That lawyer set you up. There is no such thing in The GNU General PUBLIC License. If you change the product AND distribute the changes, you have to make it GPL or a compatible license.
Tools compiled with gcc have to be GPL'd? Who the fuck told you that? The boss of Microsoft's FUD department?
Exuse me, but if you aren't smart enough to use your brain, RTFM, STFW and UTFG, then I doubt you are competent enough to be trusted at a computer. How different is one word processor from another? First time I started up OO.o, I could do anything with it that I can do with MS Word. First time I booted a linux live CD, it took my 10 seconds to start a browser, an IRC session, GAIM and open a terminal. And that was the first time I used linux.
Even CDs are not exact copies of the original performance made by the artist, it's sampled. Purely speaking, a vinyl record can have greater quality than a CD.
The same reason why dvorak did not replace qwerty: People are used to the proprietary shit, and governments do not bother to use FOSS, because they might have to re-educate the users. And that might cost money. Less money than it costs to buy proprietary licenses, but governments don't realize that.
A recent study in Sweden shows that 30% of Sweden's 7th graders have serious reading comprehension problems. Among high school freshmen, that number is 25%. I agree very much with what you said - Joe Sixpack can't read. Propaganda and advertising wouldn't work if Joe Sixpack could read, because he would never fall for the lies.
It is very obvious that Joe Sixpack can't read, or even think. When I browse some forums, I notice that a very large amount of the posts are questions already answered or simply very very stupid. The average computer user has no idea how to search! I heard of someone who was going to write an essay about IT in general. Guess what he does. Opens google and types "it in general". With quatation marks. When we write essays in school, I often see my classmates searching for Swedish sites only on google, or using the Swedish Wikipedia, while I search the entire web or use the English WP (English wikipedia is more than ten times larger than Swedish.)
I think the cause is that people don't read books anymore. How much do you learn from reading a 400 page book compared to watching ten hours of reality shows?
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You do know that the operative system is called GNU/Linux for a reason?
Linux is a kernel. Not an operative system.
300% profit.
80-20=60.
60/20=3
3*100=300
You are on slashdot and have children. That's much much rarer.
Mirrordot: http://mirrordot.org/stories/f83daa4bda4e0acc1fba6 274fdcddfcb/index.html
Sir, to put it lightly: YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT.
That lawyer set you up. There is no such thing in The GNU General PUBLIC License. If you change the product AND distribute the changes, you have to make it GPL or a compatible license.
Tools compiled with gcc have to be GPL'd? Who the fuck told you that? The boss of Microsoft's FUD department?
Get some facts.
That is at least better than a bad product and having control.
Exuse me, but if you aren't smart enough to use your brain, RTFM, STFW and UTFG, then I doubt you are competent enough to be trusted at a computer.
How different is one word processor from another? First time I started up OO.o, I could do anything with it that I can do with MS Word.
First time I booted a linux live CD, it took my 10 seconds to start a browser, an IRC session, GAIM and open a terminal. And that was the first time I used linux.
How fast can it PageRank (or is that volume rank?) the LoC?
That's why you use the best equipent there is ;)
Even CDs are not exact copies of the original performance made by the artist, it's sampled. Purely speaking, a vinyl record can have greater quality than a CD.
How long does it take to perform OCR on every volume in the LoC?
Any other suggestions?
Because MSFT spreads FUD, and the government swallows it.
PDF is an open format, anyone can write a PDF reader. There are even some free (as in speech) PDF readers, xpdf for example
The same reason why dvorak did not replace qwerty: People are used to the proprietary shit, and governments do not bother to use FOSS, because they might have to re-educate the users. And that might cost money. Less money than it costs to buy proprietary licenses, but governments don't realize that.
If Ballmer marks the packages, will the stamps say "Developers developers developers"?
The question every firefox user is asking: Does it render slashdot correctly?
Do they have the source code for IE? Security by obscurity is no security.
And, at least Mozilla does something about it - three patches in what, two months? How many has IE had the last three years?
Massive Soldier Force of Technology - MSFT.
Well, then we won't see 31 nested tables where two divs are sufficent with Tux on. Better reputation for linux as a webdeveloping platform, no?
"using HTML for documents is still a major challenge" Yeah, Microsofts helps making that a problem with IE.
This is /., no one cares if TFA is not available, because they don't read it anyway ;)
"We can't just make it smaller..."
"So we'll buy this cheap V!agra, I just got an ad in my mailbox for it"
"It in general" as an exact phrase is far from a good search string in this case.
When people use IE and install spyware?
A recent study in Sweden shows that 30% of Sweden's 7th graders have serious reading comprehension problems. Among high school freshmen, that number is 25%. I agree very much with what you said - Joe Sixpack can't read. Propaganda and advertising wouldn't work if Joe Sixpack could read, because he would never fall for the lies.
It is very obvious that Joe Sixpack can't read, or even think. When I browse some forums, I notice that a very large amount of the posts are questions already answered or simply very very stupid. The average computer user has no idea how to search! I heard of someone who was going to write an essay about IT in general. Guess what he does. Opens google and types "it in general". With quatation marks.
When we write essays in school, I often see my classmates searching for Swedish sites only on google, or using the Swedish Wikipedia, while I search the entire web or use the English WP (English wikipedia is more than ten times larger than Swedish.)
I think the cause is that people don't read books anymore. How much do you learn from reading a 400 page book compared to watching ten hours of reality shows?