> come to think of it, I might not care about Mozilla 1.5 after all unless it provides a really compelling reason to upgrade from 1.4.
Exactly! You have the same mindset as corporations. By the time people like you think it is worth upgrading from 1.4 they will not be moving to 1.5, because it won't be the latest stable build.
Instead, you and them will be going directly to 1.6 or 2.0, which will incorporate Thunder/Firebird.
Firebird is where the action is, and by the time corporations get around to switching to 1.5 final, Fire/Thunderbird 1.0 will be the default Mozilla browser/e-mail clients anyway.
There NEEDS to be a better OSS replacement to Outlook/Exchange. We have plenty of awesome e-mail clients like Thunderbird, but we really need a reliable calendar/meeting system like Outlook. If I was a developer, THIS is what I would be working on.
Still, whitelisting complicates things without effectively solving the problem. It would be like not being able to put your telephone number on a business card.
SMTP is really what needs to go. But that will take years, perhaps a decade.
Then how could someone post their e-mail on a website or forum and expect others to be able to reach them?
Preemptive whitelisting is usefull for making sure messages do not get wrongly classified as spam by a filter, but I do not see it as being a workable solution to everything.
Okay, so maybe I should have qualified it as "zero chance of ALL intellectual property laws being abolished under the current regime."
But I didn't realize we were considering mass chaos/anarchy. Would you like to start this "world war/whatever" for us?
That makes me think of Clancy's The Sum of all Fears in particular, though of course the "starting world war 3" motif can be found just about anywhere.
> I just want the abolishment of all "intellectual property" laws.
Do you have any idea how much money is invested in intellectual property? Either you have been living under a rock since about age five, or you are completely delusional.
Excesses like the DMCA may be corrected with future laws, but there is zero chance of ALL intellectual property laws being abolished.
Actually I have read that manual (at the local library, years ago). They did some interesting calculations to figure out how big a quad must be, based an all availeable Star Trek data, but it was all strictly unofficial. I wish I could remember the exact amount.
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> come to think of it, I might not care about Mozilla 1.5 after all unless it provides a really compelling reason to upgrade from 1.4.
Exactly! You have the same mindset as corporations. By the time people like you think it is worth upgrading from 1.4 they will not be moving to 1.5, because it won't be the latest stable build.
Instead, you and them will be going directly to 1.6 or 2.0, which will incorporate Thunder/Firebird.
My point is: No one will ever care about 1.5
Who cares?
Firebird is where the action is, and by the time corporations get around to switching to 1.5 final, Fire/Thunderbird 1.0 will be the default Mozilla browser/e-mail clients anyway.
So you mentioned that the framework exists which I already knew and took for granted.
Then you go on to say what I said: Someone needs to write a program that integrates e-mail / calendar / address book / collaboration / etc.
There NEEDS to be a better OSS replacement to Outlook/Exchange. We have plenty of awesome e-mail clients like Thunderbird, but we really need a reliable calendar/meeting system like Outlook. If I was a developer, THIS is what I would be working on.
> If you know enough to work around Lindows anyway... then what are you doing with Lindows in the first place?
Complaining about its geeklessness, what else?
Of course it will not work if a SCO story is not filed onder "Caldera," but it works most of the time.
YRO covers FUD pretty well, he just wants to get rid of SCO in particular.
> You've got a Mac /., and a games /., so why not a SCO /. and just save the rest of us (who aren't interested) the trouble?
Go here. Click "Homepage".
Under topics, search for "Caldera". Check the box next to it.
While you are at it, search for "michael" on the left, under "authors". Check the box next to him
Scroll down. Click Save.
And what about the local bus? I don't think even PCI Express will be up to the task.
From the site:
"We've been Slashdotted!. Please bear with us as we try to hold up against the strain."
> Next bet: when will be 2.7 tree be opened?
;)
Perhaps after 2.6.0 stable is released?
Oh, the irony.... packet transmission error of some sort.
Clickable link/azH8nobonus_present=1
All the more reason for them to be planning a switch to OSS. Same as the city of Munich, right?
Perhaps all this is the start of a new positive growth trend for OSS... or is that wishfull thinking?
> However I wonder how much of OSS uptake is due to the poor state a lot of world economies are in because of the World Bank?
5.5%, compounded monthly.
Actually it is allowed. They can use 2000/XP indefinately.
What it means is the won't be upgrading to Office 2003.
Still, whitelisting complicates things without effectively solving the problem. It would be like not being able to put your telephone number on a business card.
SMTP is really what needs to go. But that will take years, perhaps a decade.
Then how could someone post their e-mail on a website or forum and expect others to be able to reach them?
Preemptive whitelisting is usefull for making sure messages do not get wrongly classified as spam by a filter, but I do not see it as being a workable solution to everything.
At a personal or server level?
Will yahoo and hotmail be on that whitelist?
Most of the spam I get comes from those domains, or at least it is spoofed to appear its from there.
A quadrillion bits or bytes you might think, but alas that is not the case
Okay, so maybe I should have qualified it as "zero chance of ALL intellectual property laws being abolished under the current regime."
But I didn't realize we were considering mass chaos/anarchy. Would you like to start this "world war/whatever" for us?
That makes me think of Clancy's The Sum of all Fears in particular, though of course the "starting world war 3" motif can be found just about anywhere.
> I just want the abolishment of all "intellectual property" laws.
Do you have any idea how much money is invested in intellectual property? Either you have been living under a rock since about age five, or you are completely delusional.
Excesses like the DMCA may be corrected with future laws, but there is zero chance of ALL intellectual property laws being abolished.
Actually I have read that manual (at the local library, years ago). They did some interesting calculations to figure out how big a quad must be, based an all availeable Star Trek data, but it was all strictly unofficial. I wish I could remember the exact amount.