I recall the many slashdot posts praising China as being one of the enlightened nations combating the evils of closed source software by moving to their own brand of Linux ("RedFlag" Linux, I believe it is called). Where was all of the concern for human rights back then?
Oh, but today Brazil has replaced China as the slashdotters' preferred utopia. Take a close look at Brazil's society, and you'll see the oppression in that society as well.
are always the ones that rail against laws that protect the creators of IP. LOL
And why does 90% of Lessig's drivel involve Brazil? Why doesn't he just move there if it's such a utopia? His departure would improve the quality of Stanford's staff by virtue of addition by subtraction. LOL
"Basically, a shift from hardware towards software-based revenue."
Would be dangerous to do that in an era where more and more people are expecting (and demanding) that "software should be free!!!" (free to obtain and free to redistribute).
Your scenario would ensure that when Windows' monopoly status is re-reviewed next year, it will be declared that Windows no longer enjoys monopoly status for desktop operating systems on Intel-compatible computers. At which point, Microsoft's restrictions are removed.
"Last I heard China was working on their own operating system to supplant those of the West, so Microsoft might be wasting their time."
Yep, using Linux as a base, and you better believe they won't give a damn about GPL. LOL I wonder is slashdotters will be up-in-arms about Chinese GPL violations? Something tells me "not". LOL
"Look what they did with Outlook. I believe the original one came bundled with Win95. Once they used that to make Exchange ubiquitous, Outlook became part of Office. Not free at all."
Ignorance at its finest. Outlook was introduced in Office 97 and was never bundled with Windows.
Indonesia's government admits (or has been caught) to pirating. So they either make a deal with Microsoft, or Microsoft takes their government to court. Assuming that the Indonesian courts are not corrupt (or at least, that the presiding judge in such a case is not corrupt), Indonesia's government would lose the case and be liable for the full price of the pirated software plus punitive damages. If the Indonesia courts are corrupt and would cover for their government, then Microsoft can go to the World Court instead (backed by the USDOJ).
A deal reached between two parties is always preferrable to a court battle.
"For a lot of users, the sites just aren't the same without all of the ActiveX controls. I agree with you that it would be much better to use Java, or perhaps Flash (though it has its own issues) to make these features work."
Except that both Flash and the JVM are loaded as ActiveX controls in IE. As are plugins such as QuickTime, Acrobat, WMP, etc. ActiveX is the plugin architecture if IE. Microsoft should disallow the automatic downloading of ActiveX controls by default, but not disable plugins altogether.
ActiveX is the plugin architecture. If you disable it altogether, no plugins will work (QuickTime, Adobe Acrobat, Flash, and even Java (IE loads the JVM as an ActiveX component). Disabling automatic downloading of ActiveX binaries is a good idea, but disabling ActiveX altogether would be equivalent to disabling plugins altogether in other browsers. Do you advocate such?
Before the Micrsoft bashers ejaculate all over
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Korean MSN Site Hacked
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their monitors, read the article:
"The Korean site, unlike U.S. versions, was operated by another company, which Microsoft did not identify. Microsoft's own experts and Korean police were investigating, but Microsoft believes the computers were vulnerable because operators failed to apply necessary software patches, said Sohn, an MSN director."
"In the meantime, if Microsoft actually wanted to "end the era of closed file formats", all they'd have to do is, you know, actually comply with the letter of the antitrust decision currently handed down against them in the E.U...."
France and Holland both rejected the EU this week. The EU is going down the drain. LOL
Because OpenOffice doesn't support all of the functionality that Office does. So when OpenOffice encounters some data corresponding to functionality that OpenOffice doesn't support, OpenOffice skips over it or reads it as a bastardized version of itself (which causes it to lose integrity with respect to the other data of the document).
Why would someone patronize you to write OSS that you'll provide to everybody, not just the patron? Why would I pay you to write software that you'll provide to my competitor for free?
"Capitalism: The perpetual search for the cheapest solution."
Leading to exploitation of workers, as seen in Asian sweatshops, serfdom in old feudalistic systems, slavery in old plantation systems, and OSS today. OSS programmers need to form a labor union.;-)
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I recall the many slashdot posts praising China as being one of the enlightened nations combating the evils of closed source software by moving to their own brand of Linux ("RedFlag" Linux, I believe it is called). Where was all of the concern for human rights back then?
Oh, but today Brazil has replaced China as the slashdotters' preferred utopia. Take a close look at Brazil's society, and you'll see the oppression in that society as well.
"The Waste Land" was written during a time when copyright law was in force, yet T.S. Eliot wasn't sued. Thus disproving your and Lessig's argument.
The Simpsons episodes contains spoofs and twists on other "works" and the program continues to be on the air, again disproving your argument.
are always the ones that rail against laws that protect the creators of IP. LOL
And why does 90% of Lessig's drivel involve Brazil? Why doesn't he just move there if it's such a utopia? His departure would improve the quality of Stanford's staff by virtue of addition by subtraction. LOL
"Basically, a shift from hardware towards software-based revenue."
Would be dangerous to do that in an era where more and more people are expecting (and demanding) that "software should be free!!!" (free to obtain and free to redistribute).
Your scenario would ensure that when Windows' monopoly status is re-reviewed next year, it will be declared that Windows no longer enjoys monopoly status for desktop operating systems on Intel-compatible computers. At which point, Microsoft's restrictions are removed.
"Last I heard China was working on their own operating system to supplant those of the West, so Microsoft might be wasting their time."
Yep, using Linux as a base, and you better believe they won't give a damn about GPL. LOL I wonder is slashdotters will be up-in-arms about Chinese GPL violations? Something tells me "not". LOL
Tabbed browsing is an innovation? Safari, MyIE2, SlimBrowser, and more all had Tabbed Browsing long before Firefox ever existed.
"Look what they did with Outlook. I believe the original one came bundled with Win95. Once they used that to make Exchange ubiquitous, Outlook became part of Office. Not free at all."
Ignorance at its finest. Outlook was introduced in Office 97 and was never bundled with Windows.
LOL
WTF is the EU going to do about it?
Hmmm...
Kinda like iWorks 2005 requires Panther for no apparent reason (doesn't work on Jaguar)?
Indonesia's government admits (or has been caught) to pirating. So they either make a deal with Microsoft, or Microsoft takes their government to court. Assuming that the Indonesian courts are not corrupt (or at least, that the presiding judge in such a case is not corrupt), Indonesia's government would lose the case and be liable for the full price of the pirated software plus punitive damages. If the Indonesia courts are corrupt and would cover for their government, then Microsoft can go to the World Court instead (backed by the USDOJ).
A deal reached between two parties is always preferrable to a court battle.
LOL :-)
:-)
I've run in circles where "/" was called "slash" and "\" was called "whack".
Of course, "!" is called "bang".
Well, then you guys shouldn't have demanded that the protocol specs be released.
As the Talking Heads would say, "Watch out! You might get what you're after!"
Since when did Microsoft have "90%" of the server market?
"This is quite a concession, as it shows that the MS campaign to have people not run as admin is not really working at all in the real world."
What "campaign"? Longhorn will have the default accounts be non-admin, but I've seen no big "campaign" regarding XP's account usage.
"For a lot of users, the sites just aren't the same without all of the ActiveX controls. I agree with you that it would be much better to use Java, or perhaps Flash (though it has its own issues) to make these features work."
Except that both Flash and the JVM are loaded as ActiveX controls in IE. As are plugins such as QuickTime, Acrobat, WMP, etc. ActiveX is the plugin architecture if IE. Microsoft should disallow the automatic downloading of ActiveX controls by default, but not disable plugins altogether.
ActiveX is the plugin architecture. If you disable it altogether, no plugins will work (QuickTime, Adobe Acrobat, Flash, and even Java (IE loads the JVM as an ActiveX component). Disabling automatic downloading of ActiveX binaries is a good idea, but disabling ActiveX altogether would be equivalent to disabling plugins altogether in other browsers. Do you advocate such?
"Microsoft has lied before."
As have you, no doubt.
"In the meantime, if Microsoft actually wanted to "end the era of closed file formats", all they'd have to do is, you know, actually comply with the letter of the antitrust decision currently handed down against them in the E.U. ..."
France and Holland both rejected the EU this week. The EU is going down the drain. LOL
Why does everything have to be GPL with you people? GPL is one of the most restrictive "open source" licenses there is.
Because OpenOffice doesn't support all of the functionality that Office does. So when OpenOffice encounters some data corresponding to functionality that OpenOffice doesn't support, OpenOffice skips over it or reads it as a bastardized version of itself (which causes it to lose integrity with respect to the other data of the document).
Why would someone patronize you to write OSS that you'll provide to everybody, not just the patron? Why would I pay you to write software that you'll provide to my competitor for free?
"Capitalism: The perpetual search for the cheapest solution."
;-)
Leading to exploitation of workers, as seen in Asian sweatshops, serfdom in old feudalistic systems, slavery in old plantation systems, and OSS today. OSS programmers need to form a labor union.
"We need to remove the need for Exchange and Active Directory servers."
What do you mean, "we"? Not everyone here is part of your anti-Microsoft holy war.