Compaq has been doing this for at least 3 years. And I have been merrily copying the cab files from the cd to do manual installs the whole while. I ripped out the mobo and just about everything else, and so of course Micropaq deemed my purchase of a Windows liscence invalidated. Yeah, ok.
Quite a few posts are right on here. This is a Bad thing. And it is just a taste of the things to come. The UN is not accountable to The Constitution (read: Bill of Rights). It is an organization given power over sovereign nations, and hence their net access.
All well and good when its on the other side of the planet in a war zone. How would you feel if they felt the need to intervene in a situation in your country (the U.S. is mine)? There is a move to expand the permanent membership of the security council in the works right now. Expand it with more people not elected by you that have power over you. World peace is a goal worthy of all our efforts, but at the expense of self rule? Life on the net is gonna get much harder my friends.
(Not to start a flame war, but I've always believed that unless you're writing bit-banging code like device drivers, resorting to C reflects a substantial lack of imagination and knowledge of Unix on the part of the programmer.)
rofl....dude, I agree. But that has got to be the most violent plea for peace I've ever read. My hat is off to you.
Nice hypothetical. What ISP? What site? When did this happen? Where did you read this story? The courts would bitchslap an ISP for such an action, and the media would crucify said ISP's reputation (if this was handled correctly.)
OSS advocacy site? I thought this was an open speach advocacy site.
As to your utopian OSS world; How about the OSS coder who decides he wants to tinker with BeOS? He ports an device driver for a NIC, puts it on his site, with all source and sources included - all wrapped up in a pretty GPL. GNU forces him to remove the driver because "a device driver requires the OS to function." He would have to publish the source of the BeOS (which he does not own) to be legal.
Being the anti-social cinspiracy theorist that I am, here is my take.
Certain elements *sic* of the western democracies want desperately to gain a stranglehold on the net, both in terms of access and content. In the US, the very size of the connected community coupled with the chaotic nature of our culture leads to conflict in the area of online rights.
Australia has recently been a testbed in which several experimental attacks have been launched against the rights of citizens to freely associate and communicate online.
In a democracy, if you can't persuade an elected legislator to take up your cause, you get a non-elected judge to legislate through the courts. Scare tactics (free a likely murderer into your community), often sway public opinion. It is much easier to get an elected official to do the wrong thing (or the right thing)when you gain control of the hearts, minds, and/or wallets of his constituancy.
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Compaq has been doing this for at least 3 years.
And I have been merrily copying the cab files from the cd
to do manual installs the whole while. I ripped out the mobo
and just about everything else, and so of course Micropaq
deemed my purchase of a Windows liscence invalidated. Yeah, ok.
Quite a few posts are right on here.
This is a Bad thing. And it
is just a taste of the things to come.
The UN is not accountable to The Constitution
(read: Bill of Rights). It is
an organization given power over sovereign
nations, and hence their net access.
All well and good when its on the other side
of the planet in a war zone. How would you
feel if they felt the need to intervene in
a situation in your country (the U.S. is mine)?
There is a move to expand the permanent
membership of the security council in the
works right now. Expand it with more people
not elected by you that have power over you.
World peace is a goal worthy of all our efforts,
but at the expense of self rule? Life on the
net is gonna get much harder my friends.
my actual point was that this is a bogus story.
Yellow Journalism.
(Not to start a flame war, but I've always believed that unless you're writing bit-banging code like device drivers, resorting to C reflects a substantial lack of imagination and knowledge of Unix on the part of the programmer.)
rofl....dude, I agree. But that has got to be the most violent plea for peace I've ever read. My hat is off to you.
Nice hypothetical.
What ISP?
What site?
When did this happen?
Where did you read this story?
The courts would bitchslap an ISP for
such an action, and the media would crucify
said ISP's reputation (if this was handled correctly.)
OSS advocacy site? I thought this was an open speach advocacy site.
As to your utopian OSS world; How about the OSS coder who
decides he wants to tinker with BeOS? He ports an device driver
for a NIC, puts it on his site, with all source and sources included
- all wrapped up in a pretty GPL. GNU forces him to remove
the driver because "a device driver requires the OS to function."
He would have to publish the source of the BeOS (which he does
not own) to be legal.
It Happened.
Being the anti-social cinspiracy theorist that I am, here is my take.
Certain elements *sic* of the western democracies want desperately to gain a stranglehold on the
net, both in terms of access and content. In the US, the very size of the connected community
coupled with the chaotic nature of our culture leads to conflict in the area of online rights.
Australia has recently been a testbed in which several experimental attacks have been launched
against the rights of citizens to freely associate and communicate online.
In a democracy, if you can't persuade an elected legislator to take up your cause, you get a
non-elected judge to legislate through the courts. Scare tactics (free a likely murderer into your
community), often sway public opinion. It is much easier to get an elected official to do the wrong
thing (or the right thing)when you gain control of the hearts, minds, and/or wallets of his
constituancy.
3c509 driver - on freebe ftp in experimental
drivers folder. Works great for me. Saw some
others at tucows and bebits.