"We" don't. Sun is. The corporate desktop is not the beginning and end of all things, you know. The freedom we are so proud of is, too, the freedom of Sun to copy Windows.
The *nix philosophy (yadda, yadda...) is to use small and highly dedicated applications for each job, and then linking them together.
The best applications that can be used as solver in this context are Maxima, Octave, Yacas, etc; I don't use spreadsheets but I've seen the code of Frontman (a frontend for these applications) and I think should be easy to write an interface between your favorite spreadsheet and one of these math engines.
Such an interface probably exists now (as I said, I don't use spreadsheets, so I wouldn't know) and if it doesn't then should be because nobody has asked for it, because the benefits would be huge compared with the coding effort.
You realize that by suing Microsoft for shipping a "defective product", you also open up RedHat and any other company that does not ship %100 secure code to a lawsuit.
And you realize that there is no such thing as a car that will not get a few scratches from a collision. Still, they should not blow up by just touching a tree (if not on a cartoon or a hollywood movie).
Don't worry too much. This is software, not a service. When available it may be implemented by someone and be the infrastructure of a company, which may then provide bugfixes and development to the original project. Or it may not. Who knows.
Konqueror is not fully controlled by the KDE project. Anybody can mess with it respecting the license, warranting healty competition. MSIE is controlled by an historically abusive monopoly and nobody knows what will it do with it next.
To tell the truth, their $40B in the bank are one of their problems now.
The market economy works by circulating money. If these 40B are not circulating they are a burden. Microsoft has, until now, found a way to take the capital and turn it into a good return.
Now they have saturated the niche. It's becoming harder to get the big returns they (and their shareholders) are familiar with.
In a perfect world they could simply say "screw the returns" and invest that money on good technological advancements, even ones that don't give a so good return. But on the US economy that's not an option; if they did that the investors would take the money and invest it on something with better returns.
The problem with your argument is within the concept "OSS Community".
This is not a collective where the words of one equal to the words of the community. "Businesses should adopt..." is usually one individual completly different to "Create it yourself...".
...unstable comes with glibc2.3, and the binary ATI drivers are compiled against 2.2...
The blanket answer for that is "install the libc 2.2 compatibility library". It works for things like the old, binary only blender and some java plugins.
...the common usage of the word evokes very negative images...
So what? The technical jargon actually includes killing children (processes), beheading (lists), slavery (master/slave drive), etc. One more can't be so bad.
Blender's primary target is to be able of making ready-to-publish video from scratch. Composing audio is a priority, unless you aim to recreating the beginnings of cinema.
Actually the virus is impossible (as long as the distro dowa not save to disk, of course). The difference between the virus and the worm is that the virus lives along with an executable in disk, and the worm exists in memory only.
Maybe we should try. I mean, declare the "No MS articles week" someday once a year. As a protest, or something. Spanish boards already protest calling Windows "Hasefroch".
It could be used to prove that the footage you see on TV is what was filmed by the digicam.
If J. Stalin wanted to alter the footage be sure he would. This silly scheme is not as strong as the powers that be want to make it look, it's a real hoax and can't be trusted into. Getting false security is a very bad thing.
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"We" don't. Sun is. The corporate desktop is not the beginning and end of all things, you know. The freedom we are so proud of is, too, the freedom of Sun to copy Windows.
The *nix philosophy (yadda, yadda...) is to use small and highly dedicated applications for each job, and then linking them together.
The best applications that can be used as solver in this context are Maxima, Octave, Yacas, etc; I don't use spreadsheets but I've seen the code of Frontman (a frontend for these applications) and I think should be easy to write an interface between your favorite spreadsheet and one of these math engines.
Such an interface probably exists now (as I said, I don't use spreadsheets, so I wouldn't know) and if it doesn't then should be because nobody has asked for it, because the benefits would be huge compared with the coding effort.
You realize that by suing Microsoft for shipping a "defective product", you also open up RedHat and any other company that does not ship %100 secure code to a lawsuit.
And you realize that there is no such thing as a car that will not get a few scratches from a collision. Still, they should not blow up by just touching a tree (if not on a cartoon or a hollywood movie).
The quid of the matter is, it was an OS which had no games, went up and the games came later. In that order.
Same error here, debian sarge and gcc-3.3; seting CC=gcc-2.95 fixes nothing.
Don't worry too much. This is software, not a service. When available it may be implemented by someone and be the infrastructure of a company, which may then provide bugfixes and development to the original project. Or it may not. Who knows.
I don't know if you're a troll or not, and I don't care, since it's on a higher good:
If ps segfaults be careful and check your box, that may be a sign of having been cracked.
What's the difference?
Konqueror is not fully controlled by the KDE project. Anybody can mess with it respecting the license, warranting healty competition. MSIE is controlled by an historically abusive monopoly and nobody knows what will it do with it next.
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Enough said.
email is also a kind of cheese
That's fromage emmental, not email
To tell the truth, their $40B in the bank are one of their problems now.
The market economy works by circulating money. If these 40B are not circulating they are a burden. Microsoft has, until now, found a way to take the capital and turn it into a good return.
Now they have saturated the niche. It's becoming harder to get the big returns they (and their shareholders) are familiar with.
In a perfect world they could simply say "screw the returns" and invest that money on good technological advancements, even ones that don't give a so good return. But on the US economy that's not an option; if they did that the investors would take the money and invest it on something with better returns.
The problem with your argument is within the concept "OSS Community".
This is not a collective where the words of one equal to the words of the community. "Businesses should adopt..." is usually one individual completly different to "Create it yourself...".
Actually, with the 2.4 series it would be running 'make oldconfig' first, and then compile away.
The blanket answer for that is "install the libc 2.2 compatibility library". It works for things like the old, binary only blender and some java plugins.
So what? The technical jargon actually includes killing children (processes), beheading (lists), slavery (master/slave drive), etc. One more can't be so bad.
Calm yourself, they're exactly the same.
Not EVERYONE can just drop Windows.
Yes, everyone can.
It'd be costly, of course, but freedom is not "free of charge". It has to be earned.
#3, "who write and use OSS", implies something very important: the people who writes it has to use it. That's why they care.
Blender's primary target is to be able of making ready-to-publish video from scratch. Composing audio is a priority, unless you aim to recreating the beginnings of cinema.
Actually the virus is impossible (as long as the distro dowa not save to disk, of course). The difference between the virus and the worm is that the virus lives along with an executable in disk, and the worm exists in memory only.
One warning though, it probably has to be disabled on the window manager since it's often the "change viewports" binding.
"would be exactly nowhere without Microsoft..."
Maybe we should try. I mean, declare the "No MS articles week" someday once a year. As a protest, or something. Spanish boards already protest calling Windows "Hasefroch".
Downside: You will need to make painful concessions.
I'd be careful there. If the people gets the impression of the concessions being granted because of the terror, some will try the same path.
Yeah. And a lot of opensource is "useless featureless and slow" but people still find it useful for its purpose. Your point?
Because it does not work.
It could be used to prove that the footage you see on TV is what was filmed by the digicam.
If J. Stalin wanted to alter the footage be sure he would. This silly scheme is not as strong as the powers that be want to make it look, it's a real hoax and can't be trusted into. Getting false security is a very bad thing.