No, free software means it doesn't cost you anything.
Just because it is free software doesn't mean they have the source available. free (beer) != free (speech)
open source = source code is made available
free software = source code is not only made available, but you are free to use that source however you wish, assuming you abide by the guidelines presented in the free software license, assuming there are any
It took just over a day for that package to completely sell out, earning Reznor $750,000 in revenue from just that option alone. Time for a $750,000 smack party!!!
But in all seriousness, this is pretty bad ass. I know that the labels have put him through hell in the past. It's nice to see him thriving on his own now. I hope this sparks a music industry revolution
what open source can learn from Microsoft You mean like how to rush stuff to market? Or perhaps how to copy features (poorly) from successful competing products and patent as your own? Or maybe you mean how to publish an API in which you promise not to sue people for utilizing it, only to stab your users in the back as soon as they make something better than you (that's soon to come down the pipe I'm sure)? I've said it once and I'll say it a million times. Fuck off Microsoft. The world doesn't need you. Sooner or later the rest of the world will realize that and throw you away like a parking ticket.
I've trained myself to pretty much redirect announcements from Microsoft employees regarding anything to/dev/null..much like what I do during presidential campaigns.
Can't we just round up all of the selfish groups of people that demand the world revolve around them, stick them on an island somewhere, and watch them all kill each other off? Yano, kinda like 'Battle Royal', but with fucked up adults instead of high-schoolers.
Agreed. Of all the things to rice out on a computer (which I think is stupid as a whole), why the keyboard? My keyboard gets about as much visual attention as my mouse.
Exactly..you can't just overlook decades of market abuse just because Microsoft promises a few things. Only an idiot would take their word on issues like this w/out a huge grain of salt given their past documented history.
So which projects would most benefit from having these APIs? WINE, of course. Maybe also mail clients and Samba. Anything else? Zimbra + Outlook integration comes to mind
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Microsoft always giving this shit away for free? I know that I never bought a copy of Visual Studio when I was in school....we had access to some MS academic alliance site where we could go and download this stuff for free.
You wouldn't..just steal the fscking service. It's not very hard. Follow these simple steps:
Establish layer 2 connectivity (connect to the wifi network)
Populate your arp cache with other MACs/IPs on the network (nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 works nicely..substitute the proper subnet of course)
Pick a MAC/IP pair at random, and set your MAC/IP to these values, but don't use the MAC/IP of the firewall
Test connection (ping google.com or try browser)
Repeat the last 2 steps as necessary until you get past their firewall
...
Profit!
The idea here is that you're going to keep tryign MAC/IPs on the network until you find a pair that belongs to someone that's already paid for a connection, thus their IP is already being let through the firewall. The MAC spoofing is necessary because eventually the firewall will refresh itself based on a list of MACs that are registered as having already paid for a connection. Enjoy!
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By my definition, they are...but not free (gratis or libre).
I tend to go with the definitions that were there first. FSF was founded in 1985, whereas the OSI was founded in 1998.
Just because it is free software doesn't mean they have the source available. free (beer) != free (speech)
open source = source code is made available
free software = source code is not only made available, but you are free to use that source however you wish, assuming you abide by the guidelines presented in the free software license, assuming there are any
But in all seriousness, this is pretty bad ass. I know that the labels have put him through hell in the past. It's nice to see him thriving on his own now. I hope this sparks a music industry revolution
So, um...how does this comply with separation of church and state?
If I had a nickel every time Ballmer squeezed in the world 'value' into a sentence, I'd be a very valuable person.
I've trained myself to pretty much redirect announcements from Microsoft employees regarding anything to /dev/null..much like what I do during presidential campaigns.
Can't we just round up all of the selfish groups of people that demand the world revolve around them, stick them on an island somewhere, and watch them all kill each other off? Yano, kinda like 'Battle Royal', but with fucked up adults instead of high-schoolers.
Agreed. Of all the things to rice out on a computer (which I think is stupid as a whole), why the keyboard? My keyboard gets about as much visual attention as my mouse.
Exactly..you can't just overlook decades of market abuse just because Microsoft promises a few things. Only an idiot would take their word on issues like this w/out a huge grain of salt given their past documented history.
Now I can pretend to be a real lawyer, as opposed to a slashdot lawyer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Microsoft always giving this shit away for free? I know that I never bought a copy of Visual Studio when I was in school....we had access to some MS academic alliance site where we could go and download this stuff for free.
Heh, thats the very first thing that I thought of when I read the article title.
- Establish layer 2 connectivity (connect to the wifi network)
- Populate your arp cache with other MACs/IPs on the network (nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 works nicely..substitute the proper subnet of course)
- Pick a MAC/IP pair at random, and set your MAC/IP to these values, but don't use the MAC/IP of the firewall
- Test connection (ping google.com or try browser)
- Repeat the last 2 steps as necessary until you get past their firewall
- ...
- Profit!
The idea here is that you're going to keep tryign MAC/IPs on the network until you find a pair that belongs to someone that's already paid for a connection, thus their IP is already being let through the firewall. The MAC spoofing is necessary because eventually the firewall will refresh itself based on a list of MACs that are registered as having already paid for a connection. Enjoy!Ah, nevermind...free to AT&T broadband subscribers...ghey.
Uh, wasn't there an article posted just the other day full of people bitching about how the new wifi service @ Starbucks is not going to be free?