is that really true of the GNU project? I doubt it. I know that there is a practice of giving your copyright over to GNU but that's voluntary. I read so on their website. If i recall it's so that they can pursue violations for you etc.
As far as other projects, it's not been my experience that you have to relinquish your copyright to them. In fact look at what happened when the WINE project decided to change licenses, they asked for permission of all the developers who had submitted code.
You make these statements from personal experience? It sounds like it, but I've never heard of authors who submit patches having to GPL projects having to relinquish their copyright on those patches. It doesn't even make sense. Since the patches are GPL they can be integrated into the GPL project without any problems or any transfer of copyright. Each author of each bit of code retains his own copyright over that bit of code.
I don't understand. The parent post says that if a product is licenced under the GPL and a proprietary license, I can submit a patch to the GPL part of the product, and the company can then sell my work as proprietary?
Not only is this copyright infringement against me, it's also a violation of the GPL under which my patch is licenced.
Explain this to me again.
I thought that if a project was dual licenced in such a way, that in order for the proprietary licence to continue to be applicable, the company has to keep the codebase they sell completely pure, and free of GPL submitted patches.
i don't know about this. There have been several story in past months about palladium here. Some of them about Microsoft's marketing of it etc. It would be a big thing for intel/amd to suddenly remove palladium from their chips in the space of a few months. I hope you're right about their change of direction though.
As far as no annoucement/being on the roadmap, they never did that before and i never thought they would do that anyway. I thought the whole point about palladium tech in chips was to introduce it as quietly as possible and slip it under the consumer radar.
Honestly, I think between the DMCA and Palladium, DRM is going to be forced down our throats whether we like it or not.
It's just a matter of time.
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No offense but that's the way it USED to work.
Now we have Microsoft's Palladium. Both Intel and AMD are supporting it in their upcomming chips. It will take control of your computer and completely prevent you from grabbing the stream in any of the unencrypted digital forms.
And you thought you owned your computer? uh huh.
Now if you want to copy the audio, you will have to do it analog. But wait, when you upgrade your computer once more, who's to say Palladium2 won't require speakers with Palladium2 in them. Then you won't even be able to capture an analog stream. You will be forced to play it through the speakers, and record it on a microphone. At which point they have won.
You know, Einstein once said his biggest mistake was naming his theory 'special relativity'
His theory is not that everything is 'relative', it is that if you specify all the variables, everything is precisely understood.
Moreover, it does not apply to anything else. How is it that you use the postulates of the constancy of the speed of light and of simultaniety, can be applied to the speed of ICC over GCC???
Quote from the article: "Like Einstein, I have to say the answer is relative."
dude, that would be awesome!
I want to own..er sponsor my own bearded man. Can you imagine what the average linux beardy looks like on a day to day basis? I'd love to get pictures of alan cox to show people and say "I taught this man to fish...":)
Oh fear not, there could be a south park episode involving sally struthers...
F-U-C-K T-H-E-M.
Bioware are a bunch of lying bastards. They have been saying all along that their game was designed to be multi-platform (including linux). In fact, they publicly stated this as an advantage MANY TIMES.
Well I guess they fucking lied then didn't they? because they based it on things which don't run on linux at all.
There's no way in hell I'm going to justify buying this game to myself after being lied to and now that it's months and months old, I won't have to. If bioware doesn't want my linux buisness. Screw em. There are many great games coming out soon.
Debian is not slutty at all! In fact she is altogether fridgid. I've been trying for ages to warm her up to the idea of a KDE 3some and she's been denying me like I'm a lunatic.
I don't know about these predictions...
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1. Every appliance is connected to the internet.
That would mean that internet connectivity has to be wireless and cheap. It would also require people to WANT their appliances connected to the internet. I'm sorry but my washing machine works really well right now on it's own without it bugging me to take it in or yelling adds at me. If that's why these machines want to connect (to rip me off, advertise to me, tell me i should take it into the dealer and pay more money) then I'm gonna be ready with a nice jamming signal for them.
2. The IM prediction and online presence.
Maybe it will be like somewhat as he says. But I sure as hell am not going to have a damn gps signal telling everyone who wants to talk to me exactly where I am. And I'm not gonna be available all the time either. My settings are gonna default to "leave me a god damn email msg and I'll get back to you when I can". Not 'here's my exact location, what I'm doing and 5 ways to page me right now'.:)
3. Walking out of shops and the rfid tag nonsense.
Riiight. A store with no clerks. Talk about easy to shoplift if you have your own programmable rfids. or just walk out next to someone else and charge your stuff to their card.
4. Tivo in every home, no restrictions.
Let's see if the mpaa + networks will just roll over for that one. My guess is it will be a crippled tivo ripoff with all sorts of DRM and palladium inside if that happens. Anything else will be illegal.
5. Speech recognition.
Don't know about this one. Everyone and their mother has thought this was right around the corner for the past 20 years.
Here's my prediction:
Corporate America will finally dispense with the play acting and be in direct control of the country. Instead of having senators from each constituency, we will have senator Disney, senator Microsoft, senator Tobacco industry, senator chemical industry. And the president will be the CEO of the country.
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Forced to use Windows in every job
"It's either a life and death issue or it isn't."
Ohmegod. Here's someone who takes living life through binary way too seriously:P
I've released a total of 0 kernels so far and I intend to release a total of 0 more kernels for the next many many months to come. By your rating Linus' got nothin on me:)
hmmm, 10 minutes away? sounds like you could establish some kind of link to them. Microwave or radio?
Man, I lived in the dorms when we first got ethernet. Only 2 of the 5 22 floor residential buildings had them, the others were on 19kbps modems.
Anyway, one day I go to dinner, look up at the sky and theres a 100ft long ethernet cable suspended in mid air around the 14th floor from one 22 story building to another.
I have *no* clue how somone accomplished this. He (or she, but I'd put money on it given the % of female engineers) must have been an engineering student.
I have to say it made my day knowing someone else out there felt the same way as me:)
Yeah. Sure. When you already HAVE broadband you don't care too much about the speed. When you're struggling to connect and waiting 3 hours to download something you really need, praying you won't be disconnected again during the transfer; that's when you would give your firstborn for broadband.
In other news.. People who are constantly fed say they aren't hungry.
I looks like if you are talking about large internet operations and large cpu intensive tasks and large io tasks all at the same time... then YES! it will make the internet faster.
So maybe this will help some people stand up to being/.'ed.
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It's funny how the link he uses shows no results for linux. So your results show that microsoft beat linux but linux wasn't tested?
Also, if I recall, microsoft is one of the biggest sponsors of that organization.
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As far as other projects, it's not been my experience that you have to relinquish your copyright to them. In fact look at what happened when the WINE project decided to change licenses, they asked for permission of all the developers who had submitted code.
You make these statements from personal experience? It sounds like it, but I've never heard of authors who submit patches having to GPL projects having to relinquish their copyright on those patches. It doesn't even make sense. Since the patches are GPL they can be integrated into the GPL project without any problems or any transfer of copyright. Each author of each bit of code retains his own copyright over that bit of code.
Not only is this copyright infringement against me, it's also a violation of the GPL under which my patch is licenced.
Explain this to me again.
I thought that if a project was dual licenced in such a way, that in order for the proprietary licence to continue to be applicable, the company has to keep the codebase they sell completely pure, and free of GPL submitted patches.
why has this been modded up? palladium is ALL ABOUT DRM and content control.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/166251 &mode=thread&tid=99
As far as no annoucement/being on the roadmap, they never did that before and i never thought they would do that anyway. I thought the whole point about palladium tech in chips was to introduce it as quietly as possible and slip it under the consumer radar.
It's just a matter of time.
Now we have Microsoft's Palladium. Both Intel and AMD are supporting it in their upcomming chips. It will take control of your computer and completely prevent you from grabbing the stream in any of the unencrypted digital forms.
And you thought you owned your computer? uh huh.
Now if you want to copy the audio, you will have to do it analog. But wait, when you upgrade your computer once more, who's to say Palladium2 won't require speakers with Palladium2 in them. Then you won't even be able to capture an analog stream. You will be forced to play it through the speakers, and record it on a microphone. At which point they have won.
erm.. i think Linus could say something about getting that job because of his little Free Software project.. But maybe I'm wrong :-)
You know, Einstein once said his biggest mistake was naming his theory 'special relativity'
His theory is not that everything is 'relative', it is that if you specify all the variables, everything is precisely understood.
Moreover, it does not apply to anything else. How is it that you use the postulates of the constancy of the speed of light and of simultaniety, can be applied to the speed of ICC over GCC???
Quote from the article:
"Like Einstein, I have to say the answer is relative."
DOH!
well I just hope it has all the goodies on Linus' xmas list.
I want to own..er sponsor my own bearded man. Can you imagine what the average linux beardy looks like on a day to day basis? I'd love to get pictures of alan cox to show people and say "I taught this man to fish..."
Oh fear not, there could be a south park episode involving sally struthers...
Bioware are a bunch of lying bastards. They have been saying all along that their game was designed to be multi-platform (including linux). In fact, they publicly stated this as an advantage MANY TIMES.
Well I guess they fucking lied then didn't they? because they based it on things which don't run on linux at all.
There's no way in hell I'm going to justify buying this game to myself after being lied to and now that it's months and months old, I won't have to. If bioware doesn't want my linux buisness. Screw em. There are many great games coming out soon.
Debian is not slutty at all! In fact she is altogether fridgid. I've been trying for ages to warm her up to the idea of a KDE 3some and she's been denying me like I'm a lunatic.
That would mean that internet connectivity has to be wireless and cheap. It would also require people to WANT their appliances connected to the internet. I'm sorry but my washing machine works really well right now on it's own without it bugging me to take it in or yelling adds at me. If that's why these machines want to connect (to rip me off, advertise to me, tell me i should take it into the dealer and pay more money) then I'm gonna be ready with a nice jamming signal for them.
2. The IM prediction and online presence.
Maybe it will be like somewhat as he says. But I sure as hell am not going to have a damn gps signal telling everyone who wants to talk to me exactly where I am. And I'm not gonna be available all the time either. My settings are gonna default to "leave me a god damn email msg and I'll get back to you when I can". Not 'here's my exact location, what I'm doing and 5 ways to page me right now'. :)
3. Walking out of shops and the rfid tag nonsense.
Riiight. A store with no clerks. Talk about easy to shoplift if you have your own programmable rfids. or just walk out next to someone else and charge your stuff to their card.
4. Tivo in every home, no restrictions.
Let's see if the mpaa + networks will just roll over for that one. My guess is it will be a crippled tivo ripoff with all sorts of DRM and palladium inside if that happens. Anything else will be illegal.
5. Speech recognition.
Don't know about this one. Everyone and their mother has thought this was right around the corner for the past 20 years.
Here's my prediction:
Corporate America will finally dispense with the play acting and be in direct control of the country. Instead of having senators from each constituency, we will have senator Disney, senator Microsoft, senator Tobacco industry, senator chemical industry. And the president will be the CEO of the country.
"It's either a life and death issue or it isn't."
Ohmegod. Here's someone who takes living life through binary way too seriously :P
naw, if you run something like icewm or fluxbox you'll be fine with 32MB Try running kde tho and you'll be in agony.
I've released a total of 0 kernels so far and I intend to release a total of 0 more kernels for the next many many months to come. By your rating Linus' got nothin on me :)
just my $2*10^-2.00
Man, I lived in the dorms when we first got ethernet. Only 2 of the 5 22 floor residential buildings had them, the others were on 19kbps modems. :)
Anyway, one day I go to dinner, look up at the sky and theres a 100ft long ethernet cable suspended in mid air around the 14th floor from one 22 story building to another.
I have *no* clue how somone accomplished this. He (or she, but I'd put money on it given the % of female engineers) must have been an engineering student.
I have to say it made my day knowing someone else out there felt the same way as me
In other news.. People who are constantly fed say they aren't hungry.
emerge search rpm: .rpm file to a .tar.gz archive
app-arch/rpm2targz
Latest version available: 8.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 3 kB
Homepage: http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php
Description: Convert a
So maybe this will help some people stand up to being /.'ed.
or maybe just one apple mac. Sitting all alone in a big empty room because saddam bought the marketing spiel.