While they may be biased, and slant their findings, the concept of 'a problem' is valid.
Even if nothing ever comes to light from IP/patent problems, it can ( and is ) keeping some companies away from adoption of anything open source out of fear of lawsuits.
Remember, even if you win, the fight can easily cost you enough to put you out of business..
Lets say for a moment they can create another Alexandria, this time digital.
Then most print books go out of style..
Who is to stop someone from changing the text, to fit their needs/views/beliefs and claiming its 'always been that way'.. With no hard paper evidence to prove them wrong it gets accepted as fact.
This already happens with book 'revisions' over time.. Subsequent generations get different 'facts', all twisted to fit the views of who is currently in control.
Or even ought ban of information. "sorry, you don't need to know this" and poof it no longer exists. This is harder to do if people still own the hardcopy..
Ok, so I'm paranoid, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. And I'm old enough to have seen it happen in the schools.
Perhaps they dont conform to the 'Microsoft guidelines' because the guidelines dont conform to what the 3rd parties are trying to accomplish?
There are many cases where you really *need* something different in a UI to be productive.
Not everything is a word processor or spreadsheet and works well with what Microsoft thinks is right. When was the last time Microsoft produced a good CAD application.. Oh wait, that isnt their market is it.. See my point?.
Some of us have been screaming about this for years now.. Just beacuse we have broadband doesnt mean we have to suck all the bandwidth with stupid garbage.
Sooo.. its ok to commit a crime and 'put down' someone that doesn't even know what is going on?
That's about like shooting out the tires of someone that didn't know the speed limit and went over 5MPH.. "well they had to be stopped"
How about telling their ISP instead.. so they can notify the user. Sort of like giving the speeder a warning ticket..
It is also not reasonable to require that the average Joe understands their pc enough to not get infected.. no more then it would be reasonable for you to understand heart surgery before you went to the doctor for the flu.. Or how to rebuild your transmission when you go in for an oil change. Skills like that take training.
Isn't this sort of like blowing up a speeding car?
The collateral damage to innocent people will be tremendous.. If a spammer is stupid enough to use his own machine, he would drop off line instantly after he broadcasts.. IBM's packets have to go somewhere, flooding out neighbors..
Plus, what if the person spamming has been infected with a virus and isn't knowingly spamming, or IBM's system misidentifies the offending machine? There would be hell to pay..
Yes, spam sux, and it needs to stop, but we need to do it properly..
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A lot of people care.
Many of us dont want to be tied to something non-free, and thus controlled by another party.
"does the job" has a wider meaning to us.
It also limits what OO will run on now. If there isnt a java port that is blessed by Sun, then you 'cant run it here'.
Sony has helped in creating this litigious society.
The plan is coming together, just a tad slower then they had hoped.
Is it me, or does each revision of Longhorn look more and more like OSX ?
While they may be biased, and slant their findings, the concept of 'a problem' is valid.
Even if nothing ever comes to light from IP/patent problems, it can ( and is ) keeping some companies away from adoption of anything open source out of fear of lawsuits.
Remember, even if you win, the fight can easily cost you enough to put you out of business..
Hey its their network, they make the rules..
If tomrrow they decide that slashot isnt allowed, then you lose access..
You signed the agreement. Thats the breaks..
If its possible to pull off, a cloned dino would finally put to rest the debate on if dinos were birds or reptiles once and for all.
Lets say for a moment they can create another Alexandria, this time digital.
Then most print books go out of style..
Who is to stop someone from changing the text, to fit their needs/views/beliefs and claiming its 'always been that way'.. With no hard paper evidence to prove them wrong it gets accepted as fact.
This already happens with book 'revisions' over time.. Subsequent generations get different 'facts', all twisted to fit the views of who is currently in control.
Or even ought ban of information. "sorry, you don't need to know this" and poof it no longer exists. This is harder to do if people still own the hardcopy..
Ok, so I'm paranoid, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. And I'm old enough to have seen it happen in the schools.
Perhaps they dont conform to the 'Microsoft guidelines' because the guidelines dont conform to what the 3rd parties are trying to accomplish?
There are many cases where you really *need* something different in a UI to be productive.
Not everything is a word processor or spreadsheet and works well with what Microsoft thinks is right. When was the last time Microsoft produced a good CAD application.. Oh wait, that isnt their market is it.. See my point?.
From what has been said, they both are already in the process of switching desktops..
Will there be a free version too, or just something for 'paying customers' as is tradional for Novell.
Not slamming them, but if they also release a free version for us people at home would help in market penetration at the office...
Get a 12" frensel lens and try that. It can burn thru plate metal.
Some of us have been screaming about this for years now.. Just beacuse we have broadband doesnt mean we have to suck all the bandwidth with stupid garbage.
Sure, why not. Run more businesses out of your state.
If it costs too much to do business there, they will move elsewhere. And take their jobs with them.
Beteen laws that make it hard to do business at all, or raising taxes, other areas are doing it as well.
Seems to be the way to go these days.
Nope, id never willing accept something that has been DRMized.
If i buy it, its mine. If i cant do what i want with it due to some stupid 'protection' then i dont want it.
Sure, if i dont have a choice, then i have no choice. But today, i do. And i choose no.
He allowed us linux users to watch what we paid for.. Ya that makes him bad. You vote to take more rights from us.
Jerk.
Marketing speak translates into " Buy our products "..
Its all a scam. We shouldn't need to have "security measures".. Catch the bastards that are causing the problem and put them in jail. Problem solved.
Sooo.. its ok to commit a crime and 'put down' someone that doesn't even know what is going on?
That's about like shooting out the tires of someone that didn't know the speed limit and went over 5MPH.. "well they had to be stopped"
How about telling their ISP instead.. so they can notify the user. Sort of like giving the speeder a warning ticket..
It is also not reasonable to require that the average Joe understands their pc enough to not get infected.. no more then it would be reasonable for you to understand heart surgery before you went to the doctor for the flu.. Or how to rebuild your transmission when you go in for an oil change. Skills like that take training.
Isn't this sort of like blowing up a speeding car?
The collateral damage to innocent people will be tremendous.. If a spammer is stupid enough to use his own machine, he would drop off line instantly after he broadcasts.. IBM's packets have to go somewhere, flooding out neighbors..
Plus, what if the person spamming has been infected with a virus and isn't knowingly spamming, or IBM's system misidentifies the offending machine? There would be hell to pay..
Yes, spam sux, and it needs to stop, but we need to do it properly..
I dont think they are different really.
I just wont run around reselling others artistic work as they were not 'released' in the same way that the 'code' in question was.
In comparison, if i have sheet music that was release, then i feel i can do what ever i want with that.. just not the orginal work.
( we are beating a dead horse here )
Not using the "K" at all,so you dont have a clue if its a KDE complient application.
Dont like the K, dont use K-apps.
But inst robots.txt only about being polite and not an actual binding contract?
If its been published publically, then they dont have much of a leg to stand on, as long as they get the credit for the 'source'. "fair use"
I suppose you will offer me a free iPod if i send you my name, address and cc number ?
No thanks. Ill just wait until some loser thinks he's found 'his' code in my product, and has the stupidity to sue me.
Seriously, i would be afraid if the RIAA was to show up.
THey are liable to take license plate numbers and track you down.
They arent known for playing fair, so why would they start today?
Will be to make future OS's expire automatically..
Prevent the chance of ever having 'hold outs'...