CERT looks really cool, but it doesn't appear to be open source; at least there doesn't seem to be a download link anywhere. It looks as if there's a company called "Emotient" that's commercializing the tech. It might have been open source at some point but it looks proprietary now.
First you quote RMS saying that "it's ultimately up to the developers" and then, in the next sentence, you slam him for saying that it "is ultimately up to him". Then you confuse trademark - which isn't relevant here, with copyright - which is.
You asked for an explanation, so here goes: When you write some code, the law gives you a "copyright", which says that you get to control whether, and under what terms, other people can copy it. Your code, your copyright. There are many people (and organizations) that have contributed code to Linux, and each holds the copyright for the code that they wrote. So what RMS is pointing out, correctly, is that each copyright holder gets to decide whether they want to change the terms under which they will license their code.
So RMS's reasoning (note lack of quotation marks) is sound. Note that I'm not taking sides here but I don't think that your cheap shot at RMS was "insightful" or even fair.
I don't remember seeing any example of anyone being punished for it. Are there any such examples?
The GPL is very enforcceable, but I'm not sure what you mean by "punished". Harald Welte(sp?) has won some legal victories over companies that were distributing his code in violation of the GPL - see http://www.gpl-violations.org/ for more info. The FSF also has a GPL compliance lab which has successfully enforced the GPL although they tend to work behind the scenes so I don't know if they have any public examples of the work that they've done.
"but i'd rather have a steam engined harley davidson"
Unfortunately there's no way to make a steam engine loud enough to satisfy the average Harley owner. Too bad, since they're already accustomed to steam-engine performance.
I have no real motivation to read this guy's article since I just tried to see the onion's new site and was told that my browser isn't supported. It used to work just fine, so from my perspective Khoi Vinh is responsible for making the Onion inaccessible. Thanks for nothing, Khoi.
I'm glad they apologized, that's good of them, but they pretty blatantly dissed the Blackdown project and that's not honorable in my book. And I guess we're going to disagree on why they decided to help fund SCO's attack on Linux and the GPL.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash Sun. I like Java and I like Sun gear, but you're making Sun out to be victims ("stabs in the back") of the open source community and the truth is far more complex.
I first bought a beer with a "floating widget" in England in 1998 but evidently they had been around for quite some time. I'm not sure how I survived my hollow, meaningless existence before I discovered the subtle but intense pleasures of foamy canned beer.
Sometime in the mid-90's Sybase jumped from 4.9.2 to 10 (I believe that they wanted people to call it X). 4.9.2 was solid and 10 was a mess, and I don't think that Sybase every really recovered.
Sorry I disagree. Note the careful wording: "killed in hostile action." This allows CNN to cut the total of all servicemen who have died in Iraq in half. From USA Today we see stats indicating that the number of combat deaths is sometimes less than the number of accidental deaths especially when the force is asymetric, which in this case it clearly is. ABC News has a more detailed list of casualties and how they happened (it appears to be out of date). Ask yourself, has Ryan Cox served his country any less for dying in a "noncombat weapon discharge?" Does his Mom feel any differently?
I can't find a link handy, but I read in the Boston Globe (on paper) that the actual death rate, including those not killed "in hostile action" is roughly one per day. I find it rather disgusting that CNN would minimise the sacrifice made by those who went and served honorably and gave everything for us, just because of some beaurocratic label.
And if you're still not convinced how hardcore this can be, check out this site. [aroundalone.com] One person. One boat. All the way around the friggin' world. There's a simple beauty there that is rarely seen in the world these days.
A simple beauty that's not found anywhere near the America's cup. Ocean racing is hard core, the America's cup is an embarrassment to sailing.
Sorry BitGeek, they weren't lost during the america's cup, where the boats are towed to and from the starting line each morning and the sailors sleep on dry land each night. They were lost in real races like the Whitbread, Route du Rhum, fastnet, c-star, sydney-hobart, etc etc.
I've been in 50 knot winds but no IACC boat ever has, or ever will. They call the races if there's too much wind or too little because the IACC boats are just too damn fussy. Hell, one of them just sank (or rather broached and grounded) for no reason whatsoever.
The americas' cup really is a billionaire boys club where money matters more than guts. Ocean racers like Ellen MacArthur and Isabelle Autissier each have more balls than Bill Koch, Larry Ellison and Craig McCaw combined, but you'll never see them on/.
Some of the courses that you'll take when you go back to school won't be directly relevant to programming, or even CS. You might learn enough English, though, that you won't write
it's been 5 years since I've been working in the tech industry when you mean I've been working in the tech industry for 5 years.
Sort of, but at most places you can only buy an Xbox as part of a bundle that includes a few games, so they're probably close to break-even on the initial sale.
A lot of people still don't even accept catamarans as real sailboats
While it's true that there are still a lot of monomaran bigots out there, their numbers are dwindling. I find that most sailors nowadays (OK, outside the NYYC) are pretty open to new ideas. Sure, things got pretty boring for a while but the new crop of CF-rigged planing sportboats has made people more willing to look at new ideas with an open mind. Once you sail a Melges 24 a J-24 seems pretty boring, and it's not that great a leap from a Melges 24 to an F-24.
I missed the part on the website where he indicated that he was going after the Little AC.
I disagree that a lack of efficency spells doom for this idea. Let's face it, the Little AC, formula 400, A-class etc etc, are extremely fast and efficient but commercial disasters. Compare them to, say, a Hobie 16. Some people race them, but 90% just want to splash around and anything that makes that easier to do has a chance to succeed, even if it won't appear on very high-performance craft anytime soon.
I'm running my noisy server (with cheap old disk drives that make a huge racket) in the basement, and in my office I've got an old Pentium with no disk drives and a fanless heatsink. The only fan in the system is in the power supply, and that one's temperature controlled and pretty quiet.
Next step: underclocking the pentium and seeing if I can disable the power supply fan without it burning up.
Now I'll grant you that this is no fire-breathing twitch-game monster setup, but works great for hacking and web surfing, and the quiet is really nice at 3:00am when the wife and kids are all asleep.
TWiki is very cool. Our approach to documentation is to use TWiki for internal docs, notes, "shared whiteboard" and then migrate to DocBk for delivery externally. This seems to work well since wiki is very fluid, and then DocBk (with CVS) is more controlled, and can be delivered in many different ways (e.g pdf, html, rtf, etc).
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No problem. It looks as if your server code uses very little CPU, so perhaps you can convert ogg->mp3 on the server-side as you're streaming the data over the network. It will use more CPU, but probably not a lot. Having a PC serve the data to a simple device gives you a lot of flexibility.
As a side note, at least one of the pocket "MP3 players" (Lyra) doesn't support MP3 in the device per se, rather they convert from MP3 to their proprietary soundfile format while copying the files.
I've now counted 5 posts on both sides of the "missle" defense issue, and I'm only halfway through. If you'd like to convince me that you know something about "missles" then please spell "missile" correctly.
I find this interesting since I used to work for a company that sold billing software for what we called "convergent communications carriers". I've been passively following a couple of efforts for a while now.
The first, which a few people have mentioned, is freeside, which is written in perl and seems to have a pretty active mailing list. The author is usually pretty quick to help, and he will consult if people want to hire him.
Another package which I doubt anyone has mentioned is ISPD at http://ispd.eburg.com/. It looks like it does a lot of the same basic stuff that freeside does. One issue, though, is that the project appears to have run out of steam from the look of the web page.
I doubt you'll find much more than this. Billing software is hard to get right, and not especially exciting.
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CERT looks really cool, but it doesn't appear to be open source; at least there doesn't seem to be a download link anywhere. It looks as if there's a company called "Emotient" that's commercializing the tech. It might have been open source at some point but it looks proprietary now.
You asked for an explanation, so here goes: When you write some code, the law gives you a "copyright", which says that you get to control whether, and under what terms, other people can copy it. Your code, your copyright. There are many people (and organizations) that have contributed code to Linux, and each holds the copyright for the code that they wrote. So what RMS is pointing out, correctly, is that each copyright holder gets to decide whether they want to change the terms under which they will license their code.
So RMS's reasoning (note lack of quotation marks) is sound. Note that I'm not taking sides here but I don't think that your cheap shot at RMS was "insightful" or even fair.
"but i'd rather have a steam engined harley davidson"
Unfortunately there's no way to make a steam engine loud enough to satisfy the average Harley owner. Too bad, since they're already accustomed to steam-engine performance.
I have no real motivation to read this guy's article since I just tried to see the onion's new site and was told that my browser isn't supported. It used to work just fine, so from my perspective Khoi Vinh is responsible for making the Onion inaccessible. Thanks for nothing, Khoi.
And their behavior regarding Blackdown was less than honorable: http://archives.cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/10/ sun.apology.idg/
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash Sun. I like Java and I like Sun gear, but you're making Sun out to be victims ("stabs in the back") of the open source community and the truth is far more complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget
Sometime in the mid-90's Sybase jumped from 4.9.2 to 10 (I believe that they wanted people to call it X). 4.9.2 was solid and 10 was a mess, and I don't think that Sybase every really recovered.
Sorry I disagree. Note the careful wording: "killed in hostile action." This allows CNN to cut the total of all servicemen who have died in Iraq in half. From USA Today we see stats indicating that the number of combat deaths is sometimes less than the number of accidental deaths especially when the force is asymetric, which in this case it clearly is. ABC News has a more detailed list of casualties and how they happened (it appears to be out of date). Ask yourself, has Ryan Cox served his country any less for dying in a "noncombat weapon discharge?" Does his Mom feel any differently?
I can't find a link handy, but I read in the Boston Globe (on paper) that the actual death rate, including those not killed "in hostile action" is roughly one per day. I find it rather disgusting that CNN would minimise the sacrifice made by those who went and served honorably and gave everything for us, just because of some beaurocratic label.
I've been in 50 knot winds but no IACC boat ever has, or ever will. They call the races if there's too much wind or too little because the IACC boats are just too damn fussy. Hell, one of them just sank (or rather broached and grounded) for no reason whatsoever.
The americas' cup really is a billionaire boys club where money matters more than guts. Ocean racers like Ellen MacArthur and Isabelle Autissier each have more balls than Bill Koch, Larry Ellison and Craig McCaw combined, but you'll never see them on /.
Some of the courses that you'll take when you go back to school won't be directly relevant to programming, or even CS. You might learn enough English, though, that you won't write it's been 5 years since I've been working in the tech industry when you mean I've been working in the tech industry for 5 years.
Sort of, but at most places you can only buy an Xbox as part of a bundle that includes a few games, so they're probably close to break-even on the initial sale.
Trust me, it's even better to have a neighbor who brews good beer.
While it's true that there are still a lot of monomaran bigots out there, their numbers are dwindling. I find that most sailors nowadays (OK, outside the NYYC) are pretty open to new ideas. Sure, things got pretty boring for a while but the new crop of CF-rigged planing sportboats has made people more willing to look at new ideas with an open mind. Once you sail a Melges 24 a J-24 seems pretty boring, and it's not that great a leap from a Melges 24 to an F-24.
I missed the part on the website where he indicated that he was going after the Little AC.
I disagree that a lack of efficency spells doom for this idea. Let's face it, the Little AC, formula 400, A-class etc etc, are extremely fast and efficient but commercial disasters. Compare them to, say, a Hobie 16. Some people race them, but 90% just want to splash around and anything that makes that easier to do has a chance to succeed, even if it won't appear on very high-performance craft anytime soon.
I'm running my noisy server (with cheap old disk drives that make a huge racket) in the basement, and in my office I've got an old Pentium with no disk drives and a fanless heatsink. The only fan in the system is in the power supply, and that one's temperature controlled and pretty quiet.
Next step: underclocking the pentium and seeing if I can disable the power supply fan without it burning up.
Now I'll grant you that this is no fire-breathing twitch-game monster setup, but works great for hacking and web surfing, and the quiet is really nice at 3:00am when the wife and kids are all asleep.
Oh, I dunno, maybe because it's fun? Maybe because you get more satisfaction building something yourself than taking it out of a cardboard box?
Here's a novel concept! Let's not build things ourselves, let's just buy everything we need cuz it's cheaper and gives us more time to watch TV!
TWiki is very cool. Our approach to documentation is to use TWiki for internal docs, notes, "shared whiteboard" and then migrate to DocBk for delivery externally. This seems to work well since wiki is very fluid, and then DocBk (with CVS) is more controlled, and can be delivered in many different ways (e.g pdf, html, rtf, etc).
No problem. It looks as if your server code uses very little CPU, so perhaps you can convert ogg->mp3 on the server-side as you're streaming the data over the network. It will use more CPU, but probably not a lot. Having a PC serve the data to a simple device gives you a lot of flexibility.
As a side note, at least one of the pocket "MP3 players" (Lyra) doesn't support MP3 in the device per se, rather they convert from MP3 to their proprietary soundfile format while copying the files.
I've now counted 5 posts on both sides of the "missle" defense issue, and I'm only halfway through. If you'd like to convince me that you know something about "missles" then please spell "missile" correctly.
Thank you, I feel much better now.
I find this interesting since I used to work for a company that sold billing software for what we called "convergent communications carriers". I've been passively following a couple of efforts for a while now.
The first, which a few people have mentioned, is freeside, which is written in perl and seems to have a pretty active mailing list. The author is usually pretty quick to help, and he will consult if people want to hire him.
Another package which I doubt anyone has mentioned is ISPD at http://ispd.eburg.com/. It looks like it does a lot of the same basic stuff that freeside does. One issue, though, is that the project appears to have run out of steam from the look of the web page.
I doubt you'll find much more than this. Billing software is hard to get right, and not especially exciting.