So, I guess it's time to liberate Texas ! Let's gather soldiers, let's ask the US congress for some big amounts of money, let's pay a big media campaign to "explain" that to the public, and attack attack attack !
... about Israel just wanting a good bargain price ? Well, seing as they are infeoded to the USA, I'm afraid that's only a tactic to spend less. But, like you, I'd like to be proven wrong.
Now would be a good time to put together a petition and send it to the various candidates and demand that there be some restrictions to all the tech jobs going overseas.
Yeaaah ! The US are aggressively promoting free market when it suits its needs (e.g. selling GMO all over the place) but don't want to loose when other countries are cheaper ? I think you don't represent enough electors to matter to your congressman. That's too bad.
Yeah, and a big "fuck you too" buddy. Newsflash: China will never be more powerful then the US.
Yeah, yeah, Rome will last forever and 640k will be enough for everybody. You sound like an ignorant, arrogant bastard.
The world *does* change and the hierarchy isn't set in stone.
Although i dislike binary-only drivers in general, i came to the understanding that sometimes this might be the best you can get. In the business software world copyright is often a diverse field, and even companies who would like to release the source might be barred from that through NDAs and copyrights of third companies.
You just don't seem to know much about IP law, eh ? You will never loose your copyright by releasing some code under the GPL. You still own the code, and you can still make a proprietary package from it, e.g. to sell it packaged for an other OS.
Nope. Having binary modules only stops developers from trying to make their own, so you end up with proprietary, non-debuggable and non-portable (across kernel versions or across architectures) drivers. There are for example winmodem drivers you can only use on a 2.2 kernel, or the famous nvidia drivers which work only on i386. Even if this helps the casual gamer (which would be waaay better running Windows anyway), this is in fact a regression from the free software perpective.
Imagine a future where you install your core Linux kernel, then download a ton of different binary modules from different websites, have to hunt in the forums to mix-and-match the right versions, and end up having bugs nobody won't fix ? Think about it, that's what you want when you allow "pragmatism".
I believe this is wrong. The GPL doesn't say anything about having to release things for free. You could charge a million bucks. You just have to give the source.
Then don't use the word "free", it has a too weak meaning. Either use analogies ("free as in beer"), or other words ("gratis", "libre", "no charge", whatever..)
I'm wondering what does this mean for e.g. taiwanese manufacturers selling in Europe - they for sure don't need to comply to weird software patents. Will they pay only for their US market share ? That Microsoft tactic seems more aimed at countering embedded Linux systems than really making money off FAT...
Maybe it's what was needed for JFFS2 to see widespread use. Currently it's used in many embedded Linux systems, as a root filesystem. But using it as an exchange filesystem (e.g. on a new flahscard format) would rock - JFFS2 features compression, journalling, wear levelling, and is generally modern an well working.
All Debian server run W2K3 (to avoid SCO licence costs) regularly patched with Windows Update, so they should be totally immune to h4k3rZ. IMHO the problem comes from their inhouse perl scripts running on top of IIS. That's what you get for not using professionally developped software.
At first, Windows Media Player and its "protected" file formats seemed a good way to make alliance with RIAA and MPAA members and provide them secure distribution channels. But now it seems more like MSN will be a concurrent channel.
Microsoft don't want to have friends in the business ?
The article states several times that Europeans have are poor writers (spelling & grammatical errors) compared to Americans. Obviously this is a pure hoax. I know well: I read/.
When RedHat said that the public distro was a loss of money, and only the enterprise version was interesting, I thought RH's business model was to nearly give away their public distro to gain traction in the corporate world. This seemed to work very well.
Now, it's obvious you think you have reached the critical mass to make a new kind of business model sustainable. But don't you think the previous one was better, after all the critics you see popping here and there ? Are you still confident in your new business model ?
Ultimately ownership comes down to who has the bigger army.
I wonder what it means WRT the situation in Iraq now:) Who's owning the land ? USA people (wierd, but is your theory) ? Iraquis (doubt it) ? UN (does UN only exist ?) ?
Going even further, the entire world belongs to north America right now. Weird.
Of course, the Pr states it's a nextgen console ! It's explicitely said it's there to boost sales, what do you believe ? That they'd call it "old technology, just rebadged console" ?
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So, I guess it's time to liberate Texas ! Let's gather soldiers, let's ask the US congress for some big amounts of money, let's pay a big media campaign to "explain" that to the public, and attack attack attack !
How much power do these two little solar cells generate ? I highly doubt it's sufficient to feed all gadgets at once.
... in fact, they do like Israel does: they threaten to go full-opensource just to have a big rebate on their next round of Windows licencing !
Guess what ? People will actually be given the right to vote Dumbya out of the White House.
Does that mean that we'll actually see thinkpads with linux preinstalled, and for less than their MS-taxed siblings ?
... then they fight you ...
Yeaaah ! The US are aggressively promoting free market when it suits its needs (e.g. selling GMO all over the place) but don't want to loose when other countries are cheaper ? I think you don't represent enough electors to matter to your congressman. That's too bad.
Yeah, tell that to the countries who cared to criticize GWB's "search for WMD" in Iraq. Of course their position is considered improper !
Mwaha ! Humble and respectful my ass ! Since when calling French people coward monkeys is "humble and respectful" ?
Especially all the mails I sent: AOL now refuses all mails from custom servers. I'm sorry, I don't send spam !
Yeah, yeah, Rome will last forever and 640k will be enough for everybody. You sound like an ignorant, arrogant bastard. The world *does* change and the hierarchy isn't set in stone.
Many more friends for the goatse man ...
You just don't seem to know much about IP law, eh ? You will never loose your copyright by releasing some code under the GPL. You still own the code, and you can still make a proprietary package from it, e.g. to sell it packaged for an other OS.
Copyright and license are two different beasts.
Imagine a future where you install your core Linux kernel, then download a ton of different binary modules from different websites, have to hunt in the forums to mix-and-match the right versions, and end up having bugs nobody won't fix ? Think about it, that's what you want when you allow "pragmatism".
Then don't use the word "free", it has a too weak meaning. Either use analogies ("free as in beer"), or other words ("gratis", "libre", "no charge", whatever ..)
I'm wondering what does this mean for e.g. taiwanese manufacturers selling in Europe - they for sure don't need to comply to weird software patents. Will they pay only for their US market share ? That Microsoft tactic seems more aimed at countering embedded Linux systems than really making money off FAT ...
Maybe it's what was needed for JFFS2 to see widespread use. Currently it's used in many embedded Linux systems, as a root filesystem. But using it as an exchange filesystem (e.g. on a new flahscard format) would rock - JFFS2 features compression, journalling, wear levelling, and is generally modern an well working.
Obviously you don't own a thinkpad.
All Debian server run W2K3 (to avoid SCO licence costs) regularly patched with Windows Update, so they should be totally immune to h4k3rZ. IMHO the problem comes from their inhouse perl scripts running on top of IIS. That's what you get for not using professionally developped software.
Microsoft don't want to have friends in the business ?
The article states several times that Europeans have are poor writers (spelling & grammatical errors) compared to Americans. Obviously this is a pure hoax. I know well: I read /.
Now, it's obvious you think you have reached the critical mass to make a new kind of business model sustainable. But don't you think the previous one was better, after all the critics you see popping here and there ? Are you still confident in your new business model ?
I wonder what it means WRT the situation in Iraq now :) Who's owning the land ? USA people (wierd, but is your theory) ? Iraquis (doubt it) ? UN (does UN only exist ?) ?
Going even further, the entire world belongs to north America right now. Weird.
Of course, the Pr states it's a nextgen console ! It's explicitely said it's there to boost sales, what do you believe ? That they'd call it "old technology, just rebadged console" ?