Even if Microsoft did have a monopoly on their Office suite, the situation would not be anywhere near similar. Microsoft has a track-record of breaking compatability between versions, so that as soon as the newest version of Office is released and one organisation upgrades to it, all organisations who want to share Office documents with that organisation must also upgrade in order to read the new file formats, leading to a situation where everyone is forced to upgrade or be left behind. Compare this to a computer game, which is played almost exclusively in single-player mode, and it's obvious how specious your argument is.
Erm, well according to the freshmeat page, it's licenced under the GPL. So presumably the source code is available somewhere.
Perhaps they haven't modified the source code for any of the software they're using, in which case the source code can be found in the appropriate place for each piece of software.
IANAL, but, as far as I know, using 'idioms and vocabulary' from another source hardly constitutes plagiarism.
What you seem to be suggesting is that a writer shouldn't read any other works on his chosen subject in case he uses vocabulary from that source. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but it strikes me as a trifle foolish not to research a topic for fear of inadvertantly violating some non-existant law. Besides, there are only a few ways of saying things. If I expand HTTP as 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol', am I infringing on Tim Berners-Lee's intellectual property?
Whoever gave you this information seems to be on another planet. Of course, as I said, IANAL, and I come from the United Kingdom. For all I know, using the word 'the' could be considered plagiarism where you come from.
ESR is Eric S. Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", the essay which was cited as a prime reason for Netscape's decision to release their browser source, and many other essays on Open Source. He was a co-founder of the OSI, and is the long-time maintainer of.
There have been several security holes found in open source software many months or years after entering the code.
I think the key point here is that they have been found, and fixed. Think back to how you heard about those holes. Was the announcement accompanied by a patch or a workaround?
Then ask yourself about the number of holes found and exploited in closed source software projects, and the length of time before their teams got a patch out.
One of the main benefits of open source software is that, in the words of ESR, bugs become transparent with enough pairs of eyes looking at them. If security is a major concern for an OSS project's users, it's likely to get good quickly.
Hmm, I navigated through Adobe's appallingly designed website to no avail, but this talks about some TrueType patents which are apparently applicable to OpenType as well.
But did you really expect anything with Microsoft involved in it to live up to the name 'Open'?
Err, actually I just had a look at XP's ClearType, and I think it's superior to the font anti-aliasing I've seen on XFree 4.2.x. Although they are a little bit *too* fuzzy.
Learn to spell 'Flamebait'. It's hardly difficult, since it's right there on the comment you're replying to. If you're going to start arguing about correct spelling and grammar, you should probably make sure there's not a huge plank in your own eye.
There's still a lot of support from the games community for SCUMM-style games, even if they're playing other games at the moment for lack of good point-and-click. All they need is a good adventure in the style of Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max to recapture their interest.
And what's this about Perl being 'retired'? There are plenty of websites using CGI with perl code out there, not least Everything2 [everything2.com]. If you're going to present an 'argument', at least research your illustrations.
I remember when the Dreamcast was launched, there was a big hoo-ha about it. I went down to my local electronics shop, and, there it was, a Dreamcast display, hailing it as the most advanced console ever.
Only trouble was, it was running Windows CE, and there was a big, bright, Blue Screen of Death on the TV in the middle of the display. I didn't tell any of the staff.
Intel does that for Microsoft.
I still swear that there's a conspiracy between those two.
No kidding? Intel's marketing strategy is based around the 'make the numbers bigger' ethos (hence the continued success of the pentium 4.) While Microsoft's software continually becomes more and more bloated to encourage people to buy newer pcs.
You see how it goes on and on in a big spiral of money?
Corncob 3D!! Wow! The game where you flew around in planes but you could get out and walk around. A bit like an early version of WWII online really.
Commander Keen - YES, the same with Captain Comic (I bet you remember that one). Those games were much more fun than a lot of the games released now, because they were made for fun, not for a quick buck.
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Even if Microsoft did have a monopoly on their Office suite, the situation would not be anywhere near similar. Microsoft has a track-record of breaking compatability between versions, so that as soon as the newest version of Office is released and one organisation upgrades to it, all organisations who want to share Office documents with that organisation must also upgrade in order to read the new file formats, leading to a situation where everyone is forced to upgrade or be left behind. Compare this to a computer game, which is played almost exclusively in single-player mode, and it's obvious how specious your argument is.
...if it fried your opponent's phone when you shot at it. No more stupid ringtones on MY bus!
That said, Sen. Hatch would probably get his hands on one and zap anyone deemed to be using his/her phone illegally...
Erm, well according to the freshmeat page, it's licenced under the GPL. So presumably the source code is available somewhere.
Perhaps they haven't modified the source code for any of the software they're using, in which case the source code can be found in the appropriate place for each piece of software.
IANAL, but, as far as I know, using 'idioms and vocabulary' from another source hardly constitutes plagiarism.
What you seem to be suggesting is that a writer shouldn't read any other works on his chosen subject in case he uses vocabulary from that source. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but it strikes me as a trifle foolish not to research a topic for fear of inadvertantly violating some non-existant law. Besides, there are only a few ways of saying things. If I expand HTTP as 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol', am I infringing on Tim Berners-Lee's intellectual property?
Whoever gave you this information seems to be on another planet. Of course, as I said, IANAL, and I come from the United Kingdom. For all I know, using the word 'the' could be considered plagiarism where you come from.
ESR is Eric S. Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", the essay which was cited as a prime reason for Netscape's decision to release their browser source, and many other essays on Open Source. He was a co-founder of the OSI, and is the long-time maintainer of .
His website is here.
Of course, a google search would have told you all of this.
Is that like Jeff K's website?
The word 'transparent' there means 'easy to solve'.
There have been several security holes found in open source software many months or years after entering the code.
I think the key point here is that they have been found, and fixed. Think back to how you heard about those holes. Was the announcement accompanied by a patch or a workaround?
Then ask yourself about the number of holes found and exploited in closed source software projects, and the length of time before their teams got a patch out.
One of the main benefits of open source software is that, in the words of ESR, bugs become transparent with enough pairs of eyes looking at them. If security is a major concern for an OSS project's users, it's likely to get good quickly.
Thoughts?
I think that since it's not open source, you just wasted your time.
Hmm, I navigated through Adobe's appallingly designed website to no avail, but this talks about some TrueType patents which are apparently applicable to OpenType as well.
But did you really expect anything with Microsoft involved in it to live up to the name 'Open'?
Err, actually I just had a look at XP's ClearType, and I think it's superior to the font anti-aliasing I've seen on XFree 4.2.x. Although they are a little bit *too* fuzzy.
Learn to spell 'Flamebait'. It's hardly difficult, since it's right there on the comment you're replying to. If you're going to start arguing about correct spelling and grammar, you should probably make sure there's not a huge plank in your own eye.
Sounds like you need to do some research, instead of appending Stupidity to the useless output of your mouth.. Mac OS X is built on BSD, not linux.
'easier to repair/upgrade than satellites'
Since when has this been an issue? Dubya's still obsessed with SDI, even though it's not going to stop any terrorists.
Yet another reason why we need National Missile Defence!
There's still a lot of support from the games community for SCUMM-style games, even if they're playing other games at the moment for lack of good point-and-click. All they need is a good adventure in the style of Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max to recapture their interest.
And what's this about Perl being 'retired'? There are plenty of websites using CGI with perl code out there, not least Everything2 [everything2.com]. If you're going to present an 'argument', at least research your illustrations.
I remember when the Dreamcast was launched, there was a big hoo-ha about it. I went down to my local electronics shop, and, there it was, a Dreamcast display, hailing it as the most advanced console ever.
Only trouble was, it was running Windows CE, and there was a big, bright, Blue Screen of Death on the TV in the middle of the display. I didn't tell any of the staff.
Intel does that for Microsoft. I still swear that there's a conspiracy between those two.
No kidding? Intel's marketing strategy is based around the 'make the numbers bigger' ethos (hence the continued success of the pentium 4.) While Microsoft's software continually becomes more and more bloated to encourage people to buy newer pcs. You see how it goes on and on in a big spiral of money?
Corncob 3D!! Wow! The game where you flew around in planes but you could get out and walk around. A bit like an early version of WWII online really. Commander Keen - YES, the same with Captain Comic (I bet you remember that one). Those games were much more fun than a lot of the games released now, because they were made for fun, not for a quick buck.