metric system is all "interlaced" like this:
10 cm 3 = 1 litre or in other ways 1 m3 = 1000 litres
1 litre of water = 1 kilogram
1000 kilograms = 1000 litres of water = 1 m3 water =
1 (metric) ton.
needless to say (maybe) 1 km = 1000 metres = 100,000 cm
and so on
Fully agree except that (1) for now sw patents are still not allowed (nor valid) in the EU and (2) If someone from China wants to market in the US something that is patented there I doubt they can just do away with patents in the target market.
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A few hundred years? you must be kidding -- what about the egipcians, the greeksm the romans, the Chinese civilisations, thousnads of years old?
I woul not bet that "the United States is one of the most free nations on earth (more free than most of its European counterparts bitching about this new program)". GWB stollen election, Guantamo Bay, corporate lobby, the death penalty just to name a few unrelated should make you think a little bit
"To the extent that any of this interface information might be
protected by intellectual property in the European Economic Area,
Microsoft would be entitled to reasonable remuneration. The disclosure
order concerns the interface documentation only, and not the Windows
source code, as this is not necessary to achieve the development of
interoperable products."
3. Microsoft can now lock out all open-source projects trying to attain API compatibility. Good-bye WINE, Samba, et al.
Imho you should be carefull with conclusions like this. All the EC rulling is that if and when there
is IP to protect they are entitled to reasonable remuneration. Note that sw patents are not alowed
in the EU, so this protection is much smaller that in the US.
Just 2 notes -- IMHO -
-- If corporate greedy guys like M$ had their way the www would not exist (closed source incompatible BBS would be the norm). This is the market held by AOL that M$ tried to enter in 1995. If HTML was not given to the public domain (its not GPL, was pure give way afaik)
-- To say OS is un-American is simply stupid and ignore reality. To say it is against certain concept of domination and more of some US corporations and politicians, it is probably true.
two issues imho
1. Windows 3.0 did not have media player as far as I remember. They made big fuss in 3.1 when some basic sound tools were introduced as "multimedia"
2. M$ is a monopoly (repeat monopoly). That is why certain retriction apply (and more should) that do not exist if the market is competitive.
I was never infected by a virus. Howver, sometime ago someone who kept my (professional) email address must have been infected and now I am receiving all sorts of stupid spamm, including unsolicited offers, plain bullshitt and erotic things. Its a real noisance I I depend a lot on email for my work. Overall these bastards are taking way a big part of the benefits of this fantastic technology (email).
The only thing I do (from time to time)is to inform the postmaster@domain they use as repply to.
The issue is not to make "anti-MS zealots happy".
It is to protect our future. For all of us.
The argument is narrow, but again Al-Capone
was arrested for tax evasion on the first place.
Somebody must start somewhere, and the US Government clearly didn't.
Maybe their are specificities in their behavour (say -- they really used SCO copyrighted code in some way) that will enable SCO to spread a new wave of false claims based on partial info and FUD.
"...Darl will find a home in Syria, North Korea or Iran as their new Information Minister..."
his skills are maybe better suited for the WH or the Pentagon
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metric system is all "interlaced" like this: 10 cm 3 = 1 litre or in other ways 1 m3 = 1000 litres 1 litre of water = 1 kilogram 1000 kilograms = 1000 litres of water = 1 m3 water = 1 (metric) ton. needless to say (maybe) 1 km = 1000 metres = 100,000 cm and so on
For this you have of course to thank of friend Gate$ and its supeiror software.
I think this special proportion 1:sqr(2) was fisrt discovered by the Old Greeks who called it the "Door of Harmony" or something of the kind.
The digital photo machine and the internet make the difference. But the CD burner?
Fully agree except that (1) for now sw patents are still not allowed (nor valid) in the EU and (2) If someone from China wants to market in the US something that is patented there I doubt they can just do away with patents in the target market.
A few hundred years? you must be kidding -- what about the egipcians, the greeksm the romans, the Chinese civilisations, thousnads of years old?
Anyway should be much cheaper on a per shipment basis
bravo!
I woul not bet that "the United States is one of the most free nations on earth (more free than most of its European counterparts bitching about this new program)". GWB stollen election, Guantamo Bay, corporate lobby, the death penalty just to name a few unrelated should make you think a little bit
Specificaly the ruling says:
"To the extent that any of this interface information might be protected by intellectual property in the European Economic Area, Microsoft would be entitled to reasonable remuneration. The disclosure order concerns the interface documentation only, and not the Windows source code, as this is not necessary to achieve the development of interoperable products."
3. Microsoft can now lock out all open-source projects trying to attain API compatibility. Good-bye WINE, Samba, et al. Imho you should be carefull with conclusions like this. All the EC rulling is that if and when there is IP to protect they are entitled to reasonable remuneration. Note that sw patents are not alowed in the EU, so this protection is much smaller that in the US.
Just 2 notes -- IMHO - -- If corporate greedy guys like M$ had their way the www would not exist (closed source incompatible BBS would be the norm). This is the market held by AOL that M$ tried to enter in 1995. If HTML was not given to the public domain (its not GPL, was pure give way afaik) -- To say OS is un-American is simply stupid and ignore reality. To say it is against certain concept of domination and more of some US corporations and politicians, it is probably true.
Let's pray this miracle happens!
two issues imho 1. Windows 3.0 did not have media player as far as I remember. They made big fuss in 3.1 when some basic sound tools were introduced as "multimedia" 2. M$ is a monopoly (repeat monopoly). That is why certain retriction apply (and more should) that do not exist if the market is competitive.
Who are you comparing M$ with?
I was never infected by a virus.
Howver, sometime ago someone who kept my (professional) email address must have been infected
and now I am receiving all sorts of stupid spamm,
including unsolicited offers, plain bullshitt and erotic things. Its a real noisance I I depend a lot
on email for my work.
Overall these bastards are taking way a big part of the benefits of this fantastic technology (email).
The only thing I do (from time to time)is to inform the postmaster@domain they use as repply to.
Any other clue of what can be done otherwise?
as far as I know Linux is metioned nowhere in the proceedings. This is not Linux vs Microsoft It is EU vs Microsoft, based on (very) specific claims.
The issue is not to make "anti-MS zealots happy". It is to protect our future. For all of us. The argument is narrow, but again Al-Capone was arrested for tax evasion on the first place. Somebody must start somewhere, and the US Government clearly didn't.
Maybe their are specificities in their behavour (say -- they really used SCO copyrighted code in some way) that will enable SCO to spread a new wave of false claims based on partial info and FUD.
It would not. Bull$heetCO is just doing M$ dirty work.
Maybe not only the German branch is uninportant... SCO is unimportant everywhere if you look at their tiny sales figures worldwide.
This is the usual, lies, damn lies, and TCO analysis...
What is the source of this list you have?
In six years you could have learned that the language in Brasil is Portuguese, not Spanish.
"...Darl will find a home in Syria, North Korea or Iran as their new Information Minister..." his skills are maybe better suited for the WH or the Pentagon