It seems to me like the main reason for BSD advocates to dislike the GPL is that it essentially says "We're writing free software, but your software is too free, so you can't use our code. But we'll take plenty of your code."
Well, since the BSD-license explisitly allows that, I fail to see the problem. I don't hear BSD-folks whining when MS uses their code in Windows. BSD-folks wrote and chose the license they are using, they shouldn't complain if someone uses their code while agreeing with the license.
The GPL is supposed to keep proprietary software from taking from free software and not giving back their work, but the GPL doesn't allow work under it to be given back to the non-GPL open source community.
Allowing that would pose significant risks. Assume for a moment that people and companies could freely re-license GPL'ed code under some other free license. What would there be to stop Microsoft (for example) from taking GPL'ed code, re-licesing it under a BSD-license, and then freely taking that (now BSD'ed) code and using it in their proprietary software (GPL forbids that, but BSD allows it)? Answer: nothing.
The real question is have they finally dumped the stupid x86 instruction set in favour of a space/energy/coding efficient RISC set?
They tried dumping x86. The end result is know as IA64 AKA Itanium. Just look at what blazing success THAT architecture is! All of you who complain that "Intel should just dump x86!": But you money where your mouth is and buy Itanium!
x86 has been dumped where it matters. Only 8 GP-registers? No worroes, x86-64 (aka AMD64) doubles that figure to 16, eliminating one of the biggest gripes in x86! Confusing FPU (x87)? No worries, in current chips FPU is mostly handled by SSE!
Oh, you are complaining that x86 is not RISC? Well, it is. Modern x86-chips are RISC in the inside, it gets translated to x86-CISC in the end.
Does any other vid-card company do it better? Ati's driver are even worse!
And how long until nvidia makes my board obsolete?
I remember using those NV-drivers on Riva TNT. And if they do obsolete your card, you can always use the drivers that come with Xfree. What's the problem?
Gentoo doesn't beat it on speed, and isn't likely to.
Since you haven't tried Gentoo, how can you know that it doesn't beat Slackware on speed? Or are you just assuming that? If you are, then please don't state your personal assumption as a fact.
For people who want a stripped-down, screaming box that does exactly what they want and absolutely nothing more...well, that's a job for Slackware.
What is Trolltech's relationship with SCO and Canopy.
Caldera and/or Canopy invested some money to TT years ago. There was no indication back then that they were about to turn evil.
Why does Ralph Yarro, Darl McBride's boss sit on the board of directors of Trolltech?
Because they are one of TT shareholders (although minority shareholders).
Does Trolltech owe SCO/Canopy money?
Not to my knowledge. What makes you think they owe them money?
Does SCO have the right to buy Trolltech later?
Again: what makes you think that? Why would SCO have the right to buy TT, and not Borland for example? You are not making any sense.
Does the money they take from SCO/Canopy give SCO/Canopy certain rights? Like the right to a seat on the board of directors?
They don't take any money from SCO/Canopy. SCO/Canopy/Caldera invested in TT years ago, that was when they got money from them. What did SCO get in return? A bit over 5% of TT shares. And those shares give them the seat at the board of directors. But that does NOT in any shape or form mean that they are controlled by SCO! Hell, about 94% of TT is NOT owned by SCO/Canopy, but yet, according to your logic, TT is somehow magically controlled by a company that owns a bit over 5% of the company. TT employees (who own over half of the company) are not in fact control. Also, companies like Orkla and Borland are just puppets of SCO!
Have you adjusted your tin-foil hat recently? It seems that it's not working!
SCO and Canopy combined own a bit over 5% of TT. Majority of the company is owned by the employees of TT. SCO/Canopy can in no shape or form control TT. And TT can't buy the shares back if SCO/Canopy is unwilling to sell.
Good point. I would argue that Windows is a good desktop though. It's easy for people to navigate, do all the basic things they want, install hardware easily, etc.
Is that true because Windows is easy, or because people have just gotten used to the way Windows works?
While my income-tax is 25%, I do pay some additional payments to pensions and such. But looking at my last paycheck, those additional costs where nowhere nearly as much as my income-tax was. It was something like 50 euros. If I include those in my tax-%, It would increase my tax-% by 1-2 percentage-points (to about 26-27%). So it's not that much.
However I hate having to pay for it all (tax is 40% to 60% depending on income):-)
I disoute those figures. I'm in Finland, and while I may not be uber-rich, I have a decent income. My tax-% is 25 right now. If I had something like 40-50% tax-%, I would have to earn ALOT of money.
Just about all your links were about how subcompacts sell prety well in Europe (at least when comapred to USA). But nowhere did it say that MOST cars (that is, over 50%) in Europe are subcompacts? While subcompacts (think VW Polo and the like) do sell well (I never claimed otherwise), they are nowhere near the majority. In Finland nr 1. and 2. are medium-sized (Corolla) or bigger (Avensis).
So Hyundai does well in Europe with it's subcompact. What does that prove? Only that Hyundai does well in Europe with their subcompact. It does not prove that most cars sold here are subcompacts.
Your data regarding 206 is from 2002. It might have been best-selling car for a while, but today that title belongs to Renault Megane. Most cars sold in Europe are medium-sized cars (VW Golf, Toyota Corolla etc.)
You and I both know that "DVD Jon" was perfectly able to view his DVD under the spacifics of the agreement he agreed to when he purchased the DVD.
What "agreement"? When I buy a DVD the sales-clerk does not make me sign any kind of agreement, he just takes my money and smiles. Oh, they usually mention in the beginning of the movie that I'm not allowed to make "unathorized copies" of the movie, nor am I allowed to show the movie in a cable-tv or something. There are no mention of devices that I'm allowed to use to watch the movie. If I decide to watch it in my DVD-player under Linux, there's NOTHING they could do about it.
But who says Microsoft are just selling an operating system? They are selling the whole thing, applications and all. What is wrong with that? Why can't they sell what they like?
If they are selling an OS (Windows) along with separate apps (IE, Media Player etc.), it would be a violation anti-trust-laws. MS has a monopoly in the OS-business. Leveraging their monopoly in order to push their other products (in this case, using their Windows-monopoly to push IE and Media Player) is illegal.
None of the apps in Linux-distros is required. You can use SUSE with either KDE or GNOME. Hell, you can use nothing but the CLI! You get several media-players to choose from, they don't force-feed you one certain media-player. You get several browser, you are not forced to install just one certain browser etc. etc.
Well, I'm in Europe right now and I haven't seen any Citronettas (what the hell is that?), Fiat Panda (what makes you think it's of "poor quality"?) or Volkswagen Fox (sold in South-America IIRC, I have NEVER seen one here) in here. I believe Fiat Panda is in the sub-compact category (that has such vars like Citroen C2, Renault Twingo, Volkswagen Lupo and the like). While those cars sell OK they are nowhere near the majority! FWIW, best-selling car in Finland is either Toyota Corolla or Toyota Avensis (they are the top two, but ranking between the two changes). Corolla is a family-car (same size as Ford Focus, VW Golf, Chrysler Neon and the like), whereas Avensis is one step bigger (same size as VW Passat, Ford Mondeo, Opel Vectra etc.).
Best-selling car in whole of Europe is (IIRC) Renault Megane. Same size as VW Golf and Toyota Corolla. Of course, to you those are presumably "tiny" cars. But the fact is that you can fit adults in there just fine. And two adults in front, kids in the back is more than convenient. Well, maybe all americans are 2.5 meters tall and weight over 200kg, so for them it might be "tiny"....
So your claim that most cars sold in Europe are subcompacts, is simply mistaken. And just because american car-companies are completely incapable of building a decent car that is not huge, does not mean that all smaller cars are crap.
Just because car is amall doesn't mean that they are "cheaply made wind-up toys". And also just becuase car is big, it doesn't mean that it's of high quality.
The reason for cars in Europe tend to be smaller than in USA is because for some reason Europeans don't need huge 4x4's just to drive in a city. I have had a smallish car, and it could easily transport 4-5 adults. Why do you need a humungous car? I have no idea. Maybe Europeans just prefer cars that are sensible, instead of using their cars to compensate their lack of manhood;)?
By that logic you could say that Chryslers aren't american either, since they are owned by DaimlerChrysler (Germans). Mitsubishi ain't japanese either, since they are owned by the Germans as well. Nissan if French (owned largely by Renault) and Mazda is American (owned largely by Ford)
Think about it: the "old" cars that are still around, are the ones that were rock-solid. The crappy ones, the lemons etc. etc. have naturally disappeared. So it's only natural that it would seem like the old cars keep on going, while the new cars don't, since time has already eradicated the crappy old cars, leaving the good ones running. It's natural selection, plain and simple. It doesn't mean that the old cars were somehow better. We just forget about the crappy cars they made back then, and only remember the rock-solid cars that made it to today.
There are plenty of good cars made these days. In 30 years there will be people driving cars made in 2004 and complaining how "they don't make 'em like they used to".
Crappy cars will disappear, good cars will endure.
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Well, since the BSD-license explisitly allows that, I fail to see the problem. I don't hear BSD-folks whining when MS uses their code in Windows. BSD-folks wrote and chose the license they are using, they shouldn't complain if someone uses their code while agreeing with the license.
Allowing that would pose significant risks. Assume for a moment that people and companies could freely re-license GPL'ed code under some other free license. What would there be to stop Microsoft (for example) from taking GPL'ed code, re-licesing it under a BSD-license, and then freely taking that (now BSD'ed) code and using it in their proprietary software (GPL forbids that, but BSD allows it)? Answer: nothing.
They tried dumping x86. The end result is know as IA64 AKA Itanium. Just look at what blazing success THAT architecture is! All of you who complain that "Intel should just dump x86!": But you money where your mouth is and buy Itanium!
x86 has been dumped where it matters. Only 8 GP-registers? No worroes, x86-64 (aka AMD64) doubles that figure to 16, eliminating one of the biggest gripes in x86! Confusing FPU (x87)? No worries, in current chips FPU is mostly handled by SSE!
Oh, you are complaining that x86 is not RISC? Well, it is. Modern x86-chips are RISC in the inside, it gets translated to x86-CISC in the end.
I remember using those NV-drivers on Riva TNT. And if they do obsolete your card, you can always use the drivers that come with Xfree. What's the problem?
Since you haven't tried Gentoo, how can you know that it doesn't beat Slackware on speed? Or are you just assuming that? If you are, then please don't state your personal assumption as a fact.
And you can't do that with Gentoo.... why?
Caldera and/or Canopy invested some money to TT years ago. There was no indication back then that they were about to turn evil.
Because they are one of TT shareholders (although minority shareholders).
Not to my knowledge. What makes you think they owe them money?
Again: what makes you think that? Why would SCO have the right to buy TT, and not Borland for example? You are not making any sense.
They don't take any money from SCO/Canopy. SCO/Canopy/Caldera invested in TT years ago, that was when they got money from them. What did SCO get in return? A bit over 5% of TT shares. And those shares give them the seat at the board of directors. But that does NOT in any shape or form mean that they are controlled by SCO! Hell, about 94% of TT is NOT owned by SCO/Canopy, but yet, according to your logic, TT is somehow magically controlled by a company that owns a bit over 5% of the company. TT employees (who own over half of the company) are not in fact control. Also, companies like Orkla and Borland are just puppets of SCO!
Have you adjusted your tin-foil hat recently? It seems that it's not working!
You didn't notice the smiley in my post? But then again, the fact remains that there are lots and lots of people who feel Qt is worth the money.
Maybe you get what you pay for ;)?
Doesn't Qt have those same advantages?
SCO and Canopy combined own a bit over 5% of TT. Majority of the company is owned by the employees of TT. SCO/Canopy can in no shape or form control TT. And TT can't buy the shares back if SCO/Canopy is unwilling to sell.
So quit your whining.
Is that true because Windows is easy, or because people have just gotten used to the way Windows works?
While my income-tax is 25%, I do pay some additional payments to pensions and such. But looking at my last paycheck, those additional costs where nowhere nearly as much as my income-tax was. It was something like 50 euros. If I include those in my tax-%, It would increase my tax-% by 1-2 percentage-points (to about 26-27%). So it's not that much.
I disoute those figures. I'm in Finland, and while I may not be uber-rich, I have a decent income. My tax-% is 25 right now. If I had something like 40-50% tax-%, I would have to earn ALOT of money.
Just about all your links were about how subcompacts sell prety well in Europe (at least when comapred to USA). But nowhere did it say that MOST cars (that is, over 50%) in Europe are subcompacts? While subcompacts (think VW Polo and the like) do sell well (I never claimed otherwise), they are nowhere near the majority. In Finland nr 1. and 2. are medium-sized (Corolla) or bigger (Avensis).
So Hyundai does well in Europe with it's subcompact. What does that prove? Only that Hyundai does well in Europe with their subcompact. It does not prove that most cars sold here are subcompacts.
Your data regarding 206 is from 2002. It might have been best-selling car for a while, but today that title belongs to Renault Megane. Most cars sold in Europe are medium-sized cars (VW Golf, Toyota Corolla etc.)
What "agreement"? When I buy a DVD the sales-clerk does not make me sign any kind of agreement, he just takes my money and smiles. Oh, they usually mention in the beginning of the movie that I'm not allowed to make "unathorized copies" of the movie, nor am I allowed to show the movie in a cable-tv or something. There are no mention of devices that I'm allowed to use to watch the movie. If I decide to watch it in my DVD-player under Linux, there's NOTHING they could do about it.
Well, since USA is so ridiculously overlawyered and Europe is not, I would say that the European system works better.
If they are selling an OS (Windows) along with separate apps (IE, Media Player etc.), it would be a violation anti-trust-laws. MS has a monopoly in the OS-business. Leveraging their monopoly in order to push their other products (in this case, using their Windows-monopoly to push IE and Media Player) is illegal.
None of the apps in Linux-distros is required. You can use SUSE with either KDE or GNOME. Hell, you can use nothing but the CLI! You get several media-players to choose from, they don't force-feed you one certain media-player. You get several browser, you are not forced to install just one certain browser etc. etc.
And if they don't change their behavior, they will be fined again, and again, and again... Every single year untill they comply.
They do that in Finland, not in Germany.
Well, I'm in Europe right now and I haven't seen any Citronettas (what the hell is that?), Fiat Panda (what makes you think it's of "poor quality"?) or Volkswagen Fox (sold in South-America IIRC, I have NEVER seen one here) in here. I believe Fiat Panda is in the sub-compact category (that has such vars like Citroen C2, Renault Twingo, Volkswagen Lupo and the like). While those cars sell OK they are nowhere near the majority! FWIW, best-selling car in Finland is either Toyota Corolla or Toyota Avensis (they are the top two, but ranking between the two changes). Corolla is a family-car (same size as Ford Focus, VW Golf, Chrysler Neon and the like), whereas Avensis is one step bigger (same size as VW Passat, Ford Mondeo, Opel Vectra etc.).
Best-selling car in whole of Europe is (IIRC) Renault Megane. Same size as VW Golf and Toyota Corolla. Of course, to you those are presumably "tiny" cars. But the fact is that you can fit adults in there just fine. And two adults in front, kids in the back is more than convenient. Well, maybe all americans are 2.5 meters tall and weight over 200kg, so for them it might be "tiny"....
So your claim that most cars sold in Europe are subcompacts, is simply mistaken. And just because american car-companies are completely incapable of building a decent car that is not huge, does not mean that all smaller cars are crap.
Just because car is amall doesn't mean that they are "cheaply made wind-up toys". And also just becuase car is big, it doesn't mean that it's of high quality.
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The reason for cars in Europe tend to be smaller than in USA is because for some reason Europeans don't need huge 4x4's just to drive in a city. I have had a smallish car, and it could easily transport 4-5 adults. Why do you need a humungous car? I have no idea. Maybe Europeans just prefer cars that are sensible, instead of using their cars to compensate their lack of manhood
By that logic you could say that Chryslers aren't american either, since they are owned by DaimlerChrysler (Germans). Mitsubishi ain't japanese either, since they are owned by the Germans as well. Nissan if French (owned largely by Renault) and Mazda is American (owned largely by Ford)
Think about it: the "old" cars that are still around, are the ones that were rock-solid. The crappy ones, the lemons etc. etc. have naturally disappeared. So it's only natural that it would seem like the old cars keep on going, while the new cars don't, since time has already eradicated the crappy old cars, leaving the good ones running. It's natural selection, plain and simple. It doesn't mean that the old cars were somehow better. We just forget about the crappy cars they made back then, and only remember the rock-solid cars that made it to today.
There are plenty of good cars made these days. In 30 years there will be people driving cars made in 2004 and complaining how "they don't make 'em like they used to".
Crappy cars will disappear, good cars will endure.
Really???
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