The Problem Troll Tech's Qt library is distributed under a licence [5] that includes this condition: You may copy this version of the Qt Free Edition provided that the entire archive is distributed unchanged and as a whole, including this notice. The KDE code is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 [6] Currently, KDE must be linked against Qt in order to produce usable binaries.
Clause 2.b. of the GPL reads: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. The corollary of this is that if you link the GPLed KDE code against Troll Tech's Qt library, and distribute it, you must distribute it under the GPL.
However, the GPL insists that you grant the right to modify the complete source of a program distributed under its terms, which is clearly in conflict with Qt's licence conditions.
Clause 7 of the GPL reads: 7. If... for any other reason... conditions are imposed on you... that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
So, we have been denied the right to ``distribute the Program at all''.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Actually they're not misinformed they are just spreading misinformation, this band I suspect is a coalition of the MI ISP's who don't want everyone using AT&T or Ameritech for they're Internet Access.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
What do they have to protect themselves from? They didn't pay for the t-shirt material. If they can't take it don't dish it out.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Re:GNUtella only runs on *BSD, not Linux
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It wouldn't even need to be in a sandbox all the time. Just cripple it by default. You know it's not that Windows can't be made secure it's just that it takes so much fucking longer to find all of the goddamn checkboxes that they hide to disable all of the default security holes, that you may as well just learn *NIX to begin with.
Sorry it's Monday, and I hate VBScript
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Re:So VIC20 GNU code would be Linux code????
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He wants you to call it GNU/Linux instead of Linux not instead of GNU.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
AKAIK A worm is a piece of code that doesn't require user interaction to spread (e.g. the internet worm which exploited a buffer overflow to write executable code into memory and trick the computer into running it instead of the next instructions). This requires (just like ILOVEYOU) that someone run the script.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Re:Gnutella is closed source, hence not secure
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It's not a backdoor it's just downloading a file... Opening the source won't protect idiots from their own mouse buttons if they are dead set against clicking anything they can see.
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Re:GNUtella only runs on *BSD, not Linux
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So it automatically runs scripts if you download them? That's one of the worst ideas I can think of.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Actually they would be just as affected, it's just a file that shows up. You have to download it then run it yourself (Just like ILOVEYOU). Open Source can only go so far to protect people from their own stupidity.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Well if you want to continue with this line of reasoning let's look up take:
take v.t. To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially: To capture physically; seize: take an enemy fortress. To seize with authority; confiscate.
Seizing and capturing aren't verbs that give the impression of just taking a replica are they?
However by making these arguments we just are just wasting time trying to justify to ourselves that we aren't doing something illegal... which we are
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
I'd like to object to the term "trained mathematician" being used for computers since most computers were not necessarily mathematicians, just secretaries with adding machines.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
What Microsoft did this time was a blatent abuse of the Trade Secret laws. These laws were made to protect from things like a Coca-Cola employee defecting to Pepsi with the secret recipe, they weren't meant to allow a company to snatch a free and open technology and make it they're own then pretend that they are being open about it by publishing their "trade secret" to the entire internet, but requiring that every one enter into a TS agreement with them. Thats just absurd! That's like Coke mailing the recipe out to everyone in the world and then saying that no one can use it.
They also showed no interest in defending their trade secret since the EULA was just hacked into a self extracting zip file, and could be bypassed with WinZip (the defacto standard Zip utility on Windows). Their actions were arrogant and offensive to the Computer industry as a whole, and now they're running and hiding behind the DMCA.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Did you endorse the use of "Babelfish" by altavista or did you consider trying to prevent them from using the word as they are far from proving that god does not exist? Lycos does go long way towards disporving at least a merciful god.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold launched an assault on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, murdering 13 and wounding 23 before turning the guns on themselves. Although it is impossible to know exactly what caused these teens to attack their own classmates and teachers, a number of factors probably were involved. One possible contributing factor is violent video games. Harris and Klebold enjoyed playing the bloody, shoot-'em-up video game Doom, a game licensed by the U.S. military to train soldiers to effectively kill. "Hey if we do something on Columbine it's sure to get published... especially if we point it out right at the start".
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
One of the best parts of that chapter was discussing how elevators were designed to make you not think about the 2-5 seconds you were wasting, Close Door buttons that don't actually work they just give you something to push instead of counting the seconds, or the display of what floor you're on so you can predict how long it will take to get to your stop.
All in all kinda disturbing.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Re:Great book, but no answers
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The impression I got was that most of the book he wasn't trying to say it was as much of a problem as it was just a natural effect of human nature. To that end I don't think he was trying to put it in a light that warranted a solution. Just my interpretation though.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
The whole NSA key thing makes no sense though there were a hundred things that the NSA could do to get Microsoft to give them access to a computer, that were easier than just having their own key put in. And neither the NSA nor Microsoft would be dumb enough to actually name a the key NSAKEY if it were what everyone thought it was.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The Problem
Troll Tech's Qt library is distributed under a licence [5] that includes this condition: You may copy this version of the Qt Free Edition provided that the entire archive is distributed unchanged and as a whole, including this notice. The KDE code is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 [6] Currently, KDE must be linked against Qt in order to produce usable binaries.
Clause 2.b. of the GPL reads:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. The corollary of this is that if you link the GPLed KDE code against Troll Tech's Qt library, and distribute it, you must distribute it under the GPL.
However, the GPL insists that you grant the right to modify the complete source of a program distributed under its terms, which is clearly in conflict with Qt's licence conditions.
Clause 7 of the GPL reads: ... for any other reason ... conditions are imposed on you ... that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
7. If
So, we have been denied the right to ``distribute the Program at all''.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
It wouldn't even need to be in a sandbox all the time. Just cripple it by default. You know it's not that Windows can't be made secure it's just that it takes so much fucking longer to find all of the goddamn checkboxes that they hide to disable all of the default security holes, that you may as well just learn *NIX to begin with.
Sorry it's Monday, and I hate VBScript
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Well if you want to continue with this line of reasoning let's look up take:
take v.t.
To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially: To capture physically; seize: take an enemy fortress. To seize with authority; confiscate.
Seizing and capturing aren't verbs that give the impression of just taking a replica are they?
However by making these arguments we just are just wasting time trying to justify to ourselves that we aren't doing something illegal... which we are
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
What Microsoft did this time was a blatent abuse of the Trade Secret laws. These laws were made to protect from things like a Coca-Cola employee defecting to Pepsi with the secret recipe, they weren't meant to allow a company to snatch a free and open technology and make it they're own then pretend that they are being open about it by publishing their "trade secret" to the entire internet, but requiring that every one enter into a TS agreement with them. Thats just absurd! That's like Coke mailing the recipe out to everyone in the world and then saying that no one can use it.
They also showed no interest in defending their trade secret since the EULA was just hacked into a self extracting zip file, and could be bypassed with WinZip (the defacto standard Zip utility on Windows). Their actions were arrogant and offensive to the Computer industry as a whole, and now they're running and hiding behind the DMCA.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Did you endorse the use of "Babelfish" by altavista or did you consider trying to prevent them from using the word as they are far from proving that god does not exist?
Lycos does go long way towards disporving at least a merciful god.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
"Hey if we do something on Columbine it's sure to get published... especially if we point it out right at the start".
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Find yourself one of these people.
And then punch them in the nose for inventing COBOL.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
One of the best parts of that chapter was discussing how elevators were designed to make you not think about the 2-5 seconds you were wasting, Close Door buttons that don't actually work they just give you something to push instead of counting the seconds, or the display of what floor you're on so you can predict how long it will take to get to your stop.
All in all kinda disturbing.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
If the DMCA can be shown to stifle free enterprise, it will likely see the curb.
Its unfortunate that showing it to stifle free speech isn't enough.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.