No. One person owns the copyright to the overall body of code. Your contributions are just that... gifts. The alternative is to only contribute to projects where the EFF owns the copyright, so a "rogue owner" can't take advantage of your work.
You sure about that? When I said "contribute" I didn't mean "donate," I meant "license to the original author under the terms of the GPL." If the author incorporates my GPL code into his project, his project is GPL from that point forward as long as my GPL code exists in his project. If he wants to license his code under something other than the GPL to someone, he either needs to license my code from me under a non-GPL license (and I have to do the same recursively on down to any contributors I may have had), or rewrite the contributed code. OpenOffice and a few other major projects ask or require you to sign joint-copyright so that they can "defend the copyright" on the entire project. If your "contribution" was a 'donation' as you seemed to suggest, they wouldn't need this waiver.
As for copyright, I own the copyright on code I write until I specifically sign it over to someone else.
If Bob writes a program (owns the copyright on 100% of the code) and releases it under the GPL, and then later decides to sell his project to some random guy, he is free to do so, but the people who have the GPL'd version would still have full rights to do with it everything specified under the GPL.
If Bob writes a program, releases it under the GPL, and incorporates contributed code into the project, that's another can of worms. I would think if he wanted to "go private" with the code base at that point he would need to get the permission of everyone who contributed any code, much like Mozilla did. If he couldn't get their permission he would have to rewrite those chunks of code.
Of course, IANAL, but that's what logic would seem to dictate; though logic has little to do with most software licensing schemes...
... but when I try to load OpenOffice (the spreadsheet app) on a P4 2.4GHz with 768 megs ram on Fedora Core 3, it takes well over 60 seconds to start. This is with just basic stuff running in the background... maybe 3 Firefox windows and 5 terminals. I've been advised to use gnumeric by a few people but haven't gotten around to it yet.
OpenOffice is certainly not 100% when it comes to MS compatibility either. If you embed an image in a spreadsheet or text doc you'll see issues pretty quickly.
Many companies track ad clicks to sales, and if they see huge increases in clicks without increases in spending, they will end their relationship with Google as it's not profitable for them.
Most retailers can track you across visits. Tracking your click-through history (which Google ads you've clicked on before making a purchase) is incredibly valuable information to the retailer. Just because you didn't buy something today doesn't mean your click wasn't tracked and can't be linked back to that click.
He did it on a product he was selling in the United States, and then he was stupid enough to come to the United States. Not that it's right, but he violated US laws by selling his product here.
Popups "should" be nearly trivial to block, but the issue is that you do want to keep some. Some websites have their login forms in small javascript popups... no reason to block those.
I didn't say that they gave back more than they gave. I said they have given back some. The author of the original "article" seemed to be implying that it was purely a one-way street. If they help improve the credibility of Linux, isn't that a contribution in and of itself?
The thing with putting your PC's specs in your.sig line on a random forum really hit home. I give guys who tweak their cars a lot more cred than douchebags who think they're cool because they have the latest ThermalTake or whatever-the-fuck heat sink. You can almost go buy random parts on newegg and build a better PC than these hunks of shit, and for 1/10th the price. Putting a PC together is like 20 times easier than putting together a set of Legos. The only part that's even time consuming is putting the shit in the case and installing the OS.
Some closing statements:
Nobody gives a shit about your PC specs.
On the off chance someone does care, they don't care about the brand of your ram.
The 99.9999% of people who don't give a shit find your 32-line sig detailing your magnum opus retarded.
Is Slashdot "editor" a full-time job? Like do people actually do this 8-hours a day and nothing else? Or is it like, people who work on the backend just randomly check the queue and approve stories they like from time to time? Because if this is a full-time job, these dudes should be canned. How hard is it to click through the link provided by the submitter and read it to see if their writeup matches the gist of the article? I mean, most sites that purport to be news sites actually do their own writeup for every article - the article itself! Why is it so hard to read the linked articles?
"What the market will bear." If the quality of the games increases along with the price then it sort of makes sense, but somehow I don't see that happening.
I expect them to come back with the piracy argument, which is totally backwards. "We're competing with a cheaper alternative (the same game for free) so we... raised prices... to... compensate."
These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.
Of all the problems and criticisms of the previous two prequels, I don't think lack of special effects was ever listed. The problems with acting, writing, and directing are certainly not going to be evident in still photos.
I realize this is in jest, but it raises an interesting point. What's to stop the malware makers from simply creating corporations called "click here 1" "Click here 2" etc? Then VeriSign would have no reason to decline them.
I always see this argument in regards to why it's "safer" to run stuff on Unix/Linux: because you don't run stuff as root, only the user's stuff can get fucked up, and this is better.
I don't know about you, but if all my documents are in/home/evro and I'm the only user on the machine, I care a hell of a lot more about what's in/home/evro than what's on the rest of the pc. While you can certainly cause more damage as root, and yes running as a non-privileged user will save you from system failure, the notion that "just delete the user's directory!" is somehow better in many cases is wrong. If you have a linux box at home that you do all your work on, and you were faced with:
Permanent loss of all your documents (since your last backup at least)
Your documents remain ok but you have to reinstall Linux
I don't know about you but I think reinstalling Linux would be preferable to losing personal docs... Though certainly if the purpose of the malware is to "take over" the computer you'd need to run as root.
Offtopic, I know, but something that always bothers me.
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There was a post John Carmack made here on Slashdot a few years ago stating that even having given away the linux executables for free with Quake 3, their master server showed like 0.1% of the players were playing the Linux client.
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"Be fruitful and multiply."
Pretty easy to multiply music files, right?
Or directly to my Journal Entry!
As for copyright, I own the copyright on code I write until I specifically sign it over to someone else.
If Bob writes a program (owns the copyright on 100% of the code) and releases it under the GPL, and then later decides to sell his project to some random guy, he is free to do so, but the people who have the GPL'd version would still have full rights to do with it everything specified under the GPL.
If Bob writes a program, releases it under the GPL, and incorporates contributed code into the project, that's another can of worms. I would think if he wanted to "go private" with the code base at that point he would need to get the permission of everyone who contributed any code, much like Mozilla did. If he couldn't get their permission he would have to rewrite those chunks of code.
Of course, IANAL, but that's what logic would seem to dictate; though logic has little to do with most software licensing schemes...
... but when I try to load OpenOffice (the spreadsheet app) on a P4 2.4GHz with 768 megs ram on Fedora Core 3, it takes well over 60 seconds to start. This is with just basic stuff running in the background... maybe 3 Firefox windows and 5 terminals. I've been advised to use gnumeric by a few people but haven't gotten around to it yet.
OpenOffice is certainly not 100% when it comes to MS compatibility either. If you embed an image in a spreadsheet or text doc you'll see issues pretty quickly.
Many companies track ad clicks to sales, and if they see huge increases in clicks without increases in spending, they will end their relationship with Google as it's not profitable for them.
Most retailers can track you across visits. Tracking your click-through history (which Google ads you've clicked on before making a purchase) is incredibly valuable information to the retailer. Just because you didn't buy something today doesn't mean your click wasn't tracked and can't be linked back to that click.
He did it on a product he was selling in the United States, and then he was stupid enough to come to the United States. Not that it's right, but he violated US laws by selling his product here.
I've heard from a few people that many people are setting their TTL to like 5 minutes; due to this the ISPs are ignoring the TTL.
Popups "should" be nearly trivial to block, but the issue is that you do want to keep some. Some websites have their login forms in small javascript popups... no reason to block those.
I didn't say that they gave back more than they gave. I said they have given back some. The author of the original "article" seemed to be implying that it was purely a one-way street. If they help improve the credibility of Linux, isn't that a contribution in and of itself?
"Dude, you're giving IBM free shit... they're not going to return the favor."
Except they have? Article looks like flamebait/trolling to me, or else just ignorance.
Who the F is Mark Cuban?
The thing with putting your PC's specs in your
Some closing statements:
Didn't they already agree to use DRM in the iTMS EULA? They're just enforcing their stated policy, no?
Is Slashdot "editor" a full-time job? Like do people actually do this 8-hours a day and nothing else? Or is it like, people who work on the backend just randomly check the queue and approve stories they like from time to time? Because if this is a full-time job, these dudes should be canned. How hard is it to click through the link provided by the submitter and read it to see if their writeup matches the gist of the article? I mean, most sites that purport to be news sites actually do their own writeup for every article - the article itself! Why is it so hard to read the linked articles?
"What the market will bear." If the quality of the games increases along with the price then it sort of makes sense, but somehow I don't see that happening.
I expect them to come back with the piracy argument, which is totally backwards. "We're competing with a cheaper alternative (the same game for free) so we... raised prices... to... compensate."
I wonder how fast Quake 1 would run...
... loaded as a ramdisk ...
... on your video card ...?
joke
These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.
Of all the problems and criticisms of the previous two prequels, I don't think lack of special effects was ever listed. The problems with acting, writing, and directing are certainly not going to be evident in still photos.
Sports team to city: "Build us a new stadium or we're moving somewhere that will."
Random Corporation to state: "Give us tax breaks or we'll have to take our business elsewhere."
There are other examples I'm sure, but suffice it to say that this is not something new and nobody gets in an uproar when other companies do it.
I realize this is in jest, but it raises an interesting point. What's to stop the malware makers from simply creating corporations called "click here 1" "Click here 2" etc? Then VeriSign would have no reason to decline them.
I don't know about you, but if all my documents are in
I don't know about you but I think reinstalling Linux would be preferable to losing personal docs... Though certainly if the purpose of the malware is to "take over" the computer you'd need to run as root.
Offtopic, I know, but something that always bothers me.
There was a post John Carmack made here on Slashdot a few years ago stating that even having given away the linux executables for free with Quake 3, their master server showed like 0.1% of the players were playing the Linux client.
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Here's one post of his on the topic (albeit from 5 years ago...): http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7003&cid=8689
Maybe someone with some more time would care to track it down: http://slashdot.org/~John%20Carmack
So don't use those sites?