yes yes, i know. Put the burning torches down:) - Still if the BBC can offer their video services in both WMV and Realmedia formats, why cant the EU?
Its certainly supported on linux after all
Put it in terms they will understand
ie
Open source is like building a house and letting lots of eyes look at it for ways a thief can get in. Any holes that get noticed will get sealed with bricks
Closed source is like building a house, then blindfolding you when you want to look at it - so you dont notice the large hole in the wall and the people getting in and out through it.
The eu doesnt need microsoft to co-operate if it truely wanted their trade secrets. they could sieze them without all this fuss. Microsoft can threaten all it wants but no corporation currently is more powerful then a state. They'll simply be slaughtered both by the EU, and by their shareholders if they continue to refuse to comply with the court order.
step 2 above seems to assume that everyone would return their copy to microsoft, just because they asked. Chances are they wouldnt, and all the EU needs to do is revoke all copyrights, patents , etc granted to microsoft and all businesses can continue to use it, legally while they migrate people over to other operating systems at their own pace. you may say that microsoft wouldnt let them access the updates, and you're probably right - however there are sites which package windows updates into one big installer. Those could be used and indeed patched should there be anything to ensure that only those outside the eu can install them.
Furthermore, Microsoft needs the EU more then the EU needs Microsoft. the EU is a huge market for microsoft, larger then the US is and their shareholders would certainly take action if the executives cut off such a large market through their arrogance and stubbornness.
Yes, cynicism is the language of the mind.
Everything should be taken with a pinch of salt when it comes to dates where public opinion really matters on a governmental scale. Dont just blindly accept everything you are told - question it and come to your own conclusions.
similarly for the UK store. As far as i know - only the US store has the tv shows or movies. Its a bit silly to block off a substantial part of the market like this but its probably a result of the terms and conditions the media companies defined.
Think dvd regions - etc.
its been on fark, digg and now slashdot - along with a number of other relatively high traffic sites such as theregister.
are we -trying- to kill their server?
they could have easily settled long ago - thats not the point.
they do not want to settle the case and leave doubts over linux, they want to crush it completely.
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Those are war drums i hear beating. The propeganda offensive has been underway for years - The military one cant be too far behind.
Wasn't that said by a certain king ( Henry II ), not a government? :)
Hrm, since the source requests the js file from googles servers, shouldnt it be possible to check the referrer to make sure its a google page?
yes yes, i know. Put the burning torches down :) - Still if the BBC can offer their video services in both WMV and Realmedia formats, why cant the EU?
Its certainly supported on linux after all
Were that the case, they would be trying to put vista on it. ;)
In such an event, I dont exactly fancy their chances
Put it in terms they will understand ie Open source is like building a house and letting lots of eyes look at it for ways a thief can get in. Any holes that get noticed will get sealed with bricks Closed source is like building a house, then blindfolding you when you want to look at it - so you dont notice the large hole in the wall and the people getting in and out through it.
science's take is "there is insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the existance of god, and consequently hell"
dang, if you had windy in that list as well i could have sworn you were describing scotland :)
The eu doesnt need microsoft to co-operate if it truely wanted their trade secrets. they could sieze them without all this fuss.
Microsoft can threaten all it wants but no corporation currently is more powerful then a state.
They'll simply be slaughtered both by the EU, and by their shareholders if they continue to refuse to comply with the court order.
step 2 above seems to assume that everyone would return their copy to microsoft, just because they asked.
Chances are they wouldnt, and all the EU needs to do is revoke all copyrights, patents , etc granted to microsoft and all businesses can continue to use it, legally while they migrate people over to other operating systems at their own pace.
you may say that microsoft wouldnt let them access the updates, and you're probably right - however there are sites which package windows updates into one big installer. Those could be used and indeed patched should there be anything to ensure that only those outside the eu can install them.
Furthermore, Microsoft needs the EU more then the EU needs Microsoft.
the EU is a huge market for microsoft, larger then the US is and their shareholders would certainly take action if the executives cut off such a large market through their arrogance and stubbornness.
Microsoft isnt an EU company and so the EU cant do that. The US can however, but has been unwilling to do so.
becoming a monopoly isnt the problem - abusing that position is. thats what they were convicted of both in the EU and in the US.
Im scottish. way to presume things
as has been mentioned lots and lots of times beforehand, such a move would do microsoft more harm then actually complying with the law would.
Yes, cynicism is the language of the mind. Everything should be taken with a pinch of salt when it comes to dates where public opinion really matters on a governmental scale. Dont just blindly accept everything you are told - question it and come to your own conclusions.
similarly for the UK store. As far as i know - only the US store has the tv shows or movies. Its a bit silly to block off a substantial part of the market like this but its probably a result of the terms and conditions the media companies defined. Think dvd regions - etc.
its been on fark, digg and now slashdot - along with a number of other relatively high traffic sites such as theregister. are we -trying- to kill their server?
there is no such thing as too much caffeine :)
they could sell you a laptop battery and then tell everyone around you to run before it explodes i suppose?
my acer uses sanyo batteries in the laptop ive got, so im safe \o/ unless sanyo are a sony subsidiary
anyone know?
they could have easily settled long ago - thats not the point. they do not want to settle the case and leave doubts over linux, they want to crush it completely.
They may be legal but it doesnt mean casinos have to let you in with them, or to allow you to continue playing should you be caught with one.
I think you're a bit behind the times mate.
Its been a joke for quite a while now.
66 respondants is statistically insignificant. They might as well have said " 66 people say that the sky is falling "
an equally corrupt congress which happens to back him instead of oppose as was the case with clinton?
free software, lucrative support contract for if it breaks probably.