Ha. I'm a swede (Sweden is a member of the EU). And we, as all the Nordic countries, do have free speech protection and protection of the press. In addition, we have a requirement for governmental transparency; all govermental documents not deemed critical for the security of our country, must be accessible to the public. We _are_ screeming bloody murder about these things! Just we are but 8 million people, so no one listens to us...
There is no point defending a _non-existent_ freedom.
If you give away all your freedom not to have it taken away, what have you won?
Btw, do you know that the US recently published a list of private persons who they think are "terrorists"; without any proofs, or even indications of that, and that several named Europeans are really unhappy, and that thy have written newspaper articles? Eauropeans with nothing to do with e.g. bin Laden? That ordinary citizens here have filed lawsuits against airline companies who refuses to take them aboard as the look a bit arabic?
People are loosing their freedom, in the name of freedom!
In addition, GRUB supports several ways of booting an OS, in addition to loading a (possibly compressed) Linux kernel. This includes the OpenBoot specification, supported by some of *BSD, and some other (native) ways of booting several BSDs. And as you said, it understunds filesystems. You can even do a find to find a file with a particular name on any partition, from within its shell. It understunds ext2fs and fat, and some other. And it understunds netbooting using BOOTP and TFTP. And, on top of it all, it feels like the real boot monitor of a workstation! You can even install it from within itself (when booting from a floppy)!
Here in sweden, we have a system where there is no National ID card (as they have in most of the other EU countries), but a standard for ID cards. That means that any organisation might create ID cards, given their cards, and their procedures for creating and assigning them, meets some given standars. No one is required to carry a card, but you'l need one to do transactions at your bank (if not using an ATM), to show you'r old enought to buy alcohol or cigarettes and so on. In most EU copuntries, they do have national ID cards, and you are required to carry it. In addition, they'l check it more often on people who looks different, like goths, punks and so on. Do I need to say harrasements? And now with the chengen, they'r trying to force a national id card on us too. We where told that with chengen, we wouldn't need a passeport to travel to other EU states. But now, our standard ID cards are not valid, and we need a National ID card - basicly one more passeport. No one wants it, but the politicians...
And what happens when millions of unhappy songswappers DOSes RIAA? RIAA just can't have that amount of bandwith and computrons... Muahaha! RIAA thinks they are strong on anyting, just because they have strong lawyers.
cause here in Europe (at least in my country, which is Sweden), you don't have to pay for education. You pay for books (or lend them frome someone), and you pay for your apt and food, but not for your education as such. And there's a student loan with kinda nice repay-plan (at least partly based on your income) you can get for paying your rent and food. You don't need to be rich, only smart, to get a good education...
There is a plug-in for TCL/TK. I don't know about Python and other languages (e.g., Scheme and other LISPs). But perheaps, no one else cares about stupid web-crap:]
Hmz, most cool hacks are done, or at least originating from outside the US these days. There are slashdot alternatives in other countries. There are even cooler systems (check out phpnuke, and the multilingual version of it hacked together by french mandrakesoft). Most cryptohacking is done outside the US because of stupid laws there (GNUPG, and kerberos (there's an enhanced version available from KTH in sweden) comes to mind).
And yes, this is a troll answer on a troll. Muahahah!
If it's what I think, it's Mechano (or something, in swedish, it's Mekano anyway) - all sorts of thin metal bars and sticks and wheels. You could easily hook motors from old casett-recorders to it, too. Oh those times!
Unless they have signed over their copyrights (to Linus), any submitter of a patch of significant size (a patch having a work status) is a co-owner. But, IANAL. I don't know if any employee of FSF have submitted any patches of significant size, but it's not impossible.
One of the problems with your law system, which is not about individuals, but about the principle, is that each pay his/her own bill. In most european countries, the loser pays the bill of the winner. This means that you'l get good lawyers even if you'r poor - if you have a good case.
Not automatically, but very easy. Prolly, you should be able to make a template.spec-file (for rpms, I don't know about.deb) for each window-manager/widget-set, and then only change the name/filenameprefixes in it for each theme. You could even make a shellscript which, given the name of the theme, generates it:)
So, if you know about.deb, or about themeing for different window-managers/widget-set, please contact me via mail, and we could start creating something!
Nahnah. You haven't touched a LISP the last 20 years or so, have you? There's a popular LISP dialect called Scheme. It has a huge function library called slib, and there are bindings for a hell lot of C libraries for Scheme (it is also very easy to create new such bindings for most implementations of scheme).
Then it is partly not his code. He can't use his code independently, and he can not release the GPLed code he used under another license - that would be theft.
No one is forced to use my code. Byu it for the price of giving me (and anyone else) the right to use your modifications, or code your own.
GPL is not a virus infecting others code. Closed Source licenses are viruses infecting other companies sources, so that they can not show them to the public even if they wanted to.
They are essential to an OS because you (or someone else for you) build the OS using them. Without a compiler, an assembler, a linker an editor and a debugger (the last one may not be that cruzial, though), you won't get any binaries. It's like saying you don't need any bricks to have a house. Certainly not. But someone needs bricks in order to build that house for you.
Perheaps you can combine that with Glade (and possibly gladelib), and some graphical CVS client, too, and you have a really nice GUI-developement-suit....
But if I start a company, and then takes someones (who I don't know at all) GPLed code and incorporates in my own non-free product, and does it in a quite visible way, so that the author of the GPLed work can't but sue me? Remember I don't know him, and that I'm evil and steal his code to test the GPL rather than earn money (I may even do that, too, just to prove the point), shouldn't really matter? "I thought it was legal - GPL is just a pice of toiletpaper"?
Linux and other Free Software made it pretty well long before the companies came to support them. They'l do well in the future too, even if the companies dies. they just won't get as much press, and some of the developers might not be able to hack as much anymore. But they won't _die_. There are too many people who likes to hack for that top happen...
What makes piece of text, say describing how a bear throws sticks into a river from a little bridge and runs to the other side to see if his stick was the first to arrive, expressive? It is expressive because there are millions of ways to describe his action, from very detailed ones describing even the length of the stick, to a short one as the one I wrote here, to one describing his inner feeelings about the action. A pice of computer code is in the same way expressive, since there are millions of codes that describe the same thing, and the choice of how to write the code is just a question of personal likes and estheatics. I will exemplify with the code to calculate the faculty of a number, written twice in the same programming language (Scheme):
(define (faculty x)
(if (= x 0)
1
(* x (faculty (- x 1)))))
and
(define (faculty x)
(define (faculty current x)
(if (= x 0)
current
(faculty (* current x) (- x 1))))
(faculty 1 x))
I think we should be able to ignore children dying--I bet people think Unix programmers are horrible creatures. It appears that POSIX is broken. How do we fix it?
Nah, it does not really matter, since
Signal Value Action Comment
SIGCHLD 20,17,18 B Child stopped or terminated
B Default action is to ignore the signal.
So setting the action of SIGCHLD to SIG_DFL will actually do what you want. It's just an inconvienence that the semantics of setting it to ignore it differs. But from what I know, you can still set it to SIG_DFL on BSD too, and it gets ignored, so doing that does what you want, and is portable.
Tha! System calls differs. Available standard library calls differ. Linux have a lot from Solaris (Sys V), as well as from other systems (e.g. X/Open). In addition, there are a lot of smaller differences, like in the signal handling. From teh signal(2) man-page on Linux:
The original Unix signal() would reset the handler to SIG_DFL, and System V (and the Linux kernel and libc4,5) does the same. On the other hand, BSD does not reset the handler, but blocks new instances of this signal from occurring during a call of the handler. The glibc2 library follows the BSD behaviour.
...
According to POSIX (B.3.3.1.3) you must not set the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN. Here the BSD and SYSV behaviours differ, causing BSD software that sets the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN to fail on Linux.
In addition, I'm still to se a BSD with a SysV-style init (altought one evil Linux distro still uses the inferior BSD-style init, Slackware), but that's a user-space difference, and probably changable without too much hassle...
Slashdot Mirror
Ha. I'm a swede (Sweden is a member of the EU). And we, as all the Nordic countries, do have free speech protection and protection of the press. In addition, we have a requirement for governmental transparency; all govermental documents not deemed critical for the security of our country, must be accessible to the public. We _are_ screeming bloody murder about these things! Just we are but 8 million people, so no one listens to us...
There is no point defending a _non-existent_ freedom.
If you give away all your freedom not to have it taken away, what have you won?
Btw, do you know that the US recently published a list of private persons who they think are "terrorists"; without any proofs, or even indications of that, and that several named Europeans are really unhappy, and that thy have written newspaper articles? Eauropeans with nothing to do with e.g. bin Laden? That ordinary citizens here have filed lawsuits against airline companies who refuses to take them aboard as the look a bit arabic?
People are loosing their freedom, in the name of freedom!
Actually, I do the same thing using fvwm, maximized windows, and a program I wrote - Xmerge, which merges two windows into one with two frames.
In addition, GRUB supports several ways of booting an OS, in addition to loading a (possibly compressed) Linux kernel. This includes the OpenBoot specification, supported by some of *BSD, and some other (native) ways of booting several BSDs. And as you said, it understunds filesystems. You can even do a find to find a file with a particular name on any partition, from within its shell. It understunds ext2fs and fat, and some other. And it understunds netbooting using BOOTP and TFTP. And, on top of it all, it feels like the real boot monitor of a workstation! You can even install it from within itself (when booting from a floppy)!
Here in sweden, we have a system where there is no National ID card (as they have in most of the other EU countries), but a standard for ID cards. That means that any organisation might create ID cards, given their cards, and their procedures for creating and assigning them, meets some given standars. No one is required to carry a card, but you'l need one to do transactions at your bank (if not using an ATM), to show you'r old enought to buy alcohol or cigarettes and so on. In most EU copuntries, they do have national ID cards, and you are required to carry it. In addition, they'l check it more often on people who looks different, like goths, punks and so on. Do I need to say harrasements? And now with the chengen, they'r trying to force a national id card on us too. We where told that with chengen, we wouldn't need a passeport to travel to other EU states. But now, our standard ID cards are not valid, and we need a National ID card - basicly one more passeport. No one wants it, but the politicians...
And what happens when millions of unhappy songswappers DOSes RIAA? RIAA just can't have that amount of bandwith and computrons... Muahaha! RIAA thinks they are strong on anyting, just because they have strong lawyers.
cause here in Europe (at least in my country, which is Sweden), you don't have to pay for education. You pay for books (or lend them frome someone), and you pay for your apt and food, but not for your education as such. And there's a student loan with kinda nice repay-plan (at least partly based on your income) you can get for paying your rent and food. You don't need to be rich, only smart, to get a good education...
There is a plug-in for TCL/TK. I don't know about Python and other languages (e.g., Scheme and other LISPs). But perheaps, no one else cares about stupid web-crap :]
Hmz, most cool hacks are done, or at least originating from outside the US these days. There are slashdot alternatives in other countries. There are even cooler systems (check out phpnuke, and the multilingual version of it hacked together by french mandrakesoft). Most cryptohacking is done outside the US because of stupid laws there (GNUPG, and kerberos (there's an enhanced version available from KTH in sweden) comes to mind).
And yes, this is a troll answer on a troll. Muahahah!
If it's what I think, it's Mechano (or something, in swedish, it's Mekano anyway) - all sorts of thin metal bars and sticks and wheels. You could easily hook motors from old casett-recorders to it, too. Oh those times!
Unless they have signed over their copyrights (to Linus), any submitter of a patch of significant size (a patch having a work status) is a co-owner. But, IANAL. I don't know if any employee of FSF have submitted any patches of significant size, but it's not impossible.
One of the problems with your law system, which is not about individuals, but about the principle, is that each pay his/her own bill. In most european countries, the loser pays the bill of the winner. This means that you'l get good lawyers even if you'r poor - if you have a good case.
What's wrong with a standard, ethernet-connected postscript printer? Can't they just throw a 802.11 network card at it?
Not automatically, but very easy. Prolly, you should be able to make a template .spec-file (for rpms, I don't know about .deb) for each window-manager/widget-set, and then only change the name/filenameprefixes in it for each theme. You could even make a shellscript which, given the name of the theme, generates it :)
.deb, or about themeing for different window-managers/widget-set, please contact me via mail, and we could start creating something!
So, if you know about
"So where's the mirror of the source?" I would say... Does anyone have a copy?
Nahnah. You haven't touched a LISP the last 20 years or so, have you? There's a popular LISP dialect called Scheme. It has a huge function library called slib, and there are bindings for a hell lot of C libraries for Scheme (it is also very easy to create new such bindings for most implementations of scheme).
Then it is partly not his code. He can't use his code independently, and he can not release the GPLed code he used under another license - that would be theft.
No one is forced to use my code. Byu it for the price of giving me (and anyone else) the right to use your modifications, or code your own.
GPL is not a virus infecting others code. Closed Source licenses are viruses infecting other companies sources, so that they can not show them to the public even if they wanted to.
They are essential to an OS because you (or someone else for you) build the OS using them. Without a compiler, an assembler, a linker an editor and a debugger (the last one may not be that cruzial, though), you won't get any binaries. It's like saying you don't need any bricks to have a house. Certainly not. But someone needs bricks in order to build that house for you.
Perheaps you can combine that with Glade (and possibly gladelib), and some graphical CVS client, too, and you have a really nice GUI-developement-suit....
http://www.fuckedcompany.com
Why do the better allways lose? Because the not-so-good is allways made by the Evil. And Evil allways wins, 'cause they have more means for winning.
But if I start a company, and then takes someones (who I don't know at all) GPLed code and incorporates in my own non-free product, and does it in a quite visible way, so that the author of the GPLed work can't but sue me? Remember I don't know him, and that I'm evil and steal his code to test the GPL rather than earn money (I may even do that, too, just to prove the point), shouldn't really matter? "I thought it was legal - GPL is just a pice of toiletpaper"?
Linux and other Free Software made it pretty well long before the companies came to support them. They'l do well in the future too, even if the companies dies. they just won't get as much press, and some of the developers might not be able to hack as much anymore. But they won't _die_. There are too many people who likes to hack for that top happen...
What makes piece of text, say describing how a bear throws sticks into a river from a little bridge and runs to the other side to see if his stick was the first to arrive, expressive? It is expressive because there are millions of ways to describe his action, from very detailed ones describing even the length of the stick, to a short one as the one I wrote here, to one describing his inner feeelings about the action. A pice of computer code is in the same way expressive, since there are millions of codes that describe the same thing, and the choice of how to write the code is just a question of personal likes and estheatics. I will exemplify with the code to calculate the faculty of a number, written twice in the same programming language (Scheme):
(define (faculty x)
(if (= x 0)
1
(* x (faculty (- x 1)))))
and
(define (faculty x)
(define (faculty current x)
(if (= x 0)
current
(faculty (* current x) (- x 1))))
(faculty 1 x))