So do I. I am a software engineer and I make a very good living at it.
The existence of Free Software and Open Source does not hurt the market for software at all. If you understood what it was all about you would understand that.
If, on the other hand, you're daft enough to believe companies like Microsoft and Alexis De Tocqville you deserve to live in ignorance for the rest of your life.
He opposes this on the grounds of protecting jobs, but he is all for allowing companies to export our most important jobs overseas which is costing thousands of jobs every month.
No, it's not awesome at all. It's terribly sad, because it's just the kind of ammunition that some assholes need to start calling all open source/free software advocates code theives.
NASA will, I think, start to change into something more akin to the FAA. Now that we've seen suborbital flights by private companies (such as the Ansari X prize winner SpaceShipOne by Scaled Composites) I believe that NASA will take on a more regulatory role in space.
Money from NASA should be put into private industry.
The title says that they enforced an expired trademark, the text says that the toy infringed copyright and explains that the patent expired because it was patented in 1980.
Obviously, the author is mixing these three disparate types of IP. They should never be confused. Copyright is the right to copy written works, a patent is a right to control an invention or an idea and a trademark is a symbol or word representing someone's business (such as FedEX or UPS or Kinko's or something).
The author *probably* means that the office of homeland security is enforcing an expired PATENT since the patent was issued in 1980, but I'm guessing.;)
Actually, if you were paying attention, the Church-Turing thesis is not what's being challenged. That thesis mentions nothing about the speed of emulation. It's the CherryOS "author's" claims of 80% of the speed of the host CPU which are preposterous.
All Church-Turing actually talks about is the ability to translate any Program into a Turing machine and to transform any Turing machine into a program.:)
PearPC emulates PPC on ix86 hardware, but it is very slow even with JIT compilation. Many emulation companies spend YEARS getting the emulation up to acceptable/usable levels.
we couldn't do a thing about it since the BSD license doesn't protect the freedom of the software and your freedom to have access to any modified versions of the source you contributed.
Thank goodness it's under the superior GPL license.
Not everyone on slashdot is a pirate and only the most extreme hold the position you mentioned (the "music is just a stream of bits..." position).
I, for instance, am a free software developer and I hate it when people pirate music. Because it makes us all look bad and opens the door for overgeneralizing people, like yourself, who want to view the world in shades of black and white.
I've had it up to the ears with "Shark Week" or "Nature" shows. I don't personally care to learn about where and how a bear shits in the woods for the twentieth time today. I would *much rather* see something on physics, astronomy, chemistry, computers, or mathematics than anything else.
The problem is that I am the one in a million viewer who DOESN'T want to see the "guy-from-down-under" wrestly a croc and warn me to "never try this at home" for the thousandth time when he goes off and does something foolish.
As it will encourage companies with bullshit patents to come after legitimate innovators in the software industry. If Sun had stood up for itself, which it apparently doesn't have the cash to do, it would have shown that EK has a crappy patent to begin with.
The UCCnet project that was mentioned several times in the article was a project that I was one of the lead developers for when I worked for CommerceOne/AppNet.
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Oh, and I neglected to mention. If you take a look at my sig, I am one of those self-same open source/free software advocates.
GJC
So do I. I am a software engineer and I make a very good living at it.
The existence of Free Software and Open Source does not hurt the market for software at all. If you understood what it was all about you would understand that.
If, on the other hand, you're daft enough to believe companies like Microsoft and Alexis De Tocqville you deserve to live in ignorance for the rest of your life.
GJC
GJC
He opposes this on the grounds of protecting jobs, but he is all for allowing companies to export our most important jobs overseas which is costing thousands of jobs every month.
What a great leader. The SOB.
GJC
No, it's not awesome at all. It's terribly sad, because it's just the kind of ammunition that some assholes need to start calling all open source/free software advocates code theives.
I don't want to see that happen.
GJC
Damn fine maneuvering, son. If it wasn't overloaded before, it's sure to get the mother of overloads now! :)
GJC
NASA will, I think, start to change into something more akin to the FAA. Now that we've seen suborbital flights by private companies (such as the Ansari X prize winner SpaceShipOne by Scaled Composites) I believe that NASA will take on a more regulatory role in space.
Money from NASA should be put into private industry.
GJC
The title says that they enforced an expired trademark, the text says that the toy infringed copyright and explains that the patent expired because it was patented in 1980.
;)
Obviously, the author is mixing these three disparate types of IP. They should never be confused. Copyright is the right to copy written works, a patent is a right to control an invention or an idea and a trademark is a symbol or word representing someone's business (such as FedEX or UPS or Kinko's or something).
The author *probably* means that the office of homeland security is enforcing an expired PATENT since the patent was issued in 1980, but I'm guessing.
Later, GJC
Got Linux?
GJC
Correction, IRIX is known to crash, that's one of the reasons SGI is abandoning it.
I helped with a NASA project which used SGI Power Challenge computers and IRIX was the worst version of UNIX I've had the displeasure of working with.
GJC
Don't joke, Darth MacBride might just do it.
Uh... we've had a GUI builder which is tons better than glade for the last two years. :)
I should know.. I wrote it.
http://www.gnustep.org
GJC
This is an excellent demonstration of the Church-Turing hypothesis.
:)
Boiled down, it basically states that any computer can emulate any other.
GJC
the movies. :) Now that would be cool.
GJC
All of the anti-patent stuff I'm seeing is from the EU, which is frustating since it does nothing for those of us here in the United States.
GJC
Add to this the fact that there is a theme engine called Camaelon which can change the default look dramatically.
GJC
Actually, if you were paying attention, the Church-Turing thesis is not what's being challenged. That thesis mentions nothing about the speed of emulation. It's the CherryOS "author's" claims of 80% of the speed of the host CPU which are preposterous.
:)
All Church-Turing actually talks about is the ability to translate any Program into a Turing machine and to transform any Turing machine into a program.
PearPC emulates PPC on ix86 hardware, but it is very slow even with JIT compilation. Many emulation companies spend YEARS getting the emulation up to acceptable/usable levels.
GJC
we couldn't do a thing about it since the BSD license doesn't protect the freedom of the software and your freedom to have access to any modified versions of the source you contributed.
Thank goodness it's under the superior GPL license.
GJC
Not everyone on slashdot is a pirate and only the most extreme hold the position you mentioned (the "music is just a stream of bits..." position).
I, for instance, am a free software developer and I hate it when people pirate music. Because it makes us all look bad and opens the door for overgeneralizing people, like yourself, who want to view the world in shades of black and white.
GJC
Sometimes they are too.
GJC
I've had it up to the ears with "Shark Week" or "Nature" shows. I don't personally care to learn about where and how a bear shits in the woods for the twentieth time today. I would *much rather* see something on physics, astronomy, chemistry, computers, or mathematics than anything else.
The problem is that I am the one in a million viewer who DOESN'T want to see the "guy-from-down-under" wrestly a croc and warn me to "never try this at home" for the thousandth time when he goes off and does something foolish.
GJC
Does anyone actually take what they read in that newspaper seriously?
GJC
I wouldn't switch from Linux, however. I'd put it on one of my many x86 systems. :)
;)
I currently own a Mac, so the whole point is moot in my case anyway.
GJC
OSX blows the doors off windows.
GJC
As it will encourage companies with bullshit patents to come after legitimate innovators in the software industry. If Sun had stood up for itself, which it apparently doesn't have the cash to do, it would have shown that EK has a crappy patent to begin with.
GJC
The UCCnet project that was mentioned several times in the article was a project that I was one of the lead developers for when I worked for CommerceOne/AppNet.
:)
It's interesting to see it in the news.
GJC