No, it would still be illegal. It would be like buying Office for Windows, and then deleting it and installing your friends version on your PowerMac. It's still illegal, because Office for the Macintosh and Office for Windows are two separate products. The fact that Id has, in the past, released binaries on the net is besides the point. Unless they specifically say you can do that, it is piracy.
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Sorry for being harsh, but he was joking. That post was based on the assumption that he only read the headline, which (by itself) might lend one to think that we were talking about "Taxing Software for Linux". Geeeeeez!
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Yeah, I'm here in Boston and I remember when they were fired. I was really shocked about the whole thing. Guess what? They were both fired that month. Two of the Globe's most popular writers got the boot because they were plagiarists. Tough shnookies, I guess.
And how can you say there was no admission by the paper if, in the same sentence, you said that they admitted it in the paper? Were you reading the Globe that month? There were quite a few stories regarding it and I remember clearly reading an explanation from the editor regarding the circumstances of their removal.
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That has to be the dumbest thing I've heard all morning (it's early, don't feel bad). I love Slashdot to bits, but a model of journalism? Don't be ridiculous, you must be gunning for karma or something.
Real sources of journalism (i.e. Newspapers, and certain Magazines) actually do their homework before they write about stories. Rarely will you see a retraction in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, or Time because they're very objective and as they say, it's "Just the facts". If there's nothing to back a story up, they simply don't print it. Except of course editorials, but nobody is looking for information in those anyway:)
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Did it ever occur to you that the versioning system in the Open Source Community is a little fucked up anyway? It doesn't make a difference to me... Remember when Slackware jumped up 3 whole version numbers just to make themselves look competitive? And what about Emacs? They're on what, 21 now? A lot of open source projects never even make it up to 1.0 because either 1) they're abandoned or 2) They're never declared "post-beta".
I guess what I'm saying is: Does it really matter? How much information do version numbers convey to the Linux-world anyway?
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If they waited for Mozilla to be finished, you wouldn't have a new version of Mandrake for another year or two. And KDE2 just went into "Krash", which is still Alpha. I'd like to see a distro with those too, but I think it's unrealistic to expect people to wait on it.
On another note, I'm pretty interested in this "security" settings system they have. Moreover, I'd like to see how they've set it up for minimal security. Does it run in single-user mode?
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NT 2000 will recognize all of them, except possibly the Fat12.. when was the last time you used a Fat12 filesystem? Isn't that like DOS3.3 or something?
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Man, if you're *just* getting into programming, Quake's source code is probably a little in the deep end. You might try something a little simpler... like "Hello World". Just kidding, but seriously, Quake's source code is not going to be something you can just jump into.
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Actually, I'm at the UC San Diego talking to Professor Jakobson right now. He's the head of the astronomy department here, and tells me that the moon tomorrow will, in fact, be naked and petrifiend. There is also a slight chance that it may pour scolding-hot grits down it's pants. The Romans first witnessed this event and called it "Natalie Portman" -- today we know it as "Meept".
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I hear of so many different sides to RMS - what is this guy really like?
Forgive my offtopic-ness: A lot of times people make RMS out to be this no-fun-and-games kind of stickler. I remember reading a story in Wired about how he absolutely refused to let some guy give him a piggy-back ride, just because it was silly. But then, like yesterday, I hear stories like "POSIX_ME_HARDER" and this story where the fellow said that he made him laugh (he can laugh?), so I think "well, maybe he's just got a bad rep".
Anyone out there know him personally?
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They explain the high cost (to a point) in the synopsis. It's not the actual cost of replacing the file... that's pretty minimal. No, it's lost income because of the disruption. They cite a webpage that's making $18 million per day. If it's down for a day, that's $18 million they just lost. There aren't *too* many pages that pull in $18 million a day, are there? Well, the point remains anyway.
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People who make mirrors for others to read (such as when a sight has been/.ed) are breaking the law. It's copyright infringment. Why should Slashdot facilitate that sort of thing?
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Re:Interesting . .from the interview:
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It's too bad that got moderated down, because it's clearly correct. Anyone who posts two paragraphs from the text and doesn't add *anything* of their own except the words "interesting", has to be gunning for karma. It's a content-free post.
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Yeah, and they don't think about all OSes either... Damn them. Why can't they all just write they're software in ANSI C. Then we'd all be able to use it.
Unless the software in question is written in a multiplatform language like Java, no company can be expected to support Every possible platform... it's just a matter of spreading oneself too thin. So they pick one or two platforms and go with them.
Why can't the support Debian/Slackware? We'll their software will probably work on Debian/Slackware but if they had to go out and test their software under each and every Linux distro it would take forever and the suite would never be released. That's why. It's not a problem, it's just logistics.
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Abisuite? The dominant goverment suite? It'll never happen buddy, don't kid yourself. Right now Abisuite is just about in dead last place among all the suites in terms of usability. Abiword's not bad, but its typesetting is horrible and its functionality is still in need of a lot of improvement (how many menu items still say "Needs to be Finished" when you click on them?).
Star Office is in a much better position for multi-platform usage, but I don't think we'll be seeing the end of MS Office any time soon, so keep your pants on.
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Honestly, why Natalie Portman? She's not that hot. I mean yeah, she's pretty good looking, but couldn't the Trolls think of someone better for their wonderfully enlightening posts?
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What did I say that had *anything* to do with Linux?
I'm running a more stable OS. My monitor is 8 inches bigger. I have the same # of megabytes of RAM as I used to have in disk space. And my internet connection is... well, it's here. But I'm not computing any differently. It's still the same kind of system, it's just a lot more efficient.
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Slashdot Mirror
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Sorry for being harsh, but he was joking. That post was based on the assumption that he only read the headline, which (by itself) might lend one to think that we were talking about "Taxing Software for Linux". Geeeeeez!
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
And how can you say there was no admission by the paper if, in the same sentence, you said that they admitted it in the paper? Were you reading the Globe that month? There were quite a few stories regarding it and I remember clearly reading an explanation from the editor regarding the circumstances of their removal.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Real sources of journalism (i.e. Newspapers, and certain Magazines) actually do their homework before they write about stories. Rarely will you see a retraction in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, or Time because they're very objective and as they say, it's "Just the facts". If there's nothing to back a story up, they simply don't print it. Except of course editorials, but nobody is looking for information in those anyway :)
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I guess what I'm saying is: Does it really matter? How much information do version numbers convey to the Linux-world anyway?
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On another note, I'm pretty interested in this "security" settings system they have. Moreover, I'd like to see how they've set it up for minimal security. Does it run in single-user mode?
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Forgive my offtopic-ness: A lot of times people make RMS out to be this no-fun-and-games kind of stickler. I remember reading a story in Wired about how he absolutely refused to let some guy give him a piggy-back ride, just because it was silly. But then, like yesterday, I hear stories like "POSIX_ME_HARDER" and this story where the fellow said that he made him laugh (he can laugh?), so I think "well, maybe he's just got a bad rep".
Anyone out there know him personally?
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Unless the software in question is written in a multiplatform language like Java, no company can be expected to support Every possible platform... it's just a matter of spreading oneself too thin. So they pick one or two platforms and go with them.
Why can't the support Debian/Slackware? We'll their software will probably work on Debian/Slackware but if they had to go out and test their software under each and every Linux distro it would take forever and the suite would never be released. That's why. It's not a problem, it's just logistics.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Abisuite? The dominant goverment suite? It'll never happen buddy, don't kid yourself. Right now Abisuite is just about in dead last place among all the suites in terms of usability. Abiword's not bad, but its typesetting is horrible and its functionality is still in need of a lot of improvement (how many menu items still say "Needs to be Finished" when you click on them?).
Star Office is in a much better position for multi-platform usage, but I don't think we'll be seeing the end of MS Office any time soon, so keep your pants on.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
I'm running a more stable OS. My monitor is 8 inches bigger. I have the same # of megabytes of RAM as I used to have in disk space. And my internet connection is... well, it's here. But I'm not computing any differently. It's still the same kind of system, it's just a lot more efficient.
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