Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster) for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive.
Copyright infringement isn't theft, as the pirates always tells us on Slashdot, so nothing was "stolen."
Way to put words in my mouth for an easy +5. I didn't say Apple would "probably" do anything. The remark was nothing more than a tongue-in-cheek reminder that you can't expect OS X to always support non-Apple hardware. It's just common sense.
If you think that's editorializing, sensationalism, or a "veiled threat," you take things a little too seriously.
Just as soon as people post retractions for mocking the iPod in 2001 or criticizing the iPod mini in 2004 for being an overly expensive 4GB hard drive that nobody would buy.
If it involves Apple, always expect knees to jerk.
All companies act in their own best interest, and there's nothing wrong with that. Even having customers is in the best interest of the company. They're not doing you a favor when they release a product; they're selling you something so they can make a living.
Xreal is nowhere near the level of technical capabilities of UE3, sorry.
The rest of your post was a goofy anti-capitalist rant where you actually complain about somebody giving something away for free to attract people to the commercial version (aka, shareware). You even use the trite phrase "marketing ploy." Congrats on being predictable.
Slashdot fucking loves Google. They want to use Google's OS, browser, bookmarks, RSS reader, email, and phone. Then they bash Microsoft's platform expansion attempts and Apple's branding.
Just think, this is the same government that some people want regulating traffic on the internet under the guise of "net neutrality." There's a backlash against this administration growing quickly anyway, as evidenced by the Republican victories in yesterday's elections. Democrats, if you keep up what you're doing, the pendulum will swing back against you very shortly.
Meanwhile X is still working better than Mac or Windows as a GUI framework.
Well, you lost me there. Cocoa and Quartz kick the shit out of X11 in that department. I can't even remember the last time I saw tearing in a window except on a Linux system.
This article's summary reaches an erroneous conclusion. X11 Chrome being a little faster than other versions doesn't mean X11 is awesome and has stood the test of time. It means Chrome isn't as optimized on the other platforms. For example, according to their website, they have Chrome on OS X rendering its pages into bitmaps due to their implementation of sandboxing on that platform. You can notice a slight scroll delay in Chrome for OS X if you grab the scroll bar and move it around quickly. Contrast to Safari which scrolls responsively.
So, we're opposed to copyright in this article discussion, Slashdot? I'm confused, because the GPL is a copyright license, and violations of the GPL are met with anger on the part of Slashdot's readers. However, any non-GPL situation in which copyright infringement occurs is met with jeers and sarcasm.
Supporting the GPL's copyright protections in some situations while favoring copyright infringement in other situations benefits you guys by getting you free stuff in both kinds of situations. Your viewpoints are driven by pure selfishness.
I'm sure I'll get modded down again for speaking out about this, but I believe it needs to be pointed out.
I mentioned Google's update in the last sentence of the summary.
Isn't it enough of a story to remind people that their data gets indexed and becomes searchable everywhere for an indefinite period of time if they post it to a personal website? It's easy to forget the ramifications of posting something online, especially when it has names, addresses, and phone numbers associated with it.
For example, even though Google has disabled access to these voice mails through their search engine, Yahoo's search engine now has them indexed as well. The data has propagated in ways users may not have expected or intended.
I'm qualified to say that PulseAudio is poorly implemented and buggy. Throwing out the "you didn't pay for this software" copout doesn't help your cause either.
If the criticism is being levelled in those terms (and my own experience suggests it probably is), I'm not surprised. How many times in the whole of history has criticism in those sort of terms ever resulted in the person you're criticising looking back over their work and saying "You know what? You're right."? This is basic animal instinct - the natural response to an attack is defence. It sure as hell isn't a natural response to consider the attackers' perspective and think maybe they have a point.
The advantage of commercial software is that they listen to customer feedback or else they lose sales. The sign of a professional attitude is not treating your software like a pet project that's above criticism.
Yay, let's spend the rest of the discussion bashing creationists and religion to make ourselves feel enlightened and intellectual instead of just discussing the story. This happens on ANY tech site that posts a story that could even remotely be related to religion in some way. We get it; you're a super-smart atheist like the rest of us.
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No, nothing is being physically taken away from you. You still have what you had before. That's the argument.
With the exception of games, all of that can be handled by HTML5.
Copyright infringement isn't theft, as the pirates always tells us on Slashdot, so nothing was "stolen."
No, I was contributing to the conversation by posting a counterargument to the viewpoint you described.
Yellow journalism?! For crying out loud, it was a facetious remark. It's common sense not to expect OS X to always support non-Apple hardware.
Besides, I'm not a journalist, and this isn't a newspaper. It's a user-submitted content site.
Way to put words in my mouth for an easy +5. I didn't say Apple would "probably" do anything. The remark was nothing more than a tongue-in-cheek reminder that you can't expect OS X to always support non-Apple hardware. It's just common sense.
If you think that's editorializing, sensationalism, or a "veiled threat," you take things a little too seriously.
OS X is based on NeXTStep insofar as it inherited some of the object-oriented APIs and the Mach kernel, but most of it is new.
Just as soon as people post retractions for mocking the iPod in 2001 or criticizing the iPod mini in 2004 for being an overly expensive 4GB hard drive that nobody would buy.
If it involves Apple, always expect knees to jerk.
All companies act in their own best interest, and there's nothing wrong with that. Even having customers is in the best interest of the company. They're not doing you a favor when they release a product; they're selling you something so they can make a living.
Xreal is nowhere near the level of technical capabilities of UE3, sorry.
The rest of your post was a goofy anti-capitalist rant where you actually complain about somebody giving something away for free to attract people to the commercial version (aka, shareware). You even use the trite phrase "marketing ploy." Congrats on being predictable.
I'm using the Mac version of Chrome 4 right now. The developer channel has provided a Mac version since at least June.
Slashdot fucking loves Google. They want to use Google's OS, browser, bookmarks, RSS reader, email, and phone. Then they bash Microsoft's platform expansion attempts and Apple's branding.
Just think, this is the same government that some people want regulating traffic on the internet under the guise of "net neutrality." There's a backlash against this administration growing quickly anyway, as evidenced by the Republican victories in yesterday's elections. Democrats, if you keep up what you're doing, the pendulum will swing back against you very shortly.
So all those critical remote execution vulnerabilities that Microsoft patches every month are a figment of our imaginations?
Hell, anyone else remember when Windows machines started rebooting themselves due to an RPC exploit?
Well, you lost me there. Cocoa and Quartz kick the shit out of X11 in that department. I can't even remember the last time I saw tearing in a window except on a Linux system.
This article's summary reaches an erroneous conclusion. X11 Chrome being a little faster than other versions doesn't mean X11 is awesome and has stood the test of time. It means Chrome isn't as optimized on the other platforms. For example, according to their website, they have Chrome on OS X rendering its pages into bitmaps due to their implementation of sandboxing on that platform. You can notice a slight scroll delay in Chrome for OS X if you grab the scroll bar and move it around quickly. Contrast to Safari which scrolls responsively.
Look at Slashdot cheering at the piracy. It's really sickening how much Slashdot LOVES piracy now and encourages it at every opportunity.
So, we're opposed to copyright in this article discussion, Slashdot? I'm confused, because the GPL is a copyright license, and violations of the GPL are met with anger on the part of Slashdot's readers. However, any non-GPL situation in which copyright infringement occurs is met with jeers and sarcasm.
Supporting the GPL's copyright protections in some situations while favoring copyright infringement in other situations benefits you guys by getting you free stuff in both kinds of situations. Your viewpoints are driven by pure selfishness.
I'm sure I'll get modded down again for speaking out about this, but I believe it needs to be pointed out.
Demonoid's been down for over a month, and Mininova was ordered by a court to remove illegal torrents.
Also, why is this under "Your Rights Online?" Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Defend them from what? They're not doing anything wrong.
Ancient? The DS only came out in 2004, and GBA games kept being made for quite a while afterward.
OS X is UNIX, a server OS, so I fail to see what your issue is with the idea of OS X used as a server.
I mentioned Google's update in the last sentence of the summary.
Isn't it enough of a story to remind people that their data gets indexed and becomes searchable everywhere for an indefinite period of time if they post it to a personal website? It's easy to forget the ramifications of posting something online, especially when it has names, addresses, and phone numbers associated with it.
For example, even though Google has disabled access to these voice mails through their search engine, Yahoo's search engine now has them indexed as well. The data has propagated in ways users may not have expected or intended.
I'm qualified to say that PulseAudio is poorly implemented and buggy. Throwing out the "you didn't pay for this software" copout doesn't help your cause either.
The advantage of commercial software is that they listen to customer feedback or else they lose sales. The sign of a professional attitude is not treating your software like a pet project that's above criticism.
Yay, let's spend the rest of the discussion bashing creationists and religion to make ourselves feel enlightened and intellectual instead of just discussing the story. This happens on ANY tech site that posts a story that could even remotely be related to religion in some way. We get it; you're a super-smart atheist like the rest of us.