Doesn't help. I had a user who claimed that "the program hung". When I asked if he had got an error message, he said NO. The logs, however, showed that he clicked 12 error messages away in the past minute. So the user's reply to a wait timer is also "it's hanging, you fix!"
There's a lot of "property" that is not property. It is totally absurd that lawyers think you can "have" authorship, give it away or even steal it. Yet that is what happens for a lot of publishers. They "take" the authorship from the author. Now wait. Does that mean that al of a sudden the publisher has written the book and the author hasn't? If the copyright laws are about stimulating artists, is that publisher stimulated to write the sequel? Or is the actual author negatively stimulated to produce anything ever again?
The whole stupid thing is off course that authorship is nothing. It is not concrete, it cannot be sold, destroyed or whatever. In law, property usually means that the owner can do whatever he likes with it, and anything that can be described with a possessive word (his, her their) is seen as property. In law, it would make perfectly sense to sell your child. Also, farmers have the right to poison "their" land, and the industry has the right to poison "their" open water. The fact that law is so far from reality only makes sure that the law cannot say anything about reality anymore.
It is also easier to report open source bugs. I have never reported a bug in a proprietary app, but I have reported lots of Linux bugs (mostly distro level, or fixable at distro level) because I can follow what it happening, and I know what the (usually good) reaction to my individual report is.
Quite right. And if I am capable of fixing that bug, I do so and submit the fix. That's what open source development is about, isn't it? Most of my contributions to open source software are small fixes.
'cause maybe they will think twice if they see the whole nation falling over this issue? Keep silent now and do not complain afterwards. Or speak up now.
Speak up, man!
O, and we know where you live. What a wonderful wife you got. And such lovely kids! It would be ashamed if...
But I digress. What was it you wanted to say again?
It is as useful as the CD tray opener on your CD remote control. You still have to go to the device to put a CD in. In the car analogy, you will still have to go to the car to drive it.
So it has really nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft forbids the vendors from making dual boot systems and that Windows must be pre-installed to make a computer's price competitive?
Most developers target Windows because it is the only thing they and their users know. And Microsoft wants to keep it that way.
No it isn't. I can recall a time when Microsoft was proud that MS-DOS was he most copied program in the world (at least they claimed so). All the other software companies that made easy-to-copy software became big, often with really lousy software: Lotus (Multiplan was by far friendlier and better), AutoCAD (present versions still suck compared to CADAM in the '80s), WordPerfect, etc.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" would be by far more appropriate. But then, they would not produce those arms anyway, would they?
It seems to pay to be a hypocrite.
Are we sure this traffic comes from Microsoft? Could it not consist of forged network packets? You don't need a reply if you are running a DDOS. On the other hand, why would anyone, including Microsoft, want to bring down CPAN?
In the Netherlands, that guy would just loose his car and his driver's licence. But for some inexplicable reason, I do not know of any country that would simply charge him for murder, because that is what it really is. Not knowing who exactly you are going to kill does not make it less murderous.
I wish it were true. Shareholders are not responsible. They just want short-term profits. They only care about ethics if it costs them money. Especially the whole shareholder system is the key to why corporations are so utterly irresponsible. Managers can be real people. Shareholders are anonymous greed.
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Doesn't help. I had a user who claimed that "the program hung". When I asked if he had got an error message, he said NO. The logs, however, showed that he clicked 12 error messages away in the past minute. So the user's reply to a wait timer is also "it's hanging, you fix!"
There's a lot of "property" that is not property. It is totally absurd that lawyers think you can "have" authorship, give it away or even steal it. Yet that is what happens for a lot of publishers. They "take" the authorship from the author. Now wait. Does that mean that al of a sudden the publisher has written the book and the author hasn't? If the copyright laws are about stimulating artists, is that publisher stimulated to write the sequel? Or is the actual author negatively stimulated to produce anything ever again?
The whole stupid thing is off course that authorship is nothing. It is not concrete, it cannot be sold, destroyed or whatever. In law, property usually means that the owner can do whatever he likes with it, and anything that can be described with a possessive word (his, her their) is seen as property. In law, it would make perfectly sense to sell your child. Also, farmers have the right to poison "their" land, and the industry has the right to poison "their" open water. The fact that law is so far from reality only makes sure that the law cannot say anything about reality anymore.
Big Corporation: have a nice entertaining trip with our lobbyists while you think about our point of view
Open Source Advocate: Hey! Wait!
Will the country with the most stringent policies suddenly be the equivalent of the patent troll district in Texas?
They already are. That is why they came up with ACTA in the first place.
It is also easier to report open source bugs. I have never reported a bug in a proprietary app, but I have reported lots of Linux bugs (mostly distro level, or fixable at distro level) because I can follow what it happening, and I know what the (usually good) reaction to my individual report is.
Quite right. And if I am capable of fixing that bug, I do so and submit the fix. That's what open source development is about, isn't it? Most of my contributions to open source software are small fixes.
Embrace, extend, extinguish...
'cause maybe they will think twice if they see the whole nation falling over this issue? Keep silent now and do not complain afterwards. Or speak up now.
Speak up, man!
O, and we know where you live. What a wonderful wife you got. And such lovely kids! It would be ashamed if...
But I digress. What was it you wanted to say again?
The Force of Amazon just deleted him.
A "Brute Force Attack". The name was never more appropriate!
Especially programming and preferably foreign languages. Today's scams are awful.
They should think of their career!
It is as useful as the CD tray opener on your CD remote control. You still have to go to the device to put a CD in. In the car analogy, you will still have to go to the car to drive it.
Same here. I vowed never to install XP because of Windows Genuine Annoyance, and moved from 98SE to Xubuntu. Never regretted it even one day.
So it has really nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft forbids the vendors from making dual boot systems and that Windows must be pre-installed to make a computer's price competitive?
Most developers target Windows because it is the only thing they and their users know. And Microsoft wants to keep it that way.
No it isn't. I can recall a time when Microsoft was proud that MS-DOS was he most copied program in the world (at least they claimed so). All the other software companies that made easy-to-copy software became big, often with really lousy software: Lotus (Multiplan was by far friendlier and better), AutoCAD (present versions still suck compared to CADAM in the '80s), WordPerfect, etc.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" would be by far more appropriate. But then, they would not produce those arms anyway, would they?
It seems to pay to be a hypocrite.
Are we sure this traffic comes from Microsoft? Could it not consist of forged network packets? You don't need a reply if you are running a DDOS. On the other hand, why would anyone, including Microsoft, want to bring down CPAN?
Draw two stickpeople having sex, label one of them as being 17, you guessed it, you're a sex offender.
and probably won't
Can we please cut the crap in thinking "about the children" or "about the state"? It is the fact THAT they are censoring that is bad.
And especially TWO of them! Better change them for ONE "spare" key you can use as a Compose Key (like I do) or whatever useful key you want.
It can't, usually. But it can infect a machine running from a live CD. No problem.
In the Netherlands, that guy would just loose his car and his driver's licence. But for some inexplicable reason, I do not know of any country that would simply charge him for murder, because that is what it really is. Not knowing who exactly you are going to kill does not make it less murderous.
I wish it were true. Shareholders are not responsible. They just want short-term profits. They only care about ethics if it costs them money. Especially the whole shareholder system is the key to why corporations are so utterly irresponsible. Managers can be real people. Shareholders are anonymous greed.
But not governed by them. The "will" of a company is determined by a minority of some upper managers and even some external shareholders.
I don't see your nose getting longer...