But we mustn't stress it too much, as they are also the boyhood heroes of the younger folk in this forum, and it's so cruel to crush a young boy's dreams.
MacOS version 10 (Called OS X by marketing people who wanted to steal the mystique of the X Window System for cheap) is a commercial product from a commercial vendor. The 'core' is based on the core from NextSTEP (another commercial product). Sure, there is a layer of utilities based on FreeBSD code. The over all product is definitely NOT a product of the OSS community.
Hell, I can remember not more than a few years back when not many CD-ROM drives had the ability to rip. Many early drives had firmware that prevented the stream from CD-Audio disks from being extracted digitally. It's only in the last several years that people have assumed that CD Audio can be ripped on most any CD Drives.
It was a quiet thing that the Drive Manufacturers did. They quietly stopped blocking that data path when the market demanded it.
Sounds like you own a cam corder, so you're way ahead of what most of the 'pirates' are doing. They're just duplicating somebody else's creative work. Perhaps hold onto that cam corder. And open up your mind, get creative. Go out and shoot some video YOURSELF that you've thought of.
When was the last time there was a major successful move in the US or European market that was directed and produced by Chinese nationals in China?
They're not going to suddenly be better than Hollywood at what Hollywood does. Let's be real here. All they do right now is copy, and if they can't copy they won't magically be able to produce.
like pruning all the best branches off a tree before they've been given the chance to mature and bear fruit.
That is a notably lame analogy. I don't see how it fits this case at all.
A better analogy to substitute might be "like claiming the fruit off the best branches of the tree because it's on your land, you planted it, and you've taken care of it."
I bought the 'academic' version of Microsoft Word 5.0 for MS-DOS back when it was current (in the late 80's), for relatively cheap. So academic versions aren't a new thing, nor Microsoft's reaction to Star Office.
You clearly have no idea how hard it was to get the sound working on some of those DOS games. An 'open source DOS' boot setup would result in a whole lot of silent games on all the crap sound cards people use that are by no means Sound Blaster (or Ad Lib, or whatever odd sound card various legacy games supported at the time) compatible at the hardware level.
I distinctly remember the Root password on install being one of the things I was glad they finally implemented in 4.0.
I had a friend, you see, who was running 3.6 on her machine. She'd never installed it herself, but then one day needed to reinstall. I had had an account on the machine before the reinstall and read a fresh email header to see what her IP addy was to telnet in and do a 'talk' session with her.
At the login: prompt my ID didn't work. On a lark, I tried the root account. It let me in with no password prompt. She'd been running her machine wide open on the net for about a week, on her own user account (password protected of course) with no password protection of root.
I've always been impressed with the functionality and design of Corel products.
Since day one, I've always been underwhelmed by the functionality and design of Corel products.
Back when Corel Draw 3 was the hot toot-n-toot I was using Micrografx Designer. At the time, they cost about the same price retail.
Now you can buy the Micrografx 'ABC Graphics Suite' in a boxed set, which includes Designer, Picture Publisher, ABC Flowcharter, etc. for fifty bucks at CompUSA.
I fail to see any reason why Corel can stay in business in that market, except for the fact that there seem to be a lot of Corel Draw customers who've never tried a competing package.
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But we mustn't stress it too much, as they are also the boyhood heroes of the younger folk in this forum, and it's so cruel to crush a young boy's dreams.
Almost everybody I know (except Me) has Windows installed on every computer they own.
Almost nobody I know (except Me) has Microsoft Office installed on any of their computers.
MacOS version 10 (Called OS X by marketing people who wanted to steal the mystique of the X Window System for cheap) is a commercial product from a commercial vendor. The 'core' is based on the core from NextSTEP (another commercial product). Sure, there is a layer of utilities based on FreeBSD code. The over all product is definitely NOT a product of the OSS community.
Hell, I can remember not more than a few years back when not many CD-ROM drives had the ability to rip. Many early drives had firmware that prevented the stream from CD-Audio disks from being extracted digitally. It's only in the last several years that people have assumed that CD Audio can be ripped on most any CD Drives.
It was a quiet thing that the Drive Manufacturers did. They quietly stopped blocking that data path when the market demanded it.
Sounds like you own a cam corder, so you're way ahead of what most of the 'pirates' are doing. They're just duplicating somebody else's creative work. Perhaps hold onto that cam corder. And open up your mind, get creative. Go out and shoot some video YOURSELF that you've thought of.
When was the last time there was a major successful move in the US or European market that was directed and produced by Chinese nationals in China?
They're not going to suddenly be better than Hollywood at what Hollywood does. Let's be real here. All they do right now is copy, and if they can't copy they won't magically be able to produce.
Sometimes people put things on their resume that are accomplishments they are proud of, even if it does annoy the ditto heads.
like pruning all the best branches off a tree before they've been given the chance to mature and bear fruit.
That is a notably lame analogy. I don't see how it fits this case at all.
A better analogy to substitute might be "like claiming the fruit off the best branches of the tree because it's on your land, you planted it, and you've taken care of it."
Wow! I'm glad I've kept those tubes full of Intel 8031 chips, then....
And the 2716 EPROMs.
Nope. The people who 'control' the routers are the custodians.
I bought the 'academic' version of Microsoft Word 5.0 for MS-DOS back when it was current (in the late 80's), for relatively cheap. So academic versions aren't a new thing, nor Microsoft's reaction to Star Office.
If I have a copy of the comic book 'Captain America #1' it is valuable wether or not I am willing to sell it to you.
I mean, THINK, dud, THINK.
By your reasoning, women, men without property, and slaves should also not be allowed to vote. etc. etc.
You clearly have no idea how hard it was to get the sound working on some of those DOS games. An 'open source DOS' boot setup would result in a whole lot of silent games on all the crap sound cards people use that are by no means Sound Blaster (or Ad Lib, or whatever odd sound card various legacy games supported at the time) compatible at the hardware level.
So, you're saying that unless it's free public domain culture, it's 'no culture at all'??
How limiting.
The part where, for some reason, the photograph was taken, and Larry Ellison wasn't in the frame anywhere.
Naw.
The work will be widely distributed for profit. Then eventually it'll fall into public domain.
The alternative would be for it to fall into public domain and smudged into nothing by commercial interests who 'adapt' it to their purposes.
Sorry. I don't want TV Commercials featuring this stuff from hostile interests who can use it however they like.
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I don't know about you, but I feel guilty if I don't read the small text they print at the bottom of commercials.
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I distinctly remember the Root password on install being one of the things I was glad they finally implemented in 4.0.
I had a friend, you see, who was running 3.6 on her machine. She'd never installed it herself, but then one day needed to reinstall. I had had an account on the machine before the reinstall and read a fresh email header to see what her IP addy was to telnet in and do a 'talk' session with her.
At the login: prompt my ID didn't work. On a lark, I tried the root account. It let me in with no password prompt. She'd been running her machine wide open on the net for about a week, on her own user account (password protected of course) with no password protection of root.
I'm damn sure it was Slackware 3.6.
That's right, they don't set a root password, and seem to expect users will be running as root right from the start.
That sounds like Slackware 3.6 and earlier. Which I liked very very much, actually.
Do we? What if they turn off DB2 on Linux?
Good grief.
NetBSD is one of the most solid and stable Free Software projects out there.
It's so stable that it's almost boring.
Except it's so damned interesting that they can fit all those architectures into a single tight source tree.
Wasn't 'death to the cheerleaders' sort of a Columbine Thing?
Is this more Hellmouth crap?
I've always been impressed with the functionality and design of Corel products.
Since day one, I've always been underwhelmed by the functionality and design of Corel products.
Back when Corel Draw 3 was the hot toot-n-toot I was using Micrografx Designer. At the time, they cost about the same price retail.
Now you can buy the Micrografx 'ABC Graphics Suite' in a boxed set, which includes Designer, Picture Publisher, ABC Flowcharter, etc. for fifty bucks at CompUSA.
I fail to see any reason why Corel can stay in business in that market, except for the fact that there seem to be a lot of Corel Draw customers who've never tried a competing package.
I think it's the Ray Noorda curse that you refer to. It's unfair to blame it on WordPerfect, which was one of his victims.