The First Amendment only restricts the US Federal Government, and by some later amendment, state governments. Just about anything's fair game wrt private property that falls under contract law.
Does anyone know of the legal status of an LZW compressed TIFF? Why isn't Unisys complaining about them? I know that LZW TIFFs are not nearly as promiment as GIFs, but they do exist. I mean, the GNU site just has JPEG images and all kind of notes about "no gifs due to patent problems" not "no LZW compressed images due to patent problems".
It seems that everyone likes to compare these computers to cars. This case bares a striking resemblance to the one in the 70s when a whole lot of Asian manufacturers flat out copied the Fender Statocaster guitar design. Some even labled them as Fenders. Of course Fender American tried to stop them. They were mostly _really_ cheap knockoffs, but some were actually quite good. Today you can go into a music shop and not tell the manufacturer of a specific guitar without reading the labels very closely. I think that this was actually beneficial because it made Fender really focus on quality, maybe Apple should do the same.
Everyone copies ideas, it's the execution that's important. If noone where allowed to copy ideas, we wouldn't have "a better Minix than Minix" today. I think if Daewoo wants to make a computer similar to the iMac, they should be allowed. If Apple wants to retain their leadership in this market segment, they are going to have to work for it. If they want to be high-end, they shouldn't make the iMacs feels so cheap; MacOS could also stand some work also. If they want to be low end, they should probably shoot for selling them at around $500.
Screw the companies, make 'em sweat. Competition is good for the consumers.
I didn't think that Linux supported DOC. I've got a videoless, keyboardless single board embedded system running off a DOC with ethernet, but it's running QNX.
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You can run kfm without desktop icons if you use the -w switch, that is, by running "kfm -w".
The First Amendment only restricts the US Federal Government, and by some later amendment, state governments. Just about anything's fair game wrt private property that falls under contract law.
Does anyone know of the legal status of an LZW compressed TIFF? Why isn't Unisys complaining about them? I know that LZW TIFFs are not nearly as promiment as GIFs, but they do exist. I mean, the GNU site just has JPEG images and all kind of notes about "no gifs due to patent problems" not "no LZW compressed images due to patent problems".
ASME is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, http://www.asme.org/ .
It seems that everyone likes to compare these computers to cars. This case bares a striking resemblance to the one in the 70s when a whole lot of Asian manufacturers flat out copied the Fender Statocaster guitar design. Some even labled them as Fenders. Of course Fender American tried to stop them. They were mostly _really_ cheap knockoffs, but some were actually quite good. Today you can go into a music shop and not tell the manufacturer of a specific guitar without reading the labels very closely. I think that this was actually beneficial because it made Fender really focus on quality, maybe Apple should do the same.
Everyone copies ideas, it's the execution that's important. If noone where allowed to copy ideas, we wouldn't have "a better Minix than Minix" today. I think if Daewoo wants to make a computer similar to the iMac, they should be allowed. If Apple wants to retain their leadership in this market segment, they are going to have to work for it. If they want to be high-end, they shouldn't make the iMacs feels so cheap; MacOS could also stand some work also. If they want to be low end, they should probably shoot for selling them at around $500.
Screw the companies, make 'em sweat. Competition is good for the consumers.
I didn't think that Linux supported DOC. I've got a videoless, keyboardless single board embedded system running off a DOC with ethernet, but it's running QNX.
Has M-Systems added linux support?