Worst of capitalism + worst of communism
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Dutch Pass iPod Tax
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Wow, they're shitting on the concept of the free market, since there's no way to distribute the money to the artists based on how many people acquire and/or listen to their music, and at the same time they're shitting on socialist/communist ideals by taking money from citizens and handing it to private businesses!
Of course what they would really do if they pass this law is ensure Dutch retailers won'tbe able to sell mp3 players, since anyone who wants one will hop over the border to buy it.
Troll or moron? Do you think that 9/11 was no big deal, because they only got 4 planes and 3 buildings out of the thousands available in the US? I don't think their goal was to hamper Dell's technical support operations.
As others have replied, releasing an open source implementation of Java doesn't need to open up the definition of Java. Even now anybody could release an open source implementation of Java, although it would be a lot of work, especially the libraries. You can rest assured Sun won't let go of control of the JCP, it will want to make sure they can go after people who make incompatible versions of the JVM.
ESR and his ilk won't be happy with the results.
Personally, I'd be scared of a GPL version of Java. I wouldn't want to get into wrangles over whether code I compile with and/or run on it had to be GPL also. A BSD style license would be nifty though.
The fact that IBM and other Big Name companies are telling SCO to go pound salt is a big help when making the Linux case to suits. Plus there is not real investment, if SCO succeeds and we end up with our back against the wall we can put something else on those boxes and carry on.
If the likes of IBM were to cave in to SCO the landscape would change dramatically. Headlines in the WSJ and NYT about IBM giving up Linux or big companies having the shell out big payouts after being sued would catch management's attention, and darkness would descend.
Artists don't normally pay for production out of their advance, so not getting an advance doesn't mean they have to pay for everything else, too. Presumably the label would still pay for marketing and that sort of thing as well. 80% of the revenue gives a lable plenty of incentive to do everything they can to push your sales up.
Of course the big record companies aren't likely to go for this kind of deal, at least not until they realize newer, smaller companies are eating their lunch.
My experiences with London's public transportation system this morning (and many other times) leads me to wonder how much longer the UK will be able to make this claim. The contrast with Germanic and Scandinavian countries is stark.
Funny, I make that the fault of the people for allowing such a law to exist. Change it if you don't like it.
Nice idea, but in the real world lawyers have a lot more influence in shaping laws than regular people do.
Having been living in the UK for 5 years now, I see a lot more of the US-style ads encouraging people to think of reasons to sue somebody. It's a process that feeds itself, the more successful they are, the more they are able to twist the system to suit their needs.
Yeah, I'm really fucking enjoying being up all night trying to stop this wonderful worm from hosing the network so my company isn't shut down tomorrow. Whatever samaratan wrote it can go fuck himself.
Some people choose tools based on usefulness rather than ideology.
Re:And I suspect most of us feel the same way...
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LGPL is Viral for Java
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· Score: 2, Informative
I believe the issue is that Apache wants to make sure downstream distributors aren't forced to comply with more restrictive licenses than the ASL.
If I create a product based on Apache products that need to include LGPL code, I have to worry about whether my code has to be released under LGPL or else force my end users to download and install separate packages to make my product work.
Apache doesn't want to pass the buck by not distributing LGPL code, but requiring its end users to use it themselves. Avoiding LGPL dependencies altogether is the cleanest way to ensure that the benefits of the Apache license are passed down to its users.
Note that this isn't a feature of the Apache license, but an Apache policy. So downstream users are free to use GPL if they like, whereas GPL users aren't free to use the ASL license.
Fine, but this article is all about the fact that "Free" software authors are saying that if I want to write a program that uses their library, for example a JDBC driver, then I must license my software on their terms. That may be free, but it is not Free.
Someone tell me the difference between a BSD license and just putting your code into the public domain, 'cause I would really like to know what that difference is.
BSD style licenses require evil companies to give credit to the original copyright owner.
What are they charging, and what's included in the package? They're offering upgrades and "all of Sun's software" as part of this package, but I haven't seen details of what that means, nor any pricing, so it's a little difficult to judge whether they really are raising their prices, or adding new value.
As long as it's still possible to just buy the pieces I want when I want, I don't care. If this becomes the only way to buy their stuff I will care.
Most of the weblogs i ever come to belongs to some narcistic teenage girls writting bullshits
Yeah, and for some people the only thing they ever see on the Internet is porn. It says more about the sites you read than weblogs.
I've seen maybe 2 or 3 teeny-blogs, most of the blogs I read are either technical (especially Java blogs), from which I've discovered plenty fo cool tools and techniques, or political, where I find a lot more detail and interesting angles on current events than I get from the monoculture of mainstream news.
If you look at the most dynamic societies in history, up to and including the US, and a common factor has always been attracting the best and the brightest from other societies. September 11 2001 will be known forever as the day that marked the start of America's decline.
Osama would be proud if he had the faintest clue about the correlation between tolerance and greatness in a civilization. Oh the irony.
the original intent of the US nuclear weapons program was the Germans. Unfortunately, the development of a working bomb and the production of enough weapons-grade uranium took too long, and Germany had fallen before the bomb was ready to be employed.
Err, was it really so unfortunate that Germany fell before we had a chance to nuke them?
Also, modern historians tend to doubt that Hiroshima and Nagasaki did much to end the war with Japan. Japan was already starting to break up and looking for an exit. The Soviets announcing war would have pretty much clinched it.
Interestingly, I've read that a key benefit of dropping the bomb and getting the Japanese to surrender quickly was it avoided the US having to share the occupation of Japan with the Soviets, as it did with Germany. The allied agreement was that the Soviets would declare war if the Japanese didn't surrender by a deadline, and that would have obligated sharing the occupation. (Reference: Probably Zinn.)
I guess I'd like to believe that the Internet brings people together. ... But what of the dark side, the cloud of the silver lining, the other side of the proverbial coin? The fact is, the Internet is an aid to terrorists, drug addicts, child molesters, and fundamentalists.
Well, yeah, but that's got nothing to do with the article.
The problem with bringing people together is that it doesn't guarantee understanding and harmony: not everybody is going to like each other. And more to the point of the article, a tool that spreads information quickly also spreads misinformation quickly.
Apple has been the primary innovator of PC hardware and OS software
Really? Did they "innovate" the PCI bus and BSD? Their case design is admittedly innovative, but what they put inside has only recently caught up with the rest of the industry.
Usually these sudden jumps and drops are due to some big ISP switching, taking a few zillion virtual domains with them. Apparently Apache lost 3% to IIS last month due to one of these.
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Wow, they're shitting on the concept of the free market, since there's no way to distribute the money to the artists based on how many people acquire and/or listen to their music, and at the same time they're shitting on socialist/communist ideals by taking money from citizens and handing it to private businesses!
Of course what they would really do if they pass this law is ensure Dutch retailers won'tbe able to sell mp3 players, since anyone who wants one will hop over the border to buy it.
Maybe economics are involved somehow? Is the software/IT industry very important to India?
-- BTW, I've been living in a cave for the past 10 years
Troll or moron? Do you think that 9/11 was no big deal, because they only got 4 planes and 3 buildings out of the thousands available in the US? I don't think their goal was to hamper Dell's technical support operations.
I suppose you're from the school of thought that says "if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me".
What about the Orthodox? You know, the ones the Catholics split off from in the Schism?
Santa Claus is from Turkey.
St Nicholas being Greek, and that part of Turkey being part of the Byzantine Empire at the time.
As others have replied, releasing an open source implementation of Java doesn't need to open up the definition of Java. Even now anybody could release an open source implementation of Java, although it would be a lot of work, especially the libraries. You can rest assured Sun won't let go of control of the JCP, it will want to make sure they can go after people who make incompatible versions of the JVM.
ESR and his ilk won't be happy with the results.
Personally, I'd be scared of a GPL version of Java. I wouldn't want to get into wrangles over whether code I compile with and/or run on it had to be GPL also. A BSD style license would be nifty though.
Since I can't take your POTS abroad, vonage's VoIP is a serious killer app for me.
The fact that IBM and other Big Name companies are telling SCO to go pound salt is a big help when making the Linux case to suits. Plus there is not real investment, if SCO succeeds and we end up with our back against the wall we can put something else on those boxes and carry on.
If the likes of IBM were to cave in to SCO the landscape would change dramatically. Headlines in the WSJ and NYT about IBM giving up Linux or big companies having the shell out big payouts after being sued would catch management's attention, and darkness would descend.
Artists don't normally pay for production out of their advance, so not getting an advance doesn't mean they have to pay for everything else, too. Presumably the label would still pay for marketing and that sort of thing as well. 80% of the revenue gives a lable plenty of incentive to do everything they can to push your sales up.
Of course the big record companies aren't likely to go for this kind of deal, at least not until they realize newer, smaller companies are eating their lunch.
We're, like, a first-world country?
My experiences with London's public transportation system this morning (and many other times) leads me to wonder how much longer the UK will be able to make this claim. The contrast with Germanic and Scandinavian countries is stark.
Funny, I make that the fault of the people for allowing such a law to exist. Change it if you don't like it.
Nice idea, but in the real world lawyers have a lot more influence in shaping laws than regular people do.
Having been living in the UK for 5 years now, I see a lot more of the US-style ads encouraging people to think of reasons to sue somebody. It's a process that feeds itself, the more successful they are, the more they are able to twist the system to suit their needs.
Yeah, I'm really fucking enjoying being up all night trying to stop this wonderful worm from hosing the network so my company isn't shut down tomorrow. Whatever samaratan wrote it can go fuck himself.
Some people choose tools based on usefulness rather than ideology.
I believe the issue is that Apache wants to make sure downstream distributors aren't forced to comply with more restrictive licenses than the ASL.
If I create a product based on Apache products that need to include LGPL code, I have to worry about whether my code has to be released under LGPL or else force my end users to download and install separate packages to make my product work.
Apache doesn't want to pass the buck by not distributing LGPL code, but requiring its end users to use it themselves. Avoiding LGPL dependencies altogether is the cleanest way to ensure that the benefits of the Apache license are passed down to its users.
Note that this isn't a feature of the Apache license, but an Apache policy. So downstream users are free to use GPL if they like, whereas GPL users aren't free to use the ASL license.
Fine, but this article is all about the fact that "Free" software authors are saying that if I want to write a program that uses their library, for example a JDBC driver, then I must license my software on their terms. That may be free, but it is not Free.
Someone tell me the difference between a BSD license and just putting your code into the public domain, 'cause I would really like to know what that difference is.
BSD style licenses require evil companies to give credit to the original copyright owner.
When are they going to shut Boeing down?
What are they charging, and what's included in the package? They're offering upgrades and "all of Sun's software" as part of this package, but I haven't seen details of what that means, nor any pricing, so it's a little difficult to judge whether they really are raising their prices, or adding new value.
As long as it's still possible to just buy the pieces I want when I want, I don't care. If this becomes the only way to buy their stuff I will care.
Most of the weblogs i ever come to belongs to some narcistic teenage girls writting bullshits
Yeah, and for some people the only thing they ever see on the Internet is porn. It says more about the sites you read than weblogs.
I've seen maybe 2 or 3 teeny-blogs, most of the blogs I read are either technical (especially Java blogs), from which I've discovered plenty fo cool tools and techniques, or political, where I find a lot more detail and interesting angles on current events than I get from the monoculture of mainstream news.
If you look at the most dynamic societies in history, up to and including the US, and a common factor has always been attracting the best and the brightest from other societies. September 11 2001 will be known forever as the day that marked the start of America's decline.
Osama would be proud if he had the faintest clue about the correlation between tolerance and greatness in a civilization. Oh the irony.
the original intent of the US nuclear weapons program was the Germans. Unfortunately, the development of a working bomb and the production of enough weapons-grade uranium took too long, and Germany had fallen before the bomb was ready to be employed.
Err, was it really so unfortunate that Germany fell before we had a chance to nuke them?
Also, modern historians tend to doubt that Hiroshima and Nagasaki did much to end the war with Japan. Japan was already starting to break up and looking for an exit. The Soviets announcing war would have pretty much clinched it.
Interestingly, I've read that a key benefit of dropping the bomb and getting the Japanese to surrender quickly was it avoided the US having to share the occupation of Japan with the Soviets, as it did with Germany. The allied agreement was that the Soviets would declare war if the Japanese didn't surrender by a deadline, and that would have obligated sharing the occupation. (Reference: Probably Zinn.)
I guess I'd like to believe that the Internet brings people together.
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But what of the dark side, the cloud of the silver lining, the other side of the proverbial coin? The fact is, the Internet is an aid to terrorists, drug addicts, child molesters, and fundamentalists.
Well, yeah, but that's got nothing to do with the article.
The problem with bringing people together is that it doesn't guarantee understanding and harmony: not everybody is going to like each other. And more to the point of the article, a tool that spreads information quickly also spreads misinformation quickly.
I've got nothing against the Mac, but:
Apple has been the primary innovator of PC hardware and OS software
Really? Did they "innovate" the PCI bus and BSD? Their case design is admittedly innovative, but what they put inside has only recently caught up with the rest of the industry.
Usually these sudden jumps and drops are due to some big ISP switching, taking a few zillion virtual domains with them. Apparently Apache lost 3% to IIS last month due to one of these.