bearing in mind IBM owns lots of shares in SuSE, i wouldn't think microsoft would be too quick to sue, as IBM has far more patents than MS, and are not short of full time lawyers
the use of open source software in large organisations (5.2M / 200 is a lot of licences) means 26000 people (thats a lot of people, did i work that out wrong) will get their first taste of free software, and perhaps some workers will think "hmmm, i'l get rid of that illegal copy of ms office at home and get open office since its legally free"
what about patches for software for which microsoft does not provide an equivalent (or at least include IIS's patches if your going to include apache, for example)?
also, there's open source antivirus software for linux, and there's NO spyware that targets linux (that i know of, and im sure there isn't any) so whats the point in anti-spyware software for linux?
Wow, in the uk we have the data protection act, which is (very) basically:
dont keep irrelivant info dont keep it for longer than necessary give people (as in the person who the info is about) the info they want, if they want to see it for no more than administration fees remove the data if requested
im really suprised that a country like america doesn't have a law like that.
in the uk, its the legal immigrants we have to worry about. If they were real immigrants, they would have settled somewhere along the way (last time i checked, none of our neighbours are unstable*) to the uk, unless they wanted to milk our poncey benifits system
*yes i know scotland is unstable, but thats drunk unstable, not civil war unstable
The last version of suse i tried set yast as the default window manager, meaning it was by default not possible to log in and check mail as root (obviously there's still kdesu or even removing the/root/.dmrc file
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would be giving an error message such as "this is not valid html"
not failing gracefully would be getting confused and segfaulting.
i would consider selling somebody elses product as your own without permission is worse than this (apple's gui code)
if by modified you mean you compiled it then bollocks (unless you enabled nvidia riva support in the kernel)
if by modified you mean patched then bollocks (unless you mean patched so much it looks more like hurd or freebsd)
i always compile my own kernel, and i use the nvidia driver with the gentoo-dev-sources, although i have in the past used the ck patchset instead
real transparency is in kde 3.4 iirc (3.4 beta 2 is out now)
bearing in mind IBM owns lots of shares in SuSE, i wouldn't think microsoft would be too quick to sue, as IBM has far more patents than MS, and are not short of full time lawyers
if the payload has been removed (not disabled), how could it mutate into something dangerous?
iirc the vmware 5 beta does allow hardware acceleration if the host supports it, or something. and they stopped using that bastard dga extention
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it appears they misspelt "points out" as "claims"
the use of open source software in large organisations (5.2M / 200 is a lot of licences) means 26000 people (thats a lot of people, did i work that out wrong) will get their first taste of free software, and perhaps some workers will think "hmmm, i'l get rid of that illegal copy of ms office at home and get open office since its legally free"
also, more mindshare = more developers
o rite cool
suse does this by default, not sure about other home distro's as i use gentoo myself.
as complex as a block of c4 the size of a large elephant?
actually, wasn't the reason the roman empire fell because their armies were too thinly stretched all over the place?
kinda like microsoft trying to move into every market it can
growth is way down in the OS and office departments
no actually ms make a loss on the xbox, so if you buy an xbox and no games, your actually taking money _from_ them
XP will run from any partition, afaik, but windows 98 had to be primary master iirc.
these patches, were they all of the same rating?
were these all highly critical patches?
what about ones ms missed
what about patches for software for which microsoft does not provide an equivalent (or at least include IIS's patches if your going to include apache, for example)?
also, there's open source antivirus software for linux, and there's NO spyware that targets linux (that i know of, and im sure there isn't any) so whats the point in anti-spyware software for linux?
where did you read that? was it written by labour, or possibly one of those mincing human rights organisations?
i do feel sorry for real immigrants, but most aren't (one town in the uk, burnley, english people are a minority)
Wow, in the uk we have the data protection act, which is (very) basically:
dont keep irrelivant info
dont keep it for longer than necessary
give people (as in the person who the info is about) the info they want, if they want to see it for no more than administration fees
remove the data if requested
im really suprised that a country like america doesn't have a law like that.
This isn't flamebait - this guys right
in the uk, its the legal immigrants we have to worry about. If they were real immigrants, they would have settled somewhere along the way (last time i checked, none of our neighbours are unstable*) to the uk, unless they wanted to milk our poncey benifits system
*yes i know scotland is unstable, but thats drunk unstable, not civil war unstable
im not american so i dont have a clue - were you serious when you said boxer shorts?
Oi mouth.
aren't IE toolbars executable?
whereas firefoxes plugins are xpi's, which means they have to have a specific exploit to be dangerous (iirc)
The last version of suse i tried set yast as the default window manager, meaning it was by default not possible to log in and check mail as root (obviously there's still kdesu or even removing the /root/.dmrc file