Yes, the G(NU)IMP is open source. However, some people, like me, actually like the default interface. I guess it would make sense to have a Photoshop-like interface as an option in preferences, but the default interface needs to stay.
Could we see an anti-military GPL that allows normal use except in orginizations who's express purpose is to kill people?
Although you do make a good point, I believe that RMS would refrain from making any limitations as to who can use GPL software since the whole idea is freedom. In fact, I would go as far to say that a license that limited rights to use in any way, even the way you suggested, would immediately be taken off of GNU's list of acceptable free software and copyleft licenses.
Stick Linux on those computers and order people to use it.
Do you really think that's the best attitude to have about spreading open source software? IMHO force is not the way to gain acceptance for a development model that's all about sharing and freedom...
Google probably doesn't care about how a young programmer could make a name for himself. They just want to create the most productive environment possible, not one in which code has to be rewritten dozens or hundreds of times. As for a smart programmer having a better way to do something, if this is so, she's likely to go ahead and change something in the universal code base, since everything is apparently transparent.
Student vs. administration battles hardly ever turn out in favor of the student. Although it's obvious that this situation is not just, I doubt that the administration would listen to any arguments, especially given their reply to the same kind of argument that the original poster quoted here.
What the flip?!?! It seems like it would be good publicity for their site. It's not like Google is claiming rights to the news or anything.
It's not that the infringements of their copyrights are bad for them, it's that laws exist and they can be enforced. Read a bit of Lawrence Lessig and you'll see some examples of the same kind of thing.
but it appears to me that 2005 -- finally -- is going to be the year of the Linux desktop's arrival in corporate America.
Weren't people just talking about how 2004 was the year of the Linux desktop? Odd how people have to be so dramatic about small steps in the right direction...
I agree. I learned RegExps from five pages of tables (and a little bit of explanation) in a Perl book and a lot of experimenting. Once I got the basics from that, whenever I needed more, I enlisted the help of Google. I really don't understand why a whole book devoted to this concept would help more than what is IMHO the best method for learning, googling and experimenting.
The Atacama desert is thought to be similar to Mars; instruments similar to those used on the 1970s Viking missions have previously failed to detect life there.
Although the wording is pretty odd, if you follow the link, you'll see that they're talking about a failure to detect life in the Atacama desert, not on Mars.
Better web forms will not kill MS Office; OpenOffice will. OpenOffice will have near-perfect.doc compatibility (which is all it needs to convince your average Joe that he should use it rather than pay hundreds of dollars for MS Office) by the time a browser-based Office client is close to possible.
Actually, this may help MS more than you would think. Sites will continue to be written for a non-standards-compliant browser, which makes them less likely to render correctly in the browsers that do follow standards. If enough pages render incorrectly when somebody is trying out Firefox or some other standards compliant browser, they'll give up and go back to IE.
Firefox is slowly but surely gaining market share. I say Good Riddance to IE and make room for the new guys. Why HELP MS strenthen their hold?
A standards compliant IE would do more to help web designers do what they do best without worrying about how it's going to render on the browser that 90% of the world uses than it would to help MS.
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Yes, the G(NU)IMP is open source. However, some people, like me, actually like the default interface. I guess it would make sense to have a Photoshop-like interface as an option in preferences, but the default interface needs to stay.
Could we see an anti-military GPL that allows normal use except in orginizations who's express purpose is to kill people?
Although you do make a good point, I believe that RMS would refrain from making any limitations as to who can use GPL software since the whole idea is freedom. In fact, I would go as far to say that a license that limited rights to use in any way, even the way you suggested, would immediately be taken off of GNU's list of acceptable free software and copyleft licenses.
Stick Linux on those computers and order people to use it.
Do you really think that's the best attitude to have about spreading open source software? IMHO force is not the way to gain acceptance for a development model that's all about sharing and freedom...
Google probably doesn't care about how a young programmer could make a name for himself. They just want to create the most productive environment possible, not one in which code has to be rewritten dozens or hundreds of times. As for a smart programmer having a better way to do something, if this is so, she's likely to go ahead and change something in the universal code base, since everything is apparently transparent.
Student vs. administration battles hardly ever turn out in favor of the student. Although it's obvious that this situation is not just, I doubt that the administration would listen to any arguments, especially given their reply to the same kind of argument that the original poster quoted here.
What the flip?!?! It seems like it would be good publicity for their site. It's not like Google is claiming rights to the news or anything.
It's not that the infringements of their copyrights are bad for them, it's that laws exist and they can be enforced. Read a bit of Lawrence Lessig and you'll see some examples of the same kind of thing.
but it appears to me that 2005 -- finally -- is going to be the year of the Linux desktop's arrival in corporate America.
Weren't people just talking about how 2004 was the year of the Linux desktop? Odd how people have to be so dramatic about small steps in the right direction...
I agree. I learned RegExps from five pages of tables (and a little bit of explanation) in a Perl book and a lot of experimenting. Once I got the basics from that, whenever I needed more, I enlisted the help of Google. I really don't understand why a whole book devoted to this concept would help more than what is IMHO the best method for learning, googling and experimenting.
At least they posted the wrong link! That gives that site those precious extra seconds while /.ers fix the links!
The Atacama desert is thought to be similar to Mars; instruments similar to those used on the 1970s Viking missions have previously failed to detect life there.
Although the wording is pretty odd, if you follow the link, you'll see that they're talking about a failure to detect life in the Atacama desert, not on Mars.
Actually, the punycode for IDNs is simply enabled by default. You can still change it back to unicode in about:config.
Better web forms will not kill MS Office; OpenOffice will. OpenOffice will have near-perfect .doc compatibility (which is all it needs to convince your average Joe that he should use it rather than pay hundreds of dollars for MS Office) by the time a browser-based Office client is close to possible.
Actually, this may help MS more than you would think. Sites will continue to be written for a non-standards-compliant browser, which makes them less likely to render correctly in the browsers that do follow standards. If enough pages render incorrectly when somebody is trying out Firefox or some other standards compliant browser, they'll give up and go back to IE.
Firefox is slowly but surely gaining market share. I say Good Riddance to IE and make room for the new guys. Why HELP MS strenthen their hold?
A standards compliant IE would do more to help web designers do what they do best without worrying about how it's going to render on the browser that 90% of the world uses than it would to help MS.