People don't go to demonoid for Britteny Spears. They go for Jazz and Classical recordings that have not been available for purchase in the US for 20 years. They go for medical textbooks. I got a full Principa Mathmatica there for cripe's sake. It's where Americans get 30 year old BBC productions. I'd been wanting to see The Sweeny for years. I'd have paid for it given the chance.
The copyright Nazis don't give a shit about 90% of what's there and 90% of the people using Demonoid don't give a shit about any of the stuff the copyright Nazis give a shit about.
Their development schedule forces them to put out buggy, crashy software time and time again. There is virtually no hard freeze time to iron out bugs so each release has a partially cooked feel to it. New users can't tell when something is a bug and when they screwed it up themselves. They might as well be running debian sid. New users do not need bleeding edge. They need stable.
I've been telling new users to use PCLinuxOS for a year now. It's just as user friendly as ubuntu and stable at the same time.
The code in question was NEVER under a pure BSD license. It has always been Dual(BSD/GPL). The CHOICE of redistributing under EITHER BSD OR GPL licenses is expressly given by the copyright holder.
The driver code in question was duel liscensed under the GPL and BSD liscenses. It contained text stating that it could be redistributed under the GPL or BSD liscense.
This just makes ubuntu unusable for anyone with hardware more than a few years old. I've got a 1300 mhz Duron with a gig of ram and integrated Prosavage chipset. I put the machine together for $300 nearly five years ago. and upgraded the RAM when SDRAM started to disappear. I can run KDE, mysql and apache at once while watching video just fine.
3D acceleration is still buggy and the card doesn't have all the features required for compiz anyway.
The whole planned obsolescence thing isn't supposed to apply with linux systems. Only now it does and that's real fucking lame.
Just like any kind of DRM. Dedicated individuals will find ways around it and likely have some fun in the process. Cracking copy protection is practically a game to a lot of people who will never even use the software. The only people who will be inconvenienced are the people willing to pay for the software.
Now I never get hosting without finding out who their bandwidth provider is. The whole buisness of selling and reselling bandwidth reminds me of a cross between multi-level marketing and Enron. Right now I'm using a VPS that is way more host than I need just so I know I'm free from that game.
Web hosting is so fucked up with people with no physical access to the servers and no idea how a web server even works selling accounts from control panels that it makes me nostalgic for my old free.edu hosting on a HP-UX box.
and knowing next to zip about Python Python is absurdly easy to figure out if you've got just a little bit of time. It's logically consistent and pretty much does everything the way you think it should.
Grandmothers who have never used a computer are the Gnome target demographic these days. It's assumed they will be using it anyway, at the expense of the needs of the geeks who comprise the majority of their userbase.
How many PC clones were sold before windows 3.1 hit? How about the Apple II series? Millions. Did the people who bought these get amnesia in 1995?
Just because people don't know something doesn't mean they can't learn btw. Learning is good.
The vast majority of linux systems don't have X installed btw. They don't even have monitors or keyboards. Most of the most advanced software for the platform does not require X at all.
You can see written reports and abstracts. You can see data. Once the research is done somebody still has to tabulate data and write it all up. They like to eat too.
That's not to say that journal subscriptions that cost thousands of dollars a year in order to help so-called experts keep their monopoly on knowledge aren't a sham. All the same, people should be paid for their labor.
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People don't go to demonoid for Britteny Spears. They go for Jazz and Classical recordings that have not been available for purchase in the US for 20 years. They go for medical textbooks. I got a full Principa Mathmatica there for cripe's sake. It's where Americans get 30 year old BBC productions. I'd been wanting to see The Sweeny for years. I'd have paid for it given the chance.
The copyright Nazis don't give a shit about 90% of what's there and 90% of the people using Demonoid don't give a shit about any of the stuff the copyright Nazis give a shit about.
From the mid 80s onward is now freely available
This way they can say they tried making it freely available and it didn't work so they can return to their first failed model.
Their development schedule forces them to put out buggy, crashy software time and time again. There is virtually no hard freeze time to iron out bugs so each release has a partially cooked feel to it. New users can't tell when something is a bug and when they screwed it up themselves. They might as well be running debian sid. New users do not need bleeding edge. They need stable.
I've been telling new users to use PCLinuxOS for a year now. It's just as user friendly as ubuntu and stable at the same time.
OK, so it compiles C on x86. What do I use when I want to compile objective C on my microwave?
He's even more long winded and also writes chapters which must be intended to be read out of order.
The code in question was NEVER under a pure BSD license. It has always been Dual(BSD/GPL). The CHOICE of redistributing under EITHER BSD OR GPL licenses is expressly given by the copyright holder.
check it out:
http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k/ath5k_base.h
If this were a pure BSD license you would be correct but it's not
The driver code in question was duel liscensed under the GPL and BSD liscenses. It contained text stating that it could be redistributed under the GPL or BSD liscense.
You know, or as in the disjuctive operator.
p q or
T T T
T F T
F T T
F F F
p = BSD, q = GPL.
Improving the UI by removing features is a net loss for the application.
I take it you're not using the savage driver.
This just makes ubuntu unusable for anyone with hardware more than a few years old. I've got a 1300 mhz Duron with a gig of ram and integrated Prosavage chipset. I put the machine together for $300 nearly five years ago. and upgraded the RAM when SDRAM started to disappear. I can run KDE, mysql and apache at once while watching video just fine.
3D acceleration is still buggy and the card doesn't have all the features required for compiz anyway.
The whole planned obsolescence thing isn't supposed to apply with linux systems. Only now it does and that's real fucking lame.
Just like any kind of DRM. Dedicated individuals will find ways around it and likely have some fun in the process. Cracking copy protection is practically a game to a lot of people who will never even use the software. The only people who will be inconvenienced are the people willing to pay for the software.
Now I never get hosting without finding out who their bandwidth provider is. The whole buisness of selling and reselling bandwidth reminds me of a cross between multi-level marketing and Enron. Right now I'm using a VPS that is way more host than I need just so I know I'm free from that game.
.edu hosting on a HP-UX box.
Web hosting is so fucked up with people with no physical access to the servers and no idea how a web server even works selling accounts from control panels that it makes me nostalgic for my old free
You might want to take a look at TurboGears:
http://turbogears.org/
GI Joe is still 30 years behind.
Grandmothers who have never used a computer are the Gnome target demographic these days. It's assumed they will be using it anyway, at the expense of the needs of the geeks who comprise the majority of their userbase.
How many PC clones were sold before windows 3.1 hit? How about the Apple II series? Millions. Did the people who bought these get amnesia in 1995? Just because people don't know something doesn't mean they can't learn btw. Learning is good. The vast majority of linux systems don't have X installed btw. They don't even have monitors or keyboards. Most of the most advanced software for the platform does not require X at all.
You can see written reports and abstracts. You can see data. Once the research is done somebody still has to tabulate data and write it all up. They like to eat too.
That's not to say that journal subscriptions that cost thousands of dollars a year in order to help so-called experts keep their monopoly on knowledge aren't a sham. All the same, people should be paid for their labor.