I am not sure what it is called, but spending several year salaries to track down someone who stole the worth of 2 CD's is not reasonable. If it is then security companies would be rich now.
Just catch a thief and claim the salary of the guard, his boss, his legal counsil, and the food of his dog.
If you want to start a project, you really need to be a coder. But as already pointed out by the parent tThere are already a lot of GPL POS project. More mature projects can use more people than just coders: 1.Testers: An d i mean people who can say more than "nice" or "it chrashes" Writing good test reports is an art not enough people have 2.Templates: Easy setup for some pos business. In a restaurant you need some other things in a POS than in a fashion shop. They will need a different template. 3.Documentation: way beyond the screenshots and this is great stuff. 4.For POS hardware support is GO-NOGO decision in a pos system. what printers does it support? what input/scanners? 5.Support: This is what people pay for and how you can make money out of it.
Anyway, getting to start a project and let the free coding be done by someone else will result in disappointment.
I don't have experience with speaker cable quality, but I know form a small hearing test that there can be a difference between a thin very cheap cable and a thick , slightly more expensive to connect a cd-player to the tuner/amplifier.
However "more dance able" certainly is a very creative way to describe a cable. You ought to give the man some credit in that area.
On the other hand, if the battery has enough power to drive a laptop 30 years, it has enough power to put the current explosions of laptop batteries to a shame. I am not talking about atomic bombs, but about A big fire in a house/plane, for technology that might be better in place in a sattelite or something like that.
The current commercial vm's don't try to be undetectable. But if a vm was created with the purpose of being undetectable might be a different matter.
It might be possible to create a vm that only visualizes a specific part of a pc. Only hide some memory and disc space, and passing all other parts through to actual hardware. I don't know if it is feasible.
as well as the existence of a legal entity specifically set up to prosecute GPL violations. Well, this is not a good case study. It would be a good case study if patents or DRM was involved, which i doubt there is in this case study.
Corporate directors supporting such actions could find themselves personally liable for the consequences. Personally? Could... But very unlikely.
Their arrogance is frankly disgusting. I think this is the center of the the whole problem. Some backward compatibly claim could have solved this.
The gpl is pretty specific what they mea by freedom
"By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too."
I am pretty sure that the spirit of the gpl will really cause no problem if you mix GPL V2 & V3 source that provides full source and full credits are given.
However if your business model relies on a quirk of gplv2 or gplv3 you have to present that quirk and not about gplv2/v3 incompatibilities athat are not as bad as you might think.
I doubt anybody will ever sue you for mixing of gplv2(-) & v3 source.
I doubt you will be running into real trouble, In the example given:
KDE seems to have the (or a later version) in 3 header files I looked up. They still have the option to use a gplv2 version of samba.
And even then if you think your software is that important you can still contact the author of the gplv2 file you want to link/include in your gplv3 code and ask for special permission to include it in your project.
RFTA..or at least the header here This is not about online voting, this is about voting on paper
Detail that is not mentioned: In the ntherlands we commonly use a red pencil to vote, so one speaks about getting the red pencil back, not getting the ballot papers back.
(1)From what I understand, GPLv3 is compatible with Apache for the first time. Does this mean if you license your project v3, you can use apache code within your license and relicense it?
That is 2 questions. (counting is hard?) 1. If it is compatible (Source please), You can use apache code, 2 But you cannot re licence it.
You might have to add some lines in your license/readme that the code contains parts that are under a apache license, and who is the original creator of that work. (attribution).
May RMS was right after all and the thing that you run on a computer should be called something else than the kernel of that OS.
The kernel will always be to complicated for grandma, and there will be lots of distributions. Always. Maybe someone can make a linux for grandma, and maybe it takes as long as your girlfriend being a grandma. It will be the distribution that will be simple or complicated. Not the kernel.
Does the un have a tld? europe does. US does have. Sovet union has. asia will have. But the un? that would be f.un.
Ps, mod me as funny.
Re:Well that's the beauty of Linux...
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Actually a lot of forks do exist and are supported. There are all kind of real-time and low-latency and security patches floating around that get a lot of attention. Most big vendors do not ship a exact copy of the version that linus creates, but add some patches/modules that they think their actual users need.
One time they may be get merged into the main linux kernel, or maybe their features are obsoleed by features that are accepted by linus.
There is no much choice. You cannot go to a shop and ask a DVD without encryption, and you cannot go to microsoft and ask a optimized version of vista were all this drm crap is removed. You pay MS for this DRM crap and extra checks in the drivers if you want to or not.
This is not about your choice, this is about a MS choice. Gutman is explaining with a lot of text why he does not like it. And botte ed is picking on 4 points in his long text that could be explained different than the general point Gutman want to make.
But you have the choice to ignore the slashdot anti-M$ sentiments instead of trying to discuss against it.
I think you do not actually want to put linux on it, i think that the issue here is that the iPod is linux supported, meaning that you can transfer music from and to your linux desktop.
Linux support is so obvious for 99 out of 100 usb mp3 player out there it is not even worth mentioning. These mp3 players just behave like a generic USB pen disk. That you need a special (circumvention?) program for a iPod is the strange issue here.
Users care only a very little bit about the license. They want working software. Developers do care only a little bit since they cannot randomly mix & match code uder different licenses. GPL by definition gives them the most choice of source. Creators of disitibutions and hardware vendor (should) care a lot about the license. But they do not care about the freedom of the suers, they care about the number of copies they can distribute.
The vice president of bsd foundation cares for hardware vendor, who want to restrict hardware, which he calls the users/ freebsd community. However that are not users you and me who buy/use the end result.
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I am not sure what it is called, but spending several year salaries to track down someone who stole the worth of 2 CD's is not reasonable. If it is then security companies would be rich now.
Just catch a thief and claim the salary of the guard, his boss, his legal counsil, and the food of his dog.
You are confusing the 10 year old grand papa named slashdot with the new kid on the block "digg"
If you want to start a project, you really need to be a coder. But as already pointed out by the parent tThere are already a lot of GPL POS project. More mature projects can use more people than just coders:
1.Testers: An d i mean people who can say more than "nice" or "it chrashes" Writing good test reports is an art not enough people have
2.Templates: Easy setup for some pos business. In a restaurant you need some other things in a POS than in a fashion shop. They will need a different template.
3.Documentation: way beyond the screenshots and this is great stuff.
4.For POS hardware support is GO-NOGO decision in a pos system. what printers does it support? what input/scanners?
5.Support: This is what people pay for and how you can make money out of it.
Anyway, getting to start a project and let the free coding be done by someone else will result in disappointment.
I don't have experience with speaker cable quality, but I know form a small hearing test that there can be a difference between a thin very cheap cable and a thick , slightly more expensive to connect a cd-player to the tuner/amplifier.
However "more dance able" certainly is a very creative way to describe a cable. You ought to give the man some credit in that area.
Disadvantage: this battery has no off switch.
If you are in a plane and they ask you to turn it off.. then well that energy has to go somewhere....
On the other hand, if the battery has enough power to drive a laptop 30 years, it has enough power to put the current explosions of laptop batteries to a shame. I am not talking about atomic bombs, but about A big fire in a house/plane, for technology that might be better in place in a sattelite or something like that.
The current commercial vm's don't try to be undetectable. But if a vm was created with the purpose of being undetectable might be a different matter.
It might be possible to create a vm that only visualizes a specific part of a pc. Only hide some memory and disc space, and passing all other parts through to actual hardware. I don't know if it is feasible.
as well as the existence of a legal entity specifically set up to prosecute GPL violations.
Well, this is not a good case study. It would be a good case study if patents or DRM was involved, which i doubt there is in this case study.
Corporate directors supporting such actions could find themselves personally liable for the consequences.
Personally? Could... But very unlikely.
Their arrogance is frankly disgusting.
I think this is the center of the the whole problem. Some backward compatibly claim could have solved this.
I don't respect anonymous cowards!
The gpl is pretty specific what they mea by freedom
"By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too."
I am pretty sure that the spirit of the gpl will really cause no problem if you mix GPL V2 & V3 source that provides full source and full credits are given.
However if your business model relies on a quirk of gplv2 or gplv3 you have to present that quirk and not about gplv2/v3 incompatibilities athat are not as bad as you might think.
I doubt anybody will ever sue you for mixing of gplv2(-) & v3 source.
I doubt you will be running into real trouble, In the example given:
KDE seems to have the (or a later version) in 3 header files I looked up. They still have the option to use a gplv2 version of samba.
And even then if you think your software is that important you can still contact the author of the gplv2 file you want to link/include in your gplv3 code and ask for special permission to include it in your project.
RFTA..or at least the header here This is not about online voting, this is about voting on paper
Detail that is not mentioned: In the ntherlands we commonly use a red pencil to vote, so one speaks about getting the red pencil back, not getting the ballot papers back.
(1)From what I understand, GPLv3 is compatible with Apache for the first time. Does this mean if you license your project v3, you can use apache code within your license and relicense it?
That is 2 questions. (counting is hard?)
1. If it is compatible (Source please), You can use apache code,
2 But you cannot re licence it.
You might have to add some lines in your license/readme that the code contains parts that are under a apache license, and who is the original creator of that work. (attribution).
More likely they fix it. Tell you that you voided your warrenty, and then bill you for the repair.
in SIM-unlocked iPhones turning into very expensive bricks... So what are users of SIM-unlocked iPhones to do?
Bricks have uses too. You can build houses from them. Very expensive houses. But bricks are bricks after all.
May RMS was right after all and the thing that you run on a computer should be called something else than the kernel of that OS.
The kernel will always be to complicated for grandma, and there will be lots of distributions. Always. Maybe someone can make a linux for grandma, and maybe it takes as long as your girlfriend being a grandma. It will be the distribution that will be simple or complicated. Not the kernel.
In a comment linus said: I don't care.
Does the un have a tld? europe does. US does have. Sovet union has. asia will have. But the un? that would be f.un.
Ps, mod me as funny.
Actually a lot of forks do exist and are supported. There are all kind of real-time and low-latency and security patches floating around that get a lot of attention. Most big vendors do not ship a exact copy of the version that linus creates, but add some patches/modules that they think their actual users need.
One time they may be get merged into the main linux kernel, or maybe their features are obsoleed by features that are accepted by linus.
There is no much choice. You cannot go to a shop and ask a DVD without encryption, and you cannot go to microsoft and ask a optimized version of vista were all this drm crap is removed. You pay MS for this DRM crap and extra checks in the drivers if you want to or not.
This is not about your choice, this is about a MS choice. Gutman is explaining with a lot of text why he does not like it. And botte ed is picking on 4 points in his long text that could be explained different than the general point Gutman want to make.
But you have the choice to ignore the slashdot anti-M$ sentiments instead of trying to discuss against it.
This is just a proff of concept. With the C sources it ill be easy for a itunes sync program to Automaticallyu write the hash
I think you do not actually want to put linux on it, i think that the issue here is that the iPod is linux supported, meaning that you can transfer music from and to your linux desktop.
Linux support is so obvious for 99 out of 100 usb mp3 player out there it is not even worth mentioning. These mp3 players just behave like a generic USB pen disk. That you need a special (circumvention?) program for a iPod is the strange issue here.
THe question really is:
Is PJ a fat lady and will she sing at the party?
Users care only a very little bit about the license. They want working software. Developers do care only a little bit since they cannot randomly mix & match code uder different licenses. GPL by definition gives them the most choice of source. Creators of disitibutions and hardware vendor (should) care a lot about the license. But they do not care about the freedom of the suers, they care about the number of copies they can distribute.
;)
The vice president of bsd foundation cares for hardware vendor, who want to restrict hardware, which he calls the users/ freebsd community. However that are not users you and me who buy/use the end result.
PS..
-- BSD is dead.
right....
Just i forgot the link, and the actual number, which by a random luck i choose the same....
The post title "4" is generated trowing a reliable dice and is truly a random number.
By this i present you a new random number function:
int RandomDice(){
return 4
}