The comment made by Torvalds was made on June 20, three weeks ago. Why suddenly this make news now? It seems there are attempts to use Linus' comments to help push Microsoft's agenda, in light of Microsoft's very recent anti-GPL v3 statements.
Oracle may have screwed up the ability of MySQL to license the proprietary version of their database and may even killed MySQL's primary revenue stream, but they cannot remove MySQL, Berkeley DB or innobase from the market. Maybe MySQL will adapt, or someone will pick up the MySQL business, but the Free databases will continue to gain on Oracle. Oracle's nightmare cannot go away.
You are an expert in operating system kernels. Please keep to what you do best. Users will vote with their own desktop. There is no need for you to teach people what GUI and desktop to use.
In both the text translation (of Google) and the English text posted at opensource.org, the term used is "Free Software", not "open source." I wonder why the title and the text here at Slashdot use the term "open source"?
Can you also give us the permission to redistribute the documentation created by your project under the GFDL? This way it will be easier to combine them with other documents created by the community.
Open source startups? How about yours?
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This may be of interest: a web page that lists almost all GUI toolkits out there, for virtually all platforms (Windows, X Windows, MacOS, etc.) and all major languages (C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, etc.)
This is the final act of SCO and Unix. GNU's Not Unix, founded in 1984, has finally about to put the original Unix to rest.
And what's more stupid is that SCO is sueing IBM, the company with the most resource to resist such lawsuits. All these ugliness associated with the story will just enhance the public's understanding of the problems associated with the current intellectual property system.
But it is bad that Microsoft is a bystander of the whole mass. Microsoft can gain from this fight between GNU/Linux and Unix.
Tony, please ask youself honestly, are you advocating Open Source or yourself? You were an outsider to software, and then jumping into the software world by first associating with Free Software, and then switching to Open Source, and now the Microsoft event. Are you really loyal to some principles? Or you change directions from time to time, doing whatever is convenient to establish yourself?
Did the government officials who will attend the conference ask you to invite Microsoft? Or you did that on your own? If the latter you are using the presence of both sides to increase your own weight, to make you one both sides have to reckon with?
Microsoft has its own conference for government officials, the so-called "Government Leaders' Conference", every year. Last year Bill Gates used it to attack the GPL. Microsoft really has too many opportunities to gain visibility and to be heard, one way of which is to "donate" millions of dollars to countries. Microsoft really does not need another conference to push their own agenda. If you are loyal to Open Source, you would not waste valuable time of government officials not on Open Source advocacy but on Microsoft's advocating their "shared source."
The "opening" of the protocols actually extends the power of Microsoft over third parties. Previously one can implement the protocols in a clean room manner and does not need to deal with Microsoft. Samba, for example, implemented CIFS on their own without depending on any help from Microsoft. Now if you sign on to this Microsoft program you essentially recognize Microsoft's claim of ownership over many protocols. You have to sign an NDA first, and then who knows what will be in the actual license agreement. The anti-GPL CIFS protocol license is a clear example of the kind of restrict licenses Microsoft can put out.
Standard protocols should not be owned. Now Microsoft is trying to use the settlement with the DOJ to actually extend its IP ownership to common protocols, beyond actual source code/implementations. Microsoft's power over third parties and the market actually increases, contrary to the original motivation beyond the anti-trust suit.
Why is the next generation user interface GUI?
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The web page talks about the next generation GUI. Why should the next generation of user interfaces be still graphical? Shouldn't there be some new paradigm, like the GUI was the next generation from the command line?
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The comment made by Torvalds was made on June 20, three weeks ago. Why suddenly this make news now? It seems there are attempts to use Linus' comments to help push Microsoft's agenda, in light of Microsoft's very recent anti-GPL v3 statements.
The funniest thing is that the paper is titled ""A Developers Bill of Rights: What Open Source Developers Want in a Software License."
Yes, Microsoft is proposing a Bill of Rights, for open source developers! Can you believe that?
Does it tell anything concrete about MySQL 5? No.
If ever?
upgrade restrictions....
With DRM, it is possible to do this...
Try Squirrel
Of course, for the Chinese, the credit of the first freeway goes to the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Freeway (China (Republic of China) National Highway One), from Taipei to Kaohsiung, finished in 1978.
Oracle may have screwed up the ability of MySQL to license the proprietary version of their database and may even killed MySQL's primary revenue stream, but they cannot remove MySQL, Berkeley DB or innobase from the market. Maybe MySQL will adapt, or someone will pick up the MySQL business, but the Free databases will continue to gain on Oracle. Oracle's nightmare cannot go away.
Sir, that's not a decent thing to do.
Someone can say if you kill, what kind of murder you are. And with some salts added. Do you want that?
RMS said this is up to Linux kernel developers. Where did he say this is up to him?
Can you explain your reasoning. How did you reach this understanding?
Funny is also that with Sun considering releasing Solaris under the GPL, GNU is soon to be Unix :-)
You are an expert in operating system kernels. Please keep to what you do best. Users will vote with their own desktop. There is no need for you to teach people what GUI and desktop to use.
I am amazed that sometimes ESR really succeeds in getting people to confuse him with RMS.
But mainland Chinese have had ICBMs since the 1970s...
In both the text translation (of Google) and the English text posted at opensource.org, the term used is "Free Software", not "open source." I wonder why the title and the text here at Slashdot use the term "open source"?
Can you also give us the permission to redistribute the documentation created by your project under the GFDL? This way it will be easier to combine them with other documents created by the community.
You can be the first one, you know.
The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page
at http://www.atai.org/guitool/
This is the final act of SCO and Unix. GNU's Not Unix, founded in 1984, has finally about to put the original Unix to rest.
And what's more stupid is that SCO is sueing IBM, the company with the most resource to resist such lawsuits. All these ugliness associated with the story will just enhance the public's understanding of the problems associated with the current intellectual property system.
But it is bad that Microsoft is a bystander of the whole mass. Microsoft can gain from this fight between GNU/Linux and Unix.
Tony, please ask youself honestly, are you advocating Open Source or yourself? You were an outsider to software, and then jumping into the software world by first associating with Free Software, and then switching to Open Source, and now the Microsoft event. Are you really loyal to some principles? Or you change directions from time to time, doing whatever is convenient to establish yourself?
Did the government officials who will attend the conference ask you to invite Microsoft? Or you did that on your own? If the latter you are using the presence of both sides to increase your own weight, to make you one both sides have to reckon with?
Microsoft has its own conference for government officials, the so-called "Government Leaders' Conference", every year. Last year Bill Gates used it to attack the GPL. Microsoft really has too many opportunities to gain visibility and to be heard, one way of which is to "donate" millions of dollars to countries. Microsoft really does not need another conference to push their own agenda. If you are loyal to Open Source, you would not waste valuable time of government officials not on Open Source advocacy but on Microsoft's advocating their "shared source."
Let's not forget, what "Linux" stands for
Linux Is Not UniX !
Repeat:
Linux Is Not UniX !
Linux Is Not UniX !
Linux Is Not UniX !
Linux Is Not UniX !
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Being the home of the Free Software Foundation, the state's appealing is the natural thing to do...
In 1995 or 1996 due to US pressure copyright protection was extended from 10 to 50 years.
Now the US wants 70 years.
The "opening" of the protocols actually extends the power of Microsoft over third parties. Previously one can implement the protocols in a clean room manner and does not need to deal with Microsoft. Samba, for example, implemented CIFS on their own without depending on any help from Microsoft. Now if you sign on to this Microsoft program you essentially recognize Microsoft's claim of ownership over many protocols. You have to sign an NDA first, and then who knows what will be in the actual license agreement. The anti-GPL CIFS protocol license is a clear example of the kind of restrict licenses Microsoft can put out.
Standard protocols should not be owned. Now Microsoft is trying to use the settlement with the DOJ to actually extend its IP ownership to common protocols, beyond actual source code/implementations. Microsoft's power over third parties and the market actually increases, contrary to the original motivation beyond the anti-trust suit.
The web page talks about the next generation GUI. Why should the next generation of user interfaces be still graphical? Shouldn't there be some new paradigm, like the GUI was the next generation from the command line?