If Microsoft--no, every software company--would thoroughly document their formats, protocols, etc. the open source world would benefit greatly. Projects like Samba, Wine, Open Office, etc. would no longer have to guess and reverse engineer to be compatable with Microsoft, and by extension compatable with most of the personal computing world.
IMHO this is the best thing that could happen. Microsoft and other companies would still be able to run a business based upon their closed source applications, but the openly documented formats would allow others (open source or not) to produce competing products. This would mean programs such as real player, windows media player, Microsoft Office, etc. would sink or float based upon the qualities of the program rather than market share. Likewise, open source programs would be available and if they work better than closed alternatives, they would become more widely used.
True competition such as this produces better open and closed source programs, and thus documentation seems to be the best thing to help progress open source.
New program "GPLster". Allows corporations to freely and anonymously exchange gpl'd code for use in their proprietary programs. Thousands of corporations are thought to be trading gpl'd code every day with this software.
Free software leaders argue that gplster stifles innovation and doesn't allow those who wrote the code to get proper credit. RIAA, MPAA, et al. argue that "information wants to be free", thus justifying ignoring the license. They also argue that many author's did not want to use the GPL but were forced to due to basing their code upon another previously written GPL piece of software. A court hearing will be held next Wednesday to decide the future of GPLster.
What if this person has tenure? This isn't a corporate job. University professor's have protections from things like this. (although it may or may not apply to this situation, I have no idea.)
I checked mandrake's site and transgaming.com but couldn't find any mention of this "gamers distribution" for 69.99 or whatever anywhere. I also checked google but no luck. I would think there would be an announcement since this is supposed to be out in 19 days... anyone have links?
For me, most client applications are fine to be closed source. I think operating systems, KDE, GNOME, etc should be open source to prevent vendor lock-in and keep a free market. Office suites should have published file formats, but it's okay to for them to be closed source as long as the file format is open (which is what the open office license says, iirc). MP3 players, games, irc clients, etc. Those are all fine by me to be closed source.
So I guess for me it boils down to closed source being okay, but open, published formats/protocols/etc are a must.
I do, however, tend to think servers (ftp, http, jabber, etc.) should be open source... but that's another story...
Yeah, but you can't hold Linus to the same standards, because he's not the one competing... you may only hold businesses like Redhat or Caldera, or whatever up to those standards. And to the best of my knowledge, they haven't released their distro's under this kernel version.
Wouldn't these people have problems with the name of Microsoft's J# programming language being so similar to their product's name? Seems like they were around before J#... but I'm not sure...
This is a really good point. He can easily protect his copyright by not allowing search engins to index his site. (Unlike Napster, which didn't provide any opt-out option) This is not a hard or unreasonable thing to ask him to do if he doesn't want to be indexed.
Also, unlike napster and music, I think google (dunno about other image search engins) only shows small thumbnails of images. If you want to get the full image, you click on the link and go to the site. It's more like going on napster and only being able to listen to a midi of a song, then being able to click on a link and go to a site where you can buy an album... or something like that...
Lemme get this straight. They have an old picture of this guy from whenever he got his license. The name on his drivers license had to be different than that on the woman's old marriage certificate... and he was probably a different age than her ex-husband too... I'm sure there was also a lot of other information in this guy's record that wouldn't have matched the woman's claims...
Did they check anything besides an old picture of him??
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Use these two programs:
i x.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot /appl/at/
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
ftp://jur
Streamripper to download the stream, and at to schedule it for a single time. Use cron instead of at to schedule a recurring thing.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,368,227'.WKU.&OS=PN/6,368,227& RS=PN/6,368,227
If Microsoft--no, every software company--would thoroughly document their formats, protocols, etc. the open source world would benefit greatly. Projects like Samba, Wine, Open Office, etc. would no longer have to guess and reverse engineer to be compatable with Microsoft, and by extension compatable with most of the personal computing world.
IMHO this is the best thing that could happen. Microsoft and other companies would still be able to run a business based upon their closed source applications, but the openly documented formats would allow others (open source or not) to produce competing products. This would mean programs such as real player, windows media player, Microsoft Office, etc. would sink or float based upon the qualities of the program rather than market share. Likewise, open source programs would be available and if they work better than closed alternatives, they would become more widely used.
True competition such as this produces better open and closed source programs, and thus documentation seems to be the best thing to help progress open source.
Stupid Eisner..
I wonder how much sway MPAA has in Taiwan. Certainly in the US this little "problem" would be fixed quickly...
Better mark Taiwan up on the Axis of Evil list too..
Yeah! I even read something about windows tatoo's. Imagine how quickly they're working after hearing that. Yikes.
I would say the BSD license or whatnot is free. As in you're free to do what you want. GPL isn't free in that way.
Stupid people, I tell ya... *sigh*
New program "GPLster". Allows corporations to freely and anonymously exchange gpl'd code for use in their proprietary programs. Thousands of corporations are thought to be trading gpl'd code every day with this software.
Free software leaders argue that gplster stifles innovation and doesn't allow those who wrote the code to get proper credit. RIAA, MPAA, et al. argue that "information wants to be free", thus justifying ignoring the license. They also argue that many author's did not want to use the GPL but were forced to due to basing their code upon another previously written GPL piece of software. A court hearing will be held next Wednesday to decide the future of GPLster.
Are your MS products getting exploited all the time?
MS sez: Don't use other products because of frequent exploits! That would just be "giving into terrorism".
Not only can they shift the blame, they can also increase loyalty. Good deal for MS, I say.
What if this person has tenure? This isn't a corporate job. University professor's have protections from things like this. (although it may or may not apply to this situation, I have no idea.)
I checked mandrake's site and transgaming.com but couldn't find any mention of this "gamers distribution" for 69.99 or whatever anywhere. I also checked google but no luck. I would think there would be an announcement since this is supposed to be out in 19 days... anyone have links?
I think all the really interesting discoveries are in hardware. Microsoft is mostly a software company. That's probably why.
I was reading the Linux Journal 2001 Readers' Choice awards and it places Debian at #2 behind Redhat. Kinda interesting page, I thought.
So I guess for me it boils down to closed source being okay, but open, published formats/protocols/etc are a must.
I do, however, tend to think servers (ftp, http, jabber, etc.) should be open source... but that's another story...
Bren.
Yeah, but you can't hold Linus to the same standards, because he's not the one competing... you may only hold businesses like Redhat or Caldera, or whatever up to those standards. And to the best of my knowledge, they haven't released their distro's under this kernel version.
Wouldn't these people have problems with the name of Microsoft's J# programming language being so similar to their product's name? Seems like they were around before J#... but I'm not sure...
If you're using ed and gcc, you problably won't get much work done at all! I mean, despite being the standard text editor, ed really sucks to write code in©
Or maybe it's just me, because I *still* can't figure out how to use ed© Oh well©
¥yep, I know you were actually just abbreviating editor© Or at least I hope so©©© :
Bren©
Google image search is simply listing information©
SmartTags changes information ¥in a sense© Lots of people aren't comfortable with their pages being changed©
I'm sure MS wouldn't have had any trouble pushing a feature that provided links to similar sites or such in a separate frame from the web page ¥as opposed to on the page, ala Smart Tags©©© oh wait, that's already been done with no problems©
Anyway, I believe that is the major difference© I could be wrong tho©©©
Bren©
Also, unlike napster and music, I think google (dunno about other image search engins) only shows small thumbnails of images. If you want to get the full image, you click on the link and go to the site. It's more like going on napster and only being able to listen to a midi of a song, then being able to click on a link and go to a site where you can buy an album... or something like that...
Bren.
At 400 Mbps, that is 400/8 = 50 MBps©
Suppose that one keystroke is translated by the keyboard and sent to the bus as one byte©
1024 bytes is one megabyte©
50 megabytes is equal to 51,200 bytes©
So that is equal to 51,200 keystrokes per second©
Additionally, say a keyboard can handle a maximum of 5 keys held down at one time, before a key must be released to accept more data©
That means 5 concurrent keypresses/second = 10,240 ¥5keys/sec
Say each key press travels a distance of ©5cm downwards, or ©005m downwards©
Using the equations F=ma and a = d/t, along with the fact that time = 1/10240 seconds per ¥5 keypresses©©©
The acceleration can be solved such that each ¥5keys must be accelerated at 51©2 m/s
Then solve for F, we find that each ¥5keys must also have a force of 51©2 Newtons behind it© ¥assuming an average key has a mass of 1g
Obviously not a practical technology for the likes of me©
Bren©
No, no... you're doing it all wrong. It should be:
Employees know who s/h/it was.
Bren.
If it gets rid of the "first post" trolls, great!
Anonymous checks! Ohhh, I want some!!
Did they check anything besides an old picture of him??
Really Fast Messaging, aka RFM. That would be a confusingly funny acronym.