For those who aren't professionals, the cheap Photoshop Elements is a great alternative at fraction of the price.
For those who aren't professionals, the Gimp is a great alternative for free. I know it isn't as good as Photoshop, but it has everything most users need.
Also, there is one person working on a native implementation of SVG for Mozilla. I hope he gets more help and stabilizes the SVG code soon so that I won't need Adobe's SVG Viewer.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
So if they kept the compiler in the device, they are required to release the source to it.
I think it just makes good business sense to release specs and/or APIs for hardware products--the manufacturer is making money off of the hardware, and if somebody makes a Free (or even just free) software program that works better than what the manufacturer included (or didn't include for certain operating systems), the manufacturer benefits the most. And if somebody charges for a software package they created using the API, customers still have to buy the hardware to use the software.
For example, Stallman states that a kernel is a top priority, yet we still don't have a really stable, working kernel out of GNU (I don't think Mach or Hurd count).
He said that twenty years ago, but when another suitable kernel was released under the GPL, the impetus for a GNU kernel diminished. (RMS still wanted one, but it's harder to get people to work on it instead of on Linux when Linux is much more mature.)
For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together.
Is this not what GNU started? Many projects with part-time distributed workers? This is a quote from RMS, stating that the development model most open source projects now use would be very difficult.
For replacing every commonly-used utility in an operating system, it is impossible to coordinate a large number of people. But for development of one individual utility, the best way is through a versioning system with many developers working closely together.
I have two mice plugged in right now--an old one in a PS/2 port (through a USB -> PS/2 adaptor), and a cordless mouse plugged into a USB port. Both worked fine right when plugged in, and work together--move one up and the other to the right and the cursor goes up and to the right simultaneously.
Ahh. I hadn't read Hacking the XBox--I don't even own one, and I was assuming that if the CPU could be cost-effectively switched that the CPU was standard, and the DVD drive seemed the most logical other place for the encryption. However, running unsigned code on the XBox is completely legal if the purpose of running the code is for compatibility (you can break the cryptography in order to put your own games on it, but not to pirate other XBox games). It's one of those things legislators must have put into the DMCA by accident.
Nothing keeps my from buying a Gateway computer, repackaging it, and reselling it (provided I make it clear Gateway has nothing to do with my product and does not support it). Why should an XBox be any different?
They'll replace it because they are required to by merchantability, which you will find in case law. Merchantability means if they sell you something that is marketed as a CD, and it isn't a CD, they must accept a return.
Digital Restrictions Management (I will never call it by any other name) is not inherently bad. As one example, companies may want to keep certain documents internal.
The DRM that you are referring to is that in media that you have paid for. If I pay for media, I own it, and can make copies for personal use without restriction (assuming that, if tested, the DMCA won't hold up).
As long as OpenOffice.org supports all or none of the Digital Restrictions Management features available in MS Word, it is completely legal. Partially supporting them is illegal.
n : a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme
Now it depends on whether you consider the movies to be separate works (the obvious conclusion) or whether you consider them to be the same work (since they were shot at the same time by the same people). It could go either way, I guess.
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FYI, the preview is available at http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/betaframed .html, and it is only for Win98-WinXP. I hadn't known it existed until this comment--thanks.
Also, there is one person working on a native implementation of SVG for Mozilla. I hope he gets more help and stabilizes the SVG code soon so that I won't need Adobe's SVG Viewer.
If I'm not mistaken, the "X" in "OS X" refers to 10, as "X" is the Roman numeral for 10.
I think it just makes good business sense to release specs and/or APIs for hardware products--the manufacturer is making money off of the hardware, and if somebody makes a Free (or even just free) software program that works better than what the manufacturer included (or didn't include for certain operating systems), the manufacturer benefits the most. And if somebody charges for a software package they created using the API, customers still have to buy the hardware to use the software.
For replacing every commonly-used utility in an operating system, it is impossible to coordinate a large number of people. But for development of one individual utility, the best way is through a versioning system with many developers working closely together.
Yea I guess that didn't make too much sense. The receiver/charger plugs into a USB port and an AC power outlet.
I have two mice plugged in right now--an old one in a PS/2 port (through a USB -> PS/2 adaptor), and a cordless mouse plugged into a USB port. Both worked fine right when plugged in, and work together--move one up and the other to the right and the cursor goes up and to the right simultaneously.
Also, "USB 2.0" doesn't mean anything anymore.
Ahh. I hadn't read Hacking the XBox--I don't even own one, and I was assuming that if the CPU could be cost-effectively switched that the CPU was standard, and the DVD drive seemed the most logical other place for the encryption. However, running unsigned code on the XBox is completely legal if the purpose of running the code is for compatibility (you can break the cryptography in order to put your own games on it, but not to pirate other XBox games). It's one of those things legislators must have put into the DMCA by accident.
I don't really know how enforceable an EULA for an XBox would be--EULAs are inherently invalid anyway, but that hasn't stopped them.
Ahh. That's an interesting concept.
I haven't used a modern Macintosh (just haven't had the opportunity)--could you clarify what you mean?
Nothing keeps my from buying a Gateway computer, repackaging it, and reselling it (provided I make it clear Gateway has nothing to do with my product and does not support it). Why should an XBox be any different?
Contact your state's Attorney General's office. Then you'll get results (assuming your letter of complaint isn't flaming anyone).
They'll replace it because they are required to by merchantability, which you will find in case law. Merchantability means if they sell you something that is marketed as a CD, and it isn't a CD, they must accept a return.
Well, Visa and Mastercard are really the same collection of about 5,000 banks--you never see a Visa ad deprecating Mastercard or vice-versa.
Don't worry. The Census still has their database of "suspected terrorists".
And AbiWord already supports them, just not as the default. See http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=763 40&cid=6816160.
Digital Restrictions Management (I will never call it by any other name) is not inherently bad. As one example, companies may want to keep certain documents internal.
The DRM that you are referring to is that in media that you have paid for. If I pay for media, I own it, and can make copies for personal use without restriction (assuming that, if tested, the DMCA won't hold up).
As long as OpenOffice.org supports all or none of the Digital Restrictions Management features available in MS Word, it is completely legal. Partially supporting them is illegal.