The patent is for clicking on a hyperlink. Events triggered in javascript are not hyperlinks. You can get the same effect as clicking on a hyperlink but using javascript instead to respond to 'OnMouseDown'. That's enough of a technical difference to give you a fighting chance in court I'd think!
SuSE 9.1 and the previous versions I've used back to 8.2 have always had great fonts. I use YaST and YOU and am running the 2.6.5 kernel and I must say everything hums along really well. All of the programs in KDE (SuSE's preferred desktop) look beautiful, uniform and work great with eachother.
What about morphix? It's a knoppix derivative and I'm not sure how much it takes up but you should be able to find a configured version that runs right off of a 256Mb drive like that. Then you could have all of the above utils PLUS a full linux distro! Personally, I can't wait for 1Gb drives to hit the $40-$50 range.
I think this is a kick-ass idea and want to thank Eric S. Raymond for lighting the kindling under the asses of Sun to help get this moving. If Java is not open-sourced - soon - it will die. Not die in the sense that it will go away, but it will a very slow, and very painful death. One of lesser technology, slower tools, lesser open source support and especially with the Mono project, a laughable contender in the web-services area. I seriously think that if Java were open-sourced by mid 2004 in a GPL-style license, then C# and.Net would be given a serious run for its money. Everyone chant with me... Set Java Free..... Set Java Free....
I think this is an awesome idea. I have to give kudos to Pamela for doing a kick-ass job. She really deserves some kind of award or recognition for what she and the other folks over there do on a daily basis. Groklaw is truly a wonderful asset to the Linux and open source community.
Could this be the seeds of a plan of IBM's to be able to, in 5 years or so let's say, to be able to hold the reigns and control the DIRECTION of open source development??
It's one thing to be in direct control of people you employ, but how would you logically attempt to control a varied and diverse community such as open source when you have no real direct control of them - through monetary compensation. To expand on this, let's say it becomes common practice to reimburse open source programmers regularly for their contributions. If IBM holds the patents for such a paradigm, then they can effectively control the direction and the evolution of open source. Of course, this only holds true IFF (the third 'F' is there for a reason!) the community as a whole becomes swayed and tempted by the monetary lure of reimburesement instead of creating and innovating for the pure joy of it.
I was about to write a huge rant and rage about how pissed off I am that people would have the audacity to patent something like this. I bet this is a ploy by microsoft to get rid of domain names and force the world to downgrade to WINS. Hurry up and register your WINS name with microsoft now!
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, maybe I am tooting my own horn, but I had a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps made up at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
If the ebay link shows no hats listed, contact me at alan@linuxitch.com, or send a paypal payment of $20 (includes shipping to the contiguous 48 states only!!) for a cap and priority mail (2-3 day) shipping plus delivery confirmation! If you live outside the US or elsewhere, contact me for rates.
Sorry about linuxitch.com not working. Here's my corrected submission... (note to self... use the 'Preview' button -- )
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, maybe I am tooting my own horn, but I had a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps made up at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, may I am tooting my own horn, but I've created a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
Thank you for your support.
It has NOTHING to do with it!! You're missing the point of SCO's floundering actions... it's a dying company being funded by M$ to spread deathbed FUD around in a last-ditch effort to survive for a few more months to make its shareholders rich.
What they're doing doesn't NEED to make sense - that's not the ultimate goal. Watch SCO's stock price. I bet that every time it drops to around $8 or so, it will release some ludacris statement about how the GPL is invalid, how ALL operating systems belong to SCO, and next how those oxygen molecules you're breathing contains electrons based on SCO's IP.
It's all a smokescreen BS act. The BEST thing the Linux community as a whole can do is to get on with our development efforts and ignore SCO. Any company acting as panicky and outlandishly as SCO is will do the most damage to itself by itself. It's like the tazmanian devil right right now, but eventually it will run out of breath (and money) and will be just left at the bottom of the canyon to wither and die in the sweltering sun.
hopefully!
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The patent is for clicking on a hyperlink. Events triggered in javascript are not hyperlinks. You can get the same effect as clicking on a hyperlink but using javascript instead to respond to 'OnMouseDown'. That's enough of a technical difference to give you a fighting chance in court I'd think!
Dude, you're responding to Rob 'Roblimo' Miller - not a 'kid'. If you don't know who that is - go look him up.
SuSE 9.1 and the previous versions I've used back to 8.2 have always had great fonts. I use YaST and YOU and am running the 2.6.5 kernel and I must say everything hums along really well. All of the programs in KDE (SuSE's preferred desktop) look beautiful, uniform and work great with eachother.
What about morphix? It's a knoppix derivative and I'm not sure how much it takes up but you should be able to find a configured version that runs right off of a 256Mb drive like that. Then you could have all of the above utils PLUS a full linux distro! Personally, I can't wait for 1Gb drives to hit the $40-$50 range.
I think this is a kick-ass idea and want to thank Eric S. Raymond for lighting the kindling under the asses of Sun to help get this moving. If Java is not open-sourced - soon - it will die. Not die in the sense that it will go away, but it will a very slow, and very painful death. One of lesser technology, slower tools, lesser open source support and especially with the Mono project, a laughable contender in the web-services area. I seriously think that if Java were open-sourced by mid 2004 in a GPL-style license, then C# and .Net would be given a serious run for its money. Everyone chant with me ... Set Java Free ..... Set Java Free....
I think this is an awesome idea. I have to give kudos to Pamela for doing a kick-ass job. She really deserves some kind of award or recognition for what she and the other folks over there do on a daily basis. Groklaw is truly a wonderful asset to the Linux and open source community.
Could this be the seeds of a plan of IBM's to be able to, in 5 years or so let's say, to be able to hold the reigns and control the DIRECTION of open source development??
It's one thing to be in direct control of people you employ, but how would you logically attempt to control a varied and diverse community such as open source when you have no real direct control of them - through monetary compensation. To expand on this, let's say it becomes common practice to reimburse open source programmers regularly for their contributions. If IBM holds the patents for such a paradigm, then they can effectively control the direction and the evolution of open source. Of course, this only holds true IFF (the third 'F' is there for a reason!) the community as a whole becomes swayed and tempted by the monetary lure of reimburesement instead of creating and innovating for the pure joy of it.
I could be wrong.
I was about to write a huge rant and rage about how pissed off I am that people would have the audacity to patent something like this. I bet this is a ploy by microsoft to get rid of domain names and force the world to downgrade to WINS. Hurry up and register your WINS name with microsoft now!
I for one am a big fan of mandrake and I'll probably subscribe to the MandrakeClub support once my 9.2 discs arrive. I can't wait!
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, maybe I am tooting my own horn, but I had a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps made up at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
If the ebay link shows no hats listed, contact me at alan@linuxitch.com, or send a paypal payment of $20 (includes shipping to the contiguous 48 states only!!) for a cap and priority mail (2-3 day) shipping plus delivery confirmation! If you live outside the US or elsewhere, contact me for rates.
Thank you for your support.
Sorry about linuxitch.com not working. Here's my corrected submission... (note to self ... use the 'Preview' button -- )
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, maybe I am tooting my own horn, but I had a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps made up at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
Thank you for your support.
Not to toot my own horn -- ok, may I am tooting my own horn, but I've created a bunch of Linux/Tux the penguin 'free beer' baseball caps at linuxitch.com, my currently pathetic web site. The hats are good quality, light-weight, have an adjustable strap in the back and are available in quantity discounts.
Also, I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Linux Show so if anyone's interested in a cool Linux/open source/techcy gift and helping out a great cause, head on over to linuxitch.com.
Thank you for your support.
It has NOTHING to do with it!! You're missing the point of SCO's floundering actions ... it's a dying company being funded by M$ to spread deathbed FUD around in a last-ditch effort to survive for a few more months to make its shareholders rich.
What they're doing doesn't NEED to make sense - that's not the ultimate goal. Watch SCO's stock price. I bet that every time it drops to around $8 or so, it will release some ludacris statement about how the GPL is invalid, how ALL operating systems belong to SCO, and next how those oxygen molecules you're breathing contains electrons based on SCO's IP.
It's all a smokescreen BS act. The BEST thing the Linux community as a whole can do is to get on with our development efforts and ignore SCO. Any company acting as panicky and outlandishly as SCO is will do the most damage to itself by itself. It's like the tazmanian devil right right now, but eventually it will run out of breath (and money) and will be just left at the bottom of the canyon to wither and die in the sweltering sun.
hopefully!