Perhaps you mean licences such as the MPL. Hardly considered heretical- just ill-ideal.
I'd say it represents a significant "embrace of practical reality" from the Open Source community. Even RMS would accept mozilla as "better than nothing".
You should not begrudge those software developers choose to give freely and wholly unto all. Neither should you be surprised that some recepients who have partaken of free software tend to prefer it. What would a movemant be if nobody really beleived in it?
Plus you will find that 99% of free OS users are wholly pragmatic.
I'd consider one worthwhile if it had Tivo-like recording/playback of video.
Even better would be an API, so that I could make applets for them and load them into flash. I could imagine trading these online.
First killer app: commercial skipper. Record a show beforehand, or start watching it late and it automatically trims commercials from the show.
People might be surprised how short their favorite shows really are.
Of course advertisers would become more wary, and we may need to patch our video-spam killers now and then...
Most people are good as individuals, and most core faiths do not preach evil beliefs natively.
What is ironic is that the greatest historical evils and the most common petty discriminations both sheath and justify themselves in religion.
I am sure that mostly all moslems are good people, and that Islam does not advocate evil.
The fact remains that their faith is being used by some to justify it, just as is the chistian faith.
The organized aspects of these religions are the potentially dangerous parts. When practiced privately at a level of organization no larger than a family, they are most pure. When integrated into governments or extra-governmental organizations they are most debased, and most vulnerable to abuse.
Despite seemingly rare acts of "good" by small parts of these organizations, you surely must concede that the the two main derivatives of Judaism (Islam, Christianae) are exceptionally violent belief systems.
The unabashed support of jihads even by the present day Islamic leaders is proof enough that Islam preaches violence.
And as for the Christians, they have gone so far as to sanction rape, murder, war, and even genocide.
We should applaud him for doing a public service. He toils in his spare time to keep awareness of great authors, such as Harlan "Caps Lock" Ellison, alive in these ephemeral times.
Most brilliant writers struggle to make a living, but remain mired in annonimity. The internet has opened up new avenues for promotion of good writing. Readers promulgate in online forums to recommend works to each other, and trade samples.
When the advent of a good electronic text reading system arrives, then the creative will finally be freed from the tyranny of the publishing indrustry.
When I flipped it on the first thing I heard was captain Kunt Moldgrow's scratchy voice saying "We're trappeed inside the event horizon of a black hole- fire photon torpedoes", and I knew then that I could never again watch it.
Sure the plots may have worn thin, but the next generation cast was a thousand times better.
MS SQL Server has a truly nasty license and a steep price that goes up as you use it more.
Plus it has tons of bugs: Views essentially dont work, The error reporter says thing like "General network error" for a syntax error, and its pretty easy to cause it to crash. If you try to use ansi outer joins, aggregate functions, and subqueries together it craps out. A buggy stored procedure can freeze the whole server up.
Its stored procedures cannot return rowsets to other stored procs, and moving from 6.5 to 7.0 is very difficult because it wont transfer identity prorerties correctly.
Working on budget software at a government contractor I developed for MS SQL SERVER versions 6.5 and 7. (7 is alot better but far from perfect). I think I ran into every major bug in them. MS support was useless- their knowledge base simply told us it was a "known issue".
Now MySQL isnt nearly as feature-full as either, but I prefer posgresql myself. As soon as they get outer joins working I'll never look back.
when viewing an http or ftp page you have to hold down SHIFT and left click to get a new window.
When viewing a local file you hold down CTRL and left click.
And when you are in the options dialog you cannot minimize it. When it crashes you cant minimize it nor close the window. The task manager fails to kill it. You basically have to reboot, before you bsod- if lucky.
I have to work with W2K all day, and if I could change one thing it'd be to add a window manager.
In keeping with his plans, high lord overseer GNU/RMS has declared that all software must now be released under the latest version of the fsf license. It is called the GGPL or the Greater General Public Licence, which is summarized below:
Any software that is derved from GGPL code must be under the GGPL. Also any code that links to, spawns processes of, communicates with, or provides an interface to GGPL code must also be released under the GGPL.
Any software that is stored on the same file system or executed on the same computer as GGPL software must be released under the terms of the GGPL.
Software licenced under the GGPL may not be made available under any other license.
Anyone who writes GGPL software forfeits the right to ever release software under any license other than the GGPL. Also any one who reads any GGPL source code. Also anyone who uses GGPL binaries.
Any hardware systems which runs GGPL code must have its schematics released under the GGPL. Any building housing computers which run GGPL software must have their blueprints released under the GGPL.
Anyone who writes, uses, or comments on GGPL software immediately and retroactively loses the right to make or enforce patents, trademarks, or any other form of Information Restriction Legislation.
The term of the GGPL supercede all local, State, and federal laws. If one is unable to comply with the GGPL and governmental laws then he must renounce his citzenship with that governmental entity.
If any part of the GGPL is held unenforceable, then it will be enforced anyway.
He is trying to tell us that this dicussion is not worth having. Generally when the public is not paying attention to an issue, the monied special interests have their way.
I say this is a discussion worth having whichever side of the argument you support. You dont want to wake up in 20 years and find rights like fair use taken away.
You should have gotten your parents in there to make her give you a fair grade. If a teacher is trying to push an agenda you can get her overruled- perhaps even reprimanded.
If there were only one "right" way to do things
then you would be right.
Unfortunatly, thats not the way it is. There are many valid solutions to most problems, and the more complicated the problem the more potential solutions there are. Some answers are better in one respect, and simultaneosly worse in another.
Furthermore, when combining lots of small solutions together into a large system, there is a huge margin for subjective thought. A huge part of it is simply how one looks at the problem. This is a medium for artistic thought just as much as songwriting or mathematics.
Most businesses in the USA try to treat programming as it was menial labor. They dont understand why productivity is inversely proportional to management. They dont understand that only a handful of guys in their IT dept are doing most of the actual work.
The reason is that, like you, they dont understand that programming is in fact, an Art.
BSD makes their stuff freely available now. To them copyright is irrelevant already.
A company can take BSD source, then apply their copyright to it. The law will back them up. BSD loses.
Copyright is exremely relevant to BSD. BSD'ers are pro-copyright, they want others to be able to sell their stuff proprietarily. GPL'ers are counter-copyright.
They sure would. Dongles, encryption, licenses, application key servers, you name it.
The GPL exists to spite copyright, not to service it.
If a given copyright law was set aside then the GPL would be unneeded.
A company would have no way to prevent others from selling copies of their binary-only software in that case either, thus removing any incentive for production of a closed source app.
That is an excellent point, about a name not needing to be a fixed entity.
We take the concept of a first+last name as an immutable part of our identities. It becomes a label which identifies us, but says nothing else about us. You cannot tell anything about a person from their "real" name.
Its possible that the "net" culture is changing this. Alot of people new to things such as email, unix usernames, etc, tend to use a derivative of their realname. However, Ive noticed that my younger brothers have no artificial attachments.
They go through identities roughshod, having no overwhelming attachment to any of them, but giving each a little life of its own. Ive noticed
them even change their mannerisms to match the personae they take on.
This also reminds me of my favorite dialog from the matrix- "my name is neo". He wasnt lieing- a name you pick for yourself is more real than one assigned to you.
As for the trademark problem: It could be fixed relatively easily. Simply setup a national or global name registry of non-case sensitive, alphabetic strings. If you try to gain a name that matches another exactly you will be denied. If you are so much as one letter off- you are granted the string.
Logo's might be a bit more subjective though. A way to make it objective would be to require that the company string be near or in the logo.
It seems we have gone from none to too many movie solutions for the free unices.
I am amazed at the sheer amount of duplication, but I guess that is the way we do things in the free software world.
GPL Movie systems listed from most mature to least, imo:
Must exist? Do they just appear out of thin air? If enough idle rich exist, the demand for idle rich services increase, non-idle incomes increase. It's a dynamic system
Read my comment again. I said the real currency is time, thats also why I put the words rich and poor in quotes.
Material wealth has no effect on the supply of time. There are still only 24 hours in a day.
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I'd say it represents a significant "embrace of practical reality" from the Open Source community. Even RMS would accept mozilla as "better than nothing".
You should not begrudge those software developers choose to give freely and wholly unto all. Neither should you be surprised that some recepients who have partaken of free software tend to prefer it. What would a movemant be if nobody really beleived in it?
Plus you will find that 99% of free OS users are wholly pragmatic.
Its censorware if even one person is required to run it.
Even better would be an API, so that I could make applets for them and load them into flash. I could imagine trading these online.
First killer app: commercial skipper. Record a show beforehand, or start watching it late and it automatically trims commercials from the show. People might be surprised how short their favorite shows really are.
Of course advertisers would become more wary, and we may need to patch our video-spam killers now and then...
Most people are good as individuals, and most core faiths do not preach evil beliefs natively.
What is ironic is that the greatest historical evils and the most common petty discriminations both sheath and justify themselves in religion.
I am sure that mostly all moslems are good people, and that Islam does not advocate evil.
The fact remains that their faith is being used by some to justify it, just as is the chistian faith.
The organized aspects of these religions are the potentially dangerous parts. When practiced privately at a level of organization no larger than a family, they are most pure. When integrated into governments or extra-governmental organizations they are most debased, and most vulnerable to abuse.
Just because your a dork doesnt make you a geek.
Despite seemingly rare acts of "good" by small parts of these organizations, you surely must concede that the the two main derivatives of Judaism (Islam, Christianae) are exceptionally violent belief systems.
The unabashed support of jihads even by the present day Islamic leaders is proof enough that Islam preaches violence.
And as for the Christians, they have gone so far as to sanction rape, murder, war, and even genocide.
Is it ironic that a copyright argument is couched in that style?
Most brilliant writers struggle to make a living, but remain mired in annonimity. The internet has opened up new avenues for promotion of good writing. Readers promulgate in online forums to recommend works to each other, and trade samples.
When the advent of a good electronic text reading system arrives, then the creative will finally be freed from the tyranny of the publishing indrustry.
And one day, in an enlightened future, IP legislation will be cast off as the backwards barbarism that it is.
When I flipped it on the first thing I heard was captain Kunt Moldgrow's scratchy voice saying "We're trappeed inside the event horizon of a black hole- fire photon torpedoes", and I knew then that I could never again watch it.
Sure the plots may have worn thin, but the next generation cast was a thousand times better.
Plus it has tons of bugs: Views essentially dont work, The error reporter says thing like "General network error" for a syntax error, and its pretty easy to cause it to crash. If you try to use ansi outer joins, aggregate functions, and subqueries together it craps out. A buggy stored procedure can freeze the whole server up.
Its stored procedures cannot return rowsets to other stored procs, and moving from 6.5 to 7.0 is very difficult because it wont transfer identity prorerties correctly.
Working on budget software at a government contractor I developed for MS SQL SERVER versions 6.5 and 7. (7 is alot better but far from perfect). I think I ran into every major bug in them. MS support was useless- their knowledge base simply told us it was a "known issue".
Now MySQL isnt nearly as feature-full as either, but I prefer posgresql myself. As soon as they get outer joins working I'll never look back.
And when you are in the options dialog you cannot minimize it. When it crashes you cant minimize it nor close the window. The task manager fails to kill it. You basically have to reboot, before you bsod- if lucky.
I have to work with W2K all day, and if I could change one thing it'd be to add a window manager.
Dont let the name "Department of Defense" fool you. Theyre still the "Department of War".
the facts of life were clear: kill your target
And that would make this statement contain irony:
Making someone "run away" is hard if they're fanatics pledged to kill you
Because then you would have a fanatic pledged to kill people worried about fanatics pledged to kill him.
Carry a little bit of glad wrap with you next time you plan to go rioting.
I say this is a discussion worth having whichever side of the argument you support. You dont want to wake up in 20 years and find rights like fair use taken away.
Unfortunatly, thats not the way it is. There are many valid solutions to most problems, and the more complicated the problem the more potential solutions there are. Some answers are better in one respect, and simultaneosly worse in another.
Furthermore, when combining lots of small solutions together into a large system, there is a huge margin for subjective thought. A huge part of it is simply how one looks at the problem. This is a medium for artistic thought just as much as songwriting or mathematics.
Most businesses in the USA try to treat programming as it was menial labor. They dont understand why productivity is inversely proportional to management. They dont understand that only a handful of guys in their IT dept are doing most of the actual work.
The reason is that, like you, they dont understand that programming is in fact, an Art.
A company can take BSD source, then apply their copyright to it. The law will back them up. BSD loses. Copyright is exremely relevant to BSD. BSD'ers are pro-copyright, they want others to be able to sell their stuff proprietarily. GPL'ers are counter-copyright.
They sure would. Dongles, encryption, licenses, application key servers, you name it.
Imagine legalized warez.
If a given copyright law was set aside then the GPL would be unneeded.
A company would have no way to prevent others from selling copies of their binary-only software in that case either, thus removing any incentive for production of a closed source app.
We take the concept of a first+last name as an immutable part of our identities. It becomes a label which identifies us, but says nothing else about us. You cannot tell anything about a person from their "real" name.
Its possible that the "net" culture is changing this. Alot of people new to things such as email, unix usernames, etc, tend to use a derivative of their realname. However, Ive noticed that my younger brothers have no artificial attachments.
They go through identities roughshod, having no overwhelming attachment to any of them, but giving each a little life of its own. Ive noticed them even change their mannerisms to match the personae they take on.
This also reminds me of my favorite dialog from the matrix- "my name is neo". He wasnt lieing- a name you pick for yourself is more real than one assigned to you.
As for the trademark problem: It could be fixed relatively easily. Simply setup a national or global name registry of non-case sensitive, alphabetic strings. If you try to gain a name that matches another exactly you will be denied. If you are so much as one letter off- you are granted the string.
Logo's might be a bit more subjective though. A way to make it objective would be to require that the company string be near or in the logo.
It seems we have gone from none to too many movie solutions for the free unices. I am amazed at the sheer amount of duplication, but I guess that is the way we do things in the free software world.
GPL Movie systems listed from most mature to least, imo:
Or in this case the value of everyone else's gold.
If you want to know who got "poorer" in your example, well it was everyone else who had money in gold/gold interests.
Read my comment again. I said the real currency is time, thats also why I put the words rich and poor in quotes.
Material wealth has no effect on the supply of time. There are still only 24 hours in a day.