this was the part that caught my attention the most:
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Forgent's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
Since this is telephone spam that the article is probably pointing to, here's a trick a neighbor told me about.
There are these devices you can hook up to your phone line that zap your number off telemarketers auto-calling systems, but here's how to do it without buying such a system/box.
Find a number that has been disconnected and record the tone sequence you get in response to calling that number, to the beginning of your outgoing answering machine message with a message after it that lets real people know that tone is is directed at telemarketer machines.
It's this tone sequence that the telemarketer machines recognize and then remove the number from the list.
I recall many many years ago that there was one place that you could opt out of receiving junk mail, Direct Marketing Association??, and this made it easy to save alot of companies the expense of sending out junk mail thru the USPS to those who would simply throw it away.
Due to the internet, I'm finding I'm have to "Opt OUT" more and more for each company, and quite frankly, it's becomming a Fu&in hassle and expence that I'm not getting re-embursed for.
Soooo, is there a single source that I can simply OPT OUT, one time? And if not, Why not?
Anyone got a URL or should we send our OPT OUTS to the the law makers?
Got a URL for them?
I suspect they may yell "SPAM" But I still want the URLs!!!
Apparently the only way to compete against MS is to not be a company that generates income enough to compete on the same level of developemnt as MS. To be a company means to be attacked by MS with their anti-competitive practices.
So a bunch a independant freesoftware developers who represent "freedom" is the only force to counter the ongoing "constraints" of MS.
It the same group of freesoftware developers that are responsible for getting MS to at leat claim they are going to start producing quality software?
Microsoft is a criminal, proven in court, and now they are using the money they got while being criminals, to do what?
What better way to defeat freedom, creativity and innovation than to put constraints on it.
So MS thinks constraining others is better than the freefom of others....
To really understand what is going on here, consider the CTS - Common Type System and the CIL - Common Intermediate Language as a midway translation point for any programming language.
With this other programing languages or other programming mehodology interfaces can more easily be created.
It's like taking all popular programming languages and putting them into a pot and boiling them down to common and non-conflicting data types and programming concepts. And from here, using the summed vocabulary set of data types and concepts as a translation base to use in converting a program written in your convient programming language choice into CIL or Common Intermediate Language bytecode. From which you can run on any systemj that has a VES or Virtual Execution System type of system installed.
This of course allows both intrepreted and compiled types of languages to potentially be used.
Admittance that the internet is not, and never will be secure?
Todays lesson on what a Troll article looks like..
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Mac Users May Be Smarter
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Anytime you see a "this platform of users is better than that platform of users"...
You don't need syrup for them troll flap jacks, fer the syrup is spilln off the plate and floatin dem grits.
This Article is an example of what has got to be the most unoriginal troll. Maybe it's even an example of the oldest/first troll ever posted "my system is better than yours".
pudge, the caffinated coffee is in the orange pot, not the green one.
Funny how OSX is now of a Unix flavor....huh? Often genuis lack common sence.
If this what a lawyer is telling us, then why can't he determine one way or the other what the bottom line is? Perhaps it's just FUD. Hasn't any Patent lawyer looked over the issue, outside of MS?
And if MS bought some IP from SGI and this caused the problem, the where else can MS buy up IP and cause problems?
Shouldn't such an issue be the focus....to remove such a possibility before MS makes things worse?
I really don't want to be one to have to deal with trying to figure out what I can or can't do with a system.
I think the DRM supporters need to focus their efforts on making their dedicated systems that don't allow the user to do anything by play or run the DRM stuff ony as they intend to allow the consumer.
and then we should have another type of system that allows creativity, innovation, etc.. by and for those who want such a system.
And so that there is no conflict, the open system simply rejects DRM stuff, where to use DRM stuff on such a system, a special version of that item must be purchased.
Some of us bought a Computer in order to be creative, and I think it's theift for others to sneek in and take this away, especially in doing it the little by little way.
Why don't they just go make their own DRM system, or do they know it won't sale? And if so, then isn't it theift by intention?
All I know is that I don't want the maybe it's work, maybe it won't crap wasting my time.
DRM is like a virus infecting and crippling what is otherwise a versatile system.
I rather make a clear distinction between what I can be creative with and not.
I'm not a pirate, and I don't like my creativity being taken from me because others feel they have to muscle in on it.
All Pubsoft is offering is to handle some issues and concernes that come up in regards to dealing with donations to sponsor OSI compliant work. Like how do you know the developer does the work they are paid for...etc..
The follow is such a situation where the "how" to make this happen hasn't been figured out (should the developer be offered the 550 Euro).
But here is the solution with PubSoft!!
BTW: this is NOT me though I have offered some. AROS is an Open Source Amiga Clone project that is almost at the 80% done mark. But it's intended to be better than AmigaOS, and portable. See AROS @ Sourceforge
I have two months of free time this summer, which I would love to spend on coding for AROS or AWeb Open Source. The problem is that I have to pay my bills, and therefore I would need to get some temporary job. This of course means there would be very little time to code on those projects...:-/
The solution to this would be if someone (or some group of people) were willing to sponsor me for coding on AROS or AWeb one month or two. I don't ask for much money, just enough to pay my bills and to buy food. For that I would code 60 hours / week, that is more than fulltime. In total, this would mean around 240 hours of work going into AROS or AWeb in a month, to improve any part you (the sponsor) wants me to.
Public Relations Marketing software does not interfer with the operation of software but rather is an acknowledgement of the goodwill of the sponsor. As such it should be noted that such acknowledgement is of the same nature as is a software license giving credit to the authors. One example is a startup notice (that will vanish on it's own in very short time, and be disabled by user choice). Another is mention of sponsor in the "About" menu item.
The value to give sponsors in exchange for their sponsorship is acknowledgement of their sponsorship.
That's Goodwill!!! Something to respect! And something OSS developers probably will respect perhaps as mush as they respect the license and license holder of OSS..
Seems to me that the upcomming GNU Hurd of servers, which gives the users more freedom in user space while maintaining networking security, opens up a whole new door of user interface options, including "Smart User Interfaces"
The key to this is how the Hurd using IPC (inner process communication) and how this can be tapped into in the user space and network functionality so as to hook a "Smart User Interface" up.
Smart User interface = along the lines of the difference between a dumb terminal and a smart terminal, where the Smart User Interface is it's own Operating System yet able to use the resources and security of the Hurd for number crunching functionality and external firewalled access.
I think even a project like the OSS AMIGA like project AROS would be very useful here as user accessible IPC had pretty much been made a standard on the Amiga - and follows in the AROS project
Re:You folks don't no sh*t about patent law
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MS Palladium Patent
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· Score: 2
"To show that it fails to meet requirement 1 you have to show that the invention was published or displayed in public one year prior to the filing of the patent applications."
care to elaborate on this, perhaps provide a link?
One year is an awfully long time to allow someone to file a patent on something they found already published by another.
Re:The Declaration of Software Freedom
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MS Palladium Patent
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Why there are those who pursue calling the FSF, GPL, etc. communistic ideology I simply do not understand as there is very little, if any, connection to communistic ideology. Unless of course the real Communist are simple trying to bit fip the subject.
Communism is a combination of a Socialistic Economic System and a Totalitarian government.
Europe has the concept of Common Wealth, and it's not Communistic. In fact it's Europe that is the biggest contributor to Free Software and Open Source Software.
And according to the signator country stats of the Declaration of Software Freedom, the US is followed by India, neither of which are communistic.
Being an American, yet disliking politics for reasons of corruption in such machinery, I took very careful consideration of the Declaration of Software Freedom, given it's political tone.
I decided to sign, not for the political overtones but because of some basic principles that even the political overtones can't defeat without exposing corruption in the political overtones. Checks and balances?
And that's only this Declaration of Software Freedom. There is alot more to the FreeDeveloper.net that exposes in greater depth the falacy of calling GPL software communistic ideology.
Where anti-trust law breaking monopolies are much closer in actuality to what communisim is, than GPL ever will or even can be.
"Someone might have misunderstood the term "Freedom" to mean freedom for all."
And it is the basic principles of the Declaration of Software Freedom by which we will be able to achieve such freedom. Unless of course you somehow believe that taking away freedoms is the way to achieve freedom for all.
Software development technology hasn't reached it's logical and scientific foundation yet, due to the distractions of efforts to subvert software freedom, even in the lab. But when it does, it will be as obvious then that GPL is a major step in the right direction of helping to acheive that foundation, as it is obvious today that Galileo was right (even by the Catholic church perspective).
This MS Patent will become a public document in testiment of the belief that those creating it actually think they were right, in the same way as filming of the Jewish death camps and pits were filmed in a manner of those doing it, the killing and the filming, thinking they were right.
The Declaration of Software Freedom
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MS Palladium Patent
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· Score: 3, Funny
"Current Software Commercial Organizations... hide source code to keep developers divided, disenfranchised and dependent; tie inferior products to dominant ones; defiantly violate and avoid court orders; quash promising competitive start-ups; leverage dominant products into other, unrelated businesses; carve up markets to eliminate real competition; utilize predatory pricing practices to foreclose competition; commoditize and objectify their customers by making them captive; cause developers to constantly re-invent the wheel by hiding the source code; exercise general thuggish behavior in business dealings; compel weak competitors to destroy their own innovative products to protect established profitable ones; fail to respond to customer requests and needs in a timely fashion; exploit natural "choke-holds" in the economy for their own advantages; manipulate and delay technological progress to maintain supremacy; hide coding bugs thereby jeopardizing stability and security; de-humanize software developers by considering them as "inputs" or "assets"; stifle innovation; "embrace and extend" or otherwise pollute open standards in order to break and appropriate them; use exclusionary contract provisions to enforce censorship over disclosure of bugs and defects; shut-off or block channels of distribution to legitimate competitors; announce vaporware to foreclose adoption of real competitive products; frustrate, taunt and antagonize governmental officials protecting the public interest; truncate choices; create confusion and frustration in users by selling inferior code; take the innovations developed by others as their own; practice differential pricing to punish those that oppose them; misinform and exploit users; use undocumented features as an anti-competitive device; suppress the open, efficient and free nature of the scientific method by keeping the code secret; purposefully break the code of competitors so that there are code inoperabilities across products; prohibit friends from sharing software with friends; coerce their users to fore-go promising competitive technologies; use overly restrictive and exclusionary contracts against weaker competitors; and perform other anti-social, anti-competitive and improper acts to establish, maintain and extend their software monopolies."....well does this mean the above needs modification of does it mean the Patent, being a public accessiable document, can be turn into evidence against MS, for which they cannot remove from public access?
...is not one of user friendly but rather one of user understanding fundamental concepts and being able to apply them in the learning feedback loop so to enable second nature integration of the users mindset.
But as things are done in teh computer industry and competition and anti-competition, it's hard for a user to make second nature anything because the industry keeps changing things.
I.E. should a user have to learn how to use a word processor that they would otherwise not, due to using something else, so to be able to read a.doc file?
But the problem is even worse than that as the whole nature of a computers and programming is simply the act of automating complexity that is made up of simple things. A process of automation that consist of some very basic and small set of actions/functionality. And this level of simplicity of applying concepts or actions/functionality is being kept from users in general.
And it even gets worse, as the DRM is going to make it difficult to learn how to do it the difficult way, should the user so chose to do outside or four years of full time colledge and certification and license buying etc...
So I guess what it all amounts to is the effort to not allow the user to actually do things for themselves enough to actually learn something that would help the user to make their use of computer more second nature.
You cannot make something user friendly and not allow user to use it. And apparently blaming the users for the failure of the industry to what they need to is the best excuse the industry can come up with. Hell they seem to get everything else from the users, from ides to feedback to money to.... and of course an excuse to blame.
I suspect this will be modded down but then that is apparently to be expected.
Why not just let it die and for those interested in the Amiga concept simply go to the open source (Mazollia like Licensed) project called AROS and found on sourceforge.
...What are those 5 balls on strings called?...where you lift one and release it and when it hits the others the last one goes up. Lift two... two go up, three....three go up....etc..
Didn't read the article but the comments all seem to reminds me of this ball-string device.
To be able to run AmigaOS4, if and when it comes out, you'll need to have installed a modified bios. This is to insure systems are certified....bla bla bla.... by Amiga....
Only those system Amiga approves of will be able to run AmigaOS4, for the Bois will only be available to Amiga approved OEMs.
What it is in essence is a bios resident dongle. The reason for it is to reduce piracy of AmigaOS4. In a way you can view it as a form of DRM.
I'm sure someone will come up with a way around it but it then becomes illegal and Amiga inc has been agressive on such matters even when it's not there Intellectual Property they are agressive about, but Amiga based software in general.
This article is about how an Amiga Spec'd system can run what? A Mac Emulator? on top of Linux?
Yet again, to be able to run AmigaOS4 it will need the modified Bios Dongle. The sort of thing I've come to call a "pissmark" like a dog marking it territory (Dog Released Marking).
We all know how MS wants to place their DRM system on people and for those who don't know, Amiga was a participant at some recent show, in the MS booth. Amiga was listed as an MS partner.....
I'd be real skeptical of Buying and AmigaOne system with this bios dongle.
But for those who like the AmigaOS and would like to be able to use...., there is an open source Amiga Clone Project that's under a license very similiar to the Mazollia License (OSI compatable) It's called AROS and can be found on Sourceforge and it's well past the halfway mark. Somehow I suspect it might also end up making a good smart userspace interface for the Hurd somewhere down the road, As Amiga made user accessible IPC standard (AREXX "ports") and the Hurd uses IPC alot.
This is actually great and wonderful if you just think about it.
This is like what, version 1 of Lindows? Aren't Windows users used to the first version being crap?
And about the need to log on, pay for, and download what is otherwise free software....
Doesn't the Windows user expect this, I mean with the comming of.net and all in the plans of MS. Except for here the user gets to discover that there are other options, unlike the MS plan, and such other options that they might find very interesting and pleasant.
There is the trick of the dishonest to present truth to lure in and trap people. But here, if you think about it, it's the opposite.
The only thing that needs to happen here is that for people to find out they can get a linux box for about $300 plus monitor and find a local Linux user groups for the rest, which includes software and some degree of support and training.
And then there is Version 2 of Lindows......
And by the time there is a version three....well, that won't happen as Lindows will have enlightened many to the falacy of there can only be 3 versions before everything begins again.
Slashdot Mirror
this was the part that caught my attention the most:
:)
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Forgent's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
Risks and uncertainties.........no shit!!!!
Since this is telephone spam that the article is probably pointing to,
here's a trick a neighbor told me about.
There are these devices you can hook up to your phone line that zap your number
off telemarketers auto-calling systems, but here's how to do it without buying
such a system/box.
Find a number that has been disconnected and record the tone sequence you get
in response to calling that number, to the beginning of your outgoing answering
machine message with a message after it that lets real people know that tone is
is directed at telemarketer machines.
It's this tone sequence that the telemarketer machines recognize and then remove
the number from the list.
I recall many many years ago that there was one place that you could opt out of receiving junk mail, Direct Marketing Association??,
and this made it easy to save alot of companies the expense of sending out junk mail thru the USPS to those who would simply throw
it away.
Due to the internet, I'm finding I'm have to "Opt OUT" more and more for each company, and quite frankly, it's becomming a Fu&in
hassle and expence that I'm not getting re-embursed for.
Soooo, is there a single source that I can simply OPT OUT, one time? And if not, Why not?
Anyone got a URL or should we send our OPT OUTS to the the law makers?
Got a URL for them?
I suspect they may yell "SPAM" But I still want the URLs!!!
And I actually hope they do complain!
Apparently the only way to compete against MS is to not be a company
that generates income enough to compete on the same level of developemnt
as MS. To be a company means to be attacked by MS with their
anti-competitive practices.
So a bunch a independant freesoftware developers who represent "freedom"
is the only force to counter the ongoing "constraints" of MS.
It the same group of freesoftware developers that are responsible for
getting MS to at leat claim they are going to start producing quality
software?
Microsoft is a criminal, proven in court, and now they are using the money
they got while being criminals, to do what?
What better way to defeat freedom, creativity and innovation than to put
constraints on it.
So MS thinks constraining others is better than the freefom of others....
About the CLI - common language Infrastructure and part 2 of CLI information
To really understand what is going on here, consider the CTS - Common Type System and the CIL - Common Intermediate Language as a midway translation point for any programming language.
With this other programing languages or other programming mehodology interfaces can more easily be created.
It's like taking all popular programming languages and putting them into a pot and boiling them down to common and non-conflicting data types and programming concepts. And from here, using the summed vocabulary set of data types and concepts as a translation base to use in converting a program written in your convient programming language choice into CIL or Common Intermediate Language bytecode. From which you can run on any systemj that has a VES or Virtual Execution System type of system installed.
This of course allows both intrepreted and compiled types of languages to potentially be used.
dotgnu is another effort to develope a .net clone under GPL and here is a FAQ
Admittance that the internet is not, and never will be secure?
Anytime you see a "this platform of users is better than that platform of users"...
You don't need syrup for them troll flap jacks, fer the syrup is spilln off the plate and
floatin dem grits.
This Article is an example of what has got to be the most unoriginal troll. Maybe it's even an
example of the oldest/first troll ever posted "my system is better than yours".
pudge, the caffinated coffee is in the orange pot, not the green one.
Funny how OSX is now of a Unix flavor....huh? Often genuis lack common sence.
Trillion Dollar Bet that went bad?
That's right, China! No wonder they are doing better then everyone else!
If this what a lawyer is telling us, then why can't he determine one way or the other what the bottom line is?
Perhaps it's just FUD. Hasn't any Patent lawyer looked over the issue, outside of MS?
And if MS bought some IP from SGI and this caused the problem, the where else can MS buy up IP and cause problems?
Shouldn't such an issue be the focus....to remove such a possibility before MS makes things worse?
I really don't want to be one to have to deal with trying to figure out what I can or can't do with a system.
I think the DRM supporters need to focus their efforts on making their dedicated systems that don't allow the user
to do anything by play or run the DRM stuff ony as they intend to allow the consumer.
and then we should have another type of system that allows creativity, innovation, etc.. by and for those who want
such a system.
And so that there is no conflict, the open system simply rejects DRM stuff, where to use DRM stuff on such a system,
a special version of that item must be purchased.
Some of us bought a Computer in order to be creative, and I think it's theift for others to sneek in and take this
away, especially in doing it the little by little way.
Why don't they just go make their own DRM system, or do they know it won't sale? And if so, then isn't it theift by intention?
All I know is that I don't want the maybe it's work, maybe it won't crap wasting my time.
DRM is like a virus infecting and crippling what is otherwise a versatile system.
I rather make a clear distinction between what I can be creative with and not.
I'm not a pirate, and I don't like my creativity being taken from me because others feel they have to muscle in on it.
Who said it had to be large sums of money?
All Pubsoft is offering is to handle some issues and concernes that come
up in regards to dealing with donations to sponsor OSI compliant work. Like
how do you know the developer does the work they are paid for...etc..
The follow is such a situation where the "how" to make this happen hasn't
been figured out (should the developer be offered the 550 Euro).
But here is the solution with PubSoft!!
BTW: this is NOT me though I have offered some. AROS is an Open Source Amiga Clone
project that is almost at the 80% done mark. But it's intended to be better than
AmigaOS, and portable. See AROS @ Sourceforge
I have two months of free time this summer, which I would love to spend
on coding for AROS or AWeb Open Source. The problem is that I have to pay
my bills, and therefore I would need to get some temporary job. This of
course means there would be very little time to code on those projects...
The solution to this would be if someone (or some group of people) were
willing to sponsor me for coding on AROS or AWeb one month or two. I don't
ask for much money, just enough to pay my bills and to buy food. For that
I would code 60 hours / week, that is more than fulltime. In total, this
would mean around 240 hours of work going into AROS or AWeb in a month,
to improve any part you (the sponsor) wants me to.
You can find more information at:
AROS or AWeb Sponsoring
Public Relations Marketing software does not interfer with the
operation of software but rather is an acknowledgement of the goodwill
of the sponsor. As such it should be noted that such acknowledgement
is of the same nature as is a software license giving credit to the
authors. One example is a startup notice (that will vanish on it's own
in very short time, and be disabled by user choice). Another is mention
of sponsor in the "About" menu item.
The value to give sponsors in exchange for their sponsorship is
acknowledgement of their sponsorship.
That's Goodwill!!! Something to respect! And something OSS developers
probably will respect perhaps as mush as they respect the license and
license holder of OSS..
Seems to me that the upcomming GNU Hurd of servers, which
gives the users more freedom in user space while maintaining
networking security, opens up a whole new door of user interface
options, including "Smart User Interfaces"
The key to this is how the Hurd using IPC (inner process communication)
and how this can be tapped into in the user space and network
functionality so as to hook a "Smart User Interface" up.
Smart User interface = along the lines of the difference between a dumb
terminal and a smart terminal, where the Smart User Interface is it's own
Operating System yet able to use the resources and security of the Hurd
for number crunching functionality and external firewalled access.
I think even a project like the OSS AMIGA like project AROS would be
very useful here as user accessible IPC had pretty much been made a
standard on the Amiga - and follows in the AROS project
"To show that it fails to meet requirement 1 you have to show that the invention was published or displayed in public one year prior to the filing of the patent applications."
care to elaborate on this, perhaps provide a link?
One year is an awfully long time to allow someone to file a patent on something they found already published by another.
Why there are those who pursue calling the FSF, GPL, etc. communistic
ideology I simply do not understand as there is very little, if any,
connection to communistic ideology. Unless of course the real Communist
are simple trying to bit fip the subject.
Communism is a combination of a Socialistic Economic System and a
Totalitarian government.
Europe has the concept of Common Wealth, and it's not Communistic. In fact
it's Europe that is the biggest contributor to Free Software and Open
Source Software.
And according to the signator country stats of the Declaration of
Software Freedom, the US is followed by India, neither of which are
communistic.
Being an American, yet disliking politics for reasons of corruption in
such machinery, I took very careful consideration of the Declaration of
Software Freedom, given it's political tone.
I decided to sign, not for the political overtones but because of some
basic principles that even the political overtones can't defeat without
exposing corruption in the political overtones. Checks and balances?
And that's only this Declaration of Software Freedom. There is alot more
to the FreeDeveloper.net that
exposes in greater depth the falacy of calling GPL software communistic
ideology.
Where anti-trust law breaking monopolies are much closer in actuality to
what communisim is, than GPL ever will or even can be.
"Someone might have misunderstood the term "Freedom" to mean freedom for
all."
And it is the basic principles of the Declaration of Software Freedom by
which we will be able to achieve such freedom. Unless of course you
somehow believe that taking away freedoms is the way to achieve freedom
for all.
Software development technology hasn't reached it's logical and scientific
foundation yet, due to the distractions of efforts to subvert software
freedom, even in the lab. But when it does, it will be as obvious then that
GPL is a major step in the right direction of helping to acheive that
foundation, as it is obvious today that Galileo was right (even by the
Catholic church perspective).
This MS Patent will become a public document in testiment of the belief
that those creating it actually think they were right, in the same way
as filming of the Jewish death camps and pits were filmed in a manner of
those doing it, the killing and the filming, thinking they were right.
To juxtapose the Patent against:
The Declaration of Software Freedom
(read the whole thing!) of which a subpart is:
"Current Software Commercial Organizations
hide source code to keep developers divided, disenfranchised and
dependent; tie inferior products to dominant ones; defiantly violate and
avoid court orders; quash promising competitive start-ups; leverage
dominant products into other, unrelated businesses; carve up markets to
eliminate real competition; utilize predatory pricing practices to
foreclose competition; commoditize and objectify their customers by making
them captive; cause developers to constantly re-invent the wheel by hiding
the source code; exercise general thuggish behavior in business dealings;
compel weak competitors to destroy their own innovative products to
protect established profitable ones; fail to respond to customer requests
and needs in a timely fashion; exploit natural "choke-holds" in the
economy for their own advantages; manipulate and delay technological
progress to maintain supremacy; hide coding bugs thereby jeopardizing
stability and security; de-humanize software developers by considering
them as "inputs" or "assets"; stifle innovation; "embrace and extend" or
otherwise pollute open standards in order to break and appropriate them;
use exclusionary contract provisions to enforce censorship over disclosure
of bugs and defects; shut-off or block channels of distribution to
legitimate competitors; announce vaporware to foreclose adoption of real
competitive products; frustrate, taunt and antagonize governmental
officials protecting the public interest; truncate choices; create
confusion and frustration in users by selling inferior code; take the
innovations developed by others as their own; practice differential
pricing to punish those that oppose them; misinform and exploit users;
use undocumented features as an anti-competitive device; suppress the
open, efficient and free nature of the scientific method by keeping the
code secret; purposefully break the code of competitors so that there are
code inoperabilities across products; prohibit friends from sharing
software with friends; coerce their users to fore-go promising competitive
technologies; use overly restrictive and exclusionary contracts against
weaker competitors; and perform other anti-social, anti-competitive and
improper acts to establish, maintain and extend their software
monopolies."
Patent, being a public accessiable document, can be turn into evidence
against MS, for which they cannot remove from public access?
...is not one of user friendly but rather one of user understanding
.doc file?
.... and of course an excuse to blame.
fundamental concepts and being able to apply them in the learning feedback
loop so to enable second nature integration of the users mindset.
But as things are done in teh computer industry and competition and
anti-competition, it's hard for a user to make second nature anything
because the industry keeps changing things.
I.E. should a user have to learn how to use a word processor that they
would otherwise not, due to using something else, so to be able to read
a
But the problem is even worse than that as the whole nature of a computers
and programming is simply the act of automating complexity that is made up
of simple things. A process of automation that consist of some very basic
and small set of actions/functionality. And this level of simplicity of
applying concepts or actions/functionality is being kept from users in
general.
And it even gets worse, as the DRM is going to make it difficult to learn
how to do it the difficult way, should the user so chose to do outside or
four years of full time colledge and certification and license buying
etc...
So I guess what it all amounts to is the effort to not allow the user to
actually do things for themselves enough to actually learn something that
would help the user to make their use of computer more second nature.
You cannot make something user friendly and not allow user to use it. And
apparently blaming the users for the failure of the industry to what they
need to is the best excuse the industry can come up with. Hell they seem
to get everything else from the users, from ides to feedback to money to
I suspect this will be modded down but then that is apparently to be
expected.
Why not just let it die and for those interested in the Amiga concept simply go to the open source (Mazollia like Licensed) project called AROS and found on sourceforge.
...What are those 5 balls on strings called?...where you lift one and ...
release it and when it hits the others the last one goes up. Lift two
two go up, three....three go up....etc..
Didn't read the article but the comments all seem to reminds me of this
ball-string device.
And it said:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The Mclock is temporarily unable to service your request due
to leapyear downtime or internet Swatch time sync problems.
Please try again later.
To be able to run AmigaOS4, if and when it comes out, ....bla bla
...., there is an open source Amiga
you'll need to have installed a modified bios. This
is to insure systems are certified
bla.... by Amiga....
Only those system Amiga approves of will be able to
run AmigaOS4, for the Bois will only be available to
Amiga approved OEMs.
What it is in essence is a bios resident dongle.
The reason for it is to reduce piracy of AmigaOS4.
In a way you can view it as a form of DRM.
I'm sure someone will come up with a way around it
but it then becomes illegal and Amiga inc has been
agressive on such matters even when it's not there
Intellectual Property they are agressive about, but
Amiga based software in general.
This article is about how an Amiga Spec'd system can
run what? A Mac Emulator? on top of Linux?
Yet again, to be able to run AmigaOS4 it will need
the modified Bios Dongle. The sort of thing I've
come to call a "pissmark" like a dog marking it
territory (Dog Released Marking).
We all know how MS wants to place their DRM system
on people and for those who don't know, Amiga was a
participant at some recent show, in the MS booth.
Amiga was listed as an MS partner.....
I'd be real skeptical of Buying and AmigaOne system
with this bios dongle.
But for those who like the AmigaOS and would like to
be able to use
Clone Project that's under a license very similiar to
the Mazollia License (OSI compatable) It's called
AROS and can be found on Sourceforge and it's well
past the halfway mark. Somehow I suspect it might also
end up making a good smart userspace interface for the
Hurd somewhere down the road, As Amiga made user
accessible IPC standard (AREXX "ports") and the Hurd
uses IPC alot.
This is actually great and wonderful if you just think about it.
.net and all in the plans of MS.
This is like what, version 1 of Lindows? Aren't Windows users used to the first version being crap?
And about the need to log on, pay for, and download what is otherwise free software....
Doesn't the Windows user expect this, I mean with the comming of
Except for here the user gets to discover that there are other options, unlike the MS plan, and such
other options that they might find very interesting and pleasant.
There is the trick of the dishonest to present truth to lure in and trap people.
But here, if you think about it, it's the opposite.
The only thing that needs to happen here is that for people to find out they can get a linux box for
about $300 plus monitor and find a local Linux user groups for the rest, which includes software and
some degree of support and training.
And then there is Version 2 of Lindows......
And by the time there is a version three....well, that won't happen as Lindows will have enlightened
many to the falacy of there can only be 3 versions before everything begins again.
Remember the Boston Tea party?
Perhaps this Show where MS is going to show up...
Take all the MS stuff you have and make it unsuable.
Then dump it in the MS booth with a reference to the Boston Tea party.
Yeah, now that's the spirit.
:)
I was also thinking maybe the signs to stick on the booth attendees backs should rather read "Please don't kick me!"