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  1. Re:Right tool for the job on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1

    "...his beta version of Abiword crashes..."

    For some reason I think he uses EMACS.

    "A person is not free to utilize GPL code in his/her proprietary project..."

    Please, what has a proprietary project to do with freedom of society, you understand that individual freedom is not possible without a free society?

  2. Re:What a quote... on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1

    Who is Linus to decide what's the best OS?

  3. Re:Right tool for the job on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1

    "he's rational enought to know that one should always use the right tool for the job"

    You know that the whole Free Software thing started because closed source printer drivers weren't the right tool for the right job? Or have you been sleeping in your GNU/Linux history classes?

  4. Re:i don't quite follow... on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1

    Either way you can't compile your kernel ypurself.

  5. OpenBSD confirms on More on OpenBSD Funding Saga · · Score: 1

    Common sense in the USA is dying.

  6. Re:EULA on Catching up with Wine · · Score: 1

    Yes 3 of those L's use copyright law as an enforcement. It is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which.

  7. Re:This doesn't automatically mean higher performa on Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL · · Score: 1

    Why don't you get a Matrox then?

  8. Re:What I'd like... on Java for the Gameboy Advance · · Score: 2, Informative

    GBA Frotz, seems to have a rather nice keyboard emulation too.

  9. Re:This is not 1990! on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mouse geastures, big deal... Opera ripped of the ability to display HTML from Mosaic.

  10. Re:Blocking the banner ads on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    And you're stealing if you don't but the products and services displayed.

  11. Re:What the research says on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    So how does it explain that I am NOT violent again?

  12. Re:Hypocritical on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    Just bun the sun and be done with people looking where they shouldn't.

  13. Re:By the teens on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    Not just parents. I have been tought in school that I should resort on violence, maybe I realy should?

  14. Re:If parents..... on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    So imaginarie violence is bad. But real violence on the kids is good? Whatever...

  15. Re:Quoting the Simpsons..... on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    But how do you run aspell on a text box in Galeon?

  16. Re:Quoting the Simpsons..... on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    Then Slashdot needs a "Spalling" button.

  17. Re:Video games for the blind on Braille PDA/Phone · · Score: 1

    You know, I've this idea where bloks of for squares are falling... What, you mean for the blind not the deaf? Can't you decide? Well in that case I have Nethack and Ineractive Fiction for you.

  18. Re:Break on Windows Media for Embedded Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    Linux: For those who love GNU.

  19. Re:well, I'm in the USA on Deus Ex Writer Discusses 'Dangerous Technology' · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. The EU doesn't has a death penalty and still less crime.

  20. Re:no point on Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met... · · Score: 1

    java -gamelons

  21. Re:I'd rather... on Legacy-Free PCs · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at WinNT source? You seem very sure...

  22. Re:Discretionary licensing on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 1

    Linux/Unix/Mac zealots

    Why is it that every non MS usr that stands by their choice is a zealot? There are far more MS zealots than on all these platforms together.

  23. Re:not very objective... on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    Context-sensitive help is over a decade old -- I have written a lot of it for Windows -- but doesn't appear to have taken hold in Linux.

    Is that the "this is a checkbox" type of help when I'm trying to make sense of some preferences?

  24. Re:Linux is not as consistent as DOS. on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    --help is the standart of GNU programs, use GNU/Linux!

  25. Re:Newbie? I'd call her an expert! on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    On Win98 I had to enter the hardware list and to select reinstall on Epson USB something to get an Epson USB printer working, so much for easy.