When I read what they said, I immediately wondered if they were using another meaning of the word 'legal'.
We often use legal to mean regarding laws and the legality of an action. However, it can also be used to express possible things as opposed to impossible things. I was thinking--though I could be wrong--that the legal sum of 2 and 2, is 4...
I work in a large(-ish) chain of internet cafés (easyEverything), and sometimes we get more "mature" customers in. The two main things I've noticed are: (a) they want it to be geared to them (i.e. regarding what they want to do that day); and (b) they actually do appreciate to learn the background of things. UNlike the majority of the younger technoweenies, older people have more experience, and less impatience. They're actually willing to know why something is a particular way, 'cause they know that if they understand how it works that there's less chance that they'll "f*** it up". Old people can often get easily embarassed, so actually that is quite a major point.
I have had the opportunity to have been posted to various Civil Service departments, and I've seen both the good and bad sides of it.
Firstly, I was at the Scottish Prison Service. Their flexi-time was a kinda bondage-and-discipline set-up, left over from the old Scottish Home & Health Department days. It demoralised employees and took away from the job satisfaction simply because it wasn't flexible enough. As a contracter I just had to work 09:00-17:00 (with o/t), and I found that the temps were happier than the permanent staff.
My second experience was with the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency. Their set-up was that you had to work a minimum of 37 hours per week, and that you (generally) couldn't start before 07:00 or finish after 18:30. Apart from that you were your own boss regarding time. Of course, if you wanted to start after 09:00, leave before 15:00, or have a half day, you had to speak to your line-manager, but they were pretty good about this. The other advantage was that you could work as much overtime as you liked up to 55 hours per week. All-in-all the employees were really happy with their jobs. In fact, it didn't feel like a job; it felt more like something you went to and did in the day because you enjoyed it. Of course the money was good too, but the flexi-time was the big bonus.
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Universities make huge use of Novell packages/services, such as NDS too. I think again this is probably to do with the discounts applied to the licensing of a very large amount of copies of the particluar software items. For example, here at Edinburgh Uni there are hundres of computers running Windows/NT + Netware, so the scalability of licensing fees must be a big issue. And Novell must be providing competitiveness there... I mean the University isn't "made of money"!
My Laptop has this feature as well... It seems to work when I choose to activate it... But when '98 chooses to "sleep" and power-down, it will come back on, but it forgets to turn the screen on... So you have to reset it manually, and "in the dark"...
If really big security flaws are actually announced to the "world", rather than locally, or privately, the following will happen:
People won't use the software until it works
People can't abuse it if its announced wide enough
On the other hand, if its only announced in small circles, the security risks could be there for years, and years, and years. Imagine what the world would be like if that GNUMACS bug hadn't been fixed (I mean the one Cliff Stoll recounts in his book)
Thsi really makes me sick... These so-called artists suing places like mp3.com. I used to think that mp3.com was like this huge repository of "free" music, but that's only for "not-so-big" artists... The only real advantage is that once you've bought your DAMCD from them then you can listen to it over the Internet... But as for yahoo's story claiming that you can then "illegally" copy it -- I can't see the logic in that
Re: what you were saying about the notion of releasing something under GPL and then under another commercial license for a fee... Is this actually allowed under the terms of the GPL??? I know I haven't read the actual text of the GPL in donkeys-years, but what does it actually say about changing the terms and conditions (i.e. licence) of a piece of software?
Mmmmmmmmm... The whole point under law is that persons and companies are just entities. The only difference being that a person is a singular human being with either whole or limited liability, and a company being two or more persons banded together under an entity having (generally) limited liability. But, they're both entities, can both be sued... Just about the only thing a Company can't do is sleep with his best mate's wife!
... you do have the opportunity to fix 'em yourself...
You've got it in one! So many good "freeware" programs have just stagnated out of existence but the whole point of Open Source is that if you don't like it and no-one else is willing to do anything about it...you can just do it yourself!
For me the big thing is not what they would accomplish by this, but the principle of it. From the commentary so far I can see that some people are arguing over the specifics -- but the real issue is the very principle of it. This "LinuxTECH" (Uruguay) is trying to usurp the name "Linux". Just think what would happen if they won...You would actally have a small company in Southern America able to hold the rest of the Linux community to ransom -- possibly -- but probably not;)
Anyway, it would be ridiculous to afford them trademark protection for the name Linux--even if that protection doesn't actually help!
And Rilke, as for saying that this only matters to Uruguay, and that the concerns of a User Group are not important -- shame on you! Without User Groups to defend the rights of the little people you'd see corporations like Microsoft and IBM swamping the legal system with all sorts of things. User Groups also do a helluva lot of the thinking; without them quite possibly the whole issue being debated (i.e. the Unix (read Linux) Operating System) would not have been born.
As for name copying -- well you may not have heard of LinuxTECH, but that's not the point! The point is this Uruguayan firm is obviously trying to double cross everybody. Let's list the points: i. They get exclusive rights to redistribute SuSE -- I thought this was not allowed under the GPL??? ii. -- They name themselves LinuxTECH, either in a deliberate attempt to fool/swindle the general computing community in Uruguay or because they can't think of a good enough name by themselves. iii. -- The registration application for registration of the LINUX name to the International class 42. Although it's possible for it to be granted it really shouldn't since "Linux" really isn't their name to trademark, and especially since the kernel itself is Copyright 91-94 by Linus himself.
It all looks sneaky to me!
With regard to the domain name thing though...the Uruguayans don't have a leg to stand on... As you say it's just like the difference between linux.com and linux.org.
What to do about it? Well I think people who are feeling evil could mount a DOS attack if they feel like it... Personally I don't think that Pereira and Place will listen to anyone. Hopefully the people who decide about trademarks will have the sense to research what Linux is and realise that they just can't have it!
Well my favourite earcandy is most certainly Björk -- you know the carzy little Icelandic woman that runs around in mad dresses and sings strange songs to the mountains and everything...
No, but seriously, I think her music has depth and emotional substance... Plus I can really get on with some of the later remixes (e.g. the Hunter remixes and All is Full of Love). Also the Potage Du Jour remix of Alarm Call is really cool with her going "wooo-ooo-oooh-wooo"....
I'm no f***ing buddhist, but this is enlightenment;)
OK, OK. It's now the morning after all around the world...
Here, the centre of Edinburgh was filled with one-and-a-half million people, and silly old me didn't get a ticket on time... grrrrr....
So, I celebrated at home with the family. My 6x86 and old 486DX2 rolled over correctly... But I forgot to check the old 286... When I switched it on it said something like July 1998, but I realised a few moments later that that was the RTC battery failing (the box is about 10 years old). When I set the date manually to yesterday it rolled over perfectly... Another advantage of my 286 (maybe the only one) is that it can "low-level " format floppy disks. Quite useful for when some rubbish M$ product has defined fake bad sectors...
The Government here has been careful to plpay down fears of the "Y2K bug"... They have even said on the news that there were no incidents, though there must have been some, surely?
It's interesting what Frank said about the "19100" bug in Perl... I can't believe some people are so stupid as to concatenate 19 + tm->tm_year... I always do this [currdate.pl]: $myday{0}="Sunday"; $myday{1}="Monday"; $myday{2}="Tuesday"; $myday{3}="Wednesday"; $myday{4}="Thursday"; $myday{5}="Friday"; $myday{6}="Saturday"; $mymonth{0}="January"; $mymonth{1}="February"; $mymonth{2}="March"; $mymonth{3}="April"; $mymonth{4}="May"; $mymonth{5}="June"; $mymonth{6}="July"; $mymonth{7}="August"; $mymonth{8}="September"; $mymonth{9}="October"; $mymonth{10}="November"; $mymonth{11}="December"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isd st) = localtime(time); print "$myday{$wday}, $mday $mymonth{$mon}, ", $year+1900, " \@ "; printf ("%2.2d", $hour); print ":"; printf ("%2.2d", $min); print ":"; printf ("%2.2d", $sec); print " $ENV{'TZ'}";
You are so stupid... I don't care if you live eleven and a half hours away from me... It is not yet Y2K in UTC so go shove you're head up your a***e where it belongs!
I was just wondering, will the IPO be available for non-US investors...? IPO's seem to have capture the hearts of many investors, and as I really kicked myself when I missed RedHat's I'd like to not miss this one...
What I wish: Why can't there be an IPO listing service? or am I just being stupid and not paying attention?
I think the big problem here is what will happen if Scientology tries to retaliate... Luckily the German Government is quite tough and doesn't makes as many U-turns as ours here in the UK, but they sure will try anything. For example, they tried to close down xenu.net (yeah, I know they didn't succeed, but they still tried)...
Another thing that is a problem with Scientologists retaliating is that once they've made up their minds, they won't change them... For example, I use Sixdegrees a lot (don't laugh!), and there is a Scientology Discussion Group there. At first I thought they were skeptics, but then I found out they were all bona fide Scienos... OK, so I put my foot in it with a few of my remarks, but eventually they were nice to me... Then this really annoying woman shows up, somehow reads my webpages, and decides I am publishing "bad-PR", and this other guy thinks they should report me to their high hegions...
This is really good... I've noticed so many Linux companies and organisations springing up recently... It's really beginning to destabilise the way most modern computing is centred around the sortof Microsoft-IBM axis... Here's an example: a couple of years ago there was only one place of where I lived where I knew they used Linux for sure (a local Internet café)... Now I think there's over a dozen of them...
We need to shove Microsoft off the map! I'm glad that Sun is up there heading the list of primary investors... Though Sun is starting to get Monolithic... Finding anything on their website is almost as hard as finding anything on microsoft.com...No, I'm lying... finding anything on microsoft.com is impossible!!!
I thought the article was good in mentioning that Dell and Plattner are investing personally in Linuxcare... If Linuxcare is publicly traded they will probably make a lot of money (understatement...)
Two things I found really interesting from the article...: (i) I didn't know Tridgell worked for Linuxcare; and (ii) what Sarrat says at the end: "... look at IBM. They didn't get good at services until they split them out as a separate comapany"
Having Open Source Music would obviously hurt the artists trying to make a living from their music... especially if they're not well known... But it would really open up the whole remix thing... Just imagine instead of having rubbish bootleg unofficial remixes people could just remix it like they can with software under the GPL...
I agree... Microsoft would like to say "oh! Bill Clinton likes golf... so he's a..um.. the horniest Golf Champion in the World! (snigger) I just hate it when people misuse the English language. If they want a software executive, they have to find someone who is actually CONTROLLING a company
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What Cailliau is proposing would destroy the "ideals" of the whole internet, i.e. anonymous (or as near to as possible) use of information. The whole point is that you can kinda poke around without causing any trouble, and without someone saying "hey! why did you look at xyz corp... they're our number 1 enemies", etc., etc.
I think also that Cailliau might just be doing one of these "I invented xyz, so you'll listent to me", unfortunately. He is right to say that regulation of the Internet would help trace illegal child pornography and racist sites, but it would stop other things. For example helping victims of some kind of abuse, or people being victimised into a corner of society due to some sort of minority grouping (e.g., colour, creed, sexuality, religion...).
I really don't understand how he can say it has to be regulated, and then go on Reuters and say it " must remain open and neutral". That's any oxmoron...
And as for micropayment... maybe we should let established electronic payment systems continue, e.g. SWIFT, MONDEX, etc., etc. Plus, I'd rather see advertisements, and maybe buy something interesting, than spend my money paying NOT to see adverts! It's dumb! The whole notion of "uncluttered cyberspace" wouldn't work, anyway. People are always looking for a righteous hack. Unfortunately he is living in a dream, alebit a utopian one, that would only have worked at the beginning of the computer revolution... Now, it's just too late.
Though I agree with Cailliau saying we have "duties as well as their rights", the Net has flourished on "unwritten" rules, and attempts at regulation have either been thwarted, or have had disastrous results.
Though I found what he said about regulating pronography, etc., quite interesting. His system of registration and enforcement might work. IF it's given any teeth: "We don't tell the servers what they are allowed or not allowed to show. We just register them [...] If they put child pornography on there, we can at least get at them".
One last thing: he says "We've had micropayments in the French Minitel system for 15 years and it is shown to work extremely well"... Well, I hate minitel... and it sucks, and it IS NOT the Web! Bad analogy!
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When I read what they said, I immediately wondered if they were using another meaning of the word 'legal'.
We often use legal to mean regarding laws and the legality of an action. However, it can also be used to express possible things as opposed to impossible things. I was thinking--though I could be wrong--that the legal sum of 2 and 2, is 4...
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Firstly, I was at the Scottish Prison Service. Their flexi-time was a kinda bondage-and-discipline set-up, left over from the old Scottish Home & Health Department days. It demoralised employees and took away from the job satisfaction simply because it wasn't flexible enough. As a contracter I just had to work 09:00-17:00 (with o/t), and I found that the temps were happier than the permanent staff.
My second experience was with the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency. Their set-up was that you had to work a minimum of 37 hours per week, and that you (generally) couldn't start before 07:00 or finish after 18:30. Apart from that you were your own boss regarding time. Of course, if you wanted to start after 09:00, leave before 15:00, or have a half day, you had to speak to your line-manager, but they were pretty good about this. The other advantage was that you could work as much overtime as you liked up to 55 hours per week. All-in-all the employees were really happy with their jobs. In fact, it didn't feel like a job; it felt more like something you went to and did in the day because you enjoyed it. Of course the money was good too, but the flexi-time was the big bonus.
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On the other hand, if its only announced in small circles, the security risks could be there for years, and years, and years. Imagine what the world would be like if that GNUMACS bug hadn't been fixed (I mean the one Cliff Stoll recounts in his book)
Thsi really makes me sick... These so-called artists suing places like mp3.com. I used to think that mp3.com was like this huge repository of "free" music, but that's only for "not-so-big" artists... The only real advantage is that once you've bought your DAMCD from them then you can listen to it over the Internet... But as for yahoo's story claiming that you can then "illegally" copy it -- I can't see the logic in that
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You've got it in one! So many good "freeware" programs have just stagnated out of existence but the whole point of Open Source is that if you don't like it and no-one else is willing to do anything about it...you can just do it yourself!
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We discussed this on the UKCrypto mailing list at least a few weeks ago!
Anyway, it would be ridiculous to afford them trademark protection for the name Linux--even if that protection doesn't actually help!
And Rilke, as for saying that this only matters to Uruguay, and that the concerns of a User Group are not important -- shame on you! Without User Groups to defend the rights of the little people you'd see corporations like Microsoft and IBM swamping the legal system with all sorts of things. User Groups also do a helluva lot of the thinking; without them quite possibly the whole issue being debated (i.e. the Unix (read Linux) Operating System) would not have been born.
As for name copying -- well you may not have heard of LinuxTECH, but that's not the point! The point is this Uruguayan firm is obviously trying to double cross everybody. Let's list the points:
i. They get exclusive rights to redistribute SuSE -- I thought this was not allowed under the GPL???
ii. -- They name themselves LinuxTECH, either in a deliberate attempt to fool/swindle the general computing community in Uruguay or because they can't think of a good enough name by themselves.
iii. -- The registration application for registration of the LINUX name to the International class 42. Although it's possible for it to be granted it really shouldn't since "Linux" really isn't their name to trademark, and especially since the kernel itself is Copyright 91-94 by Linus himself.
It all looks sneaky to me!
With regard to the domain name thing though...the Uruguayans don't have a leg to stand on... As you say it's just like the difference between linux.com and linux.org.
What to do about it? Well I think people who are feeling evil could mount a DOS attack if they feel like it... Personally I don't think that Pereira and Place will listen to anyone. Hopefully the people who decide about trademarks will have the sense to research what Linux is and realise that they just can't have it!
No, but seriously, I think her music has depth and emotional substance... Plus I can really get on with some of the later remixes (e.g. the Hunter remixes and All is Full of Love). Also the Potage Du Jour remix of Alarm Call is really cool with her going "wooo-ooo-oooh-wooo"....
I'm no f***ing buddhist, but this is enlightenment ;)
Here, the centre of Edinburgh was filled with one-and-a-half million people, and silly old me didn't get a ticket on time... grrrrr....
So, I celebrated at home with the family. My 6x86 and old 486DX2 rolled over correctly... But I forgot to check the old 286... When I switched it on it said something like July 1998, but I realised a few moments later that that was the RTC battery failing (the box is about 10 years old). When I set the date manually to yesterday it rolled over perfectly... Another advantage of my 286 (maybe the only one) is that it can "low-level " format floppy disks. Quite useful for when some rubbish M$ product has defined fake bad sectors...
The Government here has been careful to plpay down fears of the "Y2K bug"... They have even said on the news that there were no incidents, though there must have been some, surely?
It's interesting what Frank said about the "19100" bug in Perl... I can't believe some people are so stupid as to concatenate 19 + tm->tm_year... I always do this [currdate.pl]:d st) = localtime(time); print "$myday{$wday}, $mday $mymonth{$mon}, ", $year+1900, " \@ "; printf ("%2.2d", $hour); print ":"; printf ("%2.2d", $min); print ":"; printf ("%2.2d", $sec); print " $ENV{'TZ'}";
$myday{0}="Sunday"; $myday{1}="Monday"; $myday{2}="Tuesday"; $myday{3}="Wednesday"; $myday{4}="Thursday"; $myday{5}="Friday"; $myday{6}="Saturday"; $mymonth{0}="January"; $mymonth{1}="February"; $mymonth{2}="March"; $mymonth{3}="April"; $mymonth{4}="May"; $mymonth{5}="June"; $mymonth{6}="July"; $mymonth{7}="August"; $mymonth{8}="September"; $mymonth{9}="October"; $mymonth{10}="November"; $mymonth{11}="December"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$is
You are so stupid... I don't care if you live eleven and a half hours away from me... It is not yet Y2K in UTC so go shove you're head up your a***e where it belongs!
What I wish: Why can't there be an IPO listing service? or am I just being stupid and not paying attention?
Another thing that is a problem with Scientologists retaliating is that once they've made up their minds, they won't change them... For example, I use Sixdegrees a lot (don't laugh!), and there is a Scientology Discussion Group there. At first I thought they were skeptics, but then I found out they were all bona fide Scienos... OK, so I put my foot in it with a few of my remarks, but eventually they were nice to me... Then this really annoying woman shows up, somehow reads my webpages, and decides I am publishing "bad-PR", and this other guy thinks they should report me to their high hegions...
It's so annoying!
We need to shove Microsoft off the map! I'm glad that Sun is up there heading the list of primary investors... Though Sun is starting to get Monolithic... Finding anything on their website is almost as hard as finding anything on microsoft.com...No, I'm lying... finding anything on microsoft.com is impossible!!!
I thought the article was good in mentioning that Dell and Plattner are investing personally in Linuxcare... If Linuxcare is publicly traded they will probably make a lot of money (understatement...)
Two things I found really interesting from the article...: (i) I didn't know Tridgell worked for Linuxcare; and (ii) what Sarrat says at the end: "... look at IBM. They didn't get good at services until they split them out as a separate comapany"
It's a quite interesting notion...
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Your translation is very good indeed. I study German too, but I did need to look up quite a few constructions...
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I agree... Microsoft would like to say "oh! Bill Clinton likes golf... so he's a..um.. the horniest Golf Champion in the World! (snigger) I just hate it when people misuse the English language. If they want a software executive, they have to find someone who is actually CONTROLLING a company
I think also that Cailliau might just be doing one of these "I invented xyz, so you'll listent to me", unfortunately. He is right to say that regulation of the Internet would help trace illegal child pornography and racist sites, but it would stop other things. For example helping victims of some kind of abuse, or people being victimised into a corner of society due to some sort of minority grouping (e.g., colour, creed, sexuality, religion...).
I really don't understand how he can say it has to be regulated, and then go on Reuters and say it " must remain open and neutral". That's any oxmoron...
And as for micropayment... maybe we should let established electronic payment systems continue, e.g. SWIFT, MONDEX, etc., etc. Plus, I'd rather see advertisements, and maybe buy something interesting, than spend my money paying NOT to see adverts! It's dumb! The whole notion of "uncluttered cyberspace" wouldn't work, anyway. People are always looking for a righteous hack. Unfortunately he is living in a dream, alebit a utopian one, that would only have worked at the beginning of the computer revolution... Now, it's just too late.
Though I agree with Cailliau saying we have "duties as well as their rights", the Net has flourished on "unwritten" rules, and attempts at regulation have either been thwarted, or have had disastrous results.
Though I found what he said about regulating pronography, etc., quite interesting. His system of registration and enforcement might work. IF it's given any teeth: "We don't tell the servers what they are allowed or not allowed to show. We just register them [...] If they put child pornography on there, we can at least get at them".
One last thing: he says "We've had micropayments in the French Minitel system for 15 years and it is shown to work extremely well"... Well, I hate minitel... and it sucks, and it IS NOT the Web! Bad analogy!
That's bloody clever... I'm impressed. Though taxes wouldn't hurt bigsoftwarecorp.com it would hurt littlesoftware.co.uk, really!