I worked for a company who made a similar demand. Now, there was another comment on the thread that hinted at this, but, if it's LAW, they can't make you sign your legal rights away.
If a contract contains a "the boss may brutally kill you anytime he darn-well feels like it" clause, it wouldn't stand up if taken to task... just because you sign it, doesn't make it legal.
Maybe I should have chosen a more sensible example, but you get the idea... Like, in Australia, the old "We reserve the right to inspect all bags on leaving the store" sign in stores isn't worth the card it's printed on, and a store detective cannot make you stop (They class that as "arresting" you) at checkouts etc(now, whether this is right or wrong, who knows, but that's law)
Yup, it is the best. It's exactly in the right place between notepad and the silly WYSIWYG stuff.
Tag completion (if you want it) and dropdown hints (aka VB code window) in the middle of tags as you type etc, saves as Unix format (although this would be better on a file by file basis, rather than a global option) for writing stuff over Samba connection etc.
Having said all that, the Netscape composer can actually be useful for picking apart a complex (and/or just plain crap) page that's been created by something stupid like MS Word or Publisher (why would peaople do it?) that creates 53 million td's and bits to pad out etc etc etc, and creates the worst html imagineable...
I meant "give them the same chance as MS gets, to write good software to compete", not necessarily that MS uses fully uses their chance and actually writes good software!
Well, the whole splitting MS up, and forcing to sell rights/license te source seems like an odd thing to do. As much as MS annoys me for the reasons mentioned by ksheff above, and others, "Bundling new apps into the OS, hidden APIs in the OS tailored to MS applications etc", dominating a market if done legally and morally is really nothing to be punished for...
If there's one useful thing about Windows, it's being able to bung a lump of hardware in a box, and have it more or less work (Forget just for a sec how hard it may be to write a device driver if the proper low-level info isn't made available to you by MS *G* etc) without much fuss...
Having multiple versions, or descendants of Windows would perhaps run the risk of fragmenting the driver base available, when all that the hardware manufacturers really need is a sporting chance at making something work well, easily, and the software guys need is the same chance at writing good software as MS to give people a choice, and compete equally... We can live with the fact that MS programmers may be more familiar with windows, but only if the cards are face-up.
I personally like having windows available for a desktop if it's needed, because including all that stuff in Linux (although it would be cool:) ), could mean that the drive to make that desktop stuff prettier would wind it up on the road to where windows is now (IMH, albeit malformed, O that's what's gonna happen to Redhat)... Striving for the pretty user market, and running the risk of ever-so-slightly neglecting the important stuff... (Although in MS' case it's "completely neglecting the important stuff...")
But, does a French chef not sometimes stoop to letting his wife cook sometimes or eating ? etc
I LOVE music, have a reasonable ear, played in a band for many years (albeit a mediocre one), nearly cried when Led Zep, Jimi etc came out on CD 'cause it did sound crap...
Now, I work from home programming. I have a nice components setup in the loungeroom, but realistically can't have it loud enough to hear it continuously in my office (sounds crap through walls anyway), don't want to move it into my office ('cause it's nice to kick back in the loungeroom), don't want to buy a whole new system, hate having to walk backward and forward changing CD's to the loungeroom (I have tried it:) )....
So, having a dirty great HD full of whatever I want to "listen" to anywhere accross my network without having to get up, walk to the loungeroom for every CD change, and all of the other things above, is kind of cool.
It is nice to hear someone stand up for what they love though:)
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I worked for a company who made a similar demand. Now, there was another comment on the thread that hinted at this, but, if it's LAW, they can't make you sign your legal rights away.
If a contract contains a "the boss may brutally kill you anytime he darn-well feels like it" clause, it wouldn't stand up if taken to task... just because you sign it, doesn't make it legal.
Maybe I should have chosen a more sensible example, but you get the idea... Like, in Australia, the old "We reserve the right to inspect all bags on leaving the store" sign in stores isn't worth the card it's printed on, and a store detective cannot make you stop (They class that as "arresting" you) at checkouts etc(now, whether this is right or wrong, who knows, but that's law)
Yup, it is the best. It's exactly in the right place between notepad and the silly WYSIWYG stuff.
Tag completion (if you want it) and dropdown hints (aka VB code window) in the middle of tags as you type etc, saves as Unix format (although this would be better on a file by file basis, rather than a global option) for writing stuff over Samba connection etc.
Having said all that, the Netscape composer can actually be useful for picking apart a complex (and/or just plain crap) page that's been created by something stupid like MS Word or Publisher (why would peaople do it?) that creates 53 million td's and bits to pad out etc etc etc, and creates the worst html imagineable...
I meant "give them the same chance as MS gets, to write good software to compete", not necessarily that MS uses fully uses their chance and actually writes good software!
Well, the whole splitting MS up, and forcing to sell rights/license te source seems like an odd thing to do. As much as MS annoys me for the reasons mentioned by ksheff above, and others, "Bundling new apps into the OS, hidden APIs in the OS tailored to MS applications etc", dominating a market if done legally and morally is really nothing to be punished for...
:) ), could mean that the drive to make that desktop stuff prettier would wind it up on the road to where windows is now (IMH, albeit malformed, O that's what's gonna happen to Redhat)... Striving for the pretty user market, and running the risk of ever-so-slightly neglecting the important stuff... (Although in MS' case it's "completely neglecting the important stuff...")
If there's one useful thing about Windows, it's being able to bung a lump of hardware in a box, and have it more or less work (Forget just for a sec how hard it may be to write a device driver if the proper low-level info isn't made available to you by MS *G* etc) without much fuss...
Having multiple versions, or descendants of Windows would perhaps run the risk of fragmenting the driver base available, when all that the hardware manufacturers really need is a sporting chance at making something work well, easily, and the software guys need is the same chance at writing good software as MS to give people a choice, and compete equally... We can live with the fact that MS programmers may be more familiar with windows, but only if the cards are face-up.
I personally like having windows available for a desktop if it's needed, because including all that stuff in Linux (although it would be cool
My AU$0.02, cheers.
Fair call.
:) )....
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But, does a French chef not sometimes stoop to letting his wife cook sometimes or eating ? etc
I LOVE music, have a reasonable ear, played in a band for many years (albeit a mediocre one), nearly cried when Led Zep, Jimi etc came out on CD 'cause it did sound crap...
Now, I work from home programming. I have a nice components setup in the loungeroom, but realistically can't have it loud enough to hear it continuously in my office (sounds crap through walls anyway), don't want to move it into my office ('cause it's nice to kick back in the loungeroom), don't want to buy a whole new system, hate having to walk backward and forward changing CD's to the loungeroom (I have tried it
So, having a dirty great HD full of whatever I want to "listen" to anywhere accross my network without having to get up, walk to the loungeroom for every CD change, and all of the other things above, is kind of cool.
It is nice to hear someone stand up for what they love though
Just my AU$0.02 worth...