volume licensing is way too expensive for a small company
Actually, you only have to buy a minimum of 5 licences in order to get your company on an open licence agreement. Once you're on an OL agreement, you can buy licences on an "as needed" basis as long as you have at least 1 OL agreement that hasn't expired yet.
Both TFA and the FreeFi site don't mention OS requirements. The FreeFi site has a screenshot of their "toolbar" (the thing with the constant streaming ads) running on XP. What are the chances it'll be available for non-Windows people too?
Sounds exactly like the setup we have at work and we've never had an incident either. Contrary to what your average/. reader thinks, it's not terribly difficult to properly secure a Windows network. Unfortunately you seem to have fallen victim to closed-minded mods.
"OMG Windoze network I can't break into??! WTF!!!one"
Sad.
It's not such a good deal for users, because their choice of toolkits and applications is greatly restricted
Joe Sixpack doesn't know what a toolkit is, why should he? Why should he care?
and because Qt/Embedded is not a particularly efficient toolkit
Judging by my Nokia 6600, Symbian isn't all that efficient either but apparently Joe Sixpack doesn't care about that either. I have several friends with 6600s who say it's a lovely phone, etc. etc. but it frustrates me no end. It's slow, it hangs it crashes, it reboots.
It's unfortunate that Linux's first shot at the PDA and phone market is hampered by Qtopia
Once again, for 0.1% of the cellphone-using population (i.e. the fanatical Linux zealots), this may be a major issue, but Joe Sixpack doesn't know/care what Linux is.
A lot of people hotplug PS/2 connectors, but doing that can easily damage the PS/2 port or fry your power supply.
Can you back this up with a link or two? I've been hearing this for a long time and honestly I've never had a problem doing it. Is this really risky or just an urban legend?
Yup. The word is multiverse. Didn't you RTF..... oh, wait.:P
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Wasting your life? I don't know about you, but us human beings have this daily ritual called "sleep". There's nothing on my Gentoo box that takes so long to compile that I can't do it before I go to sleep and it'll be done the next morning or at the very worst by the time I return home from work the next evening.
I'm no Gentoo fanboy, in fact I believe that it's not for everyone, but this whole "compiling from source takes too long" is a load of crap IMHO.
Apple has 92 percent of the HD music player market. Apple desires a closed system for the iPod.
Google serves more than 90 percent of searches.
So why is Microsoft a monopoly while Apple and Google are not?
Having a monopoly is not illegal in and of itself. Leveraging your monopoly in one market to gain a competitive advantage in a different market, that's the problem.
I'm not being pedantic or anything like that... just curious.
Is "OSX Version 1" the correct thing to call it? I was always under the impression it was OS (roman numeral) X, i.e. successor to OS 9. Am I wrong?
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volume licensing is way too expensive for a small company
Actually, you only have to buy a minimum of 5 licences in order to get your company on an open licence agreement. Once you're on an OL agreement, you can buy licences on an "as needed" basis as long as you have at least 1 OL agreement that hasn't expired yet.
Both TFA and the FreeFi site don't mention OS requirements. The FreeFi site has a screenshot of their "toolbar" (the thing with the constant streaming ads) running on XP. What are the chances it'll be available for non-Windows people too?
Steal? IIRC, the guy successfully trademarked "Linux" and then tried to sell it to Linus.
Sure, but there's "making a living" and there's "making a killing". Guess which one the patent lovers are aiming for? ;-)
There's a difference between something that works and something that's supported.
XP runs under it, but the author does not support it.
Sounds exactly like the setup we have at work and we've never had an incident either. Contrary to what your average /. reader thinks, it's not terribly difficult to properly secure a Windows network. Unfortunately you seem to have fallen victim to closed-minded mods.
"OMG Windoze network I can't break into??! WTF!!!one"
Sad.
No, it's sarcasm.
Dear Slashdot User We have been researching this technology for several months. Please stop revealing our trade secrets. kthxbye teh RIAA
What kind of moron makes something that's supposed to be for internal use only available to the public via the web?
Ummmm... *cough* *splutter* *dead*
Still no case. They're selling W1nd0w$ XP Pr0f3ss10n4l.
The POSIX layer was not removed in 2000. It's still around, even in XP.
Sure thing, here.
Hmmm Windows-powered missiles, eh? How would the licencing work on those? I guess on a per-casualty basis?
Yup. The word is multiverse. Didn't you RTF..... oh, wait. :P
Wasting your life? I don't know about you, but us human beings have this daily ritual called "sleep". There's nothing on my Gentoo box that takes so long to compile that I can't do it before I go to sleep and it'll be done the next morning or at the very worst by the time I return home from work the next evening. I'm no Gentoo fanboy, in fact I believe that it's not for everyone, but this whole "compiling from source takes too long" is a load of crap IMHO.
Microsoft got to where it is because of shrewd marketing and arguably questionable business tactics, NOT because they innovated anything.
Cool, thanks. ;-)
I'm not being pedantic or anything like that... just curious. Is "OSX Version 1" the correct thing to call it? I was always under the impression it was OS (roman numeral) X, i.e. successor to OS 9. Am I wrong?
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