GPL like: You cannot use this software except with other open source software.
And by ``open source'' you mean ``GPL''. The GPL specifies that if you make a derivative work, it has to be released under the GPL. You don't get to modify the license of the derived work. I don't know all of the arguments for what exactly a derived work is.
Public domain: Use it as you like.
Remember that this gives you no rights. If people take your product, change the name, and charge $10 for it on eBay, tough.
What do you want to acheive is the question you should be answering.
I think the game is interesting, partially because it's got SO many cutscenes. It's like interactive fiction. But interesting also because it feels kind of buggy every once-in-a-while.
For instance, while playing co-op I got hit with a grenade, which sent me and my partner flying off a cliff in the warthog. That's OK, we'll just restart at the last checkpoint...
Nope, turns out the game gave us a checkpoint in mid-air. We had to restart the level.
Also, in one of the levels, I died in a fight, and my partner continued fighting. As he headed up a ramp after killing everything, I spawned...off the ramp, and into the abyss below. There was plenty of room ON the ramp! More guys showed up a moment later, and my partner died shortly thereafter because I was dead and couldn't back him up.
And yes, I played from shortly after midnight until morning.
Politics will never be a suitable place for open source, in the sense that I understand from the question.
In open source, competing projects are OK (Gnome and KDE). Reusing good ideas is OK (ReiserFS incorporating some XFS techniques). Waiting until something's absolutely ready for release is OK (Hurd).
Those mentalities don't fit with people's egos. They're wrong and I'm right, or else I'd be on their side (Republicans vs. Democrats). I didn't make a mistake, and I won't issue an apology (fill in this blank...). It has to be done immediately, come hell or high water (DMCA).
Must everything become an operating system? How about quitting trying to become a brand and just make a simple quality browser?
Do you even use Firefox? Just because the reporter talks about Firefox and operating systems doesn't mean anything. The technologies that Firefox utilizes are cross platform, meaning that a company can design an client-side application, and it automatically has support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
It's already a simple, quality browser. I recommend trying it out.
DEFINITELY get rid of admin privileges. I'm working in IT at a health service for a major private university, and all of our users (doctors, nurses, etc) have admin privileges because our mission critial software is poorly designed and requires it for proper functionality.
Please please please dump IE. That ALONE is the ONLY reason my users have problems. It always ends up being (spy|ad|mal)ware that breaks something (again, our mission-critical app is poorly designed and most anything will break it), and the only way for it to get on the computer is through IE. Period.
On the client side, I recommend Gaim. On the protocol side, once you're using Gaim, you can get a Jabber account and begin telling your friends about it. I got a Jabber account at the beginning of the year-ish, and so far I've gotten over a dozen people to also get an account.
True, I can't drop AIM just yet, but the number of important people in my life who are using Jabber continues to increase. If you don't use open protocols, they'll never have a reason to either.
occasional interruption of service when one of the messenger services decides to get clever with their protocol
And by ``one of the messenger services'' you mean YAHOO, right? Seriously, Yahoo must hate its users - they appear to think that by kicking users off of their network they're somehow more endearing.
The JPEG isn't valid, so of course it won't display "correctly". Any idiot can pull the same stunt on Windows (rename notepad.exe to notepad.jpg, and attempt to open - whoops, one program segfaults and another says it can't import the image!).
Linux isn't vulnerable to this particular image. In this case it only affects Microsoft's software.
I like how you emphasized Red Hat in all caps. Classy. Actually, I don't think Red Hat really counts as an operating system vendor in the same sense as the others you've mentioned (at least not Apple). Red Hat takes other people's software and packages it together. What you're talking about is equivalent to Red Hat taking a standalone browser (such as Firefox), and refusing to allow anyone to upgrade just the browser. "No, you have to pony up some cash to re-license RHEL." See the difference?
So don't be dense. Open source software doesn't work the same way.
KDE strives so hard to provide a consistent and easy to use UI
I haven't used KDE in a while, so I can't speak to the consistency issue. But "easy to use"? KDE assaults its users with way too many options. I used to love KDE for its configurability. I still appreciate that it IS that configurable. But it loses ease-of-use points because of the bottomless pit of options.
one IM client supporting all widely used standards
If by "standards" you mean trash like AIM, ICQ, MSN, or (ugh) Yahoo, don't be confused. Just because they're widely used doesn't make them standards. They're undocumented protocols.
you can browse SMB network with Nautilus but when you actually try to open a file (from SMB via Nautilus) in OpenOffice.org you will get a info that viewer does not support this method
Ximian has been working on this in their OOo builds, and they're working to get the changes accepted upstream. They're using GnomeVFS to handle the situation.
It's not like the gaming industry is in the middle of a standards battle.
It should be. DirectX and whatever else comes out of the Microsoft camp only serves to lock people into the Windows operating system. It isn't portable to MacOSX or Linux if Microsoft decides it doesn't want it to be.
Yes, developers can use whatever API they want, but using something permanently restricted to Windows discriminates against users who don't use Windows.
they don't want to be locked into a specific set of HTML
Not having a gmail account I can't speak with certainty, but Google needs to be using valid HTML and use CSS to position the content. See CSS Zen Garden for examples of CSS' power, and an example of the beauty of well-structured HTML markup.
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And by ``open source'' you mean ``GPL''. The GPL specifies that if you make a derivative work, it has to be released under the GPL. You don't get to modify the license of the derived work. I don't know all of the arguments for what exactly a derived work is.
Public domain: Use it as you like.
Remember that this gives you no rights. If people take your product, change the name, and charge $10 for it on eBay, tough.
What do you want to acheive is the question you should be answering.
Truer advice was never given.For instance, while playing co-op I got hit with a grenade, which sent me and my partner flying off a cliff in the warthog. That's OK, we'll just restart at the last checkpoint...
Nope, turns out the game gave us a checkpoint in mid-air. We had to restart the level.
Also, in one of the levels, I died in a fight, and my partner continued fighting. As he headed up a ramp after killing everything, I spawned...off the ramp, and into the abyss below. There was plenty of room ON the ramp! More guys showed up a moment later, and my partner died shortly thereafter because I was dead and couldn't back him up.
And yes, I played from shortly after midnight until morning.
Politics will never be a suitable place for open source, in the sense that I understand from the question.
In open source, competing projects are OK (Gnome and KDE). Reusing good ideas is OK (ReiserFS incorporating some XFS techniques). Waiting until something's absolutely ready for release is OK (Hurd).
Those mentalities don't fit with people's egos. They're wrong and I'm right, or else I'd be on their side (Republicans vs. Democrats). I didn't make a mistake, and I won't issue an apology (fill in this blank...). It has to be done immediately, come hell or high water (DMCA).
You forgot "on their hands and knees". ;)
You get what you pay for. -- Gabriel Biel
Do you even use Firefox? Just because the reporter talks about Firefox and operating systems doesn't mean anything. The technologies that Firefox utilizes are cross platform, meaning that a company can design an client-side application, and it automatically has support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
It's already a simple, quality browser. I recommend trying it out.
It seems the Slashdot editors mayhaps read Dilbert.
Please please please dump IE. That ALONE is the ONLY reason my users have problems. It always ends up being (spy|ad|mal)ware that breaks something (again, our mission-critical app is poorly designed and most anything will break it), and the only way for it to get on the computer is through IE. Period.
I of course recommend Firefox.
True that. Which is why I have a Jabber account and recommend it to all of my friends, as well.
True, I can't drop AIM just yet, but the number of important people in my life who are using Jabber continues to increase. If you don't use open protocols, they'll never have a reason to either.
And by ``one of the messenger services'' you mean YAHOO , right? Seriously, Yahoo must hate its users - they appear to think that by kicking users off of their network they're somehow more endearing.
oGalaxyo, I think you should seriously just post using your username, rather than hiding behind anonymity.
Linux isn't vulnerable to this particular image. In this case it only affects Microsoft's software.
-1 FUD slinging
So don't be dense. Open source software doesn't work the same way.
off of several computers that I administer, and...
Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about IE.
You forgot the last conditional:
(5) The "Save" icons for all graphical operating systems are changed from floppy disks to CDRWs.
Yes, developers can use whatever API they want, but using something permanently restricted to Windows discriminates against users who don't use Windows.
Wake up.