What's the deal with last names in Second Life? Do they have any meaning at all, I notice you can make your own first name but you have to choose from a list of last names.
ever since they licenced the rights to distribute BeOS R5PE and Pro (when they acquired the rights from Koch Media).
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be able to provide any proof that they can distribute modifications to BeOS. Proof of such would definitely help their sales and legitimacy.
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Indeed. That's all I'm asking for: a straight answer. I will not spend money on a product that may be illegal in my jurisdiction.
In that case, I'd stay far away from zeta/yellowtab.
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They bought a license to be a BeOS reseller; they did not (as far as anyone knows) purchase the rights to use the source code. They have refused, in the last 2-3 years, to make a public statement one way or the other, and for this reason, should not be trusted.
Exactly, yT has never been shown to have the right to the sourcecode or to even have a legal right to redistribute modifications of beos.
An unqualified statement that they aren't breaking the law on their website should be taken with a major grain of salt. Who would admit the breaking the law, it would be suicidal to their business.
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I think it's pretty clear that they don't have legal access to the Be sources. It's doubtful that they even have legal right to redistribute Be IP. From everyone that I've talked to, it appears that yT thinks they have distribution rights based on the PE license, which doesn't grant those rights.
If they had legal access to the Be sources they could fix several easily fixable problems instead of using the binary hacks that the community has been providing.
Being based in Germany and knowing that Palm Inc. really has no interest in persuing them appears to be the only thing keeping them going.
Once the openbeos project has finished making free replacements for all the beos components, yT might be able to co-opt enough stuff to make a legal distribution, but for the time being I'd stay far away from yT and zeta
I heard that ZETA is using some illegal code. Is this true? No. yellowTAB does not use illegal or leaked software.
Unfortunately, if you talk to people who've worked at yT, they claim that yT thinks that they can redistribute basically any beos ip they want based on the beosPE license, which clearly does not give them this right.
Of course if you ask a company if they are doing anything illegal they will tell you no, it'd be stupid to do otherwise.
If you ask them for proof that they can legally distribute what they are, they basically ignore you or deny you the proof.
Before you go calling people trolls, perhaps you should look into the issue a little more closely.
Unfortunately your example proves that it isn't price gouging. The fact that you state that the Mac isn't any cheaper proves that. Before you go calling people stupid, perhaps you should learn the definitions of the terms that you are using.
If cellphones on planes were a legitimate problem, wouldn't it be a problem everywhere else in the world where cellphones are already allowed on planes?
What I've never understood is that libraries always fine you the cover price of a new copy of the book, not what they originally paid for the book or what they would actually pay to repurchase the book.
If Joe Public can pick up the book for 30% off the cover price at the local grocery store, you'd think they library could get it even cheaper considering the thousands of books they purchase every year.
No they won't they're unionized and you can't volunteer.
Just curious, but have you ever tried to volunteer at a library? I'm not sure that being unionized would keep them from allowing volunteers but I haven't really ever looked into it.
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What's the deal with last names in Second Life? Do they have any meaning at all, I notice you can make your own first name but you have to choose from a list of last names.
ever since they licenced the rights to distribute BeOS R5PE and Pro (when they acquired the rights from Koch Media).
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be able to provide any proof that they can distribute modifications to BeOS. Proof of such would definitely help their sales and legitimacy.
Indeed. That's all I'm asking for: a straight answer. I will not spend money on a product that may be illegal in my jurisdiction.
In that case, I'd stay far away from zeta/yellowtab.
They bought a license to be a BeOS reseller; they did not (as far as anyone knows) purchase the rights to use the source code. They have refused, in the last 2-3 years, to make a public statement one way or the other, and for this reason, should not be trusted.
Exactly, yT has never been shown to have the right to the sourcecode or to even have a legal right to redistribute modifications of beos.
An unqualified statement that they aren't breaking the law on their website should be taken with a major grain of salt. Who would admit the breaking the law, it would be suicidal to their business.
I think it's pretty clear that they don't have legal access to the Be sources. It's doubtful that they even have legal right to redistribute Be IP. From everyone that I've talked to, it appears that yT thinks they have distribution rights based on the PE license, which doesn't grant those rights.
If they had legal access to the Be sources they could fix several easily fixable problems instead of using the binary hacks that the community has been providing.
Being based in Germany and knowing that Palm Inc. really has no interest in persuing them appears to be the only thing keeping them going.
Once the openbeos project has finished making free replacements for all the beos components, yT might be able to co-opt enough stuff to make a legal distribution, but for the time being I'd stay far away from yT and zeta
I heard that ZETA is using some illegal code. Is this true?
No. yellowTAB does not use illegal or leaked software.
Unfortunately, if you talk to people who've worked at yT, they claim that yT thinks that they can redistribute basically any beos ip they want based on the beosPE license, which clearly does not give them this right.
Of course if you ask a company if they are doing anything illegal they will tell you no, it'd be stupid to do otherwise.
If you ask them for proof that they can legally distribute what they are, they basically ignore you or deny you the proof.
Before you go calling people trolls, perhaps you should look into the issue a little more closely.
Unfortunately your example proves that it isn't price gouging. The fact that you state that the Mac isn't any cheaper proves that. Before you go calling people stupid, perhaps you should learn the definitions of the terms that you are using.
Yes but that's not the issue... the issue is price gouging.
Since you understand the issue so well, please explain how it's price gouging.
If cellphones on planes were a legitimate problem, wouldn't it be a problem everywhere else in the world where cellphones are already allowed on planes?
"prevent others from copying your idea and claiming it as zir own"
I think you mean 'their own'. Their would be the correct pronoun for 'others'. Zir doesn't have a definition in the English language.
Firefox seems to be doing ok with the money they already have, how about giving it to a project that is struggling financially.
What I've never understood is that libraries always fine you the cover price of a new copy of the book, not what they originally paid for the book or what they would actually pay to repurchase the book.
If Joe Public can pick up the book for 30% off the cover price at the local grocery store, you'd think they library could get it even cheaper considering the thousands of books they purchase every year.
No they won't they're unionized and you can't volunteer.
Just curious, but have you ever tried to volunteer at a library? I'm not sure that being unionized would keep them from allowing volunteers but I haven't really ever looked into it.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/search.php
I've yet to get the captcha thing when I post.. is it related to karma or what?
I'm glad you think so, but I imagine you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that agrees with you.
That's a typo, if you follow the link to the drive it shows that it's a 3.5 form factor.
I can't see how any solution using domino/notes could be considered a good solution.
See what happens when you don't read the article, you end up not understanding what it's about and then you make stupid comments.
So now I can setup a server and have everyone's passwords and usernames filter into it.
No, read the article and try to understand it before commenting.
so maybe there's some amazing aspect of this I'm missing out on
There is. Comparing OpenID to Passport is comparing apples and oranges, they work differently and have different purposes.
I was looking for a similar system a while back and I remember finding a few decent ones on sourceforge and freshmeat and those types of sites.
Luckily in america you can still sue the gov't, other countries have sovereign immunity, not the US.
I'm pretty sure redhat would want to sell before microsoft could buy them, so it's not likely to happen anytime soon anyway.
browser installed should meet all W3C standards that the browser supports 100%
Once you find a browser that meets that criteria, let us know, firefox certainly doesn't meet all w3c standards