Yes, they can. Problem is, the cost of lawyers and such will probably force the OSS project to throw in the towel before that can happen unless the project is well funded.
Checked and it won't. The thing is, that out of 17 extensions,all of which I've grown to need, there are 8 that Opera can't emulate (yet). Here's one who hopes that will change, though.
The other ten give me functionality that is either included in opera by default (like mouse gestures and advanced settings for tab functionality) and stuff it can do with it's own extensions - greasemonkey, gmail notification and whatnot.
Sure, people in private positions can choose to put their morals before profit, but corporations (especially those on the stock market) have no such option. They (or rather their decisions) are effectively "de-humanised".
You can bet that there were a good number of high-roller meetings preceeding the release of this information, not a single idealist reporter.
Why risk this then? Goodwill has it's value, and it can be measured if you're into marketing. It can also be long-term thinking, as would probably be the case with all companies using/developing FOSS. It's that, or face corporate lock-in.
(And yeah, I love that ï. I don't know of any other place to use it.:P)
To all of you asking for "validiation" and such to prevent trojan infected computers entry onto the internet:
What you are asking for is a trusted/treacherous computing platform. I hardly believe that is what we want, but that is the only solution if you want to ban computers that run non-whitelist-programs. I'm guessing that the possible abuses of such a system are a lot worse than spam mail. I hope users will become more aware of what spam is, and I can see this happening in the next 10 years; especially considering that the older people are dying and all the youngsters are growing up with computing as a daily activity.
Introduce the world to a global TC platform, and it will not go away. You say it'd go away if it would be abused too much, but guess what? The people who are at the top know how much is too much, and would not go that far.
Commercials directed at children are an example of what would (hopefully) be banned. It's already illegal here in Sweden, but the commercial stations have solved that by broadcasting from the UK (to us) instead.
Other than that, I'm entirely against any form of censorship.
I should really just shell out the cash and get a good set of earplug/earbud combo headphones that block external noise. Do these things really work at 50% volume?
Yes, you should. Get a pair of Koss Sparkplugs, they're cheap and they allowed me to go from 25 (max) to 8 and still hear the music loud and clear. No noise-canceling, but actual blocking. This will save your ears a lot of strain. I know I'll never go without them ever again.
Unbundeling the programs from windows should not prove hard, especially since most sold programs are OEM-licences and thus don't need to be re-packaged.
The future has been predicted by parent.
It'd be a sad day if the majority is closed out of the high-bandwidth internet usage-areas. They do, after all, provide a huge amount of the content.
Big Champaigne estimated that 60% of the european internet traffic was BitTorrent-stuff.
If your beloved fingerprint-hash-storing Big-Brother company goes bankrupt, you will never, ever, again have access to the files you so dearly needed to protect using their nice proprietary technologies.
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Yes, they can. Problem is, the cost of lawyers and such will probably force the OSS project to throw in the towel before that can happen unless the project is well funded.
Checked and it won't. The thing is, that out of 17 extensions ,all of which I've grown to need, there are 8 that Opera can't emulate (yet). Here's one who hopes that will change, though.
The other ten give me functionality that is either included in opera by default (like mouse gestures and advanced settings for tab functionality) and stuff it can do with it's own extensions - greasemonkey, gmail notification and whatnot.
Any way to get automatic filterset.g updating?
I say we have a war on wars. End this crazy business for good.
Sure, people in private positions can choose to put their morals before profit, but corporations (especially those on the stock market) have no such option. They (or rather their decisions) are effectively "de-humanised".
:P)
You can bet that there were a good number of high-roller meetings preceeding the release of this information, not a single idealist reporter.
Why risk this then? Goodwill has it's value, and it can be measured if you're into marketing. It can also be long-term thinking, as would probably be the case with all companies using/developing FOSS. It's that, or face corporate lock-in.
(And yeah, I love that ï. I don't know of any other place to use it.
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To all of you asking for "validiation" and such to prevent trojan infected computers entry onto the internet:
What you are asking for is a trusted/treacherous computing platform. I hardly believe that is what we want, but that is the only solution if you want to ban computers that run non-whitelist-programs.
I'm guessing that the possible abuses of such a system are a lot worse than spam mail. I hope users will become more aware of what spam is, and I can see this happening in the next 10 years; especially considering that the older people are dying and all the youngsters are growing up with computing as a daily activity.
Introduce the world to a global TC platform, and it will not go away. You say it'd go away if it would be abused too much, but guess what? The people who are at the top know how much is too much, and would not go that far.
Commercials directed at children are an example of what would (hopefully) be banned. It's already illegal here in Sweden, but the commercial stations have solved that by broadcasting from the UK (to us) instead. Other than that, I'm entirely against any form of censorship.
Unbundeling the programs from windows should not prove hard, especially since most sold programs are OEM-licences and thus don't need to be re-packaged.
The future has been predicted by parent. It'd be a sad day if the majority is closed out of the high-bandwidth internet usage-areas. They do, after all, provide a huge amount of the content. Big Champaigne estimated that 60% of the european internet traffic was BitTorrent-stuff.
If your beloved fingerprint-hash-storing Big-Brother company goes bankrupt, you will never, ever, again have access to the files you so dearly needed to protect using their nice proprietary technologies.