Ok, so what your saying is, windows users should fork over $300 bucks for windows 2000, then fork over another $200 for vmware, so they can run a free operating system.
It makes alot more sense to just dual-boot then that, or just play games that run on Linux.
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Ya, instead of regualar updates you just get to put-up with tons broken garbage for the next six months wainting for the next service pack, and pray that when it arrives it won't trash anythng that works in your current config.
I don't think so, all they had to do was do a search an copy and paste the ip address of the people with matalica mp3's to create a list. Matalica can easily afford to pay someone to do it for them.
"Microsoft doesn't make free software.' Hey, we have free software, the world will always have free software", it's CNET that keeps calling it Open-Source.
I think your missing something important, the kind of people that want to use net-zero don't want to go to slashdot and hang-out all day preaching to the converted.
In short they just want to get their e-mail, and don't feel like paying for Internet access they never use (at least thats what the only netzero user I know told me).
That's obviously not true, all nvidia cards are supported by Xfree86's drivers. They may be a little resistent about dolling out the needed information, but it's clear that they have.
ya, you thought Tribes2 wass a game , but little did you know it has an internal email client, irc client, voice chat client, user directory system and more.
It seems to me their are to many Linux users who want to see windows apps ported to Linux, and get
upset when they get Wine ports, or apps that run under emulation.
The key to beating windows is NEW ORIGINAL apps for Linux that are better than anything you can
get for windows.
That is the key to winning, apps that make your windows using friends want to switch because they
can't get those apps for windows!
I'm talking about kapital, Koffice, nautilus, everybuddy(an app my mom loves), Quanta+,
Evolution etc..
These are the apps that make your Windows using friends and relatives take sit up and take notice,
not ports of Windows apps, native or emulated, because they can already get that stuff for
Windows.
Wine is a usefull tool, and if it is used to port usefull windows apps to Linux so what, it makes no difference to the end user if a windows app has been ported to Linux native libraries, or winelib, the real stuff is are the apps you can get for Linux, that you can't get for Windows!
What about getting developers to code for SDL as a way of supporting both Linux and Windows at the
same time?
As I understand it, SDL games can be ported to Windows without much trouble, and without using
any emulation.
I suspect many game developers whould support a portable gamming API where they could support the
windows market, and Linux without being beholden to MS APIs.
It seems a matter where you live, here in Canada Sympatico offer DSL across the country and are
making money on it hand over fist (the parent company BCE owns most of the phone system in
eastern Canada, and much of the west, as well), and certainly have no cash flow problems.
It seems to me that the biggest problem with DSL in the states is that their are so many different
phone companies that are using differing implementations, where they can't use the same
equipement on all phone lines.
Are you insane???? MS did all they could to delay exceptance of the Internet circa 93-95, this is well known as biggest blunder in Microsoft's history. MS tries to take credit for "creating the computer revolution" but if anything MS has been the one holding it back.(just look how much better MacOS 6 and 7 are compared to MS-DOS)
Does anyone think that the Desktop publishing revolution would have come along without Apple?
Does anyone think the internet could have come along without BSD, Mosaic, and free portocols like tcp/ip, http and the like?
MS has comtibuted some inventions to computer, namely wysiwyg word processing(Word for the mac is the original if I'm not mistaken), but MS has mostly muscled into the market after the fact in almost every major computer advancement in the last 20 years.
I would agree that UCITA is a horrible law, but it is getting passed in many states, and if you don't at least try to have a say in it, it will pass with all the most wrong headed parts of it fully intact.
avifile is a some "grey area" way to view divx:) and windows media content, but if works well, and can even stream windows media over the internet.
It does not work as a plug-in, so there are still many pages where you have to read the html to watch win media files, or use the "run external palyer option", but it does work.
Link Please? I have never read anything to that effect, if anything the GPL v3 will loosen some of the restrictions on distribution, and will close the ASP loophole (the one where the user uses the software via remote control rather than distributing it, therefore negating the need to make source available.) In fact if you read http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/01/1 636202
you will see that GPL v3 will allow internet only distribution of the source.
I'm don't work for the record industrie, but from all the interviews and such with musicians, most don't seem to make any money unless they make huge sales (here in Canada you have to go gold just to break even on a major label record deal).
I suspect that to make money in the states the states you have to sell a least 250,000 copies just to break even (and I know for a fact most of the bands I listen to sell than that).
Since when is doing something for the fun of it a worthless act?
Musicians don't make any money as it is, and all the money any musician makes,aside from mega-pop stars, comes from public performance anyway.
Setting down clear rules on how free music can be traded is the first step toward creating opertunity for musicians who want to try to build their fan base by distributing music over the Internet.
I don't see how the GPL makes it harder to make money in the embeded hardware market since what you are selling is primarily hardware.
The success of BSD in firewall, and router appliances, has more to do with FreeBSD being better than Linux at routing and firewalling before the release of Linux 2.4.
Don't be a troll! FreeBSD will matter as long as people are interested in using it, and developers are interested in coding for it.
Linux is a good free unix, and so is FreeBSD, some people prefer one others prefer the other. But their all unix.
The problem with both ximian and eazel ...
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The problem with both these companies is that
they don't even try to make money, they give
away all their best product for free.
If they wanted to pull in some cash they should
move to a model where they give away source code
for free, and make people pay for their easy
1-2-3 binary installer. After all why would
anyone bother with buying their CDs if it's
easier to download ximian for free off their web
site.
They both pay lip service to the idea of selling
services, but ximian even gives that away in
redcarpet!
Not that I'm complaining, but I do want both of
these companies to stick around, and they have
to make money to do that.
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Ok, so what your saying is, windows users should fork over $300 bucks for windows 2000, then fork over another $200 for vmware, so they can run a free operating system.
It makes alot more sense to just dual-boot then that, or just play games that run on Linux.
Ya, instead of regualar updates you just get to put-up with tons broken garbage for the next six months wainting for the next service pack, and pray that when it arrives it won't trash anythng that works in your current config.
just made a mod screw-up so I'll post to undue it
I don't think so, all they had to do was do a search an copy and paste the ip address of the people with matalica mp3's to create a list. Matalica can easily afford to pay someone to do it for them.
"Microsoft doesn't make free software.' Hey, we have free software, the world will always have free software", it's CNET that keeps calling it Open-Source.
I think your missing something important, the kind of people that want to use net-zero don't want to go to slashdot and hang-out all day preaching to the converted.
In short they just want to get their e-mail, and don't feel like paying for Internet access they never use (at least thats what the only netzero user I know told me).
That's obviously not true, all nvidia cards are supported by Xfree86's drivers. They may be a little resistent about dolling out the needed information, but it's clear that they have.
Yup, my short experience with OBSD led to my
conclusion, that I was WAY out of my league.
OpenBSD will teach you everything you never
wanted to know about Unix.
OpenBSD is great for a firewall/Nat machine, or
high security nfs/web/mail server, but it ain't
no workstation for the rest of us.
Who got first space walK?
Maybe because the mac is such a shoddy OS you would never be able to get run on your shiteball rage 128.
One good flame deserves another.
ya, you thought Tribes2 wass a game , but little did you know it has an internal email client, irc client, voice chat client, user directory system and more.
Oh ya that game part is hella fun!
Umm.. That was an april fools day joke on dot.kde.org, their is some work being done on using moz-embed with KDE but not by the kde prokject.
It seems to me their are to many Linux users who want to see windows apps ported to Linux, and get
upset when they get Wine ports, or apps that run under emulation.
The key to beating windows is NEW ORIGINAL apps for Linux that are better than anything you can
get for windows.
That is the key to winning, apps that make your windows using friends want to switch because they
can't get those apps for windows!
I'm talking about kapital, Koffice, nautilus, everybuddy(an app my mom loves), Quanta+,
Evolution etc..
These are the apps that make your Windows using friends and relatives take sit up and take notice,
not ports of Windows apps, native or emulated, because they can already get that stuff for
Windows.
Wine is a usefull tool, and if it is used to port usefull windows apps to Linux so what, it makes no difference to the end user if a windows app has been ported to Linux native libraries, or winelib, the real stuff is are the apps you can get for Linux, that you can't get for Windows!
What about getting developers to code for SDL as a way of supporting both Linux and Windows at the
same time?
As I understand it, SDL games can be ported to Windows without much trouble, and without using
any emulation.
I suspect many game developers whould support a portable gamming API where they could support the
windows market, and Linux without being beholden to MS APIs.
It seems a matter where you live, here in Canada Sympatico offer DSL across the country and are
making money on it hand over fist (the parent company BCE owns most of the phone system in
eastern Canada, and much of the west, as well), and certainly have no cash flow problems.
It seems to me that the biggest problem with DSL in the states is that their are so many different
phone companies that are using differing implementations, where they can't use the same
equipement on all phone lines.
Are you insane???? MS did all they could to delay exceptance of the Internet circa 93-95, this is well known as biggest blunder in Microsoft's history. MS tries to take credit for "creating the computer revolution" but if anything MS has been the one holding it back.(just look how much better MacOS 6 and 7 are compared to MS-DOS)
Does anyone think that the Desktop publishing revolution would have come along without Apple?
Does anyone think the internet could have come along without BSD, Mosaic, and free portocols like tcp/ip, http and the like?
MS has comtibuted some inventions to computer, namely wysiwyg word processing(Word for the mac is the original if I'm not mistaken), but MS has mostly muscled into the market after the fact in almost every major computer advancement in the last 20 years.
I would agree that UCITA is a horrible law, but it is getting passed in many states, and if you don't at least try to have a say in it, it will pass with all the most wrong headed parts of it fully intact.
avifile is a some "grey area" way to view divx:) and windows media content, but if works well, and can even stream windows media over the internet.
It does not work as a plug-in, so there are still many pages where you have to read the html to watch win media files, or use the "run external palyer option", but it does work.
Link Please? I have never read anything to that effect, if anything the GPL v3 will loosen some of the restrictions on distribution, and will close the ASP loophole (the one where the user uses the software via remote control rather than distributing it, therefore negating the need to make source available.) In fact if you read http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/01/1 636202
you will see that GPL v3 will allow internet only distribution of the source.
I'm don't work for the record industrie, but from all the interviews and such with musicians, most don't seem to make any money unless they make huge sales (here in Canada you have to go gold just to break even on a major label record deal).
I suspect that to make money in the states the states you have to sell a least 250,000 copies just to break even (and I know for a fact most of the bands I listen to sell than that).
Since when is doing something for the fun of it a worthless act?
,aside from mega-pop stars, comes from public performance anyway.
Musicians don't make any money as it is, and all the money any musician makes
Setting down clear rules on how free music can be traded is the first step toward creating opertunity for musicians who want to try to build their fan base by distributing music over the Internet.
As I understand it, this how BSD got started in the first place.
Back in the early 80's you had to buy a Bell Labs Unix license to use BSD because Bell Labs still owned most of the code in the Berkley Distribution.
I don't see how the GPL makes it harder to make money in the embeded hardware market since what you are selling is primarily hardware.
The success of BSD in firewall, and router appliances, has more to do with FreeBSD being better than Linux at routing and firewalling before the release of Linux 2.4.
Don't be a troll! FreeBSD will matter as long as people are interested in using it, and developers are interested in coding for it.
Linux is a good free unix, and so is FreeBSD, some people prefer one others prefer the other. But their all unix.
The problem with both these companies is that
they don't even try to make money, they give
away all their best product for free.
If they wanted to pull in some cash they should
move to a model where they give away source code
for free, and make people pay for their easy
1-2-3 binary installer. After all why would
anyone bother with buying their CDs if it's
easier to download ximian for free off their web
site.
They both pay lip service to the idea of selling
services, but ximian even gives that away in
redcarpet!
Not that I'm complaining, but I do want both of
these companies to stick around, and they have
to make money to do that.