The American Revolution wasn't about "high taxes", it was about taxation without representation. Taxes weren't the only grievence, either. Basically, the colonists were fighting for their right of self-determination. The colonies were considered by the Brits to be under the authority of King George, and the colonists, who were supposedly British citizens, were not given any representation in Parliment. Yet this same Parliment passed many a law about the colonies.
An interesting question. Since it's a violation of license terms, a lawysuit would clearly be in order. But who owns Linux? Is it public domain? If so, then the company could perhaps be sued in that context. Maybe the GNU foundation should step up to the plate? If Mr. Stallman wants to keep his peace-love-and-software vision a potential reality, he and his organization should make certain that, if no one else pursues this matter, they do.
Maybe a class-action lawsuit? My knowledge of law isn't what I'd like it to be, but that may fit the bill, since Linux is kinda de-centralized in some ways. Either way, I agree that this should be dealt with and stopped. If a "rule" is place with no enforcement of violators, the rule becomes meaningless.
Reason and respect are never moot. People can change their minds, management can be turned over, and market forces can change. Keeping on the good side of Toshiba is in everyone's best interests. Adolescent-style temper-tantrums will produce nothing. Let's show a little maturity, eh?
Actually, I find Toshiba's laptops to be quite nice. Far better than Compaq's hardware. A lot less proprietary, too. Running FreeBSD on my Compaq, I was unable to use PCCards, but with my brand-new Toshiba, it's all good. As for IR, it'll be a nice frill, but I'm in no hurry. A 10BaseT line is far more effective than IR.
Maybe the stockholders wouldn't be pleased, but if Adobe is going to buy Corel, it would be a good way to scuttle the ship before it happens. I'm sure Adobe has no interest in continuing the WordPerfect Office Suite. Make the whole thing GPL, and then the Linux community can finish what they started with the port of the entire suite.
My biggest fear is that something like this will kill WPSuite just before it gets ported, in its entirety, to Linux
I have been using my laptop to take notes in class for over four years. I started running DOS and Win3.1, running WordPerfect 6.0, and also use my laptop to process my chemistry labs, write term papers, and all the other miscellany that students do. Later I upgraded to Win95 and WP7.0, then WP8.0, and kept doing the same things. Four months ago, I wiped my hard-drive and installed FreeBSD(an alternative to Linux which runs most Linux software). I eagerly awaited WP8.0's release to the Linux community, and found myself somewhat disappointed at it's crippled nature. I discovered, however, that the way to write things effectively, especially for school (I'm currently a grad student) is TeX, particularly LaTeX, specifically either Lyx or KLyx.
The basic theme is text-processing rather than word-processing. It allows you to focus on the text, rather than the format, it takes care of all of that for you. Rather than being an over-glorifyied typewriter, either of these programs use the TeX format to make beautiful documents, with equations, embedded pictures, and so forth. I've never seen better looking printouts from a computer. There's a small learning curve, because the paradigm is different from that of word processors, but it's a superiour way t do things, no doubt.
As to spreadsheets, check out Wingz, which has just about everything that should be needed. KOffice also has good alternatives, if you like, including presentation software. There's plenty of software for the student to use on Linux, no one should be left wanting.
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The American Revolution wasn't about "high taxes", it was about taxation without representation. Taxes weren't the only grievence, either. Basically, the colonists were fighting for their right of self-determination. The colonies were considered by the Brits to be under the authority of King George, and the colonists, who were supposedly British citizens, were not given any representation in Parliment. Yet this same Parliment passed many a law about the colonies.
Let's get our facts straight, please.
An interesting question. Since it's a violation of license terms, a lawysuit would clearly be in order. But who owns Linux? Is it public domain? If so, then the company could perhaps be sued in that context. Maybe the GNU foundation should step up to the plate? If Mr. Stallman wants to keep his peace-love-and-software vision a potential reality, he and his organization should make certain that, if no one else pursues this matter, they do.
Maybe a class-action lawsuit? My knowledge of law isn't what I'd like it to be, but that may fit the bill, since Linux is kinda de-centralized in some ways. Either way, I agree that this should be dealt with and stopped. If a "rule" is place with no enforcement of violators, the rule becomes meaningless.
Reason and respect are never moot. People can change their minds, management can be turned over, and market forces can change. Keeping on the good side of Toshiba is in everyone's best interests. Adolescent-style temper-tantrums will produce nothing. Let's show a little maturity, eh?
Actually, I find Toshiba's laptops to be quite nice. Far better than Compaq's hardware. A lot less proprietary, too. Running FreeBSD on my Compaq, I was unable to use PCCards, but with my brand-new Toshiba, it's all good. As for IR, it'll be a nice frill, but I'm in no hurry. A 10BaseT line is far more effective than IR.
Maybe the stockholders wouldn't be pleased, but if Adobe is going to buy Corel, it would be a good way to scuttle the ship before it happens. I'm sure Adobe has no interest in continuing the WordPerfect Office Suite. Make the whole thing GPL, and then the Linux community can finish what they started with the port of the entire suite.
My biggest fear is that something like this will kill WPSuite just before it gets ported, in its entirety, to Linux
I have been using my laptop to take notes in class for over four years. I started running DOS and Win3.1, running WordPerfect 6.0, and also use my laptop to process my chemistry labs, write term papers, and all the other miscellany that students do. Later I upgraded to Win95 and WP7.0, then WP8.0, and kept doing the same things. Four months ago, I wiped my hard-drive and installed FreeBSD(an alternative to Linux which runs most Linux software). I eagerly awaited WP8.0's release to the Linux community, and found myself somewhat disappointed at it's crippled nature. I discovered, however, that the way to write things effectively, especially for school (I'm currently a grad student) is TeX, particularly LaTeX, specifically either Lyx or KLyx.
The basic theme is text-processing rather than word-processing. It allows you to focus on the text, rather than the format, it takes care of all of that for you. Rather than being an over-glorifyied typewriter, either of these programs use the TeX format to make beautiful documents, with equations, embedded pictures, and so forth. I've never seen better looking printouts from a computer. There's a small learning curve, because the paradigm is different from that of word processors, but it's a superiour way t do things, no doubt.
As to spreadsheets, check out Wingz, which has just about everything that should be needed. KOffice also has good alternatives, if you like, including presentation software. There's plenty of software for the student to use on Linux, no one should be left wanting.