Eric was on TheLinuxshow last night where his letter to Sun was discussed. (You can hear the show here)
The point of the letter was a follow-up to Sun's comment that they were a "friend of Opensource". There is no metric for what it takes to be a Friend and Eric wanted to put a stake in the ground for what this would entail.
The OpenSource / Torvalds creed of "Show me".
Please note that there is no accusations in Eric's letter. It would have been easy to include the SCO/ Sun tie but he refrained from doing so.
The name is a placeholder (In more than one sense) until Lindows wins the case against MS.
The judge has instructed the jury to evaluate the Trademark of Windows as it was before it was "Given" to MS. They will loose and we can call our favorite OS, Windows for Linux, Windows for BSD etc.
If you think anyone will "Program" at the end of the century IE 96 Years from now you will be disappointed. Yes most of you reading this will be alive by then. Get hold of Spitual Machines by Ray Kurzweil to give you an inclink why.
FYI Your PC will be 9 Billion times faster than today.
Windows is something my mother associates with buttons, menus and blinking cursors.
Must be because it is dark most of the time during winter. Here in the south we associate Windows with Sunshine and ability to assertain at a glance what is going on outside.
As an aside MS co-opted Windows as a means to make it immediately clear what they idea of the software was. This is fine but the took something from the Commons in that process and they need to live with the consequenses.
The flipside of using a generic name is that it stays generic and you can't take it. Get a benefit at the onset pay the price later. Simple as that.
They could have picked a meaningless name or a novel amalgamation Like NetScape and they would have had a slightly steeper initial climb but easier task of protecting it.
psychological condition that makes a person unable to tolerate anything that cannot be explained by logic
Isn't that pretty much what is covered by the term Cognitive Dissonance and how some people have a real problem whereas others are not bothered by inconsistencies.?
What you do not know seems to me the biggest problem
I have no problem with counterfeit measures in Abobe or now in HP's product.
That is as long as I know that it is there. My real concern is all the gunk that is inside commercial closed source software the we do not know.
Think the CIA has not placed a few lines inside Windows? I bet you that a lot of the behind the scene actions against FOOS is driven by Government agencies and politicians Not because the like MS or Adobe etc, but because they know that this is the only way to plant "National Security Hooks"
Rumour has is that Home Turf security honco Tom Ridge has ordered 250Millions of those dodahs. Every US citizen will get one excluding the 10 potential BadGuys he has on his WatchList plus George that can't quite get the hang of how it works.
DuckTape can only get you so far, in this HiTech world Secretary Ridge was quoted.
Yes, Some Buzzword complient person that has no real understanding of the underlaying issues it pretty annoying. The kind of person that buys P4's to Make the Internet go faster TM Intel with his 56K dial-up.
However what tend to irritate me more is someone that has no interest in finding out what was wrong. Meaning that even if it is a absolutely simple issue that person will have no qualms asking for help with same problem a week later.
People that complains about pop-ups but refuses to use Mozilla even with IE skin. You know the type.
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Lest you forget. Windows TM
They had pretty much this is France and changed it. It was 8 years for President, now down to 6 I believe.
The problem is first time around. What if the person is totally inept? You never really know. Think Carter for 10 years and Shudder the Current moron.
I took his word for it, as he mentioned that the letter didn't contain any accusations on the show.
The point of the letter was a follow-up to Sun's comment that they were a "friend of Opensource". There is no metric for what it takes to be a Friend and Eric wanted to put a stake in the ground for what this would entail.
The OpenSource / Torvalds creed of "Show me".
Please note that there is no accusations in Eric's letter. It would have been easy to include the SCO/ Sun tie but he refrained from doing so.
It was supposed to replace X86. Itanic will go same route. Repositioned and slowly fade into the sunset.
The judge has instructed the jury to evaluate the Trademark of Windows as it was before it was "Given" to MS. They will loose and we can call our favorite OS, Windows for Linux, Windows for BSD etc.
FYI Your PC will be 9 Billion times faster than today.
That is why the concept of Burden of proof exist. It is MS' job to prove your read it AND used the knowledge.
Strangely enough this Leak will make Windows more secure in the long run as the code can be studied and possible exploits be "published"
Well Maybe they are not so happy with SCO in Germany
Maybe you missed the 8Gig Flashcard story posted earlier today
Must be because it is dark most of the time during winter. Here in the south we associate Windows with Sunshine and ability to assertain at a glance what is going on outside.
As an aside MS co-opted Windows as a means to make it immediately clear what they idea of the software was. This is fine but the took something from the Commons in that process and they need to live with the consequenses.
The flipside of using a generic name is that it stays generic and you can't take it. Get a benefit at the onset pay the price later. Simple as that.
They could have picked a meaningless name or a novel amalgamation Like NetScape and they would have had a slightly steeper initial climb but easier task of protecting it.
posted Yesterday about Gartner in the midst of a major Virus attack and now this claims MS' code is improving on the Security front.
Isn't that pretty much what is covered by the term Cognitive Dissonance and how some people have a real problem whereas others are not bothered by inconsistencies.?
They are all made-up, most likely by someone with Schizotypal syndrome.
More likely:
2. Force the remaining 76% of the worlds handset makers to coalese arounf the Linux kernel.
3.????
4. Loss
Remember Nokia is view as the potential Great Satan by the balance of the makers. They will do almost anything to avoid MS' and Nokia's SW
Wonder if calling him a Big Dick qualifies as Affirmative Defense
Basically they just spouted the SCO byline with no effort to avail themselves of any information concerning the origin and purpose of the virus.
Now why would you want to concern yourselves with anything else they write.
I have no problem with counterfeit measures in Abobe or now in HP's product.
That is as long as I know that it is there. My real concern is all the gunk that is inside commercial closed source software the we do not know.
Think the CIA has not placed a few lines inside Windows? I bet you that a lot of the behind the scene actions against FOOS is driven by Government agencies and politicians Not because the like MS or Adobe etc, but because they know that this is the only way to plant "National Security Hooks"
They got shafted by TheKompany and need some help so download it a send a few bucks their way if you like it. Runs on Linux and Windows.
DuckTape can only get you so far, in this HiTech world Secretary Ridge was quoted.
Yes, Some Buzzword complient person that has no real understanding of the underlaying issues it pretty annoying. The kind of person that buys P4's to Make the Internet go faster TM Intel with his 56K dial-up.
However what tend to irritate me more is someone that has no interest in finding out what was wrong. Meaning that even if it is a absolutely simple issue that person will have no qualms asking for help with same problem a week later.
People that complains about pop-ups but refuses to use Mozilla even with IE skin. You know the type.
Miss Gatsby: You're very cheerful this morning, Mr Fawlty.
Basil: (cheerfully) Yes, well one of the guests has just died.
(Polly slaps Miss Tibbs, who folds up and falls to the floor)
Basil: (to Polly) Oh, spiffing! Absolutely spiffing. Well done! Two dead, twenty five to go.