> The proponents of GPL like to tell people that the world only needs one open source license
Who is this referring to? THE FSF alone suggests 3 different licenses. And I do not believe that you can simultaneously tell people the world only needs one license while suggesting 3.
I think the problem here is that you didn't read up on the backstory which shows that they did not consider Red Hat or any company that wasn't Microsoft.
I read through to find out what had happened with Red Hat. I was surprised to see they were referencing the incident last year where some binaries were signed by an intruder, and went on to say that there was "little public information available" on incident. However I know Red Hat made several press releases, culminating with a full time line of the events. In fact, I seem to remember the problem having been due to someone's lax handling of their own secrets (keys/password) as opposed to an actual hack.
> my applications would be right were I left them, continuing on as if I'd never left
That's because you never left. That's just how VNC works by default.
> With NX, I'd connect, I'd go through a big start-up process
That's just how NX works by default. It creates a new session every time, while VNC creates sessions on start up and keeps them open. Did you consider looking this up at all? I believe that NX can be made to act like VNC however.
> Web apps are downloaded to your local PC and run there
No... I'm pretty sure web apps run on a central server and just run a UI on the client side. The majority of the business logic and all the data resides on the central server. The only thing downloaded is the interface.
The MS SQL niche is for those that loyal to Microsoft, regardless of cost. For those who will write Microsoft any size check because they are already using all Microsoft's other software, so what's a few more dollars... even though their company just cut staff by a few percent, you can't decide to simply not pay your license fees.
That said, save for what I consider to be a lack of data types, SQL server is better than MySQL.
I keep hearing people saying that it's all GCC's fault, but I have seen no real proof of that. Nor why a profit making company such as Mozilla can't throw devs at GCC to fix the underlying problem.
Does anyone anticipate the average person actually needing these technologies in the near future? As opposed to just wanting it to watch something movie.
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> The proponents of GPL like to tell people that the world only needs one open source license
Who is this referring to? THE FSF alone suggests 3 different licenses. And I do not believe that you can simultaneously tell people the world only needs one license while suggesting 3.
I'm an OSS advocate. I use Ubuntu and openSUSE at home. My kids run Ubuntu.
What was the point of that lead up?
I think the problem here is that you didn't read up on the backstory which shows that they did not consider Red Hat or any company that wasn't Microsoft.
> It seems like they ought to be suing the teacher for distributing and/or reproducing the paper, not the company.
The company is the one profiting.
I read through to find out what had happened with Red Hat. I was surprised to see they were referencing the incident last year where some binaries were signed by an intruder, and went on to say that there was "little public information available" on incident. However I know Red Hat made several press releases, culminating with a full time line of the events. In fact, I seem to remember the problem having been due to someone's lax handling of their own secrets (keys/password) as opposed to an actual hack.
And you paid for a device which was tethered to its master, which happened not to be you.
If
then maybe the law, written by mortals, is wrong. It's not like the defense goes against the laws of nature and can't possibly be right.
Fedora is not a dev release.
> However, in terms of the OLPC goal, they should of gotten on their knees and begged for Windows XP
The equivalent of donating large amount of foreign food to Africa
Oracle does not have a Linux distribution. Centos is more of a Linux distribution than Oracle.
These are grown men and women, not little children in a playground. The should be able to take a joke -- they don't have to enjoy it themselves.
They can't pass the written exams for promotion. And get their feelings hurt by online forums.
> or will mention them in front of black police officers
Not mentioning a joke in front of people of a certain race would be racist in my opinion.
> I'd be honestly pretty disappointed in any major distro that doesn't start implementing a binary diff solution around this.
Fedora already has Presto using DeltaRPMs
> my applications would be right were I left them, continuing on as if I'd never left
That's because you never left. That's just how VNC works by default.
> With NX, I'd connect, I'd go through a big start-up process
That's just how NX works by default. It creates a new session every time, while VNC creates sessions on start up and keeps them open. Did you consider looking this up at all? I believe that NX can be made to act like VNC however.
> I'm not in the IT department, I don't have root access,
Yah... I don't think you should be enabling RPD or installing VNC either then
> Web apps are downloaded to your local PC and run there
No... I'm pretty sure web apps run on a central server and just run a UI on the client side. The majority of the business logic and all the data resides on the central server. The only thing downloaded is the interface.
I thought everything was copyrighted by default?
It's amazing how easy it was to get people to willing provide precise tracking data about themselves.
Hardware encoders/decoders would come pretty fast if Theora was made the HTML5 standard.
The MS SQL niche is for those that loyal to Microsoft, regardless of cost. For those who will write Microsoft any size check because they are already using all Microsoft's other software, so what's a few more dollars... even though their company just cut staff by a few percent, you can't decide to simply not pay your license fees.
That said, save for what I consider to be a lack of data types, SQL server is better than MySQL.
You realize anyone could do this, right?
I keep hearing people saying that it's all GCC's fault, but I have seen no real proof of that. Nor why a profit making company such as Mozilla can't throw devs at GCC to fix the underlying problem.
That's all well and good, but one should speak to their audience.
I think that's an equivalent question. Both are imaginary/purely concepts.
Does anyone anticipate the average person actually needing these technologies in the near future? As opposed to just wanting it to watch something movie.