If he has linux instead then he will go to work in the morning and maybe start talking to his boss about how cool linux is and that he would be far more productive if he had that instead.
I think this is just pure paranoia. But well... just my opinion.
If everyone using a pirated version was switching to Free Software, there would be much more users not using MS, and that would threaten their monopoly.
So you are assuming Microsoft likes pirates? Really? I think you are just trying to make Microsoft look evil whatever they do, even if you have to walk on on mirrors like this. If all they want is really only the monopoly, they would give windows away for free "for personal use".
If that is really what they want, they would give Windows away for free. Don't fool yourself. Marketshare is important, but money is more.
If all those using pirated windows would switch to Linux overnight MS would have a very serious problem. Their 'installed base' would go down a sizeable fraction and that would really hurt.
Again, you are assuming that Microsoft *wants* Windows to be pirated to have more marketshare. Why? Just for the maketshare? Then why not give it away for free? Why have licence keys? Why go against pirates in first place? Your theory just doesn't make sense. Do you really think softwaremakers do like pirates? C'mmon...
Software should be easy to build and run from the moment you download. It shouldn't be a big deal which distro you're running, what cpu arch you have, or what libs you have installed. Software should be smart and just work. If you don't have the right shared libs, the app in question should get/provide them itself. That sort of thing. Just make it EASY to install useable programs.
ZeroInstall provides this functionality. I think all distros should ship with it on by default, and more applications should provide ZeroInstall installation packages.
Scribus is a desktop page layout program in the tradition of Corel Ventura®, Quark Xpress®, PageMaker® and InDesign®
Since its launch in the spring of 2001, Scribus 1.+ offers Linux and Unix users a versatile and user friendly page layout application. Scribus 1.0 and its recent development versions are being used in a number of ways; from brochure design to newsletters and posters to technical documentation. Scribus has the type of the features one would expect in a sophisticated page layout application. You can do all the typical tasks like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. With the release of Scribus 1.0, Linux and Unix users now have one more high quality application for the desktop, making it the premier choice for DTP on Linux or BSD with other platforms to come.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color and a simple color management system to soft proof images destined for high quality color printing, Other features include flexible PDF creation options, PDF Import, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of 4 color separations. Scribus also supports via freetype Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Graphic formats which can be placed in Scribus include Encapsulated Post Script (eps), TIFF(Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (png) and XPixMap(xpm) Scribus now also handles any bit map file type supported by QT3.
Printing, PDF and SVG creation are via custom driver libraries and plug-ins, giving Scribus inventive features: the abilities to include presentation effects with PDF output, fully scriptable interactive PDF forms, SVG vector file output. The internal printer drivers fully support Level 2 and Level 3/PDF 1.4 postscript features including transparency and font embedding. The PDF driver from Scribus can embed fonts for postscript printing and you can use and output high resolution EPS files.
Other useful features include manual kerning of type, rotating object frames, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML, an open source standard file format, a super set of SGML. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents, can be recovered with a simple text editor - sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs.
When run from KDE , Drag and Drop is enabled. Thus, for example you can drag and drop from the desktop to the canvas easily. There is easy to use drag and drop scrapbook, which can contain frequently used items including text blocks, pictures and custom shaped frames. Scribus will also run most any window manager including Gnome and Blackbox without difficulties.
Let's dump DCC (which isn't that bad, except for the TCP ports) and FTP, and come up with a decent transfer file replacement One that doesn't need 10,000 free ports, special firewall tuning, works through a layer of encryption without problems, but still doesn't generate a lot of overhead.
to close the source of warp pipe are the management of the developers, they could just leave it open source and don't let people check stuff in. open source doesn't necessarily mean that anybody can change the code. it just means that anybody can *see* the code.
come on Chad, Tushar, Nathan, Aaron: let other people see wat you do!
it would be wrong to state that you have to recompile every time you run an application.
how do you think is the bytecode executed by the JVM? just automagically the cpu understands java bytecode? The JVM acts as an interpreter between the Java code and a clients operating system, and compiles the byte code (usually.class) files into something the OS, or the platform it runs on, understands.
well... i think it depends on what you mean with "compile"...
sounds scaring, but how do you know in wich car the phone is? i mean, i could be in a car, with my phone, driven by my crazy friend. i'm not the speeder, but my friend. how can they relate the phone with the right car?
I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.
yeah. like if you buy a new phone and it gets broken because it fellt off your desk. do you get a new one for free? no. so if you screw up your hd why should they give you the songs again for free? you can make backups on 3 different comupers, and it costs.99 a song. what's wrong with that?
i know. and that's bad. linux is free, for windows you have to pay. if i could choose between spending less (linux) for more (drivers are developed mainly for it, and my hw runns better) i would choose it. don't you?
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If pirates switch in droves to FOSS, MS faces the risk of having to interoperate with FOSS, which will cost money.
Software vendors always made their own proprietary formats, and always will do so. If there is a monopoly or not.
once FOSS is established as "good enough", there's the danger that businesses will switch wholesale, cutting off large revenue streams.
This just means Microsoft has to write better code. Nothing to do with pirates.
You have one pirate sway and you can potential have their family and friends swayed to the OS alternative.
Those are all "non paying customers". They are not making Microsoft gain more money. So anyway: why should they care?
If he has linux instead then he will go to work in the morning and maybe start talking to his boss about how cool linux is and that he would be far more productive if he had that instead.
I think this is just pure paranoia. But well... just my opinion.
If everyone using a pirated version was switching to Free Software, there would be much more users not using MS, and that would threaten their monopoly.
/me runns
So you are assuming Microsoft likes pirates? Really? I think you are just trying to make Microsoft look evil whatever they do, even if you have to walk on on mirrors like this. If all they want is really only the monopoly, they would give windows away for free "for personal use".
{
[s2@lsd s2]$ uname -a
Linux lsd 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:35:41 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[s2@lsd s2]$
}
dominance in the marketplace
If that is really what they want, they would give Windows away for free. Don't fool yourself. Marketshare is important, but money is more.
If all those using pirated windows would switch to Linux overnight MS would have a very serious problem. Their 'installed base' would go down a sizeable fraction and that would really hurt.
Again, you are assuming that Microsoft *wants* Windows to be pirated to have more marketshare. Why? Just for the maketshare? Then why not give it away for free? Why have licence keys? Why go against pirates in first place?
Your theory just doesn't make sense. Do you really think softwaremakers do like pirates? C'mmon...
...migrate to OSS
Do you really think Microsoft cares if pirates switch to Linux? They don't pay anyway, so who cares.
blah my spelling sucks today :-\
I was about to mod this Interesting...
Software should be easy to build and run from the moment you download. It shouldn't be a big deal which distro you're running, what cpu arch you have, or what libs you have installed. Software should be smart and just work. If you don't have the right shared libs, the app in question should get/provide them itself. That sort of thing. Just make it EASY to install useable programs.
ZeroInstall provides this functionality. I think all distros should ship with it on by default, and more applications should provide ZeroInstall installation packages.
where do you go to buy 80,000 hard drives?
at walmart.
What the hell is it?
from the Scibus site:
1.1 What is Scribus?
Scribus is a desktop page layout program in the tradition of Corel Ventura®, Quark Xpress®, PageMaker® and InDesign®
Since its launch in the spring of 2001, Scribus 1.+ offers Linux and Unix users a versatile and user friendly page layout application. Scribus 1.0 and its recent development versions are being used in a number of ways; from brochure design to newsletters and posters to technical documentation. Scribus has the type of the features one would expect in a sophisticated page layout application. You can do all the typical tasks like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. With the release of Scribus 1.0, Linux and Unix users now have one more high quality application for the desktop, making it the premier choice for DTP on Linux or BSD with other platforms to come.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color and a simple color management system to soft proof images destined for high quality color printing, Other features include flexible PDF creation options, PDF Import, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of 4 color separations. Scribus also supports via freetype Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Graphic formats which can be placed in Scribus include Encapsulated Post Script (eps), TIFF(Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (png) and XPixMap(xpm) Scribus now also handles any bit map file type supported by QT3.
Printing, PDF and SVG creation are via custom driver libraries and plug-ins, giving Scribus inventive features: the abilities to include presentation effects with PDF output, fully scriptable interactive PDF forms, SVG vector file output. The internal printer drivers fully support Level 2 and Level 3/PDF 1.4 postscript features including transparency and font embedding. The PDF driver from Scribus can embed fonts for postscript printing and you can use and output high resolution EPS files.
Other useful features include manual kerning of type, rotating object frames, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML, an open source standard file format, a super set of SGML. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents, can be recovered with a simple text editor - sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs.
When run from KDE , Drag and Drop is enabled. Thus, for example you can drag and drop from the desktop to the canvas easily. There is easy to use drag and drop scrapbook, which can contain frequently used items including text blocks, pictures and custom shaped frames. Scribus will also run most any window manager including Gnome and Blackbox without difficulties.
...the openssh source is OSS, but it is not GPL. What licence it's really under, is left as an exercise to the reader.
:)
lol
you are right. anyway, i was talking about the protocol, not the implementation of it.
No, he isn't. To be able to use ssh/sftp all users need to have a shell account on the server(*). Thus, ssh/sftp cannot replace anonymous FTP.
yes, he is. the openssh source is available under the gpl. how difficult can it be to get it, and integrate it into an irc client for file sharing?
Let's dump DCC (which isn't that bad, except for the TCP ports) and FTP, and come up with a decent transfer file replacement One that doesn't need 10,000 free ports, special firewall tuning, works through a layer of encryption without problems, but still doesn't generate a lot of overhead.
hey! you are talking about ssh - sftp!
the motorola a768 actually has all this...
Can I tell my brower not to tell that I'm following a link when I enter a site?
yes. that would solve the problem.
in mozilla you can set the network.http.sendRefererHeader value to 0.
or just open the link in a new tab.
to close the source of warp pipe are the management of the developers, they could just leave it open source and don't let people check stuff in. open source doesn't necessarily mean that anybody can change the code. it just means that anybody can *see* the code.
come on Chad, Tushar, Nathan, Aaron: let other people see wat you do!
it would be wrong to state that you have to recompile every time you run an application.
.class) files into something the OS, or the platform it runs on, understands.
how do you think is the bytecode executed by the JVM? just automagically the cpu understands java bytecode? The JVM acts as an interpreter between the Java code and a clients operating system, and compiles the byte code (usually
well... i think it depends on what you mean with "compile"...
Java class files are fundamentally different because you actually can run them anywhere without recompiling.
actually java classes are recompiled on every platform, every time you run them.
end of nitpick.
just search for some ogg modules on cpan, and put something together :)
here you go:
An object-oriented interface to Ogg Vorbis information and comment fields, implemented entirely in Perl.
firewall
antivirus
sounds scaring, but how do you know in wich car the phone is? i mean, i could be in a car, with my phone, driven by my crazy friend. i'm not the speeder, but my friend. how can they relate the phone with the right car?
I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.
.99 a song. what's wrong with that?
yeah. like if you buy a new phone and it gets broken because it fellt off your desk. do you get a new one for free? no. so if you screw up your hd why should they give you the songs again for free? you can make backups on 3 different comupers, and it costs
Is there some GPL code in the Leak?
i know. and that's bad. linux is free, for windows you have to pay. if i could choose between spending less (linux) for more (drivers are developed mainly for it, and my hw runns better) i would choose it. don't you?