There can't be a "special license" to do LGPL version. Once such version is out, well, it's out.
Why not? If the copyright owner* grants a license to do a LGPL driver for a non-Linux OS, it doesn't necessarily mean the entire project has to be cross-licensed to LGPL, does it?
And yes, for the record, cross-licensing the entire thing as GPL/LGPL might be a good idea too.
* This is assuming "the copyright owner" is just one person or a small group of people who agree on doing such a thing.
Nevermind that, I think that the whole objection to a BSD license in this case would be that such a license could not prevent MS (or Oracle, or Apple) from "embracing and extending" the whole filesystem so that the "standard that everybody uses" is no longer free
We are going through something similar in Mexico, where the Federal Goverment wants everyone to register their phone and tie it to their "Universal ID number"
This started early this year, and supposedly unregistered phones will stop working sometime in the first quarter of 2010, however I fail to see how this is in the best interests of phone companies, who gladly sell airtime cards and sim chips to anyone who asks...
I for one, plan on resisting this as long as I can
This, and also as some posters above have pointed out, people in a few years will be squicked out by the thought of eating "dirty animals" and will prefer their perfectly square (or round) steaks with the right amount of fat, coming from a nice, clean vat
Too bad that by then, movies will come in 1.5TB holographic discs with gigapixel resolution, three hours of previous and advertisements and subtitles and audio in every major language in Earth.
I read the Goddamned book a few years ago, and I am fully aware that Machiavelli was talking about the mercenaries of his time...
STILL, since Machiavelli's advice on mercenaries and allied troops boils down to "do everything possible to avoid using them, since they don't have any true allegiance to you or your goals", I find it still valid now, considering the political costs of using Private Military Companies like Blackwater or DynCorp.
Yeah, of course if this theoretical "Google Ad-running Netbook" is within the same price range as the other netbooks out on the market right now it is simply not interesting.
But if Google were to offer an ARM-based netbook at a considerably cheaper price than the current batch of Atom-based netbooks (even subsidized), then it would become a lot more interesting to get the hardware to run another OS, wouldn't it?
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You can get a functional, Linux compatible, cheap "home printer" too.
My HP1018 has been working like a champ since day one.
Autodetected and autoconfigured by Ubuntu, too!
There can't be a "special license" to do LGPL version. Once such version is out, well, it's out.
Why not? If the copyright owner* grants a license to do a LGPL driver for a non-Linux OS, it doesn't necessarily mean the entire project has to be cross-licensed to LGPL, does it?
And yes, for the record, cross-licensing the entire thing as GPL/LGPL might be a good idea too.
* This is assuming "the copyright owner" is just one person or a small group of people who agree on doing such a thing.
I think I have a (theoretical) solution to that.
Lets say that the copyright owners of btrfs create the windows/osx/solaris/aix drivers?
Or more realistically, if the copyright owners of btrfs grant an interested third party a special license to create a lgpl'd btrfs driver?
Nevermind that, I think that the whole objection to a BSD license in this case would be that such a license could not prevent MS (or Oracle, or Apple) from "embracing and extending" the whole filesystem so that the "standard that everybody uses" is no longer free
If you only want the "recipes" on how to do stuff, I suggest the cookbook:
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html
It certainly sounds like you have acquired some experience...
Why not write some instructions yourself and post them to the forums? You can be part of the solution.
Linus reversed the polarity of the electron flow
What prevents other, non-GPL operating systems from using Btrfs?
Writing drivers for a filesystem is not a "derivative work" is it?
Missed Moment of Awesome. The correct Soviet joke in this case should be:
"In Soviet Russia, the Program controls the Brain through the Headset!"
While a Patent Troll is a Patent Troll is a Patent Troll, I think you are right.
It would be poetic justice for Microsoft to have to pay large damages for infringing on a trivial patent.
Also obligatory:
"I love the Emotiv EPOC headset, it's so bad"
Thanks to the efforts of nameless heroes, the evil LHC has been foiled again, ensuring the survival of earth...
Britney uses EMACS
According to Tolkien himself:
Of course, he was the one who popularized the use of that word in relation to sallow-faced, hunched, warlike humanoids...
We are going through something similar in Mexico, where the Federal Goverment wants everyone to register their phone and tie it to their "Universal ID number"
This started early this year, and supposedly unregistered phones will stop working sometime in the first quarter of 2010, however I fail to see how this is in the best interests of phone companies, who gladly sell airtime cards and sim chips to anyone who asks...
I for one, plan on resisting this as long as I can
Meatgate is this:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1923204/Scientists-Create-Artificial-Meat?art_pos=1&art_pos=2
I for one, welcome our new cloned Kobe Beef for $1.99 per kilogram overlords...
Guess i'll order Tea, Earl Grey, hot to go with that meat then.
You can order that. However, what you will get is a drink that is almost, but not entirely unlike tea...
This, and also as some posters above have pointed out, people in a few years will be squicked out by the thought of eating "dirty animals" and will prefer their perfectly square (or round) steaks with the right amount of fat, coming from a nice, clean vat
Now is the time to start financing the guys who work on the TOR and Freenet protocols
Too bad that by then, movies will come in 1.5TB holographic discs with gigapixel resolution, three hours of previous and advertisements and subtitles and audio in every major language in Earth.
I read the Goddamned book a few years ago, and I am fully aware that Machiavelli was talking about the mercenaries of his time...
STILL, since Machiavelli's advice on mercenaries and allied troops boils down to "do everything possible to avoid using them, since they don't have any true allegiance to you or your goals", I find it still valid now, considering the political costs of using Private Military Companies like Blackwater or DynCorp.
Are you sure Machiavelli's concerns about mercenaries are obsolete?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Professional_Resources_Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_Services_Group
If it's "remarkably simple to parse" then why it is so hard to find a non-Adobe application that can easily edit pdf files?
Yeah, of course if this theoretical "Google Ad-running Netbook" is within the same price range as the other netbooks out on the market right now it is simply not interesting.
But if Google were to offer an ARM-based netbook at a considerably cheaper price than the current batch of Atom-based netbooks (even subsidized), then it would become a lot more interesting to get the hardware to run another OS, wouldn't it?