The big problem is that legally, nothing stops a US company from getting a court order restraint against ICANN in the future if a.eu domain name infringes on a US trademark.
Even 2 year old dell servers will make you worry. I've got one with a SCSI disc that is starting to give bad sectors. 3 years is a _very_ long time especially for always-on hardware. You're better of replacing it after 2 then fixing it after 3 years.
yup I'm a non-native english speaker, but I can order decent hardware with decent support for less. Take off the "dell" label and get Tyan components or 3ware, and you get the same HW warranty as dell, for at least a thousand dollars less.
Waste your money on Dell and HP, sure you get 3 years of support, but in the 3rd year you wish you had gotten something cheaper and replaced the harware already, instead of calling HP/Dell support over and over because some component has become unreliable.
NOW is the time for everyone in the USA to start protesting against the same practices in the US. No software patents anywhere!
(Of course, the US will lose significant competition against european companies who will be much more at liberty to innovate... this hurts YOUR business)
nuff said for me, this is truly cross-DE standards that is making it into both GNOME, KDE and (my favorite) Xfce. Freedesktop has the power to uniform not only linux but all unix flavours out there!
it does use cups but it refuses to see it as the default. instead it thinks that plain lp is installed and doesn't recognize any of the joys that are cups.
put simply, LSB doesn't solve the desktop problem. It wasn't meant for that.
The LSB was written to make sure that all those booming distros back in the days they were booming, were somehow unified by a comming file system structure, library setups etc.
They really only mean to cover the (B)ase. This base was since then widely adopted and almost any distro conforms to this (B)ase more than 95%. Only outliers like slackware diverge, and often only minimally.
This puts the burden on distro maintainers to get a certification on something that is completely obvious, and non-beneficial. It's like getting a prep school diploma when you're in high scool already.
Also, the LSB is needlessly strict on some rules that hinder progress (init handling - chkconfig etc), where we should have moved to completely new solutions already (I loved that Makefile approach).
so, expect more from freedesktop.org than from LSB...
Neither you nor the post you replied to are true. The problem isn't Linux itself but the variety and indecisiveness of applications writers to pick proper standards.
Example: if everyone would choose the cups printing model then linux would have better printing than windows. The fact that KDE still doesn't see cups as the prevalent and *best* printing platform confirms this.
Also, application vendors like mozilla (oss locking while alsa exists???) futz these things does not mean Linux is off worse. In fact, the sheer choice has lead to wrong choices.
Not really, I work for ESA and most of the contracts for development have clauses in them that state that all the products 'belong', 'are property of' the organization, and not the subcontractor.
This is legally fine, because if you can hire an 'employee' and have him write some code for you, you retain all rights to that code. It would be silly if you lost it because you hire an employee to write code for you.
If boeing is distributing binaries to the Army then Boeing *is* required to do so (they are distributing it to a sole proprietor, but still distributing!).
IMO the GPL applies, and since Boeing is a commercial company, sueing for a violation would open up interesting pieces of code.
However, I think it's remotely improbable that they actually modify key linux components, and their control systems most likely will be covered (decently) by closed licenses that do not conflict with the OSS components they use.
Another thing is that the military can subcontract boeing to write code based on the GPL exclusively for themselves, and since the milittary is not distributing (merely using these changes), they are not bound by the GPL to redistribute their source changes.
the good thing is that it's nice to see that OSS is not scaring away big players anymore. Even tho it may not look like a victory for OSS, it certainly is.
Actually it isn't... If you read down in the announcement you'll find that many lunar/sm users have been asking about this. To be honest it would make a lot of sense since lunar and sm haven't diverted that much in 2 years time.
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Wow, you sure think this stuff is easy.
The big problem is that legally, nothing stops a US company from getting a court order restraint against ICANN in the future if a
Got an answer to that? anyone?
Even 2 year old dell servers will make you worry. I've got one with a SCSI disc that is starting to give bad sectors. 3 years is a _very_ long time especially for always-on hardware. You're better of replacing it after 2 then fixing it after 3 years.
yup I'm a non-native english speaker, but I can order decent hardware with decent support for less. Take off the "dell" label and get Tyan components or 3ware, and you get the same HW warranty as dell, for at least a thousand dollars less.
Waste your money on Dell and HP, sure you get 3 years of support, but in the 3rd year you wish you had gotten something cheaper and replaced the harware already, instead of calling HP/Dell support over and over because some component has become unreliable.
umph?
well that 1600 includes an intel mobo, and a hardware raid setup, as well as 3 years of warranty.
wouldn't call that el-cheapo. For "el-cheapo" I could get well over 4 1U rackmount servers for 3000$.
xfce just got donated a new server from 2x.com For less than 1600 dollars. 3000? gimme a break!
NOW is the time for everyone in the USA to start protesting against the same practices in the US. No software patents anywhere!
(Of course, the US will lose significant competition against european companies who will be much more at liberty to innovate... this hurts YOUR business)
Interestingly enough google finds the WMD itself:
Search google maps for weapons of mass destruction
I shit you not Kansas is 3v1l!!!!!!!oneone
Where can I buy tickets to view the fireworks? I'm gonna get some beers and stakeout at my local backbone uplink =^D
Sad but true is that this precisely gives governments the idea that they should limit and control international traffic. Freedom? not for long...
American Power Conversion.. the market leader for UPS's (no that is not a transport company).
mod me troll but I fail to see what's so impressive about this. Anyone care to explain?
( ) The entire poll is missing!
seriously would have made a good poll from this
xfce Already switched to svn weeks ago. Lightwight, slick, fast, and now hosted on SVN.
1) d-bus
2) d-vfs
3) mime-handling
nuff said for me, this is truly cross-DE standards that is making it into both GNOME, KDE and (my favorite) Xfce. Freedesktop has the power to uniform not only linux but all unix flavours out there!
Studies show that KDE has a comparable learning curve to windows for computer n00bs, GNOME following closely.
disclaimer: I solely use Xfce4. That kicks ass and doesn't scare my grandma.
it does use cups but it refuses to see it as the default. instead it thinks that plain lp is installed and doesn't recognize any of the joys that are cups.
DISLCAIMER: IAADM (I Am A Distro Maintainer)
put simply, LSB doesn't solve the desktop problem. It wasn't meant for that.
The LSB was written to make sure that all those booming distros back in the days they were booming, were somehow unified by a comming file system structure, library setups etc.
They really only mean to cover the (B)ase. This base was since then widely adopted and almost any distro conforms to this (B)ase more than 95%. Only outliers like slackware diverge, and often only minimally.
This puts the burden on distro maintainers to get a certification on something that is completely obvious, and non-beneficial. It's like getting a prep school diploma when you're in high scool already.
Also, the LSB is needlessly strict on some rules that hinder progress (init handling - chkconfig etc), where we should have moved to completely new solutions already (I loved that Makefile approach).
so, expect more from freedesktop.org than from LSB...
Neither you nor the post you replied to are true. The problem isn't Linux itself but the variety and indecisiveness of applications writers to pick proper standards.
Example: if everyone would choose the cups printing model then linux would have better printing than windows. The fact that KDE still doesn't see cups as the prevalent and *best* printing platform confirms this.
Also, application vendors like mozilla (oss locking while alsa exists???) futz these things does not mean Linux is off worse. In fact, the sheer choice has lead to wrong choices.
This is where LSB *can* play a role
This is also where LSB *won't* play a role
expect more from freedesktop.org!
Not really, I work for ESA and most of the contracts for development have clauses in them that state that all the products 'belong', 'are property of' the organization, and not the subcontractor.
This is legally fine, because if you can hire an 'employee' and have him write some code for you, you retain all rights to that code. It would be silly if you lost it because you hire an employee to write code for you.
Nothing unusual.
If boeing is distributing binaries to the Army then Boeing *is* required to do so (they are distributing it to a sole proprietor, but still distributing!).
IMO the GPL applies, and since Boeing is a commercial company, sueing for a violation would open up interesting pieces of code.
However, I think it's remotely improbable that they actually modify key linux components, and their control systems most likely will be covered (decently) by closed licenses that do not conflict with the OSS components they use.
Another thing is that the military can subcontract boeing to write code based on the GPL exclusively for themselves, and since the milittary is not distributing (merely using these changes), they are not bound by the GPL to redistribute their source changes.
the good thing is that it's nice to see that OSS is not scaring away big players anymore. Even tho it may not look like a victory for OSS, it certainly is.
Actually it isn't
dude, that's not funny =^D
Here is a much more interesting april fools joke, one that had me thinking for a second:
Lunar-Linux and SourceMage Merging
riight, cmon they are getting worse now fast!
Here's the diff for ALL platforms and ALL distros:
http://nl.lunar-linux.org/node/61
You should be more worried that your kids will be gay in the future, or that you will be killed by a gun or a drunk driver.