> In related news, what other products besides > Google Desktop Search, Spybot Search & Destroy, > Google Toolbar and Service Pack 2 are Slashdotters > installing on their parents' Windows machines?"
This is not being pedantic. Maybe you'll call any idiotic song by Britney Spears "Free Speech". Just try to mix it with your own music/lyrics and try to redistribute it, just to see what happens next...
Well, not a complete corroboration, but Zope and its add-on products are really big in France, especially at the top of public sector. Not so big in Universities though AFAICT.
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your sysadmin's email address here.
This will make him know better !
> In related news, what other products besides
> Google Desktop Search, Spybot Search & Destroy,
> Google Toolbar and Service Pack 2 are Slashdotters
> installing on their parents' Windows machines?"
GNU/Linux
... needs spam anymore now ?
... compared with how many have already died because of the embargo.
> is innately broken just like Java.
:-)
but Java really is !
... ever stop to declare wars ?
> BTW I have no idea how much carbon there is in the
> average adult human.
This should be computable by burning said adult human in a laboratory.
> Pretty amazing.
/. didn't existed at that time, so he didn't waste his time like you and I do :-)
Not at all !
is that you ???
> I've seen this one for around $400 in Sweden...
;-)
but of course you have to make a 12000 km trip by car, boat and plane to buy it !
> Am I right?
Probably
> O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will
> attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open
> Source community will have no chance of finding.
And where would they hide these bugs ?
In your ass ?
They won't embrace it, because they can't extend and extinguish it as they have done for other software.
Thanks for the most part to RMS and the GNU GPL.
I understand.
/. is all that they can currently afford.
My point was only that they may not have the cent to spend on attorneys fees, and maybe
> I can't quite understand why you would base your /.
> business decisions on replies from
Money, maybe ?
there you seem to voluntarily take advantage of your language using the same word for free and free.
my post explicitely said "free speech"
if the songs in questions weren't "free speech", I think they couldn't exist (thanks god!)
anyway, there are still limitations on the way you can use them, just like for Free Software.
This is not being pedantic. Maybe you'll call any idiotic song by Britney Spears "Free Speech". Just try to mix it with your own music/lyrics and try to redistribute it, just to see what happens next...
What you ask is possible, it's usually referred to as "theft", and some people like me prefer to call it "unauthorized copying".
Is that what is called a "Trade war" ?
It seems you can't even spell the name of your own country, but like insulting people. This is : united stateS of america.
You know, there are several of them, at least this was the case last time I heard of this country.
Well, it was supposed to be a joke.
G.W. Bush, you again !
G.W. Bush, is that you ?
> their girls don't shave because french like hairs
Unlike the girls in your country, who shave and because they have beards.
> Corroborations, anyone?
Well, not a complete corroboration, but Zope and its add-on products are really big in France, especially at the top of public sector. Not so big in Universities though AFAICT.