There is still a KOffice because the developers of KOffice started working on it before OOo existed, and right now its MUCH lighter than OOo and has most of the features, and has several extra things.
"It seems that the developers' time would be better spent improving the core functions of the window manager."
The developers will spend their time doing what they want to do (and most likely are best at), if they didn't spend it working on program X, they wouldn't necessarily be spending it working on program Y.
How come no one will _EVER_ say real reasons why Deb is better than the 'evil' RPM? You say 'dependency problems' but on all the computers I've installed Fedora/RH on I've never had a problem with dependencies.
Nero has never worked 'flawlessly' for me on windows, till I formatted the hard drive a few weeks ago it had gotten into a whole thing where it would only burn up to 5% then die (couldn't even kill it with Task Manager).
Look at the IMB vs SCO case, IBM brought in an expert on finding out that sort of stuff.
One way to check for violations is to compare the strings, sometimes it will be blatantly obvious, like some group ripped off ReactOS but were so lazy they didn't change all the string in the program so they didn't say ReactOS and when you have strings all around that say REACTOS, you have error messages that are the same, and files have the same signature, and other things like that its easy to find out.
In most cases of GPL violations the code wasn't attempted to be scrambled it obscured at all to hide its origin. Often this is just done by a lazy developer and the management doesn't know about it till they get the warning letter (and look at the GPL violations site, 25 out of 28 cases have been solved with only the warning letter).
"If you create/new/ code, but it depends on a GPL item, then you can release your code under whatever license you see fit - open or closed source."
Thats true/only/ under the LGPL. Only GPL code can link against GPL code. Anything can link against LGPL code, look at WineX (Cedega) and Wine, originally Wine was under the LGPL and WineX added extra closed code to it but then Wine changed their license to GPL and WineX had to fork.
The public key only would allow them to encrypt messages to you, and confirm if you signed a message. They COULD do a man-in-the-middle attack (if you could confirm it was them, HELLO DMCA!) though to defeat it all you would have to do is exchange the key id (or key) through some means that AOL doesn't control (phone, other protocol, floppy, RFC 1149, etc).
Once they keys have been exchanged all and confirmed right, all is good.
Is not "we reserve the right to change this whenever we want, without notification" style clauses in contracts unenforceable and illegal (since you can't agree to a contract you haven't seen)?
Is it a loophole because they call it a TOS instead of a contract? And what about people using third party clients (like GAIM), since they have never agreed to the AOL's TOS?
I have a dell laptop, and for the last few months its been over heating big time, and the charger was dying. So a couple days ago I called their tech support line, and what do you know? My warranty had expired a few months ago (around when it had started), except heres the funny part: I had a 3 year warranty, and it's only been 1 year and a few months! So many times they kept screwing up the length of the warranty (then decided it was cancelled). Finally they got everything straighted out, and since I had on site service a few days later my laptop was repaired. Though I still have issues w/ the charger (it was replaced when it was repaired, then a new one arrived in the mail a few hours later haha). Once it starts getting annoying I'll have to call them up again.
Dell's customer service didn't seem TOO bad (i.e. they seemed to be trying and not just 'uh... try restarting it... *click*'), though the machines they make tend to suck.
I also won't ever buy from dell (or any other OEM when I have a choice).
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Tell that to the friend whos computer I just had to reinstall XP on.
Kill the family? Its perfectly legal, its all self defense!
fp?
Wow that was an excellent read! Very enlightening! I'm glad I read that, it made my day a little lighter :-D
KDE? Yes http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/. Newer versions should start being released once QT & KDE 4.0 are out.
There is still a KOffice because the developers of KOffice started working on it before OOo existed, and right now its MUCH lighter than OOo and has most of the features, and has several extra things.
"It seems that the developers' time would be better spent improving the core functions of the window manager."
The developers will spend their time doing what they want to do (and most likely are best at), if they didn't spend it working on program X, they wouldn't necessarily be spending it working on program Y.
"Would anyone like to guess which OS was involved?
:-D
Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?"
Actually they were trying to upgrade them from 2k to XP, and it BSOD all the computers so they couldn't boot
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Where does it say 'insightful'?
Then use APT.
APT runs on Fedora.
How come no one will _EVER_ say real reasons why Deb is better than the 'evil' RPM? You say 'dependency problems' but on all the computers I've installed Fedora/RH on I've never had a problem with dependencies.
I believe only Xen's 'guest' OS runs in ring 1, not the host OS.
Thats still under development, but soon will be pointless. TrollTech with QT 4.0 is going to release a GPLed version for Windows.
K3b is a KDE program. If you can't handle installing KDE libs and base, then find another program.
Nero has never worked 'flawlessly' for me on windows, till I formatted the hard drive a few weeks ago it had gotten into a whole thing where it would only burn up to 5% then die (couldn't even kill it with Task Manager).
How can it grab the clog?
Its a liquid, and don't liquids just run right through drains?
Look at the IMB vs SCO case, IBM brought in an expert on finding out that sort of stuff.
One way to check for violations is to compare the strings, sometimes it will be blatantly obvious, like some group ripped off ReactOS but were so lazy they didn't change all the string in the program so they didn't say ReactOS and when you have strings all around that say REACTOS, you have error messages that are the same, and files have the same signature, and other things like that its easy to find out.
In most cases of GPL violations the code wasn't attempted to be scrambled it obscured at all to hide its origin. Often this is just done by a lazy developer and the management doesn't know about it till they get the warning letter (and look at the GPL violations site, 25 out of 28 cases have been solved with only the warning letter).
"If you create /new/ code, but it depends on a GPL item, then you can release your code under whatever license you see fit - open or closed source."
/only/ under the LGPL. Only GPL code can link against GPL code. Anything can link against LGPL code, look at WineX (Cedega) and Wine, originally Wine was under the LGPL and WineX added extra closed code to it but then Wine changed their license to GPL and WineX had to fork.
Thats true
I believe Gentoo supports all those architectures...
Its Java, nothing to do with FireFox.
Use the GAIM-Encryption plug-in for your sensitive conversations.
The public key only would allow them to encrypt messages to you, and confirm if you signed a message. They COULD do a man-in-the-middle attack (if you could confirm it was them, HELLO DMCA!) though to defeat it all you would have to do is exchange the key id (or key) through some means that AOL doesn't control (phone, other protocol, floppy, RFC 1149, etc).
Once they keys have been exchanged all and confirmed right, all is good.
Is not "we reserve the right to change this whenever we want, without notification" style clauses in contracts unenforceable and illegal (since you can't agree to a contract you haven't seen)?
Is it a loophole because they call it a TOS instead of a contract? And what about people using third party clients (like GAIM), since they have never agreed to the AOL's TOS?
If you want security just use encryption (gaim-encryption works perfectly over all protocols gaim supports).
I have a dell laptop, and for the last few months its been over heating big time, and the charger was dying. So a couple days ago I called their tech support line, and what do you know? My warranty had expired a few months ago (around when it had started), except heres the funny part: I had a 3 year warranty, and it's only been 1 year and a few months! So many times they kept screwing up the length of the warranty (then decided it was cancelled). Finally they got everything straighted out, and since I had on site service a few days later my laptop was repaired. Though I still have issues w/ the charger (it was replaced when it was repaired, then a new one arrived in the mail a few hours later haha). Once it starts getting annoying I'll have to call them up again.
Dell's customer service didn't seem TOO bad (i.e. they seemed to be trying and not just 'uh... try restarting it... *click*'), though the machines they make tend to suck.
I also won't ever buy from dell (or any other OEM when I have a choice).