Shouldn't this have a favorable impact on any ruling rgarding DeCSS? It's practically the same thing i.e. Connectix provided a way for play Workstation disks on non-Sony players; DeCSS provides for a way to play DVD's on PC's.
Why prohibit transmission of all these files? Why can't they just make Outlook behave like my browser when I attempt to download a file, i.e. user prompt saying blah, blah, blah.
I'm willing to bet people will install this and then not being happy will find out they can't uninstall it without having to do a full Office install.
MS should have posted that they can just zip any files with these extensions and they can e-mail the zip file as usual.
Big Companies still don't get Open Source!
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And don't forget all the lawyers they have to answer to!!! I think that's why the IBM and Apple licenses came out that way -- their lawyers forced them to
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Reasons why big companies are going Open Source:
1. As Stallman said, they'll open parts of their code but it's useless unless you use the proprietary portion also.
2. They think that they'll get all the gazillion coders to help them improve their code.
2. They're envious of how Microsoft can charge customers for using and debugging a beta program.
3. They're envious of how Microsoft can charge customers for a bug fix aka Win98, Win2000,etc.
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Shouldn't this have a favorable impact on any ruling rgarding DeCSS? It's practically the same thing i.e. Connectix provided a way for play Workstation disks on non-Sony players; DeCSS provides for a way to play DVD's on PC's.
With $20 billion in cash, they're going to fight this all the way.
Of course, their conduct during the trial also goes to show that all the money in the world will not help you if you've got blinders on.
When you've got say $20 billion in cash, you won't give up.
Why prohibit transmission of all these files? Why can't they just make Outlook behave like my browser when I attempt to download a file, i.e. user prompt saying blah, blah, blah.
I'm willing to bet people will install this and then not being happy will find out they can't uninstall it without having to do a full Office install.
MS should have posted that they can just zip any files with these extensions and they can e-mail the zip file as usual.
Nicholas Petreley interviewed the SGI folks. It's at:
/ lw-05-sgi.html
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-05
And don't forget all the lawyers they have to answer to!!! I think that's why the IBM and Apple licenses came out that way -- their lawyers forced them to
Reasons why big companies are going Open Source:
1. As Stallman said, they'll open parts of their code but it's useless unless you use the proprietary portion also.
2. They think that they'll get all the gazillion coders to help them improve their code.
2. They're envious of how Microsoft can charge customers for using and debugging a beta program.
3. They're envious of how Microsoft can charge customers for a bug fix aka Win98, Win2000,etc.
4. All the other big guys are doing it.
5. It's the newest buzzword thing to do.