I read the original license and it was wrong. I followed the comments coming out of Corel indicating their preference was to keep the license unchanged -- in violation of the GPL.
The community acted in a mostly rational fashion, there were some hotheads, but most people remained sane. I thinks it's safe to say the reaction of the community was appropriate and that Corel's response was as well.
Cool, mission accomplished.
Bottom line: the GPL must protected from both the the malicious and the clueless.
MediaOne ain't great, but the cable modem is so much better than a regular dial-up that I put up with 'em. I just can't imagine that things will get better for me as a Linux user, if Uncle Bill owns my data line.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm pulling for AT&T.
Actually the RH 5.2 install won't grab everything, just any unallocated space or existing linux partitions. I just did it last week. I used Partition Magic to shrink my Win98 partition and let RH grab the rest by doing a Workstation install.
I am thinking that most end-user types don't really need to install the OS. What needs to be easier is application installs. My wife installs software on her PC with those wizard based installers, but I don't think she's going anywhere near an RPM. World domination means that non-geeks can use it too.
As far as I know the Renaissance was financed by wealthy individuals who commissioned works by the artists. The difference here is that the works were not easily distributed, that is, you only got one Mona Lisa. Under this model, there would only be one copy of Quicken and it would cost $14,000,000.00.
We need to find a way to reward people for creating, without granting them ownership of the idea. We need to allow people to stand on the shoulders of others and have a way to compensate them for trying.
The digital things that we are now creating, including software, books, music and movies, are not the same as the physical products of the industrial age, just as the mass produced products of that age were different than the one-off, hand crafted things that came before them. The difference this time around is greater, as are the ramifications. This is too big, the record companies and the Microsoft's will likely get run over as the new rules start establishing themselves. I don't know what those rules are, I am also sure that we don't get to create them. I'll point to Wall Street on this one, the markets are driven by these same forces, and nobody has ever gotten a handle that.
If software is going to be free, we need to find another way to eat, which isn't likely. There has to be a way of assigning value to things that can be easily copied, such as software, music, and yes, books, that don't lead to monopolies controlling the flow of information. None of this stuff is free in terms of production cost, but that does not imply that there needs to a per copy fee. I don't have the answer here -- I just know that we've got this question that noboby has answered yet.
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This is a nice, somewhat useful, and *limited* metaphor.
Ideas do not evolve on their own, we evolve them. They don't reproduce - that would be us again.
I read the original license and it was wrong. I followed the comments coming out of Corel indicating their preference was to keep the license unchanged -- in violation of the GPL.
The community acted in a mostly rational fashion, there were some hotheads, but most people remained sane. I thinks it's safe to say the reaction of the community was appropriate and that Corel's response was as well.
Cool, mission accomplished.
Bottom line: the GPL must protected from both the the malicious and the clueless.
MediaOne ain't great, but the cable modem is so much better than a regular dial-up that I put up with 'em. I just can't imagine that things will get better for me as a Linux user, if Uncle Bill owns my data line.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm pulling for AT&T.
I had breakfast after a Rush concert once that rang up to 21.12
I am asking because:
I await enlightenment..
Actually the RH 5.2 install won't grab everything, just any unallocated space or existing linux partitions. I just did it last week. I used Partition Magic to shrink my Win98 partition and let RH grab the rest by doing a Workstation install.
I am thinking that most end-user types don't really need to install the OS. What needs to be easier is application installs. My wife installs software on her PC with those wizard based installers, but I don't think she's going anywhere near an RPM. World domination means that non-geeks can use it too.
As far as I know the Renaissance was financed by wealthy individuals who commissioned works by the artists. The difference here is that the works were not easily distributed, that is, you only got one Mona Lisa. Under this model, there would only be one copy of Quicken and it would cost $14,000,000.00.
We need to find a way to reward people for creating, without granting them ownership of the idea. We need to allow people to stand on the shoulders of others and have a way to compensate them for trying.
The digital things that we are now creating, including software, books, music and movies, are not the same as the physical products of the industrial age, just as the mass produced products of that age were different than the one-off, hand crafted things that came before them. The difference this time around is greater, as are the ramifications. This is too big, the record companies and the Microsoft's will likely get run over as the new rules start establishing themselves. I don't know what those rules are, I am also sure that we don't get to create them. I'll point to Wall Street on this one, the markets are driven by these same forces, and nobody has ever gotten a handle that.
If software is going to be free, we need to find another way to eat, which isn't likely. There has to be a way of assigning value to things that can be easily copied, such as software, music, and yes, books, that don't lead to monopolies controlling the flow of information. None of this stuff is free in terms of production cost, but that does not imply that there needs to a per copy fee. I don't have the answer here -- I just know that we've got this question that noboby has answered yet.