Check out Red Hat's Geek Toys section. Seems we will need to add Red Hat to the boycott list.
This might be a rather good target to aim at. Given Red Hat's high Wall St. visibility it's severing a relationship with Amazon over this issue could lead to very interesting news in the major media. Software patents are not in Red Hat's interests. So we should get out th lever and use it where it will could be noticed.
I will be sending an email to Red Hat letting them know I will not be purchasing anything from them until and unless they sever their relationship with Amazon, and that I will recommend my employer do the same.
"If Red Hat bought Troll, they could GPL Qt, which I think would be a Good Thing."
Actually if Troll is bought out Qt would legally be required to be placed under a BSD style license. This is governed under an agreement between Troll Tech, and the The KDE Free Qt Foundation. For it to be placed under a different license this agreement would need to be changed.
Actually a very careful reading would lead to the conclusion that ~50% of Compaq customers have used or are using Linux. It doesn't say that 50% of shipments are running Linux.
Compaq service director Pathy Pathmanaban confirmed that 45 per cent of all customers had now either deployed Linux or used the operating system for a pilot project.
All this really means is that a lot of people have tried Linux, or could have it running on one server, which we already know. It really doesn't say much about what percentages they are shipping today. Also it sounds like they are talking about Australia, not the United States.
Actually a very careful reading would lead to the conclusion that ~50% of Compaq customers have used or are using Linux. It doesn't say that 50% of shipments are running Linux.
Compaq service director Pathy Pathmanaban confirmed that 45 per cent of all customers had now either deployed Linux or used the operating system for a pilot project.
All this really means is that a lot of people have tried Linux, which we already know. It really doesn't say much about what percentages they are shipping today. Also it sounds like they are talking about Australia, not the United States.
GPL would not be good for Qt. It would put it at a disadvantage compared to GTK+ where propietary software is concerned. Placing Qt under the LGPL would completely, once and for all, level the playing field between Gnome and KDE.
With all of that said I think that if Red Hat bought Troll Tech Qt would automatically and irrevocably be placed under a BSD/MIT style OSS license. Someone else may be able to verify this. The Trolls have made their company rather unatractive to purchasers by making their main asset unsaleable.
I would agree with this sentiment. We just got 2 servers, P II Xeon, 1GB RAM, 63 GB RAID 5, for our new web site and VA Linux was the fastest to the punch. The servers were delivered exactly as ordered. (It was a fairly complex setup with RAID, fail over, and other stuff.) And they completed the spec of the systems in 3 hours and delivered them in 5 days including shipping.
The fact that they were able to deliver such a high level system so fast was absolutely amazing. I've dealt with Sun, Dell, Compaq, and a lot of others and VA Linux is the best hands down.
I used to run KDE 1.0 on a P90 at work with excellent stability. I can only say that KDE got confused once in about 9 months of use. Who knows it may have recovered, but I just killed it.
Also ran KDE on every desk top in the office, about 12 or so. Ran fine, all of them P75 to P133 w/ 32M of RAM.
The/. community has expressed it's concern about stupid patents very voiciferously regardless of the patent filer. As evidence of this I would say that you ought to RTFM.
...am very sad to see the Harmony project die. I followed the mailing list for a long time. I wish I had the time and the know how to work on the project. Today is a sad day.
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Check out Red Hat's Geek Toys section. Seems we will need to add Red Hat to the boycott list.
This might be a rather good target to aim at. Given Red Hat's high Wall St. visibility it's severing a relationship with Amazon over this issue could lead to very interesting news in the major media. Software patents are not in Red Hat's interests. So we should get out th lever and use it where it will could be noticed.
I will be sending an email to Red Hat letting them know I will not be purchasing anything from them until and unless they sever their relationship with Amazon, and that I will recommend my employer do the same.
"If Red Hat bought Troll, they could GPL Qt, which I think would be a Good Thing."
Actually if Troll is bought out Qt would legally be required to be placed under a BSD style license. This is governed under an agreement between Troll Tech, and the The KDE Free Qt Foundation. For it to be placed under a different license this agreement would need to be changed.
Actually a very careful reading would lead to the conclusion that ~50% of Compaq customers have used or are using Linux. It doesn't say that 50% of shipments are running Linux.
Compaq service director Pathy Pathmanaban confirmed that 45 per cent of all customers had now either deployed Linux or used the operating system for a pilot project.
All this really means is that a lot of people have tried Linux, or could have it running on one server, which we already know. It really doesn't say much about what percentages they are shipping today. Also it sounds like they are talking about Australia, not the United States.
Actually a very careful reading would lead to the conclusion that ~50% of Compaq customers have used or are using Linux. It doesn't say that 50% of shipments are running Linux.
Compaq service director Pathy Pathmanaban confirmed that 45 per cent of all customers had now either deployed Linux or used the operating system for a pilot project.
All this really means is that a lot of people have tried Linux, which we already know. It really doesn't say much about what percentages they are shipping today. Also it sounds like they are talking about Australia, not the United States.
GPL would not be good for Qt. It would put it at a disadvantage compared to GTK+ where propietary software is concerned. Placing Qt under the LGPL would completely, once and for all, level the playing field between Gnome and KDE.
With all of that said I think that if Red Hat bought Troll Tech Qt would automatically and irrevocably be placed under a BSD/MIT style OSS license. Someone else may be able to verify this. The Trolls have made their company rather unatractive to purchasers by making their main asset unsaleable.
I would agree with this sentiment. We just got 2 servers, P II Xeon, 1GB RAM, 63 GB RAID 5, for our new web site and VA Linux was the fastest to the punch. The servers were delivered exactly as ordered. (It was a fairly complex setup with RAID, fail over, and other stuff.) And they completed the spec of the systems in 3 hours and delivered them in 5 days including shipping.
The fact that they were able to deliver such a high level system so fast was absolutely amazing. I've dealt with Sun, Dell, Compaq, and a lot of others and VA Linux is the best hands down.
I used to run KDE 1.0 on a P90 at work with excellent stability. I can only say that KDE got confused once in about 9 months of use. Who knows it may have recovered, but I just killed it.
Also ran KDE on every desk top in the office, about 12 or so. Ran fine, all of them P75 to P133 w/ 32M of RAM.
...when you need one? Brett go back to the Infoworld forums where they probably don't want you either.
What is the easiest way to try out Mozilla on Linux? Has anyone made an RPM? I'd like to try it out but I'm sort of busy doing other things.
The /. community has expressed it's concern about stupid patents very voiciferously regardless of the patent filer. As evidence of this I would say that you ought to RTFM.
That ought to hold you for a while. And these are just recent discussions.
...am very sad to see the Harmony project die. I followed the mailing list for a long time. I wish I had the time and the know how to work on the project. Today is a sad day.
Well I have had a Solaris box do that kind of load and still be telnetable. Now is wasn't comfortable but it was doable.