plenty of the comments here will be about other countries already implementing this years ago. In Sweden, for example, you can confirm your taxes via SMS or the Internet. And of course, tax returns are automatically deposited to a bank account of your choice.
hey, I've been looking for a windows clone of Agent USA. you're my hero! (or, you might have infected my machine with a virus, but that remains to be seen...)
Uh, I think the parent was actually talking about the "free advertising" that Xequte (the true author) received by getting the story on the Slashdot frontpage.
I actually literally never leave home without a Knoppix CD (at least not during the winter, when I have pockets big enough for a CD:-P). There has been just too many occasions where I have saved the day just by booting into Knoppix and fixing whatever's broken. With Captive NTFS, even most Windows problem can be solved safely.
I actually use Knoppix at this very moment, as I'm at a friend's place and I couldn't get the borrowed network card to work in Windows. So I whipped out the Knoppix CD from my jacket, and of course, it worked pretty much out-of-the-box.
But what is worth pointing out here, is that in all those cases, it was scientists who proved them wrong eventually. That's what scientists do, they prove other scientists wrong.
I think I had a point here somewhere, but I lost it.:-)
I get "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" when trying to connect now. Too bad she wasn't using my web host, which would have have allowed her to let others easily pay for her bandwidth.:-)
Soulseek has features for "taste-matching" and such things, allowing you to get recommendations based on other with similar taste. I spend some time there.
But I also quite often head over to Musicplasma when I want to explore new music. There I can get some new interesting names based on bands I already know and then use a regular P2P service find it.
Or, they could do the development in a country where reverse-engineering is explicitly permitted by law, such as Sweden. Swedish software copyright laws has paragraphs that says that one may reverse-engineer and examine a program (or similar) if the goal is interoperability between software (and that a few rules is followed, more information is in 26 h in the Swedish Copyright Act).
As such, any "no reverse engineering" clauses in software licenses in Sweden is invalid (which is also explicitly stated in the law).
SWT and SWT-based applications adresses some of your conserns. Check out Azareus, for example, a very good BitTorrent client written in Java, which to me is pretty much equal to most Windows applications in responsiveness.
SWT is a native GUI toolkit for Java (available for many different platforms), so it has the advantage of being able to take advantage of whetever platform-specific goodies there are.
It _would_ have helped him a little, since as far as I understand (although I haven't been able to visit the site), the site was nothing _but_ the index.html (and the CGI). At least it would have taken the major hit from the frontpage, but the CGI script would probably get enough hits to take the server down anyway.
Anyway, it might not even have been himself that submitted the story. It could just as well be an angry friend that wanted it to go down.
(yes, I really did end it abruptly like that - unfortunalty, I forgot to end the mail and include a signature)
Dear Mr Brown,
I would like to address a few things in your reply to critics made available on . I have not addressed every claim you make, as I am without sufficient knowledge and time to respond to all of them. I do, however, make a best effort to provide some commentary and criticism of your article, in the hope this e-mail, complemented with similar commentaries made by others who have read your article, will give you some insight into the reality of the claims you make.
You are repeatedly claiming that an MIT or BSD style license is some kind of "true open source". "Open Source" is a trademark owned by the Open Source Initiative. The term "open source" is specifically coined to cover GPL, MPL and similar license, in addition to the BSD and MIT licenses you refer to.
> The United States is the home of the United States Patent and > Trademark Office, an internationally respected agency which > contributes to the worldwide effort to protect and govern > intellectual property.
On the contrary, the United States Patent and Trademark Office is among many seen as an anti-example of IP protection bureaucracy. It is commonly known that the USPTO repeatedly has accepted many patent claims with little or no credit and invention value.
> "Hybrid source code" is a phrase coined by former Tocqueville > Chairman Gregory Fossedal. The term refers to any product with a > license that attempts to mix free and proprietary source code at the > same time.
I fail to see where you can attribute this property to the GPL (or similar licenses). The GPL explicitly forbids mixing of propriety and free source code.
> Hybrid source code can never be true intellectual property.
Whatever license you choose for the redistribution your piece of art, as long as you retain your copyright (which you must in order to enforce a license on the redistribution), you never lose your intellectual property, since the copyright is still yours, and you are, for example, free to also redistribute the same artwork under different conditions. See, for example, MySQL for a successful business that releases its database source code under GPL as well as sells it to partners under other license conditions.
> The actual purpose of hybrid source is to nullify its value as > private property, which makes the hybrid source model significantly > different from true open source.
I cannot see where in your text you have the basis for this accusation. The GPL (nor any other OSI certified license) does not force the copyright owner to waive any of his or her rights to the art work.
On the contrary, the _actual_ purpose of Open Source, and GPL specifically, is to increase its value as it enables external entities to contribute to your artwork. The contributors may retain their own intellectual property rights (copyright) and rest assured that thanks to the GPL, their private property may never be misused without their knowledge. If someone wishes to use a GPL-licensed artwork in conditions that the GPL does not satisfy, they are free to negotiate other license conditions with the copyright owner, as they are with any copyrighted work. MIT and BSD licenses, however, does not give any guarantee that your property will not be used without any form of compensation (in the GPL case, the compensation is the GPL compliance in itself: as long as the GPL retains, proper attribution is retained and credit is where credit is due).
Although I personally use the MIT license for my own Open Source projects, that style of software licensing is the only case where I can see the term "hybrid source" actually apply to the current set of Open Source licenses.
> The hybrid source model negatively impacts the intellectual property
What about the JAS 39 Gripen? Have you compared it's track record to any other fighter aircraft? Or do you in fact know anything about it except those crash-and-burn images everyone's seen? Just because a crash happens in front of TV-cameras doesn't mean it isn't rare. From what I heard, it has got fewer incidents that any other new aircraft (and better perfomance than most).
...and then some witty hacker ports Firesomething (screenshot) to the ESA shuttle, resulting in all european citizens calling it different things. Except France and Iceland, of course, who made up their own names from the beginning and never even bothered to ask ESA what they should call it.
AFAIK, Gripen has a better track record than most fighters. However, irony had it that when it, for once, failed, it was near large crowds of people. Not very good PR.:-P
We have a similar system for the Royal National Library of Sweden, wherein every publication (be it a book, paper, magazine or even a movie) published in Sweden, intended to reach a public audience (with a some exceptions, of course), must be deposited as several "duty copies" to one or more of the larger libraries. Which libraries that should receive a duty copy depends on the media form and type - I think a regular book has to be distributed to all six larger university libraries as well as the Royal Library, which alone carries around three million books.
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plenty of the comments here will be about other countries already implementing this years ago. In Sweden, for example, you can confirm your taxes via SMS or the Internet. And of course, tax returns are automatically deposited to a bank account of your choice.
hey, I've been looking for a windows clone of Agent USA. you're my hero! (or, you might have infected my machine with a virus, but that remains to be seen...)
Sort of like http://map.search.ch/ :-)
http://mirrordot.com/stories/5defdb2c0e9cac7c89624 a2594f96717/index.html
mirrordot doesn't seem to have archived all the images yet though...
Dude. RTFA. Pakistan. :-)
On this screenshot: http://www.xequte.com/cgi-bin/viewmlk.asp?index=1& sender=../software/swpag.html it looks like you're showing (some) authentic e-mail addresses. You might want to blur them or something.
Uh, I think the parent was actually talking about the "free advertising" that Xequte (the true author) received by getting the story on the Slashdot frontpage.
Also see this summary of friday 13th distribution throughout the years: http://x42.com/datelab/
I actually literally never leave home without a Knoppix CD (at least not during the winter, when I have pockets big enough for a CD :-P). There has been just too many occasions where I have saved the day just by booting into Knoppix and fixing whatever's broken. With Captive NTFS, even most Windows problem can be solved safely.
I actually use Knoppix at this very moment, as I'm at a friend's place and I couldn't get the borrowed network card to work in Windows. So I whipped out the Knoppix CD from my jacket, and of course, it worked pretty much out-of-the-box.
But what is worth pointing out here, is that in all those cases, it was scientists who proved them wrong eventually. That's what scientists do, they prove other scientists wrong.
:-)
I think I had a point here somewhere, but I lost it.
[shameless self-promotion]
:-)
I get "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" when trying to connect now. Too bad she wasn't using my web host, which would have have allowed her to let others easily pay for her bandwidth.
Soulseek has features for "taste-matching" and such things, allowing you to get recommendations based on other with similar taste. I spend some time there.
But I also quite often head over to Musicplasma when I want to explore new music. There I can get some new interesting names based on bands I already know and then use a regular P2P service find it.
hey, as I read this post, I am actually listening to the Tool album Lateralus. I must be so connected to that girl!
Or, they could do the development in a country where reverse-engineering is explicitly permitted by law, such as Sweden. Swedish software copyright laws has paragraphs that says that one may reverse-engineer and examine a program (or similar) if the goal is interoperability between software (and that a few rules is followed, more information is in 26 h in the Swedish Copyright Act).
As such, any "no reverse engineering" clauses in software licenses in Sweden is invalid (which is also explicitly stated in the law).
SWT and SWT-based applications adresses some of your conserns. Check out Azareus, for example, a very good BitTorrent client written in Java, which to me is pretty much equal to most Windows applications in responsiveness.
SWT is a native GUI toolkit for Java (available for many different platforms), so it has the advantage of being able to take advantage of whetever platform-specific goodies there are.
It _would_ have helped him a little, since as far as I understand (although I haven't been able to visit the site), the site was nothing _but_ the index.html (and the CGI). At least it would have taken the major hit from the frontpage, but the CGI script would probably get enough hits to take the server down anyway.
Anyway, it might not even have been himself that submitted the story. It could just as well be an angry friend that wanted it to go down.
(yes, I really did end it abruptly like that - unfortunalty, I forgot to end the mail and include a signature)
Dear Mr Brown,
I would like to address a few things in your reply to critics made
available on . I have not addressed every claim you make, as I am without sufficient knowledge and time to respond to all of them. I do, however, make a best effort to provide some commentary and criticism of your article, in the hope this e-mail, complemented with similar commentaries made by others who have read your article, will give you some insight into the reality of the claims you make.
You are repeatedly claiming that an MIT or BSD style license is some kind of "true open source". "Open Source" is a trademark owned by the Open Source Initiative. The term "open source" is specifically coined to cover GPL, MPL and similar license, in addition to the BSD and MIT licenses you refer to.
> The United States is the home of the United States Patent and
> Trademark Office, an internationally respected agency which
> contributes to the worldwide effort to protect and govern
> intellectual property.
On the contrary, the United States Patent and Trademark Office is
among many seen as an anti-example of IP protection bureaucracy. It is
commonly known that the USPTO repeatedly has accepted many patent claims
with little or no credit and invention value.
> "Hybrid source code" is a phrase coined by former Tocqueville
> Chairman Gregory Fossedal. The term refers to any product with a
> license that attempts to mix free and proprietary source code at the
> same time.
I fail to see where you can attribute this property to the GPL (or
similar licenses). The GPL explicitly forbids mixing of propriety and
free source code.
> Hybrid source code can never be true intellectual property.
Whatever license you choose for the redistribution your piece of art, as
long as you retain your copyright (which you must in order to enforce a
license on the redistribution), you never lose your intellectual
property, since the copyright is still yours, and you are, for example,
free to also redistribute the same artwork under different conditions.
See, for example, MySQL for a successful business that releases its
database source code under GPL as well as sells it to partners under
other license conditions.
> The actual purpose of hybrid source is to nullify its value as
> private property, which makes the hybrid source model significantly
> different from true open source.
I cannot see where in your text you have the basis for this accusation.
The GPL (nor any other OSI certified license) does not force the
copyright owner to waive any of his or her rights to the art work.
On the contrary, the _actual_ purpose of Open Source, and GPL
specifically, is to increase its value as it enables external entities
to contribute to your artwork. The contributors may retain their own
intellectual property rights (copyright) and rest assured that thanks to
the GPL, their private property may never be misused without their
knowledge. If someone wishes to use a GPL-licensed artwork in conditions
that the GPL does not satisfy, they are free to negotiate other license
conditions with the copyright owner, as they are with any copyrighted
work. MIT and BSD licenses, however, does not give any guarantee that
your property will not be used without any form of compensation (in the
GPL case, the compensation is the GPL compliance in itself: as long as
the GPL retains, proper attribution is retained and credit is where
credit is due).
Although I personally use the MIT license for my own Open Source
projects, that style of software licensing is the only case where I can
see the term "hybrid source" actually apply to the current set of Open
Source licenses.
> The hybrid source model negatively impacts the intellectual property
What about the JAS 39 Gripen? Have you compared it's track record to any other fighter aircraft? Or do you in fact know anything about it except those crash-and-burn images everyone's seen? Just because a crash happens in front of TV-cameras doesn't mean it isn't rare. From what I heard, it has got fewer incidents that any other new aircraft (and better perfomance than most).
...and then some witty hacker ports Firesomething (screenshot) to the ESA shuttle, resulting in all european citizens calling it different things. Except France and Iceland, of course, who made up their own names from the beginning and never even bothered to ask ESA what they should call it.
(Personal Firesomething favorite: "Mozilla Fireklumpen")
AFAIK, Gripen has a better track record than most fighters. However, irony had it that when it, for once, failed, it was near large crowds of people. Not very good PR. :-P
We have a similar system for the Royal National Library of Sweden, wherein every publication (be it a book, paper, magazine or even a movie) published in Sweden, intended to reach a public audience (with a some exceptions, of course), must be deposited as several "duty copies" to one or more of the larger libraries. Which libraries that should receive a duty copy depends on the media form and type - I think a regular book has to be distributed to all six larger university libraries as well as the Royal Library, which alone carries around three million books.
I meant "except", of course!!!! Argh. Too early and too hangoverish to post slashdot comments. I should go back to bed.
I have 90 miles to my office. It takes me about 75 minutes to get there, with public transport. That includes one switch from train to bus.
Accept it's an RFID card, not a magnetic stripe-card. Not quite as easy to duplicate.