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Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat
News A key figure in the open source community has transferred his allegiance from Red Hat to Ubuntu this week, sparking a storm of anger. Using a popular Linux mailing list, Eric Raymond rubbished Red Hat's free distribution, Fedora, and issued a...
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Anger over call to fine unlicensed software users
Talkback There should be no ability to treat software license infringements as a 'serious issue' rather than purely a civil contract dispute until Software vendors lose the ability to write their own rules. Agreements, to have any meaning at all, need to be...
[September 1, 2006, 12:07]
Anger over call to fine unlicensed software users
Talkback The last guy has a point. It's their ball park, we are just illegally doing some batting!
[September 1, 2006, 17:41]
Anger over DVD format wars
Talkback At present i wont be touching anything that Sony are involved in after their last circus performance!
[January 9, 2006, 14:15]
Anger over DVD format wars
Talkback The big difference between this and the VHS/Betamax battle is than then no-one had an alternative - If you wanted Film on demand at home you had to go one way or the other. And remember that we were looking at realprices maybe 10 times as high as...
[January 10, 2006, 14:36]
Anger over call to fine unlicensed software users
Talkback I used to work for a company that was using massive amounts of unlicensed software and that was not exactly a back street shop so I don't think BSA's claims are so groundless
[September 1, 2006, 17:44]
Anger as UK government promotes US back-up firms
Talkback 'but Roberts says that this was "hardly the point of the exercise"'. Roberts is full of clunk.
[May 31, 2006, 20:08]
Anger over encryption key seizure threat
Talkback consumer note; "You get what you pay for. Example: Case in point. When you use Microsoft licenses there is an EULA agreement? Right! When using an HP product there may well be a PDF diclosure under the "invent" heading in your search browser.
[May 21, 2006, 14:05]
Anger over call to fine unlicensed software users
Talkback Exceptions only confirm the rule. Making the exceptions the example as a reason for how to go about the rest of the bunch only demonstrates how wrong one is. Clearly there are more common reasons why exceptions as specified exist in the first place.
[September 1, 2006, 23:15]
Anger over DVD format wars
Talkback What's annoying is that Beta was far superior to VHS in many ways and, had it been developed as much as VHS had to be (to be as good! it would have been an excellent system. I fear that the successor out of the two current products might not be...
[January 9, 2006, 17:29]
Anger over Yahoo outage
Talkback Its out now too. The LEAST they could do is let folks know that its them and not the user's problem. Hey Google, keep on truckin and growin ;)
[July 23, 2006, 4:44]
Anger over Yahoo outage
Talkback I understand that it was happening earlier in the week, so what's the explanation for it happening now. I haven't been able to get on yahoo messenger all day long. I can sign into the website, but not messenger.
[July 23, 2006, 4:46]
Anger over Yahoo outage
Talkback You say "some" users in "U.S.and Europe" were affected. I beg to suggest it was ALL (YMessenger) users, EVERYWHERE, for approximately 9 hours. Can you find ANYONE who COULD still access YM during this time ?
[July 26, 2006, 11:39]
Anger as UK government promotes US back-up firms
Talkback "We expect" is usually spoken out by decision makers in announcement of their future "oops". Ofcourse foreign companies will create digital safe havens. That is, until the first government official walks in or anyone else that manages to gain access.
[May 31, 2006, 23:52]
Anger over DVD format wars
Talkback well all i can say is go blow it up your arse, im not going to be in computing for years, which means by the time i get back well all have tb storage and one format, i know so.
[January 9, 2006, 21:11]
Anger as UK company drops G-Mail service
Talkback IIR have the right to protect their intellectual property. There is a possibility that the perceived value of their Gmail service could be diminished by an unrelated service of the same name from Google, and a possibility that IIR's customers may...
[February 14, 2006, 12:19]
Anger over Yahoo outage
Talkback Any notice on a yahoo email outage on July5-6 2006?
[July 6, 2006, 5:12]
Licensing anger driving users towards Linux
Talkback The home user is also getting fed up with the Microsoft Licensing sceme! Make a change to your computer, a new hard drive, a new dvd burner, add memory, even some software programs - AND YOU HAVE TO CALL MICROSOFT TO REACTIVATE THE SYSTEM!
[September 15, 2005, 17:55]
Anger over encryption key seizure threat
Talkback Arthur B - I bl**dy well didn't vote for them!
[May 22, 2006, 10:22]
Anger as UK company drops G-Mail service
Talkback Why did this company not regiser all the .com and .co.uk names ? I'm a Gmail.com user in the UK and I do not see why Google should give up the use of this name , they registered the domain. SJ, Swindon
[January 19, 2006, 15:21]
