As the author, he is immune from copyright law because he, as the owner of the copyright, can do as he pleases and he isn't bound by his own license.
The only thing binding him is that he granted irrevocable permission to his downstreamers by releasing it under the GPL.
He can halt his own distributions, but he already gave away the farm, and so to speak, it's pointless for him to close the barn door because the horses have already run off.
This would change, however, if he incorporated code from others that was itself applied under the GPL. Downstreamers who contribute code become co-owners of *their* releases, and any changes that make it to the original author are licensed TO him. In this case, the downstreamers are the licensors, and the upstreamers are the licensees.
Even if the constitution doesn't come into play here, ye olde contract law might.
More than just a few times, termination at will clauses are found to be unconscionable. Franchise agreements work that way, and often times, it works in de-facto style in labor law.
If the student fights the expulsion, he might win his case if his lawyer's a good one.
Plonking down bookoo bucks for tuition is a significant investment, not like a piddly subscription fee to WoW which has itself gotten a reputation for being trigger happy with the ban hammer.
Fair play doesn't include the big guy sabotaging the underdog.
What would a game of baseball be without an umpire? The ump is there to make sure players follow the rules and, get this, *don't cheat*
I would be all for M$ if it weren't for their abusive attitude against open source (halloween memo anyone?).
If you wanna be the first to tour the whole world, it's fair to make maps, use a GPS to keep from getting lost, and take a million dollar course in multilinguistics.
What is NOT fair is bribing ship captains to strand the other passengers, hack the computers and screw with their flights, or hijacking a bus at gunpoint.
Loans get bought at bargains because it's a distress sale.
Sorta the reason you drop your prices quickly on perishable goods.
If I know you MUST sell, I really have plenty of incentive to lowball you all I like and there's not a thing you can do about it unless there's competitors.
How the hell are they going to know who's doing the whois query in the first place?
If you were required to be logged in to perform a whois query I might actually believe them. But without some sort of authentication there is no way in hell that they're telling the truth.
If you have a stubborn boss who castigates "anything but windows" the same way they'd treat a hostile alien, you may very well be jeopardizing your job, or career, if you even suggest something as downtime-inducing as installing a different OS.
Especially since it would involve making unauthorized modifications to your boss's or your company's property.
I appreciate your vigilance, but better attention to timestamps is advised. I posted P before G got the flamebait mod, and said flamebait mod may even have been in response to P.
Honestly, an "overrated" may have been more accurate, if anything at all.
"Come to think on it though, he does sell off chunks of other people's Wikipedia contributions to commercial sites. That certainly does raise a data ownership issue he should be questioned about..."
Actually, when you post stuff to Wikipedia, you agree to license your contribution to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License, so Wales can do pretty much as he likes. You gave him (and every other viewer for that matter) the right to do so when you posted.
One of those "read the fine print" deals, that in this case is thankfully obvious.
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Funny thing is that it's actually a misdemeanor here where I live.
Uh, not quite.
As the author, he is immune from copyright law because he, as the owner of the copyright, can do as he pleases and he isn't bound by his own license.
The only thing binding him is that he granted irrevocable permission to his downstreamers by releasing it under the GPL.
He can halt his own distributions, but he already gave away the farm, and so to speak, it's pointless for him to close the barn door because the horses have already run off.
This would change, however, if he incorporated code from others that was itself applied under the GPL. Downstreamers who contribute code become co-owners of *their* releases, and any changes that make it to the original author are licensed TO him. In this case, the downstreamers are the licensors, and the upstreamers are the licensees.
Even if the constitution doesn't come into play here, ye olde contract law might.
More than just a few times, termination at will clauses are found to be unconscionable. Franchise agreements work that way, and often times, it works in de-facto style in labor law.
If the student fights the expulsion, he might win his case if his lawyer's a good one.
Plonking down bookoo bucks for tuition is a significant investment, not like a piddly subscription fee to WoW which has itself gotten a reputation for being trigger happy with the ban hammer.
"an alliance with Citrix Systems, owners of XenSource"
Either this is a bad case of "sleeping in bed with the enemy" or someone has a lame-ass sense of humor.
Citrix had better have Perry Mason level attorneys handling this or we're screwed!
Run?
Sun!
Done.
All your list are belong to us
Fair play doesn't include the big guy sabotaging the underdog.
What would a game of baseball be without an umpire? The ump is there to make sure players follow the rules and, get this, *don't cheat*
I would be all for M$ if it weren't for their abusive attitude against open source (halloween memo anyone?).
If you wanna be the first to tour the whole world, it's fair to make maps, use a GPS to keep from getting lost, and take a million dollar course in multilinguistics.
What is NOT fair is bribing ship captains to strand the other passengers, hack the computers and screw with their flights, or hijacking a bus at gunpoint.
There's a reason they call it "fighting dirty".
Fair use is not much of an issue on wikipedia.
Everything on there is already under the GFDL anyway.
Uh, the president can't appoint a VP.
Double check your constitution.
And prostitution is illegal btw...
Interesting point, China's quality control has been a bit deficient these days.
And whoever modded parent as flamebait has an odd sense of humor.
Considering that Linus Torvalds is not, in fact, the sole copyright holder to Linux, I'm not even sure that Linux CAN switch to v3 anyway.
The bargain sales of AR mean less money for the bank to pay off the depositors.
Now, in first life, we have the FDIC. But until we have the same thing in SL, runs on the bank will be fatal.
Sorry if my crappy font annoys you. I'm just having a little trouble with the posting process, sheesh.
That's exactly what I mean.
Loans get bought at bargains because it's a distress sale.
Sorta the reason you drop your prices quickly on perishable goods.
If I know you MUST sell, I really have plenty of incentive to lowball you all I like and there's not a thing you can do about it unless there's competitors.
My guess is the bad news probably makes BORROWERS feel like they can screw the bank.
A big part of any bank's assets are Accounts Receivable, meaning the bank has loaned money out and is to get paid back with interest.
Banks fail when their depositors get impatient, sue, and in the process give borrowers the impression they can screw the bank and not pay up.
Ask yourself this...
If a bank goes bye bye, what happens to all the people who OWE THE BANK?
I agree.
How the hell are they going to know who's doing the whois query in the first place?
If you were required to be logged in to perform a whois query I might actually believe them. But without some sort of authentication there is no way in hell that they're telling the truth.
Which is why having a boot loader password is a good idea.
If you have a stubborn boss who castigates "anything but windows" the same way they'd treat a hostile alien, you may very well be jeopardizing your job, or career, if you even suggest something as downtime-inducing as installing a different OS.
Especially since it would involve making unauthorized modifications to your boss's or your company's property.
tsk tsk tsk.
How vulgar...
TSR
Tactical Studies Rules
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR%2C_Inc.
To whoever modded P down:
I appreciate your vigilance, but better attention to timestamps is advised. I posted P before G got the flamebait mod, and said flamebait mod may even have been in response to P.
Honestly, an "overrated" may have been more accurate, if anything at all.
"Come to think on it though, he does sell off chunks of other people's Wikipedia contributions to commercial sites. That certainly does raise a data ownership issue he should be questioned about..."
Actually, when you post stuff to Wikipedia, you agree to license your contribution to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License, so Wales can do pretty much as he likes. You gave him (and every other viewer for that matter) the right to do so when you posted.
One of those "read the fine print" deals, that in this case is thankfully obvious.
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Er, I don't think a demonstration of the principles of logic counts as flamebait.
At least they didn't get bricked this time...