What donkey called these eminently sensible comments flamebait? Surely a love of energy efficiency and a lack of love for weight training doesn't make this guy a troll?
As a mere user, the central issue as I see it is whether the license will encourage programmers to gift their skills and thus make StarOffice as fast as M$Office and more functional.
It looks like SCSL won't do this. So StarOffice will follow Netscape into obscurity.
Bill Gates must be grateful to Scott McN for not taking away half of the M$ profit stream.
The great thing about this and the development of cloning is that you can live like the doctor says you shouldn't.
For example, liver problems due to drink. We are a couple of years away form being able to get a liver transplant from a pig.
Or lung cancer due to working in a smoky restaurant? Again, transplant from a pig or other animal.
But this is best: just have a clone created of yourself and then have your head put on the clone. Sure, it'll look odd having the face of a seventy year old on a baby but it'll literally double your lifespan. And you can do it again. Why stop at doing it when your 70. Do it when you're thirty and always have a 17 year old version of yourself in the fridge for special occasions like hot dates!
SuSE 6.1 is a bit buggy. I tried it and you're right...basic things just don't work. wvdial, telnet and KDE all were awful. And the support consisted of no more than acknowledging that you had written in.
Someone gave me a Debian CD which creates a working system before torturing you with dselect. But at least what it said it could do it did do.
Only an American, i.e. someone blessed with being from the land of the free local phone call, would think that strange. In Europe, every download represents a cash investment. SuSE just saves on expensive phone calls.
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Sadly, yes. The first symptom of paranoia is a mistaken belief that what benefits others threatens you. IMO, if a simple distro enables schools to move to Linux, the students will graduate as Linux lovers. So lets hear it for simple distros. IMHO, those students will move to Debian when they understand the difference between apt-get and all other package managers out there but thats a side issue.
KDE is great. It looks like Gnome will be great. Question is, when will decent word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications be ready. AT the moment all we have are glorious desktops and no way to have an envelope addressed!
If Linux should win, M$ won't send our Bruce nasty email BUT they won't send any more cheques either!
Linux people may have sent nasty notes to this poor chap because they felt a manifest injustice was done to the Linux community by the first test. Hey - he did go on record. He knew what was coming. Mindcraft are tiny - bet the publicity will double the size of their business
This third test seems a worthwhile opportunity. I sent a very positive message to him about it (not that he should care about my opinion).
Lets see how it goes - worst case is NT Server wins on performance so the Linux world gets a target to beat.
The question of accidental reuse of concepts and code is an old one known to every contract programmer. If I have a neat idea and code it for one bank, can I do the same thing next time I work at another bank.
Legally, you can't copy ie from disk to tape or other medium and re0use. But you can re-use the ideas.
So IBMers can work on a GPL project, use ideas they had before to enhance it and code up those ideas. Then they can return to a proprietary project and re-use ideas that they had on the GPL projcet. What they can't do is a straight copy.
Abba fan
Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away, and you have their shoes too.
Slashdot Mirror
At first I thought "So what - no newbies on the newsgroups." Then I thought "Excellent - no newbies on the newsgroups."
Do we all need tons of net newbies on Usenet? Nah! - let's just make the most of it.
Excellent putdown of of sad xenophobe. Well done.
Jeez! Why not just spend an hour installing Debian, learn its
elegant features and just save yourself the $ for Corel.
Rubbish!
Most Debian people are delighted to see that Corel and
others are using Debian as a foundation.
The legal issues are being resolved...best seen as
a matter of acclimatising a commercial s/w house to
the GPL world.
What donkey called these eminently sensible comments flamebait? Surely a love of energy efficiency and a lack of love for weight training doesn't make this guy a troll?
As a mere user, the central issue as I see it is whether the license will encourage programmers to gift their skills and thus make StarOffice as fast as M$Office and more functional.
It looks like SCSL won't do this. So StarOffice will follow Netscape into obscurity.
Bill Gates must be grateful to Scott McN for not taking away half of the M$ profit stream.
It gets better...for your old lady's 40th birthday, give her a new body of a Cameron Diaz clone!
:-)
Way-hey! I can't wait for this
The great thing about this and the development of cloning is that you can live like the doctor says you shouldn't.
For example, liver problems due to drink. We are a couple of years away form being able to get a liver transplant from a pig.
Or lung cancer due to working in a smoky restaurant? Again, transplant from a pig or other animal.
But this is best: just have a clone created of yourself and then have your head put on the clone. Sure, it'll look odd having the face of a seventy year old on a baby but it'll literally double your lifespan. And you can do it again. Why stop at doing it when your 70. Do it when you're thirty and always have a 17 year old version of yourself in the fridge for special occasions like hot dates!
Fountain of Eternal Youth anyone?
SuSE 6.1 is a bit buggy. I tried it and you're right...basic things just don't work. wvdial, telnet and KDE all were awful. And the support consisted of no more than acknowledging that you had written in.
Someone gave me a Debian CD which creates a working system before torturing you with dselect. But at least what it said it could do it did do.
Only an American, i.e. someone blessed with being from the land of the free local phone call, would think that strange. In Europe, every download represents a cash investment. SuSE just saves on expensive phone calls.
Anyome know why /. has been off air all day?
Sadly, yes. The first symptom of paranoia is a mistaken belief that what benefits others threatens you. IMO, if a simple distro enables schools to move to Linux, the students will graduate as Linux lovers. So lets hear it for simple distros. IMHO, those students will move to Debian when they understand the difference between apt-get and all other package managers out there but thats a side issue.
I had thought /. was reserved for Gnome stories.
KDE is great. It looks like Gnome will be great. Question is, when will decent word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications be ready. AT the moment all we have are glorious desktops and no way to have an envelope addressed!
Shame on you!
There's nothing wrong with bieing over 50, bald, being an ex-programmer or selling PCs.
One day, I hope to be over 55, bald and with all the physical detoriation that comes from excess drinking.
Paddy Irishman
If Linux should win, M$ won't send our Bruce nasty email BUT they won't send any more cheques either!
Linux people may have sent nasty notes to this poor chap because they felt a manifest injustice was done to the Linux community by the first test. Hey - he did go on record. He knew what was coming. Mindcraft are tiny - bet the publicity will double the size of their business
This third test seems a worthwhile opportunity. I sent a very positive message to him about it (not that he should care about my opinion).
Lets see how it goes - worst case is NT Server wins on performance so the Linux world gets a target to beat.
Patrick
"Microsoft is really unreliable, but Linux is worse." - Ken Thompson - father of Unix
FUD - bet we see this quote on the M$ site within a few days!
Ken may be the father of unix but he clearly is prone to talking nonsense if he regards Windows as more stable than Linux.
Patrick
SuSE ships with Gnome 1 and KDE 1.1. Does that mean that its not install them if you want the more stable versions i.e. Gnome 1.1 and KDE 1.1.1?
Patrick
Have a look at http://kde.themes.org/newstuff where there are tons of themes and a little application to manage them.
Patrick
The question of accidental reuse of concepts and code is an old one known to every contract programmer. If I have a neat idea and code it for one bank, can I do the same thing next time I work at another bank.
Legally, you can't copy ie from disk to tape or other medium and re0use. But you can re-use the ideas.
So IBMers can work on a GPL project, use ideas they had before to enhance it and code up those ideas. Then they can return to a proprietary project and re-use ideas that they had on the GPL projcet. What they can't do is a straight copy.
Abba fan
Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away, and you have their shoes too.