Sound like too much work to me. I'm speculating that 90% of the users would be just as happy if someone wrote a utility to set the uptime and produced a website carefully detailing why "setting your uptime after installing a new kernel should not be considered cheating".
Howcome americans insist on putting disclaimers on everything? Oh, that's right, your legal system sucks!;-) In most other contries people don't even attempt these kinds of lawsuits because the jugde will laugh them out of the courtroom.
I wonder how ordinary americans perceive these things?
Are million dollar law suits a Good Thing for "real" cases?
Do you people really think it's reasonable that companies should people who hurt themselves because the act stupid? McDonalds and the coffee woman comes to mind!
Also, I've heard that the instruction manual to cars include driving instructions, so the company wont get sued because some jerk drives his car into a wall and sues the shit of them, because he really thought the car could do that
Yup, go to the frontpage of http://www.clanworld.org. In an excerpt from an irc log from EFNET Zoid (of id) software mentions the glx driver under development at Nvidia.
Does KDE require a specific wm? If so I think it will lose because the default KDE wm is just plain ugly. In my opinion even redhat 5.1 std. fvwm2 Anotherlevel is more attractive.
I like window maker a lot and I'm just plain happy that it's supposed to work well with gnome. I hope I get around to installing gnome one of these days, but I fear we'll see rh60 before!
Yep, I don't see the problem with this article either. I once cheered for the Amiga platform, but abandoned it in favor of x86 PC's long before the commodore went out of business. There is not point in putting your money and spirit on a _dead_ horse.
Linux on the other hand is far from dead, but from a corporate perspective it is definitely an outsider! Sadly, the concept of denial is not too alien to a lot of linux supporters. One should hope they grow out of their infancy soon - they represent a tarnished spot on an otherwise great OS and community.
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Sound like too much work to me. I'm speculating that 90% of the users would be just as happy if someone wrote a utility to set the uptime and produced a website carefully detailing why "setting your uptime after installing a new kernel should not be considered cheating".
Actually it's Denial of Service
;-)
Yes, I know I'm being a bit pedantic
Howcome americans insist on putting disclaimers on ;-) In most other contries people don't even attempt these kinds of lawsuits because the jugde will laugh them out of the courtroom.
everything? Oh, that's right, your legal system sucks!
I wonder how ordinary americans perceive these things?
Are million dollar law suits a Good Thing for "real" cases?
Do you people really think it's reasonable that companies should people who hurt themselves because the act stupid? McDonalds and the coffee woman comes to mind!
Also, I've heard that the instruction manual to cars include driving instructions, so the company wont get sued because some jerk drives his car into a wall and sues the shit of them, because he really thought the car could do that
Yup, go to the frontpage of http://www.clanworld.org. In an excerpt from an irc log from EFNET Zoid (of id) software mentions the glx driver under development at Nvidia.
Does KDE require a specific wm? If so I think it will lose because the default KDE wm is just plain ugly. In my opinion even redhat 5.1 std. fvwm2 Anotherlevel is more attractive.
I like window maker a lot and I'm just plain happy that it's supposed to work well with gnome. I hope I get around to installing gnome one of these days, but I fear we'll see rh60 before!
Yep, I don't see the problem with this article either. I once cheered for the Amiga platform, but abandoned it in favor of x86 PC's long before the commodore went out of business. There is not point in putting your money and spirit on a _dead_ horse.
Linux on the other hand is far from dead, but from a corporate perspective it is definitely an outsider! Sadly, the concept of denial is not too alien to a lot of linux supporters. One should hope they grow out of their infancy soon - they represent a tarnished spot on an otherwise great OS and community.
Just my $.02