This is a good idea because it means for the many sites which do not display correctly in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape they can still be accessed via Netscape and presumably still have all the excellent features of the code such as tabbed browsing and like available to them.
Regardless of who you feel is at fault for the reasons a certain page will not display correctly in any other browser than IE, considering the user would need to use IE to access the page in any case, this is a very convenient feature now available to users.
1. Can you provide a link to back up your alleged "proof"? 2. Remember that Linux patches must be reapplied when the OS requires reinstallation too - this is not merely a Windows "problem". 3. You say in the average lifetime a Windows user "is able to apply" x number of patches. Why did you say that "the average Linux user applies only 224 patches" rather than actually tell us how many patches a Linux user is able to apply?
It's as much nonsense as Paul Kangro's comments that Linux distros are easier/cheaper to patch. It's quite clear his comments are biased and incorrect since he's an executive at Novell which owns a company which distributes Linux.
Fortunately unless you were using an outrageously old version of Word, the file being worked on would be available to you the next time you opened Word so that you are able to restore it.
Been there, done that, breathed the huge sigh of relief.
This may be very true, however the idea behind punitive damages are that they actually punish for the crime/tort committed rather than just costing the person who is in the wrong the amount it would have cost him had he acquired the copyrighted material legally.
What rights have any of us got to run a commercially produced operating system on an Athlon or a P4 though when the OS in question is designed for low budget PCs in less-privileged countries?
On the other hand, the source code was never released to the public and should still be classified as a trade secret.
The copyrightable work in this case is the binary - it's not like with musical releases we should expect all recordings taken and whatever else is used to make an album. And we shouldn't expect every single outtake from a film either should we, just because a different work which the outtakes originally came from was released?
On the subject of free markets, British Telecom asked Thatcher and the UK Government in the 1980s if they could deliver fiber to every property in the UK allowing a wide range of facilities, but were told no due to competition rules.
How different are the two situations in reality though?
You say: the product you're distributing is in fact Linux. therefore, calling it Linux is not going to dilute anybody's trademark.
The same could be said for Redhat Linux - the product being distributed is Redhat Linux just as the product being distributed in the first case is Linux. And yes, Linux is a trademark registered to Linus himself.
But Linux isn't ready for the "prime time zero hassle common user usage" - and neither is Windows for that matter.
Since you brought up SuSe I'll give you a little of my experience with the latest version of Suse.
My PC has a Linksys ethernet card in it which is covered under the "tulip" driver and I have had no problems whatsoever with dhcpd obtaining an IP address from my DHCP server in the past using Linux installations, however I then installed the newest version of SuSe and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get my network interface to come up despite the number of GUI tools and the like. Reinstalled Windows and voila.
Then again, I suspect if someone less knowledgable than myself was to encounter either hardware/software problems within either Linux or Windows which are harder than: 1. Insert CD 2. Wait for Autoplay 3. Hit Install
wtf is a business application(just about anything other than games?)
MS Office, Macromedia design software, Adobe design software, Sage, a lot of customer management systems, the list could go on but you get the idea.
enterprise servers(yes if you want your enterprise servers to be shitty, windows is much better)
Let's put it this way - I'd rather run Enterprise servers on Windows since I know how to secure a Windows box whereas I wouldn't have a clue about securing a Linux box. But then again, I don't need to since I'm more than capable at my job. Just as I'm sure a Linux admin would find it harder securing a Windows box than his "native" Linux box.
Funny that all the TV-Out cards support Windows by default, whereas there are so few which support Linux-based operating systems.
This is one of those times where's it's crucial to read the article.
Indeed it is, and perhaps next time you will do a better job of it.
Taken directly from the linked article:
Jon is assisted by Opera's PR manager who will be rowing alongside the adventurous CEO in the company inflatable raft on the trip across the Atlantic as an act of guilt after making the CEO's statement public.
Huh, that's funny. There is a mention of the Atlantic there. Now don't get me wrong I don't suspect he will actually do it or complete it, but I merely get the feeling you should think twice before you start posting such rubbish.
And who will get the job - the student proficient in MS Office Suite or the one who knows OpenOffice?
Is it really worth causing this sort of problems just so schools can use a piece of open source software which isn't even that brilliant compared to the MS Office Suite?
Why should it be any different than in the offline world?
If you are caught selling or "making available" copyrighted works (bootlegs) then you are liable to be arrested by the police. There is absolutely no requirement for the police to actual see an act of sale take place.
I don't know how it works in your country, however in the UK if two individuals are financially linked, which marriage does to two people on a legal basis, then this is also taken into account in a credit report as it quite rightly should do.
Since when did a Windows operating system come with directories shared by default with the obvious exception of the SharedDocs directory?
Having used every version of Windows since Win95, I don't recall the version you are referring to.
And of course anyone who decides to store documents in a directory cunningly called "SharedDocs" should surely realise that any files or documents stored in that folder might *gasp* actually be shared.
Considering IE 4/5 were far superior web browsers to the existing Netscape 4.x web browser suite, I would say it's fair to say the Firefox has started to innovate from where IE 6 left off.
In regards to Open Office, yes it's free both as in beer and speech, however in terms of quality IMO it is not yet a patch on Microsoft Office by any means.
The role of the law, copyright law in particular, is to grant the copyright holder a temporary monopoly on their "intellectual property" rights.
Whether the copyrighted work in question be the latest Britney album or whether it be a GPL'd text editor the copyright holder in all cases should have redress by law to protect their creation against unauthorised use.
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Regardless of who you feel is at fault for the reasons a certain page will not display correctly in any other browser than IE, considering the user would need to use IE to access the page in any case, this is a very convenient feature now available to users.
1. Can you provide a link to back up your alleged "proof"?
2. Remember that Linux patches must be reapplied when the OS requires reinstallation too - this is not merely a Windows "problem".
3. You say in the average lifetime a Windows user "is able to apply" x number of patches. Why did you say that "the average Linux user applies only 224 patches" rather than actually tell us how many patches a Linux user is able to apply?
It's as much nonsense as Paul Kangro's comments that Linux distros are easier/cheaper to patch. It's quite clear his comments are biased and incorrect since he's an executive at Novell which owns a company which distributes Linux.
Been there, done that, breathed the huge sigh of relief.
This may be very true, however the idea behind punitive damages are that they actually punish for the crime/tort committed rather than just costing the person who is in the wrong the amount it would have cost him had he acquired the copyrighted material legally.
The company which provides Skype is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices in London and Talinn (Estonia) and thus not subject to US regulations.
If this is KDE's font installer "just working" as you say it does, I would hate to see it not working...
Your extremely biased comment is the same as saying:
The automobile industry is responsible for car theft because the cars they produce are not unstealable
Which is complete and utter crap.
What rights have any of us got to run a commercially produced operating system on an Athlon or a P4 though when the OS in question is designed for low budget PCs in less-privileged countries?
The copyrightable work in this case is the binary - it's not like with musical releases we should expect all recordings taken and whatever else is used to make an album. And we shouldn't expect every single outtake from a film either should we, just because a different work which the outtakes originally came from was released?
On the subject of free markets, British Telecom asked Thatcher and the UK Government in the 1980s if they could deliver fiber to every property in the UK allowing a wide range of facilities, but were told no due to competition rules.
Yes I thought the same thing. Although this is the first post of ASOT's I've seen, while reading with it I was thinking: "he knows too much".
SkypeOut would more than likely be 112 than anything since Skype itself is an Estonian-based operation rather than a US-based operation.
You say:
the product you're distributing is in fact Linux. therefore, calling it Linux is not going to dilute anybody's trademark.
The same could be said for Redhat Linux - the product being distributed is Redhat Linux just as the product being distributed in the first case is Linux. And yes, Linux is a trademark registered to Linus himself.
Since you brought up SuSe I'll give you a little of my experience with the latest version of Suse.
My PC has a Linksys ethernet card in it which is covered under the "tulip" driver and I have had no problems whatsoever with dhcpd obtaining an IP address from my DHCP server in the past using Linux installations, however I then installed the newest version of SuSe and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get my network interface to come up despite the number of GUI tools and the like. Reinstalled Windows and voila.
Then again, I suspect if someone less knowledgable than myself was to encounter either hardware/software problems within either Linux or Windows which are harder than:
1. Insert CD
2. Wait for Autoplay
3. Hit Install
Then they may encounter issues within either OS.
MS Office, Macromedia design software, Adobe design software, Sage, a lot of customer management systems, the list could go on but you get the idea.
enterprise servers(yes if you want your enterprise servers to be shitty, windows is much better)
Let's put it this way - I'd rather run Enterprise servers on Windows since I know how to secure a Windows box whereas I wouldn't have a clue about securing a Linux box. But then again, I don't need to since I'm more than capable at my job. Just as I'm sure a Linux admin would find it harder securing a Windows box than his "native" Linux box.
Funny that all the TV-Out cards support Windows by default, whereas there are so few which support Linux-based operating systems.
Indeed it is, and perhaps next time you will do a better job of it.
Taken directly from the linked article:
Jon is assisted by Opera's PR manager who will be rowing alongside the adventurous CEO in the company inflatable raft on the trip across the Atlantic as an act of guilt after making the CEO's statement public.
Huh, that's funny. There is a mention of the Atlantic there. Now don't get me wrong I don't suspect he will actually do it or complete it, but I merely get the feeling you should think twice before you start posting such rubbish.
Is it really worth causing this sort of problems just so schools can use a piece of open source software which isn't even that brilliant compared to the MS Office Suite?
If you are caught selling or "making available" copyrighted works (bootlegs) then you are liable to be arrested by the police. There is absolutely no requirement for the police to actual see an act of sale take place.
I don't know how it works in your country, however in the UK if two individuals are financially linked, which marriage does to two people on a legal basis, then this is also taken into account in a credit report as it quite rightly should do.
Having used every version of Windows since Win95, I don't recall the version you are referring to.
And of course anyone who decides to store documents in a directory cunningly called "SharedDocs" should surely realise that any files or documents stored in that folder might *gasp* actually be shared.
If there is no subpeona, then existing copyright law should cover this anyway.
That might be because profit is calculated after wages are paid and not before, in other words they are a business cost.
In regards to Open Office, yes it's free both as in beer and speech, however in terms of quality IMO it is not yet a patch on Microsoft Office by any means.
Whether the copyrighted work in question be the latest Britney album or whether it be a GPL'd text editor the copyright holder in all cases should have redress by law to protect their creation against unauthorised use.