If the "hack" you are thinking of is the same one I'm thinking of, it's circumvention of SDMI, and there's still 17 USC 1201 (commonly known as DMCA) to worry about... <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
all it did was recive sound from windows applications like it was a sound card and write 44.1 kHz pcm sound
It won't work for long. Microsoft Digital Rights Management will silence all SDMI audio going to unsigned drivers. MS will only sign a driver if it shuts off all digital waveOut capability (this includes without limitation disk writers, digital out ports on the card, and waveOut to waveIn aka SB Live What-U-Hear) when playing secure audio; only signed drivers get access to the Secure Audio Path.
SDMI-enabled players are distributed out to surpass their existing versions. The MP3 decoders are time-stamped to expire (aka shutdown) on a set date, after which only SDMI will be supported. Nice, eh?
If that's true (probably not), you'll just see Winamp replaced with "WinMMS" (a port of XMMS) with hardly a hiccup.
Oh, BTW, if you can dig up a link to the article, mail it to me. You know how to fix up my address; bots don't. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
And there's always the trick of having a soundcard driver that saves the audio stream to the harddrive.
No. SDMI requires that there be no way to get a digital cleartext out of an encrypted file. For example, all Microsoft Digital Rights Management sound card drivers disable all digital outputs (card outputs, write to file, or a fake waveIn) when an SDMI clip is being played. If a sound card driver driver is not digitally signed by Microsoft and rated MS-DRM compliant, it has no access to the Secure Audio Path and will play silence instead of music.
The encryption algorithm will be a trade secret; otherwise, anyone could write an open-source program that leaks the cleartext. Not acceptable. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Best to get an S-VHS or Hi8 VCR (records at nearly broadcast quality) and use the converter box that the government will be handing out to analog TV users in 2006. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Microsoft.org:Microsoft will blow big bux0rz on.NET (which requires an always-on, high-speed connection, making it inaccessible to a large number of Windows customers), stop making profits, and will have to become a nonprofit.
Isn't that what open source is all about? RTFC!(Read The Fucking Code)
Reading source code requires moving source code somehow to your local host. Bandwidth costs money. What the OP is looking for is metadata, or something small that describes the code in a well-defined, searchable form.
<title>Cannot find server</title>
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I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."
This is caused by the Micro$oft Infernal Exploiter 5.5 bug that "refreshing" a res:// page (the error messages) into a working page (like you did with K5) doesn't update the title. Bites me too when viewing slashdotted pages.
I could get rid of TK if the kernel X config didn't use it
You can get rid of Tcl/Tk. Is there a reason you can't use make menuconfig in an rxvt or other X11 terminal?
I could get rid of gawk, bison, m4, groff, etc if there wasn't exactly one (like man and groff) program that didn't use it
GNU man calls groff so it can format man pages. If you format man pages itself (from.../man? to.../cat?) you can do away with both man and groff, as GNU Texinfo's info can read manpages.
Even if the barbazfs source was hosted, the GPL requires anyone who distributes binaries of the whole kernel (including the patch) to distribute sources of the whole kernel (including the patch). <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Apple doesn't expect it's regular users to build software; they will install pre-built binaries. That, combined with the enormous size of all of the development tools and documentation
That can be put in HTML or even PDF (with all the PDF support in the native rendering system, they could probably write Acrobat in about 1000 LOC). An extra CD in the distribution costs less than $1 (probably much less) to press. Call it an "Unsupported Extras" CD if you're worried about supporting it.
is the reason why the consumer versions of the OS won't have the tools. The development tools will always be something seperate for developers.
Back in the day when Apple was popular, Apple II computers came with two flavors of Basic interpreters (Integer Basic and Bill's Applesoft) and a mini-assembler, along with instructions on how to use them.
The UNIX® system is optimized for footprint (it originally ran in 1 MB machines IIRC). The GNU system, OTOH, is optimized for speed. This "use more RAM if it'll improve performance and/or simplicity" mentality helps counter copyright infringement allegations by UNIX system vendors against GNU system developers who have never read UNIX system code. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
I can't just sling Linux kernels around and say "you can get the source at kernel.org"; I have to make that source available myself.
But where? Most free web hosting services restrict files to be under 1,024 kilobytes (presumably so they don't incur liability for a warez or MP3z site). How does an individual (read: somebody who doesn't have $$$$$/mo to spend on web hosting) with a cool kernel patch distribute the source of the rest of the kernel?
Slashdot Mirror
Besides, I'd like to see them *enforce* it.
Two words: Jon Johansen.
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fine... hack the OS.
fine... go to JAIL.
If the "hack" you are thinking of is the same one I'm thinking of, it's circumvention of SDMI, and there's still 17 USC 1201 (commonly known as DMCA) to worry about...<O
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all it did was recive sound from windows applications like it was a sound card and write 44.1 kHz pcm sound
It won't work for long. Microsoft Digital Rights Management will silence all SDMI audio going to unsigned drivers. MS will only sign a driver if it shuts off all digital waveOut capability (this includes without limitation disk writers, digital out ports on the card, and waveOut to waveIn aka SB Live What-U-Hear) when playing secure audio; only signed drivers get access to the Secure Audio Path.
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SDMI-enabled players are distributed out to surpass their existing versions. The MP3 decoders are time-stamped to expire (aka shutdown) on a set date, after which only SDMI will be supported. Nice, eh?
If that's true (probably not), you'll just see Winamp replaced with "WinMMS" (a port of XMMS) with hardly a hiccup.
Oh, BTW, if you can dig up a link to the article, mail it to me. You know how to fix up my address; bots don't.<O
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And there's always the trick of having a soundcard driver that saves the audio stream to the harddrive.
No. SDMI requires that there be no way to get a digital cleartext out of an encrypted file. For example, all Microsoft Digital Rights Management sound card drivers disable all digital outputs (card outputs, write to file, or a fake waveIn) when an SDMI clip is being played. If a sound card driver driver is not digitally signed by Microsoft and rated MS-DRM compliant, it has no access to the Secure Audio Path and will play silence instead of music.
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The encryption algorithm will be a trade secret; otherwise, anyone could write an open-source program that leaks the cleartext. Not acceptable.
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Remember the cuckoo MP3 incident?
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- The government will take back all analog TV frequencies in 2006.
- D-VHS VCRs can't record digital TV because digital TV has digital rights management that "effectively controls access" to TV programming according to 17 USC 1201 (commonly known as the DMCA).
Best to get an S-VHS or Hi8 VCR (records at nearly broadcast quality) and use the converter box that the government will be handing out to analog TV users in 2006.<O
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Microsoft COM, Microsoft .NET, what's next?
Microsoft.org: Microsoft will blow big bux0rz on .NET (which requires an always-on, high-speed connection, making it inaccessible to a large number of Windows customers), stop making profits, and will have to become a nonprofit.
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Isn't that what open source is all about? RTFC!(Read The Fucking Code)
Reading source code requires moving source code somehow to your local host. Bandwidth costs money. What the OP is looking for is metadata, or something small that describes the code in a well-defined, searchable form.
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I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."
This is caused by the Micro$oft Infernal Exploiter 5.5 bug that "refreshing" a res:// page (the error messages) into a working page (like you did with K5) doesn't update the title. Bites me too when viewing slashdotted pages.
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Try this: "In opening this bag, you agree to the EULA on the enclosed software package."
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The bag is presumably sealed: "if you open this bag you agree to the EULA."
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Mac OS has a feature called Software Update
Just like Windows Update, Helix Update... Continue.
Should every graphic designer and musician on the planet have to look at a list something like this:
Not necessarily. Mac OS Software Update could presumably have a single package "GNU Software."
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I could get rid of TK if the kernel X config didn't use it
You can get rid of Tcl/Tk. Is there a reason you can't use make menuconfig in an rxvt or other X11 terminal?
I could get rid of gawk, bison, m4, groff, etc if there wasn't exactly one (like man and groff) program that didn't use it
GNU man calls groff so it can format man pages. If you format man pages itself (from .../man? to .../cat?) you can do away with both man and groff, as GNU Texinfo's info can read manpages.
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If you can't say Berkeley or BSD for some reason, call it the BIND Internet Name Daemon.
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A GPL exception for "source everyone knows how to get and patch" would be begging to be abused.
<cough>QPL</cough>
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Even if the barbazfs source was hosted, the GPL requires anyone who distributes binaries of the whole kernel (including the patch) to distribute sources of the whole kernel (including the patch).
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the union of "Unix" and "Not Unix" is "everything"
OK, here's the UNIX web site.
Here's the GNU's Not UNIX web site.
Neither of those sites has everything.
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Apple doesn't expect it's regular users to build software; they will install pre-built binaries. That, combined with the enormous size of all of the development tools and documentation
That can be put in HTML or even PDF (with all the PDF support in the native rendering system, they could probably write Acrobat in about 1000 LOC). An extra CD in the distribution costs less than $1 (probably much less) to press. Call it an "Unsupported Extras" CD if you're worried about supporting it.
is the reason why the consumer versions of the OS won't have the tools. The development tools will always be something seperate for developers.
Back in the day when Apple was popular, Apple II computers came with two flavors of Basic interpreters (Integer Basic and Bill's Applesoft) and a mini-assembler, along with instructions on how to use them.
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The UNIX® system is optimized for footprint (it originally ran in 1 MB machines IIRC). The GNU system, OTOH, is optimized for speed. This "use more RAM if it'll improve performance and/or simplicity" mentality helps counter copyright infringement allegations by UNIX system vendors against GNU system developers who have never read UNIX system code.
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Compressing audio with the MP3 algorithm, storing such files, and playing them back is certainly not illegal.
If you don't have a license from Fraunhofer/Thomson, making, using, or selling MP3 files is patent infringement.
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I can't just sling Linux kernels around and say "you can get the source at kernel.org"; I have to make that source available myself.
But where? Most free web hosting services restrict files to be under 1,024 kilobytes (presumably so they don't incur liability for a warez or MP3z site). How does an individual (read: somebody who doesn't have $$$$$/mo to spend on web hosting) with a cool kernel patch distribute the source of the rest of the kernel?
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Which of the real Bruce Perens are you anyway? There are a half dozen or so that I know of.
This is Bruce Perens. In general, the real thing has a lower UID than imposters.
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Another avenue, which the GPL doesn't try to use, is contract law. You can require an exchange of rights in a contract that would cover linking.
That's a shrinkwrap license, and RMS doesn't like shrinkwrap licenses.
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