As I understand it, in the UK, the photographer owns the copyright to the photographs they take. However, that doesn't stop someone else going and taking an identical photo of the same thing.
I do mail merge documents linked to an access database. That's about the only time I use Word. The rest of the time, I use WordPerfect.
On excel, I have a spreadsheet that pulls stock prices from various websites and performs various calculations on them. As far as I can see, OpenOffice.org can't do that.
If OpenOffice is about 95% compatible with Office 2003, then Office 2007 must be about 50% compatible with it. Does that suggest that people will switch to OpenOffice rather tha Office 2007?
Yes, what you are looking at is a web page, but the Times also print their articles on chopped up dead trees and distribute them on quaint old things called news stands around Britain and around the world.
And remember that OpenOffice is mostly developed in Germany, Mandriva is a French company, SuSE is based in Germany, the KDE Foundation is German and no doubt there are many other examples.
We aren't talking about cancelling the copyrights. We are talking about taking MS's property in lieu of unpaid fines, something which they are perfectly entitled to do.
What would happen is that they would auction everything off except the cash to raise the money to pay them, so the copyrights would be sold to someone else.
IE7 is a major improvement on IE6, but it isn't anything like as integrated into the OS. Secondly, if you chose Firefox as your default browser, then all your other MS progs will respect that decision and use it.
Pretty much all the MS websites out there now support Firefox, including their ajax enabled sites such as live.com. The only site that doesn't as as far as I'm aware, is windowsupdate, and Vista won't be using that, as it has its own program for doing updates.
This all gives firefox a major opportunity to take market share from ie.
The point is that they are using their dominant position in the auction / electronic shop front business to force people to use their electronic money issuing service rather than that of their competitors.
In the EU it is an offence to require someone to use a particular product in conjunction with another product, and you can be fined up to 10% of your turnover for it.
We use imperial for some things. Mainly speed and distance on the road, which makes the grandparent post very relevant, and the sale of beer and milk. Pretty much everything else is metric, though a lot of older people still prefer imperial measurements.
VMWare allows you to run your virtual machine in a window and run multiple virtual machines at the same time if your computer is up to it.
That makes it a bit more difficult for it to redirect video stuff direct to the card. A VM Rootkit doesn't need these features, so it can do it pretty easily.
A version of VMWare which didn't have these features would be pretty useless, you may as well run the OS natively.
Do print and connect to wireless networks on my Windows computer, I need to visit canon.co.uk and netgear.com, download the drivers and install them, or dig out the driver CDs from my collection of CDs.
And also because bittorrent is no more a tool to assist in unauthorised copying of copyrighted materials than firefox/apache or ie/iis.
It has demonstratable substantial non-infringing uses, like allowing people to download gnu/linux distributions with the permission of the copyright holder, and the way it is designed makes it difficult for people assisting in infringing copyrights, such as tracker sites and seed nodes to cover their tracks.
In the case of CPUs, the existence of AMD has certainly pushed down prices for Intel compatible chips, and there is a huge cost involved in setting up a Fab which means you have to be pretty big to get the economies of scale necessary to compete. Software isn't like that though.
The equivalent in the grocery market would be setting up your own store to sell food cheaper than the big supermarket down the road. There is nothing to stop you doing this, and there are small shops around.
"Piracy" is capitalism. Capitalism will push prices down to the marginal cost of production, which in the case of software is pretty much $0. The only costs are for blank CDs and bandwidth, which the "pirates" do pay for.
Copyright isn't a capitalist tool, it is something that was introduced to counter a perceived problem with capitalism. Like all attempts to counter the free market, it creates an arbitrage situation where the black market price is much cheaper than the official legal market price.
If they couldn't get Photoshop, they would soon find out what the Gimp was. Some of them may even contribute to making a better Gimp that can be used by non-technical users.
I haven't seen Windows crash since Windows 2000 SP1, or linux crash for a lot longer than that, so I think Tannenbaum is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Of course I seen lots of programs crash, but a microkernel isn't going to solve that.
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As I understand it, in the UK, the photographer owns the copyright to the photographs they take. However, that doesn't stop someone else going and taking an identical photo of the same thing.
I do mail merge documents linked to an access database. That's about the only time I use Word. The rest of the time, I use WordPerfect.
On excel, I have a spreadsheet that pulls stock prices from various websites and performs various calculations on them. As far as I can see, OpenOffice.org can't do that.
Which has happened. Don't know if it was succesful though.
If OpenOffice is about 95% compatible with Office 2003, then Office 2007 must be about 50% compatible with it. Does that suggest that people will switch to OpenOffice rather tha Office 2007?
Yes, what you are looking at is a web page, but the Times also print their articles on chopped up dead trees and distribute them on quaint old things called news stands around Britain and around the world.
And remember that OpenOffice is mostly developed in Germany, Mandriva is a French company, SuSE is based in Germany, the KDE Foundation is German and no doubt there are many other examples.
We aren't talking about cancelling the copyrights. We are talking about taking MS's property in lieu of unpaid fines, something which they are perfectly entitled to do.
What would happen is that they would auction everything off except the cash to raise the money to pay them, so the copyrights would be sold to someone else.
IE7 is a major improvement on IE6, but it isn't anything like as integrated into the OS. Secondly, if you chose Firefox as your default browser, then all your other MS progs will respect that decision and use it.
Pretty much all the MS websites out there now support Firefox, including their ajax enabled sites such as live.com. The only site that doesn't as as far as I'm aware, is windowsupdate, and Vista won't be using that, as it has its own program for doing updates.
This all gives firefox a major opportunity to take market share from ie.
What about Mac-on-linux? http://www.maconlinux.org/
This will enable you to run Mac OSX on a machine with the likes of YellowDog installed as the host OS.
Could you share the drive on the network and access it via Samba or whatever OSX uses?
That's not the point.
The point is that they are using their dominant position in the auction / electronic shop front business to force people to use their electronic money issuing service rather than that of their competitors.
In the EU it is an offence to require someone to use a particular product in conjunction with another product, and you can be fined up to 10% of your turnover for it.
We use imperial for some things. Mainly speed and distance on the road, which makes the grandparent post very relevant, and the sale of beer and milk. Pretty much everything else is metric, though a lot of older people still prefer imperial measurements.
It tells you that this line of enquiry is inconclusive.
If it had been exactly as fitted in the factory with no movements since, then it would be reasonably safe to conclude that it didn't happen.
VMWare allows you to run your virtual machine in a window and run multiple virtual machines at the same time if your computer is up to it.
That makes it a bit more difficult for it to redirect video stuff direct to the card. A VM Rootkit doesn't need these features, so it can do it pretty easily.
A version of VMWare which didn't have these features would be pretty useless, you may as well run the OS natively.
There is no church income tax in Britain, but I believe Germany has it, and evidently Finland does as well.
If you are a member of the church, you have to pay additional income tax which is collected by the tax authorities and passed over to the church.
In Britain, we just pass a collection bowl round at the services and people put in what they want.
In Britain, pretty much all the urban electricity supply is underground. Only supplies to farmhouses, and the high voltage network are above ground.
Like the French Autoroute system?
You will be accused of being unamerican next.
You don't need to grant a 26 year monopoly to encourage software innovation. In fact, innovation works much better in this area without monopolies.
No, it is Soviet America. In Soviet Russia, you can legally download music without any digital restrictions management at very reasonable prices.
In Europe, we have the EUCD which does pretty much the same as the DMCA does in America.
Do print and connect to wireless networks on my Windows computer, I need to visit canon.co.uk and netgear.com, download the drivers and install them, or dig out the driver CDs from my collection of CDs.
And also because bittorrent is no more a tool to assist in unauthorised copying of copyrighted materials than firefox/apache or ie/iis.
It has demonstratable substantial non-infringing uses, like allowing people to download gnu/linux distributions with the permission of the copyright holder, and the way it is designed makes it difficult for people assisting in infringing copyrights, such as tracker sites and seed nodes to cover their tracks.
In the case of CPUs, the existence of AMD has certainly pushed down prices for Intel compatible chips, and there is a huge cost involved in setting up a Fab which means you have to be pretty big to get the economies of scale necessary to compete. Software isn't like that though.
The equivalent in the grocery market would be setting up your own store to sell food cheaper than the big supermarket down the road. There is nothing to stop you doing this, and there are small shops around.
"Piracy" is capitalism. Capitalism will push prices down to the marginal cost of production, which in the case of software is pretty much $0. The only costs are for blank CDs and bandwidth, which the "pirates" do pay for.
Copyright isn't a capitalist tool, it is something that was introduced to counter a perceived problem with capitalism. Like all attempts to counter the free market, it creates an arbitrage situation where the black market price is much cheaper than the official legal market price.
If they couldn't get Photoshop, they would soon find out what the Gimp was. Some of them may even contribute to making a better Gimp that can be used by non-technical users.
I haven't seen Windows crash since Windows 2000 SP1, or linux crash for a lot longer than that, so I think Tannenbaum is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Of course I seen lots of programs crash, but a microkernel isn't going to solve that.