"Eat your own dog food" means you should have to use the software you are developing. It is a common phrase among developers. When developers use it, the software is "dogfood" because it's not done yet (i.e. not fit for human consumption). The idea is that, by the time they are done, the software *will be* fit for human consumption. This ideal ending condition will never happen if the developers never use the software they are writing.
You're right to be sceptical of my recollection. I spent some time yesterday looking for a copy of this preliminary ruling and I couldn't find it. But something caused these parties to settle.
Frequently when a judge lays out his reasoning in a preliminary motion, it gives the parties a clue as to what issues the judge thinks are significant in the case to come. In judging a preliminary ruling, the judge assumes facts in dispute in favor of the non-moving party. This can often tip the moving party as to how much they can expect if they can actually prove the facts they assert.
The case was settled before it reached trial. It was settled in part because of the opinion of the judge ruling of the judge in the preliminary injunction stage. The judge found no harm at all, much less irreparable harm, after Nusphere released the source.
In the MySQL v. Nusphere case, the judge was unconcerned with the period of time after Nusphere released its code in accoprdance with the GPL. The judge ruled that the court would focus its attention on the 4 month period of time when Nusphere was in violation and not pay attention to the later period when they were were in compliance.
MySQL, with the assitance of the FSF, tried to argue that once the GPL had been breached, Nusphere could not remedy that by releasing all of its modified source and that they needed to renegotiate a new license. The court did not accept that argument.
Anyone seen the new Hormel TV ads? They crack me up every time I see them. But really, who wants more Spam -- whether it be luncheon meatlike substance or UCE?
Petitioning the court to act sua sponte will be a more rapid route to relief than starting a case from scratch and taking it through the courts. Along the way, the same avenues of appeal will be available to MS, but the benefit is that a significant question can be addressed quickly.
Look at this case. Here in 2002, we have a decision about acts which occurred in 1998 in violation of a 1995 consent decree to an earlier antitrust complaint filed by the DoJ. If MS begins to play fast and loose with the ruling, a remedy can be achieved much more quickly
Mars and Venus actually share an important feature -- they've both lost most of their hydrogen. Thus, there's no water on Venus and very little atmosphere at all on Mars.
When there is little protection from Solar winds, molecules in the atmosphere are dissociated into ions. The hydrogen then gets its temperature raised and some of the hydrogen leaks out into space never to return to the gravity well.
Now, I'm not saying that the Earth's atmosphere will all boil off during a magnetic field reversal, but the effects on the ground and to the atmosphere would be profound.
It's turned out to be a pretty portable kernel. It runs on my Sharp Zaurus as well as large clusters and IBM mainframes. The initial development was very x86-centric, and it still is to some extent because that's where most of the users are, but most of the growth in the size of the tree is all of the different architectures supported.
I see the BitKeeper debate as one of ideology v. pragmatism. The GNU ideologue says "Use only free software" and the pragmatist says "Use free software if its up to the task". I've always sided with pragmatists.
In short: message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you don't actually get anything DONE. -- Linus Torvalds
So at the time I started work on Linux in 1991, people assumed portability would come from a microkernel approach. You see, this was sort of the research darling at the time for computer scientists. However, I am a pragmatic person, and at the time I felt that microkernels (a) were experimental, (b) were obviously more complex than monolithic Kernels, and (c) executed notably slower than monolithic kernels. Speed matters a lot in a real-world operating system, and so a lot of the research dollars at the time were spent on examining optimization for microkernels to make it so they could run as fast as a normal kernel. The funny thing is if you actually read those papers, you find that, while the researchers were applying their optimizational tricks on a microkernel, in fact those same tricks could just as easily be applied to traditional kernels to accelerate their execution.
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It works just fine here on my ProGear from SonicBlue. I'll be rebulding the OS and window manager sometime soon so that I have more applications.
The FSF is not the holder of the copyright to the Linux Kernel so that anything that they say is not binding on Torvalds and Co. It is the Linux developers who have to decide how the GPL applies.
The crucial part of the wording of the GPL that you need to worry about is distributing an "integrated product". There is a real difference between your situation and NVidia's and your lawyer has (rightfully) recognized it.
I think that the real problem with 60 Hz. is flourescent lighting. Practically anything looks better than a screen which is being redrawn in sync with the (otherwise unseen) 60 Hz. flourescent lights.
If MS requires NDAs from all people seeking information about their protocols, those would be "reasonable and non-discrimnatory" as the term is currently used.
You can't contribute anything. Any problems you may find may be a result of the NVidia driver not behaving well with 2.5. The LK team has no interest (and I maintain that they should have no interest) in maintaining binary compatibility for modules between major versions.
So, it's probably better for the LK developers if the NVidia driver *dosn't* compile as they won't have to sift briken NVidia out of the meangingful reports.
The point of a firewall to to stand between your PC and the Internet to stop undesired connections from the outside world onto your local network. You haven't stopped that at all unless you make all packets go in one NIC and out another before getting to your local network.
I'm suprised no one addressed the real legal question here: can he be held to have agreed to the EULAs that the installer clicked "Yes" on.
The installer was acting as your agent as you allowed him access to your machine for the purpose of installing the software. Any EULA agreement he agreed binds you as well.
This is why the old canard about getting a minor to instll software so that the EULAs are not enforcable against you is just an Internet hoax. As soon as you authorize someone to do something, they become your agent.
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"Eat your own dog food" means you should have to use the software you are developing. It is a common phrase among developers. When developers use it, the software is "dogfood" because it's not done yet (i.e. not fit for human consumption). The idea is that, by the time they are done, the software *will be* fit for human consumption. This ideal ending condition will never happen if the developers never use the software they are writing.
Get a command line, type (this is the hard part, I'm sure you've forgotten how to type a command) ftp ftp.mozilla.org and press the big enter key.
You're right to be sceptical of my recollection. I spent some time yesterday looking for a copy of this preliminary ruling and I couldn't find it. But something caused these parties to settle.
Frequently when a judge lays out his reasoning in a preliminary motion, it gives the parties a clue as to what issues the judge thinks are significant in the case to come. In judging a preliminary ruling, the judge assumes facts in dispute in favor of the non-moving party. This can often tip the moving party as to how much they can expect if they can actually prove the facts they assert.
The case was settled before it reached trial. It was settled in part because of the opinion of the judge ruling of the judge in the preliminary injunction stage. The judge found no harm at all, much less irreparable harm, after Nusphere released the source.
In the MySQL v. Nusphere case, the judge was unconcerned with the period of time after Nusphere released its code in accoprdance with the GPL. The judge ruled that the court would focus its attention on the 4 month period of time when Nusphere was in violation and not pay attention to the later period when they were were in compliance.
MySQL, with the assitance of the FSF, tried to argue that once the GPL had been breached, Nusphere could not remedy that by releasing all of its modified source and that they needed to renegotiate a new license. The court did not accept that argument.
Instead of being used by Lisp.
Anyone seen the new Hormel TV ads? They crack me up every time I see them. But really, who wants more Spam -- whether it be luncheon meatlike substance or UCE?
And who says TiVo users never watch ads?
Petitioning the court to act sua sponte will be a more rapid route to relief than starting a case from scratch and taking it through the courts. Along the way, the same avenues of appeal will be available to MS, but the benefit is that a significant question can be addressed quickly.
Look at this case. Here in 2002, we have a decision about acts which occurred in 1998 in violation of a 1995 consent decree to an earlier antitrust complaint filed by the DoJ. If MS begins to play fast and loose with the ruling, a remedy can be achieved much more quickly
...at the lack of scientific knowledge here on /.
Mars and Venus actually share an important feature -- they've both lost most of their hydrogen. Thus, there's no water on Venus and very little atmosphere at all on Mars.
When there is little protection from Solar winds, molecules in the atmosphere are dissociated into ions. The hydrogen then gets its temperature raised and some of the hydrogen leaks out into space never to return to the gravity well.
Now, I'm not saying that the Earth's atmosphere will all boil off during a magnetic field reversal, but the effects on the ground and to the atmosphere would be profound.
It's turned out to be a pretty portable kernel. It runs on my Sharp Zaurus as well as large clusters and IBM mainframes. The initial development was very x86-centric, and it still is to some extent because that's where most of the users are, but most of the growth in the size of the tree is all of the different architectures supported.
I see the BitKeeper debate as one of ideology v. pragmatism. The GNU ideologue says "Use only free software" and the pragmatist says "Use free software if its up to the task". I've always sided with pragmatists.
It works just fine here on my ProGear from SonicBlue. I'll be rebulding the OS and window manager sometime soon so that I have more applications.
We doan need no steenkin' Microsoft.
The FSF is not the holder of the copyright to the Linux Kernel so that anything that they say is not binding on Torvalds and Co. It is the Linux developers who have to decide how the GPL applies.
The crucial part of the wording of the GPL that you need to worry about is distributing an "integrated product". There is a real difference between your situation and NVidia's and your lawyer has (rightfully) recognized it.
I think that the real problem with 60 Hz. is flourescent lighting. Practically anything looks better than a screen which is being redrawn in sync with the (otherwise unseen) 60 Hz. flourescent lights.
the process of hearing complaints could be vastly speeded up if MS decides to play fast and loose.
If MS requires NDAs from all people seeking information about their protocols, those would be "reasonable and non-discrimnatory" as the term is currently used.
IBM volunteered to run one for after the feature freeze.
You can't contribute anything. Any problems you may find may be a result of the NVidia driver not behaving well with 2.5. The LK team has no interest (and I maintain that they should have no interest) in maintaining binary compatibility for modules between major versions.
So, it's probably better for the LK developers if the NVidia driver *dosn't* compile as they won't have to sift briken NVidia out of the meangingful reports.
It was on the front page and I had a Funny/Insightful/Interesting/Underrated comment but by the time I had entered it, the story had disappeared.
There's always some overhead in filtering packets. I don't get unacceptable download times. All of the speed tests I've run have been acceptable.
The point of a firewall to to stand between your PC and the Internet to stop undesired connections from the outside world onto your local network. You haven't stopped that at all unless you make all packets go in one NIC and out another before getting to your local network.
buy second ethernet card
install into unused 486
install linux
do {
read firewall HOWTO
make ipchains rules
reboot and test
} until works
My estimate: 8 hours.
...yes, you agreed to all those EULAs.
I'm suprised no one addressed the real legal question here: can he be held to have agreed to the EULAs that the installer clicked "Yes" on.
The installer was acting as your agent as you allowed him access to your machine for the purpose of installing the software. Any EULA agreement he agreed binds you as well.
This is why the old canard about getting a minor to instll software so that the EULAs are not enforcable against you is just an Internet hoax. As soon as you authorize someone to do something, they become your agent.