the GNU project and the FSFoundation are organizations which try to disseminate that for some reasons, proprietary (not commercial) software is a social problem, and one that can be viably dealt with, by making free sofware. nothing else.
The "practical problems" expression here means: "practical problems relating mixing (in the same project, for example) GPL-licensed software and APSL-licensed software.
Real$ is shaken last week, we are reforming our previdenciary (health care + pensioning) system, basically shafting the public employees (as is yours truly)...
Yeah, yeah, coined by some guy I can't remember to describe IBM's way of splattering sh*t in other company's products. "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", or something like that. Except that this was in the 1980's and now IBM is our friend (or at least, foe of our biggest foe:)
in case of dissolution by bankruptcy, you are right. Here in Brasil, the preferred creditors are the employers (the value of their severance payments); second preferred is the Gov'ment:-). Then the others. Hehe.
But not in the US. Here (BR) every folding or closing company has its "successors", analogue to the inheritors of a physical person. The successors own the remaining assets and debts of the former company. This includes copyrights. So here, it's easy to trace the successors, and ask them to give you/sell you the copyrights. There is no "dangling" rights issue.
Everytime I got in a new class (we moved a lot when I was a kid) I did the same they teach you to do in prision: the first kid (it was normally a boy one foot taller then me, 'cause I was always the youngest in the class) that messed with me got a kick in the balls. In the only ocasion it was a girl (also taller than me), a slap in the face did it. I was sent everytime to the principal's office, my mom was called to the school, bla bla bla, and one year of bliss... no other kid in school wanted to try the baixinho invocado (=fighting shorty)
I don't know about the US, but in BR we have a legal figure called patrio poder (parent's powers) and basically, children have limited privacy rights relating to their parents. For example, a child has no claim to client/attorney or client/doctor secret relating to its father, except of course if the mentioned parent is involved as the other part (sexual abuse or something like that)
With their most plain model, "Celta". You can customize every possible aspect of it (color, interior decoration, all optionals, wheels, etc.) check it if you can read Brazilian Portuguese:-)
I was barking at the original poster (and obviously not at you, sorry if it seemed that way) but to bark is not polite anyway. Sorry. And yes, you were right, and you are right. Yesterday I made an interesting experiment. My wife's cousin is a telecom engineer, and he has worked at Lucent (3 yrs) and some other big telecom companies here in BR. He is visiting us and asked me to look his webmail. In my home-office, I have my machine running Sid and my wife's running Bill's-98. I fired up Mozilla-Firebird in my PC, and he spent a couple of hours sorting the 300+ e-mails he accumulated during his vacation. When he finished, I told him he was not using Windows, and he responded he would never know. Window decorations seemed funny to him, but he did not pay attention. This is a guy who can use complicated CAD programs, telco network management software, and stuff. Point being, again, you are Right(TM). Thanks and sorry again, Massa.
I did not say Linus offered his kernel to the GNU Project, but to the community at large (by GPL-ing it, I mean). And in the spirit of accuracy: GNU exists without Linux; Linux DOES NOT EXIST without GNU.
Linux (=the kernel) does live and die by GNU alone. Yes, GNU... the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Make. Note the absence of "/" indicating procedence, and not combination (as it would indicate the slash in GNU/Linux). There is no Linux without GNU. RMS offered his C compiler*, Linus offered his kernel, others offered other parts, because the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. *and a lot of utilities, and the monstruosity that is Emacs:-)
The moderators, under influence, had this as interesting just before I went to post this. Seriously, put Debian on your server. You'll thank me many many times.
the --sysconfdir=X string ends up in one of the.h files (config.h?) and it propagates thru in your binaries.
Someone has already said it, but...
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GPL = free software, copylefted: protects the [continuing] freedom of the FUTURE users, ensuring the software will STAY free software. BSD = free software, non-copylefted: protects the [somewhat more ample] freedom of the CURRENT users, ensuring they can do [mostly] whatever they want with the code.
The "elevator" or "thumb" is the button that you can drag up/down or left/right in a scroll bar. I understand that in many widget sets (in my case, I am using kde 3.2 with the dotNET theme, and it's true) the elevator is variable-sized, representing the proportion of the size of the window/panel to the size of the entire document there contained. I don't recall because I have not used Win in ages, but it seems that they preferred fixed-sized elevators for some reason, probably to copy the mac interface.
You would need that people transferred their copyrights to modifications to you, so you could continue to double-licence the whole. AND you can't demand it, because the GPL does not allow any other restrictions. Think in cases like the Linux kernel, that has a lot of copyright owners.
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the GNU project and the FSFoundation are organizations which try to disseminate that for some reasons, proprietary (not commercial) software is a social problem, and one that can be viably dealt with, by making free sofware. nothing else.
The "practical problems" expression here means: "practical problems relating mixing (in the same project, for example) GPL-licensed software and APSL-licensed software.
Just a solar eclipse...
why are researchers "disappointed"? are they SCO legal researchers?
Real$ is shaken last week, we are reforming our previdenciary (health care + pensioning) system, basically shafting the public employees (as is yours truly)...
Yeah, yeah, coined by some guy I can't remember to describe IBM's way of splattering sh*t in other company's products. :)
"Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", or something like that.
Except that this was in the 1980's and now IBM is our friend (or at least, foe of our biggest foe
in case of dissolution by bankruptcy, you are right. Here in Brasil, the preferred creditors are the employers (the value of their severance payments); second preferred is the Gov'ment :-). Then the others. Hehe.
But not in the US. Here (BR) every folding or closing company has its "successors", analogue to the inheritors of a physical person. The successors own the remaining assets and debts of the former company. This includes copyrights. So here, it's easy to trace the successors, and ask them to give you/sell you the copyrights. There is no "dangling" rights issue.
Am I the only one left on SlashDot who doesn't even run Windows for gaming?
You are not alone. I don't run Windows.
Everytime I got in a new class (we moved a lot when I was a kid) I did the same they teach you to do in prision: the first kid (it was normally a boy one foot taller then me, 'cause I was always the youngest in the class) that messed with me got a kick in the balls. In the only ocasion it was a girl (also taller than me), a slap in the face did it. I was sent everytime to the principal's office, my mom was called to the school, bla bla bla, and one year of bliss... no other kid in school wanted to try the baixinho invocado (=fighting shorty)
I am sleepy (it's 10:20pm here) and working in the other window (doing some paperwork), so I can't go to bed yet. :(
I don't know about the US, but in BR we have a legal figure called patrio poder (parent's powers) and basically, children have limited privacy rights relating to their parents. For example, a child has no claim to client/attorney or client/doctor secret relating to its father, except of course if the mentioned parent is involved as the other part (sexual abuse or something like that)
I am a KDE 3.2-CVS user. I think my desktop is far morRe:start leading..e usable then my wife's win98. Ok, I'm a software developer.
With their most plain model, "Celta". You can customize every possible aspect of it (color, interior decoration, all optionals, wheels, etc.) :-)
check it if you can read Brazilian Portuguese
I was barking at the original poster (and obviously not at you, sorry if it seemed that way) but to bark is not polite anyway. Sorry.
And yes, you were right, and you are right.
Yesterday I made an interesting experiment. My wife's cousin is a telecom engineer, and he has worked at Lucent (3 yrs) and some other big telecom companies here in BR. He is visiting us and asked me to look his webmail. In my home-office, I have my machine running Sid and my wife's running Bill's-98. I fired up Mozilla-Firebird in my PC, and he spent a couple of hours sorting the 300+ e-mails he accumulated during his vacation.
When he finished, I told him he was not using Windows, and he responded he would never know. Window decorations seemed funny to him, but he did not pay attention. This is a guy who can use complicated CAD programs, telco network management software, and stuff.
Point being, again, you are Right(TM).
Thanks and sorry again,
Massa.
I did not say Linus offered his kernel to the GNU Project, but to the community at large (by GPL-ing it, I mean).
And in the spirit of accuracy: GNU exists without Linux; Linux DOES NOT EXIST without GNU.
Linux (=the kernel) does live and die by GNU alone. Yes, GNU... the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Make. Note the absence of "/" indicating procedence, and not combination (as it would indicate the slash in GNU/Linux). There is no Linux without GNU. RMS offered his C compiler*, Linus offered his kernel, others offered other parts, because the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. :-)
*and a lot of utilities, and the monstruosity that is Emacs
The moderators, under influence, had this as interesting just before I went to post this.
Seriously, put Debian on your server. You'll thank me many many times.
This is a Very, Very insightful post! I could not have described things better. Mod this up, up, up to the top please.
the --sysconfdir=X string ends up in one of the .h files (config.h?) and it propagates thru in your binaries.
GPL = free software, copylefted: protects the [continuing] freedom of the FUTURE users, ensuring the software will STAY free software.
BSD = free software, non-copylefted: protects the [somewhat more ample] freedom of the CURRENT users, ensuring they can do [mostly] whatever they want with the code.
104 dB is (10^0.4) = 2.51188643150958 times louder than 100 dB.
2B = 10 times louder than 1B
2dB = 10^0.1 times louder than 1dB
got it?
I double your bet your program won't run in all GNU-possible platforms.
The "elevator" or "thumb" is the button that you can drag up/down or left/right in a scroll bar. I understand that in many widget sets (in my case, I am using kde 3.2 with the dotNET theme, and it's true) the elevator is variable-sized, representing the proportion of the size of the window/panel to the size of the entire document there contained. I don't recall because I have not used Win in ages, but it seems that they preferred fixed-sized elevators for some reason, probably to copy the mac interface.
You would need that people transferred their copyrights to modifications to you, so you could continue to double-licence the whole. AND you can't demand it, because the GPL does not allow any other restrictions.
Think in cases like the Linux kernel, that has a lot of copyright owners.