That is always standard practice for MS, they never support existing cross platform standards unless absolutely forced to and even then make the support as half assed as possible and discourage its use.
The iPhone sold because it offered something that other phones did not... It was appealing to users, and although it didn't really offer anything new it did existing things like email and web browsing better than other phones on the market.
Windows phone has nothing to offer users that they can't get from an Android or iOS based device...
On the other hand, it's called "windows" which paints the device in a negative light... It reminds users of windows mobile, which was an awful platform that users generally hated. It gives users an incorrect belief that they will be able to run windows applications on it, just as windows mobile did, and users will be disappointed. It creates an association with the desktop/laptop windows brand, a brand which is generally disliked and is associated with crashing, malware and various other nasties... It's tolerated on computers because users don't see any alternative or are locked in, but alternatives are well known and readily available on phones.
Unfortunately it can often be more profitable to stifle or delay an innovation, and so in a purely profit driven organisation this will be the course of action taken.
How many highly innovative technologies exist behind closed doors because their release would obsolete an older but more profitable technology?
More often than not actual innovation will be the last option considered after all others have failed. History has shown that innovative companies often lose out to aggressive and unscrupulous competitors.
If you are making copies of Linux CDs then you are DISTRIBUTING... As XanC said, you don't need to agree to the GPL if you only want to use or modify the software yourself... Its terms only apply if you distribute it, and giving copies to friends counts as distribution.
Can i return the PS3 i bought several years ago (one of the launch models), because i don't agree with the new PSN terms?
Most free software licenses only cover distribution, you don't need to agree to them if you only want to use the software yourself and don't intend to distribute it to third parties.
That's not reinventing the wheel, thats improving the wheel... Something you couldn't do if the wheel was patented because your improved version would still infringe on the original.
Why reinvent the wheel? Take what already exists as a base, and innovate beyond it... That's how progress works!
Or would you prefer that the wheel was patented and every vehicle manufacturer but one had to waste huge resources creating an "innovative" replacement for it?
While a company is expending resources to create an inferior replacement for something that already exists, they can't be using those resources to create something truly new and innovative....
You'd end up with a situation where company A has a patent on round wheels, while company B has a patent on square wheels and spent years developing an extremely advanced suspension system to try to bring the ride comfort of their square wheels to be competitive with the round wheels... Meanwhile everything else in the cars would be antiquated because they spent all their time trying to work around each other's patents.
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The problem is that cheap laptops came down in price, while netbooks have only gone up in price...
The original $200 netbooks running linux were great cheap devices for browsing the web.. The $350 netbooks running windows are just slow and not very cheap windows laptops.
The linux netbooks were seen by users as a new device, similar to how the ipad is perceived, while windows netbooks were seen as being inferior versions of regular laptops.
Install a hacked 3.55 dual boot firmware, you will be able to run GT5 and boot Linux...
As an aside, you will also get access to a 7th SPE and the GPU from within Linux. And you'll be able to play games which require firmwares between 3.55 and 3.15 versions, although i'm not for a minute suggesting that you actually buy any games from them.
PSN was a separate service, which you can use the PS3 to access... I can understand how using this as an argument would fail.
On the other hand, the fact that you can't play new games or blurays while still retaining access to otheros is a much stronger argument, there are now many games on the market which are labelled as ps3 compatible, and the marketing for the ps3 originally claimed it can play games which are labelled as ps3 compatible as well as run linux... And yet in order to play these new games you have to sacrifice the ability to run linux. The games have no visible markings pre-sale stating that they require a newer firmware, and that installing this firmware will remove features from your ps3. It is unlikely that having purchased one of these games and found this out, that you would be able to return the game.
The lawyers screwed up pretty badly if the basis for their case was access to PSN, it should have been the ability to play purchased games and run linux on the same device.
It was also mentioned in advertising, specifically that you could turn the ps3 into a computer and that this was a feature the ps3 had which the xbox 360 and wii lacked.
Many games require newer firmwares, Gran Turismo 5 is one of them and requires 3.5, Portal 2 requires 3.60 etc, and there are a LOT more... Read some of the warez forums, warez users are somewhat better off than by the book linux users because they have a cracked firmware 3.55 and they tend to keep track of which games require newer firmwares.
There is no statement on the box that these games require a newer firmware, and if you purchase them expecting to play them on your 3.20 ps3 with linux installed you most likely won't be able to return the game either.
Apparently you also require newer firmware in order to play newer bluray discs, so this is yet another advertised feature which you are expected to sacrifice in order to continue using otheros... Same things apply, the blurays you purchase won't state that they require a non-otheros ps3 and you likely won't be able to return them.
Yes, it does... If you want to retain the ability to run linux, then you lose the ability to play any newer games (as these require a newer firmware)... This effectively creates 2 tiers of ps3 units, and games dont state on the packaging which tiers they work with.
This also means that if you send your ps3 for repair, its likely to come back with a newer firmware that prevents you running linux.
A more apt car analogy would be, you purchased a car which came with a sound system, and after owning the car for a couple of years you were given a choice between continuing to have the sound system but the car wouldn't drive more than 45mph, or removing the sound system and keeping the ability to drive >45mph.
No aside from PSN, you were given a choice between two features that you had when you bought the console:
1, to continue being able to play new games (which now require a newer firmware) 2, to continue being able to run linux
If you want to play GT5, or just about any game recently released you have to update your firmware beyond the version that supports linux, and you can't downgrade it back again. There is also nothing on the packaging for these newer games that states you will need to sacrifice your ability to run linux in order to play them, so you could purchase a game, get it home and then realise you cant play it.
What your talking about is a notification service from companies you are already doing business with about products you have already told them you are interested in, which is a whole lot different from an unsolicited advertisement.
Email about discounts are primarily designed to get you to buy products you wouldn't otherwise have purchased... If you were already intending to purchase something, chances are you would spend at least some time looking around for the best deal. It's very rare that you find yourself in a situation where an item is such a low priority that you're willing to hold off on purchasing it until the right deal comes along.
Why would you want to see ads for movies? Can you not visit a site which explicitly lists current and soon to be released movies?
I was especially annoyed by some movie ads not so long ago, a site i visited to view some video clips made me watch an unskippable 30 second movie trailer before every single video... It was always the same trailer, and the movie it was advertising was not even released where i am so i couldn't have gone to see it legally even if i had wanted to.
Online ads don't end up in landfill, but i fully agree there...
I hate unsolicited junkmail ads and will never buy anything advertised therein. They go straight in the recycling bag and are terribly wasteful. I also detest people who cold call, either on the phone or in person and will never purchase their offerings. If I want something, i will actively go and look for it.
Ads that include any form of sound especially irritate me, and are the main reason i installed adblock in the first place... I also dislike garish animated ads, and those that delay access to the content but nothing is worse than sound... Especially when you can't work out which of your many browser tabs is making the noise!
X11 is not the problem, the video drivers are... SGI machines were supporting multi head high speed setups using X11 in the days before x86 machines could even support multi head at all.
People will indeed browser facebook from the MRI... If you have a browser on the machine which can access the internet then sooner or later it will be used. People also browse the internet from "servers" for the same reason.
The solution is for machines which don't need browsers to not have any installed, and for those which only need to access internal web based applications to be restricted to only accessing those.
At a hospital you also often have lots of really flakey embedded devices and custom applications which don't react well to being probed... Once a worm starts spreading around the network and scanning, these devices can also crash under the load despite not being directly infected.
It's not a "derivative work" for purposes of the GPL, and thus doesn't require disclosure of source code as per the GPL terms...
On the other hand, nmap is not distributed under the pure GPL, it is distributed under the GPL with added stipulations, kind of like how the linux kernel include explicit exceptions to GPL2...
The copyright holder is free to decide if, when and how their work will be distributed, and Fyodor has decided that in addition to the GPL requirements, he also doesn't want his code distributed as part of third party binary installers. These installers are not a derivative work, they are just a violation of the distribution terms, and if you don't agree to the terms offered by the copyright holder then you are not allowed to distribute a copyrighted work.
A similar example would be a movie publisher or a tv station that is forced to implement DRM by a movie studio if they want to distribute that studio's movies. If the copyright holder doesn't agree with your terms then you can't redistribute his work.
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That is always standard practice for MS, they never support existing cross platform standards unless absolutely forced to and even then make the support as half assed as possible and discourage its use.
The iPhone sold because it offered something that other phones did not... It was appealing to users, and although it didn't really offer anything new it did existing things like email and web browsing better than other phones on the market.
Windows phone has nothing to offer users that they can't get from an Android or iOS based device...
On the other hand, it's called "windows" which paints the device in a negative light...
It reminds users of windows mobile, which was an awful platform that users generally hated.
It gives users an incorrect belief that they will be able to run windows applications on it, just as windows mobile did, and users will be disappointed.
It creates an association with the desktop/laptop windows brand, a brand which is generally disliked and is associated with crashing, malware and various other nasties... It's tolerated on computers because users don't see any alternative or are locked in, but alternatives are well known and readily available on phones.
Unfortunately it can often be more profitable to stifle or delay an innovation, and so in a purely profit driven organisation this will be the course of action taken.
How many highly innovative technologies exist behind closed doors because their release would obsolete an older but more profitable technology?
More often than not actual innovation will be the last option considered after all others have failed. History has shown that innovative companies often lose out to aggressive and unscrupulous competitors.
If you are making copies of Linux CDs then you are DISTRIBUTING...
As XanC said, you don't need to agree to the GPL if you only want to use or modify the software yourself... Its terms only apply if you distribute it, and giving copies to friends counts as distribution.
Can i return the PS3 i bought several years ago (one of the launch models), because i don't agree with the new PSN terms?
Most free software licenses only cover distribution, you don't need to agree to them if you only want to use the software yourself and don't intend to distribute it to third parties.
That's not reinventing the wheel, thats improving the wheel... Something you couldn't do if the wheel was patented because your improved version would still infringe on the original.
Why reinvent the wheel? Take what already exists as a base, and innovate beyond it... That's how progress works!
Or would you prefer that the wheel was patented and every vehicle manufacturer but one had to waste huge resources creating an "innovative" replacement for it?
While a company is expending resources to create an inferior replacement for something that already exists, they can't be using those resources to create something truly new and innovative....
You'd end up with a situation where company A has a patent on round wheels, while company B has a patent on square wheels and spent years developing an extremely advanced suspension system to try to bring the ride comfort of their square wheels to be competitive with the round wheels... Meanwhile everything else in the cars would be antiquated because they spent all their time trying to work around each other's patents.
The problem is that cheap laptops came down in price, while netbooks have only gone up in price...
The original $200 netbooks running linux were great cheap devices for browsing the web..
The $350 netbooks running windows are just slow and not very cheap windows laptops.
The linux netbooks were seen by users as a new device, similar to how the ipad is perceived, while windows netbooks were seen as being inferior versions of regular laptops.
Install a hacked 3.55 dual boot firmware, you will be able to run GT5 and boot Linux...
As an aside, you will also get access to a 7th SPE and the GPU from within Linux.
And you'll be able to play games which require firmwares between 3.55 and 3.15 versions, although i'm not for a minute suggesting that you actually buy any games from them.
Although you still won't get PSN...
Also patches applied to older games may increase the firmware requirements...
PSN was a separate service, which you can use the PS3 to access... I can understand how using this as an argument would fail.
On the other hand, the fact that you can't play new games or blurays while still retaining access to otheros is a much stronger argument, there are now many games on the market which are labelled as ps3 compatible, and the marketing for the ps3 originally claimed it can play games which are labelled as ps3 compatible as well as run linux...
And yet in order to play these new games you have to sacrifice the ability to run linux.
The games have no visible markings pre-sale stating that they require a newer firmware, and that installing this firmware will remove features from your ps3.
It is unlikely that having purchased one of these games and found this out, that you would be able to return the game.
The lawyers screwed up pretty badly if the basis for their case was access to PSN, it should have been the ability to play purchased games and run linux on the same device.
The OtherOS feature was clearly presented on numerous sony websites, such as http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html
It was also mentioned in advertising, specifically that you could turn the ps3 into a computer and that this was a feature the ps3 had which the xbox 360 and wii lacked.
Many games require newer firmwares, Gran Turismo 5 is one of them and requires 3.5, Portal 2 requires 3.60 etc, and there are a LOT more... Read some of the warez forums, warez users are somewhat better off than by the book linux users because they have a cracked firmware 3.55 and they tend to keep track of which games require newer firmwares.
There is no statement on the box that these games require a newer firmware, and if you purchase them expecting to play them on your 3.20 ps3 with linux installed you most likely won't be able to return the game either.
Apparently you also require newer firmware in order to play newer bluray discs, so this is yet another advertised feature which you are expected to sacrifice in order to continue using otheros... Same things apply, the blurays you purchase won't state that they require a non-otheros ps3 and you likely won't be able to return them.
Yes, it does...
If you want to retain the ability to run linux, then you lose the ability to play any newer games (as these require a newer firmware)... This effectively creates 2 tiers of ps3 units, and games dont state on the packaging which tiers they work with.
This also means that if you send your ps3 for repair, its likely to come back with a newer firmware that prevents you running linux.
A more apt car analogy would be, you purchased a car which came with a sound system, and after owning the car for a couple of years you were given a choice between continuing to have the sound system but the car wouldn't drive more than 45mph, or removing the sound system and keeping the ability to drive >45mph.
No aside from PSN, you were given a choice between two features that you had when you bought the console:
1, to continue being able to play new games (which now require a newer firmware)
2, to continue being able to run linux
If you want to play GT5, or just about any game recently released you have to update your firmware beyond the version that supports linux, and you can't downgrade it back again. There is also nothing on the packaging for these newer games that states you will need to sacrifice your ability to run linux in order to play them, so you could purchase a game, get it home and then realise you cant play it.
What your talking about is a notification service from companies you are already doing business with about products you have already told them you are interested in, which is a whole lot different from an unsolicited advertisement.
Email about discounts are primarily designed to get you to buy products you wouldn't otherwise have purchased... If you were already intending to purchase something, chances are you would spend at least some time looking around for the best deal. It's very rare that you find yourself in a situation where an item is such a low priority that you're willing to hold off on purchasing it until the right deal comes along.
Well, if you go to a page that contains nothing but ads, while using a browser that blocks ads, wouldn't you just see a blank page?
Why would you want to see ads for movies?
Can you not visit a site which explicitly lists current and soon to be released movies?
I was especially annoyed by some movie ads not so long ago, a site i visited to view some video clips made me watch an unskippable 30 second movie trailer before every single video... It was always the same trailer, and the movie it was advertising was not even released where i am so i couldn't have gone to see it legally even if i had wanted to.
Online ads don't end up in landfill, but i fully agree there...
I hate unsolicited junkmail ads and will never buy anything advertised therein. They go straight in the recycling bag and are terribly wasteful.
I also detest people who cold call, either on the phone or in person and will never purchase their offerings.
If I want something, i will actively go and look for it.
Ads that include any form of sound especially irritate me, and are the main reason i installed adblock in the first place... I also dislike garish animated ads, and those that delay access to the content but nothing is worse than sound... Especially when you can't work out which of your many browser tabs is making the noise!
X11 is not the problem, the video drivers are...
SGI machines were supporting multi head high speed setups using X11 in the days before x86 machines could even support multi head at all.
People will indeed browser facebook from the MRI...
If you have a browser on the machine which can access the internet then sooner or later it will be used.
People also browse the internet from "servers" for the same reason.
The solution is for machines which don't need browsers to not have any installed, and for those which only need to access internal web based applications to be restricted to only accessing those.
At a hospital you also often have lots of really flakey embedded devices and custom applications which don't react well to being probed... Once a worm starts spreading around the network and scanning, these devices can also crash under the load despite not being directly infected.
It's not a "derivative work" for purposes of the GPL, and thus doesn't require disclosure of source code as per the GPL terms...
On the other hand, nmap is not distributed under the pure GPL, it is distributed under the GPL with added stipulations, kind of like how the linux kernel include explicit exceptions to GPL2...
The copyright holder is free to decide if, when and how their work will be distributed, and Fyodor has decided that in addition to the GPL requirements, he also doesn't want his code distributed as part of third party binary installers.
These installers are not a derivative work, they are just a violation of the distribution terms, and if you don't agree to the terms offered by the copyright holder then you are not allowed to distribute a copyrighted work.
A similar example would be a movie publisher or a tv station that is forced to implement DRM by a movie studio if they want to distribute that studio's movies. If the copyright holder doesn't agree with your terms then you can't redistribute his work.