I tend to agree that the LiveCD's are a pale stand-in for a full install, but I don't really think dual-boot is often very problimatic. Boxes are cheap, buy one or power up that old one sitting in the corner, and do a full install of some popular distro than has a decent GUI installer (Red Hat...).
Well, you could maybe launch non-mil payloads into space, or perhaps use the technology in terrestrial transportation... Or make a really bitchin' chicken gun.
The reason it's 'a good thing' is because the more small companies, in some cases companies who are little more then patent whores, can successfully sue the big companies who actually have a say in government policy the better chance we have of reforming the patent system.
No. What will happen is that big companies that have influence over government policy will lobby to have the bar raised so high that small patent holders ("whores", as you say) will not be able to prove a case in the first place.
Take your smarmy pseudo-intellectual... blaw, blaw, blaw...
Thanks! I rarely get such high compliments! Usually it's along the lines of "you are such a jackass..." But you say I'm actually a pseudo-intellectual! Hot damn!
Like most things at Slashdot, there is a double standard at play here. In other words, the Slashdot fanboys are not as pue as they like to think of themselves as. If it's bad for MS, it's good "just because". Pay backs, you know? Like little children...
There are a lot of places, principally former Soviet republics and china, where The Law has different priorities. The people sell these "services" probably reside in one of those countries, and the people buying may be equally outside the grasp of US law enforcement. I used to work for Seth Warshavsky, he used to sell his snake oil out of a glass tower in Seattle. Now he lives in Thailand, just try to arrest him, The Feds have been trying for the last 5 years or so, we'll see.
Well, because SuSE is just not as polished a product as, say, even Red Hat? Clearly there are better distros than SuSE and Red Hat, but also as clearly, a large agency or enterprise is going to insist on a support contract. They should have gone with Red Hat
Forget the LONG-WINDED tales of "salt". It's like this: You cook up something good, and to tweek it just the right about, you add a pinch of SALT. Think about it.
Most streets aren't toll roads, and street lights don't have a fee per block. These services are generally accepted to provide public benefit above and beyond the revenue they would bring if they relied on fee-for-service funding.
Laying sidewalk and sewer is always payed for by the property owners along the spacific road, not the population as a whole. Build a hous too far from a pole, you'll pay for that too.
You speak the truth. Although, I don't think Firefox is too much to ask. As to OpenOffice (Hey, why hasn't MS sued a la Lindows?), MS Office won that war, it does what people want the way they want it done. Could be cheaper, but so could a lot of things. OpenOffice is quite good, but it's not "enterprise" yet, and hate PowerPoint as much as you want, biz likes it, and OO's version is flaky at best.
I'd like to approach them with all of the relevant information in a presentable format...
That's what all those religious crispies try to tell me as I'm trying to tell them to get off my porch and never come back.
But...
Seems to me there was some CD project out there that bundled a lot of general use Open Source. The problem as I see it is that the vast majority of OSS is really of no interest at all to the "average" users. Sys admins and geeks, perhaps, but not "average" users.
Maybe the first step would be to get them to load Firefox with a nice prominent desktop icon...
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I tend to agree that the LiveCD's are a pale stand-in for a full install, but I don't really think dual-boot is often very problimatic. Boxes are cheap, buy one or power up that old one sitting in the corner, and do a full install of some popular distro than has a decent GUI installer (Red Hat...).
You mean like these people?
Well, you could maybe launch non-mil payloads into space, or perhaps use the technology in terrestrial transportation... Or make a really bitchin' chicken gun.
No. What will happen is that big companies that have influence over government policy will lobby to have the bar raised so high that small patent holders ("whores", as you say) will not be able to prove a case in the first place.
Thanks! I rarely get such high compliments! Usually it's along the lines of "you are such a jackass..." But you say I'm actually a pseudo-intellectual! Hot damn!
Honestly you must be an idiot. I was agreeing with you, and it flew right over your head.
Like most things at Slashdot, there is a double standard at play here. In other words, the Slashdot fanboys are not as pue as they like to think of themselves as. If it's bad for MS, it's good "just because". Pay backs, you know? Like little children...
You answer your own question, Mr. Coward.
Why bother with Java or C++ when there is PHP?
And in MY opinion, ea_spouse is a whiner, and needs to suck it up or hit the road.
...most Slashdotters really need to care about this, they don't tend to reproduce anyway.
Come on guys, not only is this a "dupe", it's a dupe from only this weekend.
After they go to Whitehouse.com, will they even be interested in Whitehouse.gov?
Cosmo: I cannot kill my friend.
[to his henchman]
Cosmo: Kill my friend.
There are a lot of places, principally former Soviet republics and china, where The Law has different priorities. The people sell these "services" probably reside in one of those countries, and the people buying may be equally outside the grasp of US law enforcement. I used to work for Seth Warshavsky, he used to sell his snake oil out of a glass tower in Seattle. Now he lives in Thailand, just try to arrest him, The Feds have been trying for the last 5 years or so, we'll see.
Well, because SuSE is just not as polished a product as, say, even Red Hat? Clearly there are better distros than SuSE and Red Hat, but also as clearly, a large agency or enterprise is going to insist on a support contract. They should have gone with Red Hat
I use Google.com a lot. Lots of info...
It's going to turn into a Slashdot GroupThink (tm) situation. Indexing must be done without bias, something that MOST (certainly not at /.) are not.
It's hard to explaine to people who use computers only for games and, well, games, that Windows does more than... games. And music of course.
Having said that, when my Linux box can do what my XP box does in terms of running apps, I'm outa Bill's game. Not there yet.
Mostly big "enterprise" CRM and other slaes type applications, as well as document management systems. And of course IIS...
Forget the LONG-WINDED tales of "salt". It's like this: You cook up something good, and to tweek it just the right about, you add a pinch of SALT. Think about it.
Laying sidewalk and sewer is always payed for by the property owners along the spacific road, not the population as a whole. Build a hous too far from a pole, you'll pay for that too.
Nn enormous schwanzstucker?
You speak the truth. Although, I don't think Firefox is too much to ask. As to OpenOffice (Hey, why hasn't MS sued a la Lindows?), MS Office won that war, it does what people want the way they want it done. Could be cheaper, but so could a lot of things. OpenOffice is quite good, but it's not "enterprise" yet, and hate PowerPoint as much as you want, biz likes it, and OO's version is flaky at best.
That's what all those religious crispies try to tell me as I'm trying to tell them to get off my porch and never come back.
But...
Seems to me there was some CD project out there that bundled a lot of general use Open Source. The problem as I see it is that the vast majority of OSS is really of no interest at all to the "average" users. Sys admins and geeks, perhaps, but not "average" users.
Maybe the first step would be to get them to load Firefox with a nice prominent desktop icon...