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  1. we are getting there... still... on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1

    Well... this is a way lesser evil. But still vala is not in my heart, and tomboy has to go away too: gnome official dependence on mono must become optional.

  2. Scalability??? on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Have those people ever thought about the scalability of their technologies and the issues that will reveal themselves at mass market scale??????????

  3. GNU (A)(L)GPLv3 on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 1

    In an "intellectual property" (patent on your neurons!) world, the best balance would be the GNU (A)(L)GPL for long term insurance of open source software quality. Once IP is gone (patent system etc...), license won't matter because everything will be public domain (everything not physical will be free to copy/modify/improve/share)... since then, GNU (A)(L)GPL in the meantime.

  4. GNU GPL violation? on BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B In 2009 · · Score: 1

    ... and how much GNU GPL violation? And how much money is forbidden to open source and free operating systems because of not legitimate and digital prison alike operating systems?

  5. Re:GNU/Linux generic x86 32bits and 64bits ? on StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 · · Score: 1

    You mean the code does not not have interfaces for the UI and OS??? You mean they wrote 2 clients that do *not* share code? Are you making a fool of me?

  6. Re:GPL Violation? on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    Your employees are internal... your users/clients are external... if you distribute a device to your users/clients, it's external and your must publish GNU (L)GPL code. One of the main purposes of the GNU (A)(L)GPL is to have a legal leverage in order to get optimal code.

  7. it depends on many things... on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    It depends on the country laws, contract and employer.

    My contract is based on french telecom legal template which says:
    - code specific to the assigned work: all copyrights belong to the employer.
    - code *not* specific to any assigned work:copyrigths are shared by the employer and the employee (you need an agreement to work on that code). Namely if the employee departs from the company, he will keep the copyrights.

    Of course, there may be more about this in the french law (I was told, french copyrights on code always belong to the employee). And of course, an employer aware of the open source ways would let the copyrights go to the employee or at least be shared.

    The main issue with the shared copyrights: the employer would have the right to close the code produced by the employee. And that's a very big issue for GNU GPL coders! You know... those guys who want to have the best open source code installed by default on all systems.

  8. GNU/Linux generic x86 32bits and 64bits ? on StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 · · Score: 1

    May we have those builds, even unsupported?

  9. anonymity on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Internet is not anonymous... wow they are smart! :P What they don't say: IPs can be poison and computers behind some IPs could be compromised. Then they may identify some IPs which share some content. But do they check the content? And above all, they cannot link what happend with an IP to its owner. They cannot prove it with inexpensive systems.

  10. digital prison on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 1

    I bought with my money a PS3 digital prison for 300 €.
    Something is not right...

  11. Evil companies do the same on Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China · · Score: 1

    Indeed, many evil companies are doing similar. For instance, as a GNU/Linux fan, I can see "the pressure" done on some "under the spot" forums related to open source. Moreover there were naughty rumors (in France) about some companies (or their well-known proxies) hiring students on internship-level pay to lobby on those forums. Personnally, I do believe that the reality is way uglier.

  12. and the winner is... on China Hits Back At Google · · Score: 1

    That war between google and China is non-sense... it does too much favor a company that sells locked-closed sources operating systems. Fishy. Are they behind all this?

  13. ... in the meantime... on Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... hundreds of bot nets were created... but they got 1, they are happy.

  14. How much? on Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router · · Score: 1

    How much for this regional router? :) I bet diffserv/IPv6 label, then traffic classes, are properly supported. At last death for the POTS? Now: I have roughtly 1Mb/s upload link... with FTTH I will have 50 Mb/s then 200 Mb/s (like in Japan). That means 50 times and then 200 times... :D Who said personal cloud?

  15. ... and a database on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1

    If those infos are matched on the "workers" database, ok, if not... 400 millions people data is nothing for a custom made database with modern technologies (i.e. do *not* use an SQL engine).

  16. evil... on NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games · · Score: 1

    nvidia is evil since they don't publish their hardware programming manual like AMD(ATI)/Intel. Buy AMD(ATI) or Intel. Avoid like hell nvidia till they release their manuals.

  17. Could apply to others... on China's Human Flesh Search Engine · · Score: 1

    ... for instance, those who code systems, or supervise the developement, of all the naugthy and dangerous systems for internet control...

  18. Linux Driver Code on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Hu... more than busybox... we want optimal Linux driver code

  19. Re:If it could be like GNU/Linux... on DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court · · Score: 1

    This not about what people are interested in, it's the fact that *any* hardware device distributed to people should be hackable without having to crack it. It is a matter of digital freedom. The feature should be there by default.

  20. YES! on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Finally, it's coming through! In the context of replacing totally the services provided by classic telephony, we must set up neutral IP traffic classes (VoIP over mobile radio link do *NOT* work reliably, and won't be after broad adoption of the FTTH). Indeed, the idea is to give priority to voice traffic on client initiative. The *only* allowed exception to this rule would be emergency calls, because that has to be done at the ISP initiative. We can even think of a video stream for emergency calls! With enough good video quality... imagine the amount of people we could additionnally save thanks to the video!!! We already have the terminals able to do so! We need to set up that next gen Internet ASAP!

  21. Re:If it could be like GNU/Linux... on DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court · · Score: 1

    We should be able to hack the hardware we bought. Locking away users like that is way overboard. I would like to enjoy mario, zelda AND SPACE INVADERS EXTREME 2 on the same device I hack GNU/Linux on without having to crack it.

  22. Re:GNU/Linux support? on Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit · · Score: 1

    well... that's unfortunately the way to go...

  23. context to express brilliance on Google Tries Not To Be a Black Hole of Brilliance · · Score: 1

    ... some need a very specific context to be able to express their brilliance... it is not enough to just let them "outside". They should check if the context those people are in is proper to maximize their brilliance output. For instance, rights on the code they write is *very* important for ope source software. The Linux community is very strong because coders keep and don't share ligthtly their rigths on the code. It has drawbacks (unable to go to (A)GPLv3 limited by userspace), but it is a very strong protection. If a company could distribute a closed and proprietary version of Linux, they would do it for sure (cf opensolaris/solaris case and darwin/macos case).

  24. DNS and communities... on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    Some communities have their own DNS. Indeed, emails can nicely be done only with DNS MX records. Hope google will stick to the current DNS protocol. If they want to extend the protocol... it has to be extremely simple to implement and go throught classic normalization processes.

  25. If it could be like GNU/Linux... on DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court · · Score: 1

    ... oh wait... hackers do install GNU/Linux on their DS!