alan wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Allen Brown wrote:
roger wrote:
Well, this didn't wet my appetite too much. :-/
http://dl.tv/
Episode 162:
A Little Bit Linux: We've got Ubuntu on the desktop. One of our friends
at ExtremeTech.com says Ubuntu Feisty Fawn should be called Crappy Cow!
Reading thru all the objections at ExtremeTech, it appears that
in each case Ubuntu was constrained by license issues. So I
think the review was unduly harsh. Even he pointed out that
Ubuntu made it easy to get around these issues. He just wanted
them to be fixed "out of the box". But if that isn't legally
possible, how are they to do it?
What is interesting about the patent issues is that even if you obey
the licencing/extortion scheme, you can still get sued. Microsoft
found this out with MP3 when someone else who owned a piece of the
format sued.
We are close approaching a time where it will not be possible to do
anything interesting or useful without violating the law in some form.
I think the reviewer should be called "Whiny Brat".
I think you are being overly kind.
Here is a URL to an article from yesterday's InformationWeek, about the
supreme court on just that topic.
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203296>
eh?
Regards
Fred James
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