They may not be the WTO but they sure as heck have an excessive control over it. That just means that the WTO needs fixed. It doesn't mean we need riots by morons!
The world does not need them. All they do is cause trouble. They do not suggest any viable alternatives to the WTO. They look like a waste of O2 to me! No doubt the WTO needs improvement but show be any organisation that doesn't. What those fools are doing is showing everyone that the only alternative to WTO is a bunch of lunatics who want to destroy and who hate anything remotely civilised! In the UK, we had a load of them in London recently. I doubt anyone here thought that this "protest" would be any different. I am a great believer in being suspicious of large organisations. I am wary of big governments, large companies, political parties and protest movements. That doesn't mean I think any of them are a bad thing. If anything is a bad thing, it is the narrow minded bigotry of radicals!
It may no longer be earth shattering but it is what I like to hear. I spend my working days mending NT systems and explaining to people that BSODs are not their fault. This could help me, working for the Health service in the UK, by making my bosses think again about "grown up" operating systems.
Perhaps Linus has been rewriting something for a big corporation in Redmond?:-( I doubt many of us have any idea what they are really up to. Those patents could have been red herrings.
Put a fairly feeble pice of equipment in a computer and hand out a (Windoze) driver for it. It worked sooo well for modems and now they want to make everything work like that. Is Micro$oft behind this? It looks like I might be keeping that K6-2/400 in my system for a long time!
I thought that the space race was started between the Germans working for the USA and the Germans working for the USSR! Nobody is going to say that you aren't good at using ideas. Just that you make seriously good use of ones that somebody else came up with. I think that is what we keep accusing Microsoft of.
BTW - I have been to the US and liked it and am a keen follower of Star Trek. My favourite author was also a US citizen - Asimov.
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"Windows 98 directly from a CD-ROM boot. Try THAT with Linux."
This sounds a little ignorant! You can install just about any 'grown up' operating system sretraight from CD. I have done several flavours of Linux, Netware and Be myself. I even do it with NT (too often!). Can people list all the other OS that can do this? Can OS2 do it now? I haven't used it for a while. Is it still out there?
Yes. We should try and treat them as we *ought* to treat Linux Newbies in general. If you tell a user RTFM they may, or they may read someone elses' more useful reply. At worst you may scare off a few people Sniffy attitudes to big business will loose us our foothold!
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They may not be the WTO but they sure as heck have an excessive control over it. That just means that the WTO needs fixed. It doesn't mean we need riots by morons!
The world does not need them. All they do is cause trouble. They do not suggest any viable alternatives to the WTO. They look like a waste of O2 to me!
No doubt the WTO needs improvement but show be any organisation that doesn't. What those fools are doing is showing everyone that the only alternative to WTO is a bunch of lunatics who want to destroy and who hate anything remotely civilised!
In the UK, we had a load of them in London recently. I doubt anyone here thought that this "protest" would be any different.
I am a great believer in being suspicious of large organisations. I am wary of big governments, large companies, political parties and protest movements. That doesn't mean I think any of them are a bad thing. If anything is a bad thing, it is the narrow minded bigotry of radicals!
It may no longer be earth shattering but it is what I like to hear. I spend my working days mending NT systems and explaining to people that BSODs are not their fault. This could help me, working for the Health service in the UK, by making my bosses think again about "grown up" operating systems.
Perhaps Linus has been rewriting something for a big corporation in Redmond? :-(
I doubt many of us have any idea what they are really up to. Those patents could have been red herrings.
Put a fairly feeble pice of equipment in a computer and hand out a (Windoze) driver for it. It worked sooo well for modems and now they want to make everything work like that.
Is Micro$oft behind this?
It looks like I might be keeping that K6-2/400 in my system for a long time!
Can it be added to to remove users as well?
If the price gets low enough it might make the corporate suit type realise that cheap things can be good too. It could help the uptake of GNU/Linux.
I thought that the space race was started between the Germans working for the USA and the Germans working for the USSR!
Nobody is going to say that you aren't good at using ideas. Just that you make seriously good use of ones that somebody else came up with.
I think that is what we keep accusing Microsoft of.
BTW - I have been to the US and liked it and am a keen follower of Star Trek. My favourite author was also a US citizen - Asimov.
"Windows 98 directly from a CD-ROM boot. Try THAT with Linux."
This sounds a little ignorant! You can install just about any 'grown up' operating system sretraight from CD. I have done several flavours of Linux, Netware and Be myself. I even do it with NT (too often!). Can people list all the other OS that can do this? Can OS2 do it now? I haven't used it for a while. Is it still out there?
Yes. We should try and treat them as we *ought* to treat Linux Newbies in general. If you tell a user RTFM they may, or they may read someone elses' more useful reply. At worst you may scare off a few people
Sniffy attitudes to big business will loose us our foothold!
> The 'secure' option should complement the > install. i.e. Secure Workstation, Secure Server
You will also need 'Secure Internet workstation'