If you read the article you would see that they are also going to offer authoring tools by making coding changes for them to work well in Wine. If there is a lot of interest from there, then they would do a native port.
Macromedia's Flash format, Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch said the company would begin soon by offering optimizations to allow Flash MX, its main set of tools for creating Flash content, to work smoothly with Wine, an emulation program that allows Windows programs to run on a Linux PC. Depending on developer interest, the next step would be to produce Linux-native versions of Flash MX and other applications
And exactly how many companies have successfully sued MS because they lost time/money/etc because of issues with MS software? The MS EULA as a whole may not be valid, however your going to have one _very_ expensive case on your hands. MS will throw everything they have at that case since they would not want to be sued by every company out there that lost money due to their software. At the end of the day, MS and other proprietary software (as well as OSS) is use at your own risk.
Insightful? This is anything but Insightful. If there were tens-of-thousands of high quality FREE plumbers around that could fix my problems, I would certainly be sure to use there service.
Even more, one can learn to DIY plubming, and be pretty good at it as well. You see, there are standards for plubming as there are for software. Howver, unlike monopoly companies like MS, plubmers have to adhere to those standards.
There are also tons of people who know plubming, septic, etc stuff inside out (I am not one of them), who would gladly share that knowledge with you with out crying "IP" violations.
Huh? Have you _ever_ read your MS EULA? You are _NOT_ able to sue MS for anything!!! If your whole business comes down because you run it on MS software only and get hit hard by a virus, guess what? You cannot sue MS and MS is not liable according to the MS EULA. period. So all that crap about who is responsible in OSS is bull, since in closed source software, and especially with MS, there is no you can hold responsible. Do you know how many _billions_ of dollare world wide that have been lost to viruses, worms and holes in MS Software? It is staggering. And yet, not one company that lost money because of using MS software has been able to recoupe money from MS.
The things I hope for are better hardware detection and working device drivers for more devices
Actually, as far as Linux the kernel goes, hardware detection is already there. It is up to the distro builder to have a good hardware database to know what drivers to load. If you plug in a USB key,/sbin/hotplug gets called with info about the device. Some distros like Fedora pretty much do nothihng. I plug my USB HDD, USB Archos MP3 player/recorder or USB mass storage camera into Fedora and nothing happens. I have to manually mount each device. SuSE and Mandrake seem much better at things like this. I think all distros should all contribute to a hardware ID database pool and share a common/sbin/hotplug setup to be able to detect all devices that work under Linux and handle them in a newbie friendly way.
As far as drivers go, most/all devices with a standard or open spec get supported. For the proprietary stuff, you need to hammer on the makers.
People hate having open source software forced on them
But they love having closed sourced software forced on them? How is it any different? The average Joe User will click on anything and install it if you tell them it is required. If they go to a site and it says click here because you need flash, they click it. How do you think Flash got on so many computers? Not because it comes preinstalled, but because it was downloaded by millions of users because a site required it.
but requiring them to download a web browser just to visit your site is pretty demanding.
How is it any more demanding then millions of sites that require Flahs or ShockWave? People got those two plugins on ther computers because the process was very easy. Make upgrading to a better browser just as easy and the masses will come.
You are pretty naive if you think the majority of those people are using IE by choice. They are using it because it is the web browser that came on their computer, nothing more nothing less. If MS had "integrated" Opera over IE into thier OS, then Opera would have been the browser of choice
I don't' agree. If a popular site just stops working, then yes, users would leave. However, that would be brain-dead. Instead, you change the home page for users coming in with IE. You give them some nice PR speech about how you have added "exciting and new" features for their enjoyment. However, to take advantage of those new features, their "web browser" would need to be updated. Then have simple instructions for installing Firebird and have a direct link to the download. Firebird has a nice and simple installer.
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That's why you can use a DivX decoder for Xvid, MS MPEG4, 3ivX, etc.
Can I encode some videos in Microsoft's MPEG-4 V1/V2 format and then watch them with XviD or vice-versa?
No, you can't. Despite the name, MS MPEG-4 is not truly standard compliant MPEG-4 - rather it's Microsoft's own proprietary randition of MPEG-4 technology and is incompatible with the international MPEG-4 standard as specified by ISO. So unfortunately, XviD and MS MPEG-4 cannot interoperate.
As if MS deviating from the standard would be shocking!
There are tons of ways to go about doing what your grandfather did. He should have paid a small fee to a lawyer to draft up an NDA. Then anyone he pitched the idea to would have to sign it. If they break it, he sues.
There is no point in allowing people to just patent an idea without any prototype. What would stop a person or groups of people from just thinking up all kinds of crap all day long and patenting everthing then can? That person or persons are bound to come up with some ideas that will be put into use someday. So they should be able to sit back and collect money for no work?
I am a programmer and can think up tons of ideas of what technology _may_ be around in the next 5-10 years. Should I be allowed to just patent those and then go on a suing spree in 5-10 years when there is anything that is close to my patenets?
The patent system is not made to make any single inventor rich (though that may be a side effect), but to enrich society as a whole with _new_ and _novel_ ideas, methods and products.
you need to know that the entire European Union is much larger than the United States, both in population and economy.
You are comparing many nations (the EU) to one. If you compare the USA to any other single nation, we are by far the largest in economy.
There is also the GNP:
Gross National Product (GNP) is the total value of final goods and services produced in a year by domestically owned factors of production.
Top 10 GNP ($ mill) United States 10,207,039 Japan 4,323,919 Germany 1,876,340 United Kingdom 1,510,771 France 1,362,077 China 1,234,157 Italy 1,100,713 Canada 702,041 Mexico 597,028 Spain 596,469
And for Gross Domestic Product:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total value of final goods and services produced within a country's borders in a year.
Again, the USA dwarfs any other single nation on earth:
United States 10,383,100 Japan 3,993,433 Germany 1,984,095 United Kingdom 1,566,283 France 1,431,278 China 1,266,052 Italy 1,184,273 Canada 714,327 Spain 653,075 Mexico 637,203
It really is silly to compare the entire EU's economy with that of the USA's. Let us compare apples to apples. It is not like all members of the EU stand together on issues, otherwise we would not have had some EU members supporting Bush's "war on terror" while other members opposed it.
While it is important for the EU to not accept the USA's broken patent system, we _need_ to work on it here in the USA. Otherwise, the EU will eventually give in with enough bribing from American companies. If 3 EU member nations vote no, you can bet there will be tons of bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcontirbutions coming from USA companies to those nations.
You are really brainwashed by the USA political system. I am born and raised in the USA. What civil liberties does the USA have that are missing in the EU? Posting stupid, unsubstantiated comments like yours makes Americans look dumb to the rest of the world. The people of the EU are just as free if not more free with regards to rights then the people of the USA and have been at it a lot longer then we have. We should drop a little of our self centered pride and maybe we could learn something from the rest of the world.
I agree 100%. I am born and raised in good ole USA, serverd in the USMC and I am not anti-USA. Though I do hope that we get our butts kicked in the IT world by the EU, China and India. Not because I want to lose my job as a programmer of see others lose thier jobs. It is because our Patent system is very broken, and our big businesses are getting far to much political power that a corporation should _never_ have.
The repair will require a lot more than a democrat in office, too.
Democrats wont' help, they are just as bad as Republicans. Republicans want big business and Dems want big special interest groups such as unions. Look at these "donations" from the Teamsters Union almost all the money is going to Democrats. Contrast that with big business and almost all the "donations" are going to Republicans. The majority of the top 10 "donars" are giving the majority of
thier "donations" to Democrats.
We need the USA to get closer to a true democracy with more then two political parties to pick from. It is pretty insane to think that all 300+ million Americans fall into one of two political "buckets". And we also need to make it illegal for a corporation to give bribe money. If you cannot vote, you should not be able to make bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions.
Look at the top 100 "donators" for the period 1998-2004. Just the top 100 have bribed our politicians with $1,156,273,938! You can see why in our "represented" democracy, the average American is not represented. With billions USD going around in bribes, it is hard for even legit politicans to do thier jobs.
SEL? They have at least a couple of SE-patched kernels in portage, take your pick.
SEL == SuSE Enterprise Linux, SEL != SELinux.
Its supposed to be maximally customizable
I don't consider it any more customizable then Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, etc. Doing "emerge foo" is not what I call customizing. You are still building your system based on how the Gento people set it up. For example, I could never stand how the Gentoo people set up Apache and would roll my own, just as I can under RH, SuSE, Debian and Slack. I don't see where Getnoo facilitated that process at all.
But don't dismiss it just because you can't compile Gnome.
I have no problems compling Gnome and have done so many many times on my LFS based systems. It is the Gentoo ebuilds for Gnome that have sucked. Doing emerge gnome _is not compiling gnome on your own_. It is expecting the Gentoo people to know how to properly build Gnome, and from my experience with Gnome under Gentoo they do not. However, Gnome under RH, SuSE, Slack and the Gnome I rolled myself under LFS have always been very, very stable for me.
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Your kidding right? I think the reply form sydb sums up my feelings nicely. However, tons of innovation is coming out of the Unversities. Certainly for-profit companies help drive innovation since they have money to fund it, however it is silly to think that is where most/all of innovation comes from.
This whole "Send out the dogs! Begin the search for prior art! Kill the pigs!
This is a good thing. Why in the world should some corporation be allowed to have a patent where there is prior art? They are not the original innovators of that patent and do not deserve to use it for their own financial gain. Also, the patent system is very, very broken and you cannot have _fair_ patent system with the current state of the US patent office. Basically large entities have the money to get bogus patents and defend them in court where the small companies generally do not. The only winner from the current state of the patent system is "big business".
Just try the gentoo homepage and there is the link: gentoo benchmarks
You call that a benchmark? All it did was show startup times, where are the runtime performance metrics? Did Mozilla render pages faster? That is really a joke of a "benchmark".
And surely they do not publish there code under the GPL so that other distributions can use it too.
They do, however does gentoo have a RHEL or SEL kernel? Also, it takes more then throwing a bunch of packages together to make a stable and well performing Linux system. Just grabbing a RHEL kernel doesn't make Gentoo == REHL. A complete Linux system needs to be carefully built, just as MS or Apple build thier systems. RHEL, SEL, Fedora Core 1, Debian and Slackware have been the most stable and well built Linux systems I have used. I recently gave the latest version of Gentoo a whirl and did emerge gnome and came back a few hours later. Gnome was totally borked, locked up often and was just not usable. I ripped off Gentoo and put Fedora Core 1 on, and the system is rock solid. I don't hate Gentoo, and think portage is nice (though I personally don't feel like waiting around for KDE, Gnome and OOo to build), I just don't understand why Gentoo users think they are building thier own Linux when all they usually do is emerge foo, that is not build a custom Linux system. I also have never seen any real performance advantages with Gentoo. I also don't understand why Gentoo threw out most LSB standards, it makes it a real pain to get non-Gentoo specific applications to run.
I had a little spyware on my XP desktop and installed Spybot, that is one nice little app. I do install and uninstall a lot of apps and notice tons of crap left over. Maybe one of these years MS will finally fix uninstalls. I bought DiskKeeper and run that as a service that auto-defrags whenever it is needed and the helps a little. I also installed the.Net framework v1.1 for development. Though I would hope that MS's own software doesn't make my systems more unstable. Though I have noticed my install of SQL Server 2000 developer edition taking up more and more memory over a few days when it is not even in use. Thanks for the suggestions : )
I personally have been using RH for many moons now and switched to Fedora. I like the stability and features. However, as far as auto-detecting hardware, I find SuSE better then RH/Fedora. SuSE has this cool tray icon under KDE that notices new hardware and sets things up for you. The best Linux hardware detection I have seen has bee from a Debian based Knoppix live CD. It grabed _everything_, it was quite impressive.
Seems like with Linux distros you need to hit the sweetspot of hardware that is not too new or too old.
Actually, I make it a habit to buy hardware that is about 1 year old to save cash and I have not had a problem with any of the hardware. My USB HP PSC 2110 scanner/printer/copier works, my USB archos MP3 recorder/player works, my USB olympus D-510Z digital camera works, my USB joystick works, my sound card works, all the onboard junk on my mobo works and most importantly my NVidia GeForce 3 Ti 500 works in 3D with the NVidia drivers!
Solaris x86 sucks for a desktop. The hardware support is just horrid. I tried it on my laptop with a dual boot with Linux and Solaris x86 barely supported any of my devices. Video was 2D only while I can use great 3D drivers from Nvidia under Linux. Solaris Sparc is a good and very stable server, yet it makes a very, very bad desktop except for the most trivial of tasks.
Solaris x86 is really just Sun's left hand not knowing what Sun's right hand is doing. Sun's left hand is shipping and developing software for Linux while Sun's right hand is saying Linux is no good and to use Solaris instead. Also, the basic tool chain on Solaris just plain sucks. I SSH into Linux and Solaris server every day at work. The basic tools like ls, grep, etc under Solaris are dog old and have half of the features of the more recent version of the tools under Linux.
It won't just "find" your printer. You need to install the printer. I have an HP PSC 2110 Printer/scanner/copier. After installing Fedora Core 1, it was not auto installed (XP didn't notice it either and required me to install a driver CD before I even plugged the thing in). However, when I went to the printer option under the menu, and clicked new printer, wham, there it was. I have printing and scanning working great with no extra drivers required. So use Yast to try to add a printer and it should notice the HP printer and use hpijs to print and hpoj to scan.
Who modded this weenie stuff insightful? This is the typical chant of _every_ Gentoo user. "My system is X% faster", yet _none_ of them release any concrete benchmarks. I have been using Linux for many, many years. I built my own Linux system from the ground up based on LFS, I built tons of Gentoo systems and use Red Hat Enterprise Linux extensively. I am also a programmer and do tons of compiling and profiling. Gentoo give little real world performance gains at the price of stability. What is the point in running the very first release of KDE? You do know that there are tons of bugs in those first release correct?
Red Hat and all the other big three distros basically compile their code with -march=i386 -mcpu=i686. Which optimizes for i686 without breaking any non-i686 CPUs. I have seen tons of Gentoo guys screaming about options such as -O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer. -O3 can actually cause _slower_ code from over optimizing. It creates much larger executable then -O2. I have done the work from building my own Linux distros to see what is the overall best Linux system. Gentoo does not guarantee anything.
It is actually funny to hear all these Gentoo zealots talking about how their systems are sooo, uber fast now because they sat through a few hours of compilations. Yet they forget that a company like Red Hat has about 5 or 6 of the _top_ kernel developers working for them such as Alan Cox, while Gentoo has zero. I personally will place my trust in these top kernel developers to deliver the best overall Linux system to me then the Gentoo crowd and all their unsubstantiated claims that I have personally tried to verify and found no such evidence.
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Someone mod this guy up. I do heavy development under MS Windows XP and Linux. My WinXP box _needs_ to be reformated and reinstalled about every 4-6 months. The registry starts to get hosed, the system starts to slow down and it just gets ugly. I have one WinXP box sitting here with a 1.4GHz P4 and 512MB of RDRAM that runs slower then a PII. When I first installed WinXP on it, it ran fine. Now, at 7 months later, it takes ages for windows to open. I switched to the old Win2k look to try to save some processing of drawing the newer fisher price winXP look. However, none of it helps. Add on top of this a personal firewall and AntiVirus app running, and I want to pull my hair out. The amazing thing is, as soon as I reformat and reinstall WinXP, it will run fine again for a limited time. What in the hell causes it to degrade every few months? My Linux desktops have never degraded like this. They just run and run. I do J2EE dev on my Linux desktops and.Net dev on my WinXP desktops. Oracle JDeveloper 10G starts up just as fast as the day I installed it on my Linux desktop, while MS Visual studio.Net 2003 gets slower and slower each week.
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And exactly how many companies have successfully sued MS because they lost time/money/etc because of issues with MS software? The MS EULA as a whole may not be valid, however your going to have one _very_ expensive case on your hands. MS will throw everything they have at that case since they would not want to be sued by every company out there that lost money due to their software. At the end of the day, MS and other proprietary software (as well as OSS) is use at your own risk.
Sure, you first : )
Even more, one can learn to DIY plubming, and be pretty good at it as well. You see, there are standards for plubming as there are for software. Howver, unlike monopoly companies like MS, plubmers have to adhere to those standards.
There are also tons of people who know plubming, septic, etc stuff inside out (I am not one of them), who would gladly share that knowledge with you with out crying "IP" violations.
Huh? Have you _ever_ read your MS EULA? You are _NOT_ able to sue MS for anything!!! If your whole business comes down because you run it on MS software only and get hit hard by a virus, guess what? You cannot sue MS and MS is not liable according to the MS EULA. period. So all that crap about who is responsible in OSS is bull, since in closed source software, and especially with MS, there is no you can hold responsible. Do you know how many _billions_ of dollare world wide that have been lost to viruses, worms and holes in MS Software? It is staggering. And yet, not one company that lost money because of using MS software has been able to recoupe money from MS.
As far as drivers go, most/all devices with a standard or open spec get supported. For the proprietary stuff, you need to hammer on the makers.
I don't' agree. If a popular site just stops working, then yes, users would leave. However, that would be brain-dead. Instead, you change the home page for users coming in with IE. You give them some nice PR speech about how you have added "exciting and new" features for their enjoyment. However, to take advantage of those new features, their "web browser" would need to be updated. Then have simple instructions for installing Firebird and have a direct link to the download. Firebird has a nice and simple installer.
Try reading the XVid FAQ
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As if MS deviating from the standard would be shocking!There is no point in allowing people to just patent an idea without any prototype. What would stop a person or groups of people from just thinking up all kinds of crap all day long and patenting everthing then can? That person or persons are bound to come up with some ideas that will be put into use someday. So they should be able to sit back and collect money for no work?
I am a programmer and can think up tons of ideas of what technology _may_ be around in the next 5-10 years. Should I be allowed to just patent those and then go on a suing spree in 5-10 years when there is anything that is close to my patenets?
The patent system is not made to make any single inventor rich (though that may be a side effect), but to enrich society as a whole with _new_ and _novel_ ideas, methods and products.
While it is important for the EU to not accept the USA's broken patent system, we _need_ to work on it here in the USA. Otherwise, the EU will eventually give in with enough bribing from American companies. If 3 EU member nations vote no, you can bet there will be tons of bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcontirbutions coming from USA companies to those nations.
You are really brainwashed by the USA political system. I am born and raised in the USA. What civil liberties does the USA have that are missing in the EU? Posting stupid, unsubstantiated comments like yours makes Americans look dumb to the rest of the world. The people of the EU are just as free if not more free with regards to rights then the people of the USA and have been at it a lot longer then we have. We should drop a little of our self centered pride and maybe we could learn something from the rest of the world.
Look at the top 100 "donators" for the period 1998-2004. Just the top 100 have bribed our politicians with $1,156,273,938! You can see why in our "represented" democracy, the average American is not represented. With billions USD going around in bribes, it is hard for even legit politicans to do thier jobs.
I had a little spyware on my XP desktop and installed Spybot, that is one nice little app. I do install and uninstall a lot of apps and notice tons of crap left over. Maybe one of these years MS will finally fix uninstalls. I bought DiskKeeper and run that as a service that auto-defrags whenever it is needed and the helps a little. I also installed the .Net framework v1.1 for development. Though I would hope that MS's own software doesn't make my systems more unstable. Though I have noticed my install of SQL Server 2000 developer edition taking up more and more memory over a few days when it is not even in use. Thanks for the suggestions : )
Solaris x86 is really just Sun's left hand not knowing what Sun's right hand is doing. Sun's left hand is shipping and developing software for Linux while Sun's right hand is saying Linux is no good and to use Solaris instead. Also, the basic tool chain on Solaris just plain sucks. I SSH into Linux and Solaris server every day at work. The basic tools like ls, grep, etc under Solaris are dog old and have half of the features of the more recent version of the tools under Linux.
Very well said. I actually added your post to my bookmarks : )
It won't just "find" your printer. You need to install the printer. I have an HP PSC 2110 Printer/scanner/copier. After installing Fedora Core 1, it was not auto installed (XP didn't notice it either and required me to install a driver CD before I even plugged the thing in). However, when I went to the printer option under the menu, and clicked new printer, wham, there it was. I have printing and scanning working great with no extra drivers required. So use Yast to try to add a printer and it should notice the HP printer and use hpijs to print and hpoj to scan.
Red Hat and all the other big three distros basically compile their code with -march=i386 -mcpu=i686. Which optimizes for i686 without breaking any non-i686 CPUs. I have seen tons of Gentoo guys screaming about options such as -O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer. -O3 can actually cause _slower_ code from over optimizing. It creates much larger executable then -O2. I have done the work from building my own Linux distros to see what is the overall best Linux system. Gentoo does not guarantee anything.
It is actually funny to hear all these Gentoo zealots talking about how their systems are sooo, uber fast now because they sat through a few hours of compilations. Yet they forget that a company like Red Hat has about 5 or 6 of the _top_ kernel developers working for them such as Alan Cox, while Gentoo has zero. I personally will place my trust in these top kernel developers to deliver the best overall Linux system to me then the Gentoo crowd and all their unsubstantiated claims that I have personally tried to verify and found no such evidence.
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Someone mod this guy up. I do heavy development under MS Windows XP and Linux. My WinXP box _needs_ to be reformated and reinstalled about every 4-6 months. The registry starts to get hosed, the system starts to slow down and it just gets ugly. I have one WinXP box sitting here with a 1.4GHz P4 and 512MB of RDRAM that runs slower then a PII. When I first installed WinXP on it, it ran fine. Now, at 7 months later, it takes ages for windows to open. I switched to the old Win2k look to try to save some processing of drawing the newer fisher price winXP look. However, none of it helps. Add on top of this a personal firewall and AntiVirus app running, and I want to pull my hair out. The amazing thing is, as soon as I reformat and reinstall WinXP, it will run fine again for a limited time. What in the hell causes it to degrade every few months? My Linux desktops have never degraded like this. They just run and run. I do J2EE dev on my Linux desktops and .Net dev on my WinXP desktops. Oracle JDeveloper 10G starts up just as fast as the day I installed it on my Linux desktop, while MS Visual studio .Net 2003 gets slower and slower each week.