That is true, but it is very unfair to characterize it as abandoned. Mark Duncan of Borland R&D, and the main author and maintainer of CLX has been very responsive to bug reports in the Borland Newsgroups. He may not have done much over the holidays, but Borland has done a remarkable job of keeping FreeCLX updated.
You must register the product, yes, but to do that all you need to give is a name and a valid email, and you are not required to give address, etc. Membership on their community site -- which requires no more than that -- is all that is needed. Just a clarification.
>>Why lock your product to a proprietary compiler and a proprietary language?
Why? Because Kylix increases your productivity by orders of magnitude, maybe?
hiring detectives and Pinkertons as thugs and assassins, and the hired thugs literally attacked, killed, people. In addition, corporate mercenaries have literally carried out assasinations of people opposed to the corporate policy.
Correct me if I am wrong, but these actions are crimes and it is the job of government to protect us from this type of gross violation of our rights. Hardly an argument supporting the position that corporations take away our rights. I suppose they do, in the same way that a kidnapper takes away your rights.
This decision to lock the doors from the outside was entirely a business decision: the seamstresses were not consulted in the matter.
Does an isolated anecdote where a corporation literally kidnapped an employee prove your point? I don't think so, do you?
you seem entirely unaware that corporations in the past could and did hire gunmen to kill those who opposed the corporation.
What have a said that made you think I was unaware of such things? "In the past" seems to be the operative word in your claim. But again, what you are talking about is illegal activity, and outside the scope of corporate behavior. I'll agree with you that a kidnapper can take away your rights, and in as much as a corporation acts like a kidnapper, then they take away your rights. Of course, kidnapping is illegal.
If you'd like to bring _back_ a state of affairs where corporations can basically hire private armies to kill anyone that opposes them (hint: if it happened in the Third World, would you have heard about it on the nightly news?), I can only say that I would have to consider you an enemy.
You have a strange sense of freedom, dear. Tis you who needs enlightening.
If you don't like the rules that a corporation expect you to follow, then quit. You are free to do so. No corporation can, with the threat of force, make you do anything. Your freedom can only be taken under the threat of force.
If you criticize your boss and are fired, how has that restricted your freedom of speech? You can say anything about your boss (well, almost anything) and you won't be put in jail. Your company may fire you, but of course that is their right, as you don't have a "right" to the job.
Corporations can, as I said, take a way choices that you might want -- i.e. the choice to speak freely about your boss, or not have your e-mail read -- but they can't take away your freedom. Again, only the government can do that. Corporations don't restrict your freedom to assemble -- assemble away! You won't be hurt or put in jail or anything. Just because that action has consequences that you don't like doesn't mean you aren't free to do it. Of course you are!
Don't be silly. Corporations can in no way take away your freedom. Only the government can do that. Corporations can take away your choices, but how in the world would a corporation take away your freedom?
Here are two things I think/hope will happen in the near-to-medium-term future:
The generation of electricity will be distributed, and most homes will use fuel cells to generate their electricity. Losing 40% of generated electricity in transmission just won't make sense anymore.
I will be able to call up any movie, and more importantly, any TV show for watching when I want to watch. Tivo is the first step in this direction, but when you are sitting around with friends and someone says "Remember that Saturday Night Live skit where Belushi......", you'll be able to watch it right then and there. (Side note: Blockbuster is going out of business)
Everyone is always talking about surfing the web on your cell phone, WAP, wireless, etc., but that is coming at it from the wrong direction. The PDA will become the cell phone and cell phones themselves will disappear. Already you can buy a phone module for your Handspring Visor. This makes much more sense.
Hopefully, someday, someone will explain to me why I see people carrying a cell phone and a beeper.
Great message, and you are right on. The Author's Guild is responding in the typical fashion of any economic group that meets competition -- they are whining.
If you are paying Oracle, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this robust, full-featured RDBMS. The features are there and the price is right.:-)
Now the marketting flaks are promising "100% Windows compatibility" for Kylix.
They aren't promising any such thing. Where did you hear/read that? They are saying that apps in Windows will be highly compatible with Kylix, but not "100%"
i highly doubt Borland would be much of an adopter of the KDE/Gnome interface and interope with the right people to do what linux people think is right.
It seems that your doubts are unfounded. The Kylix project will use the QT libraries, so it should integrate nicely into both KDE and GNOME. They are quite adamant about being desktop neutral. Also, they do appear to be listening to the Linux community quite closely, especially with regard to licensing issues.
Well written, Jon. You are right in that the irrelevance of the whole thing is the real story. What if the government dropped everything today? The only people who would care would be the anti-MS crowd, but they might not see clearly that it wouldn't make any difference. About the only thing that would change would be the price of MSFT. None of the remedies would seem to make much of a difference either. The marketplace, as it should, is already dealing with MS, and the case becomes sillier and sillier with every passing day and with every Linux install.
Actually, I wish they would drop the whole thing just to save on the tax dollars. Unfortunately, this thing could drag on for years. The IBM case, which started in the 60's, was only settled in the past few years, and it still affects IBM today. But whatever happens, you are right, Bill Gates doesn't matter that much anymore.
No, I think he means that Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, etc. will gladly include the VCL runtime libraries (BPL files) in their distributions, to every one's benefit.
And talking about fire-bombing a building is really helpfule.;-)
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What do I expect? I expect that people will obey the law and respect intellectual property rights, that's what _I_ expect.
That is true, but it is very unfair to characterize it as abandoned. Mark Duncan of Borland R&D, and the main author and maintainer of CLX has been very responsive to bug reports in the Borland Newsgroups. He may not have done much over the holidays, but Borland has done a remarkable job of keeping FreeCLX updated.
All corporations are out to make money. That is why they exist. What is wrong with that?
You must register the product, yes, but to do that all you need to give is a name and a valid email, and you are not required to give address, etc. Membership on their community site -- which requires no more than that -- is all that is needed. Just a clarification.
Let me get this straight. They can't find it, so it isn't happening? What kind of logic is that?
Get Mandrake 8.0. This install is nice, the interface is familiar, and it will network nicely with your NT machines with minimal hassle.
I can't believe I am the only one mentioning and OtterBox
>>Why lock your product to a proprietary compiler and a proprietary language? Why? Because Kylix increases your productivity by orders of magnitude, maybe?
Here's the truth clarified --
Kylix's IDE is a native Kylix application that used Winelib.
Kylix produces native executables that don't use Wine or Winelibs at all.
Kylix executables do require the qt libraries.
Actually the IDE used WineLib -- but apps compiled in Kylix do not need WINE in any way shape or form.
Correct me if I am wrong, but these actions are crimes and it is the job of government to protect us from this type of gross violation of our rights. Hardly an argument supporting the position that corporations take away our rights. I suppose they do, in the same way that a kidnapper takes away your rights.
This decision to lock the doors from the outside was entirely a business decision: the seamstresses were not consulted in the matter.
Does an isolated anecdote where a corporation literally kidnapped an employee prove your point? I don't think so, do you?
you seem entirely unaware that corporations in the past could and did hire gunmen to kill those who opposed the corporation.
What have a said that made you think I was unaware of such things? "In the past" seems to be the operative word in your claim. But again, what you are talking about is illegal activity, and outside the scope of corporate behavior. I'll agree with you that a kidnapper can take away your rights, and in as much as a corporation acts like a kidnapper, then they take away your rights. Of course, kidnapping is illegal.
If you'd like to bring _back_ a state of affairs where corporations can basically hire private armies to kill anyone that opposes them (hint: if it happened in the Third World, would you have heard about it on the nightly news?), I can only say that I would have to consider you an enemy.
What in the world are you talking about here?
You signed that non-compete clause, right? Sounds like you voluntarily gave up those rights. No one and certainly no corporation "took" them from you.
If you don't like the rules that a corporation expect you to follow, then quit. You are free to do so. No corporation can, with the threat of force, make you do anything. Your freedom can only be taken under the threat of force.
If you criticize your boss and are fired, how has that restricted your freedom of speech? You can say anything about your boss (well, almost anything) and you won't be put in jail. Your company may fire you, but of course that is their right, as you don't have a "right" to the job.
Corporations can, as I said, take a way choices that you might want -- i.e. the choice to speak freely about your boss, or not have your e-mail read -- but they can't take away your freedom. Again, only the government can do that. Corporations don't restrict your freedom to assemble -- assemble away! You won't be hurt or put in jail or anything. Just because that action has consequences that you don't like doesn't mean you aren't free to do it. Of course you are!
Can't tell them where to travel? Huh? Since when does America stop anyone from traveling anywhere?
Don't be silly. Corporations can in no way take away your freedom. Only the government can do that. Corporations can take away your choices, but how in the world would a corporation take away your freedom?
The generation of electricity will be distributed, and most homes will use fuel cells to generate their electricity. Losing 40% of generated electricity in transmission just won't make sense anymore.
I will be able to call up any movie, and more importantly, any TV show for watching when I want to watch. Tivo is the first step in this direction, but when you are sitting around with friends and someone says "Remember that Saturday Night Live skit where Belushi......", you'll be able to watch it right then and there. (Side note: Blockbuster is going out of business)
Everyone is always talking about surfing the web on your cell phone, WAP, wireless, etc., but that is coming at it from the wrong direction. The PDA will become the cell phone and cell phones themselves will disappear. Already you can buy a phone module for your Handspring Visor. This makes much more sense.
Hopefully, someday, someone will explain to me why I see people carrying a cell phone and a beeper.
Great message, and you are right on. The Author's Guild is responding in the typical fashion of any economic group that meets competition -- they are whining.
http://www.borland.com/kylix/
If you are paying Oracle, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this robust, full-featured RDBMS. The features are there and the price is right. :-)
http://www.interbase.com/op en/research/ib_overview.html
Interbase, Visibroker, and JBuilder have been on Linux for some time.
They aren't promising any such thing. Where did you hear/read that? They are saying that apps in Windows will be highly compatible with Kylix, but not "100%"
It seems that your doubts are unfounded. The Kylix project will use the QT libraries, so it should integrate nicely into both KDE and GNOME. They are quite adamant about being desktop neutral. Also, they do appear to be listening to the Linux community quite closely, especially with regard to licensing issues.
Don't count Borland out in the Linux market.
Actually, I wish they would drop the whole thing just to save on the tax dollars. Unfortunately, this thing could drag on for years. The IBM case, which started in the 60's, was only settled in the past few years, and it still affects IBM today. But whatever happens, you are right, Bill Gates doesn't matter that much anymore.
And it is fun to watch him whine about it. :-)
And talking about fire-bombing a building is really helpfule. ;-)