It doesnt matter how good a competing office productivity suite is if it doesnt fully and completely support all of microsoft's proprietary document formats. The document formats are what create the barrier to entry for non-microsoft products in the office productivity area.
or did you think the document formats were rewritten with every release because they were adding a new feature to them?
I dont see the problem you are talking about. The number of office suites available is irrelevent. If they all adhere to open standard document formats You can use any office suite to open documents created in any other office suite.
That seems to make multiple office suites a good thing because people can pick the one that does things the way they are most comfortable with. There's no need for them to get confused trying to learn a new suite because theirs will open any standards compliant file.
On top of that, since they are all open source, if one develops a compelling feature the others need, the others can add that functionality to themselves. So again, no reason for people to switch office suites.
The problem is that the control system is actively interfering with the mission of the public library. It wouldnt be acceptable for the library to remove every book on architecture because they contained the word "penthouse" and that also happens to be the same name as a skin mag.
The blocking software is ineffective and blocks massive amounts of legitimate content and protected speech. It also hides how the blocking is done and who is being blocked so there is no oversight to ensure that political or social bias isnt involved in the banning process. That's why it should be abandoned.
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"In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable Open Source Initiative-approved license."
Did you even read this when you cut and pasted it? It very clearly identifies itself as not being a declaration of ownership but stating that the owner (which it implicitly recognises as the poster) by posting grants a license to OSDN to use the post in any way they want as long as it is a valid use under any of the Open Source Initiative approved licenses.
That isnt ownership and has no relationship to your car analogy.
it also doesnt contradict The Fine Print on Slashdot... it reiterates it.
> one does not have the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater,
Actually, you do have the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, provided there is actually a fire.
BeOS the product from Be and OpenBeOS the open source software project are two different things. BeOS was closed source and no code from it is in OpenBeOS.
And they are right that marketing doesnt matter to them. They arent trying to grow marketshare, they're trying to build an operating system to satisfy their desires. If they are the only ones who use it, it doesnt change a thing.
Marketing plays no role in the success of their product because the definition of success for their product isnt about having market share or making millions. It is about building their os the way they have envisioned it.
by the way, the reason 98% of the public have never heard of BeOS is because Microsoft abused its monopoly position to force oems to not offer it as an option on their systems.
No amount of marketing will help your product be accepted in the market if the monopolist controlling the market won't let your product into its playground.
With the Linux kernel, you have an object that is owned by an individual. That individual has set up an organizational structure for it's further development, and that structure allows for input from anyone with a computer. Linus doesnt have to allow people to contribute to the codebase at all.
With ICANN, you have an administrative body that was appointed by a department of the U.S. government to manage some administrative duties relating to the internet as a whole. Some people question the basis of its authority just on that.
As a government agency, it's controlling authority for the portions of the superstructure of the internet that it is supposed to maintain, is granted to it by the people for the purpose of maintaining it in the interests of the people.
This reform removes any oversight the people have by removing the election of at large members and guarantees bias in that the only people becoming board members are people the current board members approve of. This is compounded by ICANN's history of overstepping its charter and trying to take more control over the internet that it is given.
One other important distinction with respect ot the Linux kernel is that if you disagree with how the kernel is built you can modify it for your own use or use any number of alternative kernels in its place. With the ip address system and the dns root servers, you dont really have a choice. There are alternative DNS systems, but I dont think they are accepted enough to be genuinely viable as a replacement. (i could be wrong about that, i havent really been keeping a close eye on them)
did you read the article? how does that description compare at all to what is in the article?
A more appropriate analogy would be:
A mechanic opens a shop down the street. Every day you come out and find stupid fliers on the winshield of your (and everyone else in the apt. complex's) car. You complain about it and someone who works for the complex hears about it. The apt. complex tells the mechanic to stop soliciting on their private property and annoying their customers. The mechanic sues you for interfering with his advertising.
It isnt a simple mistake. He knows what he's doing is, at the least, not appreciated by the majority of the people he affects. At the most, he knows that many countries are passing laws restricting that kind of behaviour.
He's gambling that he'll get away with it, and now he's gambling that some guy who has a vague connection to his being blocked will cave, settle out of court and help him cover the cost of setting up a new spam system so he can get back to business as usual.
Daikatana was John Romero (also formerly of id software).
Carmack has not left id. He's the lead programmer and one of the owners.
Considering that he is largely responsible for the existance of the first person shooter market, id's engines have always pushed the boundaries of graphics technology, and id was one of the forefathers of internet gaming, I'd say he's proven himself to be reliable and truly innovative.
I have faith in him to bring the same ability into his efforts in rocketry. He certainly doesnt deserve to be derided for his efforts. (especially by someone who apparently has some trouble distinguishing him from his former co-workers).
more accessible meaning that it will resonate more with them. The kids will identify more with Spider-Man and feel closer to the story. The comment has nothing to do with ratings or the ability to get into the theatre.
If these security vulnerabilities are so easy and obvious from reading the APIs, then why can't Microsoft's programmers find and close the security holes before someone finds them? Don't they read and adhere to their own APIs?
If releasing the APIs means someone is going to easily figure out a way to damage the system, that just demonstrates that Microsoft isnt even trying to secure their products.
the magnificent seven (the western) was a remake of the seven samurai, not the other way around.
Kurosawa did his share of retelling stories (he remade several shakespearean plays as stories about feudal japan), in this case it was his story that was the foundation of the westerns.
you mean that one at the top, in the colored band that is clearly labeled "sponsored link"?
The one above the Category listing?
Yeah, that's really well disguised. They made it so obvious it's not a part of the list of results, i didnt know i was supposed to mistake it for the first result.
of course, in your defense, there do appear to be thousands of people in florida who can't figure out how to vote, but i doubt they'd ever make it to google in the first place.
(It's getting retried because Judge Jackson's ruling got thrown out and he was removed from the case and MS got a new trial.)
no, no, no.
It is not getting retried. The judgement that Microsoft is a monopoly and abused it's position was upheld. The remedies were thrown out and the remedy phase of the trial is being redone.
Microsoft did not get a new trial. They're guilty. It's all about the punishment now.
Why do you think the computers couldn't be used for a computer science class in the 7th grade? I was using and programming on computers before the 7th grade. In the 6th and 7th grades i even had some basic programming classes in school (and that was in the 1980s). In case you are wondering, i went to public schools too.
>If you spend a week writing beautiful code you
>cost your company 5x. If you spend a day writing
>ugly code you cost your company 1x. If both
>programs meet the functional requirements, the
>company that encourages spending one day will
>survive better.
...until your company decides to extend the functionality of the application...
Then the cost of altering the ugly code costs a lot more and never quite works the right way.
or it breaks and the guy who originally wrote it has left the company. Then the cost of maintaining the ugly code costs a lot more than just doing it right in the first place.
i seriously doubt that happened considering the Petrona towers were already the tallest buildings in the world. (they were 30+ feet taller than the world trade center towers)
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Heart of the Dragon is also called "The First Mission". (In the U.S., I've only seen it listed under this title.)
This has been long rumored to be coming on Fat Babies (http://www.fatbabies.com).
Apparently Romero and Hall are keeping a few people on payroll while they try to build a new company. There was also a rumor that Romero was talking to Eidos about buying the rights to the Ion Storm name back from them. (presumably to use for his new company)
Ion Storm Austin has always been it's own autonomous unit so I dont think this will hurt them at all.
this isnt necessarily true. I have a friend, for example, who registered a business for a project he and a couple other guys were working on. The company has no investors, doesnt really have any employees, and makes no money. it's just an 'official' company under whose name they built their project.
I imagine the next question is "why did he do that?" According to him, it didnt cost much and he thought it was funny.
so, a company doesnt have to have investors and doesnt have to make a profit, it just has to be registered.
my take on his statement was more that that market is taken care of by other distributions of linux.
Debian doesnt need to become like SuSE or Mandrake or Red Hat because SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat already exist. Debian can continue in it's own way and become it's own niche (which, arguably, it already has done).
Personally, i have a machine at home running SuSE and a machine at home running Debian. I like them both.
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It doesnt matter how good a competing office productivity suite is if it doesnt fully and completely support all of microsoft's proprietary document formats. The document formats are what create the barrier to entry for non-microsoft products in the office productivity area.
or did you think the document formats were rewritten with every release because they were adding a new feature to them?
I dont see the problem you are talking about. The number of office suites available is irrelevent. If they all adhere to open standard document formats You can use any office suite to open documents created in any other office suite.
That seems to make multiple office suites a good thing because people can pick the one that does things the way they are most comfortable with. There's no need for them to get confused trying to learn a new suite because theirs will open any standards compliant file.
On top of that, since they are all open source, if one develops a compelling feature the others need, the others can add that functionality to themselves. So again, no reason for people to switch office suites.
The problem is that the control system is actively interfering with the mission of the public library. It wouldnt be acceptable for the library to remove every book on architecture because they contained the word "penthouse" and that also happens to be the same name as a skin mag.
The blocking software is ineffective and blocks massive amounts of legitimate content and protected speech. It also hides how the blocking is done and who is being blocked so there is no oversight to ensure that political or social bias isnt involved in the banning process. That's why it should be abandoned.
Did you even read this when you cut and pasted it? It very clearly identifies itself as not being a declaration of ownership but stating that the owner (which it implicitly recognises as the poster) by posting grants a license to OSDN to use the post in any way they want as long as it is a valid use under any of the Open Source Initiative approved licenses.
That isnt ownership and has no relationship to your car analogy.
it also doesnt contradict The Fine Print on Slashdot... it reiterates it.
Actually, you do have the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, provided there is actually a fire.
the (VG) after the first one means it is a video game. The 1975 one is the movie.
BeOS the product from Be and OpenBeOS the open source software project are two different things. BeOS was closed source and no code from it is in OpenBeOS.
And they are right that marketing doesnt matter to them. They arent trying to grow marketshare, they're trying to build an operating system to satisfy their desires. If they are the only ones who use it, it doesnt change a thing.
Marketing plays no role in the success of their product because the definition of success for their product isnt about having market share or making millions. It is about building their os the way they have envisioned it.
by the way, the reason 98% of the public have never heard of BeOS is because Microsoft abused its monopoly position to force oems to not offer it as an option on their systems.
No amount of marketing will help your product be accepted in the market if the monopolist controlling the market won't let your product into its playground.
This sounds like a job for....
The LGPL.
With the Linux kernel, you have an object that is owned by an individual. That individual has set up an organizational structure for it's further development, and that structure allows for input from anyone with a computer. Linus doesnt have to allow people to contribute to the codebase at all.
With ICANN, you have an administrative body that was appointed by a department of the U.S. government to manage some administrative duties relating to the internet as a whole.
Some people question the basis of its authority just on that.
As a government agency, it's controlling authority for the portions of the superstructure of the internet that it is supposed to maintain, is granted to it by the people for the purpose of maintaining it in the interests of the people.
This reform removes any oversight the people have by removing the election of at large members and guarantees bias in that the only people becoming board members are people the current board members approve of.
This is compounded by ICANN's history of overstepping its charter and trying to take more control over the internet that it is given.
One other important distinction with respect ot the Linux kernel is that if you disagree with how the kernel is built you can modify it for your own use or use any number of alternative kernels in its place. With the ip address system and the dns root servers, you dont really have a choice. There are alternative DNS systems, but I dont think they are accepted enough to be genuinely viable as a replacement. (i could be wrong about that, i havent really been keeping a close eye on them)
did you read the article? how does that description compare at all to what is in the article?
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A more appropriate analogy would be
A mechanic opens a shop down the street. Every day you come out and find stupid fliers on the winshield of your (and everyone else in the apt. complex's) car. You complain about it and someone who works for the complex hears about it. The apt. complex tells the mechanic to stop soliciting on their private property and annoying their customers. The mechanic sues you for interfering with his advertising.
It isnt a simple mistake. He knows what he's doing is, at the least, not appreciated by the majority of the people he affects. At the most, he knows that many countries are passing laws restricting that kind of behaviour.
He's gambling that he'll get away with it, and now he's gambling that some guy who has a vague connection to his being blocked will cave, settle out of court and help him cover the cost of setting up a new spam system so he can get back to business as usual.
Daikatana was John Romero (also formerly of id software).
Carmack has not left id. He's the lead programmer and one of the owners.
Considering that he is largely responsible for the existance of the first person shooter market, id's engines have always pushed the boundaries of graphics technology, and id was one of the forefathers of internet gaming, I'd say he's proven himself to be reliable and truly innovative.
I have faith in him to bring the same ability into his efforts in rocketry. He certainly doesnt deserve to be derided for his efforts. (especially by someone who apparently has some trouble distinguishing him from his former co-workers).
more accessible meaning that it will resonate more with them. The kids will identify more with Spider-Man and feel closer to the story. The comment has nothing to do with ratings or the ability to get into the theatre.
If these security vulnerabilities are so easy and obvious from reading the APIs, then why can't Microsoft's programmers find and close the security holes before someone finds them? Don't they read and adhere to their own APIs?
If releasing the APIs means someone is going to easily figure out a way to damage the system, that just demonstrates that Microsoft isnt even trying to secure their products.
the magnificent seven (the western) was a remake of the seven samurai, not the other way around.
Kurosawa did his share of retelling stories (he remade several shakespearean plays as stories about feudal japan), in this case it was his story that was the foundation of the westerns.
you mean that one at the top, in the colored band that is clearly labeled "sponsored link"?
The one above the Category listing?
Yeah, that's really well disguised. They made it so obvious it's not a part of the list of results, i didnt know i was supposed to mistake it for the first result.
of course, in your defense, there do appear to be thousands of people in florida who can't figure out how to vote, but i doubt they'd ever make it to google in the first place.
(It's getting retried because Judge Jackson's ruling got thrown out and he was removed from the case and MS got a new trial.)
no, no, no.
It is not getting retried. The judgement that Microsoft is a monopoly and abused it's position was upheld. The remedies were thrown out and the remedy phase of the trial is being redone.
Microsoft did not get a new trial. They're guilty. It's all about the punishment now.
This event is not evidence of the scientific community's resistance to correcting it's theories.
>cost your company 5x. If you spend a day writing
>ugly code you cost your company 1x. If both
>programs meet the functional requirements, the
>company that encourages spending one day will
>survive better.
Then the cost of altering the ugly code costs a lot more and never quite works the right way.
or it breaks and the guy who originally wrote it has left the company. Then the cost of maintaining the ugly code costs a lot more than just doing it right in the first place.
Short term gains always have long term costs.
that'd stop those russians.
i seriously doubt that happened considering the Petrona towers were already the tallest buildings in the world. (they were 30+ feet taller than the world trade center towers)
Samo Hung plays his retarded brother.
Apparently Romero and Hall are keeping a few people on payroll while they try to build a new company. There was also a rumor that Romero was talking to Eidos about buying the rights to the Ion Storm name back from them. (presumably to use for his new company)
Ion Storm Austin has always been it's own autonomous unit so I dont think this will hurt them at all.
Darth -- Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
I imagine the next question is "why did he do that?" According to him, it didnt cost much and he thought it was funny.
so, a company doesnt have to have investors and doesnt have to make a profit, it just has to be registered.
Darth -- Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
Debian doesnt need to become like SuSE or Mandrake or Red Hat because SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat already exist. Debian can continue in it's own way and become it's own niche (which, arguably, it already has done).
Personally, i have a machine at home running SuSE and a machine at home running Debian. I like them both.
Darth -- Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre