This will encourage piracy....Think about it. Buy a cheap self-destructing DVD, DE-CSS it and its yours forever. These kind of tactics don't generally work and I expect the general public to reject it for every reason including environmental pollution, and health reasons...(noxious gasses emmited by degrading DVDs....)
I think the only way you could implement the above plan is to regulate the entire industry. There would be no other legal way to do it. First lets look at OS preloads. Are Windows 95 and 2000 separate operating systems? Would that qualify? Is Windows 3.1 separate? Do the operating systems software engineering students are required to write as part of course-work qualify? And then when does the holy war about which operating systems qualify start? I dont like this solution, because it interferes with the basic principles of free market economics. Its like a subsidy for OSes with small market share. What OSes a manufacturer chooses to show is a part of the free market, and should not dictated. Second, as far as requiring all hardware vendors to put out drivers for at least two operating systems, this is also interfering with the free market. Hardware vendors write drivers for the majority and then for the minority, based on market share and nature of the product. Making this decision for them damages the free market we are trying to promote. I think that a little bit more of an in-depth solution is necessary.
Think about how predatory MS is right now. Now imagine them as three companies. If MS-OS preceives an opperunity to screw MS-APP it will. If MS-INET can screw them both, it will. They will be unable to supress the urge to use the same marketing practices on their former MS bretheren that they used on everyone else. You can bet a power struggle for supremecy will ensue. Voila, competition.
I have been is IS technical support for about 8 years. I have to say that some times in order to give good customer service, you NEED to tell the users something that might be in the manual. If I had called your BBS company, I might get the idea that you are not in the business of helping me use your software. I am sure that some repeat callers need to be schooled in the use of the manual, but in this, as in all things, a balance of RTFM and genuine help is the answer.
Sorry dude, but Pol Pot and Stalin easily come to mind. They just didn't get the press that Hitler did. The man of the century should be someone to be admired, not an example of what not to do.
I agree. FDR was one of the most influential people of our century. The way he shaped our lives not only in foriegn policy, but in domestic policy continues to this day.
Marshall is a good choice, but FDR had much more effect on the world. Imagine how things might have turned out if he had been healty and alert for the meetings with Stalin and Churchill.
This man deserves our attention. He has been villified by right wingers for the last twenty years, but his accomplishments and influence are undeniable.
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This will encourage piracy....Think about it. Buy a cheap self-destructing DVD, DE-CSS it and its yours forever. These kind of tactics don't generally work and I expect the general public to reject it for every reason including environmental pollution, and health reasons...(noxious gasses emmited by degrading DVDs....)
I think the only way you could implement the above plan is to regulate the entire industry. There would be no other legal way to do it. First lets look at OS preloads. Are Windows 95 and 2000 separate operating systems? Would that qualify? Is Windows 3.1 separate? Do the operating systems software engineering students are required to write as part of course-work qualify? And then when does the holy war about which operating systems qualify start? I dont like this solution, because it interferes with the basic principles of free market economics. Its like a subsidy for OSes with small market share. What OSes a manufacturer chooses to show is a part of the free market, and should not dictated. Second, as far as requiring all hardware vendors to put out drivers for at least two operating systems, this is also interfering with the free market. Hardware vendors write drivers for the majority and then for the minority, based on market share and nature of the product. Making this decision for them damages the free market we are trying to promote. I think that a little bit more of an in-depth solution is necessary.
Think about how predatory MS is right now. Now imagine them as three companies. If MS-OS preceives an opperunity to screw MS-APP it will. If MS-INET can screw them both, it will. They will be unable to supress the urge to use the same marketing practices on their former MS bretheren that they used on everyone else. You can bet a power struggle for supremecy will ensue. Voila, competition.
I have been is IS technical support for about 8 years. I have to say that some times in order to give good customer service, you NEED to tell the users something that might be in the manual. If I had called your BBS company, I might get the idea that you are not in the business of helping me use your software. I am sure that some repeat callers need to be schooled in the use of the manual, but in this, as in all things, a balance of RTFM and genuine help is the answer.
Sorry dude, but Pol Pot and Stalin easily come to mind. They just didn't get the press that Hitler did. The man of the century should be someone to be admired, not an example of what not to do.
I agree. FDR was one of the most influential people of our century. The way he shaped our lives not only in foriegn policy, but in domestic policy continues to this day.
Marshall is a good choice, but FDR had much more effect on the world. Imagine how things might have turned out if he had been healty and alert for the meetings with Stalin and Churchill.
This man deserves our attention. He has been villified by right wingers for the last twenty years, but his accomplishments and influence are undeniable.
Ged
Well, thats a pretty easy question to answer.
The project is to attract the masses to Linux.
The masses want a GUI.
Simple enough