Posts by Lars

Re: Ubuntu: commercial open source?

I think there are a few things to remember. You can make Linux as commercial as you like as long as you stick to the rules of the GPL, that is, you reveal the alterations (if any) to the kernel code. The second and more important thing to remember, is the difference between kernel space (the Linux kernel) and user space (anything outside the kernel). So if you want to hide your code or use something else but GPL you do it in user space. And that is quite common in the embedded "space". Third there are many different licensees to chose from, and there is also GPL2 and GPL3. Nothing wrong with you comment.

Re: It Was The Design

Just surprisingly too narrow. Such a good try and I wish the whole teem all the best, but that one error was disturbingly obvious.

Re: Actually it's a great idea

My idea too, for many years, why not an empty phone with some cards to read the OS of your choice from, and switching when you like. It would though be fun to see how market shares where counted then.

Re: Control Data had it right

I those days memory was expensive so that some had 4 bit for numbers and 6 or 8 for characters.

Re: FAQs are available

Is there anything that does not run Linux.

Re: No where to go but up!

On the other hand the captain is supposed to stay on going down. I wonder if the board chairs are harder to throw.

Re: Thermal runaway

Perhaps some at Boeing are thinking about it too.

Re: Where's the El Reg grave stone icon?

Better not use a patented! exclamation mark.

Re: Just one thing...

"They didn't miss the train". They did miss the first train and took the second.

Re: how much skin do you need to have in the game ..

They might have a point. Suppose they feel that Gates is blocking innovation, suppose they feel that the rest of the company is too scared to do anything without an OK from Bill, the old master. And suppose Gates feels, as before, that any idea he cannot claim as his own, is just rubbish. What has he in fact invented. We would, of course, understand more, if there where "board meetings" on the internet to see.

Re: Only now?

Yes, I can understand your point. Water exists but now we also know there is a small amount in the soil. Perhaps that was expected, as it was, as such an experiment was made. Now we can also prove it. When you explore you try to think in advance what there could be. The instruments sent there give an idea of what could be expected, but it gets really interesting when you find something you did not expect and that is the beauty with science.

Take black matter, we "know" it is there but we have not yet been able to invent an instrument to prove it. Not so long ago we had no instruments to detect rontgen ratiation either.

Re: 18.8 Million Euros for what ?

Elop made Nokia a burning platform. Nokia could have continued to develop MeeGo, a good phone, they could have done more marketing for it. They could have continued developing Asha. They could have kept QT. And most of all they could have told the world that they will also invest in WinPhone, that could have sounded good and brave for many. Instead Elop put fire on the platform expecting the MS fire department to come to the rescue quickly. it took them a year at least. Now, Nokia fell a sleep before Elop entered. But Elop was hired to make a change, take Nokia back on track. Was Elop dedicated to do that. Keeping his family in Canada does not much support it. Did he, as a Microsoft person, actually believe the name "Microsoft" would be irresistible. What qualifications did he have with producing cell phones except that belief in Microsoft (and Nokia). And then there is that other theory. And yes he was selected by the Nokia board, not many left, perhaps that is as well too.

Re: Now I'm Completely Confused

Nokia sold its cell phone wing and is now Nokia without cell phones but with NSN with some 50-60.000 emplyees (http://nsn.com/), HERE and a fairly extensive number of patents. Who knows, perhaps it was as well to get rid of the cell phones. Time will tell, perhaps.

Re: Obviously

You forgot the "Joke Alert" icon.

Re: paraphrasing Blackadder goes Fourth a bit

You have a point. Spying (being up to date, trying to know what happens around us) is as old as man. The problem seems to be that we believed the internet is "private" and safe. Funny really. Anything that can be done will be tried, and when you think about it diplomats have always had their own "diplomatic" mail service, for obvious reasons. The machine has changed, we have not.

Re: Surprise, surprise

@BobChip I suppose you did not understand my icon. I am a Linux user since 97.

@Voland's right hand, and what ever in that hand

"He nodded his head", "He shook his head" is YES and NO. In the plus 50 countries have been to, this is the only thing that never fails. It would surprise me if Bushmen and what ever you could find in South America or the Pacific Islands did not understand the difference. Either you are a troll, stupid or just uneducated. Perhaps not totally uneducated as you managed to write Bulgarians if not Finns.

As for this interview, it was honest, no company advertising, imagine a third sofa with Ballmer and Elop taking part.

Re: Don't be silly ... ?

Same to you. UK become great by trade, ruling the seas, as you know. Germans had to rely on making stuff. That is just how it went. And if I would like to be awful, I always do, I would add that, perhaps, it was as good thing that the Germans (and the Belgians) did not "get" more colonies. Just look at how they behaved in Africa. (or let it be as it will make you sic) So on the other hand there is more English spoken than German in this world, and genetically you have probably expanded more than the Germans. Something good something bad, but understanding "to day" is not possible without knowing yesterday. I can understand your concern, though.

Re: Signal to noise

What an amassing response in numbers to how Munich has performed or not. With some 15.000 desktops converted including skipping Word for OpenOffice there is no doubt they will save money to the end of day. The fact that Microsoft apparently paid HP to perform some funny calculations just proves how deeply Microsoft is concerned. "If you cannot prove it is cheaper in the long run" then try the, "it is more costly the next 18 months". Damn it, Microsoft is fully aware of the facts. Over the years Microsoft has moved, from software, into an organisation infiltration Governments, in the USA and outside, universities, and the press, especially the IT press.

Anything in the header against us, and well. Meanwhile, the world behind Linux, and such a world of companies behind anything, has never existed before, not ever. Microsoft will not disappear any time soon but it is quite obvious that their ability to run the show is history. There is no way they can keep their grip on the OMS, there is no way they can maintain Office as the sole solution, and worst of all there is no way to mend a OS that is poor from the start.

Re: Why not use . . .

@codejunky. I agree very much although I do have the strength of carrying my entire bank balance in one pocket, Quite a problem, no matter how you carry it, and with the internet, you can be busted even without carrying anything in your pocket.

Re: We'd all jump that high

But it would have been funnier with a cow. What am I drinking, cows are supposed to fall from the sky. Suicidal frog, trying to find the IT angle. Poor bastard.

Re: No wonder

IBM came to the conclusion, when looking for a spoken language suitable for a computer, that the Finnish language was the number one language in that respect. To understand that you have to understand Finnish. Anyway I don't think any language is more, or less, easy to learn, it's all about to which group of languages your native language belongs, your age and how many other languages you are familiar with.

Kids learn their native tongue no matter the language. One of the advantages of Finnish is that it's written and pronounced the same way. If you do business with Finns you have to remember that they are awfully bad when it comes to spelling their names as they don't have to do it as it is spelled the way it's pronounced.

On the phone they will get your name and what ever wrong every second time and you will get it wrong too.

Re: Rotting at the head

@Richard Plinston

I can see your point but N800 was a tablet. Nokia did not do much marketing for it. The N9 was the first phone but was sold only in some countries. That one should have been released much earlier. There was a good article in theregister about the problems in getting the Maemo ready.

Re: A small miracle.

Who wants to change a sofa for a seat, anyway.

Re: Interesting in Japan they committed fraud to cover *lossess*

"most fraud is committed to cover losses" or hide profit.

Re: Shut your mouth and listen closely

On the other hand I suppose some people are like that too as they open their mouth as soon as you speak.

Re: RIP Nokia

Did MicroSoft also buy into Nokias' Telecoms infrastructure too?. NO

Re: On the bright side

I would suppose they have agreed to not making any phones in the future. As for only licensing Nokia’s patents I suppose that just makes the transaction look a bit better. In a way I hope this is good news for NSN. As for Jorma Ollila I think he is being overrated a lot, I am sure he needed help navigating the Symbian menus.