If I looked at your laptop and saw a file named "Plan for World domination.rtf", I'd probably lose a lot of respect for you. Using such an obvious filename for your plan isn't very smart.
Um, so far as I can tell, with the removal of the advertising clause, the BSD license meets RMS's critera for Free Software completely.
Look, the "modified BSD license" (which FreeBSD is under) is even on the FSF's list of GPL-compatible, Free Software Licenses. Heck, it even lists the original "advertising clause" BSD license as Free (though GPL-incompatible).
So there it is.
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Some things they do seem to have no other motive than getting your data into their system, and not letting it get back out again. No reason to assume DRM is the motive in all cases.
Why not? They have a long history of it: DirectX is on version 9!
DirectX is something of a special case -- they can get away with that since games have such a short lifecycle. Most of their other APIs are very well-entrenced due to the sheer mass of applications that use them.
Microsoft is trying to start clean with.NET, but they'll start getting weighed down again soon, by their own apps alone. Making another such change means another Longhorn-esque release cycle. They can't keep doing that and remain viable.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Microsoft has done their homework on this one.
It seems that way. Given that, I think it's better to be fighting an offensive rather than a defensive battle.
Thinking about it, you may be right... a sobering thought is that it's entirely possible that they're already doing this, as another poster pointed out.
If MS's lawyers goes to court with an armee of lawyers and massive documentation about what they think might be infringing in [Linux], [Linux] is dead in the water. No company would touch it anymore, regardless if MS' case has any merit or not.
The problem is the same (trivial or not) with or without Mono.
This is what KGI, the kernel portion of the GGI project implemented (during the 2.3 series kernels), but the project exhausted its social captial in arguments with Linus and others and KGI never got merged.
Well, as I recall the predicted "island of stability" up around element 118 turned out not to be all it was hoped to be. The elements around there seem to last a little longer, but not _that_ much longer.
Well, actually the meaning of the "maximize" button on the Mac is somewhat application-dependent. It can grow the window horizontally as well as vertically, and even shrink it.
It's more of an "optimize the amount of space this window takes up" button. It's supposed to resize the window so it displays as much information as it can, but not any larger (so no screen real estate is wasted).
Patent licenses, trademark license, and an expensive certification process. Some of which is actually reasonable, given what Pantone does; some of which is not.
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I don't know why you're angry at The GIMP for that. Pantone won't license the trademark/relevent patents for The GIMP to (lawfully) implement Pantone support.
You can certainly make GIMP palettes with pantone color names for RGB approximations, but don't distribute them to anyone or Pantone, Inc.'s lawyers will come down on you HARD.
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Does GStreamer qualify?
So far as I can tell, geeks and "mundanes" both seem to like Google because it "just works" and delivers reasonably good results.
"Doing everything for them" inevitably interferes with "just working".
That reminds me vaguely of the (now-defunct) XMLTerm project.
Fresco can be used over the network, as it is built on CORBA.
However, all of them (except one, depending on your graphics hardware) are packages that will be used for the rest of the installation's lifetime.
The original poster seems to be laboring under the misconception that packages and libraries don't get reused.
That's my grocery list, actually.
Astonishingly, what those scanners look for are marks that are darker than the surrounding paper.
As long as it doesn't bleed through, a pen typically works fine.
10 million is not really an inconceivable number of golf pencils...
But wouldn't you rather the votes be marked in pen?
Um, so far as I can tell, with the removal of the advertising clause, the BSD license meets RMS's critera for Free Software completely.
Look, the "modified BSD license" (which FreeBSD is under) is even on the FSF's list of GPL-compatible, Free Software Licenses. Heck, it even lists the original "advertising clause" BSD license as Free (though GPL-incompatible).
So there it is.
DRM isn't the motive, it's the means.
> Only problem here is, if you put it in the same
> orbit, it has to be going the same speed.
Forgive me if the question is a little ignorantly phrased, but what about the same orbit, but going the opposite direction?
Ah, but is slashdot really the place to be soliciting for proofreaders? ^_-
DirectX is something of a special case -- they can get away with that since games have such a short lifecycle. Most of their other APIs are very well-entrenced due to the sheer mass of applications that use them.
Microsoft is trying to start clean with .NET, but they'll start getting weighed down again soon, by their own apps alone. Making another such change means another Longhorn-esque release cycle. They can't keep doing that and remain viable.
It seems that way. Given that, I think it's better to be fighting an offensive rather than a defensive battle.
Thinking about it, you may be right ... a sobering thought is that it's entirely possible that they're already doing this, as another poster pointed out.
Well, what about DotGNU? People seem supportive of that. Would that be affected or not? Why?
Well, they and the Wine project are developing a WinForms implementation together, actually.
Very good. Now, substitute Linux for Mono.
The problem is the same (trivial or not) with or without Mono.
This is what KGI, the kernel portion of the GGI project implemented (during the 2.3 series kernels), but the project exhausted its social captial in arguments with Linus and others and KGI never got merged.
Well, as I recall the predicted "island of stability" up around element 118 turned out not to be all it was hoped to be. The elements around there seem to last a little longer, but not _that_ much longer.
It's basically some exotic form of silver, perhaps an alloy.
Kids might start using disposable debit cards carrying relatively small balances.
Such cards might be offered at places like drugstores and grocers.
I predict we'll see this become popular in the next three years or so.
Well, actually the meaning of the "maximize" button on the Mac is somewhat application-dependent. It can grow the window horizontally as well as vertically, and even shrink it.
It's more of an "optimize the amount of space this window takes up" button. It's supposed to resize the window so it displays as much information as it can, but not any larger (so no screen real estate is wasted).
Often this is more useful than true maximize.
CSS3 "tables" stuff already does this -- you can make block elements behave like table rows/columns/cells for layout purposes.
Though, I think CSS3 is still a CR.
Patent licenses, trademark license, and an expensive certification process. Some of which is actually reasonable, given what Pantone does; some of which is not.
I don't know why you're angry at The GIMP for that. Pantone won't license the trademark/relevent patents for The GIMP to (lawfully) implement Pantone support.
You can certainly make GIMP palettes with pantone color names for RGB approximations, but don't distribute them to anyone or Pantone, Inc.'s lawyers will come down on you HARD.