Now, it seems to me that iFolder equivalents can be created by just combining existing standard tools. The dependency on mono is certainly no good sign and could be a security risk.
ok. ok. ok.
But what if these report will increase the likelihood.
Intel-Macs
XP-Macs
Everything is possible.
I would prefer Apple to invest into WINE so that you will be able to run Windows applications on Macs. It is just a matter of time and money.
They set the promise to support windows applications. Everybody was sceptical. And? What did they do to support Wine? Oh, they sponsored the wineConf, how nice.
Linspire broke the promise. It is not impossible to make WINE more usable, in fact it is just a matter of money. They promised their customers to support Windows applications and then went away, they did not catch up with the expectations they raised.
How can you trust a company that broke a promise of its core business model. A promise which can get fulfilled. Nobody requested Linspire to set the committment, they did it themselves.
I don't understand why Linspire does not support - say DirectX or Comdlg - development of Wine. They promised it to us, they broke their promise. A simple matter of fact. Many distribution which never came up with such promises, supported Wine or shipped Crossover with their distribution.
Enough. Now Linspire is just another debian distribution. Nice that they use KDE. But why Linspire when there are Kubuntu or OpenSuse? Why trust Linspire when there are more credible businesses. What could you expect from a company which broke its committments: Something like, 'we said we will support our distribution 2 years, but uhhmm that was our previous business model. We offer you an upgrade for 120$.' No thanks.
Microsoft has another connection to the Abramoff scandal. Microsoft e.g. supports IPI, a right wing republican organisation which is involved in the Abramoff scandal - in fact its lobbyist Giovanetti openly had to admit it when his organisation was accused.
Microsoft paid DCI's TechCentralStation journo-lobbying. TCS funds political radicals all over the world, spreads anarcho-capitalist ideas and insults France, Muslims, alledged socialists etc. The idea behind DCI is to inject radical views supporting their corporate sponsors into right wing sectarians and barraters.
My personal advice: when you hire the... of US-lobbying and sent it all over the world, you'd better stop complaining about unfair reporting.
MS did not have luck before. Here at Germany Microsoft was involved in the Hunzinger scandal which forced a minister of defense, Mr. Scharping, to step down. Hunzinger's main corporate customer was Microsoft. I think it started when Hunzinger letters about a TV placement for Ms were leaked to the press and media professionals started to discuss the case. So Ms was involved in one of the few German lobbying scandals which had serious business consequences for Hunzinger. Microsoft quickly switched over to another lobbying firm but could not avoid bad press. This is a risk of MS lobbying: They burn lobbyists, they also burned Hunzinger, because smart people watch what MS does.
Having internet domains is just an adresss for a machine.
What really counts is language diversity. It it a disadvantage when you are unable to read foreign languages and language diversity benefits those who are able to take part in different discourses.
As a German I often know more than English-only authors as I am able to read English and German and some French and I mostly read German online media which is in general richer and better than english It media. No english IT media beats Golem and Heise. so I get an advantage as I am able to read both and an english only author is able to read only english content.
I am currently using IE7 beta 2 which renders very fast. I do not like the new user interface, reminds me of MSN explorer. Scrolling is not very smooth.
If you had any questions regarding IE7 I recommend you to install the beta. It is free, so why not try it.
If I filed a usenet posting in 1996 I never expected it to be searchable via google in 2006. The stupid real name policy of the usenet today fires back.
With Google we watch communication on usenet. Well. But if a writer does not want his postings to get published then google should respect his privacy rights and remove the content from archives.
Google transparency over usenet means totalitarian surveillance.
Oh, I expected another article about software patents:-) You know the EU is currently pushing for the Community patent.
But here it's cancer or more explicit death. A student I knew suffered liver cancer and did not write a testament. He died three yrs ago. So his property went to the Government and his friend (he was homosexual) had to move out of his flat.
The advice the adeveloper gives to us is very intresting and should apply to all of us. Truck numbers of projects have to be kept low (A truck number is the number of people that can be hit by a truck without the project collapsing).
The truth is that we will die. Make sure people will not find it hard to hack your code or your code will die too. Intrestingly the gplv3 includes a death provision but it is for software patents.
"although individual applications sometimes crash, like Outlook, my desktop, Windows XP Pro, hasn't blue screened in a long time!"
Your Desktop? It is about servers. Is outlook or a desktop run on servers. Most likely not.
The solution for the software patent mess is not "prior art" or "inventive step". These are red herrings of the debate. It is better to follow the Adelphi Charter.
3. The public interest requires a balance between the public domain and private rights. It also requires a balance between the free competition that is essential for economic vitality and the monopoly rights granted by intellectual property laws. 4. Intellectual property protection must not be extended to abstract ideas, facts or data. 5. Patents must not be extended over mathematical models, scientific theories, computer code, methods for teaching, business... * Change must be allowed only if a rigorous analysis clearly demonstrates that it will promote people's basic rights and economic well-being.
For US citizens it important to get organised. FFII has an USA mailing list. Perhaps it might serve as a breeding ground for a US campaign which becomes equivalent to the EU campaign effort. Americans are perfect communicators in the field of software patents but lack anti-swpat organisation.
Currently the rest of the world suffers from the American unability to get anti-Software Patent interests organised.
Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming?' Graf said. 'Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.'"
Nonsense! Most Enterprises do RUN immature software and are conservative.
Btw: Everyone runs immature software.
There will be no open source "consolidation". Open Source will survive.
In fact open sourcing is a guarantee for software to survive. Look at software like BaaN. It was not open sourced, so it will not survive on the long run. It is dead as Cobol. When your company runs the second product on the marketplace, open sourcing will make it sustainable.
Wilful exploitation of developers and Apple donates cynical gifts. I mean, think about what a real manhour of a software specialist costs Apple. And not enough: Apple's peanuts are additionally slashdotted.
Intresting truth is also that Reporters without Borders received a Sakharov prize for Freedom of Speech by the European Parliament just after the European Parliament voted in favour of data retention laws. And Reporters without Borders had no position, and voiced no protests at all.
Information rights activists felt scared about Reporter sans Frontier. They knew the battle was lost but RWB had a strong position as they were to receive the prize. And RWB of course praised the EU Parliament when they took their prize.
Isn't that also a case of self-censorship or just ignorance?
It is a matter of power. Get organised, build up a strong US movement against software patents and they will be history soon.
Note that we strongly need a Us campaign against Software Patents as the USPTO tries to export its crappy regulation to other parts of the world, see trade agreements with the Americas, see the swpat in india, australia etc.
I think Gates had a case in the document. He advocated a licesing model against what is today commonly known as 'software piracy'. Nothing wrong about that.
What is of greater concern for me is that Gates/MS supported unsound lobbyists like DCI / TechCentralStation which advocate radical views on Intellectual Property and insult people, including EU muslims.
And he supported a bunch of other lobbyists in favour of software patenting in the EU although Gates must know it better. He has a right to write and sell his code, but he has no right to deprieve other developers from doing the same.
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Now, it seems to me that iFolder equivalents can be created by just combining existing standard tools. The dependency on mono is certainly no good sign and could be a security risk.
Why do we need ifolder when a usual file server, even a good old ftp server, does all this.
How is command line access supported by iFolder?
ok. ok. ok. But what if these report will increase the likelihood. Intel-Macs XP-Macs Everything is possible. I would prefer Apple to invest into WINE so that you will be able to run Windows applications on Macs. It is just a matter of time and money.
They set the promise to support windows applications. Everybody was sceptical. And? What did they do to support Wine? Oh, they sponsored the wineConf, how nice.
Linspire broke the promise. It is not impossible to make WINE more usable, in fact it is just a matter of money. They promised their customers to support Windows applications and then went away, they did not catch up with the expectations they raised.
How can you trust a company that broke a promise of its core business model. A promise which can get fulfilled. Nobody requested Linspire to set the committment, they did it themselves.
I don't understand why Linspire does not support - say DirectX or Comdlg - development of Wine. They promised it to us, they broke their promise. A simple matter of fact. Many distribution which never came up with such promises, supported Wine or shipped Crossover with their distribution.
Enough. Now Linspire is just another debian distribution. Nice that they use KDE. But why Linspire when there are Kubuntu or OpenSuse? Why trust Linspire when there are more credible businesses. What could you expect from a company which broke its committments: Something like, 'we said we will support our distribution 2 years, but uhhmm that was our previous business model. We offer you an upgrade for 120$.' No thanks.
Microsoft has another connection to the Abramoff scandal. Microsoft e.g. supports IPI, a right wing republican organisation which is involved in the Abramoff scandal - in fact its lobbyist Giovanetti openly had to admit it when his organisation was accused.
... of US-lobbying and sent it all over the world, you'd better stop complaining about unfair reporting.
...
IPI represents MS interests at WIPO (euphemism for insults against NGOs), recently wanted to join the MS-EU antitrust case. This was rejected by the EU court of Justice for good reasons. See curia.eu.int
Further MS pays ACT, an SME association astroturf with the well-known lobbyist Jonathan Zuck. Close relations to DCI + ATL. I remind you of dead people letter campaigns of ATL... Guess for what company ATL did it?
Microsoft paid DCI's TechCentralStation journo-lobbying. TCS funds political radicals all over the world, spreads anarcho-capitalist ideas and insults France, Muslims, alledged socialists etc. The idea behind DCI is to inject radical views supporting their corporate sponsors into right wing sectarians and barraters.
My personal advice: when you hire the
MS did not have luck before. Here at Germany Microsoft was involved in the Hunzinger scandal which forced a minister of defense, Mr. Scharping, to step down. Hunzinger's main corporate customer was Microsoft. I think it started when Hunzinger letters about a TV placement for Ms were leaked to the press and media professionals started to discuss the case. So Ms was involved in one of the few German lobbying scandals which had serious business consequences for Hunzinger. Microsoft quickly switched over to another lobbying firm but could not avoid bad press. This is a risk of MS lobbying: They burn lobbyists, they also burned Hunzinger, because smart people watch what MS does.
Last year a press worker for Microsoft Denmark, Marianne Wier, communicated to the Danish press (Borsen) a blackmail attempt of Mr. Gates himself, directed towards the Danish government. They were so sure of themselves that they even communicated it intentionally to the press. The scandal was echoed in the DK Parliament.
first of all:
Having internet domains is just an adresss for a machine.
What really counts is language diversity. It it a disadvantage when you are unable to read foreign languages and language diversity benefits those who are able to take part in different discourses.
As a German I often know more than English-only authors as I am able to read English and German and some French and I mostly read German online media which is in general richer and better than english It media. No english IT media beats Golem and Heise. so I get an advantage as I am able to read both and an english only author is able to read only english content.
I am currently using IE7 beta 2 which renders very fast. I do not like the new user interface, reminds me of MSN explorer. Scrolling is not very smooth.
If you had any questions regarding IE7 I recommend you to install the beta. It is free, so why not try it.
If I filed a usenet posting in 1996 I never expected it to be searchable via google in 2006. The stupid real name policy of the usenet today fires back.
With Google we watch communication on usenet. Well. But if a writer does not want his postings to get published then google should respect his privacy rights and remove the content from archives.
Google transparency over usenet means totalitarian surveillance.
Obviousness is a red herring.
A technical requirement is needed but the USPTO refuses to adopt one.
http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/us-parl
Oh, I expected another article about software patents :-) You know the EU is currently pushing for the Community patent.
But here it's cancer or more explicit death. A student I knew suffered liver cancer and did not write a testament. He died three yrs ago. So his property went to the Government and his friend (he was homosexual) had to move out of his flat.
The advice the adeveloper gives to us is very intresting and should apply to all of us. Truck numbers of projects have to be kept low (A truck number is the number of people that can be hit by a truck without the project collapsing).
The truth is that we will die. Make sure people will not find it hard to hack your code or your code will die too. Intrestingly the gplv3 includes a death provision but it is for software patents.
I would add: Procedural languages are good for beginners. why not freepascal? Pascal makes you write clean code. For learning Oop I suggest Smalltalk.
"although individual applications sometimes crash, like Outlook, my desktop, Windows XP Pro, hasn't blue screened in a long time!" Your Desktop? It is about servers. Is outlook or a desktop run on servers. Most likely not.
letter to politicians?
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What about this
* http://ac.european-patent-office.org/pct_consulta
* http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/notices/
* http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/inve
For US citizens it important to get organised. FFII has an USA mailing list. Perhaps it might serve as a breeding ground for a US campaign which becomes equivalent to the EU campaign effort. Americans are perfect communicators in the field of software patents but lack anti-swpat organisation.
Currently the rest of the world suffers from the American unability to get anti-Software Patent interests organised.
There is a way and it is called OLSR. Wireless networks.
See also Freifunk.net, a wireless network pioneer group from Berlin.
Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming?' Graf said. 'Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.'"
Nonsense! Most Enterprises do RUN immature software and are conservative.
Btw: Everyone runs immature software.
There will be no open source "consolidation". Open Source will survive.
In fact open sourcing is a guarantee for software to survive. Look at software like BaaN. It was not open sourced, so it will not survive on the long run. It is dead as Cobol. When your company runs the second product on the marketplace, open sourcing will make it sustainable.
Probably the FTC has no authority wizth respect to criminal law but of course they could install reporting systems.
I would rather call it manipulation of lead developers. Apple spents very little money and uses top developers as a advertisement plattform.
Wilful exploitation of developers and Apple donates cynical gifts. I mean, think about what a real manhour of a software specialist costs Apple. And not enough: Apple's peanuts are additionally slashdotted.
I wonder what competition authorities will say. Yet another antitrust suit?
Intresting truth is also that Reporters without Borders received a Sakharov prize for Freedom of Speech by the European Parliament just after the European Parliament voted in favour of data retention laws. And Reporters without Borders had no position, and voiced no protests at all.
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Information rights activists felt scared about Reporter sans Frontier. They knew the battle was lost but RWB had a strong position as they were to receive the prize. And RWB of course praised the EU Parliament when they took their prize.
Isn't that also a case of self-censorship or just ignorance?
http://www.europarl.eu.int/news/expert/event_by_d
1.30-11.50am Votes: Data retention - Alexander Nuno ALVARO (ALDE, DE)
12 noon - 1pm Award of the 2005 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Damas de Blanco (Cuba)
Hauwa IBRAHIM (Nigeria)
Reporters without Borders
It is a matter of power. Get organised, build up a strong US movement against software patents and they will be history soon.
Note that we strongly need a Us campaign against Software Patents as the USPTO tries to export its crappy regulation to other parts of the world, see trade agreements with the Americas, see the swpat in india, australia etc.
http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/us-parl
I think Gates had a case in the document. He advocated a licesing model against what is today commonly known as 'software piracy'. Nothing wrong about that.
What is of greater concern for me is that Gates/MS supported unsound lobbyists like DCI / TechCentralStation which advocate radical views on Intellectual Property and insult people, including EU muslims.
And he supported a bunch of other lobbyists in favour of software patenting in the EU although Gates must know it better. He has a right to write and sell his code, but he has no right to deprieve other developers from doing the same.
The question is whether it would be easier to fix broken law than to reaudit the code. Reactos has to be present on both fronts.
We have several problems:
a) lack of money for lobbying (e.g. no US anti-swpat campaign)
b) lack of experience
c) IT generation gap
More involvement is needed, sure. And don't pay the US congress Internet Caucus or Europarl's European Internet Foundation but sound people.