I mean, if I do a guitar solo and it happens that 3 notes used several times sound like, oh, 'cat scratch fever' or 'smoke on the water' (same riff, by the way), am I violating ownership?
But Ted Nugent still used his own little fingers and his own guitar to copy Ritchie Blackmore; he didn't record 'Smoke on the Water', change the rhythm and called it a 'new song'.
People can still rip off 'Eruption' and 'Foxy Lady' all they want; they just can't tweak the _recording_ of 'Foxy Lady', call it an original composition and not pay royalties. That's the difference.
I just hope that in the next few weeks we won't see a disaster like the Slammer worm.
That, in a nutshell, destroys the entire article. The end user shouldn't be forced to "hope" that bad things won't happen to their computers. Any vendor that instills so much lack of confidence in their products doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Just because a Linux distribution might include BSD licensed software, that does not mean that the Linux Kernel includes BSD licensed source code.
But it does; much of the PPP compression code is BSD licensed, if memory serves correct. Does that make Linux any purer than BSD? No. Does that make BSD superior than Linux? No.
Somehow I doubt that Linus was dreaming of having an "ideologically pure" kernel when he wrote Linux, but through the machinations of 3rd parties Linux has, for many, become the new Holy War of this century.
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I mean, if I do a guitar solo and it happens that 3 notes used several times sound like, oh, 'cat scratch fever' or 'smoke on the water' (same riff, by the way), am I violating ownership?
But Ted Nugent still used his own little fingers and his own guitar to copy Ritchie Blackmore; he didn't record 'Smoke on the Water', change the rhythm and called it a 'new song'.
People can still rip off 'Eruption' and 'Foxy Lady' all they want; they just can't tweak the _recording_ of 'Foxy Lady', call it an original composition and not pay royalties. That's the difference.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8233268776.html
L-shaped enter key?
Pass.
Does this mean you'll soon be able to ditch OS X and stick on Solaris 10 onto Macs?
IBM Power != Mac, silly rabbit.
I just hope that in the next few weeks we won't see a disaster like the Slammer worm.
That, in a nutshell, destroys the entire article. The end user shouldn't be forced to "hope" that bad things won't happen to their computers. Any vendor that instills so much lack of confidence in their products doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Is in compliance, or at least appear to be.
Tin Weasil writes:
Just because a Linux distribution might include BSD licensed software, that does not mean that the Linux Kernel includes BSD licensed source code.
But it does; much of the PPP compression code is BSD licensed, if memory serves correct. Does that make Linux any purer than BSD? No. Does that make BSD superior than Linux? No.
Somehow I doubt that Linus was dreaming of having an "ideologically pure" kernel when he wrote Linux, but through the machinations of 3rd parties Linux has, for many, become the new Holy War of this century.
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