Posters would be stored in pdf format once they are completed. That is generally the case anyway. ooo impress does pretty much everything that powerpoint does, so I can't see a problem there. The main potential problems with Excel are going to be spreadsheets that link to external data, and macros, but generally, if they have complex spreadsheets, they are probably using the wrong tool for the job.
It doesn't. And I don't think there is a way to turn such behaviour on.
The main thing stopping me from using ooo calc is that it doesn't support web queries. I use them to pick up stock prices off various web sites, then after a bit of processing the results (change in value of my stock holdings) get fed into an access database.
Pretty much everyone has Acrobat Reader or some other program that can read pdfs, but I've no idea where you would find a postscript viewer for Windows.
Also, people choose pdf in the mistaken belief that it isn't editable, so being able to do nifty things to postscript isn't going to attract them to the format.
Well studies on accident rates show that any perceived reduction in accidents following the installation of a revenue camera can be fully explained by regression towards the mean - ie, a stretch of road has a particularly bad year for accidents due to the normal standard deviation, they put up a camera, and accident rates fall back towards the average, as they would have done anyway.
On the M25 and M42, two of the busiest roads in the country, the variable speed signs have revenue cameras attached to them, so anyone who disobeys them gets fined.
Yes, but given that you need to give the computer permission to delete a desktop icon (if it is in the "all users" folder), most users will just grant permission whenever it is requested.
Not only that, but the two virus checkers would insist on scanning each other before letting the other scan the file, and probably before allowing each other to scan each other.
Very good. In Britain, ADSL is available to about 99.8% of the population. Basically to find yourself without ADSL availability, you would need to be living in a farmhouse in a particularly remote part of the Scottish highlands.
The purpose of copyright as stated in the US constitution is to encourage greater creation and distribution of creative works.
"The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
I think the problem is that (x)html is trying to be two very different things. It is trying to be a universal document format for presenting information. It is also trying to be a universal presentation manager for thin client applications. The technical requirements for these are very different, and it may well be that two different standards are appropriate.
And Scour Exchange, and disguised mp3s hosted on Geocities and Tripod sites.
But the important thing about Napster wasn't the technology, it was bringing everything together into something that anybody could use and taking it to the mass market.
What made it successful was the fact that lots of people were using it, and as a result there was lots of music to chose from.
Well it is the same as giving the florist the phone number of the recipient and asking them to phone her to find out where they should be delivered to. That clearly is not patentable, so European law says that doing it using a computer isn't patentable either.
Software and business method patents aren't allowed in Europe, and this "invention" seems to be a method of carrying on business implemented in software - someone buys something, and the vendor contacts the recipient to get a shipping address.
In the US, however, such patents are permitted, so challenging it would be a bit more difficult.
I'm sure there already is a suitable alternative route. The problem is that the satnav probably thinks you can do the dirt track at 60mph, whereas the bypass probably has a longer distance, and a speed limit of 50mph.
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
[with the further clarification that: "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code."]
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
c) doesn't apply here because it is a commercial distribution. Also they don't have a three year contract with Canonical to host the source code, and in any case, they modified some of it.
So, in summary, you must either host the source code on the same server as the binaries, have a contract in place to host the source code for the next three years, or make an offer to supply the source for no more than the cost of burning a CD and mailing it to you.
There have been previous court cases on the GPL, and in every case, the courts have ruled that the terms are perfectly valid and enforceable.
And the programs wine does run reliably, such as Office 2000 (not including Access), are programs where there are already suitable native alternatives which do the job much better.
If it was in Europe, they would almost certainly have to register as an electronic money issuer, just like Paypal Europe is (in Luxembourg). That does give some protection, but not as much as the FSCS guarantee, which the the equivalent of FDIC.
I think he is happy with the attribution share alike licence, but definitely not happy with, for example, the non-commercial licence. I guess his main concern is people like you refer to it as one licence, and don't realise that some licences are OK (in his view) and others aren't.
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Posters would be stored in pdf format once they are completed. That is generally the case anyway. ooo impress does pretty much everything that powerpoint does, so I can't see a problem there. The main potential problems with Excel are going to be spreadsheets that link to external data, and macros, but generally, if they have complex spreadsheets, they are probably using the wrong tool for the job.
It doesn't. And I don't think there is a way to turn such behaviour on.
The main thing stopping me from using ooo calc is that it doesn't support web queries. I use them to pick up stock prices off various web sites, then after a bit of processing the results (change in value of my stock holdings) get fed into an access database.
Pretty much everyone has Acrobat Reader or some other program that can read pdfs, but I've no idea where you would find a postscript viewer for Windows.
Also, people choose pdf in the mistaken belief that it isn't editable, so being able to do nifty things to postscript isn't going to attract them to the format.
Well studies on accident rates show that any perceived reduction in accidents following the installation of a revenue camera can be fully explained by regression towards the mean - ie, a stretch of road has a particularly bad year for accidents due to the normal standard deviation, they put up a camera, and accident rates fall back towards the average, as they would have done anyway.
On the M25 and M42, two of the busiest roads in the country, the variable speed signs have revenue cameras attached to them, so anyone who disobeys them gets fined.
Yes, but given that you need to give the computer permission to delete a desktop icon (if it is in the "all users" folder), most users will just grant permission whenever it is requested.
Not only that, but the two virus checkers would insist on scanning each other before letting the other scan the file, and probably before allowing each other to scan each other.
Very good. In Britain, ADSL is available to about 99.8% of the population. Basically to find yourself without ADSL availability, you would need to be living in a farmhouse in a particularly remote part of the Scottish highlands.
You've got it the wrong way round.
The purpose of copyright as stated in the US constitution is to encourage greater creation and distribution of creative works.
"The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
I think the problem is that (x)html is trying to be two very different things. It is trying to be a universal document format for presenting information. It is also trying to be a universal presentation manager for thin client applications. The technical requirements for these are very different, and it may well be that two different standards are appropriate.
And Scour Exchange, and disguised mp3s hosted on Geocities and Tripod sites.
But the important thing about Napster wasn't the technology, it was bringing everything together into something that anybody could use and taking it to the mass market.
What made it successful was the fact that lots of people were using it, and as a result there was lots of music to chose from.
Well, two service packs and lots of bug fixes later, it is a much more reliable system now.
No doubt in five years time, Vista will be equally reliable, and we can take advantage of its improved security features.
I'm trying to imagine how many 2GB micro SD cards like the one I have in my phone you could fit inside that.
Well it is the same as giving the florist the phone number of the recipient and asking them to phone her to find out where they should be delivered to. That clearly is not patentable, so European law says that doing it using a computer isn't patentable either.
Software and business method patents aren't allowed in Europe, and this "invention" seems to be a method of carrying on business implemented in software - someone buys something, and the vendor contacts the recipient to get a shipping address.
In the US, however, such patents are permitted, so challenging it would be a bit more difficult.
Have you tried installing Flash on 64bit Vista?
I have. I managed it. But it wasn't easy. Nowhere near as easy as Ubuntu.
I'm sure there already is a suitable alternative route. The problem is that the satnav probably thinks you can do the dirt track at 60mph, whereas the bypass probably has a longer distance, and a speed limit of 50mph.
An MD5 sum would almost certainly be covered by fair use.
The GPL is quite clear on this
You must do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
[with the further clarification that: "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code."]
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
c) doesn't apply here because it is a commercial distribution. Also they don't have a three year contract with Canonical to host the source code, and in any case, they modified some of it.
So, in summary, you must either host the source code on the same server as the binaries, have a contract in place to host the source code for the next three years, or make an offer to supply the source for no more than the cost of burning a CD and mailing it to you.
There have been previous court cases on the GPL, and in every case, the courts have ruled that the terms are perfectly valid and enforceable.
Yes, which is why all the mirrors I've seen host the source packages as well.
And the programs wine does run reliably, such as Office 2000 (not including Access), are programs where there are already suitable native alternatives which do the job much better.
That would be OK for some programs, but this is Photoshop we are talking about, and good performance is pretty important here.
For Burger King, yes.
But how many people read these dozen newspapers? I would guess a lot more than twelve people.
If it was in Europe, they would almost certainly have to register as an electronic money issuer, just like Paypal Europe is (in Luxembourg). That does give some protection, but not as much as the FSCS guarantee, which the the equivalent of FDIC.
I think he is happy with the attribution share alike licence, but definitely not happy with, for example, the non-commercial licence. I guess his main concern is people like you refer to it as one licence, and don't realise that some licences are OK (in his view) and others aren't.