Windows offers a powerful infrastructure for distributing DRM encrypted media.
It's not Windows itself but WMP that has the DRM features. RealAudio has very similar DRM features. The client software is what makes the difference, not the OS.
That aside, I wonder if this could be made to work a-la MPlayer DLL trick.
Corel sold out to Microsoft. The only reason they ever even got a cash offer from MS was because they had a Linux product line that was a drop in replacement for MS OS/Office, notice how quickly afterwards it was withdrawn. I appreciate their work on WINE but other than that, good riddance, you danced with the devil and now you have to pay the price. Let this be a lesson to anybody would thinks MS is their white knight. Does anybody here remember Sybase?
It only would really have to be seen as inappropriate for Linux use
Except that the GPL, unlike the BSD license, does not grant a copyright or even confer ownership privileges. Under the GPL, the author maintains the ownership privileges on their source all while releasing the source to the public. That's why I can release my app code under the GPL but still sell a closed source version with mods outside the GPL. So, unless SCO strips all code submitted by the other copyright owners (and there are many) then they would be in violation of the original agreement under which those authors distributed their work, namely the GPL. SCO would then be left with the 80 copied comment lines and nothing even close to a "Hello World" program.
I'm glad somebody else said it. You notice they're not actually taking anybody to court, just threatening to if you don't give them your milk money. I predict they will NEVER take anybody to court over this because they will lose, plain and simple. They have to capitalize on the threat, because the nature of the threat itself is clearly not enforceable. The only question I have is if this has crossed over into extortion. There's a decent definition of extortion here. That said, IANAL and I'm unsure what it would take to argue a case like this (other than $$$ for lawyers). In particular, I'm not sure if threat of legal action can be the basis for extortion. This differs from an obvious case of extortion as in if SCO were to say, "pay our licensing fees or we'll break your kneecaps".
There's no blanket answer for that, the assumptions are typically one of a) they have no Linux trained engineers to write and support the drivers in the first place, b) they are mistakenly afraid of the GPL'd nature of Linux, c) they don't believe that providing a Linux driver will have a material impact on sales, or d) they don't want to risk angering MS and risk loosing access to driver bundling and/or early software releases.
It's not your BIOS, it's most likely the AGP on your mobo. There was a bunch of work on the nVIDIA related AGP code in the post 2.4.20 kernel series, particularly 2.4.22. Depending on your mobo and kernel patches RH applied to 2.4.20, this could explain your problems. The 2.4.21 series in general hasn't been anything to brag about -but- stability is getting much better again as of 2.4.22-pre3 (haven't tried pre7 yet). You may want to try 2.4.22-pre7 to see if it solves the lockup issues for you.
Damn good point about the rotation, you get a 1000 MPH head start as compared to a stand-still start on the poles. Every little bit counts so I stand corrected, it would be easier to get into orbit from the equator.
There was a slashdot poll on this in April, see here. Also, it's tricky when you don't qualify Netscape in the context of Mozilla. They're the same under the skin, so do you mean "Does anyone here actually use Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird as their default browser", then yeah, a lot of people do. If you specifically mean the Netscape skinned Mozilla, then the number is a lot less.
It's closer to get into geostationary orbit which is directly above the equator itself, but not orbit itself. That geostationary belt is pretty crowded airspace. It doubt it makes the trip up any easier since you still need to hit the same escape velocity (25,000 MPH / Mach 34) regardless of where you launch from. The challenge lies in achieving that speed as cheaply as possible, not an easy task.
I'd beg to differ on nobody using LVM or JFS, we use both extensively and a few other backroom server installations I know of also do. As for hot swap and NUMA, that's for bigger hardware than the 1Us I've got. Regardless, the SCO case against Linux is gone, see section 4 of GPL and add Sontag's famous no-no of try to only absolve SCO Linux users.
I think the fear of jobs moving overseas is mostly hype; even if it is, we will adapt, re-educate ourselves, and take new jobs.
I was going to keep quiet but you state it exactly right. The days of learning a skill and expecting to milk it for life are gone. In a highly competitive global economy, you either adapt or die. My guess is that a given piece of knowledge these days has a shelf life of about 3 years, 5 at the high end. It's harsh but it's how we achieve progress and it's the new reality. You need to be pushing boundaries or you will get overtaken by the pack. I think getting laid off is a very traumatic and disruptive event but no amount of feeling sorry is going to bring those jobs back. Adapting and being competitive is what creates opportunities and in turn jobs.
I'm floored, you actually posted something that isn't a troll or flamebait. Even more absurd, I agree with you 100%. The boom created an artificial number of "programmers" who were anything but. Reality is that if you didn't study comp sci in college, you probably shouldn't expect to get another job in IT. The "gold rush" is over, only those that have in depth skills and stay on top of those skills should have an expectation of remaining in this biz. If you don't work in IT for the sheer love of it first and a paycheck second, your days are numbered.
Which version and what task are you measuring? You need to look into the 1.1 releases on Linux since they did a lot of performance related work there. If you looked into a 1.0.x release, the results are no longer valid.
Looks a little MacOS-y. Clean lines, a little metallic in nature. All the quick access buttons are grouped in the bottom left corner. It's not a massive departure from the Exchange look-and-feel but it's different enough that you certainly wouldn't mistake the two.
Hmmmm, so inertia is even a more powerful force than previously assumed. I've seen the same thing wrt IE. Well, I guess it just reinforces my unwritten theory that people are just big ass electrons, always looking for that path of least resistance.
Apple is not committed to open source, they use open source and there's a big difference. If they were committed to open source they would have gone with Linux. The reason they went with BSD is more likely that they don't have to release all their changes to the public and this would not be allowed with Linux. This is sure to garner the, "look at the Darwin project idiot" responses to which I reply, have you tried to compile your own Darwin kernel to replace your stock kernel lately? I didn't think so. (Btw, do not try this, you may hose your system because the stock kernel boot process differs from the Darwin kernel boot process, see the Darwin FAQ for more info on Open Firmware). I'm sure if BSD was under the GPL, Apple wouldn't have given it a second look. If Apple really wanted to impress me with their devotion to open source, they would drop the "we're protecting our IP" line and offer the option of a Linux or BSD kernel. All that aside, I think Apple makes good products and software, and compared to the big-M, they're Richard Stallman himself, but there's no way that they're committed to open source.
That's the only reason why I wish OS X would come to the i386 platform.
You mean x86 and the reason it hasn't and probably won't is the hardware drivers, architecture, and MS factor. Mac can control drivers for their hardware 100% and this plays a lot towards stability. The endianess differences between PPC and x86 make porting apps tricky especially for any low level optimizations. All the vendors would have to put out recompiled ports of their Mac software. Lastly, this would really tick off the big M and you can be certain they'd retaliate in some form or another either against Apple or against vendors that port to x86 OS X. This would make 3rd party buy in an iffy bet. Personally, I think an OS X interface for x86 Linux or BSD would be awesome but I think the odds of it happening are slim.
I think he means Joe Sixpack. One of the sad realities is that most end users just use whatever is plopped in front of them. Personally, I like Mozilla and Konq although I used Opera briefly in the pre-1.0 days. I like Konq because it's a piece of cake to change the browser ID for those annoying browser checks and it handles a lot of IE only pages very well. For sheer speed and ease of use, Mozilla is where it's at as of 1.4. I do use the Mozilla mail client as my primary mail client so my opinion is a little skewed.
Absolutely, if they want to have "beta" customers that understand what a "beta" is, then fine. However, people generally do not equate.0 releases with "not for production use", why, I have no idea. Probably haven't had their hands burned sufficiently. I'm looking forward to 2.6.0 but I'm weary of the whole debug cycle even though I know it needs to be done. I think user friendly distros may even want to wait until 2.6.2+ to let the dust settle a bit on the biggest "discoveries". The last thing we need is widespread distribution of what is the closed source equivalent of a beta kernel and then have noobs who just don't know any different complaining about Linux generically.
Agreed, even better, let them know what you think on their feedback form. I just did, maybe if everbody else does we'll make a difference before it's "too late".
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Windows offers a powerful infrastructure for distributing DRM encrypted media.
It's not Windows itself but WMP that has the DRM features. RealAudio has very similar DRM features. The client software is what makes the difference, not the OS.
That aside, I wonder if this could be made to work a-la MPlayer DLL trick.
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Guess AOL and MS are all buddy-buddy now that the whole Netscape "misunderstanding" is behind them.
Corel sold out to Microsoft. The only reason they ever even got a cash offer from MS was because they had a Linux product line that was a drop in replacement for MS OS/Office, notice how quickly afterwards it was withdrawn. I appreciate their work on WINE but other than that, good riddance, you danced with the devil and now you have to pay the price. Let this be a lesson to anybody would thinks MS is their white knight. Does anybody here remember Sybase?
Well that sucks, there's not much of a bite to the barratry dog. I doubt that a $1000 fine and 6 months (aka. 0 days) will change anything. :-\
It only would really have to be seen as inappropriate for Linux use
Except that the GPL, unlike the BSD license, does not grant a copyright or even confer ownership privileges. Under the GPL, the author maintains the ownership privileges on their source all while releasing the source to the public. That's why I can release my app code under the GPL but still sell a closed source version with mods outside the GPL. So, unless SCO strips all code submitted by the other copyright owners (and there are many) then they would be in violation of the original agreement under which those authors distributed their work, namely the GPL. SCO would then be left with the 80 copied comment lines and nothing even close to a "Hello World" program.
I'm glad somebody else said it. You notice they're not actually taking anybody to court, just threatening to if you don't give them your milk money. I predict they will NEVER take anybody to court over this because they will lose, plain and simple. They have to capitalize on the threat, because the nature of the threat itself is clearly not enforceable. The only question I have is if this has crossed over into extortion. There's a decent definition of extortion here. That said, IANAL and I'm unsure what it would take to argue a case like this (other than $$$ for lawyers). In particular, I'm not sure if threat of legal action can be the basis for extortion. This differs from an obvious case of extortion as in if SCO were to say, "pay our licensing fees or we'll break your kneecaps".
There's no blanket answer for that, the assumptions are typically one of a) they have no Linux trained engineers to write and support the drivers in the first place, b) they are mistakenly afraid of the GPL'd nature of Linux, c) they don't believe that providing a Linux driver will have a material impact on sales, or d) they don't want to risk angering MS and risk loosing access to driver bundling and/or early software releases.
It's not your BIOS, it's most likely the AGP on your mobo. There was a bunch of work on the nVIDIA related AGP code in the post 2.4.20 kernel series, particularly 2.4.22. Depending on your mobo and kernel patches RH applied to 2.4.20, this could explain your problems. The 2.4.21 series in general hasn't been anything to brag about -but- stability is getting much better again as of 2.4.22-pre3 (haven't tried pre7 yet). You may want to try 2.4.22-pre7 to see if it solves the lockup issues for you.
Damn good point about the rotation, you get a 1000 MPH head start as compared to a stand-still start on the poles. Every little bit counts so I stand corrected, it would be easier to get into orbit from the equator.
There was a slashdot poll on this in April, see here. Also, it's tricky when you don't qualify Netscape in the context of Mozilla. They're the same under the skin, so do you mean "Does anyone here actually use Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird as their default browser", then yeah, a lot of people do. If you specifically mean the Netscape skinned Mozilla, then the number is a lot less.
It's closer to get into geostationary orbit which is directly above the equator itself, but not orbit itself. That geostationary belt is pretty crowded airspace. It doubt it makes the trip up any easier since you still need to hit the same escape velocity (25,000 MPH / Mach 34) regardless of where you launch from. The challenge lies in achieving that speed as cheaply as possible, not an easy task.
Yeah, well your futuristic "city" is just a cardbox box, and it doesn't even have a roof. Honestly, it looks kind of ... crappy.
I'd beg to differ on nobody using LVM or JFS, we use both extensively and a few other backroom server installations I know of also do. As for hot swap and NUMA, that's for bigger hardware than the 1Us I've got. Regardless, the SCO case against Linux is gone, see section 4 of GPL and add Sontag's famous no-no of try to only absolve SCO Linux users.
I think the fear of jobs moving overseas is mostly hype; even if it is, we will adapt, re-educate ourselves, and take new jobs.
I was going to keep quiet but you state it exactly right. The days of learning a skill and expecting to milk it for life are gone. In a highly competitive global economy, you either adapt or die. My guess is that a given piece of knowledge these days has a shelf life of about 3 years, 5 at the high end. It's harsh but it's how we achieve progress and it's the new reality. You need to be pushing boundaries or you will get overtaken by the pack. I think getting laid off is a very traumatic and disruptive event but no amount of feeling sorry is going to bring those jobs back. Adapting and being competitive is what creates opportunities and in turn jobs.
Holy crap, you're right! This guy is incorrigible.
I'm floored, you actually posted something that isn't a troll or flamebait. Even more absurd, I agree with you 100%. The boom created an artificial number of "programmers" who were anything but. Reality is that if you didn't study comp sci in college, you probably shouldn't expect to get another job in IT. The "gold rush" is over, only those that have in depth skills and stay on top of those skills should have an expectation of remaining in this biz. If you don't work in IT for the sheer love of it first and a paycheck second, your days are numbered.
Which version and what task are you measuring? You need to look into the 1.1 releases on Linux since they did a lot of performance related work there. If you looked into a 1.0.x release, the results are no longer valid.
Looks a little MacOS-y. Clean lines, a little metallic in nature. All the quick access buttons are grouped in the bottom left corner. It's not a massive departure from the Exchange look-and-feel but it's different enough that you certainly wouldn't mistake the two.
Hmmmm, so inertia is even a more powerful force than previously assumed. I've seen the same thing wrt IE. Well, I guess it just reinforces my unwritten theory that people are just big ass electrons, always looking for that path of least resistance.
OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source.
Apple is not committed to open source, they use open source and there's a big difference. If they were committed to open source they would have gone with Linux. The reason they went with BSD is more likely that they don't have to release all their changes to the public and this would not be allowed with Linux. This is sure to garner the, "look at the Darwin project idiot" responses to which I reply, have you tried to compile your own Darwin kernel to replace your stock kernel lately? I didn't think so. (Btw, do not try this, you may hose your system because the stock kernel boot process differs from the Darwin kernel boot process, see the Darwin FAQ for more info on Open Firmware). I'm sure if BSD was under the GPL, Apple wouldn't have given it a second look. If Apple really wanted to impress me with their devotion to open source, they would drop the "we're protecting our IP" line and offer the option of a Linux or BSD kernel. All that aside, I think Apple makes good products and software, and compared to the big-M, they're Richard Stallman himself, but there's no way that they're committed to open source.
That's the only reason why I wish OS X would come to the i386 platform.
You mean x86 and the reason it hasn't and probably won't is the hardware drivers, architecture, and MS factor. Mac can control drivers for their hardware 100% and this plays a lot towards stability. The endianess differences between PPC and x86 make porting apps tricky especially for any low level optimizations. All the vendors would have to put out recompiled ports of their Mac software. Lastly, this would really tick off the big M and you can be certain they'd retaliate in some form or another either against Apple or against vendors that port to x86 OS X. This would make 3rd party buy in an iffy bet. Personally, I think an OS X interface for x86 Linux or BSD would be awesome but I think the odds of it happening are slim.
I think he means Joe Sixpack. One of the sad realities is that most end users just use whatever is plopped in front of them. Personally, I like Mozilla and Konq although I used Opera briefly in the pre-1.0 days. I like Konq because it's a piece of cake to change the browser ID for those annoying browser checks and it handles a lot of IE only pages very well. For sheer speed and ease of use, Mozilla is where it's at as of 1.4. I do use the Mozilla mail client as my primary mail client so my opinion is a little skewed.
Absolutely, if they want to have "beta" customers that understand what a "beta" is, then fine. However, people generally do not equate .0 releases with "not for production use", why, I have no idea. Probably haven't had their hands burned sufficiently. I'm looking forward to 2.6.0 but I'm weary of the whole debug cycle even though I know it needs to be done. I think user friendly distros may even want to wait until 2.6.2+ to let the dust settle a bit on the biggest "discoveries". The last thing we need is widespread distribution of what is the closed source equivalent of a beta kernel and then have noobs who just don't know any different complaining about Linux generically.
Agreed, even better, let them know what you think on their feedback form. I just did, maybe if everbody else does we'll make a difference before it's "too late".
Das ist nicht lustig! Und dann was sollten wir über englische Wörter in Linux tun?