That way they would force all European Companies to investigate alternate OSs even if the EU would take only a few months (fast in political terms) to bring them to sell Windows again they would loose lots of companies that found out even with Windows available alternatives are better for their specific case.
Nobody against Software Patents adresses the issue why we have no giant software companies here in Europe. They simply say there are none (statement of fact) and so there is no one to gain from software patents in Europe.
P.S.: You should think about your position that giant software companies are a good thing and need to be created here in Europe.
It is a bit different. You can't simply force them to leave IE out. You get a bootstrapping problem. How do you download a browser without a working browser? You would have to integrate some browser chooser into the OS installation and ship several browsers with windows.
You basically say in your post: I don't listen to MP3s and watch videos on my PC very often so I don't care about MS getting a monopoly in the media player market by using their OS monopoly.
If MS was the 95% market share car manufacturer and made radios as well other car radio manufacturers (and the government) would be well within their rights when demanding the sale of a car without a radio.
I don't think you can fill that address space up before nano-technology is invented but it is a good way to fill up ipv4 address space to introduce ipv6 and gain the other advantages of that.
Actually I use Gentoo to save time after using LFS for a while and now I just want a distro without lots of stupid frontends messing with my config files. That is the problem of most distros IMO. They don't work with the config files in a way that allows you using them yourself at the same time since they regularly kill your comments, order,...
Actually Gentoo is relatively good concerning productiveness. It takes a relatively low admin (person) time and a high computer time to keep it up to date which is much better than systems that need a medium part of my own time.
That is why rpm package managers are considered obsolete by the designers of almost all other package managers out there. rpm's flaws are the reason for the existence of most of them.
...on all Windows computers running the correct version of Windows and the correct drivers for hardware involved (how often have you installed different versions of graphics drivers to get a game running) and sometimes using the correct drive as system drive (the windows installer doesn't leave a choice here, you have to use the drive letter it assigns to the partition you want to use as system partition).
You could simply write an ebuild for it. It isn't much more difficult than doing the./configure;make;make install yourself. In fact it might be easier since portage provides a rich library of functions to shorten the process. It is even easier if you can copy an existing ebuild of a similar project to start from.
The reason the GUI was invented is because it sells better (looks better), that doesn't mean it is easiert to use and definitely doesn't mean instructions how to use it are easier to give/write down.
The VM can produce native code without any virtual machine overhead at install time, whilst still optimising based on the CPU features available at runtime. This gives such binaries the same advantages that Gentoo users tout as being an advantage of compiling everything as all binaries are fully optimised for your CPU, but without the massive speed hit that C/C++ parsing implies.
Sorry to shatter your image of the typical Gentoo user but most of us give a shit about processor optimization (except for major arches like amd64, x86,...). Most of us compile packages from source because that way we can avoid compile-time-optional dependencies like kde, gnome, mysql,... (to name just a few a lot of packages depend on) if we want to instead of installing lots and lots of unnecessary libraries.
And you can do what exactly if the Windows Installer for something you downloaded fails (which appears to happen quite regularly to me, especially with older software designed for pre-xp windows versions)?
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That way they would force all European Companies to investigate alternate OSs even if the EU would take only a few months (fast in political terms) to bring them to sell Windows again they would loose lots of companies that found out even with Windows available alternatives are better for their specific case.
Nobody against Software Patents adresses the issue why we have no giant software companies here in Europe. They simply say there are none (statement of fact) and so there is no one to gain from software patents in Europe.
P.S.: You should think about your position that giant software companies are a good thing and need to be created here in Europe.
It is a bit different. You can't simply force them to leave IE out. You get a bootstrapping problem. How do you download a browser without a working browser? You would have to integrate some browser chooser into the OS installation and ship several browsers with windows.
You basically say in your post: I don't listen to MP3s and watch videos on my PC very often so I don't care about MS getting a monopoly in the media player market by using their OS monopoly.
If MS was the 95% market share car manufacturer and made radios as well other car radio manufacturers (and the government) would be well within their rights when demanding the sale of a car without a radio.
And your automated password checker then calls the ISPREY() method to determine wether ISRPEY is the password?
This is /.
He simply assumed everybody here would have seen the movie anyway and half a dozen people who had would explain it to those who hadn't.
This doesn't mean it will be easy to find this device once they notice the traffic.
You shouldn't forget the bash.org No. 1 quote
I don't think you can fill that address space up before nano-technology is invented but it is a good way to fill up ipv4 address space to introduce ipv6 and gain the other advantages of that.
But 55 MHz doesn't run advanced algorithms on lots and lots of network traffic to identify passwords.
I believe you can use a serial port as a network device in Linux so it is possible to pass on packets with this device.
Slackware as a binary distro doesn't offer choices concerning compile-time-options and related dependencies.
Actually I use Gentoo to save time after using LFS for a while and now I just want a distro without lots of stupid frontends messing with my config files. That is the problem of most distros IMO. They don't work with the config files in a way that allows you using them yourself at the same time since they regularly kill your comments, order,...
Actually Gentoo is relatively good concerning productiveness. It takes a relatively low admin (person) time and a high computer time to keep it up to date which is much better than systems that need a medium part of my own time.
I am aware that compiling from source is not for everyone. However typing "apt-get bla" or "emerge bla" is hardly comparable to your example.
That is why rpm package managers are considered obsolete by the designers of almost all other package managers out there. rpm's flaws are the reason for the existence of most of them.
...on all Windows computers running the correct version of Windows and the correct drivers for hardware involved (how often have you installed different versions of graphics drivers to get a game running) and sometimes using the correct drive as system drive (the windows installer doesn't leave a choice here, you have to use the drive letter it assigns to the partition you want to use as system partition).
While in theory I think such a system would be useful it wouldn't help the users needing it most since they are to clueless to use it.
And no fixes for bugs in libraries inside the app folders, next please...
You could simply write an ebuild for it. It isn't much more difficult than doing the ./configure;make;make install yourself. In fact it might be easier since portage provides a rich library of functions to shorten the process. It is even easier if you can copy an existing ebuild of a similar project to start from.
The former are the same for every package which is useful to build trust over time.
The reason the GUI was invented is because it sells better (looks better), that doesn't mean it is easiert to use and definitely doesn't mean instructions how to use it are easier to give/write down.
The more important question is: Why do we care?
And you can do what exactly if the Windows Installer for something you downloaded fails (which appears to happen quite regularly to me, especially with older software designed for pre-xp windows versions)?