EULA - Weapons of Mass Destruction??
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does this still exist? When they "open sourced" it a few years ago I went to download it to give it a run through... and it had a horrible EULA attached to downloading it. One of the most important terms (and forgive this as it's been a while so it's not verbatim) was that it was "not to be used to make weapons of mass destruction outside the US". Seemed to infer that it's ok in the US and in fact it is probably already being used thusly...
I clicked I Don't Accept on the web page and have never gone back since.
The funny thing is that they could handle it before they got this bandwidth. The slashdot effect only goes so far these days. Some setups don't even blink an eye. They host Debian's main mirrors, mozilla's main mirrors, gentoo's main mirrors... and you think that slashdoting is going to be much more than a blip on their MRTG? heh
I for one am boycotting all Sony music from here on if it comes on CD. Windows root-kit, OSX kernel extensions... how can you trust them? The RIAA and big record companies are getting very long in the tooth and I would love nothing more than to see them get taken down. They have all but destroyed the industry over the years and turned it into something worse than politics.
The most talented musicians I know are waiters, bus boys and taxi drivers, thanks to the recording industry.
Can't wait for someone to shake it all apart by releasing their works without the industry influences (and the industry taking their piece of the pie).
The Moto offering was, over a year late to market, very lackluster, and didn't have all the features promised (like connecting to the ITMS to download songs). The nano is elegant, works well and does what it's supposed to do AND wasn't a year late to market. Had the phone actually hit market on target it might have sold.
Also wanted to add that Oses like linuxppc and yellow dog have done wonders for the ppc world in new processor and device support. For a small team of devoted people they realyl clean up getting the job done...and yes as someone mentioned in another post, SMP is on the way in.
Why get faster when you can get MORE for less (that is as long as you don't run windows to suck all your CPU cycles trying to look pretty)
Drop them like a hot potato and Apple and especially OS X will soar. Give them a real processor, the support is very simple..update mach and you're in. Imagine the possiblities. It's endless...
mozilla this, mozilla that....I don't see what all the fuss is about. Just another fine example of extreme bloatware, and a project that has been going for how many years now? 2? This is pitiful....what ever happened to a web browser that was just a web browser?
I don't want a be all and end all software suite that can do everything under the sun for me in terms of using the internet...I have all the tools I need except a decent graphical browser...having just under 3000 files linked ain't my idea of streamline and/or useful.
If you want a real browser, try links (not lynx...links)...
I run a website at http://www.macdiscussion.com and did an interview a while back with Jason Haas from LinuxPPC Inc. good reading if you are interested in finding out more about linuxPPC and linux on the ppc in general. Watch for an interview with SuSE ppc developers coming next week discussing their ppc port and linux on the ppc... This is not a 'dead' chip...slackware is now also porting to ppc, and there are at least 2 flavors of BSD running on ppc as well...
If you like to play with things like most of us all do:) thn OS X is not the system you want to be running. The mach kernel is not all that pretty to play with in the first place, and Apple does some really wierd things for the GUI...
I cut my teeth on slackware with my 386 (when it was new out of the box). I have gone through several machines since then..all M$ free I say proudly. Slackware has proven itself to me over and over again. I have used RedHat, Caldera, several BSD variants, and Debian (on my powerpc).
The only factor I see a bit lacking in Slackware is a decent packaging system, but I LIKE compiling from tarballs. Call me crazy..but do that on your redhat or debian system and the package managers are lost. What happens when you want the newset release of ???....do you wait for someone else to make it for you? Or do you go out and get it yourself?
No decision there for me.
As for glibc2.. well.. is it even under the GPL? Is it not? I have gone this long without it..why change now...to break things? Nooooo.....
Slashdot Mirror
does this still exist? When they "open sourced" it a few years ago I went to download it to give it a run through ... and it had a horrible EULA attached to downloading it. One of the most important terms (and forgive this as it's been a while so it's not verbatim) was that it was "not to be used to make weapons of mass destruction outside the US". Seemed to infer that it's ok in the US and in fact it is probably already being used thusly ...
I clicked I Don't Accept on the web page and have never gone back since.
The funny thing is that they could handle it before they got this bandwidth. The slashdot effect only goes so far these days. Some setups don't even blink an eye. They host Debian's main mirrors, mozilla's main mirrors, gentoo's main mirrors ... and you think that slashdoting is going to be much more than a blip on their MRTG? heh
When they got confiscated. Seriously. Someone once paid me for a coding gig through paypal, who seized the money as they deemed it "suspicious".
Apparently I'm not alone: a writer at wired has called for the same thing
I for one am boycotting all Sony music from here on if it comes on CD. Windows root-kit, OSX kernel extensions ... how can you trust them? The RIAA and big record companies are getting very long in the tooth and I would love nothing more than to see them get taken down. They have all but destroyed the industry over the years and turned it into something worse than politics.
The most talented musicians I know are waiters, bus boys and taxi drivers, thanks to the recording industry.
Can't wait for someone to shake it all apart by releasing their works without the industry influences (and the industry taking their piece of the pie).
The Moto offering was, over a year late to market, very lackluster, and didn't have all the features promised (like connecting to the ITMS to download songs). The nano is elegant, works well and does what it's supposed to do AND wasn't a year late to market. Had the phone actually hit market on target it might have sold.
Also wanted to add that Oses like linuxppc and yellow dog have done wonders for the ppc world in new processor and device support. For a small team of devoted people they realyl clean up getting the job done...and yes as someone mentioned in another post, SMP is on the way in.
Why get faster when you can get MORE for less (that is as long as you don't run windows to suck all your CPU cycles trying to look pretty)
Drop them like a hot potato and Apple and especially OS X will soar. Give them a real processor, the support is very simple..update mach and you're in. Imagine the possiblities. It's endless...
This version shipped on my Palm IIIc...so why are they releasing it in the fall? More time to market it and make pretty retail packaging? likely...
mozilla this, mozilla that....I don't see what all the fuss is about. Just another fine example of extreme bloatware, and a project that has been going for how many years now? 2? This is pitiful....what ever happened to a web browser that was just a web browser?
I don't want a be all and end all software suite that can do everything under the sun for me in terms of using the internet...I have all the tools I need except a decent graphical browser...having just under 3000 files linked ain't my idea of streamline and/or useful.
If you want a real browser, try links (not lynx...links)...
I run a website at http://www.macdiscussion.com and did an interview a while back with Jason Haas from LinuxPPC Inc. good reading if you are interested in finding out more about linuxPPC and linux on the ppc in general. Watch for an interview with SuSE ppc developers coming next week discussing their ppc port and linux on the ppc... This is not a 'dead' chip...slackware is now also porting to ppc, and there are at least 2 flavors of BSD running on ppc as well...
If you like to play with things like most of us all do :) thn OS X is not the system you want to be running. The mach kernel is not all that pretty to play with in the first place, and Apple does some really wierd things for the GUI...
I'll stick with Xfree86 (comon 4.0!) and LinuxPPC
This is nothing really new..just new to the mass public I guess.
:) Unfortunately the machine was stolen a few years back.
My old drummer in my band made me a pleiglass computer case years ago.
Just to give you a time frame on this, it ran Slackware 2.0 on my kicking 386dx40
I cut my teeth on slackware with my 386 (when it was new out of the box). I have gone through several machines since then..all M$ free I say proudly. Slackware has proven itself to me over and over again. I have used RedHat, Caldera, several BSD variants, and Debian (on my powerpc).
.. well.. is it even under the GPL? Is it not? I have gone this long without it..why change now...to break things? Nooooo.....
The only factor I see a bit lacking in Slackware is a decent packaging system, but I LIKE compiling from tarballs. Call me crazy..but do that on your redhat or debian system and the package managers are lost. What happens when you want the newset release of ???....do you wait for someone else to make it for you? Or do you go out and get it yourself?
No decision there for me.
As for glibc2
Keep it up Patrick.
This should be shouted from the highest mountaintop (newsgroup/listserv) on the planet!
I bet this would make for some interesting rebuttal in the court hearings.
This should also be public knowledge...if more people knew this was possible Bill might not have such an upper hand...