What I'm wondering is who sent the complaint to Kororaa? Unless the email originated from the Linux Kernel team (specifically OSDL) it can be ignored. Its not like FSF or anyone else can really lay claim to the kernel and sue based on the violoation.. Or am I way off?
If Google made a web browser and it defaulted to Google search (or if Firefox defaulted to a new MozillaSearch function), then I would feel more troubled.
You would feel troubled if Google made a browser which defaulted to Google search... wow..I'd hate to think how you handle things that actually matter.
The main difference between the IE7 search box and the Firefox and Opera search boxes is that the IE7 search box comes preloaded with only one search provider: MSN
Yes..but then you can click 'Find more providers' in the drop-down menu which takes you to a list of search engines (in alphabetical order). It took me all of 10seconds from the first load of IE7 to change it to google. The process is intuitive.
The 'free sotware' definition but forth by the fsf is nothing but double speak. It really is a hijacking of the word 'free' to push an agenda. Licenses such as the MPL (Firefox), CDDL, Apache, Eclipse Public and others are not compatible with GPL (i.e. fsf's definiton of 'software freedom') but everybit as 'free'. BSD and MIT licenses also don't fit the fsf definition yet I would argue give you more freedom.
I (and a whole bunch of other People) consider piracy the best thing to happen to Windows. Most people don't care about GPL or source code and go strickly on price. Piracy gives Windows an edge over Linux in emerging markets.
While they say developing regions such as China, East Asia, India, and South America are among the biggest markets for open source software, UNU officials worry that there may be too few open source developers in those regions.
Not only that but they also have low respect for Intellectual Property. They are more likely to not adhere to the license governing Open Source Software (especially GPL). End result is that the community doe not benefit from improvements. We've seen this with a few Chinese companies and their lack of will for releasing the source code to their Linux forks.
Bittorrent is not the problem. With the (slow) emergence of bandwidth intesive services (like legal movie downloads) this problem will not go away, even if you block all torrent traffic.
Right now, most ISPs will charge you less for a slower connection and more for a faster connection, but they do not differentiate amongst the classes of users that use their faster connections. I am not a heavy user, but I do occasionally like to stream movies and when I download something I want it to be fast. Compare that to my friend who downloads several movies and games a month. Our bandwidth usage is like night and day. I don't think I broke a Gig/month in the last year, he probably hovers around 10Gigs/month.
Bandwidth is not an unlimited resource, if you use more you'll pay more.
Not really - ajax stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript", as far as I can see they are using javascript in..umm..asynchronous way. Its just that they are manipulating XUL DOM instead of HTML DOM.
Ha! If only Java were anywhere near standard across browsers. Unless you want to force users to download the latest Java Plugin before running your applet (a long and annoying procedure)
I sure would - a one time download of 20megs isn't too bad.
For one reason or another, Java never really had a fair shot to develop and take-off..too bad.
Now, JavaScript, in itself, isn't messy. You've probably seen a lot of messy JavaScript, but that's because there are a lot of messy JS coders out there.
Don't get me wrong javascript in the context of dhtml and small focused ajax applications is good and works well. Javascrit/Ajax as a feature rich complex gui client does not work well. After a certain number of LOC, the language itself becomes a hinderence.
In the specific example of ajaxWrite, which actually used XUL to create the UI, I can't help but think how much easier to develop and more robust it would be with java.
And even assuming you're right, and some JavaScript implementations are slow - well, that's just a matter of optimization, right?
My bad, forget I mentioned this. I've never actually had an issue with speed (live.com excluded), I just kind of threw that in there =)
The AJAX version is so much more intuitive and friendly, they check stuff off and then can just navigate to another page without having to worry about saving their data. The web is what you make it, not some definition set in stone for time imemorial.
You used AJAX in the way it was 'meant' to be used - as a compliment to existing web functionality.
Now go write a spreadsheet program that competes with Excel, but do it in Javascript and we'll see what you'll make of Ajax then.
(BTW, ajaxWrite is really a XUL application, which means it is not portable across Browsers - heck, its not even portable across Firefox releases. The whole thing is pointless as a marketable app. As a proof of concept its interesting. As vacuum for VC money its perfect).
Writing a full featured client side application in ajax is stupid. Stupid because javascript is messy, slow, and it is far from standard across browsers.
Would this applicaton not have been better as a java applet?
RMS' view on the following: Linux - Its not Linux, its GNU/Linux. Java - I don't like it. DRM - I don't like it. OpenSource - Its not 'Open Source' unless its GPL.
I agree..Why can't I take the Oblivion horse armour (bought and paid for with my money) and use it on my mount in WOW? I'll tell you why, because M$ is a monopoly and those bastards are all about trying to lock me down....
Uhh...no. Even a distributed project using every single computer on internet could not brute force a properly encrypted content in some realistic timeframe (say, your lifetime).
Slashdot Mirror
Ghost was cancelled.
"Thanks so much Google" - for finally making a Linux version .... of anything.
or DVD and CD-ROM for that matter?
What I'm wondering is who sent the complaint to Kororaa? Unless the email originated from the Linux Kernel team (specifically OSDL) it can be ignored. Its not like FSF or anyone else can really lay claim to the kernel and sue based on the violoation.. Or am I way off?
Yet more dilution of the word 'freedom'.
Is it me or is this word becoming totally meaningless?
If Google made a web browser and it defaulted to Google search (or if Firefox defaulted to a new MozillaSearch function), then I would feel more troubled.
You would feel troubled if Google made a browser which defaulted to Google search... wow..I'd hate to think how you handle things that actually matter.
The main difference between the IE7 search box and the Firefox and Opera search boxes is that the IE7 search box comes preloaded with only one search provider: MSN
Yes..but then you can click 'Find more providers' in the drop-down menu which takes you to a list of search engines (in alphabetical order). It took me all of 10seconds from the first load of IE7 to change it to google. The process is intuitive.
Will they jail the 25 million users of various P2P networks? Or just make an example of a few old ladies?
They all suck.
But that doesn't mean anything other that you can view the source code.
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No. The accepted definition of Open Source Software (put forth by OSI) is that you can view, modify and redistribute sotfware.
It may still be under a completely unusable licence incompatible with free software (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
The 'free sotware' definition but forth by the fsf is nothing but double speak. It really is a hijacking of the word 'free' to push an agenda. Licenses such as the MPL (Firefox), CDDL, Apache, Eclipse Public and others are not compatible with GPL (i.e. fsf's definiton of 'software freedom') but everybit as 'free'. BSD and MIT licenses also don't fit the fsf definition yet I would argue give you more freedom.
I (and a whole bunch of other People) consider piracy the best thing to happen to Windows. Most people don't care about GPL or source code and go strickly on price. Piracy gives Windows an edge over Linux in emerging markets.
While they say developing regions such as China, East Asia, India, and South America are among the biggest markets for open source software, UNU officials worry that there may be too few open source developers in those regions.
Not only that but they also have low respect for Intellectual Property. They are more likely to not adhere to the license governing Open Source Software (especially GPL). End result is that the community doe not benefit from improvements. We've seen this with a few Chinese companies and their lack of will for releasing the source code to their Linux forks.
Assuming intelligence is hereditary.
To turn it around, I noticed growing trend of smug and arrogant attitudes towards Ubuntu and its user base..or rather its *perceived* user base.
Bittorrent is not the problem. With the (slow) emergence of bandwidth intesive services (like legal movie downloads) this problem will not go away, even if you block all torrent traffic.
Right now, most ISPs will charge you less for a slower connection and more for a faster connection, but they do not differentiate amongst the classes of users that use their faster connections. I am not a heavy user, but I do occasionally like to stream movies and when I download something I want it to be fast. Compare that to my friend who downloads several movies and games a month. Our bandwidth usage is like night and day. I don't think I broke a Gig/month in the last year, he probably hovers around 10Gigs/month.
Bandwidth is not an unlimited resource, if you use more you'll pay more.
Out of curiosity, how prominent were non-Windows/Xbox games.
Not really - ajax stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript", as far as I can see they are using javascript in..umm..asynchronous way. Its just that they are manipulating XUL DOM instead of HTML DOM.
Ha! If only Java were anywhere near standard across browsers. Unless you want to force users to download the latest Java Plugin before running your applet (a long and annoying procedure)
I sure would - a one time download of 20megs isn't too bad.
For one reason or another, Java never really had a fair shot to develop and take-off..too bad.
Now, JavaScript, in itself, isn't messy. You've probably seen a lot of messy JavaScript, but that's because there are a lot of messy JS coders out there.
Don't get me wrong javascript in the context of dhtml and small focused ajax applications is good and works well. Javascrit/Ajax as a feature rich complex gui client does not work well. After a certain number of LOC, the language itself becomes a hinderence.
In the specific example of ajaxWrite, which actually used XUL to create the UI, I can't help but think how much easier to develop and more robust it would be with java.
And even assuming you're right, and some JavaScript implementations are slow - well, that's just a matter of optimization, right?
My bad, forget I mentioned this. I've never actually had an issue with speed (live.com excluded), I just kind of threw that in there =)
The AJAX version is so much more intuitive and friendly, they check stuff off and then can just navigate to another page without having to worry about saving their data. The web is what you make it, not some definition set in stone for time imemorial.
You used AJAX in the way it was 'meant' to be used - as a compliment to existing web functionality.
Now go write a spreadsheet program that competes with Excel, but do it in Javascript and we'll see what you'll make of Ajax then.
(BTW, ajaxWrite is really a XUL application, which means it is not portable across Browsers - heck, its not even portable across Firefox releases. The whole thing is pointless as a marketable app. As a proof of concept its interesting. As vacuum for VC money its perfect).
Writing a full featured client side application in ajax is stupid. Stupid because javascript is messy, slow, and it is far from standard across browsers.
Would this applicaton not have been better as a java applet?
Because they can't?
RMS' view on the following:
Linux - Its not Linux, its GNU/Linux.
Java - I don't like it.
DRM - I don't like it.
OpenSource - Its not 'Open Source' unless its GPL.
I agree..Why can't I take the Oblivion horse armour (bought and paid for with my money) and use it on my mount in WOW? I'll tell you why, because M$ is a monopoly and those bastards are all about trying to lock me down....
Because cell phones are an open platform.... =/
Uhh...no. Even a distributed project using every single computer on internet could not brute force a properly encrypted content in some realistic timeframe (say, your lifetime).