A dutch company seems to have solved that problem (color recognition) by using a mix of mostly green and some red leds. They use green leds because the human eye is most sensitive to green light in the dark, so the green light gives the best visibility at night. But to enhance the color recognition (which is basically zero with the almost monochromatic green light from the leds) some red leds are added. Here you can find a nice presentation (with explanation) of the product.
I've been working with SAP for 9 years now (first as a programmer, then as system engineer). If the original poster (your user A) says SAP software is only decently supported on MS platforms then I would also say he doesn't know what he is talking about.
The most used db for SAP installations is probably Oracle. Internally SAP uses SAPDB/MaxDB which is an open-source cross-platform enterprise level DB.
Although there were some server-side products that have been windows only in the past (ITS, IGS,...) this is quickly changing now : SAP even supports Linux on Power for some parts of its software...
Just read Linus' post on LKML. Red Hat has a trademark on 'Red Hat' so they don't need to protect 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' because nobody else can call their distro that...
In the article he mentions sudo asks the root password, while it's actually asking the password of the user performing the sudo ! So I guess he must have set the root password identical to his user password during the installation.
It's not a patent for visual translucency, but 'manipulative' translucency:
If the contents of a window don't change for a preset amount of time the window becomes visualy translucent, but also all user input goes to the underlying (and now visible !) window...
And which part of my post is saying anything different ? Until now you could write commercial applications with SAPDB (because the libraries were LGPL). With the new licensing scheme you have to buy a commercial license from MySQL.
Starting with the next release SAPDB will be rebranded as MaxDB by MySQL AB. This will probably mean that PostgreSQL will have a very hard time competing with MySQL ! (also see the info on the SAPDB webpage) At the same time the licencing will change to pure GPL (no more LGPL libraries !!!)
There is an open source (GPL) plugin for gnupg for Outlook here. It's now at version 0.91 and the main development language is German, but there is an english translation.
What about all the patents related to jpeg2000 and mpeg4 ?
It seems most (or at least some) of them were requested and granted just when the relevant technology/algorithms got accepted into the standard.
(See also this article)
As the article on advogato mentions : why can't ISO/ANSI/whatever enforce policy stating that no patented work should be included in standards released by it ?
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A dutch company seems to have solved that problem (color recognition) by using a mix of mostly green and some red leds.
They use green leds because the human eye is most sensitive to green light in the dark, so the green light gives the best visibility at night. But to enhance the color recognition (which is basically zero with the almost monochromatic green light from the leds) some red leds are added.
Here you can find a nice presentation (with explanation) of the product.
The most used db for SAP installations is probably Oracle. Internally SAP uses SAPDB/MaxDB which is an open-source cross-platform enterprise level DB.
Although there were some server-side products that have been windows only in the past (ITS, IGS,
Just read Linus' post on LKML. Red Hat has a trademark on 'Red Hat' so they don't need to protect 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' because nobody else can call their distro that ...
They are NOT asking to open source the driver(s), but to allow free redistribution of the binary firmware.
In the article he mentions sudo asks the root password, while it's actually asking the password of the user performing the sudo ! So I guess he must have set the root password identical to his user password during the installation.
It's not a patent for visual translucency, but 'manipulative' translucency :
...
If the contents of a window don't change for a preset amount of time the window becomes visualy translucent, but also all user input goes to the underlying (and now visible !) window
And which part of my post is saying anything different ?
Until now you could write commercial applications with SAPDB (because the libraries were LGPL). With the new licensing scheme you have to buy a commercial license from MySQL.
I never said this is a good thing. Neither do most people on the sapdb mailing list ...
Duh ..., the first link should have been SAPDB
Starting with the next release SAPDB will be rebranded as MaxDB by MySQL AB.
This will probably mean that PostgreSQL will have a very hard time competing with MySQL ! (also see the info on the SAPDB webpage)
At the same time the licencing will change to pure GPL (no more LGPL libraries !!!)
(PS : I haven't tried it yet so ymmv)
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What about all the patents related to jpeg2000 and mpeg4 ?
It seems most (or at least some) of them were requested and granted just when the relevant technology/algorithms got accepted into the standard. (See also this article)
As the article on advogato mentions : why can't ISO/ANSI/whatever enforce policy stating that no patented work should be included in standards released by it ?