Microsoft has already stated that they've stopped updating their Outlook Express software. It wouldn't make sense to classify it as "next-generation" when it's not going to have one.
I'd like to see how much of that fortune he has left after he gets fined millions by the Federal Trade Commission following the final outcome of these lawsuits.
That piece right there. There's nothing that would prevent SCO from legally distributing any other piece of GPLed software if they arbitrarily decided to comply with its license and provide the source, for some reason. They have no right to distribute the software they're currently distributing, but it's not as if they're never going to be allowed to touch GPL software ever again.
I'm not trying to make SCO look like anything but the arrogant penis wrinkles they are, but I'm nitpicky.;)
As far as I understand it, the "SCO cannot distribute" clause in the nmap licence does nothing since SCO is technically already banned from distributing GPL'd software by their breaches of (several hundred) GPL licences.
I'm not sure I understand how they can be "banned" from distributing GPLed software when GPLed software is not controlled by a centralized entity but instead given an identical license by every project that decides to use it. I think you're confused.
its patched to block their bullshit site. Besides, if verislime gets sitefinder back up, i am sure the script kiddies will GLEEFULLY dos the hell out of that bitch. (hint hint)
DDoSing them would be illegal, and wouldn't lend any credibility to the effort. It would be much better in the long run to archive aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com through zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.com every fifteen minutes, to be preserved for future generations.
"Some asshole" is perfectly capable of selling you your own code under the GPL, he just has to make the source available. What do you think commercial Linux distributions do?
While we're randomly throwing around Googled websites to get to the bottom of this quote issue, how about this one?
"Then along comes Norbert Guterman to claim that what Voltaire _did_ write in a letter of February [6,] 1770 to a M. Le Riche was: 'Monsieur l'Abbe, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.' So, whether or not he used the precise words, at least Voltaire believed in the principle behind them."
I'm not arguing with you in this regard -- I am a very strong advocate of Qt due to its extreme ease of development, sensibility, API stability and speed on Linux/*BSD/Whatever, and its clear superiority to MFC/WTL on Windows -- I happen to believe that GUI design is inherently object-oriented, and the mechanism used by Qt is much more sensible than the procedural-language-imitating-OO-with-liberal-uses -of-structs preferred by GTK+ and the Windows API. However, I was simply rebutting the claims of the post to which I replied, which somehow implied that Qt/KDE is somehow easier to develop for than Gnome because of its language bindings.;)
Not to sound like a troll, but this is a very weak area compared to the Gnome/GTK+ bindings to languages as infrequently-used and obscure as ML, OCAML and Haskell.
KDE needs to improve here, and C++ needs a standardized ABI first. The ease of binding other languages to C is what gives GNOME a huge leap in this regard, and not much else.
Just name all of your variables in Hungarian notation like Microsoft. No one will have any idea what the fuck is going on even if your entire source code leaks.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree -- it's just that the context of the article purported this new solution as a be-all-end-all spam problem solver, which just doesn't seem to be the case. Already we're seeing trojans opening people's computers as spam relays, I'm just wondering how long it takes before they just start spoofing the infected's source address as well.
Won't this just inspire more spammers to pursue virus, trojan and spyware-oriented methods of spamming? Granted, this is significantly more difficult than just harvesting email addresses off of Usenet and web pages, but it seems like we're only one step ahead at any given time with our methods of spam prevention.
I forgot to say,the reason I ask is because I looked at WineHQ's supported applications list [winehq.org] and there are only 9 apps listed as working properly?
This is not the compatibility list, this is the *officially* supported applications list. If an application on this list does not work properly, you are encouraged to piss and moan about it. It does not mean nothing else works. Many applications all the way up to Photoshop and Flash MX work pretty well under recent releases, and many OpenGL games, especially Quake 3 engine games such as Jedi Knight II, also run quite well.
Yes, APT is a great piece of the puzzle, but it doesn't solve everything - for example, in Fedora, there was a package checked in for Bittorrent-GUI, which required a package wxPython, which exists NOWHERE on the 'Net. Smooth.
That's good, because they don't want you to. FreeBSD 5.2 is production-ready, but it's not "stable" yet, which is why this is 5.2-RELEASE instead of 5.2-STABLE. They seem to be aiming for STABLE with 5.3, but there's not much incentive for someone like you to switch just yet.
Whaaaa? KWord supports.doc better than AbiWord has, in my experience, though I'm not sure if this support is new to recent (KDE 3.2) builds of KOffice.
Do these people really think that this is going to have a substantial impact upon the overall fitness level of gamers everywhere? It's not. You want to lose some weight? You stop eating like a fatass and you go outside. We're not even talking Atkins diet here, just "stop eating when you're not hungry, not when you're full." This combined with half an hour of exercise a day is all you need. Mild muscular tension is not an appropriate method of weight loss.
These criteria really shouldn't concern themselves with the amount of advisories, and instead should focus with the damage caused by worms and virii taking advantage of these security holes. 2003 brought us Slammer/Sapphire, which brought down South Korea's entire Internet infrastructure for days and did serious damage everywhere else, and the various RPC worms. You can't put a Windows machine on a broadband connection long enough to even download the RPC patch without getting infected on most ISPs unless your ISP blocks port 135, like most are beginning to.
I think this was pretty damn poor compared to a few years ago.
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Microsoft has already stated that they've stopped updating their Outlook Express software. It wouldn't make sense to classify it as "next-generation" when it's not going to have one.
I'd like to see how much of that fortune he has left after he gets fined millions by the Federal Trade Commission following the final outcome of these lawsuits.
That piece right there. There's nothing that would prevent SCO from legally distributing any other piece of GPLed software if they arbitrarily decided to comply with its license and provide the source, for some reason. They have no right to distribute the software they're currently distributing, but it's not as if they're never going to be allowed to touch GPL software ever again.
I'm not trying to make SCO look like anything but the arrogant penis wrinkles they are, but I'm nitpicky.
Get working first, optimize later.
I'm not sure I understand how they can be "banned" from distributing GPLed software when GPLed software is not controlled by a centralized entity but instead given an identical license by every project that decides to use it. I think you're confused.
"Some asshole" is perfectly capable of selling you your own code under the GPL, he just has to make the source available. What do you think commercial Linux distributions do?
I'm not arguing with you in this regard -- I am a very strong advocate of Qt due to its extreme ease of development, sensibility, API stability and speed on Linux/*BSD/Whatever, and its clear superiority to MFC/WTL on Windows -- I happen to believe that GUI design is inherently object-oriented, and the mechanism used by Qt is much more sensible than the procedural-language-imitating-OO-with-liberal-uses -of-structs preferred by GTK+ and the Windows API. However, I was simply rebutting the claims of the post to which I replied, which somehow implied that Qt/KDE is somehow easier to develop for than Gnome because of its language bindings. ;)
Not to sound like a troll, but this is a very weak area compared to the Gnome/GTK+ bindings to languages as infrequently-used and obscure as ML, OCAML and Haskell.
Here's a list of GTK's bindings:
http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html
KDE needs to improve here, and C++ needs a standardized ABI first. The ease of binding other languages to C is what gives GNOME a huge leap in this regard, and not much else.
Just name all of your variables in Hungarian notation like Microsoft. No one will have any idea what the fuck is going on even if your entire source code leaks.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree -- it's just that the context of the article purported this new solution as a be-all-end-all spam problem solver, which just doesn't seem to be the case. Already we're seeing trojans opening people's computers as spam relays, I'm just wondering how long it takes before they just start spoofing the infected's source address as well.
Won't this just inspire more spammers to pursue virus, trojan and spyware-oriented methods of spamming? Granted, this is significantly more difficult than just harvesting email addresses off of Usenet and web pages, but it seems like we're only one step ahead at any given time with our methods of spam prevention.
This is not the compatibility list, this is the *officially* supported applications list. If an application on this list does not work properly, you are encouraged to piss and moan about it. It does not mean nothing else works. Many applications all the way up to Photoshop and Flash MX work pretty well under recent releases, and many OpenGL games, especially Quake 3 engine games such as Jedi Knight II, also run quite well.
Erm, what?
Killer Instinct was produced by Rareware (now simply Rare), a development studio now owned by Microsoft. :o
"Since you can't make money with Linux because it's free, maybe that's the new monetization system."
Zuh?
This was already covered some time ago.
That's good, because they don't want you to. FreeBSD 5.2 is production-ready, but it's not "stable" yet, which is why this is 5.2-RELEASE instead of 5.2-STABLE. They seem to be aiming for STABLE with 5.3, but there's not much incentive for someone like you to switch just yet.
Binary packages are readily available from any of the package sources. It's as simple as typing
pkg_add -r kde
and you're ready to go.
RTFA, it discusses the NEOnet technology.
Whaaaa? KWord supports .doc better than AbiWord has, in my experience, though I'm not sure if this support is new to recent (KDE 3.2) builds of KOffice.
Do these people really think that this is going to have a substantial impact upon the overall fitness level of gamers everywhere? It's not. You want to lose some weight? You stop eating like a fatass and you go outside. We're not even talking Atkins diet here, just "stop eating when you're not hungry, not when you're full." This combined with half an hour of exercise a day is all you need. Mild muscular tension is not an appropriate method of weight loss.
Why all the gimmickry?
These criteria really shouldn't concern themselves with the amount of advisories, and instead should focus with the damage caused by worms and virii taking advantage of these security holes. 2003 brought us Slammer/Sapphire, which brought down South Korea's entire Internet infrastructure for days and did serious damage everywhere else, and the various RPC worms. You can't put a Windows machine on a broadband connection long enough to even download the RPC patch without getting infected on most ISPs unless your ISP blocks port 135, like most are beginning to.
I think this was pretty damn poor compared to a few years ago.
Since IBM's yearly revenues teeter around 80 billion, last I checked, I think they might just have a few pennies burning a hole in their pocket.