[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

[Fred James]

alan wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Allen Brown wrote:
>
>> roger wrote:
>>
>>> Well, this didn't wet my appetite too much. :-/
>>>
>>> http://dl.tv/
>>>
>>> Episode 162:
>>> A Little Bit Linux: We've got Ubuntu on the desktop. One of our friends
>>> at ExtremeTech.com says Ubuntu Feisty Fawn should be called Crappy Cow!
>>
>>
>> Reading thru all the objections at ExtremeTech, it appears that
>> in each case Ubuntu was constrained by license issues.  So I
>> think the review was unduly harsh.  Even he pointed out that
>> Ubuntu made it easy to get around these issues.  He just wanted
>> them to be fixed "out of the box".  But if that isn't legally
>> possible, how are they to do it?
>
>
> What is interesting about the patent issues is that even if you obey 
> the licencing/extortion scheme, you can still get sued. Microsoft 
> found this out with MP3 when someone else who owned a piece of the 
> format sued.
>
> We are close approaching a time where it will not be possible to do 
> anything interesting or useful without violating the law in some form.
>
>> I think the reviewer should be called "Whiny Brat".
>
>
> I think you are being overly kind.

Here is a URL to an article from yesterday's InformationWeek, about the 
supreme court on just that topic.
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203296>
eh?
Regards
Fred James