Or, to be more specific - if I want to send a fax from an arbitrary number to you, I create a new office code in my phone switch for that number, create a single station with the number I want to sent the fax from, put the target number as diversion on a second station within my normal number range and then call from my first station the second and start sending the fax. The phone switch then will sent the fax as a diversion out to you with the arbitrary number as sending party, and the phone provider will transmit that fax with the faked sender ID.
The same goes for an altered fax: I catch the SIP data stream on any network switch, extract the RTP data stream, alter the part of the fax I want to alter and resend the fax again - you get two faxes than, one original, and one faked. If I don't want the original fax going out, I do the same on the Border Gateway Controller, and I cut off the called party as soon as the fax negotiation has finished.
Several countries are starting to see that, and investing heavily on it (Brazil, Germany etc).
Your way to put it looks to me as if you don't really know how it works, at least in Germany. Because "starting to see it" points to a 1000 year old tradition. If Egypt or China call that "starting to see it", maybe one could agree, because they have a long enough tradition themselves. The main difference to the U.S. to me seems to be that the companies in Germany are responsible to train their futural workforce. Germany has something that is called duales Bildungssystem (dual education system), where companies educate their futural employees in cooperation with the Berufsschulen (trade schools). For two to three years, depending on the profession, the pupils are working parttime at the company and are being educated in the school. After that the companies offer some of them working contracts, others are looking somewhere else for a job. Companies that are not training their own workforce will save money in the short run, but to them only the leftovers of the workforce are available. Thus about 50-60% of the workforce are trained. Then there are the Universities of Applied Science (formerly known as Fachhochschulen), which are directed towards higher education, but are still strongly connected to the futural employers. They offer a very market oriented curriculum, train on and for industry standard products. A student at a University of Applied Science will work on his final thesis while being on a project at a company. So for at least half a year he is already part of the workforce before graduating. Also in this case the education is at least partly done within the industry (and paid for directly by the industry). The school-only education you find only in the lowest 10% education level -- pupils who left school without finding someone willing to take them for the two or three year training, but have still to fulfill their legally required 10 to 12 years (depending on the state) school education and are thus going to a professional college -- and in the highest 20% of the education level, which are the ivory tower university courses.
So differently than in the U.S., the german companies are expected to train their futural employees. The U.S. companies are looking to me like lazy cats, unwilling to invest in people and complaining that the workforce supermarket doesn't offer the exact skillset they are looking for.
No. Houses in places where I don't have a job, don't have relatives and don't have any good business opportunities or life perspectives are worthless to me. Maintaining them costs money. It might be cheaper to destroy those houses than to pay for maintenance.
It's like water -- just because there are deserts, where people are thirsty and water is a rare and expensive good, doesn't mean that we should get rid of any dykes and trenches that regulate water and keep it out if not needed. The people in the Sahel zone can't use the waters that are flooding Bangladesh. And the people in the Silicon Valley can't use the houses that were built in the suburbs of Detroit.
But if you distribute a GPL-licensed software, modified or not, made by you or not, GPL SUDDENLY KICKS IN YO! Better have the source code packaged within the setup file/physical media or made available by you (and not by the manufacturer) online.
No, GPLv3 Section 6 does not demand you to operate your own online services. Section 6(d) explicitely allows for the download server to be operated by a third party. So if Amazon distributes the installation media of OpenSUSE and has an agreement with OpenSUSE for them to provide the source code online, everything is within the limits of GPL.
Some people still don't grok the GPL. Amazon is completely complying with the GPL here. It distributes software unter GPL (which they are entitled to do) and also give you access to the source code - each medium either comes with the source code anyway, or the written documentations contains a description how to get it - at the OpenSUSE project's site.
I don't judge any movie, I just point out that the plot "maid in distress gets saved by guy and thus agrees to get intimate (whatever you call it in the movie)" is the base plotline for a considerably large part of all movies (and books, graphic novels, epic dramae...).
The only difference being the way the outcome is depicted, as marriage, as sex, as "lived happily ever after".
In all those cases he planned to include at least a part or a derivative of the original work into his distribution, and thus was bound by the licenses that come with the work. Nothing to see here. If he was planning to use the tools to create the work, but was not planning to distribute the tools themselves (or a part or a derivative of it), then the question of licensing does not occur, as the Paragraph 2 (Basic Permissions) of the GPLv3 explicitely states: " This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work."
Hm... and how is that plot different from any "maid in distress"-story where in the end the guy marries the maid? There are hundreds of Hollywood movies of that kind - only difference being that the "sexual favours" are called "marriage".
I just had to reject some 3rd party tools because it was GPL. Because by using it would force us to make our program GPL, and oddly enough we want to get paychecks and our business model is creating new software and selling it.
You just showed us, that you did not unterstand the GPL. Usage of a GPLed tool doesn't make the result being under GPL. Using GPLed code, copying it and modifying it does. So either you were looking for code you could compile into your program, or you were looking for code you could modify to be part of your program, or you were looking for a library you could link your program to.
Those are the only cases where the resulting program has to be under GPL too.
Terrorism threats are statistically negligible, and much less dangerous for the average citizen than traffic accidents or choking while eating. When will we start to install special agents in every kitchen throughout the country to check food for fishbones and gristles so hazardous to our lives?
My longest ever traffic congestion started on the Autobahn at Ansbach and basicly endet at exit Wilsdruff, with a few free kilometers between Bayreuth and Hof. That's about 320 km or 200 mls of traffic jam. (and the whole trip took more than 12 hours). Sometimes it has nothing to do with "short trip during rush hour".
The main problem with articles that weird or special interest is not so much that no one will ever read it, but that no one will feel inclined to maintain it. So all it leads to is a lot of empty stubs and unchecked articles no one cares about.
The cost of producing food is only one part of the equation. The other one is the cost of distributing the food. And the third one is the price someone is willing to pay to get his hand on the food. Someone with small buying power in a remote region with bad roads and political instability increasing the transportation prices might not be able to beat a large food company in the bid. And that's before speculation kicks in.
I'm just holding out hope that "real" computers will at least remain available
Or we could just run Linux.
That is, if you can even buy a computer that respects your freedom to run a version of Linux that isn't Tivoized. If the PC market were anything like the mobile and console markets, one would have to buy a multi-thousand-dollar computer on which to make even the simplest of apps and a $100 per year or more certificate just to be able to run apps that you have made on a computer that you have purchased.
You mean, like the computer market before the advent of the Apple II, the C= VIC20 and later the IBM-PC?
Of course I have heard of Huawei! It's one of the biggest sellers of telco and network equipment worldwide, surpassed only from the likes of Cisco and Juniper. My UMTS card is based on Huawei technology, and so are most of them sold here around. If you are working in a network or telco environment, Huawei stuff will probably have already dropped on your feet.
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He comments it in the video: "as there is no upgrade possible from Windows ME [...]". ME was a dead end.
Or, to be more specific - if I want to send a fax from an arbitrary number to you, I create a new office code in my phone switch for that number, create a single station with the number I want to sent the fax from, put the target number as diversion on a second station within my normal number range and then call from my first station the second and start sending the fax. The phone switch then will sent the fax as a diversion out to you with the arbitrary number as sending party, and the phone provider will transmit that fax with the faked sender ID.
The same goes for an altered fax: I catch the SIP data stream on any network switch, extract the RTP data stream, alter the part of the fax I want to alter and resend the fax again - you get two faxes than, one original, and one faked. If I don't want the original fax going out, I do the same on the Border Gateway Controller, and I cut off the called party as soon as the fax negotiation has finished.
As someone who professionally administers phone systems, both restrictions are quite... lets say... arbitrary.
Several countries are starting to see that, and investing heavily on it (Brazil, Germany etc).
Your way to put it looks to me as if you don't really know how it works, at least in Germany. Because "starting to see it" points to a 1000 year old tradition. If Egypt or China call that "starting to see it", maybe one could agree, because they have a long enough tradition themselves. The main difference to the U.S. to me seems to be that the companies in Germany are responsible to train their futural workforce.
Germany has something that is called duales Bildungssystem (dual education system), where companies educate their futural employees in cooperation with the Berufsschulen (trade schools). For two to three years, depending on the profession, the pupils are working parttime at the company and are being educated in the school. After that the companies offer some of them working contracts, others are looking somewhere else for a job. Companies that are not training their own workforce will save money in the short run, but to them only the leftovers of the workforce are available. Thus about 50-60% of the workforce are trained.
Then there are the Universities of Applied Science (formerly known as Fachhochschulen), which are directed towards higher education, but are still strongly connected to the futural employers. They offer a very market oriented curriculum, train on and for industry standard products. A student at a University of Applied Science will work on his final thesis while being on a project at a company. So for at least half a year he is already part of the workforce before graduating. Also in this case the education is at least partly done within the industry (and paid for directly by the industry).
The school-only education you find only in the lowest 10% education level -- pupils who left school without finding someone willing to take them for the two or three year training, but have still to fulfill their legally required 10 to 12 years (depending on the state) school education and are thus going to a professional college -- and in the highest 20% of the education level, which are the ivory tower university courses.
So differently than in the U.S., the german companies are expected to train their futural employees. The U.S. companies are looking to me like lazy cats, unwilling to invest in people and complaining that the workforce supermarket doesn't offer the exact skillset they are looking for.
No. Houses in places where I don't have a job, don't have relatives and don't have any good business opportunities or life perspectives are worthless to me. Maintaining them costs money. It might be cheaper to destroy those houses than to pay for maintenance.
It's like water -- just because there are deserts, where people are thirsty and water is a rare and expensive good, doesn't mean that we should get rid of any dykes and trenches that regulate water and keep it out if not needed. The people in the Sahel zone can't use the waters that are flooding Bangladesh. And the people in the Silicon Valley can't use the houses that were built in the suburbs of Detroit.
But if you distribute a GPL-licensed software, modified or not, made by you or not, GPL SUDDENLY KICKS IN YO! Better have the source code packaged within the setup file/physical media or made available by you (and not by the manufacturer) online.
No, GPLv3 Section 6 does not demand you to operate your own online services. Section 6(d) explicitely allows for the download server to be operated by a third party. So if Amazon distributes the installation media of OpenSUSE and has an agreement with OpenSUSE for them to provide the source code online, everything is within the limits of GPL.
Still you can get the sourcecode per download, if you want, which satisfies the GPLv3 Section 6(d).
Here we go: OpenSUSE at Amazon.
Some people still don't grok the GPL. Amazon is completely complying with the GPL here. It distributes software unter GPL (which they are entitled to do) and also give you access to the source code - each medium either comes with the source code anyway, or the written documentations contains a description how to get it - at the OpenSUSE project's site.
I don't judge any movie, I just point out that the plot "maid in distress gets saved by guy and thus agrees to get intimate (whatever you call it in the movie)" is the base plotline for a considerably large part of all movies (and books, graphic novels, epic dramae...).
The only difference being the way the outcome is depicted, as marriage, as sex, as "lived happily ever after".
In all those cases he planned to include at least a part or a derivative of the original work into his distribution, and thus was bound by the licenses that come with the work. Nothing to see here.
If he was planning to use the tools to create the work, but was not planning to distribute the tools themselves (or a part or a derivative of it), then the question of licensing does not occur, as the Paragraph 2 (Basic Permissions) of the GPLv3 explicitely states: " This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work."
Hm... and how is that plot different from any "maid in distress"-story where in the end the guy marries the maid? There are hundreds of Hollywood movies of that kind - only difference being that the "sexual favours" are called "marriage".
The part you are missing is (ii): licensed for the purpose of making derivative works
Which covers BSD et. al.
The part you are missing is (ii): licensed for the purpose of making derivative works
Which covers BSD.
I just had to reject some 3rd party tools because it was GPL. Because by using it would force us to make our program GPL, and oddly enough we want to get paychecks and our business model is creating new software and selling it.
You just showed us, that you did not unterstand the GPL.
Usage of a GPLed tool doesn't make the result being under GPL.
Using GPLed code, copying it and modifying it does.
So either you were looking for code you could compile into your program, or you were looking for code you could modify to be part of your program, or you were looking for a library you could link your program to.
Those are the only cases where the resulting program has to be under GPL too.
I have emacs open right now, and I usually write my short stories in emacs. And to instill fear and loathing into you, I actually do have children.
Terrorism threats are statistically negligible, and much less dangerous for the average citizen than traffic accidents or choking while eating. When will we start to install special agents in every kitchen throughout the country to check food for fishbones and gristles so hazardous to our lives?
My longest ever traffic congestion started on the Autobahn at Ansbach and basicly endet at exit Wilsdruff, with a few free kilometers between Bayreuth and Hof. That's about 320 km or 200 mls of traffic jam. (and the whole trip took more than 12 hours).
Sometimes it has nothing to do with "short trip during rush hour".
No, because I also don't get paid for contributing to it.
The main problem with articles that weird or special interest is not so much that no one will ever read it, but that no one will feel inclined to maintain it. So all it leads to is a lot of empty stubs and unchecked articles no one cares about.
For being so fundamentally flawed, the product is quite remarkable, don't you think?
To use a car analogy: Because you buy insurance for your car though you got a proper driving license, and got your car checked regularly.
The cost of producing food is only one part of the equation. The other one is the cost of distributing the food. And the third one is the price someone is willing to pay to get his hand on the food. Someone with small buying power in a remote region with bad roads and political instability increasing the transportation prices might not be able to beat a large food company in the bid. And that's before speculation kicks in.
Please point out a single famine which was obviously caused by overpopulation. Hint: There is none.
I'm just holding out hope that "real" computers will at least remain available
Or we could just run Linux.
That is, if you can even buy a computer that respects your freedom to run a version of Linux that isn't Tivoized. If the PC market were anything like the mobile and console markets, one would have to buy a multi-thousand-dollar computer on which to make even the simplest of apps and a $100 per year or more certificate just to be able to run apps that you have made on a computer that you have purchased.
You mean, like the computer market before the advent of the Apple II, the C= VIC20 and later the IBM-PC?
Of course I have heard of Huawei! It's one of the biggest sellers of telco and network equipment worldwide, surpassed only from the likes of Cisco and Juniper. My UMTS card is based on Huawei technology, and so are most of them sold here around. If you are working in a network or telco environment, Huawei stuff will probably have already dropped on your feet.