"This kind of piracy hurts the US, so we really should be all for enforcement. Counterfeit software from American companies that is sold abroad means that the money is not flowing back into the US, and is instead entirely in foreign pockets. That means fewer taxes for the US GOVT, which in turn means that your personal taxes are higher in some small way. "
Well, I am not an American and I do not care how much taxes the Americans have to pay.:)
"Perhaps this has been explained elsewhere, but here seems as good a place as any for me to ask the question: How is Cingular/AT&T not being to be a disaster for Apple. Everyone I know who has had Cingular has been unhappy with their service. The majority end up switching to Verizon and become fairly satisfied.
I always felt Cingular made cell phone virtually unuseable. Has AT&T/Cingular massively improved their network in the past year? Is everyone going to end up thinking the iPhone is awful simply because their service is so bad? Am I missing something?"
Yes it has, I don't know, I don't think so, I doubt it, surely.
Well as a matter of fact they are not worse then any other country (or religion) , it's just that at one point in history the ended up with to much power, and we all know what happens then. Has an exemple: Imagine for a moment that the USSR would collapse, leaving just one super-power, what do you think would happen?
Microsoft is infringing on 365 of my patents. I will not tell you which ones. But if you are using windows I can sell a license for these , or I can sue you.
Then you can't copy paste code , but every time you write a program from scratch you don't end up infringing 2347 vaguely worded patents preventing you from implementing even the most trivial computer tasks.
I think you do not know what patents en copyrights are.
So? why do you care if commercial entites use Linux. I, and a lot of people, will continue using it and creating software for it even if no one uses it commercialy. And anyway it is just companies producing software for money (or hardware driven by linux like Tivo) that will be scared of it. It will not change nothing for all the other companies.
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3. Both of them are supplied by Budweiser, how do you distinguish between water diluted with water, and undiluted water?
OpenOffice.org ("What is that, some website?")
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duh! every Joe Schmoe knows websites ends in
"Wow I had no clue that this was the case. It's a bit creepy that the government has the right to forcibly take your blood." ... draft ...
"This kind of piracy hurts the US, so we really should be all for enforcement. Counterfeit software from American companies that is sold abroad means that the money is not flowing back into the US, and is instead entirely in foreign pockets. That means fewer taxes for the US GOVT, which in turn means that your personal taxes are higher in some small way. "
:)
Well, I am not an American and I do not care how much taxes the Americans have to pay.
with drm and dmca and the new law they're lobying, linux is not gonna be helped by laws. The will try to make it illegal for sure.
Why create your own corporate police when the tax paid one does the work?
Use != distribute , distribute != use
"...conditions you must meet in order to use the software ..."
GPL v2 and GPLv3 do not restrict you in anyway how you can use the software.
"Yes, and no. Ubuntu gutsy is in alfa.;)"
it's alfalfa not alfa.
Darth Vader is Luke's father ...
"You don't see RedHat complaining that other Linux distros are also using RPM do you?"
;)
No, but Debian users do when they have to deal with such a distro.
"Who needs math? Bogosort is a good a sort algorithm as any. Hey, without math, how would you be able to tell?"
comparative tests? Logic? plain common sense?
"As always, Microsoft remains committed to working with the open source software community ..."
Yeah, right
"Perhaps this has been explained elsewhere, but here seems as good a place as any for me to ask the question: How is Cingular/AT&T not being to be a disaster for Apple. Everyone I know who has had Cingular has been unhappy with their service. The majority end up switching to Verizon and become fairly satisfied.
I always felt Cingular made cell phone virtually unuseable. Has AT&T/Cingular massively improved their network in the past year? Is everyone going to end up thinking the iPhone is awful simply because their service is so bad? Am I missing something?"
Yes it has, I don't know, I don't think so, I doubt it, surely.
He probably died laughing behind his teethes.
"Red Hat will, IMO, eventually make a deal with Microsoft, as will Canonical."
Not sure about Canonical doing this, look at bug #1 in their buglist:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
shrubberies!
Well as a matter of fact they are not worse then any other country (or religion) , it's just that at one point in history the ended up with to much power, and we all know what happens then. Has an exemple: Imagine for a moment that the USSR would collapse, leaving just one super-power, what do you think would happen?
If you trade drugs your supposed to pay taxes on them. all income is taxable, that's how they got Al Capone.
Vatican? oh wait.....
I can be he'd be laughed at? this is getting confusing
Microsoft is infringing on 365 of my patents. I will not tell you which ones. But if you are using windows I can sell a license for these , or I can sue you.
no NPD ...
duh!
Then you can't copy paste code , but every time you write a program from scratch you don't end up infringing 2347 vaguely worded patents preventing you from implementing even the most trivial computer tasks.
I think you do not know what patents en copyrights are.
So? why do you care if commercial entites use Linux. I, and a lot of people, will continue using it and creating software for it even if no one uses it commercialy. And anyway it is just companies producing software for money (or hardware driven by linux like Tivo) that will be scared of it. It will not change nothing for all the other companies.