First off if he has prior work that is under the GPL it's beyond the reach of the company.
Not necessarily. If he still owns the copyright, then he can revoke the GPL license of his work and make it owned by the company at any time. However, people are still free to release modifications of previous GPLed versions of the software.
why? because there is just too much risk of them being attracted to the children and causing all sorts of scandal.
Oh please. This is a terrible stereotype of gay people pushed forward by anti-homosexual crusaders. Just because a person is gay or lesbian or whatever has little relation to the likelihood of them being a child molester. Are you male? And straight? Well then you're more likely to go after the little girls, aren't you? That is the type of stereotyping we don't need.
Amazing. Did JFK really say this? Such a statement is directly opposite of some of the other principles that he and the democratic party and liberalism fight for, where basically more government involvement is the Solution.
It took several semi-organised armies (read: militias) to really pick it up. Watch The Patriot.
Arrrgh. For God's sake, if you're looking for historical accuracy, read a history book, read original documents, etc. Do NOT rely on Holleywood for history. Do not suggest Holleywood films if you want an idea of what "things were like."
But, no matter how different the HCI of the web page, you're still going to be able to highlight something and hit Ctrl-C to copy it in Windows;
And in X, I highlight "text" in any application, and it's in the copy button. I press the middle mouse button in any text field in any application, and it's pasted. X has better support for cut and paste than Windows does. Now, that's not "Linux" but "X," but X comes on most distros I've seen.
As well, look and feel is not protected - witness Apple's failed lawsuit against Microsoft many years ago. Also witness how Microsoft hasn't chased down Red Hat for their AnotherLevel look-alike, the qvwm team for completely porting the Win95 look, etc...
Yes, but when you're Apple and basically your only advantage now is in the look of your icons, well...
This is the same situation as AnotherLevel. The difference is that it wasn't worth Microsoft's time, while Apple doesn't really have that much to lose anymore.
Not really. A failure or two resulting in a death would not cause the howling protest that would result in the removal of these devices, no more than a tire blowout or other inconvenience. People would look at it, shake their heads, and spend money to improve reliability. Even more people would say "yes, a few people lost their lives, but think of all the people who have been saved because of the limitor!" It's an idea that has to be killed before it is implimented.
Why cant everybody just mind their own business and live their own insignificant little lives?
Because people want control. They want their neighbors to be like themselves. They don't just want to ignore things they don't like, they often don't want those things to exist and wish to make actions they disapprove of illegal. Sometimes this is all under the guise of "improving" the other person.
Obviously I'm generalizing a great deal here, and generalizations aren't always right. But generally, people are nosy. They want to correct things they don't like, even if it isn't their business. That's why they won't leave you alone.
..but it does point up in the strongest terms what many/. readers already believe: To maintain the vitality of the 'Net, we must continue to increase our use of strong end-to-end crypto in both communications and storage (PGP/GPG and encrypted filesystems), keep using and inventing tools that thwart jurisdictional boundaries and draconian search-and seizure rules (eternity services, encrypted filesystems again) and most importantly, keep up the social and political activism to raise public awareness and pressure governments to respect individual privacy and free speech.
All of this is easily thwarted. If you refuse to give up your encryption keys, then you go to jail. Doesn't the UK do this already?
As for whether a newspaper can pass lies off as truth, we'll we seem to have a pretty good system in place right now which hardly ever involves the use of liberal law suits. If you scream loud enough, people will know that said newspaper is not very credible and will soon go out of business.
Except that just isn't true. The New York Times is in no danger of going out of business, even though many people now know that they lied about a certain scientist of Chinese descent. It's nice to claim that such market forces actually work, but the -reality- of it looks a little different.
As for someone following you around, sending you letters and calling you in the middle of the night, up to a few years ago there was nothing you could do about this and people survived. Deal with it.
You're not a Libertarian, so please don't call yourself one. You're much closer to being an anarchist. I'm not saying that's really bad, but you should get the terms right.
If I were a religious person (and I'm not; it is possible to be a conservative atheist)
Of course it is, it's the Republican Party that has the problem with the Religious Right. Libertanians are very conservative, and religion doesn't much enter into the discussion there.
I certainly don't want to be anywhere near a meltdown. Do you?
I certainly wouldn't lose much sleep over it, no. You realize that modern nuclear reactors aren't built like Chernobyl and that if a disaster strokes, the reaction will fizzle instead of meltdown, right? Most of the fear of nuclear plants in this day and age is due to unsubstantiated paranoia.
Honestly, I think nuclear is the way to go. Yes, there is nuclear waste, but all power generation methods have their downsides, and nuclear's seem to be the least annoying.
Has it ever occured to you that maybe we don't _have_ to get dirty *snip* We should just quit trying to make the world better and just live with smog and pollution.
And, four years ago or so, who said that they were willing to take the risk of absorbing increased costs on the off chance that power price would actually rise? PG&E.
It would seem that they have changed their minds, no?
This has been happening to EfNET for damn near a year now and no one has said anything.
Actually, Slashdot has run a fewstories about this before.
A big problem is that "a new network with an improved ircd" will solve nothing. It will still have the same problems: people will attack client servers because they will always have a valid IP address for the client server. That's how TCP/IP works. Ok, they have to go through some type of gateway? Then the script kiddies will attack the gateway.
The only solution I can see that could solve this is to make it impossible to perform these huge DDOS attacks. IPv4 was designed 20 years ago for a world where idiots did not have access to tools like smurf. IPv6 holds promise, but that's a very long-term solution.
They had some sort of *nix machines for their personal development boxes. They set up root cron jobs that would wipe the hd at like 9am monday morning. So if they weren't there to disable it... WOOOM!
Guess it kindof sucks if they get stuck in traffic, huh?
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Not necessarily. If he still owns the copyright, then he can revoke the GPL license of his work and make it owned by the company at any time. However, people are still free to release modifications of previous GPLed versions of the software.
Oh please. This is a terrible stereotype of gay people pushed forward by anti-homosexual crusaders. Just because a person is gay or lesbian or whatever has little relation to the likelihood of them being a child molester. Are you male? And straight? Well then you're more likely to go after the little girls, aren't you? That is the type of stereotyping we don't need.
Arrrgh. For God's sake, if you're looking for historical accuracy, read a history book, read original documents, etc. Do NOT rely on Holleywood for history. Do not suggest Holleywood films if you want an idea of what "things were like."
And in X, I highlight "text" in any application, and it's in the copy button. I press the middle mouse button in any text field in any application, and it's pasted. X has better support for cut and paste than Windows does. Now, that's not "Linux" but "X," but X comes on most distros I've seen.
Yes, but when you're Apple and basically your only advantage now is in the look of your icons, well...
This is the same situation as AnotherLevel. The difference is that it wasn't worth Microsoft's time, while Apple doesn't really have that much to lose anymore.
Not really. A failure or two resulting in a death would not cause the howling protest that would result in the removal of these devices, no more than a tire blowout or other inconvenience. People would look at it, shake their heads, and spend money to improve reliability. Even more people would say "yes, a few people lost their lives, but think of all the people who have been saved because of the limitor!" It's an idea that has to be killed before it is implimented.
Wow, sounds like a good portion of the Slashdot articles these days: "Look at this really cool toy!"
Orrr... making a copy for the toddler to watch while putting the original in storage. You realize that is the point of making backup copies, no?
Because people want control. They want their neighbors to be like themselves. They don't just want to ignore things they don't like, they often don't want those things to exist and wish to make actions they disapprove of illegal. Sometimes this is all under the guise of "improving" the other person.
Obviously I'm generalizing a great deal here, and generalizations aren't always right. But generally, people are nosy. They want to correct things they don't like, even if it isn't their business. That's why they won't leave you alone.
All of this is easily thwarted. If you refuse to give up your encryption keys, then you go to jail. Doesn't the UK do this already?
Except that just isn't true. The New York Times is in no danger of going out of business, even though many people now know that they lied about a certain scientist of Chinese descent. It's nice to claim that such market forces actually work, but the -reality- of it looks a little different.
As for someone following you around, sending you letters and calling you in the middle of the night, up to a few years ago there was nothing you could do about this and people survived. Deal with it.
You're not a Libertarian, so please don't call yourself one. You're much closer to being an anarchist. I'm not saying that's really bad, but you should get the terms right.
Of course it is, it's the Republican Party that has the problem with the Religious Right. Libertanians are very conservative, and religion doesn't much enter into the discussion there.
I certainly wouldn't lose much sleep over it, no. You realize that modern nuclear reactors aren't built like Chernobyl and that if a disaster strokes, the reaction will fizzle instead of meltdown, right? Most of the fear of nuclear plants in this day and age is due to unsubstantiated paranoia.
Honestly, I think nuclear is the way to go. Yes, there is nuclear waste, but all power generation methods have their downsides, and nuclear's seem to be the least annoying.
Has it ever occured to you that maybe we don't _have_ to get dirty *snip* We should just quit trying to make the world better and just live with smog and pollution.
Aren't those statements self-contradicting?
You can try making sure the population doesn't increase as much or at all. Whoops! Sorry, not a politically correct idea.
It would seem that they have changed their minds, no?
Actually, Slashdot has run a few stories about this before.
A big problem is that "a new network with an improved ircd" will solve nothing. It will still have the same problems: people will attack client servers because they will always have a valid IP address for the client server. That's how TCP/IP works. Ok, they have to go through some type of gateway? Then the script kiddies will attack the gateway.
The only solution I can see that could solve this is to make it impossible to perform these huge DDOS attacks. IPv4 was designed 20 years ago for a world where idiots did not have access to tools like smurf. IPv6 holds promise, but that's a very long-term solution.
Guess it kindof sucks if they get stuck in traffic, huh?
The "Dot-Com Gold Rush" was a myth.