Contrary to what the article says, these are not the first cloned pigs. Virginia Tech has had cloned pigs since shortly after Dolly. After a couple of generations, they have gotten to the point of producing some useful human enzymes in the pig's milk. Additionally, the reason you can clone multiple pigs at a time is that pigs have multiple piglets. It was actually pretty stupid to clone a sheep since they (like humans) usually only have one offspring. Current cloning practices have about a 50% success rate, so it is greatly beneficial to work with pigs (who genetically are not too far from humans).
Blacksburg, VA has had ethernetted apartment complexes for over six years. I'm not impressed.
You couldn't be more wrong.
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RMS also pointed out that this strategy of GPLing libraries instead of LGPLing them only works for libraries that don't already exist in some form or another. It would have made no sense to GPL the C library, someone else would have made one available. Same with GNOME, KDE already exists. If both KDE and GNOME allow no commercial development, what good does that do than hinder the growth of Linux.
Also I have a question: if I contribute code to an LGPLed project, can someone else change to project to GPL without my consent? Honest question, I don't know the answer.
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Contrary to what the article says, these are not the first cloned pigs. Virginia Tech has had cloned pigs since shortly after Dolly. After a couple of generations, they have gotten to the point of producing some useful human enzymes in the pig's milk. Additionally, the reason you can clone multiple pigs at a time is that pigs have multiple piglets. It was actually pretty stupid to clone a sheep since they (like humans) usually only have one offspring. Current cloning practices have about a 50% success rate, so it is greatly beneficial to work with pigs (who genetically are not too far from humans).
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Blacksburg, VA has had ethernetted apartment complexes for over six years. I'm not impressed.
RMS also pointed out that this strategy of GPLing libraries instead of LGPLing them only works for libraries that don't already exist in some form or another. It would have made no sense to GPL the C library, someone else would have made one available. Same with GNOME, KDE already exists. If both KDE and GNOME allow no commercial development, what good does that do than hinder the growth of Linux.
Also I have a question: if I contribute code to an LGPLed project, can someone else change to project to GPL without my consent? Honest question, I don't know the answer.