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Let's see some more cola hypocrisy 1836
That is a silly position to take. Individual MS Office components are available individually. The MS...
Let's see some more cola hypocrisy 1837
Oh, Ralph, you need to get a better understanding of the system. Microsoft was found to have a 100% legal monopoly. The...
I didn't know
I can see it now. The Gestapo Software Alliance comes crashing through the door, the...
mplayer's patent alert 1839
I think that the law is on your side in any event. Personal use of copyrighted material or patent principles is not generally a violation of the IP laws. IP owners...
mplayer's patent alert 1840
Op Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:53:16 +0000, schreef billwg: Indeed, the end users will be left alone...
mplayer's patent alert 1841
You are not thinking clearly here. The end users may or may not be left alone, but the developers of free software, as in beer, will be left alone because there is no profit...
mplayer's patent alert 1842
I am totally in aggreement here. But if a system has been proven to fail, it should be abandoned where it's active, not introduced where it's not. It's...
mplayer's patent alert 1843
You make the clbuttical mistake of thinking that copyright and patents somehow are compoarable. They are not. Bacause of the Berne Convention, participating countries recognize each other's *copyright...
mplayer's patent alert 1844
Op Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:01:01 +0000, schreef billwg: Wrong. Other parties *are* making profit with what the developers produce, so the developers and distributors will almost certainly run into trouble...
mplayer's patent alert 1845
You don't seem to understand that the Big Boys do not care one fig about you if you don't have any money to...
mplayer's patent alert 1846
Op Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:49:31 +0100, schreef Richard Rasker: Well billwg, I'm waiting. What's your verdict? Do...
mplayer's patent alert 1847
You will recall that Unisys = Sperry + Buroughs. At the time they started threatening web site operators they were the second or third...
mplayer's patent alert 1848
I surrender. My atbreastude was towards the "big boys" also being the generally accepted "bad boys", i.e. Microsoft and maybe some others, who are feared to...
mplayer's patent alert 1849
Unisys & GIF patent You should have said that then. But you see, it doesn't have to be them to have an impact on OSS, so your buttumption is wrong...
Is Firefox Burning Out
Developers burning out and going AWOL? Mike Connor, a core Firefox developer, writes in his blog, "In...
Is Firefox Burning Out
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, OK wrote on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:12:56 +0100 Nice try. However, there are several problems with it...
BSD is poorly designed
Wow, you have no idea what youre talking about at all. As someone who has purchased NeXT hardware and software in a professional capacity, as well as owned quite a bit of it myself...
Freeduc a wow
Today I had some family down from Chicago, quite a few family down from Chicago...with kids. So of course, it was a great time to...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1854
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:46:31 -0500, because I don't always want to...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1855
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rgdawson wrote on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:14:58 -0700 Gigahertz, schmigahertz. Here's a few questions. 1 Enough RAM? If not, then all the gigahertz one...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1856
Yes, but Final Cut is the preferred app for Video production. It's hard to dispute that simple fact. Okay, Peter... veerrry simple: Integration means, the iApps all work "together", is that easy...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1857
I don't have to just claim it, just check the trades and such and you will see that the pros in fact do say that about final cut. As to its clustering ability, frankly I...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1858
begin KillFileMe.vbs See what I mean? Not only do you buy the pap spewed from the fax machine, but you actually have the long version of the marketing manual down, too. Hey, Oxfart. There...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1859
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:27:43 -0600, I am not sure I understand...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1860
Let me see if I can summarize this debate... First, let's ignore the merits of using a...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1861
How about an honest review from PC Magazine. Enjoy. Well, it has some of the most straight forward information on the subject, if you overlook that, it makes it hard...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1862
The widgets do, for what it is worth, looked sort of tacked on... the program is clearly...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1863
true, the full more definition is: Open source software and shareware are similar in that they can be obtained and used without monetary cost. Usually shareware differs from open...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1864
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:18:50 -0700, Rgdawson Shareware *is* commercial software. "What is shareware? Shareware is a marketing method, not a type of software or even strictly just a distribution method. When software...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1865
What license? each company treats shareware differently. you pointed to some "for pay" group, not a general shareware definition. nah, the mac culture is more intellectuals, gypsies...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1866
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:52:50 -0700, Rgdawson What security reasons can possibly crop up on *your* computer, when *you* have read-write access to someone *else's* FTP? I honestly do not understand that...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1867
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:32:06 -0700, Rgdawson So how would disabling write access in the Finder's FTP capability...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1868
Rgdawson poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: $499.00 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 256MB DDR333 SDRAM ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB DDR video memory 40GB Ultra ATA hard drive...
iPhoto Fails to get my Digital Camera Movies! 1868 plus 1
But iPhoto does import movies from the disk when you tell it to add a folder to your library. Also...
Mike Cox
Hi Snit ( and fellow flamers ), I don't know much about MikeCox. I think he's a...
COLA Stats 13 Mar 2005 1872
Hard to see this as anything other than trolling... point made. At least in this case Mike Cox was trolling...
COLA Stats 13 Mar 2005 1873
That is the typical response... the person's posts are the example, but with *no* support and *no* criteria to even look for. Not everyone is going to agree on criteria - and most...
COLA Stats 13 Mar 2005 1874
I gave his support too much Credit Debt without really looking at the links nearly in depth enough. While I did spot check some of your posts and you do appear to be trolling (buttuming the...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1875
I opened the folder with the USB drive and then tried to right-click on the desktop. It did not allow such. At first I thought I...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1876
begin Error log for Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:07:10 -0700 - Snit caused a page follows .vbs Chances are that the usb...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1877
begin Error log for Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:39:26 -0700 - Snit caused a page follows .vbs So once again you have...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1878
Supposed issues? They were issues I was having with Linux... I could not find if the thumb drive was being recognized. I asked, and someone kindly helped... and here you...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1879
begin Error log for Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:27:46 -0700 - Snit caused a page follows .vbs But that's not what you stated. You...
Getting Knoppix to recognize my thumbdrive 1880
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:07:10 -0700, Snit There have been problems in the past, but with the...
It was bound to happen
Well, there's pretty much absolute proof that a commercial vendor has blatantly ripped off a GPL'ed application, made a couple changes here and there, and then packaged it up and are trying to sell it...
It was bound to happen 1882
But red-handed at what? The copyright and patent laws exist to protect the IP owners, but they effectively only protect the IP owners right to a profit...
It was bound to happen 1883
You have to understand what a law is, Bob. You are correct, MOL, as far as you go, but to violate the law, you have to meet the specifications for that violation...
It was bound to happen 1884
That's the old rule for when it becomes a felony. Distribution outside of "fair use" was still illegal, just not a...
It was bound to happen 1885
You got your head wedged, Bob! The language setting the personal use infringement as a felony was exactly what was added to the laws...
It was bound to happen 1886
Not at all. I had stated the terms of the 1997 act which you then termed as the "old rule" and then misstated the 1997 terms. Again, you...
It was bound to happen 1887
If we're talking about electronic distribution, and we are, then the 1997 rule supersedes the other one. I did not quote it verbatim, but I don't...
It was bound to happen 1888
I think that you can look above and read where I plainly said: "you are in violation if you sell the copies or if you make copies of recorded material, such as MP3s...
It was bound to happen 1889
Ok, I rechecked and I was mistaken. Sorry for the confusion. The criminal law only...
It was bound to happen 1890
You have to register prior to filing a suit in regard to copyright violation. There is no change in the law...
It was bound to happen 1892
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:06:06 +0100, Jesse F. Hughes The controversy, if that's what it is, is a little more subtle than that. If you statically link, most observers think...
Look what I can do
Download a full platform complete with applications to accomplish justabout any task imagineable at no cost. Burn it to...
Look what I can do 1894
A snit? Naw... looks pretty slick... though I do have some thoughts: 1) this is very early pre-beta, so any comments are very...
Look what I can do 1895
I'm a new Linux user, but I couldn't agree with you more! I just read about some guy who complained that he...
OT Anyone have an Averatec notebook
Just got an Averatec 5428HX that I won off of ebay recently. Seems not too bad. But, the only thing I have to say is, dude, what is up with the...
Nero Linux 1897
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:38:18 -0600, Liam Slider Personally I don't like Nero but...
Nero Linux 1898
JEDIDIAH But for Ahead it's *their* person Application, I'm talking about the catalog of products they offer. That's why I...
Nero Linux 1899
William Poaster Are you sure? Bill Gates said himself that 'bug-fixes' are the 'stupidest' reason to upgrade...
Linux ruined my hard drive and destroyed my data !!!! 1900
Snit If anyone other than you asks, I will gladly answer their questions about it. And not...
Linux ruined my hard drive and destroyed my data !!!! 1901
Hmmm, yes. Oops. Clear typo. I will likely not back up all of the data on my drive first, but I am...
Creating their own problems
This whole thing about intellectual property and software patents had me thinking, why? The only reason that there is even a need for this is because there are dishonest people in...
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