Government projects should be able to choose a appropriate license on a per-project basis with the best interests of the American people as the deciding criteria.
The letter is not about requiring the GPL, it is about prohibiting the GPL. And it argues in favor of prohibiting use of the GPL with the same FUD arguments that have been spilling forth from Redmond for the past year and a half or so. The GPL does not prevent corporations from using or profiting from the code it covers. It does prevent corporations (or anyone else) from using proprietary extensions to GPL code to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" technologies that belong to the public at large.
Until the judge issues her decision, anything that MS is doing is just posturing...
Perhaps this is a good thing then. The longer Colleen waits to decide, the more time M$ has to show their a$$ and prove that Judge Jackson was right to begin with.
Give em enough rope to hang themselves with, so to speak.
Besides being sanctioned by the studios, how is this different than movies being "editted for content" before being shown in prime time? A lot of movies shoot alternate scenes with watered-down dialog for just this purpose. The ones that don't wind up with badly dubbed lines that look sillier than 70's kung fu movies. (Yay, Action channel!)
Clean Flicks is not preventing anyone from seeing the original work, it's available right down the street at Blockbuster. They have no monopoly power. And from the sound of it, they do not mis-represent their offerings as being the original work. In fact, it seems that their business model relies on customers knowing what they are getting.
The major studios, OTOH, want to be the sole provider of all digital content for every individual in the new millenium. They want everyone to have a broadband internet pipe into a trusted computing platform that will manage the studios' digital right to draft pay-per-view fees directly from our electronic funds. And the only choice they want to give us is take it or leave it.
... because the RTF Spec is published by... (wait for it)... Microsoft! There is a new "revision" of the spec for each new version of Word, and subsequent versions of the spec include new tags for old functions and depreciate old tags.
The current spec (1.8 I beleieve) does address embeded images and OLE objects, but not macros.
I have installed Slackware 8.1 a Cyrix K5 133 MHz, 40 MB PC100 ram (8 + 32), 1080MB HD, Win 95 OSR2 preinstalled. The integrated video is an S3 Trio64, and XFree86 recognizes it just fine. The machines is five years old this past August (ancient in PC years). For a printer, it has a Deskjet 632, which seems to work fine.
I used Gnu Parted to shrink the existing Fat32 partition, added an ext3 root and 80MB swap space (for a total of 120MB virtual memeory).
From slack, get the following packages:
a/ - all packages n/ - tcpip1, tcpip2 and ppp, not inetd or any other servers x/ - xfree86, xfree86-fonts-scale, xfree86-fonts-misc (thats it) xap/ - fvwm2, mozilla (yes, mozilla on a 133!) ap/ - sudo (!), hpijs and ghostscript for printing, l/ - as needed when programs complain about missing libs d/ - nada (glibc devel package is > 100MB)
I set up pppd to start in demand dialing mode (15 mins idle time) at boot time. I set up sudo to let all users "killall -HUP pppd", reboot, and shutdown. Then I added the same three commands to the window mgr config.
The machine is primarily a web and email box, and it works well for that. Abiword (and the rest of Gnome and KDE) is on the Slackware iso, but I haven't tried it out yet.
In addition to XEmacs as others have mentioned, you can also get an Emacs for Window straight from the Gnu's mouth.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemac s. html
The binary install is a zip file, which you unzip and then add the bin directory to your path.
Also, I highly recommend adding your favorite text editor to Windows Explorer's "Send To" menu, by creating a shortcut in the Send To directory in your Profile directory. This way you can edit files that are associated with other apps without needed to break the file associations.
Does that make Front Page the TV dinner of Web design?
Probably more like a vending machine: you have a few options to choose from, but whatever you get is going to be high-sugar, high-fat, lots of preservatives, and not very good for you.
Microsoft denies that Palladium is a Trojan horse that will allow it to slip DRM into computer systems. "Turning Palladium on is not the same as turning DRM on," says Biddle.
No, but if DRM relies on Palladium's encryption hardware, then turning Palladium OFF will sure as hell be the same as turning DRM off.
On a releated note, the encryption is supposed to be public key. Presumably the private key stays embedded in the hardware, and the public key is... where? Provided by the CPU to the OS? Perhaps with a Cert Auth like Verisign? Or with Microsoft? If the encryption algorithm is well known, what's to keep an enterprising young warez d00d from generating a new key pair and emulating the hardware? If I build everything on the box, I control what goes out over the wire, so I can scam signatures off of a valid set of binaries. Just because I *have* valid binares doesn't mean that's what I'm *running*.
If the algo is not well known, forget the whole thing since it'll be cracked in a month anyway.
Here in the heart of East Coast USA, the Wednesday edition of ET has come and gone, and no sign of the trailer. I guess I'll just have to wait til tomorrow morning when I'm back at work with my big fat pipe....
I doubt if Dell is wondering anything. Dell and Microsoft both know perfectly well what happened...
Dell: Linux is starting to get popular, so lets offer PCs with Linux preloaded, just like Windows! Microsoft: I don't think that's such a good idea... *.45 revolver cocking* Dell: Ummm... maybe you're right, Linux might not be ready for the mainstream yet...
There are CD-Rs designated as "data" discs, and as "audio" disks. The manufacturers pay royalties on the audio disks, but not the data disks. "SCMS" compliant recorders will not record audio on data disks. However, general-purpose CD-R drives in PCs are not required to be compliant by the AHRA.
Sherman said. "Motion picture studios and software and video game publishers have protected their works for years, and no one has even (thought) to claim that doing so was inappropriate, let alone unlawful."
Never mind the fact that the software industry has pretty much given up on copy protection in favor of hardware keys and activation code methods. No it was never unlawful, just a PITA for users who paid good money for software.
The music industry however is trying to forget the Home Recording Act of 1992, where they promised not to copy-protect CDs in exchange for a "royalty" on blank CD media. As far as I know, they are still get the royalties.
Now, why won't http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ come up?
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Even simpler, open Mozilla Mail at startup (add a shortcut to your startup folder), and leave it open, minimized. New browser windows will open just as fast as with quick launch. Basically, quick launch opens a hidden window, and then just sits there anyway.
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Government projects should not require the GPL
Government projects should be able to choose a appropriate license on a per-project basis with the best interests of the American people as the deciding criteria.
The letter is not about requiring the GPL, it is about prohibiting the GPL. And it argues in favor of prohibiting use of the GPL with the same FUD arguments that have been spilling forth from Redmond for the past year and a half or so. The GPL does not prevent corporations from using or profiting from the code it covers. It does prevent corporations (or anyone else) from using proprietary extensions to GPL code to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" technologies that belong to the public at large.
OpenSecrets to the rescue!
And my favorite lines from the show (that come up over and over agian):
Crook: Why you chasin' me?
Cop: Why'd you run?
Until the judge issues her decision, anything that MS is doing is just posturing...
Perhaps this is a good thing then. The longer Colleen waits to decide, the more time M$ has to show their a$$ and prove that Judge Jackson was right to begin with.
Give em enough rope to hang themselves with, so to speak.
Besides being sanctioned by the studios, how is this different than movies being "editted for content" before being shown in prime time? A lot of movies shoot alternate scenes with watered-down dialog for just this purpose. The ones that don't wind up with badly dubbed lines that look sillier than 70's kung fu movies. (Yay, Action channel!)
Clean Flicks is not preventing anyone from seeing the original work, it's available right down the street at Blockbuster. They have no monopoly power. And from the sound of it, they do not mis-represent their offerings as being the original work. In fact, it seems that their business model relies on customers knowing what they are getting.
The major studios, OTOH, want to be the sole provider of all digital content for every individual in the new millenium. They want everyone to have a broadband internet pipe into a trusted computing platform that will manage the studios' digital right to draft pay-per-view fees directly from our electronic funds. And the only choice they want to give us is take it or leave it.
Now, which side seems more evil?
... because the RTF Spec is published by ... (wait for it) ... Microsoft! There is a new "revision" of the spec for each new version of Word, and subsequent versions of the spec include new tags for old functions and depreciate old tags.
The current spec (1.8 I beleieve) does address embeded images and OLE objects, but not macros.
I have installed Slackware 8.1 a Cyrix K5 133 MHz, 40 MB PC100 ram (8 + 32), 1080MB HD, Win 95 OSR2 preinstalled. The integrated video is an S3 Trio64, and XFree86 recognizes it just fine. The machines is five years old this past August (ancient in PC years). For a printer, it has a Deskjet 632, which seems to work fine.
I used Gnu Parted to shrink the existing Fat32 partition, added an ext3 root and 80MB swap space (for a total of 120MB virtual memeory).
From slack, get the following packages:
a/ - all packages
n/ - tcpip1, tcpip2 and ppp, not inetd or any other servers
x/ - xfree86, xfree86-fonts-scale, xfree86-fonts-misc (thats it)
xap/ - fvwm2, mozilla (yes, mozilla on a 133!)
ap/ - sudo (!), hpijs and ghostscript for printing,
l/ - as needed when programs complain about missing libs
d/ - nada (glibc devel package is > 100MB)
I set up pppd to start in demand dialing mode (15 mins idle time) at boot time. I set up sudo to let all users "killall -HUP pppd", reboot, and shutdown. Then I added the same three commands to the window mgr config.
The machine is primarily a web and email box, and it works well for that. Abiword (and the rest of Gnome and KDE) is on the Slackware iso, but I haven't tried it out yet.
Is he predicting the end of web services, or the end of useless conferences?
Brace yourself -- Nobody! He is running unopposed (until now, any way).
In addition to XEmacs as others have mentioned, you can also get an Emacs for Window straight from the Gnu's mouth.
c s. html
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntema
The binary install is a zip file, which you unzip and then add the bin directory to your path.
Also, I highly recommend adding your favorite text editor to Windows Explorer's "Send To" menu, by creating a shortcut in the Send To directory in your Profile directory. This way you can edit files that are associated with other apps without needed to break the file associations.
Oh, never mind.
Does that make Front Page the TV dinner of Web design?
Probably more like a vending machine: you have a few options to choose from, but whatever you get is going to be high-sugar, high-fat, lots of preservatives, and not very good for you.
Microsoft denies that Palladium is a Trojan horse that will allow it to slip DRM into computer systems. "Turning Palladium on is not the same as turning DRM on," says Biddle.
No, but if DRM relies on Palladium's encryption hardware, then turning Palladium OFF will sure as hell be the same as turning DRM off.
On a releated note, the encryption is supposed to be public key. Presumably the private key stays embedded in the hardware, and the public key is... where? Provided by the CPU to the OS? Perhaps with a Cert Auth like Verisign? Or with Microsoft? If the encryption algorithm is well known, what's to keep an enterprising young warez d00d from generating a new key pair and emulating the hardware? If I build everything on the box, I control what goes out over the wire, so I can scam signatures off of a valid set of binaries. Just because I *have* valid binares doesn't mean that's what I'm *running*.
If the algo is not well known, forget the whole thing since it'll be cracked in a month anyway.
BYO rulez. I schlep two-liters into the fridge. Cans are just not cost-effective.
> Well, Taco you can start making slashdot look less childish by using a decent Microsoft icon, instead of the Bill Gates borg.
How about Gates as "Uncle Pennybags" from the Parker Bros. board game whose name escapes me at the moment...
Here in the heart of East Coast USA, the Wednesday edition of ET has come and gone, and no sign of the trailer. I guess I'll just have to wait til tomorrow morning when I'm back at work with my big fat pipe....
Wal Mart's already on it
http://www.walmart.com/walmartconnect/isp/
Can you say "Sam's American On-Line Choice"?
I doubt if Dell is wondering anything. Dell and Microsoft both know perfectly well what happened...
... *.45 revolver cocking*
Dell: Linux is starting to get popular, so lets offer PCs with Linux preloaded, just like Windows!
Microsoft: I don't think that's such a good idea
Dell: Ummm... maybe you're right, Linux might not be ready for the mainstream yet...
Excellent list! I'm getting 270KB/sec from vt.edu...
It does not apply to blank CD-Rs sold in the USA.
See the following (search each page for "royalty" for the relavent parts):
http://www.technocopia.com/ht-20000806-audiocdrs .h tml
http://www.pctechguide.com/09cdr-rw.htm
There are CD-Rs designated as "data" discs, and as "audio" disks. The manufacturers pay royalties on the audio disks, but not the data disks. "SCMS" compliant recorders will not record audio on data disks. However, general-purpose CD-R drives in PCs are not required to be compliant by the AHRA.
Never mind the fact that the software industry has pretty much given up on copy protection in favor of hardware keys and activation code methods. No it was never unlawful, just a PITA for users who paid good money for software.
The music industry however is trying to forget the Home Recording Act of 1992, where they promised not to copy-protect CDs in exchange for a "royalty" on blank CD media. As far as I know, they are still get the royalties.
> ...brown and crossed-out...
Nice choice of colors! But for some reason, goatse reminds me of the MPAA's objections to analog-to-digital converters. Go figure.
Hit reload. I checked it this morning too.
Now, why won't http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ come up?
Even simpler, open Mozilla Mail at startup (add a shortcut to your startup folder), and leave it open, minimized. New browser windows will open just as fast as with quick launch. Basically, quick launch opens a hidden window, and then just sits there anyway.