I think the only think that wasn't helpful in the run for the desktop were the various desktop initiatives: wasted money. Put 30 million in Wine, switch RedHat to KDE, help to improve various tools like Hbasic and we will enter the destop soon.
RedHat confirms SCO's baseless claims and FUD by these actions. Sco's anticompetitive behaviour and potential capital market fraud shall rather be subject of criminal investigation.
No FLOSS - organisation had done more for Open Source Lobbying in 2003. They smashed the EU software patent legislation while the OSI kept silent, OSI even announced they were not opposed to software patentability: "The Open Source Initiative does not have a position on whether ideas can be owned, whether patents are good or bad, or any of the related controversies. We think the economic self-interest arguments for open source are strong enough that nobody needs to go on any moral crusades about it." So who works against us?
In Germany SCO was centenced by Munich court because of anti-competitive claims. So they may not sell their licenses and in fact nobody will buy them. It is more likely that a criminal investigation will be started as soon as SCO tries to sell licenses of no value. The same could happen in the UK.
I think our legal system works and we are able to defend against inappropriate behaviour.
I was able to run qbasic inside of dosbox and loaded gorilla.bas.
Ausgerechnet Bananen...
Everything that worked on your 386 - 25 will work in dosbox as well. however text based applications are still mysterious.
You can buy option papers in order to benefit from sinking stock prices. I don't know whether they are called call or put options, ask your financial adviser.
the Sco example smells like criminal investigation and financial fraud. It's a shame for the US stock market and it shows that the financial markte (in the short term) may be imperfect. Strong competition law is needed for the US market, drum for FTC support.
The lawyers ruin the reputation of the United States as a center of software development and legal stability:
- DMCA - Software patent (an institutional takeover) - FUD against Linux - problems of accounting: US GAAP,; perhaps International Accounting standards are an option - anti-terror legislation - disrespect for international law and institutions (Int. court of justice, Guantanamo, Iraq war ecc.)
Add the problems with the power supply system..., death penalty
I don't hope that the US software industry will be on the decline, I just say that the conditions for competition on this large market could be better to attract me as a foreigner to invest or work in your national market.
"Unlike Gnome, this diverts some of their talent, focus, and resources into gaining revenue from controlling people's copying behavior rather than thru more efficient services and support, or business models more accountable to the free (as in freedom) software paradigm."
Ho?
1) KDE Libs are gpl, based on freeqt 1)b)freeQt is gpl 2) Qt != KDE 3) Gtk is lgpl
add 2) Take hbasic(hbasic.sf.net) as an example, a qt app for Linux, not a KDE app. Although KDe libs are based on qt.
add 3) that's why we see this awful license variety in the Gnome world.
1b) Commercial apps for KDE are based on qt. Commercial non-gpl software can be produced under what license you want and you have to pay for the qt toolkit. Such as you have to buy Visual C++. Despite ximian's propaganda this is no reason that prohibits companies to contribute, but an incentive for individual developers to license as gpl.
I would rather suggest that SCO might be subject of criminal investitagtion. Financial fraud is criminal. Sco almot infringed every possible business rule. Spreading wrong news about "claims" is anti-competitive and sending FUD letters to customers is dirty policy.
so it depends on the strength of US law and jurisdiction what SCO and its CEO fill face.
Everybody knows that they are nuts, except the capital market and mainstream journalists. I don't see any reason to worry.
-- Now Saddam could tell where his WMD are hidden:-)
I wonder wether the UK could be both monarchy and democracy. A non-elected head of state and persons could be knighted (when they are from the Commonwealth). I remind you what Jesus said about it in Matthew 23:
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
[..]
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
I think this may be a legend. I Germany there was research about bird populations and wind farms. In the 80th it was suspected that it had effects on bird death, that rotors may kill birds. However this assumption was falsified by empirical evidence.
I don't know a commercial software written in gtk. however in the GTK world due to LGPL (FSF says don't use it) license there is so much variety of licenses.
KDE is based on freeqt which is free for gpl apps. this works as an incentive scheme in favour of gpl licenses.
And there are quite a lot companys that use qt, as qt has a non-Linux market as well.
Why shall Trolltech's employees provide their work for free exploitation? Closed source software writers have to pay for the toolkit, nothing wrong with this.
Oh, Mosfet had a different opinion about RedHat. Many developers were very angry about RedHat that never supported KDE properly.
Bero left RedHat because of their cripple KDe policy.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=1032946 57 505181&w=2 "Hi, Effective immediately, I've left Red Hat (mostly in mutual agreement - I don't want to work on crippling KDE, and they don't want an employee who admits RH 8.0's KDE is crippleware). If anyone needs/wants to contact me, please use the addresses bero@berolinux.org or bero@kde.org.
For any RH specific KDE issues, please contact Than Ngo."
In my personal opinion KDE is the superiour environment for the desktop and the best environment for the future of FLOSS as it is based gpled FreeQT. However gtk bindings will be provided.
I don't think there has to be competition between desktop environments. The user decides, not SUN, not a zelotish brazilian company.
I believe it was a mistake of RedHat to ship only crippled versions of KDE and use this ugly Bluecurve theme. That's probably why Linux never got a real grip on the desktop on markets which are dominated by RedHat.
Soon Kde 3.2 will be released... Run it on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, what you like... or run Gnome. It's your decision.
Whether someone "steals" GPL or closed software makes no difference as you can't make money out of closed source programs.
By the way: Farsi is not only used by Iranian in Iran but also the native language of exiled Iranians. The second language of Iranians is usually french.
FLOSS = Free and Libre Open Source Software.
http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml
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I think the only think that wasn't helpful in the run for the desktop were the various desktop initiatives: wasted money. Put 30 million in Wine, switch RedHat to KDE, help to improve various tools like Hbasic and we will enter the destop soon.
RedHat confirms SCO's baseless claims and FUD by these actions. Sco's anticompetitive behaviour and potential capital market fraud shall rather be subject of criminal investigation.
FFII might get my merit award.
No FLOSS - organisation had done more for Open Source Lobbying in 2003. They smashed the EU software patent legislation while the OSI kept silent, OSI even announced they were not opposed to software patentability: "The Open Source Initiative does not have a position on whether ideas can be owned, whether patents are good or bad, or any of the related controversies. We think the economic self-interest arguments for open source are strong enough that nobody needs to go on any moral crusades about it."
So who works against us?
In Germany SCO was centenced by Munich court because of anti-competitive claims. So they may not sell their licenses and in fact nobody will buy them. It is more likely that a criminal investigation will be started as soon as SCO tries to sell licenses of no value. The same could happen in the UK.
I think our legal system works and we are able to defend against inappropriate behaviour.
I was able to run qbasic inside of dosbox and loaded gorilla.bas. Ausgerechnet Bananen... Everything that worked on your 386 - 25 will work in dosbox as well. however text based applications are still mysterious.
I prefer the way Kdevelop chose: You can configure your user interface to whatever you like. Unfortunately gtk does not provide this functionality.
It was always said that gimp 2 will offen gui abstraction. We will wait and see.
I am still waiting for a proper KDE integration of Gimp or an alzternative. I also hope that 2.0 will be "stable" when it is got the status "stable".
You can buy option papers in order to benefit from sinking stock prices. I don't know whether they are called call or put options, ask your financial adviser.
the Sco example smells like criminal investigation and financial fraud. It's a shame for the US stock market and it shows that the financial markte (in the short term) may be imperfect. Strong competition law is needed for the US market, drum for FTC support.
The lawyers ruin the reputation of the United States as a center of software development and legal stability:
- DMCA
- Software patent (an institutional takeover)
- FUD against Linux
- problems of accounting: US GAAP,; perhaps International Accounting standards are an option
- anti-terror legislation
- disrespect for international law and institutions (Int. court of justice, Guantanamo, Iraq war ecc.)
Add the problems with the power supply system..., death penalty
I don't hope that the US software industry will be on the decline, I just say that the conditions for competition on this large market could be better to attract me as a foreigner to invest or work in your national market.
"Unlike Gnome, this diverts some of their talent, focus, and resources into gaining revenue from controlling people's copying behavior rather than thru more efficient services and support, or business models more accountable to the free (as in freedom) software paradigm."
Ho?
1) KDE Libs are gpl, based on freeqt
1)b)freeQt is gpl
2) Qt != KDE
3) Gtk is lgpl
add 2) Take hbasic(hbasic.sf.net) as an example, a qt app for Linux, not a KDE app. Although KDe libs are based on qt.
add 3) that's why we see this awful license variety in the Gnome world.
1b) Commercial apps for KDE are based on qt. Commercial non-gpl software can be produced under what license you want and you have to pay for the qt toolkit. Such as you have to buy Visual C++. Despite ximian's propaganda this is no reason that prohibits companies to contribute, but an incentive for individual developers to license as gpl.
I would rather suggest that SCO might be subject of criminal investitagtion. Financial fraud is criminal. Sco almot infringed every possible business rule. Spreading wrong news about "claims" is anti-competitive and sending FUD letters to customers is dirty policy.
:-)
so it depends on the strength of US law and jurisdiction what SCO and its CEO fill face.
Everybody knows that they are nuts, except the capital market and mainstream journalists. I don't see any reason to worry.
-- Now Saddam could tell where his WMD are hidden
I wonder wether the UK could be both monarchy and democracy. A non-elected head of state and persons could be knighted (when they are from the Commonwealth). I remind you what Jesus said about it in Matthew 23:
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
[..]
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
I think this may be a legend. I Germany there was research about bird populations and wind farms. In the 80th it was suspected that it had effects on bird death, that rotors may kill birds. However this assumption was falsified by empirical evidence.
I don't know a commercial software written in gtk. however in the GTK world due to LGPL (FSF says don't use it) license there is so much variety of licenses.
KDE is based on freeqt which is free for gpl apps. this works as an incentive scheme in favour of gpl licenses.
And there are quite a lot companys that use qt, as qt has a non-Linux market as well.
Why shall Trolltech's employees provide their work for free exploitation? Closed source software writers have to pay for the toolkit, nothing wrong with this.
http://www.slat.org/event/redhat-flag-en They removed the Taiwanese flag from KDE to please the Chinese Government. Isn't that opportunism?
They were not the only ones that expericenced heavy problems with RH.
Oh, Mosfet had a different opinion about RedHat. Many developers were very angry about RedHat that never supported KDE properly.
6 57 505181&w=2
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Bero left RedHat because of their cripple KDe policy.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103294
"Hi,
Effective immediately, I've left Red Hat (mostly in mutual agreement - I
don't want to work on crippling KDE, and they don't want an employee who
admits RH 8.0's KDE is crippleware). If anyone needs/wants to contact me, please use the addresses
bero@berolinux.org or bero@kde.org.
For any RH specific KDE issues, please contact Than Ngo
In my personal opinion KDE is the superiour environment for the desktop and the best environment for the future of FLOSS as it is based gpled FreeQT.
However gtk bindings will be provided.
I don't think there has to be competition between desktop environments. The user decides, not SUN, not a zelotish brazilian company.
I believe it was a mistake of RedHat to ship only crippled versions of KDE and use this ugly Bluecurve theme.
That's probably why Linux never got a real grip on the desktop on markets which are dominated by RedHat.
Soon Kde 3.2 will be released... Run it on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, what you like... or run Gnome. It's your decision.
I warn you!
;-)
I see evil people sending each other encrypted emails with Kontact and Gnupg support...
They could be terrorists...
Whether someone "steals" GPL or closed software makes no difference as you can't make money out of closed source programs.
By the way: Farsi is not only used by Iranian in Iran but also the native language of exiled Iranians. The second language of Iranians is usually french.
FLOSS = Free and Libre Open Source Software. http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml
More about Bitterfeld, a place where nobody wants to live. It is a real ugly town (it was worse under communism), so going to Bitterfeld for holiday, makin photogpahs of chemical plants... that's cool.
Ah, now I understand the child pornographic references in japanese mangas. ;-)
I prefer the figures of Securityspace.com
.de (Germany)
89,49% and still on the rise.
Web Server Survey
December 1st, 2003
Domain
Market Share Change (Total servers: 848,896 )
Apache 761,340 89.69% 739,061 89.49% +0.20%
Microsoft 62,796 7.40% 62,771 7.60% -0.20%
It is just a matter of time, it depends on the your region ecc.
KDE 3.x is far superior to a standard Win installation today.
Outlook?? You're kidding.
Well, Japan was intresting in the 90th but that's all over. In the art scene nobody is intrested in Japan anymore.
Perhaps we will import intresting stuff from Iraq soon...
Or find a special place... for instance in Germany holiday in Bitterfeld is on the rise. Bitterfeld, the ugliest city of Eastern Germany. That's cool.
Hollywood means boring culture industry targeted to an international audience. I prefer Nigerian films.