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Author: Mark KentMark Kent
Date: Dec 27, 2006 22:16
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Phil Da Lick! SPAM-TRAP-REMOVEhotmail.com> espoused:> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>> Microsoft indemnifies it's customers. They can't sue the end users,
>> otherwise they're just sueing microsoft anyways.
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> Wrong, wrong wrong. They can sue the end users, who would then have to
> make contact with microsoft.
And Microsoft's huge team of highly-paid lawyers would waste no time at
all in showing how the indemnification doesn't cover this particular
situation, and the party being sued would quickly realise that paying up
will be quicker and far less expensive than fighting their supplier in
court.
I wouldn't trust a Microsoft indemnification any more than I'd trust
windows to be secure or reliable.
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Author: Brandon J. Van EveryBrandon J. Van Every
Date: Dec 27, 2006 22:10
I find the title of this thread to be rather silly. Let's leave the
word "Vista" out of the title. "Why It is Acceptable to Criticize."
Does that need explanation? If so, then proper titles would be "Why
some People are Ignorant" or "Why our Educational Systems don't Teach
people to Think."
But I'm sensing that thread titles like this are a COLA genre. I may
try my hand at such, for shits and giggles.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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Author: Mark KentMark Kent
Date: Dec 27, 2006 22:10
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chrisv espoused:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>I know that the artist told me he tried to contact you multiple times
>>without response.
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> That doesn't really jive with what you wrote previously, Fudmeister.
> To wit:
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>> I didn't "hound" the author, I merely asked him if he had given you
>> permission to use the image. He came back and thanked me and said he had
>> not and that you were infringing his copyright. I responded back and
>> pointed him to the thread about the issue.
>
Giving Erik a platform here by responding to him is probably a bad idea.
He posts anti-charter material here on a consistent and regular basis,
and has done for years, indeed, since his paymasters took him out of the
OS2 group and put him here.
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Author: Larry S. SmithLarry S. Smith
Date: Dec 27, 2006 21:25
flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:33:34 -0600, Larry S. Smith wrote:
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>> KKKoalman lied:
>>> Larry S. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> KKKoalman wrote:
>>>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, flatfish+++ belched out this bit o'
>>>>>> wisdom:
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>>>>>>> You guys call it choice.
>>>>>>> most people will call it confusion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows has some of the same problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try talking your daughter through wireless configuration over the
>>>>>> phone.
>>>>>> ...
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Author: Mark KentMark Kent
Date: Dec 27, 2006 21:19
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Roy Schestowitz schestowitz.com> espoused:> Second Life: Open Source in 2007?
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>| The announcement occured just before the final Christmas crush, so I
>| wanted to make sure it wasn't totally missed in the interim: during his
>| last "town hall" appearance in Second Life, Cory Ondrejka, Chief
>| Technology Officer for Linden Lab, the company behind SL, let loose
>| this explosive news during his opening speech (and even reiterated it
>| during the Q&A):
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>| "In the long run, this is why we?ve talked about wanting to be able
>| to Open Source eventually. My hope is that in 2007 we'll be able
>| to get there."
> `----
>
> http://gigagamez.com/2006/12/26/second-life-open-source-in-2007/
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Author: Hans SchneiderHans Schneider
Date: Dec 27, 2006 20:24
High Plains Thumper singlecylinderbikes.com> writes:
> wjbell wrote:
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>> So every year I kept trying it with the promises of speed and usability
>> and every year it fell short. Granted, it was making some real
>> progress, but it always felt like an archaic...
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Author: Ian SemmelIan Semmel
Date: Dec 27, 2006 20:23
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:55:19 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 at 02:02 GMT, Erik Funkenbusch despam-funkenbusch.com> posted something concerning:>> I know, everyone will disagree with these suggestions, and that's why Linux
>> continues to stay below the consumer radar.
>
> Linux isn't concerned about market share. That's something for
> businesses to concern themselves with. Linux will do fine, and is doing
> well now, without resorting to measurements that are designed to
> quantify things in an area where it doesn't play.
No, droobs like you aren't concerned about market share which is why your
opinions count for nought. Linux will never succeed as a serious desktop
contender without the input of commercial interests.
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Author: Hans SchneiderHans Schneider
Date: Dec 27, 2006 20:10
"Brandon J. Van Every" gmail.com> writes:
> Open source developers have generally pissed me off because they cough
> up these huge stacks of interdependent open source libraries. They do
> most of their building on Linux and generally regard Cygwin and MinGW
> as "Windows avoidance solutions," not ways to write well behaved native
> Windows apps. Builds coming over from Linux-land tend to suck, and I
> tend to be the one cleaning them up.
I made the same. Not good quality at all. Quantity es, but no quality.
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> Ubuntu also pissed me off 1 year ago, and it only took about a day. A
> certain Linux camp, not necessarily Ubuntu pundits, was prattling on
> about what a great desktop OS Linux was, how it had come such a long
> way, etc. blah blah blah. It seemed to be in all the magazine articles
> and blogs. I took this media feedback at face value and thought, ok,
> let's check this thing out and see if shipping commercial games on
Linux has no commercial market for games I think. I read that it is
rubbishy for gaming anyway.
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