Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote: I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in cheating the public. :) It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to support the innovator. There was a thread on this in http://yro.slashdot.org and there was some other stuff about appealing a patent. US $9,000 to get your appeal even reviewed. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Graphics Question
I have a Line drawing JPG file. What I want to do is trace it. Somwthing like what coreldraw can do were it can trace the drawing so you are left with a vector drawing and you can do just about anything with it. I have looked through gimp and it does not appear to be able to do it so I thought someone might have an idea what will. The end result I want to end up with is either a Vector Drawing that I could directly put on a doc or a Graphic that has a transparent background so that it can be setup as a background in OpenOffice so that it just becomes a light line drawing on the background. Thanks Guys David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] So Linux is American.....read on!
doug wrote to slug.org.au: http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33847.htm I like the principle, but what a load of twaddle! Doug (Just had to share it) Indeed. I reacted by sending off the following to the Editors of LinuxWorld. It will be interesting what reply I get back :-) Dear Sir/Ms In James Turner's article Is SCO Bad Not Just for Linux, But Also for America? July 21, 2003, http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33847.htm he states ...Linux (in spite of its Scandinavian origins) is a profoundly American idea. Linux is a product of an international group of programmers who have contributed to it for over a decade. The code and the ideas embodied in Linux of freedom, openness, the opportunity of all to contribute to it's development and for all to use it owes nothing to America. Americans have contibuted but no more so than others. Indeed most of who contributed to Linux would consider their contributions to be from themselves and their internet community than from their country of origin. America does not have a monopoly on the concepts of freedom. It's disapointing to see such drivel written by the senior editor of LinuxWorld Magazine. I do hope that future articles are written more carefully. Yours sincerely, Michael Lake -- This thread is prob better for slug-chat. -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] So Linux is American.....read on!
quote who=Michael Lake It's disapointing to see such drivel written by the senior editor of LinuxWorld Magazine. I do hope that future articles are written more carefully. Drivel is a profoundly Australian word. - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ Debian is not as minor as many business end people think. - Alan Cox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Graphics Question
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:38:39 +1100 David Uzzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Line drawing JPG file. What I want to do is trace it. Somwthing like what coreldraw can do were it can trace the drawing so you are left with a vector drawing and you can do just about anything with it. I believe that autotrace can do that. Search freshmeat. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Republicans understand the importance of bondage between mother and child. - George W. Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] So Linux is American.....read on!
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Michael Lake It's disapointing to see such drivel written by the senior editor of LinuxWorld Magazine. I do hope that future articles are written more carefully. Drivel is a profoundly Australian word. hey wait until you sign the Free Trade Agreement ;-), sorry OT but I couldn't resist!! Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Hi Guys
Ken Foskey wrote:
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:01, ksaenz wrote:
I guess now it's upto the opensource community to register patents for
all new technologies they will develop to stop M$, $CO and others in
cheating the public. :)
It is actually expensive to register a patent. It is no longer to
support the innovator. There was a thread on this in
http://yro.slashdot.org and there was some other stuff about appealing a
patent. US $9,000 to get your appeal even reviewed.
I suspect that most of these so called patents might just be rendered
invalid by prior publication.
Didn't the US Patent Office grant a patent for the wheel recently (last
year)? which is clearly unpatentable.
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