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Re:Sscientific study on freeculture and gender gap
This isn't a study, it's unscientific and draws a bullseye around the argument the author WANTED to win. Like HedgeMage wrote the problem is the other way around from what that author tries to shoehorn. Women aren't raised to be nerds, not the other way around. They're raised in a culture that demeans and attacks nerds and tech and taught to be hypoagent and rely on damseling.
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Re:More feminist bullshit
Did anyone say genetic? No, you brought up genetics as an attempt to straw man Archangel Michael. Just another completely dishonest tactic to make it utterly impossible to ever stray from your dogma. Do you get that it's stuff like this that actually hurts women?
Do you know what actual women in the industry say? They say the fearmongering from people like you is what drives women away. Hell one of the most respected women in linux called you on this too.
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Here's a thought, lets ask actual women
Yknow, like Susan "HedgeMage" Sons? She certainly had some choice words about this entire tempest in a teacup.
Also it's worth pointing out that computer science degrees are something like 10% of all degrees conferred in the US, and women utterly *dominate* every single aspect of education from K12 through college, even earning nearly 2/3rds of all bachelors degrees. I would think the fact men are barely over 1/3rd of college graduates in the first place is a bit of a bigger problem than what major women choose.
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Re:Linux users are on that list...
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Re:Linux sites I visit
Warning: Visiting some of these terrorist-oriented sites may put you on some lists.
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Use the RIGHT spreadsheet
If you have ever seen the data format of "sc", the venerable (text mode) spreadsheet for Unix, you would realize just how broken are current spreadsheets. It's so simple and beautiful.
It's a pity that it would not work in some situations due to size limitations (this software is really ancient).
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Re:Good! Now I have questions:
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Not enough?
So
Linux Magazine
Linux Format
Linux Journal
Linux User and Developer
Ubuntu Userweren't enough paper Linux magazines?
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This is not news; it is also not PC
When you control for working hours and years of experience (as opposed to simply age - women more often take time off work to raise children), there hasn't been a male/female pay gap for decades. However, this is not PC. Feminists don't want to hear that they're done, that they have long since achieved their goals, and that feminism has become counterproductive. Hence, the studies that show this are routinely ignored, and certainly never publicized.
Taking months or years off for child raising, or working only part time, or refusing to travel - none of these things should affect your career or your pay. It ought to be possible to drop out of the workforce at 25, raise your kids full-time for 20 years, and then rejoin the workforce as a senior manager.
It makes as much sense as the rest of the progressive agenda...
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Re:A bit unsettling
Perhaps they are referring to things like in this article. Wasn't there something recently too about remote control driving your car with your Android devices? Guess you will soon be able to start and unlock your car with your Android devices as well. Wonder how long it will take before the "other auto industry representatives" can start and unlock entire parking lots of cars at the same time, then instruct them to drive to the wandering chop shops. Once they read the error codes they can simply destroy the defective parts and transponders etc as they disassemble. That way you can have a ready supply of cheap parts to replace the bad ones on yours you discover with your Android device!
Have fun with the related "do no evil" discussions, especially when discussing how all the automakers will, no doubt, want to try and block all the above. Of course there are laws already on the books that are supposed to make them allow private individuals to read the codes and do their own repairs, as well as non-automobile manufacturer's aligned mechanical shops, rather then take it to the manufacturer related shops.
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Re: Firmware update? Unlikely.
Oh yes it is. Why else would this exist or this be so aggressive? If you're a programmer, then you are a witch and you are suspicious; end of story. No one with any lawmaking responsibility knows what you might be capable of, but it's probably at least as bad as this. Therefore, this happens. How does it feel to be branded a potential enemy of the state just because of an aptitude for creative problem-solving?
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Re:Not happening
You might want to go read about it some more; what you're talking about is preemption. The kernel has been preemptible for years now. Here's an article about it from 2002: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5600
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Re:security
Ah yes, OpenBSD is exactly who you want.
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Remember this?Remember this? In December 2010 there was a scandal when a developer who had previously worked on OpenBSD wrote to Theo de Raadt and claimed that the FBI had paid the company he had been working with at the time, NETSEC Inc (since absorbed by Verizon), to insert a backdoor into the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. They particularly pointed to two employees of NETSEC who had worked on OpenBSD's cryptograhpic code, Jason Wright and Angelos Keromytis. In typically open-source fashion, de Raadt published the letter on an OpenBSD mailing list. After the team began a code audit de Raadt wrote,
"After Jason left, Angelos (who had been working on the ipsec stack alreadyfor 4 years or so, for he was the ARCHITECT and primary developer of the IPSEC stack) accepted a contract at NETSEC and (while travelling around the world) wrote the crypto layer that permits our ipsec stack to hand-off requests to the drivers that Jason worked on. That crypto layer contained the half-assed insecure idea of half-IV that the US govt was pushing at that time. Soon after his contract was over this was ripped out.
"I believe that NETSEC was probably contracted to write backdoors as alleged."I'd like to find a more recent report of what they found.
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Re:we ditched vmware for xenserver 2 years back...
I think what you mean to say is the default MDA (or LDA) agent for sendmail writes a flat file. It looks a bit strange when you claim sendmail also has MDA duties.
Unsure why you think a flat file cannot exceed 2GB. Of course, it's not optimal to have a mailbox file that big, but if you're running a mail system that deals with large mailboxes, you'd have switched to the Maildir format years ago. This also helps with mailboxes with a very large number of messages, or at least, it pushes the problem to the filesystem. You can then pick and choose a filesystem, and tune it for a large number of small files.
Also unsure why you list Dovecot and Cyrus as a mail/IMAP client. I think perhaps you mean IMAP server, but you also mention Pine, which is a client.
With a bit of effort, you can scale these services over as many servers as you wish. Have a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9804 for an example. It's an old document, but is still relevant for this type of design.
You're right that there's no push email feature for open source services. The closest I know of is using the IMAP IDLE feature, which keeps a connection open to the mail server. The mail server then notifies the client immediately through this connection. Not quite push email, but comes very close.
Unsure what you mean by enforcing security policy.
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Re:Controlling Humidity w an Embedded Linux System
Can anyone point to a project that does esentially the same as this: Controlling the Humidity with an Embedded Linux System
A temp controlled beer fermenting setup isn't the direction I need. I'm looking to turn on/off fans and a/c unit (s) based on temp and humidityusing relays, indoor (two sources, hot & cold rooms) and outdoor air sources (hot & cold depending on season or time of day) to regulate one room air quality for my bedroom, I'm disabled and the current a/c unit doesn't shut off when temp reached, rest of house is too hot or cold, running a/c in winter, etc. would like to turn fans on/off to pull cold air into room via ducting, push warm air out, control fans/ a/c / lights through relays w temp & humidity sensors in all rooms and exterior. Additional lamp control via an electrical relay would be a plus.
I've been running linux for about 15 years on desktop and servers, so I can put together the logic if I see example code, but I'm not a programmer. Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Unfortunately, no such project currently exists. A small group of us is working on something similar. It is not targeted at the enthusiast, but at HVAC professionals.
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Controlling Humidity w an Embedded Linux System
Can anyone point to a project that does esentially the same as this: Controlling the Humidity with an Embedded Linux System
A temp controlled beer fermenting setup isn't the direction I need. I'm looking to turn on/off fans and a/c unit (s) based on temp and humidityusing relays, indoor (two sources, hot & cold rooms) and outdoor air sources (hot & cold depending on season or time of day) to regulate one room air quality for my bedroom, I'm disabled and the current a/c unit doesn't shut off when temp reached, rest of house is too hot or cold, running a/c in winter, etc. would like to turn fans on/off to pull cold air into room via ducting, push warm air out, control fans/ a/c / lights through relays w temp & humidity sensors in all rooms and exterior. Additional lamp control via an electrical relay would be a plus.
I've been running linux for about 15 years on desktop and servers, so I can put together the logic if I see example code, but I'm not a programmer. Any help would be deeply appreciated.
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Re:I tried this...For that list, you've only got a year or two left to wait:
1. 16bpc (and 32bpc) (native, pending for GIMP 2.9+)
2. CMYK (Plugin, supporting GIMP 2.4+)
3. Single-window mode for GUI (native, GIMP 2.7.3+)You only used one out of three, you guys are putting less effort into this as the years go by. Guess Gimp has been winning for a while now
Now who's not putting in enough effort?
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Re:sometimes it takes a crisis
Actually Extremadura did not need the crisis for this specific endeavour. Maybe only to complete the migration. Extremadura has had its own distro since the early 2000s (called Linex). It was one of the first state sponsored distros out there. I don't know what the state of the migration was before this latest push, but it is certainly not a new initiative. They do seem to have created a new distro though. I'll have to see how it differs from Linex.
The crisis certainly did provide an additional motivation to complete the migration, for sure. But Extremadura was already a pretty poor place even before which had prompted its original plans.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linex
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Re:sometimes it takes a crisis
Actually Extremadura did not need the crisis for this. It has had its own distro since about 2001 (called Linex). It was one of the first state sponsored distros out there. I don't know what the state of the migration was, but it is not a new initiative. They do seem to have created a new distro though. I'll have to see how it differs from Linex. It's probably more about completing the migration that had started some time back and would have been delayed by some leftover compatibility issues.
The crisis certainly did provide an additional motivation for sure. But Extremadura was already a pretty poor place even before which had prompted its original plans.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linex
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My list
Print:
1) The Economist. Very informative. Their politics are not hidden, and socially, they're definitely left of center. Financially, they're the "Voice of the Plutonomy." But, it works. The articles are typically quite informative.Online magazines:
1) IEEE Spectrum
2) Communications of the ACM
3) Dr. Dobbs
4) Infoworld
5) Linux Journal
6) Machine DesignAnd a variety of online information sources for current events. Typically, Google and Google News are good starting points.
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Re:Get in on the action?Jim Allchin, when he was the number four guy at Microsoft, more than a decade ago, at about the time of the DOJ vs Microsoft antitrust trial, said that Open Source was un-American and that the legislators needed to be educated to the danger. That is from memory. As much as I hate to provide citations, let me google that . . . oh here . . .
Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
Here is a bit . .According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.
Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.
As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition. -
Re:no
tripwire much ?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2160 "Tripping up Intruders with Tripwire, Issue #40, Aug 01, 1997"
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I go every year
LinuxFest Northwest is a great event. I encourage you to go if you can.
Here are a couple of articles I wrote for Linux Journal about LFNW:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6839
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8339At LFNW I have attended some really outstanding lectures, sometimes by famous or important people. George Dyson lives in the area and he sometimes gives a talk; every time I have attended one of his talks it was great.
They have a raffle with some cool prizes every year. There are always O'Reilly books, and sometimes they have things like "one year of virtual server hosting".
The Bellingham Technical College is a great venue for the event. Lots of parking, lots of classrooms for talks, lots of space for the vendor hall, a snack bar that serves espresso drinks... they also serve up a lunch; usually on Saturday the lunch offers salmon grilled over a wood fire.
I hope to see you there.
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I go every year
LinuxFest Northwest is a great event. I encourage you to go if you can.
Here are a couple of articles I wrote for Linux Journal about LFNW:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6839
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8339At LFNW I have attended some really outstanding lectures, sometimes by famous or important people. George Dyson lives in the area and he sometimes gives a talk; every time I have attended one of his talks it was great.
They have a raffle with some cool prizes every year. There are always O'Reilly books, and sometimes they have things like "one year of virtual server hosting".
The Bellingham Technical College is a great venue for the event. Lots of parking, lots of classrooms for talks, lots of space for the vendor hall, a snack bar that serves espresso drinks... they also serve up a lunch; usually on Saturday the lunch offers salmon grilled over a wood fire.
I hope to see you there.
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Re:DRM-free largely stops at 1922
But what professional-quality ebooks are lawfully distributed DRM-free?
There quite a few publishers with "DRM free only" e-books. For example:
http://www.manning.com/
http://oreilly.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/Encourage them if you do not like DRMed books.
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a humidity/temp controller?
Anyone know of linux software that can do what this hardware/embedded software/firmware can do to control humidity/temperature? It needs to turn electrical outlets on/off like in the linux journal article (relays), to control temp and humidity. The idea of the project is to control a room's temp by controlling two fans placed inside flexible ducting run from the room to two outer room locations, one to a cold room, one to a hot room, so that if the monitored room needs heat, it exhausts from a duct tube with a fan in the end of it, the air near the floor to the cold room, and pulls hot air from the hot room to the monitored room with the duct exhausting near the ceiling of the monitored room. And if the room is too hot, the fan in the "ceiling" duct reverses or a second fan/duct near the ceiling pushes hot air from the monitored room to the hot room, and pulls cold air from the cold room and delivers it to the monitored room. The humidity control would also work to pull/push air from rooms with varying humidity (or from outside) to the monitored room as needed when temperature control is secondary.
Can this be done without using embedded or real-time kernel software, just a regular script or simple written program running in a linux distro with a html or other interface to enter temp or humidity limits? Without being an expert in snmp or embedded languages?
The raspberry pi would be perfect for this and far cheaper than the board in the article (which I already own and is sitting in its original box because of the complexity of the software/code). That is if the raspberry pi can control relays. -
Re:JS Speed is the deciding factor in modern webpa
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Re:Get a signature PC
You have to look pretty hard at particular niche markets to find examples, as you have shown. That being said, there are numerous alternatives, though much like Photoshop there will certainly be some who just have to use AutoCAD. I've never heard of LaCerte, but it most likely runs just fine on Linux using Wine or Crossover.
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Re:Typical Instructor
Security Systems: http://www.zoneminder.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8513
http://linas.org/linux/secure.html
Alarm Systems: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/How+to+implement+an+alarm+system+with+Asterisk+and+a+webcam
http://www.linux-support.com/cms/diy-burglar-alarm-system/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/interfacing-disparate-systems
CCTV: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/build-your-own-surveillance-zoneminder
http://www.seattlesurveillance.com/
Building Automation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092658050500097X
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029022
Engineering Apps: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Software_Applications/Science_-_Engineering/index.html
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Re:Typical Instructor
Security Systems: http://www.zoneminder.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8513
http://linas.org/linux/secure.html
Alarm Systems: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/How+to+implement+an+alarm+system+with+Asterisk+and+a+webcam
http://www.linux-support.com/cms/diy-burglar-alarm-system/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/interfacing-disparate-systems
CCTV: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/build-your-own-surveillance-zoneminder
http://www.seattlesurveillance.com/
Building Automation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092658050500097X
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029022
Engineering Apps: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Software_Applications/Science_-_Engineering/index.html
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Re:all in all...
Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.
Depends on what you do with it. My "15-inch monster" isn't too bad - it's a Retina MBP, so it's relatively light and thin - and I use it as my primary machine, so I want a bit more "disk" space and screen space. I mainly move it around the house, so it's good that it's portable, but it doesn't have to be as portable as a road warrior's machine.
I wonder what distro Linux uses?
Well, at least earlier in 2012, part of the answer was "not OpenSUSE", at least on the laptop. He's apparently used Fedora in the past, at least; he probably doesn't use any of the Real Man's Linux Distributions, given that, at least back in 2007, he said "Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me."
If he uses a GUI or a CLI? If GUI (which I doubt), which one?
Prepare to have your doubts busted; at least as of whenever he made the announcement (I'm not going to sign into my Google account just to read his posting, but the article in question is from April 2011), he was using Xfce, after switching from KDE 4 to GNOME 2.
Of course, "GUI or CLI" is a bit ill-stated. I "use a GUI" in the sense that I don't do a console login on my Mac and run on the console tty, but a lot of what I do is in a GUI app called "Terminal", so I'm using a CLI in a GUI. In the 2007 interview in answer to "What software do you use everyday? Your browser, desktop (if any), email client and so on?" he said "Well, ignoring the actual development stuff (make, compiler, editor etc), it ends up being mostly just xterms and "alpine" (the newer version of the venerable old "pine" email reader. Strictly text-based, thank you very much)." In the next paragraph he also included a browser, but it sounds as if it's in the "a lot is a CLI in a GUI" category.
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Debian installer: "Software Selection" screen
http://www.linuxjournal.com/ufiles/debian_netinstall.png
If you do a netinstall, there comes a point when you are asked if you want to install a "Standard system" and there is a choice for "Desktop environment" without any futher choice. In Debian, this meant gnome. If you do the same with ubuntu (minimal iso=netinstall), it shows a longer list with choices including lxde, xfce, kde an others.
http://i.imgur.com/DTFyq.pngDebian does have better tasksel choices, but they are not exposed by the installer. Sure, any pro user can stick to Standard system and after finishing, complete the install from the command line (either by running tasksel and or apt-get/aptitude, etc.
But the point is, if you do pick "Standard" and "Desktop" in the installer, it would install a gnome desktop.
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Re:Why Python?
As he (and many other comments here explain), most of the "issues" people think Python have (like the significant whitespace part) aren't even noticeable after a short while.
And as he points out, it's a language that's well designed and easy to both learn and work with.
IMHO, with it's modular approach it's very structured and self-similar. And the duck typing approach makes the modularity even stronger.
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Samba and SFTP
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Re:Well, duh
Replying to myself, an interesting tidbit, from Linux Journal
The average household income of their readers is $128,000. That's not too bad for an average!
Yeah, those Linux users still reading dead tree magazines - or rather those who are employed by companies wasting their money by subscribing those for them. But what about the other 99% of Linux users?
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Re:Well, duh
All jokes aside,I wouldn't be so sure about that. Linux users tend to be pretty technologically sophisticated, and such sophistication often earns well in today's society.
Replying to myself, an interesting tidbit, from Linux Journal
The average household income of their readers is $128,000. That's not too bad for an average!
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Re:Not quite
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/allegations-openbsd-backdoors-may-be-true
That was old news. A code audit of the IPSEC sub-system was performed by Theo de Raadt and no backdoors were found. Instead, a few bugs were fixed. It isn't a good idea to keep FUD that has been disproven alive.
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Not quite
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Re:not sure
It may well depend on what state you live in.
Personally, the better option would be to just not bother with Windows 8, and demand a refund (or if the OEM allows it, demand a non-Windows 8 preload). If Microsoft refuses to refund your money, take them to small claims court for that refund.
I wonder though - can an enterprising lawyer raise up a class-action lawsuit over the EULA clause itself?
There is a new computer bios called eufi. The bios is microprocessor controlled. and requires certification from the operating system before the system can be installed. Eufi can block everything since the bios needs the correct security key to allow loading of the kernel. Microsoft has been the instigator of this EUFI interface. Linux vendors will have to pay MS for the privilege of allowing their OPSYS to be installed. (I read it was a $99 tax).
So, perhaps the EUFI chip can be pluggable, where you can remove it and revert to a EUFI bios that uses a common security key.
Oh yes, whats also coming is EUFI HDMI output. Your monitor will sign into your system, as will your printer. DRM is being applied all the way. The only legal ?? way to make a copy of a movie you purchase or an e-book will be via webcam or a remote camera, doing the recording.
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Re:not sure
It may well depend on what state you live in.
Personally, the better option would be to just not bother with Windows 8, and demand a refund (or if the OEM allows it, demand a non-Windows 8 preload). If Microsoft refuses to refund your money, take them to small claims court for that refund.
I wonder though - can an enterprising lawyer raise up a class-action lawsuit over the EULA clause itself?
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Re:WWSD?
Good one!
I remembered this conference in Belfast years ago; when an Oracle executive got grilled for describing some products as 'free'....
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8941
"Owen Hughes, of Oracle, managed not to fall afoul of Stallman. Instead, Hughes angered the entire audience. Working from a
slick presentation that was more "sales pitch" than "technical
information", Hughes referred to numerous Oracle products that are
"free". For each product, the standard pitch was, "I've used this. It's
really cool. You should take a look at it. Download it for free from...".
After a handful of comments like this, the audience could contain
itself no longer. A quick question from the floor asked, "It is free as
in speech or free as in beer?". Hughes wasn't sure how to answer. A
voice from the back of the hall called out, "Don't use the word 'free'
to describe this, use 'cost-less'". It soon became clear that what is
"free" to Oracle, is not "free" to the vast majority of conference
attendees. This distinction was the cue for others to ask if Oracle distributed the
source code to these "free" products. Hughes looked positively shocked
that someone would ask such a question of him, then meekly replied, "No,
source code is not included." From the floor, Bruce Perens offered
Hughes some advice, "You need to clean this up before presenting it to
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Re:Enhancement, from the NSA?
It would be small contractors that are used as a proxy for government influence. That is generally the way it has been done in the past, like with the attempts on OpenBSD from NETSEC (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/allegations-openbsd-backdoors-may-be-true). Having small companies helps defuse the legal risks that would otherwise be present with a high-profile government contractor or sub-contractor.
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Re:Open source was never the way to get rich
It's not like one could develop an OS kernel based on some documented open API.
One of the first design goals for Linux was following POSIX, even though the standard was too expensive for Linus. While standards like POSIX and TCP/IP don't directly state how an OS kernel must be written, wanting to comply with them does shape the basic form the kernel needs to take.
If you read the Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate thread, one of the recurring themes there is that even having easily available source code (as MINIX did) isn't enough. One of the necessary components to growing a software community is one or more maintainers willing to incorporate changes from contributors. And that's where these web service oriented companies fail the worst.
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Re:Where is your license mentioned?The license says
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
In other words, for scripts, plain ASCII text is "good enough." You CAN edit them, as opposed to a binary blob.
Besides, scripts (whether php, python, javascript, whatever) do NOT link at any point to each other, even if they have an "include" call - they don't actually include the file and create a derived work (rather, the runtime - NOT your code - calls any such routines) - the original code for both is unchanged, both on disk and - just as importantly - in memory.
So you can distribute closed-source modules to work with gplv2 code without problems - no derived work is ever created, and there is no linking. Don't take my word for it - Larry Rosen (the lawyer for the open source initiative) has said the same thing.
