Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Ok. Thanks for explaining the dialog that reports a crash. [...] And that a firewall triggers an alarm offering the user to reject or allow an Internet connection for any program not yet configured in the firewall and that it offers the user the possibility to configure a rule for the future an

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-19 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks, Bernd. That clears up a lot to me. Apparently the bug in MS-Windows was being misunderstood by the end user. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Bernd Eilers wrote: If I recall it correctly the reason for this was that OOo was just "only!" simply asking the system for it´s hostname on startup. Unfort

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-05-30 Thread Lars D . Noodén
If this bothers you then write your EU representative or that of the EU country you have business or project partners in: http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN Otherwise, the situations is likely to get worse. As monopoly rents go away, look for more things li

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Your intent is good, but since it takes a few million dollars to overturn a dud patent yet only a few thousand to apply for one, it's possible that just shooting down bad patents may not be a viable long term strategy. ;) However, shooting down this one specifically, might be a way to garner m

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-06 Thread Lars D . Noodén
I did not say that OSS will never knock MS off. That is not the goal of OSS, but as others including Linus Torvalds have pointed out it may well be a side effect. I did say that it is incorrect to frame the discussion as MS vs Open Source. That's very inaccurate. If one must frame the discu

Re: [discuss] Envelope Barcoding

2006-03-16 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Hi, David, Are you thinking of the address barcodes used by the US Post Office? OLr some other bar codes? Regards, -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep the market open by keeping software patents out (deadline 31 Mar 2006): http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market