Except that the Commission has stated that it requires Microsoft to release the same information on any new APIs or changes to APIs that happen in the future.
If the 'proprietary' software was developed by an 'independent' commercial organisation, I couldn't care less.
But what is an independent commercial organsiation? In the past couple of years the EU was considering tenders for the missile system (or something) of the Euro-Jet and an independent US commercial company was in the running. One of the reasons for rejecting the tender was that the US could block the sale of the Euro-Jet to a particular nation because it contained US manufactured parts.
Similar concerns could be raised about security in MS software - are there backdoors in the software (lets ignored the much publicised bugs for now) that are provided for the US government to easily break into the OS? If so, then even the independent commercial organisation called MS can be considered a security risk by any nation who is on less than friendly terms with the US.
Just because a commercial organisation is independent of the government in its home nation does not necessarily mean that there is no interference from that home government when it come to national security concerns.
And as for creating OS features and enhancements that they require, they would almost certainly pay for the R&D for that - if the government didnt pay for it, who would pay to provide the features they require?
Define 'free'. Remember, these governments are talking about creating a system *based* on Linux. MacOS X is *based* of FreeBSD - that doesn't make it free or open.
Being based on FreeBSD doesnt necessarily make it open, but being based on Linux should.
While China (and possibly Korea, is it north or sounth we are talking about here?) might not respect the GPL, I would say that Japan would - so an OS based on Linux and developed in part by them would likely end up open source.
I dont know too much about Enderle myself, but a number of posters on Groklaw (a paralegals blog covering the SCO case) read a lot of his articles and say that he is fervently anti-open source - apparently he called Linux developers terrorists and thieves in recent articles (the quote was along the lines of open sourcers seem to believe that stealing is ok, so long as they are the ones doing it).
Somebody also mentioned his anti-open source stance is based not on a dislike of the methodology of the results of the technology, but because he has had a personal dispute with some open source developers or supporters - his pro-MS, pro-SCO stance is apparently nothing more than a personnel vendetta against those people.
Another viewpoint is that he is simply a troll employ to keep high page hits on his publishers website.
Irish independence is a myth
Id like to hear more of your point of view, assuming you have some information to back up this unsubstantiated claim...
Ireland is economically tied to the UK, as the largest importers of Irish exports, but Irish laws are passed by the Irish government, referendums voted on by Irish people (and not UK people) - Ireland accepted the Euro, whereas their former occupiers did not. The Irish government has been suing the British government over the dangers the Sellafield nuclear plant poses to Ireland (just sixty miles from the Irish coast and negligently/corruptly run).
Where in this do you find that Irish independence is a myth? Is there something I have missed?
behaviour in WW2 a total disgrace
Not being a history buff I dont actually know what behaviour you are talking about here - unless it is the disgrace of neutrality, a disgrace which the US would share if not for Pearl Harbour...
What I can know, or can find on Google includes:
1. US used NORTHERN Ireland (i.e. Britain) as a base for their war efort.
2. 70,000 Irish people opted to join the British Foriegn Legion (while more joined the US, Canadian and South African armies).
Churchill, speaking in 1948, noted "none of us can ever forget - the superb gallantry of the scores of thousands of Southern Irishmen who fought... and of the famous Victoria Crosses which eight of them gained by their outstanding valour."
3. There was a prisoner of war camp in County Kildare where (Ireland bein neutral) prisoners of war from both sides were kept. The seperation of prisoners from both sides of the war was nominal and prisoners were often allowed down to the local for a few pints, so long as they were back at curfew. Many prisoners from both sides ending getting married to locals and staying in Ireland after the war.
4. During the war, there were times that the IRA (a terrorist organisation in no way affiliated with the elected government of Ireland) sent Hempel (German ambassador in Ireland) information to be passed on to the Nazi's in Berlin. It was at this point that the IRA even considered their own government an enemy.
This is the extent of my knowledge on Irish involvement in WWII, but I see nothing there that would label Irish behaviour a disgrace - what am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
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The other guys have already made the point that you are mixing up the two techniques.
Id just like to add that even if you are a solid state chemist, there is only one company in the world that has created these flawless lab diamonds (the guy from Wired had them tested) - and the only people who can tell you how do it work for that company, so you are unlikely to get an answer on how they got the metastable phase fixed.
The closest answer I can give you (and it is from the Wired article if youd care to read it) is: To grow single-crystal diamond using chemical vapor deposition, you must first divine the exact combination of temperature, gas composition, and pressure - a "sweet spot" that results in the formation of a single crystal. Otherwise, innumerable small diamond crystals will rain down. Hitting on the single-crystal sweet spot is like locating a single grain of sand on the beach. There's only one combination among millions. In 1996, Linares found it.
If you want to know more about it then realise that (again, direct quote from Wired): This June, he finally received a US patent for the process, which already is producing flawless stones. So the information you require should be found in the US patent office.
If they want so badly to unify, other countries that have had various disputes in their history should follow France and Germany's lead, and likewise work together.
This is true to a degree, but still a bit simplistic - some countries have a longer history of disputes eg. Ireland was occupied by Britain when there was no specific Irish state - Ireland divided into 4 kingdoms overseen by one High King; and no British state - England, or part of it was ruled by a Norman king was a servant of the Norman high king. In the following 800 years England became a country, then an empire, but the Irish fought for their freedom all along (and were treated as 2nd class citizens, had their religion outlawed, their language outlawed etc...).
Distrust between nations over such a long period of time takes more time again to dissipate. Simply saying "Oh, follow their lead" will not work out in practice.
Secondly, a number of nations are upset that the big nations esp. France and Germany are pushing their own agenda to the detriment of smaller members of the EU - this means that on some level there must be powerplays stalling actions in order to ensure fairness and equality for all nations in the EU.
I know Ive waffled a bit, but I hope I got my point across...:o)
Extramedura is a province in Spain, just west of Madrid. Its quite a poor mountainous farming province, but where my mate lives (Jaraiz de la Vera in Extramadura) they grow one hell of a lot of tobacco - I visited the area before moving to Madrid and everywhere I looked were fields full of tobacco.
For what its worth, the monks in De Yuste (same province) make one hell of a fine beer - very unusual for Spaniards!!
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Except that the Commission has stated that it requires Microsoft to release the same information on any new APIs or changes to APIs that happen in the future.
But what is an independent commercial organsiation? In the past couple of years the EU was considering tenders for the missile system (or something) of the Euro-Jet and an independent US commercial company was in the running. One of the reasons for rejecting the tender was that the US could block the sale of the Euro-Jet to a particular nation because it contained US manufactured parts.
Similar concerns could be raised about security in MS software - are there backdoors in the software (lets ignored the much publicised bugs for now) that are provided for the US government to easily break into the OS? If so, then even the independent commercial organisation called MS can be considered a security risk by any nation who is on less than friendly terms with the US.
Just because a commercial organisation is independent of the government in its home nation does not necessarily mean that there is no interference from that home government when it come to national security concerns.
And as for creating OS features and enhancements that they require, they would almost certainly pay for the R&D for that - if the government didnt pay for it, who would pay to provide the features they require?
Being based on FreeBSD doesnt necessarily make it open, but being based on Linux should. While China (and possibly Korea, is it north or sounth we are talking about here?) might not respect the GPL, I would say that Japan would - so an OS based on Linux and developed in part by them would likely end up open source.
I dont know too much about Enderle myself, but a number of posters on Groklaw (a paralegals blog covering the SCO case) read a lot of his articles and say that he is fervently anti-open source - apparently he called Linux developers terrorists and thieves in recent articles (the quote was along the lines of open sourcers seem to believe that stealing is ok, so long as they are the ones doing it).
Somebody also mentioned his anti-open source stance is based not on a dislike of the methodology of the results of the technology, but because he has had a personal dispute with some open source developers or supporters - his pro-MS, pro-SCO stance is apparently nothing more than a personnel vendetta against those people.
Another viewpoint is that he is simply a troll employ to keep high page hits on his publishers website.
Irish independence is a myth Id like to hear more of your point of view, assuming you have some information to back up this unsubstantiated claim... Ireland is economically tied to the UK, as the largest importers of Irish exports, but Irish laws are passed by the Irish government, referendums voted on by Irish people (and not UK people) - Ireland accepted the Euro, whereas their former occupiers did not. The Irish government has been suing the British government over the dangers the Sellafield nuclear plant poses to Ireland (just sixty miles from the Irish coast and negligently/corruptly run). Where in this do you find that Irish independence is a myth? Is there something I have missed? behaviour in WW2 a total disgrace Not being a history buff I dont actually know what behaviour you are talking about here - unless it is the disgrace of neutrality, a disgrace which the US would share if not for Pearl Harbour... What I can know, or can find on Google includes: 1. US used NORTHERN Ireland (i.e. Britain) as a base for their war efort. 2. 70,000 Irish people opted to join the British Foriegn Legion (while more joined the US, Canadian and South African armies). Churchill, speaking in 1948, noted "none of us can ever forget - the superb gallantry of the scores of thousands of Southern Irishmen who fought ... and of the famous Victoria Crosses which eight of them gained by their outstanding valour."
3. There was a prisoner of war camp in County Kildare where (Ireland bein neutral) prisoners of war from both sides were kept. The seperation of prisoners from both sides of the war was nominal and prisoners were often allowed down to the local for a few pints, so long as they were back at curfew. Many prisoners from both sides ending getting married to locals and staying in Ireland after the war.
4. During the war, there were times that the IRA (a terrorist organisation in no way affiliated with the elected government of Ireland) sent Hempel (German ambassador in Ireland) information to be passed on to the Nazi's in Berlin. It was at this point that the IRA even considered their own government an enemy.
This is the extent of my knowledge on Irish involvement in WWII, but I see nothing there that would label Irish behaviour a disgrace - what am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
The other guys have already made the point that you are mixing up the two techniques.
Id just like to add that even if you are a solid state chemist, there is only one company in the world that has created these flawless lab diamonds (the guy from Wired had them tested) - and the only people who can tell you how do it work for that company, so you are unlikely to get an answer on how they got the metastable phase fixed.
The closest answer I can give you (and it is from the Wired article if youd care to read it) is:
To grow single-crystal diamond using chemical vapor deposition, you must first divine the exact combination of temperature, gas composition, and pressure - a "sweet spot" that results in the formation of a single crystal. Otherwise, innumerable small diamond crystals will rain down. Hitting on the single-crystal sweet spot is like locating a single grain of sand on the beach. There's only one combination among millions. In 1996, Linares found it.
If you want to know more about it then realise that (again, direct quote from Wired):
This June, he finally received a US patent for the process, which already is producing flawless stones.
So the information you require should be found in the US patent office.
If they want so badly to unify, other countries that have had various disputes in their history should follow France and Germany's lead, and likewise work together. This is true to a degree, but still a bit simplistic - some countries have a longer history of disputes eg. Ireland was occupied by Britain when there was no specific Irish state - Ireland divided into 4 kingdoms overseen by one High King; and no British state - England, or part of it was ruled by a Norman king was a servant of the Norman high king. In the following 800 years England became a country, then an empire, but the Irish fought for their freedom all along (and were treated as 2nd class citizens, had their religion outlawed, their language outlawed etc...). Distrust between nations over such a long period of time takes more time again to dissipate. Simply saying "Oh, follow their lead" will not work out in practice. Secondly, a number of nations are upset that the big nations esp. France and Germany are pushing their own agenda to the detriment of smaller members of the EU - this means that on some level there must be powerplays stalling actions in order to ensure fairness and equality for all nations in the EU. I know Ive waffled a bit, but I hope I got my point across... :o)
Extramedura is a province in Spain, just west of Madrid. Its quite a poor mountainous farming province, but where my mate lives (Jaraiz de la Vera in Extramadura) they grow one hell of a lot of tobacco - I visited the area before moving to Madrid and everywhere I looked were fields full of tobacco.
For what its worth, the monks in De Yuste (same province) make one hell of a fine beer - very unusual for Spaniards!!