...with another country, and that country has a copy of the national database. I wonder if they could use it to construct a virus to destroy a significant percentage of the UK population ?
Well, it seems to me like this could be solved by having a default duration for patents, and then allowing the patent to be renewed if the holder could clearly demonstrate that they had been working on the patented technology, but that it would take longer for a return on his/her investment.
Yes, I remember seeing an ad for a 1K chess program, and I wonder to this day how they managed such a feat.
There was also a 1K noughts-and-crosses program which I typed in from a magazine, which was practically unbeatable (actually you could beat it but only by playing the most illogical moves possible - but that's another story).
For the nth time...M$ are not being punished for *having* a monopoly, they are being punished for *abusing* a monopoly. It's just like one company owning the rail network, and charging $1000 per trip. And then trying to damage the road system so cars couldn't drive on them.
Besides, monopolies only make sense where a choice of providers is very difficult, for example in the case of a rail network, there is generally only one set of track between two adjacent stations. Hence a monopoly is natural here. However in the case the monopoly should be regulated to prevent abuses such as that envisaged above.
Where a choice of providers is possible, I believe that the choice should be encouraged, it generally works out being better for consumers and for the companies themselves (because of the need for training and true innovation to try to keep ahead of the competitors).
On my computers, I can run any number of operating systems, so I fail to see how this can be said to be a natural environment for a monopoly.
In other words, the more accurately you measure the 'place' then the time becomes less certain. I'm not sure what this would mean in real terms; maybe the more data you store the longer the latency to retrieve that data ?
As far as I could make out from the MPL, it only differed from the GPL in that all patches had to be submitted back to Mozilla.
That is quite sensible given that the code has been changing quite rapidly, and forking it at this stage would be a bit of a nightmare. Once the codebase stabilizes a bit, changing to the GPL is probably a wise thing to do; it will allow more customization of the app, without bothering the developers with every little change that is made.
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They are ! If you'd read the article you would've seen it was being developed by mozdev, not by the Mozilla team.
As MKB says, I'm surprised I have to explain this. ;-)
...with another country, and that country has a copy of the national database. I wonder if they could use it to construct a virus to destroy a significant percentage of the UK population ?
Well, it seems to me like this could be solved by having a default duration for patents, and then allowing the patent to be renewed if the holder could clearly demonstrate that they had been working on the patented technology, but that it would take longer for a return on his/her investment.
Actually quite a few banks use unix for their core systems. I worked at places which use RS/6000's running AIX.
Erm, ask for proof ?
"I am a type central start place, process enamels, read her, send her to the correct people."
--Linus Torvalds
So now we can have a new SETI@home client, analysing gravitational waves !
What do you mean, you need read access too ?
I snowboarded down it last winter.
There was also a 1K noughts-and-crosses program which I typed in from a magazine, which was practically unbeatable (actually you could beat it but only by playing the most illogical moves possible - but that's another story).
Just noticed this on Cnet . I wonder...
Perhaps I should send them that little 'earth simulator' perl script I knocked together the other night...
Besides, monopolies only make sense where a choice of providers is very difficult, for example in the case of a rail network, there is generally only one set of track between two adjacent stations. Hence a monopoly is natural here. However in the case the monopoly should be regulated to prevent abuses such as that envisaged above.
Where a choice of providers is possible, I believe that the choice should be encouraged, it generally works out being better for consumers and for the companies themselves (because of the need for training and true innovation to try to keep ahead of the competitors).
On my computers, I can run any number of operating systems, so I fail to see how this can be said to be a natural environment for a monopoly.
Yes you are right of course. Sorry, it's been a few years since I got my Physics degree :-)
In other words, the more accurately you measure the 'place' then the time becomes less certain. I'm not sure what this would mean in real terms; maybe the more data you store the longer the latency to retrieve that data ?
I wonder if anybody has thought of taking a photo of the shirt and then posting that on their website ?
You mean like this ??
Among their demands is that the ISP's
3) advise us of the name and physical address of the person operating this site;
Surely that would be illegal ??!!
That is quite sensible given that the code has been changing quite rapidly, and forking it at this stage would be a bit of a nightmare. Once the codebase stabilizes a bit, changing to the GPL is probably a wise thing to do; it will allow more customization of the app, without bothering the developers with every little change that is made.
My favourite apps already run on my favourite OS.
So you're telling me if he had changed the font ten times, it would have saved ten copies of the document ?
There's no problem. There's even a Welsh version of Mozilla.