15 years ago there was no KDE or Gnome, there was no HAL, hotplug or discover, there was no package systems with automatic dependency solving. Unix was only for real hardcore geeks.
Now you have Linux, and in many ways it just works. KDE and Gnome are already as good as Windows, if not better.
I guess Sun, HP, IBM and other Unix vendons didn't think that Linux would became so popular, and so thecnicaly superior on the desktop.
The fees are just there to ensure that LMI can actually defend the trademark if push comes to shove.
Sorry to ask, but here at Brasil everyone has the right to FREE access to justice. And even here, a 3rd world nation, this is true. Yes, you may have to wait hours standing in line to be listen, but you will be listen and the state will assign a lawyer to you.
And as I understand, being a democratic nation, this must be true for Australia too.
Apart from it, why can't they ask for donations instead of charging for the trademark use? Debian, for example, never charged any fees to any derivative distros... and they seem to be just fine.
I mean, keep the use free of charge, but require anyone using the word "Linux" to send a copy of their work to be certified, or something... but don't charge for it!
Because, if I want to hack Linux and put inside my clockwatch... and them make it avaliable on my website under the name of WatchLinux for FREE, I wont want to pay someone to use the trademark... Hell, I'd rather make a WatchNetBSD or something!
And I tell you why... normal people dont care about the OS they use, if you put most of them in front of a KDE or GNOME desktop and DONT mention the word "Linux" theyll just pretend its just a funny looking Windows.
Most people dont really use the OS itself, they spend so many time inside their applications that the OS dont matter to them.
So, as long as Google provides those amazing applications, thell never have to worry about dominating the OS...
Ok, maybe thell have to worry about the Browser. After all nobody knows how Microsoft will "fix" Internet Explorer.
PowerMacs will continue to ship with PowerPC 970 for a good period of time, and more likely will be the last piece of hardware they'll migrate to x86.
Most Apple's professional software will continue to be target at PPC, because of the PowerMacs. Hell, if IBM manage to deliver a PPC970 suited for portables probably even the PowerBooks will remain PPC based.
This leaves Apple with a PPC based professional line, and the non-pro stuff will go x86, so they move away from FreeScale.
Ok, now follow me... Rosetta will play an essential role here. Without it, many applications won't run at all on the x86 Macs.
My point is, Apple could sell ( with a low price) an OSX version without Rosetta to run on vanilla PCs! Without the ability to run software like Photoshop, FinalCut, and others it wouldn't hurt their hardware sales... and would help to make MacOSX much more popular.
Come on! The desktop is alredy here, both GNOME and KDE are very usable, and in some points better than Windows.
The problem is how to integrate them to the underlying OS! Until recently there was no standart way to do it, every distro implemented its own hardware discovery scheme.
Now we got udev, pmount, hal and others to help. Have you tried a modern desktop targeted distro recently, like Ubuntu for example? Get a usb drive, plug it and bang! It appears on the desktop MacOSX style.
The only BIG problem left is easy, next-next-finish style, standart installation packages across every distro. But hopefully they'll handle this one too.
That's the word...
I guess Novell wants to polish Suse to be able to complete dismish any complains from a desktop user perspective, and this way be able to compete against that other Evil(tm) OS.
That's right... and if I recall correctly Novell has the rights to the OpenServer kernel, and everything else in the OS, they are entitled to get 100% of the profits, and they repass 5% to SCO as administrative costs.
So, if its true... at some point in the future, if the current lawsuits don't manage to kill SCO, Novell might be able to release OpenServer as GPL. Now, this would be a very poetic way to put SCO to an end!
Wow... I'm going to buy a Suse box right now just to support this guys!
I'll assume that the researchers out there realise that P2P is an amazing technology, and a good way to use the net resources to distribute files.
What they're trying to do is extend the protocol, so it can be used to legit purposes. I mean, Bittorrent is cool because you can check the identity of the files from the torrent... and Gnutella is cool because it's almost has no central nodes, and you publish your files directly on the network and a simple search will find them.
I can immagine several legit uses for P2P networks, with a trust/authenticity mechanism, for example I'd love to see Debian repositories over a P2P network! It would be amazing to download several files at the same time, always from the fastest source and without the need to update or configure any repository list!
And actually, there's some innovative stuff too. They took the entire "Start Menu" thing, and adapted it to be a CSS bookmark/organizer. Neat!
Not to mention that the page renders perfectly with Firefox under Linux.
This kind of quality makes me think that Microsoft should be divided into several, smaller, independent companies. This way, nice projects like this start.com wouldn't be tainted by corporative "thinking".
Microsoft already is fighting in too many fronts to be effective in every one, a split up would benefect them, as they would became more agile, and benefect the market, as we would get rid of the Microsoft's Godzilla...
Actually thats what we're doing here, we devellop our internal web applications by the standarts... if IE fails to render them, well... we point a link to install Firefox.
Its just easier, and faster, install Firefox than fight with CSS and HTML to make it render correctly under IE.
I mean, can this prevent stack overflow sploits, and other methods of raising some process privileges from working?
It would be interesting to see a method to "hardlock" user permissions, and access to the sistem. This can be very usefull, indeed.
Of course it's a way to prevent access to protected areas, like DVD-Burning, or any other API Apple don't want hackers to be messing with. Or to prevent OSX from running on "unnautorized hardware", but let's concentrate on the positive side of this stuff...
Now... since this thing operates on kernel level, and if Darwin (the OSX kernel) is OpenSource, is there any chance that the source for DRM stuff will be released as OpenSource too?
I'm typing this from a Gnome 2.11.90 desktop, and I must say that it works perfectly.
Gnome is almost complete now, most of the interface work is done, and now all that's left are those little details that make all the difference.
Right now it dellivers a very nice experience, and my wife, a History teacher with serious problems with modern technology, really prefers it over Windows or KDE. I really like the Gnome approach of make things simple, and then add the needed funcionalities one step at the time, instead of the KDE "everything-plus-the-kitchen-sync" aproach.
The rougth edges lie on things like better hardware discovery, and better integration with the underlying OS. But these will go away as the HAL matures, and more and more scripts are added to it's library.
Actually I can tell you that the major performance hit comes from the database, not from the Web Application itself.
Bad designed databases, and insanelly large queries can be quite a performance hit.
On our devellopment server, Java itself account only for 0% to 1% of processor usage, while database activity sometimes accounts for 99%! That's because there's a lot of legacy code there, and a lot of spaguetty SQL...
7) Force the competition to slim down their profit margin... 8) Until they're broke, and out of the business 9) Stablish a Monopoly 10) ??? 11) Profit!!!
It's Microsoft we're talking about, they don't want to compete with Nintendo, they want to destroy them!
This can be great news to poor countries where most of the people doens't has access to computers due their high price.
For example, here at Brazil a "cheap" computer costs 2 months worth of salary from an average worker (around U$650). Ideally a cheap computer should be priced at U$200 to be really affordable by the average family here...
If China could licence this technology, or create a partnership with Brasil, Argentina, India and other develloping countries we could be able free ourselves from the Intel/AMD/Windows dominance.
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There was no need to do it.
15 years ago there was no KDE or Gnome, there was no HAL, hotplug or discover, there was no package systems with automatic dependency solving. Unix was only for real hardcore geeks.
Now you have Linux, and in many ways it just works. KDE and Gnome are already as good as Windows, if not better.
I guess Sun, HP, IBM and other Unix vendons didn't think that Linux would became so popular, and so thecnicaly superior on the desktop.
And as I understand, being a democratic nation, this must be true for Australia too.
Apart from it, why can't they ask for donations instead of charging for the trademark use? Debian, for example, never charged any fees to any derivative distros... and they seem to be just fine.
This all sounds too suspect to me.
Ok, but why charge for the use?
I mean, keep the use free of charge, but require anyone using the word "Linux" to send a copy of their work to be certified, or something... but don't charge for it!
Because, if I want to hack Linux and put inside my clockwatch... and them make it avaliable on my website under the name of WatchLinux for FREE, I wont want to pay someone to use the trademark... Hell, I'd rather make a WatchNetBSD or something!
This wont happen anytime soon...
And I tell you why... normal people dont care about the OS they use, if you put most of them in front of a KDE or GNOME desktop and DONT mention the word "Linux" theyll just pretend its just a funny looking Windows.
Most people dont really use the OS itself, they spend so many time inside their applications that the OS dont matter to them.
So, as long as Google provides those amazing applications, thell never have to worry about dominating the OS...
Ok, maybe thell have to worry about the Browser. After all nobody knows how Microsoft will "fix" Internet Explorer.
The problem are the thousands of unpatched systems out there that will get infected.
PowerMacs will continue to ship with PowerPC 970 for a good period of time, and more likely will be the last piece of hardware they'll migrate to x86.
Most Apple's professional software will continue to be target at PPC, because of the PowerMacs. Hell, if IBM manage to deliver a PPC970 suited for portables probably even the PowerBooks will remain PPC based.
This leaves Apple with a PPC based professional line, and the non-pro stuff will go x86, so they move away from FreeScale.
Ok, now follow me... Rosetta will play an essential role here. Without it, many applications won't run at all on the x86 Macs.
My point is, Apple could sell ( with a low price) an OSX version without Rosetta to run on vanilla PCs! Without the ability to run software like Photoshop, FinalCut, and others it wouldn't hurt their hardware sales... and would help to make MacOSX much more popular.
Apple is not being "fair"... they're just pushing some decent competition on Sony's Music Store.
Let's see if the price stays the same once they crush Sony's music service...
And here at Brazil people don't buy unless its modded. And if it's not modded, is easy enought find where to mod it, with one year warranty!!
Game shops around here dont advert it, but when you go there they advise you to mod you PS2, so you can play games bought from the local flea market.
When 3 games account for the price of the console, you know there'll be lots of piracy...
Are you using Windows?
;-)
Because here its running just fine, on my dual head Ubuntu box with Xinerama and Wine
Come on! The desktop is alredy here, both GNOME and KDE are very usable, and in some points better than Windows.
The problem is how to integrate them to the underlying OS! Until recently there was no standart way to do it, every distro implemented its own hardware discovery scheme.
Now we got udev, pmount, hal and others to help. Have you tried a modern desktop targeted distro recently, like Ubuntu for example? Get a usb drive, plug it and bang! It appears on the desktop MacOSX style.
The only BIG problem left is easy, next-next-finish style, standart installation packages across every distro. But hopefully they'll handle this one too.
That's the word... I guess Novell wants to polish Suse to be able to complete dismish any complains from a desktop user perspective, and this way be able to compete against that other Evil(tm) OS.
That's right... and if I recall correctly Novell has the rights to the OpenServer kernel, and everything else in the OS, they are entitled to get 100% of the profits, and they repass 5% to SCO as administrative costs.
So, if its true... at some point in the future, if the current lawsuits don't manage to kill SCO, Novell might be able to release OpenServer as GPL. Now, this would be a very poetic way to put SCO to an end!
Wow... I'm going to buy a Suse box right now just to support this guys!
Agreed,
Also I can't imagine why Nokia would want to merge with Cisco...
Nokia already has enought gas to enter on any market by its own means, they simply don't need to acquire Cisco to become a router company.
A best question would be... Can it compile Linux?
I'll assume that the researchers out there realise that P2P is an amazing technology, and a good way to use the net resources to distribute files.
What they're trying to do is extend the protocol, so it can be used to legit purposes. I mean, Bittorrent is cool because you can check the identity of the files from the torrent... and Gnutella is cool because it's almost has no central nodes, and you publish your files directly on the network and a simple search will find them.
I can immagine several legit uses for P2P networks, with a trust/authenticity mechanism, for example I'd love to see Debian repositories over a P2P network! It would be amazing to download several files at the same time, always from the fastest source and without the need to update or configure any repository list!
It's really a nice and clean page...
And actually, there's some innovative stuff too. They took the entire "Start Menu" thing, and adapted it to be a CSS bookmark/organizer. Neat!
Not to mention that the page renders perfectly with Firefox under Linux.
This kind of quality makes me think that Microsoft should be divided into several, smaller, independent companies. This way, nice projects like this start.com wouldn't be tainted by corporative "thinking".
Microsoft already is fighting in too many fronts to be effective in every one, a split up would benefect them, as they would became more agile, and benefect the market, as we would get rid of the Microsoft's Godzilla...
Actually thats what we're doing here, we devellop our internal web applications by the standarts... if IE fails to render them, well... we point a link to install Firefox.
Its just easier, and faster, install Firefox than fight with CSS and HTML to make it render correctly under IE.
I mean, can this prevent stack overflow sploits, and other methods of raising some process privileges from working?
It would be interesting to see a method to "hardlock" user permissions, and access to the sistem. This can be very usefull, indeed.
Of course it's a way to prevent access to protected areas, like DVD-Burning, or any other API Apple don't want hackers to be messing with. Or to prevent OSX from running on "unnautorized hardware", but let's concentrate on the positive side of this stuff...
Now... since this thing operates on kernel level, and if Darwin (the OSX kernel) is OpenSource, is there any chance that the source for DRM stuff will be released as OpenSource too?
I'm typing this from a Gnome 2.11.90 desktop, and I must say that it works perfectly.
Gnome is almost complete now, most of the interface work is done, and now all that's left are those little details that make all the difference.
Right now it dellivers a very nice experience, and my wife, a History teacher with serious problems with modern technology, really prefers it over Windows or KDE. I really like the Gnome approach of make things simple, and then add the needed funcionalities one step at the time, instead of the KDE "everything-plus-the-kitchen-sync" aproach.
The rougth edges lie on things like better hardware discovery, and better integration with the underlying OS. But these will go away as the HAL matures, and more and more scripts are added to it's library.
Actually I can tell you that the major performance hit comes from the database, not from the Web Application itself.
Bad designed databases, and insanelly large queries can be quite a performance hit.
On our devellopment server, Java itself account only for 0% to 1% of processor usage, while database activity sometimes accounts for 99%! That's because there's a lot of legacy code there, and a lot of spaguetty SQL...
7) Force the competition to slim down their profit margin...
8) Until they're broke, and out of the business
9) Stablish a Monopoly
10) ???
11) Profit!!!
It's Microsoft we're talking about, they don't want to compete with Nintendo, they want to destroy them!
Correct me if I'm getting this wrong... but how this female android is different from what Jim Henson's Creature Shop does!?
Yeah, I know that the muppets aren't quite human like... but they done some very human like characters too...
Philips found the answer... now all they need is a problem!
It's really sounding like something made to the marketing dept. One more little word to push when they're selling their products.
This can be great news to poor countries where most of the people doens't has access to computers due their high price.
For example, here at Brazil a "cheap" computer costs 2 months worth of salary from an average worker (around U$650). Ideally a cheap computer should be priced at U$200 to be really affordable by the average family here...
If China could licence this technology, or create a partnership with Brasil, Argentina, India and other develloping countries we could be able free ourselves from the Intel/AMD/Windows dominance.
All those existed before both Konfabulator and Dashboard...
Yes, it's true kids!! Apple is copying Linux this time!