Because projects developed and maintained by committee are of such a high technical quality? I don't think so!
Linus my not coddle the people trying to make money off of Linux, but so what? They have the source, they can fork their own edition if they have some particular need. Try and do THAT with commercial software!
Removing the popular figurehead who also provides cohesiveness, would be the best thing that could possibly happen for those OTHER OS's.
Re. intentional errors, I used to work for someone who would always create some bizarre title for himself when giving his address out. Then when he'd receive junk mail from third parties addressed to Joe Blow, Starship Commander, he'd know who had sold his address. It was always fun to go through the daily junk and see how many things were addressed to Senior Henchman, Admiral, Under-Wizard, etc.
Parody is one aspect of Fair Use that can get a fair degree of latitude. Hence editorial cartoons can have copyrighted characters all they want. Games can be similar: I remember quite vividly a Simpsons mod for the original Doom that was downright hilarious. You were Homer, armour was beer (in singles, six-packs, or kegs) and food was donuts (either singly or in boxes. Sounds were clips from the show, all characters were present, and I never could play without laughing. A pretty clear parody. I don't know if this particular mod falls into the parody category, though. Just food for thought.
Publishing can't be illegal in the US...newspaper stories about crime would vanish! Even the anarchists cookbook is a perfectly legal expression of freedom of speech & the press. Outlawing bugtraq is laughable, and will never stand up in court; why don't we arrest the manufacturer of a car used in a getaway for aiding and abetting?
It seems to me that our national mission of today has become to "continually buy as much stuff as possible." Americans today save a much smaller percentage of their wages than in years past, so no wonder the economy is good; more is being spent. But couple the lack of savings with the unmanageable balloon that the national debt has become, and explain to the world how the United States can possibly avoid a major depression in the next 10-20 years. Do you think that either or both of the following needs to happen in your term? People need to spend less of their income, putting more into savings & investments; the nation needs to substantially reduce the principle on the national debt.
How will you, as President of the only superpower, and one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, accomplish this?
FWIW all Universal artists are due a piece of this by their own logic: they sued mp3.com with the premise that use of mp3.com robbed them of sales/royalties. Damages awarded are compensation for that very theoretical loss. Therefore, because that money represents sales that should have occurred, the artists are entitled to their royalty *per (theoretical) abuse*.
Certainly the visceral nature of Doom is second to none, including my nosalgia for Zork et. al., but the FPS method of presenting the virtual world from the first person point of view, doesn't HAVE to be a shoot 'em up. A story with interesting puzzles and actual thought could still be creating, but using this newer more engaging interface. Think Half-Life. Think Myst, but with real time movement throughout it's world. Anything is still possible, but people are much more drawn into the game when they can see where they're at.
That's it! If this works out we can all sue our local libraries! And with a class-action suit against the Library of Congress, we can finally put down the free flow of information started by that Gutenberg bastard!
I've got a 486-100 acting as a firewall / mail server on a dsl line, doing NAT for ten users. Works like a champ! Tests have shown that a 486 doing NAT and simple ipchains filtering can saturate a T1, so dust the cobwebs off of that 'ol 486 and let 'er rip!
Actually Itanium has slipped from shipping the third quarter THIS year to the fourth quarter, THIS year. McKinley is the one supposedly set to ship in the second half of next year. Nuthin' like checkin' the facts every now and again.
That's the big question. I'd definitely be interested if I could escape advertisers, but I can't imagine that they'd igonore such a major revenue generator. I didn't catch any indication of which way that wind was blowing in the Wired article....
I'd expand upon this with a bit of semi-dramatic hyperbole: I used to work for an architect who would regularly contend (jokingly) that we (architects) should get royalties for the use of the buildings we design. Think of it! A portion of one's rent/mortgage going to the architect! Now granted, most buildings can't stretch to be considered Art, but many can. And payment is, as a non-performing art, a negotiated sum up front, with no consideration to future revenue based on the success of the design. As the above poster noted, the art of architects isn't necessarily any the worse for the situation, but note how few buildings are interesting much less artistic. So much squandered potential! One of the ideas in jeapardy is the get-rich-quick American dream (which is total bs). If an artist taps into that collective unconcious of the mainstream, and hits it BIG, should they then live forever off of that moment? Is this any different than athletes (performing not art but sport...) who demand contracts that allow them to live forever in luxury in the event of injury? To end my ramble, I'd just say that shit happens and so do changes. Everything changes, and we just do what we can to help it change for the better. The power of the internet is the decentralized nature (until AOL co-opts it all) of access and opinions. Its ALL out there and demand, even as expressed by pure capitalists, is evident in whole new ways that the capitalists have yet to grasp. The RIAA is just one of the first to pucker their sphincters and try denial on for size. When that doesn't work, they'll actually look at how to make money another way. Performance art vs. non-performance art may yet equalize....
These stats only count units actually shipped. How many places purchase 500 units of distro X Linux? But with NT, you're obligated to do so. So, while the NT Server count represents actual use, we KNOW that the Linux count is only a fraction of actual use. And to prove how well Linux is doing, by counting this way, Linux still accounted for %25 of OSes shipped, nearly 2/3 the ammount of NT server. Another feather in the cap of World Domination?
Amen! A cynic speaks and exposes Scott McNealy as just another wannabe monpolist trying to hop on the in bandwagon as a desperate ploy to position Solaris as the "better" free OS. Please. Same cost (dollars), bend over to experience the freedom. Scott McNealy wants to be seen as the visionist that Bill Gates is. That's all. What they don't realize is that, historically, its moot...they're the same, but of different success level. And neither will be relevant thirty years from now. Long live the enthusiasm behind software!!!!!!
This is such a shame....they had great documentation and really could have helped the rest of the world attempt to reign in the power of Redmond. Heck, they even had access to parts of the source code of Win95 (via a hotly contested subpeona). Now, none of Caldera's years of effort (and Novell's before them) will become part of a public court record; no precedent will be set. For that benefit ALONE MS should have coughed up FAR more $$. But if that $30 mil influx of cash announced this morning was a big deal, five times that ammount still sounds pretty good. I guess Noorda doesn't have the staying power he used to..... I was really looking forward to this trial, even more than the DOJ case. C'est la vie.
The uses for professional level CAD extend to all forms of engineering, and into all kinds of related fields. I use AutoCAD nearly full time for an Architecture firm (w/Linux servers). This kind of demand is primarily what makes Autodesk, maker of AutoCAD, the fourth largest software maker in the world (last time I checked), and combined with AutoCAD's $3k price tag, make it the most pirated piece of software (though you'd think Windows would actually be higher...) While I'm excited at the prospect of a GPL CAD program, and I'll definitely be checking it out, I have doubts as to how well it would fit into a production environment. The lack of 3d capability limits its use as a design tool, as well. And with an entrenched market leader like AutoCAD, every company that uses it has an enormous investment in existing data; they can't just toss it. So.dwg file format compatability would be needed, but that's probabaly the most un-open file format there is. What I'm really interested in is the existing professional UNIX CAD programs, particularly MicroStation and Arris (for which the purchaser even gets the source code), and their plans re. Linux. Many people are unhappy with the lack of stability using AutoCAD (which is sometimes the fault of AutoCAD and sometimes Windows), and that combined with Autodesk's spotty user response rate leaves this market vulnerable. Anyway, kudos to QCAD for putting that first foot forward.
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Because projects developed and maintained by committee are of such a high technical quality? I don't think so!
Linus my not coddle the people trying to make money off of Linux, but so what? They have the source, they can fork their own edition if they have some particular need. Try and do THAT with commercial software!
Removing the popular figurehead who also provides cohesiveness, would be the best thing that could possibly happen for those OTHER OS's.
Re. intentional errors, I used to work for someone who would always create some bizarre title for himself when giving his address out. Then when he'd receive junk mail from third parties addressed to Joe Blow, Starship Commander, he'd know who had sold his address. It was always fun to go through the daily junk and see how many things were addressed to Senior Henchman, Admiral, Under-Wizard, etc.
And the decline continues unabated...
Don't mean to troll, but then again, must we be baited so?
Parody is one aspect of Fair Use that can get a fair degree of latitude. Hence editorial cartoons can have copyrighted characters all they want. Games can be similar: I remember quite vividly a Simpsons mod for the original Doom that was downright hilarious. You were Homer, armour was beer (in singles, six-packs, or kegs) and food was donuts (either singly or in boxes. Sounds were clips from the show, all characters were present, and I never could play without laughing. A pretty clear parody. I don't know if this particular mod falls into the parody category, though. Just food for thought.
Publishing can't be illegal in the US...newspaper stories about crime would vanish! Even the anarchists cookbook is a perfectly legal expression of freedom of speech & the press. Outlawing bugtraq is laughable, and will never stand up in court; why don't we arrest the manufacturer of a car used in a getaway for aiding and abetting?
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It seems to me that our national mission of today has become to "continually buy as much stuff as possible." Americans today save a much smaller percentage of their wages than in years past, so no wonder the economy is good; more is being spent. But couple the lack of savings with the unmanageable balloon that the national debt has become, and explain to the world how the United States can possibly avoid a major depression in the next 10-20 years. Do you think that either or both of the following needs to happen in your term? People need to spend less of their income, putting more into savings & investments; the nation needs to substantially reduce the principle on the national debt.
How will you, as President of the only superpower, and one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, accomplish this?
FWIW all Universal artists are due a piece of this by their own logic: they sued mp3.com with the premise that use of mp3.com robbed them of sales/royalties. Damages awarded are compensation for that very theoretical loss. Therefore, because that money represents sales that should have occurred, the artists are entitled to their royalty *per (theoretical) abuse*.
Certainly the visceral nature of Doom is second to none, including my nosalgia for Zork et. al., but the FPS method of presenting the virtual world from the first person point of view, doesn't HAVE to be a shoot 'em up. A story with interesting puzzles and actual thought could still be creating, but using this newer more engaging interface. Think Half-Life. Think Myst, but with real time movement throughout it's world. Anything is still possible, but people are much more drawn into the game when they can see where they're at.
That's it! If this works out we can all sue our local libraries! And with a class-action suit against the Library of Congress, we can finally put down the free flow of information started by that Gutenberg bastard!
I've got a 486-100 acting as a firewall / mail server on a dsl line, doing NAT for ten users. Works like a champ! Tests have shown that a 486 doing NAT and simple ipchains filtering can saturate a T1, so dust the cobwebs off of that 'ol 486 and let 'er rip!
Actually Itanium has slipped from shipping the third quarter THIS year to the fourth quarter, THIS year. McKinley is the one supposedly set to ship in the second half of next year.
Nuthin' like checkin' the facts every now and again.
That's the big question. I'd definitely be interested if I could escape advertisers, but I can't imagine that they'd igonore such a major revenue generator. I didn't catch any indication of which way that wind was blowing in the Wired article....
I'd expand upon this with a bit of semi-dramatic hyperbole: I used to work for an architect who would regularly contend (jokingly) that we (architects) should get royalties for the use of the buildings we design. Think of it! A portion of one's rent/mortgage going to the architect! Now granted, most buildings can't stretch to be considered Art, but many can. And payment is, as a non-performing art, a negotiated sum up front, with no consideration to future revenue based on the success of the design.
As the above poster noted, the art of architects isn't necessarily any the worse for the situation, but note how few buildings are interesting much less artistic. So much squandered potential!
One of the ideas in jeapardy is the get-rich-quick American dream (which is total bs). If an artist taps into that collective unconcious of the mainstream, and hits it BIG, should they then live forever off of that moment? Is this any different than athletes (performing not art but sport...) who demand contracts that allow them to live forever in luxury in the event of injury?
To end my ramble, I'd just say that shit happens and so do changes. Everything changes, and we just do what we can to help it change for the better. The power of the internet is the decentralized nature (until AOL co-opts it all) of access and opinions. Its ALL out there and demand, even as expressed by pure capitalists, is evident in whole new ways that the capitalists have yet to grasp. The RIAA is just one of the first to pucker their sphincters and try denial on for size. When that doesn't work, they'll actually look at how to make money another way.
Performance art vs. non-performance art may yet equalize....
These stats only count units actually shipped. How many places purchase 500 units of distro X Linux? But with NT, you're obligated to do so. So, while the NT Server count represents actual use, we KNOW that the Linux count is only a fraction of actual use. And to prove how well Linux is doing, by counting this way, Linux still accounted for %25 of OSes shipped, nearly 2/3 the ammount of NT server.
Another feather in the cap of World Domination?
Amen! A cynic speaks and exposes Scott McNealy as just another wannabe monpolist trying to hop on the in bandwagon as a desperate ploy to position Solaris as the "better" free OS. Please. Same cost (dollars), bend over to experience the freedom. Scott McNealy wants to be seen as the visionist that Bill Gates is. That's all. What they don't realize is that, historically, its moot...they're the same, but of different success level. And neither will be relevant thirty years from now. Long live the enthusiasm behind software!!!!!!
This is such a shame....they had great documentation and really could have helped the rest of the world attempt to reign in the power of Redmond. Heck, they even had access to parts of the source code of Win95 (via a hotly contested subpeona). Now, none of Caldera's years of effort (and Novell's before them) will become part of a public court record; no precedent will be set. For that benefit ALONE MS should have coughed up FAR more $$.
But if that $30 mil influx of cash announced this morning was a big deal, five times that ammount still sounds pretty good. I guess Noorda doesn't have the staying power he used to.....
I was really looking forward to this trial, even more than the DOJ case.
C'est la vie.
The uses for professional level CAD extend to all forms of engineering, and into all kinds of related fields. I use AutoCAD nearly full time for an Architecture firm (w/Linux servers). This kind of demand is primarily what makes Autodesk, maker of AutoCAD, the fourth largest software maker in the world (last time I checked), and combined with AutoCAD's $3k price tag, make it the most pirated piece of software (though you'd think Windows would actually be higher...) .dwg file format compatability would be needed, but that's probabaly the most un-open file format there is.
While I'm excited at the prospect of a GPL CAD program, and I'll definitely be checking it out, I have doubts as to how well it would fit into a production environment. The lack of 3d capability limits its use as a design tool, as well. And with an entrenched market leader like AutoCAD, every company that uses it has an enormous investment in existing data; they can't just toss it. So
What I'm really interested in is the existing professional UNIX CAD programs, particularly MicroStation and Arris (for which the purchaser even gets the source code), and their plans re. Linux. Many people are unhappy with the lack of stability using AutoCAD (which is sometimes the fault of AutoCAD and sometimes Windows), and that combined with Autodesk's spotty user response rate leaves this market vulnerable.
Anyway, kudos to QCAD for putting that first foot forward.