If I read this right, this supporting constraints only after taking it into court.....
Well it would be consistant with the practice of the Patent office to issue patents on anything that seems to be filed with the proper paperwork, arguement and other factors (like - Well this party has filed many patents so we are relatively sure they know what they are applying for a patent on)...... And then letting the courts be the ultimate judge as to whether or not the patent holds up.
I never could figure out why IP laws regarding time were extended in light of advances happening at an ever increasing rate.
In other words: now that technology is useful for a shorter and shorter time, it's important to make the inventors and artist of such technology able to have control rights over it for even longer periods of time.
For at such a rate the day will come when you invent of create something on the spot and spure of them moment to solve a one time problem and then own rights to it even after you have been dead...... forever....
The day when we can no longer breath cause someone already did.
This is just another attempt to undermine licenses that are protective of honesty and freedom.
Now who'd want to do this? Do you need more than one guess?
invariant sections that are secondary and optional only provide a means of protecting against MS rewritting who created the Free Software Foundation and such....
If you do not like a license then pick another or create your own and then deal with the choices others make about it.
In short, let Debian create their own version and RMS to point out the holes while MS finds and abuses the holes...
"Here's some advice: buy a newer used computer! What the heck do they pay "technical writers" anyway!?! Heck, I see Dell desktops with 7 - 900 mhz PIIIs for 300 bucks!"
That's not a solution, only a bad trade off.
What you call old systems are not that old and they are still working hardware.
Perhaps I shouldn't say this as alot of the systems I have now are from others tossing them away as they "upgrade their system hardware".
And it is this hardware that I'm looking to find software to make them useful in terms of today.
with some shrugs as to why things didn't work and now do.... I installed College Linux DM on an IBM aptiva 266Mhz...... haven't tested modem or printer yet, but the sound card works.... don't know about playing CDs yet... not to mention burning any...
I suspect things like multi-user issues contribute to complexities that many if not most desktops users don't really need to have to deal with. As such there really should be a distro that is for a single user system...
Another OS I'm looking at as a free and open source based system is AROS which I hope in time will become a single user system of choice by those supporting such free and open source software. As a clone of the Amiga OS and my experience with the Amiga OS.... a small robust multi-tasking easy to use OS is greatly needed.
Even better is the possibility to use such an OS hosted on a GNU complete system (The Hurd core) as a user space OS that can IPC tap into the resources of the GNU system.....
But still...... Working hardware is worth throwing out only when it breaks..... not when software leading edge makes it slower...
There really is a problem with computer component landfill pollution...
In any event people don't like throwing out what is still working and if you can install software that make the hardware useful still....
To be able to easily install Linux in a manner that is useful only means spreading linux not only freely but upon hardware that is either free or damn well near it... more so than $300 cheap...
I too have had trouble installing Linux though I haven't tried installing lots of different distribution and versions.
I too have had trouble installing windows...
It crosses my mind that perhaps most of my frustration in windows is in using the software.
Perhaps I just haven't used Linux enough to find this frustration in use.
At any rate, windows is a closed system and that means most all people can't do much about fixing things. Linux on the other hand is an open system and that means it's fixable....
That is... this installation problem is fixable.
What is needed is a methodology, an approach, a consistant and agreed upon way to do things like install and upgrade/add/delete packages.
What is Linux but a kernel and software packages..... running on and controlling various hardware elements. Perhaps having to handle more than one user and their individual settings...
Rather than different distributions doing things differently there should be an effort to add differences to something like a database that is accessed for such installations, etc..
consistancy counts lots towards user ease of use and upgrading ability.
It'd be wonderful to be able to upgrade or crossgrade to another distro/version without concern of messing things up royal.
The law makers change the rules as they go along. Once upon a time a copyright was only good for 17 years... now with the changing the rules as they go along.... a copyright can last forever....
Regardless of what the ranking system actually does vs. it's theory, when I find an article I'm interested in reading the comments to, and where there have been alot of comment, I don't have the time to read thru them all, so go with the ones moderated higher.
Now if subscribers get to post first (in consideration of the karma game reality and how it is played/works) then in essence we can have Microsoft abusing this, causing a bias to be reflected in moderation and subject readers like me to this bias.
In another post someone mentioned they ignore the ads and we all know MS places alot of ads here and I suppose alot of readers have learned to ignore most ads. So what is the trade off of MS paying the slashdot subscription of it's employees so long as they make use of early posting, vs. paying for ad space, while also making use of moderator status, when possible, to....well play the Microsoft rulze karma game?
Ad to this is that people generally don't spend their life here waiting to read future stories or stories just released. But that with the proper programming can set up a slashdot site query and be alerted to relative to Microsoft stories...
I think you can see where this is leading... The Karma Game.... And we all know MS is a big game player looking for unfair edges..... to promote itself.
Viewing future stories itself can be abused, but to allow posting and moderation before the general public can....... it should be clearly understood it will be abused.
Professional???? Who cares so long as it influences.........
privileged posting is no a good idea if slashdot wants to continue being genuinely supportive of GNU/Linux, FreeSoftware and Open Source.
Forget theory of..... and understand application of.
it's not been uncommon these past years for MS employees to expand their embrase by leaving on such supposed terms that allows them to be accepted elsewhere where they otherwise would not be. And in time to undermine any competitive ability against MS, of where they go. Note: such leaving doesn't mean they sold their stock in MS.
AS an example: what remains of the Amiga Intellectual Property is now controlled bith directlky and indirectly by MS thru Gateway held patents and an agreement they have with MS and former MS employees now in important positions at Amiga Inc.
The Recent.net patent applications should be enough indication of MS intent to bait and switch and commit acts of entrapment, etc....
Here on slashdot even, there is an infilteration of MS from the spectrum of buying ad space to posters.
So instead of creating destructive problems, we'd really be better off by genuinely fixing world problems and inherently removing any motive for terrorism to be able to gain any supporters.
Terrorism - the self supported dependancy of power and war mongers, regardless of what you might call them or what connotation you apply.
Go ahead and take a look at the patent for a wheel within a wheel. How obvious it is once seen, how foolish one feels thinging someing more complicated.
The simplicity/safty needs to be improved on what we have.
The Natural laws of the Physical Phenomenon of our creation and use of abstractions is what he is trying to nail down.
But it has already been identified and being developed as a general user based automation tool. Useful in many ways, including in teh development and use of an autocoding environment.
It's nice to know..... exactly where many seem to be headed. Unfortunate for them that they seem to be, in one way of another, off course, even just a little over a long ways makes a big difference.
Is it just me of is everyone else getting tired of "Next Generation....."
It worked for Star Trek but after that.... Everyone was copying..... And AGAIN MS is late... Even later in real security... Maybe security has something to do with honesty at the base???
Competition would perhaps move in a direction to discredit or otherwise reduce interest in something popular before comming out with their own similiar product or service that doesn't have the same drawbacks.
Ultimately, in a buyer beware market, there is the counter point of seller beware.
Slashdot Mirror
was guilty of anti-trust violations?
6 is the number of man...
a very good forum with care given to keep spoiler information isolated/taged
went so bad that damage control stepped in with denial.
It's not the first time MS has done Market testing and decided not to do something tested.
Between this and other things, it should be clear as to how out of touch with reality MS is.
If I read this right, this supporting constraints only after taking it into court.....
..... And then letting the courts be the ultimate judge as to whether or not the patent holds up.
Well it would be consistant with the practice of the Patent office to issue patents on anything that seems to be filed with the proper paperwork, arguement and other factors (like - Well this party has filed many patents so we are relatively sure they know what they are applying for a patent on).
"IBM said it's seeking a jury trial for the case, but Ferrell said a court date for trial likely won't come for about two years."
And some claim by IBM that SCO is trying to hold up and cause delays in teh development commuinty of linux.....
IBM has NO say over what the linux development community does or doesn't do!
IBM seems to be doing nothing more here than effort at helping to hang a threat over the Linux development community for the next two years.
Do we all really need to be reminded of all the effort to bust MS and where years and years of that has gotten anyone expecting justice?
IBM does not own the linux kernel nor do they have authority over the developers of GNU/Linux.
Perhaps what needs to be done is a review over any source code IBM has contributed to the GNU/Linux source base.
I never could figure out why IP laws regarding time were extended in light of advances happening at an ever increasing rate.
...... forever....
In other words: now that technology is useful for a shorter and shorter time, it's important to make the inventors and artist of such technology able to have control rights over it for even longer periods of time.
For at such a rate the day will come when you invent of create something on the spot and spure of them moment to solve a one time problem and then own rights to it even after you have been dead
The day when we can no longer breath cause someone already did.
many just want everything to be black and/or white. As it is much easier to control that way.
Is there any real news comming from the IBM case?
What would happen if IBM turned around and backstabbed Linux?
This is just another attempt to undermine licenses that are protective of honesty and freedom.
Now who'd want to do this? Do you need more than one guess?
invariant sections that are secondary and optional only provide a means of protecting against MS rewritting who created the Free Software Foundation and such....
If you do not like a license then pick another or create your own and then deal with the choices others make about it.
In short, let Debian create their own version and RMS to point out the holes while MS finds and abuses the holes...
"Here's some advice: buy a newer used computer! What the heck do they pay "technical writers" anyway!?! Heck, I see Dell desktops with 7 - 900 mhz PIIIs for 300 bucks!"
That's not a solution, only a bad trade off.
What you call old systems are not that old and they are still working hardware.
Perhaps I shouldn't say this as alot of the systems I have now are from others tossing them away as they "upgrade their system hardware".
And it is this hardware that I'm looking to find software to make them useful in terms of today.
with some shrugs as to why things didn't work and now do.... I installed College Linux DM on an IBM aptiva 266Mhz...... haven't tested modem or printer yet, but the sound card works.... don't know about playing CDs yet... not to mention burning any...
I suspect things like multi-user issues contribute to complexities that many if not most desktops users don't really need to have to deal with. As such there really should be a distro that is for a single user system...
Another OS I'm looking at as a free and open source based system is AROS which I hope in time will become a single user system of choice by those supporting such free and open source software. As a clone of the Amiga OS and my experience with the Amiga OS.... a small robust multi-tasking easy to use OS is greatly needed.
Even better is the possibility to use such an OS hosted on a GNU complete system (The Hurd core) as a user space OS that can IPC tap into the resources of the GNU system.....
But still...... Working hardware is worth throwing out only when it breaks..... not when software leading edge makes it slower...
There really is a problem with computer component landfill pollution...
In any event people don't like throwing out what is still working and if you can install software that make the hardware useful still....
To be able to easily install Linux in a manner that is useful only means spreading linux not only freely but upon hardware that is either free or damn well near it... more so than $300 cheap...
I too have had trouble installing Linux though I haven't tried installing lots of different distribution and versions.
... this installation problem is fixable.
I too have had trouble installing windows...
It crosses my mind that perhaps most of my frustration in windows is in using the software.
Perhaps I just haven't used Linux enough to find this frustration in use.
At any rate, windows is a closed system and that means most all people can't do much about fixing things. Linux on the other hand is an open system and that means it's fixable....
That is
What is needed is a methodology, an approach, a consistant and agreed upon way to do things like install and upgrade/add/delete packages.
What is Linux but a kernel and software packages..... running on and controlling various hardware elements. Perhaps having to handle more than one user and their individual settings...
Rather than different distributions doing things differently there should be an effort to add differences to something like a database that is accessed for such installations, etc..
consistancy counts lots towards user ease of use and upgrading ability.
It'd be wonderful to be able to upgrade or crossgrade to another distro/version without concern of messing things up royal.
We never get to see it....
For those who don't get it:
The law makers change the rules as they go along.
Once upon a time a copyright was only good for 17 years... now with the changing the rules as they go along.... a copyright can last forever....
And so it is with classified information........
The Hurd....
I really don't think there is anything here but motivation to get in and help move the Hurd along.
Regardless of what the ranking system actually does vs. it's theory, when I find an article I'm interested in reading the comments to, and where there have been alot of comment, I don't have the time to read thru them all, so go with the ones moderated higher.
....well play the Microsoft rulze karma game?
.... And we all know MS is a big game player looking for unfair edges..... to promote itself.
Now if subscribers get to post first (in consideration of the karma game reality and how it is played/works) then in essence we can have Microsoft abusing this, causing a bias to be reflected in moderation and subject readers like me to this bias.
In another post someone mentioned they ignore the ads and we all know MS places alot of ads here and I suppose alot of readers have learned to ignore most ads. So what is the trade off of MS paying the slashdot subscription of it's employees so long as they make use of early posting, vs. paying for ad space, while also making use of moderator status, when possible, to
Ad to this is that people generally don't spend their life here waiting to read future stories or stories just released. But that with the proper programming can set up a slashdot site query and be alerted to relative to Microsoft stories...
I think you can see where this is leading... The Karma Game
Viewing future stories itself can be abused, but to allow posting and moderation before the general public can....... it should be clearly understood it will be abused.
Professional???? Who cares so long as it influences.........
privileged posting is no a good idea if slashdot wants to continue being genuinely supportive of GNU/Linux, FreeSoftware and Open Source.
Forget theory of..... and understand application of.
Geee, and all this time I thought it was some americans that figured out electricity...
rewritting history.....??? Or defending the history currently written?
How importanmt are these artifacts again?
Now if they would only actually unbiasedly use the technology.
This story is listed at google news right now -- -don't know how long it wil be there but it is in the top headlines.
it's not been uncommon these past years for MS employees to expand their embrase by leaving on such supposed terms that allows them to be accepted elsewhere where they otherwise would not be. And in time to undermine any competitive ability against MS, of where they go. Note: such leaving doesn't mean they sold their stock in MS.
.net patent applications should be enough indication of MS intent to bait and switch and commit acts of entrapment, etc....
AS an example: what remains of the Amiga Intellectual Property is now controlled bith directlky and indirectly by MS thru Gateway held patents and an agreement they have with MS and former MS employees now in important positions at Amiga Inc.
The Recent
Here on slashdot even, there is an infilteration of MS from the spectrum of buying ad space to posters.
Bait and switch..... anyone want to provide examples relative here?
Entrapment - anyone want to provide examples relative here?
MS was found guilty of breaking Federal law, they are criminals. They were not punished.
What are the Patent rules regarding prior release of product?
terrorisim begets terrorism....
So instead of creating destructive problems, we'd really be better off by genuinely fixing world problems and inherently removing any motive for terrorism to be able to gain any supporters.
Terrorism - the self supported dependancy of power and war mongers, regardless of what you might call them or what connotation you apply.
It's really a given to science.
We simply just need better vehicles.
Perhaps a goal is that of Spaceship of Ezekiel
Go ahead and take a look at the patent for a wheel within a wheel. How obvious it is once seen, how foolish one feels thinging someing more complicated.
The simplicity/safty needs to be improved on what we have.
Another officer in the Bush collective.
Is it a problem? Do you need eye glasses?
The Natural laws of the Physical Phenomenon of our creation and use of abstractions is what he is trying to nail down.
/. posts for more information.
But it has already been identified and being developed as a general user based automation tool. Useful in many ways, including in teh development and use of an autocoding environment.
See Virtual Interaction Configuration and even some of my journal listed
It's nice to know..... exactly where many seem to be headed. Unfortunate for them that they seem to be, in one way of another, off course, even just a little over a long ways makes a big difference.
Now that's being honest "NGBS"
Is it just me of is everyone else getting tired of "Next Generation....."
It worked for Star Trek but after that.... Everyone was copying..... And AGAIN MS is late... Even later in real security... Maybe security has something to do with honesty at the base???
Competition would perhaps move in a direction to discredit or otherwise reduce interest in something popular before comming out with their own similiar product or service that doesn't have the same drawbacks.
Ultimately, in a buyer beware market, there is the counter point of seller beware.
How can you blame the media YOU chose to use?