We ain't got no fingers and no toes We're just a coupla frozen embryos We're kinda short on eyes, ears, lips and nose We're just a coupla frozen embryos
- Three Guys from Hollywood
No wonder the congresscritters are upset about 'em.
I may be an OSSer, but I have nothing against commercial code, per se. How about this?: choose the set of rules you wish to operate under. If you want to keep the code closed to make money, pay money for your code base. If you wish to use GPLed code, pay for it with GPLed code. And there's always BSD.
The GPL does not exist to promote the development of new and innovate web applications. It exists to promote the development of new and innovate code available to The People. Nor is the GPL the source of Microsoft's FUD. It is not its duty to ammeliorate it, but to oppose it.
Personally I don't really care whether you agree with it or not, but that is what the damned license is for.
It's great to be on ship with men and wander out to sea-o We don't know where we'll land or when, but it's great to be with men. 'Cause men can drink and men can sweat and noone seems to care-o Throw your dishes in the sink and clog the drain with hair-o
Men, men, men! we're a ship all filled with men You'll never have to lift the seat, it's great to be with men, men, men, men. . .
Well, yes. That's what the word "outlaw" originally meant. It was a sentence, as punishment for a crime the law formally expelled you from its oversight. The hangers on could stone you as you left the proceedings and this act would be invisible to the law.
This is not at all the same thing as being a criminal, because a criminal still acts under the jurisdiction of the law.
In our topsy-turvy legal system we do not have outlaws, merely criminals. You may live counter to the law, but you cannot live outside it. The law is omnipresent.
No sillier than paying someone to check your golf swing, tennis backhand, cycling pedal stroke, violin form, tighten up your chess game, show you knitting stiches or how to trail brake into the corner and drift out under acceleration.
People take lessons from people more skilled than they are. Big deal.
I've given online gaming lessons as an instructor through an organized "school." As a volunteer. No money involved for anyone. But I get fifty bucks an hour for some of things listed above and my time and expertise in Grand Prix Legends isn't really worth any less just because I use a driving sim instead of a parking lot.
And more for jerseys, more for inner tubes, more for headlight batteries, eventually more for taxes.
I think some of the people who think they'll be ok because they drive a small car haven't worked out how much less money they're actually going to have. $5 gas costs a lot more than just the extra bucks for the gas, even if you don't even own a car.
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What he's claiming is simply that they shouldn't claim that they don't cause RSI unless they can back it up. Truth in advertising.
This is something very different from banning products.
KFG
And thought control makes my head hurt.
KFG
Will this prevent them from releasing their RDBMS for free under the GPL. . .?
:)
If they ever write one it might be something to take into consideration.
Would something like GNUv3 scare Sun from Open Sourcing Java, or would they use their own licence?
They already have their own license, yes.
What about the Apache license... will they be compatible?
That's something that's actually come up in the discussions and is being dealt with.
KFG
If Pacman's ghosts were replaced by rolling boulders, it would have nearly no violence.
I have gathered no moss, you insensitive clod!
KFG
Well, there is a "war" on obesity; but ghosts are zero cal.
And for all the other vegetarians out there you'll be pleased to note that ghosts contain no meat!
KFG
All the power pellets sing:
We ain't got no fingers and no toes
We're just a coupla frozen embryos
We're kinda short on eyes, ears, lips and nose
We're just a coupla frozen embryos
- Three Guys from Hollywood
No wonder the congresscritters are upset about 'em.
KFG
Notice how they're always very careful to photograph it with the wind up key stowed away?
Oh, and I suppose that anyone who has never seen one wouldn't know that its nickname is the "Topolino": Little Mouse, but I never explain a joke.
KFG
TNSTAAFL?
I may be an OSSer, but I have nothing against commercial code, per se. How about this?: choose the set of rules you wish to operate under. If you want to keep the code closed to make money, pay money for your code base. If you wish to use GPLed code, pay for it with GPLed code. And there's always BSD.
The GPL does not exist to promote the development of new and innovate web applications. It exists to promote the development of new and innovate code available to The People. Nor is the GPL the source of Microsoft's FUD. It is not its duty to ammeliorate it, but to oppose it.
Personally I don't really care whether you agree with it or not, but that is what the damned license is for.
KFG
. . .try the analogy with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders.
Pittsburgh Steelers: Commercial entertainment venture
Oakland Raiders: Money blown on a joke
Ok, we've achieved equivilence.
KFG
Thanks for the DQ link though, which had a dead link on it, which I went and tracked down:
http://www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html
'Cause I've been posting about this issue the past few days.
KFG
Not even vaguely in the same market. The Pittsburgh Steelers are a commercial entertainment venture, the intramural squad in the park is a sport.
KFG
This understanding eliminates the scarcity arguement for food.
Unless you are the one for whom it is scarce.
KFG
last time I checked, food grows on trees.
.
And trees grow on real property. Mine spent some time this year trying to grow underwater. They didn't like it.
the food supply defines our population. .
And nothing proves this better than running out of it.
KFG
we're already in a world where information is much more valuable than physical goods.
Until you run out of food.
KFG
Why care?
Do you, perhaps, live in the same legal climate as your TV watching neighors?
KFG
And that's why we have W18 engines in Volkswagons.
KFG
I don't "need" an R sticker and turbo sound synthesizer either, but they sure make my FIAT 500 go faster.
The Little Mouse that Roars!
KFG
It's great to be on ship with men and wander out to sea-o
We don't know where we'll land or when, but it's great to be with men.
'Cause men can drink and men can sweat and noone seems to care-o
Throw your dishes in the sink and clog the drain with hair-o
Men, men, men! we're a ship all filled with men
You'll never have to lift the seat, it's great to be with men, men, men, men. . .
- Martin Mull
KFG
You'll have to expand that post to 100 pages of deconstructionist psychobabble if you ever expect it to get past the thesis panel.
Do you think we hand out doctorates to just any old mug with a bit of common sense insight? No!
We expect meaningless impenatrability and we demand meaningless impenatrability!
KFG
McAfee do not describe it as a Firefox exploit. They describe it as a VBS exploit originally written to target IE, i.e., a Windows exploit.
KFG
I refuse to use this trojan until it's ported to Linux.
We have to send a message to developers that we want our apps native.
KFG
Well, yes. That's what the word "outlaw" originally meant. It was a sentence, as punishment for a crime the law formally expelled you from its oversight. The hangers on could stone you as you left the proceedings and this act would be invisible to the law.
This is not at all the same thing as being a criminal, because a criminal still acts under the jurisdiction of the law.
In our topsy-turvy legal system we do not have outlaws, merely criminals. You may live counter to the law, but you cannot live outside it. The law is omnipresent.
Smile for the camera.
KFG
No sillier than paying someone to check your golf swing, tennis backhand, cycling pedal stroke, violin form, tighten up your chess game, show you knitting stiches or how to trail brake into the corner and drift out under acceleration.
People take lessons from people more skilled than they are. Big deal.
I've given online gaming lessons as an instructor through an organized "school." As a volunteer. No money involved for anyone. But I get fifty bucks an hour for some of things listed above and my time and expertise in Grand Prix Legends isn't really worth any less just because I use a driving sim instead of a parking lot.
KFG
And more for jerseys, more for inner tubes, more for headlight batteries, eventually more for taxes.
I think some of the people who think they'll be ok because they drive a small car haven't worked out how much less money they're actually going to have. $5 gas costs a lot more than just the extra bucks for the gas, even if you don't even own a car.
KFG
I've never really understood the electric moped, but these I like. I've been messing around with HPV designs like this. Even posted a bit about it.
There are legal issues around here though. Car culture breeds car culture laws.
KFG