No it is about the fact that RAMBUS is evil. They went into a standards body (JEDEC) listened turned around filed for patents on the stuff that was being talked about and turned around and started the lawsuits. They stole the tech on which the patents are based. This makes them evil.
I think that is unfair spendind a fair amount of time in #debian I know that I and many others bash on RHs tech gaffes often but I don't know very many people who claim that they are as bad or worse than M$ mostly trolls.:) Debian snob and proud or it.
Samba for one. GCC for another. HP and Sun both seem to think that Gnome rocks. While it is a small app I would say that XMMS is best in class. And the really great Jabber clients on both Winders and Nix are GPLed. That just off the top of my head.
Microsoft does do this (there is a lot of BSD code in Windows 2000) and I for one do scream bloddy murder. The only thing that makes the Apple case any better is that they at least admit to using Open software (although not GPL they are *not* violating a license.) But I also bitch about them. This is one of the arguments for the GPL there are arguments against it and for the BSD license also. I for one have very mixed feelings about bsd license vs. gpl.
Mossberg has a point,kind of, if you are making something new. My point is the mouse (renaming the damned thing would solve half the problem I prefer trackballs myself) is old tech it is something that has been in *very* common use on almost every machine in the world for many years and the basic things that you do, however illconsidered in the first place (and I will grant some of the things are kind of out there if you were building a new UI),are things that people who have been using computers have been doing every day they use a computer for at least several years and some of these people have still not gotten the concept. So Mossberg's comment would apply to those who invented the whole thing but at this point in the game these people should be able to deal with and they can't this is my point.
Before the Mac and the advent of Windows 3.1 you might have had a point. But at this point it has been several years since computers with mice have been *very* common in both homes and offices I get this question from people who have been working in offices that have been using windows and/or a *nix with the X window system for years. I still get people who can't double click. At this point in the game there is almost no excuse to not understand the basics of how a mouse works. I mean come on my 5 year old son can work a mouse.
that the bootable business card cd does not go away. That little thing kicks ass and is usefull in *many* ways. I'll have to go read what they have to say about mirrors just in case the do go away. Turned out that not getting hired by Linuxcare was a good thing.
I'm not. The without permission part is *funny* yes Eric does ask that you credit the file but since the Jargon File is public domain you do not have to. See this http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/quoting.html
:LISP:/n./ [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa. Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is actually older than any other {HLL} still in use except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable adaptive radiation over the years; modern variants are quite different in detail from the original LISP 1.5. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP now shares the throne with {C}. See {languages of choice}.
All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".
One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada}, are full of unnecessary {crock}s. When the {Right Thing} has already been done once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer languages.
Of course the jabber people did in fact sumbit a RFC and it was turned down. (read about it on jabber.org) and now it turns out that while the ietf argues about 2 protocols with no support at all that jabber is doing *very* well. I think the IETF messed up on this one and should accept the jabber RFC.
a car phone in an episode of "I Love Lucy" from the 50's on nick at night. The handset looked like a regular phone with a twisty cable coming out of it. This tech has been around for a *very* long time. Only now is it affordable.
and we all know how because RAH described the waterbed in a book that they could not get a patent for it right? Snow Crash was published in 1992. Neal Stephenson to the rescue.
The part of version 3 that I don't like is the bit that makes it mandatory to send the source along with any binaries. Not make it possible to get it like it is now but have to send it with the binaries. I do a lot of net installs and maintaince over the net with Debian. This part would easily double or triple the amount of stuff I have to download. I thought 2.2 was good. I just think that RMS is starting to go a bit too far. In particular given that a lot is now done over networks and this would force me to download source that I don't want or need. I think something that is about halfway between the GPL and the BSD licenses as they stand now would be perfect.
Since when? I would think it would be more accurate to state that most of the license snobs here on/. think that any license should meet the OSI standards but also should be defended. The reason you here so much more about the GPL is that it is *hard* to violate the BSD license. Many think this is a good thing and in fact I'm starting to think somewhat that way myself. I have real problems with version 3 of the GPL and pray to gawd that nobody adopts it.
I don't know about KDE (Don't use a "desktop" myself) but I can not imagine life without the Irix theme for E. http://e.themes.org/themes.phtml?action=search&the metxt=irix&submit=Search&odby=download&disptype=no rm&numthemes=10&showmod=off
I'm going to have to learn how to theme just so I can update it since it looks like the person who did it first has fallen off the face of the earth. Buth there are some *very* nice themes out there.
Do you have the nvidia drivers or do you have the nv drivers? Simple hint look at XF86Config-4. My TNT2 pulls ~30 fps in UT. In short you either a troll or an idiot. Either way send me your card.
You need to go read the GPL and then understand that even if what the poster said is true that this is not a violation of the GPL (besides only one of the things he named is under the GPL) but in any case this may be a violation of the GPL but that would depend on *many* details that we don't have.
For me Linux is the right OS for the job. I have had much better luck with UT under Linux than I ever had with it under Winders. Just as fast, more stable, and I don't have to reboot to get all my other good apps when I get done. While a Linux desktop is not for everyone it is *very* good for those of us who know how to set it up. I simply have no jobs for which Windows is the right OS and it would appear that many people agree with me.:)
Even though I don't use RH I must say the above is well put. xinetd is a Good Thing. While I disagree with the GCC thing I can see how you might have come to the conclusion that you come to. Everybody, myself included, that I know who uses Wine use the cvs stuff anyway so no problem there. And yes dispite what I may think of many aspects of RH much of the GPLed code that comes from there is good work. Also writing Alan Cox's paycheck has got to be worth something.:) All in all good work.
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No it is about the fact that RAMBUS is evil. They went into a standards body (JEDEC) listened turned around filed for patents on the stuff that was being talked about and turned around and started the lawsuits. They stole the tech on which the patents are based. This makes them evil.
I think that is unfair spendind a fair amount of time in #debian I know that I and many others bash on RHs tech gaffes often but I don't know very many people who claim that they are as bad or worse than M$ mostly trolls. :)
Debian snob and proud or it.
Samba for one. GCC for another. HP and Sun both seem to think that Gnome rocks. While it is a small app I would say that XMMS is best in class. And the really great Jabber clients on both Winders and Nix are GPLed. That just off the top of my head.
Microsoft does do this (there is a lot of BSD code in Windows 2000) and I for one do scream bloddy murder. The only thing that makes the Apple case any better is that they at least admit to using Open software (although not GPL they are *not* violating a license.) But I also bitch about them. This is one of the arguments for the GPL there are arguments against it and for the BSD license also. I for one have very mixed feelings about bsd license vs. gpl.
Mossberg has a point ,kind of, if you are making something new. My point is the mouse (renaming the damned thing would solve half the problem I prefer trackballs myself) is old tech it is something that has been in *very* common use on almost every machine in the world for many years and the basic things that you do, however illconsidered in the first place (and I will grant some of the things are kind of out there if you were building a new UI),are things that people who have been using computers have been doing every day they use a computer for at least several years and some of these people have still not gotten the concept. So Mossberg's comment would apply to those who invented the whole thing but at this point in the game these people should be able to deal with and they can't this is my point.
Before the Mac and the advent of Windows 3.1 you might have had a point. But at this point it has been several years since computers with mice have been *very* common in both homes and offices I get this question from people who have been working in offices that have been using windows and/or a *nix with the X window system for years. I still get people who can't double click. At this point in the game there is almost no excuse to not understand the basics of how a mouse works. I mean come on my 5 year old son can work a mouse.
Right here http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/download.ep l
that the bootable business card cd does not go away. That little thing kicks ass and is usefull in *many* ways. I'll have to go read what they have to say about mirrors just in case the do go away. Turned out that not getting hired by Linuxcare was a good thing.
I'm not. The without permission part is *funny* yes Eric does ask that you credit the file but since the Jargon File is public domain you do not have to. See this http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/quoting.html
:LISP: /n./ [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa. Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is actually older than any other {HLL} still in use except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has undergone considerable adaptive radiation over the years; modern variants are quite different in detail from the original LISP 1.5. The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP now shares the throne with {C}. See {languages of choice}.
All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values; this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".
One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example that most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and {Ada}, are full of unnecessary {crock}s. When the {Right Thing} has already been done once, there is no justification for {bogosity} in newer languages.
Of course the jabber people did in fact sumbit a RFC and it was turned down. (read about it on jabber.org) and now it turns out that while the ietf argues about 2 protocols with no support at all that jabber is doing *very* well. I think the IETF messed up on this one and should accept the jabber RFC.
a car phone in an episode of "I Love Lucy" from the 50's on nick at night. The handset looked like a regular phone with a twisty cable coming out of it. This tech has been around for a *very* long time. Only now is it affordable.
and we all know how because RAH described the waterbed in a book that they could not get a patent for it right? Snow Crash was published in 1992.
Neal Stephenson to the rescue.
The part of version 3 that I don't like is the bit that makes it mandatory to send the source along with any binaries. Not make it possible to get it like it is now but have to send it with the binaries. I do a lot of net installs and maintaince over the net with Debian. This part would easily double or triple the amount of stuff I have to download. I thought 2.2 was good. I just think that RMS is starting to go a bit too far. In particular given that a lot is now done over networks and this would force me to download source that I don't want or need. I think something that is about halfway between the GPL and the BSD licenses as they stand now would be perfect.
Since when? I would think it would be more accurate to state that most of the license snobs here on /. think that any license should meet the OSI standards but also should be defended. The reason you here so much more about the GPL is that it is *hard* to violate the BSD license. Many think this is a good thing and in fact I'm starting to think somewhat that way myself. I have real problems with version 3 of the GPL and pray to gawd that nobody adopts it.
I don't know about KDE (Don't use a "desktop" myself) but I can not imagine life without the Irix theme for E. http://e.themes.org/themes.phtml?action=search&the metxt=irix&submit=Search&odby=download&disptype=no rm&numthemes=10&showmod=off
I'm going to have to learn how to theme just so I can update it since it looks like the person who did it first has fallen off the face of the earth. Buth there are some *very* nice themes out there.
Do you have the nvidia drivers or do you have the nv drivers? Simple hint look at XF86Config-4. My TNT2 pulls ~30 fps in UT. In short you either a troll or an idiot. Either way send me your card.
You need to go read the GPL and then understand that even if what the poster said is true that this is not a violation of the GPL (besides only one of the things he named is under the GPL) but in any case this may be a violation of the GPL but that would depend on *many* details that we don't have.
For me Linux is the right OS for the job. I have had much better luck with UT under Linux than I ever had with it under Winders. Just as fast, more stable, and I don't have to reboot to get all my other good apps when I get done. While a Linux desktop is not for everyone it is *very* good for those of us who know how to set it up. :)
I simply have no jobs for which Windows is the right OS and it would appear that many people agree with me.
I don't have to worry about that I have a cron job that runs rdate every night. Oh gawd I have become that which I hate. :)
Since she sumbitted the story knowing full well what was going to happen one would assume she knew about it in advance.
Procmail procmail is a *very* good thing.
You might find some of this information interesting.
http://people.redhat.com/dcm/guadec.html
So go to Woody as up to date as anything out there and great for clients.
Even though I don't use RH I must say the above is well put. xinetd is a Good Thing. While I disagree with the GCC thing I can see how you might have come to the conclusion that you come to. Everybody, myself included, that I know who uses Wine use the cvs stuff anyway so no problem there. And yes dispite what I may think of many aspects of RH much of the GPLed code that comes from there is good work. Also writing Alan Cox's paycheck has got to be worth something. :) All in all good work.