Sure, you can do nearly everything - except have an interface that users can comprehend and use. Few people know or care what CLIs, GUIs and OSs are. Simply put, to 99% of users the GUI is the OS, and to hell with facts. While technically correct (the best sort) you're just being difficult for the sake of it. To 99% of users a CLI only interface simply means a broken computer. For fucks sake, even c64s had GEOS, how far back into history are you trying to push Linux?
Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read. However, there is this section:
(3) For an infringement of copyright that occurs in the course of the carrying out of a Category A activity, the relief that a court may grant against a carriage service provider is limited to one or more of the following orders:
(a) an order requiring the carriage service provider to take reasonable steps to disable access to an online location outside Australia;
(b) an order requiring the carriage service provider to terminate a specified account.
(4) For an infringement of copyright that occurs in the course of the carrying out of a Category B, C or D activity, the relief that a court may grant against a carriage service provider is limited to one or more of the following orders:
(a) an order requiring the carriage service provider to remove or disable access to infringing copyright material, or to a reference to infringing copyright material;
(b) an order requiring the carriage service provider to terminate a specified account;
(c) some other less burdensome but comparably effective nonmonetary order if necessary.
So while it protects them from monetary damages, it seems ARIA has a case under those laws. Not the reassurance I was hoping for.
I know this post and the parent is going to hit the Trolling trigger for some people
Well you are suggesting his success is the result of underage sexual favours and not talent. He's obviously highly intelligent and highly motivated, which does make him highly attractive, just not in a sexual way. Including such a slur is fair grounds to call out flamebait and troll. Next time, just try to contain your envy and jealousy and congratulate the lad for his good fortune you cynical bastard.
Microsoft basically took the BSD network code into Windows.
You claim this has not harmed BSD in any way, because they still have that code.
In fact, the BSD bunch have better code seeing as it stayed open. Yes, BSD is not just unharmed but strengthened by giving away source code to competitors. Without the ability to redistribute under any old license, they would never have become a de-facto standard.
So, if you are creating software with the purpose of reaching maximum popularity, or that the next "hop" (the next developers of it) can do what they want, BSD is for you.
If you want to develop software that is free, GPL is for you.
So, if I want open code that anyone is free to do with as they wish, I opt for BSD.
If I want open code that constrains derivatives to an identical model, I choose GPL.
They both result in free, open software. One constrains derivatives, one doesn't. This does not make one or the other better or worse, it just makes them different.
By no means does it make one free and the other not. Your last statement applies to all Open Source licenses.
Rephrasing your little encounter into 'Mac people don't have to be computer literate' shows that it is a good thing Mac users don't need to know what an operating system is or does. A good OS should be transparent and straightforward for the user.
Just imagine that comment coming from a Linux user. That's when Linux will be ready for the desktop.
Well, you seem to be lightly dismissing the proven patent violations and other legal fiascoes of Microsoft in favour of dubious and unproven claims of possible patent violations. You're comparing fact to FUD. It's also perfectly valid to compare the products under scrutiny, ie. Windows and Linux in regards to their patent issues. The fact that there is a single company behind one and many behind the other does not equate to FUD. With all the quoting you did of the GP you missed one - the meat of the GP, which lays out the facts behind Microsofts legal situation and explains straightforwardly why Linux is far less vulnerable to prosecution.
It's part of BillyG's law which states 'every eighteen months the amount of cruft and bloat in Windows will double'. This is of course a direct consequence of Newton's third law of motion. Next time Windows cuts your network traffic to 10%, blame Newton!
Seems to me his parents did an excellent job of raising a young aussie. It's a national pastime to say 'fuck you' to authority. He doesn't want to live in an Orwellian nightmare nanny state, and defied them with his aussie larrikin powers. So thanks, random year 10 student, and a big thank you to your parents too, for giving us this giant fuck you to Johnny Howard and co.
If someone wants to invest time and effort into a closed fork, good on them. Everyone else still has access to the original branch, and the creator of the fork isn't messing with any of those rights. I don't see any imbalance, the authors are not falling victim to anything as their original works are intact. The closed branch people are worse off - they aren't benefiting from the open model anymore. It's their loss, their mistake to make if they want to. The inherit superiority of open source makes GPL restrictions unnecessary and, well, too restrictive.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their view, which is why we should have a multitude of licenses. The GPL for those who want to protect the open nature of derivatives, others who care little about derivatives and focus on the work at hand. I guess I'm just trying to say that it should be up to the author of a work whether they wish to receive the same benefits back and the term Open Source shouldn't be a narrow subset, such as GPL compatible licenses only.
To finish your sig, "neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites (10) nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God."
I don't see porn mentioned anywhere. What I do see is slanderers. Be careful which sinners you cast your aspersions on, lest you commit the graver sin. Be wary of calling others mindless drones, judging them solely by their membership in a church. Was it not Jesus himself who pointed out the corruption and wretchedness in the temples and churches, the sins of the priests to think they are above all of Gods children. You might also notice that conspicuously missing from the list is female prostitutes...
The naked human form is the most beautiful of Gods creations, especially boobies. Nudity is not shameful or a sin unless you're a stuck up guilt tripper, like the GP suggested. Lighten up, live and let live, harm not those who do no harm. In short, act like a Christian to your fellow brother and don't be such a prudish judgmental prick.
Discussing Iranian peaceful nuclear ambitions is one thing, but if the response to their peaceful model aircraft intentions is comparing them to the inventors of the blitzkreig, yes you're squarely in the knee-jerk reactionary 'OMG Muslims!' camp.
Still no such thing as a healthy addict, just to spoil the rosy image:p. You fall into the category of most addicts, who are functional, normal people holding down decent jobs - the stereotypical junkie who commits crime for his habit is far from the norm. Kudos for the honesty.
Don't believe a word of it! Look at his flaky source - Wikipedia. Would you put your life in Wikipedias hands, or would you trust a genius such as Linus? You'll notice the interviewer never corrected him - because there was no mistake! Don't you make the same mistake the parent has!! The reason such rubbish gets in is all the city slickers that never go out back. In the wild bush, crikey they're everywhere, and they'll take you when you least suspect it. You can try toothpaste, vegemite, forks and other chicanery but the only true defense is a well developed sense of terror!
They didn't mean to start this project, but at the presentation Steve was curled up in the corner, rocking back and forth muttering "Developers, developers, developers, developers..". They figured the only way to get that many developers was to copy that Linus bloke.
You left out homosexual incest, for double the family fun! Perhaps the fact the sims gets away with it might have to do with pixelisation as a comfortable and acceptable censorship.
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Sure, you can do nearly everything - except have an interface that users can comprehend and use. Few people know or care what CLIs, GUIs and OSs are. Simply put, to 99% of users the GUI is the OS, and to hell with facts. While technically correct (the best sort) you're just being difficult for the sake of it. To 99% of users a CLI only interface simply means a broken computer. For fucks sake, even c64s had GEOS, how far back into history are you trying to push Linux?
(a) an order requiring the carriage service provider to take reasonable steps to disable access to an online location outside Australia;
(b) an order requiring the carriage service provider to terminate a specified account.
(4) For an infringement of copyright that occurs in the course of the carrying out of a Category B, C or D activity, the relief that a court may grant against a carriage service provider is limited to one or more of the following orders:
(a) an order requiring the carriage service provider to remove or disable access to infringing copyright material, or to a reference to infringing copyright material;
(b) an order requiring the carriage service provider to terminate a specified account;
(c) some other less burdensome but comparably effective nonmonetary order if necessary.
So while it protects them from monetary damages, it seems ARIA has a case under those laws. Not the reassurance I was hoping for.
So which of those two has seceded from the Union? BTW you need to update your flag, it's still got 50 stars.
No, the difference will be they'll have a visible sky wizard.
I, for one, welcome our new ambiguously funny comedy overlords!
Bird bird eye feather snake bird squiggly, you insensitive clod!
No, this is legit, it's coming from the London GoPlay launch event. There's a pic of it from a live blog here.
It's just not the same level of craptacularness now that they've gotten rid of the sidetalkin' feature.
Well you are suggesting his success is the result of underage sexual favours and not talent. He's obviously highly intelligent and highly motivated, which does make him highly attractive, just not in a sexual way. Including such a slur is fair grounds to call out flamebait and troll. Next time, just try to contain your envy and jealousy and congratulate the lad for his good fortune you cynical bastard.
You claim this has not harmed BSD in any way, because they still have that code.
In fact, the BSD bunch have better code seeing as it stayed open. Yes, BSD is not just unharmed but strengthened by giving away source code to competitors. Without the ability to redistribute under any old license, they would never have become a de-facto standard.
So, if you are creating software with the purpose of reaching maximum popularity, or that the next "hop" (the next developers of it) can do what they want, BSD is for you.If you want to develop software that is free, GPL is for you.
So, if I want open code that anyone is free to do with as they wish, I opt for BSD.
If I want open code that constrains derivatives to an identical model, I choose GPL.
They both result in free, open software. One constrains derivatives, one doesn't. This does not make one or the other better or worse, it just makes them different.
By no means does it make one free and the other not. Your last statement applies to all Open Source licenses.
Just imagine that comment coming from a Linux user. That's when Linux will be ready for the desktop.
Well, you seem to be lightly dismissing the proven patent violations and other legal fiascoes of Microsoft in favour of dubious and unproven claims of possible patent violations. You're comparing fact to FUD. It's also perfectly valid to compare the products under scrutiny, ie. Windows and Linux in regards to their patent issues. The fact that there is a single company behind one and many behind the other does not equate to FUD. With all the quoting you did of the GP you missed one - the meat of the GP, which lays out the facts behind Microsofts legal situation and explains straightforwardly why Linux is far less vulnerable to prosecution.
It's part of BillyG's law which states 'every eighteen months the amount of cruft and bloat in Windows will double'. This is of course a direct consequence of Newton's third law of motion. Next time Windows cuts your network traffic to 10%, blame Newton!
Seems to me his parents did an excellent job of raising a young aussie. It's a national pastime to say 'fuck you' to authority. He doesn't want to live in an Orwellian nightmare nanny state, and defied them with his aussie larrikin powers. So thanks, random year 10 student, and a big thank you to your parents too, for giving us this giant fuck you to Johnny Howard and co.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their view, which is why we should have a multitude of licenses. The GPL for those who want to protect the open nature of derivatives, others who care little about derivatives and focus on the work at hand. I guess I'm just trying to say that it should be up to the author of a work whether they wish to receive the same benefits back and the term Open Source shouldn't be a narrow subset, such as GPL compatible licenses only.
I don't see porn mentioned anywhere. What I do see is slanderers. Be careful which sinners you cast your aspersions on, lest you commit the graver sin. Be wary of calling others mindless drones, judging them solely by their membership in a church. Was it not Jesus himself who pointed out the corruption and wretchedness in the temples and churches, the sins of the priests to think they are above all of Gods children. You might also notice that conspicuously missing from the list is female prostitutes...
The naked human form is the most beautiful of Gods creations, especially boobies. Nudity is not shameful or a sin unless you're a stuck up guilt tripper, like the GP suggested. Lighten up, live and let live, harm not those who do no harm. In short, act like a Christian to your fellow brother and don't be such a prudish judgmental prick.
Discussing Iranian peaceful nuclear ambitions is one thing, but if the response to their peaceful model aircraft intentions is comparing them to the inventors of the blitzkreig, yes you're squarely in the knee-jerk reactionary 'OMG Muslims!' camp.
Please elaborate if you are comfortable doing so. This is the most fascinating thread of the discussion.
I would put a stop to such useless waste of taxpayer money.
Still no such thing as a healthy addict, just to spoil the rosy image :p. You fall into the category of most addicts, who are functional, normal people holding down decent jobs - the stereotypical junkie who commits crime for his habit is far from the norm. Kudos for the honesty.
He wouldn't hit his son's future mother, and they would all fall pregnant just looking at Chuck. Your argument fails.
Yet, women have the uncanny ability to totally screw a guy over without straining a muscle or leaving a mark.
Don't believe a word of it! Look at his flaky source - Wikipedia. Would you put your life in Wikipedias hands, or would you trust a genius such as Linus? You'll notice the interviewer never corrected him - because there was no mistake! Don't you make the same mistake the parent has!! The reason such rubbish gets in is all the city slickers that never go out back. In the wild bush, crikey they're everywhere, and they'll take you when you least suspect it. You can try toothpaste, vegemite, forks and other chicanery but the only true defense is a well developed sense of terror!
They didn't mean to start this project, but at the presentation Steve was curled up in the corner, rocking back and forth muttering "Developers, developers, developers, developers..". They figured the only way to get that many developers was to copy that Linus bloke.
You left out homosexual incest, for double the family fun! Perhaps the fact the sims gets away with it might have to do with pixelisation as a comfortable and acceptable censorship.