ATI & Nvidia are not the only graphics card manufacturors. You do not **need** proprietary drivers to run any of the apps you mentioned - you can **choose** to use proprietary drivers if you wish.
Without using proprietary graphics drivers, the vast majority of users would be unable to use Xfree86, GNOME, OpenOffice, GnuCash, and a variety of other programs that require a graphics card.
Why not Xfree86, GNOME, OpenOffice, GnuCash, and a variety of other programs?
You don't need proprietary graphics driver for any of these.
I see little difference between the government taking over the companies and the companies taking over the government.
Trolly sig! I like!
Seriously - presuming you live in America, the government provides you with roads, schools for your children, police, etc, etc. Companies provide you with what?
If they are claiming the GPL is invalid, the copyright holders of relevant software should be sending them personal letters telling them they are denied use of gcc, samba, apache, perl
I hear you - I really do - but actions like those will actually reinforce SCO's position that the GPL is invalid
The devlopers can't revoke their license, because the license makes no restrictions on use (the kernel's a different matter, because SCO've violated their redistribution rights thus revoking their right to use).
Essentially authors of GPLed works have no right to stop people using their code for any purpose they choose. Sco could (and probably have) use the softare to make a baby killing machine
A man was cleared of possession of child porn this week after experts testified that a Trojan horse infection on his PC could have downloaded 14 depraved images without his knowledge.
Umm, you pre-order the elevator already, when you press the button in the waiting area\ There is a slight difference between pressing "Up" or "Down" and pre-ordering where you specify your destination floor.
i'm walking toward the elevator, pull out my cellphone...*beep* bam there's my elevator Yup. I really think its going to take one *beep* button press to navigate through my phone's menu's every time I want to use the elevator. Great Idea!
Since cell phones are nigh-ubiquitous, Would you also agree that since IE is nigh-ubiquitous, there is no need to code web pages for other platforms?
To be fair, though a cell phone thing is a bit out there, it'd probably be possible to come up with a routing method for elevators that, based on a known destination floor before they get to your current location, could act more efficiently.
Sorry, but Bah!
What you say is true - but only in theory - as it requires user intervention to support it. Do you really think your average secretary is going to bother pre-ordering each lift he wants to take?
Or just wait for one to come?
For things like that to work, you want your cell phone to query the lifts constantly and build up a pattern of your lift usage in a particular building, then when you call a lift, it will tell the lift controller where you're likely to go.
And for that to be supported by everyone, requires open, published standards, easy interoperatbility, etc, etc.
I was going to have a dig at the "The system uses compression technology to turn photos into data and encryption techniques to make forgery nearly impossible"...but hey - its just waaaaaaaay to easy.
People waiting to take an elevator could enter their destination floor into a cellphone instead of pushing the elevator button,
Wow! I cant wait - Imagine the incovenience of reaching out and pressing a button replaced with patting all your pockets down searching for a phone, pulling it out, typing in your pin code to unlock it and....still pressing a button.
Yup. Sounds like Microsoft style innovation to me.
"I'm really, really excited about what is happening with Perl this year. And I'd like to announce that, after lengthy negotiations, Guido and I have finally decided...
2) Apple has seen the light. The costs of embracing Unix underpinnings and âoeMostlyOpenSource,â are going to seriously pay off. Soon, there will be nothing cool that comes out for the Linux Desktop that doesn't soon run on the Mac.
Thought for you - what if apple end up being a vendor of essentially an X-replacement for unix with an x-windows compatability layer?
Sounds like they're going the right way about it -testing making linux apps run through Aqua on a BSD kernel!
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Time for you to start coding dude!
Happy Birthday OO! You rock!
They do all the time.
Its almost impossible not to but a multi-zone dvd player because of them.
Another poster's mentioned the Qantas/Air NZ merger, etc etc etc
Please explain?
You recall semi-incorrectly.
And your recollections are irrelevant.
ATI & Nvidia are not the only graphics card manufacturors. You do not **need** proprietary drivers to run any of the apps you mentioned - you can **choose** to use proprietary drivers if you wish.
Why not Xfree86, GNOME, OpenOffice, GnuCash, and a variety of other programs?
You don't need proprietary graphics driver for any of these.
Trolly sig! I like!
Seriously - presuming you live in America, the government provides you with roads, schools for your children, police, etc, etc. Companies provide you with what?
No difference at all?
Maybe from the top of this page?
Bah!
Not interested in anything NVidia do or say until they strile some agreement with the people who'se IP they license for their drivers & Open them...
2 Years since I bought my Geforce & I still cant have 3D accelleration, tv out and framebuffer all working at once.
All very well for your little toy box, but you shouldn't assume that a solution that works for you at home will scale up to a production environment.
Windows update breaks things. Unexpectedly and unpredictably.
Some guy called Michael Crawford has written am article for Kuro5hin called Links to Thousand of Legal Music Downloads.
Interesting article - also talks about an interesting player concept called irate. It downloads the free tunes for you....
I hear you - I really do - but actions like those will actually reinforce SCO's position that the GPL is invalid
The devlopers can't revoke their license, because the license makes no restrictions on use (the kernel's a different matter, because SCO've violated their redistribution rights thus revoking their right to use).
Essentially authors of GPLed works have no right to stop people using their code for any purpose they choose. Sco could (and probably have) use the softare to make a baby killing machine
Don't worry - I've seen the design and they've made sure a blue screen will only be a temporary inconvenience ;-)
Mr. Green, 45, is one of the first people to use this defense successfully.
Bah!
From el reg: (24th April)
A man was cleared of possession of child porn this week after experts testified that a Trojan horse infection on his PC could have downloaded 14 depraved images without his knowledge.
New York Times: As uptodate as we are accurate.
Don't forget varying meanings of 'rights'
heh!
Bet thats the first time Novel's ever been called 1337.
Umm, you pre-order the elevator already, when you press the button in the waiting area\
There is a slight difference between pressing "Up" or "Down" and pre-ordering where you specify your destination floor.
i'm walking toward the elevator, pull out my cellphone...*beep* bam there's my elevator
Yup. I really think its going to take one *beep* button press to navigate through my phone's menu's every time I want to use the elevator. Great Idea!
Since cell phones are nigh-ubiquitous,
Would you also agree that since IE is nigh-ubiquitous, there is no need to code web pages for other platforms?
To be fair, though a cell phone thing is a bit out there, it'd probably be possible to come up with a routing method for elevators that, based on a known destination floor before they get to your current location, could act more efficiently.
Sorry, but Bah!
What you say is true - but only in theory - as it requires user intervention to support it. Do you really think your average secretary is going to bother pre-ordering each lift he wants to take?
Or just wait for one to come?
For things like that to work, you want your cell phone to query the lifts constantly and build up a pattern of your lift usage in a particular building, then when you call a lift, it will tell the lift controller where you're likely to go.
And for that to be supported by everyone, requires open, published standards, easy interoperatbility, etc, etc.
Not a market Microsoft would do well in.
Its only Microsoft style innovation we're talking here (in future referred to as Microvation).
The way you do things is take an existing product or range of products, copy 'em, brand 'em and market 'em to hell.
e.g.
Take NEC's personal robot and call it a Robie.
Take the common idea of controlling another device with a PDA and make it sound like a pocket PC microvation
And of course, you really need an advanced research division to come up with a "a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites"
I was going to have a dig at the "The system uses compression technology to turn photos into data and encryption techniques to make forgery nearly impossible"...but hey - its just waaaaaaaay to easy.
Bottom line. Nothing new to see here.
-Sould
Wow! I cant wait - Imagine the incovenience of reaching out and pressing a button replaced with patting all your pockets down searching for a phone, pulling it out, typing in your pin code to unlock it and....still pressing a button.
Yup. Sounds like Microsoft style innovation to me.
The announcement really should have been:
Kolab's
Kroupware
Komplete
heh...polly wanna cracker?
Another mozilla 1,4 rc story...
Don't you have any sco news?
Thought for you - what if apple end up being a vendor of essentially an X-replacement for unix with an x-windows compatability layer?
Sounds like they're going the right way about it -testing making linux apps run through Aqua on a BSD kernel!
Hmmmn, I wonder which culture he was referring to?
No - it just means you have to check facts found on the internet by asking in slashdot forums (always truthful) before acting upon them.