"Why should Macromedia care that someone is using a 3rd party renderer as a replacement to their free renderer"
Compatability.
One reason Flash is so popular is that for complex interactions it is much, much easier to be sure your Flash app will "just work" across any OS with a MM flash player, regardless of browser.
If a number of players hit there will inevitably be bugs and flaws, meanign that now you cannot be sure your Flash app will behave the way it is supposed to. The usefulness of the format will drop.
And people don't usually know WHY there is a problem.. the will jsut start saying "Flash? It doesn't always work" not caring that its their "player" made of string and bubble gum that is the problem.
The thing is, the Flahs player is FREE. So the only reason to write this one is political, not technical.
His point is that open source is the future of the software industry for Europe
So his belief is that Europe is so incapable of competing in the software arena with the US that their only hope is to make sure their laws make a free market impossible and authorize the European companies to steal the idea created elsewhere for their own use?
The great unwashed users of proprietary software have little say or ability to alter second rate software from the unresponsive bureaucracies deep within the Kremlin of Redmond. Transparency and flexibility are traits found in free markets and free software, not the Gulags of proprietary licenses.
Oh please. Microsoft has made many, many changes in response to the market. Entire initiatives have changed, products have failed and others arisen.
You cannot (the generic you) keep whining that MS is constantly responding to and copying the Open Source world because you are hurting them while simultaneously whinign that MS is so all powerful that you are helpless.
That's right; WMP contains a search-and-destroy component that disables unapproved AV apps
What a pathetic attmempt at a troll. The explaination later in the thread doesn't help... it pretty much comes down to "my friend once showed me this thing that happened, so you should all believe me".
Feel free to post a link to your friends application, so we can show him what his mistakes are.
Int he meantime, you might want to tone down the FUD.
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The GPL is the license the market has picked.
No, Apache is. Many many more companies run Linux as a free way to run Apache than use Apache only because the chose Linux.
"Apple has bunch of paid developers doing full-time developement on it. KDE has a bunch of volunteers doing it whenever they have the time"
Wait a minute here. This woudl imply that there may be an advantage in software to haveing a paid team of porfessiona developers instead of a bunch of el333t liUx hax0rs fixing things whenever the mood hits.
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Imagine for a moment that we were in an alternate univers, and Microsoft started basing a browser in KTML. LEt's say that they "contributed" back patches the way Apple is.
Can you REALLY see anyone here saying "well, Microsoft has the right to do what they want with their developers"?
"It's from Apple? My god it has revolutionized the way music is heard... I never knew a forced random play mode coudl change my life"
"Hey, is that the MS thing? God those guys are so stupid all they coudl do is put it on shuffle. I mean seriously, they think we are too stupid to control our own music. Besides, these have been out for years".
I think the level of Apple fanboy postings on/. is a good indicator of how disenchanted with Linux peopel are getting - and they desperately need to keep up their rebel self image.
Um, never? Because it actually prompts you and asks you if you're sure you want to run it?
So the fact that IE does the same thing for, say, ActiveX and has similar options for control is consistently ignored on/. int he name of the great Jihad but a exactly similar (or worse) Apple problem gets apologists running.
Use a loop hole to take their work and use it as your own for free.
Welcome to the world of putting a lot of money into a GPL'd codebase and trying to make a living from selling / supporting it.. Redhat backed a loser here... it will just take tiem to realize it.
Every $$ Redhat spends, every moment of time, all the knowledge they drive into this product will be swiped for free in a nightly download.
There can't possibly be a better poster child for a company that tried to be completely friendly to the open source concept... or one who will be as completely screwed over.
I used to build systems a long time ago that ran PC-MOS on 386 boxes to run multi-user MS-DOS systems. Combined with a (at the time) super sexy Maxpeed ( http://www.maxspeed.com/ ) it would allow you to run DOS programs on serial terminals like the Link MC5 and similar.
Pretty cool stuff for the time. Also awesome for running multi-node BBS systems.
Sorry, but you desperately need a reality check. You are talking about probably the largest and most successful software company in the world.
It is an important part of the Slashdot kool-aid that Microsoft is a talentless zombie land who only survives via luck and criminal activities.
To admit the truth - that money and resources might actually be a factor in attracting good peopel and developing good software - is to expose the lie that if you "open the source" you get unlimited top talent for free.
Actually, the NT kernel has had links for a long time. You can link files, folders and entire partitions into the middle of other filesystems.
The "multiple folders" reference is in respect to the Metadata tagging that allows files to show up in virtual folders as the result of live real time searches.
Make a folder for a project and any file ont he systme you tag as being part fo that project will show up there, and in any other live folder (Stack) that it applies to.
It kicks ass. But then, why woudl anyone on/. want a fact to get int he way of the zealotry?
with MSDE. I'll upgrade to SQL Server once the system's important enough that I don't have justify the cost
MSDE is one of the best things MS ever did to help keep its lead in this area. Its a good, strong database engine with minimal licensing issues and total upwards compatability with their bigger tools.
It also kicks MySQL's butt feature wise= for desktop development.
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The announcement by Apple
More than 1,900 comments already on some forums!
So let's get this right...
If MS had done something totally off the wall you woudl have complained and whined that they were being non-standard.
If they do somehting in a easily pened way using common tools you complain and whine that they aren't "innovative".
Why not just be honest and say "I like to complain and whine".
Slashdot: "What do want to complain about today?"
"Why should Macromedia care that someone is using a 3rd party renderer as a replacement to their free renderer"
.. the will jsut start saying "Flash? It doesn't always work" not caring that its their "player" made of string and bubble gum that is the problem.
Compatability.
One reason Flash is so popular is that for complex interactions it is much, much easier to be sure your Flash app will "just work" across any OS with a MM flash player, regardless of browser.
If a number of players hit there will inevitably be bugs and flaws, meanign that now you cannot be sure your Flash app will behave the way it is supposed to. The usefulness of the format will drop.
And people don't usually know WHY there is a problem
The thing is, the Flahs player is FREE. So the only reason to write this one is political, not technical.
Oops... never mind.
http://www.i2p.net/how_networkcomparisons
How would you compare / contrast I2P with Tor?
So far Tor has been pretty good to me. I'm happy to switch if there is a benefit though.
His point is that open source is the future of the software industry for Europe
So his belief is that Europe is so incapable of competing in the software arena with the US that their only hope is to make sure their laws make a free market impossible and authorize the European companies to steal the idea created elsewhere for their own use?
Ah, the old European worldview shinign through.
The great unwashed users of proprietary software have little say or ability to alter second rate software from the unresponsive bureaucracies deep within the Kremlin of Redmond. Transparency and flexibility are traits found in free markets and free software, not the Gulags of proprietary licenses.
Oh please. Microsoft has made many, many changes in response to the market. Entire initiatives have changed, products have failed and others arisen.
You cannot (the generic you) keep whining that MS is constantly responding to and copying the Open Source world because you are hurting them while simultaneously whinign that MS is so all powerful that you are helpless.
This is that critical "we run servers on old garbage" segment I keep hearing about?
Everybody involved (except the one Microsoft-based consultancy) KNEW that Linux had better stability and maintainability than Windows!
/. are zealots who stopped learning about Windows back on Win98 it's no shock.
Actually it looks more like those people admitted that they didn't have any clue how to build and maintain a Windows system.
Just because they are incapable of supporting it doesn't make it bad.... it just makes them "focussed".
Given the number of IT deparment folks posting here on
Let not have a double standard
Do you not SEE the URL in your browser?
Here's an idea... go READ THE DAMN LINK where they explain the problem, how it is happenign and so on.
Just a thought. Or, you could continue to make ill-informed posts with vaguely alluded to conspiracy theories and blame placing.
Oh wait. I forgot what site I was on.
That's right; WMP contains a search-and-destroy component that disables unapproved AV apps
What a pathetic attmempt at a troll. The explaination later in the thread doesn't help... it pretty much comes down to "my friend once showed me this thing that happened, so you should all believe me".
Feel free to post a link to your friends application, so we can show him what his mistakes are.
Int he meantime, you might want to tone down the FUD.
The GPL is the license the market has picked.
No, Apache is. Many many more companies run Linux as a free way to run Apache than use Apache only because the chose Linux.
"Apple has bunch of paid developers doing full-time developement on it. KDE has a bunch of volunteers doing it whenever they have the time"
Wait a minute here. This woudl imply that there may be an advantage in software to haveing a paid team of porfessiona developers instead of a bunch of el333t liUx hax0rs fixing things whenever the mood hits.
Imagine for a moment that we were in an alternate univers, and Microsoft started basing a browser in KTML. LEt's say that they "contributed" back patches the way Apple is.
Can you REALLY see anyone here saying "well, Microsoft has the right to do what they want with their developers"?
Apple gets a free pass.
That about sums it up. On Slashdot any pro-MS statement is considered a "Troll", even if it's true.
Truth? We don't want no stinkin' truth!
On the topic of a portable flash MP3 player....
/. is a good indicator of how disenchanted with Linux peopel are getting - and they desperately need to keep up their rebel self image.
"It's from Apple? My god it has revolutionized the way music is heard... I never knew a forced random play mode coudl change my life"
"Hey, is that the MS thing? God those guys are so stupid all they coudl do is put it on shuffle. I mean seriously, they think we are too stupid to control our own music. Besides, these have been out for years".
I think the level of Apple fanboy postings on
Um, never? Because it actually prompts you and asks you if you're sure you want to run it?
/. int he name of the great Jihad but a exactly similar (or worse) Apple problem gets apologists running.
So the fact that IE does the same thing for, say, ActiveX and has similar options for control is consistently ignored on
So amusing.
Use a loop hole to take their work and use it as your own for free.
Welcome to the world of putting a lot of money into a GPL'd codebase and trying to make a living from selling / supporting it.. Redhat backed a loser here... it will just take tiem to realize it.
Every $$ Redhat spends, every moment of time, all the knowledge they drive into this product will be swiped for free in a nightly download.
There can't possibly be a better poster child for a company that tried to be completely friendly to the open source concept... or one who will be as completely screwed over.
Other companies can offer infinite right-to-use and charge only for support contracts
So the big plan here for Open Source is to make sure the product sucks badly enough that peopel need to pay them for support?
I used to build systems a long time ago that ran PC-MOS on 386 boxes to run multi-user MS-DOS systems. Combined with a (at the time) super sexy Maxpeed ( http://www.maxspeed.com/ ) it would allow you to run DOS programs on serial terminals like the Link MC5 and similar.
Pretty cool stuff for the time. Also awesome for running multi-node BBS systems.
Sorry, but you desperately need a reality check. You are talking about probably the largest and most successful software company in the world.
It is an important part of the Slashdot kool-aid that Microsoft is a talentless zombie land who only survives via luck and criminal activities.
To admit the truth - that money and resources might actually be a factor in attracting good peopel and developing good software - is to expose the lie that if you "open the source" you get unlimited top talent for free.
Outlook the virus magnet
If your still getting virii via Outlook then your an idiot.
Exchange Server the second most complicated thing on the planet after the human brain
See? I was right.
Actually, the NT kernel has had links for a long time. You can link files, folders and entire partitions into the middle of other filesystems.
/. want a fact to get int he way of the zealotry?
The "multiple folders" reference is in respect to the Metadata tagging that allows files to show up in virtual folders as the result of live real time searches.
Make a folder for a project and any file ont he systme you tag as being part fo that project will show up there, and in any other live folder (Stack) that it applies to.
It kicks ass. But then, why woudl anyone on
with MSDE. I'll upgrade to SQL Server once the system's important enough that I don't have justify the cost
MSDE is one of the best things MS ever did to help keep its lead in this area. Its a good, strong database engine with minimal licensing issues and total upwards compatability with their bigger tools.
It also kicks MySQL's butt feature wise= for desktop development.