You must not have read it that well. We read it here, and basically you're free to make as many copies and use them as you wish as long as you don't sell them
Where do you find this clearly stated?
Section 1 of the YaST license basically says you can use it if you follow the licesne.
Section 2 covers modifications to YaST.
Section 3, first paragraph says no distribution for a charge without written consent.
Section 3, second paragraph, first part, covers licensing of modifications. Second part of that paragraph allows distribution by FTP or "mailboxes".
Section 4 is a disclaimer of warranty.
Section 5 says you don't have any rights other than those granted by this license.
Section 6 deals with patents or interface copyrights.
I don't see anything in their that clearly says I can give a CD containing YaST-licensed software to a friend. The closest I see is that you might try to deduce that it is OK because otherwise there would have been no need to have the explicit restrictions on distribution for money.
That is a very shakey argument, and not the kind of risk I'm going to take at work. As far as I can see, I need to track SuSE licensing just as meticulously as I need to track Microsoft and Apple licensing.
No thanks. I'll use free Linux distributions, or *BSD, and avoid that hassle.
I don't see how a choice between linux distros hurts Linux or the vendor
SuSE is the least free of the major distributions. The licesne for YaST doesn't meet the three major definitions of "free software" (The FSF defition, the Debian definition, or the Open Source Initiative definition).
If they don't want to use Redhat (which is free), I'd prefer they use Debian or Slackware or Gentoo or Madrake or some other fully free Linux.
You might not think this is a big deal, but one of the big attractions for me of Linux over Windows is that freedom.
I have a precise mathematical formulation of the rules of generalized Go in terms of sets and operations on them, but I cannot find any way to format it that Slashdot will accept, so screw it.
I actually thing that most people don't go past the first two or three pages of a search (I know I don't unless I really have to)
You'd be surprised. I have a web page that has a very eclectic mix of items. It's basically all those things that I would come across on usenet or in blogs or wherever and email or ICQ to friends. I started putting then on a page on my site, and telling my friends to just check that every so often.
Because of this, a lot of obscure searches manage to hit it, because it contains lots of short items that are essentially unrelated other than for the fact that I thought they were funny or interesting.
Some of the google hits are interesting. Somone found my site serching for "orgasm sound files". I checked, and I was on page 20 of those results at the time. I have no orgasm sound files...those three words just happen to appear. It is kind of sad to think of some poor person out there so disappointed by the first 19 pages of orgasm sound file results that he made it to my site.
I was also pretty far down on the "gay aryan webring" search, but was still found (and no, I don't have anything to do with any aryan webrings).
MSN only has 12 hits for "homoerotic regurgitation", but Google has 28. Maybe they want to buy Google to supress homoerotic regugiphiles, rather than Linux?
Several times I've thought of setting up a cron job so if I don't deactivate it in a couple of days, it would notify my direct relatives about my death
If I ever build a house, I'll have a timed thing like that, but not only to notify people of my death--it will also cause my death.
The house computer system will give me challenges periodically, and keep track of how well I respond to them. When the house computer determines that I've gotten senile enough to no longer really be me, it will wait until I'm sleeping, and gas me, wait until it is sure I'm dead (temperature sensors?), and then call the appropriate authorities to report the death.
After this, the robokvorkian program will destroy itself, so that whoever gets the house after me won't have to worry about it.
At work once, we had a phone system where you could leave a voice mail for someone for delivery in the future. Until the delivery time came, there would be no indication to the recipient that the message was there. Furthermore, up until the delivery time, you could cancel you pending message.
We moved to a different office and didn't take that phone system with us before I could get around to do ing this, but here is what I wanted to do:
1. Leave a message for my boss (who was also a friend of mine) queued for delivery in three months.
2. Every month, cancel that message and rerecord it, again queued for three months out.
So, if I ever died, 2-3 months after my death, my boss would get a voice mail from me. The message would be suitably creepy, of course.
Don't be an idiot. Copyright infringement involves distributing copyrighted material
Copyright infringement involves violating any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, one of which is the right to distribute copies of the work.
Not one RIAA lawsuit to date has been about someone just HAVING material they didn't pay for. There's a reason for that
Having a copy of a movie in a shared folder is not copying it, it's indicating a willingness to copy it
You copied it to get it into the shared folder in the first place. (And don't try to claim now that it's a backup of the DVD...we are talking about pre-release movies here).
This story fails to point out anything wrong with this.
You have no reason whatsoever to have prerelease movies on your computer without authorization, so this will pretty much 100% only affect the bad file swappers, without hurting the "good" file swappers in any way.
Now, comparing G5 results with GCC to x86 results with GCC is pretty fair when you are comparing the hardware only, not the software
Wrong. The only way to compare the hardware is to use the best compiler for each: intel on x86 and IBM's compiler on G5. Using GCC on both doesn't eliminate the compiler as a variable, since GCC on x86 and GCC on G5 don't share ALL code (in particular, they have different code generators).
I think the Matrix will have a problem as an MMORPG. Let's consider existing MMORPGs and where their backgrounds come from.
Everquest, AC, and AO all use original backgroups set in familiar genres (Fantasy for EQ and AC, SF for AO). Players have some general expectations based on the genre, but no specific characters/story requirements. (Although any fantasy game that has a Ranger class seems to run into some problems for every way that their Rangers differ from Aragorn).
DAoC used Arthurian, Celtic, and Norse mythology for its background, loosely. This was a brilliant move on Mythics part--it gave them background that people would know something of, but because there are few specific characters and stories that most people are overly familiar with in those settings, it doesn't overly focus people's expectation.
Now consider SWG. Although it is doing well, it has had a problem with disappointment for not living up to what many people want from a Star Wars game. The Star Wars universe is too strongly focused on a few characters and stories, and people playing a Star Wars game often want to be those characters. Far more people want to play Han Solo than play the guy Han Solo buys his guns or beer or hairstyling from.
The Matrix, I think, might suffer from this. (As will the upcoming LotR MMORPG, BTW). The focus of the movies is too strongly on a small set of characters, and people will want to play those characters, or at least play with them, doing the the things that were done in the movie.
Also, both The Matrix and the good SW movies were basically about world (galaxy, universe) changing events. If the games don't have that, many people will find them disappointing, compared to their expectation, which will basically be playing the movies.
In light of the above, here are some movies/TV shows I thing would make good MMORPG conversaion.
First, I'm surprised there has not been a Star Trek MMORPG. Sure, in some ways ST suffers from the same problems that SW and LotR have...but because there were several series, focusing on different crews (original, next gen, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), I think the focus has been diluted enough that it would work. Set it in TNG time, and I think people could accept being on ships other than Enterprise, or space stations other than DS9.
Second movie that comes to mind is either Antz or A Bug's Life. Those would work because there was only one movie for each, and though they focused on basically one character/story each, I don't think one movie is enough to form the strong association between the character and the world.
I don't know much about law/the justice system, but WHY THE FUCK haven't we seen the government/any other body take action against SCO
Well, what action would you propose? Any action would require essentially a trial on the merits to determine who is right....which is what will happen anyway if SCO and IBM don't settle.
Or are you suggesting that some government officer or agency should have the power and inclination to simply step in and declare that SCO is wrong, and end the matter? That works in dictatorships, but they have other undesirable characteristics that are far worse than the occasional worthless lawsuit.
Paying user burning karma to advocate abolishment of "intellectual property" laws
...without suggesting anything to replace them. How useful. Hint: we have IP law not because some dead white guys a long time ago were sitting around and said, "what the hell, let's make these laws for no reason". A free market economy does a poor job of allocating resources for the production of creative works. How would you fix this?
Back when "free software" basically meant Emacs, gcc, and a smattering of other obscure, specialized programs, that article would have been sensible as an argument why free software cannot work: it would have turned out to be wrong, but being wrong when predicting the future is acceptable.
But he's 30 years too late. He's predicting the past, and getting that wrong is just stupid.
Weight control is a simple matter of physics: if you take in more than you use, you gain weight. Take in less, you lose weight.
Because of this, diets do not work. They can lower you weight while you are on the diet, but when you go off the diet, you gain it back, unless you've also increased your exercise.
What you need to do is make a permanent change. I did that once. I came up with a set of foods that I liked, and could cook myself, that would cover my nutritional needs, and then I got in the habit of making my own meals using those foods rather than grabbing junk food. I also increased my exercise. It worked. I lost over a hundred pounds, and it stayed off. In fact, I was able to throw in some junk food (fries and a shake a few nights a week at the Caltech coffeehouse while playing cards with friends), and still keep the wieght off.
Alas, I eventually moved to a new job, with a startup, where we had crazy hours, and I was too tired to cook, and so my habits changed to pizza and drive throughs, and less exercise, and so now I'm a fat blob again.
The thing to ask yourself when considering any diet is whether or not you could stick to that diet forever, because otherwise, any weight loss is going to be temporary.
I don't understand spamcop.net's choices of providers for various services. For a domain registrar, they are using a German company, that they have no idea how to call when things go wrong. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use a US or Canadian company that would be easy to contact? (Note that I'm not saying there is anything wrong with German companies!)
Second, on their pages, they have at the top a recommendation for a specific web hosting company, presumably the one they use--this isn't a banner ad, but rather an ad written right into their HTML, so it sure looks like it is their personal recommendation for web hosting. When I was looking for a new hosting company for my site, I wanted to find one that was not soft on spam, so that I would not have to worry about ending up in SPEWS, and figured that the one SpamCop uses would have to be good. Checked out their plans, and they were good. I was ready to sign up, but decided it would be dumb not to at least Google a bit...and I found that that hosting company does NOT have a good reputation in the anti-spam community!
You'd think one sure-fire way to find a white-hat ISP would be to use the one that a major anti-spam site recommends, so this was quite a shock.
Well, in fairness, we are talking about Fox News viewers
But isn't Fox News a separate channel, like CNN? As far as I know, The Simpsons and Fox News aren't shown on the same channels. Those would have to be mighty clueless viewers to get confused!
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So? XFree is under a free license. My objection to YaST is not that it isn't GPL'ed. It is that it is not under a free software license.
Is your failure to address the question of where the YaST license even allows for sharing an admission that you can't find it, either?
Where do you find this clearly stated?
- Section 1 of the YaST license basically says you can use it if you follow the licesne.
- Section 2 covers modifications to YaST.
- Section 3, first paragraph says no distribution for a charge without written consent.
- Section 3, second paragraph, first part, covers licensing of modifications. Second part of that paragraph allows distribution by FTP or "mailboxes".
- Section 4 is a disclaimer of warranty.
- Section 5 says you don't have any rights other than those granted by this license.
- Section 6 deals with patents or interface copyrights.
I don't see anything in their that clearly says I can give a CD containing YaST-licensed software to a friend. The closest I see is that you might try to deduce that it is OK because otherwise there would have been no need to have the explicit restrictions on distribution for money.That is a very shakey argument, and not the kind of risk I'm going to take at work. As far as I can see, I need to track SuSE licensing just as meticulously as I need to track Microsoft and Apple licensing.
No thanks. I'll use free Linux distributions, or *BSD, and avoid that hassle.
Yes, it is a big friggin deal, since it precludes making and distributing cheap SuSE ISOs, either separately, or as part of a larger package.
The YaST license also is unclear about borrowing CDs. I don't see anything in the YaST license that allows installing from borrowed CDs.
One of the big benefits of Linux at work is that it frees us of the hassles of license tracking. It sure looks like SuSE fails to do that.
My UPS has a three-prong plug already. Why would I need a free ground?
SuSE is the least free of the major distributions. The licesne for YaST doesn't meet the three major definitions of "free software" (The FSF defition, the Debian definition, or the Open Source Initiative definition).
If they don't want to use Redhat (which is free), I'd prefer they use Debian or Slackware or Gentoo or Madrake or some other fully free Linux.
You might not think this is a big deal, but one of the big attractions for me of Linux over Windows is that freedom.
I have a precise mathematical formulation of the rules of generalized Go in terms of sets and operations on them, but I cannot find any way to format it that Slashdot will accept, so screw it.
You'd be surprised. I have a web page that has a very eclectic mix of items. It's basically all those things that I would come across on usenet or in blogs or wherever and email or ICQ to friends. I started putting then on a page on my site, and telling my friends to just check that every so often.
Because of this, a lot of obscure searches manage to hit it, because it contains lots of short items that are essentially unrelated other than for the fact that I thought they were funny or interesting.
Some of the google hits are interesting. Somone found my site serching for "orgasm sound files". I checked, and I was on page 20 of those results at the time. I have no orgasm sound files...those three words just happen to appear. It is kind of sad to think of some poor person out there so disappointed by the first 19 pages of orgasm sound file results that he made it to my site.
I was also pretty far down on the "gay aryan webring" search, but was still found (and no, I don't have anything to do with any aryan webrings).
MSN only has 12 hits for "homoerotic regurgitation", but Google has 28. Maybe they want to buy Google to supress homoerotic regugiphiles, rather than Linux?
If I ever build a house, I'll have a timed thing like that, but not only to notify people of my death--it will also cause my death.
The house computer system will give me challenges periodically, and keep track of how well I respond to them. When the house computer determines that I've gotten senile enough to no longer really be me, it will wait until I'm sleeping, and gas me, wait until it is sure I'm dead (temperature sensors?), and then call the appropriate authorities to report the death.
After this, the robokvorkian program will destroy itself, so that whoever gets the house after me won't have to worry about it.
We moved to a different office and didn't take that phone system with us before I could get around to do ing this, but here is what I wanted to do:
1. Leave a message for my boss (who was also a friend of mine) queued for delivery in three months.
2. Every month, cancel that message and rerecord it, again queued for three months out.
So, if I ever died, 2-3 months after my death, my boss would get a voice mail from me. The message would be suitably creepy, of course.
Copyright infringement involves violating any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, one of which is the right to distribute copies of the work.
Not one RIAA lawsuit to date has been about someone just HAVING material they didn't pay for. There's a reason for that
And this is relevant how?
You copied it to get it into the shared folder in the first place. (And don't try to claim now that it's a backup of the DVD...we are talking about pre-release movies here).
You have no reason whatsoever to have prerelease movies on your computer without authorization, so this will pretty much 100% only affect the bad file swappers, without hurting the "good" file swappers in any way.
Wrong. The only way to compare the hardware is to use the best compiler for each: intel on x86 and IBM's compiler on G5. Using GCC on both doesn't eliminate the compiler as a variable, since GCC on x86 and GCC on G5 don't share ALL code (in particular, they have different code generators).
There were personal computers made that used Alphas, which were 64-bit.
Everquest, AC, and AO all use original backgroups set in familiar genres (Fantasy for EQ and AC, SF for AO). Players have some general expectations based on the genre, but no specific characters/story requirements. (Although any fantasy game that has a Ranger class seems to run into some problems for every way that their Rangers differ from Aragorn).
DAoC used Arthurian, Celtic, and Norse mythology for its background, loosely. This was a brilliant move on Mythics part--it gave them background that people would know something of, but because there are few specific characters and stories that most people are overly familiar with in those settings, it doesn't overly focus people's expectation.
Now consider SWG. Although it is doing well, it has had a problem with disappointment for not living up to what many people want from a Star Wars game. The Star Wars universe is too strongly focused on a few characters and stories, and people playing a Star Wars game often want to be those characters. Far more people want to play Han Solo than play the guy Han Solo buys his guns or beer or hairstyling from.
The Matrix, I think, might suffer from this. (As will the upcoming LotR MMORPG, BTW). The focus of the movies is too strongly on a small set of characters, and people will want to play those characters, or at least play with them, doing the the things that were done in the movie.
Also, both The Matrix and the good SW movies were basically about world (galaxy, universe) changing events. If the games don't have that, many people will find them disappointing, compared to their expectation, which will basically be playing the movies.
In light of the above, here are some movies/TV shows I thing would make good MMORPG conversaion.
First, I'm surprised there has not been a Star Trek MMORPG. Sure, in some ways ST suffers from the same problems that SW and LotR have...but because there were several series, focusing on different crews (original, next gen, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), I think the focus has been diluted enough that it would work. Set it in TNG time, and I think people could accept being on ships other than Enterprise, or space stations other than DS9.
Second movie that comes to mind is either Antz or A Bug's Life. Those would work because there was only one movie for each, and though they focused on basically one character/story each, I don't think one movie is enough to form the strong association between the character and the world.
Well, what action would you propose? Any action would require essentially a trial on the merits to determine who is right....which is what will happen anyway if SCO and IBM don't settle.
Or are you suggesting that some government officer or agency should have the power and inclination to simply step in and declare that SCO is wrong, and end the matter? That works in dictatorships, but they have other undesirable characteristics that are far worse than the occasional worthless lawsuit.
Putting little black circles in front of things doesn't make them "research".
But he's 30 years too late. He's predicting the past, and getting that wrong is just stupid.
Because of this, diets do not work. They can lower you weight while you are on the diet, but when you go off the diet, you gain it back, unless you've also increased your exercise.
What you need to do is make a permanent change. I did that once. I came up with a set of foods that I liked, and could cook myself, that would cover my nutritional needs, and then I got in the habit of making my own meals using those foods rather than grabbing junk food. I also increased my exercise. It worked. I lost over a hundred pounds, and it stayed off. In fact, I was able to throw in some junk food (fries and a shake a few nights a week at the Caltech coffeehouse while playing cards with friends), and still keep the wieght off.
Alas, I eventually moved to a new job, with a startup, where we had crazy hours, and I was too tired to cook, and so my habits changed to pizza and drive throughs, and less exercise, and so now I'm a fat blob again.
The thing to ask yourself when considering any diet is whether or not you could stick to that diet forever, because otherwise, any weight loss is going to be temporary.
Uhm...how so? Neither Windows Update nor apt-get do anything remotely (no pun intended) like what is covered by this patent.
Go read the claims of the patent.
Second, on their pages, they have at the top a recommendation for a specific web hosting company, presumably the one they use--this isn't a banner ad, but rather an ad written right into their HTML, so it sure looks like it is their personal recommendation for web hosting. When I was looking for a new hosting company for my site, I wanted to find one that was not soft on spam, so that I would not have to worry about ending up in SPEWS, and figured that the one SpamCop uses would have to be good. Checked out their plans, and they were good. I was ready to sign up, but decided it would be dumb not to at least Google a bit...and I found that that hosting company does NOT have a good reputation in the anti-spam community!
You'd think one sure-fire way to find a white-hat ISP would be to use the one that a major anti-spam site recommends, so this was quite a shock.
Their owners are (usually).
But isn't Fox News a separate channel, like CNN? As far as I know, The Simpsons and Fox News aren't shown on the same channels. Those would have to be mighty clueless viewers to get confused!