Just count how many times Tokyo has been completely destroyed in anime series and movies...
Godzilla, Ultraman, Mothra, Akira, the Angels in Evangelion... just to name some of them...
My interpretation is that people living in Tokyo have a love-hate relationship with their city just as New Yorkers do... Or like we do here in Mexico City.
They dont need to "buy" a whole country, as you pointed out, its not economically responsible... they only need to move to a country with a more benign disposition towards them.
Already the authorities of the city of Vancouver and the province of British Columbia have approached Microsoft letting them know that they would never sue them for monopolistic practices.
But then all slashdotters would be singing "Blame Canada!"
IMHO, the colors in a 32bpp are fine... The resolution in a modern monitor (72dpi) is still far from acceptable, compared with the resolution in a normal printed piece of paper (circa 600dpi)
A Photoshop/Illustrator port would not improve printing, what we need is better printer drivers and a better printing system (although I hear cups is a good step in that direction)
Actually what I would want opensourced from Adobe is the.pdf page layout standard, and the.pdf based framebuffer that MacOS uses... THAT would be sweet!
It is better to be double cautious than sorry after the fact. I would rather have bunch of "right-whatever" be "psychopathic" about it than get my ass enslaved because another bunch of "left-whatever" was not willing do to shit about our security
Sure, Dr Strangelove... ; )
We all feel safe with someone like you in charge...
IIRC, at some point, the Apple record company (founded by the Beatles) threatened to sue Apple computer.
However, they realized the folly of such an action and decided to drop the suit.
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The only people who have affirmed that the GPL is enforceable so far are a couple of second-rate lawyers interviewed here on slashdot. You don't "know" that at all.
If you happen to know a first rate lawyer, please do interview him and post the results.
Microsofts lawyers seem to agree that the GPL is enforceable, since we havent seen any MS-Linux (just a silly example, I dont expect MS to want to return to Unix-type software)
If my work is under the GPL, I'm already allowing every other asshole in the world to hack my code to be subtly incompatible, and release it with source code. Any reputation I gain by being the creator of a great program can be lost by some retard forking off a shitty version, and damning my version by association.
In theory you are correct, but in practice that has never happened, please read Homesteading the Noosphere, that explains the social characteristics of open source proyects and the people who contribute to them.
I dont think there's any DOS code in Win2000, I believe (AFAIK, I dont work at MS) its a derivative from NT4.
I'm pretty sure that WinMe, on the other hand, still has DOS code in it, making it a derivative work indeed.
Look man, Im not looking to flame you (and I apologize if it sounded that way), but I honestly believe that the "enforcement clauses" of the GPL are the only thing preventing greedy corporations from gobbling up many open source proyects.
This is why I think its the best open source license (of course your mileage may vary, depending on how you would like your work to be used and extended)
Best regards
No one requires you to use the GPL at all.
...or to donate your organs, or to contribute to your church/neighboorhood/community/etc...
You are free to use whatever license fits you when you release _your_ (and only yours) work.
However, if you plan on stepping in someones shoulders, just because they chose to let you see their source via the GPL, then you have no right to distribute your derived work on another (non free, we presume) license.
In your own words, I should be able to charge for the use of a park bench, just because I put a new coat of paint? No sir, if you want to embellish the park by painting the benches, fine, its a nice community service. But in no way you should profit from something that was built as a public service.
Yes, there are occasions on which a propietary license is appropiate (if you want to make money off your code, for example). I wont GPL the special purpose app I am coding right now, as I plan to license this to medium-large corporations that can certainly afford to pay me for my coding skills. This app would in any case be useless to small businesses and individuals, in any case.
However there are also occasions on which you code something that you deem "useful" for the use of everybody: an OS kernel, a device driver, or an otherwise crucial app.
On this cases its better to consider wherever you want to make money out of your code, or to do something useful that will be appreciated by many.
Determining if this is something that will be more useful to individuals or corporations is something that helps make the decision IMHO.
You must be very influential in your office if your collegues actually go through the troubles of sending you a document on a "non-default" format.
I went through hell before convincing half of my office on standarising on the more polite.rtf format.
(the other half keep sending me.docs, ignoring my complaints)
Most office drones don't even know there are formats other than.doc
...and don't get me started on people using Excel to write memos! Or people writing "pretty looking letters" on Powerpoint!
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Wasnt this an April fool's joke by GvR and LW???
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Even in temperate weather if you leave a tape inside the car it will eventually (2-3 weeks) get mushy.
Besides, how the heck are you gonna impress the girl in the other car if she looks over and you have an old cassette audio system!
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Godzilla, Ultraman, Mothra, Akira, the Angels in Evangelion... just to name some of them...
My interpretation is that people living in Tokyo have a love-hate relationship with their city just as New Yorkers do... Or like we do here in Mexico City.
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Already the authorities of the city of Vancouver and the province of British Columbia have approached Microsoft letting them know that they would never sue them for monopolistic practices.
But then all slashdotters would be singing "Blame Canada!"
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plus one, funny!
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Actually what I would want opensourced from Adobe is the .pdf page layout standard, and the .pdf based framebuffer that MacOS uses... THAT would be sweet!
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Answer: Because Ruby doesn't have the the support behind it that other languages do.
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If you have enough money (as AOL does) you can sue almost anybody into bankrupcy, even if you eventually lose the case.
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However, they realized the folly of such an action and decided to drop the suit.
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Do you have some plane tickets to donate?
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The only people who have affirmed that the GPL is enforceable so far are a couple of second-rate lawyers interviewed here on slashdot. You don't "know" that at all.
If you happen to know a first rate lawyer, please do interview him and post the results.
Microsofts lawyers seem to agree that the GPL is enforceable, since we havent seen any MS-Linux
(just a silly example, I dont expect MS to want to return to Unix-type software)
If my work is under the GPL, I'm already allowing every other asshole in the world to hack my code to be subtly incompatible, and release it with source code. Any reputation I gain by being the creator of a great program can be lost by some retard forking off a shitty version, and damning my version by association.
In theory you are correct, but in practice that has never happened, please read Homesteading the Noosphere, that explains the social characteristics of open source proyects and the people who contribute to them.
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I'm pretty sure that WinMe, on the other hand, still has DOS code in it, making it a derivative work indeed.
Look man, Im not looking to flame you (and I apologize if it sounded that way), but I honestly believe that the "enforcement clauses" of the GPL are the only thing preventing greedy corporations from gobbling up many open source proyects.
This is why I think its the best open source license (of course your mileage may vary, depending on how you would like your work to be used and extended)
Best regards
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C'mon, flame me!
No one requires you to use the GPL at all.
...or to donate your organs, or to contribute to your church/neighboorhood/community/etc...
You are free to use whatever license fits you when you release _your_ (and only yours) work.
However, if you plan on stepping in someones shoulders, just because they chose to let you see their source via the GPL, then you have no right to distribute your derived work on another (non free, we presume) license.
In your own words, I should be able to charge for the use of a park bench, just because I put a new coat of paint? No sir, if you want to embellish the park by painting the benches, fine, its a nice community service. But in no way you should profit from something that was built as a public service.
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However there are also occasions on which you code something that you deem "useful" for the use of everybody: an OS kernel, a device driver, or an otherwise crucial app.
On this cases its better to consider wherever you want to make money out of your code, or to do something useful that will be appreciated by many.
Determining if this is something that will be more useful to individuals or corporations is something that helps make the decision IMHO.
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Sad thing is, its still pre-Alpha, with only 4 developers signed up at sourceforge...
Damn, if I were a less-sucky coder I would devote all my free time to this...
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I went through hell before convincing half of my office on standarising on the more polite
(the other half keep sending me
Most office drones don't even know there are formats other than .doc
ARRRRGH!!!
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