I keep seeing these figures for the size of the entire Windows source code base, "40GB and 40 million lines of code." Unless I'm missing something, this just doesn't add up. ~40 billion characters / 40 million lines implies that the average length of a line of code in the Windows source is 1000 characters. Even if the comments are terribly verbose, I highly doubt that is correct.
However, that's all rumour and/or speculation - even if Eolas *says* they won't go against Mozilla, who's to say they really won't. And Mozilla group won't have $500m to cough up if Eolas changed its mind sometime in the future, probably they'd get even more because they could then claim these browsers knew about the legal position, and ignored it.
So, would you stake all your assets on that?
How about this: Mozilla can do something MS can never do--escape the US. I mean seriously, how hard would it be to avoid these ridiculous laws by operating outside the US? It's so distributed anyway; it couldn't be that hard. It's not like they can ban users in the US from using it.
Let's see, you pay 99 cents for the song and now you're going to resell it. Unless it's no longer available why would I pay you more than 99 cents for the song or pay you at all when I can just as easily get it from a trusted source: Apple.
Good point, but what about selling albums? In that case it gets big enough to be worthwhile.
So, there's still some hope. The code to GAIM is freely availeable for Microsoft to audit, so theres at least a small chance they will certify it as not being a "security risk".
You think they're talking about the user's security?
Don't be naive. The only security they are referring to is the security of their market share.
...who thinks it would be more sensible to find ways of reducing power dissipation rather than (or even alongside) better methods of cooling?
The problem with that is it takes good engineering. It's easy to pump more power into a CPU to make it go faster, and that's what everyone's doing. If you don't, sure you may have a better-designed chip, but it won't sell because its MHz rating is lower.
People only pay attention to the numbers, and this is the easiest way to boost them.
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.
So now can they shift some culpability to the OSS community?
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I keep seeing these figures for the size of the entire Windows source code base, "40GB and 40 million lines of code." Unless I'm missing something, this just doesn't add up. ~40 billion characters / 40 million lines implies that the average length of a line of code in the Windows source is 1000 characters. Even if the comments are terribly verbose, I highly doubt that is correct.
Must be saved in MSWord format....
Phil
anybody gotten it to work under Wine yet?
However, that's all rumour and/or speculation - even if Eolas *says* they won't go against Mozilla, who's to say they really won't. And Mozilla group won't have $500m to cough up if Eolas changed its mind sometime in the future, probably they'd get even more because they could then claim these browsers knew about the legal position, and ignored it.
So, would you stake all your assets on that?
How about this: Mozilla can do something MS can never do--escape the US. I mean seriously, how hard would it be to avoid these ridiculous laws by operating outside the US? It's so distributed anyway; it couldn't be that hard. It's not like they can ban users in the US from using it.
Let's see, you pay 99 cents for the song and now you're going to resell it. Unless it's no longer available why would I pay you more than 99 cents for the song or pay you at all when I can just as easily get it from a trusted source: Apple.
Good point, but what about selling albums? In that case it gets big enough to be worthwhile.
"Let's screw the platform that made the Myst franchise what it is today!"
If only Hypercard were still around today, they wouldn't be so bold....
Linux Commercial:
two words you don't see together much.
Phil Hagelberg
So, there's still some hope. The code to GAIM is freely availeable for Microsoft to audit, so theres at least a small chance they will certify it as not being a "security risk".
You think they're talking about the user's security?
Don't be naive. The only security they are referring to is the security of their market share.
...who thinks it would be more sensible to find ways of reducing power dissipation rather than (or even alongside) better methods of cooling?
The problem with that is it takes good engineering. It's easy to pump more power into a CPU to make it go faster, and that's what everyone's doing. If you don't, sure you may have a better-designed chip, but it won't sell because its MHz rating is lower.
People only pay attention to the numbers, and this is the easiest way to boost them.
-Phil
In ten years, Wine will finally be finished!
of course, it will be completely incompatible with Win2013, and another fifteen years of development will be needed to fix this.
grrrrr......
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.
So now can they shift some culpability to the OSS community?
geez.... the audacity.
-Phil