You have a good point, so I'm not sure you were modded down (I know other people said the same thing, but still). The question is, do those people who have computers and decent high speed internet access in Argentina need the money, or just the average poor guy on the street?
It disgusts me how little sense of real community/. folks have. CmdrTaco has been a major force in keeping this place together for years, and you constantly make use of the fruits of his labor. Now he wants to let off a little steam and all you can do is insult and yell at him? What's most interesting is that at least one of these posts are telling him he has no right to bitch, then in the same paragraph complaining about the quality of slashdot itself.
The "abuse of power" charge doesn't hold well, either. He's not asking for any action to be taken. We have plenty of basically editorial articles posted here every day, and many are much more trivial, biased, and/or political. If you can't stand it, maybe you should take your time and energy somewhere else instead of telling him what he can and can't post here.
I agree. The slashdot crowd can seem a little zealous at times, but to call the second article anything other than pro-MS/anti-OSS propaganda is totally wrong. The guy sounds like a marketing rep.
That's nowhere near a valid comparison. GD-roms weren't intended as a competitor to DVD. It wasn't a video storage format at all, but just a game storage medium.
What does a mugging have to do with a product crashing some of the time? You can't ensure 100% crash-proof products, noor can you ensure that all the software people run on your OS is perfectly coded to not cause crashes. As many other people have stated here: take the time to test things and back things up, and if you really don't like the license, don't sign up.
I bet his wife gives away her books for free, too.
On a more serious note, this is more expansion of the culture of victimization and the lack of responsibility that is taking over the Western world. Nothing is ever our fault, we muyst always find someone else to hold responsible for problems that we should be tough enough and capable enough to not get into or to solve ourselves.
Why do they need to be sued? How can they "not see the information" just because it is in Word format? MS supplies a free viewer under Windows, and there are many open source or free apps on all OSes that can open the MS documents. If people are trying to claim that OO/SO has such great interoperability features (and a lot are, and thet is probably a valid point), that makes your position even less solid.
Yes, except that then they'd have to shell out for a support contract, because OpenOffice doesn't have that. With MS they are probably getting support as part of the deal as well. And don't forget the cost of training and maintaining user skills and help desk personnel to support an office suite that isn't in common use yet. Just because it's/. doesn't mean we have to pretend that open source is cheaper because all of the software costs magically dissapear after you pay for the license.
That was worse than the Katamari review posted a few weeks ago! It's just some pathetic attempt by some idiot to show off how much he thinks he knows about sex in the form of a badly written gaming article.
Tommy Hilfiger is suddenly a company that makes perfumes? Maybe that, but also a whole lot more, and they are a pretty big player in the clothes/fashion biz, even if I had no interest in them.
You can't belittle a company just because they aren't focused on delivering an IT product.
[p]A trust is not the same thing as a monopoly. It's a type of monopoly, specifically one that causes problems in competition. So it turns out he is not wrong.[/p]
[p]A natural monopoly caused by being the only company in a field or just by having a better or more popular product is not a trust.[/p]
Way to totally ignore what he said. There is nothing inherently illegal about having a monopoly. If you really have the best product and everyone buys it, that's not something you can be held responsible for.
All of those things you mentioned are illegal methods of maintaining a monopoly, which is what MS should have gone under for.
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Ah, excellent. Know the title, but I haven't read that one. Many thanks to the both of you.
Title?
You have a good point, so I'm not sure you were modded down (I know other people said the same thing, but still). The question is, do those people who have computers and decent high speed internet access in Argentina need the money, or just the average poor guy on the street?
I doubt most people's time is worth that little.
What do you want, news sources in French, Spanish, German, etc.?
Hey and if they post it in a legitimate and well backed-up way more power to them.
You can say whatever you want, however what you have a right to do and what you ought to do and how you do it are different things.
It disgusts me how little sense of real community /. folks have. CmdrTaco has been a major force in keeping this place together for years, and you constantly make use of the fruits of his labor. Now he wants to let off a little steam and all you can do is insult and yell at him? What's most interesting is that at least one of these posts are telling him he has no right to bitch, then in the same paragraph complaining about the quality of slashdot itself.
The "abuse of power" charge doesn't hold well, either. He's not asking for any action to be taken. We have plenty of basically editorial articles posted here every day, and many are much more trivial, biased, and/or political. If you can't stand it, maybe you should take your time and energy somewhere else instead of telling him what he can and can't post here.
I agree. The slashdot crowd can seem a little zealous at times, but to call the second article anything other than pro-MS/anti-OSS propaganda is totally wrong. The guy sounds like a marketing rep.
It runs over the Mach microkernel, just like NeXT did.
That's nowhere near a valid comparison. GD-roms weren't intended as a competitor to DVD. It wasn't a video storage format at all, but just a game storage medium.
The MPAA are the ones in charge of movies. The RIAA has never admitted any fault.
What does a mugging have to do with a product crashing some of the time? You can't ensure 100% crash-proof products, noor can you ensure that all the software people run on your OS is perfectly coded to not cause crashes. As many other people have stated here: take the time to test things and back things up, and if you really don't like the license, don't sign up.
I bet his wife gives away her books for free, too. On a more serious note, this is more expansion of the culture of victimization and the lack of responsibility that is taking over the Western world. Nothing is ever our fault, we muyst always find someone else to hold responsible for problems that we should be tough enough and capable enough to not get into or to solve ourselves.
Win2k did have a home edition, it just didn't sell well. They released Millenium after they realized this.
PDF suppots fillable forms... But it would be lousy for internal documents that need to be changed, so I agree with you.
I also picked up on that. Just a prime example of how little quality there is in gaming journalism.
Why do they need to be sued? How can they "not see the information" just because it is in Word format? MS supplies a free viewer under Windows, and there are many open source or free apps on all OSes that can open the MS documents. If people are trying to claim that OO/SO has such great interoperability features (and a lot are, and thet is probably a valid point), that makes your position even less solid.
Yes, except that then they'd have to shell out for a support contract, because OpenOffice doesn't have that. With MS they are probably getting support as part of the deal as well. And don't forget the cost of training and maintaining user skills and help desk personnel to support an office suite that isn't in common use yet. Just because it's /. doesn't mean we have to pretend that open source is cheaper because all of the software costs magically dissapear after you pay for the license.
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
Well, the ones for SWAT4 were (from the article):
I assume they are using the same ones for Planetside if it is also done through Massive.
That was worse than the Katamari review posted a few weeks ago! It's just some pathetic attempt by some idiot to show off how much he thinks he knows about sex in the form of a badly written gaming article.
Yes. Because all companies can afford to keep a large amount of development staff on hand. Espescially business who do not have an IT focus.
Tommy Hilfiger is suddenly a company that makes perfumes? Maybe that, but also a whole lot more, and they are a pretty big player in the clothes/fashion biz, even if I had no interest in them. You can't belittle a company just because they aren't focused on delivering an IT product.
[p]A trust is not the same thing as a monopoly. It's a type of monopoly, specifically one that causes problems in competition. So it turns out he is not wrong.[/p] [p]A natural monopoly caused by being the only company in a field or just by having a better or more popular product is not a trust.[/p]
Way to totally ignore what he said. There is nothing inherently illegal about having a monopoly. If you really have the best product and everyone buys it, that's not something you can be held responsible for.
All of those things you mentioned are illegal methods of maintaining a monopoly, which is what MS should have gone under for.