What you might mean is Office for Windows on a non-Windows OS - that, depending on the EULA, they could rightly block Wine users from using their online update mechanism.
Why? It said Windows 98 or better.
(Haven't seen that joke in a while, couldn't resist)
You don't get modded down for trashing MS here ever. I'd guess it was the HP stuff. It'll be -1 before too long though, because you complained about moderation.
Next time *ask to be modded down*. That usually works. Instant insightfulness.
making true statements that would serve to clarify the distinction between "linux the kernel" and "linux the distribution".
Did we read the same article? This guy talks about "the number of people who contribute to the kernel tree", then infers that it is equal to the number of skilled developers who are "writing for" open source (whatever the hell that means).
the number of people who have examined the code isn't equivalent to the number of people who have contributed to the code
And the number of people listed in MAINTAINERS isn't equivalent to the number of people who contributed code either. If the MS shill had given some source for his data, we could probably make better speculations.
It would be very hard to count even by looking at the changelog. Most of the IBM patches for example are submitted by a couple of people, but were developed by other people in or around IBM.
if you were a fresh-out-of-college coding grunt in a Microsoft sweat shop, believing that no-one would ever see your code but your co-workers and maybe your boss
These days thats especially true. Nobody in Redmond speaks their language.
But a quick search reveals 1736 CVS commits to the WINE tree by Transgaming employees
Also, Transgaming's own CVS.
Although they are a little weird about it. See the Gentoo ebuild for winex-cvs for the following:
This package was removed from portage tree due to the request from Transgaming. Here is an extract from their email:
The primary reason for the WineX CVS tree being publicly available under the Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) is to give outside developers who have an interest in the project the ability to track our most current work, and to assist us with code or testing. Our work is very complex though, and only a limited number of developers have the skills required to contribute. The intent of the public CVS tree is *not* to provide a 'free' version of WineX that can be used without paying for it.
We want everyone with an interest in the project to contribute, whether they contribute code, or money to assist us with our development efforts.
We felt that the AFPL was a good compromise to allow that to happen, which is why we chose it.
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KDE can look incredibly good if you're not using Keramik, and it's a damn shame that Keramik is so ugly that it turns people off to KDE as a whole
Even Keramik would be tolerable if they switched to Bitstream Vera fonts by default.
If they locked out people who run Wine from applying the updates by downloading them individually from the site, then that would be wrong
Well, that is exactly what they are doing. The installer just does this when it detects Wine.
Wouldn't that also block ... popups?
The only good popup, is a disabled popup.
I don't doubt that an update or plugin will be made soon to stop even these, if one's not already out and I just haven't noticed.
Setting 'browser.block.target_new_window' to true in about:config seems to work, I haven't noticed any.
What you might mean is Office for Windows on a non-Windows OS - that, depending on the EULA, they could rightly block Wine users from using their online update mechanism.
Why? It said Windows 98 or better.
(Haven't seen that joke in a while, couldn't resist)
You don't get modded down for trashing MS here ever. I'd guess it was the HP stuff. It'll be -1 before too long though, because you complained about moderation.
Next time *ask to be modded down*. That usually works. Instant insightfulness.
Obligatory flexo pic.
OOoops, sorry for spilling the beans guys.
so long as you're playing via /dev/dsp you can always grab the digital signal
Quiet you. If my next soundblaster comes with some new fangled Macrovision, it'll be your fault.
Or would that be Macroaudio?
Never saw that one coming.
it was a nice effort to bash Windows, Apple and everyone who owns a Mac in so few words.
Almost as nice as your effort to work fanboy AND zealot into so few words.
Who says only management types love buzwords?
how long until they engineer a tree that grows CASH MONEY?
Been there, done that
They have gotten in trouble for using accounting tricks to even out their numbers
They must have learned that trick from the Manitoba NDP. That's the "Oh, we don't count that expenditure" method.
Better yet was this article that Linux Today fell for, and ran as a legit story. I laughed pretty hard.
the trolling done by IE developers at the IE Blog
I sure wish they would spend less time blogging, and more time fixing PNG support. They promised us working PNG's how many years ago now?
So, what is it optimized for?
;)
Gentoo users who dual boot.
Don't forget about
:)
Or Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3, etc..
I got so used to using those on the linux console, and in gnome-terminal, I found that one by mistake.
Screwed up configuration, kernel with a bad filename, etc, all don't matter
:)
It can also boot Windows on an IDE drive that isn't primary master too, something that Windows can't seem to manage by itself.
making true statements that would serve to clarify the distinction between "linux the kernel" and "linux the distribution".
Did we read the same article? This guy talks about "the number of people who contribute to the kernel tree", then infers that it is equal to the number of skilled developers who are "writing for" open source (whatever the hell that means).
the number of people who have examined the code isn't equivalent to the number of people who have contributed to the code
And the number of people listed in MAINTAINERS isn't equivalent to the number of people who contributed code either. If the MS shill had given some source for his data, we could probably make better speculations.
It would be very hard to count even by looking at the changelog. Most of the IBM patches for example are submitted by a couple of people, but were developed by other people in or around IBM.
The article was specifically talking about developers.
Its hard to tell what the hell the article was talking about. One minute its kernel developers, next it's developers of all open source software.
A bookmark is a much simpler alternative.
I like Avast 4 Home. It's also $0 (for non-commercial use), and its boot-time-scan works really well when other programs fail to remove something.
if you were a fresh-out-of-college coding grunt in a Microsoft sweat shop, believing that no-one would ever see your code but your co-workers and maybe your boss
These days thats especially true. Nobody in Redmond speaks their language.
Also, Transgaming's own CVS. Although they are a little weird about it. See the Gentoo ebuild for winex-cvs for the following: