Was there ever any *proof* of this? All I remmember was articles saying they *could* have. Big diffrence.
And all this is very paradoxical. "We want Freedom! We Want to be able to do what we want with our computers" "Oh wait! You cant release that! Terrorosts might use it!" As the author is quoted as saying in the article, you might have to ban table napkins. Bomb plans could be written on them. One day you have to decide what side of the fence youre all gonna come down on.
Balls; IE won the browser war due to the 95% of computer users on the internet these days who dont care how there computer works (ie Not you me nor the slashdot crowd) and who just went "Ohh; I need a webbrowser. Heres I-E, sitting on the desktop."
Now that the entire world and there dog is online; and 99% of them dont care about browsers as long as the one they have works, Netscape doesn't stand a chance.
How much is cheating? Where is the line drawn between collabration and cheating?
If I give code to a friend, then thats easy. But for example, what if my friend is having a hard time working out a program, so I show him mine and explain, 'Look, I used a loop here to search throught the structure then used a iterive procedure yada yadda' and he goes away and codes his practical using my outline?
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Was there ever any *proof* of this? All I remmember was articles saying they *could* have. Big diffrence.
And all this is very paradoxical. "We want Freedom! We Want to be able to do what we want with our computers" "Oh wait! You cant release that! Terrorosts might use it!" As the author is quoted as saying in the article, you might have to ban table napkins. Bomb plans could be written on them. One day you have to decide what side of the fence youre all gonna come down on.
So if Sun catches you with a copy of it after then, will the burden of proving to a judge that you downloaded it before now be on you, or Sun's?
Balls; IE won the browser war due to the 95% of computer users on the internet these days who dont care how there computer works (ie Not you me nor the slashdot crowd) and who just went "Ohh; I need a webbrowser. Heres I-E, sitting on the desktop."
Now that the entire world and there dog is online; and 99% of them dont care about browsers as long as the one they have works, Netscape doesn't stand a chance.
How much is cheating? Where is the line drawn between collabration and cheating?
If I give code to a friend, then thats easy. But for example, what if my friend is having a hard time working out a program, so I show him mine and explain, 'Look, I used a loop here to search throught the structure then used a iterive procedure yada yadda' and he goes away and codes his practical using my outline?