The EU Intellectual Property Rights Directive creates a 'nuclear weapons' of law enforcement tools for intellectual property holders. It combines the most extreme enforcement provisions found throughout Europe and imposes them collectively onto all of Europe
One of the principal aims of GNOME, and I presume KDE, is to excel at both usability and accessibility. The GNOME clipboard implementation still allows you to use old-style X paste as well as the Ctrl+X/C/V as in windows. This is because the windows style copy and paste actually provides a clipboard - so selecting new text will not erase your text to paste, and also because left click and middle click is very handy, but not if you can't use a mouse. GNOME is fully functional from the keyboard (and therefore a huge variety of input devices as these can simply be mapped to keycodes) and thus accessible to people with a variety of disabilities.
The X method may be a little quicker, but it's less powerful and less flexible.
This does however break UK, and I presume most oher western copyright law. Most research and papers are generally frowned apon if they break the law. You can make a hard copy dfor your own use, but this isn't entirely your own use if that hard copy is referenced, and stored on your server, or in any other way disseminated to other. This is effectively publishing it, and if you do that with somebody else's work without their permission, you are breaking the law.
When will you all get it? WE (meaning the tech/IT industry and community) are the ONLY people that care about our OS being buggy. The fact that #2 has happened makes it irrelevant to complain about the lack of reliability in Windows. And we are DEFINITELY the only people that care about it not being original (don't bring up the Apple/Xerox lawsuits, those have been settled now meaning that we are the only people that ever bring it up). My mom doesn't give a shit if the concept Windows was stolen from a Xerox PARC prototype or a mac or from Bill Gates' college roommate or whoever, she cares about whether her email works or not, and guess what? it does. Not the way you'd like it to, but it's email and it works. Who gives a fuck. The world is not made up of sysadmins.
I think you're half right here. But I would say that the problem is not that average users don't care about software being buggy and unreliable and but that they think these are deficiencies of the PC rather than the software - most don't know there's an alternative. Also, that alternative is simply not ready yet for them, but this I will touch on below.
I'm not sure exactly why you bring up the Xerox PARC / Apple / Microsoft originality arguments, I'm not myself aware of these ever being used as a serious excuse for OSS not having beaten Microsoft at their own game, I think you're trying to score points against a minority of OSS people here.
The way you beat microsoft is to make a superior product, and market it better.
No shit; thanks for the help
Linux is not superior to Windows yet. It's more reliable, on the right hardware. It's got that cool CLI geek cred going for it. So does OSX. The GUIs for Linux plainly suck.
The GUIs for Linux do not `plainly suck'. GNOME 2 for example is easier to use than windows by a long way for non-adminastrative desktop use; GNOME's faults lie in it's shitty defaults, the fact that it has to be set up by someone that knows what they are doing first, and that it doesn't have a large enough range of applications, &c. These are, believe it or not, the simple but lengthy problems. The harder problems of designing the UI and it's infrastructure are already ones we've far excelled Microsoft at solving.
The legal remedy in the DOJ case should have involved abolishing all copyrights MS has to their interface so that KDE or (god forbid) the GNOME folks could clone the Chicago GUI. People would be comfortable with using Linux if it looked just like Windows.
But I thought you said, "The way you beat microsoft is to make a superior product", so why are you now suggesting that we forget building a superior product and instead clone theirs by way of legal (or rather `illegal') bias. Cloning windows GUI would be foolish, we already have far better GUI designs - they are just not extensive enough yet. GNOME is far easier to use than the Windows GUI but I can't configure my whole Linux OS with it yet so as a whole it does not make my computer as easy to use as a winbox. Copying their GUI would leave us with the same problem, and a shitty UI design. No thanks.
This is around the point in this discussion where someone whines that "we can't take on microsoft, they have [insert ridiculously huge corporate asset here]!!!" If you feel that way, then stop bitching about what you've got. The glory is in the fight, anyway.
You're bitching about what we've got.
Which brings me to my next point. Once the fight is won, then you have to manage what you win. The OSS community couldn't handle being in control of the #1 OS in the world. It's too fragmented and too immature. To handle something with the market share and pervasiveness of Windows would take an infrastructure the size of Microsoft. So, build one. Stop whining about losing and go make yourself into a winner.
This is unsubstatiated FUD. The OSS community excels at both centralised and decentralised management of projects - somtimes it works (Linux, Debian) sometimes it doesn't (Mozilla.org's numerous problems) but on the whole I'd say we're pretty good in that we don't have a management budget, singular parent organisation or any of the norms holding a business together. And we quite blatantly have an infrastructure far larger than that of microsoft.
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Spam causes me pain And although I try in vain The torrent goes on
And when I say spam I do not mean the tinned ham But the email ad's
If the spam should stop Privacy would resume top Importance again
[ All quoted material taken from the writings Karl M. Stallman and Eric S. Engels ]
``A spectre is haunting the USA - the spectre of Open Source. All the Powers of the old USA have entered into a commercial alliance to exorcize this spectre: Senator and CEO, Ballmer and Rosen, Industry and State.''... Well, that's that then. Them hacksers are definitely a bunch of commie bastards!
I'm sure I recall something about Napolean actually metricising the calender. However I don't think the ten day week went down all that well. "I have to work for eight days before the weekend?". As usual the french solution was rioting.
The current clock fits in with nature. It works. Change would be a huge difficulty. And a few lagacy systems make the world a more interesting place. I say leave it be. It would take over a century to kick in worldwide, would create problems when converting old times e.g. from newspaper archives and computer logs.
Sounds to me like a bunch of chronologists have got very little to do.
the way i see it the government could stop the widespread use of cannabis across the nation's youth with retinal scans. A large majority of the drug's smokers simply have few places they can safely smoke the drug and so smoke it on the streets: alleys, deserted residential roads, anywhere quite and aware from attention. without a food suuply these people are forced to buy their munchies from various petrol stations and newsagents. when they are asked for the routine money verication (the government simply steps up the usage of the cards) the stoner realises his ultimate fear: staring at a camera of some sort with blazing red eye...
i pesonally feel more secure about my privacy in this country than on my visits to the US. we have much better dat protection laws, our data is our data.
as for cameras, i think they are mainly a waste of money as they are not that successful (i got beaten up on Beckenham high street (south london) and they were no help) but i don't worry too much about state control blah blah blah. they are only at present in VERY public places where you be stupid do do anything you want private anyway. and if you;re bothered about being tracked where you go then 70% of the population had better turn of their mobiles, stop using supermarket loyalty cards, credit cards, ATMs, &c.
I'd say one of the biggest problems with that statement is whether China actually are communist. They are becoming increasingly western and increasingly powerful because they are starting to adopt more a more capitalist economy.
Go visit The Forbidden City, then take a walk across Tian'anmen Square to McDonalds.
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well seeing as it's a legal document the GPL needs to be clear what you can and cannot do. simply read the above discussions and you will see many attempts at finding loopholes in the license. in order for the license to be very clear about what it is aiming at i think it is justified that it is complicated to an extent.
does it really take that long to read over the license when releasing your software? programmers tend to be quite bright and thus shouldn't find it hard to understand. i managed to read it whilst drinking a cup of tea and understood what the license was about. i think this is time worth taking when ensuring the way my software is used.
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The EU Intellectual Property Rights Directive creates a 'nuclear weapons' of law enforcement tools for intellectual property holders. It combines the most extreme enforcement provisions found throughout Europe and imposes them collectively onto all of Europe
Or maybe it just applies them to the EU?
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The Xeon is hardly new.
One of the principal aims of GNOME, and I presume KDE, is to excel at both usability and accessibility. The GNOME clipboard implementation still allows you to use old-style X paste as well as the Ctrl+X/C/V as in windows. This is because the windows style copy and paste actually provides a clipboard - so selecting new text will not erase your text to paste, and also because left click and middle click is very handy, but not if you can't use a mouse. GNOME is fully functional from the keyboard (and therefore a huge variety of input devices as these can simply be mapped to keycodes) and thus accessible to people with a variety of disabilities.
The X method may be a little quicker, but it's less powerful and less flexible.
My next computer will be an Apple *Mac or *Book.
Go with the Mac mate. Books are outdated and read-only.
yup. "the guys that built the nuke", thats how you'll be remembered.
came as he went, ...
fired with enthusiasm.
This does however break UK, and I presume most oher western copyright law. Most research and papers are generally frowned apon if they break the law. You can make a hard copy dfor your own use, but this isn't entirely your own use if that hard copy is referenced, and stored on your server, or in any other way disseminated to other. This is effectively publishing it, and if you do that with somebody else's work without their permission, you are breaking the law.
Thats a problem with your job, not personal sites per se.
"OpenBSD has a well-deserved reputation for fanatical security. Why is the U.S. military funding it?"
I think you've just answered your own question mate.
When will you all get it? WE (meaning the tech/IT industry and community) are the ONLY people that care about our OS being buggy. The fact that #2 has happened makes it irrelevant to complain about the lack of reliability in Windows. And we are DEFINITELY the only people that care about it not being original (don't bring up the Apple/Xerox lawsuits, those have been settled now meaning that we are the only people that ever bring it up). My mom doesn't give a shit if the concept Windows was stolen from a Xerox PARC prototype or a mac or from Bill Gates' college roommate or whoever, she cares about whether her email works or not, and guess what? it does. Not the way you'd like it to, but it's email and it works. Who gives a fuck. The world is not made up of sysadmins.
I think you're half right here. But I would say that the problem is not that average users don't care about software being buggy and unreliable and but that they think these are deficiencies of the PC rather than the software - most don't know there's an alternative. Also, that alternative is simply not ready yet for them, but this I will touch on below.
I'm not sure exactly why you bring up the Xerox PARC / Apple / Microsoft originality arguments, I'm not myself aware of these ever being used as a serious excuse for OSS not having beaten Microsoft at their own game, I think you're trying to score points against a minority of OSS people here.
The way you beat microsoft is to make a superior product, and market it better.
No shit; thanks for the help
Linux is not superior to Windows yet. It's more reliable, on the right hardware. It's got that cool CLI geek cred going for it. So does OSX. The GUIs for Linux plainly suck.
The GUIs for Linux do not `plainly suck'. GNOME 2 for example is easier to use than windows by a long way for non-adminastrative desktop use; GNOME's faults lie in it's shitty defaults, the fact that it has to be set up by someone that knows what they are doing first, and that it doesn't have a large enough range of applications, &c. These are, believe it or not, the simple but lengthy problems. The harder problems of designing the UI and it's infrastructure are already ones we've far excelled Microsoft at solving.
The legal remedy in the DOJ case should have involved abolishing all copyrights MS has to their interface so that KDE or (god forbid) the GNOME folks could clone the Chicago GUI. People would be comfortable with using Linux if it looked just like Windows.
But I thought you said, "The way you beat microsoft is to make a superior product", so why are you now suggesting that we forget building a superior product and instead clone theirs by way of legal (or rather `illegal') bias. Cloning windows GUI would be foolish, we already have far better GUI designs - they are just not extensive enough yet. GNOME is far easier to use than the Windows GUI but I can't configure my whole Linux OS with it yet so as a whole it does not make my computer as easy to use as a winbox. Copying their GUI would leave us with the same problem, and a shitty UI design. No thanks.
This is around the point in this discussion where someone whines that "we can't take on microsoft, they have [insert ridiculously huge corporate asset here]!!!" If you feel that way, then stop bitching about what you've got. The glory is in the fight, anyway.
You're bitching about what we've got.
Which brings me to my next point. Once the fight is won, then you have to manage what you win. The OSS community couldn't handle being in control of the #1 OS in the world. It's too fragmented and too immature. To handle something with the market share and pervasiveness of Windows would take an infrastructure the size of Microsoft. So, build one. Stop whining about losing and go make yourself into a winner.
This is unsubstatiated FUD. The OSS community excels at both centralised and decentralised management of projects - somtimes it works (Linux, Debian) sometimes it doesn't (Mozilla.org's numerous problems) but on the whole I'd say we're pretty good in that we don't have a management budget, singular parent organisation or any of the norms holding a business together. And we quite blatantly have an infrastructure far larger than that of microsoft.
Spam causes me pain
And although I try in vain
The torrent goes on
And when I say spam
I do not mean the tinned ham
But the email ad's
If the spam should stop
Privacy would resume top
Importance again
Any old buildings are put on a lit by the Government (at the advice of the National Heritage) and are graded either 1, 2* or 2.
1: Old. Anything older than 1700, and a lot before 1900. You can't do anything to these buildings without consent.
2*: Pretty old and valuable, mostly pre war mansions and the like.
2: Buildings that are worth keeping in the way they were build but aren't very old. These will move up the grades as they grow with age.
Show me a political party/ideal/state that doesn't force you, against your will, to do something you might not have otherwise done.
[ All quoted material taken from the writings Karl M. Stallman and Eric S. Engels ]
... Well, that's that then. Them hacksers are definitely a bunch of commie bastards!
``A spectre is haunting the USA - the spectre of Open Source. All the Powers of the old USA have entered into a commercial alliance to exorcize this spectre: Senator and CEO, Ballmer and Rosen, Industry and State.''
I'm sure I recall something about Napolean actually metricising the calender. However I don't think the ten day week went down all that well. "I have to work for eight days before the weekend?". As usual the french solution was rioting.
The current clock fits in with nature. It works. Change would be a huge difficulty. And a few lagacy systems make the world a more interesting place. I say leave it be. It would take over a century to kick in worldwide, would create problems when converting old times e.g. from newspaper archives and computer logs.
Sounds to me like a bunch of chronologists have got very little to do.
the way i see it the government could stop the widespread use of cannabis across the nation's youth with retinal scans. A large majority of the drug's smokers simply have few places they can safely smoke the drug and so smoke it on the streets: alleys, deserted residential roads, anywhere quite and aware from attention. without a food suuply these people are forced to buy their munchies from various petrol stations and newsagents. when they are asked for the routine money verication (the government simply steps up the usage of the cards) the stoner realises his ultimate fear: staring at a camera of some sort with blazing red eye...
i pesonally feel more secure about my privacy in this country than on my visits to the US. we have much better dat protection laws, our data is our data.
as for cameras, i think they are mainly a waste of money as they are not that successful (i got beaten up on Beckenham high street (south london) and they were no help) but i don't worry too much about state control blah blah blah. they are only at present in VERY public places where you be stupid do do anything you want private anyway. and if you;re bothered about being tracked where you go then 70% of the population had better turn of their mobiles, stop using supermarket loyalty cards, credit cards, ATMs, &c.
I'd say one of the biggest problems with that statement is whether China actually are communist. They are becoming increasingly western and increasingly powerful because they are starting to adopt more a more capitalist economy. Go visit The Forbidden City, then take a walk across Tian'anmen Square to McDonalds.
well seeing as it's a legal document the GPL needs to be clear what you can and cannot do. simply read the above discussions and you will see many attempts at finding loopholes in the license. in order for the license to be very clear about what it is aiming at i think it is justified that it is complicated to an extent. does it really take that long to read over the license when releasing your software? programmers tend to be quite bright and thus shouldn't find it hard to understand. i managed to read it whilst drinking a cup of tea and understood what the license was about. i think this is time worth taking when ensuring the way my software is used.