Obviously the number one method for recruiting, arming, and gathering terrorists is good old green backs! Money the number one tool for terrorism; guess we need to ban that shit too.
I don't know but with the Supreme Court's comments on the KBR decision this might be a good chance to take the idea that software isn't patentable at all to them; I can't see that as a bad thing. They did mention that they've never ruled on the legality of software patents.
The rankings in distrowatch are from page hits from that distro. Why can't anyone seem to get the point that, people leaving one distro for another are of course going to go to distrowatch to find a new distro. People using a distro they like have no reason to go to that site at all. So, using distrowatch to tell the popularity of a distro is just silly. If we really want to find out a distros popularity we should do it by measuring the number of people updating their distro, not on a site dedicated to people swapping distros.
The point of the DMCA is to prevent illegal circumvention of DRM. So, by putting code under the GPLv3 (or deriving your code from it) you are giving the user the right to remove the DRM modifications, thus there is no illegal circumvention. This is just making sure that Tivo allows modification of code (even DRM code) that they modified, just as they were allowed to modify it.
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Obviously the number one method for recruiting, arming, and gathering terrorists is good old green backs! Money the number one tool for terrorism; guess we need to ban that shit too.
I don't know but with the Supreme Court's comments on the KBR decision this might be a good chance to take the idea that software isn't patentable at all to them; I can't see that as a bad thing. They did mention that they've never ruled on the legality of software patents.
The rankings in distrowatch are from page hits from that distro. Why can't anyone seem to get the point that, people leaving one distro for another are of course going to go to distrowatch to find a new distro. People using a distro they like have no reason to go to that site at all. So, using distrowatch to tell the popularity of a distro is just silly. If we really want to find out a distros popularity we should do it by measuring the number of people updating their distro, not on a site dedicated to people swapping distros.
The point of the DMCA is to prevent illegal circumvention of DRM. So, by putting code under the GPLv3 (or deriving your code from it) you are giving the user the right to remove the DRM modifications, thus there is no illegal circumvention. This is just making sure that Tivo allows modification of code (even DRM code) that they modified, just as they were allowed to modify it.