I'm just hoping for a day when Apple does the same thing - watching the Apple fanboys against the FOSS fanboys go at it and the dual Apple/FOSS fanboys having aneurysms would be an incredibly entertaining set of threads!
If it has happened, please oh please post the link!
They could have changed their minds and released the drivers under a different license, kept the source to themselves, and there's nothing anyone could have done about it.
Kuhn credited the community for using a "friendly" strategy to enforce GPL by quietly working with Microsoft to inform it of its obligations, and by helping the company into compliance.
If you're over zealous about it, MS will just stop contributing. They really don't have much to gain financially from this and as far as PR is concerned, well, I have a feeling that MS' actions won't be good enough for some in the F/OSS community.
I see. A bunch of lawyers, administering the IP for the grandkids and great gradnkids who are sitting on their asses because of the work of their (great) grandfather.
It's one thing for the author/creator to benefit from his hard work and maybe even the kids if the author creates something and dies before the copyright runs out. But having IP becoming an income stream for the great grandkids? I'm not sure that's what copyright was intended to do.
I took it to mean that the AI machine would turn Buddhist - "'realize the impermanence of everything" - is one of the major Buddhist beliefs. From what I've seen, Buddhists in general are pretty engaged with life and humanity.
AT&T had more than enough monopoly money, so Bell Labs didn't patent their research. And we (everyone other than AT&T) are collectively better off for it.
That's beside the point. My point was that it can take quite a while for an invention to recover any of its associated R&D costs; if at all.
Thus governments of the day can adjust it up or down - up likely means more inventions but higher costs to the eventual consumer, lower means cheaper toys but less R&D.
You make it sound so neat and easy. It's Government your talking about.
Despite his considerable intellect, he didn't accomplish much of note at M$ and now has sunk even lower. He should stick to cooking
and taking photos.
I call arriving as a poor slob and leaving with several hundred million dollars quite an accomplishment. If that's sinking low, gimme a lead weight baby!
make it the lesser of three, 20 years. or 5 years from the first licensed product containing the patent being available for sale, or 7 years from the first infringing product being available for sale.
The only thing I can see there it wouldn't worth it for the inventor is if he invented something that can't be priced to recoup the investment in R&D , let alone make a profit, in that time frame.
Then there are inventions that are ahead of their time and there aren't too many profitable applications for a while - the LASER comes to mind. The Laser was invented in 1958 at Bell Labs, bit it didn't see widespread use until what, the 1980s?
So, what will happen in a time from of 7 years or less would be that the inventor has spent all that time and money on R&D and would be unable to reap the benefits.
Some studies suggest Federal dams are mostly resonsible for drop from 16 million to 300,000 wild fish per year
Everything has problems: there is no perfect solution to energy. Considering the horrible state of the World's fisheries and wild Salmon (farmed Salmon has its own issues), I say dams are not an option where the Salmon are migrating unless a way ( fish ladders don't work well at all) is developed.
The venerable Mac way of binding a document to an application is the creator code, a four-letter (actually integer) value, unique to an application, attached as metadata to a document.
Now, let me tell you about the time I drove my Studabaker with my best girl. I wore an onion on my belt because that was the style back then, and Benny Goodman was all the rage, we'd go down and get ice cream on Coney Island, war was breaking out and...what were we talking about again?
For a few years, I manually did updates of my XP system and I actually checked what packages were to be installed. I flagged the WGA to not install. No problem. Then with the rash of assholes writing malware for XP, I turned on automatic updates. One day, I decide to do some maintenance because even with 2GB of memory, I occasionally got the Windows is low in virtual memory warnings even though I was just running Thunderbird, Firefox, and maybe one other program.When I logged into the admin account, a message box shows up saying that I don't have WGA installed and that I should click "Here" to install it or I will keep getting these messages. I didn't. I never got the messages in my user account but only when I logged into my admin account. Interesting - huh? So, one day I relented, and installed WGA to see if in fact it would flag me - I got my XP Pro license through one of those college online programs and I was curious. I came out fine.
I haven't run wireshark to see what evil may lie in the heart of my XP machine - yet.
I'm hoping it would get Midnight Oil back together, go to the Scientology HQ, and sing in front of the building like they did for Exxon. Of course, there would have to be some sort of connection with the environment for them to take notice or maybe not. Anything to get them recording again.
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Maybe we can get him to swear on his pilot's license? He seams to really love that.
If it has happened, please oh please post the link!
As they say, justice delayed is justice denied.
Yeah. And I'd like to know how this actually helps Turing? He's dead. Is it helping his family?
I've read about what was done to him. His life was made horrible his last few years and now this statement is released benefiting who now?
They could have changed their minds and released the drivers under a different license, kept the source to themselves, and there's nothing anyone could have done about it.
Kuhn credited the community for using a "friendly" strategy to enforce GPL by quietly working with Microsoft to inform it of its obligations, and by helping the company into compliance.
If you're over zealous about it, MS will just stop contributing. They really don't have much to gain financially from this and as far as PR is concerned, well, I have a feeling that MS' actions won't be good enough for some in the F/OSS community.
I really hate having to have one hand on the stick, and the other tying to set flight controls and hit the keys to "look around" when I'm landing.
Neither of the two launch very often, so both will be needed.So much for the Japanese doing it smaller and faster.
I just verified it.
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At least Hulu lets me use Firefox.
It's one thing for the author/creator to benefit from his hard work and maybe even the kids if the author creates something and dies before the copyright runs out. But having IP becoming an income stream for the great grandkids? I'm not sure that's what copyright was intended to do.
I took it to mean that the AI machine would turn Buddhist - "'realize the impermanence of everything" - is one of the major Buddhist beliefs. From what I've seen, Buddhists in general are pretty engaged with life and humanity.
I thought you said "insanely fragrant violations" and I was scratching my head there for a while.
AT&T had more than enough monopoly money, so Bell Labs didn't patent their research. And we (everyone other than AT&T) are collectively better off for it.
That's beside the point. My point was that it can take quite a while for an invention to recover any of its associated R&D costs; if at all.
That's all I meant.
You make it sound so neat and easy. It's Government your talking about.
Despite his considerable intellect, he didn't accomplish much of note at M$ and now has sunk even lower. He should stick to cooking and taking photos.
I call arriving as a poor slob and leaving with several hundred million dollars quite an accomplishment. If that's sinking low, gimme a lead weight baby!
make it the lesser of three, 20 years. or 5 years from the first licensed product containing the patent being available for sale, or 7 years from the first infringing product being available for sale.
The only thing I can see there it wouldn't worth it for the inventor is if he invented something that can't be priced to recoup the investment in R&D , let alone make a profit, in that time frame.
Then there are inventions that are ahead of their time and there aren't too many profitable applications for a while - the LASER comes to mind. The Laser was invented in 1958 at Bell Labs, bit it didn't see widespread use until what, the 1980s? So, what will happen in a time from of 7 years or less would be that the inventor has spent all that time and money on R&D and would be unable to reap the benefits.
Some studies suggest Federal dams are mostly resonsible for drop from 16 million to 300,000 wild fish per year
Everything has problems: there is no perfect solution to energy. Considering the horrible state of the World's fisheries and wild Salmon (farmed Salmon has its own issues), I say dams are not an option where the Salmon are migrating unless a way ( fish ladders don't work well at all) is developed.
I can't comment on other fish.
Nuclear Technology has come a looooong way in 40 years. That's something to stress to the anti-nukes.
The waste is another sticking point to the anti-nukes now.
The porn binding would be FUCK?
Ooohhhhh, my head.
Now, let me tell you about the time I drove my Studabaker with my best girl. I wore an onion on my belt because that was the style back then, and Benny Goodman was all the rage, we'd go down and get ice cream on Coney Island, war was breaking out and...what were we talking about again?
I haven't run wireshark to see what evil may lie in the heart of my XP machine - yet.
Dirk Diggler and Roller Girl on the set!
I made a bee line to the memory tests and based on my browsing habits, Firefox is the winner.
I'm hoping it would get Midnight Oil back together, go to the Scientology HQ, and sing in front of the building like they did for Exxon. Of course, there would have to be some sort of connection with the environment for them to take notice or maybe not. Anything to get them recording again.