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  1. Re:Interesting discussion point. on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 1

    currently-accepted Open Source licenses

    Which includes the GPL, right? If that's the case, I'll see you on the rooftop.

    If they do make this a CDDL only thing, then it's a shame.. I care about Free Software.

  2. Re:The world of Richard Stallman on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Free Software, in the GPL/FSF/Stallman sense is not about price at all. You should make money from your software, you should sell it- just allow people to study and modify it, redistribute and distribute it too.

    What is the software you are creating? Software like Adobe Photoshop, or custom software for internal use/a client?

    Don't forget - the FSF sells Free Software too. It helps them survive.

  3. Re:Copy Right Infringement on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Copyright 2005 Richard Stallman
    Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved. ;)

  4. Re:Interesting discussion point. on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 1

    If they are, why would they not want to sing it from the rooftops?

    Specifically what licensing issues do you refer to?

  5. Interesting discussion point. on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Basically, RMS argues that the Sun announcement offers 1600 patents for CDDL (their license for OpenSolaris) and doesn't clearly state that they are opening their portfolio to all free software licenses.

    If they do that: Great. If they don't: That's not so good, Al.

  6. Re:good question on Laptops w/o Trackpads? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always called it a clit mouse - maybe that's a British thing.

  7. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    According to several websites opening a Mac Mini and replacing the RAM does not void your warranty unless you break it while doing so. However, Apple provides a list of what is user-servicable on all there computers. Unfortunately, the Mac Mini is not on that list yet.

    Could be that they're hoping to make some money by charging the average home user for RAM at the moment, and then after the initial surge, they'll update the list?

    Would seem to make business sense

  8. So.. on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1

    Ben's at Google and Dave Hyatt's at Apple - this must be good news.. but will Google release a browser? I doubt it.

  9. Here we go... on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks for checking for "The Lost 1984 Mac Video"

    You can try a time sliced download here, and if this is overloaded (it probably is), there are mirrors at macnews.de, php-schmiede.de, ppcnux.de, ftp.ppcnux.de, MacTechNews.de and elbewerk.

    And now that the US are with us, you guys could back us up with some mirrors. Thanks bunches to all the folks who are helping us out!

  10. Re:I concur on United Paper Shuffle · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's not 1985 anymore. The point is, if you'd read it correctly that times have changed.

  11. Re:Dupes in system...=space tradeoff on Bundled Applications for GNU/Linux? · · Score: 1

    Just to add a bit of clarity...

    A .app is just a directory. Mac OS X sees .app extension and treats it as an application. Inside are various directories called things like MacOS and Resources.

    This comes from the NeXTSTEP era, when a single '.app' would run on multiple architectures.

    I also believe RiscOS did something similar... a file with a ! at the start (ie. !Draw, !Paint, !Browser) would be treated as an application, and would really be a folder with a set of files inside, including a loader, icon, etc.

  12. Re:Wishlist: Slashdot on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If it works in IE, it should work in Firefox.

    Why? I'm interested in your thinking here.

    Firefox has been designed with standards in mind.
    Slashdot is about as non-compliant as possible.

    IE is generally better at handling mistakes - this is a problem though, as it allows people to make very bad pages.

    Slashdot even know this is the case, and disallow their site to be validated.

  13. Re:Wishlist: Slashdot on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem is not Mozilla. The problem is Slashdot's piss poor HTML.

  14. Re:DDR with Mario? on Mario to Shake His Groove Thing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Swing your arms, from side to side..

  15. Re:To big an audience? on Apple Nixes Live Webcast, Satellite Feed · · Score: 1

    I live in the UK. I knew who he was.

    Back under your rock.

  16. From the FA on RunUO Ultima Online Emulator Goes Opensource · · Score: 3, Informative

    RunUO is a Microsoft .NET based Ultima Online game server package. The software will allow you to run your own Ultima Online server, with limitless possibilites!

  17. Re:Sell it!! on LiveJournal Buyout Rumor · · Score: 1

    Plenty of blogs have more than one person posting.

  18. Re:Apple's coming out with something like this... on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks pretty sweet too.

    Apparently it's a SQL Lite DB that stores Metadata.

  19. OBE doesn't make you a Sir. on Sir Peter Molyneux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's a Knighthood or KBE for overseas, I believe.

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Steven Spielberg, but just Peter M OBE, here.

  20. Re:Here They Come on Think Secret Predicts Sub-$500 Headless Mac · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot the obligatory comment about one mouse button too ;)

  21. Re:Star Wars Arcade!!! on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    £3 is currently about $900, too ;)

  22. Re:Best? on First ZSNES Release In ~2.5 Years · · Score: 1

    I remember the days when a SNES-CD drive was the dream. Oh wait, still is.

    Curse you Sony! http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/his tory/snescdrom.html

  23. Re:Google Suggest just isn't very useful on Google Suggest Dissected · · Score: 1

    I guess my definition of nerd differs from the masses ;)

  24. Re:About 0.77 what? on The Dollar Campaign For Thunderbird Devs · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.xe.com/ucc reveals 0.74 eurocent to the $.

  25. Re:eMac on The Ten Worst Products of the Year · · Score: 1

    Quite. I have a G4 700Mhz eMac and I find it perfectly adequate for my main computer. It has a 200gb firewire disk that I added last week, but apart from that I've not had problems with a 40gb disk really.