> The opposition to RAND contains a who's who list
> of people in the open source software community:
> Alex Cox (Linux Kernel), Jeremy Allison (Samba),
> Tim Bray (editor of XML 1.0), Ken Coar (Apache
> Foundation), Alan Cox (Linux Kernel), John
> (..)
Now we have a proof - there's more than one Alan Cox.
1. Microsoft "invents" HTTP replacement
2. Microsoft patents its "work"
3. Microsoft proposes its patented "work" as standard
4. Corporate part of the W3C approves MS HTTP 1.0
5. Apache dies
> C) Percent-of-price fees. For example, 5% of the
> price of shipped units. This would seem to be
> fair since the same licensing terms would apply
> to everyone, but in practice it would be similar
> to B) and hence seen as descriminatory.
What if you put many free programs using patents on one CD and then sell it (e.g. RedHat distro)? Do you have to pay 5% for _every_ program? What if you have more than 20 such programs on the CD?
> Microsoft's Tony Goodhew, project manager for
> Share Source CLI, said Microsoft is moving in
> the same direction as open source code
> advocates, but wishes to continue to protect
> its intellectual property from commercial
> exploitation by others.
Hey, that's _exactly_ what GPL does - it protects
your intellectual property from commercial
exploitation by others.
Rendering isn't good benchmark for comparing systems performance. Renderers use very small subset of OS features and spend most their time on computations.
The best OS for renderer on 1uP machine is "NO OS" (renderers need OS only for "activating" more processors and for very simple communication & file management).
Instruction (6502) LDA ($80), Y
refers to _word_ in memory to calculate address of operand. Processor interprets two bytes as word. Endiannes _does_ matter.
RTS pops 16-bit address (two bytes) from stack.
We have two bytes again.
JMP kill_c64 uses _address_ (two bytes) placed after opcode...
(read one of many 6502-asm books for more examples)
BTW, Atari is the best:-)
You're right about that. Alpha/PI/II/III is way too complicated, 10GHz i386 based upon 0.18 micron process technology would be smaller, faster, cheaper and cooler. Hey! My old 6502 would be even better:-)
With 2.2 fbcon I'd prefer real (graphical) browser (without X) rather than text-only version. What do you need fbcon for? SVGATextMode offers lots of hi-res modes to make use of your big monitor (and text-only Opera).
MDI is _not_ memory saver - it's just another method of presenting documents (instead of toplevel windows) and memory consumption of these methods shouldn't differ! It's stupidity of programs that eats tons of MB, not idea of toplevel windows.
ms products use their own ppp-compression, their file formats change every few months, they use undocumented functions of DOS/winblows in their applications (lots of 'standard' DOS tools), they are still breaking programs, that compete with their products (_like_ AOL), they 'invented' TWO NEW character encodings for my language (cp852 and win1250), they caused keyboard manufacturers to add few useless keys on most keyboards (creating new 'standard'), winblows is the only (real) OS using '\' and ';' instead of '/' and ':' characters! Yes, they love standards;)
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> * GNOME/XFree86/GNU/BSD/Linux
GNOME is part of the GNU project. No need to put GNOME here.
From article on lisa.org:
> The opposition to RAND contains a who's who list
> of people in the open source software community:
> Alex Cox (Linux Kernel), Jeremy Allison (Samba),
> Tim Bray (editor of XML 1.0), Ken Coar (Apache
> Foundation), Alan Cox (Linux Kernel), John
> (..)
Now we have a proof - there's more than one Alan Cox.
1. Microsoft "invents" HTTP replacement
2. Microsoft patents its "work"
3. Microsoft proposes its patented "work" as standard
4. Corporate part of the W3C approves MS HTTP 1.0
5. Apache dies
> C) Percent-of-price fees. For example, 5% of the
> price of shipped units. This would seem to be
> fair since the same licensing terms would apply
> to everyone, but in practice it would be similar
> to B) and hence seen as descriminatory.
What if you put many free programs using patents on one CD and then sell it (e.g. RedHat distro)? Do you have to pay 5% for _every_ program? What if you have more than 20 such programs on the CD?
DTD has nothing to do with rendering. DTD is a grammar and could be only used to check if given XML file is valid (word) document. Nothing more.
How do you "switch from X to console or switch workspaces" under windows? If you don't then how do you know if it's faster?
They would have to fix VB interpreter, not WINE.
... you can make money with the Internet :)
> Outside the US, where speech is not so free (...)
Actually, the speech is much more free in most other countries... (unless you're comparing US to China or Nothern Korea).
You Americans like talking about freedom, but you don't know what the freedom really is.
> Microsoft's Tony Goodhew, project manager for
> Share Source CLI, said Microsoft is moving in
> the same direction as open source code
> advocates, but wishes to continue to protect
> its intellectual property from commercial
> exploitation by others.
Hey, that's _exactly_ what GPL does - it protects
your intellectual property from commercial
exploitation by others.
They don't have right to do this and asking for permission would take a lot of time (aspecially for .au site, considering different time zone).
They have no interest in doing this. Mirrored pages would use their bandwidth but wouldn't contain any of their banners.
Python is not "for scripting". It's REAL programming language. It's about developing REAL applications.
Is being clean and natural a bad thing?
Rendering isn't good benchmark for comparing systems performance. Renderers use very small subset of OS features and spend most their time on computations.
The best OS for renderer on 1uP machine is "NO OS" (renderers need OS only for "activating" more processors and for very simple communication & file management).
Watcom compiler generates code only for x86 and *BSD systems are not x86-only. They need GCC, because it supports lots of hardware platforms.
No! Mars is Netware 3.x (more-less) compatible. It doesn't support NDS and IMO is good solution only for a few DOS clients.
Instruction (6502) LDA ($80), Y refers to _word_ in memory to calculate address of operand. Processor interprets two bytes as word. Endiannes _does_ matter. RTS pops 16-bit address (two bytes) from stack. We have two bytes again. JMP kill_c64 uses _address_ (two bytes) placed after opcode... (read one of many 6502-asm books for more examples) :-)
BTW, Atari is the best
You know, gcc already supports x86 quite well :-)
> Mouse support in XWindows needs to be improved.
...' (and 'xset h')
Try 'xset m
You're right about that. Alpha/PI/II/III is way too complicated, 10GHz i386 based upon 0.18 micron process technology would be smaller, faster, cheaper and cooler. :-)
Hey! My old 6502 would be even better
Alan releases 2.2.x kernels, not Linus.
With 2.2 fbcon I'd prefer real (graphical) browser (without X) rather than text-only version. What do you need fbcon for? SVGATextMode offers lots of hi-res modes to make use of your big monitor (and text-only Opera).
MDI is _not_ memory saver - it's just another method of presenting documents (instead of toplevel windows) and memory consumption of these methods shouldn't differ!
It's stupidity of programs that eats tons of MB, not idea of toplevel windows.
ms products use their own ppp-compression, their file formats change every few months, they use undocumented functions of DOS/winblows in their applications (lots of 'standard' DOS tools), they are still breaking programs, that compete with their products (_like_ AOL), they 'invented' TWO NEW character encodings for my language (cp852 and win1250), they caused keyboard manufacturers to add few useless keys on most keyboards (creating new 'standard'), winblows is the only (real) OS using '\' and ';' instead of '/' and ':' characters! ;)
Yes, they love standards
OK, but microsoft requires you to _pay_ for 'the latest and greatest' (or rather 'latest bugs' :)