No, this makes open source projects harder to kill off, not easier. If there is no associated
company or owner, who do you take legal action against? And there will always be people
willing to continue the project if the main developers are "disuaded" from working on it.
It makes the project itself harder to kill (which overall is a good thing) but what about all the businesses using and making products based on it?
Now that Microsoft has effectively gotten away with maintaining and extending it's monopoly, how do you think open source projects that are competitive to Microsoft (Samba, WINE, Crossover plugin, OpenOffice etc) are going to survive any legal assults? It would seem easier to kill off an open source project as they are typically not (officially) associated with a company, nor have any serious resources other than perhaps the goodwill of the user community.
As a friend said, there's nothing like getting away with murder to encourage you to start killing more people.
I own a car, I am not a mechanic, when I buy a car or take it to the garage I don't want to be told - 'sorry you can only drive on x type of road, to drive on y you have to replace the gearbox and upgrade the tires.
1) Make tired car analogy, get modded up to +5
2) ???
3) Profit!
It's not that they aren't funny, just that they lack style.
Using a URL redirection script on microsoft.com [goatse.cx] coupled with a attention grabbing topic line to encourage people to click on it - now that's funny!
It's based on a Cirrus Logic DSP (the model number escapes me) rather than a hardwired MP3 decoder. iRiver (the company that manufactures and writes the firmware for the MP3-CD players for Rio) says the hardware is not only capable of Ogg decoding, but they have a prototype firmware in the labs that already does it, and they hope to have it integrated into the release firmware in the next release or two.
Hey thanks for the info - that's good news for OGG fans.
I imagine it wouldn't be too hard for some enterprising soul to hack the firmware and get Ogg support.
I think this whole upgrade your MP3 player to OGG just by changing the firmware is a bit bogus. If the MP3 is based on a hardware solution (e.g the VS1001 ) then there's no way that a firmware change can make OGG work.
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It makes the project itself harder to kill (which overall is a good thing) but what about all the businesses using and making products based on it?
Imagine if WINE or Samba were illegal in the US.
Now that Microsoft has effectively gotten away with maintaining and extending it's monopoly, how do you think open source projects that are competitive to Microsoft (Samba, WINE, Crossover plugin, OpenOffice etc) are going to survive any legal assults? It would seem easier to kill off an open source project as they are typically not (officially) associated with a company, nor have any serious resources other than perhaps the goodwill of the user community.
As a friend said, there's nothing like getting away with murder to encourage you to start killing more people.
Another ironic slashdot ad for visual studio.net )-:
YHBT
1) Make tired car analogy, get modded up to +5
2) ???
3) Profit!
You misspelt 'loosers'.
It's not that they aren't funny, just that they lack style.
Using a URL redirection script on microsoft.com [goatse.cx] coupled with a attention grabbing topic line to encourage people to click on it - now that's funny!
Dude, you should watch out for the sarge instead.
I would say 1 in 2 people are in the penile system.
I disagree - the running gags only get funnier as time goes on!
Well I am - how about a beowulf cluster of those!
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake!
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else!
We are all part of the same compost heap.
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear, you are not the contents of your wallet.
You are not your bowel cancer, you are not your grande latte, you are not the car you drive.
You are not your fucking khakis.
You have to give up. You have to give up.
You have to realize, that some day you will die. Until you know that, you are useless. I say, let me never be complete. I say, may I never be content.
I say, deliver me from Swedish furniture!
I say, deliver me from clever art!
I say, deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth!
I say, you have to give up.
I say, evolve; and let the chips fall where they may.
This is your life, doesn't get any better then this.
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
Hey thanks for the info - that's good news for OGG fans.
I think this whole upgrade your MP3 player to OGG just by changing the firmware is a bit bogus. If the MP3 is based on a hardware solution (e.g the VS1001 ) then there's no way that a firmware change can make OGG work.
piss!
I have an idea: How about saving "%s" mods for articles that actually ARE %s?
Just a thought.
If I ever meet you I am going to kick your penis bird!!
Wow - excellent troll! You even got moderated up to +2/Interesting. My congratulations go out to you.
And that's meant to be better? The user shouldn't be able to hose their machine no matter what they click on.
Gee there are a lot of pro-GM trolls around here. Are we allowed to feed the trolls GM corn?
That same bullshit also in Canada.
I think he does. It's what crapflooders do.
Just think how much more money they could be earning if their network wasn't down after being trashed by the Outlook virus of the week.
There's being elitist, and there's having to clean up the same mess over and over again because people can't be trusted not to click on attachments.
Click here to accept your prize.