Actually, you _pay_ Adobe and Fender for the use of their product so you can create works you can sell.
You can't _create_ content with proprietary codecs, without paying for that ability (mp3, gif, etc). They are not stopping you from _creating_ content, just profiting from the creation of that content without a kickback to themselves. Although it is not the best stance to take, it is fair.
Take down SprintNET and BellNexia, and then tell me that the Internet is fault tolerant..... "What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
Tisdale is a fairly large community, that could support the cost of the equipment (over a couple of years), and has enough business potential for SaskTel to gamble on them. My point is that putting the equipment in a town like Pense, although just outside of Regina, would not only not be cost effective, but would be a cash vacuum for whoever attempted to put it in. "What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
The population of Canadian provinces is too spread out for the Telcos to make this happen (with the exception of Ontario). 1 million people in Saskatchewan, ~50% of them in rural areas, covering the same area as your average 5 states and the infrastructure required will cripple a provincial Telco/Cable Company. Most of them are loosing money on the current $40-50 ADSL/Cable Modem package as it is. The odds of Pangman getting High Speed anytime soon is very unlikely.
And for those weird 'I want more than basic service' rants, man, get a grip. Our telephone service is already a 'essential service', and you can get every freekin option you've could ever dream of on your phone (can anyone say 'worlds largest fibre optic network'?). For an example Highspeed offering, take a look here.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
I'm sure an OS/2 branch could be maintained from the current code base, but I would much rather see the GPL of the old code, as I think this is what everyone is looking for anyway (Linux and OS/2 users alike). At the very least, breaking it into seperate apps is a must have.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I wonder if they'll GPL the old code. You know, Star Office 4.0, the one that, unlike 5.2, ran on OS/2? Seperate apps, smaller footprint, not managed by Sun, couldn't get much better than that.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc, all send thousand dollar packages to Media companies. How do you think they get reviewed? Writers don't have the time (or inclination) to hunt out software packages to be reviewed.
To attack a small magazine because they don't have the time or resources to fully research a product before posting up a simple 'I like it', is, as far as I'm concern, destructive journalism, meant to just belittle the 'non-professionals' and bolster their own publication.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I think the most logical course would be for every reader of/. to sign up. Hell, they're going to tell you how to contact your federal and state officials on important matters being considered. What absolute fun it would be to stop the FUD from inside the Redmond machine.
Now that's grassroots........
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
After many months of consideration, I only accept C.O.D. or cheque/money order. I'm safe, you're safe, and the banks and the government only know what I tell them:=) "What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Big corporations pay mega bucks to build their reputation with ads on PBS and other places, point out that being a white hat in the open software movement has the same effect.
I think this is your best bet. Explain the GPL to them, and the benefits of attaching their name to a OSS project. They pay the same amount, get the product they want, and in addition, get recognition for supporting OSS.
If the project will put them 'ahead' for any reason, and could be the cause for them not wanting it released GPL, I'm sure your 'testing and implementation' phase could be extended until any advantage they have is moot.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
All it says is that Microsoft users are unlucky, and that's a given.
"People using MandrakeSoft version of Linux can continue to open all their email messages without any risk to their computer. The recently destructive Virus called "I love you" or "Love Message" virus doesn't affect versions of Linux-Mandrake nor any other Linux operating systems.
Software viruses are programs that can infect poorly-secured computer operating systems and applications. Machines running the Linux operating system have never been infected by a virus yet.
People using email agents under Linux-Mandrake, including Netscape-mail, Kmail, Balsa, Emacs-mail, Pine, Elm, Mailx and Exmh can open any infected email message without any risk to their data.
Additionally people using their Linux-Mandrake system as a smtp server (with Sendmail or Postfix) to the unlucky Windows(tm) users can easily stop the spread of the Love virus.
- If you use Sendmail as a smtp server, follow the instructions provided on the official Sendmail website on http://sendmail.net/?feed=lovefix. They also have issued a patch that can be used to prevent the Love worm mutations on http://sendmail.net/?feed=lovemorph
- If you use Postfix as a smtp server, here's a quick fix:
In/etc/postfix/main.cf put the following line:
header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
In/etc/postfix/header_checks add this following line:
/^Subject: ILOVEYOU/ REJECT
This rejects any message with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject. Depending on the new mutations, you'll have to adapt the last line according to new subject.
- You can also block the virus with Procmail by adding the following to your.procmailrc:
:0 D * ^Subject:[[tab] ]+ILOVEYOU /dev/null
This erases any message with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject. You can adapt it to new forms taken by the virus.
For more information about the Love virus, there is a complete advisory available on CERT's site on http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-04.html"
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I speak not of those who can muster a civil dialog when put to the test, or of those to who it comes naturally, but the average./er (or more correctly AC), who right now sits protected from the realities of life and has not yet even been faced with having to support themselves. They have not been forced to test themselves to see which path they will choose, but stand miles from the gate and screem at the top of their lungs which is the right road.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Everything is GPL seems to be the motto of some/.ers.
In 5 years when they have to put food on the table for there 6 mildly retarted kids and strung out wife while trying to find a way to run a T1 line into the trailer park, they'll take a part-time job writing closed-source encryption apps for the local drug dealer to make ends meet.
And it will _all_ be GPL code. You bet it will.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
No, BeOS will not conflict with LILO, it is not even seen by LILO. BeOS is stored in a chunk of hard drive space within the FAT partition, kind of like a virtual OS. When you run BeOS, it references this location, shuts down Windoze and boots from this space.
There is also a loader for Linux.
. "What do I care, if life ain't fair, If you look at me real sore. I've paid my dues and you should too, as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
So let me get this straight, the government takes away the ability of the schools to discipline children, and society and the government take away the ability of parents to discipline children, and know, when certain kids go out of control they have the same bunch of "depressed, dangerous or potentially violent" children the ability to discipline each other. Can we pass the buck any further?
And I'd hardly call the people who code open-source "wannabe programmers" - I'd imagine they're far better coders than you are, seeing as how you're so closed-minded I doubt you ever try and learn new techniques.
This was not an attack at _all_ open source coders. That would be insane. It's simply a comment on that fact that we have hundreds (!) of Instant Messaging clients, and only three Instant Messaging _Servers_ (Jabber, gicqd and KiT) that I know of.
Linux is an excellent server platform, but has not made the leap in _current_ server-side apps, at least for the ones I'm looking for:)
And I do not profess to be a programmer, I know my strengths and weaknesses, and programming is one of my weaknesses.
Really?!? Who would of thought that a company needs to use a trick or a gimmick to get people to take a look at their product. Where could they have possibly come up with that? This is something totally new and should be stopped immediately.
But of course, since it's not open source, it must be evil. Why would any group of people in their right mind believe that they have the skills and intelligence to create something on their own, without the help of millions of wannabe programmers poking and proding at their source code. How are they ever going to be successful if they don't have 35 different versions of ICQ?
Find their HeadQuarters and burn it to the ground!
Evolution is bullshit..... Since evolution is bullshit, there is by definition no "masters" of evolution and therefore this entire article is moot. Damn I love lateral leaps in logic. They make everyones day. Since they make everyones day, everyone should think laterally.
Actually, this is backwards. Artist play concerts to sell CD's. There is no profit in a concert (except for TicketMaster), its done to increase sales of CDs.
The Record Companies usually fund concerts, driving up sales of CDs, increasing the name recognition of the artist and the label. If the artist has a good contract (good money that McCartney would, bad money that N'Sync would), they gain more money based on increased sales, or have better bargaining position with their next contract.
IMHO, Gnome would be better off 'lifting' ideas from OS/2 instead of Microsoft. The day I can right-click on a shortcut (shadow:)) and pull up the settings of the actual program and not the shortcut, set each window individually, and have links that know where you moved a program, I'll be a happy man
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Actually, you _pay_ Adobe and Fender for the use of their product so you can create works you can sell.
You can't _create_ content with proprietary codecs, without paying for that ability (mp3, gif, etc). They are not stopping you from _creating_ content, just profiting from the creation of that content without a kickback to themselves. Although it is not the best stance to take, it is fair.
On /. "A couple people wrote in noting that Themes.org has had to comply with a request from Apple "
On themes.org "We have reviewed the letter and decided to accommodate Apple's request"
Subtle difference.....
Take down SprintNET and BellNexia, and then tell me that the Internet is fault tolerant.....
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
Tisdale is a fairly large community, that could support the cost of the equipment (over a couple of years), and has enough business potential for SaskTel to gamble on them. My point is that putting the equipment in a town like Pense, although just outside of Regina, would not only not be cost effective, but would be a cash vacuum for whoever attempted to put it in.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
The population of Canadian provinces is too spread out for the Telcos to make this happen (with the exception of Ontario). 1 million people in Saskatchewan, ~50% of them in rural areas, covering the same area as your average 5 states and the infrastructure required will cripple a provincial Telco/Cable Company. Most of them are loosing money on the current $40-50 ADSL/Cable Modem package as it is. The odds of Pangman getting High Speed anytime soon is very unlikely.
And for those weird 'I want more than basic service' rants, man, get a grip. Our telephone service is already a 'essential service', and you can get every freekin option you've could ever dream of on your phone (can anyone say 'worlds largest fibre optic network'?). For an example Highspeed offering, take a look here.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
I really should have hit preview.... dialasong
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
Go back to doing what you do best, and /. the dial-a-song <a href="http://www.dialasong.com">website</a>. No adds, no nothing. Just hit the target.
Now get to work!
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
Why don't you just convince all your friends to use Jabber and put an end to it.
I mean, if they're using AOL, do you really want to talk to them?
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
I'm sure an OS/2 branch could be maintained from the current code base, but I would much rather see the GPL of the old code, as I think this is what everyone is looking for anyway (Linux and OS/2 users alike). At the very least, breaking it into seperate apps is a must have.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I wonder if they'll GPL the old code. You know, Star Office 4.0, the one that, unlike 5.2, ran on OS/2? Seperate apps, smaller footprint, not managed by Sun, couldn't get much better than that.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc, all send thousand dollar packages to Media companies. How do you think they get reviewed? Writers don't have the time (or inclination) to hunt out software packages to be reviewed.
To attack a small magazine because they don't have the time or resources to fully research a product before posting up a simple 'I like it', is, as far as I'm concern, destructive journalism, meant to just belittle the 'non-professionals' and bolster their own publication.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I think the most logical course would be for every reader of /. to sign up. Hell, they're going to tell you how to contact your federal and state officials on important matters being considered. What absolute fun it would be to stop the FUD from inside the Redmond machine.
Now that's grassroots........
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
After many months of consideration, I only accept C.O.D. or cheque/money order. I'm safe, you're safe, and the banks and the government only know what I tell them :=)
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Big corporations pay mega bucks to build their reputation with ads on PBS and other places, point out that being a white hat in the open software movement has the same effect.
I think this is your best bet. Explain the GPL to them, and the benefits of attaching their name to a OSS project. They pay the same amount, get the product they want, and in addition, get recognition for supporting OSS.
If the project will put them 'ahead' for any reason, and could be the cause for them not wanting it released GPL, I'm sure your 'testing and implementation' phase could be extended until any advantage they have is moot.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
All it says is that Microsoft users are unlucky, and that's a given.
/etc/postfix/main.cf put the following line:
/etc/postfix/header_checks add this following line:
.procmailrc:
"People using MandrakeSoft version of Linux can continue to open all their email messages without any risk to their computer. The recently destructive Virus called "I love you" or "Love Message" virus doesn't affect versions of Linux-Mandrake nor any other Linux operating
systems.
Software viruses are programs that can infect poorly-secured computer operating systems and applications. Machines running the Linux operating system have never been infected by a virus yet.
People using email agents under Linux-Mandrake, including Netscape-mail, Kmail, Balsa, Emacs-mail, Pine, Elm, Mailx and Exmh can open any infected email message without any risk to their data.
Additionally people using their Linux-Mandrake system as a smtp server (with Sendmail or Postfix) to the unlucky Windows(tm) users can easily stop the spread of the Love virus.
- If you use Sendmail as a smtp server, follow the instructions
provided on the official Sendmail website on
http://sendmail.net/?feed=lovefix. They also have issued a patch that
can be used to prevent the Love worm mutations on
http://sendmail.net/?feed=lovemorph
- If you use Postfix as a smtp server, here's a quick fix:
In
header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
In
/^Subject: ILOVEYOU/ REJECT
This rejects any message with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject. Depending on
the new mutations, you'll have to adapt the last line according to new
subject.
- You can also block the virus with Procmail by adding the following
to your
:0 D
* ^Subject:[[tab] ]+ILOVEYOU
/dev/null
This erases any message with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject. You can
adapt it to new forms taken by the virus.
For more information about the Love virus, there is a complete
advisory available on CERT's site on
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-04.html"
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
I speak not of those who can muster a civil dialog when put to the test, or of those to who it comes naturally, but the average ./er (or more correctly AC), who right now sits protected from the realities of life and has not yet even been faced with having to support themselves.
They have not been forced to test themselves to see which path they will choose, but stand miles from the gate and screem at the top of their lungs which is the right road.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
Everything is GPL seems to be the motto of some /.ers.
In 5 years when they have to put food on the table for there 6 mildly retarted kids and strung out wife while trying to find a way to run a T1 line into the trailer park, they'll take a part-time job writing closed-source encryption apps for the local drug dealer to make ends meet.
And it will _all_ be GPL code. You bet it will.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
No, BeOS will not conflict with LILO, it is not even seen by LILO. BeOS is stored in a chunk of hard drive space within the FAT partition, kind of like a virtual OS. When you run BeOS, it references this location, shuts down Windoze and boots from this space.
There is also a loader for Linux.
.
"What do I care, if life ain't fair,
If you look at me real sore.
I've paid my dues and you should too,
as a son-of-a-bitch to the core"
So let me get this straight, the government takes away the ability of the schools to discipline children, and society and the government take away the ability of parents to discipline children, and know, when certain kids go out of control they have the same bunch of "depressed, dangerous or potentially violent" children the ability to discipline each other. Can we pass the buck any further?
And I'd hardly call the people who code open-source "wannabe programmers" - I'd imagine they're far better coders than you are, seeing as how you're so closed-minded I doubt you ever try and learn new techniques.
:)
This was not an attack at _all_ open source coders. That would be insane. It's simply a comment on that fact that we have hundreds (!) of Instant Messaging clients, and only three Instant Messaging _Servers_ (Jabber, gicqd and KiT) that I know of.
Linux is an excellent server platform, but has not made the leap in _current_ server-side apps, at least for the ones I'm looking for
And I do not profess to be a programmer, I know my strengths and weaknesses, and programming is one of my weaknesses.
Really?!? Who would of thought that a company needs to use a trick or a gimmick to get people to take a look at their product. Where could they have possibly come up with that? This is something totally new and should be stopped immediately.
But of course, since it's not open source, it must be evil. Why would any group of people in their right mind believe that they have the skills and intelligence to create something on their own, without the help of millions of wannabe programmers poking and proding at their source code. How are they ever going to be successful if they don't have 35 different versions of ICQ?
Find their HeadQuarters and burn it to the ground!
Relax, we're not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here :)
Evolution is bullshit..... Since evolution is bullshit, there is by definition no "masters" of evolution and therefore this entire article is moot.
Damn I love lateral leaps in logic. They make everyones day. Since they make everyones day, everyone should think laterally.
Actually, this is backwards. Artist play concerts to sell CD's. There is no profit in a concert (except for TicketMaster), its done to increase sales of CDs.
The Record Companies usually fund concerts, driving up sales of CDs, increasing the name recognition of the artist and the label. If the artist has a good contract (good money that McCartney would, bad money that N'Sync would), they gain more money based on increased sales, or have better bargaining position with their next contract.
IMHO, Gnome would be better off 'lifting' ideas from OS/2 instead of Microsoft. The day I can right-click on a shortcut (shadow :)) and pull up the settings of the actual program and not the shortcut, set each window individually, and have links that know where you moved a program, I'll be a happy man
.