NASA looses the tapes of the moon landing and Mr. Van Allen passes away. If I remember correctly the Van Allen belts figure prominently in several anti-moon landing conspiracy theories.
Maybe not a tinfoil hat wearer (signifying paranoia, really) but you're a card-carrying member of the club of crazies like Erich Von Daniken, scientologists, Richard Hoagland, and creationists.
If they're crazy for thinking that the government is always lying to us, you're foolish for believing that the government never lies to us.
The government that brought us the Tuskeegee experiment, non consentual testing of psychotropic drugs or exposing retarded children to radiation is capable of damned near anything.
In general, there's NOTHING that I'm aware of in open source / free software licenses that requires that you "contribute" any changes back to the original project.
You are not required to submit anything to the original project, but if you distribute binaries you have to make available the source code. The maintainters of the original project are free to choose if they want to incorporate your changes.
If the company closes off a project like Cedega, then they got access to the original source for free and are keeping all improvements for themselves. No one is suggesting that this is illegal or evil, but it's not as good as if they made the source available.
If a company takes open source, modifies it, uses it, and redistributes it, they are following both the letter AND the spirit of open source / free software movement.
That is true if they make their modified source available too.
This is not true. The "Corporate" version of XP will ONLY install with a VLK. You can't install it with a regular XP license key. Only a VLK will permit you to complete an install.
As long as everyone's following the rules and licenses they acquired their code under, which they are, this really won't be an issue to Mac consumers.
I know that you're trolling, but for the benefit of those who don't know what we're talking about I'll explain.
The difference is that when one product was acquired under a license that allows them to make a proprietary fork of the project and not contribute back to the community and another product makes contributions back to the parent, the latter project is "better" for everyone that isn't paying money to them.
Like every other company, Apple sometimes gets a bad batch of parts. I was working at an Apple dealer and doing repairs when the Summer 2000 iMacs started popping analog/power boards like Orville Redenbacher's popcorn.
I changed so many damned boards that eventually I could disassemble one, replace the board and reassemble it in under 15 minutes.
These were not Gen 1 machines. It's just that sometimes bad parts make it through quality control. It happens to other big companies too. Big car companies sometimes have to have recalls because some of their parts turned out to not be as good as they had originally hoped. I had to have the anti-lock brakes in my truck serviced due to just such a recall.
I highly doubt that the people who "wouldn't have given a damn" about DMCA before this incident are going to draw any connections between this incident and the DMCA. In their minds, DMCA is just about kids pirating music and movies, not about the larger issues.
That sir, is the very reason why I say that this is a good thing. This gives us an excellent real world example of how bad licensing can hurt normal every-day people.
It isn't like you are downloading the data, working it, then uploading it.
I respectfully disagree. The data that you send to the server is influenced by the data that you receive. If you get killed in an online game, there is no need for you to send data that you've taken a shot.
Games aren't really streaming media. Straming infers one-way traffic. Gaming is most certainly two way. Your client needs to tell the server what it's doing and the server needs to tell your client what has happened with everything other in-game entity.
I see no indication that people will switch to vista, other than new hardware vendors preloading it. It really seems that no one is excited, or even INTERESTED in the features.
That, my friend is the devil in the details. Although I don't know anyone who is excited about getting Vista, Dell and Gateway are going to preload it onto all of their new machines. App vendors are going to start developing for Vista's features and XP support is going to fade away and the rest of us are going to be forced to upgrade.
A lot of people who otherwise wouldn't give a fuck now understand how dangerous it can be to get trapped with a bad software license.
What do you think the residents of Hoboken or the unlucky visitors that had their cars stuck are going to say to their elected representatives the next time a DMCA expansion is up for a vote in congress? People who wouldn't have given a damn before will be up in arms against it.
But thinking that Linux is the true success story and the GNU project just a less important side path is absurd. It's the GNU project that made Linux possible, not the other way around.
GNU is what made Linux possible. Linux is what made GNU successful.
They need each other. They're both necessary and important. Why quibble over which one is more necessary and important?
The FSF intends to use the GPL as a means to prevent people from doing certain "bad" things with free software. I get that and I support the idea. Linus seems to have chosen the GPL for practical reasons. He didn't want the code that he and so many others poured their hearts and souls into to be stolen and closed like the Cedega situation.
I suspect that Linus just wants to make his software while the FSF wants to change the world.
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NASA looses the tapes of the moon landing and Mr. Van Allen passes away. If I remember correctly the Van Allen belts figure prominently in several anti-moon landing conspiracy theories.
Gentlemen, let the speculation begin!
LK
He has no credibility for lying about having a girlfriend in 2005.
You seem to be quite hostile, is that you Dante?
LK
I'm saddened to think of how few of my fellow Americans know about the werwolf "terrorists" in post-war Germany.
LK
Peak Oil and Gas Prices (This one needs the most attention right now.)
Supply & Demand.
Extraterrestrial Life (SETI needs your help BTW! The government is cutting their funding again.)
Why pay money to find something that they know exists?
The Kenedey Assassination
He was shot.
Where's Jimmy Hoffa?
Dead.
Protecting the Earth from ourselves. (Bibles and Bombs do not mix!)
Apparently neither do Torahs, Talmuds, Vedas and Qur'ans.
LK
Maybe not a tinfoil hat wearer (signifying paranoia, really) but you're a card-carrying member of the club of crazies like Erich Von Daniken, scientologists, Richard Hoagland, and creationists.
If they're crazy for thinking that the government is always lying to us, you're foolish for believing that the government never lies to us.
The government that brought us the Tuskeegee experiment, non consentual testing of psychotropic drugs or exposing retarded children to radiation is capable of damned near anything.
LK
See the problem in your reasoning yet?
It's about credibility. He has none.
That's such an obvious, exaggerated lie. People that post on slashdot don't have girlfriends!
Especially this guy.
I realize that it's kind of childish, but it still makes me laugh when I think about busting him.
LK
In general, there's NOTHING that I'm aware of in open source / free software licenses that requires that you "contribute" any changes back to the original project.
You are not required to submit anything to the original project, but if you distribute binaries you have to make available the source code. The maintainters of the original project are free to choose if they want to incorporate your changes.
If the company closes off a project like Cedega, then they got access to the original source for free and are keeping all improvements for themselves. No one is suggesting that this is illegal or evil, but it's not as good as if they made the source available.
If a company takes open source, modifies it, uses it, and redistributes it, they are following both the letter AND the spirit of open source / free software movement.
That is true if they make their modified source available too.
LK
This is not true. The "Corporate" version of XP will ONLY install with a VLK. You can't install it with a regular XP license key. Only a VLK will permit you to complete an install.
LK
As long as everyone's following the rules and licenses they acquired their code under, which they are, this really won't be an issue to Mac consumers.
I know that you're trolling, but for the benefit of those who don't know what we're talking about I'll explain.
The difference is that when one product was acquired under a license that allows them to make a proprietary fork of the project and not contribute back to the community and another product makes contributions back to the parent, the latter project is "better" for everyone that isn't paying money to them.
LK
Like every other company, Apple sometimes gets a bad batch of parts. I was working at an Apple dealer and doing repairs when the Summer 2000 iMacs started popping analog/power boards like Orville Redenbacher's popcorn.
I changed so many damned boards that eventually I could disassemble one, replace the board and reassemble it in under 15 minutes.
These were not Gen 1 machines. It's just that sometimes bad parts make it through quality control. It happens to other big companies too. Big car companies sometimes have to have recalls because some of their parts turned out to not be as good as they had originally hoped. I had to have the anti-lock brakes in my truck serviced due to just such a recall.
LK
I only wear gold earrings.
LK
I highly doubt that the people who "wouldn't have given a damn" about DMCA before this incident are going to draw any connections between this incident and the DMCA. In their minds, DMCA is just about kids pirating music and movies, not about the larger issues.
That sir, is the very reason why I say that this is a good thing. This gives us an excellent real world example of how bad licensing can hurt normal every-day people.
LK
It isn't like you are downloading the data, working it, then uploading it.
I respectfully disagree. The data that you send to the server is influenced by the data that you receive. If you get killed in an online game, there is no need for you to send data that you've taken a shot.
LK
Games aren't really streaming media. Straming infers one-way traffic. Gaming is most certainly two way. Your client needs to tell the server what it's doing and the server needs to tell your client what has happened with everything other in-game entity.
LK
Actually, douche is also a French medical term for the action of introducing water in an orifice for hygienic reasons
I'd imagine that that eye-wash stations are known to the french as "douche d'oeil", but the meaning of douche remains unchanged. "Shower".
LK
I see no indication that people will switch to vista, other than new hardware vendors preloading it. It really seems that no one is excited, or even INTERESTED in the features.
That, my friend is the devil in the details. Although I don't know anyone who is excited about getting Vista, Dell and Gateway are going to preload it onto all of their new machines. App vendors are going to start developing for Vista's features and XP support is going to fade away and the rest of us are going to be forced to upgrade.
LK
A lot of people who otherwise wouldn't give a fuck now understand how dangerous it can be to get trapped with a bad software license.
What do you think the residents of Hoboken or the unlucky visitors that had their cars stuck are going to say to their elected representatives the next time a DMCA expansion is up for a vote in congress? People who wouldn't have given a damn before will be up in arms against it.
LK
If I see President GW at a 50 cent concert I'll vote him for a 3rd term.
I'd vote for him again if he could run. Then I'd go to a 50 Cent concert.
LK
Douche is the French word for "shower", if you want to insult someone it should be douche bag or douchebag.
LK
But thinking that Linux is the true success story and the GNU project just a less important side path is absurd. It's the GNU project that made Linux possible, not the other way around.
GNU is what made Linux possible. Linux is what made GNU successful.
They need each other. They're both necessary and important. Why quibble over which one is more necessary and important?
LK
The FSF intends to use the GPL as a means to prevent people from doing certain "bad" things with free software. I get that and I support the idea. Linus seems to have chosen the GPL for practical reasons. He didn't want the code that he and so many others poured their hearts and souls into to be stolen and closed like the Cedega situation.
I suspect that Linus just wants to make his software while the FSF wants to change the world.
LK
What's wrong with reading bathroom stalls? You can find some great poems and limericks.
Here I sit, broken hearted. Came to poop and only farted.
LK
Some political groups still leave messages, but those are trivially deleted.
The next time you feel like bitching about politicians not giving a damn about what's important to you, don't.
They're trying to find out but you won't let them.
LK
So, you're a pompous dick?
How does that fix the problem?
LK