On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, please. Do you really think Thomson is going to agree to
license for perpetual unlimited distribution to other parties? If
they did, then *everyone else* could use the same license, and their
*entire revenue stream* from MP3 would evap
> It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
> after so many years.
>
No, I call it the "Unisys theory".
Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the AT&T pack(1) command.
AT&T used it, BSD used it, Sun used it, etc. and it had been published
in many books. It
> Some of
> which are local in Massachusetts and are, needless to say, very large.
>
Yes, and right now I would think they are shaking in their boots.
The good news is that the Alcatel/Lucent vs MS battle seems as much a
grudge match as a revenue stream at this point.
>Alcatel-Lucent's Ambrus d
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
> 50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
> Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really th
> 50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
> Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
>
It was inadvertent that my news article about the $1.5 billion dollar
settlement on MP3 technology crossed your email about mp3 licensing, but
I did want to point out that I do not thi
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Speaking of MP3s and "being sued to smithereens".
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6161480.html?tag=nl.e589
And it could not have happened to nicer people...
QQ
Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of that particular news article.
I
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
50,000$ one time up front fee, and they can solve the issue of an
Open Source MP3 player. For everyone.
Oh, please. Do you really think Thomson is going to agree to
license for perpetua
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:21 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
> > files.. :-D
>
> In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'm not sure about
> legal status there) to in
On 2/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
> files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'm not sure about
legal status there) to include MP3 supp
On 2/22/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It can actually maintain deniability by encrypting data in such a way that
giving one pasword decrypts to one filesystem, and different password
another, encrypting the data front to back for the 'right'
credentials, and back to front for the
On 2/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And be able to do some core desktop features. Like say.. Play MP3
files.. :-D
In order for Red Hat (or the "Fedora Project"; I'm not sure about
legal status there) to include MP3 support in their distribution, they
would have to *buy*
Which seem to be Canon printers but don't list which model...
Found it (on a completely different page... bad design)
http://www.photofrost.com/icing_sheets.htm
Yet according to http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon
many of these are duds under Linux.
So depending on the mo
On 2/22/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just about lost it when I saw this:
http://www.thisisbroken.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/cake.jpg
This story came up on Engadget about a month ago. If anyone is curious
on a few more details, take a look.
http://www.engadg
On 2/22/07, Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, this sort of thing is why "open source" is so important:
When it doesn't work correctly, we can always fork it.
And before you accuse me of being half-baked,
consider: http://www.photofrost.com
They use (no surprise) OSCommerce to sell
On 2/22/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just about lost it when I saw this:
http://www.thisisbroken.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/cake.jpg
At first I thought it was intentional, being a geek :)
Actually, this sort of thing is why "open source" is so important:
When
Man, I need a cake printer so I can be a super spy... print all my
secret messages on tasty muffins, no one will ever forget to destroy
the messages after reading.
--DTVZ
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I just about lost it when I saw this:
http://www.thisisbroken.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/cake.jpg
At first I thought it was intentional, being a geek :)
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A: Yes.
Anyone have any luck with their SuperMicro boards? I finally got
around to trying to bring mine up this past weekend without success. I
had a spare P3-733 floating around and a 1U case with an old Intel
(Celeron only) desktop board.
I swapped the Intel board for the SuperMicro, swapped the PC100
On 2/22/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 21, 2007, at 17:26, Thomas Charron wrote:
> It can
> actually maintain deniability by encrypting data in such a way that
> giving one pasword decrypts to one filesystem, and different password
> another, encrypting the data front to bac
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See the above request. How? What is the context?
* Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.
* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats
with any attitude other than blank denial.
On Feb 21, 2007, at 17:26, Thomas Charron wrote:
It can
actually maintain deniability by encrypting data in such a way that
giving one pasword decrypts to one filesystem, and different password
another, encrypting the data front to back for the 'right'
credentials, and back to front for the fak
>
> > Part of ESR's latest statements in this letter have to do directly with
> > this issue.
>
> See the above request. How? What is the context?
>
* Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.
* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats
On 2/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I find Alan to be too much like ESR to put any stock in his words. This is,
afterall, the same guy that censored the kernel changelog back in 2.2.20
because he didn't like the DMCA
Oh common, that was friggen hilarious!
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From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I like reading the source. It gives it a nice context, and the humor value of
the replies is worth the time.
> I liked Alan Cox'
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right up till the:
> "That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement"
> -
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:39 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
> > I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
>
> Right up till the:
>
> "That was said by Eric Raymond who
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:26:34 -0500
"Chris Linstid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago
> about getting a "phone interview offer" from Microsoft? He wrote some
> offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for
> trying t
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:24:07 -0500
"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
>
> I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
The whole thing is much adoo about nothing. I loved Alan's response.
But, this also points out that the Li
On Thursday, Feb 22nd 2007 at 10:51 -0500, quoth Ben Scott:
=>On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>> I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
=>> www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
=>
=> His complaints seem rather vague
On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
Right up till the:
"That was said by Eric Raymond who belongs to another movement"
- Richard Stallman
N
Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago
about getting a "phone interview offer" from Microsoft? He wrote some
offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for
trying to recruit such an important big cheese of the Linux community.
- Chris
On 2/22/07
I could not agree with you more, which is why I sent my email.
I liked Alan Cox's response the best.
md
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On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html
His complaints seem rather vague and lacking in any kind of goal.
More to the point, who cares? "Linux
One of the responses was pretty good:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01051.html
Regards,
--kevin
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On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:29 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> Eric Raymond rants:
>
> "After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
> my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
> me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of
> whi
Eric Raymond rants:
"After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached
my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched
me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of
which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered
my syste
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