I would personally like to see a clause required for government funded software that is required like the old bsd license that says "Parts of software funded by XXX agency of the United States Government."
Then maybe people would realize how much of our open source, and closed source software has been created and or funded by the US government.
Someone told me once who was working on the project, that to lock out Mac's some Admirals and Microsoft made sure that the specs for standard desktops and laptops required paralell ports. This decision was made three years ago, long after USB had taken over. The idea was that they could lock out some big Mac sites (Former sites like China Lake, 10K macs) and force them to switch to Windows. Funny ha. They were not counting on this funny little thing called linux to show up as a alternative to Windows.
1. There is no IRS not-for-profit database. There is guidestar and http://wwww.guidestar.org/ does not always have the most up to date information. Often there filings are 1 or two years behind or might not exist at all.
2. If the KDE league is not a 501(c)3 then what the heck is the KDE league?
I believe the KDE leagues corporate filings should be available from the State of Deleware.
It may not be the most up to date resource, but: Go to http://www.guidestar.org to get a look at several organizations 990 filings including Red Cross Chapters, USENIX, and the IETF. Its really eye opening.
It looks like the KDE League is a mess, and if I were a member. I would have serious questions of mismanagment. Also, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 has to with its filing with the IRS show public support. Hence the honest question of what has it done?
1. The IRS makes no distinction between not-for-profit and non-profit. THe former is really just a more accurate term to describe a 501(c) organization. Any organization that doesn't make a profit is eventually going to go under without constant investment.
2. Any not-for-profit has to make available within 24 hours of the request a copy of there form 990 which details things like the top 5 highest paid employees, and a high level overview of there finances. If that is not furnished then requestor can file a complaint with the IRS.
3. The IRS tends to scrutinize not-for-profits more then regular corporations. Better be carefull.
Cheers, from a guy who has founded a not-for-profit corporation after six months of exhaustive research on the subject.
Actually HP is in the services business. From Bruce's web page it sounds like he is not hurting either way. So he could afford to go out on a limb. Obviously HPQ felt that his MS bashing was not in there best interests. As for it being all Compaq's fault. Doesn't John 'MadDog" Hall work for Compaq? If he doesn't anymore, then he seems to play the game over their very well.
"Non-profit my ass, Jack Valentini and Hillary Rosen are racking in the money."
The correct term is not-for-profit. Their is nothing in US law that says not-for-profits cannot make money. There are more then 27 different kinds of not-for-profits defined by the IRS. Each with their own abilities and benefits. Keep in mind that a not-for-profit owned Hughes Aircraft until 1986. When it sold it the for-profit subsidary for a couple of billion dollars. Hershey's candy is also owned by a not-for-profit. All a not-for-profit means is that the organization does not pay tax's. And is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny by the IRS. If you want to know what to know how much the MPAA and RIAA make. Go to http://www.guidestar.org and look it up.
You could argue that the idea's behind object oriented programming that Kristen Nygaard pushed influcenced later ideas of how objects communicate, and interact with each other. Which or course have influenced the architectural course of the internet.
So we would have had mass propogation of email earlier, and a internet or the internet type of services would have happened sooner. Bar the internet would not have had its libertarian nature if the post office ran it. But we might have had more interactive high bandwidth services sooner if the plan had gone forward.
Only 12K, that means a small fraction of this visitors that read the site are sending in money. ALso is LWN is it legal for LWN to take donations without being a not-for-profit? Does thi smean LWN has too treat the "donations," as investments? Personally, I think this is LWN's fault. Everyone on the web knows the times are changing, and that the advertising only business model doesn't work. Slashdot figured this out, why couldn't LWN?
LWN's only chance is to try to roll out a premium service, and quickly.
When the iMac came out, this same thing happened. With in six months there were rip offs from such notables as Dell, Gateway, and IBM. None of nock-offs have survived. The iMac is still around and selling well.
Apple just seems to have some kind of magic when it comes to product design. That few others if any have.
I find Apple a good compromise between propietary expensive SGI box's, and Linux which lacks the ease of use refinments I enjoy on the Mac.
Apple's xserve is showing to be pretty good on the benchmark scale. http://www.xinet.com/benchmarks/benchmarks.2002/ Might be time to start to migrate off your Linux rendering farm. I think you will fine that the performance should be in tune, and your power bill will be much lower. Considering how much less power Apple's hardware traditionally has used then Intel. Mainly thanks to the PowerPC chip.
Last I checked the two biggest problems with massive streaming audio were 1) the high cost of a real audio license, and 2) the high cost of bandwidth. The latter might not be a problem for AOL . But the former is.
AOL could be writing this switch to use MPEG-4 which would solve both problems to some degree. Consider also how much money AOL has to put into this project. The ROI could be huge.
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The whole purpose of MPEG-4 is that it takes the player out of the game. All that matters is that you can decode/encode MPEG-4. In a year or two, Sorenson should be irrelevant, and XINE will just need MPEG-4 support. That being said, doesn't MPEG-4 have some pretty herendous licensing restrictions of its own? Slashdotter's, none the less, should be campaigning for sites to support MPEG-4 . If they want Linux, and *BSD to become fully supported across streaming sites.
One has to wonder. With Apple's string of aquisitions, and invetiable future string of aquisitions of 3D and other content creation tools. Will shops starting switching to Mac OS X. I imagine several all ready have Mac OS X in their environments for Photoshop. So far Apple has kept the Linux versions on most of the applications and dumped NT. What happens if they dump Linux?
The NSA has funded the a huge portion of the work on Trusted Systems. (even before SE-Linux) Doesn't Federal law say any patents derived from Federal funding must be licensed to the Govt. on a royalty free basis?
Plus, this stinks of Rambus. I expect the NSA to get pretty pissed about this. They funded SE-Linux to help promote Trusted OS's into the mainstream. Not for someone to Rambus everyone.
I know the guys who did the work at the NSA on SE-Linux. The press is constantly making it sounds like the NSA outsourced the whole effort. They didn't the folks at the NSA did a huge part (majority) of the work. It would be nice if the articles started reflecting that. No one goes to work at the NSA for the glory. But, they still deserve more credit then they get.
The keychain for storing passwords in a encrypted AES package can take up to 34-charachters. Unfortunatly , it is the BSD layer that limits things to 8.
Actually the latest in the Darwin CVS is not so much a microkernel anymore. According to the latest reports, the kernel is now a more FreeBSD 4.4 smooshed together with Mach for a more monolithic architecture. This was to overcome the inherent performance issues with micro-kernel design.
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I would personally like to see a clause required for government funded software that is required like the old bsd license that says "Parts of software funded by XXX agency of the United States Government."
Then maybe people would realize how much of our open source, and closed source software has been created and or funded by the US government.
Someone told me once who was working on the project, that to lock out Mac's some Admirals and Microsoft made sure that the specs for standard desktops and laptops required paralell ports. This decision was made three years ago, long after USB had taken over. The idea was that they could lock out some big Mac sites (Former sites like China Lake, 10K macs) and force them to switch to Windows.
Funny ha. They were not counting on this funny little thing called linux to show up as a alternative to Windows.
Maybe this does not apply because they are not US Citizens or a US Corporation. But isn't it a constinutional right to confront you accusers?
1. There is no IRS not-for-profit database. There is guidestar and http://wwww.guidestar.org/ does not always have the most up to date information. Often there filings are 1 or two years behind or might not exist at all.
2. If the KDE league is not a 501(c)3 then what the heck is the KDE league?
I believe the KDE leagues corporate filings should be available from the State of Deleware.
It may not be the most up to date resource, but:
Go to http://www.guidestar.org to get a look at several organizations 990 filings including Red Cross Chapters, USENIX, and the IETF. Its really eye opening.
It looks like the KDE League is a mess, and if I were a member. I would have serious questions of mismanagment.
Also, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 has to with its filing with the IRS show public support. Hence the honest question of what has it done?
A few corrections to assumptions by Dre:
1. The IRS makes no distinction between not-for-profit and non-profit. THe former is really just a more accurate term to describe a 501(c) organization. Any organization that doesn't make a profit is eventually going to go under without constant investment.
2. Any not-for-profit has to make available within 24 hours of the request a copy of there form 990 which details things like the top 5 highest paid employees, and a high level overview of there finances. If that is not furnished then requestor can file a complaint with the IRS.
3. The IRS tends to scrutinize not-for-profits more then regular corporations. Better be carefull.
Cheers, from a guy who has founded a not-for-profit corporation after six months of exhaustive research on the subject.
There is now a port of Eclipse to Mac OS X written in Carbon. You can find it on the front page of the eclipse web site at http://www.eclipse.org
Actually HP is in the services business.
From Bruce's web page it sounds like he is not hurting either way. So he could afford to go out on a limb. Obviously HPQ felt that his MS bashing was not in there best interests. As for it being all Compaq's fault. Doesn't John 'MadDog" Hall work for Compaq?
If he doesn't anymore, then he seems to play the game over their very well.
"Non-profit my ass, Jack Valentini and Hillary Rosen are racking in the money."
The correct term is not-for-profit. Their is nothing in US law that says not-for-profits cannot make money. There are more then 27 different kinds of not-for-profits defined by the IRS. Each with their own abilities and benefits.
Keep in mind that a not-for-profit owned Hughes Aircraft until 1986. When it sold it the for-profit subsidary for a couple of billion dollars. Hershey's candy is also owned by a not-for-profit.
All a not-for-profit means is that the organization does not pay tax's. And is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny by the IRS. If you want to know what to know how much the MPAA and RIAA make. Go to http://www.guidestar.org and look it up.
You could argue that the idea's behind object oriented programming that Kristen Nygaard pushed influcenced later ideas of how objects communicate, and interact with each other. Which or course have influenced the architectural course of the internet.
So we would have had mass propogation of email earlier, and a internet or the internet type of services would have happened sooner. Bar the internet would not have had its libertarian nature if the post office ran it.
But we might have had more interactive high bandwidth services sooner if the plan had gone forward.
Only 12K, that means a small fraction of this visitors that read the site are sending in money. ALso is LWN is it legal for LWN to take donations without being a not-for-profit? Does thi smean LWN has too treat the "donations," as investments?
Personally, I think this is LWN's fault. Everyone on the web knows the times are changing, and that the advertising only business model doesn't work. Slashdot figured this out, why couldn't LWN?
LWN's only chance is to try to roll out a premium service, and quickly.
When the iMac came out, this same thing happened. With in six months there were rip offs from such notables as Dell, Gateway, and IBM. None of nock-offs have survived. The iMac is still around and selling well.
Apple just seems to have some kind of magic when it comes to product design. That few others if any have.
I find Apple a good compromise between propietary expensive SGI box's, and Linux which lacks the ease of use refinments I enjoy on the Mac.
Might be time to start to migrate off your Linux rendering farm. I think you will fine that the performance should be in tune, and your power bill will be much lower. Considering how much less power Apple's hardware traditionally has used then Intel. Mainly thanks to the PowerPC chip.
Apple's xserve is showing to be pretty good on the benchmark scale. http://www.xinet.com/benchmarks/benchmarks.2002/
Last I checked the two biggest problems with massive streaming audio were 1) the high cost of a real audio license, and 2) the high cost of bandwidth. The latter might not be a problem for AOL . But the former is.
AOL could be writing this switch to use MPEG-4 which would solve both problems to some degree. Consider also how much money AOL has to put into this project. The ROI could be huge.
MSNBC is now the *BSD version of Slashdot.
The whole purpose of MPEG-4 is that it takes the player out of the game. All that matters is that you can decode/encode MPEG-4. In a year or two, Sorenson should be irrelevant, and XINE will just need MPEG-4 support.
That being said, doesn't MPEG-4 have some pretty herendous licensing restrictions of its own?
Slashdotter's, none the less, should be campaigning for sites to support MPEG-4 . If they want Linux, and *BSD to become fully supported across streaming sites.
One has to wonder. With Apple's string of aquisitions, and invetiable future string of aquisitions of 3D and other content creation tools.
Will shops starting switching to Mac OS X. I imagine several all ready have Mac OS X in their environments for Photoshop.
So far Apple has kept the Linux versions on most of the applications and dumped NT. What happens if they dump Linux?
This goes beyond Linux, doesn't this also apply to TrustedBSD, and SE-Darwin?
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Thomas Vincent
The NSA has funded the a huge portion of the work on Trusted Systems. (even before SE-Linux) Doesn't Federal law say any patents derived from Federal funding must be licensed to the Govt. on a royalty free basis?
Plus, this stinks of Rambus. I expect the NSA to get pretty pissed about this. They funded SE-Linux to help promote Trusted OS's into the mainstream. Not for someone to Rambus everyone.
I know the guys who did the work at the NSA on SE-Linux.
The press is constantly making it sounds like the NSA outsourced the whole effort. They didn't the folks at the NSA did a huge part (majority) of the work. It would be nice if the articles started reflecting that.
No one goes to work at the NSA for the glory. But, they still deserve more credit then they get.
The keychain for storing passwords in a encrypted AES package can take up to 34-charachters.
Unfortunatly , it is the BSD layer that limits things to 8.
Does this mean RMS will now want us to call Germany, GNU/Germany?
Actually the latest in the Darwin CVS is not so much a microkernel anymore. According to the latest reports, the kernel is now a more FreeBSD 4.4 smooshed together with Mach for a more monolithic architecture. This was to overcome the inherent performance issues with micro-kernel design.