Posted on 10/27/2001 11:16:24 AM PDT by Democrats are liars
Well, I just finished installing Windows XP on my computer. It did not go nice and smooth. I ended up reformatting my hard drive and starting from scratch. I know Windows XP sure does not like AOL 6.0. I am in the process of downloading AOL 7.0. I am still installing all my old software. Yes Windows XP locked up on me many times today and last night. Well, I guess I just would like to know how every one else is doing with Windows XP.
Only if you decide to publish your changes. If you start out with GPL'd code, the result remains GPL. Presumedly you'd want the other developers on the team to see what you've done.
If you modify code just for the heckuvit, or just for your own purposes, there is no such requirement. Your intellectual property remains intact. Simply keep it for yourself and don't publish.
If you want to do your own thing, from scratch, you can license it as OCO or or whatever you want.
IBM has managed to cope with the GPL, as IBM actually does do Linux development.
Bunch of stuff at linuxdoc.org
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95/index.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html
Hmm.......well, yes, they do have enterprise licenses.......with NT or Win2K. NOT with XP. XP, as we have been told, has to be loaded system-at-a-time. You can no longer load it on a server and blow it down the network to the other systems. That's a huge change for Microsoft, and one that has gotten a LOT of negative press. If you work for Microsoft, which I suspect, then ask around. Read the industry press rather than your own press releases.
As for Linux..........you brought it up. I was responding to your negative comments about it. You haven't seen me "shoving Linux down everyone's throat" on this or any other thread. Such comments not only shoot your credibility to hell, they also prove my point about your attitude (and THIS you aimed at someone who likes Microsoft OS's and is a long-time user; hope you're not in Marketing).
Now, just chill. Some of us need to maintain some kind of compatibility with Microsoft World. I have W98 SE installed here, properly licensed, and W2K Pro on a company-owned laptop. It really is a valid question, and I am trying to NOT rain on your pep rally.
I am eventually going to use XP since it's planned for some user workstations at the saltmine. Perhaps my laptop will be replaced. It's gonna happen. My usual practice is to purchase a licensed copy for home use (not all of us Open Source freaks are thieves) on a test box (I definitely want to sniff that firewall) while I evaluate how to deploy it.
Seriously, I can wait for the dust to settle and check the reviews in a few months; I've heard the "bad" stuff and I'm just curious about the "new" stuff and wondered if someone could tell of the virtues without reviewing what everyone else has said.
You come up with a harebrained urban legend, and then ask people to convince you that you're wrong?
Go ahead, believe anything you want.
Linux -- the "can't keep it in my pants" OS for "can't keep it in my pants" cultists. Does the taliban run Linux?
If you go to display properties you can make it look like the NT desktop.
I thought that was what their one-eyedbutton mouse was for.
ME had file protection and rollback points, as well as some other usability features. IMO, ME was created because they didn't know how quickly it would take to get XP street-ready. I suspect that ME took longer to get there than anticipated, and XP less time than anticipated, thus the two releases were closer to each other (timewise) than planned. (This is sheer conjecture on my part but I do think it is logical and fits with the known facts.)
Gotta love the way MS first gets bashed for not including such features, and then gets bashed for including them.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Heheheheh, it's all about what "is" is on Planet Apple, eh?
A "soft fault" is one that only needs a restart??
What, pray tell, does a "hard" fault do to a Mackentoy? Leave a smoking hole in the middle of the monitor?
Heheheheh, that's a good one, "soft faults", heheheheh. Redefine a total system rat-f'k as something that "only" requires a restart. Like the way the think-tank guys defined the deaths from mega-nukes as "only" two or three million back in the heyday of the cold war.
Or as Eric Idle put it, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Say no more!
No, the big advantage Apple has is that it creates the hardware and the OS (and for that matter, the software that runs on it). THAT is why it runs together so beautifully. Besides the fact that Apple is the leader in innovative products when it comes to technology. Heck, Windows XP users are all excited about *new* features that have been in Macs for years.
“Apple has resumed its role as industry trendsetter” Reflecting on 10 years of writing about Personal Technology for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg observes, “Nearly all of the sex appeal, nearly all of the design innovation, in PCs is back at Apple, which has reawakened since the return of founder Steve Jobs four years ago, when the company was near bankruptcy. While it has only a sliver of the overall market, Apple has resumed its role as industry trendsetter. In recent years, it was the first to push easy wireless networking, video editing and DVD recording. This week, it introduced a cool, portable digital-music player, the first in what I expect will be a whole line of hand-held digital devices.” [Oct 25]
Cheers, CC :)
Yes it does. You are evil and must be destroyed.
Try DirectTV's satellite system.
You haven't a clue what you are saying. I have loaded Drake 8.1 and RH 7.2 and they found everything without a problem.
No, the "big advantage" Apple has is that when it bundles, it's "innovation", and when MS bundles, it's "monopoly".
Well, at least that was the big advantage for eight long, painful years. We'll see how much of an advantage it is now that the adults are running the country again.
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