I for one am the owner of a Pocket PC with a built-in WiFi chipset, and I don't like the idea of mandatory ads obscuring half of my device's tiny screen. I might not even be able to use the service at all if it requires software to be installed (probably Windows only, and/or resource hogging.)
But you see, you are forgetting the beauty of Linux. Even if someday Linux does become a desktop OS like Windows, you will still be free to choose a more nerdy distribution. Even today you can choose between easy distros (Fedora, Mandrake, Ark, etc) and more advanced distros (Slak, Debian, Gentoo, etc.)
I don't think this law would apply to instant messaging or e-mail. Think about real life ways of sending text from one party to another, such as mail. Do you think that you would be held accountable for keeping copies of mail sent to you without informing the sender?
There are still many many many (many) pieces of software for linux that will probably never get a real Windows port. Linux emulation for Windows will make it easier to use this software.
The difference would be that you can run already availble Linux binaries under Windows rather than trying to get programs to work and compile for Windows under Cygwin.
Look, this proposed.mail TLD is just a whitelist. Mail from other domains still goes through, it would just be subjected to regular spam filters which your mail shouldn't be getting caught by anyway. You can still host your mail server, just don't send any spam from it. (Which I'm sure you're not doing anyway.)
I don't see why everyone is so excited about this Lycoris Linux distribution. I mean, Linux has been avaiable for iPaqs and Zauruses for years. The Familiar Linux Distribution for iPaqs is in version 0.7.2, and is in my opinion very stable already. And for Zauruses, not only does it run Linux out of the box, but the OpenZaurus project has provided an alternative for users. Both of these projects already have Opie, a Qtopia look-a-like as an option for desktop environments, but you can also use GPE as well.
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I for one am the owner of a Pocket PC with a built-in WiFi chipset, and I don't like the idea of mandatory ads obscuring half of my device's tiny screen. I might not even be able to use the service at all if it requires software to be installed (probably Windows only, and/or resource hogging.)
But you see, you are forgetting the beauty of Linux. Even if someday Linux does become a desktop OS like Windows, you will still be free to choose a more nerdy distribution. Even today you can choose between easy distros (Fedora, Mandrake, Ark, etc) and more advanced distros (Slak, Debian, Gentoo, etc.)
I don't think this law would apply to instant messaging or e-mail. Think about real life ways of sending text from one party to another, such as mail. Do you think that you would be held accountable for keeping copies of mail sent to you without informing the sender?
There are still many many many (many) pieces of software for linux that will probably never get a real Windows port. Linux emulation for Windows will make it easier to use this software.
The difference would be that you can run already availble Linux binaries under Windows rather than trying to get programs to work and compile for Windows under Cygwin.
Using Wine to emulate Windows to emulate Linux...
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My brain hurts.
Look, this proposed .mail TLD is just a whitelist. Mail from other domains still goes through, it would just be subjected to regular spam filters which your mail shouldn't be getting caught by anyway. You can still host your mail server, just don't send any spam from it. (Which I'm sure you're not doing anyway.)
I don't see why everyone is so excited about this Lycoris Linux distribution. I mean, Linux has been avaiable for iPaqs and Zauruses for years. The Familiar Linux Distribution for iPaqs is in version 0.7.2, and is in my opinion very stable already. And for Zauruses, not only does it run Linux out of the box, but the OpenZaurus project has provided an alternative for users. Both of these projects already have Opie, a Qtopia look-a-like as an option for desktop environments, but you can also use GPE as well.
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