I don't know whether this story is true or not, but I don't see why CmdrTaco thinks it's funny. Saddam finally has access to the computers he needs to build sophisticated weapons. Ha ha hee hee. Hilarious.
You can sell Linux because the license it is released under says you can. Linus Torvalds issues that license because he holds the copyright. Without copyright, GPL and other licenses would not be possible because no one would own the work, and thus could not put any stipulations on how the work is used or distributed.
There is nothing in Copyright law that says you have to sell your work. Linux is copyrighted, so is all free software. In fact, as soon as you create any art, literature or software, it is has a copyright by default. Without the copyright, what is to stop someone else from selling your work - that work you wanted to give away.
Dude, that doesn't mean anything. Whatever compliance problems IE5 may have, Netscape is much worse (if you can keep it running long enough to find out). Just try developing a website that uses a broad set of constructs from HTML4 and Cascading Style Sheets and see which browser actually displays what you intended. I guarantee IE will win hands down. Another thing worth pointing out... IE has frequent updates... Netscape? still waiting (unless you want to use an unstable, incomplete beta that still isn't as good as IE).
It is said that Socrates had extraordinary powers of persuasion. In the marketplace while talking to passers-by, he would logically construct a series of questions, whereby the unwitting participant eventually came to Socrates' own conclusion -- on their own.
In this article, Jorrit engages RMS in a series of emails, and it appears that Jorrit is very ignorant of the debate surrounding Free Software vs. Open Source.
But it is my belief that this ignorance is a ploy. It is a ploy designed to accomplish two goals:
It exposes RMS's irrationality in a most dramatic way. RMS ends up looking like the one who is ignorant, devoid of common sense, and unable to answer a simple question.
In the classic style of Socrates, Jorrit manages the unthinkable: he brings RMS to the conclusion that it would be good to sign a Non-disclosure Agreement.
I think this idea of "voting your conscience" is a bit naive. I'm not going to vote for some guy just because I like what he stands for. That's certainly part of it, but I will also vote for the man I think is most qualified to lead the free world - to do one of the most important jobs in the world. I don't believe Nader, Browne, and for that matter, G.W. Bush, are qualified to do this job.
What they don't mention is that the SAR rating assumes the phone is held a certain way in relation to the face and head. Phone manufacturers have used this as a loophole for sometime now - giving a phone a low SAR rating by testing the phone only in certain position(s) that the user might hold it in. While other positions that some might hold the phone in actually would produce a higher SAR rating.
If you point the antenna away from the face as much as possible, you reduce radiation exposure.
Mandrake is based on RedHat. In other words, they improved it. RedHat is so outdated it's not even funny. Too bad RedHat couldn't improve their own distro as well as another company.
I think it's about time the IOC was dismantled and replaced with an international Board of Directors whose members are individuals representing a broad group of interests.
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Many of the posts here that I'm seeing seem to focus on individuals' right not to attend the company picnic or softball game. Jon only mentioned that in passing, and I think these posts are missing the point. The point is, many employees are isolated while they're ON the job. I've seen many like this. People who pay no attention to what anyone else is doing; don't know about company policies, procedures, or events; take no initiative to drive their own performance and must constantly be told what to do by superiors. These individuals have no interest in achieving any personal excellence, and information isolation is but one symtom of the problem. They come to work, do as little as possible, take no pride in their work, and then whine that they don't make enough money and the company doesn't treat them right. But, of course, they drive a $35,000 pickup truck to work. They should thank their lucky stars that they managed to fool the interviewers into thinking they were worth hiring. I've dealt with people who only read their email once a week (maybe) when the company policy was to check it at least twice a day. Since meetings were scheduled via email, we would have to take time to coddle these individuals and make sure they knew about the meeting. That's just one of many examples. Ask these same individuals 5 minutes after the meeting what was talked about, and they can't even tell you -- their minds were off in la la land (probably thinking about their Harley or something). Again, they're lucky they have jobs at all, because if we knew then what we know now, we would not have hired them.
Actually, the HTML on profusion.com doesn't look that bad. The only thing really strange that I can see is a few elements that are between a and a . In other words, they are not contained within a visible element. This appears to have been done on purpose, since these are . If this screws up rendering of the table in Netscape, then Netscape is broken, since the correct response for an SGML parser that encounters invalid tags is to ignore them.
RedHat is easy to install compared to what? Maybe compared to Debian and Slackware. But Mandrake and Caldera (and Corel from what I hear) are much easier to install than RedHat. You said RedHat need a push to stay current. I agree... too bad it isn't working. I consider their distro about a year out of date.
Are you a developer? Are you still in school? No offense, but you seem a bit naive. There are no jobs out there where you get to do all the things you want to do, with all the toys you want to play with. Even if you did manage to get a job coding on Linux with gcc/egcs, chances are you'd still spend huge amounts of time in design meetings, and arguing with your team about the new database schema proposal. That's the real world, learn to accept it.
Even a foolish idiot wouldn't make such a spurious claim.
Actually, this has been a sort of hacker motto for a long time... "information wants to be free". This goes back to the days when phreakers believed phone service should be free, among other things. I agree they are foolish idiots who think this.
What I don't know is how the judge linked the defendants to this kind of philosophy. Did they say something to link themselves?
Does anyone else find it disturbing that some little company writing code behind closed doors managed to create an office application far more advanced and mature than any of the open source projects attempting to do the same? Sure, it's GPL'd now... on version 5. What does that say about open source? It's more likely that CTO you mentioned will say "open source is still unproven."
I believe this is what Ian Murdock's Progeny Linux is working on. They are working on a system based on Debian to turn a network of workstations into a seemless system. Interview questions about this for Ian were posted on/. just last week.
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I don't know whether this story is true or not, but I don't see why CmdrTaco thinks it's funny. Saddam finally has access to the computers he needs to build sophisticated weapons. Ha ha hee hee. Hilarious.
You can sell Linux because the license it is released under says you can. Linus Torvalds issues that license because he holds the copyright. Without copyright, GPL and other licenses would not be possible because no one would own the work, and thus could not put any stipulations on how the work is used or distributed.
There is nothing in Copyright law that says you have to sell your work. Linux is copyrighted, so is all free software. In fact, as soon as you create any art, literature or software, it is has a copyright by default. Without the copyright, what is to stop someone else from selling your work - that work you wanted to give away.
Actually, copyright laws don't do any of that. You're thinking of patents... a completely different animal.
Actually, he's THE founding member. Debian is named after he and his wife... Deb and Ian.
Dude, that doesn't mean anything. Whatever compliance problems IE5 may have, Netscape is much worse (if you can keep it running long enough to find out). Just try developing a website that uses a broad set of constructs from HTML4 and Cascading Style Sheets and see which browser actually displays what you intended. I guarantee IE will win hands down. Another thing worth pointing out... IE has frequent updates... Netscape? still waiting (unless you want to use an unstable, incomplete beta that still isn't as good as IE).
But it is my belief that this ignorance is a ploy. It is a ploy designed to accomplish two goals:
Clever man.
I think this idea of "voting your conscience" is a bit naive. I'm not going to vote for some guy just because I like what he stands for. That's certainly part of it, but I will also vote for the man I think is most qualified to lead the free world - to do one of the most important jobs in the world. I don't believe Nader, Browne, and for that matter, G.W. Bush, are qualified to do this job.
What they don't mention is that the SAR rating assumes the phone is held a certain way in relation to the face and head. Phone manufacturers have used this as a loophole for sometime now - giving a phone a low SAR rating by testing the phone only in certain position(s) that the user might hold it in. While other positions that some might hold the phone in actually would produce a higher SAR rating.
If you point the antenna away from the face as much as possible, you reduce radiation exposure.
Mandrake is based on RedHat. In other words, they improved it. RedHat is so outdated it's not even funny. Too bad RedHat couldn't improve their own distro as well as another company.
Well, I have no doubt that there is prior art here, but I don't think this is anything like Zope, wikiweb, and certainly not like CVS.
Dude, you need to try out some other distro's. RedHat sucks bigtime. I would suggest Caldera or Mandrake.
I think it's about time the IOC was dismantled and replaced with an international Board of Directors whose members are individuals representing a broad group of interests.
Many of the posts here that I'm seeing seem to focus on individuals' right not to attend the company picnic or softball game. Jon only mentioned that in passing, and I think these posts are missing the point. The point is, many employees are isolated while they're ON the job. I've seen many like this. People who pay no attention to what anyone else is doing; don't know about company policies, procedures, or events; take no initiative to drive their own performance and must constantly be told what to do by superiors. These individuals have no interest in achieving any personal excellence, and information isolation is but one symtom of the problem. They come to work, do as little as possible, take no pride in their work, and then whine that they don't make enough money and the company doesn't treat them right. But, of course, they drive a $35,000 pickup truck to work. They should thank their lucky stars that they managed to fool the interviewers into thinking they were worth hiring. I've dealt with people who only read their email once a week (maybe) when the company policy was to check it at least twice a day. Since meetings were scheduled via email, we would have to take time to coddle these individuals and make sure they knew about the meeting. That's just one of many examples. Ask these same individuals 5 minutes after the meeting what was talked about, and they can't even tell you -- their minds were off in la la land (probably thinking about their Harley or something). Again, they're lucky they have jobs at all, because if we knew then what we know now, we would not have hired them.
Actually, the HTML on profusion.com doesn't look that bad. The only thing really strange that I can see is a few elements that are between a and a . In other words, they are not contained within a visible element. This appears to have been done on purpose, since these are . If this screws up rendering of the table in Netscape, then Netscape is broken, since the correct response for an SGML parser that encounters invalid tags is to ignore them.
RedHat is easy to install compared to what? Maybe compared to Debian and Slackware. But Mandrake and Caldera (and Corel from what I hear) are much easier to install than RedHat. You said RedHat need a push to stay current. I agree... too bad it isn't working. I consider their distro about a year out of date.
Good luck getting a job outside the university.
Are you a developer? Are you still in school? No offense, but you seem a bit naive. There are no jobs out there where you get to do all the things you want to do, with all the toys you want to play with. Even if you did manage to get a job coding on Linux with gcc/egcs, chances are you'd still spend huge amounts of time in design meetings, and arguing with your team about the new database schema proposal. That's the real world, learn to accept it.
in case you haven't seen the episode, his glasses break, that's why he says "Oh no!"
At last, I have all the time in the world. Oh no! Oh no!
My point exactly. Thank you.
EFF were also defendants.
Actually, this has been a sort of hacker motto for a long time... "information wants to be free". This goes back to the days when phreakers believed phone service should be free, among other things. I agree they are foolish idiots who think this.
What I don't know is how the judge linked the defendants to this kind of philosophy. Did they say something to link themselves?
Does anyone else find it disturbing that some little company writing code behind closed doors managed to create an office application far more advanced and mature than any of the open source projects attempting to do the same? Sure, it's GPL'd now... on version 5. What does that say about open source? It's more likely that CTO you mentioned will say "open source is still unproven."
I believe this is what Ian Murdock's Progeny Linux is working on. They are working on a system based on Debian to turn a network of workstations into a seemless system. Interview questions about this for Ian were posted on /. just last week.