patents stand in your way, if you want to produce good software. look at freetype. of course its a nice piece of software, but thanks to apple, which patented allmost any way to render a font, freetype is not allowed to use certain algorithms.
look at gimp - it could have cmyk support allready but thanks to adobe there are loads of patents in the way.
both cases show the misuse of software-patents: an exclusion of a reasonable competition.
one thing would be of interest. what patents does the opensource-community reserve?
most ppl talking like this should get a life, and if this bunch of OSS-programmers are not able to coordinate the production of software so that users in fact can use it then say hello to microsoft-linux. its over.
most end-user tools where in fact programmed by at least two people, who could coordinate their efforts. (gimp for example) but as soon as more cooks come in the stuff gets buggy, everyone has different targets, and people think they have to express themselves in producin l33t-stuff that in fact no one needs or can use, other then step back and do nothing. if you dont have people that get money for their work on the product the quality decreases.
maybe a scheme similar to the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project could be used to unclutter this mess. but i doubt that software manufacturers of popular adware products would agree to a eula, that is brought in readable form stating "all your information are belong to us - click yes to let us install trojan profile-harvesting software"
no wonder korea is for bush a part of the axis of evil. if they produce an arab version of linux. hell, maybe they should make an arab version of windows 3.1 to avoid being bombed;)
yeah this depends allways on what task you have to accomplish, what problem to solve. if its a creative one its ok i think else sooner or later, this company will ahem have some problems with their product.
how else should a microsoft compiler be compiled under linux? its the work of satan manifesting itself again before good old jesus comes to town and wipes us all out? i amm 100% sure that soon we will see cats hunting after dogs, fishes fly and steve ballmer talking backwards (ok he allready does that).
get your girl or boyfriend and make some love before our whole planet explodes. and yes, the story about america planning to use nuclear bombs against 'terrorists' has something to do with.
if i buy myself a standard pc, chance is that i have to afford as much money as in U.S. whereas if i purchase an iMac i am charged an exclusive price difference of 868 Euro's or 768 USD _more_ than its worth in america. even if i substract my countries sales tax, there remains a difference which i cant base on transporting costs. - to be honest shipping of a container of iMacs to Europe doesnt cost 300 USD per piece.
another cause why i dont like those expensive pieces of hardware thats old as soon as its delivered to you...
but in a wider perspective - when a company like AOL buys Redhat, then the AOL-Time-Warner board of directors will make decissions what Redhat has to do and where it has to focus, will decide what people give decissions at redhat etc.
this definetly wouldn't be good for redhat and linux.
shoot some nazis and dogs ( wolfenstein )
shoot demons and aliens ( doom )
shoot more demons, alien soldiers and dogs ( quake )
shoot fat aliens, demons and soldiers ( quake II )
shoot even more aliens, demons and soldiers ( quake III )
shoot nazis again ( rtcw )
hell were are the dogs in RTCW ?
this steps of inovation definetly show you, of what level the target audience for such games is. think they can be fooled by repetitive gameplay?
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
ximian solved it with a bugfix but redhat/mandrake/suse dont give a damn about userinterface shit.
redhat even packaged this buggy version into their 7.2 version.
2 seconds are to much to open a view of a directory on a 1000 mhz computer. what the hell do you think? i dont want to waste my cpu cycles to sucha bloated piece of mp3-playing file-manager - if thats the only way the linux desktop looks like then i wave goodbye embracing putyourfavoritenonbloathingwindowmanagerhere and the commandline...
nautilus as it is now doesnt even deserve the 1 version mark, it should be versioned 0.73.
just switched back to windowmaker after breaking gnome 1.4 by using it.
anybody else got gnome refusing to start after killing XFree due a crash of your favorite first person shooter?
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patents stand in your way, if you want to produce good software. look at freetype. of course its a nice piece of software, but thanks to apple, which patented allmost any way to render a font, freetype is not allowed to use certain algorithms.
look at gimp - it could have cmyk support allready but thanks to adobe there are loads of patents in the way.
both cases show the misuse of software-patents: an exclusion of a reasonable competition.
one thing would be of interest. what patents does the opensource-community reserve?
this will result in worldwide protests.
police will have a hard time, calming down the debian-users.
join the revolution
some holy water and garlic will do the trick.
"Vade retro, $atana$"
thanks, doh should have checked that out
when theres [extreme ironing]
but i'd like to know how much it costs?
will this product be shipped outside of U.S. too?
all your datasheets are belong to us
most ppl talking like this should get a life, and if this bunch of OSS-programmers are not able to coordinate the production of software so that users in fact can use it then say hello to microsoft-linux. its over.
most end-user tools where in fact programmed by at least two people, who could coordinate their efforts. (gimp for example) but as soon as more cooks come in the stuff gets buggy, everyone has different targets, and people think they have to express themselves in producin l33t-stuff that in fact no one needs or can use, other then step back and do nothing. if you dont have people that get money for their work on the product the quality decreases.
maybe a scheme similar to the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project could be used to unclutter this mess.
but i doubt that software manufacturers of popular adware products would agree to a eula, that is brought in readable form stating "all your information are belong to us - click yes to let us install trojan profile-harvesting software"
no wonder korea is for bush a part of the axis of evil. if they produce an arab version of linux. hell, maybe they should make an arab version of windows 3.1 to avoid being bombed ;)
yeah this depends allways on what task you have to accomplish, what problem to solve. if its a creative one its ok i think else sooner or later, this company will ahem have some problems with their product.
... and you know it.
how else should a microsoft compiler be compiled under linux? its the work of satan manifesting itself again before good old jesus comes to town and wipes us all out? i amm 100% sure that soon we will see cats hunting after dogs, fishes fly and steve ballmer talking backwards (ok he allready does that).
get your girl or boyfriend and make some love before our whole planet explodes. and yes, the story about america planning to use nuclear bombs against 'terrorists' has something to do with.
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STOP THE GENOCIDE! RMS cut your HAIR!
i dont get this iMac hype.
if i buy myself a standard pc, chance is that i have to afford as much money as in U.S. whereas if i purchase an iMac i am charged an exclusive price difference of 868 Euro's or 768 USD _more_ than its worth in america. even if i substract my countries sales tax, there remains a difference which i cant base on transporting costs. - to be honest shipping of a container of iMacs to Europe doesnt cost 300 USD per piece.
another cause why i dont like those expensive pieces of hardware thats old as soon as its delivered to you...
"buildings can be huge in generals which make some nice explosions."
not only in generals huge buildings make nice explosions.
by the way: a sketch of a detention camp - is this a joke? do people you put in a detention camp give you extra points?
now someone tell me colionalism died 40 years ago...
i hope one of this flies mutates into a 50 stories tall uber-insect and...
the apple-style menubar is patented by apple.
go pay your license fees for intellectual property...
a development that offers tremendous opportunities for children in the third world, to survive their first year without starving...
Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way.
funny now, its all about shareholder-value and pharmacy-patents.
hell that reminds me of Scientology methods.
stop thinking being able to build a mature desktop on top of C.
Buying the company is usually cheaper.
but in a wider perspective - when a company like AOL buys Redhat, then the AOL-Time-Warner board of directors will make decissions what Redhat has to do and where it has to focus, will decide what people give decissions at redhat etc.
this definetly wouldn't be good for redhat and linux.
shoot some nazis and dogs ( wolfenstein )
shoot demons and aliens ( doom )
shoot more demons, alien soldiers and dogs ( quake )
shoot fat aliens, demons and soldiers ( quake II )
shoot even more aliens, demons and soldiers ( quake III )
shoot nazis again ( rtcw )
hell were are the dogs in RTCW ?
this steps of inovation definetly show you, of what level the target audience for such games is. think they can be fooled by repetitive gameplay?
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
ximian solved it with a bugfix but redhat/mandrake/suse dont give a damn about userinterface shit.
redhat even packaged this buggy version into their 7.2 version.
2 seconds are to much to open a view of a directory on a 1000 mhz computer. what the hell do you think? i dont want to waste my cpu cycles to sucha bloated piece of mp3-playing file-manager - if thats the only way the linux desktop looks like then i wave goodbye embracing putyourfavoritenonbloathingwindowmanagerhere and the commandline...
nautilus as it is now doesnt even deserve the 1 version mark, it should be versioned 0.73.
are you kidding?
waiting for the 20 seconds to pass for being able to push submit
to name the importancy of nautilus:
mime-customization?
mail-file-from-desktop?
arrange icons on the nautilus desktop?
customize the look of Directory Windows globally?
reasonable speed?
hell why do we need that if it can play mp3's and fetch binaries from my favorite alt.binaries.* newsgroup.
try windowmaker or blackbox.
both rock. and both are not bloated as gnome or kde...
just switched back to windowmaker after breaking gnome 1.4 by using it.
anybody else got gnome refusing to start after killing XFree due a crash of your favorite first person shooter?