As long as OS companies have descrete major versions, people will be buying OSes separately from purchases of their computers. As long as continue to pay for software, they will continue try to pay less or nothing for software.
As for being able to pull off that same anti-competitive practice, I don't think they'll (be abe to) do it again, but I can't prove or disprove this.
I KNOW what these PCs are used for. They are just replaced with a pirated copy of Windows. Trust me. I know.
This is why a sucessful anti-pirating campaign by Microsoft in Asia would be a great boon for FOSS. When you can't get Windows for very cheap or free anymore, do you think that everyone will still want to pay for XP? No, I don't think so. That is where we can fill in the void.
I introduced the "[T]" because I left the quote fragment as a fragment; perhaps that is an error of style. The GP was trying to correct the author, who left the dependent clause without a verb; however, he put it in a place that has absolutely no meaning.
Anyway, it was a misguided attempt at humor, and we will probably all be modded Offtopic for our posts.
Small note: Next time you want to pimp your grammatical skills on Slashdot, proofread. It'll make people take you more seriously. "[T]heir use [is] less likely...."
Also, building something like gnome from source really teaches you the meaning of 'dependency hell.'
Amen.
A modular approach is wonderful, but if there is no overarching system that knows how to tie them together, saying it's a PITA to build is an understatement. At least KDE has Konstruct...
Would this potential deluge give us the impetus to get things changed?
Most lawmakers probably don't know (or care, or whatever) how screwed up the patent system is, so we need something major to happen (like massive corporate attrition) in order to get patent reform on the agenda.
Thank goodness we've found our first vulnerability in Firefox.
First?! I beg to differ with you. Firefox, like any other sufficiently complex program, has had its fair share of security problems.
Perfect security outside of a heavily audited computing environment is a common myth that needs to die, but this is not the first vulnerability for Firefox by far.
It's cross platform(actually, it's just a perl script) and it's GPL, so if you like some stats that aren't calculated yet you can just code them up yourself.
Which is why this article qualifies as pure advert.
For a few of my Slashdot posts (and emails, etc...), I spend as much time thinking about an appropriate subject as I do writing the body.
Most of the time, the concept of a subject line works, but sometimes it only detracts from the message. This is especially true for short (as in, shorter than this one) messages.
What is bad is the additional restrictions. And if you cannot freely reditribute your modifications to others, I -for one- question how "open" such source is.
Isn't that one of the argument points between "Open Source" and "Free"?
So, you are promoting corporatism?! Please don't confuse how it is now with how it should be.
I'm thinking that the legal definition of a corporation should be modified to allow liability to be extended directly into executives' personal finances. However, this should be limited by some kind of progressive rate, depending on how much the company is worth. Therefore, small corporate entities (e.g., professional practices) retain their advantage while making the "Big Boys" more liable for their actions.
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz
So you've had a laptop up for one year? Or is uname -a just screwed up?
It's sad that this solution is probably more cost effective (in the short term) than fixing the existing code base.
This is for the PHBs who take this sort of thing seriously.
As long as OS companies have descrete major versions, people will be buying OSes separately from purchases of their computers. As long as continue to pay for software, they will continue try to pay less or nothing for software.
As for being able to pull off that same anti-competitive practice, I don't think they'll (be abe to) do it again, but I can't prove or disprove this.
I KNOW what these PCs are used for. They are just replaced with a pirated copy of Windows. Trust me. I know.
This is why a sucessful anti-pirating campaign by Microsoft in Asia would be a great boon for FOSS. When you can't get Windows for very cheap or free anymore, do you think that everyone will still want to pay for XP? No, I don't think so. That is where we can fill in the void.
I introduced the "[T]" because I left the quote fragment as a fragment; perhaps that is an error of style. The GP was trying to correct the author, who left the dependent clause without a verb; however, he put it in a place that has absolutely no meaning.
Anyway, it was a misguided attempt at humor, and we will probably all be modded Offtopic for our posts.
Small note: Next time you want to pimp your grammatical skills on Slashdot, proofread. It'll make people take you more seriously. "[T]heir use [is] less likely...."
Also, building something like gnome from source really teaches you the meaning of 'dependency hell.'
Amen.
A modular approach is wonderful, but if there is no overarching system that knows how to tie them together, saying it's a PITA to build is an understatement. At least KDE has Konstruct...
Some want the advantage of completely bootstrapping without the wussiness of Gentoo ebuilds (just kidding).
Breaking Lego creations is not funny. It's just not. Don't even joke about it.
Would this potential deluge give us the impetus to get things changed?
Most lawmakers probably don't know (or care, or whatever) how screwed up the patent system is, so we need something major to happen (like massive corporate attrition) in order to get patent reform on the agenda.
Now can we get back to work on SVG, so we at least have the possibility of an open format.
Something. Anything.
Thank goodness we've found our first vulnerability in Firefox.
First?! I beg to differ with you. Firefox, like any other sufficiently complex program, has had its fair share of security problems.
Perfect security outside of a heavily audited computing environment is a common myth that needs to die, but this is not the first vulnerability for Firefox by far.
It's cross platform(actually, it's just a perl script) and it's GPL, so if you like some stats that aren't calculated yet you can just code them up yourself.
Which is why this article qualifies as pure advert.
For a few of my Slashdot posts (and emails, etc...), I spend as much time thinking about an appropriate subject as I do writing the body.
Most of the time, the concept of a subject line works, but sometimes it only detracts from the message. This is especially true for short (as in, shorter than this one) messages.
Any other suggestions for good adult boardgames?
Twister? (with some modifications, of course)
What is bad is the additional restrictions. And if you cannot freely reditribute your modifications to others, I -for one- question how "open" such source is.
Isn't that one of the argument points between "Open Source" and "Free"?
I was joking more along the lines of the "invasive therapy" part. But that works too.
a three hour long invasive therapy I have to go through every morning (much like showering).
Damn... what kind of shower are you taking?
I don't think that form is his originally either. Though I do want to give whoever actually did write it a high-five.
So, you are promoting corporatism?! Please don't confuse how it is now with how it should be.
I'm thinking that the legal definition of a corporation should be modified to allow liability to be extended directly into executives' personal finances. However, this should be limited by some kind of progressive rate, depending on how much the company is worth. Therefore, small corporate entities (e.g., professional practices) retain their advantage while making the "Big Boys" more liable for their actions.
Many people are on the side of those doing bad things to spammers. Even if it happens to be Microsoft or AOL. Which is scary.
double sanity check failure
Man, I've seen minimalism before, but 15k makes a difference? How much RAM is on that machine? Surely there's a better reason that.