He wasnt threatening, he was commenting that there were, according to their sources and experts, over 200 patent violations in Linux and that someday, with more countries entering the WTO, people would most probably come looking for the money associated with those patents. It might not be the current holders, the patent might have been sold on. At no point did he threaten.
It's kind of amusing that we defended Brittain against the fascists sixty years ago and now we're encouraging them to adopt our fascism.
The US entered the second world war in the December of 1941, a full year and a half after the Battle of Britain in summer 1940. Hitler abandoned Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain, when the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe for control of Britains skies during that long summer.
As the other poster says, you didnt defend us, you fought with us.
Id hazard a guess that for 99% of the people who take advantage of the 'free software' movement do so precisely because its zero purchase cost, not because it gives them freedom of code. Seriously, how many people using apache do so because of the open codebase as opposed to the fact that they got an enterprise level web server for zero cost? MySQL? Perl? Linux? How many people that you recommend a GPLed application to dabble with the code? How many would have paid for that software instead of using something else?
Theres no way this is the 'first' fusion reactor - we already have one here in the UK, and its called the Joint European Torus and it has sustained the longest artificial controlled fusion reaction in the world.
And Buran worked fine, and was in many ways superior to the Shuttle - it, for example, contained jet engines that allowed for a powered landing
Actually, the Buran didnt contain jet engines, but it did have engines that could be attached to the airframe for flight testing, transport and research purposes.
The GPL is not universal - each instance of the license is on its own merits.
you either do accept it or you do not. Why would you accept the legality of it for one project, but state that it is illegal when another is using it?
Easy - the project you dont accept the GPL for may itself contain illegally copied code, and thus you are quite right to not accept it for that project, but that doesnt affect other projects. Note that I hold no stance one way or the other in the SCO case, I havent been following it.
Accepting the GPL for one project does not mean universally accepting the GPL in all cases. The GPL isnt an all or nothing license, one project has no power over another even tho both are GPLed so you can not accept the GPL in one case but abide by it in another.
Sorry, but it is piracy and has been for a couple of hundred years. Words can have dual meanings, you know? English is a pretty versatile language and can sustain different meanings in different contexts. It might not be theft, but it is piracy.
Oh, and wasn't it a destroyer of the US Navy that was brought to a halt courtesy of NT4?
This always comes up and people always remember the 'it ran NT' thing, but noone ever remembers that it was the database application and management system running on NT that was the cause of the problem. Bad data went into the thing, and the engine management system shutdown because of it, causing the ship to be towed into port.
Im all for bashing Windows when its valid, but please...
I hear sarcasm. The problem is that none of those companies have based their lack of a Linux product on the existance of Wine and Wine hasnt decreased the number of companies or individuals producing portable products for both platforms. Name me one project that has said 'We will continue developing our windows version, because Linux has Wine we can discontinue the Linux version'.
The fact that they would be transmitting this data is enough to track them, you dont need to decrypt the signals. Just by capturing hte data, you can work out if there are troops near your position and that gains you a significant advantage.
Codeweavers isnt an IDE, its a Wine based win32 port with a lot of polish and extra bits such as Crossover Plugin. This would allow running of most major software packages for Windows under OSX for Intel, which would open up a lot of software for OSX. I dont see how it would stiffle development on OSX tho, it hasnt had that effect on Linux at all.
I'm kind of suprised that the Russians are so quick to call "fail" on this, given the conflicting data, but they had a bad karma space day yesterday, what with their other launch of a military payload failing as well
The reason that the Russians are quick to call a fail on this is due to when the booster failed. The craft may have made it to *AN* orbit, but with booster failure at 83 seconds, its unlikely to be a usable orbit for testing the sail in. If the sail cant be tested for whatever reason, then its failed, regardless of whether its in orbit or at the bottom of the ocean.
Obviously you have never read the book or listened to the Jeff Wayne musical. The whole point is that the military cannot stand up to the might of the martian invasion, but earth is spared at the last minute.
This is the latest, greatest top of the range graphics card with lots of RAM, the newest GPU core, onboard decoders and other things. Show me the latest, greatest PC with a top of the range CPU, lots of fast RAM and a large disk. The price disparaty wont be as obvious.
I dont have a link for this, but my information (and its reliable) is that only the first 3 months worth of the Yonah core will be 32bit only, then it will have 64bit extensions enabled. Yonah will be available after that in both 32bit and 64bit versions to compliment the faster Merom development core which will probably form the Conroe core base which will be used for Powermacs and other high end 64bit systems.
I agree, the Russians have the knowhow on how to construct space stations without the Shuttle - it will be more than likely that the Russians will be the ones to finish the station, even if its a reduced one. Unless of course, the ISS was designed specifically with the Shuttle assembling it in mind, and its impossible to shift that capability to other means - if thats the case, the person who decided that should be shot.
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He wasnt threatening, he was commenting that there were, according to their sources and experts, over 200 patent violations in Linux and that someday, with more countries entering the WTO, people would most probably come looking for the money associated with those patents. It might not be the current holders, the patent might have been sold on. At no point did he threaten.
It's kind of amusing that we defended Brittain against the fascists sixty years ago and now we're encouraging them to adopt our fascism.
The US entered the second world war in the December of 1941, a full year and a half after the Battle of Britain in summer 1940. Hitler abandoned Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain, when the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe for control of Britains skies during that long summer.
As the other poster says, you didnt defend us, you fought with us.
and cue the court cases against Rockster.
Id hazard a guess that for 99% of the people who take advantage of the 'free software' movement do so precisely because its zero purchase cost, not because it gives them freedom of code. Seriously, how many people using apache do so because of the open codebase as opposed to the fact that they got an enterprise level web server for zero cost? MySQL? Perl? Linux? How many people that you recommend a GPLed application to dabble with the code? How many would have paid for that software instead of using something else?
Funny how that stance doesnt seem to apply to Google et al when they are taken to court outside the US.
Theres no way this is the 'first' fusion reactor - we already have one here in the UK, and its called the Joint European Torus and it has sustained the longest artificial controlled fusion reaction in the world.
And Buran worked fine, and was in many ways superior to the Shuttle - it, for example, contained jet engines that allowed for a powered landing
Actually, the Buran didnt contain jet engines, but it did have engines that could be attached to the airframe for flight testing, transport and research purposes.
Lubricant and condoms.
Its 33.6kbps upstream on all but the most modern 56k modems.
you either do accept it or you do not. Why would you accept the legality of it for one project, but state that it is illegal when another is using it?
Easy - the project you dont accept the GPL for may itself contain illegally copied code, and thus you are quite right to not accept it for that project, but that doesnt affect other projects. Note that I hold no stance one way or the other in the SCO case, I havent been following it.Accepting the GPL for one project does not mean universally accepting the GPL in all cases. The GPL isnt an all or nothing license, one project has no power over another even tho both are GPLed so you can not accept the GPL in one case but abide by it in another.
Sorry, but it is piracy and has been for a couple of hundred years. Words can have dual meanings, you know? English is a pretty versatile language and can sustain different meanings in different contexts. It might not be theft, but it is piracy.
Oh, and wasn't it a destroyer of the US Navy that was brought to a halt courtesy of NT4?
This always comes up and people always remember the 'it ran NT' thing, but noone ever remembers that it was the database application and management system running on NT that was the cause of the problem. Bad data went into the thing, and the engine management system shutdown because of it, causing the ship to be towed into port.
Im all for bashing Windows when its valid, but please...
I hear sarcasm. The problem is that none of those companies have based their lack of a Linux product on the existance of Wine and Wine hasnt decreased the number of companies or individuals producing portable products for both platforms. Name me one project that has said 'We will continue developing our windows version, because Linux has Wine we can discontinue the Linux version'.
The fact that they would be transmitting this data is enough to track them, you dont need to decrypt the signals. Just by capturing hte data, you can work out if there are troops near your position and that gains you a significant advantage.
Codeweavers isnt an IDE, its a Wine based win32 port with a lot of polish and extra bits such as Crossover Plugin. This would allow running of most major software packages for Windows under OSX for Intel, which would open up a lot of software for OSX. I dont see how it would stiffle development on OSX tho, it hasnt had that effect on Linux at all.
I'm kind of suprised that the Russians are so quick to call "fail" on this, given the conflicting data, but they had a bad karma space day yesterday, what with their other launch of a military payload failing as well
The reason that the Russians are quick to call a fail on this is due to when the booster failed. The craft may have made it to *AN* orbit, but with booster failure at 83 seconds, its unlikely to be a usable orbit for testing the sail in. If the sail cant be tested for whatever reason, then its failed, regardless of whether its in orbit or at the bottom of the ocean.
Obviously you have never read the book or listened to the Jeff Wayne musical. The whole point is that the military cannot stand up to the might of the martian invasion, but earth is spared at the last minute.
This is the latest, greatest top of the range graphics card with lots of RAM, the newest GPU core, onboard decoders and other things. Show me the latest, greatest PC with a top of the range CPU, lots of fast RAM and a large disk. The price disparaty wont be as obvious.
Your cheap components are not current generation.
Easy - take a long hard look at IBM.
I dont have a link for this, but my information (and its reliable) is that only the first 3 months worth of the Yonah core will be 32bit only, then it will have 64bit extensions enabled. Yonah will be available after that in both 32bit and 64bit versions to compliment the faster Merom development core which will probably form the Conroe core base which will be used for Powermacs and other high end 64bit systems.
Yonah will have EM64T extensions, so theres your 64bit G5 replacement. Just because its M based doesnt mean 64bit isnt on the roadmap.
To answer your question - the UK, on most prevelant call plans for landlines.
I agree, the Russians have the knowhow on how to construct space stations without the Shuttle - it will be more than likely that the Russians will be the ones to finish the station, even if its a reduced one. Unless of course, the ISS was designed specifically with the Shuttle assembling it in mind, and its impossible to shift that capability to other means - if thats the case, the person who decided that should be shot.
Ignore me, I misnoticed what parent you were replying to, apologies.