They said their reason was to provide a linux -> windows door. I don't buy it do you?
Office is a desktop app, right now Linux has a real small desktop marketshare. I think this is more of an "OH MY GOD STAR OFFICE MIGHT CATCH UP" reaction. (Or other OS office suite). If anything, it will help Linux.
How many people out there are not upgrading to linux because they can't have Office? I'm not saying that this will be good all around, it will just give some people what they need. Of course, I can't see myself using Office on linux.
Yup that's right, I floss when I hit a block coding. I keep a thing of waxed dental floss next to my monitor and clean them pearly whites. I'm not sure how it started, but it gets my mind off of what I'm doing, stimulates some senses you don't use coding, and helps to fight gum disease!
The GPL says you must release all source changes if you distribute it. If the company you work for doesn't distribute it, they aren't required to release the source. If the company doesn't want you to distribute code that you write on their time, it's their choice.
That's not to say you shouldn't ask. If you explain open source to your boss, and then tell him you wouldn't even have the program in the form it is now without it, he might let you release the code. Depending on how cool your boss is, he might let you release it. But I really don't think anyone can force them as long as they are only using the program and not distributing it.
Do you have any evidence of losing money on MP3's? Or is it more of a gut feeling?
MP3's are of far inferior quality to CD's, take a long time to download, generally computer systems are lacking on the sound side, and it's currently kind of hard to take an MP3 in the car with you.
My thoughts are that it would help to sell records. Most albums on the radio today only have a song or two played. MP3's allow the people to hear before they buy. Someone who knows they like the entire album is much more likely to buy it. The only artists I see this hurting are the one hit wonders that don't have a good album.
I think that people around here don't quite understand the term "perfect game" The perfect game would be a set of moves that always wins, no matter who/what was playing against you. This can only be calculated by recursivly trying every possible move. The number of possible moves in a chess game is completely astronomical, and I doubt we have the computing power to do it yet. You figure there are 16 pieses to a side, each piece can move in several different ways, there is a different set of moves for each previous move... etc...
We all know that some really foolish people are going to take it upon themselves to flame abit. It always amazes me how people who don't have any right to flame do. I believe that maintainers (Or significant contributers) to a software project should be the people with the right and need to contact the offenders. Not some guy who happened to read a news article. I guess it's just mankinds want to cause change.
If he actually decides to sue you, would it not be just as easy to go out and buy whatever albums have the offending songs on them? It's legal to have the MP3's if you own the album, right? Then they would have to somehow prove that you didn't own the album at the time of download...
Um no... thats the point. they all get mapped to the same ip. me.somewhere.com is the same as you.somewhere.com, the system just uses the me and you to determine who we are.
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They said their reason was to provide a linux -> windows door. I don't buy it do you?
Office is a desktop app, right now Linux has a real small desktop marketshare. I think this is more of an "OH MY GOD STAR OFFICE MIGHT CATCH UP" reaction. (Or other OS office suite). If anything, it will help Linux.
How many people out there are not upgrading to linux because they can't have Office? I'm not saying that this will be good all around, it will just give some people what they need. Of course, I can't see myself using Office on linux.
Pick a simple board game, or make up a new simple game. Define a way to play, and then let the students play against one another.
Yup that's right, I floss when I hit a block coding. I keep a thing of waxed dental floss next to my monitor and clean them pearly whites. I'm not sure how it started, but it gets my mind off of what I'm doing, stimulates some senses you don't use coding, and helps to fight gum disease!
So when I chuck MSOffice the Bird... will it undo?
The GPL says you must release all source changes if you distribute it. If the company you work for doesn't distribute it, they aren't required to release the source. If the company doesn't want you to distribute code that you write on their time, it's their choice.
That's not to say you shouldn't ask. If you explain open source to your boss, and then tell him you wouldn't even have the program in the form it is now without it, he might let you release the code. Depending on how cool your boss is, he might let you release it. But I really don't think anyone can force them as long as they are only using the program and not distributing it.
Do you have any evidence of losing money on MP3's? Or is it more of a gut feeling?
MP3's are of far inferior quality to CD's, take a long time to download, generally computer systems are lacking on the sound side, and it's currently kind of hard to take an MP3 in the car with you.
My thoughts are that it would help to sell records. Most albums on the radio today only have a song or two played. MP3's allow the people to hear before they buy. Someone who knows they like the entire album is much more likely to buy it. The only artists I see this hurting are the one hit wonders that don't have a good album.
I think that people around here don't quite understand the term "perfect game" The perfect game would be a set of moves that always wins, no matter who/what was playing against you. This can only be calculated by recursivly trying every possible move. The number of possible moves in a chess game is completely astronomical, and I doubt we have the computing power to do it yet. You figure there are 16 pieses to a side, each piece can move in several different ways, there is a different set of moves for each previous move... etc...
We all know that some really foolish people are going to take it upon themselves to flame abit. It always amazes me how people who don't have any right to flame do. I believe that maintainers (Or significant contributers) to a software project should be the people with the right and need to contact the offenders. Not some guy who happened to read a news article. I guess it's just mankinds want to cause change.
If he actually decides to sue you, would it not be just as easy to go out and buy whatever albums have the offending songs on them? It's legal to have the MP3's if you own the album, right? Then they would have to somehow prove that you didn't own the album at the time of download...
Um no... thats the point. they all get mapped to the same ip. me.somewhere.com is the same as you.somewhere.com, the system just uses the me and you to determine who we are.
" Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as: "
Was that a compliment from M$? Are they saying, "Linux supports 40 partitions, we don't?"....