The FAQ question you linked to is about whether or not you can charge for downloads, not whether or not you can distribute source on CD. The conditions under which you would HAVE To offer source for download are not all-encompassing.
You would have to offer source for download if you were unable to provide every person you distribute to a written offer for source on some other medium. If you are Debian.org, this is a problem, as anyone is free to grab the binaries from you. The only viable solution for you is to offer source.
If you are a commercial enterprise, selling your software, and clients are granted download privelegs only after signing contracts, etc, then you CAN provide them with a written offer before allowing them to downoad binaries, and you would be under no obligation to provide source online.
The "equivalent access" clause you linked to is being taken out of context.
The language of the GPL is quite clear.
You are obligated to either:
- Provide the written transferrable offer to provide the source (on CD or other accepted transfer medium) valid for X years(I forget how many), for no more than a fair handling fee. (this incurrs a multi-year obligation on your part)
OR
- Provide the source along with the binaries. (no continuing obligation on your part)
The equivalent access section falls into the latter category:
If you provide access to the source when you provide access to the binaries, and whether or not to take them is purely up to the receiver, this is the same as if you distributed them together, and you have no ongoing obligations. This is the most widely used method. Take Debian, for example. They could shut down any day with no ongoing obligation, as they made the source freely available to you via the same channels as the binaries. This is what equivalent access is about.
You are still free to distribute binaries along with only a written offer to provide source, valid for several years.
1 - The patent holder is under no obligation to allow anyone to use the stuff covered by the patent. As a patent holder you are free to deny anyone the right to use your patent. There is no rule requiring you to license it to anyone.
2 - That part wasn't FUD. IF you are buy a machine from Joe's Machines Inc, (JMI), and it violates my patent, not only can I prevent JMI from producing them, but I can also require that you stop using it. The same goes for if you independently invented the machine and use it only for yourself... you would still be violating my patent.
The FUD sco was spinning was about copyrights, not patents, trying to say they could sue end users for copyright violation. That was much shakier ground.
There are plenty of forked kernel trees out there. Most continually merge in changes from Linus' tree, though.
A fork doesn't matter. What matters is what it represents. If there is enough popularity that the Linux community ends up using incompatable forks, then yes, we have a problem.. but forking in no way necessarily leads to this.
As always, the available kernels in wide use will reflect what people actually want to use.
The patent still applies to you.. the damages for past violation are just reduced significantly (because you were not willfuly violating the patent)
You will still have to reckon with the patent holder once they find out, which means stopping distribution or royalties or whatever. If you have an ongoing business model based on this, it means you will likely end up paying regardless.
The point is, the OS instances run concurrently, side by side.. there is no "host" operating system eating up resources.
If I could run a separate instance of an OS for each service I need a box to perform, it could keep things much cleaner, and weed out dependency issues. IT would also make migrating to more boxes later easier.
The thing with Xen is that it cuts down on overhead.. a few linux instances side by side don't eat up a bucketload of resources like they do with VMWare.
Because you mentionend "the cio would not like text files for config".
THe type of differences you are talking about would not even be noticed by a Cio/cfo/whatever.
a CLI (which asterisk has, by the way) is not significantly different than editing text. Further, text files often give you a clearer picture of what's going on than a simple command line.
THe distinction you are making is only a temporary one, and they used to say the same thing about music.
Most DVD rips are now full quality. Yes, some people transcode in order to fit the movie on a DVDR... others will simply use two DVDr's. Now, with dual-layer DVDr, this is not necessary either.
Further, some poeple just leave them on hard disk, and play from there.
Good DVD rips are identical to the original DVD. Good transcoded DVD rips are very close to the original DVD (just as good mp3 rips are very close to the original cd)
Please.. PLEASE.. tell me what enterprise PBX system it is you have that has this wonderful user friendly interface?
Because form the ones I've had to use, I can tell you, I'll get far more flexibility and power out of asterisk than most commercial PBX systems I've seen.
BTW, if it's such a "hobby" app, why is it that some extremely large VOIP providers use it? Serious businesses, too..
The feature that you want to use, however, was not part of the product offered by Apple, and not supported by their software. Unless the software in question was using officially published APIs from apple, Apple rightly has no obligation to ensure compatability.
That a third party (actually quite a few third parties) , whom apple is not accountable to, made different softwares to let you copy music back OFF the ipod in a meaningful way is beyond Apple's control.
So, yes, it's your right to do this, you absolutely do own the hardware.. however, Apple releases iTunes, and apple can do what they want with that.
How do we prove that the universe wasn't created 5 minutes ago, and we just all have false memories of the past?
We obviously can't. Any evidence that the universe is older could have been planted, inherent in the design the Creator implemented a short 5 minutes ago to deceive us.
And that, of course, is irrelevant. If no experiment can tell the difference between a universe that has been around for billions of years, and one that was created 5 minutes ago but LOOKS like it's been around for billions of years, then there IS no difference.
THe answer is "it depends". First, there is no such thing as a generic "cluster". A cluster is just a bunch of machines cooprating to solve a problem (whether that problem is serving a website or computational physics, or the requirement for redundancy)
Some types of applications, it's easy to visualize how to get a dozen or a hundred computers to help with the problem (serving static web pages). Others, it's not (databases)
If they only gave her one key, she's not getting very good service.
My new VW came with 3 keys, 2 full keys and one "valet" key that can run the vehicle, but not open the glovebox, fuel lock, or trunk.
Yes, it's a bit of a pain in a way.. it's also safer. You might not care where you are, but having had my previous vehicle stolen, I like the idea of computerized keys.
Also, nothing is supplied by "suction of the engine". Atmospheric pressure PUSHES air into the turbo intake, and the turbo further compresses that and feeds it to the engine. The engine doesn't "suck it in".
You don't need a fan all the time on an intercooler or otherwise because the car is already moving, and the intercooler is exposed at the front of the vehicle. The fan is for when you aren't moving.
There is generally a significant lag between changing DNS and the zombies re-tasking, at least with the current generation of zombies. Like any good app, they do a DNS lookup when they start, and then do their thing.
Some require a manual restart in order to be re-tasked to a new IP.
At the moment, it is probably possible to stay ahead of these zombies by rotating IP addresses.. but that's not a long or even medium-term solution, as simple changes to zombie code will make this ineffective. It's also just plain messy.
in the multi-gigabit range, let me dispel some misconceptions.
IN practice, DDOS attacks on a large scale nowadays are NOT ip spoofed at all, the source addresses are almost always real.
What you are saying about DDOS applied 5 years ago, but is now quite out of date. SYN proxying is more efficient, yes, but it will still have problems.
Further, most DDOS nowadays simply massively saturates the available bandwidth to a site.
Most hostile zombie machines are already in networks with spoof protction. Cable modem users, universities, etc.
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You are taking it out of context.
The FAQ question you linked to is about whether or not you can charge for downloads, not whether or not you can distribute source on CD. The conditions under which you would HAVE To offer source for download are not all-encompassing.
You would have to offer source for download if you were unable to provide every person you distribute to a written offer for source on some other medium. If you are Debian.org, this is a problem, as anyone is free to grab the binaries from you. The only viable solution for you is to offer source.
If you are a commercial enterprise, selling your software, and clients are granted download privelegs only after signing contracts, etc, then you CAN provide them with a written offer before allowing them to downoad binaries, and you would be under no obligation to provide source online.
The "equivalent access" clause you linked to is being taken out of context.
The language of the GPL is quite clear.
You are obligated to either:
- Provide the written transferrable offer to provide the source (on CD or other accepted transfer medium) valid for X years(I forget how many), for no more than a fair handling fee. (this incurrs a multi-year obligation on your part)
OR
- Provide the source along with the binaries. (no continuing obligation on your part)
The equivalent access section falls into the latter category:
If you provide access to the source when you provide access to the binaries, and whether or not to take them is purely up to the receiver, this is the same as if you distributed them together, and you have no ongoing obligations. This is the most widely used method. Take Debian, for example. They could shut down any day with no ongoing obligation, as they made the source freely available to you via the same channels as the binaries. This is what equivalent access is about.
You are still free to distribute binaries along with only a written offer to provide source, valid for several years.
It's true.
1 - The patent holder is under no obligation to allow anyone to use the stuff covered by the patent. As a patent holder you are free to deny anyone the right to use your patent. There is no rule requiring you to license it to anyone.
2 - That part wasn't FUD. IF you are buy a machine from Joe's Machines Inc, (JMI), and it violates my patent, not only can I prevent JMI from producing them, but I can also require that you stop using it. The same goes for if you independently invented the machine and use it only for yourself... you would still be violating my patent.
The FUD sco was spinning was about copyrights, not patents, trying to say they could sue end users for copyright violation. That was much shakier ground.
No details, no important names.. no nothing.
There are plenty of forked kernel trees out there. Most continually merge in changes from Linus' tree, though.
A fork doesn't matter. What matters is what it represents. If there is enough popularity that the Linux community ends up using incompatable forks, then yes, we have a problem.. but forking in no way necessarily leads to this.
As always, the available kernels in wide use will reflect what people actually want to use.
The patent still applies to you.. the damages for past violation are just reduced significantly (because you were not willfuly violating the patent)
You will still have to reckon with the patent holder once they find out, which means stopping distribution or royalties or whatever. If you have an ongoing business model based on this, it means you will likely end up paying regardless.
Now what we need is a guide to bootstrapping Xen & our favorite linux distributions.
The point is, the OS instances run concurrently, side by side.. there is no "host" operating system eating up resources.
If I could run a separate instance of an OS for each service I need a box to perform, it could keep things much cleaner, and weed out dependency issues. IT would also make migrating to more boxes later easier.
The thing with Xen is that it cuts down on overhead.. a few linux instances side by side don't eat up a bucketload of resources like they do with VMWare.
Because you mentionend "the cio would not like text files for config".
THe type of differences you are talking about would not even be noticed by a Cio/cfo/whatever.
a CLI (which asterisk has, by the way) is not significantly different than editing text. Further, text files often give you a clearer picture of what's going on than a simple command line.
THe distinction you are making is only a temporary one, and they used to say the same thing about music.
Most DVD rips are now full quality. Yes, some people transcode in order to fit the movie on a DVDR... others will simply use two DVDr's. Now, with dual-layer DVDr, this is not necessary either.
Further, some poeple just leave them on hard disk, and play from there.
Good DVD rips are identical to the original DVD. Good transcoded DVD rips are very close to the original DVD (just as good mp3 rips are very close to the original cd)
Soon, it won't matter.
Please.. PLEASE.. tell me what enterprise PBX system it is you have that has this wonderful user friendly interface?
Because form the ones I've had to use, I can tell you, I'll get far more flexibility and power out of asterisk than most commercial PBX systems I've seen.
BTW, if it's such a "hobby" app, why is it that some extremely large VOIP providers use it? Serious businesses, too..
Again, you can do with it what you please.
The feature that you want to use, however, was not part of the product offered by Apple, and not supported by their software. Unless the software in question was using officially published APIs from apple, Apple rightly has no obligation to ensure compatability.
That a third party (actually quite a few third parties) , whom apple is not accountable to, made different softwares to let you copy music back OFF the ipod in a meaningful way is beyond Apple's control.
So, yes, it's your right to do this, you absolutely do own the hardware.. however, Apple releases iTunes, and apple can do what they want with that.
Simpler.
How do we prove that the universe wasn't created 5 minutes ago, and we just all have false memories of the past?
We obviously can't. Any evidence that the universe is older could have been planted, inherent in the design the Creator implemented a short 5 minutes ago to deceive us.
And that, of course, is irrelevant. If no experiment can tell the difference between a universe that has been around for billions of years, and one that was created 5 minutes ago but LOOKS like it's been around for billions of years, then there IS no difference.
Just curious..
Do you mean a hang glider?
THe answer is "it depends". First, there is no such thing as a generic "cluster". A cluster is just a bunch of machines cooprating to solve a problem (whether that problem is serving a website or computational physics, or the requirement for redundancy)
Some types of applications, it's easy to visualize how to get a dozen or a hundred computers to help with the problem (serving static web pages). Others, it's not (databases)
If this was a rigid structure, you would be correct.
As it is, there is this whole spring/suspension system designed to distribute the forces across the wheelbase, even under different motions.
The same suspension that keeps the weight over the tires during cornering.
Even if MILLIONS were "offended" that someone mentioned that they liked Zelda, it's still not copyright infringement. Sorry.
You are allowed to speak about a product, and refer to a product, without the trademark holder's permission.
Don't they go together?
THe 4 point harness keeps you from smashing your head into the rollcage, which keeps your head from getting crushed when you roll?
If they only gave her one key, she's not getting very good service.
My new VW came with 3 keys, 2 full keys and one "valet" key that can run the vehicle, but not open the glovebox, fuel lock, or trunk.
Yes, it's a bit of a pain in a way.. it's also safer. You might not care where you are, but having had my previous vehicle stolen, I like the idea of computerized keys.
He said "Fuel map" not "boost map"
Also, nothing is supplied by "suction of the engine". Atmospheric pressure PUSHES air into the turbo intake, and the turbo further compresses that and feeds it to the engine. The engine doesn't "suck it in".
You don't need a fan all the time on an intercooler or otherwise because the car is already moving, and the intercooler is exposed at the front of the vehicle. The fan is for when you aren't moving.
Yes, everywhere has it's poor people.
That doesn't change the fact: the average american has way more money and opportunity and privelege than the average 3rd world person.
As for not having the power to help.. who took away your powers? Anyone can help if they put their mind to it.
Says who?
Onling gambling has always been called "Online Gaming"... just like it's meatspace counterpart.
That's what the stock market calls it, that's what business calls it, and that's waht the entire industry calls itself...
Can you cite some sources?
Compared to people in these countries, Americans ARE very wealthy.
Interestingly enough:
most of these attacks are a 2nd world country attacking a 3rd world one. Most internet gambling is in the 3rd world.
the attackers are in Russia, so 2nd world.
The only part that is 1st world are the Zombies (and the customers of the gambling businesses)
There is generally a significant lag between changing DNS and the zombies re-tasking, at least with the current generation of zombies. Like any good app, they do a DNS lookup when they start, and then do their thing.
Some require a manual restart in order to be re-tasked to a new IP.
At the moment, it is probably possible to stay ahead of these zombies by rotating IP addresses.. but that's not a long or even medium-term solution, as simple changes to zombie code will make this ineffective. It's also just plain messy.
in the multi-gigabit range, let me dispel some misconceptions.
IN practice, DDOS attacks on a large scale nowadays are NOT ip spoofed at all, the source addresses are almost always real.
What you are saying about DDOS applied 5 years ago, but is now quite out of date. SYN proxying is more efficient, yes, but it will still have problems.
Further, most DDOS nowadays simply massively saturates the available bandwidth to a site.
Most hostile zombie machines are already in networks with spoof protction. Cable modem users, universities, etc.