It's not like Microsoft's OS in inreplacable. If the government really wanted to force them out of business, they could just make'em pay back all license fees in fines and spend those money on developing Free Software.
That'd be the Right Thing to create a Free Market.
I'm mostly impressed that they didn't just secure such data in the first place.
1. Encrypt
2. Backup
3. Profit! (Default)
Surely that wouldn't make any headlines though, and WHO KNOWS what we'd be discussing then?
Innovation is the Act of Sharing Knowledge.
Any invention is based on existing knowledge of some kind, or input if you wish. Sharing knowledge between more people means more people will get new ideas. Then the more you share, the faster the progression. Given that you're able to make use of the new knowledge developed.
Now, software is pure knowledge. Not a product.
Did you bother to read the GNU papers? Not Free as in "Free Beer" but Free as in "Freedom".
There's nothing wrong about charging for access to de readymade software as long as you can do what you want - read: access source code without restriction.
1. We get to pay our huge (non-)member fee
2. We get to have our fresh meat look like stone (gray) since we can't continue using harmless methods for keeping it red looking. (New EU rule - USA just accepted this method, we've used it since the sixties, but no more)
3. We get to obey a lot of other freaky EU rules, packing our lives with bureaucracy.
4. We don't have to bother what the EU decides, we don't have a voice anyway.
5. Even if we had a voice, we wouldn't have to care at all as we're just 4 million people against Germany's 82 million, so we don't even have to sit in the EU parlament.
6. We get to PAY, and PAY, and PAY and don't have to do nothing but OBEY THE RULES, that noone in southern Europe cares about! No stress!
Most people with a little knowledge of history would say so, but I think we've got to realize Microsoft finally seems to know there's a time to steal and a time to deal.
Work on Xen has been supported by UK EPSRC grant GR/S01894, Intel Research, HP Labs and
Microsoft Research.
Screwed as my hearing is, I couldn't hear no difference..
Hmm, maybe I should draw some waveline graphs to convince myself that the conversion gave me a bad experience.. Yeah, and then I'll just convert all my Ogg files to MP3 to ensure high sound quality again!
I'd say it's time to have a look at Oggasm. I converted a few thousand MP3s with it and Oggasm screwed less than ten.
Just be aware that the script have hard times dealing with special characters. If you've got MP3s originating from a Windows user the characters ` and ' are probably mixed up, so you'll have to fix that before converting.
Not to mention all other committee initiatives hindering Free Software from evolving.;)
-- "Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and musicplayer stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services." - Microsoft
choice ( P ) Pronunciation Key (chois) 1. Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling acommodity or service
1. Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service: "Monopoly frequently... arises from government support or from collusive agreements among individuals" (Milton Friedman)
On most US roads, it's a well known rule of thumb that police would generally not bother drivers who speed by under 10 miles per hour over the limit.
I was pulled over for speeding by 25 miles this summer. The police officer asked for my (Norwegian) driving license and asked: "What's this? Are you Norwegian?" To which I said yes. Then he told me to take it easy, gave me my driving license back and left.
This also happened to four of the other five Norwegians I was there with.
I love the US.
Wonder how it became so that the only part of US that is not free is the people.. Uh, the US..
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One of the Dutch articles is quoting from the guardian.
It's not like Microsoft's OS in inreplacable. If the government really wanted to force them out of business, they could just make'em pay back all license fees in fines and spend those money on developing Free Software.
That'd be the Right Thing to create a Free Market.
I'm mostly impressed that they didn't just secure such data in the first place. 1. Encrypt 2. Backup 3. Profit! (Default) Surely that wouldn't make any headlines though, and WHO KNOWS what we'd be discussing then?
Innovation is the Act of Sharing Knowledge. Any invention is based on existing knowledge of some kind, or input if you wish. Sharing knowledge between more people means more people will get new ideas. Then the more you share, the faster the progression. Given that you're able to make use of the new knowledge developed. Now, software is pure knowledge. Not a product.
Did you bother to read the GNU papers? Not Free as in "Free Beer" but Free as in "Freedom".
There's nothing wrong about charging for access to de readymade software as long as you can do what you want - read: access source code without restriction.
1. We get to pay our huge (non-)member fee
2. We get to have our fresh meat look like stone (gray) since we can't continue using harmless methods for keeping it red looking. (New EU rule - USA just accepted this method, we've used it since the sixties, but no more)
3. We get to obey a lot of other freaky EU rules, packing our lives with bureaucracy.
4. We don't have to bother what the EU decides, we don't have a voice anyway.
5. Even if we had a voice, we wouldn't have to care at all as we're just 4 million people against Germany's 82 million, so we don't even have to sit in the EU parlament.
6. We get to PAY, and PAY, and PAY and don't have to do nothing but OBEY THE RULES, that noone in southern Europe cares about! No stress!
Man! I'm sick of EU. Gimme my country back.
Hmm, maybe I should draw some waveline graphs to convince myself that the conversion gave me a bad experience.. Yeah, and then I'll just convert all my Ogg files to MP3 to ensure high sound quality again!
Just be aware that the script have hard times dealing with special characters. If you've got MP3s originating from a Windows user the characters ` and ' are probably mixed up, so you'll have to fix that before converting.
You are ogg | s/gg/dd/Let's take out the GNOME Foundation so we can get rid of crap like their committee-made guidelines, their vendor-sponsored bounties and other useless upcomings from their committee members so we won't care about getting usable software.
Not to mention all other committee initiatives hindering Free Software from evolving. ;)
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"Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and musicplayer stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services." - Microsoft
choice ( P ) Pronunciation Key (chois)
1. Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling acommodity or service
This also happened to four of the other five Norwegians I was there with.
I love the US.Wonder how it became so that the only part of US that is not free is the people.. Uh, the US..