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  1. Re:Not really. on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    That is because the Serious coumputing crowd is already using Solaris :)

  2. Re:Novell moves to GNOME; SuSE founder resigns? on Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell · · Score: 1

    I am not talking about having to pay because of KDE. I am talking about QT saying that if you develope a QT app that is used in business you have to pay them. IOW, Troll Tech seams to say that if you develope an KDE app that use QT for your business (little custom apps and/or in house apps), even if you don't sell said app, you have to buy a QT license because it would be "business use"

    That scares away the suits. GNOME/GTK doesn't have that issue.

  3. Re:Novell moves to GNOME; SuSE founder resigns? on Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell · · Score: 1

    I know this. But QT says that you must pay them if you use QT in a for profit manor, which is incorrect.

    And the major hangup isn't with Novell having to pay for the QT license, it is with Novell's CUSTOMERS having to pay for a QT license.

  4. Re:Novell moves to GNOME; SuSE founder resigns? on Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps Novell would not have had to drop KDE if QT didn't cost 2000+ per developer to write for profit software.

    Remember that QT says you have to pay them for a QT license if you use QT to make money.

    http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licensing.htm l

    "Build commercial software and software whose source code you wish to keep private."

    Please note it doesn't say commercial software whose source code you wish to keep private, it simply says commercial software.

  5. Re:Time to Fork Suse on Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When did Novell promise that Suse 10 would be a Windows Killer?

    Please show us a link or two to support your position.

  6. RDF Field ON! on Did Apple Sabotage the ROKR? · · Score: 1

    Impossible.

    We all know that Jobs is the best, most kind, worderful leader in the entire Multiverse...

    RDF Field OFF - Transmission Terminated.

  7. Re:Is today pirate day?? on Inmarsat Brings 3G Broadband to North America · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you have any proof on ANYTHING you just said?

  8. Re:Why not take shots at Islam also? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    In areas of large amounts of Islamic people their have been efforts. Google for Islam Public Schools.

  9. Why not take shots at Islam also? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why is it that when religion is talked about on /. that it is only the Jewish and Christian religions that are insulted? Why isn't Islam included in the list?

  10. If they are so important. on Open Source Design in risk? · · Score: 0

    If they are so important why doesn't Slashdots parent company host them?

  11. Re:The best deal RIGHT NOW in processors on Dual-Core Shoot Out - Intel vs. AMD · · Score: 2, Funny

    A "real" nerd would not have such a high (737757) /. UID :)

  12. Re:Regarding the electricity consumption... on Intel Lindenhurst Xeon DP Platform Discussion · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, in the future, you should check to see that the features you wish to use are supported on the platform/hardware you will be using :)

  13. Re:Bragging? on Sun Claims They Make Worlds Biggest MMO · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of self clearing brokers plus thousands that clear thru other means. Millions of transactions per minute across dozens of networks (NASDAQ, NYSE, Options, Foreign Exchanges, Bonds, Commodities, BB stocks, hundreds of support companies (real time quotes, real time exchange information (level II, others)))

    A series of google searchs will let you know the basics of who it all works. Or ask me some questions as I used to do that sort of thing.

  14. Re:Name tags on Blizzcon Writeup · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If CmdrTaco had read/followed the damn WoW TOS he would never have had to change his name. Don't blame Blizzard for CmdrTacos inability to follow the rules.

  15. Re:Bragging? on Sun Claims They Make Worlds Biggest MMO · · Score: 1

    You may wish to research exactly what the 'stock market' consists of. It is just A LITTLE more compless than you make it out to be.

  16. Re:Like Slashdot Mods on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    That does little good if the person attacking you wishs to kill/rape you.

  17. Re:Like Slashdot Mods on Modding and the Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    Minor point. If it wasn't for the GOP votes in the Senate large portions of the Civil rights reforms would not have passed because the Democrats fillibustered (sp) the bills.

    Look up (D) Byrds voting history.

  18. Re:ftom the article... on No Porn for You, iPod · · Score: 1

    In most areas of the United States you can be arrested and charged with a sex crime which means you have to register as a 'sex offender'.

    Just because it is the law doesn't mean it has to make sense.

  19. Re:Give him a break on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. He just runs /., he doesn't own it anymore. He sold it some years back to OSDN.

  20. Re:equating video games to vices on CA Officials Respond To Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Why not just turn on the VChip in your TV?

  21. Tinker, the ACLU & the ACLJ say you are wrong on CA Violent Games Bill Comes Under Fire · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the ACLU

    Yes. In 1969 in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District the Supreme Court held that students in public schools - which are run by the government - do not leave their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate. This means that you can express your opinions orally and in writing - in leaflets or on buttons, armbands or T-shirts.

    You have a right to express your opinions as long as you do so in a way that doesn't "materially and substantially" disrupt classes or other school activities. If you hold a protest on the school steps and block the entrance to the building, school officials can stop you. They can probably also stop you from using language that they think is "vulgar or indecent," so watch out for the dirty words, OK?

    Also, school officials may not censor only one side of a controversy. If they permit an article in the official school paper that says that premarital sex is bad, they may not censor an article that says premarital sex is good.

    From the ACLJ

    Tony from Virginia asks: My son is in elementary school, and at school one day he was talking to another student about God. It was during a time where the students were free to talk about anything. His teacher told him that he's not allowed to talk about God in school. We know that's not true, but we were wondering if there's something I can take to the teacher, because we've explained it to her and she still says, "No, he's not allowed to talk about God."

    Jay answers: The Supreme Court's decision in the famous Tinker case* said that students possess the rights of freedom of speech. They don't surrender them at the schoolhouse gate. That includes recess time, on the playing field, in the classroom, as long as it's not disruptive to the school environment. And in a case that I had at the Supreme Court of the United States just about a year and a half ago, we won unanimously the rights of mi

  22. Re:Wow on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    Because the tax laws are over 100,000 pages long and rather difficult for those trained in Tax law to understand?

    They aren't exactly written from the taxpayer.

  23. Re:The simple question EVERYONE is asking on Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    And what tests will kill a drive in less than 24 hours? Are you shacking the things to death?

  24. Re:The simple question EVERYONE is asking on Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Because a 4GB flash memory stick would cost a little/a lot more.

  25. Re:It's not written to provoke flamewars. on A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    Now that is funny...

    Hell, a comment that stated "This is a comment posted on Slashdot" could result in over 200 posts saying that the original poster was wrong/stupid/liberal/religious/republician and/or all the above. :)