Non-Disclosure is different then a Non-Compete. I fell that Non-Disclosures should stand up. But Non-Competes keep you from getting another job just because a company you want to work for does something similar.
Plus, if the company your ex-employee left for starts cranking out products that are very very close to yours you know there's something up.
No, what I'm saying is he should have called the protocol and the application something different and kept up on protecting his trademark (on the application) from the get go, rather then going after people years later. --
Yes, but the point is he should have made that point clear from the beginning. You're not allowed to let tons of people use your trademark then go sueing each one after they get comfortable with it. --
Command line is a consistent interface? Somewhat true, but what about shells? there's a ton of them. Bash, csh, ksh, psh, and that wacky mud shell. While most of them share basic functions they are very differnt. Just like KDE and Gnome share different functions but are very differnt.
This comes up every time anything about user interfaces come up and it always starts the same. "More people will go to it if it's consistant/People like to customize it the way they want" debate.
If you want KDE and consistantcy use a distribution that chooses KDE as it's default. You like Gnome? get a dist. that uses Gnome as it's default. You like total control over everything? roll your own. It's that simple.
These arguments are so pointless.. There's at least two of everything when it comes to linux, if not more and it's going to be that way for a long, long time.
From what I've heard from people that work with both ASP and PHP as well as what I've read. ASP is way faster then PHP unless you use the Zend engine to speed PHP up. Also, if you're working with MS servers then ASP is the way to go, since the integration is better. ASP has it's place, not sure if it's on a Unix/BSD machine however. --
The other nice thing is you just route the Quake 3 auth server's IP address to localhost and it can't authenticate. Since it can't connect to the server it will assume that you're playing a local lan game. No more authentication required. --
"Finally making a good point. What about the will of the artists? The will of the artists went out the window once they signed their recording contract."
This comes up all the time. HELLO! Nobody is forcing people to sign these contracts, if they don't want them, they can go to another non-RIAA record label, or produce something on their own. Every artist that is on a RIAA label and is "getting ripped off by the record industry" got there because they put themselves there. --
State owned schools are paid for by the people. So the people of the state own the school. If you're going to that school you're a resident and have a say as a resident what goes on with the school. --
There's always and argument that floats around. Is Symantic or Norton violating the DMCA when they reverse engineer viruses so they can prevent them? --
High and dry?! They're going to continue to release patches, and support it for 5 years! That's a long time. They could have just said screw you and packed up shop and released nothing.
I think HP did a wise choise and gave plenty of time to look into alternatives. --
Why would a company open source a project like that? If anything they should either licence it out to another company (or group willing to pay) that will continue development, Sell it off to another company, or spin it off into it's own company. That would be the wise thing to do, as it would get them money.
Now, if all those fail, the next step might be to opensource it, but I think that would be after they are done supporting it. --
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Plus, if the company your ex-employee left for starts cranking out products that are very very close to yours you know there's something up.
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No, what I'm saying is he should have called the protocol and the application something different and kept up on protecting his trademark (on the application) from the get go, rather then going after people years later.
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Yes, but the point is he should have made that point clear from the beginning. You're not allowed to let tons of people use your trademark then go sueing each one after they get comfortable with it.
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If you want KDE and consistantcy use a distribution that chooses KDE as it's default. You like Gnome? get a dist. that uses Gnome as it's default. You like total control over everything? roll your own. It's that simple.
These arguments are so pointless.. There's at least two of everything when it comes to linux, if not more and it's going to be that way for a long, long time.
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From what I've heard from people that work with both ASP and PHP as well as what I've read. ASP is way faster then PHP unless you use the Zend engine to speed PHP up. Also, if you're working with MS servers then ASP is the way to go, since the integration is better. ASP has it's place, not sure if it's on a Unix/BSD machine however.
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Updateme is free, and does the same basic function.
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And despite what Taco and the gang at k5 think, they're calling the punches now.
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But FreeDB is the way to go now anyway.
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The other nice thing is you just route the Quake 3 auth server's IP address to localhost and it can't authenticate. Since it can't connect to the server it will assume that you're playing a local lan game. No more authentication required.
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See Betamax
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Hell, it's GPL, if you don't like it, edit the code and take it our yourself.
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Terminal velocity of a human is like 120mph I read. How could you go faster??
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Perhaps companies that make CD Writers, blank CDs, stuff like that? Just a thought.
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This comes up all the time. HELLO! Nobody is forcing people to sign these contracts, if they don't want them, they can go to another non-RIAA record label, or produce something on their own. Every artist that is on a RIAA label and is "getting ripped off by the record industry" got there because they put themselves there.
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It only requires the one DLL from cygwin
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So you just chip it to play your backups :)
How do they know why you're chipping it??
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"We got notebooks, what good are notebooks, they won't help me survive."
In otherwords, all this schooling and student rights don't mean anything when you got bombs flying at you...
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State owned schools are paid for by the people. So the people of the state own the school. If you're going to that school you're a resident and have a say as a resident what goes on with the school.
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There's always and argument that floats around. Is Symantic or Norton violating the DMCA when they reverse engineer viruses so they can prevent them?
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I think HP did a wise choise and gave plenty of time to look into alternatives.
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Now, if all those fail, the next step might be to opensource it, but I think that would be after they are done supporting it.
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