The GPL requires anyone holding a patent on the software to allow others to freely use/modify it. From the GPL license:
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The only thing this patent prevents is from others creating proprietary versions of the technology in question; which, IMO, is a Good Thing(tm). In fact, in the thread about this on the LKML someone brought up that the FSF even encourages doing this.
I don't understand your reasoning; the issue is that the schools don't have enough money to license every copy of Microsoft products they use, buying Mac's doesn't solve their financial crisis, now does it? In fact, that'll cost them much more. With Linux, they get to reuse their existing hardware. Perhaps right now there's a shortage of educational software, but I bet that'll be changing pretty quick once the commerical software companies start taking notice that more people are using Linux, after all, schools make up a pretty large portion of the software market.
I guess you missed the slashdot story a while back which claimed someone was able to compile the Linux kernel on some ungodly 32-way numa machine in under 8 seconds! That's right, 32-way! Linux is making _huge_ progress in the 2.5 developement series, such as the new O(1) scheduler, NUMA support, Block I/O,
you can check out the 2.5 status page to see it all. Perhaps 2.4 can't scale like solaris can, but 2.5 will kick ass once it's ready. In the mean time, alot of the important patches are being backported to 2.4 (such as the new scheduler), I recommend the JAM patchset.
Junkbuster is broken, it doesn't implement HTTP/1.1 properly.. Unless you force mozilla to use HTTP/1.0, it will think the proxy server does keep-alive and will continue to request files in the full HTTP://www.somesite.com/whatever form, which would really be getting sent to the website, hence the reason you still see the banners, and most pages probably break too. I'm actually working on a proxy server myself which resolves this problem, and is much faster than junkbuster (does keepalive and is multithreaded). check it out, the url is in my sig </PLUG>
Well duh! There's no profit in finding security holes... we all Microsoft is a money making machine, and only does things with immediate monetary rewards. </sarcasm>
Why doesn't Wal-Mart just preinstall linux themselves on these? It would expose Linux to people who otherwise probably wouldn't try it, and hey.. maybe they'll even like it and keep it!
My god, have we nothing better to write about than Microsoft? Looking on the front page, I see FOUR stories about Microsoft. There's gotta be
something more newsworthy, even for slashdot this is bad.
From the site: Pentium II 300 MHz, 96 MB RAM, Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP, DirectX 8.1, 16 MB OpenGL-compliant 3D accelerator card, DirectX-compliant sound card and 56 kbps modem.
It doesn't say here, but Linux and MacOSX are supported as well.
I didn't see mention of this in the article; just wanted to mention that a Linux version of this game will be released at the same time the Windows version does! It's nice to see gaming companies are taking Linux seriously as a gaming platform.
Why the hell should taxpayers pay so private corporations can arrest them? It's their legal battle, if they want to fight this they should do it with their own damn money.
Did anybody else notice the page that shows the first and last names of everyone who's registered? This company doesn't even respect the privacy of PAYING customers... now that's _LOW_
I've been subscribed to the linux kernel mailing list for some time, and there's quite a bit of discussion coming from employee's of many popular hardware companies. NEC, Promise, IBM, SGI, SUN, to name a few. Then there's the ever so popular drivers developed by NVIDIA, closed source unfortunately, but that's a company policy iirc.
Slashdot has sunk to an all time low. This is pathetic, it's blatantly obvious this entire article was an advertisement for jonkatz' book, disguised as some rant about media advertising. And you guys are trying to get people to subscribe?!?! Mod me down, I don't care, someone has to say it.
After reading about people who've had a positive experience with herbal remedies, I decided myself to try a few. Ginkgo, in particular, is popular for increasing mental focus and memory; Ginseng too has a simular but more subtle effect. Wow! what a difference they have made, I'm now able to concentrate on a problem without losing focus for much longer, and my overall mood has improved. Seriously, give them a try; at worst they don't work, there haven't been any side effects associated with either.
I didn't see any mention of an external media drive (cdrom, floppy, etc.), I think they get away with it by just making it extremely hard to install anything... pretty sleezy if you ask me.
What the hell gives you the idea a game would need to be open source for it to run on linux?
There's quite a few good games for linux: castle
wolfenstein (which I own), quake3, all the ones that were ported by loki, and the upcoming neverwinter nights (which is sure to be a big hit), to name a few.
Get a clue, it's this kind of thinking that discourages game developers from porting to linux in the first place.
They must be desperate to make sales, their already selling these things at a huge loss. It seems like microsoft is beating a dead horse with this one; nobody's really buying them, and their's shit all for games compared to the competition, even fewer worth paying for. I for one am glad to see them failing, the more markets left open to fair competition the better. But, like most other markets microsoft treads on, they'll probably keep trying til they get it right, and if history has taught me anything.. they will, eventually; IE was a piece of crap until version 3, windows 95 was terrible, etc. Afterall, they have billions and billions of dollars to throw at the problem. I really hope the justice department can get their shit together and do something soon.
Don't spark gap transmitters cause a great deal of interference across all radio bands? I thought they were outlawed or something for that very reason. Unless they've come up with a way to prevent that, isn't that going to be an issue?
But there are.deb's for kde3 ready (*very* beta though) at http://www.geniussystems.net/KDE3%20Experimental/ Many thanks to WhizNDR from #debian-kde on opn for many hours of work getting these ready:)
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The GPL requires anyone holding a patent on the software to allow others to freely use/modify it.
From the GPL license:
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The only thing this patent prevents is from others creating proprietary versions of the technology in question; which, IMO, is a Good Thing(tm). In fact, in the thread about this on the LKML someone brought up that the FSF even encourages doing this.
Is that what we call something that's been in developement for 11 years?
I don't understand your reasoning; the issue is that the schools don't have enough money to license every copy of Microsoft products they use, buying Mac's doesn't solve their financial crisis, now does it? In fact, that'll cost them much more. With Linux, they get to reuse their existing hardware. Perhaps right now there's a shortage of educational software, but I bet that'll be changing pretty quick once the commerical software companies start taking notice that more people are using Linux, after all, schools make up a pretty large portion of the software market.
Somewhere on Slashdot someone is repeating old jokes and doesn't know why.
I guess you missed the slashdot story a while back which claimed someone was able to compile the Linux kernel on some ungodly 32-way numa machine in under 8 seconds! That's right, 32-way! Linux is making _huge_ progress in the 2.5 developement series, such as the new O(1) scheduler, NUMA support, Block I/O, you can check out the 2.5 status page to see it all. Perhaps 2.4 can't scale like solaris can, but 2.5 will kick ass once it's ready. In the mean time, alot of the important patches are being backported to 2.4 (such as the new scheduler), I recommend the JAM patchset.
Junkbuster is broken, it doesn't implement HTTP/1.1 properly.. Unless you force mozilla to use HTTP/1.0, it will think the proxy server does keep-alive and will continue to request files in the full HTTP://www.somesite.com/whatever form, which would really be getting sent to the website, hence the reason you still see the banners, and most pages probably break too.
I'm actually working on a proxy server myself which resolves this problem, and is much faster than junkbuster (does keepalive and is multithreaded). check it out, the url is in my sig </PLUG>
Well duh! There's no profit in finding
security holes... we all Microsoft is a money making
machine, and only does things with immediate monetary rewards. </sarcasm>
Why doesn't Wal-Mart just preinstall linux themselves on these? It would expose Linux to people who otherwise probably wouldn't try it, and hey.. maybe they'll even like it and keep it!
My god, have we nothing better to write about than Microsoft? Looking on the front page, I see FOUR stories about Microsoft. There's gotta be something more newsworthy, even for slashdot this is bad.
From the site:
Pentium II 300 MHz, 96 MB RAM, Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP, DirectX 8.1, 16 MB OpenGL-compliant 3D accelerator card, DirectX-compliant sound card and 56 kbps modem.
It doesn't say here, but Linux and MacOSX are supported as well.
I didn't see mention of this in the article; just wanted to mention that a Linux version of this game will be released at the same time the Windows version does! It's nice to see gaming companies are taking Linux seriously as a gaming platform.
Why the hell should taxpayers pay so private corporations can arrest them? It's their legal battle,
if they want to fight this they should do it with their own damn money.
Did anybody else notice the page that shows the first and last names of everyone who's registered? This company doesn't even respect the privacy of PAYING customers... now that's _LOW_
I've been subscribed to the linux kernel mailing list for some time, and there's quite a bit of discussion
coming from employee's of many popular hardware companies. NEC, Promise, IBM, SGI, SUN, to name a few.
Then there's the ever so popular drivers developed by NVIDIA, closed source unfortunately, but that's
a company policy iirc.
Slashdot has sunk to an all time low. This is pathetic, it's blatantly obvious this entire article was an advertisement for jonkatz' book, disguised as some rant about media advertising. And you guys are trying to get people to subscribe?!?! Mod me down, I don't care, someone has to say it.
After reading about people who've had a positive experience with herbal remedies, I decided myself
to try a few. Ginkgo, in particular, is popular for increasing mental focus and memory; Ginseng too
has a simular but more subtle effect. Wow! what a difference they have made, I'm now able to concentrate
on a problem without losing focus for much longer, and my overall mood has improved. Seriously,
give them a try; at worst they don't work, there haven't been any side effects associated with either.
I didn't see any mention of an external media drive (cdrom, floppy, etc.), I think they get away with it by just making it extremely hard to install anything... pretty sleezy if you ask me.
What the hell gives you the idea a game would need to be open source for it to run on linux? There's quite a few good games for linux: castle wolfenstein (which I own), quake3, all the ones that were ported by loki, and the upcoming neverwinter nights (which is sure to be a big hit), to name a few. Get a clue, it's this kind of thinking that discourages game developers from porting to linux in the first place.
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I didn't think x86 solaris had that many users.
They must be desperate to make sales, their already selling these things at a huge loss. It seems like
microsoft is beating a dead horse with this one; nobody's really buying them, and their's shit all for games
compared to the competition, even fewer worth paying for. I for one am glad to see them failing, the more
markets left open to fair competition the better. But, like most other markets microsoft treads on,
they'll probably keep trying til they get it right, and if history has taught me anything.. they will,
eventually; IE was a piece of crap until version 3, windows 95 was terrible, etc. Afterall,
they have billions and billions of dollars to throw at the problem.
I really hope the justice department can get their shit together and do something soon.
> There are price drops in Europe, too.
Umm, yah, that is was in the title.
Don't spark gap transmitters cause a great deal of interference across all radio bands? I thought they were outlawed or something for that very reason. Unless they've come up with a way to prevent that, isn't that going to be an issue?
But there are .deb's for kde3 ready (*very* beta though) at :)
http://www.geniussystems.net/KDE3%20Experimental/
Many thanks to WhizNDR from #debian-kde on opn for many hours of work getting these ready
http://www.apache.org/server-status