The problem is people like me fear that OLPC was bought off, and that the promise of a really open and accessible laptop for students has died.
No you are blabbing completely unsubstantiated allegations and seem to have a problem with the countries interested in these laptops having a choice of what runs on them. The loss of a potential Linux monoculture in the developing world is what you are really whining about.
I'm not American so their media don't get my money, but I do check out fox news when I want a giggle at their flag waving reality distortion.
Unfortunately the influence of the media by biased commentators on US politics is quite disturbing. I was one of the few Europeans I know who were confident Bush would get a second term because large portions of his first term were spent fundraising for a massive media campaign for his second. His re-election frankly shocked many Europeans and caused concern as to whether the US was actually a functioning democracy and why they persist with what is generally considered here to be an inappropriate system for a modern electorate. But it's their system so its up to the US electorate to inform themselves and ensure their will is correctly represented.
I used to think these televised debates were a good idea until I watched the debates between Gore and Bush. For anyone watching the first debate it was blatently obvious that Bush was totally and utterly out of his depth and could not possibly be considered a credible candidate. Gore was devoid of charisma but was at least informed and coherent. Yet by the time the third debate came round the much of media had managed to portray Bush's lack of awareness and knowledge as a good thing(tm) because he was 'trying' and that Gore was a pompous arrogant know it all because he happened to be properly informed with facts and figures and could substantiate his responses. Utterly astonishing. It seems the debates themselves are irrelevant now and its the media circus that follows them that matters.
No surprise they are starting to focus on doing something constructive. McNealy was way too obsessed with fighting Microsoft to give SUN any solid direction.
Its easy. Sun plan to send samples of FORTRAN code to the police saying it scares them and all FORTRAN coders will be arrested for writing such disturbed text. No more FORTRAN community and a greenfield for SUN's new language. Problem solved.
they don't need to play places as big as Shea Stadium regularly to still live the 'rockstar' lifestyle
Actually they do. Few bands/musicians are actually properly able manage this lifestyle and the majority of those who can have been around for a very long time, long enough and with enough sales to get a decent deal from the record companies. Of course there is the odd exception with someone like Robbie Williams who for some unknown reason scored a huge contract off EMI.
Much of the lifestyle you see with modern artists is funded by the record companies and when the sales dry up the cars, planes and cribs tend to vanish with them.
I thought it was funny initially, but after reading your plea at the bottom, I was ashamed for laughing at it.
Give it a while and Slashdot will help you get used to the shame, the pent up anger, the feelings of inadequacy and futility by giving you modpoints. Then you can be a bacchanalian Slashgod. Well until your points run out or the metamods take a dislike to you anyway.
Many who use Google's Personalized Home Page feature - yours truly included - are trembling in fear today over the prospect of losing all of their carefully crafted settings to a bug that has Google engineers "frantic" to find a fix.
You might want to think about getting out a bit more if loosing a few settings has you 'trembling in fear'.
Of course they should get a lawyer to examine what if anything they signed and clue them in. They may be fine or as you point out if they did not request copyright in a written contract then (a) they are naive and (b)in a difficult position. Trying to immediately legally intimidate (I am assuming the initial agreement was a lawyer free mutual one) and pass on the costs of their mistakes to the developer will most likely immediately kill all good will and unless the developer is poverty stricken eliminate all chance of future business. Furthermore it may in fact cause the developer to reexamine their licensing terms and enforce them to the very letter with suits for anything and everything they consider a breach. Again as you say consulting a laywer should clue them in to this possibility.
Look at the screaming hysteria that takes place round here if an OSS project gets a nice C&D letter from a lawyer.
I would agree with your suggestion that they seek legal advise and based on this approach the developer in the same manner as the initial negotialtions, seek suitable agreement and _then_ get the lawyers to sign it off to everyones satisfaction. Failing mutual agreement the legal approach can be tried but thats an approach that works both ways and the developer may in fact be in a far stronger legal position in this case and could potentially cause all sorts of problems and embarassment for the company.
Tell the lawyer you want the other company to provide the copyright, and your legal fees.
Admitting you made a mistake and then trying to bully your way out of it with implied legal action and the threatof costs is a pretty transparent strategy that is more likey to cause animosity and a countersuit. Better to ask them first if they have any objections to you modifying the code for internal use, which they probably wont and get that in writing.
It's funny how round here choice is a good thing until it comes to Firefox. Then it's a case of 'but its the bestest browser in the multiverse, why would you want to use anything else?'. Firefox is not the be all and end all of browsers. Some people like to have alternatives.
Just maybe its that until quite recently the Microsoft development environment was vastly superior to anything being offered by the Open Source community. There were quality development and debugging environments from MS and Borland. More dev editors than you could shake a stick at. There was easy integration with multiple databases and it was easy to develop slick front ends to this data. There was tooling availabe for easy project management and application testing.
Maybe Microsoft actually copped on to the fact that businesses wanted tools to build the apps they needed while the Open Source community were patting themselves on the back about how cool and fantastically leet they were for having text editors and shell scripts.
Whats interesting is that the two current leading Java Open Source IDEs (Eclipse and Netbeans) are both tools which started out life intended as commercial offerings but were donated to the community by IBM and SUN.
Prior art is irrelevant to these people. In the Alcatel Lucent case MS believed they had legitimately licensed the patents they were later sued over and having acted in good faith could end up paying twice for the same thing. The whole decision, the amount awarded and the fact that it was also against sales in areas outside of US patent jurisdiction was seriously dodgy.
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Have a shotgun close at hand in case the answer is yes.
No,you develop a right arm like Arnold Schwarzenegger cranking the generator while its booting.
I'm not American so their media don't get my money, but I do check out fox news when I want a giggle at their flag waving reality distortion.
Unfortunately the influence of the media by biased commentators on US politics is quite disturbing. I was one of the few Europeans I know who were confident Bush would get a second term because large portions of his first term were spent fundraising for a massive media campaign for his second. His re-election frankly shocked many Europeans and caused concern as to whether the US was actually a functioning democracy and why they persist with what is generally considered here to be an inappropriate system for a modern electorate. But it's their system so its up to the US electorate to inform themselves and ensure their will is correctly represented.
I used to think these televised debates were a good idea until I watched the debates between Gore and Bush. For anyone watching the first debate it was blatently obvious that Bush was totally and utterly out of his depth and could not possibly be considered a credible candidate. Gore was devoid of charisma but was at least informed and coherent. Yet by the time the third debate came round the much of media had managed to portray Bush's lack of awareness and knowledge as a good thing(tm) because he was 'trying' and that Gore was a pompous arrogant know it all because he happened to be properly informed with facts and figures and could substantiate his responses. Utterly astonishing. It seems the debates themselves are irrelevant now and its the media circus that follows them that matters.
I'm sure plenty of Japanese companies see this shortened commute as a great opportunity to get an extra hours work out of their employees.
Thats a huge amount of money to lay a short track. How do they plan to recoup initial costs of $454 Million a mile of track?
No surprise they are starting to focus on doing something constructive. McNealy was way too obsessed with fighting Microsoft to give SUN any solid direction.
Its easy. Sun plan to send samples of FORTRAN code to the police saying it scares them and all FORTRAN coders will be arrested for writing such disturbed text. No more FORTRAN community and a greenfield for SUN's new language. Problem solved.
Much of the lifestyle you see with modern artists is funded by the record companies and when the sales dry up the cars, planes and cribs tend to vanish with them.
There are probably a few geeks out there considering amputating their own arm so they getting one of these prosthetics to play with.
Succinct enough for you?
Of course they should get a lawyer to examine what if anything they signed and clue them in. They may be fine or as you point out if they did not request copyright in a written contract then (a) they are naive and (b)in a difficult position. Trying to immediately legally intimidate (I am assuming the initial agreement was a lawyer free mutual one) and pass on the costs of their mistakes to the developer will most likely immediately kill all good will and unless the developer is poverty stricken eliminate all chance of future business. Furthermore it may in fact cause the developer to reexamine their licensing terms and enforce them to the very letter with suits for anything and everything they consider a breach. Again as you say consulting a laywer should clue them in to this possibility.
Look at the screaming hysteria that takes place round here if an OSS project gets a nice C&D letter from a lawyer. I would agree with your suggestion that they seek legal advise and based on this approach the developer in the same manner as the initial negotialtions, seek suitable agreement and _then_ get the lawyers to sign it off to everyones satisfaction. Failing mutual agreement the legal approach can be tried but thats an approach that works both ways and the developer may in fact be in a far stronger legal position in this case and could potentially cause all sorts of problems and embarassment for the company.
When it turns out he is a shower dodger to avoid cancer.
so you can edit it. Also it will only work if you place it in a publically accessible network drive so others can make changes too.
Can anyone comment on how Opera behaves on the Mac?
It's funny how round here choice is a good thing until it comes to Firefox. Then it's a case of 'but its the bestest browser in the multiverse, why would you want to use anything else?'. Firefox is not the be all and end all of browsers. Some people like to have alternatives.
After watching Barney the Dinasoaur I think we were all able to infer that the earth was purple at some point in history.
Just maybe its that until quite recently the Microsoft development environment was vastly superior to anything being offered by the Open Source community. There were quality development and debugging environments from MS and Borland. More dev editors than you could shake a stick at. There was easy integration with multiple databases and it was easy to develop slick front ends to this data. There was tooling availabe for easy project management and application testing.
Maybe Microsoft actually copped on to the fact that businesses wanted tools to build the apps they needed while the Open Source community were patting themselves on the back about how cool and fantastically leet they were for having text editors and shell scripts.
Whats interesting is that the two current leading Java Open Source IDEs (Eclipse and Netbeans) are both tools which started out life intended as commercial offerings but were donated to the community by IBM and SUN.
Prior art is irrelevant to these people. In the Alcatel Lucent case MS believed they had legitimately licensed the patents they were later sued over and having acted in good faith could end up paying twice for the same thing. The whole decision, the amount awarded and the fact that it was also against sales in areas outside of US patent jurisdiction was seriously dodgy.
Vista?
Their bomb is very touchy about its weight you insensitive clod. And no it's not fat, it just has an alternative structural framework.