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Thomson: MP3 Licensing Same As It Ever Was
Thomson Multimedia is downplaying the
recently reported change
in the
licensing
of patented MP3 technology as nothing more than a trivial, semantic change.
In a NewsForge report today,
Robin ("roblimo") Miller quotes a spokesman who denies that any change in the licensing terms has taken place, "that Thomson laid down its licensing terms long ago, and that if Thomson's terms are not compatible with the GPL today, then they never were." The patent encumbrance of MP3 codecs has worried Free software enthusiasts for a long time; if the recent wording change represents no change in policy, it seems that they really have been right all along.
(NewsForge,
like Slashdot, is part of the
sinister OSDN keiretsu.)
Anyone beat me?????
linux ruzlzzz
(ILL KILL MYSELF IF THIS IS MODDED Down
THE SCIENCE ACADEMY USES ogg!@#EFUCK THEM.
We are at war with Eurasia.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
you have been
--yoda troll
(props to poop bot)
The rogue modules are at this moment trying to send tarred copies of the servers' filesystems to various *.no domains associated with the notorious elderly hacker group DIAPERS. Based on logfile analysis up to this point, apparently DIAPERS is primarily interested in email and personal documents relating to unreported security-related bugs in Apache 2.0.
The Apache Group -- led by Sven Fijlmijup of Apache Europe -- are currently trying to learn as much as possible about the attack to increase the chances that INTERPOL will be able to find and arrest the responsible elderly. Afterwards, all Apache.org websites will but SHUT DOWN until tomorrow at 8:00AM GMT, at which time a single newly-installed server will be deployed and the Apache USA group will post more information about the attack. NOTE THAT AT THIS MOMENT IT APPEARS THE PRIMARY CVS SERVERS WERE ISOLATED FROM THE ATTACK. Apache AustralAsia has taken reponsibilty for diffing the CVS repository against secure backups and Apache Canada will be joining them later this week to ensure that the Apache source code itself has not been compromised.
So please do not be alarmed but PLEASE DO NOT VISIT APACHE.ORG as their bandwidth is effectively hosed by the reverse-DDOS. All that is accessible is a hacked index page that contains a shoutout to various DIAPER hackers. I have reproduced the shoutout here so that you have no possible reason to visit Apache.org and further murder their bandwidth.
Thank you for your time.-- The_Messenger
Apache Russia
We don't do such sick sexual games here.
Slashdat, like my asian girlfriend's dark, tight vagina, is wrapped in hysterics.
haven't seen that one before.
I'll have to start using that inappropriately in daily conversation as often as I can muster.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
You play with magnetic poetry, don't you?
You need a FREE iPod Nano
Thank god, /. removed the plagarized comment.
Thanks guys.
Fuck you! Fuck off!
Semantic difference. Choose one.
Interesting link re: that:3 63/keir etsu/keiretsu.htm
s u/ )
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~evans/teach
It's like "Zaibatsu" (though surely someone who knows Japanese will correct me on how different the words really are; I have heard them used interchangeably, but only by Americans speaking English, and do not know Japanese). See also this game:
(//www.angelfire.com/games3/errantknight/zaibat
Or (Korean) like the giant industrial combines called Chaebol, which are based on Japanese industrial practices, thanks to Japan rudely visiting longer than was polite in the late 19th, early-mid 20th century. There are still some grudges being nursed.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
You do of course understand that OSDN is a joke.
WAR IS PEACE
what difference does it make? The content is just as insightful to you, if you haven't read it.
it's just like nbc's old line, it's new to you if you haven't seen it.