and the company I used to work for (Ferranti) could have monopolised the entire computer industry for ever - since they produced the world's first commercial computer!
But Charles Babbage did before that, and if you want to look at it differently, one could even say the inventor of the 'book' would have a claim to 'making information available in a concise format'. It could be taken further in that without languages, none of this 'information' would actually be useful...
I can't believe that in any way, shape or form email would be admissible as evidence, it just shows how little the legal system knows about technology.
Screw Microsoft. Start pestering developers to write their crap for Linux. Only thing I do with Windows is GAME now. Screw their OS, Screw the copyrights and all that.
Once a good game comes out for Linux - goodbye MicroSHAFT.
Not without a complete shift in politics. As long as governments allow themselves to be lobbied on behalf of big business the views and interests of Joe Public aren't going to matter one iota.
Yep, copyright is about: 90% control and 10% everything else.
Good point too, they should block advertisements on TV that I don't pay for - I don't have any issues with that. After all; I did *not* in anyway pay for the 'IP rights' to watch the commercial, so is the network 'making available'?
Well - M$ is 'closed' source - and the best uptime I've *EVER* seen, was three years solid. Compare to open source:
"The Uptime-Project, collected data on uptimes from users until 1 March 2007, and the current record for longest uptime is 11 years, 303 days, 20 hours and 57 minutes on a computer running OpenVMS. Rumours mention in January 2008 that Iarnród Éireann had an OpenVMS machine up for 18 years,[2] which was restarted just for Y2K tests."
11 years? That would be ok I think - it's stable, at least.
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But Charles Babbage did before that, and if you want to look at it differently, one could even say the inventor of the 'book' would have a claim to 'making information available in a concise format'. It could be taken further in that without languages, none of this 'information' would actually be useful...
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Once a good game comes out for Linux - goodbye MicroSHAFT.
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Yep, copyright is about: 90% control and 10% everything else.
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"The Uptime-Project, collected data on uptimes from users until 1 March 2007, and the current record for longest uptime is 11 years, 303 days, 20 hours and 57 minutes on a computer running OpenVMS. Rumours mention in January 2008 that Iarnród Éireann had an OpenVMS machine up for 18 years,[2] which was restarted just for Y2K tests."
11 years? That would be ok I think - it's stable, at least.
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