The question in my mind is did anyone in the FOSS world come up with a 'clean room' implimentation of the FAT Long Filename Extention code at any point? (Much like the old BIOS case.)
And even if it was never done, why would someone at Google set aside a small task force to do it now? Thus removing any legs MS has to stand on at least on that point. Or am I missing something about software patents these days and they have gotten even more evil?
In exchange for allowing Apple to make use of their work, Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. Welcome to the world of business.
Well it was not as cut and dry as that. This is from Wikipedia so it does not have a lot of the details but just want to show that it was not all everyone playing pattycakes:
The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product. Much later, in the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the "look and feel" of the Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on the same grounds. The lawsuit was dismissed because the presiding judge ruled "that Xerox's complaints were inappropriate for a variety of legal reasons," although it is commonly believed that Xerox simply waited too long to file suit, and the statute of limitations had expired.
What are these huge bugs that I've seen a few people here bring up? I've been using some variation of OO/LO for years now and have yet to see any real bugs. I've further had other end users use it as an alternative to MSO and have yet to hear of them reporting any sort of bugs.
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I'm still not sure I've forgiven Bryan for leaving X3 to some hack just so he could direct sub-par Superman flick. I'm sure in the circles he's in that being able to say, "Yeah, and I directed a Superman movie too," scores him points. But still, X3 was bad. Really bad Bryan. A prequal does not really make it up in my book given how good X3 could have been.
The GRAM vs normal CPU RAM brings up an intresting point. Should we have mobos that offer slot(s) for GRAM for those users who have an APU (Still don't like that name but I guess I need to get over it.) and want RAM that works best for that? Or is there a technical reason I'm not seeing making that type of setup redudant/or such.
Yeah, there is a lot of/. groupthinking going on here with 'all TV is bad!'
I like live sports. Unless I go to the games, which can be fun too, TV offers something that I would other wise be missing out on.
That being said with streaming now and the accessablity of everything on some form of digital media my TV consumption has gone steadily down as the tech has changed.
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The question in my mind is did anyone in the FOSS world come up with a 'clean room' implimentation of the FAT Long Filename Extention code at any point? (Much like the old BIOS case.)
And even if it was never done, why would someone at Google set aside a small task force to do it now? Thus removing any legs MS has to stand on at least on that point. Or am I missing something about software patents these days and they have gotten even more evil?
In exchange for allowing Apple to make use of their work, Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. Welcome to the world of business.
Well it was not as cut and dry as that. This is from Wikipedia so it does not have a lot of the details but just want to show that it was not all everyone playing pattycakes:
The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product. Much later, in the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the "look and feel" of the Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on the same grounds. The lawsuit was dismissed because the presiding judge ruled "that Xerox's complaints were inappropriate for a variety of legal reasons," although it is commonly believed that Xerox simply waited too long to file suit, and the statute of limitations had expired.
While I think your point is valid we do need to recognize its scope.
Now when home PCs are looking like this, and not in the way OSS distros do with repositories, then we can start to freak out a bit.
What are these huge bugs that I've seen a few people here bring up? I've been using some variation of OO/LO for years now and have yet to see any real bugs. I've further had other end users use it as an alternative to MSO and have yet to hear of them reporting any sort of bugs.
I'm still not sure I've forgiven Bryan for leaving X3 to some hack just so he could direct sub-par Superman flick. I'm sure in the circles he's in that being able to say, "Yeah, and I directed a Superman movie too," scores him points. But still, X3 was bad. Really bad Bryan. A prequal does not really make it up in my book given how good X3 could have been.
The GRAM vs normal CPU RAM brings up an intresting point. Should we have mobos that offer slot(s) for GRAM for those users who have an APU (Still don't like that name but I guess I need to get over it.) and want RAM that works best for that? Or is there a technical reason I'm not seeing making that type of setup redudant/or such.
Yeah, there is a lot of /. groupthinking going on here with 'all TV is bad!'
I like live sports. Unless I go to the games, which can be fun too, TV offers something that I would other wise be missing out on.
That being said with streaming now and the accessablity of everything on some form of digital media my TV consumption has gone steadily down as the tech has changed.
Regardless, RTFA first...
This...is...Slashdot! /kicks Robert into the lolrtfa pit.