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Comment: Re:Slashdot Official Translation (Score 1) 703

by AlexMax2742 (#31476842) Attached to: Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA

Blaming lawyers for our troubles is short-sighted. The number of opportunities in law is actually going down, and the typical advice for people who want to go to law school these days is don't bother. That doesn't sound like some dystopian future world where lawyers would be in high demand suing each other into oblivion.

If your anger should be directed somewhere, it should be directed at the wealthiest 10% of america, who own 72% of it's wealth. Which would be fine (after all, there's nothing inherently wrong with being rich), except they also don't pay their fair share of taxes either, which means cutbacks in education, social services, and so on. They will use their considerable political influence to continue that things continue the way they are, and of course, they've managed to drill into people's heads that more taxes == evil, so you have people frothing at the mouth and protesting against their own best interest.

Comment: Re:Me too! (Score 2, Interesting) 371

by AlexMax2742 (#30647438) Attached to: Monty Wants To Save MySQL



Q6: What is Sun's commercial license for MySQL software?





Comment: Re:Me too! (Score 1, Insightful) 371

by AlexMax2742 (#30642812) Attached to: Monty Wants To Save MySQL

...except that if Oracle owns the copyrights to MySQL, they can close source future versions of MySQL and/or let mainline development languish. I don't know if they also own the name "MySQL" but if they do they can forbid any forks of MySQL from being called "MySQL" as well.

Of course, the existing source will live forever, but any forks will not have the advantage of the "MySQL" brand name or the ability to dual-license the code for situations where more restrictive licensing might be desired by their customers.


+ - Games for Windows Live charges for patches-> 1

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Anonymous writes "Brad Wardell of Stardock was recently interviewed by Shacknews. He has a lot of interesting things to say about the current state of PC gaming, but he also had a fair bit to get off his chest when it comes to Games for Windows Live:

"I intended for Elemental [an upcoming Stardock game -ed] to be on Games for Windows Live, but then as we got closer, the Xbox group took it over more and more. And they have things where, oh, if you want to use Games for Windows Live to update your game, you have to go through [their] certification. And if you do it more than X number of times, you have to pay money. It's like, "My friends, you can't do that on the PC.""

Is Microsoft using Games for Windows Live as a platform to try and neuter the PC platform in favor of the Xbox 360?"
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+ - Quake Live: Mac and Linux coming next Tuesday->

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Comment: Re:Victory for Free Software Advocates (Score 1) 503

by AlexMax2742 (#28336255) Attached to: Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation

It's a victory for great free software applications that just so happen to use Mono. Mono often gets treated as a second class citizen because of its Microsoft roots, with zealots not wanting Microsoft's "unholy embrace" on Linux, whatever that's supposed to mean. Thankfully, there are sane people to defend it and because of this developers don't have to worry about their software not being included in a default install because they just so happened to pick Mono.

Also, how was my original post Flamebait?

Comment: Re:But running windows would help (Score 1) 710

by AlexMax2742 (#27833415) Attached to: Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows

You're thinking about this the wrong way. Forget running Windows apps, why not have killer apps that are native to Linux and people would switch just to run, other stuff be damned.

It's been done before, (why else do you think linux servers are so popular?) but it's about time the Linux desktop had its own killer app.
