The berne convention is an international agreement on respecting copyrights, it NEVER mentions the word "patent", so, eventhough I didn't take the time to read it, I'd say that it is a safe bet that the Berne convention has nothing to say about patents.
What if the software that was pirated, that way the R-engineer would have been guilty of breaking the copyright law, and pre-broken the "agreement" was already broken, logn before he started to work on the software...
Last time I looked the crime of pirating didn't carry any punishment worth speaking of...
It seems to me that UNISYS are just being anal about people using anything that tastes like LZW, but what I don't understand is why people try to comply with their insane demands...
There really is no point in jumping through hoops becasue of patents as long as we are talking OpenSource. OSS is not subject to patentlaws, as every patent violating line of code can be rolled up in a patch or a lib and placed on a server in the free world where software patents are void.
Actually putting up a single server with all the patent violating code would be very helpful as the local judge would quickly get used to booting whiney patent-holders out of court:=)
BTW if anyone starts a patent-violation archive, know this: "Off-site backup is your friend".
Please stop using inaccurate analogies, guns have one purpose; killing.
There is absolutely NO non-violent use for guns, crypto however have plenty of legitimate uses.
The only country in the world where handguns are acceptable is the us (well apart from the law-less banna-republics) so please try to stop using gun-analogies, they fail with the largest part of your audience.
Reno is not a commie, 'mericans have no idea what communist means, they just label any politics they don't understand that way, because they have been trained to think of politics as 100% black/white issues.
This situation is a perfect example of the defectiveness of the round-robin dictatorship that is in place in the US.
What if your current dictator is acting as it is because it wants to make it easier for the NSA to spy on non-US companies so their US competitors can get their hands on their technology and contracts.
It has happened before you know, so maybe reno is just trying to help ineffective US companies afloat by stealing trade-secrets from non-us companies...
Oh well, I guess this is pretty much the same as when my country makes bribes in 3'rd world contries (like the US) tax-deductable:)
Reno is not a commie, 'mericans have no idea what communist means, they just label any politics they don't understand that way, because they have been trained to think of politics as 100% black/white issues.
This situation is a perfect example of the defectiveness of the round-robin dictatorship that is in place in the US.
What if your current dictator is acting as it is because it wants to make it easier for the NSA to spy on non-US companies so their US competitors can get their hands on their technology and contracts.
It has happened before you know, so maybe reno is just trying to help ineffective US companies afloat by stealing trade-secrets from non-us companies...
1) The BEST way to spend your energy is to study the tech details and find a way to identify the ideas they have used and come up with comparable ones or implementations of them.
2) It doesn't hurt to bash M$, it might even be good for your mental health after suffering an M$ product.
3) There is no statistical evidence that M$ is capable of producing anything stable or efficient, so it is a safe bet that jAnus will be disaster as well.
I don't think bashing hurts as long as it doesn't divert attention away from work and people who trawl/. are not working so there is really no harm done...
I've been told (by a friend of mine who works on Tandem machines, for compaq.tandem.twinsof) that they rely on checkpointing.
So that you call a checkpoint routine every now and again and when a node fails the machine just resumes the process on another node.
Each node is essentially a computer with its own OS, but these nodes are all placed in the same box under very tight control of the overall OS.
The checkpointing thing in Tandem reminds me of condor and mosix, both of wich are working projects, but not highly integrated into the OS.
The building blocks for a really good HA solution is there, it's just up to someone to pick it up.
Hmm, serializability of objects in Java is almost universal, so building a HA cluster that runs Java is probably simpler than building one that runs lowlevel binaries, someone should look into this.
Get a grip, imlib is tied to X, you can't use it if you're just a console app, imho that sucks, I'd like to be able to do my routine image processing without X.
The thread sw article in LJ actually showed that NT did slightly better than Linux at very high loads (> 30 I think the number was) but that Linux generally did better than NT under realistic loads.
The very high load situation could be fixed by a few slight changes to the kernel.
forking is much more expensive under NT than under Linux btw...
Linux a religion? hmm, I don't mind as long as nobody starts converting people using swords:)
An amazing thing happend to me this easter, a cute girl came up to me and asked about some stuff I did in php3, this was fairly suprising, but when I found out that she actually knew c++ I was blown away...
Yet, still we need more girls like that, maybe we should "co-opt their media"(tm):)
Hmm, maybe we could get mattel to lauch "Hacker Barbie" and "Coder Ken":)
Let's hope that golgotha can reduce westwood to making games for the golgotha engine in stead of pushing their own tired crap with expensive actors rather than actual game play...
Aol buys Netscape, and now Iomega buys SyQuest, what the hell is going on?
I just hope that the tech-impaired Iomega has enough brains to dump zip and continue the sparQ and EZ lines... hmm, maybe I should go and horde all the sparQ drives and media I can get my hands on right now.
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Well, if you pirate a piece of software that costs in the area of $10, once, you are NOT going to get _ANY_ sort of punishment...
Sorry, no cigar...
The berne convention is an international agreement on respecting copyrights, it NEVER mentions the word "patent", so, eventhough I didn't take the time to read it, I'd say that it is a safe bet that the Berne convention has nothing to say about patents.
So it seems I still live in the free world:)
What if the software that was pirated, that way the R-engineer would have been guilty of breaking the copyright law, and pre-broken the "agreement" was already broken, logn before he started to work on the software...
Last time I looked the crime of pirating didn't
carry any punishment worth speaking of...
But then again, IANAL.
It seems to me that UNISYS are just being anal about people using anything that tastes like LZW, but what I don't understand is why people try to comply with their insane demands...
There really is no point in jumping through hoops becasue of patents as long as we are talking OpenSource.
OSS is not subject to patentlaws, as every patent violating line of code can be rolled up in a patch or a lib and placed on a server in the free world where software patents are void.
Actually putting up a single server with all the patent violating code would be very helpful as the local judge would quickly get used to booting whiney patent-holders out of court:=)
BTW if anyone starts a patent-violation archive, know this: "Off-site backup is your friend".
If you had a say in what your taxes go to then it wouldn't be called tax, would it?
Please stop using inaccurate analogies, guns have one purpose; killing.
There is absolutely NO non-violent use for guns, crypto however have plenty of legitimate uses.
The only country in the world where handguns are acceptable is the us (well apart from the law-less banna-republics) so please try to stop using gun-analogies, they fail with the largest part of your audience.
Reno is not a commie, 'mericans have no idea what communist means, they just label any politics they don't understand that way, because they have been trained to think of politics as 100% black/white issues.
This situation is a perfect example of the defectiveness of the round-robin dictatorship that is in place in the US.
What if your current dictator is acting as it is because it wants to make it easier for the NSA to spy on non-US companies so their US competitors can get their hands on their technology and contracts.
It has happened before you know, so maybe reno is just trying to help ineffective US companies afloat by stealing trade-secrets from non-us companies...
Oh well, I guess this is pretty much the same as when my country makes bribes in 3'rd world contries (like the US) tax-deductable:)
Reno is not a commie, 'mericans have no idea what communist means, they just label any politics they don't understand that way, because they have been trained to think of politics as 100% black/white issues.
This situation is a perfect example of the defectiveness of the round-robin dictatorship that is in place in the US.
What if your current dictator is acting as it is because it wants to make it easier for the NSA to spy on non-US companies so their US competitors can get their hands on their technology and contracts.
It has happened before you know, so maybe reno is just trying to help ineffective US companies afloat by stealing trade-secrets from non-us companies...
I quite agree, however:
/. are not working so there is really no harm done...
1) The BEST way to spend your energy is to study the tech details and find a way to identify the ideas they have used and come up with comparable ones or implementations of them.
2) It doesn't hurt to bash M$, it might even be good for your mental health after suffering an M$ product.
3) There is no statistical evidence that M$ is capable of producing anything stable or efficient, so it is a safe bet that jAnus will be disaster as well.
I don't think bashing hurts as long as it doesn't divert attention away from work and people who trawl
I've been told (by a friend of mine who works on Tandem machines, for compaq.tandem.twinsof) that they rely on checkpointing.
So that you call a checkpoint routine every now and again and when a node fails the machine just resumes the process on another node.
Each node is essentially a computer with its own OS, but these nodes are all placed in the same box under very tight control of the overall OS.
The checkpointing thing in Tandem reminds me of condor and mosix, both of wich are working projects, but not highly integrated into the OS.
The building blocks for a really good HA solution is there, it's just up to someone to pick it up.
Hmm, serializability of objects in Java is almost universal, so building a HA cluster that runs Java is probably simpler than building one that runs lowlevel binaries, someone should look into this.
just ask yourself one question:
Who makes mp3's?
And then ask another one:
Will they care?
The answers are: everyone, nope.
Get a grip, imlib is tied to X, you can't use it if you're just a console app, imho that sucks, I'd like to be able to do my routine image processing without X.
The thread sw article in LJ actually showed that NT did slightly better than Linux at very high loads (> 30 I think the number was) but that Linux generally did better than NT under realistic loads.
The very high load situation could be fixed by a few slight changes to the kernel.
forking is much more expensive under NT than under Linux btw...
Linux a religion? hmm, I don't mind as long as nobody starts converting people using swords:)
As a yugo owner I can only resent that you compare my car to anything from Redmond!
My car has outlived the country it was built in, do that with a ford!
It's place of origin was bombed by NATO forces, do that with windows!
no really, NATO ought to spend some airpower on Micos~1!
Please call the imposter MindCraft, not netcraft...
I'm begining to think that this is all a conspiracy to undermine Netcraft:)
Read http://www.opensource.org/
especially the case studies...
This reminds me of Borlands renaming idea, why is it that companies with wellknown names have this urge to throw them away?
An amazing thing happend to me this easter, a cute girl came up to me and asked about some stuff I did in php3, this was fairly suprising, but when I found out that she actually knew c++ I was blown away...
:)
:)
Yet, still we need more girls like that, maybe we should "co-opt their media"(tm)
Hmm, maybe we could get mattel to lauch "Hacker Barbie" and "Coder Ken"
This is just part of the normal M$ Embrace and Extend tactic...
Adopt all the special features of your counterpart so that the enemys product doesn't seem different than yours...
But they forget that you can't fake stability or sound design, it will be fun to see them fall on their face with this:)
Hmm, Billy is getting old, that was a pretty weak FUD he got off there.
The lies were much too easy to spot.
It's no wonder that he is rarely let out of his cryo-chamber...
Hmm, sounds just right for an informercial, I wonder if it fits under the bed...
duck and cover!
oh, goodie...
Let's hope that golgotha can reduce westwood to making games for the golgotha engine in stead of pushing their own tired crap with expensive actors rather than actual game play...
In other words: Go Golgotha!
Aol buys Netscape, and now Iomega buys SyQuest, what the hell is going on?
I just hope that the tech-impaired Iomega has enough brains to dump zip and continue the sparQ and EZ lines... hmm, maybe I should go and horde all the sparQ drives and media I can get my hands on right now.