It is offically unimportant to people how bad or crappy a program is as long as it's GPL'd..
Exactly. You have just stated the GNU Manifesto For Dummies (tm). That's because if you don't like the way a GPL'ed program works, you can fix it. And even if you can't, somebody else will conceivably get so pissed off with it that they fix it and let you piggyback. Not so with closed source.
Some other company who realizes that their product is dead and decides to GPL it, would they get big time headlines?
That would depend on the relevance of the product, or rather the nature of the product. A fairly full-featured office suite being GPL'ed is certainly news. YAArkanoidClone probably isn't.
One last thing, is the GPL really considered to be the free-est license around? I am not expert or even that informed, but I was understand that the BSD license took that title??
Both place restrictions on the way the source can be used after opening; that's why they're licenses, after all. The GPL allows the original author to say, "Take this stuff, play around with it, but remember to share afterwards". Since the resulting changes are therefore available to all, the GPL is more free in an utilitarian sense.
as far as browsers go, though, Mozilla is one of the less bloated.
With regard to harddisk footprint, you are of course correct. However, Mozilla is a terrible resource hog - having the entire UI rendered via Javascript adds tremendous overhead, both CPU and memory. This may be a moot point with a Real Computer(tm), but i sure feel the difference on my 233.
Disagree. The magazine thingie mentioned in the parent post is exactly how I got started on Linux, except that it was a German magazine (CHIP) and a Debian 1.3 CD. And I was pretty damn clueless to begin with, but I managed.
Strange as it may seem, the post-it on the monitor can make sense in an environment where
users have separate offices instead of cubicles, and
users are not technically savvy enough to grasp the necessity of remembering their password.
This means every.gov installation I have ever had the misfortune to administer. You want these people to have reasonably secure passwords, but you'd have to be a fool if you trusted their mental acuity. So you trade off between security and user convenience. If there is a breach it has to be an inside job ( in which case there is fuck all an admin can do) or an outsider got close enough to one of your machines to read something written on the screen ( in which case your installation security team is in for some serious LARTing). Either way, the post-it is your least worry.
I suspect that that was just a case of the copyeditor falling asleep at the wheel. Check the Hacking: Two Views and Hacking Primer links in the same article to have your cynicism duly reinstated.
The WIPO's FAQ about ICANN and domain name arbitration can be found here. Do a search on 'ICANN'. Sorry for not including the final link, but they use frames.
>It's like an onion in a bushel of apples. >Someone might notice that it looks and tastes >different, but peel away its layers, and there's >nothing there.
YOU have a tin ear for metaphors? Cluelessness aside, where did this 'journalist' learn to write? Were the editors asleep? Furrfu.
The ZDNet article implies that techerreview.com's operator is not responsible for the opinions posted on his site due to the CDA. Did I miss something there? I thought the CDA got repealed in '96 or '97.
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It is offically unimportant to people how bad or crappy a program is as long as it's GPL'd..
Exactly. You have just stated the GNU Manifesto For Dummies (tm). That's because if you don't like the way a GPL'ed program works, you can fix it. And even if you can't, somebody else will conceivably get so pissed off with it that they fix it and let you piggyback. Not so with closed source.
Some other company who realizes that their product is dead and decides to GPL it, would they get big time headlines?
That would depend on the relevance of the product, or rather the nature of the product. A fairly full-featured office suite being GPL'ed is certainly news. YAArkanoidClone probably isn't.
One last thing, is the GPL really considered to be the free-est license around? I am not expert or even that informed, but I was understand that the BSD license took that title??
Both place restrictions on the way the source can be used after opening; that's why they're licenses, after all. The GPL allows the original author to say, "Take this stuff, play around with it, but remember to share afterwards". Since the resulting changes are therefore available to all, the GPL is more free in an utilitarian sense.
as far as browsers go, though, Mozilla is one of the less bloated.
With regard to harddisk footprint, you are of course correct. However, Mozilla is a terrible resource hog - having the entire UI rendered via Javascript adds tremendous overhead, both CPU and memory. This may be a moot point with a Real Computer(tm), but i sure feel the difference on my 233.
Disagree. The magazine thingie mentioned in the parent post is exactly how I got started on Linux, except that it was a German magazine (CHIP) and a Debian 1.3 CD. And I was pretty damn clueless to begin with, but I managed.
Perhaps *now* the French can be bothered to allow some decent crypto.
A possible solution would be to stick the web bug warning in Mozilla's sidebar (The only legit use I can think of for that thing, in fact). --
- users have separate offices instead of cubicles, and
- users are not technically savvy enough to grasp the necessity of remembering their password.
This means everyI suspect that that was just a case of the copyeditor falling asleep at the wheel.
Check the Hacking: Two Views and Hacking Primer links in the same article to have your cynicism duly reinstated.
The WIPO's FAQ about ICANN and domain name arbitration can be found here.
Do a search on 'ICANN'. Sorry for not including the final link, but they use frames.
>It's like an onion in a bushel of apples.
>Someone might notice that it looks and tastes
>different, but peel away its layers, and there's
>nothing there.
YOU have a tin ear for metaphors? Cluelessness aside, where did this 'journalist' learn to write? Were the editors asleep? Furrfu.
The ZDNet article implies that techerreview.com's operator is not responsible for the opinions posted on his site due to the CDA. Did I miss something there? I thought the CDA got repealed in '96 or '97.
Of course you'd have to invent a time machine as well to jump back to the year 1991 when the USSR still existed.
Should have looked harder before shooting my mouth off. The Internet Movie Project
Actually, the Internet Movie Project wants to do just that (with POV-Ray, I think). I'd post a link, but the site is apparently down. Sorry.