They did say MORE and not EVERY DAMN TIME. If somebody is being hurt or threatened with harm, that is VERY different than say somebody showing a picture of his 17 5/8 yr old ex g/f to his buddy from back when he was 18
No need. Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sony, et al are in the Open Initiative Network. They use their patents as a shield and a sword, should ANYBODY try to start this type of war.
They are protecting their clients from patent suits (which may or may not seem to be a good thing). This prevents MS from suing Novell customers to scare them off. MS paid NOVELL MORE MONEY than Novell paid MS.
You will only need a digital TV if you don't have Sat/Cable or won't be willing to buy a set top converter. This only impacts people with "rabbit ears"
didn't realize they were not rhetorical. I don't think Novell is trying to kill OO.o. They have been trying to make it more interoperable for a long time. This will HELP adoption of it, because in this current world, if you cannot read/write/use MS formats, you don't exist. That will change as more people adopt alternatives.
Pamela Jones, while being bright, is not very up to date with actual F/OSS policy. If you want good info on lawsuites in progress, she may be your gal. However she does not know about licenses in open source. You can use open source software to make money. You can make money from patents. However, they are not mutually exclusive.
OMGZ!! NOBELL IS THE DEBIL!!!!! Or.....they are actually fighting for a less restrictive license, in the LGPL....... Dude, if you have no idea about the MS/Novell agreement (and judging by your post, you do not) then please keep your "mouth" shut. Seriously, it just makes you look stupid and appeals only to the foaming "NOVELL SUCKS!" crowd. You use so much Novell sponsored code if you use OO.o, KDE, Gnome, Linux Kernel, Tomboy, Beagle, and a ton of other things. Novell is in various F/OSS groups to HELP the F/OSS community, and have been there before the MS deal. They are using their patents to fight patent trolls, stood up to SCO to help Linux when SCO sued IBM, etc
What more do you need as proof? Do they have to use a pair of rusty pliers to put Miguel in his place when he mouths off about something inane (as per usual?)
In order for it to comply with the GPL, and it does, anything that is "Patented" cannot make certain calls or be linked statically to GPL code. The agreement was NOT for patent sharing. I replied to you on purpose.
The reason for the agreement was that there was FUD about MS possibly suing linux customers. Novell wanted to hedge their bets and offer protection from "alien abduction," if you will, for their customers. The customers more than likely demanded as much.
Oh........except perhaps that pesky thing about Novell being one of the 5 biggest contributers to open source and drinking their kool-aid, etc. KDE, the linux kernel, Gnome, Open Office, etc, they are HUGE contributors to those projects.
You should not lie to your clients. Novell had an agreement about creating interoperative programs (NOT PATENT PROTECTION FOR THEMSELVES). The protection they paid for is ONLY for their clients. It does not extend to Novell. If you were attempting to consult for me, I would laugh you out of my office.
For everything else........there's the lesser Ubuntu. I actually LIKE Ubuntu, once I install KDE on it. But I prefer SUSE for getting things done easily (And I don't shy away from command line, I am a sysadmin. I love by CLI). For newbies, it is not bad. It sets most things up for you. You have YaST for getting things done quickly w/o the command line. Package management for an RPM based distro is a breeze. It is not as fast as apt-get but it is thorough and has nice features like "rpm provides" which help. I had issues where $somelib.so was not found and I went into Yast and typed somelib and checked rpm provides and voila, the package(s) that provide it were there, allowing me to check them. It solves deps for you as well. This is much easier than the missing dll hell from win9x days. People compare YaST to Synaptec or apt-get and don't realize it is MUCH MUCH MORE than a package manager. It is a command center. OpenSUSE Picked up my TV tuner by default as far back as 10.0, all I had to do was scan for channels. With the extra repositories (easy to configure) I have almost the same capabilities as apt-get (guru and such).
Unless the powers are SPECIFICALLY OUTLINED in the Constitution, they are NOT allowed to the federal government. THAT is how it works. The Constitution is not a limitation and numeration of our rights. We do not get our rights by fiat of the government. They get their rights from our willingness to be governed. OUR rights are inalienable and come from the fact that we are human and alive.
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They did say MORE and not EVERY DAMN TIME. If somebody is being hurt or threatened with harm, that is VERY different than say somebody showing a picture of his 17 5/8 yr old ex g/f to his buddy from back when he was 18
No need. Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sony, et al are in the Open Initiative Network. They use their patents as a shield and a sword, should ANYBODY try to start this type of war.
They are protecting their clients from patent suits (which may or may not seem to be a good thing). This prevents MS from suing Novell customers to scare them off. MS paid NOVELL MORE MONEY than Novell paid MS.
For people who hate the deal so much, they are sure taking MS at their word...
They keep throwing Novell's name around. Novell has publicly denounced MS' claims about this. http://en.opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS
No, it sounds retarded. Made up words, to make you sound smarter, sound stupid. Don't misunderestimate that.
You will only need a digital TV if you don't have Sat/Cable or won't be willing to buy a set top converter. This only impacts people with "rabbit ears"
didn't realize they were not rhetorical. I don't think Novell is trying to kill OO.o. They have been trying to make it more interoperable for a long time. This will HELP adoption of it, because in this current world, if you cannot read/write/use MS formats, you don't exist. That will change as more people adopt alternatives.
Pamela Jones, while being bright, is not very up to date with actual F/OSS policy. If you want good info on lawsuites in progress, she may be your gal. However she does not know about licenses in open source. You can use open source software to make money. You can make money from patents. However, they are not mutually exclusive.
Easy to reply to:
OMGZ!! NOBELL IS THE DEBIL!!!!!
Or.....they are actually fighting for a less restrictive license, in the LGPL.......
Dude, if you have no idea about the MS/Novell agreement (and judging by your post, you do not) then please keep your "mouth" shut. Seriously, it just makes you look stupid and appeals only to the foaming "NOVELL SUCKS!" crowd.
You use so much Novell sponsored code if you use OO.o, KDE, Gnome, Linux Kernel, Tomboy, Beagle, and a ton of other things. Novell is in various F/OSS groups to HELP the F/OSS community, and have been there before the MS deal. They are using their patents to fight patent trolls, stood up to SCO to help Linux when SCO sued IBM, etc
What more do you need as proof? Do they have to use a pair of rusty pliers to put Miguel in his place when he mouths off about something inane (as per usual?)
well, then all I have to say to you, sir, is Blahjk kniga nuok! covered in natalie portman
P.S. The g is silent, as is the first k and the last !
that would explain why my UID is so much lower than yours :)
typo....... It happens with big hands and a foaming rant on my fingertips.
is viruses. Virii is made up. Go look it up. Viri is man, there is no "virii"
Miguel notwithstanding (He's a tool), Novell is a major F/OSS contributor. Miguel is just a douchebag who likes to smell his own farts.
In order for it to comply with the GPL, and it does, anything that is "Patented" cannot make certain calls or be linked statically to GPL code. The agreement was NOT for patent sharing. I replied to you on purpose. The reason for the agreement was that there was FUD about MS possibly suing linux customers. Novell wanted to hedge their bets and offer protection from "alien abduction," if you will, for their customers. The customers more than likely demanded as much.
Oh........except perhaps that pesky thing about Novell being one of the 5 biggest contributers to open source and drinking their kool-aid, etc. KDE, the linux kernel, Gnome, Open Office, etc, they are HUGE contributors to those projects.
You should not lie to your clients. Novell had an agreement about creating interoperative programs (NOT PATENT PROTECTION FOR THEMSELVES). The protection they paid for is ONLY for their clients. It does not extend to Novell.
If you were attempting to consult for me, I would laugh you out of my office.
RMS? You DID come. I knew if I built a hideous brown themed slashdot area, you'd finally arrive.
If it is apple, no, but god forbid Miguel from Novell says anything that is "Teh Stoopit" it is all Novell's fault.
grrr, before the jokes start, it was a typo. I LIVE by the CLI I don't love me some ascii porn art
OpenSUSE 10.2 (10.3 is RIGHT around the corner)
For everything else........there's the lesser Ubuntu. I actually LIKE Ubuntu, once I install KDE on it. But I prefer SUSE for getting things done easily (And I don't shy away from command line, I am a sysadmin. I love by CLI). For newbies, it is not bad. It sets most things up for you. You have YaST for getting things done quickly w/o the command line. Package management for an RPM based distro is a breeze. It is not as fast as apt-get but it is thorough and has nice features like "rpm provides" which help.
I had issues where $somelib.so was not found and I went into Yast and typed somelib and checked rpm provides and voila, the package(s) that provide it were there, allowing me to check them. It solves deps for you as well. This is much easier than the missing dll hell from win9x days. People compare YaST to Synaptec or apt-get and don't realize it is MUCH MUCH MORE than a package manager. It is a command center.
OpenSUSE Picked up my TV tuner by default as far back as 10.0, all I had to do was scan for channels.
With the extra repositories (easy to configure) I have almost the same capabilities as apt-get (guru and such).
Things just seamed to work.
7.01? Magic build of some sort?
Unless the powers are SPECIFICALLY OUTLINED in the Constitution, they are NOT allowed to the federal government. THAT is how it works. The Constitution is not a limitation and numeration of our rights. We do not get our rights by fiat of the government. They get their rights from our willingness to be governed. OUR rights are inalienable and come from the fact that we are human and alive.
How about a Sunfire x4600 M2 ? Then you can get 8 of them in a 4U :)