So, you can continue to use the old version. This is the same as many other licenses, including the GPL itself.
You missed the telling line: No one other than Apple has the right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License.
Take out the words 'no one other than', and it reads like it is: "Apple has the right to modifiy the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License."
In other words, say you create MacFooBarX, and release it under APSL 1.2, say. Anybody else who gets their greasy little hands on it can do whatever they like, but it remains under APSL 1.2; they can't turn around and publish it under a different license, blah blah blah.
But Apple can. They can 'modify the terms,' retroactively, without warning, at whim, and without even knowing what's under the license and therefore affected.
I think. I, of course, am not a lawyer; I'm a human.
There's a acronym used to describe why people become treasonous: MICE.
Money: generally regarded as the safest reason; the people who want money are rational people who want to do thing, get their money, and survive to spend it somewhere. This can also cover other incentives, such as honeytraps.
Ideology: These can be the most dangerous. Also, they can be fairly irrational; they believe they answer to a higher power, and will turn against their new patrons if they believe the new ones go against the ideology. This covers all forms, including political and religious.
Concience: basic human feeling. This is a fairly safe one to play, as well, assuming that the subject then doesn't feel overly remorseful about betraying his or her former masters.
Ego: the subject does it because they can, because they feel personally slighted or unappreciated by their former masters, or because they feel like getting back at their former masters. This can be dangerous; you never know when the ego will turn against the new handlers.
Now, you can have crosses between these; the ego subject might expect to get paid. You can also have conflicts; be real careful offering an ideological subject money; you'll wind up insulting him.
When you cannot have ANY data recoverable, you either acid bath the thing into non-existance, or melt it into undifferentiated slag, and break the lump into little bits, and pass it around.
Lets assume that doing the standard 'alternating 10-pattern fill' routine is 99.999 percent effective. On a 10 gig drive, that leaves 1 megabyte recoverable. For some applications, that's 1 megabyte too much that can be recovered.
Under UK law, this guy could be looking at life, with no chance of release
Wow; poetic justice. Somebody will penetrate HIS system, through a backdoor, and upload some unwanted data, if you get my drift. Hopefully it will be a 'brute force' attack.
Can somebody explain to me the difference between a Microsoft EULA and the GPL?
Both are 'by using this software, you're agreeing to the terms' type licenses.
If the MS one is considered 'unenforcable' because you're not signing anything, negotiating anything, and need to accept it just to get at the software, why isn't the GPL?
Not trying to troll, just honestly curious; they seem to me to be funamentally the same thing.
Disagree with the telcom, and we cut your service! Anyone else see anything scary about that?
You remember that, and this, the next time you start yelling at a company for violating the GPL.
If a company can't act against a user who agrees not to run a server, but then, in fact, runs a server, then you sure as hell can't act against a company who agrees to distribute source, but then doesn't.
Alright, let me expand the statment: "smart people are more likely to wind up in high paying jobs, have disposable income, understand the benefits of savings and investment, save, invest, and therefore become rich."
That having been said, you're right; both common sense and personal experience tell me that luck is a far greater factor; being in the right place at the right time does count for alot.
I'll also point out that most tests, as well as schools, don't test for, or care about, intelligence; quite the opposite. Real native intelligence can be quite the disadvantage in your average school. And all IQ measures is literacy and spatial awareness.
Rather than pointing out all the holes in a given scheme, perhaps you could try pointing them out, and offering possible solutions. Or perhaps offering alternatives that don't suffer the same problems.
This actually happened to a co-worker of mine, who was using Timbuktu to remotely troubleshoot a client machine. The client ran a homosexual porn site, and his desktop and icons were all, shall we say, in theme.
True; in the biblical version, Jesus Christos uses his divine power to replicate the food, thusly breeding dependence and fear into the local populace. He then, I believe, preached, in effect buying their attention with food.
It's a bit more subtle than using his divine power to create wine, thusly feeding an outright addiction, but it's still more insidious. And besides, his old man would have just started smiting people.
May or may not be fiction, but it's certainly about 7 translations away from the original script, and like a game of Telephone, that means that whatever's written in the King James Bible prob'ly has nothing in common with what may or may not have been originally written.:-)
Want an example? Take a paragraph out of a book, run it through Babelfish a few times; english to french, french to german, german to italian, italian back to english, and see if it still makes sense.
Or go look up the bit about the monks with knives at their throats, told to translate fifty pages a day or else....
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Gosh, but that's a bad copy of the real site located here: http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.ht ml
Representative democracy (which is a oxymoron; democrocy as a term cannot be qualified) often isn't.
Give an (organization) a set of tasks, and eventually an additional task will be added; preservation of the organization. As soon as that happens, the other tasks fall back in priority.
The American governmental system is a signorial system; a noble class of rulers. There's not a whole lot of difference between raiding another lord's castle for his livestock, or slagging your honorable opponent in the media for his vote share.
Don't even get me started on Canada's system, where an elected official must vote along party lines, even if every human being in his riding tells him to vote differently.....
Nothing to do with 'human nature,' omae. But I'm a big believer in the concept that humans are hunter-gatherers, and are two meals removed from reverting to that in every way. "Lord of the Flies" style, if you will. It always amused me to see how much description went into the weaponry of the navel vessel who returned the kids to Civilization; an interesting comment.
If you want to go by that stringent of a defintion, Communisim can never exist as soon as you involve humans.
If Oleg grows potatos, he's going to want soemthing from Dmitry in exchange for them, believe you me.
Read George Orwell's "Animal Farm" for further cynicism.:-)
Exactly; everybody gets what they require, and in turn contributes whatever they're able; it's trade in it's purest form, as opposed to commerce. You're not making the exchange for personal gain or profit, you're making the exchange for the good of the community.
But it's still trade, unless there's a class who collects everything, then redistributes it, in which case it's no longer Communisim.:-)
Communisim simply weights the scale; instead of, say, one pig always costing two chickens, modified by a) how many pigs there are and b) how many chickens there are, as in Capatalisim/free market, Communisim either a) sets down absolute prices (as in the USSR) or modifies the scale to 'whatever you need in exchange for whatever you can give,' as in True Communisim.
More or less, at least.
But when you get right down to it, when Ogg's in his cave with some grubs, and Thok's in his cave with some pointy stones, one day Ogg's going to realized that instead of trying to take Thok's pointy stones, it's easier to give him some grubs and ask for a stone. And since all Thok knows how to do is make spears, not harvest grubs, it benefits him more to do the trade than to kill Ogg and try to take the few grubs he had on hand.
Open Source is a perfect example of how this doesn't work in real life; take a look at the percentage of people who really do contribute back to something they download, instead of flaming the coder who quite clearly says 'it's not even alpha' when it doesn't run. Or the number of projects that do the same thing, because there's ego involved. Or the abandoned projects, because the average person wants all the benefits and none of the cost; that's why it's called 'free as in beer.'
Is there something wrong with the idea of the exchange of goods or services for different goods or services? You know, trade? One of the things that allowed the creation of civilization as we know it?
Then again, it could just be that the Air Force doesn't like sharing its sooper-sekret pr0n files with anybody else.
You don't think that when a pilot says this:
Bronco Base, this is Big Daddy; we're screaming in on target, and are about to shoot the missile down the pipe....affirmitive. Payload has been delivered, we're RTB to cuddle.
that they're talking about military things, do you?
"I've got the ball" indeed....;-)
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No one other than Apple has the right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License. Take out the words 'no one other than', and it reads like it is: "Apple has the right to modifiy the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License." In other words, say you create MacFooBarX, and release it under APSL 1.2, say. Anybody else who gets their greasy little hands on it can do whatever they like, but it remains under APSL 1.2; they can't turn around and publish it under a different license, blah blah blah. But Apple can. They can 'modify the terms,' retroactively, without warning, at whim, and without even knowing what's under the license and therefore affected. I think. I, of course, am not a lawyer; I'm a human.
There's a acronym used to describe why people become treasonous: MICE. Money: generally regarded as the safest reason; the people who want money are rational people who want to do thing, get their money, and survive to spend it somewhere. This can also cover other incentives, such as honeytraps. Ideology: These can be the most dangerous. Also, they can be fairly irrational; they believe they answer to a higher power, and will turn against their new patrons if they believe the new ones go against the ideology. This covers all forms, including political and religious. Concience: basic human feeling. This is a fairly safe one to play, as well, assuming that the subject then doesn't feel overly remorseful about betraying his or her former masters. Ego: the subject does it because they can, because they feel personally slighted or unappreciated by their former masters, or because they feel like getting back at their former masters. This can be dangerous; you never know when the ego will turn against the new handlers. Now, you can have crosses between these; the ego subject might expect to get paid. You can also have conflicts; be real careful offering an ideological subject money; you'll wind up insulting him.
Can you take that chance? Even thirty contiguous bytes can give you a username and password.
When you cannot have ANY data recoverable, you either acid bath the thing into non-existance, or melt it into undifferentiated slag, and break the lump into little bits, and pass it around. Lets assume that doing the standard 'alternating 10-pattern fill' routine is 99.999 percent effective. On a 10 gig drive, that leaves 1 megabyte recoverable. For some applications, that's 1 megabyte too much that can be recovered.
Ah! That makes sense. Thank you very very much.
Can somebody explain to me the difference between a Microsoft EULA and the GPL? Both are 'by using this software, you're agreeing to the terms' type licenses. If the MS one is considered 'unenforcable' because you're not signing anything, negotiating anything, and need to accept it just to get at the software, why isn't the GPL? Not trying to troll, just honestly curious; they seem to me to be funamentally the same thing.
Don't forget the hardware XML accelerators for just such occasions.
How's about Origin's BioForge in 1990 or so?
Alright, let me expand the statment: "smart people are more likely to wind up in high paying jobs, have disposable income, understand the benefits of savings and investment, save, invest, and therefore become rich." That having been said, you're right; both common sense and personal experience tell me that luck is a far greater factor; being in the right place at the right time does count for alot. I'll also point out that most tests, as well as schools, don't test for, or care about, intelligence; quite the opposite. Real native intelligence can be quite the disadvantage in your average school. And all IQ measures is literacy and spatial awareness.
Rather than pointing out all the holes in a given scheme, perhaps you could try pointing them out, and offering possible solutions. Or perhaps offering alternatives that don't suffer the same problems.
This actually happened to a co-worker of mine, who was using Timbuktu to remotely troubleshoot a client machine. The client ran a homosexual porn site, and his desktop and icons were all, shall we say, in theme.
True; in the biblical version, Jesus Christos uses his divine power to replicate the food, thusly breeding dependence and fear into the local populace. He then, I believe, preached, in effect buying their attention with food. It's a bit more subtle than using his divine power to create wine, thusly feeding an outright addiction, but it's still more insidious. And besides, his old man would have just started smiting people.
May or may not be fiction, but it's certainly about 7 translations away from the original script, and like a game of Telephone, that means that whatever's written in the King James Bible prob'ly has nothing in common with what may or may not have been originally written. :-)
Want an example? Take a paragraph out of a book, run it through Babelfish a few times; english to french, french to german, german to italian, italian back to english, and see if it still makes sense.
Or go look up the bit about the monks with knives at their throats, told to translate fifty pages a day or else....
Gosh, but that's a bad copy of the real site located here: http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.ht ml
Representative democracy (which is a oxymoron; democrocy as a term cannot be qualified) often isn't. Give an (organization) a set of tasks, and eventually an additional task will be added; preservation of the organization. As soon as that happens, the other tasks fall back in priority. The American governmental system is a signorial system; a noble class of rulers. There's not a whole lot of difference between raiding another lord's castle for his livestock, or slagging your honorable opponent in the media for his vote share. Don't even get me started on Canada's system, where an elected official must vote along party lines, even if every human being in his riding tells him to vote differently.....
Nothing to do with 'human nature,' omae. But I'm a big believer in the concept that humans are hunter-gatherers, and are two meals removed from reverting to that in every way. "Lord of the Flies" style, if you will. It always amused me to see how much description went into the weaponry of the navel vessel who returned the kids to Civilization; an interesting comment.
If you want to go by that stringent of a defintion, Communisim can never exist as soon as you involve humans. If Oleg grows potatos, he's going to want soemthing from Dmitry in exchange for them, believe you me. Read George Orwell's "Animal Farm" for further cynicism. :-)
Exactly; everybody gets what they require, and in turn contributes whatever they're able; it's trade in it's purest form, as opposed to commerce. You're not making the exchange for personal gain or profit, you're making the exchange for the good of the community. But it's still trade, unless there's a class who collects everything, then redistributes it, in which case it's no longer Communisim. :-)
Communisim simply weights the scale; instead of, say, one pig always costing two chickens, modified by a) how many pigs there are and b) how many chickens there are, as in Capatalisim/free market, Communisim either a) sets down absolute prices (as in the USSR) or modifies the scale to 'whatever you need in exchange for whatever you can give,' as in True Communisim. More or less, at least. But when you get right down to it, when Ogg's in his cave with some grubs, and Thok's in his cave with some pointy stones, one day Ogg's going to realized that instead of trying to take Thok's pointy stones, it's easier to give him some grubs and ask for a stone. And since all Thok knows how to do is make spears, not harvest grubs, it benefits him more to do the trade than to kill Ogg and try to take the few grubs he had on hand. Open Source is a perfect example of how this doesn't work in real life; take a look at the percentage of people who really do contribute back to something they download, instead of flaming the coder who quite clearly says 'it's not even alpha' when it doesn't run. Or the number of projects that do the same thing, because there's ego involved. Or the abandoned projects, because the average person wants all the benefits and none of the cost; that's why it's called 'free as in beer.'
Is there something wrong with the idea of the exchange of goods or services for different goods or services? You know, trade? One of the things that allowed the creation of civilization as we know it?
that they're talking about military things, do you? "I've got the ball" indeed....;-)