Don't know if this would be Adobe, but I still find it ridiculous that companies use free software and accept the lack of warranty cover mentioned in the license and then when all hell breaks lose, totally forget that they agreed to the license and try to get money out of a stone. Duh! I think this speaks for itself. Some people just don't get the idea of free software. It's free, costs nothing except the work you put into it and this means that the authors have received no money from anyone to allow them to fight back when a warranty suit is brought against them. And that's because they are nice, hard working, hard playing people who want to innovate.
If these companies are stupid enough to go under then the can blame themselves for bad management and not bad software, unless of course they're using MS stuff;-)
Here's the bit from the GPL about warranty, I'd say using the product shows acceptance of the disclaimer! Within the GPL, you are allowed to offer a warranty for a fee.
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
Time for class action against Microsoft...
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Doens't this seem like a good time for all the owners of websites that pay for bandwidth usage on their sites, to join forces and take out a class action suit against Microsoft for allowing for such an easy exploited backdoor into their "Enterprise" class web server or dumpster and having their servers then spam the internet looking for other servers with their insidious backdoors.
Time Microsoft paid for the crap that they foist onto Corporates and Individuals alike.
Might finally get some real financial support for the open source movement via payouts from this sort of thing to people using alternative web servers, etc.
Does anyone know if this kind of backdoor might exist in Microsoft's "Enterprise" Mail Server Exchange. Must be somewhere with all the new "features" they've added.
Connect a BBQ hotplate to the exit from the turbine and you've also got a BBQ or better yet connect it to a wetback and you've got the BBQ and hotwater for some coffee for later in the night when the beer runs out.
Power, Cold Beer, Food, Caffeine/Tea and foot warmer plus a definite extreme oc status.
Maybe this combined with a turbine connected to a generator to generate the power to run an overclocked Athlon running cool, also from this.
The first jet powered cooled overclocked Athlon with Beer Fridge. No worries about noisy fans with this one either;-)
I found some information about an extension to mgetty, called vgetty. This might be what your after. See here. I'm sure there's more information, but I thought I'd leave that up to you.
Does this mean that we can expect MSOffice on Linux soon? Maybe I'm missing something here but how is MSOffice going to be on OSX if it's based on BSD and Microsoft's apparently not developing Office tools for UNIX. Then again maybe that was what they were planning all the time. Remember the rumor about Microsoft hiring Linux developers, maybe it was for this development.
Watch out though as you probably be required to allow root access for installation and then you kernal will be patched to route all traffic through.NET at a charge of course.
All I can say is they suck just like life in space. All they are interested in is profit and not consumers. Like McDonalds, they serve up crap food from underpaid, overworked young adults and leave behind a trail of cardboard and wax covered cups all around their stores. No consideration for the future and only looking at the past. Like their last profits...
Rant rant rant....
Maybe they need to look at becoming a service company and produce machines that use the latest Linux X-servers and broadcast quality software preconfigured for use by 3d designers and animators and start sorting out suppling render farms for the new breeds of movies coming out. This really seems like the next big thing for the movie industry and even TV and this would be a good place to be supplying high end Linux machines and services keeping the state of the art.
Why can't they use pressurised helium or hydrogen balloons made from ultrastrong synthetic fibre.
If the hydrogen could be used, accepting that there are possible explosive problems with it, once you got it up far enough you could tow the hydrogen to the International Space Station for fuel or maybe even suck it in via a port on the craft your launching and use it as a top up for the fuel already onboard.
I haven't really thought it through completely, but surely this could be a viable/preferable alternative.
You know most of the time it so hard to know where something is crashing and what caused it that it's not worth ranting and raving about whose is best, most stable or whatever. The most important thing is that it works when you need it too. Like when your showing something to a client or demoing in front of a large audience.
Murphys Law: If it can go wrong it will go wrong!
If life was a box of chocolates, I'd be all finished in 5 seconds flat.;-)
Might there be a chip on the PS2 that has some form of US Defense encryption.
So they don't mind if people in Russia, China, or where ever else buy the PS2, but they don't wnat them manufacturing it and finding out about this strange chip.
Did anyone ever find out what was really in that blob of epoxy in Furbies?;-)
There's this cool plugin for GIMP which works on a similar concept as the patterns by numbers thing to remove objects from images by filling in the empty space left by removing them with a pattern copied from around the object. Sort of like using cloning to remove things, but automatic.
Have a look at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pfh/resynthesizer/ oh and it's probably also in your installed plugins directory called Resynthesizer
If the decision is to change the name. I think it would be a good idea to send an email to AOL and copy it to all the Linux News sites stating the reasons behind the name change.
Things like as open source developers, writing code for the benefit of everyone not just the people with money... and
This change of name in no way accepts AOL's right to the type of software that GAIM represents and AOL's acceptance of the change of GAIM's name to something otherwise shows AOL's acceptance that the software called GAIM in no way infringes on AOL's software or intellectual property.
I'm no lawyer, but I wouldn't put it past AOL to take the acceptance by all developers of similarly named software to change the name of their software as acceptance that they are in direct competition.
Heh and remember...Be careful out there!
Found this little gem, that most have probably already read, in the MS site amusing
"Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works. However, one of the dominant open source license?the GPL?is the most infectious. It attempts to subject any work that includes GPL-licensed code to the GPL. Thus, if a government or business uses even a few lines of GPL-licensed code in a program, and then re-distributes that program to others, it would be required to provide the program under the GPL. And, under the GPL, the recipient must be given access to the source code and the freedom to redistribute the program on a royalty-free basis."
This statement sounds exactly like the current development EULA's from MS. "Anything you write/do using Microsoft products must not include anyone elses software or we'll take your... to the cleaners!"
Would that mean that they would no longer be able to distribute the Java Runtime along with their OS because it allows people to run open source software on their system?
Would that mean that if your software had been written using an open source compiler that you would not be allowed to run it on any of Microsoft's OS?
Talk about cut your head off with a ferking sword for OSS sake.;-)
All that's going on here is that Microsoft is saying "Hey our software is Closed Source therefore you can't distribute it with Open Source software because it would breach the Open Source licenses."
That's fair enough except that they may not get as many people interested in their crappy beta warez any more and it may even spur some into developing their own software, and in fact already has "Linux" and "FreeBSD" being prime examples in the OS market. That's what the free/open source is all about. Don't want to pay, so create it yourself but try not to help out the megacorps while your at it.
Microsoft will probably place this little gem of information into every EULA from hence forth and lose a large market share from people wanting elegant open source coders to write software for them instead of braindead MS crackers and virus writers.
Hmmmm. Do they/you class a windows machine infected with say the IRC bot that attacked grc.com recently as a kind of server, or any of the other BO trojans/servers, Netbus, etc. How about all the windows boxes out there sold as a home system with file sharing setup under TCP/IP and no firewall like ZoneAlarm protecting them. Surely that could also be classed as a type of server, for better or for worse. We know which one!
Heh if you looked at all those and all the misconfigured machines out there, then there probably is a higher number of Windows servers out in the wild. Especially with the high number of flatrate ADSL, ISDN and Satellite services that only offer Windows drivers on the setup disks.
What can you do?
No matter which religion you belong to there are at least two others that proclaim that no being part of theirs will condemn you to HELL.
I'd say bring it on. Lets all just accept that in others minds/beliefs we are going to hell like it or not and start living it up and make the most of those little precious milliseconds we have left on this planet to support at least the continued existance of our race without destroying everything we touch or breathe on.
End of rant...
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If these companies are stupid enough to go under then the can blame themselves for bad management and not bad software, unless of course they're using MS stuff ;-)
Here's the bit from the GPL about warranty, I'd say using the product shows acceptance of the disclaimer! Within the GPL, you are allowed to offer a warranty for a fee.
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
Doens't this seem like a good time for all the owners of websites that pay for bandwidth usage on their sites, to join forces and take out a class action suit against Microsoft for allowing for such an easy exploited backdoor into their "Enterprise" class web server or dumpster and having their servers then spam the internet looking for other servers with their insidious backdoors.
Time Microsoft paid for the crap that they foist onto Corporates and Individuals alike.
Might finally get some real financial support for the open source movement via payouts from this sort of thing to people using alternative web servers, etc.
Does anyone know if this kind of backdoor might exist in Microsoft's "Enterprise" Mail Server Exchange. Must be somewhere with all the new "features" they've added.
Connect a BBQ hotplate to the exit from the turbine and you've also got a BBQ or better yet connect it to a wetback and you've got the BBQ and hotwater for some coffee for later in the night when the beer runs out.
Power, Cold Beer, Food, Caffeine/Tea and foot warmer plus a definite extreme oc status.
Maybe this combined with a turbine connected to a generator to generate the power to run an overclocked Athlon running cool, also from this. ;-)
The first jet powered cooled overclocked Athlon with Beer Fridge. No worries about noisy fans with this one either
Here is the main site for vgetty.
You could try at lhd.zdnet.com
I found some information about an extension to mgetty, called vgetty. This might be what your after. See here. I'm sure there's more information, but I thought I'd leave that up to you.
Does this mean that we can expect MSOffice on Linux soon? Maybe I'm missing something here but how is MSOffice going to be on OSX if it's based on BSD and Microsoft's apparently not developing Office tools for UNIX. Then again maybe that was what they were planning all the time. Remember the rumor about Microsoft hiring Linux developers, maybe it was for this development. .NET at a charge of course.
Watch out though as you probably be required to allow root access for installation and then you kernal will be patched to route all traffic through
All I can say is they suck just like life in space. All they are interested in is profit and not consumers. Like McDonalds, they serve up crap food from underpaid, overworked young adults and leave behind a trail of cardboard and wax covered cups all around their stores. No consideration for the future and only looking at the past. Like their last profits...
Rant rant rant....
Look here. I haven't tested this because I don't one. YET!
Maybe they should run it from the International Space Station instead.
Maybe they need to look at becoming a service company and produce machines that use the latest Linux X-servers and broadcast quality software preconfigured for use by 3d designers and animators and start sorting out suppling render farms for the new breeds of movies coming out. This really seems like the next big thing for the movie industry and even TV and this would be a good place to be supplying high end Linux machines and services keeping the state of the art.
Why can't they use pressurised helium or hydrogen balloons made from ultrastrong synthetic fibre.
If the hydrogen could be used, accepting that there are possible explosive problems with it, once you got it up far enough you could tow the hydrogen to the International Space Station for fuel or maybe even suck it in via a port on the craft your launching and use it as a top up for the fuel already onboard.
I haven't really thought it through completely, but surely this could be a viable/preferable alternative.
You know most of the time it so hard to know where something is crashing and what caused it that it's not worth ranting and raving about whose is best, most stable or whatever. The most important thing is that it works when you need it too. Like when your showing something to a client or demoing in front of a large audience. ;-)
Murphys Law: If it can go wrong it will go wrong!
If life was a box of chocolates, I'd be all finished in 5 seconds flat.
Might there be a chip on the PS2 that has some form of US Defense encryption. ;-)
So they don't mind if people in Russia, China, or where ever else buy the PS2, but they don't wnat them manufacturing it and finding out about this strange chip.
Did anyone ever find out what was really in that blob of epoxy in Furbies?
Have a look at Configurable Security Policies, specifically Setting Global Policies.
A little trademark search for the word "Illustrator".
I notice that none of their bios mention any IT Industry skills or IT trademark skills.
Clueless maybe?
Hope they've paid the royalties for the use of GIF's on their website.
There's this cool plugin for GIMP which works on a similar concept as the patterns by numbers thing to remove objects from images by filling in the empty space left by removing them with a pattern copied from around the object. Sort of like using cloning to remove things, but automatic.
Have a look at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pfh/resynthesizer/ oh and it's probably also in your installed plugins directory called Resynthesizer
If the decision is to change the name. I think it would be a good idea to send an email to AOL and copy it to all the Linux News sites stating the reasons behind the name change.
Things like as open source developers, writing code for the benefit of everyone not just the people with money... and
This change of name in no way accepts AOL's right to the type of software that GAIM represents and AOL's acceptance of the change of GAIM's name to something otherwise shows AOL's acceptance that the software called GAIM in no way infringes on AOL's software or intellectual property.
I'm no lawyer, but I wouldn't put it past AOL to take the acceptance by all developers of similarly named software to change the name of their software as acceptance that they are in direct competition.
Heh and remember...Be careful out there!
Found this little gem, that most have probably already read, in the MS site amusing ... to the cleaners!"
"Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works. However, one of the dominant open source license?the GPL?is the most infectious. It attempts to subject any work that includes GPL-licensed code to the GPL. Thus, if a government or business uses even a few lines of GPL-licensed code in a program, and then re-distributes that program to others, it would be required to provide the program under the GPL. And, under the GPL, the recipient must be given access to the source code and the freedom to redistribute the program on a royalty-free basis."
This statement sounds exactly like the current development EULA's from MS. "Anything you write/do using Microsoft products must not include anyone elses software or we'll take your
Would that mean that they would no longer be able to distribute the Java Runtime along with their OS because it allows people to run open source software on their system? ;-)
Would that mean that if your software had been written using an open source compiler that you would not be allowed to run it on any of Microsoft's OS?
Talk about cut your head off with a ferking sword for OSS sake.
All that's going on here is that Microsoft is saying "Hey our software is Closed Source therefore you can't distribute it with Open Source software because it would breach the Open Source licenses."
That's fair enough except that they may not get as many people interested in their crappy beta warez any more and it may even spur some into developing their own software, and in fact already has "Linux" and "FreeBSD" being prime examples in the OS market. That's what the free/open source is all about. Don't want to pay, so create it yourself but try not to help out the megacorps while your at it.
Microsoft will probably place this little gem of information into every EULA from hence forth and lose a large market share from people wanting elegant open source coders to write software for them instead of braindead MS crackers and virus writers.
Hmmmm. Do they/you class a windows machine infected with say the IRC bot that attacked grc.com recently as a kind of server, or any of the other BO trojans/servers, Netbus, etc. How about all the windows boxes out there sold as a home system with file sharing setup under TCP/IP and no firewall like ZoneAlarm protecting them. Surely that could also be classed as a type of server, for better or for worse. We know which one!
Heh if you looked at all those and all the misconfigured machines out there, then there probably is a higher number of Windows servers out in the wild. Especially with the high number of flatrate ADSL, ISDN and Satellite services that only offer Windows drivers on the setup disks.
What can you do?
No matter which religion you belong to there are at least two others that proclaim that no being part of theirs will condemn you to HELL.
I'd say bring it on. Lets all just accept that in others minds/beliefs we are going to hell like it or not and start living it up and make the most of those little precious milliseconds we have left on this planet to support at least the continued existance of our race without destroying everything we touch or breathe on.
End of rant...