Oh, go home with your crap. It is big business and lowly attorneys like you that are running America into the ground. You attorneys sue for anything as long as there is a possibility to make some money. When are all you dirty attorneys, corrupted politicians and corrupted big business going to learn that when you take away our freedom of speech, fair use, price fix and a list of other offences far too long for./ that you will have to deal with our repercussion? If that means constantly breaking DRM/anti-copy mechanisms or P2P, then so be it. We the People have be drugged through the mud for too many years so that attorneys, big business and dirty politicians can all get fat checks. Well, now you are getting a wake up call. If you really care about the best interest for your client, then tell them to practice fair business, put the consumer first, stop price fixing and lobbying congress to strip away our fair use and first amendment right.
Well to me XP looks like it was copied from Fisher Price(TM). It is very childish looking. I use Gnome and the XP GUI just doesn't compare to the power in Gnome or KDE. If some people want KDE to look like XP, then more power to them. If some want it to look like Mac, then more power to them as well. To each is own.
It's OK to cry, really.
What? You make no sense at all. Why would I cry over ms windows XP? Now march along sonny and go back to your legos and Fisher Price(TM) GUI.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Linux security is superior to that of any MS OS. When people talk about Linux vulnerabilities, they usually also include vulnerabilities to other open source apps. Sorry, but that is not Linux. Also, look at the expliots that have happened under Linux compared to MS OSes. Most of the ones you would find on Linux applications are very minor and fixed much faster then the MS "security through obsurity" method. Where as the ones under MS OSes are usually far more critical like network services, Server attacks, Credit card theft, logging users DVD picks, Unpatched IE security holes, etc. I wonder why the National Security Agency picked Linux for a secure OS? These are just some of the holes we hear about. It is easy to hide all the small holes when you use a closed source approach. Sorry, but the MS Fisher Price(TM) OS is not in the same league as that of Unix and Unix like OSes such as Linux, *BSD and now MacOS X.
Whether you like it our not, Unix and Unix like OSes are the dominant server platform and run most of the web for a reason.
You can be a paper billionaire in the sense that you own a lot of property etc. However, you don't actually have a billion dollars in the bank. A dollar billionaire on the other hand DOES have a billion or more in CASH! For exaple, I can add up the value of my home, my cars, computers etc, and one could say that the value of all that plus the cash I have is what I am worth on paper. However, I don't actually have that cash at my disposal.
Linux will be Fine no matter what the outcome and no Linux customer or vendor will be touched. Think of it this way. Toshiba and Sony are fighting over some new type of TV. Those TV's are used by customers and sold by stores like BestBuy. If Sony is found guilty, Sony will have to pay damages to Toshiba. No home user is going to be force to return the TV or pay money to Toshiba. Even BestBuy won't be fined. At most BestBuy will no longer be able to sell that model. To put this example into Linux terms, no Linux user will be touched and for any Linux vendor, the most that would happen to them is that they have to ship/use a different version of Linux without the infringing code. FUD, is FUD whether it is from MS or SCO. The sad thing about FUD is that it often confuses people into thinking as you have.
I think the text problem is because they are using an older version of KDE and XFree86-3.x. The newest versions of XFree86-4.3, KDE and GNOME have excellent AA as can be seen in Red Hat 9. I don't know why Lycoris is using such old stuff. The video driver support is also better in the latest version of XFree86-4.3.
And how is Lycoris copying ms windows XP? Lycoris uses KDE as the deskotp. It is a completely differnt desktop then the Fisher Price (TM) desktop of ms windows XP. KDE and Gnome both have very good support to make the desktop Look how you want.
MS is the one that actaully copies
from others and try to pass it off as their own.
Actually I am a programmer at a fortune 500 company with 110,000+ employees. They do have rules, however rules are meant to be broken : ) I put out technical specs on the stuff I do. When I write them up I do them in OOo and then convert to HTML, PDF and MS Word. I put all the docs out to a file server for others and most people use the HTML. They are pretty easy with "rules" where I work. For example, the admins have locked down the internal network pretty well and to make life easier for everyone, all corporate workers are allowed to have local admin to their PC. They can install what they want, well with some exceptions like P2P, warez, etc. The fact is, is if you are an employee there then you are expected to be professional. I personally would not work somewhere where they micro-manage and baby sit their employees. Maybe if you put out a document that is meant to be read-only, try HTML to get some people open to the idea of other formats. I do a lot of "preaching" at work about open standards and user choice. So they expect silly stuff from me from time to time. Maybe write up an intelligent position paper on how trying to switch a small group to OOo could save your company tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousand of dollars. Pass the position paper up the chain and see where it leads. I have done this when some people were considering MS.Net and I was pushing Java as a better enterprise technology to work in our heterogeneous environment. While my recommendations were not the last word, they did help in the process and we went with Java. You never know until you try and the first step is always the hardest.
Not in my job, I can't. When I create a document, it is circulated among people in at least a dozen companies. So they have got to be able to read it in Word.
Sure you can. It might get a few complaints at the beginning, however people care about the content inside of that file, not the file format itself. MS knows this and that is why they abuse their monopoly and keep all their office doc formats locked up. The fortune 500 company I am a programmer at buys some content for intranet use from a smallish company. About 3 months ago they changed their format that they compress data in from zip to Mac's sit (stuffit) format. While some might say it was a bold move, no one really cared. We are still able to get the data, we just had to find other tools. Thankfully in this case there is a free version of unstuff for Linux. I would try sending one document out as OOo with an explanation of OOo and where it can be downloaded for FREE. You never know util you try.
With the RIAA trying to find a way for a leg up, why would anyone trust a closed source app? Not that I am condoning copyright infringement. However if you are going to do it, I would think you would have to be just asking for trouble to trust a closed source app that connot be peer reviewed for correctness. How hard would it be for the RIAA to pay Kazza some cash under the table to have Kazaa send them IP's of the biggest traders? Kazaa has already tried to get in bed with the RIAA.
MS Office has been in the game a lot longer then OOo. OOo has only been heavily developed for what about 2 years or so? It does take time to make a complex office suite, especially one that does not tie you in to ONE platform and ONE file format.
Dont save in MS Word format. Use OOo's native format and no data will be lost. If people complain about what format it is, send them the link to OOo and tell them that it runs on tons of platforms and is free.
If you expect OOo to make perfect ms word docs then you are silly. MS guards the proprietary office file formats like hawks. They are not going to let that out. It is pretty hard to figure out all the possibilities of a document format when you don't have the specs.
So while I am happy to use OOo myself, if someone else is also going to have to work on the document, I find that it's far safer to use Word instead:-(
How is it safer to user word? If you send an OOo document you KNOW that ANYONE can use it. They just have to download the FREE OOo suite. However, if you send an ms word doc, then there will be people that cannot use it either because of cost or because of platform. What if it was saved in a newer version of ms word? Then the user is SOL and they have to jump on the non-stop MS upgrade chain.
I don't know why some idiot modded this as a troll. The guy is just stating HIS experience.
Why don't you just send the docs in native OOo format and require people to download OOo if they want to use them? OOo is free and runs on tons of platforms. There is no reason that someone cannot view your OOo documents. No one thinks twice about sending a proprietary Ms Word file in which case a user needs to spend a few hundred bucks to use that file on an office suite and a more money on a proprietary OS.
When you start to type out lepton, OOo will start to replace for you, however the replace is not complete unless you press ENTER. Just keep typing and OOo will not replace lepton with leprechaun. Alos OOo can export to many formats, including MS word and I think Post script or PDF. If it does PostScript you can easily convert that PS file to a PDF using ps2pdf.
How do you know the RIAA cannot find you? Why in the world would you trust some closed source ms windows only file sharing client, especially a newer one. Don't you think that the RIAA/MPAA could have some no name company make the "Next Genration" P2P app? It would make it much easier for them to find all the big sharers. Sorry, I will only trust Open Source.
Damn, you are one clueless dork! MS does not make standards. They only break them. All the major protocols, document formats, etc that MS makes, they keep locked up so that only MS can interoperate with them. It is not too hard to be standards compliant with yourself.
Nice insights Vox. Though I personally don't think a revolt against a corrupted government is such a bad thing. The USA would not exist if people weren't tired of the tyranny and revolted against the English and won our freedom. But yes, a revlot should be the last thing, unless Hillary gets elected then the gloves come off.
The US Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Yes, but to me this says NOHTING about an idea. Many of the big IT players are fighting like school children over things like how the gui looks, "one click" shopping, fast user switching, etc, etc. These are just IDEAS that can be implemented any number of ways. Why should everyone else not be allowed to secure thier implementation of an idea for a limited time because some big monopoly had the IDEA first? If it is a process, then they can patent it. If it is a certain work, then they can copyright it. However, now monoploies like MS are pushing the "IP" stuff so that any idea they have is exclusively thiers and no one else can make thier own implementations based on similar ideas. This puts a huge thorn in the side of progress.
I interpert that section of the constitution to mean creations such as writing and music and discoveries such as a cure for cancer or how to make chicken soup taste better. Not the IDEA to make chicken soup taste better. I think there is a very narrow line to walk with interpreting that section of the constitution and many members of congress are easily pushed to the wrong side of the fence by "campaign contributions" (read bribes).
Yes, but do we REALLY want drones enforcing the laws of our nation without qestioning those laws to whether they are constitutional? It is our duty as Americans to question OUR government. Congress has already passed a law called the DMCA which makes it illegal to practice our 1st amendment right of free speech with regards to circumvention techniques. The DMCA also makes it illegal for us to practice our fair use rights to back up any media that has any anti-circumvention device on it. Our free speech will allow us to tell one another how to make an A-Bomb, yet we can not tell one another how to copy a music cd. I personally don't want DOJ drones that enforce laws willy-nilly without questioning whether they are constitutional. If they even question that a law may be unconstitutional, then the supreme cort should be force to make a decision on the subject until the DOJ are allowed to enforce such laws.
Copyright protections are just as important for you as they are for the "big guys". (There couldn't be a GNU Public License without it, f'rexample.)
And do you really think that these guys would go after a case of a GPL violation with as much tenacity as they do for the "big media dirtybags"? No. Why? Because the financial incentives are not there. If this was just a case of a GPL copyright violation for some Open Source application, these guys would not even break a sweat and just brush it off. It is only when they see the large coffers of the RIAA/MPAA that they jump.
Sorry, this nation was founded by the people and for the people. All laws need to be for the good of the people first. If any secondary effects of those laws also benefit corporations, then that is just a plus. When laws start to put big corporate profit over the freedoms of Americans and when politicians listen to bribe money over our voice, then I say it is time to reach for our guns and rebuild America to the great nations she once was. And many of us feel that this has already happend.
Oh, and corporations have it far easier when it comes to taxes then the average American. They get out of all kinds of payments and find all kinds of loop holes.
or if you end up writing that killer busseinse app. youve allways wanted, it will meen going
after the ppl riping you off.
Sorry, this is when the big evil monopoly
steps in and steals
it from you or just tries to pass it off as thier own, knowing that you do not have the money to stand up against thier monoploy and by the time the case is settled the damage would have already been done. No matter what lies you want to tell yourself, a monopoly always destroys competition.
Why has corporate profit become more important the Fair Use and a healthy
Public Domain? Why is it legal to use copy prevention techniques that will
hinder/remove fair use and could stop items from going into the public domain?
Why is it legal for the corrupted media giants to continue to pay off the
dirty politicians to extend copyright laws? Don't you feel that this creates
a perpetual copyright and thus is against the constitution? What US laws
mention anything about "IP"? Since when is an idea your property? If you
have an idea and share it with anyone, then that knowledge is no longer just
your property. It is now information that is stored in my brain as well and no
one has the right to remove that from me. Knowledge is meant to be free. If I
share an idea with you, I have lost nothing in the process and yet I have
enlightened you. Stop the corporate monopolies and greed, remove software patents and restore competition and innovation to the IT industry.
The fortune 500 company I work as a programmer for just finished spending tens of millions on a PeopleSofts HR system and thier portal. Man what a kludge. We have several VERY big Solaris boxen driving the systems and they are stil sooo slow and buggy. The portal puts out THE most non-standards compliant HTML I have ever seen. The average HTML page size for the portal is over 150K! PeopleSoft announced that they are porting thier three layer internet archietecture to Linux which would allow you to run the web server, DB and app server on Linux. PeopleSoft has thier own app server that is not a J2EE app server, but is the "brains" of the PeopleSoft archietecture. I think that since Oracle is a big Linux player now, that they do not want the competition under Linux so Oracle wants to buy out PeopleSoft. I hope Oracle does because in my experience Oracel knows how to make some great, stable and secure software. IMO, Oracle's offering are far better then the what I have seen and used from PeopleSoft.
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Oh, go home with your crap. It is big business and lowly attorneys like you that are running America into the ground. You attorneys sue for anything as long as there is a possibility to make some money. When are all you dirty attorneys, corrupted politicians and corrupted big business going to learn that when you take away our freedom of speech, fair use, price fix and a list of other offences far too long for ./ that you will have to deal with our repercussion? If that means constantly breaking DRM/anti-copy mechanisms or P2P, then so be it. We the People have be drugged through the mud for too many years so that attorneys, big business and dirty politicians can all get fat checks. Well, now you are getting a wake up call. If you really care about the best interest for your client, then tell them to practice fair business, put the consumer first, stop price fixing and lobbying congress to strip away our fair use and first amendment right.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Linux security is superior to that of any MS OS. When people talk about Linux vulnerabilities, they usually also include vulnerabilities to other open source apps. Sorry, but that is not Linux. Also, look at the expliots that have happened under Linux compared to MS OSes. Most of the ones you would find on Linux applications are very minor and fixed much faster then the MS "security through obsurity" method. Where as the ones under MS OSes are usually far more critical like network services, Server attacks, Credit card theft, logging users DVD picks, Unpatched IE security holes, etc. I wonder why the National Security Agency picked Linux for a secure OS? These are just some of the holes we hear about. It is easy to hide all the small holes when you use a closed source approach. Sorry, but the MS Fisher Price(TM) OS is not in the same league as that of Unix and Unix like OSes such as Linux, *BSD and now MacOS X. Whether you like it our not, Unix and Unix like OSes are the dominant server platform and run most of the web for a reason.
You can be a paper billionaire in the sense that you own a lot of property etc. However, you don't actually have a billion dollars in the bank. A dollar billionaire on the other hand DOES have a billion or more in CASH! For exaple, I can add up the value of my home, my cars, computers etc, and one could say that the value of all that plus the cash I have is what I am worth on paper. However, I don't actually have that cash at my disposal.
Linux will be Fine no matter what the outcome and no Linux customer or vendor will be touched. Think of it this way. Toshiba and Sony are fighting over some new type of TV. Those TV's are used by customers and sold by stores like BestBuy. If Sony is found guilty, Sony will have to pay damages to Toshiba. No home user is going to be force to return the TV or pay money to Toshiba. Even BestBuy won't be fined. At most BestBuy will no longer be able to sell that model. To put this example into Linux terms, no Linux user will be touched and for any Linux vendor, the most that would happen to them is that they have to ship/use a different version of Linux without the infringing code. FUD, is FUD whether it is from MS or SCO. The sad thing about FUD is that it often confuses people into thinking as you have.
I think the text problem is because they are using an older version of KDE and XFree86-3.x. The newest versions of XFree86-4.3, KDE and GNOME have excellent AA as can be seen in Red Hat 9. I don't know why Lycoris is using such old stuff. The video driver support is also better in the latest version of XFree86-4.3.
And how is Lycoris copying ms windows XP? Lycoris uses KDE as the deskotp. It is a completely differnt desktop then the Fisher Price (TM) desktop of ms windows XP. KDE and Gnome both have very good support to make the desktop Look how you want. MS is the one that actaully copies from others and try to pass it off as their own.
Actually I am a programmer at a fortune 500 company with 110,000+ employees. They do have rules, however rules are meant to be broken : ) I put out technical specs on the stuff I do. When I write them up I do them in OOo and then convert to HTML, PDF and MS Word. I put all the docs out to a file server for others and most people use the HTML. They are pretty easy with "rules" where I work. For example, the admins have locked down the internal network pretty well and to make life easier for everyone, all corporate workers are allowed to have local admin to their PC. They can install what they want, well with some exceptions like P2P, warez, etc. The fact is, is if you are an employee there then you are expected to be professional. I personally would not work somewhere where they micro-manage and baby sit their employees. Maybe if you put out a document that is meant to be read-only, try HTML to get some people open to the idea of other formats. I do a lot of "preaching" at work about open standards and user choice. So they expect silly stuff from me from time to time. Maybe write up an intelligent position paper on how trying to switch a small group to OOo could save your company tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousand of dollars. Pass the position paper up the chain and see where it leads. I have done this when some people were considering MS .Net and I was pushing Java as a better enterprise technology to work in our heterogeneous environment. While my recommendations were not the last word, they did help in the process and we went with Java. You never know until you try and the first step is always the hardest.
With the RIAA trying to find a way for a leg up, why would anyone trust a closed source app? Not that I am condoning copyright infringement. However if you are going to do it, I would think you would have to be just asking for trouble to trust a closed source app that connot be peer reviewed for correctness. How hard would it be for the RIAA to pay Kazza some cash under the table to have Kazaa send them IP's of the biggest traders? Kazaa has already tried to get in bed with the RIAA.
Closed source P2P, use at your own risk!
MS Office has been in the game a lot longer then OOo. OOo has only been heavily developed for what about 2 years or so? It does take time to make a complex office suite, especially one that does not tie you in to ONE platform and ONE file format.
If you expect OOo to make perfect ms word docs then you are silly. MS guards the proprietary office file formats like hawks. They are not going to let that out. It is pretty hard to figure out all the possibilities of a document format when you don't have the specs.
How is it safer to user word? If you send an OOo document you KNOW that ANYONE can use it. They just have to download the FREE OOo suite. However, if you send an ms word doc, then there will be people that cannot use it either because of cost or because of platform. What if it was saved in a newer version of ms word? Then the user is SOL and they have to jump on the non-stop MS upgrade chain.
I don't know why some idiot modded this as a troll. The guy is just stating HIS experience.
Why don't you just send the docs in native OOo format and require people to download OOo if they want to use them? OOo is free and runs on tons of platforms. There is no reason that someone cannot view your OOo documents. No one thinks twice about sending a proprietary Ms Word file in which case a user needs to spend a few hundred bucks to use that file on an office suite and a more money on a proprietary OS.
When you start to type out lepton, OOo will start to replace for you, however the replace is not complete unless you press ENTER. Just keep typing and OOo will not replace lepton with leprechaun. Alos OOo can export to many formats, including MS word and I think Post script or PDF. If it does PostScript you can easily convert that PS file to a PDF using ps2pdf.
How do you know the RIAA cannot find you? Why in the world would you trust some closed source ms windows only file sharing client, especially a newer one. Don't you think that the RIAA/MPAA could have some no name company make the "Next Genration" P2P app? It would make it much easier for them to find all the big sharers. Sorry, I will only trust Open Source.
Damn, you are one clueless dork! MS does not make standards. They only break them. All the major protocols, document formats, etc that MS makes, they keep locked up so that only MS can interoperate with them. It is not too hard to be standards compliant with yourself.
Nice insights Vox. Though I personally don't think a revolt against a corrupted government is such a bad thing. The USA would not exist if people weren't tired of the tyranny and revolted against the English and won our freedom. But yes, a revlot should be the last thing, unless Hillary gets elected then the gloves come off.
I interpert that section of the constitution to mean creations such as writing and music and discoveries such as a cure for cancer or how to make chicken soup taste better. Not the IDEA to make chicken soup taste better. I think there is a very narrow line to walk with interpreting that section of the constitution and many members of congress are easily pushed to the wrong side of the fence by "campaign contributions" (read bribes).
Yes, but do we REALLY want drones enforcing the laws of our nation without qestioning those laws to whether they are constitutional? It is our duty as Americans to question OUR government. Congress has already passed a law called the DMCA which makes it illegal to practice our 1st amendment right of free speech with regards to circumvention techniques. The DMCA also makes it illegal for us to practice our fair use rights to back up any media that has any anti-circumvention device on it. Our free speech will allow us to tell one another how to make an A-Bomb, yet we can not tell one another how to copy a music cd. I personally don't want DOJ drones that enforce laws willy-nilly without questioning whether they are constitutional. If they even question that a law may be unconstitutional, then the supreme cort should be force to make a decision on the subject until the DOJ are allowed to enforce such laws.
Sorry, this nation was founded by the people and for the people. All laws need to be for the good of the people first. If any secondary effects of those laws also benefit corporations, then that is just a plus. When laws start to put big corporate profit over the freedoms of Americans and when politicians listen to bribe money over our voice, then I say it is time to reach for our guns and rebuild America to the great nations she once was. And many of us feel that this has already happend.
Oh, and corporations have it far easier when it comes to taxes then the average American. They get out of all kinds of payments and find all kinds of loop holes.
Prosecutor: Judge, I would like to now call our "professional expert technology witness", stinky wizzleteats to the stand.
Judge: Who?
Prosecutor: stinky wizzleteats, our "professional expert technology witness".
Judge: Umm, sure, go ahead.
Why has corporate profit become more important the Fair Use and a healthy Public Domain? Why is it legal to use copy prevention techniques that will hinder/remove fair use and could stop items from going into the public domain? Why is it legal for the corrupted media giants to continue to pay off the dirty politicians to extend copyright laws? Don't you feel that this creates a perpetual copyright and thus is against the constitution? What US laws mention anything about "IP"? Since when is an idea your property? If you have an idea and share it with anyone, then that knowledge is no longer just your property. It is now information that is stored in my brain as well and no one has the right to remove that from me. Knowledge is meant to be free. If I share an idea with you, I have lost nothing in the process and yet I have enlightened you. Stop the corporate monopolies and greed, remove software patents and restore competition and innovation to the IT industry.
The fortune 500 company I work as a programmer for just finished spending tens of millions on a PeopleSofts HR system and thier portal. Man what a kludge. We have several VERY big Solaris boxen driving the systems and they are stil sooo slow and buggy. The portal puts out THE most non-standards compliant HTML I have ever seen. The average HTML page size for the portal is over 150K! PeopleSoft announced that they are porting thier three layer internet archietecture to Linux which would allow you to run the web server, DB and app server on Linux. PeopleSoft has thier own app server that is not a J2EE app server, but is the "brains" of the PeopleSoft archietecture. I think that since Oracle is a big Linux player now, that they do not want the competition under Linux so Oracle wants to buy out PeopleSoft. I hope Oracle does because in my experience Oracel knows how to make some great, stable and secure software. IMO, Oracle's offering are far better then the what I have seen and used from PeopleSoft.