Also it's woth noting the World Service I'm pretty sure is paid for by the goverment rather than from the license.
This is no longer the case. One of the first things the Tories did when they recently got back into power was to "freeze" the BBC Licence Fee. From 2014, the BBC World Service will be funded from the Licence Free and not from the Government. The deliberate effect is to force bigger cuts onto the rest of the BBC.
To add to your excellent example of how Stallman is right about the dangers of cell phone tracking, I refer you to Eben Moglen's talk Freedom in the Cloud.
You have a cell phone and you have a cell phone network provider and if your cell phone network provider is Sprint then we can tell you that several million times last year, somebody who has a law enforcement ID card in his pocket somewhere went to the Sprint website and asked for the realtime location of somebody with a telephone number and was given it. Several million times. Just like that. We know that because Sprint admits that they have a website where anybody with a law enforcement ID can go and find the realtime location of anybody with a Sprint cellphone. We don’t know that about ATT and Verizon because they haven’t told us.
One may wonder, why release the documentation now?
I would say it's because they get good PR for for pretending to be transparent/friendly, whilst not actually giving away any new information.
Look at page 129 of the PDF specifying the.doc format.. (The page is actually labelled 128 in the corner, but it's page 129 of the PDF). You will see there's a bit field. One of the many flags that can be set in this bit field: "fUseAutospaceForFullWidthAlpha".
The description?:
Compatibility option: when set to 1, use auto space like Word 95
Gee, thanks. That's helpful. You know, an earlier Slashdot article said Microsoft were going to release a BSD licensed converter to convert from.doc to.docx. But this will never help anyone further understand either of the two formats: binary.doc files which are auto spaced like Word 95 will be converted to "XML" files which are auto spaced like Word 95.
The solution is simple. While being careful to stop short of outright illegality, violate as many of these prohibitions as possible, as often as you can manage it. Then send abusive email to the Facebook sysadmins, mocking them for their inability to stop you. Account deletion should follow rather quickly. ^_^
Unfortunately not.
I know this from personal experience:;)
If you "abuse the service" e.g. by adding too many people as friends in a short period of time, they deactivate your account. As somebody else pointed on out this page, that's not the same as deletion. You can't even log back in to delete all that information they have on you!
Sometimes people will find your deactivated profile in search results.
I presume you're talking about GNOME 2.21.x. Because it certainly works for me in 2.20.
Obviously, the GIO transition can mess things up. But according to the Evince changelog, as of version 2.21.90 it has been ported to GIO. So if you're running the latest release, then maybe you need to file a bug report.
Do you have the gvfs-backends package installed? In case you don't know, GIO is the input/output API. On its own, GIO only supports normal files. But with GVFS (the virtual file system), loadable backends can be loaded to provide GIO users "protocols" like trash, smb and http.
Even if Linus loved the GPLv3, there is so much code contributed to the Linux kernel without a transfer of copyright and under GPLv2 only terms that it couldn't be changed anyway
A long time ago, Linus changed the license of Linux from a non-free license to the GPL. Did he ask everybody for an explicit grant of license under the GPL? No; he announced his intention to change the license, and asked that anybody with "grievances" mail him.
Maybe all he needs to do to upgrade the version of the GPL used is to ask the few major corporate contributors for permission, and tell everybody else to mail only if they have a problem.
It's quite the opposite of what you're saying. Politicians do their best to encourage pubs (with taxes, if they deem necessary) to increase the price of alcohol. See, as a nation we have a binge drinking problem, or so we're told). And in true British Government fashion, they try to solve this by punishing everyone (i.e. including those who drink responsibly) by artificially increasing the price of alcohol. You know, instead of just punishing those people who are a problem to others when they binge drink. The British Government: preventing crime by punishing everyone(TM).
As I understand it, GNOME Power Manger runs a DBUS service. This can be used by clients to inhibit sleep. This is very useful; it means when you're watching a movie in Totem the screensaver won't cut it in, and nor will your monitor turn off, merely because you haven't touched the mouse during the last 5 minutes of intensive movie watching. So I'd say there are good reasons for your desktop environment controlling power management.
Well, Creative Commons does have licenses for works that are to be sampled only. Commercial sampling is allowed, and verbatim redistribution is only allowed non-commercially. I'm not sure it's as general as you suggest, but legally the sampling is creating a derivative work.
A problem with your suggestion is that it's very easy to create a derivative work: chop five seconds off the end, or rap "I rock" over the top of the chorus. Once people trivially change your file to creative a derivative work, they've defeated the point of your license. How would you get around that? Demand that all changes must be significant?
In the UK, new goods sold from a shop to a private customer must be fit for purpose.
You're right about this. The best part for this guy? Because it's been less than six months, the burden of proof falls upon the retailer to show that this guy broke the laptop. When problems arise within the first six months, the law assumes that the product was defective when sold, and thus not fit for purpose.
The law is entirely on this guy's side, although he may need to go to trading standards or threaten to bring the retailer to county court.
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I did not originally use the "or later version" verbage, and I decided not to this time, not that it matters Ignoring that you said it didn't matter, there's new language about in the versioning section. This means you could release your code under "The GNU General Public License version 3, with Mark Watson as a proxy to decide which future versions of the license could be used instead." I'm not sure the best way to word it, but there you go: in one public announcement, people using your code could, for example, use it under the GPL 5, even if you didn't like the GPL 4.
Currently, the RIAA homepage is a simple page which says something along the lines of 'our site is down now'. What I love is how the only site that page links to is completely down.
Probably not. Not that I'm old enough to remember.
I was reading some old "Gnu's bulletin" (or something similarly named) a bit back. It indicated the changes from GPLv1 to GPLv2 were fairly minor--so there wasn't much desire to have two-way collaboration--and reflected common usage. For instance, I think it was then they added the relaxation that you don't have to ship common system libraries (libc!) even when you ship GPLed binaries. People didn't anyway, apparently, and not forcing them to doesn't cause much harm. The other changes were fairly small too.
This is kind of worrying. See, unlike Firefox and Thunderbird, Bugzilla is only licensed under the MPL. Debian considers the MPL non-free, at least because it requires that source code be available at least six months after you stop distributing a binary, if you distribute the binary over a network. This is considered too onerous a restriction, as unavoidable circumstances (e.g. a Slashdotting) might prevent the availability of the source code. [Note that the GPL does not require this: if you distribute source code side-by-side with binaries, you can stop distributing both at the same time].
I've not got anything against Bugzilla as an application besides this freeness issue. I've used it for GNOME bugtracking, and it seems quite, er, good.
One of the great strengths of OSS compared to proprietary software is the ability to make use of older hardware. Not so with this new release of Firefox.
No, one of the greatest strengths of free software compared to proprietary software is that it's free. Why should running on proprietary platforms, let alone obsolete ones, be a priority of a free software project?
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Also it's woth noting the World Service I'm pretty sure is paid for by the goverment rather than from the license.
This is no longer the case. One of the first things the Tories did when they recently got back into power was to "freeze" the BBC Licence Fee. From 2014, the BBC World Service will be funded from the Licence Free and not from the Government. The deliberate effect is to force bigger cuts onto the rest of the BBC.
I would say it's because they get good PR for for pretending to be transparent/friendly, whilst not actually giving away any new information.
Look at page 129 of the PDF specifying the .doc format.. (The page is actually labelled 128 in the corner, but it's page 129 of the PDF). You will see there's a bit field. One of the many flags that can be set in this bit field: "fUseAutospaceForFullWidthAlpha".
The description?:
Gee, thanks. That's helpful. You know, an earlier Slashdot article said Microsoft were going to release a BSD licensed converter to convert from .doc to .docx. But this will never help anyone further understand either of the two formats: binary .doc files which are auto spaced like Word 95 will be converted to "XML" files which are auto spaced like Word 95.
Unfortunately not.
I know this from personal experience: ;)
If you "abuse the service" e.g. by adding too many people as friends in a short period of time, they deactivate your account. As somebody else pointed on out this page, that's not the same as deletion. You can't even log back in to delete all that information they have on you!
Sometimes people will find your deactivated profile in search results.
I don't know if you're referencing it, or if it's coincidence, but that's a good choice remembering the lyrics of "Freakin' It".
Will Gates of the rap gameI presume you're talking about GNOME 2.21.x. Because it certainly works for me in 2.20.
Obviously, the GIO transition can mess things up. But according to the Evince changelog, as of version 2.21.90 it has been ported to GIO. So if you're running the latest release, then maybe you need to file a bug report.
Do you have the gvfs-backends package installed? In case you don't know, GIO is the input/output API. On its own, GIO only supports normal files. But with GVFS (the virtual file system), loadable backends can be loaded to provide GIO users "protocols" like trash, smb and http.
A long time ago, Linus changed the license of Linux from a non-free license to the GPL. Did he ask everybody for an explicit grant of license under the GPL? No; he announced his intention to change the license, and asked that anybody with "grievances" mail him.
Maybe all he needs to do to upgrade the version of the GPL used is to ask the few major corporate contributors for permission, and tell everybody else to mail only if they have a problem.
It's quite the opposite of what you're saying. Politicians do their best to encourage pubs (with taxes, if they deem necessary) to increase the price of alcohol. See, as a nation we have a binge drinking problem, or so we're told). And in true British Government fashion, they try to solve this by punishing everyone (i.e. including those who drink responsibly) by artificially increasing the price of alcohol. You know, instead of just punishing those people who are a problem to others when they binge drink. The British Government: preventing crime by punishing everyone(TM).
As I understand it, GNOME Power Manger runs a DBUS service. This can be used by clients to inhibit sleep. This is very useful; it means when you're watching a movie in Totem the screensaver won't cut it in, and nor will your monitor turn off, merely because you haven't touched the mouse during the last 5 minutes of intensive movie watching. So I'd say there are good reasons for your desktop environment controlling power management.
Well, Creative Commons does have licenses for works that are to be sampled only. Commercial sampling is allowed, and verbatim redistribution is only allowed non-commercially. I'm not sure it's as general as you suggest, but legally the sampling is creating a derivative work. A problem with your suggestion is that it's very easy to create a derivative work: chop five seconds off the end, or rap "I rock" over the top of the chorus. Once people trivially change your file to creative a derivative work, they've defeated the point of your license. How would you get around that? Demand that all changes must be significant?
You're right about this. The best part for this guy? Because it's been less than six months, the burden of proof falls upon the retailer to show that this guy broke the laptop. When problems arise within the first six months, the law assumes that the product was defective when sold, and thus not fit for purpose.
The law is entirely on this guy's side, although he may need to go to trading standards or threaten to bring the retailer to county court.
When there are new releases of a Linux distro, lots of people want to try it out. Despite having lots of mirrors, projects can crumble.
BitTorrent helps.
Currently, the RIAA homepage is a simple page which says something along the lines of 'our site is down now'. What I love is how the only site that page links to is completely down.
Probably not. Not that I'm old enough to remember.
I was reading some old "Gnu's bulletin" (or something similarly named) a bit back. It indicated the changes from GPLv1 to GPLv2 were fairly minor--so there wasn't much desire to have two-way collaboration--and reflected common usage. For instance, I think it was then they added the relaxation that you don't have to ship common system libraries (libc!) even when you ship GPLed binaries. People didn't anyway, apparently, and not forcing them to doesn't cause much harm. The other changes were fairly small too.
Wikipedia content is *licensed* to all recipients under the GFDL, and so translation is allowed.
This is kind of worrying. See, unlike Firefox and Thunderbird, Bugzilla is only licensed under the MPL. Debian considers the MPL non-free, at least because it requires that source code be available at least six months after you stop distributing a binary, if you distribute the binary over a network. This is considered too onerous a restriction, as unavoidable circumstances (e.g. a Slashdotting) might prevent the availability of the source code. [Note that the GPL does not require this: if you distribute source code side-by-side with binaries, you can stop distributing both at the same time].
I've not got anything against Bugzilla as an application besides this freeness issue. I've used it for GNOME bugtracking, and it seems quite, er, good.