So? If Microsoft decide to start taking companies such as Novell to court over patented methods in Mono, the MIT/X11 licence is irrelevant. Noone will be able to use Mono without risking litigation.
This is probably the main reason why NTFS is available in the main Linux Kernel tree but isn't in Fedora's version of the Kernel: RedHat don't want to take the risk of patent attacks from Redmond.
This issue is very real, especially when US companies are so damn trigger-happy when it comes to litigation. It's a revenue model.
Your analogy is so obviously flawed and stupid, but I'm sure the zealot crowd will be trying to milk that one for years to come.
On the contrary: surprisingly enough you missed the point.
Controlling people with lasers is no better than keeping a cat locked up for life inside a one-bedroom apartment.
Hehe, I was kidding about the lasers. I should have inserted smileys =)
Originally I was thinking of self-inflicted mind control, letting me control my emotions while the women were bitching.
My family has owned heaps of cats and we've always let them roam around. I don't see the point of owning an animal at all, let alone locking it up. Owning pets is mostly a selfish exercise.
So no disagreement here: my original post was simply written poorly.
Last night a friend came round to my place to discover a dead cat near the gate. It's owner lives in the block of flats I live in.
I broke the news to the woman. She accused me of killing the cat. Then she accused my friend. Then she accused just about every other person at the flats.
My mate and I just wanted to bury the poor cat and she fought like a bitch with another woman who she was *convinced* killed the cat on purpose. They didn't stop bitching the entire time.
She kept weeping "This is what happens when you trust people". She was right but not for the reason she thought: it was *her* lack of responsibility that led to the cat's death. She let it roam around. If you let a cat roam it will end up being hit by a car. Every time. What cat lover isn't aware of this obvious fact?
I ended up screaming at these women and threatening to go back to my apartment and not help any further. They *still* didn't stop bitching.
If I'd had a powerful mind-controlling laser maybe things would have been different. In fact I believe if I had any sort of laser handy I could have controlled the situation more effectively.
the fact you're still using cvs speaks volumes though.
What do you mean by that? That the parent is ignorant for still using CVS or the fact that there's no reasonable alternative?
We're still using CVS at work. CVS isn't great but it's problems are well-known here. For most projects CVS does OK and when it doesn't I go in and manually fix stuff with confidence.
I haven't found any free replacement for CVS that offers compelling (read: no brainer) reasons to switch. Subversion seems to be the closest thing but going for that will require a painful transition that requires justification.
As an admin rather than a developer I'd be futzing with the developer's data so I better have a damn good reason. The developers would have to be absolutely convinced that this new and shiny revision control system is the way to go. It would have to be really easy for them to use. It would have to be put in a testing environment first, with the developers helping me test it thoroughly.
Give me a compelling reason for the hard work and for the abuse I'll receive if one tiny thing goes wrong. "CVS sucks" doesn't cut it: I'm well aware of how much it sucks and I'm OK with it for the time being, as are the developers that rely on me.
Funnily enough whenever I think of Mandrake I'm reminded of John Donne because of that poem. Actually, it's a silly little song iirc, called "Song":)
To anyone who doesn't know, it's a song about the fundamental unfaithful nature of pretty women.
"Get with child a mandrake root": The mandrake root has often been used in poetry (esp. 16th century) as a symbol of a vagina and two legs. Donne here is simply describing something that's impossible: getting the Mandrake root pregnant.
I could go on but you're probably getting bored already, apart from the potential tenuous connection you can now make between vaginas and a Linux distribution.
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Re:Software patents - Splution - Move to Australia
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I'm Amer^H^oh sorry, Australian.
Our government is a few tiers below the US government wrt authority over Australian Law.
The Australian government has shown that, given the choice of protecting it's citizens or doing something in the US's interests, it will do what the US wants, even when an Australian's human rights are being violated.
The fact that we're not granting frivilous patents here is nice but it's irrelevant if our country is beholden to another country's IP laws. It effectively means that we will be left with fewer patents than other countries and they'll beat us down with their patent portfolios.
Did you know that IBM held a patent for highlighting an input field in a user interface to indicate to the user that the field is mandatory?...
You can trust that I sleep just fine at night, mainly because I see first hand that the vast majority of the Slashdot/geek/media communities' complaints about the USPTO are, at best, baseless.
Hmm?
We claim: "The USPTO grants ridiculous software patents"
You claim: "The USPTO grants ridiculous software patents"
From what you say above it seems the/. crowd are fairly accurate.
You think that just because commercial games seem not viable (I agree: I buy games) that the entire FOSS community has no viable business model to speak of? Odd.
drop series without notice, schedule program episodes in the wrong order, or change the scheduling of episodes at the last minute.
Good point. I was discussing this with an American living here in Australia and she believed that you wouldn't get away with that crap in the U.S. except for perhaps the Superbowl.
The way she put it was that in the US, if the TV Guide says a show is going to be on at 10am, it will be on at 10am precisely. In Australia, the scheduling is a pretty loose arrangement. There's little chance your show will come on at the scheduled time and no guarantee it will be shown at all.
It's a pretty sad indictment of the slack-arse multi-billion-dollar tv industry in Oz.
I must admit I don't care: I very rarely watch tv these days. The Internet has a lot more to offer, especially insofar as getting multiple perspectives on an issue.
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Re:Save yourself a couple hundred bucks...
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Fights are the last refuge of the idiot
From my experience fighting is the first refuge of the idiot.
Here in Australia if you ask someone to "step outside" the law will usually not get involved.
You must live in the country, or somewhere up north.
Here in Victoria, Australia if you're caught committing assault you'll spend the night in jail and be in front of a Magistrate so fast your head will spin.
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I attacked Larry a few weeks ago for his "trollish antics" and got modded down -1.
In. Your. Face. Slashdot!
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Mono is licensed under MIT/X11, GPL, and LGPL..
So? If Microsoft decide to start taking companies such as Novell to court over patented methods in Mono, the MIT/X11 licence is irrelevant. Noone will be able to use Mono without risking litigation.
This is probably the main reason why NTFS is available in the main Linux Kernel tree but isn't in Fedora's version of the Kernel: RedHat don't want to take the risk of patent attacks from Redmond.
This issue is very real, especially when US companies are so damn trigger-happy when it comes to litigation. It's a revenue model.
Your analogy is so obviously flawed and stupid, but I'm sure the zealot crowd will be trying to milk that one for years to come.
On the contrary: surprisingly enough you missed the point.
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Stor
I'll leave that to the FUDsters who are better at cowering under the covers instead of embracing good technology.
You mean like the FUDsters that derided the use of BitKeeper?
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The way I want a file manager to work in X is illustrated beatifully through rxvt.
Probably: s/rxvt/shell/
rxvt is a terminal emulator.
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They don't. Package managers automatically take care of that stuff.
What if there isn't a relevant package available? You have the source only. What then?
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Yeah,
/usr/local, sometimes it's /opt, sometimes it's /usr, sometimes it's /service but usually it's god-fucking-knows-what. It's awesome.
And the greatest thing about makefiles? The developer gets to choose where he's going to randomly drop the binaries and libs!
Sometimes it's
makefiles don't "take care" of shit.
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That's because people want their Porsches now, not in 5-10 years.
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LOL. Put the dunce hat on me. Oh! It's already there.
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What is this bullshit about going after the dude's employer? I hope she gets nothing.
You're a dumb shit. Please don't post.
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Let me get this straight: You're suggesting that it's OK for someone hired to protect children to try to seduce them instead?
IOW, "She was asking for it", right?
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Controlling people with lasers is no better than keeping a cat locked up for life inside a one-bedroom apartment.
Hehe, I was kidding about the lasers. I should have inserted smileys =)
Originally I was thinking of self-inflicted mind control, letting me control my emotions while the women were bitching.
My family has owned heaps of cats and we've always let them roam around. I don't see the point of owning an animal at all, let alone locking it up. Owning pets is mostly a selfish exercise.
So no disagreement here: my original post was simply written poorly.
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Stor
"Let them eat snake"
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Stor
Last night a friend came round to my place to discover a dead cat near the gate. It's owner lives in the block of flats I live in.
I broke the news to the woman. She accused me of killing the cat. Then she accused my friend. Then she accused just about every other person at the flats.
My mate and I just wanted to bury the poor cat and she fought like a bitch with another woman who she was *convinced* killed the cat on purpose. They didn't stop bitching the entire time.
She kept weeping "This is what happens when you trust people". She was right but not for the reason she thought: it was *her* lack of responsibility that led to the cat's death. She let it roam around. If you let a cat roam it will end up being hit by a car. Every time. What cat lover isn't aware of this obvious fact?
I ended up screaming at these women and threatening to go back to my apartment and not help any further. They *still* didn't stop bitching.
If I'd had a powerful mind-controlling laser maybe things would have been different. In fact I believe if I had any sort of laser handy I could have controlled the situation more effectively.
Cheers
Stor
If your software is mission critical, clearcase is the way forward.
What a convincing argument. Which brochure did you copy that line from?
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Stor
the fact you're still using cvs speaks volumes though.
What do you mean by that? That the parent is ignorant for still using CVS or the fact that there's no reasonable alternative?
We're still using CVS at work. CVS isn't great but it's problems are well-known here. For most projects CVS does OK and when it doesn't I go in and manually fix stuff with confidence.
I haven't found any free replacement for CVS that offers compelling (read: no brainer) reasons to switch. Subversion seems to be the closest thing but going for that will require a painful transition that requires justification.
As an admin rather than a developer I'd be futzing with the developer's data so I better have a damn good reason. The developers would have to be absolutely convinced that this new and shiny revision control system is the way to go. It would have to be really easy for them to use. It would have to be put in a testing environment first, with the developers helping me test it thoroughly.
Give me a compelling reason for the hard work and for the abuse I'll receive if one tiny thing goes wrong. "CVS sucks" doesn't cut it: I'm well aware of how much it sucks and I'm OK with it for the time being, as are the developers that rely on me.
Cheers
Stor
Cheer up. It could of been renamed to "Manspire".
It's a Mansiere!
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Stor
Funnily enough whenever I think of Mandrake I'm reminded of John Donne because of that poem. Actually, it's a silly little song iirc, called "Song" :)
To anyone who doesn't know, it's a song about the fundamental unfaithful nature of pretty women.
"Get with child a mandrake root": The mandrake root has often been used in poetry (esp. 16th century) as a symbol of a vagina and two legs. Donne here is simply describing something that's impossible: getting the Mandrake root pregnant.
I could go on but you're probably getting bored already, apart from the potential tenuous connection you can now make between vaginas and a Linux distribution.
Cheers
Stor
I'm Amer^H^oh sorry, Australian.
Our government is a few tiers below the US government wrt authority over Australian Law.
The Australian government has shown that, given the choice of protecting it's citizens or doing something in the US's interests, it will do what the US wants, even when an Australian's human rights are being violated.
The fact that we're not granting frivilous patents here is nice but it's irrelevant if our country is beholden to another country's IP laws. It effectively means that we will be left with fewer patents than other countries and they'll beat us down with their patent portfolios.
Right?
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Stor
Did you know that IBM held a patent for highlighting an input field in a user interface to indicate to the user that the field is mandatory? ...
/. crowd are fairly accurate.
You can trust that I sleep just fine at night, mainly because I see first hand that the vast majority of the Slashdot/geek/media communities' complaints about the USPTO are, at best, baseless.
Hmm?
We claim: "The USPTO grants ridiculous software patents"
You claim: "The USPTO grants ridiculous software patents"
From what you say above it seems the
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Stor
"Burger King, we're all Dragon Master's here"
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You think that just because commercial games seem not viable (I agree: I buy games) that the entire FOSS community has no viable business model to speak of? Odd.
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drop series without notice, schedule program episodes in the wrong order, or change the scheduling of episodes at the last minute.
Good point. I was discussing this with an American living here in Australia and she believed that you wouldn't get away with that crap in the U.S. except for perhaps the Superbowl.
The way she put it was that in the US, if the TV Guide says a show is going to be on at 10am, it will be on at 10am precisely. In Australia, the scheduling is a pretty loose arrangement. There's little chance your show will come on at the scheduled time and no guarantee it will be shown at all.
It's a pretty sad indictment of the slack-arse multi-billion-dollar tv industry in Oz.
I must admit I don't care: I very rarely watch tv these days. The Internet has a lot more to offer, especially insofar as getting multiple perspectives on an issue.
Cheers
Stor
Fights are the last refuge of the idiot
From my experience fighting is the first refuge of the idiot.
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Stor
Here in Australia if you ask someone to "step outside" the law will usually not get involved.
You must live in the country, or somewhere up north.
Here in Victoria, Australia if you're caught committing assault you'll spend the night in jail and be in front of a Magistrate so fast your head will spin.
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Stor
You can polish a turd
How? Coat it in resin first?
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