It's not like Google just lost everyone's email messages from the last 6 months. While I agree with your overall perspective and find the Google Personalized Home's data to be of little critical value (btw - it's not the modules and gadgets developers have been building, it's just.. personalized homepages. the selection and order of widgets across a page...) - you contradict yourself in the above example.
"Shit happens", that's true. You should always be prepared. You should always backup. But... if Google lost everyone's email messages from the last 6 months would it be fair of Google to say "well you should've backed it all up"? After all, what is Gmail if not a purely-online, searchable e-mail archive? You can't expect users to be prepared for their archive to be destroyed, right? If Google wants me to manage my e-mail online, they can't expect me to download it all too, just in case.
The "stream of technical glitches" described in the article, albeit overstressed, is pointing at something that should worry us: If the software market is going towards online services, where data is centralized and 1 server down means 1,000 users down - what strategic steps do we take in order to protect our users and our data?
For me, a person with an ideology cannot be pure evil. Such people has targets for their missions, they're trying to make the world better by doing stuff.
Pure evil is one who destroys for the fun of it, for the joy of control. Thus Hank Scropio is my pick. Also the party from 1984.
Or a nice little white cat to hold in hands when plotting.
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Now that you've linked to his email address at Slashdot, I wouldn't be surprised if many more 'friends' that he'd expect would "send him a file to get his advice"... o_O
The code is released under the GNU GPL, but the license file says:
In addition, if you use Ogre I request that you display the Ogre logo somewhere in your application (start up or shutdown) for a minimum of 2 seconds. This splash-screen is displayed on the standard Ogre configuration dialog anyway, so if you use that you don't need to do anything extra. The logo is included in the download archive as Examples\Resources\ogrelogo.png.
Is it even legal to request such a thing from users of a GPLed program? After all, the source is available and according to the GPL I can remove this splash screen and use it all I want.
Besides, I think it would be more clever to releases this under the LGPL as well, the author himself states that he plans on licensing for commercial use as well.
The OSI is associated in its ideas with the FSF's definition of free software:
How is "open source" related to "free software"?
The Open Source Initiative is a marketing program for free software. It's a pitch for "free software" on solid pragmatic grounds rather than ideological tub-thumping. The winning substance has not changed, the losing attitude and symbolism have. See the discussion of marketing for hackers for more.
So that it is clear what kind of software we are talking about, we publish standards for open-source licenses. We have created a certification mark, "OSI Certified," to be applied only to software that is distributed under an open-source license that meets criteria set by the Open Source Initiative as representatives of the open software community. We intend this mark to become a widely recognized and valued symbol, clearly indicating that software does, in fact, have the properties that the community has associated with the descriptive term `open source'.
What you're describing is free software, not open source. The GNU site explicitly says it reffers to free-as-in-speach software and defines only that.
Open source software is a program that its source code is available. While free software according to the FSF guidelines must be open source in order to be truely free, open source software are not always free.
Mozilla started as an open-source project with no support from the open source community, I guess no one believed that fine free software could grow out of what was once the commercial browser. They proved them all wrong, didn't they?
Mozilla not only proved that the browser-war is not over, it also proves that there *is* a place for standards-compatible software in the software market. And, it introduced some new standards to open source: bug-tracking software, nightly builds etc. Not to mention the great Gecko and holy XUL.
I might have not contributed any code to the project, but I feel proud of participating in the Bugzilla bug-hunt, designing my web pages to work well with it and talking with people about how great it is for hours;D
It was very ironic to go over some old slashdot stories about mozilla and see how the project was indeed considered "a failure" as opposed to how it's praised today.
Or as michael, the poster of this particular story, have said before: Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6, since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so. Ahem.
Well, for one thing - this is just a 404 error message. I guess the big brother didn't want you to find this.
Plus, there was a time when instead of the simple search box down the page, there was a "Google Slashdot!" box and you could only search/. using google. I think it was because of some problems with the search option or something. Anyway, it's possible that what you found was just leftovers.
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and they don't even need to know that it is based on Netscape Mozilla isn't based on Netscape - it and all of its components were fully re-written by the Mozilla team. If anything else, Netscape is based on Mozilla.
And that's what we should make clear - for all those people you've talked about that would use Netscape because it's bundled with AOL. We should emphasize the fact that Netscape "may as well have been a Mozilla skin". And show the world that with just few clicks they can get rid of the commercialism of MSIE/AOL Netscape.
As far as I remember, clicking "view image" on the right click menu in Netscape 4.x would open the image in the whole window (and not show it inside the page, as done in MSIE). Mozilla has the same behaviour when it comes to this menu item.
Highly acclaimed Black & White allows you, as a god, to Sims-style take care of your own "creature" and take him to fights against other creatures, on single player and multiplayer campaigns. Of course, that's not exactly the game's main idea.
In an effort to contribute to the righteous capitalist fight for copyright owners of our dear mates at Sony Entertainment, we have designed this ad to warn innocent citizens of the dangers of PIRACY.
Give that music-burners macintosh-users communists what they deserve! Join the fight! Post this ad near your workplaces and in your children's schools, show them you care! DO NOT LET THE EVIL PIRATES WIN!
The ad is available for viewing and printing here.
The place to report/suggest stuff like that is Mozilla's excellent Bugzilla.
There's actually a filed bug for seperate icons for the different components (Bug 47779). Sign up for Mozilla and vote for this bug. The more votes for a bug, the more "important" it is considered. My guess is that this will only be fixed in 1.0.
Regarding your 'oingo' problem: I suggest you report it and see if that's a problem with the browser or something in the configuration.
I've recently read somewhere about a suggestion for "space-taxes" on sci-fi books which would go to NASA's budget. If that doesn't say something about NASA's financial status I don't what does.
Skipjack (7.3) is not exactly a minor update; Except for newer versions of software, it comes with many new programs that weren't in Enigma (7.2): KDE 3.0, Evolution, Gnome Video Conference, etc., as you can see in the "New Features" docs.
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Which are very often, actually quite good.
"Shit happens", that's true. You should always be prepared. You should always backup.
But... if Google lost everyone's email messages from the last 6 months would it be fair of Google to say "well you should've backed it all up"? After all, what is Gmail if not a purely-online, searchable e-mail archive?
You can't expect users to be prepared for their archive to be destroyed, right? If Google wants me to manage my e-mail online, they can't expect me to download it all too, just in case.
The "stream of technical glitches" described in the article, albeit overstressed, is pointing at something that should worry us: If the software market is going towards online services, where data is centralized and 1 server down means 1,000 users down - what strategic steps do we take in order to protect our users and our data?
For me, a person with an ideology cannot be pure evil.
Such people has targets for their missions, they're trying to make the world better by doing stuff.
Pure evil is one who destroys for the fun of it, for the joy of control. Thus Hank Scropio is my pick. Also the party from 1984.
Or a nice little white cat to hold in hands when plotting.
Now that you've linked to his email address at Slashdot, I wouldn't be surprised if many more 'friends' that he'd expect would "send him a file to get his advice"... o_O
Is it even legal to request such a thing from users of a GPLed program? After all, the source is available and according to the GPL I can remove this splash screen and use it all I want.
Besides, I think it would be more clever to releases this under the LGPL as well, the author himself states that he plans on licensing for commercial use as well.
The only definition for open-source software is a software that gives away its source code. How it's done cannot be defined by one person.
What you're describing is free software, not open source. The GNU site explicitly says it reffers to free-as-in-speach software and defines only that.
Open source software is a program that its source code is available.
While free software according to the FSF guidelines must be open source in order to be truely free, open source software are not always free.
Just the header using Mozilla 1.0.
Weird.
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 17 unpatched vulnerabilities.
Netscape/Mozilla: 1 patched vulnerability.
Opera: 1 unpatched vulnerability.
See http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/
Mozilla started as an open-source project with no support from the open source community, I guess no one believed that fine free software could grow out of what was once the commercial browser.
;D
They proved them all wrong, didn't they?
Mozilla not only proved that the browser-war is not over, it also proves that there *is* a place for standards-compatible software in the software market. And, it introduced some new standards to open source: bug-tracking software, nightly builds etc. Not to mention the great Gecko and holy XUL.
I might have not contributed any code to the project, but I feel proud of participating in the Bugzilla bug-hunt, designing my web pages to work well with it and talking with people about how great it is for hours
Good Job!
It was very ironic to go over some old slashdot stories about mozilla and see how the project was indeed considered "a failure" as opposed to how it's praised today.
Or as michael, the poster of this particular story, have said before:
Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6, since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so.
Ahem.
Well, for one thing - this is just a 404 error message. I guess the big brother didn't want you to find this.
/. using google. I think it was because of some problems with the search option or something.
Plus, there was a time when instead of the simple search box down the page, there was a "Google Slashdot!" box and you could only search
Anyway, it's possible that what you found was just leftovers.
and they don't even need to know that it is based on Netscape
Mozilla isn't based on Netscape - it and all of its components were fully re-written by the Mozilla team.
If anything else, Netscape is based on Mozilla.
And that's what we should make clear - for all those people you've talked about that would use Netscape because it's bundled with AOL. We should emphasize the fact that Netscape "may as well have been a Mozilla skin". And show the world that with just few clicks they can get rid of the commercialism of MSIE/AOL Netscape.
But how?
As far as I remember, clicking "view image" on the right click menu in Netscape 4.x would open the image in the whole window (and not show it inside the page, as done in MSIE). Mozilla has the same behaviour when it comes to this menu item.
Highly acclaimed Black & White allows you, as a god, to Sims-style take care of your own "creature" and take him to fights against other creatures, on single player and multiplayer campaigns.
Of course, that's not exactly the game's main idea.
In an effort to contribute to the righteous capitalist fight for copyright owners of our dear mates at Sony Entertainment, we have designed this ad to warn innocent citizens of the dangers of PIRACY.
Give that music-burners macintosh-users communists what they deserve! Join the fight! Post this ad near your workplaces and in your children's schools, show them you care!
DO NOT LET THE EVIL PIRATES WIN!
The ad is available for viewing and printing here.
The place to report/suggest stuff like that is Mozilla's excellent Bugzilla.
There's actually a filed bug for seperate icons for the different components (Bug 47779). Sign up for Mozilla and vote for this bug. The more votes for a bug, the more "important" it is considered.
My guess is that this will only be fixed in 1.0.
Regarding your 'oingo' problem: I suggest you report it and see if that's a problem with the browser or something in the configuration.
I've recently read somewhere about a suggestion for "space-taxes" on sci-fi books which would go to NASA's budget. If that doesn't say something about NASA's financial status I don't what does.
OpenOffice can do it too, ya know.
See here.
AbiWord is a part of the "Gnome Office" suit.
Skipjack (7.3) is not exactly a minor update;
Except for newer versions of software, it comes with many new programs that weren't in Enigma (7.2): KDE 3.0, Evolution, Gnome Video Conference, etc., as you can see in the "New Features" docs.
More software is added to distributions, and software is generally getting larger.
I'm running win32 Apache 2.0 binaries installed from an .msi pack right now.
Odd tho, can't seem to find them on the apache website... Were probably removed for some reason..
Kathleen, you're a lucky girl.
Treat him well until he gives you the root password, then run and post it at notslashdot.org </kidding>.
Congratulations you two !