Forgive me of being semantically in error. I am not a native speaker and I don't have a degree in English. Perhaps I should clarify my point a bit:
With the word 'commercial' I ment that unless someone gets a change of heart, there will be no free and legal way to get Lindows. There will be a price tag. Even with most modern commercial distributions, (RedHat, Mandrake etc.) there is a 'free download'-option included. And being non-free (if that is the right word) means that critical parts of Lindows, if not all, will be closed source.
And what comes to me thinking that "one single proprietary piece of software magically `taints' every other free / open source part", I didn't say that and didn't mean to give that impression.
...Malcolm Dean questions whether Lindows is any sort of linux at all...
In fantasy terms: No, Mr. Robertson. If you breed an angel with a demon, you don't get an angel able to cast death magick.
In my book, Lindows is not any sort of Linux at all. If it is commercial, then even if it runs Linux software, has a Linux look or even if it is somehow related to a true Linux, it ain't Linux.
Linux is not the penguin. Linux is the smile on the penguin's face.
Taking the current speed of someone discovering yet another hole in IE (bugs/day), I would say Microsoft should consider this 'über-patching' a weekly routine.
And we are not talking about holes as in "Oops, I sense a draft coming from somewhere", but really huge chasms of sloppy programming, big enough for Bin Laden to hide in.
Über-patch or not, I consider IE a worthy browser when the releases start to be safe and stable out-of-the-box, and when MS stops considering 'security', 'privacy' and 'standards-compliance' as curse words. (Subtle hint: Ain't gonna happen)
The romantics say that justice is blind, but nowadays the fair lady has removed her blindfold and has proven to have a very keen eye on business.
They also say that crime doesn't pay. I think recent events have shown that crime does pay, big bux. But the most unfortunate truth is that usually justice does not.
This whole Antitrust-wrestle has been an excellent, but not the only, proof of today's justice-system getting more and more commercial. Microsoft's tactics are simply unbeatable: Keep the law-process running until either they run tired of it or they run out of money, and in case of the latter, buy them out. Can the DOJ be bought? At least Microsoft seems to rely on that.
Need we say more? The feds chasing kids with not-so-moral CD-R collections when there are real criminals out there...Unfortunately FBI too has an economy to run, and the record industry has a lot more money saved for a rainy day than the average victim.
Money can't buy love? Well, then that's about the only thing it cannot, since with money you can buy justice, freedom, truth... you name it.
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Come on people... I know I can't be the only one who first read that as "Ulrich Drepper On LSD".
Forgive me of being semantically in error. I am not a native speaker and I don't have a degree in English. Perhaps I should clarify my point a bit:
With the word 'commercial' I ment that unless someone gets a change of heart, there will be no free and legal way to get Lindows. There will be a price tag. Even with most modern commercial distributions, (RedHat, Mandrake etc.) there is a 'free download'-option included. And being non-free (if that is the right word) means that critical parts of Lindows, if not all, will be closed source.
And what comes to me thinking that "one single proprietary piece of software magically `taints' every other free / open source part", I didn't say that and didn't mean to give that impression.
// Ego sum Nucivorax, me clamare audi.
In fantasy terms:
No, Mr. Robertson. If you breed an angel with a demon, you don't get an angel able to cast death magick.
In my book, Lindows is not any sort of Linux at all. If it is commercial, then even if it runs Linux software, has a Linux look or even if it is somehow related to a true Linux, it ain't Linux.
Linux is not the penguin. Linux is the smile on the penguin's face.
// Ego sum Nucivorax, me clamare audi.
Taking the current speed of someone discovering yet another hole in IE (bugs/day), I would say Microsoft should consider this 'über-patching' a weekly routine.
And we are not talking about holes as in "Oops, I sense a draft coming from somewhere", but really huge chasms of sloppy programming, big enough for Bin Laden to hide in.
Über-patch or not, I consider IE a worthy browser when the releases start to be safe and stable out-of-the-box, and when MS stops considering 'security', 'privacy' and 'standards-compliance' as curse words. (Subtle hint: Ain't gonna happen)
// Ego sum Nucivorax, me clamare audi.
The romantics say that justice is blind, but nowadays the fair lady has removed her blindfold and has proven to have a very keen eye on business.
They also say that crime doesn't pay. I think recent events have shown that crime does pay, big bux. But the most unfortunate truth is that usually justice does not.
This whole Antitrust-wrestle has been an excellent, but not the only, proof of today's justice-system getting more and more commercial. Microsoft's tactics are simply unbeatable: Keep the law-process running until either they run tired of it or they run out of money, and in case of the latter, buy them out. Can the DOJ be bought? At least Microsoft seems to rely on that.
Need we say more? The feds chasing kids with not-so-moral CD-R collections when there are real criminals out there...Unfortunately FBI too has an economy to run, and the record industry has a lot more money saved for a rainy day than the average victim.
Money can't buy love? Well, then that's about the only thing it cannot, since with money you can buy justice, freedom, truth... you name it.
// Ego sum Nucivorax, me clamare audi.