Maybe then the following statement should be removed from the MySQL website (http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/open source-license.html) - or are you allowing free use of MySQL with commercial apps, as long as they do not ship MySQL with the app?
"Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not."
This doesn't apply to the source code, which should obviously go into a version control system, but for all the other documentation:
I'd look at bulk-loading everything into an electronic document management system (EDMS). This will full-text all the various formats and then at least allow you to search over them, apply metadata to them to profile them etc.
No point in re-inventing the wheel by starting from scratch... use the information that already exists.
(direct from a person at Weta Digital)... was that in London one of the production runners was walking from one central city location to another, carrying one of the (fully loaded) ipods.
Gang of youths approach him and try to mug him, they see he's got this ipod and really want it... the runner realises that he *cannot* lose the ipod, so puts up a good fight and then hi-tails it outathere.
Not a charity, but One Tel Net UK is a free ISP that only costs 1p per minute to dial into, any time of day, and works absolutely fine with Linux. Better throughput than another 'free' ISP (local call rates, which is a lot more than 1p per minute!).
You also get discounted phone calls as you sign up with One Tel phone co. [no, I have no affiliation to them].
Meanwhile, the dollars-and-cents reality of running the American patent office has also encouraged the patent explosion. In 1991, the patent office was cut off from general tax revenues and required to subsist entirely on fees for its operating budget. The political argument was that customers should pay for government services. Thus, officials think of their fee-paying patent applicants as their customers: the more the better, again. Examiners know that their year-end bonuses depend on productivity. Each morning, as Commissioner Dickinson arrives at his Crystal City office, he walks past a framed poster bearing the motto "Our Patent Mission: To Help Our Customers Get Patents."
It's virtually forgotten that government's customers also include the rest of the nation, the citizenry at large, whose fortunes depend on the agency's judgments and policies.
Also, to the guy spouting on about "Who the hell is James Gleick" - I think you've missed the point. It's common courtesy to attribute an article to an author (in the same way as software to an author, a movie to a director, a song to a singer, a slashdot post to the poster...)
Nobody said "by the wonderful James Gleick", or even "by the authoritative James Gleick".... work it out.
Absolutely agree - the WIMP GUI has revolutionised the usability of computers for the majority of people (those who don't like command-line interfaces).
Slashdot Mirror
... so yesterday I installed greasemonkey with the gmail delete script.
Today I'm locked out of gmail for a suspected breach of T&C. (yep, a 'lockdown in sector 4!')
I contacted gmail and they have unlocked me, but I wonder if it's related?
Marten,
n source-license.html) - or are you allowing free use of MySQL with commercial apps, as long as they do not ship MySQL with the app?
Maybe then the following statement should be removed from the MySQL website (http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/ope
"Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not."
This doesn't apply to the source code, which should obviously go into a version control system, but for all the other documentation:
I'd look at bulk-loading everything into an electronic document management system (EDMS). This will full-text all the various formats and then at least allow you to search over them, apply metadata to them to profile them etc.
No point in re-inventing the wheel by starting from scratch... use the information that already exists.
(direct from a person at Weta Digital) ... was that in London one of the production runners was walking from one central city location to another, carrying one of the (fully loaded) ipods.
Gang of youths approach him and try to mug him, they see he's got this ipod and really want it... the runner realises that he *cannot* lose the ipod, so puts up a good fight and then hi-tails it outathere.
Novell have released a (free) product called Instant Me that builds on AIM but has secure IM.
Plus a damn sexy GUI.
Not a charity, but One Tel Net UK is a free ISP that only costs 1p per minute to dial into, any time of day, and works absolutely fine with Linux.
Better throughput than another 'free' ISP (local call rates, which is a lot more than 1p per minute!).
You also get discounted phone calls as you sign up with One Tel phone co. [no, I have no affiliation to them].
Jeremy.
[a very well written article, IMHO] is:
Meanwhile, the dollars-and-cents reality of running the American patent office has also encouraged the patent explosion. In 1991, the patent office was cut off from general tax revenues and required to subsist entirely on fees for its operating budget. The political argument was that customers should pay for government services. Thus, officials think of their fee-paying patent applicants as their customers: the more the better, again. Examiners know that their year-end bonuses depend on productivity. Each morning, as Commissioner Dickinson arrives at his Crystal City office, he walks past a framed poster bearing the motto "Our Patent Mission: To Help Our Customers Get Patents."
It's virtually forgotten that government's customers also include the rest of the nation, the citizenry at large, whose fortunes depend on the agency's judgments and policies.
Also, to the guy spouting on about "Who the hell is James Gleick" - I think you've missed the point. It's common courtesy to attribute an article to an author (in the same way as software to an author, a movie to a director, a song to a singer, a slashdot post to the poster...)
Nobody said "by the wonderful James Gleick", or even "by the authoritative James Gleick".... work it out.
My 2 cent's worth.
Absolutely agree - the WIMP GUI has revolutionised the usability of computers for the majority of people (those who don't like command-line interfaces).