Breaking news: -- RIAA has decided to sue all forms of OS, ftp clients, irc clients and servers, isps, the www and sound card manufacturers, to name a few. The RIAA claim that all these help spread pirated songs. They are especially irate with irc servers as these connect ppl in a common network (what brass !@!) On a similar story the Union of Software Manufacturers are suing all cd-r manufacturers considering they help spread pirated software. The traditional faction also advocates suing floppy disk manufacturers. -- Agreeing with the post on napster not being able to pay for its legal expenses, I propose starting a fund for them. Given that everyone always seems to drop $0.2 around here, we should be good.
I'm already pretty sick of Corel's apparent ignorance concerning licenses. This is the third time they "goof" in the most essential area to both Debian and Linux. Their problem understanding the nature of "open" within the community is too great for it to be overlooked. If they cannot understand linux's reason for being, they should not continue in the community. The issue is even more serious when it affects the only distribution developed entirely by volunteers, many of who are under 18. The restriction, of course, is ridiculous and impossible to enforce. Will they card people who by the distro in a store? Will they require parental approval if ordering it over the phone? If corel wants to use it's own restrictive license, then they should actually do some work and make their own distribution (and their own kernel while they're at it) or use a more fitting distro. Their choice to use deb obviously was not followed by any research on the distro's philosophy. Corel is an insult to the whole linux effort - please leave.
I recall that DVD technologies suffered delays from battles over standards, though I can't remember if this only applied to dvdrom recordables. Do Pioneer's recording method and disks fall under a standard? Have agreements been made on the issue, or was this never a problem concerning video dvds?
Hmmm, I see Kde, I know deb is in there, but where's the Corel stuff (WP, Draw, etc. don't count, they where already made, just needed to be ported). Is Corel's contribution a few background images?? I know they have a gui installer, but it hardly seems enough to be too exited about this distro. Congrats debian, congrats kde and congrats to the 1 or 2 ppl who from Corel that worked on this.
I don't really mind about ad's - slashdot has some goods ones sometimes. What I hate are the pop-ups, like those on geocities, tripod, etc. Is there a way to avoid pop-ups, configuring it by site.
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Breaking news:
-- RIAA has decided to sue all forms of OS, ftp clients, irc clients and servers, isps, the www and sound card manufacturers, to name a few. The RIAA claim that all these help spread pirated songs. They are especially irate with irc servers as these connect ppl in a common network (what brass !@!)
On a similar story the Union of Software Manufacturers are suing all cd-r manufacturers considering they help spread pirated software. The traditional faction also advocates suing floppy disk manufacturers. --
Agreeing with the post on napster not being able to pay for its legal expenses, I propose starting a fund for them. Given that everyone always seems to drop $0.2 around here, we should be good.
I'm already pretty sick of Corel's apparent ignorance concerning licenses. This is the third time they "goof" in the most essential area to both Debian and Linux. Their problem understanding the nature of "open" within the community is too great for it to be overlooked. If they cannot understand linux's reason for being, they should not continue in the community. The issue is even more serious when it affects the only distribution developed entirely by volunteers, many of who are under 18. The restriction, of course, is ridiculous and impossible to enforce. Will they card people who by the distro in a store? Will they require parental approval if ordering it over the phone?
If corel wants to use it's own restrictive license, then they should actually do some work and make their own distribution (and their own kernel while they're at it) or use a more fitting distro. Their choice to use deb obviously was not followed by any research on the distro's philosophy. Corel is an insult to the whole linux effort - please leave.
I recall that DVD technologies suffered delays from battles over standards, though I can't remember if this only applied to dvdrom recordables. Do Pioneer's recording method and disks fall under a standard? Have agreements been made on the issue, or was this never a problem concerning video dvds?
You can control the amount of downloads and kill any download. There aren't many settings, it's strange you overlooked those.
Btw: Napster's great.
Hmmm, I see Kde, I know deb is in there, but where's the Corel stuff (WP, Draw, etc. don't count, they where already made, just needed to be ported). Is Corel's contribution a few background images?? I know they have a gui installer, but it hardly seems enough to be too exited about this distro.
Congrats debian, congrats kde and congrats to the 1 or 2 ppl who from Corel that worked on this.
I don't really mind about ad's - slashdot has
some goods ones sometimes. What I hate are the
pop-ups, like those on geocities, tripod, etc.
Is there a way to avoid pop-ups, configuring
it by site.