Nobody ever got fired for choosing Red Hat (enterprise) or Novell (more enterprise). Choosing Linux is only the start; you have to choose a distribution, support company (probably the same company who made the distribution), and so forth.
Now choosing something like Linux From Scratch, however, might get you in trouble...
Linux (and Unix-like OS's in general) runs the Internet; you won't find a Windows-based router supporting thousands of concurrent users. Yes, even your wireless router probably runs Linux. Just because a few dozen Fortune 500 companies probably use Exchange servers for their e-mail and Active Directory to manage users doesn't mean it has more servers in use.
So I go to Add/Remove Programs. I search for "Microsoft Windows" (or just "Windows" should work). I see the program I want (WINE). I tick the box. I click the "Apply Changes" button. Done.
Wow, I'm such a geek; being able to push a couple buttons is so fucking hard! Only a geek could figure it out!
WINE is easy as fuck to install; don't spread FUD kthx.
If you want to do it the geek way, it's arguably easier: sudo apt-get install wine
Then don't advertise Linux; advertise Ubuntu, or Linspire, or SuSE, or Mandriva, or whatever! It's been bad practise to call these distributions "Linux" as it's just the kernel, and thus will be confusing to people who are used to one kernel for one specific distribution. You don't call Mac OS X xnu, do you? You don't advocate usage of Darwin, right? You'd advocate usage of Mac OS X, or some other specific distribution that uses xnu and/or the Darwin base environment.
(not a lawyer, did the jd, but this is not legal advice, yada yada)
There's no such thing as legal advice on Slashdot, so don't worry about any disclaimers. If lawyers come to Slashdot and want to give legal advice, they're obviously out of a job at the moment (otherwise I'm sure they'd be too busy to give free service other than pro bono and the like).
It's cheaper, easier, and more efficient to design the site in the first place so that it falls back to an accessible view in a text-based web browser, screen reader, or braille terminal. You also get a lot more choice in design via CSS with your semantic XHTML (although you might need to throw in a few div's to prevent it from looking like complete ass in IE, but that could also be done via DOM manipulation, so whatever).
I've noticed a lot of CAPTCHAs are providing audio files you can listen to instead, so that's a good sign for accessibility. If you're blind and deaf, ouch, sucks to be you.:(
I think a good analogy would be that UnBox added itself to runlevel 2's/etc/rc2.d, and it added itself to your Autostart directory (wherever that may be depending on your desktop environment). He removed it from Autostart, but the daemon was still running.
Most people aren't lawyers, so they can't start up the necessary arguments in courts to get things like this changed. Most people would hire a lawyer (if affordable); even lawyers would hire other lawyers to work for a personal case (e.g. they're the defendant; lawyers don't represent themselves in a court of law due to human nature).
Besides, I thought the problem with DeCSS was the distribution of it, not the use of it. That was the problem with the law; you were allowed to circumvent the protection for fair use, but you couldn't tell anyone else how to do it (e.g. distributing your program).
Opera has existed as a better alternative for a long time, and even Mozilla has been a stable product for a long time. It wasn't until the last couple of years that another browser (Firefox) was able to gain on IE enough to make Microsoft actually give a shit about IE once again. Competition is good, and without it, IE stagnated as a now nine-years-obsolete web renderring technology.
The sort of people who would risk investing in companies whose main means for profit is lawsuits that isn't a law firm probably wouldn't know the difference between DRM and Windows telling them they can't delete a certain file (permissions). And no, Steve Jobs cannot be used in an example to counter-point this post; he's filthy rich and can waste his money however he wishes.
For the millionth time, Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop market, so they don't follow standard market rules. They can't use that monopoly to gain another monopoly (e.g. any software that normally costs money) as that's unfair and illegal.
Why does IE control 80% of the market then? Nearly every web browser is lightyears ahead of IE in terms of security, features, standards, speed, etc., yet IE continues to be dominant. Maybe it's because Microsoft leveraged their desktop monopoly to gain a new one in web browsers? Did you know that web browsers used to cost money before Microsoft distributed IE for free (with your copy of Windows of course) to kill off Netscape?
But isn't the cdrecord guy kinda "in" with the Linux kernel crowd? Most CD-/DVD-buring apps for Linux/BSD use cdrecord as the backend, so that could be significant...
I guess the difference here then is that WebKit (based on KHTML and KJS from KDE) is actually standards-compliant, robust, and secure, while mshtml.dll is currently the most outdated, insecure, standards-raping pile of web-renderring shit on the face of the earth.
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Nobody ever got fired for choosing Red Hat (enterprise) or Novell (more enterprise). Choosing Linux is only the start; you have to choose a distribution, support company (probably the same company who made the distribution), and so forth.
Now choosing something like Linux From Scratch, however, might get you in trouble...
Linux (and Unix-like OS's in general) runs the Internet; you won't find a Windows-based router supporting thousands of concurrent users. Yes, even your wireless router probably runs Linux. Just because a few dozen Fortune 500 companies probably use Exchange servers for their e-mail and Active Directory to manage users doesn't mean it has more servers in use.
So I go to Add/Remove Programs. I search for "Microsoft Windows" (or just "Windows" should work). I see the program I want (WINE). I tick the box. I click the "Apply Changes" button. Done.
Wow, I'm such a geek; being able to push a couple buttons is so fucking hard! Only a geek could figure it out!
WINE is easy as fuck to install; don't spread FUD kthx.
If you want to do it the geek way, it's arguably easier:
sudo apt-get install wine
Then don't advertise Linux; advertise Ubuntu, or Linspire, or SuSE, or Mandriva, or whatever! It's been bad practise to call these distributions "Linux" as it's just the kernel, and thus will be confusing to people who are used to one kernel for one specific distribution. You don't call Mac OS X xnu, do you? You don't advocate usage of Darwin, right? You'd advocate usage of Mac OS X, or some other specific distribution that uses xnu and/or the Darwin base environment.
Y'know, I haven't seen any beige PCs in a long time. Most PCs seem to be black nowadays.
(not a lawyer, did the jd, but this is not legal advice, yada yada)
There's no such thing as legal advice on Slashdot, so don't worry about any disclaimers. If lawyers come to Slashdot and want to give legal advice, they're obviously out of a job at the moment (otherwise I'm sure they'd be too busy to give free service other than pro bono and the like).
I think you meant 11.
Old New York used their mob connections to attain a cheap rocket, duh.
Because E = mc^2 my friend! The current method only uses about 4.24 * 10^-9 % of the available energy.
*applauds*
One of the best explanations I've ever read.
The MPAA lost the case against DVD Jon. I think it's legal to watch DVDs now.
You think bringing a DVD player home is bad? Try taking an Xbox home.
It's cheaper, easier, and more efficient to design the site in the first place so that it falls back to an accessible view in a text-based web browser, screen reader, or braille terminal. You also get a lot more choice in design via CSS with your semantic XHTML (although you might need to throw in a few div's to prevent it from looking like complete ass in IE, but that could also be done via DOM manipulation, so whatever).
I've noticed a lot of CAPTCHAs are providing audio files you can listen to instead, so that's a good sign for accessibility. If you're blind and deaf, ouch, sucks to be you. :(
I think a good analogy would be that UnBox added itself to runlevel 2's /etc/rc2.d, and it added itself to your Autostart directory (wherever that may be depending on your desktop environment). He removed it from Autostart, but the daemon was still running.
Most people aren't lawyers, so they can't start up the necessary arguments in courts to get things like this changed. Most people would hire a lawyer (if affordable); even lawyers would hire other lawyers to work for a personal case (e.g. they're the defendant; lawyers don't represent themselves in a court of law due to human nature).
Besides, I thought the problem with DeCSS was the distribution of it, not the use of it. That was the problem with the law; you were allowed to circumvent the protection for fair use, but you couldn't tell anyone else how to do it (e.g. distributing your program).
Ouch, sucks for you; I can ride my bike to Walmart (it's about a mile or two away).
Now that you mention it, I'm quite interested myself. I wonder if this is possible...
Opera has existed as a better alternative for a long time, and even Mozilla has been a stable product for a long time. It wasn't until the last couple of years that another browser (Firefox) was able to gain on IE enough to make Microsoft actually give a shit about IE once again. Competition is good, and without it, IE stagnated as a now nine-years-obsolete web renderring technology.
The sort of people who would risk investing in companies whose main means for profit is lawsuits that isn't a law firm probably wouldn't know the difference between DRM and Windows telling them they can't delete a certain file (permissions). And no, Steve Jobs cannot be used in an example to counter-point this post; he's filthy rich and can waste his money however he wishes.
For the millionth time, Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop market, so they don't follow standard market rules. They can't use that monopoly to gain another monopoly (e.g. any software that normally costs money) as that's unfair and illegal.
Why does IE control 80% of the market then? Nearly every web browser is lightyears ahead of IE in terms of security, features, standards, speed, etc., yet IE continues to be dominant. Maybe it's because Microsoft leveraged their desktop monopoly to gain a new one in web browsers? Did you know that web browsers used to cost money before Microsoft distributed IE for free (with your copy of Windows of course) to kill off Netscape?
But isn't the cdrecord guy kinda "in" with the Linux kernel crowd? Most CD-/DVD-buring apps for Linux/BSD use cdrecord as the backend, so that could be significant...
I guess the difference here then is that WebKit (based on KHTML and KJS from KDE) is actually standards-compliant, robust, and secure, while mshtml.dll is currently the most outdated, insecure, standards-raping pile of web-renderring shit on the face of the earth.
Yes, I'm a web developer; how could you tell?