WHOO HOO WE ARE A REALLY THREAT!! (yes the spelling is intentional)
Now who would consider the Linux community odd??
The Mega Corp that we all love to hate points its marketing guns at us and we cheer!
Oh well the only people who will belive the MS marketing are people who likely would never use Linux anyhow... Or perhaps those morons in middle management...
A simple e-mail to Compaq legal oughta do the trick; it's only a minor error.
Already done.. One of the legal guys is looking into it now. He responded within about 5 mins of my first mail. He is looking to see if the the first click-through licence is invalidated by the GPL included in the software (it sould be). The click-through is the standard one generated for any download from Compaq and likely just some guy following policy for the creation of the pages (ie: all downloadable files must be linked through the legal ramblings)
If he sends me back anything different I'll make another post...
Actually I work for said company and I fired of an email to the fellows in the law dept...
The odd thing about thid is with the download comes a copy of the GPL...
Hopefully I'll get a timely response.
err.. no q3a isn't the ONLY game being demoed... Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Q3A, MDK2, Unreal Tournament and Descent3 have all been demoed... you can pick up a clip of it (its in quicktime tho) at the following http://ftp.gamez.de/file.php?id=76 Only 2 of the games above use the Q3A engine btw....
Sigh please moderate that crap down... people like this fellow above are NOT the kind of people I want to represnt the Linux community... Dont you get it Fross? If you want to use some elitist OS WRITE YOUR OWN or are you too lazy and want everything handed to you? More people using Linux and not WINanything is a good thing... People like you who ignore that the avarge user doesnt have the time or want to spend hours doing things that are simple double-click operations are simply ignoring the fact the linux isnt your personal toy anymore. Like it or not its our in the world. The average user who doesnt agree with Microsofts' business practices and is looking for something else for thier machine has heard of Linux.. Everyone is saying how great it is for this and that..yadda yadda hype hype, But when Joe user tries to use it he gets hopelessly confused by things that were simple to do in windows.. They get frustrated and just go back to windows because it does what they need it to do in the least amount of hassle... You might say Great we dont want them anyway! However that attitrude does nothing constructive and only furthers Microsofts continuing domination of the OS world... Your attitude makes Microsoft MORE $$ congratulations im sure gates would love to shake your hand for donating to his cause.. We would be better off trying to increase the ease of use for Joe Average rather than telling him to bugger off... Of the few things Win9x does better than linux, possibly the only thing, is make things simple to do. People will live with a morally dubuios company and reduced perfomance if it means they can do what they need to simply.. They are thinking "Who cares if my machine runs 20% faster if it takes me 3 times longer just to figure out how to DO what I want to?" and they are right...unfortunately --the above was NOT checked for spelling and/or punctuation if you dont like it I don't really give a damn. The ideas are more important than the commas-- --Syowr
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WHOO HOO WE ARE A REALLY THREAT!!
(yes the spelling is intentional)
Now who would consider the Linux community odd??
The Mega Corp that we all love to hate points its marketing guns at us and we cheer!
Oh well the only people who will belive the MS marketing are people who likely would never use Linux anyhow... Or perhaps those morons in middle management...
Already done.. One of the legal guys is looking into it now. He responded within about 5 mins of my first mail. He is looking to see if the the first click-through licence is invalidated by the GPL included in the software (it sould be). The click-through is the standard one generated for any download from Compaq and likely just some guy following policy for the creation of the pages (ie: all downloadable files must be linked through the legal ramblings) If he sends me back anything different I'll make another post...
Actually I work for said company and I fired of an email to the fellows in the law dept...
The odd thing about thid is with the download comes a copy of the GPL...
Hopefully I'll get a timely response.
I set mine as my homepage... :P
that should get a few redirects a day
I dont think it includes the emails they have sniffed...
just the methods by which it does so...
err .. no q3a isn't the ONLY game being demoed... Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Q3A, MDK2, Unreal Tournament and Descent3 have all been demoed... you can pick up a clip of it (its in quicktime tho) at the following http://ftp.gamez.de/file.php?id=76 Only 2 of the games above use the Q3A engine btw....
Sigh please moderate that crap down... people like this fellow above are NOT the kind of people I want to represnt the Linux community... Dont you get it Fross? If you want to use some elitist OS WRITE YOUR OWN or are you too lazy and want everything handed to you? More people using Linux and not WINanything is a good thing... People like you who ignore that the avarge user doesnt have the time or want to spend hours doing things that are simple double-click operations are simply ignoring the fact the linux isnt your personal toy anymore. Like it or not its our in the world. The average user who doesnt agree with Microsofts' business practices and is looking for something else for thier machine has heard of Linux.. Everyone is saying how great it is for this and that..yadda yadda hype hype, But when Joe user tries to use it he gets hopelessly confused by things that were simple to do in windows.. They get frustrated and just go back to windows because it does what they need it to do in the least amount of hassle... You might say Great we dont want them anyway! However that attitrude does nothing constructive and only furthers Microsofts continuing domination of the OS world... Your attitude makes Microsoft MORE $$ congratulations im sure gates would love to shake your hand for donating to his cause.. We would be better off trying to increase the ease of use for Joe Average rather than telling him to bugger off... Of the few things Win9x does better than linux, possibly the only thing, is make things simple to do. People will live with a morally dubuios company and reduced perfomance if it means they can do what they need to simply.. They are thinking "Who cares if my machine runs 20% faster if it takes me 3 times longer just to figure out how to DO what I want to?" and they are right...unfortunately --the above was NOT checked for spelling and/or punctuation if you dont like it I don't really give a damn. The ideas are more important than the commas-- --Syowr