Is there are a reason KDE can't be used anyways? You'll just have to download it instead of it being distributed with the initial install.
If you like KDE... keeping using it. For the business world they get less complication and you still have choice.
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How exactly is this "tying" again? The way I see it, Microsoft is encouraging the distributors to bundle their games by offering more money. Sounds like standard business sense to me. What's stopping some other game manufacturer from going to those same retailers and offering them money to bundle THEIR games? Nothing that I can see.
Actually I've found the "you get it cheaper" aspect is no longer true. Mainly because the parts I want cost more than the crap parts in a pre-built systems. Granted that's a good thing and I do, however, feel I get more value for the money.
I used to build PCs for people on the principle that I could build it cheaper than the OEMs and make a little cash off the deal. That's generally not true anymore and I just recommend people to compare Dell vs. Gateway and get whatever suits them best.
I think that would be a horrible clause to have rolled into a free software license. Free software only on a free OS is so limiting to the open source community. It would take away the exposure you get from running free software in a closed business world.
As has been stated, Apache is a fine example of this. You take away Apache's right to run on microsoft, etc. operating systems and you reduce exposure. As it stands now you have real world manager types and businesses in general looking at a very successful open source project and possibly changing the attitude that free == suck.
I understand what you're saying. But I still don't think you're correct. I'll have to do some research to verify. But I'm in the same situation as you. My Jeep Cherokee has both a full time (awl) and part time (4wd) modes. But I believe this has more to do with the way the transfer case handles the dual drive lines. NOT the way the differentials are set-up. Like I said, very few stock vehicles come with locking differentials.
This is not true in a general sense. Most stock 4WD vehicles do not incorporate locking diffs. This is usually and after market thing which people add for increased traction. They aren't good in many situations such as trying to turn a corner on an icy road. The locking diff will just push you striaght on through rather than pull you around the corner. There is still a problem with axle binding in a standard 4WD vehicle. But I can't remember exactly where the problem occurs.
Well if you had read all the way to the bottom of my message you would have seen that I don't believe we have the whole story here. Nobody is stupid enough to sue someone for using another service. That just doesn't make sense. There has to be more to this than has been said.
I have never submitted anything from CDDB and usually turn the feature off when I find it do to the pause I usually get when it has to go access the internet for info.
I keep hearing from the slashdot crowd about how Gracenote is trying to take over the data as their own property when it rightfully belongs to those who submitted it. While excuse me if I'm wrong but isn't the CDDB just a listing of song titles and album names? (I know there are some additional things now, but that's not the primary purpose here) And aren't those song titles and album titles rightfully the IP of the bands/record labels that came up with them in the first place? All you users which entered data into CDDB. Didn't you just crab your CD covers and input exactly what was written? So how does this give rights to the one who submitted the entry?
I would agree that Gracenote has no right to call the content their own. But I don't think the submitters have any more rights to it. I do, however, agree that Gracenote has rights to defend their service. They pay for the servers, bandwidth, development/enhancement of infrastructure, etc. They have a right to charge for that stuff.
What I find confusing about this open letter is that they don't mention FreeDB at all. They only mention Roxio trying to use their service without paying. I'm thinking we don't have the full story yet. It just doesn't make sense that they'd go after Roxio for using FreeDB. There's more to this than meets the eye.
It's far easier for him to click "compose" on his already open email client, click on "", and type "Meeting at 9:00 on Monday".
Of course that's pretty much the whole point of integrated packages such as Outlook and the Outlook clones being developed under *nix. Integrate the package and your scheduling program is already open along with the email program. It's no easier in Outlook to compose a new email than it is to schedule a meeting.
Granted integration isn't always the key. That integration of everything microsoft is the key to a virus writers wet dreams.
It has nothing to do with people being interested in SPARC Linux. The question was not asking why one would run linux on sparc instead of intel. It was why would one want to run linux on sparc instead of solaris.
There are good reasons to run either linux or solaris depending on your situation. I'm not saying one is best for all situations over the other. In the past cost would have been a huge factor in choosing. Now that Solaris can be downloaded it's not as much of an issue. However some people are simply more comfortable with linux and have no desire to learn Solaris. Why should those people that ask for support with Linux on Sparc put up with the stupid knee jerk question of "Why would you want to do that?" every time they open their mouths.
I personally find it offensive that the question was asked at all. If I pose a question I don't want to hear "Why do you want to do that?" I have my reasons and you don't need to know them. If you have an answer then fine. If you have a good argument against it, fine. If you don't have any useful information to share, shut the hell up!
Uh... technet is NOT worth the cash. There is nothing in tha hunk of crap that can't be found in the online knowledge base. I make many attempts/week to use technet for something useful. Invariably I get wrong or unhelpful information from it. I remember one instance where I had an error dialog popping up whenever the machine was booted. The knowledge base actually suggested just hitting the OK button every time it showed up and not worry about it. Needless to say I figured out how to get rid of it about an hour later. But good god, man!
Point taken and I withdraw my complaint for the moment. But I do tend to see a lot of claims of obvious prior art lately with nothing to back up the claim.
"However when patents are awarded for anything and everything then we end up with problems like this one, where a company gets a patent on something with obvious prior art that is already ubiquitous."
You don't have to read very far into this one to see 30 people claiming obvious prior art. And yet I have yet to actually see someone come up with evidence of prior art. There have been some claiming existence of evidence as early as August '97. But that doesn't predate the patent application. So please, if you insist on claiming prior art put up some proof. Otherwise don't use it as an argument.
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"We have had some discussions. With some of those companies they have not been fruitful."
In other words... they got told to get off their property or Guido will break their legs while laughing like a 12 year old school girl.
FYI,
The registry hasn't been one big clunky file in the NT side of things. There's about 5 big clunky system files and one clunky user file.
Is there are a reason KDE can't be used anyways? You'll just have to download it instead of it being distributed with the initial install.
If you like KDE... keeping using it. For the business world they get less complication and you still have choice.
How exactly is this "tying" again? The way I see it, Microsoft is encouraging the distributors to bundle their games by offering more money. Sounds like standard business sense to me. What's stopping some other game manufacturer from going to those same retailers and offering them money to bundle THEIR games? Nothing that I can see.
Actually I've found the "you get it cheaper" aspect is no longer true. Mainly because the parts I want cost more than the crap parts in a pre-built systems. Granted that's a good thing and I do, however, feel I get more value for the money.
I used to build PCs for people on the principle that I could build it cheaper than the OEMs and make a little cash off the deal. That's generally not true anymore and I just recommend people to compare Dell vs. Gateway and get whatever suits them best.
I thank you for not using the phrase "LCD display." I applaud you, sir.
No, but google would have a license to use the password.
I think that would be a horrible clause to have rolled into a free software license. Free software only on a free OS is so limiting to the open source community. It would take away the exposure you get from running free software in a closed business world.
As has been stated, Apache is a fine example of this. You take away Apache's right to run on microsoft, etc. operating systems and you reduce exposure. As it stands now you have real world manager types and businesses in general looking at a very successful open source project and possibly changing the attitude that free == suck.
I understand what you're saying. But I still don't think you're correct. I'll have to do some research to verify. But I'm in the same situation as you. My Jeep Cherokee has both a full time (awl) and part time (4wd) modes. But I believe this has more to do with the way the transfer case handles the dual drive lines. NOT the way the differentials are set-up. Like I said, very few stock vehicles come with locking differentials.
This is not true in a general sense. Most stock 4WD vehicles do not incorporate locking diffs. This is usually and after market thing which people add for increased traction. They aren't good in many situations such as trying to turn a corner on an icy road. The locking diff will just push you striaght on through rather than pull you around the corner. There is still a problem with axle binding in a standard 4WD vehicle. But I can't remember exactly where the problem occurs.
Well if you had read all the way to the bottom of my message you would have seen that I don't believe we have the whole story here. Nobody is stupid enough to sue someone for using another service. That just doesn't make sense. There has to be more to this than has been said.
I have never submitted anything from CDDB and usually turn the feature off when I find it do to the pause I usually get when it has to go access the internet for info.
I keep hearing from the slashdot crowd about how Gracenote is trying to take over the data as their own property when it rightfully belongs to those who submitted it. While excuse me if I'm wrong but isn't the CDDB just a listing of song titles and album names? (I know there are some additional things now, but that's not the primary purpose here) And aren't those song titles and album titles rightfully the IP of the bands/record labels that came up with them in the first place? All you users which entered data into CDDB. Didn't you just crab your CD covers and input exactly what was written? So how does this give rights to the one who submitted the entry?
I would agree that Gracenote has no right to call the content their own. But I don't think the submitters have any more rights to it. I do, however, agree that Gracenote has rights to defend their service. They pay for the servers, bandwidth, development/enhancement of infrastructure, etc. They have a right to charge for that stuff.
What I find confusing about this open letter is that they don't mention FreeDB at all. They only mention Roxio trying to use their service without paying. I'm thinking we don't have the full story yet. It just doesn't make sense that they'd go after Roxio for using FreeDB. There's more to this than meets the eye.
Seems to me you'd leap over a building in a single bound. Not scale it in a single bound. I could be wrong.
It's far easier for him to click "compose" on his already open email client, click on "", and type "Meeting at 9:00 on Monday".
Of course that's pretty much the whole point of integrated packages such as Outlook and the Outlook clones being developed under *nix. Integrate the package and your scheduling program is already open along with the email program. It's no easier in Outlook to compose a new email than it is to schedule a meeting.
Granted integration isn't always the key. That integration of everything microsoft is the key to a virus writers wet dreams.
It has nothing to do with people being interested in SPARC Linux. The question was not asking why one would run linux on sparc instead of intel. It was why would one want to run linux on sparc instead of solaris.
There are good reasons to run either linux or solaris depending on your situation. I'm not saying one is best for all situations over the other. In the past cost would have been a huge factor in choosing. Now that Solaris can be downloaded it's not as much of an issue. However some people are simply more comfortable with linux and have no desire to learn Solaris. Why should those people that ask for support with Linux on Sparc put up with the stupid knee jerk question of "Why would you want to do that?" every time they open their mouths.
I'm offended that my offence was offended to.
I personally find it offensive that the question was asked at all. If I pose a question I don't want to hear "Why do you want to do that?" I have my reasons and you don't need to know them. If you have an answer then fine. If you have a good argument against it, fine. If you don't have any useful information to share, shut the hell up!
No it's not. The Solaris OS can be downloaded for free. Sounds like about the same price to me.
Uh... technet is NOT worth the cash. There is nothing in tha hunk of crap that can't be found in the online knowledge base. I make many attempts/week to use technet for something useful. Invariably I get wrong or unhelpful information from it. I remember one instance where I had an error dialog popping up whenever the machine was booted. The knowledge base actually suggested just hitting the OK button every time it showed up and not worry about it. Needless to say I figured out how to get rid of it about an hour later. But good god, man!
The fool who gave them directions in the first place, of course.
Heh... You're killing me over here. ;-)
Actually, it was read. And there is a reason for the ommision of details. I'll leave it to you to discover why.
Point taken and I withdraw my complaint for the moment. But I do tend to see a lot of claims of obvious prior art lately with nothing to back up the claim.
You don't have to read very far into this one to see 30 people claiming obvious prior art. And yet I have yet to actually see someone come up with evidence of prior art. There have been some claiming existence of evidence as early as August '97. But that doesn't predate the patent application. So please, if you insist on claiming prior art put up some proof. Otherwise don't use it as an argument.
Wait, wait, wait. Back up there, Texas. You're telling me programmers can get paid in beer? Why the hell aren't I doing more programming??