Correct me if I am weong, but ODF is only used by OOo and Suns Staroffice (which is the same thing, in a box, with phone support), so even though the format is open, which is undoubtably good, isnt it just locking into Sun because no one else reads / writes ODF?
I have an RCA Victor (one of Sony/BMG's brands) with MediaMax. It absolutely installs software on your computer, even =before= the EULA response box pops up.
We have a couple of FreeBSD desktops that live in harmony with our Active Directory Windows world. Also, we have five or six OS X systems. A third party suite (www.thursby.com) called ADmitMac even allows them to be an Active Directory management station.
Err... how would the intended recipients pay for the 'commercially available software'? With a FOSS distribution they can not only learn about what makes a computer work but they will get a nice selections of applications that they can run on it out of the box.
Read TFA. It says Jobs offered free copies. They wouldn't have to pay for it.
Plus, OS X comes with a bunch of applications (PDF viewer, etc.) already bundled. And then, there's NeoOffice (the OpenOffice port to OS X). I think they might be short-sighted in turning down an OS with two decades of development behind it just because it doesn't meet the "tinker" quotient. Do the kiddies this is supposed to help care if they can tinker? If so, Darwin is available to give them the source to all but the GUI.
What would be good is a way to buy a dell and immediately sell the license on to a reseller.
Unfortunately, you can't resell the license. That's forbidden. OEM Windows licenses are require to stay (and die) with the machine with which they were sold.
I believe all personal information should be the property of whomever is being profiled. You could =sell= your information to EquiFax et. al., but they couldn't use it if you didn't.
If the average FreeBSD box had the user demographic of the average Windows box, it wouldn't have anything close to the level of "security" it does now.
Doubtful. FreeBSD out of the box is very secure, and the admin has to take steps to make it less secure. That's something the average Windows user wouldn't know how to do. Windows out of the box can't survive on the internet for more than a few minutes without being compromised, because it installs full of holes and the admin has to take steps to secure it. That's something the average Windows user wouldn't know how to do.
What is more interesting here is the derrivative. The perception of Windows is improving rapidly, the perception of Linux is pretty static. I don't see a heck of a lot of new security action going on in the Linux world. There is a heck of a lot going on in the Windows world.
There's a lot of "security action" going on in Windows because there's a lot that needs to be done. If they were to get close to the security of the average FreeBSD box (like, never) that activity would slow down too.
Say, how come (according to Netcraft) the Yankee Group's web site is running on Windows 2000? Don't you suppose Bill would want that to be Windows 2003? Does Yankee Group not care about hurting Bill's feelings? Or, more importantly, don't they care about security?
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Ok, you're wrong.
For starters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_ supporting_OpenDocument/
So, /. slashdotted themselves?
I have an RCA Victor (one of Sony/BMG's brands) with MediaMax. It absolutely installs software on your computer, even =before= the EULA response box pops up.
Why don't they just fix the air conditioning in the HumVee in the first place.
We have a couple of FreeBSD desktops that live in harmony with our Active Directory Windows world. Also, we have five or six OS X systems. A third party suite (www.thursby.com) called ADmitMac even allows them to be an Active Directory management station.
Read TFA. It says Jobs offered free copies. They wouldn't have to pay for it.
Plus, OS X comes with a bunch of applications (PDF viewer, etc.) already bundled. And then, there's NeoOffice (the OpenOffice port to OS X). I think they might be short-sighted in turning down an OS with two decades of development behind it just because it doesn't meet the "tinker" quotient. Do the kiddies this is supposed to help care if they can tinker? If so, Darwin is available to give them the source to all but the GUI.
Unfortunately, you can't resell the license. That's forbidden. OEM Windows licenses are require to stay (and die) with the machine with which they were sold.
I believe all personal information should be the property of whomever is being profiled. You could =sell= your information to EquiFax et. al., but they couldn't use it if you didn't.
As you wish.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/customizer.html
I picked these colors for mine.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/images/BlackMetallicSamp le.jpg
Buckling spring keyswitches. This company spun off from Lexmark, which (in turn) spun off from IBM.
That we're worried about ozone depletion, and yet they make us burn oxygenated fuels to keep down the ozone?
Of course, that means your users would have to have an Acrobat plugin for their browser.
That 220 volt 60 amp feed may have something to do with the heat. Betcha that could make fire out of a lot of things...
Mac OS X? If so, you've got the skill to do it yourself. OS X is pretty much FreeBSD, and FreeBSD is a very well behaved Linux. ;-)
Actually, both of them strive for POSIX compliance--you shouldn't find much you can't work through.
Besides, it was Marvin, not Arthur.
Doubtful. FreeBSD out of the box is very secure, and the admin has to take steps to make it less secure. That's something the average Windows user wouldn't know how to do. Windows out of the box can't survive on the internet for more than a few minutes without being compromised, because it installs full of holes and the admin has to take steps to secure it. That's something the average Windows user wouldn't know how to do.
There's a lot of "security action" going on in Windows because there's a lot that needs to be done. If they were to get close to the security of the average FreeBSD box (like, never) that activity would slow down too.
Say, how come (according to Netcraft) the Yankee Group's web site is running on Windows 2000? Don't you suppose Bill would want that to be Windows 2003? Does Yankee Group not care about hurting Bill's feelings? Or, more importantly, don't they care about security?