.....the EU has provided Microsoft with a major victory over its Open Source rivals because it will now be allowed to pursue royalty revenue from the APIs it publishes.
Don't most Open Source projects such as Samba come free of charge??? How can you charge royalties if the program is already free?
How is this a bad thing for Open Source software... sounds like it simply doesn't matter, for the most part... not that I don't think MS shouldn't be given the short-end at every possible junction, just that this is really a non-issue.
.....the EU has provided Microsoft with a major victory over its Open Source rivals because it will now be allowed to pursue royalty revenue from the APIs it publishes.
Don't most Open Source projects such as Samba come free of charge???
How can you charge royalties if the program is already free? How is this a bad thing for Open Source software... sounds like it simply doesn't matter, for the most part... not that I think MS shouldn't be given the short-end at every possible junction, just that this is really a non-issue.
Way to waste your bribe money Gates! >;)
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Don't most Open Source projects such as Samba come free of charge??? How can you charge royalties if the program is already free?
How is this a bad thing for Open Source software... sounds like it simply doesn't matter, for the most part... not that I don't think MS shouldn't be given the short-end at every possible junction, just that this is really a non-issue.
Way to waste your bribe money Gates! >;-)
.....the EU has provided Microsoft with a major victory over its Open Source rivals because it will now be allowed to pursue royalty revenue from the APIs it publishes. Don't most Open Source projects such as Samba come free of charge??? How can you charge royalties if the program is already free? How is this a bad thing for Open Source software... sounds like it simply doesn't matter, for the most part... not that I think MS shouldn't be given the short-end at every possible junction, just that this is really a non-issue. Way to waste your bribe money Gates! >;)
Wait, doesn't this mean they can't get "support" from the manufacturer ?!?!? How do they make it work?
I preferred the link to the Remote Controlled Rat.... however, I was hoping that it would be a biologically based model, and not a plastic replica.