Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
Nope, Its free to the public. No DRM is needed. On 8/30/07, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > By opening do you mean publishing the books online? Free of charge? > > > Allowing > > > copying? Allowing modifications? > > > > Duno about modif

Re: ???? ??????? ?????? KERNEL - ????? ??????!

2007-08-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Daniel... it's customery on this list only to write in English and clearly mark job offers with [JOB] in the Subject. Furthermore, when addressing professionals, you will have to give a BIT more detail than this, and perhaps less childlish exclamation marks to get useful replies. Quoting Daniel R

דרוש תוכניתן לינוקס KERNEL - תנאים מעולים!

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Refaeli
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Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Lior Kaplan
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:29:13AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > >> To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "OASIS Open Document >> Format for Office Applications" is the only international standard for >> office documents. It is unlikely that docu

Re: vp62 codec

2007-08-30 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:21, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > >rpm -qa | grep vlc > > vlc-0.8.6c-1.fc6 OK - seems the version I have on Mandriva 2007 is 0.8.5. I searche but couldn't find a later version for 2007, but I did find 0.8.6a for Mandriva 2007.1. However, the RPM would

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Meir Kriheli
Kfir Lavi wrote: > as long as just one crazy guy continues to maintain the groff program. > > > Well, groff is a very good example. 30 years, wow. The thing is that > groff is a small program, that can be maintained by one person. Word or > openoffice in the other hand need a lot of people, b

Refund on Microsoft Tax

2007-08-30 Thread Adi Eyal
Hi Everyone This question has been asked a number of times on this list before but there have been no replies indicating whether anyone has been successful (or has failed) in this endeavour. I bought a shiny new Dell this afternoon. On booting up, I'm greeted with a license agreement that tells me

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > By opening do you mean publishing the books online? Free of charge? > > Allowing > > copying? Allowing modifications? > > Duno about modifications or free, but the books will be online for > everyone to read. If it's not free of charge, in what se

[Haifux Lecture] An overview of Haskell part II by Haggai Eran

2007-08-30 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Next Monday, 3rd of September, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club, will gather to hear Haggai Eran's lecture about An Overview of Haskell (part II) Haskell is a pure functional programming language, with a very rich type system. It features lazy evaluation, higher order functions, and a

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:22:31PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Ok, then, forget Israeli products. What about Lotus Word Pro, then? This > used to be a popular format, and where I work (IBM) used to be *the most* > popular format, more than Microsoft Word, as recently as 10 years ago. Then, > over

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Open standards": > However, you are looking it it through Israeli eyes. Microsoft Word is > a worldwide product and there are millions of users. When Qtext or > Einstein where at their peak, computers where so heavily taxed that only > th

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:06:53PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Who can gurantee you that in 5 years (or 10, or 50) years, Microsoft Word > doesn't becomes as unpopular and rare as Qtext is today? 20 years ago, > Qtext was so popular noone could ever believe that it could go away. > But it did. An

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
> > as long as just one crazy guy continues to maintain the groff program. Well, groff is a very good example. 30 years, wow. The thing is that groff is a small program, that can be maintained by one person. Word or openoffice in the other hand need a lot of people, but a lot of industries counti

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi Dan, On 8/29/07, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. > > My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books > in > > open standards. > > Pleas

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Open standards": > > The chances of Microsoft Word2003 documents being readable five years from > > now is not good. > > I disagree. I think MS Word documents will be readable for a long time > because people want them to be. A better a