Other commercial license give them to come to your house anyway, they simply need to sue you and have law enforcment officers to do their job, so i don't see where the license is so terrible. Since borland inspectors aren't law enforcement officers you can even have the luxury of kicking them out of your property and then saying ohhh i missed that part of the license. Read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1 743000/1743560.stm and tell me if Borland is THAT evil.
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane. "
(Slashdot)
Im running win2k and it has been pretty stable so far. Much more stable than XFree 4.x anyway.
Regarding this Lindows, i still have to understand if it's something like vmware or something like Wine, and anyway MS Office on windows requires a MS Office, so in the end you save money just for the OS (which is not the most expensive), but for the applications you have to buy them still. The only app i would really need on Linux would be Internet Exploder, give me that and i can stop running windows anytime:)
I don't agree with a cost evaluation based uniquely on the effective lines of code. I still prefer to evaluate projects based on the "effective" hours spent on the project. Some sections are rewritten, a lot of research that doesnt end up in physical lines of code may have been done. The "line count" is a curious statistical value, but it doesnt add or take away nothing to the value of a project.
It's sad that a company tries to solve their problems blaming their name. Maybe we should all change our names to William Gates Jr and become billionaires ? =)
And by the way, people gets screwed in Windows World too. Seems to me that the "Windows World" is seen more and more like the El Dorado of no problems and easy money. Let me tell you it's not like that. Business is full of sharks, OpenSourced or not.
I don't think he is joking, and as the consequences of the US DMCA are too serious to be a matter of jokes. I think Alan Cox just gave a glimpse of what the future could have on hold if this law doesn't change. In my opinion he shouldn't just omit the patch on the changelog, he should omit the whole patch and put different patches for US and non-US versions, just to prove the point. Remembers me of when netscape and IE used to come in the US flavour (128 bit encryption) and Export flavour... i think the DMCA is a step backward not a step forward, and that the security issues of computer systems are in the 99% of the cases due to misinformation not to an excess of information, we don't want security issues to circulate in l33t hacker circles, but we want to be made known to the public so they can get fixed quickly.
As far as i know from reports i've read terrorists know very well not to rely too much on electronic communication, the US pubblicize a lot their technology abilities. As a result no terrorists probably use cell phones or email anymore. Plus i dont think europe union agrees on backdoors in encryption, that would make industrial espionnage too easy.
Don't you have anything better to write than post "independence day" like posts of the poor american shocked trying to dial your non-working cell, go out and help ! get real for once ! We live in our world of web, technology, lasers, satellites, space shields, smart bombs. These terrorists, these criminals should open our eyes, this world is still made by people and of people. I also want to note the failure of the internet as an informative media, when the mess happened i wasnt able to reach any site, slashdot included, if it wasnt for the TV the wourld would have known about this tragedy with an incredible delay.
I think incredible machien would lead to an increased number of escapes from alcatraz:> hehe
Just kidding...
What about adventure games like monkey island (well, not ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND hehe)or grim fandango ? For guys that are in isolation, ofcourse windows "solitaire" its your best choice:>>
I found that benchmark really superficial, especially regarding the page loading times, i think it should have tested heavy CSS pages,layers, heavy pages with a lot of nested tables, and so on. Loading time of the browser its not really important, i would rather measure the time to open a new window when the browser is loaded. On linux my choices are mozilla 0.9.3 when i want things to work properly, and konqueror for the occasional browsing (it is faster). Running netscape 4.x these days is just asking for trouble, frequent hangs, and mangled pages.
I think there was a virus a long time ago whose only purpose was to kill another virus, i dont remember if it was on the Amiga or on the PC. Anyway still it ended up being classified as a virus. To be honest i prefer to have control over my anti-virus program rather than have core wars games running on my pc without my control:)
looks to me like a nice "games" folder game, Quake3 Arena is more the "flagship" of 3d linux games. They want to compete with commercial windows games, good for them but they should open their eyes and realize the quality of games is way beyond a penguin sliding down a mountain... besides that, isnt the Tux logo copyrighted or something ?
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Other commercial license give them to come to your house anyway, they simply need to sue you and have law enforcment officers to do their job, so i don't see where the license is so terrible. Since borland inspectors aren't law enforcement officers you can even have the luxury of kicking them out of your property and then saying ohhh i missed that part of the license. Read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1 743000/1743560.stm and tell me if Borland is THAT evil.
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane. "
(Slashdot)
Im running win2k and it has been pretty stable so far. Much more stable than XFree 4.x anyway. :)
Regarding this Lindows, i still have to understand if it's something like vmware or something like Wine, and anyway MS Office on windows requires a MS Office, so in the end you save money just for the OS (which is not the most expensive), but for the applications you have to buy them still. The only app i would really need on Linux would be Internet Exploder, give me that and i can stop running windows anytime
I don't agree with a cost evaluation based uniquely on the effective lines of code. I still prefer to evaluate projects based on the "effective" hours spent on the project. Some sections are rewritten, a lot of research that doesnt end up in physical lines of code may have been done. The "line count" is a curious statistical value, but it doesnt add or take away nothing to the value of a project.
Merry Xmas to everyone. (offtopic ? who cares :)
It's sad that a company tries to solve their problems blaming their name. Maybe we should all change our names to William Gates Jr and become billionaires ? =)
And by the way, people gets screwed in Windows World too. Seems to me that the "Windows World" is seen more and more like the El Dorado of no problems and easy money. Let me tell you it's not like that. Business is full of sharks, OpenSourced or not.
(CNN) -- Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operating system.
d on .launch/index.html
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.lon
I don't think he is joking, and as the consequences of the US DMCA are too serious to be a matter of jokes. I think Alan Cox just gave a glimpse of what the future could have on hold if this law doesn't change. In my opinion he shouldn't just omit the patch on the changelog, he should omit the whole patch and put different patches for US and non-US versions, just to prove the point. Remembers me of when netscape and IE used to come in the US flavour (128 bit encryption) and Export flavour ... i think the DMCA is a step backward not a step forward, and that the security issues of computer systems are in the 99% of the cases due to misinformation not to an excess of information, we don't want security issues to circulate in l33t hacker circles, but we want to be made known to the public so they can get fixed quickly.
http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=343
How come a private company owns a free trademark ?! That's odd, if its like that they should switch to PayBSD :)
As far as i know from reports i've read terrorists know very well not to rely too much on electronic communication, the US pubblicize a lot their technology abilities. As a result no terrorists probably use cell phones or email anymore. Plus i dont think europe union agrees on backdoors in encryption, that would make industrial espionnage too easy.
Don't you have anything better to write than post "independence day" like posts of the poor american shocked trying to dial your non-working cell, go out and help ! get real for once ! We live in our world of web, technology, lasers, satellites, space shields, smart bombs. These terrorists, these criminals should open our eyes, this world is still made by people and of people. I also want to note the failure of the internet as an informative media, when the mess happened i wasnt able to reach any site, slashdot included, if it wasnt for the TV the wourld would have known about this tragedy with an incredible delay.
I think incredible machien would lead to an increased number of escapes from alcatraz :> hehe
:>>
Just kidding...
What about adventure games like monkey island (well, not ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND hehe)or grim fandango ? For guys that are in isolation, ofcourse windows "solitaire" its your best choice
too bitter ? ehhehe ever thought about putting sugar in it ? :)
I found that benchmark really superficial, especially regarding the page loading times, i think it should have tested heavy CSS pages,layers, heavy pages with a lot of nested tables, and so on. Loading time of the browser its not really important, i would rather measure the time to open a new window when the browser is loaded. On linux my choices are mozilla 0.9.3 when i want things to work properly, and konqueror for the occasional browsing (it is faster). Running netscape 4.x these days is just asking for trouble, frequent hangs, and mangled pages.
I think there was a virus a long time ago whose only purpose was to kill another virus, i dont remember if it was on the Amiga or on the PC. Anyway still it ended up being classified as a virus. To be honest i prefer to have control over my anti-virus program rather than have core wars games running on my pc without my control :)
What about : Star Wars : attack of the teenage mutant clone turtles
looks to me like a nice "games" folder game, Quake3 Arena is more the "flagship" of 3d linux games. They want to compete with commercial windows games, good for them but they should open their eyes and realize the quality of games is way beyond a penguin sliding down a mountain... besides that, isnt the Tux logo copyrighted or something ?
Monkey see monkey do... =) Why should people use a bad copy of a bad software ?
With the names and the votes revealed :) Really democratic .)