I think I can answer that at least partly: They only search for prior art in their own patent database. This is just one of the flaws with software patents. Software is different from most of the other stuff that you can patent. The fact that software is immaterial and that you therefore can share it at zero cost, makes a big difference. The internet has made a big difference - how can they possibly search for prior art in all the open source software that exists and gets created each day?! None or only very few of the open source developers can afford to apply for a patent.
Thanks Bruce Perens and the other guys at HP
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HP Backs Off DMCA Threat
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Quote: "At the high point there was an e-mail to (HP CEO Carly Fiorina) every 90 seconds."
It looks like there are quite a lot of HP workers that knows what a bad thing the DMCA is. Thanks for reacting!
Quote: === Cut === That is, you may have a single client, but you've still got multiple AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! accounts. Maybe even a jabber account (and that one isn't even universal -- it's based on wherever your account's server).
What is needed is, essentially, SMTP for IM. A way to embed a service name/address into the message traffic. So that, for example, a user "harry.truman" on MSN could send, using MSN, an IM to "aim:dcooper", and have it go through. A little quiet reflection should convince you that this is a server-side problem, and one the current services haven't addressed. (I'll leave the question of why, be it technical, political, or economic reasons, to others). === Cut ===
Huh? Isn't that exactly what jabber do? There are several jabber servers on the net and you can run your own if you like. It works very much like email and your address looks like an emailaddress. You don't have to be on the same jabber server to talk to each other.
They have a really nice and stable client and it is available for a lot of platforms. They are working on adding support for even more platforms - among them, support for the PS/2 Linux kit:)
In regards to performance, the Linux ICC client is a bit faster than the Windows client. This is also one of the few projects where the Intel P4 is actually doing pretty well (In the GIMPS project, the P4 is much faster than any Athlons). For most project, the Athlon is the best choice, in this project, the Athlon doesn't have any big advantage.
UnitedLinux is the base distro. Suse, Caldera, etc. are going to be *basing* their distro on that. They are not going to release a UnitedLinux distro. They will release a distro, "Powered by UnitedLinux. Each company can decide their licensing terms themselves.
If Caldera wants to put some extra propritary software in their distro and use per seat licensing, then they are free to do that. Suse has just said that they will not be doing that.
UnitedLinux is IMHO a good thing! They are using and selling free software - they aren't breaking any licenses or anything like that. They are *the good guys* trying to earn a bit of money to stay in business. Is that such a bad thing?
I just don't get it I guess, it just seems like there are already so many standards.
What are you talking about?!
This will be the base and it will be LSB and Li18nux Compliant. Where do you get the "more standards" from? This will actually remove 3 and possibly more "standards"!
Instead of having to support Suse, TurboLinux, Caldera, Connectiva and possibly others, you'll now only have to support UnitedLinux. Basically, they have decided to work together in a number of areas to lower the development and distribution costs for both themselves and for others. When the next version of KDE arrives, they only need to make one set of binaries for people to download - not four or more!
I think this is great!
Re:So what happens to the distributions?
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United Linux is Here
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· Score: 5, Informative
If you actually took the time to check the website before asking the question, that is actually explained there:
Next Steps
* Each UnitedLinux partner continues to sell Linux
under its familiar Linux brand and product, "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Caldera OpenLinux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Conectiva Linux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Server "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Turbolinux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* One core development team benefiting several
partners
* Other Linux companies invited to join
Furthermore:
Competition
How will Linux companies in UnitedLinux still compete?
Pricing: Each company will set its own product pricing
Channels: Retail stores, reseller channels, direct, etc.
Support: Each company runs its own support team
Education: Independent training and certification
Professional Services: Custom implementations
Applications: Management, administration, messaging, etc.
OEM: Industry partners still choose products to bundle
This all assumes that the terrorists will not try to fool the system. If a face recognition system was implemented at a given place, don't you think the terrorist would try to fool that system in some way with some kind of "fake faces"?
I assume that fingerprint readers should be much easier to make than this technology, correct? The fact is that those can be *very easily* fooled too! Read the latest Crypto-Gram newsletter for a story about how easy it really actually is - it's so easy it's almost scary.
The Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, which apparently got that story isn't exactly the most "respected" (sorry, english isn't my primary language) newspaper in Denmark. Actually it's quite the opposite - it's one of the least frivolous papers in Denmark and I generally don't take much of their writings too seriously.
Probably because StarOffice was made in Germany first and in Europe (well at least here in Denmark where I live), we use A4 as the standard document format. I have no idea what size the US Letter format is...just because you Americans use all sorts of wierd formats doesn't mean that the rest of the world have to use them;):p
In regards to Distributed Folding client, the client will never update itself or anything in that regard, without first asking you.
Well, the master program is, AFAIK, supposed to be able to handle many different clients, making it easy to start and stop them, etc.
The primary reason for creating it is that a lot of people are involved in a several projects and wants to be able to switch between them easily.
IIRC it isn't possible to comment on an article after a certain amount of time, so I can't promise I'll post here, I would instead recommend following the Ars Technica Distributed Computing Arcana, it will probably be announced there if he succeds.
It is possible to run more than one client on on PC at the same time. What would you like to do?
As an example, you can easily run the Distributed Folding client, the F@H client, the Distributed.net client and others together. In fact a lot of people in the DC community run 2 clients, a primary client and a secondary client as backup if the primary client for some reason fails.
It is possible to set the priority of a lot of the clients with ex. a commandline switch or something or in a configuration file. If you want to support two projects, it's a matter of tweaking the priority to make each client get ~50% CPU time. You would help more if you bought another box and put a client on each, though;)
Regarding the "master program" - I know a person who is in fact working on exactly such a piece of software. Some of the clients already kinda have that feature - the Distribute.Net client have 2 projects running, the UD client also have had 2 projects running and I know that Stanford are working on a client that combines F@H and G@H.
In regards to fighting cancer, I believe you are thinking about UD. I personally don't like the way that project is managed. When you install the client, you give them the right to automatically update the client whenever they choose to do so and unless you configure it to do differently, it will also work on other projects besides the cancer project. That is why I currently prefer the Distributed Folding Project - it's a great project (good medical science) and they care a lot about users privacy and security.
A similar project is the Distributed Folding Project. It is great science too (similar to the F@H project) and it has clients for many more platforms than the F@H project.
Furthermore, the client make great color ascii graphics - you can't beat that:D
Great stats can be found on the Ars Technica Team Prime Rib website!
They have excellent stats and a lot of information about the project. It is managed by a very cool bunch of people.
Yes, be sure to run the command line client - it is much faster. Other tips, stats and stuff can be found on the #1 Seti team: Team Ars Technica Lamp Chop (TLC).
All you Americans should join TLC *now* unless you want Seti Germany to overtake the top spot in Seti!
Saying that somebody sucks because they prefer Seti instead of F@H is lame IMHO. Far from everyone can run the F@H client simply because of their configuration. The F@H client more or less needs an "always on" internet connection, you can run it on a modem connection, but I personally wouldn't. In that case I would be run a different project, maybe the G@H project (the sister project to F@H), more info can be found on the Team Primordial Soup website.
It also depends on what kind of OS you are using. The F@H project has clients for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Yes, that is what most people uses, but it still leaves out a lot of people. Another project, similar to the F@H project is the Distributed Folding Project. It has clients for a lot of platforms and the science is good. You can find more info and a lot of links on the Ars Technica Team Stir Fry website which is the team I'm crunching for.
I personally prefer projects like F@H and Distributed Folding because they potentially could lead to the discovery of new drugs for cancer and other terrible diseases which we currently have no cure for.
As written in another post, the results of their science is going to be made available for free. If I knew that a single huge and rich medical company was the only ones that was going to benefit from the project, I would never have been running their client. They can buy themselves an expensive supercomputer to do their research then. That is fortunately not the case here, however, but if I'm doing something for free, then I want the possible benefits from the results to be available for free also. I'm doing this to help science and that should be available to everyone.
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I think I can answer that at least partly: They only search for prior art in their own patent database. This is just one of the flaws with software patents. Software is different from most of the other stuff that you can patent. The fact that software is immaterial and that you therefore can share it at zero cost, makes a big difference. The internet has made a big difference - how can they possibly search for prior art in all the open source software that exists and gets created each day?! None or only very few of the open source developers can afford to apply for a patent.
Quote: "At the high point there was an e-mail to (HP CEO Carly Fiorina) every 90 seconds."
It looks like there are quite a lot of HP workers that knows what a bad thing the DMCA is. Thanks for reacting!
Norwegian? Linus was born in Finland and speaks Swedish, AFAIK.
Quote:
=== Cut ===
That is, you may have a single client, but you've still got multiple AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! accounts. Maybe even a jabber account (and that one isn't even universal -- it's based on wherever your account's server).
What is needed is, essentially, SMTP for IM. A way to embed a service name/address into the message traffic. So that, for example, a user "harry.truman" on MSN could send, using MSN, an IM to "aim:dcooper", and have it go through. A little quiet reflection should convince you that this is a server-side problem, and one the current services haven't addressed. (I'll leave the question of why, be it technical, political, or economic reasons, to others).
=== Cut ===
Huh? Isn't that exactly what jabber do? There are several jabber servers on the net and you can run your own if you like. It works very much like email and your address looks like an emailaddress. You don't have to be on the same jabber server to talk to each other.
The haven't made a story about the ruling yet, but they have written 3 articles about the story: http://search.wired.com/news/default.asp?query=new sbooster
I'll be visiting USA in about a week - it would be nice if you could make the switch before then :p :D
I can answer that partly: A Java Runtime and Acrobat Reader will be in UL.
Personally I prefer medical/science projects like the Distributed Folding Project.
They have a really nice and stable client and it is available for a lot of platforms. They are working on adding support for even more platforms - among them, support for the PS/2 Linux kit :)
In regards to performance, the Linux ICC client is a bit faster than the Windows client. This is also one of the few projects where the Intel P4 is actually doing pretty well (In the GIMPS project, the P4 is much faster than any Athlons). For most project, the Athlon is the best choice, in this project, the Athlon doesn't have any big advantage.
UnitedLinux is the base distro. Suse, Caldera, etc. are going to be *basing* their distro on that. They are not going to release a UnitedLinux distro. They will release a distro, "Powered by UnitedLinux. Each company can decide their licensing terms themselves.
If Caldera wants to put some extra propritary software in their distro and use per seat licensing, then they are free to do that. Suse has just said that they will not be doing that.
UnitedLinux is IMHO a good thing! They are using and selling free software - they aren't breaking any licenses or anything like that. They are *the good guys* trying to earn a bit of money to stay in business. Is that such a bad thing?
I just don't get it I guess, it just seems like there are already so many standards.
What are you talking about?!
This will be the base and it will be LSB and Li18nux Compliant. Where do you get the "more standards" from? This will actually remove 3 and possibly more "standards"!
Instead of having to support Suse, TurboLinux, Caldera, Connectiva and possibly others, you'll now only have to support UnitedLinux. Basically, they have decided to work together in a number of areas to lower the development and distribution costs for both themselves and for others. When the next version of KDE arrives, they only need to make one set of binaries for people to download - not four or more!
I think this is great!
If you actually took the time to check the website before asking the question, that is actually explained there:
Next Steps
* Each UnitedLinux partner continues to sell Linux under its familiar Linux brand and product, "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Caldera OpenLinux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Conectiva Linux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Server "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* Turbolinux "Powered by UnitedLinux"
* One core development team benefiting several partners * Other Linux companies invited to join
Furthermore:
Competition
How will Linux companies in UnitedLinux still compete?
Pricing: Each company will set its own product pricing
Channels: Retail stores, reseller channels, direct, etc.
Support: Each company runs its own support team
Education: Independent training and certification
Professional Services: Custom implementations
Applications: Management, administration, messaging, etc.
OEM: Industry partners still choose products to bundle
This all assumes that the terrorists will not try to fool the system. If a face recognition system was implemented at a given place, don't you think the terrorist would try to fool that system in some way with some kind of "fake faces"?
I assume that fingerprint readers should be much easier to make than this technology, correct? The fact is that those can be *very easily* fooled too! Read the latest Crypto-Gram newsletter for a story about how easy it really actually is - it's so easy it's almost scary.
How easy will it not be to fool this then?
Ups...I think I made a mistake in my post above :(
I wrote "least frivolous" - I meant to say that it is one of the *most* frivolous.
The Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, which apparently got that story isn't exactly the most "respected" (sorry, english isn't my primary language) newspaper in Denmark. Actually it's quite the opposite - it's one of the least frivolous papers in Denmark and I generally don't take much of their writings too seriously.
Yearh, I know :(
A G450 will be fine for my needs - I seldom play games that needs great 3D performance.
I'll be buying one instantly! Otherwise I think I'll buy G450 instead.
I'll not buy a card that needs active cooling - my PC is noisy enough already, even though it is pretty quiet - I want my PC to be totally quiet!
If I only knew what a inch was :)
Probably because StarOffice was made in Germany first and in Europe (well at least here in Denmark where I live), we use A4 as the standard document format. I have no idea what size the US Letter format is...just because you Americans use all sorts of wierd formats doesn't mean that the rest of the world have to use them ;) :p
In regards to Distributed Folding client, the client will never update itself or anything in that regard, without first asking you.
Well, the master program is, AFAIK, supposed to be able to handle many different clients, making it easy to start and stop them, etc.
The primary reason for creating it is that a lot of people are involved in a several projects and wants to be able to switch between them easily.
IIRC it isn't possible to comment on an article after a certain amount of time, so I can't promise I'll post here, I would instead recommend following the Ars Technica Distributed Computing Arcana, it will probably be announced there if he succeds.
It is possible to run more than one client on on PC at the same time. What would you like to do?
As an example, you can easily run the Distributed Folding client, the F@H client, the Distributed.net client and others together. In fact a lot of people in the DC community run 2 clients, a primary client and a secondary client as backup if the primary client for some reason fails.
It is possible to set the priority of a lot of the clients with ex. a commandline switch or something or in a configuration file. If you want to support two projects, it's a matter of tweaking the priority to make each client get ~50% CPU time. You would help more if you bought another box and put a client on each, though ;)
Regarding the "master program" - I know a person who is in fact working on exactly such a piece of software. Some of the clients already kinda have that feature - the Distribute.Net client have 2 projects running, the UD client also have had 2 projects running and I know that Stanford are working on a client that combines F@H and G@H.
In regards to fighting cancer, I believe you are thinking about UD. I personally don't like the way that project is managed. When you install the client, you give them the right to automatically update the client whenever they choose to do so and unless you configure it to do differently, it will also work on other projects besides the cancer project. That is why I currently prefer the Distributed Folding Project - it's a great project (good medical science) and they care a lot about users privacy and security.
A similar project is the Distributed Folding Project. It is great science too (similar to the F@H project) and it has clients for many more platforms than the F@H project.
Furthermore, the client make great color ascii graphics - you can't beat that :D
Great stats can be found on the Ars Technica Team Prime Rib website!
They have excellent stats and a lot of information about the project. It is managed by a very cool bunch of people.
Yes, be sure to run the command line client - it is much faster. Other tips, stats and stuff can be found on the #1 Seti team: Team Ars Technica Lamp Chop (TLC).
All you Americans should join TLC *now* unless you want Seti Germany to overtake the top spot in Seti!
Saying that somebody sucks because they prefer Seti instead of F@H is lame IMHO. Far from everyone can run the F@H client simply because of their configuration. The F@H client more or less needs an "always on" internet connection, you can run it on a modem connection, but I personally wouldn't. In that case I would be run a different project, maybe the G@H project (the sister project to F@H), more info can be found on the Team Primordial Soup website.
It also depends on what kind of OS you are using. The F@H project has clients for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Yes, that is what most people uses, but it still leaves out a lot of people. Another project, similar to the F@H project is the Distributed Folding Project. It has clients for a lot of platforms and the science is good. You can find more info and a lot of links on the Ars Technica Team Stir Fry website which is the team I'm crunching for.
I personally prefer projects like F@H and Distributed Folding because they potentially could lead to the discovery of new drugs for cancer and other terrible diseases which we currently have no cure for.
As written in another post, the results of their science is going to be made available for free. If I knew that a single huge and rich medical company was the only ones that was going to benefit from the project, I would never have been running their client. They can buy themselves an expensive supercomputer to do their research then. That is fortunately not the case here, however, but if I'm doing something for free, then I want the possible benefits from the results to be available for free also. I'm doing this to help science and that should be available to everyone.