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| Thread ID: 124673 | 2012-05-12 03:02:00 | Why I still don't like Linux | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1274960 | 2012-06-09 12:09:00 | I think you are just confirming all my reservations about Linux and its components/supported apps! :) Not quite sure how that works, I think it would be a hell of a lot more confusing if we were discussing MS EULA or the different licensing costs of different versions of exactly the same MS OS, or perhaps if we were to discuss how MS has completely different licenses for different customers. FOSS licensing is actually very simple. One thing that both the LGPL and the Apache license share is they can both be read in about 5 minutes or so. And you only have to do it once, because all 120 or so Apache projects use exactly the same license, ALv2 and all of the thousands of projects released under LGPL use the exact same license, unlike Proprietary software each of which has a completely different license that can run to volumes. So then logically, if licensing causes reservations, then you should have run screaming to Linux years ago. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1274961 | 2012-06-09 12:11:00 | Have you got a few in? Or are you ignoring the advice in your sig? :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1274962 | 2012-06-09 12:21:00 | I'm not sure that is true. If it is, how have I managed to get three versions of Windows (Vista, 7 and 8) all to peacefully co-exist on the same machine? However, let's not get diverted down yet another by-road. :) Windows up to 7 will toast any non windows boot loader. It will not recognise any non windows file systems let alone save to them. OpenSUSE will recognise all win partitions, will mount them so that you can use them and will save to both FAT32 and NTFS partitions. 7 will avoid overwriting non windows partitions as long as you tell it to, so I presume 8 will to. As far as ease of install, I'll start another thread to demonstrate |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1274963 | 2012-06-09 12:25:00 | Have you got a few in? Or are you ignoring the advice in your sig? :) Third Glayva and two glasses of Merlot at dinner and Rob was referring to the GPL vs ALv2 debate which gets pretty bloody rabid sometimes so I don't think this counts! :) |
Yorick (8120) | ||
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