Really? How do you know that "most people" do this? And which instructions are you talking about?
In Ubuntu 7.04, if you try to play a file that requires a restricted codec, it will pop up an instructional message and offer to install the required codec.
I would be leary to use it for important business correspondance or a resume for example.
You don't realize that Word documents will be formatted depending on the local printer, do you? You do NOT have absolute control over the look of your.doc when you email it out. For the purposes you listed there is PDF, and OO.org has native support for it, while MS Office does not (up to 2003 at least, dunno about 2007).
The other guy mentioned ancient greek literature and folk tales (which, in Europe, often have pre-christian backgrounds). As other obvious examples I'd like to add the germanic myths like the Nibelungensaga, Beowolf, or the Edda. Many others can be added depending on what you count as "having influenced Western literature".
E.g., the length is death + 75 years (in the US and IIRC), yet it is often assigned to corporations, which do not die (at least usually not without assigned the rights to yet another corporation).
Being involved with the distribution of a product isn't the same thing as distributing it.
Read the Groklaw article or refer to the numerous posts above that have pointed out that it is about this language in the GPLv3:
If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license providing freedom to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work to any of the parties receiving the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered work and works based on it.
See? MS is not a distributor, but they are a conveyor.
if Novell chooses to continue to distribute SUSE under GPLv2
??? It's not Novell that gets to choose the license. For every piece of software in the distro that is licensed "GPL v2 or later", the recipient of the software is the one who gets to chose whether he licenses under v2 or v3. Novell could only change this for software they hold the copyright for.
the best thing for them to have done would have been to throw out most of the code released by Netscape, rather than rewriting a lot of it (at the same low-quality level) in the following years.
That's exactly what they have done. Learn your history.
Judging by your post you're not ready to administer Windows on the desktop. It's more fun to side with FUD than to learn something outside your current realm of knowledge.
You are a moron. The expression "ready for the desktop" precisely means "usable without any special skills whatsoever".
Turn the pop-up off. (...) gpedit.msc -> Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update Set "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations" to disabled.
Judging by the standards that are usually applied to linux distros I conclude that Windows is not ready for the desktop.
the account currently in use will ALWAYS be more likely to be compremised than one not in use
There is an argument that bruteforcing a random account is harder because you need to figure out both username and password. For more discussion see here
Obviously this ignores the insane exception that is Linspire.
You're not keeping up to date with you distro news, are you? That's been debunked in 2005.
Except that the two situations you describe are completely different, and thus Canonical is not doing the exact same thing. Ergo, your posting is pointless.
What about a division? A wholely owned subsidiary?
IANAL, but I see this clearly as different organizations, and thus distribution.
However, when the organization transfers copies to other organizations or individuals, that is distribution. In particular, providing copies to contractors for use off-site is distribution.
The FAQ is mainly there to help people who cannot read a legal document. An actual, real-life lawyer would know that spreading the software within one and the same organization cannot mean distribution.
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Really? How do you know that "most people" do this? And which instructions are you talking about?
In Ubuntu 7.04, if you try to play a file that requires a restricted codec, it will pop up an instructional message and offer to install the required codec.
What is wrong with that?
The believe that more driver modules make the kernel more complicated.
I would be leary to use it for important business correspondance or a resume for example.
.doc when you email it out. For the purposes you listed there is PDF, and OO.org has native support for it, while MS Office does not (up to 2003 at least, dunno about 2007).
You don't realize that Word documents will be formatted depending on the local printer, do you? You do NOT have absolute control over the look of your
The other guy mentioned ancient greek literature and folk tales (which, in Europe, often have pre-christian backgrounds). As other obvious examples I'd like to add the germanic myths like the Nibelungensaga, Beowolf, or the Edda. Many others can be added depending on what you count as "having influenced Western literature".
Erm, how?
E.g., the length is death + 75 years (in the US and IIRC), yet it is often assigned to corporations, which do not die (at least usually not without assigned the rights to yet another corporation).
Read the Groklaw article or refer to the numerous posts above that have pointed out that it is about this language in the GPLv3: See? MS is not a distributor, but they are a conveyor.
if Novell chooses to continue to distribute SUSE under GPLv2
??? It's not Novell that gets to choose the license. For every piece of software in the distro that is licensed "GPL v2 or later", the recipient of the software is the one who gets to chose whether he licenses under v2 or v3. Novell could only change this for software they hold the copyright for.
the best thing for them to have done would have been to throw out most of the code released by Netscape, rather than rewriting a lot of it (at the same low-quality level) in the following years.
That's exactly what they have done. Learn your history.
Exactly. Thanks for adding that.
I hope that the terrorists don't get out of jail for his ignorance
"Three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet", not proven terrorists. Let's not forget due process.
Judging by your post you're not ready to administer Windows on the desktop. It's more fun to side with FUD than to learn something outside your current realm of knowledge.
You are a moron. The expression "ready for the desktop" precisely means "usable without any special skills whatsoever".
Turn the pop-up off. (...)
gpedit.msc -> Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
Set "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations" to disabled.
Judging by the standards that are usually applied to linux distros I conclude that Windows is not ready for the desktop.
the account currently in use will ALWAYS be more likely to be compremised than one not in use
There is an argument that bruteforcing a random account is harder because you need to figure out both username and password. For more discussion see here
Obviously this ignores the insane exception that is Linspire.
You're not keeping up to date with you distro news, are you? That's been debunked in 2005.
I imagine you could then log in to root from the login prompt
You can at the console, but you'd specifically have to enable GUI root logins in gdmconf.
You tell me -- you were the one who got all worked up about it. I just answered the guy who asked "i wonder why people think Halo is so great".
That's all well and good, but doesn't change the fact that Halo is considered great mostly by those who don't know anything else.
but I'd like to know why Halo is considered by a fairly large population to be a great game
It came out for the Xbox and found a large population of teens that never had played another FPS.
What does it do that make it deserve a mention
It's the bugtracker that is used by most major FOSS projects.
What ever happened to the hole in the ozone?
First, the ozone situation is atmospherically completely unrelated to the CO2 question.
Still, what happened? There was a global response and as a result, the situation improved. Might be a model for dealing with the CO2, huh?
But when Canonical does exactly the same thing
Except that the two situations you describe are completely different, and thus Canonical is not doing the exact same thing. Ergo, your posting is pointless.
Dang, I wanted to say I view the latter as a different organization. A simple division of the same legal entity is, IMHNLO, not.
IANAL, but I see this clearly as different organizations, and thus distribution.That's what you get for evading taxes
The FAQ is mainly there to help people who cannot read a legal document. An actual, real-life lawyer would know that spreading the software within one and the same organization cannot mean distribution.
GPL does not make clear what constitutes distribution.
FAQ does.
There are reports of Wiis being sitting on store shelves all over Europe.
In Berlin, Wiis have reappeared at major electronic stores just recently.