As long as you don't modify or derive from or distribute the software, yes you can quite ignore it.
You can modify and derive from it all you want and still ignore the license.
It's only if you decide to distribute those modifications that the GPL is relevant.
But.. INAL.
look no further than capitalism completely unrestrained by any influence from the Protestant Christian tradition that gave birth to it.
This is a ridiculous statement. Capitalism isn't something created by government or religion, it is the absence of both. It has been around way before Protestant Christian "tradition"... any civilization that relied on bartering... there's your capitalism.
This thread is really old, but I'd like to comment on it still.
I did say that humans would be able to cope with new rates of change, but only with human modification. Specifically non-biological modifications. If the equivalent of a million years of change is occurring within a matter of seconds, our current 'static' biological forms will not be able to comprehend these changes.
That FAQ is for code.google.com. The news is about the "Project Hosting" subset of code.google.com, which is a seperate and new project. They probably need to update their FAQ now.
Tech Singularity is about exponential growth based on recursive returns of increasing technology.
The 15th century monk has about the same technological differential with respect to an early 20th century man as does one generation in todays society. The rate of change in tech will only increase (aside from something devestating like war or virus outbreak). Our children will be technologically seperated from us as much as the early 20th century guy is seperated from us. At the point of singularity, all of human and biological progress, will be a few microseconds worth to us. At least without human modification.
While still being groupthink, I've developed an open-source (Affero GPL) and open-content (GFDL) website at debatepoint.com that is a more democratic means of deliberation than wiki's. With moderation like slashdot, I would think points would be argued over in a manner like science.. the ability to falsify or approve of arguments. The few people with the bright ideas would be moderated up and falsify their parent argument, which in turn effects the validity of the grandparent, etc. It's still not ready for heavy usage, but try out one of the debates on the front page or in my sig for an example.
The source code that generated that HTML might not be modifiable. The php scripts of a GPL'd website can be modified by someone else and not have to redistribute the source because they aren't distributing the modified source. they have it sitting on some server somewhere not copying itself. Most web-apps don't even release their source code.. see digg.com, del.icio.us, gmail, etc. That's why there are open source equivalents of these.. respectively: pligg, scuttle, and the Hula Project
Brett Smith of the FSF just email me today to notify me of the Affero General Public License, which requires the source code of the site to be available to anyone who receives content generated by the site.
I've created a website to attempt to filter information objectively.
It uses a combination of user supplied arguments and user moderation,
where the moderation of the child arguments effect the moderation of
the parent argument.
Buy ATI Radeon cards. open source drivers for up to 9800 are available. Then let ATI know that you made the decision to buy their card because of this project.
de.liro.us seems to have just folded. alternatively, I just ran across scuttle.org which is written in php. Plus, it appears to support most of the del.icio.us API.
I don't think the source code to del.icio.us is open. This is why I use de.lirio.us instead, which uses Rubric: "a notes and bookmarks manager with tagging."
... if you hope to be valuable in any debate on any complex problem in this world: drugs, the middle east, health care, etc
right.. and look how much good the US goverment's premature action has done in solving things like drug abuse, conflict in the middle east, and health care. From where I'm sitting, they've not only been a complete failure, but they've made the situations much worse.
1. They gave criminals monopoly rights over drugs.
2. They attacked Iraq to make the world more "safe"
3. I can't even buy prescription drugs from Canada now.
In every instance I can think of where our government has acted on some extremely complex and often emotionally derived issue, they make it worse.
Have you even thought about what would happen if a global-wide proactive "solution" might _cause_ a negative climate change?
The joke is only funny to those who have bought the propaganda being distributed about marijuana. People that accept information without consideration, in my opinion, are stupid.
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As long as you don't modify or derive from or distribute the software, yes you can quite ignore it.
You can modify and derive from it all you want and still ignore the license.
It's only if you decide to distribute those modifications that the GPL is relevant.
But.. INAL.
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look no further than capitalism completely unrestrained by any influence from the Protestant Christian tradition that gave birth to it.
This is a ridiculous statement. Capitalism isn't something created by government or religion, it is the absence of both. It has been around way before Protestant Christian "tradition"... any civilization that relied on bartering... there's your capitalism.
Wolfenstein 3D
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Fidonet
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This thread is really old, but I'd like to comment on it still.
I did say that humans would be able to cope with new rates of change, but only with human modification. Specifically non-biological modifications. If the equivalent of a million years of change is occurring within a matter of seconds, our current 'static' biological forms will not be able to comprehend these changes.
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That FAQ is for code.google.com. The news is about the "Project Hosting" subset of code.google.com, which is a seperate and new project.
They probably need to update their FAQ now.
Tech Singularity is about exponential growth based on recursive returns of increasing technology.
The 15th century monk has about the same technological differential with respect to an early 20th century man as does one generation in todays society. The rate of change in tech will only increase (aside from something devestating like war or virus outbreak). Our children will be technologically seperated from us as much as the early 20th century guy is seperated from us. At the point of singularity, all of human and biological progress, will be a few microseconds worth to us. At least without human modification.
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Now all we need is a Windows driver for Reiser...
Ask and you shall receive:
rfsd: ReiserDriver
though I havn't tried it yet... of course.
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While still being groupthink, I've developed an open-source (Affero GPL) and open-content (GFDL) website at debatepoint.com that is a more democratic means of deliberation than wiki's. With moderation like slashdot, I would think points would be argued over in a manner like science.. the ability to falsify or approve of arguments. The few people with the bright ideas would be moderated up and falsify their parent argument, which in turn effects the validity of the grandparent, etc. It's still not ready for heavy usage, but try out one of the debates on the front page or in my sig for an example.
don't forget about the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS)
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Web apps non-modifiable?
The source code that generated that HTML might not be modifiable. The php scripts of a GPL'd website can be modified by someone else and not have to redistribute the source because they aren't distributing the modified source. they have it sitting on some server somewhere not copying itself. Most web-apps don't even release their source code.. see digg.com, del.icio.us, gmail, etc. That's why there are open source equivalents of these.. respectively: pligg, scuttle, and the Hula Project
Brett Smith of the FSF just email me today to notify me of the Affero General Public License, which requires the source code of the site to be available to anyone who receives content generated by the site.
I've created a website to attempt to filter information objectively.
It uses a combination of user supplied arguments and user moderation, where the moderation of the child arguments effect the moderation of the parent argument.
There should be a link to an example in my sig.
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'The right to freedom of expression does not imply the right to offend religious beliefs.'
It _is_ protected free speech. However, the speaker can be held accountable for any results of the speech.
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sign this guy up for the B-Ark
Buy ATI Radeon cards. open source drivers for up to 9800 are available. Then let ATI know that you made the decision to buy their card because of this project.
then.. buy one of the experimental cards from The Open Graphics Project.. when it's available.
I can't express enough how important open 3D drivers are for linux on the desktop.
de.liro.us seems to have just folded. alternatively, I just ran across scuttle.org which is written in php.
Plus, it appears to support most of the del.icio.us API.
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I don't think the source code to del.icio.us is open. This is why I use de.lirio.us instead, which uses Rubric: "a notes and bookmarks manager with tagging."
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New religious discussion site.
God Exists: 9% support
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FAILURE
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Google entering the entertainment distribution business while Microsoft parts with MSNBC
The distinction is that google's is internet based.
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Of course, Bush wants to get rid of of posse comitatus, but that is not going to play down South.
Wikipedia says there is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, whereby the President of the United States can waive the law in an emergency.
who defines an emergency?
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right.. and look how much good the US goverment's premature action has done in solving things like drug abuse, conflict in the middle east, and health care. From where I'm sitting, they've not only been a complete failure, but they've made the situations much worse.
1. They gave criminals monopoly rights over drugs.
2. They attacked Iraq to make the world more "safe"
3. I can't even buy prescription drugs from Canada now.
In every instance I can think of where our government has acted on some extremely complex and often emotionally derived issue, they make it worse.
Have you even thought about what would happen if a global-wide proactive "solution" might _cause_ a negative climate change?
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let's all hope it doesn't have anything to do with technological singularity!
coming soon.. MS Skynet
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This isn't an argument.
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The joke is only funny to those who have bought the propaganda being distributed about marijuana. People that accept information without consideration, in my opinion, are stupid.
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