That one has been repeated here over and over and over.
GPL is a license.
when I give you some software, I have the copyright, meaning you can only use it, and do some "fair use" stuff with it... nothing more.
GPL is saying, ok, you can do some other things with the software, e.g., freely copy and distribute verbatim copies, modify it (things copyright law does not allow you to do) and I promise you can't be prosecuted for doing these otherwise illegal things (here's the catch) if and only if you also do....
Now, if you don't want to do...., you simply refrain from using the aditional rights I waived you in the license. And you are ok. But if you infringe the terms of the license, then you are violating my copyright in the work in case. And you are open to prosecution, civil and criminal both.
#1: 12-step program. works, really works. I have direct contact with two "programme" people: my mom (got rid of 1 pack of cigarretes that she smoked everyday for 42 years); her husband is an AA and did not drink for the last 20+ years.
#2: sheer willpower. My dad got rid of smoke (smoked half a pack per day for 20+ years) this way. I smash my caffeine habit when it becomes very nasty this way. Beware: the return rate here is much higher then #1... My case: I stayed caffeine-free (no colas, no coffee, no cocoa, etc) for a full year. but today, I drink at least 1 liter of coffee everyday, or else, the same symptoms you described appear.
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case in point - the secretary that uses MS word can probably tell me very accurately and concisely what word does. And if someone else wrote their own clone of word, i bet she'd find the differences. The secretary isn't a programmer. She's the customer - the end user. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Case in point -- my wife is a District Attorney. She types in 40+ pages/day of legalese. I yanked Word from her machine, installed OOo, themed the toolbars/menus so she could use all the buttons/submenus in the familiar places, substituted her desktop shortcut, and... voila... she would not have known the difference if I had not told her. Ok, she does less sofisticated page designs than a financial-firm secretary? maybe... but maybe not. Not a single complaint. She is a computer USER for the last 10 years (the time she has been a D.A.). No programming, no other computer skills, just Word, web, mail, icq and Sims....
hmmm. let's see... I have one of those lying down, unused... US$ 0. ITX etc etc... US$ 200. my bank account balance after paying household bills... US$ 0. Which one? Now THAT's insightful, informative and interesting.:-)
my wife is a district attorney, and she uses 1 (one) program in her computer at the office: MS Works 95 over MS Windows 95... since... 95, when she got the position, and I helped her buy her Compaq 486sx2 with 8MB RAM and 230MB HD. She was my gf at the time. I stuffed the boy with Works, did a backup batch file, which she runs every week, plugged the HP500C printer, that is also in use up to the present date, and voila... the typed/edited/printed 40-200 pages of documents every work day in the last eight and a half years and it just works. Even connects to dial-up internet if needed.
Which hand? Maybe you're lucky and left handed, but my arrow keys are in the right side of the keyboard, the same side as my mouse. To use them with my left hand (hours and hours a day...) would be very, very uncomfortable. As to being slow, it's configurable (at least on KDE and moz), and you can make it quicker holding ctrl, alt, or whatever you have configured to be "mode page up/down on scroll wheel"...
I, for one, welcome our female companion overladies... And I not only have had a wife for the last six years, but I have a DNA-certified offspring to prove that... (gasp) (drum roll) I effectively (at least five years ago) had sex with the forementioned female companion...
No, this is slashdot, where almost everyone thiks that, because of the law, at least the US Code section 17 in the United states, they have the USCongress given right to distribute material that is derived from GPL'd material that some of us had contributed thru the years. Oh, yes, and yell and scream when the other part, while using and profiting from the use of GPL'd code, "forgets" to abide to the terms of the copyrighted material to which they are licensed.
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No, you can not quote the entire opus.
That one has been repeated here over and over and over.
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...., you simply refrain from using the aditional rights I waived you in the license. And you are ok. But if you infringe the terms of the license, then you are violating my copyright in the work in case. And you are open to prosecution, civil and criminal both.
GPL is a license.
when I give you some software, I have the copyright, meaning you can only use it, and do some "fair use" stuff with it... nothing more.
GPL is saying, ok, you can do some other things with the software, e.g., freely copy and distribute verbatim copies, modify it (things copyright law does not allow you to do) and I promise you can't be prosecuted for doing these otherwise illegal things (here's the catch) if and only if you also do
Now, if you don't want to do
Easy, huh?
Helen Girardi: (to a late student) What is the reason for your tardiness?
Grace Polk: Take a guess. He's still in his jammies.
Remember, he does not want an uber-expensive solution (and half your assets counts as pretty expensive to:)
#1: 12-step program. works, really works. I have direct contact with two "programme" people: my mom (got rid of 1 pack of cigarretes that she smoked everyday for 42 years); her husband is an AA and did not drink for the last 20+ years.
#2: sheer willpower. My dad got rid of smoke (smoked half a pack per day for 20+ years) this way. I smash my caffeine habit when it becomes very nasty this way. Beware: the return rate here is much higher then #1... My case: I stayed caffeine-free (no colas, no coffee, no cocoa, etc) for a full year. but today, I drink at least 1 liter of coffee everyday, or else, the same symptoms you described appear.
Hope I have helped.
in Spanish (Argentina and Spain at least) it's Estadunidense (something like UnitedStater)...
So, your post was USofA-centric.
I'm american, too, just not the same way you are.
No primates are vegetarians. Don't do that.
case in point - the secretary that uses MS word can probably tell me very accurately and concisely what word does. And if someone else wrote their own clone of word, i bet she'd find the differences. The secretary isn't a programmer. She's the customer - the end user.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Case in point -- my wife is a District Attorney. She types in 40+ pages/day of legalese. I yanked Word from her machine, installed OOo, themed the toolbars/menus so she could use all the buttons/submenus in the familiar places, substituted her desktop shortcut, and... voila... she would not have known the difference if I had not told her. Ok, she does less sofisticated page designs than a financial-firm secretary? maybe... but maybe not. Not a single complaint.
She is a computer USER for the last 10 years (the time she has been a D.A.). No programming, no other computer skills, just Word, web, mail, icq and Sims....
contact me (my-slashdot-nick at email d0t com) and I'll happily give you the address. I am in desperate need of a new firewall appliance... ;-)
Yeah, somebody adjusted the Matrix...
Maybe if you just paid up quickly the begging season would take less time... :)
Porting netbsd is not like porting Linux. It's simpler. It's much less work. Take a look.
hmmm. let's see... :-)
I have one of those lying down, unused... US$ 0.
ITX etc etc... US$ 200.
my bank account balance after paying household bills... US$ 0.
Which one?
Now THAT's insightful, informative and interesting.
my wife is a district attorney, and she uses 1 (one) program in her computer at the office: MS Works 95 over MS Windows 95... since... 95, when she got the position, and I helped her buy her Compaq 486sx2 with 8MB RAM and 230MB HD. She was my gf at the time. I stuffed the boy with Works, did a backup batch file, which she runs every week, plugged the HP500C printer, that is also in use up to the present date, and voila... the typed/edited/printed 40-200 pages of documents every work day in the last eight and a half years and it just works. Even connects to dial-up internet if needed.
but there is no such term as XWindows.
X Window System
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X11
or
X
but no XWindows.
Which hand? Maybe you're lucky and left handed, but my arrow keys are in the right side of the keyboard, the same side as my mouse. To use them with my left hand (hours and hours a day...) would be very, very uncomfortable.
As to being slow, it's configurable (at least on KDE and moz), and you can make it quicker holding ctrl, alt, or whatever you have configured to be "mode page up/down on scroll wheel"...
If you are 16hr/day using your mouse, 6-7days/week, you'll need to reduce number of mouse/keyboard round trips after a while.
I, for one, welcome our female companion overladies...
And I not only have had a wife for the last six years, but I have a DNA-certified offspring to prove that... (gasp) (drum roll) I effectively (at least five years ago) had sex with the forementioned female companion...
Guess what... he is!
your browser is botched, maybe? here (firebird 0.7) all is ok.
your sig's link doesn't get anywhere, at least to me...
No, this is slashdot, where almost everyone thiks that, because of the law, at least the US Code section 17 in the United states, they have the USCongress given right to distribute material that is derived from GPL'd material that some of us had contributed thru the years. Oh, yes, and yell and scream when the other part, while using and profiting from the use of GPL'd code, "forgets" to abide to the terms of the copyrighted material to which they are licensed.
1, 2. see the GPL vs. kernel discussion, on lkml or the "fast food version" on http://www.kerneltrap.org/
3. atta boy, way to go!
ok. now you illuminated me.