With things like that, it's usually easy coming up with a design. It just gets difficult when you actually have to implement the Heisenberg compensator, infinite improbability generator and physically impossibility annihalator.
Wow. Both the IBM and MS legal teams on your back, that's a scary thought. It's even more scarey than that Steve guy from Jackass cutting the flesh in between his toes with paper!
The original BSD license.
This is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license with a serious flaw: the ``obnoxious BSD advertising clause''. The flaw is not fatal; that is, it does not render the software non-free. But it does cause practical problems, including incompatibility with the GNU GPL.
We urge you not to use the original BSD license for software you write. If you want to use a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license, it is much better to use the modified BSD license or the X11 license. However, there is no reason not to use programs that have been released under the original BSD license.
I just don't like the thought of someone taking my hard work and making money off of it- I want to reserve that privilege for myself, thank you.
Sure. Fine. But don't you take away my priviledge to be robbed of my intellectually.
GPL licensing gives you the freedom to do whatever you want with the code, so long as you give the people recieving the binaries the same rights you got, including on any enhancements you did to the code.
So you care about that? Fine. I don't. People may rape my code. I don't care, as long as they don't hold me responsible.
the moment you labeled me a GPL fanatic, you resorted to ad-hominem, and I will not stoop to that level, thank you...
You assumed by fanatic I meant something bad, I just meant you were a fan of it, as in liking GPL. *shrug*
Is it all that hard for a proponent of the BSD or similar license to figure out that there's going to be people that do not want to use your preferred license for varying reasons?
That reason being? You don't want to use XFree86 or Apache, because someone might steal their code?
As far as I see it, it is GPL enforcing it's hegemony onto other licenses saying what they may and may not do. The advertisment clause is a perfect example. It's totally harmless and has been in any BSD style license for ages, and suddenly it's a problem? There are way to many zealots out there who think GPL is the only viable solution. (ESR anyone?)
IMNSHO the GPL goes too far protecting the source, half of it doesn't even apply to source. Plus, anything longer than a Microsoft EULA can't be good. (*slight sarcasm*)
Is it that hard for GPL fanatics to understand that some people don't WANT protection against people using their code in proprierty projects? I love the BSD license, exactly because it doesn't limit my code. Everybody (except GPL users appearently) can use my code, which I create under the BSD license, because I enjoy coding. And no, I don't care if Sun, Apple or Microsoft uses my code. If they do, well, I hope they choke on it.
BSD style license give freedom, but no security. GPL gives limited freedom, but great security. Wasn't it one of the founding fathers of the US who said "those who are willing to give up a liberty for security deserve neither"?
Really, if you ask me, GPL is the problem here, since it wants all other licenses in the world to be GPL. GPL is the OSS platform independent virus, but on IP.
That's what you get when working on a project. So focussed on getting that final bug out of your Astrolabe, but then you just don't have the time to finish the damned documentation!!
"In years past, I knew of someone who used emacs as his login shell, the
only thing he found wanting in emacs was a good text editor. So he ended
up using vi."
As a writer of two (1, 2) man pages, I can say that I find the syntax of roff not that bad. I guess you get used to strange languages once you learn more of them. If you find roff hard, try writing Perl scripts without any alphanumerical tokens.
Why don't you email Sony, asking them if they can say this? Perhaps just the cleaner at Sony HQ. As long as they work at Sony, it should be alright, right? Or perhaps someone from Sony decides to be nice. Stranger things have happened.
Meanwhile, dishonorable mentions go to SCO for the as-yet-unseen Unix code that the company alleges was ripped off in Linux, and to Microsoft for its "secure computing initiative" and the ever-slipping ship date for Longhorn, which is shaping up to be a very promising candidate for the Vaporware awards in 2006, 2007 and maybe even 2008.
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-looked up meaningless trivia just in case you might need it
With things like that, it's usually easy coming up with a design. It just gets difficult when you actually have to implement the Heisenberg compensator, infinite improbability generator and physically impossibility annihalator.
I patented that business model two years ago. You owe me $199.99 a year.
Wow. Both the IBM and MS legal teams on your back, that's a scary thought. It's even more scarey than that Steve guy from Jackass cutting the flesh in between his toes with paper!
Well, as certified vim user I can safely say emacs already stinks.
Don't be silly. Everybody knows Martians use hovering vehicles.
Sure. Fine. But don't you take away my priviledge to be robbed of my intellectually.
So you care about that? Fine. I don't. People may rape my code. I don't care, as long as they don't hold me responsible.
You assumed by fanatic I meant something bad, I just meant you were a fan of it, as in liking GPL. *shrug*
That reason being? You don't want to use XFree86 or Apache, because someone might steal their code?
As far as I see it, it is GPL enforcing it's hegemony onto other licenses saying what they may and may not do. The advertisment clause is a perfect example. It's totally harmless and has been in any BSD style license for ages, and suddenly it's a problem? There are way to many zealots out there who think GPL is the only viable solution. (ESR anyone?)
IMNSHO the GPL goes too far protecting the source, half of it doesn't even apply to source. Plus, anything longer than a Microsoft EULA can't be good. (*slight sarcasm*)
Is it that hard for GPL fanatics to understand that some people don't WANT protection against people using their code in proprierty projects? I love the BSD license, exactly because it doesn't limit my code. Everybody (except GPL users appearently) can use my code, which I create under the BSD license, because I enjoy coding. And no, I don't care if Sun, Apple or Microsoft uses my code. If they do, well, I hope they choke on it.
BSD style license give freedom, but no security. GPL gives limited freedom, but great security. Wasn't it one of the founding fathers of the US who said "those who are willing to give up a liberty for security deserve neither"?
Really, if you ask me, GPL is the problem here, since it wants all other licenses in the world to be GPL. GPL is the OSS platform independent virus, but on IP.
It's probably some slashdotters.
I bet some MS exec misinterpreted it and used the monkeys for the coding, and not testing.
I've got a better idea: how about a monorail? Or a maglev?
for the first bagel shaped nucleus.
Easy.
XM like eczema, as in, I have a skin condition. PP like pee pee, as in, I need the toilet.
So, pronounce XMPP as skin condition, need toilet informally, and Ezcema, Water Closet formally.
Firebird: Press ESC
Firebird: has image blocking: right click -> block images from <server name>
Firebird: Ctrl++, or Ctrl+- for smaller fonts
Firebird: No shortcut for default colours yet.
Firebird: Preferences->General->Fonts&Colors
Firebird: By default has `google' as alias for google, but you can do this with anything by assigning alias to sites with %s for the search term, eg:
See above.
Firebird also has type ahead searching. A feature which one can't live without.
That's what you get when working on a project. So focussed on getting that final bug out of your Astrolabe, but then you just don't have the time to finish the damned documentation!!
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As a writer of two (1, 2) man pages, I can say that I find the syntax of roff not that bad. I guess you get used to strange languages once you learn more of them. If you find roff hard, try writing Perl scripts without any alphanumerical tokens.
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Why don't you email Sony, asking them if they can say this? Perhaps just the cleaner at Sony HQ. As long as they work at Sony, it should be alright, right? Or perhaps someone from Sony decides to be nice. Stranger things have happened.
Note, that famous little mp3 is not made by Monty Python.
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