lumthemad.net has been covering this for a while... this article dicusses a rumor that Garriot has obtained a controlling interest in NCSoft which is currently developing a game called Lineage
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from the FAQ:
There is no question that the GPL is a complicated license that has led to a great deal of confusion.
but wait a second... MS has been a huge contributor to this confusion (nevermind the GPL and Open Source nonsense last week). do they plan to muddy the water to a point where all we'll see clearly is their side? by the third paragraph, they smartly mention benefits to open source, but not before letting this fly:
second paragraph Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works. However, one of the dominant open source license--the GPL--is the most infectious.
i think we can expect to hear this kind of language more and more in the MS attacks on open source and the GPL. nevermind, the time saved on projects by using prewritten and tested code, nevermind the fact that "opening" a project up to open source vastly improves the quality of code by increasing the number of people helping to build and test the individual parts...
if you look over the Halloween files which first documented MS's strategy against the open source movement, they (MS) realized that for the first time, it wasn't a product they were fighting but a mind set, a way of thinking, a philosophy. what better way to attack an idea than to simply discredit it, or even better, attach the buzz-word of the year to it.
i feel the major snag to getting more people (read younger) exposed to linux is that 99.99% of a child's first exposure to a computer is either with a MAC or Win system.
this situation is going to get worse not better! most of us growing up only had the option of a text-only interface, so when we were first exposed to a *nix operating system (a day i hope we all remember well) it was almost second nature.
flash forward, and every kid today is growing up with some form of GUI. this presents major snags when you try to take these kids and get them to use an interface which lacks big-shiny-clickable "things"...
am i wrong? i hope so...
_f of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most atleast hackers was good for one quote...
actually it seems like you've got mp3.com vs. napter backwards... if you're on a band's page in mp3.com, it's going to be really hard to find similar music that you may also enjoy. if you find a tune on napster, the person who dug that up often has some other tracks which may fit your tastes.
what http://mp3.com can't do is tell a user which kind music they might like, you simply have to pick a category then "throw darts" until you get a hit... sure you can try their top 40 charts, but who's to say you're going to like what everyone else is listening to.
on the other side of the coin, if you find someone with similar tastes in music (ala napster or some-other-sharing method) there's a pretty good chance they've already found some tunes that you can get into.
not all content running through Napster was copyrighted work. there are a ton of local bands, and even large bands that have broken out, that want to "pimp" a song or two.
for these groups, services like napster are the perfect platform for getting their songs out to a wider audience.
if you want to get some pro-napster folks... just find a few struggling local bands and have them talk about how are it is to get their music distributed.
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lumthemad.net has been covering this for a while ... this article dicusses a rumor that Garriot has obtained a controlling interest in NCSoft which is currently developing a game called Lineage
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... that's here.
The article is here
Secondly, it looks like he'll be charging a bit for his next online game (maybe as much as $30 a month)
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these links have some additional information about H.R. 1542
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43709,0
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-5881148.html
http://www.broadbandweek.com/news/010507/print/01
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from the FAQ:
... MS has been a huge contributor to this confusion (nevermind the GPL and Open Source nonsense last week). do they plan to muddy the water to a point where all we'll see clearly is their side? by the third paragraph, they smartly mention benefits to open source, but not before letting this fly:
...
There is no question that the GPL is a complicated license that has led to a great deal of confusion.
but wait a second
second paragraph
Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works. However, one of the dominant open source license--the GPL--is the most infectious.
i think we can expect to hear this kind of language more and more in the MS attacks on open source and the GPL. nevermind, the time saved on projects by using prewritten and tested code, nevermind the fact that "opening" a project up to open source vastly improves the quality of code by increasing the number of people helping to build and test the individual parts
if you look over the Halloween files which first documented MS's strategy against the open source movement, they (MS) realized that for the first time, it wasn't a product they were fighting but a mind set, a way of thinking, a philosophy. what better way to attack an idea than to simply discredit it, or even better, attach the buzz-word of the year to it.
_f
phear the open source virus!
i feel the major snag to getting more people (read younger) exposed to linux is that 99.99% of a child's first exposure to a computer is either with a MAC or Win system.
...
...
...
this situation is going to get worse not better! most of us growing up only had the option of a text-only interface, so when we were first exposed to a *nix operating system (a day i hope we all remember well) it was almost second nature.
flash forward, and every kid today is growing up with some form of GUI. this presents major snags when you try to take these kids and get them to use an interface which lacks big-shiny-clickable "things"
am i wrong? i hope so
_f
of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most
atleast hackers was good for one quote
this line was funny and painful at the same time:
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The issue at hand is choice; companies and individuals should be able to choose either model, and we support this right.
yet from the beginning it seem MS has wanted to make this choice for us
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this seems to be a huge chance for linux to get some lime-light in places it won't normally ever be heard of.
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if the younger generation can see what "cool" things can be done, hopefully some of them will take a larger interest.
now if they only made a Linux version of Blue's Clues
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actually it seems like you've got mp3.com vs. napter backwards ... if you're on a band's page in mp3.com, it's going to be really hard to find similar music that you may also enjoy. if you find a tune on napster, the person who dug that up often has some other tracks which may fit your tastes.
... sure you can try their top 40 charts, but who's to say you're going to like what everyone else is listening to.
what http://mp3.com can't do is tell a user which kind music they might like, you simply have to pick a category then "throw darts" until you get a hit
on the other side of the coin, if you find someone with similar tastes in music (ala napster or some-other-sharing method) there's a pretty good chance they've already found some tunes that you can get into.
_f
not all content running through Napster was copyrighted work. there are a ton of local bands, and even large bands that have broken out, that want to "pimp" a song or two. for these groups, services like napster are the perfect platform for getting their songs out to a wider audience. if you want to get some pro-napster folks ... just find a few struggling local bands and have them talk about how are it is to get their music distributed.
_f