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Originally posted by Alejandro Nova View PostThat means: Mark Shuttleworth is NOT apologizing to the people who he should be directing an apology on the first place: Aaron Seigo, Martin Gr??lin, Lennart Poettering, and every developer who criticizes Canonical on a technical basis.
MS, your behavior sucks. Really.
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Originally posted by Alex Sarmiento View PostHe is not apologizing about Canonicals' instance on defending their trademarks and copyrights, why should he?. Instead, he seems to be apologizing about using the toughest email template for their request .
The fact is , that website fixubuntu.com was indeed abusing from Canonicals trademarks and copyrights, there is no doubt about it. And i do not see how that website could be silenced in any way by that requests. Companies are entitled to defend their copyrights and trademarks from misuses or abuses too.
Nominative use -> not an infringement. And also, trademark law doesn't require you to send takedown notices to everyone using your trademark, it just requires you to react in some way to infringments, which this wasn't in the first place.
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Originally posted by mrugiero View PostAnd that's my whole point. As I said in my first answer on this topic, I do think it will have great success, and greater in numbers than Ubuntu. But I also think this will not affect negatively Ubuntu (i.e., its user base will not shrink because of SteamOS). I am a bit skeptical that it will imply a huge turn on the world or something like that, though.
I will not be buying one because I don't have money for it now, but I'd be probably doing the same as you if I had.
NOTE: Sorry for the double post, I sent the other one forgetting I had this in another window.
So no, the only cases where SteamOS would replace any traditional OS as a primary OS would be the case of a very hard-core steam gamer that uses their computer for nothing apart from playing Steam games. I don't think those people are a very large portion of users of any Linux distro, or the population in general...
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Originally posted by dee. View PostSteamOS is likely not going to affect any other Linux distro's popularity. SteamOS has a very niche purpose - it's not a general purpose OS, it doesn't have many of the things that a regular desktop has: file manager, proper windowing system, terminal, text editors, application support... basically, it's just a steam client with a kernel. You can play steam games, maybe watch some videos / listen to music, maybe browse webpages, that's about it.
So no, the only cases where SteamOS would replace any traditional OS as a primary OS would be the case of a very hard-core steam gamer that uses their computer for nothing apart from playing Steam games. I don't think those people are a very large portion of users of any Linux distro, or the population in general...
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Originally posted by dee. View PostBullshit.
Nominative use -> not an infringement. And also, trademark law doesn't require you to send takedown notices to everyone using your trademark, it just requires you to react in some way to infringments, which this wasn't in the first place.
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nerdrage
it's almost impossible for nerds to take a step back and quit being jerks over something less or more meaningful.
those guys will sink on their ship rather than change their attitude a little.
it will always go like this:
he started it
he didn't apologize
his apology wasn't honest
and if it where honest it was too late
please note that mark shows signs of being an incredible nerd too.
i personally think its time to move on
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Originally posted by Alex Sarmiento View PostI just explained a few post back why the nominative fair use does not apply .
And Canonical did not send a takedown notice.
They sent a notice that demanded taking down things. If you claim that's "not a takedown notice" then I don't know what to tell you...
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