PGP key's? I thought people knew about and used these. With a pgp key, it is signed with an encrypted hash, and you have the option of encrypting the message along side it. Once this is done, you know an email is coming from a valid user because it contains their key. These are already used in workplaces around the world. Why implement a new system when one already exists? Not only does one exist it is more or less and open standard. Yeesh! I wish people would actually stop rebuilding the wheel in the software industry.
You might be surprised, I think the actual statistic was that 98% of MS products in China were pirated. MS does now offer a price that competes with piracy there. Remember that they don't respect copyright law in China, so it is legal for pirated software to be sold.
Well that's exactly what IBM, they invested several million into a linux campaign, but not because they were going to switch over their desktop systems, because they wanted a lower licensing fee. As soon as MS gave them what they wanted, they stopped their campaign. If that isn't extortion, I don't know what is. And China just pirated the product, so MS competes with the cost of a pirated disc in China. As far as making a profit, that is one thing, but if you make your product so expensive, that the majority of copies in existence are pirated (and not the majority, but a great many of businesses copies are pirated as well), what makes more profit? Pricing affordably so that almost everyone buys a license? Or pricing so that they make certain their are fewer sales. That is economics.
Anyone reminded of IBM's linux campaign that they did? Do you realize how much of a discount they get on licensing now? And what about China? They pirate almost everything, and look how much a Windows XP license costs in return (last I checked it works out to about $20). So by Microsoft choosing to sell their product by the most people will spend, instead of what it is actually worth, they teach that extortion, and piracy are really the right answers to their pricing scheme.
It hasn't also been done with opie, opie is just a desktop manager that's focus is the PDA. It most commonly runs on top of familiar. Secondly, given the DS' CPU architecture, I wouldn't say the familiar people would be at all interested, their main focus is to port the linux kernel to the Intel Strong Arm chip. They are working on some of the other palm processors (mainly those that come with ipaq's), but only one of those boots natively at the moment.
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PGP key's? I thought people knew about and used these. With a pgp key, it is signed with an encrypted hash, and you have the option of encrypting the message along side it. Once this is done, you know an email is coming from a valid user because it contains their key. These are already used in workplaces around the world. Why implement a new system when one already exists? Not only does one exist it is more or less and open standard. Yeesh! I wish people would actually stop rebuilding the wheel in the software industry.
You might be surprised, I think the actual statistic was that 98% of MS products in China were pirated. MS does now offer a price that competes with piracy there. Remember that they don't respect copyright law in China, so it is legal for pirated software to be sold.
Well that's exactly what IBM, they invested several million into a linux campaign, but not because they were going to switch over their desktop systems, because they wanted a lower licensing fee. As soon as MS gave them what they wanted, they stopped their campaign. If that isn't extortion, I don't know what is. And China just pirated the product, so MS competes with the cost of a pirated disc in China. As far as making a profit, that is one thing, but if you make your product so expensive, that the majority of copies in existence are pirated (and not the majority, but a great many of businesses copies are pirated as well), what makes more profit? Pricing affordably so that almost everyone buys a license? Or pricing so that they make certain their are fewer sales. That is economics.
Anyone reminded of IBM's linux campaign that they did? Do you realize how much of a discount they get on licensing now? And what about China? They pirate almost everything, and look how much a Windows XP license costs in return (last I checked it works out to about $20). So by Microsoft choosing to sell their product by the most people will spend, instead of what it is actually worth, they teach that extortion, and piracy are really the right answers to their pricing scheme.
Familiar is mostly a kernel, so it would be more likely to see the GPE or Opie environments recompiled for the DS Linux kernel.
It hasn't also been done with opie, opie is just a desktop manager that's focus is the PDA. It most commonly runs on top of familiar. Secondly, given the DS' CPU architecture, I wouldn't say the familiar people would be at all interested, their main focus is to port the linux kernel to the Intel Strong Arm chip. They are working on some of the other palm processors (mainly those that come with ipaq's), but only one of those boots natively at the moment.