To summarize; Microsoft sabotaged the standards body with their own people to solidify OOXML as t h e standard. Despite their boldness in daylight to buy a standards body, the irony is; of all groups of people, governments are recognizing Microsoft to be nothing more than a Mobster/racketeer in shrink wrap.
Those are some very good points. Regardless how important or self absorbed a country may think about its style of government... money and its sources has always been key roles. As you note, there is a lengthy list of also-ran countries that once thought their poo did not stink.
It is not a question of living in a glass house. No application is 100% secure. At issue with Microsoft products; your ass is hanging in the wind for at least 30 days from a security vulnerability... unless they deem it serious enough to issue one outside their update window. At least with Firefox and the other Mozilla based browsers, your ass is hanging out there much less, and that is the real issue when dealing with security issues.
Your way off base. Openess and forkability has zero to do with spaghetti code and readability; your semantic argument is bogus. It has everything to do with the GPL License; which in a nutshell your free to do. Of the GPL projects that have forked (that I am aware of), the fundamental reason for the event was due to lousy management or unresponsiveness.
Yep Java is such a powerful language... it is the only one that can verify the correct number of digits for a phone number, the right date, etc. So there all you purist language tards; things like C++, C, perl, python, etal are utter crap compared to the almighty Java and its scripts. Who cares if there are a few security issues introduced, Adobe could not give a shit about it.
Just to be clear, GPLed code does not equate to the same as "public domain". As for Sun, no, they cannot. Once code is GPLed it is GPLed. You are correct if Oracle took it over; they cannot stop development, if they tried to then Oracle would forfeit their use of the GPLed code.
Well your wrong about Oracle's ability to "lockup" MySQL... they cannot, at least not any of the GPLed code that is in there. So your point is moot, misleading and off base.
Just another example of how companies shoot themselves in the foot, strangle interest and circumvent a prime method of promoting their product; all in the name of that false idea of "protecting themselves". Had some one in their executive management pulled their head out of their ass, they could have capitalized on this to no end. Not that I care one way or another how this played out. It just seems one of the major problems companies have is the; not invented here syndrome.
So in other words: the Gnome folks (those who love Microsoft technologies) is telling the FSF folks to get bent. I image Microsoft is very pleased with this new direction with Gnome. I predict in 5 years, perhaps less Microsoft will have maneuvered these short sighted individuals to accepting Microsoft to buy Gnome. By that time it will have forked and these "forward" thinking Gnome folks will have changee the license making it possible. It is unfortunate some of the Gnome folks are so blinded to not realize just the kind of manipulation they have been exposed to; it is the proverbial frog+cold water+a fire.
why Schmidt of Google made the general statement that only miscreants are concerned with on-line privacy. He knew Mozilla was taking this position against them. Though I think this is a black eye for Mozilla but probably good for their pocket book. Why else would Mozilla take this position? Does Mozilla really think that Microsoft/Bing would be better? Either this Mozilla directory is a real tard, or BillyG has slipped Mozilla a little something in the Christmas stocking.
the Patent Office is laying the ground now to keep our future lawyers employed. This fast tracking is going to open the doors to a lot of lawsuits. It is not like the PO has a stellar track record anyway when it comes to granting patents.
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To summarize; Microsoft sabotaged the standards body with their own people to solidify OOXML as t h e standard. Despite their boldness in daylight to buy a standards body, the irony is; of all groups of people, governments are recognizing Microsoft to be nothing more than a Mobster/racketeer in shrink wrap.
You are the one being disingenuous attempting to associate the RIAA with what I said.
So lets see if I grasp this correctly. The US is willing to hold hostage certain bits of terrorist information over banking data. Hm.
Nice way to cover your bet: "I am willing to bet they actually increased, stayed the same or slightly decreased.", and still say nothing at all.
Ask that question again in 3 years.
glad I am not a Ubuntu addict.
Microsoft needs you morons to buy new hardware and games... dey nedz da muny.
cause that could but Microsoft out of business... Windows; unsafe at any speed.
No more closed minded than you arses that insist on sending that crap doc file format... docx.
Those are some very good points. Regardless how important or self absorbed a country may think about its style of government... money and its sources has always been key roles. As you note, there is a lengthy list of also-ran countries that once thought their poo did not stink.
If the terms of the BSD license is not good enough, I'd tell them to piss off.
It is not a question of living in a glass house. No application is 100% secure. At issue with Microsoft products; your ass is hanging in the wind for at least 30 days from a security vulnerability... unless they deem it serious enough to issue one outside their update window. At least with Firefox and the other Mozilla based browsers, your ass is hanging out there much less, and that is the real issue when dealing with security issues.
Your way off base. Openess and forkability has zero to do with spaghetti code and readability; your semantic argument is bogus. It has everything to do with the GPL License; which in a nutshell your free to do. Of the GPL projects that have forked (that I am aware of), the fundamental reason for the event was due to lousy management or unresponsiveness.
Get ready for Microsoft to sabotage them much like they did with the XML standards.
Yep Java is such a powerful language... it is the only one that can verify the correct number of digits for a phone number, the right date, etc. So there all you purist language tards; things like C++, C, perl, python, etal are utter crap compared to the almighty Java and its scripts. Who cares if there are a few security issues introduced, Adobe could not give a shit about it.
Just to be clear, GPLed code does not equate to the same as "public domain". As for Sun, no, they cannot. Once code is GPLed it is GPLed. You are correct if Oracle took it over; they cannot stop development, if they tried to then Oracle would forfeit their use of the GPLed code.
Well your wrong about Oracle's ability to "lockup" MySQL... they cannot, at least not any of the GPLed code that is in there. So your point is moot, misleading and off base.
Its more than orthogonal; its firing missiles at right angles to reality. With reality not being a part of the authors realm.
Just another example of how companies shoot themselves in the foot, strangle interest and circumvent a prime method of promoting their product; all in the name of that false idea of "protecting themselves". Had some one in their executive management pulled their head out of their ass, they could have capitalized on this to no end. Not that I care one way or another how this played out. It just seems one of the major problems companies have is the; not invented here syndrome.
Its more than a fad; its a rehash of thin-client computing.
well you could use google but I'm sure that's to complicated, so go here; http://aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html#law
So in other words: the Gnome folks (those who love Microsoft technologies) is telling the FSF folks to get bent. I image Microsoft is very pleased with this new direction with Gnome. I predict in 5 years, perhaps less Microsoft will have maneuvered these short sighted individuals to accepting Microsoft to buy Gnome. By that time it will have forked and these "forward" thinking Gnome folks will have changee the license making it possible. It is unfortunate some of the Gnome folks are so blinded to not realize just the kind of manipulation they have been exposed to; it is the proverbial frog+cold water+a fire.
So this is just one more step for Gnome to become fully encased with Microsoft technologies. Have at boys.
why Schmidt of Google made the general statement that only miscreants are concerned with on-line privacy. He knew Mozilla was taking this position against them. Though I think this is a black eye for Mozilla but probably good for their pocket book. Why else would Mozilla take this position? Does Mozilla really think that Microsoft/Bing would be better? Either this Mozilla directory is a real tard, or BillyG has slipped Mozilla a little something in the Christmas stocking.
the Patent Office is laying the ground now to keep our future lawyers employed. This fast tracking is going to open the doors to a lot of lawsuits. It is not like the PO has a stellar track record anyway when it comes to granting patents.