For the love of god, who's next. Safeway and Albertson's making online music offerings. Its just another hugely overrated thing. As usual. Cause one company has *short term* success with something, every fucking company on the planet now has to offer it too. iTunes is just about the only one that I think will actually stay around after this dies down(although the iPod is expensive as hell). Personally I dont like any of them. Cause they all have some bullshit attached, DRM, only playable on computer, etc.
Guess what. FSF protects the copyrights it holds. It has plenty of cash to take companys to court. Thats why you have a choice. Give your copyrights to FSF and they will take care of it. Or keep it yourself. Its called free software. Was his a free software project? Im guessing not. If you read the title it is mainly aimed at GPL code. Which has the backing of the FSF.
I see this as a response from companies and SCO who say that the Free Software Community needs to change its way of including code from unknown parties as it might be copyrighted. This is to take preventative measures so that GPL code doesnt make it into *THEIR* products. Then later on a company cant try to say that they own the copyright on the code in a GPL project that they originally stole it from. Just as some people have questioned SCO about whether or not they actually stole code from the Linux Kernel.
There are already a multitude of emulators for the Zaurus line of PDA's.
From SNES, Gameboy Advanced, and yes, even a Palm OS emulator. Most anything for linux can be ported to the Zaurus. It is just a matter of recompiling it for the architecture. There is more you have to do depending on the program. But people have made konqueror and Mplayer work on the Zaurus.
Why would the companies develope native linux drivers if the people that are using linux and buying their products are already using Linuxant software to load their windows drivers? There's no incentive for them to make drivers, its just more costs. All they have to do is keep making windows drivers and they are "supporting" both OS'. It just makes no sense why you think they would make drivers they dont have to. Especially when companys are always at looking at ways to cut their bottom line.
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Well first of all, UT2k3 used the Loki installer. They didnt even make it. Second, Mplayer is compiled from source, its not binary. Doing binary would take away so many benefits that you get with Mplayer. I
can play a dvd and Mplayer uses 5-15% of my cpu. Divx is 3-4% and playing ogg/mp3 is 1% at most. Mplayer takes practically *no* system resources to run. Ive turned a crappy 133mhz into a network jukebox. WIth my own experiences with Xine, its very unstable. The gui that people love so much in xine is what causes it to lock up 9 times out of 10. So ill take Mplayer.
But when it comes down to it, use what you want, i really dont care.
Wow, how insightful into what people want on their LINKSYS networking equipment. Yes i see it now, windows on your embedded device and networking equipment. Oh wait, thats right, thats not possible!
Oh i see, now were shifting blame and responsibility from the people that make the software to the people that use it. [sarcasm]That makes perfect sense.[/sarcasm]
Yes but you cant enforce this onto Free Software, because one the GPL indemnifies the programmers, *and* there are a lot of people in foreign countries that work on Free Software projects.
WTF do they win? Wow they win holding customers hostage to their software and forcing them to upgrade at will.
GNU/Linux still wins for opening the world of computing to millions of people. Without restricting freedom. To me, that is the prize.
Fuck. Last thing we need is for people to think the community is unstable. Dammit. Oh well, i can respect their reasons for forking though. I hope they get merged back together. With people already bitching about too many distros and de's the last thing we need is a fork of X.
That transistors being made out of diamonds would be nice. Holographic keyboards, or neural computer control. Ummmm, 3dimensional graphics like star wars style(but better). Computers the size of a mouse and 10 times as powerful as current computers and using 1/10 as much power. Anything else I cant think of at the moment.
Well the problem I see with your comparison is that IBM and RedHat do not do all their own testing. It is Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo, Novell, IBM, Debian, Yoper, Knoppix, Slackware, Clark Connect, Xandros, Morphix, Vector, Sorcerer, Libranet, Ark, Movix, Lindows, Turbo Linux, Trustix, Immunix.... I can keep going if you want, that also do testing. The fact is all these distros and companies are employing some of the best hackers in the world. Working day and night around the world on hundreds of projects.
Now im not saying that Microsfts testing phase is less comprehensive either. But I do know that being as crippled as it is, with lawsuits, FUD news, and the general outlook among people that OSS is just a bunch of crap from amateure programmers which is bullshit, Linux has brought itself on par with "enterprise" level computing. Same goes for *BSD's. They are making a big uprising too.
Actually i use lnx-bbc for all my recovery, format, etc. It has every tool possible including X. I have it on a mini-cd and carry it around with me most of the time. In fact I carry it so much its like my phone, I dont leave home without it.
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thats not even a good troll.
CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!!
Yah but then the market gets so saturated that no one makes enough money to cover costs of running it and it blows up in their faces.
For the love of god, who's next. Safeway and Albertson's making online music offerings. Its just another hugely overrated thing. As usual. Cause one company has *short term* success with something, every fucking company on the planet now has to offer it too. iTunes is just about the only one that I think will actually stay around after this dies down(although the iPod is expensive as hell). Personally I dont like any of them. Cause they all have some bullshit attached, DRM, only playable on computer, etc.
fuck no /dev/null
i hate the registry
Guess what. FSF protects the copyrights it holds. It has plenty of cash to take companys to court. Thats why you have a choice. Give your copyrights to FSF and they will take care of it. Or keep it yourself. Its called free software. Was his a free software project? Im guessing not. If you read the title it is mainly aimed at GPL code. Which has the backing of the FSF.
I see this as a response from companies and SCO who say that the Free Software Community needs to change its way of including code from unknown parties as it might be copyrighted. This is to take preventative measures so that GPL code doesnt make it into *THEIR* products. Then later on a company cant try to say that they own the copyright on the code in a GPL project that they originally stole it from. Just as some people have questioned SCO about whether or not they actually stole code from the Linux Kernel.
There are already a multitude of emulators for the Zaurus line of PDA's. From SNES, Gameboy Advanced, and yes, even a Palm OS emulator. Most anything for linux can be ported to the Zaurus. It is just a matter of recompiling it for the architecture. There is more you have to do depending on the program. But people have made konqueror and Mplayer work on the Zaurus.
Why would the companies develope native linux drivers if the people that are using linux and buying their products are already using Linuxant software to load their windows drivers? There's no incentive for them to make drivers, its just more costs. All they have to do is keep making windows drivers and they are "supporting" both OS'. It just makes no sense why you think they would make drivers they dont have to. Especially when companys are always at looking at ways to cut their bottom line.
Well first of all, UT2k3 used the Loki installer. They didnt even make it.
Second, Mplayer is compiled from source, its not binary. Doing binary would take away so many benefits that you get with Mplayer. I
can play a dvd and Mplayer uses 5-15% of my cpu. Divx is 3-4% and playing ogg/mp3 is 1% at most. Mplayer takes practically *no* system resources to run. Ive turned a crappy 133mhz into a network jukebox. WIth my own experiences with Xine, its very unstable. The gui that people love so much in xine is what causes it to lock up 9 times out of 10. So ill take Mplayer.
But when it comes down to it, use what you want, i really dont care.
The GPL as well prohibits sub-licencing. So yes, they are in breach of the GPL if they are trying to sub licence GPL'ed code...
Wow, how insightful into what people want on their
LINKSYS networking equipment. Yes i see it now, windows on your embedded device
and networking equipment. Oh wait, thats right, thats not possible!
im in lynx so this post might look funky...
savage is for linux too. good game
Oh i see, now were shifting blame and responsibility from the people that make the software to the people that use it. [sarcasm]That makes perfect sense.[/sarcasm]
A clone? I would hate to be the guy to clone the X-Box, he would have lawyers on him before he could publish the instructions.
Did BillyG open his wallet and fork over the "chump change"
Yes but you cant enforce this onto Free Software, because one the GPL indemnifies the programmers, *and* there are a lot of people in foreign countries that work on Free Software projects.
WTF do they win? Wow they win holding customers hostage to their software and forcing them to upgrade at will. GNU/Linux still wins for opening the world of computing to millions of people. Without restricting freedom. To me, that is the prize.
Add another point to Open Source on the Scoreboard.
Oh well i use xvid anyways.
Fuck. Last thing we need is for people to think the community is unstable. Dammit. Oh well, i can respect their reasons for forking though. I hope they get merged back together. With people already bitching about too many distros and de's the last thing we need is a fork of X.
That transistors being made out of diamonds would be nice. Holographic keyboards, or neural computer control. Ummmm, 3dimensional graphics like star wars style(but better). Computers the size of a mouse and 10 times as powerful as current computers and using 1/10 as much power. Anything else I cant think of at the moment.
Well the problem I see with your comparison is that IBM and RedHat do not do all their own testing. It is Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo, Novell, IBM, Debian, Yoper, Knoppix, Slackware, Clark Connect, Xandros, Morphix, Vector, Sorcerer, Libranet, Ark, Movix, Lindows, Turbo Linux, Trustix, Immunix.... I can keep going if you want, that also do testing. The fact is all these distros and companies are employing some of the best hackers in the world. Working day and night around the world on hundreds of projects.
Now im not saying that Microsfts testing phase is less comprehensive either. But I do know that being as crippled as it is, with lawsuits, FUD news, and the general outlook among people that OSS is just a bunch of crap from amateure programmers which is bullshit, Linux has brought itself on par with "enterprise" level computing. Same goes for *BSD's. They are making a big uprising too.
Actually i use lnx-bbc for all my recovery, format, etc. It has every tool possible including X. I have it on a mini-cd and carry it around with me most of the time. In fact I carry it so much its like my phone, I dont leave home without it.
No, thats $699 per page. An honest mistake, that will cost you $200.
How do you prove TCO in a lab? Only microsoft can i guess.