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there was an article (in german) yesterday on heise.de about plastic displays on Cebit, so if you happen to be there today or tomorrow, you might want to see them.
Somehow this reminds me of the patents problem. It seems that open source developers care more about the technology than about politics, which is quite understandable. So for patents there are institutions coming who help OSS people, but how about names, and other political stuff? The FSF and ASF have some lawyers people I guess, but who can a simple, small open source team talk to if someone wants to "steal" their name?
If you understand politics, it surely isn't about what they say it's about. Of course, this is not about "security reasons". But even if this was about giving Siemens or Telekom a chance to earn a lot more money, I wouldn't call this "Nationalism" but rather "Commerce" or "Capitalism", which was invented in US (:-)). Yes, there is quite some unemployment in germany, especially in the east, but the germans aren't so dumb that they would accept this story as a plus against unemployment in election wars (they are just about to start right now).
There have already been rumors that german government was to use open source software in the future (for price and security reasons, IIRR). And remember, even if the main reason is not security, if they get the source of the (german) programs they use, they at least get security as an "extra". I wonder why they don't just use open source and PGP, anyway.
They don't even seem to have looked at freshmeat. The section "pong for your PC" holds just 3 or what for WinDos, so I went to freshmeat to find me a linux pong. I was really glad to find a pong for ncurses at this page. I had to change the Makefile to look for -lncurses instead of -lcurses, but it runs, and is really really funny. Does anyone else know of good Linux pong clones?
I have a Siemens phone (yeah, that cool SL45 with MP3 player...) and a Palm III, and beaming is really cool, but I know all the other IR Siemens phones can talk the standard IrDA protocols as well. For example I can't just beam over an addressbook entry (complete with street address and so on), but can use the phone just as a modem and do a telnet from my Palm to my favorite chatroom...
But that's different to syncing, of course. I always mess my addressbooks up when I try to sync my nuttscape addressbook with my Palm's. If there will really be a standard sync protocol, supported by all major vendors, heaven!
Gore-Tex or Bush-Tex? I use LaTex...
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Now that the USA will have a president again (I almost doubted it), shouldn't Gore-Tex be renamed to Bush-Tex? And, what does Donald Knuth think about all this? Helix is renamed as well, so...
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Sorry, I forgot to include the standard link to babelfish. We shouldn't think that everybody knows what we know...
Hi, there was an article (in german) yesterday on heise.de about plastic displays on Cebit, so if you happen to be there today or tomorrow, you might want to see them.
I'm pretty sure this "Anonymous Coward" was Ken Thompson himself, noone else would dare to say he would know what he's talking about...
Somehow this reminds me of the patents problem. It seems that open source developers care more about the technology than about politics, which is quite understandable. So for patents there are institutions coming who help OSS people, but how about names, and other political stuff? The FSF and ASF have some lawyers people I guess, but who can a simple, small open source team talk to if someone wants to "steal" their name?
If you understand politics, it surely isn't about what they say it's about. Of course, this is not about "security reasons". But even if this was about giving Siemens or Telekom a chance to earn a lot more money, I wouldn't call this "Nationalism" but rather "Commerce" or "Capitalism", which was invented in US (:-)). Yes, there is quite some unemployment in germany, especially in the east, but the germans aren't so dumb that they would accept this story as a plus against unemployment in election wars (they are just about to start right now). There have already been rumors that german government was to use open source software in the future (for price and security reasons, IIRR). And remember, even if the main reason is not security, if they get the source of the (german) programs they use, they at least get security as an "extra". I wonder why they don't just use open source and PGP, anyway.
They don't even seem to have looked at freshmeat. The section "pong for your PC" holds just 3 or what for WinDos, so I went to freshmeat to find me a linux pong. I was really glad to find a pong for ncurses at this page. I had to change the Makefile to look for -lncurses instead of -lcurses, but it runs, and is really really funny. Does anyone else know of good Linux pong clones?
According to the scaring Fine Print it could have been Mandrake XP as well...
I have a Siemens phone (yeah, that cool SL45 with MP3 player...) and a Palm III, and beaming is really cool, but I know all the other IR Siemens phones can talk the standard IrDA protocols as well. For example I can't just beam over an addressbook entry (complete with street address and so on), but can use the phone just as a modem and do a telnet from my Palm to my favorite chatroom...
But that's different to syncing, of course. I always mess my addressbooks up when I try to sync my nuttscape addressbook with my Palm's. If there will really be a standard sync protocol, supported by all major vendors, heaven!
Now that the USA will have a president again (I almost doubted it), shouldn't Gore-Tex be renamed to Bush-Tex? And, what does Donald Knuth think about all this? Helix is renamed as well, so...