Comments

• twitter

  2010-11-10 14:58:25

  It's hard to tell what is going on because most of those articles have few details and put a Microsoft spin on the events. The articles make it look like there has been a change in licensing terms between Microsoft and Motorola, which "RAND" allows if it's applied to everyone at the same time, but that Motorola somehow arranged things to harm poor little Microsoft while making it look fair. The Inquirer has a link to Microsoft's filing, but they put it at Scribd, which does not work with the free software in Debian stable and requires an obnoxious registration for download. Hopefully, some real reporters will do some real research and we will get the facts of the story instead of Microsoft press releases soon. If Microsoft is still Microsoft, what they have done is simply quit paying long standing obligations to Motorola to "cut off their oxygen" and bully the company into submission or bankruptcy.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2010-11-10 15:13:56

  Scribd has moved off Adobe Trash [sic] and now requires JavaScript, I think. It would be nice to see what Microsoft's claim is all about once the spin is removed (peeled off).

• twitter

  2010-11-11 04:19:26

  I don't think so. Iceweasel in Debian stable gives me the outline but no document. It's nice that I can search the text that I can't see, but I'd rather read it. Konquer 4.4.5 is handed the message:
  
  

  Hello, you have an old version of Adobe Flash Player. To use iPaper (and lots of other stuff on the web) you need to get the latest Flash player.

  
  
  They use Trash to restrict readers. On top of that, they require their own or a Facebook registration for download. I'll pass on both. People should use their own servers, Google or just about anyone but Scribd to share important documents.

• NotZed

  2010-11-11 06:47:01

  Weird i used it the other week to try to read something I couldn't find anywhere else - i have flash installed but disabled on this browser config.
  
  It's horrible - really really slow, and the text isn't really formatted properly. #@$#@ web 2 nonsense. I have a perfectly capable application that reads formatted documents, why force me to use some shitty web app?
  
  It seems i created an account to try to download the document i was reading, but you can't do that till you upload another one. But the document i was reading was a standard - i.e. not for public distribution, so their whole system appears to be based on copyright infringement anyway.
  
  Just deleted my account ... now when i go to the front page I get the raw XHTML.