Eh? So you apear to be saying that its OK to throw your toys out the pram as long as it ends in war? So who would you suggest we pick on? To follow the American tradition it has to be a small country with minimal resources, ie someone easy to beat, but with some kind of tenuous link to 'evil'. I suggest here.
The Department Of Homeland Security have asked that I dissavow my communist and terrorist based views as expressed in my previous posts. America is great, capitalism is the one true God and communists are sissies.
That's an interesting thought. And a way to make things work in a similar way is to limit all companies to being cooperatives - ie everyone gets one vote and one vote only.
I think a better and much simpler way of limiting companies is to simply not allow companies to own other companies or to exist outside their original remit. A company should have a specific and narrowly defined purpose (which was the original intention of the Articles of Incorporation until lawyers came up with the idea of being very generic in those articles). Going outside those defined goals or making them too generic should be illegal, resulting in the automatic (with an appeal obviously) un-incorporation of the company. If a company wants to change direction is should be wound up, money returned and investors can choose to start another company for their new purpose if they so wish. And as I said at the start, companies should have no rights to own shares in other companies - share ownership should be limited to actual human beings. This will result in a world of small businesses, which is the required model for a free market as envisioned by Adam Smith and the other thinkers that those big business economist hold so dear whilst running their monopolies and cartels.
Why would a really productive programmer want a union which represents them and someone who does a 1/10 as much productive work? They'll only lose out to the benefit of the slackers.
I don't understand this. Is it an Americanism? Why do people lose out if there is a union? Unions don't force people to work slower or work worse or hold people back (not as a rule anyway), they simply look after the workers rights as a group - the whole being stronger than the sum of the parts, etc.
To be fair WotC were a small games publisher like any other (Talislanta and some other stuff) until they were approached by Richard Garfield (could be the wrong name, its been a while) with a certain collectable card game. I'm not sure anyone involved at that point was 100% responsible for the runaway success of their own product since it wasn't really initially meant to be a 'collectable' game. And since they've spent a good many years now owned by Hasbro, the widget maker of the board game world, is it any surprise that all originality, fun and charm has been sucked out of it all?
Abiword opens and saves.doc format documents. And I agree with the grandparent poster that it is an upgrade from MS Word rather than a downgrade. Its fast, stable, easy to use, has a small footprint and does everything any sensible person would ever require of a word processing package. Like many I never really like OpenOffice because its as slow and bloated as MS Office, but doesn't 'feel' as slick. Abiword is fast and has that slick feel that even MS hasn't had since about Word 6.
I use a lot of FOSS software (I'm writing this though FreeBSD/XFCE4) and I would definately rate Abiword with the best of them.
I don't believe that's true. Its not that people don't care about the artists, although its not their first concern (and why should it be anymore than my first concern is not to some baby dying from poverty half way around the world), people simply don't a) see artists suffering, and why should they when the record industry like to put forward this image of the 'superstar artist' and his bling, and b) even then are acutely aware of how much of a greed factory the whole RIAA controlled record industry is anyway.
Who, in the industry who's image we are presented with, is there to feel sorry for?
I'm not saying that's right, but that's what they have taught us by their glamourous presentation of their world and the 'immoral' way they live in it. You reap what you sow, as they say, and they want to be art and big business in the same breath.
Yeh, God forbid that someone should change their opinions with changing circumstances. Always stick to your guns, I say, no matter how stupid they turn out to be.
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It's obvious to anyone that this scenario could easily have been avoided. The issue here is the restrictive nature of the Microsoft EULA. Had this code been released under the more flexible Shareware license, none of these issues would arise.
Gates has set back the cause of quality proprietary software by 20 years with his viral-like Microsoft EULA, which infects everything it comes into contact with.
Notice that Apple based their OS around the Darwin kernel, precisely because of the major problems inherant in the Microsoft EULA.
How can we (the closed source community) ever hope to be taken seriously by the people with the big bucks (Fortune 500 corportations and governments) when our main software license imposes so many unreasonable restrictions? It's time to kill the Microsoft EULA.
Great idea. But how would this new email standard work? How would it allow you to receive email from people you didn't know (new business leads, etc) whilst stopping email from people you don't know (spammers, etc)?
Or to put it another way, if you want a system that doesn't allow email in from people you don't know then the current system allows that. Simply setup a whitelist on your server, put in it everyone that you want to receive email from and then block all other emails (or do the same with filters/rules in your client). Viola - instant spam free email!
when something is used for 99.9% copyright violation, something needs to be done.
Quite right! Probably the best idea is to get rid of the laws being violated. Or to put it another way, when even a large minority of people do something it is crazy to make that thing illegal. Laws should reflect the whole of society rather than just being a tool for certain well placed minority groups to mould everyone else.
If you don't like the way that concept of 'freedom' pans out then, as you American's like to say, why not give communist China a try.
A firewall is a device which rejects or passes packets according to specific criteria. In this case, the criterion is whether the packet is part of an SMTP session which appears to contain spam-like data.
But if that's all its means then there claim of being the first is pure bullshit. I've been running a mail relay with MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin/ClamAV for several years now and it quite clearly fits your definition of a 'mail firewall'. I think this is the point of contention - either they are talking bullshit about it being a 'firewall' or they are talking bullshit about being the 'first'.
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Eh? So you apear to be saying that its OK to throw your toys out the pram as long as it ends in war? So who would you suggest we pick on? To follow the American tradition it has to be a small country with minimal resources, ie someone easy to beat, but with some kind of tenuous link to 'evil'.
I suggest here.
Yeh, damn those Euroes and their lack of irony!
Which makes a great new joke -
Question - How many workers does it take to patent the lightbulb?
Answer - one thousand!!!
B'dum tsch!
The Department Of Homeland Security have asked that I dissavow my communist and terrorist based views as expressed in my previous posts. America is great, capitalism is the one true God and communists are sissies.
That's an interesting thought. And a way to make things work in a similar way is to limit all companies to being cooperatives - ie everyone gets one vote and one vote only.
I think a better and much simpler way of limiting companies is to simply not allow companies to own other companies or to exist outside their original remit. A company should have a specific and narrowly defined purpose (which was the original intention of the Articles of Incorporation until lawyers came up with the idea of being very generic in those articles). Going outside those defined goals or making them too generic should be illegal, resulting in the automatic (with an appeal obviously) un-incorporation of the company. If a company wants to change direction is should be wound up, money returned and investors can choose to start another company for their new purpose if they so wish. And as I said at the start, companies should have no rights to own shares in other companies - share ownership should be limited to actual human beings. This will result in a world of small businesses, which is the required model for a free market as envisioned by Adam Smith and the other thinkers that those big business economist hold so dear whilst running their monopolies and cartels.
I guess that's MS Marketing dollars at work
Word!
I don't understand this. Is it an Americanism? Why do people lose out if there is a union? Unions don't force people to work slower or work worse or hold people back (not as a rule anyway), they simply look after the workers rights as a group - the whole being stronger than the sum of the parts, etc.
And Archie Ives shoots first.
To be fair WotC were a small games publisher like any other (Talislanta and some other stuff) until they were approached by Richard Garfield (could be the wrong name, its been a while) with a certain collectable card game. I'm not sure anyone involved at that point was 100% responsible for the runaway success of their own product since it wasn't really initially meant to be a 'collectable' game. And since they've spent a good many years now owned by Hasbro, the widget maker of the board game world, is it any surprise that all originality, fun and charm has been sucked out of it all?
How dare you sir! Beancounting is an ancient and well respected artform.
Ah good, a just punishment for his attempted crime then? Its good to know the system works and that he certainly won't be doing that again.
I use a lot of FOSS software (I'm writing this though FreeBSD/XFCE4) and I would definately rate Abiword with the best of them.
Who, in the industry who's image we are presented with, is there to feel sorry for?
I'm not saying that's right, but that's what they have taught us by their glamourous presentation of their world and the 'immoral' way they live in it. You reap what you sow, as they say, and they want to be art and big business in the same breath.
Pffff!! Read the what?
I think you clicked on the slashdot link when you meant to go somewhere that people read articles.
Damn!!!! I fed the troll again!
No, that would be four extra days of golf for the Board and another four days work for us poor ol' working stiffs.
"Hey, lets party"
#I'm alright, don't nobody worry 'bout me#
Gates has set back the cause of quality proprietary software by 20 years with his viral-like Microsoft EULA, which infects everything it comes into contact with.
Notice that Apple based their OS around the Darwin kernel, precisely because of the major problems inherant in the Microsoft EULA.
How can we (the closed source community) ever hope to be taken seriously by the people with the big bucks (Fortune 500 corportations and governments) when our main software license imposes so many unreasonable restrictions? It's time to kill the Microsoft EULA.
Only if you were listening to the version Mozart recorded himself.
Great idea. But how would this new email standard work? How would it allow you to receive email from people you didn't know (new business leads, etc) whilst stopping email from people you don't know (spammers, etc)?
Or to put it another way, if you want a system that doesn't allow email in from people you don't know then the current system allows that. Simply setup a whitelist on your server, put in it everyone that you want to receive email from and then block all other emails (or do the same with filters/rules in your client). Viola - instant spam free email!
Quite right! Probably the best idea is to get rid of the laws being violated. Or to put it another way, when even a large minority of people do something it is crazy to make that thing illegal. Laws should reflect the whole of society rather than just being a tool for certain well placed minority groups to mould everyone else.
If you don't like the way that concept of 'freedom' pans out then, as you American's like to say, why not give communist China a try.
But if that's all its means then there claim of being the first is pure bullshit. I've been running a mail relay with MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin/ClamAV for several years now and it quite clearly fits your definition of a 'mail firewall'.
I think this is the point of contention - either they are talking bullshit about it being a 'firewall' or they are talking bullshit about being the 'first'.
Calm down dear, its only a commercial!