1. Promise to deliver a version, as good as the Windows version, of your game for Linux if at least X persons sign up and pays Y amount of money. 2. Let these persons pay for the game in advance to a third party, like a law firm. 3. This third party, together with some technical expertise, decides if the linux version meets the quality criterias. If yes, the money is transferred to the game company.
Microsoft are simply providing a flexible, seamless and scriptable API for application providers to enhance the user experience of each installation of Windows.
"The delay puts the chip maker a full generation behind its archrival in terms of chip manufacturing processes. Intel's quad-core processor, which was launched in November last year, melds two of its duo-core processors into a single package."
Heh, shouldn't that be "full generation ahead" since AMD manages to put four cores on a single die?
...can be read at http://www.piratpartiet.se./ English one to come.
Here is my very rough NON-OFFICIAL translation:
"PRESS RELEASE
For immidiate publication
31 may 2006
For more information, see party webpage at http://www.piratpartiet.se/ or contact Rickard Falkvinge, +46733555293
The Pirate Party critizises the police for illegitimate intrusion
Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody, along with the servers of a number of other unrelated web hotel customers. The police chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the world's largest bittorrent tracker has been deemed fully legal in Sweden.
The police means, according to an operator of the site, that the police wants to test the legality of the activities.
"Which company would have accepted this treatment?", says Rickard Falkvinge, party leader of the Pirate Party. "Which Company would have accepted that the police arrived and ceased all company activity, before proven guilty of crime?. In this case the Pirate Bay has not commited any crime. They are disliked by large american media interests, that is true. But it is not a crime to be disliked, and definately not a reason for the swedish police to enter and shut down one of the worlds' largest communities for youth people."
"This is exactly the kind of raids that the Pirate Party wants to stop", concludes Rickard. "When the society sends the police on its youth population because they listen to music and watches movies, then it is not the youth that are wrong. Then it is the society that has to do better."
About the Pirate Party:
The Pirate Party is the largest of the new parties for the national elections in Sweden 2006. The party was founded 1 january this year and promotes an open information society, shared culture, and protected private life.
Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody. The police chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the worlds largest bittorrent tracker are fully legal in Sweden.
The servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter, but this was ignored.
Piratbyrån (the Pirate Bureau), a swedish pro-pirate lobby organisation, also got their servers seized, since they where located in the same room.
Two operators of The Pirate Bay are in police custody, and can't be reached.
This article will be updated as more news come in.
14:35: 50 policemen participated in the raid."
Just a speculation, but maybe the Linux kernel will be a candidate if, say, the big Linux companies like SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake, IBM are not satisfied with Linus' leadership? From what I know, the Linux development process has been critized of being not enough open, more like a dictatorship from Linus.
Will there be any performance benefits by using SATA disks on a Serial SCSI bus/controller compared to SATA disks on a SATA controller (especially in a desktop computer)?
A little bit offtopic, but now when it is a lot of talk about different HTML rendering engines (like KHTML, Gecko and now Opera with it's own rendering engine), what's the status of gtkhtml2? Its home page http://gtkhtml2.codefactory.se/ doesn't say much about its current status, and if their goals will be fulfilled soon.
But the GPL will not cause any problems. If theKompany wants to make a closed source product of their own GPL'ed product, it is fully legal as long as theKompany holds the copyright on the GPL'ed code.
But, of course, in the Apache example (if I have understood the Apache license correctly), everyone is allowed to make a closed source product based on the Apache code, which is not the case with GPL'ed code (for example: from theKompany (or any other copyright holder)).
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How does this compare with https://bitmessage.org/ ?
I am quite sure I prefer a lossy compressed version of a 24 bit, 96 kHz track than a lossless compressed version of a 16 bit, 44.1 kHz track.
Instead of using a top-down model (ads), why not instead use Ripple, the money's equivalent to Wikipedia?
http://ripple.sf.net/
https://ripplepay.com/
1. Promise to deliver a version, as good as the Windows version, of your game for Linux if at least X persons sign up and pays Y amount of money.
2. Let these persons pay for the game in advance to a third party, like a law firm.
3. This third party, together with some technical expertise, decides if the linux version meets the quality criterias. If yes, the money is transferred to the game company.
This debate was very hot in Sweden five years ago. Maybe it is time to start a global version of susning.nu , which contains important articles like http://susning.nu/Hur_man_%E5ker_tunnelbana_utan_att_g%F6ra_bort_sig and http://susning.nu/Bullrunkning
How will this affect Trolltech's relation to the OpenMoko project?
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-09-17.9260755578/
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-10-21.0880321862/
Ripple
Capitalism is not free market, capitalism is actually more about restricting the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker
It comes when Ripple http://ripple.sourceforge.net/ reaches critical mass.
So, which one do you guess will be out first? Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or Vista SP1?
Microsoft are simply providing a flexible, seamless and scriptable API for application providers to enhance the user experience of each installation of Windows.
"The delay puts the chip maker a full generation behind its archrival in terms of chip manufacturing processes. Intel's quad-core processor, which was launched in November last year, melds two of its duo-core processors into a single package."
Heh, shouldn't that be "full generation ahead" since AMD manages to put four cores on a single die?
Correct.
Is it free hardware? Free as in "speech", not "beer".
mod parent up
...can be read at http://www.piratpartiet.se./ English one to come.
Here is my very rough NON-OFFICIAL translation:
"PRESS RELEASE
For immidiate publication
31 may 2006
For more information, see party webpage at http://www.piratpartiet.se/ or contact Rickard Falkvinge, +46733555293
The Pirate Party critizises the police for illegitimate intrusion
Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody, along with the servers of a number of other unrelated web hotel customers. The police chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the world's largest bittorrent tracker has been deemed fully legal in Sweden.
The police means, according to an operator of the site, that the police wants to test the legality of the activities.
"Which company would have accepted this treatment?", says Rickard Falkvinge, party leader of the Pirate Party. "Which Company would have accepted that the police arrived and ceased all company activity, before proven guilty of crime?. In this case the Pirate Bay has not commited any crime. They are disliked by large american media interests, that is true. But it is not a crime to be disliked, and definately not a reason for the swedish police to enter and shut down one of the worlds' largest communities for youth people."
"This is exactly the kind of raids that the Pirate Party wants to stop", concludes Rickard. "When the society sends the police on its youth population because they listen to music and watches movies, then it is not the youth that are wrong. Then it is the society that has to do better."
About the Pirate Party:
The Pirate Party is the largest of the new parties for the national elections in Sweden 2006. The party was founded 1 january this year and promotes an open information society, shared culture, and protected private life.
First comment from the Pirate Party: http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/the_pirate_bay _and_piratbyran_taken_down_by_police
"Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody. Two operators of The Pirate Bay are in police custody, and can't be reached.
Swedish police has today taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody. The police chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the worlds largest bittorrent tracker are fully legal in Sweden.
The servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter, but this was ignored.
Piratbyrån (the Pirate Bureau), a swedish pro-pirate lobby organisation, also got their servers seized, since they where located in the same room.
Two operators of The Pirate Bay are in police custody, and can't be reached.
This article will be updated as more news come in.
14:35: 50 policemen participated in the raid."
...that you can setup your own local 3G/UMTS network by connecting each router with WLAN?
If so, wonder what current cell phone access providers like Vodafone will think about this product?
Just a speculation, but maybe the Linux kernel will be a candidate if, say, the big Linux companies like SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake, IBM are not satisfied with Linus' leadership?
From what I know, the Linux development process has been critized of being not enough open, more like a dictatorship from Linus.
Will there be any performance benefits by using SATA disks on a Serial SCSI bus/controller compared to SATA disks on a SATA controller (especially in a desktop computer)?
A little bit offtopic, but now when it is a lot of talk about different HTML rendering engines (like KHTML, Gecko and now Opera with it's own rendering engine), what's the status of gtkhtml2? Its home page http://gtkhtml2.codefactory.se/ doesn't say much about its current status, and if their goals will be fulfilled soon.
Mod parent up! Where can qt-3.1.1 be downloadable???
Lots of money. If it is resource-effective, I don't know...
How much has this browser costed to develop? Anyone who knows?
From what I know, this hasn't been a really resource-effective project. Compare the costs with Opera and Konqueror.
But the GPL will not cause any problems. If theKompany wants to make a closed source product of their own GPL'ed product, it is fully legal as long as theKompany holds the copyright on the GPL'ed code.
But, of course, in the Apache example (if I have understood the Apache license correctly), everyone is allowed to make a closed source product based on the Apache code, which is not the case with GPL'ed code (for example: from theKompany (or any other copyright holder)).