As far as NASA .gov goes they are using are tax money unwisely with a windows OS they have a alternative in Linux and they save $$$ when they compose videos the Ubuntu defult software will view there videos. my 2 cents and fairly new to Ubuntu.
On 5/4/07, Fred James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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