You don't know much about the GPL, do you? You were almost right about one thing: "nobody can take the code private." Only the copyright holder has the right to change the license. Anyone else, however, can make changes to the software, not provide those changes back to the copyright holder AND make money by selling GPL software. Any modifications you make to the software are also licensed under the GPL and you are not required to share the source code with anyone except the people that use your modifications. If you sell object code (binaries) of the software to customers, you are required to provide the source code to your customers upon request. The price you charge for the software is only limited by what your customers are willing to pay and you can't charge anything more for the source code.
The article is about Linus' Thursday talk on the Geek Cruise. Cnet decided to pick "Torvalds: Next Linux due by June" as their headline so that the story would be picked up by other web sites. It worked.
It'd be ridiculous for the headline to list all the points in the talk. He griped about OS X as well as IA-64. It's what he wanted to talk about and nothing more.
Frozen dinners giving cooking instructions to microwave ovens
Have you ever read the directions for microwave oven food preparation? You're usually given a range of time to cook the food and then a disclaimer telling you that microwave oven cooking times may vary. This is because ovens have different amount of power. A frozen dinner would tell the oven exactly how much energy it needs to be cooked properly and the oven would adjust its power accordingly.
The wine lover seeing what's in her wine cellar
It's very easy to walk down to the cellar and look at all the bottles of wine you have. I don't disagree with you there but a person who keeps 2 or 3 cases of wine in the cellar wouldn't use RFIDs. A wine collector with several hundred bottles of wine of different vintages, from different wineries would benefit from RFIDs immensely. A visual inspection of all the bottles might miss the one you actually want. Besides, taking the bottles out of their racks gives a person a chance to drop it. If you've ever watched Northern Exposure you know the kind of collector that would benefit from this scenario.
Prescription drug bottles warning the consumer of contraindications
At this point you're depending on the knowledge of one person. No matter how skilled a doctor is, there is no way she can know every lethal combination of prescribed medications. Doctors know the interactions of certain drugs, typically the ones they most commonly prescribe. Once you're prescribed a medication that isn't very common, you're putting your trust in the doctor's ability to look up the information properly in the reference books she has available. While this works most of the time, there are instances when it doesn't. RFIDs in prescription drugs wouldn't be used to replace the doctor but to augment her ability to give you the correct information about the medications you're about to ingest.
You can use the rpm db to install and uninstall perl modules. The rpm-build package includes a perl script that takes a tar.gz module from cpan and converts it into a src.rpm which you can rebuild into a package for your architecture.
The instructions and an example can be found by searching the
linux section at google. I've used cpanflute to make rpms for Apache-ASP, MLDBM, and MLDBM-Sync
It was written by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner. This book definitely covers the social engineering aspect of phreakers and hackers very well. There's lots of information on Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, the January 1990 AT&T crash, Legion of Doom, and of course Masters of Deception.
I just looked it up on amazon.com and it looks like it's been renamed.
It's got nothing to do with any American corporations. Ylonen's company is 'SSH Communications of Finland'.
The fact is that only after several years of use by the public-at-large is he trying to defend his trademark. It's too late and the IETF made the right decision. Whether it's overturned by the courts remains to be seen.
Remember it was a story by 'CNN Fortune'. The typical viewer probably got as much information about the free aspect as they wanted to hear (it costs nothing and you can make money from it)
>In a way, Bob Young hopes to be the guy in the garage. His weapon is a software program called Linux, which many computer developers claim is better and more powerful than Microsoft Windows. And believe it or not,
it's free.
>(on camera): How do you make money doing that?
>YOUNG: That's a $64 question. It's one of the innovations that Red Hat has been credited with.
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You don't know much about the GPL, do you? You were almost right about one thing: "nobody can take the code private." Only the copyright holder has the right to change the license. Anyone else, however, can make changes to the software, not provide those changes back to the copyright holder AND make money by selling GPL software. Any modifications you make to the software are also licensed under the GPL and you are not required to share the source code with anyone except the people that use your modifications. If you sell object code (binaries) of the software to customers, you are required to provide the source code to your customers upon request. The price you charge for the software is only limited by what your customers are willing to pay and you can't charge anything more for the source code.
It's not difficult. Reading the GNU project's philosophy on selling GPL software might help you better understand how it works. Looking up "selling GPL software" on Google is also an option.
Click on the 'preferences' link on the left and change your date display to one that includes the year.
There's a possibility that the other product is superior. The product could also be equal to Linux.
The article is about Linus' Thursday talk on the Geek Cruise. Cnet decided to pick "Torvalds: Next Linux due by June" as their headline so that the story would be picked up by other web sites. It worked.
It'd be ridiculous for the headline to list all the points in the talk. He griped about OS X as well as IA-64. It's what he wanted to talk about and nothing more.
Have you ever read the directions for microwave oven food preparation? You're usually given a range of time to cook the food and then a disclaimer telling you that microwave oven cooking times may vary. This is because ovens have different amount of power. A frozen dinner would tell the oven exactly how much energy it needs to be cooked properly and the oven would adjust its power accordingly.
It's very easy to walk down to the cellar and look at all the bottles of wine you have. I don't disagree with you there but a person who keeps 2 or 3 cases of wine in the cellar wouldn't use RFIDs. A wine collector with several hundred bottles of wine of different vintages, from different wineries would benefit from RFIDs immensely. A visual inspection of all the bottles might miss the one you actually want. Besides, taking the bottles out of their racks gives a person a chance to drop it. If you've ever watched Northern Exposure you know the kind of collector that would benefit from this scenario.
At this point you're depending on the knowledge of one person. No matter how skilled a doctor is, there is no way she can know every lethal combination of prescribed medications. Doctors know the interactions of certain drugs, typically the ones they most commonly prescribe. Once you're prescribed a medication that isn't very common, you're putting your trust in the doctor's ability to look up the information properly in the reference books she has available. While this works most of the time, there are instances when it doesn't. RFIDs in prescription drugs wouldn't be used to replace the doctor but to augment her ability to give you the correct information about the medications you're about to ingest.
You can use the rpm db to install and uninstall perl modules. The rpm-build package includes a perl script that takes a tar.gz module from cpan and converts it into a src.rpm which you can rebuild into a package for your architecture.
The instructions and an example can be found by searching the linux section at google. I've used cpanflute to make rpms for Apache-ASP, MLDBM, and MLDBM-Sync
They use this date because it's the end of the federal government's fiscal year.
It was written by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner. This book definitely covers the social engineering aspect of phreakers and hackers very well. There's lots of information on Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, the January 1990 AT&T crash, Legion of Doom, and of course Masters of Deception.
I just looked it up on amazon.com and it looks like it's been renamed.
Now it's called 'Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace'
It's got nothing to do with any American corporations. Ylonen's company is 'SSH Communications of Finland'.
The fact is that only after several years of use by the public-at-large is he trying to defend his trademark. It's too late and the IETF made the right decision. Whether it's overturned by the courts remains to be seen.
Hey Rob. The posting reads:
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> to a sweet little article on Douglas Engelbart, best knows as being the who invented that mouse
Shouldn't that be 'the _person_ who invented that invented'?