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OTHER companies in Microsoft's crosshairs 13556
Au79 Yet another attempt by Microsoft to introduce it's own proprietary product as an "Innovation" which is based on Open Source code. Vonage, Skype, and a number of other VOIP carriers...
OTHER companies in Microsoft's crosshairs 13557
Au79 Just yesterday I read that Skype had 80million users world wide (in Computer Weekly). Also Vonage, being able to make use of most current mobiles-PDA's that have Internet...
OTHER companies in Microsoft's crosshairs 13558
Thomas Wootten Thats a tricky one, because you could understand some of the smaller internet companies wanting to block what could eventually account for a very...
Slightly OT: Software patents aren't enough
It's really amazing that the Patent office can suddenly, with no act of congress, suddenly decide to patent something which hasn't been patentable before. Until about 1994, you couldn't patent...
How Will Linux Users Deal With the RIAA and Sony and..... 13560
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Richard P. Johnson wrote on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:20:33 -0500 Erm...you are *extremely* confused. The MPA and RIAA have rights too. Their copyright rights...
How Will Linux Users Deal With the RIAA and Sony and..... 13561
The racist, liar and software thief Richard P. Johnson (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann, Baba Booey...
How Will Linux Users Deal With the RIAA and Sony and..... 13562
Whoa, I'll try to contain my rage as I write this. You're usually pretty level-headed, but you are f***ing butt-backwards on this one, my friend. Copyright protection is a red herring. The...
How Will Linux Users Deal With the RIAA and Sony and..... 13563
Chel van Gennip There is a distinct trend amongst public to favour artists and companies who share their work over...
How Will Linux Users Deal With the RIAA and Sony and..... 13564
wrote on 1 Nov 2005 16:01:26 -0800 Linux won't be outlawed. However, Linux might not have access to the...
Linux, Windows, Mac 13565
DFS Vulnerable as in the M$ monopoly, Windows is irrelevant to new buyers. In case...
Linux, Windows, Mac 13566
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:28:15 -0500 No, he means "vulnerable to...
Linux, Windows, Mac 13567
This contradicts your prevous post explaining how quick and easy it was to install Ubuntu. Which...
Suing Dell Any Consumer Rights 13568
rc1378 You are not asking too much. One possible way is to contact businesses that have gone under in EU...
Suing Dell Any Consumer Rights 13568 plus 1
rc1378 Find the laptop you like. Look long and hard for any text that would tell you want the eventual Windows EULA will be. If you can't find one...
Suing Dell Any Consumer Rights 13570
Erik Funkenbusch We're not talking about "me" we are talking about a theoretical generic consumer. A person does not need to agree to a legal contract to use their toaster. Bzzt.. Wrong. Your rights are...
Suing Dell Any Consumer Rights 13571
Robert Newson on Saturday 05 November 2005 23:01 There were people on both sides. That's why the thread developed. Who is responsible for leaving...
Suing Dell Any Consumer Rights 13572
Roy Schestowitz What about the dishonesty in selling something where it's illegal to re-sell an unwanted component separately without making this clear to the buyer. Many...
Too many GEEKS 13573
C ** FUNCTION REPLY(USERINPT,WEBNOTES,FUZLOGIC,STATUS) ** "tab" AFAIK, Apple is not based on Linux, it is based on BSD Unix...
Too many GEEKS 13574
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:34:04 -0800, tab It may be thusly known, but it ain't true...
Too many GEEKS 13575
tab Apple is not based on Linux. True. Proof that ignorance and FUD can do anything...
Microsoft use linux inhouse 13576
Actually, there is one scenario where you can distribute a GPL binary with no obligation to distribute source code. It's pretty obscure and won't come up very often, though...
Microsoft use linux inhouse 13577
No, the manufacturer is not required to provide source to the second hand purchaser in this case. The manufacturer's obligation is spelled...
Microsoft use linux inhouse Discussion, linux 13578
You like making things up, don't you? a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which...
Microsoft use linux inhouse 13579
Erik Funkenbusch MS software is also governed by copyright laws - this doesn't stop them preventing resale of OEM versions despite the seller doing...
Microsoft use linux inhouse 13580
Erik Funkenbusch Ok lets put the GPL in a way that should be understood my Microsofties. GPL software is distributed with a licence that states that the binary software...
Microsoft use linux inhouse Discussion, linux 13581
I'm not an expert on EULAs, but I think that Erik is largely right about the GPL (which is *not* an EULA). (Tim Smith seems to have first mentioned this analysis, but Erik...
Microsoft use linux inhouse 13582
The key is "made a copy". When considering how to apply GPL (or any license, for that matter) to a situation, there...
Windows insecurity 13583
We had an infestation of the last major worm at work (I lose track of the names with...
Windows insecurity 13584
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Nov 2005 01:02:18 -0800, IIRC, the honeypot tests I have seen...
Windows insecurity 13585
Sure it does, there are plenty of reports of individual users successfully running clean stable Windows...
Windows insecurity 13586
T.G. Reaper Actually there is where you are wrong. I remember, I took a Windows programming...
Windows insecurity 13588
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:45:02 +0000, Kelsey Bjarnason This is mostly FUD. Very few apps...
Windows insecurity 13589
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:43:43 -0500 Don't forget the '74 Pinto...
Guardians revisionist history of Microsoft 13591
The liar, racist and software thief Trace Dennison (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann, Baba Booey...
Guardians revisionist history of Microsoft 13592
Hey, Daeron-Doug Mentol, it's great to find you are still trolling COLA and trying to lift the number of hits on our blog! I was beginning to wonder if your body...
Guardians revisionist history of Microsoft 13593
John A. Bailo These days no one will work with MS, it has left a trail...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13594
Hold it, what you are backhandedly implying does not follow. A closed-source API *must* be thoroughly documented or else it's worthless. The documentation must be maintained...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13595
That wasn't primarily what I was saying. The source code 'documents' things that almost no commercial documentation covers, such as the specific algorithm used (which affects how you use the functions; something that uses...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13596
Hi Mr Hairsplitter, Ray Ingles Pleased to learn I was backhandeldly implying something. You seem to be a similar type of paranoid as Sinister Midget whose guts were telling from the...
Yes it could be! Is Open source really worth it at last
Ray Ingles So is it shareware or freeware? One thing is sure, in the Windows world shareware brings very marginal incomes if any, while freeware brings strictly NO income. Users who contribute in...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13598
How odd. You say you've spotted some Paypal buttons on some open-source software's websites, and therefore all open-source programmers are...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13599
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 08:31:00 -0800, John Bailo Not that most of your posts are exceedingly coherent anyway, but this one in particular is...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13600
John Bailo Let's see what's YOUR logic then. Who said it was ? Besides the original quality of the soft and the number of awake users, I would say this depends mainly...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13601
snips On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:35:24 +0000, Alexandre Oberlin So neither OSS nor CSS has any advantage *simply because* it is open or closed; okay, good...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13602
Alexandre Oberlin In other words, you *concede* point (a). Thanks. In a court this would be calledspeculation-. Whereas microsoft.public.*.* newsgroups are filled with pour souls who twist...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13603
begin oeprotect.scr That's exactly what happens if you *do* work for MS. The code you write belongs to MS, not to you - you get the privilege of making Bill Gates ever more rich, and don't...
Is Open source really worth it at last 13604
begin oeprotect.scr It's becoming rather common I think. Look to IBM, HP, NTT, Montavista, Red...
Microsoft hires French company to write OpenDoc convertor
Microsoft hires French company to write OpenDoc convertor French Co. Writing MS Plugin for ODF Support Found Groklaw Oct 27 2005 Remember yesterday, Dan Farber interviewed Ray Ozzie of Microsoft, and Ozzie said that Microsoft...
AMD64 laptops
Just bought an HP Zv6000 at Best Buy. Well, I know it was dumb to buy a laptop at Best Buy in the first place, but... Anyways...
AMD64 laptops
Linønut I think it actually has the desktop version of the Athlon 64. The fan is always running at...
UDI: Why did it fail
I have been reading up on the Linux driver architecture. I have noticed that in the beginning of the decade, there was a project called...
UDI: Why did it fail
I haven't seen a driver nightmare. Haven't run into much of anything that doesn't "just work" with Linux. Certainly all the hardware I have works just fine with Linux. I do understand that...
UDI: Why did it fail
Peter I know source compatibility is the goal and does work, but this isn't enough given that: 1. Source compilation...
Linux switchers' remorse 13611
I don't want a widget. The point is to have keyboard shortcuts for special characters. If I wanted to mess with a GUI I would use...
Linux switchers' remorse 13612
winnotlin blithely blithered Speaking of Windows, I just had this experience. A computer had just keeled over at a clients business. The computer was relatively new, an Acer 2fb...
mommy, why do we live like negros
Dr. Condoleezza Rice would find you an interesting study in underprivileged, uneducated, caucasian inbreeding. Oprah Winfrey...
New Dutch GNULinux hardware initiative
One of the red herring debates in the GNU-Linux advocacy debates is the hardware support in the Linux kernel, or the...
REFERENCE: U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13615
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:57:03 +0000, Sinister Midget Dear Mr. Midget I was talking to a colleague last year and I commented that the televisions that...
REFERENCE: U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13616
begin oeprotect.scr The problem is that this particular issue has reverberations around the planet, and as such, is of...
REFERENCE: U.S. says, "We own the Internet" 13617
While I might agree in most circumstances, this particular mention differs slightly: 1. I donotadvocate, call for, or in any way think it appropriate that all political discussion should be stopped or ignored...
Sites Break due to Microsoft Patches
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 06:01:33 +0100, Roy Culley Sometimes improving security hurts. I'm certain there are things that break under SELinux, for instance. Are you going to complain the same way? For example: https...
Microsoft's Bad Press
About midway is this statement: * begin quote * Patch creation process flawed leaving system still vulnerable ~ Earth still round, water still wet. The more things change...
OT Lazy CNN reporters
Roy Schestowitz LOS ANGELES, California (ROIters) -- A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of Micoshaft Windoze hijacked computers, or "Microshaft Windoze bot...
Microsoft Break Standards, Refuse to Support Imperfection
snips On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:18:35 -0700, GreyCloud Well, this wouldn't stop someone producing a "standard" RSS stream...
Linux an IT rich learning environment
Greatest advantage I see to Linux is it is a resource rich environment to learn on. I remember the Sun workstations we had back in the mid...