That story is total bullshit. The word fuck has the expected cognates in many other germanic languages, and can probably be derived from an Indo-european root that means something to do with violence.
We would destroy the opportunity to study non-Earth based life. It's not just some microbes you are talking about : it's Europan microbes, all of them, as well as any chance of non-Earthbased intelligence native to the Solar System.
You may have heard of SETI? Well, there's another project rather similar to that, except they are trying to find intelligent life on Earth. Check out their website.
Well, firstly we can't be certain there is no life there. We can spend decades looking and finding nothing, but still not be certain. For example, life might just have started.
Secondly, life might be possible on Europa, but might not have started yet. Introducing Earth-style life would probably stop native life-forms developing, and hence prevent the existence of native intelligent life on what is, for all we know, the only other habitable planet in the Universe.
I'm not too convinced by those arguments myself, but I'm not willing to discount them without further consideration : it is a more weighty matter than perhaps any other moral dilemma.
NASA are planning to send a probe, the Europa Orbiter to study Europa in 2003, it should arrive in 2007.
Europa does indeed look like the most likely spot for life in the solar system, and even if there is no native life, it's quite possible that introduced microbes could thrive there. (although the ethics of such an act are questionable).
In many ways, people now being rich, having stock in Linux companies, is less worrying than the immediately previous situation, which was that many free software hackers were being employed by companies, without having much influence. Many people expressed concern about Alan Cox being employed by Red Hat, and I dread to think what the reactions would be nowadays if Linus Torvalds starting working for a Linux firm. But with independent means, they are less likely to be influenced by money-waving managers.
I'm confused by your statement that the success of open source has little to do with software development, then you give as a reason for its success, the software development model (the Bazaar) that most open source projects use.
And they're right. There's no private property (intellectual or otherwise), and the code is, in effect, owned in common, available to all as needed (this came from WWWebster's).
This argument has some merit, but overstates the issue. The people who call opensource people communists generally aren't interested in your definition, they are using the term as an insult, or implying that opensource people do not hold with the concept of private property in general.
I have no problem with the concept of private property. However, I do think that companies shouldn't rely on government violence to enforce software copyrights, when there are other options available to them. Proprietary software companies take the easy option, and end up screwing everyone involved.
You have missed the point, totally, but that's hardly a first for you.
It is free speech, not free beer. That's the whole idea. There is nothing wrong with making money from software, the only thing that is bad is trying to make money in a bad way (i.e. proprietary software). The GPL and other free software licences were carefully written so that this type of thing is possible.
A lot of people miss the point and call it communism. This is nonsense. Opensource/freesoftware is just a way of making software in a moral way. There's nothing socialist about food safety laws or regulations against fraud.
Makes sense. The more people who read and understand the linux advocacy HOWTO, the better. There are an alarming amount of people who think that flaming is a good way to get your opinion across.
I doubt very much that jurisdiction over trademark disputes has anything to do with the locality of the registrar. This is because the registrars are all working in the same namespace.
Don't be stupid. There are only around a dozen registrars. That's not nearly enough to go round the major Western industrialised nations, let alone all the other industrialised countries. For example, note the absence of registrars based in the United Kingdom, which is the closest thing the United States actually has to a puppet within the West. (Most of the west hates the USA, and rightly so). Furthermore, the locality of registrars doesn't matter.
Also, when did Taiwan stop being a USA puppet? Last time I checked, their little rebellion from the People's Republic of China would have been stopped a long time ago, if it hadn't been for the US.
Interestingly, the original poster was using an i before e. Perhaps those who make spelling flames should think a while before parroting rules which are wrong.
There was no meltdown. The only explosion was a regular chemical, which resulted in the release of lots of radioactive stuff. However, there was no meltdown, no nuclear explosion. If there had been, the other reactors at the site wouldn't even exist!
Either it's valid, or everyone is violating copyright law due to it not being valid. All it does is allow you to do stuff you would not normally be able to do legally.
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Huh? Are you implying VB doesn't suck?
Yes, but a modular one.
Most of them.
It's an obnoxious proprietary licence which misleadingly claims to be "Community"!
That story is total bullshit. The word fuck has the expected cognates in many other germanic languages, and can probably be derived from an Indo-european root that means something to do with violence.
We would destroy the opportunity to study non-Earth based life. It's not just some microbes you are talking about : it's Europan microbes, all of them, as well as any chance of non-Earthbased intelligence native to the Solar System.
You may have heard of SETI? Well, there's another project rather similar to that, except they are trying to find intelligent life on Earth. Check out their website.
Secondly, life might be possible on Europa, but might not have started yet. Introducing Earth-style life would probably stop native life-forms developing, and hence prevent the existence of native intelligent life on what is, for all we know, the only other habitable planet in the Universe.
I'm not too convinced by those arguments myself, but I'm not willing to discount them without further consideration : it is a more weighty matter than perhaps any other moral dilemma.
Europa does indeed look like the most likely spot for life in the solar system, and even if there is no native life, it's quite possible that introduced microbes could thrive there. (although the ethics of such an act are questionable).
I'm confused by your statement that the success of open source has little to do with software development, then you give as a reason for its success, the software development model (the Bazaar) that most open source projects use.
This argument has some merit, but overstates the issue. The people who call opensource people communists generally aren't interested in your definition, they are using the term as an insult, or implying that opensource people do not hold with the concept of private property in general.
I have no problem with the concept of private property. However, I do think that companies shouldn't rely on government violence to enforce software copyrights, when there are other options available to them. Proprietary software companies take the easy option, and end up screwing everyone involved.
Copyright law was not intended for software.
Remember, copyright is enforced by violence.
It is free speech, not free beer. That's the whole idea. There is nothing wrong with making money from software, the only thing that is bad is trying to make money in a bad way (i.e. proprietary software). The GPL and other free software licences were carefully written so that this type of thing is possible.
A lot of people miss the point and call it communism. This is nonsense. Opensource/freesoftware is just a way of making software in a moral way. There's nothing socialist about food safety laws or regulations against fraud.
Makes sense. The more people who read and understand the linux advocacy HOWTO, the better. There are an alarming amount of people who think that flaming is a good way to get your opinion across.
It's easy to join XFree86, if you are really interested in doing so, and don't just want early access to buggy code.
What country are you from?
Huh? GNOME depends on X. X does not define policy.
Yes, it's a really old domain.
Also, when did Taiwan stop being a USA puppet? Last time I checked, their little rebellion from the People's Republic of China would have been stopped a long time ago, if it hadn't been for the US.
The answer is that this is the "Your Rights Online" section. All the different sections have different colours now.
Interestingly, the original poster was using an i before e. Perhaps those who make spelling flames should think a while before parroting rules which are wrong.
There was no meltdown. The only explosion was a regular chemical, which resulted in the release of lots of radioactive stuff. However, there was no meltdown, no nuclear explosion. If there had been, the other reactors at the site wouldn't even exist!
I saw a trailer for it a month or to ago (in Europe).
Either it's valid, or everyone is violating copyright law due to it not being valid. All it does is allow you to do stuff you would not normally be able to do legally.
Yes, but we aren't speeking Greek, we are speaking English. Importing plurals along with loan words is a stupid anomaly.