Who you kidding? I'm no windows developer, but even I know you don't use pipes for IPC in windows, it's all COM. COM on windows versus CORBA or DCOP might be interesting.
While I agree with most people that it's a rather silly comparison, pipes aren't quite as dead as people think. Many "enterprise" systems still use pipes on windows. Database systems in particular...
I'm not a conspiracy kind of guy, but you could almost argue that Windows pipes are being slowed on purpose. I doubt SQL Server uses them (espescially if they're degrading this quickly) but many of MS's competitors still do (Including IBM's DB2).
The whole tld system is abusive.. If I type in sex.info, chances are, I don't want to see assloads of flogging devices. What *should* be there is an informational site. A little AIDS awareness, some medical background.. you know.. stuff *about* sex.
So, what do we get instead? The website of some wanker who managed to send the paperwork into the USPTO.
I guess little Jimmy will technically get information at sex.info.. but we might just as well send him to goatse.cx for all the good it will do.
How did you figure out that the product was full of GPL code and such? From the looks of things, it appears you had to reverse engineer binary code and hack out a root passwd. IANAL, but chances are good xStore put in the license agreement that you werent allowed to do those two things. You may run into trouble with that should everything turn out legit. Yes, they may have breached the GPL, but their agreement probably restricted you from those activities.
But it's a different sort of liability.. Lets assume for a moment that both parties violated their respective licenses. Violating the DiskZerver license restricts your ability to use their software. Violating the GPL restricts DiskZerver's ability to distribute the software. There are no penalties for *using* software you purchased after violating the license agreement (except possibly in UCITA states) -- you just lose "perks" like support or something equally inane. On the other hand, there a *significant* penalties for distributing software that you no longer have the license to. As a matter of fact, thanks to lobying there are not only penalties, it's also a felony.
They may charge you with DMCA violations if the root password was encrypted, though.
Of course they can't make money. The Internet is a communication medium. It's like the phone system. The only people that *make* money are the phone companies. It's a tool and tools aren't there to make you money. You use them to *save* money (or, time, but we know what that's worth).
Every time someone uses a website to make a bank transaction you get closer to getting rid of a few very expensive tellers.
I don't get it. No one's ever bitched about the postal service not making them any money.
They can keep him without bail as long as they think there is the risk he'll leave the country... And, as a citizen of a foreign country, that's exactly what he'd do.
Now, it's not necessarily stupidity... Sometimes there comes a point when you just don't care..
At work I've got database passwords, AIX and Solaris passwords (which the administrators have set up with mutually exclusive password rules), Linux on my laptop and at home, Exchange, VSS, NT and PBX passwords... So, when Novell asks you to enter a new unique password for the fiftieth time (it's obviously more secure to make you change it EVERY TWO WEEKS) security really isn't your top priority... Things like "novellsucks" and "password" start looking reasonable.
Actually, OS/2 ran 16-bit apps better than 95. You could even start up Win3.1 from within it. The reasons Warp failed were because it lacked support for the soon to be released win32 API, and it wasn't peddled by IBM with it's full marketing might. The original intent of IBM was to create a separate platform based on OS/2 and Lotus Office to compete with 95/Office. Unfortunately, what little campaigning IBM did do was insufficient.. for quite a while I was perplexed by this lack of OS/2 support from IBM, but apparently Microsoft played hardball with the IBM hardware division by restricting their access to pre-release versions of 95 *and* threatening to stall their OEM licensing process. IBM hardware had more to lose in the upcoming win95 buying frenzy, so IBM software was forced to concede and stopped pushing for Lotus office to be installed on the IBM Win95 installs. People started using MSOffice 95 (which was one of the few win32 apps at the beginning) , IBM's Lotus Office / OS/2 migration plans were destroyed and OS/2 Warp adds stopped appearing.
It's amazing what you can learn from Jackson's Findings of Fact.
This code will be 100% free to port to any platform you so please, including Linux.
It's definitely not 100% free. They state you can't use it if you're selling it, but considering the situation, that's not really a terrible requirement..
What should be a concern is the possibility of a clause that allows Microsoft to terminate or modify the agreement for the source provided *and* derivatives. It's been done before, it's perfectly legal and not entirely intolerable as long as they don't exercise it for the purpose of screwing people over and wrestling more market share away from the competition.
But, hey, this is all just conjecture since we haven't seen the license yet and we should give them the benefit of the doubt, right? It's not like they have a documented corporate culture of "market share at all costs".. or a history of taking an upfront cost hit to undercut their competition, biding their time then coercing everyone to follow their lead.. err.. wait, they do.
They may not be Greek, but I'm certainly not planning on taking their gifts.
Step 1. Release.NET for FreeBSD as "Shared Source"
Step 2. Prohibit "Potentially Viral Software" to be used with the code in any way.
Step 3. Point out that Linux doesn't (and can't run.NET)
Step 4. Endorse FreeBSD as the "Microsoft Approved free Unix".
Step 5. Wait.
Step 6. GNU/Linux is removed from corporate view as FreeBSD gains popularity.
Step 7. Announce new MicrosoftBSD Product.
Wouldn't this be a strike against it? If you're trying to teach a specific model, why confuse the issue? Why not just use Smalltalk.. Or go the opposite route and just use C or Pascal..
But this isn't commercial entities not being allowed to use a residential service for work, these are residential subscribers being denied to use the bandwidth they paid for to it's fullest potential. I can browse porn if I want, but if I wanted to telecommute so I could stay home and watch my sick child that's against the rules? WTF? It's sort of akin to the telco telling you that you can use the phone system, but you're not allowed to whisper.
The "game playing masses" use MS products.. Even some of the dual booters would still buy the MS version just 'cause "I'm in Windows to play games anyway." But so what? It's a growing OS.. Sure they're used to getting $MILLION returns on their investment, but the return they're looking for won't hit until Linux grows more popularity in the "normal user" arena.
Does it mean it's a waste of time? I dunno, I'm not a business analyst, but if I were them I'd want to make sure I was keeping up on what it takes to make a Linux game.. 'cause some day that return return will come...
Maybe I'm just too tired to be reading these sorts of things.. perhaps I feel like pissing people off with my worthless commentary, but either way I think this can all be summarized as:
Intel announces plans for faster chips in the next 6 months, even faster next year.
What we really need is a company that
hires a group of geeks with diverse experience, and who are willing to learn new stuff at customer request.
Have the customer pay by the man hour above a certain yearly amount pre-included in their plan, and have all your geeks watch some central job dispach system and take jobs that they are interrested in, or that land in their area of knowledge.
Those companies already exist and their employees are called consultants.. The only problem is, they suck just as much, but cost more. "But a good company can make a name." you say. Well, that is true, but unfortunately PHB's don't hire *good* companies, they hire *big* companies.. and by the time a good one gets big, they've lost all their fizzle and are filled with second-rate employees..
I think the coolest thing about my NeXTStation is how solid it is.. It just feels...well solid. Things fit tightly, thick metal shielding, etc.. For being relatively lightweight, I think if dropped it would damage whatever it hit more that the box itself..
Now, on the flip side, the monitor weighs 50 lbs..
Marketing this 100k/file limit as a safeguard is a total joke. If Publius ever becomes popular, you know that some VB kiddie with too much time is going to whip together a program that splits up and reassembles files into 99k chunks.
First off, this isn't a distro, it's just a packaged version of GNOME, and second my guess is one of their goals is to get RedHat to pick it up as their default UI and start getting cash from them for their work. I mean, come on, has RH *ever* put those finishing touches that really make the configurability of X stand out?
First we had TWM, then FVWM95 and lately Enlightement with GNOME 1.0 -- all of them with unusable defaults..
HelixCode is doing a damn fine job and I say we let them continue to work on usability and not declare them an unnecessary addition to the community just yet..
I believe copyrights expire 70 years after the death of the last remaining author.. So, no.. Most games aren't available as PD. There *is*, however, a fuzzy area of computer history before 1978 when an copyright would expire after 28 years provided the holders did not opt to extend their copyright. (They could add up to [I believe] 67 additional years).
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Who you kidding? I'm no windows developer, but even I know you don't use pipes for IPC in windows, it's all COM. COM on windows versus CORBA or DCOP might be interesting.
While I agree with most people that it's a rather silly comparison, pipes aren't quite as dead as people think. Many "enterprise" systems still use pipes on windows. Database systems in particular...
I'm not a conspiracy kind of guy, but you could almost argue that Windows pipes are being slowed on purpose. I doubt SQL Server uses them (espescially if they're degrading this quickly) but many of MS's competitors still do (Including IBM's DB2).
The whole tld system is abusive .. If I type in sex.info, chances are, I don't want to see assloads of flogging devices. What *should* be there is an informational site. A little AIDS awareness, some medical background.. you know.. stuff *about* sex.
.. but we might just as well send him to goatse.cx for all the good it will do.
So, what do we get instead? The website of some wanker who managed to send the paperwork into the USPTO.
I guess little Jimmy will technically get information at sex.info
How did you figure out that the product was full of GPL code and such? From the looks of things, it appears you had to reverse engineer binary code and hack out a root passwd. IANAL, but chances are good xStore put in the license agreement that you werent allowed to do those two things. You may run into trouble with that should everything turn out legit. Yes, they may have breached the GPL, but their agreement probably restricted you from those activities.
But it's a different sort of liability.. Lets assume for a moment that both parties violated their respective licenses. Violating the DiskZerver license restricts your ability to use their software. Violating the GPL restricts DiskZerver's ability to distribute the software. There are no penalties for *using* software you purchased after violating the license agreement (except possibly in UCITA states) -- you just lose "perks" like support or something equally inane. On the other hand, there a *significant* penalties for distributing software that you no longer have the license to. As a matter of fact, thanks to lobying there are not only penalties, it's also a felony.
They may charge you with DMCA violations if the root password was encrypted, though.
Every time someone uses a website to make a bank transaction you get closer to getting rid of a few very expensive tellers.
I don't get it. No one's ever bitched about the postal service not making them any money.
They can keep him without bail as long as they think there is the risk he'll leave the country... And, as a citizen of a foreign country, that's exactly what he'd do.
Now, it's not necessarily stupidity... Sometimes there comes a point when you just don't care..
At work I've got database passwords, AIX and Solaris passwords (which the administrators have set up with mutually exclusive password rules), Linux on my laptop and at home, Exchange, VSS, NT and PBX passwords... So, when Novell asks you to enter a new unique password for the fiftieth time (it's obviously more secure to make you change it EVERY TWO WEEKS) security really isn't your top priority... Things like "novellsucks" and "password" start looking reasonable.
Actually, OS/2 ran 16-bit apps better than 95. You could even start up Win3.1 from within it. The reasons Warp failed were because it lacked support for the soon to be released win32 API, and it wasn't peddled by IBM with it's full marketing might. The original intent of IBM was to create a separate platform based on OS/2 and Lotus Office to compete with 95/Office. Unfortunately, what little campaigning IBM did do was insufficient.. for quite a while I was perplexed by this lack of OS/2 support from IBM, but apparently Microsoft played hardball with the IBM hardware division by restricting their access to pre-release versions of 95 *and* threatening to stall their OEM licensing process. IBM hardware had more to lose in the upcoming win95 buying frenzy, so IBM software was forced to concede and stopped pushing for Lotus office to be installed on the IBM Win95 installs. People started using MSOffice 95 (which was one of the few win32 apps at the beginning) , IBM's Lotus Office / OS/2 migration plans were destroyed and OS/2 Warp adds stopped appearing.
It's amazing what you can learn from Jackson's Findings of Fact.
This code will be 100% free to port to any platform you so please, including Linux.
It's definitely not 100% free. They state you can't use it if you're selling it, but considering the situation, that's not really a terrible requirement..
What should be a concern is the possibility of a clause that allows Microsoft to terminate or modify the agreement for the source provided *and* derivatives. It's been done before, it's perfectly legal and not entirely intolerable as long as they don't exercise it for the purpose of screwing people over and wrestling more market share away from the competition.
But, hey, this is all just conjecture since we haven't seen the license yet and we should give them the benefit of the doubt, right? It's not like they have a documented corporate culture of "market share at all costs".. or a history of taking an upfront cost hit to undercut their competition, biding their time then coercing everyone to follow their lead.. err.. wait, they do.
They may not be Greek, but I'm certainly not planning on taking their gifts.
Step 1. Release .NET for FreeBSD as "Shared Source" .NET)
Step 2. Prohibit "Potentially Viral Software" to be used with the code in any way.
Step 3. Point out that Linux doesn't (and can't run
Step 4. Endorse FreeBSD as the "Microsoft Approved free Unix".
Step 5. Wait.
Step 6. GNU/Linux is removed from corporate view as FreeBSD gains popularity.
Step 7. Announce new MicrosoftBSD Product.
Or at least, that's what I'd do.
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* 100% OO
* functional programming as well
Wouldn't this be a strike against it? If you're trying to teach a specific model, why confuse the issue? Why not just use Smalltalk.. Or go the opposite route and just use C or Pascal ..
I'm sure he probably has excellent grammar.. in his native language.
But this isn't commercial entities not being allowed to use a residential service for work, these are residential subscribers being denied to use the bandwidth they paid for to it's fullest potential. I can browse porn if I want, but if I wanted to telecommute so I could stay home and watch my sick child that's against the rules? WTF? It's sort of akin to the telco telling you that you can use the phone system, but you're not allowed to whisper.
Does it mean it's a waste of time? I dunno, I'm not a business analyst, but if I were them I'd want to make sure I was keeping up on what it takes to make a Linux game.. 'cause some day that return return will come...
Maybe I'm just too tired to be reading these sorts of things.. perhaps I feel like pissing people off with my worthless commentary, but either way I think this can all be summarized as:
Intel announces plans for faster chips in the next 6 months, even faster next year.
What we really need is a company that hires a group of geeks with diverse experience, and who are willing to learn new stuff at customer request. Have the customer pay by the man hour above a certain yearly amount pre-included in their plan, and have all your geeks watch some central job dispach system and take jobs that they are interrested in, or that land in their area of knowledge.
Those companies already exist and their employees are called consultants.. The only problem is, they suck just as much, but cost more. "But a good company can make a name." you say. Well, that is true, but unfortunately PHB's don't hire *good* companies, they hire *big* companies.. and by the time a good one gets big, they've lost all their fizzle and are filled with second-rate employees..
I think the coolest thing about my NeXTStation is how solid it is.. It just feels...well solid. Things fit tightly, thick metal shielding, etc.. For being relatively lightweight, I think if dropped it would damage whatever it hit more that the box itself..
Now, on the flip side, the monitor weighs 50 lbs..
Marketing this 100k/file limit as a safeguard is a total joke. If Publius ever becomes popular, you know that some VB kiddie with too much time is going to whip together a program that splits up and reassembles files into 99k chunks.
You mean like say... a TCP/IP stack?
First off, this isn't a distro, it's just a packaged version of GNOME, and second my guess is one of their goals is to get RedHat to pick it up as their default UI and start getting cash from them for their work. I mean, come on, has RH *ever* put those finishing touches that really make the configurability of X stand out?
First we had TWM, then FVWM95 and lately Enlightement with GNOME 1.0 -- all of them with unusable defaults..
HelixCode is doing a damn fine job and I say we let them continue to work on usability and not declare them an unnecessary addition to the community just yet..
I believe copyrights expire 70 years after the death of the last remaining author.. So, no.. Most games aren't available as PD. There *is*, however, a fuzzy area of computer history before 1978 when an copyright would expire after 28 years provided the holders did not opt to extend their copyright. (They could add up to [I believe] 67 additional years).