This is interisting. I've seen news papers talk up their redership this way in order to boost their advertising revinue.
They do market research that, the results clame, says x people read every news paper the sell. This then allows them to increse the cost they charge for the adverts.
I liked this bit
In your declaration you claim that it is necessary to use democratic rules in the use of IT as well and you conclude that therefore ".. it would almost be the duty of a democratic country to use free software".
I conclude from that, that a country that does not use Linux must be undemocratic or at least does not fulfill its democratic duties.
Is there no other free soft ware than Linux
Having read what Jim Robinson is aleged to have posted. It would seem he has the same mind set as those he claimes to dispise.
He claims that Free Republic was set up in order to allow people to report and discuss the issues of the day with out hinderence. Then as soon as the USA gets one terrorist attack he supends the rules and declairs that decent will no longer be tolerated.
Comming from the other side of the Pond, yes I am British, this smacks of the knee jurk reactisonism we have come to expect only from our politishions.
If Jim was in the UK I'd say he was gunning for a knighthood, do you have an equivalent over there?
Any way I think he'll loose this one on the grounds that he has cencerd some of the posts so his argument about not being able to cencer others don't stand up.
Of cause when G. doublya Bush gets to hear about this he might want to do somthing to help.
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In order to successfully run Linux you nead sendmail installed.
Why?
Because menny of the programs email the user who was running them when somthing goes wrong. ie vim
Why is this diffrent from Microsoft.
Any one can write a drop in replacement for sendmail as the API is well known and documented.
A disk manufacture sels its first 'copy protection' disk to a citizen of a country that still allows fair usage?
Computer Programs have killed people in the past.
The UK milatery has a fly by wire helecopter controled by a computer system called FADEC(sp?).
Several years ago one of these crashed in scotland killing the heads of the N. Irland security forces.
The milatery tryed to blame the pilot and co-pilot, both who died in the crash.
The pilot and co-pilot's famalies tryed to get the desision over turned.
Just recently the famalies won when a house of lords commity decided that the FADEC software was to blame.
IIRC The GPL is abot redistributing and modifying the software. Not about using it.
And I thaught it was the yanks who had no sence of humor :)
No. He just showed them the molecula structure. He didn't tell them how to manufacture it.
This is interisting. I've seen news papers talk up their redership this way in order to boost their advertising revinue.
They do market research that, the results clame, says x people read every news paper the sell. This then allows them to increse the cost they charge for the adverts.
True. The news hear isn't the story. Its the fact that the story has taken another step towards the main stream.
Good luck
EDS.
:-)
They are Private Eye's fave comp company
incompetence is spelt incorrect diliberatly. It's my febal attempt at humor
I'm not one to normaly give thins to corperations with out getting somthing back, but in this instance i'd gladly donate the $1
You could also sight Penryth(sp?) Council who clame to has saved in xs of £150,000 by switching from Microsoft to Star Office and Sun.
I liked this bit
In your declaration you claim that it is necessary to use democratic rules in the use of IT as well and you conclude that therefore ".. it would almost be the duty of a democratic country to use free software".
I conclude from that, that a country that does not use Linux must be undemocratic or at least does not fulfill its democratic duties. Is there no other free soft ware than Linux
Yep, you are right.
Wher's the spelling nazi when I need him
Having read what Jim Robinson is aleged to have posted. It would seem he has the same mind set as those he claimes to dispise.
He claims that Free Republic was set up in order to allow people to report and discuss the issues of the day with out hinderence. Then as soon as the USA gets one terrorist attack he supends the rules and declairs that decent will no longer be tolerated.
Comming from the other side of the Pond, yes I am British, this smacks of the knee jurk reactisonism we have come to expect only from our politishions.
If Jim was in the UK I'd say he was gunning for a knighthood, do you have an equivalent over there?
Any way I think he'll loose this one on the grounds that he has cencerd some of the posts so his argument about not being able to cencer others don't stand up.
Of cause when G. doublya Bush gets to hear about this he might want to do somthing to help.
Watch this space.
IIRC they started of with men in the house, but that didn't attract crouds so they switched to females.
The return's policy dos not mention any CD by name or type.
:-)
Therefor ANY CD you buy from UMG should be covered by it.
How long do you think your local HMV is going to function with 50 geeks chanting 'I want my money back' at the returns counter.
That's fun. How do I get an Overated mod when no one else has modarated the comment.
Or perhaps the moderater thaught that Meaning of Life was overated.
Thy suthun pansie!
Thy wouldst ner stand a cunchs Nor o' Watford Gap*.
*Note to Non UK resadents:-
Watford Gap is a desolate service station on the M1 north of London.
Ppl North of it think any one born south of it is a 'Suthen Pansie', who would n't know a propper job if it came up an bit them.
Ppl to the South think those born to the north are good for nothing layabouts.
See Monty Pythons Meaning of Life for more details
It meens that the same licence is used between big companies with just the company and product names changed.
I would like to remind them of this:-
Never attribute to Malice what can be attributed to Incompitence
This gives us sutch gems as the Perfect Day video
And the prize is to be entered into next weeks show!