the Pope blessing a Jewish wedding. "It was not done of our accord, but we protect you from the condemnation of sin."./* insert various forms of F*U's here */
out of OpenOffice. I sat in a Novell presentation about a year ago and the very charismatic presenter made Novell sound like the best thing to open source since binary. He mentioned what a great source of improvements for OpenOffice. I finished my bagel and left, but that was a tad rude of me.
Please, OSS community, let us trample on your work product! What will we do if we can't leech of someone else? We need you. We need you to play nice with us and our task.. uh.. I mean business partners.
"We own software. We own its ideas and every implementation that software provides. We are computing." How arrogant. Hey, M$!! Bring it! but make peace with God before you do...
at least some of those patents are general ideas like right-click or allowing the user to access the desktop using a username/password pair. i am against the patenting of ideas. only implementations of ideas should be allowed patents. but then software owners would have to publish code to at least the patent office and then the (wonderful and efficient) patent office would have to have reviews who can evaluate the code.
i have to agree with "fsck you, M$!"
this whole patent thing goes with my thoughts on Microvell. M$ wants us to think (because they firmly believe) they are the alpha and omega of computing. they evented software. any software vendor (free or otherwise) who does not partner with them and suckle from M$'s teat is in obvious violation of the idea(R) they are life(c) itself. I hope their board take a hard look at SCO's stock performance before moving on.
What is comes down to is information ownership. Does a company own the rights to distribute information you give them? Communication of information is "speech", but what rights do the subjects of the information (customers of Verison) have concerning the distribution of said data? Does the company own the data? Can customers revoke the rights of the company to distribute the data under the cause of privacy? And what is to stop a company from distributing that information to an entity other then our loving government?
i agree about the four horses part. M$ doesnt want to embrase linux as much as they want to extinguish. as someone else pointed out, they eventually want to make people think they (or novell by partnership) are the only ligitimate linux distributors and all others are unofficial/unsupported. I can see the add: "free linux distros come and go. run and you risk being left with out tech support. we're M$ and we're your linux source."
There's nothing worse than isolating children from reality
right. reality. video games are not real. If kids are learning about reality from video games and tv (not news) then we have a big problem. Yes, kids should know bad things exist, but not (hopefully) from first-hand knowledge. We also have an obligation to attempt to raise kids with a sense of morality. Running around town with an uzi seeking to maim, murder, and destroy (and feeling good about it) does not make productive citizens. and... uh.. by the way: the Internet is not safe. It can be used safely, but there are dangerous elements who want nothing more than to hurt kids. The short of it: parents should always take an active role in their children's development.
they want Postgres to run on Windows rather Linux. Then we can publish reports about Postgres being slower than M$SQL and maybe even notices from Windows pointing out how your SQL server would be better for you if it were M$'s.
agreed. i think he sees all OS concepts as M$ IP. People at M$ have this "we invented the computer" mindset. He wants to be vague so he can scare people into M$ "approved" Linux or better yet - Winders.
I bet if Microsoft made all their own hardware and then locked people into only using Vista on said hardware, it would be easy as pie to get Vista configured for the hardware. What an idea! Except, of course, that the whole idea behind the PC is open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice.
you better remind M$ of that. they think the PC is theirs because their OS (all you do is lease permission to use it) is installed.
I think you're right. They see their business as an entitlement. In their minds, the world can't have music without them. That's a bad mindset for business. There will always be some other company willing to get paid by your customers.
of all of M$'s patents - past, present future. They should all be examined for prior art and each of them revoked regardless of findings. screw 'em. Vista be darned.
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the Pope blessing a Jewish wedding. "It was not done of our accord, but we protect you from the condemnation of sin.". /* insert various forms of F*U's here */
the next windows to be codenamed "Linux"
out of OpenOffice. I sat in a Novell presentation about a year ago and the very charismatic presenter made Novell sound like the best thing to open source since binary. He mentioned what a great source of improvements for OpenOffice. I finished my bagel and left, but that was a tad rude of me.
Please, OSS community, let us trample on your work product! What will we do if we can't leech of someone else? We need you. We need you to play nice with us and our task.. uh.. I mean business partners.
"We own software. We own its ideas and every implementation that software provides. We are computing." How arrogant. Hey, M$!! Bring it! but make peace with God before you do...
at least some of those patents are general ideas like right-click or allowing the user to access the desktop using a username/password pair. i am against the patenting of ideas. only implementations of ideas should be allowed patents. but then software owners would have to publish code to at least the patent office and then the (wonderful and efficient) patent office would have to have reviews who can evaluate the code. i have to agree with "fsck you, M$!" this whole patent thing goes with my thoughts on Microvell. M$ wants us to think (because they firmly believe) they are the alpha and omega of computing. they evented software. any software vendor (free or otherwise) who does not partner with them and suckle from M$'s teat is in obvious violation of the idea(R) they are life(c) itself. I hope their board take a hard look at SCO's stock performance before moving on.
that is not poison you are drinking. It is a life management utility.
What is comes down to is information ownership. Does a company own the rights to distribute information you give them? Communication of information is "speech", but what rights do the subjects of the information (customers of Verison) have concerning the distribution of said data? Does the company own the data? Can customers revoke the rights of the company to distribute the data under the cause of privacy? And what is to stop a company from distributing that information to an entity other then our loving government?
i agree about the four horses part. M$ doesnt want to embrase linux as much as they want to extinguish. as someone else pointed out, they eventually want to make people think they (or novell by partnership) are the only ligitimate linux distributors and all others are unofficial/unsupported. I can see the add: "free linux distros come and go. run and you risk being left with out tech support. we're M$ and we're your linux source."
as long as the kill-bots have a present kill limit, we'll be ok... eventually.
will will all run from the Democrat banner now? ESR says Libertarian is OK. :)
There's nothing worse than isolating children from reality
right. reality. video games are not real. If kids are learning about reality from video games and tv (not news) then we have a big problem. Yes, kids should know bad things exist, but not (hopefully) from first-hand knowledge. We also have an obligation to attempt to raise kids with a sense of morality. Running around town with an uzi seeking to maim, murder, and destroy (and feeling good about it) does not make productive citizens. and... uh.. by the way: the Internet is not safe. It can be used safely, but there are dangerous elements who want nothing more than to hurt kids. The short of it: parents should always take an active role in their children's development.
so they should be able to gather evidence by getting people to admit guilt before the *AA actually starts litigation.
'cause no one has ever installed a Linux on a dell. (Yeah, I realize they want to standardize and document. blah blah)
Firefox obviously violates M$ IP if there is a shared venerability.
they want Postgres to run on Windows rather Linux. Then we can publish reports about Postgres being slower than M$SQL and maybe even notices from Windows pointing out how your SQL server would be better for you if it were M$'s.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish"
and what a popcorn ball we could make from space using this thing. (+2 insightful is you know the reference :-)
agreed. i think he sees all OS concepts as M$ IP. People at M$ have this "we invented the computer" mindset. He wants to be vague so he can scare people into M$ "approved" Linux or better yet - Winders.
I bet if Microsoft made all their own hardware and then locked people into only using Vista on said hardware, it would be easy as pie to get Vista configured for the hardware. What an idea! Except, of course, that the whole idea behind the PC is open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice.
you better remind M$ of that. they think the PC is theirs because their OS (all you do is lease permission to use it) is installed.
this is a manual for Fedora...
I think you're right. They see their business as an entitlement. In their minds, the world can't have music without them. That's a bad mindset for business. There will always be some other company willing to get paid by your customers.
Where has this guy been? That's been M$'s pattern for a while now.
of all of M$'s patents - past, present future. They should all be examined for prior art and each of them revoked regardless of findings. screw 'em. Vista be darned.
but how much DRM will be built in? will future or alien technologies be able to decipher it?
they say something like "our brand of overly restrictive is OK 'cause we're M$ (bitch)"