not exist.
I think that "time" is one of the most strange, even spiritual things there are. Can we demonstrate it exists? Can we falsify it? Everyone discusses causality and non-contradiction. Time is probably one of the most underrated axioms of human knowledge.
Maybe today we have the original Greek texts, but you have to consider the world in the middle ages. Manuscripts were precious. Greek texts were kept mainly in Byzantium. The Greek language was not widely studied in the West until the renaissance (specifically, after the Ottoman victory a lot of Greek scholars traveled to Venice and from there to the universities of Florence [Medici], Ferrara [Este] and Milan [Sforza]). Of course many people had notions on Aristotle's Logic many centuries before. That's because a Bizantine Emperor (whose name i don't recall right now) had gifted the Caliph of Cordoba some very rare copies of Aristotle, and then Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes) wrote the famous Commentary (see wiki). In it, he explained Aristotle's philosophy, -specially the logic- and criticized Al Farabi, another Arab philosopher. Lots of Arab writings, including Averroes' Comment, were translated into Latin and then spread through Europe.
Many centuries later (during the renaissance), philology emerged as a science. Credit Lorenzo Valla and Nicola Cusano. After that, everyone searched and compared every copy of each work until they could reconstruct the originals.
And nobody mentioned the IE 6 ban in G-Docs... Google is moving the internet foward.
Linux has already been ported to ARM, Windows has not. And, for what we know about the leaked source code, Microsoft's standards are not optimal: the code is badly commented, etc. It's not like you click a different box in Visual Studio and voilà, ARM code. Who knows how many architecture-specific hacks they have used: all that code needs to be rewritten.
And then you'd had to port Windows' killer apps (IE and Office). GLWT