Umm, read the policy. They're not mandating the use of open source software, just open standards that ensure that they won't be locked into a certain software product when another product becomes more desirable.
One example of this is Office 2003 documents, which Microsoft intends to legally prevent competing office suites from supporting. The effect is that if they use Office 2003, they will need to have it save their documents in a previous formats by default, so that five years down the road they don't have all these documents that no one can cleanly convert to non-MS readable formats.
I'm just saying that they can probably make more money and reduce piracy if they could offer discounts to the people who are interested in buying several games rather than one or two.
Would the extreme gamer rather sign up, hand out their credit card number, and buy 60 Atari 2600 games for a sum price of about $320, or illegally download a small zip file containing 500 of them in about 30 seconds after 2 minutes of searching on Google?
I don't condone piracy but that's the reality of the situation. Same with music & such. The problem with media sales nowadays is that there are no bulk discounts, in a time where reproduction costs nothing and the aim should be to get the max of price time quantity from each consumer. Someone who wants 60 games rather than 6 is willing to pay more than the person who wants 6, but not 10 times more, because the average enjoyment they'll get out of each is less. So that kind of person, though willing to spend more than the average consumer, is completely cut out of the market and has to resort to more extreme measures like piracy to get what they want.
I got great performance with the BitTorrent link when I downloaded it last night. The downloads usually start out very slow and gradually get faster as it downloads.
I probably got 30kb/s down and 12kb/s up, because my ISP severely caps my upload rate.
> vi VS emacs arguments are pointless and a waste of time. > > vi is the best.
Old Stallman post:
--------- FROM: Richard Stallman DATE: 12/30/1991 06:18:13 SUBJECT: Should everone use vi?
Once in a while a crank appears and says that Emacs is lousy and we should all switch to vi.
I`m sure lots of you are ready to declaim at length why that isn`t so. But I`d like to suggest that it would be better not to bother. These days, few people are likely to believe such a claim, so there`s no need to refute it.
(a couple hours go by)
I`m rather dismayed that I have failed in my attempt to prevent a time-wasting discussion of whether Emacs is a good editor or not. It`s a subject not worth discussing, because the people who like it can use it, and others can use something else they prefer.
He's quick to mention that his clone has none of the redundancy or other safety features that are built into a Segway:
"In the fairly likely event of the software crashing, a wire coming loose, a component failing, or the batteries running low, the wheels will lock and the entire kinetic energy of the system will be used to accelerate my head toward the ground."
I'm willing to bet that at least one student at your university will have it burned onto CD within the next 48 hours. Find them and all will be right with the world once again.
It's just a copy of the 9.0 announcement, witty comments and all, with all the version numbers changed (most incremented by 0.0.1) and a couple sentences added mentioning new features.
I will now go download this and install it over the top of FreeBSD.
They'll no doubt stick around like that other highly proprietary company that came before them, Apple, gradually shrinking year after year to remain profitable for as long as possible, until they either innovate like hell or close their doors and divide their billions among all their happy investors. Though unlike Apple they have enough assets to last practically forever even if they sell nothing, it's just a matter of them deciding when it's time to give up.
> We all know how MS ships a secure OS with dumbass services such as Messenger turned OFF by default.
Hey, net send is my friend. It's just not good for open environments where spam and other abuses are prevalant, and you don't want to receive a bunch from your server when you're not at your computer to click OK.
As for the rest, yeah, you'd think a company with $43 billion in the bank could afford to reinvest half a percent of it towards code audits and hiring security consultants, rather than just telling their programmers, "Hey, you should slow down and watch out for these types of vulnerabilities, and by the way, we're still paying based on how fast you code."
Of course he'll get a new job, probably a better paying one. @Stake, on the other hand... None of you will ever buy from them after this, right? They let their greed get in the way of their objectivity. Those insecurities earn them money, that's why they don't support his opinions. You can't trust companies like that to give you good security advice.
It takes only a 3/4 vote to pass a constitutional amendment. If they have enough votes to make something an amendment, that should be enough to make it a lesser law without question. It seems reasonable that a judge shouldn't overturn an almost unanimous vote, followed by another even more unanimous vote to reaffirm. Judges don't vote. It just takes one of them having a distorted/biased/lobbied view of the constitution to overturn a good and constitutionally legal law. If they keep that up, reading in between the lines and overturning unanimous and reaffirmed bills to fill their own wallets, it'll be the topic of the next constitutional amendment. Such an amendment should of course be passed but I don't want to wait that long to see this go into effect.
Plus as others have pointed out it's commercial speech, which many courts have upheld is not protected by the first amendment.
Luckily Congress can impeach judges. I hope they don't forget that.
I downloaded the WASTE source, just so that I'll have it if AOL takes it down again, and to perhaps mess around with it. Sounds like fun.
If the adult video store was shut down for plastering billboard sized gay incest child porn and penis enlargement ads on every home, business, and public school, multiplied a million times.
Yahoo/Geocities used to send me emails saying the website I had with them (now long gone) has exceeded the 3gb limit and will go offline for the rest of the month, even though my largest files were under 100kb and the download statistics proved the usage to be less than 1/100th of their claims.
One time I entered msdn.microsoft.com coming from a google search and a survey popped up asking me why I decided to use the google search instead of microsoft's built in search along with other search related questions.
The full report is full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but this time it'll be hitting their investors.
"Unintended consequences of our assertion of intellectual property may adversely affect our business."
"We do not have a history of profitable operations."
"Our future SCOsource licensing revenue is uncertain."
They also go into detail to say buying their stock poses significant risk and such, but it'd be better to download the full report and read it yourself than to see only selected portions here.
Notice that the licenses sold to Sun and Microsoft account for 100% of their SCOsource revenue, and neither appear to be Linux related, meaning that they've fooled noone into buying their $699 licenses, not even a single idiot.
This means that absolutely linux users, out of the millions out there, believes they have a valid argument enough to buy a license. Not 1%, not 0.00001%. Not a single one. This should say something to investors, but looking back on history, it probably won't.
Their quarterly report shows that their IP claims have no perceived strength at all, but rather it shows producers of operating systems threatened by Linux pumping money into FUD marketting business to make the campaign last as long as possible.
The article suggests a "small" levy of a penny a megabyte for storage media as an alternative to suing filesharers. I'm sure the RIAA would love that but I'd rather leave things as they are than pay a tax of $7 for a blank CD, $40 for a blank DVD, or $1200 for a new HD, especially since I'm not downloading music.
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Umm, read the policy. They're not mandating the use of open source software, just open standards that ensure that they won't be locked into a certain software product when another product becomes more desirable.
One example of this is Office 2003 documents, which Microsoft intends to legally prevent competing office suites from supporting. The effect is that if they use Office 2003, they will need to have it save their documents in a previous formats by default, so that five years down the road they don't have all these documents that no one can cleanly convert to non-MS readable formats.
I'm just saying that they can probably make more money and reduce piracy if they could offer discounts to the people who are interested in buying several games rather than one or two.
I couldn't find a PC version though. They seem to want potential customers to buy a Playstation 2 first.
Would the extreme gamer rather sign up, hand out their credit card number, and buy 60 Atari 2600 games for a sum price of about $320, or illegally download a small zip file containing 500 of them in about 30 seconds after 2 minutes of searching on Google?
I don't condone piracy but that's the reality of the situation. Same with music & such. The problem with media sales nowadays is that there are no bulk discounts, in a time where reproduction costs nothing and the aim should be to get the max of price time quantity from each consumer. Someone who wants 60 games rather than 6 is willing to pay more than the person who wants 6, but not 10 times more, because the average enjoyment they'll get out of each is less. So that kind of person, though willing to spend more than the average consumer, is completely cut out of the market and has to resort to more extreme measures like piracy to get what they want.
I got great performance with the BitTorrent link when I downloaded it last night. The downloads usually start out very slow and gradually get faster as it downloads.
I probably got 30kb/s down and 12kb/s up, because my ISP severely caps my upload rate.
> vi VS emacs arguments are pointless and a waste of time.
>
> vi is the best.
Old Stallman post:
---------
FROM: Richard Stallman
DATE: 12/30/1991 06:18:13
SUBJECT: Should everone use vi?
Once in a while a crank appears and says that Emacs is lousy and we should all switch to vi.
I`m sure lots of you are ready to declaim at length why that isn`t so. But I`d like to suggest that it would be better not to bother. These days, few people are likely to believe such a claim, so there`s no need to refute it.
(a couple hours go by)
I`m rather dismayed that I have failed in my attempt to prevent a time-wasting discussion of whether Emacs is a good editor or not. It`s a subject not worth discussing, because the people who like it can use it, and others can use something else they prefer.
He's quick to mention that his clone has none of the redundancy or other safety features that are built into a Segway:
"In the fairly likely event of the software crashing, a wire coming loose, a component failing, or the batteries running low, the wheels will lock and the entire kinetic energy of the system will be used to accelerate my head toward the ground."
I'm willing to bet that at least one student at your university will have it burned onto CD within the next 48 hours. Find them and all will be right with the world once again.
It's just a copy of the 9.0 announcement, witty comments and all, with all the version numbers changed (most incremented by 0.0.1) and a couple sentences added mentioning new features.
I will now go download this and install it over the top of FreeBSD.
I've realized that EMACS is older than I am.
They'll no doubt stick around like that other highly proprietary company that came before them, Apple, gradually shrinking year after year to remain profitable for as long as possible, until they either innovate like hell or close their doors and divide their billions among all their happy investors. Though unlike Apple they have enough assets to last practically forever even if they sell nothing, it's just a matter of them deciding when it's time to give up.
> We all know how MS ships a secure OS with dumbass services such as Messenger turned OFF by default.
Hey, net send is my friend. It's just not good for open environments where spam and other abuses are prevalant, and you don't want to receive a bunch from your server when you're not at your computer to click OK.
As for the rest, yeah, you'd think a company with $43 billion in the bank could afford to reinvest half a percent of it towards code audits and hiring security consultants, rather than just telling their programmers, "Hey, you should slow down and watch out for these types of vulnerabilities, and by the way, we're still paying based on how fast you code."
5) Profit!
Of course he'll get a new job, probably a better paying one. @Stake, on the other hand... None of you will ever buy from them after this, right? They let their greed get in the way of their objectivity. Those insecurities earn them money, that's why they don't support his opinions. You can't trust companies like that to give you good security advice.
It takes only a 3/4 vote to pass a constitutional amendment. If they have enough votes to make something an amendment, that should be enough to make it a lesser law without question. It seems reasonable that a judge shouldn't overturn an almost unanimous vote, followed by another even more unanimous vote to reaffirm. Judges don't vote. It just takes one of them having a distorted/biased/lobbied view of the constitution to overturn a good and constitutionally legal law. If they keep that up, reading in between the lines and overturning unanimous and reaffirmed bills to fill their own wallets, it'll be the topic of the next constitutional amendment. Such an amendment should of course be passed but I don't want to wait that long to see this go into effect.
Plus as others have pointed out it's commercial speech, which many courts have upheld is not protected by the first amendment.
Luckily Congress can impeach judges. I hope they don't forget that.
I downloaded the WASTE source, just so that I'll have it if AOL takes it down again, and to perhaps mess around with it. Sounds like fun.
If the adult video store was shut down for plastering billboard sized gay incest child porn and penis enlargement ads on every home, business, and public school, multiplied a million times.
Even my furniture says it hardly recognizes me.
Yahoo/Geocities used to send me emails saying the website I had with them (now long gone) has exceeded the 3gb limit and will go offline for the rest of the month, even though my largest files were under 100kb and the download statistics proved the usage to be less than 1/100th of their claims.
Thanks for the link to the exploit code, I guess. We really needed that.
One time I entered msdn.microsoft.com coming from a google search and a survey popped up asking me why I decided to use the google search instead of microsoft's built in search along with other search related questions.
The full report is full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but this time it'll be hitting their investors.
"Unintended consequences of our assertion of intellectual property may adversely affect our business."
"We do not have a history of profitable operations."
"Our future SCOsource licensing revenue is uncertain."
They also go into detail to say buying their stock poses significant risk and such, but it'd be better to download the full report and read it yourself than to see only selected portions here.
Perceived is the key word here.
Notice that the licenses sold to Sun and Microsoft account for 100% of their SCOsource revenue, and neither appear to be Linux related, meaning that they've fooled noone into buying their $699 licenses, not even a single idiot.
This means that absolutely linux users, out of the millions out there, believes they have a valid argument enough to buy a license. Not 1%, not 0.00001%. Not a single one. This should say something to investors, but looking back on history, it probably won't.
Their quarterly report shows that their IP claims have no perceived strength at all, but rather it shows producers of operating systems threatened by Linux pumping money into FUD marketting business to make the campaign last as long as possible.
The article suggests a "small" levy of a penny a megabyte for storage media as an alternative to suing filesharers. I'm sure the RIAA would love that but I'd rather leave things as they are than pay a tax of $7 for a blank CD, $40 for a blank DVD, or $1200 for a new HD, especially since I'm not downloading music.
However, since I already own at least one of your books I'll check it out.
No doubt Microsoft will try to buy some of the ads. "Enlarge your penis with Windows Longhorn."
On the bright side, unless the ad supported programs have never been GPL'd you can just modify the source to take them out.