Tell me more about your communist democracy. Let's say that I am a snow cone maker. It costs me about 10 cents in syrup, ice, and equipment depreciation. I decide to charge 25 cents for a snow cone. Is that OK in your communist democracy? Is that pricing and production level completely my choice as a free individual?
Good luck selling your snow cones in Siberia, comrade.
The Basics
To get people to switch operating systems you need to remember two rules.
1. People avoid change
2. New Operating Systems break old applications
RISC OS Ltd is in the process of completely rewriting RISC OS. When they've finished there won't be any of the code licensed from Castle left. So then RISC OS Ltd will own (their) RISC OS.
No, the OP is correct. RISC OS Ltd has serious finanical problems. Their records at Companies House show they're consistently losing money and are carrying a huge amount of debt.
and make their money on subscriptions to their virus definition update service? (Since without definition updates AV software isn't worth much anyway.) Would the GPL allow this?
It will be interesting to see whether newcomer PalmSource, which is busy converting Palm OS into a software stack running on Linux, taps Wind River as a Linux OS partner in the mobile phone space, as has been rumored. For its part, however, MontaVista already announced an alliance with PalmSource in August.
PalmSource have always claimed that PalmOS-for-Linux is to be distro-agnostic, allowing the hardware manufacterer to decide which distro to use.
I'm sure that you could create a display server optimised for applications running locally on a desktop machine with a single monitor {most people's configuration} and it probably would be less resource-intensive. But would it really be worth it? Who is the intended market?
we will get the fat out of the systems. Today's laptops have become obese. Two-thirds of their software is used to manage the other third, which mostly does the same functions nine different ways.
Slashdot Mirror
bear/shit/woods
pope/catholic
etc.
Does anybody know whether the NEC/Panasonic platform uses Qt/Embedded? Thanks.
*kicks consumer in the nuts*
"Hey buddy, I'm not kicking you in the nuts!"
*kicks consumer in the nuts*
I wonder how this will compare to the ARM Cortex A8 in 2007?
Tropical Storm Aleph?
RISC OS Ltd is in the process of completely rewriting RISC OS. When they've finished there won't be any of the code licensed from Castle left. So then RISC OS Ltd will own (their) RISC OS.
No, the OP is correct. RISC OS Ltd has serious finanical problems. Their records at Companies House show they're consistently losing money and are carrying a huge amount of debt.
and make their money on subscriptions to their virus definition update service? (Since without definition updates AV software isn't worth much anyway.) Would the GPL allow this?
From the FAQ: Sounds like what you described.
Interesting, thanks.
ARM has much better power/performance ratios and I don't see any overwhelming need for x86 compatibility in this thing.