You're also not telling the whole story. To start with, he wasn't pocketing anything due to use of pirated software. The software was provided by the firm which was selected at government's bid alongside with computers. The school received computers with software preinstalled. In Russian schools all the accounting is done by centralized office, which oversees all schools in a district. And all those schools do not keep financial documents for whatever they receive from the government (including hardware/software), they even don't see them -- everything is done from that centralized office and computers are in fact owned by that office, not the school.
In the case of Ponosov, actual infringers should be those in both supplier and centralized office -- who installed the software and who owned delivered computers.
Ponosov by no means is innocent and saint, and his lawyers are doing right right thing by asking him to refrain from "apologize" way. The case is brought by government against wrong person and is full of mistakes in investigation process (see Pavel Protasov's analysis at http://www.duralex.org/ there is no need to apologize on things that are incorrectly targeted against you.
We used to have New Year parties until local branch has grown up above 1000 people. This year local senior management decided to shut down those parties and asked all departments to take care themselves. Money which used to be spent on parties instead went to local schools as an equipment we produce.
Indeed. To add, they attempt to present everything in Unicode (UTF-8 namely) but fail to convert properly from 8-bit encodings which are in great use in many countries. Look, for example, http://www.lenta.ru (in Russian), which is showed correctly as far as layout concerned but absolutely unreadable because loband treats its content at ISO8859-1 instead of proper Russian encoding when re-encoding that to UTF-8.
It's pity to see such a basic functionality unimplemented compared to what you already specified -- ELinks/Lynx.
The thing which many tend to forgot is that Sun's compliance test procedure costs a lot of money for any entity wanting to verify its implementation. It effectively rules out Open Source implementation. And I think main problem is how to solve this issue. At my previous company we were able to convince Sun to get compliance tests done without substantial funds but it is still forbidden to use resulted Java implementation (Sun's one, with our portability enhancements for XScale) freely.
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You're also not telling the whole story. To start with, he wasn't pocketing anything due to use of pirated software. The software was provided by the firm which was selected at government's bid alongside with computers. The school received computers with software preinstalled. In Russian schools all the accounting is done by centralized office, which oversees all schools in a district. And all those schools do not keep financial documents for whatever they receive from the government (including hardware/software), they even don't see them -- everything is done from that centralized office and computers are in fact owned by that office, not the school. In the case of Ponosov, actual infringers should be those in both supplier and centralized office -- who installed the software and who owned delivered computers. Ponosov by no means is innocent and saint, and his lawyers are doing right right thing by asking him to refrain from "apologize" way. The case is brought by government against wrong person and is full of mistakes in investigation process (see Pavel Protasov's analysis at http://www.duralex.org/ there is no need to apologize on things that are incorrectly targeted against you.
We used to have New Year parties until local branch has grown up above 1000 people. This year local senior management decided to shut down those parties and asked all departments to take care themselves. Money which used to be spent on parties instead went to local schools as an equipment we produce.
So, this would finally be what 86 in x86 mean, 86 cores.
Indeed. To add, they attempt to present everything in Unicode (UTF-8 namely) but fail to convert properly from 8-bit encodings which are in great use in many countries. Look, for example, http://www.lenta.ru (in Russian), which is showed correctly as far as layout concerned but absolutely unreadable because loband treats its content at ISO8859-1 instead of proper Russian encoding when re-encoding that to UTF-8.
It's pity to see such a basic functionality unimplemented compared to what you already specified -- ELinks/Lynx.
The thing which many tend to forgot is that Sun's compliance test procedure costs a lot of money for any entity wanting to verify its implementation. It effectively rules out Open Source implementation. And I think main problem is how to solve this issue. At my previous company we were able to convince Sun to get compliance tests done without substantial funds but it is still forbidden to use resulted Java implementation (Sun's one, with our portability enhancements for XScale) freely.