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  1. Re:So... dual license even if we don't mean it? on Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case (perens.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not necessarily, if nobody has actually purchased the commercial license, it may not help you. Having active commercial licenses do however make it easy to prove damages. In other situations damages are going to be harder to prove, relying on prices of competing products, or the open-market cost of devlopment vs proportion of infringing use.

  2. Re:He embarrassed the government on Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hitman thing was bogus or unprovable. Wasn't even brought up in the trial. Additionally DPR was not the only account with admin access.

  3. "Has anybody ever physically signed a paper contract to use Windows?"

    Yes, once the licensing cost gets up above four figures, negotiated rather than shrink-wrap licenses start to become common.

  4. Re:My gripe isn't even with that: on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Right, just within the gcc, the C++ ABI has incompatibly changed at least 3 times, not to mention incompatibilities between different compilers.

  5. Re:"Redistribution Policy" on Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications (endlessos.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, keep reading on the link, and you see the point is to preserve trademarks. The flat-pack modules may or may not constitution a modified work when distributed with the core system. You would have to carefully study the license of each to know if you were allowed to redistribute that part of the work.

  6. Re:17 USC 117(a)(1) on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    Never-mind then, I was wrong. I was thinking of a Blizzard case, but that additionally involved modification of resources in memory by third party applications.

  7. Re:Huh? The GPL is not a contract. on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    Section 5 of the GPL 2.0 clearly states the the offer of license is accepted by performance. The first time Hancom performed the protected acts with each specific version of the protected work is evidence of acceptance (or flat out criminality, but courts are required to assume parties were acting in good faith unless there is evidence to the contrary), that the performance was substantially flawed is what constitutes breach on contract. Each copying thereafter was simply a violation of copyright.

  8. Re:Huh? The GPL is not a contract. on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    Section 5 of the GPL 2.0 clearly states the the offer of license is accepted by performance. The Hancom performed the protected acts is evidence of acceptence (or flat out criminality, but courts are required to assume parties were acting in good faith unless there is evidence to the contrary), that the performance was substantially flawed is what constitutes breach on contract. Each copying thereafter was simply a violation of copyright.

  9. Re: idrive is lacking source too on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    Tivo gave or was obligated to give sources, you just had no practical way of modifying the software on the device. Distributing software on an embedded system is still clearly a distribution in the legal sense.

  10. Re:Contracts on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    You are not required to accept the GPL in order to use the software. Only in the case you modify, distribute, or copy the covered and copyrighted work in the absence on any other license are you assumed to have accepted the GPL. The contract allows such modification, distribution, or copying in return that the same contract be offered on all copies and derived works. The promise to offer a specific contract in the future is definitely withing the realm of accepted consideration, otherwise all option contracts on the stock market would be void.

  11. Re:Start with the GPL's fictions... on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    The GPL 2.0 does not contain either the words "bundling" or "linking" and instead uses the terms "is contained or derived from" and "aggregate". The problem lies in case law that has yet to precisely define what the term "derivative work" and "seperate work" means in terms of software. Static linking certainly does, because it is essentially the same as copying and pasting a chapter from another book into your own. Dynamic linking on it's own may potentially not be, as it's more of an instruction to a reader to go read a chapter from another book as if it were included here. (However if you also distribute that chapter yourself, the it's probably the case you've make a derived work.)

  12. Re:Contracts on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1

    The theory is that copying the media onto your persistent storage and system memory requires a license. It's not really been definitively test in court as a good argument for fair use of implied license is there. However it;s kind of bygone and physical copies of sotware are rarely sold nowadays.

  13. Re: Good on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh it's very easy. X lines of code, which typically costs Y per thousand lines to develop on the high end. Their prior commercial licenses, or costs of licenses of compatible software as the low end.

  14. Re:Not a problem on The FBI Defends Deploying Malware From A Tor Child Porn Site (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason we could accept this line of argument is if you agree that the sale or use of drugs is not inherently wrong, that it is simply prohibited on utilitarian grounds. The current legal theory about CP is that it is inherently wrong and re-victimizes the subject whenever and wherever it is distributed. Either the current legal theory is wrong, (my theory), or the FBI did something objectively wrong and morally reprehensible.

  15. Re:Not a problem on The FBI Defends Deploying Malware From A Tor Child Porn Site (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    If the theory that the mere possession or tertiary distribution of CP re-victimizes the victim in every case, is true, then the FBI re-victimized tens of thousands on the behalf of the 55 rescued. The FBI committed or aided tens of thousands of acts that would otherwise be felonies. This can only lead to two conclusions. That many of these acts should not be considered felonies, or that the FBI actions in this case were terrible and morally reprehensible.
     

  16. Because they translate internally to RISC, and then leverage superscaler out of order pipelines. On the silicon RISC won. On the machine code side, CISC gives your compiler a bit of wiggle room in not needing to know the micro-optimizations for every variation of the silicon.

  17. If it doesn't exist, then by definition it's not part of the universe.

    Better title. Researchers estimate the mass of the Universe be be 32% of the previous consensus models.

  18. Re:History repeating itself on AMD Ryzen Game Patch Optimizations Show Significant Gains On Zen Architecture (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The Memory clock affects the internal CCX performance as well.

  19. RAM is expensive and a lot of it requires quite a bit on energy to keep refreshing,. Also it's not persistent so files in memory don't survive a reboot. This is especially true if you are working with data sets in the tens of gigabytes.

  20. Really not that bad. on Which Linux Browser Is The Fastest? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    On JavaScript benchmarks, all the browsers are within 5%. Nothing that the end user will really notice.

    The only test where Firefox falls flat was designed by the web-kit team, and suprise, suprise all the other browsers listed are web-kit variants.

    Really though servo is set to knock all the other browsers right out of thier socks.

  21. If that were actually the case I'd piss myself with joy. Even if they can't get votes where it counts the most, still 30% of peope admit to being democrat.

  22. If the person in question is actually receiving money from the union in compensation of campaigning activities, you could be justified in firing him for having a conflict of interest.

  23. > I *never* have to dick around with drivers

    Only if you never venture beyond the set of approved hardware.

    Linux has the technological framework to do what you ask already, it's just that not all manufacturers are on board with the issue. Even Windows drivers could be managed more centrally, but the big issue is fly-by-night hardware and peripheral companies that release stuff into the market and are trying to hit the lowest price point. These manufacturers have not intention of providing long term support.. As long as the driver doesn't break during the 1 year warranty period they don't care. One solution may be to windows to stop selling OEM licenses to any computer that includes a for which the manufacturer as publicly released source code, or has given Microsoft the source code and a monetary bond so that Microsoft is able to fix the driver if it breaks during the expected life of 95% of the units sold.

  24. Re:Programming the Windows Driver Model on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    >that's easy, don't use pirate chips.

    Easier said than done, you can't buy chips directly from FTDI, and in small quantities it is even hard to buy from an official supplier. The supply chain for this stuff is very complex, and not very transparent. And even then how in the world is the end user supposed to now weather a device they are looking at buying has a genuine FTDI chip.

  25. Re:Seriously... What a nightmare computing has bec on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    >It's a fucking cluster fuck out there on EVERY OS.

    Yes, but where the cluster is and why it's there changes.

    Linux packages are definitely a nightmare for developers, but solutions are being worked on, GUIX is able to provide transaction updates and multiple versions without conflict. Flat-pack and docker, allow distribution by third parties that are isolated from the underlying system.