Whether you like it or not, companies with deep
pocket and clout can do whatever they want,
even when no non-compete agreement has been
signed.
Just ask employees (not executives, just engineers) from AMD, Nortel, Intel,...
The worst part is that the new employer is
spineless and can't stand up to defend their
new employee, even though it knows the new
employee is working on something that is
quite different from he/she has been doing
at the ex-empoyer.
Well, we (free software community) can not to release the softwares without license that guarantees that the software will continue to be free.
I think RMS is a genius in recognizing the problem in the current software licensing system, and came up with a public license that fights against the system to ensure freedom in software. And the best thing about GPL is that it uses software license to fight back the current broken software licensing system.
Kudo to RMS and everyone else in the community. And long live GPL!
This is not criticism to the people working on mozilla, I think they have done a great job putting this together. I'm using it everyday, actually, I have mozilla and galeon.
The question I have is this: why do we need to have all the features (browser, mail, news reader, address book, composer...) in one huge applications? Is it necessary to do this way? Why can't we repartition this thing, build a framework, which is a browser only, and have some kinda plug-in interface to drop in other components if the user chooses to do so? We can have a framework such that all these components may interact with each other, thru well-defined interface (CORBA, or whatever...)
So, for example, more than one group can come up with the mail client component and compete. The better one will gain more users.
I hate the mail client and news reader in that they don't allow me to change the font size. The size becomes so small on hi-res monitor that it's not readable. if I have some other mail components to choose from, I sure will.
And I'm not using Composer. Why can't I get rid of it? It's taking up my resources.
If there's an easy interface that I can drop my own components into, I'm sure I'll write a mail client component that supports multi-language input methods. And I'm sure other people would be interested in sending non-english emails too.
I'm still dreaming of component-based applications....
How about asking W3C to provide a standard-compliant reference implementation of a browser? Browser vendors will then have to run the compliance test before W3C can certify that their browser is standard-compliant.
Vendors can't claim to be compliant if they don't pass the test. And web developers would know exactly how to make their codes portable.
I don't think these mirror cells can explain
all, there's also a factor of culture and
previous experience in it.
When a child sees mom pick up the toy,
and smiles, it's because that's what
the child has learned before: pick up
the toy and have fun.
When you see someone play with a sharp
blade, you shiver, because you know
what the potential consequence could be.
But Tarzan may not experience the same
feeling, because he has no idea what
the shiny thing is.
When I look at a group of Italians talking,
I'm not sure if this is just a normal
conversation or if they are having
a fight, because they are talking so
loud (if not yelling) and articulating
wildly. That's because I don't have
an Italian background. And maybe,
in my cultural background, that would
qualify as a fight.
There's a tribe in Africa (forgot the
name) where nodding means "no" and shaking
head means "yes". So, with a completely
different background, you might
misinterprete quite a lot of things.
That's why understanding each other, or
at learn taking the effort to do so,
is so important.
Well, if Raskin wants, I can sell him
my old typewriter. There's no OS that gets
into his way, and even better, he won't
need to press any button to start it up.
He can just type in.
Re:DOD also targets those with high SATs too
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Well, not quite. I think the DOD is just
looking for new markets. They are analyzing
what kind of weapons kids are most interested
in, so they can sell more of those.
Oh yeah, how about we send all your offsprings
to some military training camp, like those in
the movie "Soldier", so that we would have
some "good citizens" who are willing to self-sacrifice for this kind of stupid ideas?
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Just ask employees (not executives, just engineers) from AMD, Nortel, Intel, ...
The worst part is that the new employer is spineless and can't stand up to defend their new employee, even though it knows the new employee is working on something that is quite different from he/she has been doing at the ex-empoyer.
I think RMS is a genius in recognizing the problem in the current software licensing system, and came up with a public license that fights against the system to ensure freedom in software. And the best thing about GPL is that it uses software license to fight back the current broken software licensing system.
Kudo to RMS and everyone else in the community. And long live GPL!
The question I have is this: why do we need to have all the features (browser, mail, news reader, address book, composer...) in one huge applications? Is it necessary to do this way? Why can't we repartition this thing, build a framework, which is a browser only, and have some kinda plug-in interface to drop in other components if the user chooses to do so? We can have a framework such that all these components may interact with each other, thru well-defined interface (CORBA, or whatever...)
So, for example, more than one group can come up with the mail client component and compete. The better one will gain more users.
I hate the mail client and news reader in that they don't allow me to change the font size. The size becomes so small on hi-res monitor that it's not readable. if I have some other mail components to choose from, I sure will.
And I'm not using Composer. Why can't I get rid of it? It's taking up my resources.
If there's an easy interface that I can drop my own components into, I'm sure I'll write a mail client component that supports multi-language input methods. And I'm sure other people would be interested in sending non-english emails too.
I'm still dreaming of component-based applications....
I guess Linux companies are going the same path too
Vendors can't claim to be compliant if they don't pass the test. And web developers would know exactly how to make their codes portable.
I'm not so sure this micropayment scheme will fly though. Anyone remembers the company called CyberCash? Does it still exists?
How long would it take for someone to hack it and install a linux on that device?
When a child sees mom pick up the toy, and smiles, it's because that's what the child has learned before: pick up the toy and have fun.
When you see someone play with a sharp blade, you shiver, because you know what the potential consequence could be. But Tarzan may not experience the same feeling, because he has no idea what the shiny thing is.
When I look at a group of Italians talking, I'm not sure if this is just a normal conversation or if they are having a fight, because they are talking so loud (if not yelling) and articulating wildly. That's because I don't have an Italian background. And maybe, in my cultural background, that would qualify as a fight.
There's a tribe in Africa (forgot the name) where nodding means "no" and shaking head means "yes". So, with a completely different background, you might misinterprete quite a lot of things.
That's why understanding each other, or at learn taking the effort to do so, is so important.
It's just normal market research.