"Ummm...okay. I'm sure the gov't will change its mind on this because you've chosen to not purchase Coke or whatever it was
you've boughten. Seems like you're just harming yourself when there are better options available."
Me not buying US products might make little difference, many non USians not buying does.
Copright was concieved as a defence against publishers: Publishers should loose all court cases automaticaly, only authers should be able to bring suit, and only on their own behalf...
Only Intalects may own Intalectual property - it *is* that simple
I agree with the idea that, generally speaking, email should be plain text with formatting only existing in
terms of the usual text formatting technqiues, such as newlines, *emphasis* and so on
There are already mail clients (Gnus for one) which parse informal markup - _underlining_, *bold*,/italic/ - delimited sigs and URLs in plain text messages without any of the bandwidth or security implications.
"That kind of exclusionary collusion is illegal, because it amounts to forming a software cartel. And Microsoft would implement an import filter for the new format as quickly as it became public."
you miss the point! MS could use it too; it would need to have import/export filters to avoid bad press, it would not sell upgrades to read its "improved" files, the Sun would shine...
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No-one is "CLEARLY breaking the law" until their "expensive lawyer" has failed...
Ughhh, yeh...
More ignorant supersticious luddites like you.
Ick!
Me not buying US products might make little difference, many non USians not buying does.
I will not be buying any US products while the DMCA remains in force.
Copright was concieved as a defence against publishers:
Publishers should loose all court cases automaticaly, only authers should be able to bring suit, and only on their own behalf... Only Intalects may own Intalectual property - it *is* that simple
Execute corporations, not people.
I also know two Alberts, this, however, is almost certainly a statistical anomaly...
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There are already mail clients (Gnus for one) which parse informal markup - _underlining_, *bold*, /italic/ - delimited sigs and URLs in plain text messages without any of the bandwidth or security implications.
You can have your cake and eat it :)
The really nice thing about IM is the zoomable vector icons and this don't have them :(
We could take the other view of corporations as moral persons and enforce their responsibilities as such.
Do they have the death penalty in WA?
"That kind of exclusionary collusion is illegal, because it amounts to forming a software cartel. And Microsoft would implement an import filter for the new format as quickly as it became public."
you miss the point! MS could use it too; it would need to have import/export filters to avoid bad press, it would not sell upgrades to read its "improved" files, the Sun would shine...
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> Now 4dwm would be nice too - that is really a
> nice window manager.
Except there seems to be no way to maximise height
only - a column of text doesn't need full width...
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>...hope that SGI too has second thoughts before MIPS vanishes.
:)
:(
one good thing about the Merced delays is that SGI have extended their MIPS roadmap
Linux/MIPS porting for older SGIs is not exactly flying along tho'
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you *can* get NT for Alpha but that's it...
:)
x86 dominates due to it being what DOS/doze runs on - cheapness through volume - not because it is architecturally superior (or even good)
Linux's excellent cross platform portability means that there is no tie to a single family of chips
Alpha, ARM and MIPS can already compete with x86 on price, this is a GOOD THING[tm]
I run 2.0.36 quite happilly on a Cyrix PR166+
'bout 20-30% faster than a P100
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