Major cock-up on the MS legal team's part - unless they wish to sue for inclusion of patented technology in a defunct product. No, I'm not trolling, it's just that the agreement mentions "Open Office" and not "OpenOffice.org" (the name OO.org had to take for trademark reasons). Unless their ambiguous wording ("the product developed by Sun and generally known as Open Office") would hold up in a court of law, they really have no-one to sue - unless they want to litigate against the product which got to the name first (highly unlikely).
It's not in violation provided they let you have the sourcecode - which they do, conveniently for download next to the binaries. I don't see the issue here. If people want the sourcecode they can have it , in compliance with the GPL.
Given that it's shareware with a 30 day binary license, does this mean that since it's sourcecode is GPLd, they must provide the source to the code which enforces the 30 day trial? Strictly udner the GPL this should happen, but it would be suicide if someone could just come along, request the source and use it to break the crippleware timer.
I don't see any way how one could lock a user out after 30 days without it being breakable from seeing the sourcecode.
Don't be fooled by the desktop statistics. Just because Windows or OS X came on the box, doesn't mean that it wasn't immediately wiped and replaced with Linux. Until bundling of operating systems with hardware is abandoned, those statistics will never be reliable.
I had a a similar problem (albeit with a home box) under XP. The worst of it is that you can't just download the update installer and unplug the 'net connection because the installer itself does downloading. Since the other two boxes in my house run Gentoo and Redhat I couldn't download the patches from there (Does this look familiar?) and had to just race against time for 5 or 6 attempts before it worked.
Misread that as 2.8. Was about to download and compile it:'( But seriously (Not Trolling), what exactly is the point of announcing minor versions on/.?
Maybe they should be running custom software designed for the specific purpose, rather than a system that isn't designed for danger of death situations?
According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years.
In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased, mainly due to lying about their geek stereotyped profession;-)
Alas, the general sentiment of the article goes the other way. Evidently freedom holds more weight with slashbots than something not coming from Redmond.
Richard Stallman does actually know how to program. Although some may argue against it, it took programming knowledge to help write GNU Emacs;-) (As well as working on gcc and gdb if Emacs doesn't hold enough credibility for you).
Then what am I doing studying from textbooks and writing essays? Real life may be graphical, but a wide range of employment is text based. The key is an even balance to the two, especially if the system is to be used in both settings.
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Syllable aims to be a usable Desktop OS, so it might be kind of silly to run their site off of it ;-)
Major cock-up on the MS legal team's part - unless they wish to sue for inclusion of patented technology in a defunct product. No, I'm not trolling, it's just that the agreement mentions "Open Office" and not "OpenOffice.org" (the name OO.org had to take for trademark reasons). Unless their ambiguous wording ("the product developed by Sun and generally known as Open Office") would hold up in a court of law, they really have no-one to sue - unless they want to litigate against the product which got to the name first (highly unlikely).
It's one of Microsoft's favourite strategys ;)
It's not in violation provided they let you have the sourcecode - which they do, conveniently for download next to the binaries. I don't see the issue here. If people want the sourcecode they can have it , in compliance with the GPL.
Given that it's shareware with a 30 day binary license, does this mean that since it's sourcecode is GPLd, they must provide the source to the code which enforces the 30 day trial? Strictly udner the GPL this should happen, but it would be suicide if someone could just come along, request the source and use it to break the crippleware timer.
I don't see any way how one could lock a user out after 30 days without it being breakable from seeing the sourcecode.
1. One 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
Don't be fooled by the desktop statistics. Just because Windows or OS X came on the box, doesn't mean that it wasn't immediately wiped and replaced with Linux. Until bundling of operating systems with hardware is abandoned, those statistics will never be reliable.
Can't blame a lack of replies on that. It's just that more people tend to RTFA when Linus speaks ;-)
At the kind of prices EDS charge the place I did my work experience, you'd expect exceptional performance out of them O_O
The bottom of the page says that I must be running windows. None of that browser shit =)
I had a a similar problem (albeit with a home box) under XP. The worst of it is that you can't just download the update installer and unplug the 'net connection because the installer itself does downloading. Since the other two boxes in my house run Gentoo and Redhat I couldn't download the patches from there (Does this look familiar?) and had to just race against time for 5 or 6 attempts before it worked.
Because there's a 2 at one end, an 8 at the other and I don't expect Slashdot to be announcing minor releases?
Misread that as 2.8. Was about to download and compile it :'( But seriously (Not Trolling), what exactly is the point of announcing minor versions on /.?
Maybe they should be running custom software designed for the specific purpose, rather than a system that isn't designed for danger of death situations?
According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years.
;-)
In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased, mainly due to lying about their geek stereotyped profession
Alas, the general sentiment of the article goes the other way. Evidently freedom holds more weight with slashbots than something not coming from Redmond.
Richard Stallman does actually know how to program. Although some may argue against it, it took programming knowledge to help write GNU Emacs ;-) (As well as working on gcc and gdb if Emacs doesn't hold enough credibility for you).
Actually I spend a lot of my life reading text books :?
Then what am I doing studying from textbooks and writing essays? Real life may be graphical, but a wide range of employment is text based. The key is an even balance to the two, especially if the system is to be used in both settings.
If MS are going to go after some random poster on /. then they can easily subpoena the IP that posted out of OSDN. Sorry to melt the tinfoil hat =)
Better mod this one down before the editors get "sued" :-)
Electric armour will never match my Great Sword +4!
Of course there are many found and patched before the damage is done - they just don't get the kind of press that exploited ones do.
Fedora Core 2 had that issue too, it's kernel based, nought to do with the distribution further than their choice of kernel version.
If only Emacs didn't have prior art, they'd probably have patented the OS within an App ;-)