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  1. Dirty Tricks [tm] on Microsoft Attempts to Quash OSS Recommendations · · Score: 1
    I wonder who was first to outroll a official Dirty Tricks [tm] department, the CIA or Microsoft..

    "CIA Handbook Of Dirty Tricks [Vol #1]"

    Robert

  2. Who is asking? #2 on What Could YouTube Be Worth? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    A couple a weeks ago i sent this email message on a mailling list

    From stock@stokkie.net Mon Aug 14 22:46:00 2006 +0200
    Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST)
    From: "Robert M. Stockmann"
    To: list
    Subject: 911 Economics

    Hi,

    According to Dave Emory, the Muslim brotherhood is propagating a economic agenda which closely fits the Bush regime. Do the Bush and USA bashers inside the middle east know that themselves also?

    July 18, 2006: FTR # 560: Economic 9/11
    http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx060718.m p3

    There seems to be a entire economic system installed throughout the middle east, where the fundamentalist Muslim stooges of the Muslim Brotherhood are put in power and apparently easily adopt the laissez-faire tradition of Western economics.

    Unbelievable how bended this sounds. How bended?

    Well Dave Emory, the instituted propaganda radio broadcaster starts reading, without showing any reservations or hesitations, a Newsweek article on this, like it was a Goebels lecture. Using the same methods and principles he apparently tries to fight :

    "Islam in Office"
    By Stephen Glain, Newsweek International, July 3-10, 2006 issue
    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/

    "July 3-10, 2006 issue - Judeo-Christian scripture offers little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce. In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to "give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's," he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary authority to pagan Rome.

    Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad himself a trader-preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the border-less Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the "invisible hand" of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading."

    Bill Gates must be delighted to hear about such juicy business deals laying ahead for him in the future. Bill Gates? Don't you know Bill Gates owns newsweek? :

    [jackson:stock]:(~)$ nslookup www.newsweek.com
    Server: 10.0.18.71
    Address: 10.0.18.71#53

    Non-authoritative answer:
    www.newsweek.com canonical name = newsweek.com.
    Name: newsweek.com
    Address: 207.46.245.32
    Name: newsweek.com
    Address: 207.46.245.33
    Name: newsweek.com
    Address: 207.46.150.50
    Name: newsweek.com
    Address: 207.46.150.51

    [jackson:stock]:(~)$
    [jackson:stock]:(~)$ whois 207.46.245.32

    OrgName: Microsoft Corp
    OrgID: MSFT
    Address: One Microsoft Way
    City: Redmond
    StateProv: WA
    PostalCode: 98052
    Country: US

    NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255
    CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16
    NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET
    NetHandle: NET-207-46-0-0-1
    Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
    NetType: Direct Assignment
    NameServer: NS1.MSFT.NET
    NameServer: NS5.MSFT.NET
    NameServer: NS2.MSFT.NET
    NameServer: NS3.MSFT.NET
    NameServer: NS4.MSFT.NET
    Comment:
    RegDate: 1997-03-31
    Updated: 2004-12-09

    [some parts removed of whois query]

    # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-08-13 19:10
    # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS d

  3. Who is asking? on What Could YouTube Be Worth? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    A couple a weeks ago i sent this email message on a mailling list

    From stock@stokkie.net Mon Aug 14 22:46:00 2006 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST) From: "Robert M. Stockmann" To: list Subject: 911 Economics Hi, According to Dave Emory, the Muslim brotherhood is propagating a economic agenda which closely fits the Bush regime. Do the Bush and USA bashers inside the middle east know that themselves also? July 18, 2006: FTR # 560: Economic 9/11 http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx060718.m p3 There seems to be a entire economic system installed throughout the middle east, where the fundamentalist Muslim stooges of the Muslim Brotherhood are put in power and apparently easily adopt the laissez-faire tradition of Western economics. Unbelievable how bended this sounds. How bended? Well Dave Emory, the instituted propaganda radio broadcaster starts reading, without showing any reservations or hesitations, a Newsweek article on this, like it was a Goebels lecture. Using the same methods and principles he apparently tries to fight : "Islam in Office" By Stephen Glain, Newsweek International, July 3-10, 2006 issue http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/ "July 3-10, 2006 issue - Judeo-Christian scripture offers little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce. In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to "give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's," he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary authority to pagan Rome. Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad himself a trader-preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the border-less Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the "invisible hand" of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading." Bill Gates must be delighted to hear about such juicy business deals laying ahead for him in the future. Bill Gates? Don't you know Bill Gates owns newsweek? : [jackson:stock]:(~)$ nslookup www.newsweek.com Server: 10.0.18.71 Address: 10.0.18.71#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.newsweek.com canonical name = newsweek.com. Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.245.32 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.245.33 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.150.50 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.150.51 [jackson:stock]:(~)$ [jackson:stock]:(~)$ whois 207.46.245.32 OrgName: Microsoft Corp OrgID: MSFT Address: One Microsoft Way City: Redmond StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98052 Country: US NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255 CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16 NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET NetHandle: NET-207-46-0-0-1 Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment NameServer: NS1.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS5.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS2.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS3.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS4.MSFT.NET Comment: RegDate: 1997-03-31 Updated: 2004-12-09 [some parts removed of whois query] # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-08-13 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. Today i heard someone was claiming that in the end the Rothschild's owned everything, and that people like Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, are nothing more but the Kings Horses and Nobel men. Maybe, maybe not. I somehow get the feeling, the moment a Rothschild wants to withdraw cash f

  4. Microsoft needs help on Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond · · Score: 1

    Vista seems to be a enormous project, which maybe even has outgrown the enormous resources at hand at Redmond campus.
    But as usual Microsoft gets lucky. Steve Jobs donates the x86 source code part of the OSX kernel to the community. And now Redmond developers need some input to get the Mozilla firefox code ported to Vista. I think Microsoft is putting the means to fit the purpose. Vista has already costed them an extra mortgage on the farm, but still ain't getting sold. They even have started to raise a small download fee for beta's of Vista. So if you want to see Vista deployed soon in real life action, you as a open source developer can help out. The problem however is that Microsoft's track record in relationships with other software companies doesn't shine brightly. If you wanna know what Vista is all about, you as a Open Source developer now get a chance, but be warned for pitfalls.

    Robert

  5. Re:Makes me proud to be British on U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    "DVLA makes £6.5m selling addresses"
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/19/dvla_sells _you_down_river/

    DVLA is that what one calls a acronym ? I would call it The Education doctrine inside the public media. The Watergate burglar group who called themselves the 'plumbers' were part of a operation called 'CREEP', which was known as Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP). Notice how a acronym of a multi word name can start living a life of its own. Thats exactly what its intention is. A very important part in today's Orwellian media is played by acronyms.

    Once a acronym has been launched into the public mind, and more important, once the meaning of that acronym is programmed in the publics mind with a false or even opposite meaning, the Media Moguls have a free and cleared playing field, where every publication hits GOLD in their propaganda campaigns. The scariest of all is that both fiend and foe get sucked into the same dirty acronym word game.

    Robert

  6. crappy BBC article on U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality · · Score: 1
    What a crappy article to read about such a important subject. The article at arstechnica has at least some pointers to the real documents :

    "US telecommunications law rewrite a mixed bag"
    "The US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce released the final draft (PDF) of the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act"

    TITLE IV -- MUNICIPAL
    PROVISION OF SERVICES
    SEC. 401. GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES.

    (a) IN GENERAL. Neither the Communications Act
    of 1934 nor any State statute, regulation, or other State
    legal requirement may prohibit or have the effect of pro-
    hibiting any public provider of telecommunications service,
    information service, or cable service (as such terms are
    defined in sections 3 and 602 of such Act) from providing
    such services to any person or entity.
    (b) COMPETITION NEUTRALITY. Any State or polit-
    ical subdivision thereof, or any agency, authority, or in-
    strumentality of a State or political subdivision thereof,
    that is, owns, controls, or is otherwise affiliated with a
    public provider of telecommunications service, information
    service, or cable service shall not grant any preference or
    advantage to any such provider. Such entity shall apply
    its ordinances, rules, and policies, including those relating
    to the use of public rights-of-way, permitting, performance
    bonding, and reporting without discrimination in favor of
    any such provider as compared to other providers of such
    services.
    (c) COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER LAWS NOT AFFECTED.
    Nothing in this section shall exempt a public
    provider from any law or regulation that applies to pro-
    viders of telecommunications service, information service,
    or cable service.
    (d) DEFINITION OF PUBLIC PROVIDER.
    For purposes of this section, the term "public provider" means
    a State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency, au-
    thority, or instrumentality of a State or political subdivi-
    sion thereof, that provides telecommunications service, in-
    formation service, or cable service, or any entity that is
    owned, controlled, or is otherwise affiliated with such
    State or political subdivision thereof, or agency, authority,
    or instrumentality of a State or political subdivision there-
    of.
    The removal of section (b) COMPETITION NEUTRALITY by the House of Representatives is rather odd, given that removal directly undermines the users rights on the internet. As the House of Reps normally supports the ordinairy US citizin, i really wonder what has been going on. Also given the fact that content providers like google, ebay and amazon have lobbied to keep this inside the House Bill. In these cases of unexplainable House Votings I can only say one thing : Follow the Money: recipients : the Reps. donators : all the big backbone carriers : AT&T, MCI, you name em.

    Robert M. Stockmann

  7. Who's Firewall ??? on Tearing Down China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    After seeing the Chinese Prime Minister visit Bill Gates first and not the President George W. (Total Failure) Bush, i was rather amazed. Whilest i was wondering how this could be, i saw a BBC Newsnight program where a former CIA director and the British Secret Service director were invited to discuss things. Suddenly the quarter dropped for me! The whole thing was treated by the Anglo-Saxon secret community like a hot potatoe! Somehow the Chinese PM was not to be learned about the real dirty details of matters involved. So...

    I place my bets that this so-called Chinese Firewall is nothing else as an extension to Echelon to prevent Chinese People _AND_ Chinese Government to find out certain details about whats really going on.

    Just check your web-sites access-logs for visitors from the chinese government. You will find that there aren't any...

    Robert

  8. the article is about Mandriva 2006 Powerpack on What Can Mandriva Linux 2006 Mean for Home Users? · · Score: 1

    the article is about Mandriva 2006 Powerpack, which is not freely for download, but a low cost commercial edition :

    http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?product s_id=288
    this is a double DVD edition : 32-bit and 64-bit for EUR 54,=

    Robert

  9. drink/eat healthy on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    make sure you use good water for coffee/tea/food (i.e. boiled vegetables) and for preparing dinner only use food and ingredients which are direct from its source. So no pre-cooked sauces or sort alike, only use genuine spices like pepper, salt, sugar etc. Eat bread, eggs, onions, tomatoes, cucumber, cheese, beans, potatoes, rice. Don't buy already sliced up food. Carve your fresh food inside the kitchen with a knife. It indeed will take more time to prepare that proper meal, just like your grandma was doing, but if your health is improving, no one should complain.

    Robert

  10. the senate is for the people eh? on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    Here's a additional requirement to be passed as Senate Bill: these senators should have their brains checked for illegal confined bio-chip inside skull or hands.

    King James Bible (c)1611 :
    Book of revelation:
    13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
          free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
          foreheads:

    Robert

  11. Re:Hahaha! == Iron Mountain on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 1
    "Which leads to the really big question. WHY are the media companies so intent on controlling things by region? What is the possible reason?"

    Inside "Report from IRON MOUNTAIN ON THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE" the world as we know it is divided up into 10 separate regions, see pictures of that here : 10-regions-1.png and 10-regions-2.png The world maps are from the COR, Club of Rome, and introduced in 1973. So this dividing up of the world is a Global Governance thing carried out by the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), TC (Trilateral Commission), Bilderberg, Committee of 300 you name it. In a recent update of this map, Mexico was moved from region 6 to region 1. I really wonder now if DVD's officialy purchased in Mexico have their region codes moved from 6 to 1 also.

    If you want to know more see :

    Iron Mountain 1
    Iron Mountain 2
    Iron Mountain 3

    Allthough all OFFICIAL media outlets and payed for stooges declare(d) "Iron Mountain" to be a Hoax, go find out for yourselves if its true. After seeing the Global Agenda being laid out for us day by day, I say its NOT a Hoax.

    Robert M. Stockmann

  12. Re:Locked in the BOX on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 1

    Hmm i meant : If DRM is also introduced as legislation inside a extended DMCA act by the Government, in effect outlawing older Digital Media Standards and its equipment, we are suddenly Locked in the BOX.

  13. Locked in the BOX on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 1

    If DRM is also introduced as legislation inside a extended DMCA act by the Government, in effect outlawing older Digital Media and its equipment, we are suddenly Locked in the BOX.

    Then again, if one can only watch FOX NEWS using a DRM enabled TV-set, I already know what will happen: THEY themselves are getting Locked in the BOX.

    Robert

  14. RMS certainly knows whats goin on on RMS Views on Linux, Java, DRM and Opensource · · Score: 1
    and the establishment wants him out. Well at least they try to. Sofar RMS still keeps coming back. A real true patriot i would say. Here's a very enlightening posting from USENET of how things really work out in practice :

    a highly interesting USENET posting as seen on comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Subject: Re: MS offers Windows Source Code
    From: rex.ballard@gmail.com
    Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
    Date: 26 Jan 2006 05:34:04 -0800

    Ana Thema wrote:
    > Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
    >
    > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:55:56 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
    > >
    > >>
    > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jan0 6/01-25EUSourceCodePR.mspx
    > >>
    > >> "Today, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith announced
    > >> Microsoft's decision to license all the Windows Server
    > >> source code for the technologies covered by the European
    > >> Commission's Decision of March 2004"
    > >
    > > It seems M$ opened up the source code a bit:

    The real question is "Which License" is Microsoft using.
    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/shareds ource/licensingbasics/sharedsourcelicenses.mspx

    What the EU wants is for Microsoft to release this information under
    the equivalent of "Microsoft Permissive License" or "Microsoft
    Community License", and Microsoft appears to be only willing to offer
    it under the terms of the "Microsoft Reference License".

    The Microsoft Permissive license most closely resembles the BSD
    license. Other developers can take the code and create derivative
    products and publish them in their own name, and under their own terms.
    This is pretty much limited to sample code included with compilers and
    is probably taken from other similar licenses.

    Of course, the little "Twist" is the "Limited Permissive License" which
    restricts use to "Microsoft Windows deployment only". This is
    essentially a monopoly builder clause. Any derivatives created under
    the MLPL cannot be used on Linux or any other operating system, even if
    the code being disclosed was originally released under other licenses
    such as the BSD or MIT X11 licenses.

    The Microsoft Community License is most like the GNU Lesser General
    Public License. Microsoft is entitled to the the upgrades and changes
    to the DLL but applications can call the code. Furthermore, Microsoft
    can publish proprietary version of the code contributed by the
    community. Again, the Limited version restricts publication to
    Microsoft Windows only.

    Microsoft's Reference License has no "Limited" version because ANY code
    released under this license can ONLY be used on Windows. Essentially,
    if you look at Ms-RL code, you can't develop for Linux or UNIX or OS/X
    or any other platform ever again. Keep in mind that Microsoft does
    keep records of who has accepted the terms of these licenses, and could
    use this information to go after developers who contribute to Linux.
    The SAMBA developers could not look at any of the Ms-RL licensed code
    or accept an Ms-RL license and continue to work on SAMBA, because at
    that point, Microsoft would "own" SAMBA.

    Furthermore, the enhanced SAMBA would then have to be taken off of
    Linux because the enhanced code would be restricted under the Ms-RL.
    This presumes of course that the courts officiating over the numerous
    anti-trust cases and rulings are willing to even accept the terms of
    these licenses as anything other than contempt of court violations of
    antitrust clauses requiring publication of information for use by
    competitor products, on competitor platforms.

    > >
    > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/25/microsoft_ opens_sourcecode_abit/
    > >
    > > When inside this

  15. Slashdot is playing the jackass on Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients · · Score: 1

    We already knew that people are getting nuts these days , but why should Slashdot start fuelling this idiotic stuff?

  16. This is Dr. Mengele's wet dream! on Google Accused of Bio-piracy · · Score: 1
    These idiots must be stopped, IMHO. Just remember how IBM was involved in registering jews, christian's, scientists, gypsies etc. into a IBM system during WWII, in effect helping out the Nazis:

    "IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation"
    by Edwin Black
    Paperback: 560 pages
    Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition (March 26, 2002)
    ISBN: 0609808990

    Robert

  17. Ten Reasons to Install Mac OSX x86 10.4.3 on OSx86 Shutdown Rumors Explained · · Score: 1

    1. Gates offered the ranch to Steve Jobs to make his Mac OSX x86 branch go
    away

    2. Jobs reacted swiftly and arranged a shutdown of the OSx86 community
    website :
    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/17/osx86_proj ect_dmca_claim/

    3. Gates installed Mac OSX x86 10.4.3 on a couple of Intel PC's and got
    white behind the nose and did have liquid diareee for 3 days.

    4. Mac OSX x86 10.4.3 on a AMD64 runs so blinding fast that all iMAC gear
    and faster is smacked into the corner.

    5. Vista's DRM and total surveillance hookups are demanded by US and UK
    government. Stevie Jobs Mac OSX x86 10.4.3 doesn't have this onboard
    currently.

    6 if it turns out that Stevie Jobs, after dealing with Gates, used that
    DMCA violation claim as cover to shutdown the OSx86 Project forum,
    www.win2osx.net, Jobs might not be able to make any keynote speech for a
    long time to come. It seems Jobs is nowadays mostly doing hollywood pixar
    business.

    7. Jobs and Gates supposedly made some dealings , which forsee the future
    of the coming years... Vista as i have seen it, is a rather weak offering,
    which seems to be trunkloaded with life and active DRM under the hood.

    8. well no kidding here... THIS is the real news of this week and the
    coming weeks..... they might orchestrate a hunting accident to smooth
    things out, but be sure to be prepared for some major bullcrap, which will
    ignite many people to hunt and search for a last working iso of Mac OSX
    x86

    9. Mac OSX x86 is so f..king good and fast, it would have killed both
    linux _AND_ Vista. Muchos Kudos for this goto the community crowd of OSx86
    with its forum on www.win2osx.net.

    10. a friend has a working iso, and his jaws dropped through his keyboard,
    after installing it on a P4 2.4GHz compaq deskpro. Its blinding fast and
    polished. He had to debug a downloaded install iso of Mac OSX x86 10.4.x ,
    and did 3 installs within 50 minutes on that compaq deskpro

    Robert

  18. the hassle free guide for running konqueror on KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://pastebin.com/516354

    please note that mozilla and firefox are also wiped using clean() and deskclean()

    Cheers,

    Robert

  19. wiki on the Red Army on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia has become a essential part of the internet, just like google has become. As i was looking for information about the Red Army during the cold war, this page seems a good source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_t he_Soviet_Union

    however information about who actually were the Cold War Russian Army Generals not a lot can be found. Wiki is a good source for a start into a subject, but one will need to read books still.

    Robert

  20. yin and yang on The Softening of a Software Man · · Score: 1

    amazing:)

    It could just be, that Ballmer is the Yin from Microsoft and Gates the Yang, with this difference that someone is slowly fading the light on Yang, giving it a black-grey result. The additional toxic environment makes sure that only plastics and shortlived marketing gadgets from Microsoft are the news worthy items inside the mainstream IT press.

    So a way out of this? The Yin and Yang equilibrium should be restored, which means the grey of Gates should be restored into white, like Gates getting reborn as Gandalf the White :)) According the article Gates is exactly trying to do that. Lets hope he's sincere in his efforts :)

    Robert

  21. 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party? on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: 1

    What is slashdot doing these days? which crackpot feeded that Nazi pointer into this title? Let me put it this way, if i ever see a nazi flag displayed here, slashdot will be going down, without a possible recovery.

  22. The legal trap on Free Software Foundation Begins Rewriting the GPL · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Jim Gatto, intellectual property and patent attorney for the Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman law firm, says version 3 of the GPL has been a long time coming. "A number of people have raised different concerns about the GPL," Gatto says."

    Well there we have it. Where the GPLv2 was and still is maybe the most brilliant example of a software license ever, I today already see it coming that GPLv3 will become the deepest pitch hole in which a Open Source project can slide into. Where in the recent past originating project authors like Harald Welte from iptables could single handed see their GPLv2 being validated in court, by use of limited efforts, i predict the death of open source, simply by the need of outrageous legal resources to defend your GPLv3 license in court.

    When that happens, Free and Open Source Software using the GPL License will have died in the hands of the humble programmers, and big software corporations will use GPLv3 as a disguised License cover to simply continue their old practices, and feed their Corporations with the efforts of a new generation of open source programmer employees, who have been trained to think that their job is helping the open source community.

    The GPLv3 might even derange GPL-ed Open Source into big Corporations only projects , as no ordinary hobby programmer will be able to afford the costs of such a thing.

    So do not fall into this trap. The GPLv2 has never been overturned so far in court. Why introduce a expensive legal vehicle, which the GPLv3 might become, to see the GPL finally get defeated in Court, only because the defendants went out of cash?

    Robert

  23. Torvalds nasty socialist ? on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1
    I'll leave you with one thought. Finns are socialists. Linus Torvalds is Finnish. Linus Torvalds got here on an airplane. ®

    That's quite a suggestion by Otto Z. Stern, and a nasty one for sure. All Torvalds did was put in practice the things he learned inside CS class, what he admired the most: an open system, and what he was inspired by: the approach of Operating Systems Design as taught by Andy Tanenbaum, who has been decorated for his work numerous times. Mister Stern should maybe focus his attention at designing the new generation aviation machinery again, instead of putting down the work of individuals outside his field of expertise.

    Robert

  24. why change a winning team or plan? on Lessig on Internet Governance · · Score: 1

    The current outfits got the internet where it is today, so just roll along and double your mileage:) Just don't allow congress pundits to change or introduce laws on Internet issues.

    Robert

  25. minix, the little os that could on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 1

    minix, the little os that could. After many years Andy comes back and launches an able hobbit os :) "thank you humble coders, we bow to thee :)"

    Install it and next get his book to go with minix : http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/tanenbau m/ "Operating Systems, Design and Implementation". After working your way through, you can call yourself a kernel/os designer/programmer.

    I think AT is a brilliant teacher. Looking inside that book : sec2.2 interprocess communication, describing race conditions, semaphores, and the classical IPC problem : The Dining Philosophers Problem. Its all very very nice explained. What about the "The Sleeping barber problem"? lol :))

    Really, and this is no kidding, this book holds the mindset of today's Linux kernel coders. Too bad that Tanenbaum got into that flamewar with Torvalds. Maybe because Linus did his monolithic thing on minix, is what made him angry. But Andy should be proud. He just happened to be around with the best book on that subject, when Torvalds started his Linux kernel in minix. That's no coincidence.

    Robert