I think Micro$oft is looking for a new revenue model because even they know that Vista may be the end of the Windows upgrade treadmill or at lerast very close to it. The anti FREEDOM aspects of the old Sun Microsystems "network computing" concept which this emulates is also very appealing to Micro$oft's Fascist nature.
Yes and IBM had almost 100% of the quality hardware business back in the early 1980s. When they do STUPID things like dictatorial licensing agrreements backed up by "product activation" and reviving the old anti freedom Sun "Network Computing"
monstrosity a monopoly can FALL HARD and the IBM is the proof of it.
Sun Microsystems also proved it too by becomming essentially an open source company after the "network computing" scheme failed putting even its crown jewels like Java and Solaris under GPLvTHREE of all licenses for a large business and SOFTWARE PATENT HOLDER to place their software under.
Too much more STUPIDITY like trying to revive "network computing" Micro$oft's current regime may just be BOOTED and WINDOWS and OFFICE and may just wind up under GPLv3 or a similar license.
Well I think this IS a bad idea. My motto is NEVER give up the freedoms we have now (like private offline local computing) for the sake of "convenience" or "security". By the way this is why I'm also against "gun control" and Shrubya. ANYONE who gives up essential liberty for the sake of "convenience" or "security" does not deserve any of the three and weather this anti freedom, bill creating, rate inflating scheme is called "network computing" (Sun Microsystems) or the "net cloud" (Micro$oft) it is simply another sheeple herding, wallet emptying ripoff of basic liberty and money.
The only people who wish death for the PC for gaming or anything else are those who want to return to a centralized computer system similar to what we had in the late 1960s and 1970s when computers were too big and expensive for the average person to own. Once the PC came a long the result of it was another monopoly to begin with (Micro$oft) but later became
GNU, Linux, Apache, Mozilla and other Free and Open Source softwares that allowed much greater FREEDOM in both individual computing and Internet communication than the Corporatists wanted users to have. To destroy that freedom was the motive behind the original "thin client" and "network computing" campaigns of the 1990s and the move try to kill off PC gaming now in favor of crippled "consoles".
Never surrender the FREEDOM a PC gives you over any other type of computing applience because of the marketing hype of companies like Sony, Micro$oft, and other copyright and patent empires
behind the "console" industry. Thay have shown time and time again that they are only into perminent totalitarian control over you through "intellectual property" law and DO NOT have the best interests of their users at heart. If we can't find good "off the shelf" games for PCs anymore than let's again support the Shareware and GPL licensed "donationware" gaming industries again. These in fact are where many of the popular "console" games originated anyway but NEVER surrender your FREEDOM. Stay with the PC.
Python:
Even with a Open Source IDE Java is PROPRIETARY and
even with Mono.NET is a Micro$oft software patent
trap just waiting to snap shut and amputate the penguin's foot.
Python is the only general purpose interpreted or "managed" language that is full Open Source.
If you want to use something proprietary a shareware language called Euphoria is also a great choice. It comes in 32 bit Winconsole or DOS, Win32 GUI, Linux Console FreeBSD console, GTK and WxWidgets flavors and is a very simple download even on dial up. Further more with Euphoria you can use it as a cross platform "managed" language
with your sources open (it is completely free "as in beer" for that purpose) or you can create stand alone closed executables with it through a binding and shrouding process. (The software for binding and shrouding is the shareware you pay for when you register Euphoria.) also the euphoria interpreter is one of the fastest and smallest interpreters in existance.
Actually I think that the answer here would lie in special CONPUTER AND SOFTWARE copyright and patent terms that reflect the rapid obsolecence in the industry.
The conputer and software patent term would be a max of two years.
The computer and software copyright term would be five years or the market life of the product whichever is less with products being designated at the VERSION level.
I believe that this will allow a reasonable amount of time for computer related inventors and developers to profit from their products but would also expand the public domain in the computer area
and prevent mega monopolies Like Micro$oft from forming due to continuing to hold patents and copyrights on even their obsolete software.
On what may be considered the "bad side" for some people a lot of software will be released from the
GPL and other open source licenses by this. However it will actually solve the core problem that the GPL and other open source licenses were designed to address, the supression of the public domain by Monopoly corporate interests.
Where would this leave Linus Torvalds, a person who so believes that both proprietary and FOSS software has a right to exist that he allows PROPRIETARY DRIVERS to interact with his strict GPL kernel then.
Guess Linus would be like Western Europe, mixed capitalism and socialism.;c)
This is just more proof that we have to find a way of getting rid of BOTH the "Left Wing" (Communist/Socialist) and the "Right Wing" (Corporatist Fascist) wings of the "NEW WORLD ORDER" and get back to the idea of Constitutional Republics based on the concept of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and the primacy of the PUBLIC DOMAIN over "Intellectual Property" in the grants of copyrights and patents. THis should also mean NO patent grants on software and no copyright or patent grants on life forms before the "New World Order" kills us all with its stupidity, greed and totalitarian arrogance ON BOTH SIDES there of.
Actually I don't think you have to worry that much. I DON'T think that President Bush has ANY interest in protecting the IP of those who voted for and promoted John Kerry and promoted Michael Moore.
IBM Smalltalk P Code Pascal Every BASIC dialect with the exception of PowerBASIC* Python (versions prior to the patent date) Perl (versions prior to the patent date)
*(Robert Zale's PowerBASIC is a true native code compiler for his BASIC dialect with versions for Windows, DOS and possibly Linux in the near future.)
One part of the GPL can be considered an EULA. That is the part that says there is no warranty on the software which applies to end users as well as distributors.
I thank another case of importance here, (And in fact one that may have overturned the "Suess Estate v. Penguin Books" case) was the case of an African American Woman who wrote a novel called The Wind Done Gone that was essentially a SATIRE of Marret Mitchel's book Gone With the Wind. This woman's book used the charicters from Gone With the Wind to tell the story of such Gone with the Wind events as slavery, the burning of Atlanta, Sherman's subsequent "march to the sea" and emancipation from the point of the female slave charicter rather than the female slave owner charicter as Mitchel had done. I believe that she won her suit against Margret Mitchel's estate for the right to use Mitchel's charicters in this book which was obviously a SATIRE built around Mitchel's charicters and NOT around Mitchel herself.
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I think Micro$oft is looking for a new revenue model because even they know that Vista may be the end of the Windows upgrade treadmill or at lerast very close to it. The anti FREEDOM aspects of the old Sun Microsystems "network computing" concept which this emulates is also very appealing to Micro$oft's Fascist nature.
Yes and IBM had almost 100% of the quality hardware business back in the early 1980s. When they do STUPID things like dictatorial licensing agrreements backed up by "product activation" and reviving the old anti freedom Sun "Network Computing" monstrosity a monopoly can FALL HARD and the IBM is the proof of it. Sun Microsystems also proved it too by becomming essentially an open source company after the "network computing" scheme failed putting even its crown jewels like Java and Solaris under GPLvTHREE of all licenses for a large business and SOFTWARE PATENT HOLDER to place their software under. Too much more STUPIDITY like trying to revive "network computing" Micro$oft's current regime may just be BOOTED and WINDOWS and OFFICE and may just wind up under GPLv3 or a similar license.
Well I think this IS a bad idea. My motto is NEVER give up the freedoms we have now (like private offline local computing) for the sake of "convenience" or "security". By the way this is why I'm also against "gun control" and Shrubya. ANYONE who gives up essential liberty for the sake of "convenience" or "security" does not deserve any of the three and weather this anti freedom, bill creating, rate inflating scheme is called "network computing" (Sun Microsystems) or the "net cloud" (Micro$oft) it is simply another sheeple herding, wallet emptying ripoff of basic liberty and money.
The only people who wish death for the PC for gaming or anything else are those who want to return to a centralized computer system similar to what we had in the late 1960s and 1970s when computers were too big and expensive for the average person to own. Once the PC came a long the result of it was another monopoly to begin with (Micro$oft) but later became GNU, Linux, Apache, Mozilla and other Free and Open Source softwares that allowed much greater FREEDOM in both individual computing and Internet communication than the Corporatists wanted users to have. To destroy that freedom was the motive behind the original "thin client" and "network computing" campaigns of the 1990s and the move try to kill off PC gaming now in favor of crippled "consoles". Never surrender the FREEDOM a PC gives you over any other type of computing applience because of the marketing hype of companies like Sony, Micro$oft, and other copyright and patent empires behind the "console" industry. Thay have shown time and time again that they are only into perminent totalitarian control over you through "intellectual property" law and DO NOT have the best interests of their users at heart. If we can't find good "off the shelf" games for PCs anymore than let's again support the Shareware and GPL licensed "donationware" gaming industries again. These in fact are where many of the popular "console" games originated anyway but NEVER surrender your FREEDOM. Stay with the PC.
Python: Even with a Open Source IDE Java is PROPRIETARY and even with Mono .NET is a Micro$oft software patent
trap just waiting to snap shut and amputate the penguin's foot.
Python is the only general purpose interpreted or "managed" language that is full Open Source.
If you want to use something proprietary a shareware language called Euphoria is also a great choice. It comes in 32 bit Winconsole or DOS, Win32 GUI, Linux Console FreeBSD console, GTK and WxWidgets flavors and is a very simple download even on dial up. Further more with Euphoria you can use it as a cross platform "managed" language
with your sources open (it is completely free "as in beer" for that purpose) or you can create stand alone closed executables with it through a binding and shrouding process. (The software for binding and shrouding is the shareware you pay for when you register Euphoria.) also the euphoria interpreter is one of the fastest and smallest interpreters in existance.
Actually I think that the answer here would lie in special CONPUTER AND SOFTWARE copyright and patent terms that reflect the rapid obsolecence in the industry. The conputer and software patent term would be a max of two years. The computer and software copyright term would be five years or the market life of the product whichever is less with products being designated at the VERSION level. I believe that this will allow a reasonable amount of time for computer related inventors and developers to profit from their products but would also expand the public domain in the computer area and prevent mega monopolies Like Micro$oft from forming due to continuing to hold patents and copyrights on even their obsolete software. On what may be considered the "bad side" for some people a lot of software will be released from the GPL and other open source licenses by this. However it will actually solve the core problem that the GPL and other open source licenses were designed to address, the supression of the public domain by Monopoly corporate interests.
Where would this leave Linus Torvalds, a person who so believes that both proprietary and FOSS software has a right to exist that he allows PROPRIETARY DRIVERS to interact with his strict GPL kernel then.
;c)
Guess Linus would be like Western Europe, mixed capitalism and socialism.
This is just more proof that we have to find a way of getting rid of BOTH the "Left Wing" (Communist/Socialist) and the "Right Wing" (Corporatist Fascist) wings of the "NEW WORLD ORDER" and get back to the idea of Constitutional Republics based on the concept of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and the primacy of the PUBLIC DOMAIN over "Intellectual Property" in the grants of copyrights and patents. THis should also mean NO patent grants on software and no copyright or patent grants on life forms before the "New World Order" kills us all with its stupidity, greed and totalitarian arrogance ON BOTH SIDES there of.
Actually I don't think you have to worry that much. I DON'T think that President Bush has ANY interest in protecting the IP of those who voted for and promoted John Kerry and promoted Michael Moore.
Here is the Prior Art:
IBM Smalltalk
P Code Pascal
Every BASIC dialect with the exception of PowerBASIC*
Python (versions prior to the patent date)
Perl (versions prior to the patent date)
*(Robert Zale's PowerBASIC is a true native code compiler for his BASIC dialect with versions for Windows, DOS and possibly Linux in the near future.)
One part of the GPL can be considered an EULA. That is the part that says there is no warranty on the software which applies to end users as well as distributors.
Actually I don't think this has a thing to do with Dubya, This clip DOES NOT TAKE SIDES and makes Bush and Kerry look equally idiotic.
I thank another case of importance here, (And in fact one that may have overturned the "Suess Estate v. Penguin Books" case) was the case of an African American Woman who wrote a novel called The Wind Done Gone that was essentially a SATIRE of Marret Mitchel's book Gone With the Wind. This woman's book used the charicters from Gone With the Wind to tell the story of such Gone with the Wind events as slavery, the burning of Atlanta, Sherman's subsequent "march to the sea" and emancipation from the point of the female slave charicter rather than the female slave owner charicter as Mitchel had done. I believe that she won her suit against Margret Mitchel's estate for the right to use Mitchel's charicters in this book which was obviously a SATIRE built around Mitchel's charicters and NOT around Mitchel herself.