At a 12k mile radius, i imagine it will be used to provide internet for a continent or two.
12000 square miles != 12k mile radius. Total math fail by both you and the GP. 12,000 square miles would be a bit less than 61 miles radius. You guys did learn basic geometry, correct?
Author was contracted, not employed; the work in question was done on his own time. Your condemnation is out of line.
Except that you don't know that anything he claims is actually true. So your condemnation of someone else's condemnation is out of line. Anyone can create a blog and create some post claiming that X, Y, Z company "stole" their code. That in no way makes anything this guy claims remotely true. Secondly, if it was he would have already contacted a lawyer rather than creating drama and posting his drama to Slashdot. This guy is trying to stir the pot because he's disgruntled at being fired because he was most likely just a shitty web monkey who was one of 1000s of people rolling their own shitty PHP web frameworks.
But it's not stealing, right? You still have access to the code your wrote, no? Or are you claiming they took away your copy of the code? You gotta love all the mental gymnastics on this site about how piracy isn't theft yet the violation of the copyright to OSS code is almost always called "stealing" or "theft".
Nobody has any idea what the specifics of this guy's employment arrangement were,
Yet it's amazing how many people are willing to believe everything he says and bash this company. All you need to do is claim that someone is violating the GPL (whether the claim is right or not) and you get frothing idiots to believe whatever you say. If the guy had such a clear cut case he'd have gone to a lawyer already since that is a rather obvious answer to his question rather than creating a blog and posting to Slashdot to try to smear his former employer.
The deal would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. However, most economists think this isn't enough and does not remove the threat that the nation's AAA credit rating could be downgraded.
Of course it's not going to do anything substantial. You really thought the Republicans were fighting this fight truly to solve and end the debt woes of this country rather than politicking for 2012? Especially when the terms of last 3 Republican presidents accounted for $9.5 trillion of the $14 trillion this country carries? This in no way makes excuses Obama pushing even more debt on pile, but the Republicans hardly have a case for being "fiscally conservative" when Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr piled on 67% of the current debt.
How do you know the guy was actually ripped off rather than just making a post to smear his former employer because he's disgruntled? Oh right, it's because he claimed that they are violating the GPL so he must be a good guy!
I'm working with an Oracle Enterprise installation, and it just cannot compete with the 30M rows that the Hypertable db on my laptop can serve up in a couple of seconds
Then you have incompetents running your database if it's having issues with a measly 30 million rows. That's fucking childs play. It's not uncommon for a enterprise databases to be handling hundreds of millions if not billions of rows of data and they do it just fine in the hands of people who aren't incompetent.
This is bad, right? Aren't we against companies buying up patents from other companies because they had no hand in the patent filing or "innovation"? Or is this now okay because it's Google?
Did you miss the part from the article that this was a bug in the JVM since well before Oracle even took over? Oh right, you probably didn't. Who cares about pesky facts when we can bash Oracle instead.
He was a fail troll yet got multiple people to fall for it? It's amazing how easy it is for people like the GP to continue to bait people with such obvious trolling.
I like that this is the direction we are headed; gov't telling private companies how it's done......
What do you mean "we are headed"? The government has been doing this for decades. In case you didn't realize it, the CAFE standards were first enacted 36 years ago.
I'd much rather trade the HDMI for some sort of Ethernet, and maybe a few GPIOs or something.
Great, but the point of this is to actually be hooked up to a monitor to use it as a computer.
I see something like this as much less of a "game console", and much more of a device I'd glue to my alarm system, and to my sprinkler system, and to my thermostat, and to my garage door opener, etc..etc...etc...
It's not a "game console" nor is it meant to be a microcontroller like you apparently want to use it as.
Mod parent up. There is no stipulation in the GPL that source code must accompany any distribution of binaries. Total myth.
Then you better make sure rms knows this since he's the one apparently pertuating this "total myth". You know, since he was the one who wrote the email saying that Emacs was in violation of the GPL.
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Except that in most places McDonalds pays more than $8/hour to flip burgers
Good thing your specialty isn't geography. You're about 2600 miles off the mark for where Stanford resides.
You guys remember the age of sanity, when people did go running and crying to the courts when their FUCKING FEELINGS were hurt?
So the age of sanity is now?
No, that's not even roughly correct. It would be a circle with a diameter of about 124 miles.
Where did you get the 2 * Pi from? The area of a disk is pi times radius squared. The actual answer is sqrt(12000/pi) which equals about 61.8.
At a 12k mile radius, i imagine it will be used to provide internet for a continent or two.
12000 square miles != 12k mile radius. Total math fail by both you and the GP. 12,000 square miles would be a bit less than 61 miles radius. You guys did learn basic geometry, correct?
Author was contracted, not employed; the work in question was done on his own time. Your condemnation is out of line.
Except that you don't know that anything he claims is actually true. So your condemnation of someone else's condemnation is out of line. Anyone can create a blog and create some post claiming that X, Y, Z company "stole" their code. That in no way makes anything this guy claims remotely true. Secondly, if it was he would have already contacted a lawyer rather than creating drama and posting his drama to Slashdot. This guy is trying to stir the pot because he's disgruntled at being fired because he was most likely just a shitty web monkey who was one of 1000s of people rolling their own shitty PHP web frameworks.
But it's not stealing, right? You still have access to the code your wrote, no? Or are you claiming they took away your copy of the code? You gotta love all the mental gymnastics on this site about how piracy isn't theft yet the violation of the copyright to OSS code is almost always called "stealing" or "theft".
I'm also sure the guy is a knob and the code is worthless
Most likely. It's probably some junky and buggy PHP framework.
Nobody has any idea what the specifics of this guy's employment arrangement were,
Yet it's amazing how many people are willing to believe everything he says and bash this company. All you need to do is claim that someone is violating the GPL (whether the claim is right or not) and you get frothing idiots to believe whatever you say. If the guy had such a clear cut case he'd have gone to a lawyer already since that is a rather obvious answer to his question rather than creating a blog and posting to Slashdot to try to smear his former employer.
The deal would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. However, most economists think this isn't enough and does not remove the threat that the nation's AAA credit rating could be downgraded.
Of course it's not going to do anything substantial. You really thought the Republicans were fighting this fight truly to solve and end the debt woes of this country rather than politicking for 2012? Especially when the terms of last 3 Republican presidents accounted for $9.5 trillion of the $14 trillion this country carries? This in no way makes excuses Obama pushing even more debt on pile, but the Republicans hardly have a case for being "fiscally conservative" when Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr piled on 67% of the current debt.
How do you know the guy was actually ripped off rather than just making a post to smear his former employer because he's disgruntled? Oh right, it's because he claimed that they are violating the GPL so he must be a good guy!
I'm working with an Oracle Enterprise installation, and it just cannot compete with the 30M rows that the Hypertable db on my laptop can serve up in a couple of seconds
Then you have incompetents running your database if it's having issues with a measly 30 million rows. That's fucking childs play. It's not uncommon for a enterprise databases to be handling hundreds of millions if not billions of rows of data and they do it just fine in the hands of people who aren't incompetent.
I'm calling the Canadian authorities on you since that song has been ruled offensive!! How dare you post those offensive lyrics!
This is bad, right? Aren't we against companies buying up patents from other companies because they had no hand in the patent filing or "innovation"? Or is this now okay because it's Google?
Did you miss the part from the article that this was a bug in the JVM since well before Oracle even took over? Oh right, you probably didn't. Who cares about pesky facts when we can bash Oracle instead.
Whoosh? GP was joking, bro.
He was a fail troll yet got multiple people to fall for it? It's amazing how easy it is for people like the GP to continue to bait people with such obvious trolling.
Yeah because the numerous bugs and security vulnerabilities in the Sun version of the JVM was such great "quality" in itself, right?
I like that this is the direction we are headed; gov't telling private companies how it's done......
What do you mean "we are headed"? The government has been doing this for decades. In case you didn't realize it, the CAFE standards were first enacted 36 years ago.
I'd much rather trade the HDMI for some sort of Ethernet, and maybe a few GPIOs or something.
Great, but the point of this is to actually be hooked up to a monitor to use it as a computer.
I see something like this as much less of a "game console", and much more of a device I'd glue to my alarm system, and to my sprinkler system, and to my thermostat, and to my garage door opener, etc..etc...etc...
It's not a "game console" nor is it meant to be a microcontroller like you apparently want to use it as.
Any doubts this PC wasn't going to happen should now disappear as this alpha board is expected to be almost the same as the final production unit.
Because nothing ever goes wrong, right?
Mod parent up. There is no stipulation in the GPL that source code must accompany any distribution of binaries. Total myth.
Then you better make sure rms knows this since he's the one apparently pertuating this "total myth". You know, since he was the one who wrote the email saying that Emacs was in violation of the GPL.
What argument?
That people can unintentionally violate the GPL. You know, the entire point of this whole incident?
How can it be a false accusation if rms admits that it's a GPL violation himself?