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The Cathedral In The Bazaar?
replicant_deckard writes "This opinion piece I wrote to Open explains how dual licensing (simultaneous use of both GPL and proprietary license) works. Dual licensing gives you basically both the support of the community and a profitable Microsoft-like business model. Seems that this model used by MySQL and TrollTech is getting more popular. Now my question is where are the limits?"
Well, I felt it was more entertaining than most films are, and the fact that it did so while presenting interesting content that's not well-known or even discussed (it was never in any of my historical textbooks) was certainly a plus.
I really enjoy DiCaprio's films, partly because he's a good, attractive young actor, but also because they tend to be very good scripts with top-notch screenwriters, directors, and producers behind them.
DiCaprio's first couple films were great, but Titanic upset some folks because they felt it was an easy role for him and they probably disliked that he got so big, so fast. Catch Me If You Can, just released last month, was also a great film, so I'm excited to see his next ones as well.
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Fuck off-topic and fuck karma.
The entire movie I was thinking pretty much the following:
*Alright, pretty much NO backstory WHATSOEVER, but it's alright because the ending is gonna rock.
*Cameron Diaz's character serves no real purpose, but that's ok, because the ending is gonna rock.
*On second thought, NO characters(besides Leo's and Daniel's) serve a purpose, but the ending is gonna rock.(Well, the Irish Sheriff-elect was a pretty good character, fucking shame out that fucker went down. I literally cringed when I watched that scene.)
So we get to the end..and it fucking sucks. So anti-climatic, so much of a let-down.
One thing that still makes me shake my head in awe was Liam Neeson's performance. Fucker was in that movie for like 5 minutes, had maybe 10 lines, and stole the movie. You can't tell me that fool isn't one of the better actors on the planet right now.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
But what do I know, I'm just an orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon (once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits)
Uh....ok. After reading that sig I'd say you were the bastard love child of Fat Chick #3 and Richard Simmons(once, and always, chief fag of the fags)
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Make 'em say ughhhh, ughhhh, na-na, na-na!
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While dual licensing is fine in most cases (free for individuals, not for corporations), double-standards almost always spell a potential for danger. For example, what happens if someone decides their source is open to members of the Inuit community but closed to all other ethinic groups? Then we might have a problem. Worse yet, could the precedent set on the resulting court case place all dual licensing schemes into jeopardy? If the ruling were too broad (multiple licensing standards are illegal vs "group"-biased (race, ethnicity, sex, sex pref, etc) licensing is illegal) competitors could use this issue to destroy dual licensing schemes all together.
Fuck off-topic and fuck karma.
Are we a Tool fan, by chance? ;-)
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Well...I don't recall it going for days with no stories, but check out the wayback machine as there are some older front pages from slashdot there that kinda point at what I am talking about. There were not as many stories back then...and sure, one could argue that it's because the site has grown...but the number of good stories is seldom any higher. Now we get alot more Anime/Manga crap and really bad politics. Granted - I am pretty cool with this community sticking it to the RIAA/MPAA/DMCA and a few other acronyms, but I think they seriously need to get a clue on some of the other political articles (Slashdot logic often goes like this: If you agree with my politics, you are intelligent and cultured. If not, you are a moron.)...some of the writing is just plain rediculous and inflammatory. The writing was never great...I know...but I didn't recall it sinking to the levels it has been on occasion, in recent memory. Oh well...at least in the end Katz got outted as a kook for once and for all...I never did hear exactly what happened there, but not too long after the Junis incident, he kinda vanished.
In fairness, todays stories actually weren't too bad, which is why I am actually surfing slashdot today...but like I said...IMHO (and I don't think I am alone), I think the overall quality of slashdot has really slid alot. They've tried to appeal to alot broader of an audience (hey...it pays $. Maybe Malda is due for a new BMW by now...the lease is probably up on his last one.), and it's kinda alienated alot of geeks on some level.
Eh...I am just ranting. Pay no attention...it's all just MHO.