With all that legal mumbo-jumbo that goes in to a contract, is it little surprize that SCO , never really understood what they are buying ?
Legal writing though very explicit and written typically in cover-all-bases fashion, is way too complicated to be understood by us mere mortals. (lawyers are not mortals, they are the undead). And SCO's boat was already sinking when they supposedly bought these rights, So the competency of their legal department is highly questionable. I bet they had some pro-bono lawyer working on this.
Also don't forget that HP is a much bigger international company than Apple will ever be.
HP printers, desktops etc. are already popular in asian countries and apple, has a better chance of tapping in to these markets, using HP's help than on its own.
Of course this goes only for the iPod or hPod , as itunes currently works only for US customers.
I think this is/.'s way of giving back the koreans a taste of their own medecine. I mean think of all that spam arising from korea, it's a sweet poetic justice that we carpet bomb their servers.
One of the main reason for this is the indian film/music industry is not syndicated by big studios like hollywood.
And therefore the money required to make big budget movies is often put in by underworld mafia. Ofcourse this is all covered up and the money is shown as comming from big time industrialists and stock brokers, but even a kid in india knows the real truth.
And when you involve underworld, they want a hugh piece of the pie, and sometimes entire pie. Whenever there is a financial dispute between the producers and director/actors etc. it is often setteled by mafia. Mafia in turn gets (demands) hugh amount of money from the big shots for what it calls protection money.
There have been incidents where rival direcots/actors/music composers have hired the mafia to threaten/beatup or even kill their counter parts.
The history of mafia's association with bollywood is not older than 30 years. Around the 70s time, when bombay (the core of indian movie industry), was the hottest thing for real estate development. There was a lot of money to be had in urbanization and construction builders often used local mafia (small time crooks) for dirty works , such as forecd labour, evicting tenants , suppressing any kind of opposition. etc.
But the maifa was very disorganised back then, and the construction company owners were the ones who called the shots. But soon the indian maifa much like the turn of the century american mafia , organised and turned crime in to a syndicate. This gave rise to some really notorious gangs in bombay and some fierce gang wars.
By mid 80s the , crime syndicate turned their attention to the movie industry (Although they were always associated with bollywood since the 70s). Initially the relationship between the movie industry and maifa was a win-win situation for both, but soon maifa wanted more and more . It got progressively worse in 90s, where there were a lot of incidents of movie people being threatend/shot at by maifa. By then the mafia had shifted its base from bombay to outside of india. But a large supply of unemployed youths in the country ment a continuing domination of the maifa , even when the strings were pulled from outside the country.
Bombay police which were once considered second best only to scotland yard, earned a lot of bad reputaion in this time for their incapability to stop the crime waves. This led to the encounter era, where the police were on a city cleansing mission. Lots of small time gangsters and gang members were arrested, and then shot by the police in a staged escape. Police claimed the culprits were trying to escape while the human rights organisation screamed murder.
Currently it looks like there has been some equilibrium between the maifa , the film industry and the police. Also lot of film makers are shifting away from bombay to other places.
Searching for info about electronic products is the worst on google. I use the following along with any thing i want to search and it usually does the trick
-shop -shopping -price -buy -order -shipping".
This no doubts subtracts one or two sites which are good but atleast filters out most of the shopping sites.
I was working in India, and I can tell u , that is not a good option
One of my colleague was almost fired because he installed linux on one of the old 486s, which was gathering dust. The security auditing company labeled this move as a big security breach, as they claimed linux is a hacker's operating system and has no place in a corporate environment.
Most of these auditors are MCSEs having no clue what so ever, and they think that if they can't find someone to fire, then their job is not done.
What percent of windows users use the accessibility features ?
How does this make KDE any more useful to us , who don't really need accessibility. Making KDE more accessible to physically handicapped people is sure nice and appriciable, but shouldn't it come down the list of things like
consistent UI look and feel. Better interoperability with non KDE applications etc etc etc...
Tell me about it, every time i drive to new york I spend like 40$. And add the attitude of the toll booth operators outside lincoln tunnel. Seriously people tolls are indeed annoying.
On sidenote, it would also help if apple keyboards were to have the R key.
I don't think he is talking about the interface. He is probably repreing to the plethora of configuration options in things like control panel, KDE Menu, etc.
Having two profiles (begineer/advanced) would if at all anything help begineer get used to KDE. The less options for them to configure , the more better.
As for teaching begineers, it has to be a self learn excersize, this is not 1990, that people should need to be tought how to use a freaking UI. A little bit of common sense is all that it takes to use modern day UIs.
Seriously even if you provide a foolproof evidence that GPL is not at all like SCO or microsoft are proclaiming it to be, Is it really going to kill FUD ?
I mean come on, look at what FUD stands for, Fear uncertainty and doubt, All three essentially meaning the same thing, The unpredictability of future.
Even a rock solid data provided by linux gurus can be used to generate FUD back against linux.
cnet is shining example of how to use opensourse's strength against spreading FUD against opensourse itself.
Just read some of CNET's recent articles on the hacking of debain server, kernel tree, gentoo server. All these attacks were detected quite early without causing any major damage and patched very quickly. But CNET articles' undertone for all of them was linux is insecure and opensource is not a good secure solution.
Tell me about it, I drove 2 hours to baltimore for the first one . On the way back, I fell asleep on the wheel on I-95, for almost 30-45 seconds (I guess, could have been more;-) ). I was very very very lucky , somehow.
You Sir, obviously don't know anything about photography. Any person who has studied even basic Optics (forget photography or visual arts) would redicule your childish comments.
I highly recommend you take some course in visual arts appriciation and then come back.
For starters try this How to read a photograph
No where in my post did i imply it was illegal. I don't care if its legal or not, My personal view , they (lindows) should be allowed to use the name lindows, but it still doesn't change the fact that they (lindows) choose the name , purposefully to be phonetically similar to windows.
How much other phonetic territory can Microsoft claim from having claimed the word "Windows"?
Well I don't think they (M$) deserve any territory in this case , but in lots of cases companies also register (trademark) other phonetically similar terms. In that case they have a legal right to stop anyone else from using such terms.
Microsoft should have jst trade markes [A-Z]indows, to deny anyone such oppertunity.
Whether it would have been ethical is a diff. question, but sure as hell it would have been legal.
Legal or not, the name was indeed choose to be phonetically similar to Windows.
People often confuse similar sounding names, and tend to associate them together. My guess is, any average Windows user, would be much more comfortable with a suggestion such as Lindows, rather than say something like Knoppix.
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Now to wipe off my drool from the keyboard.
hi boss..
Legal writing though very explicit and written typically in cover-all-bases fashion, is way too complicated to be understood by us mere mortals. (lawyers are not mortals, they are the undead). And SCO's boat was already sinking when they supposedly bought these rights, So the competency of their legal department is highly questionable. I bet they had some pro-bono lawyer working on this.
HP printers, desktops etc. are already popular in asian countries and apple, has a better chance of tapping in to these markets, using HP's help than on its own.
Of course this goes only for the iPod or hPod , as itunes currently works only for US customers.
They've got them in atleast 10 diff varieties, i swear.
I think this is /.'s way of giving back the koreans a taste of their own medecine. I mean think of all that spam arising from korea, it's a sweet poetic justice that we carpet bomb their servers.
And therefore the money required to make big budget movies is often put in by underworld mafia. Ofcourse this is all covered up and the money is shown as comming from big time industrialists and stock brokers, but even a kid in india knows the real truth.
And when you involve underworld, they want a hugh piece of the pie, and sometimes entire pie. Whenever there is a financial dispute between the producers and director/actors etc. it is often setteled by mafia. Mafia in turn gets (demands) hugh amount of money from the big shots for what it calls protection money.
There have been incidents where rival direcots/actors/music composers have hired the mafia to threaten/beatup or even kill their counter parts.
The history of mafia's association with bollywood is not older than 30 years. Around the 70s time, when bombay (the core of indian movie industry), was the hottest thing for real estate development. There was a lot of money to be had in urbanization and construction builders often used local mafia (small time crooks) for dirty works , such as forecd labour, evicting tenants , suppressing any kind of opposition. etc.
But the maifa was very disorganised back then, and the construction company owners were the ones who called the shots. But soon the indian maifa much like the turn of the century american mafia , organised and turned crime in to a syndicate. This gave rise to some really notorious gangs in bombay and some fierce gang wars.
By mid 80s the , crime syndicate turned their attention to the movie industry (Although they were always associated with bollywood since the 70s). Initially the relationship between the movie industry and maifa was a win-win situation for both, but soon maifa wanted more and more . It got progressively worse in 90s, where there were a lot of incidents of movie people being threatend/shot at by maifa. By then the mafia had shifted its base from bombay to outside of india. But a large supply of unemployed youths in the country ment a continuing domination of the maifa , even when the strings were pulled from outside the country.
Bombay police which were once considered second best only to scotland yard, earned a lot of bad reputaion in this time for their incapability to stop the crime waves. This led to the encounter era, where the police were on a city cleansing mission. Lots of small time gangsters and gang members were arrested, and then shot by the police in a staged escape. Police claimed the culprits were trying to escape while the human rights organisation screamed murder.
Currently it looks like there has been some equilibrium between the maifa , the film industry and the police. Also lot of film makers are shifting away from bombay to other places.
Searching for info about electronic products is the worst on google.
I use the following along with any thing i want to search and it usually does the trick
-shop -shopping -price -buy -order -shipping".
This no doubts subtracts one or two sites which are good but atleast filters out most of the shopping sites.
RTFM
Yes he is, He also had a solo career, but later on again joined iron maiden.
If william shatner ever pulls you in to the men's room and asks you, do you want to see the captain's log, just say NO.
Yes, get your head out of your a55 first.
One of my colleague was almost fired because he installed linux on one of the old 486s, which was gathering dust. The security auditing company labeled this move as a big security breach, as they claimed linux is a hacker's operating system and has no place in a corporate environment.
Most of these auditors are MCSEs having no clue what so ever, and they think that if they can't find someone to fire, then their job is not done.
How does this make KDE any more useful to us , who don't really need accessibility. Making KDE more accessible to physically handicapped people is sure nice and appriciable, but shouldn't it come down the list of things like
consistent UI look and feel.
Better interoperability with non KDE applications
etc etc etc...
Sorry no can't do, I drink tea.
Tell me about it, every time i drive to new york I spend like 40$. And add the attitude of the toll booth operators outside lincoln tunnel. Seriously people tolls are indeed annoying.
On sidenote, it would also help if apple keyboards were to have the R key.
No, but your poor attempt at a joke certainly did.
Having two profiles (begineer/advanced) would if at all anything help begineer get used to KDE. The less options for them to configure , the more better.
As for teaching begineers, it has to be a self learn excersize, this is not 1990, that people should need to be tought how to use a freaking UI. A little bit of common sense is all that it takes to use modern day UIs.
I mean come on, look at what FUD stands for, Fear uncertainty and doubt, All three essentially meaning the same thing, The unpredictability of future.
Even a rock solid data provided by linux gurus can be used to generate FUD back against linux .
cnet is shining example of how to use opensourse's strength against spreading FUD against opensourse itself.
Just read some of CNET's recent articles on the hacking of debain server, kernel tree, gentoo server. All these attacks were detected quite early without causing any major damage and patched very quickly. But CNET articles' undertone for all of them was linux is insecure and opensource is not a good secure solution.
Tell me about it, I drove 2 hours to baltimore for the first one . On the way back, I fell asleep on the wheel on I-95, for almost 30-45 seconds (I guess, could have been more ;-) ). I was very very very lucky , somehow.
Any person who has studied even basic Optics (forget photography or visual arts) would redicule your childish comments.
I highly recommend you take some course in visual arts appriciation and then come back. For starters try this How to read a photograph
Why your mother in law is a /.er too ?
Has a beard
Use a shaft for protection
Hasn't been laid
Need I go on..
How much other phonetic territory can Microsoft claim from having claimed the word "Windows"? Well I don't think they (M$) deserve any territory in this case , but in lots of cases companies also register (trademark) other phonetically similar terms. In that case they have a legal right to stop anyone else from using such terms.
Microsoft should have jst trade markes [A-Z]indows, to deny anyone such oppertunity.
Whether it would have been ethical is a diff. question, but sure as hell it would have been legal.
Legal or not, the name was indeed choose to be phonetically similar to Windows.
People often confuse similar sounding names, and tend to associate them together. My guess is, any average Windows user, would be much more comfortable with a suggestion such as Lindows, rather than say something like Knoppix.
Ah like the knights who previously used to say NI!.