If you think it is just the Koran, you are in for a surprise. Muslim apart of the Koran, follow a series of books called Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet) compiled by various followers of the Prophet. Some of these are extremely contradictory, and suggest Jihad, etc.
Not to mention different sects that somehow manage to interpret the same Koran differently.
1) Your company pays you to write software for linux
Yeah, but will the company want to pay him to write the same thing once and port it to different revisions of Linux, or different combinations of Linux/X/glibc/Qt/GTK+? Most ISVs would want to write a software version once that would run on Linux version n, n++ and so on. Subsequent versions of the software would be enhanced features, not merely more ports
Er, why would you want to port a Qt application to GTK+, when it will run just fine? But I understand you point, companies do not pay for porting to varying platforms, but this is where the community (of hobby devs) usually takes over.
2) You have fun writing application for linux and do it part time (everyone needs a hobby, right?)
Yeah, but how much fun is it writing the same application once, and struggling to port it to a myriad #platforms and software combinations?
Not fun, but you always find volunteers doing this on many many open source projects.
3) The software is good enough, that people donate money to help you work full time on it.
Why not just straight-forward sell it for a reasonable price, say $20-50?
Why not just straight-forward accept donations and then build your project (aka kickstarter)
4) You sell support (or special edition cds or whatever) for your software, but your software is free.
I agree w/ the GP's response on this one
I have responded to GP.
5) You sell a commercial version of your software, that has additional components that are not included in your free version.
I am surprised you been on slashdot for so long, and still did not understand this.
Again, like he said, it's hard to draw a balance b/w making it so good that add-ons won't be needed, vs making it so bad that the user won't want to trust him w/ his money.
Again responded to GP, but many projects have successfully used it. I guess proof is in the pudding.
I forgot to add, the 3rd option, donations, is becoming more and more popular with kickstarter (remember how dispora got $200,000). If you have an real idea that people would find useful. Linux, free-as-in-beer, and donation depend is not a bad model at all. You can find a number of such tools getting funded on kickstarter.
Apple is part of the MPEG LA patent pool. I wouldnt be surprised if they retained their music in formats that support the group than switch to free alternatives.
Er, you dont need hardware support for FLAC, you just need an app that software decodes it for you (there are plenty, Winamp Pro is one that I believes run on all Android devices 2.2+, Ubermusic with FLAC package too I believe)
It should have atleast been events around the world (a globe with blob points each resprenting a news article, sized as large as the importance of the article).
Seems to cover a wide range of range applications. I wonder why they left out loseless encoding. That would have made it the one true codec for everything.
1) It depends on the company. Many companies understand the open source community and do fund stuff that help them market some of their other products.
2) After the initial ground work by one developer (or a small set of developers), the hobby developers can and do make an impact. By hobby I mean something like one hour a month, by hundreds (in some projects thousands) of developers (some of them would have worked on similar problems before and are really experts in them). You can contribute if you want to too, there are open source project that help RC enthusiasts (if you interested in UAVs, there are projects that help you build one too, you could contribute there if you are interested in)
3) Depends on the idea and how much scope you see for it.
4) I am not really familiar with this area, but if the software is truly open source, I assume there would competitors who can provide support at a much competitive rate.
5) Very often the commercial version, provides you immunity from being sued for patent violation, and provides components that make things much more efficient or cutting edge. I have never seen this model work when the free version is crap.
I can think of 5 reason why (in no particular order): 1) Your company pays you to write software for linux 2) You have fun writing application for linux and do it part time (everyone needs a hobby, right?) 3) The software is good enough, that people donate money to help you work full time on it. 4) You sell support (or special edition cds or whatever) for your software, but your software is free. 5) You sell a commercial version of your software, that has additional components that are not included in your free version.
I am surprised you been on slashdot for so long, and still did not understand this.
Make sure they understand that the data they store in the VM is not permanent, and they need to keep backups of everything as often as possible. You dont want them to lose their holiday picture, right?
Well, if you are looking for developer/legal opinions there are better forums, but if you want legal, developer and user opinion (and a discussion based on them), slashdot is not bad. Besides you dont really know that OP has not also posted in a better developer/legal oriented forum (and I find it strange that you mention that you wouldnt post on slashdot, buy fail to mention the forum that is appropriate for this question (unless you yourselves were just trolling)).
And the Roman Catholic church is still thought to be full of pedophiles, even though it's only a few priests who actually are, and all government officials are accused of being corrupt, even though most are making an honest effort to do their jobs right.
Though they all do cover up the crimes of the few pedophiles instead of bringing justice. The same happen cops, a few bad cops and every other cop supporting them. They are all equally evil in my opinion.
Organic farming uses more arable land and water (finite resources, if I had to point it out). So it negates the benefits of not depending on oil. And you are right about not consuming pesticides used on other crops, but you do consume pesticides used on organic crops.
Yeah, I would be concerned about how good these systems are, and if they are really worth the money. Unless they do 3D face recognition (which is very expensive), the accuracy is really bad (especially for a system of this scale).
Spotify is too integrated with Facebook (it might make sense for Facebook to buy them and make them their bitch, but for Apple there is too much baggage attached (Apple usually buys small companies for their talent (and very rarely for their product), and pretty much never buys a well established player))
In Florida and California (until you mentioned, I thought it was same all around the country). I had to drive around pretty much deserted 25 mph roads (it was a weekday afternoon), parallel park, get back to the DMV.
May be they dont want to hurt you and they are being careful. I am usually wary of motorcycle riders (especially ones going at high speeds (sometimes even sharing lanes and weaving through at expressway speeds)), and I always try give way to them or keep an eye on them. It is also a liability thing, the one driving the car is usually held liable for accidents (in the case of an SUV behind you, it is the other way around, the SUV is more liable)
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If you think it is just the Koran, you are in for a surprise. Muslim apart of the Koran, follow a series of books called Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet) compiled by various followers of the Prophet. Some of these are extremely contradictory, and suggest Jihad, etc.
Not to mention different sects that somehow manage to interpret the same Koran differently.
1) Your company pays you to write software for linux
Yeah, but will the company want to pay him to write the same thing once and port it to different revisions of Linux, or different combinations of Linux/X/glibc/Qt/GTK+? Most ISVs would want to write a software version once that would run on Linux version n, n++ and so on. Subsequent versions of the software would be enhanced features, not merely more ports
Er, why would you want to port a Qt application to GTK+, when it will run just fine? But I understand you point, companies do not pay for porting to varying platforms, but this is where the community (of hobby devs) usually takes over.
2) You have fun writing application for linux and do it part time (everyone needs a hobby, right?)
Yeah, but how much fun is it writing the same application once, and struggling to port it to a myriad #platforms and software combinations?
Not fun, but you always find volunteers doing this on many many open source projects.
3) The software is good enough, that people donate money to help you work full time on it.
Why not just straight-forward sell it for a reasonable price, say $20-50?
Why not just straight-forward accept donations and then build your project (aka kickstarter)
4) You sell support (or special edition cds or whatever) for your software, but your software is free.
I agree w/ the GP's response on this one
I have responded to GP.
5) You sell a commercial version of your software, that has additional components that are not included in your free version.
I am surprised you been on slashdot for so long, and still did not understand this.
Again, like he said, it's hard to draw a balance b/w making it so good that add-ons won't be needed, vs making it so bad that the user won't want to trust him w/ his money.
Again responded to GP, but many projects have successfully used it. I guess proof is in the pudding.
European Union is larger in all of the categories you listed.
I forgot to add, the 3rd option, donations, is becoming more and more popular with kickstarter (remember how dispora got $200,000). If you have an real idea that people would find useful. Linux, free-as-in-beer, and donation depend is not a bad model at all. You can find a number of such tools getting funded on kickstarter.
How can it be real question when you already know the answer? No. But would it benefit them if they switched? Absolutely.
Mod UP! This deserves discussion.
Apple is part of the MPEG LA patent pool. I wouldnt be surprised if they retained their music in formats that support the group than switch to free alternatives.
Er, you dont need hardware support for FLAC, you just need an app that software decodes it for you (there are plenty, Winamp Pro is one that I believes run on all Android devices 2.2+, Ubermusic with FLAC package too I believe)
It should have atleast been events around the world (a globe with blob points each resprenting a news article, sized as large as the importance of the article).
Seems to cover a wide range of range applications. I wonder why they left out loseless encoding. That would have made it the one true codec for everything.
1) It depends on the company. Many companies understand the open source community and do fund stuff that help them market some of their other products.
2) After the initial ground work by one developer (or a small set of developers), the hobby developers can and do make an impact. By hobby I mean something like one hour a month, by hundreds (in some projects thousands) of developers (some of them would have worked on similar problems before and are really experts in them). You can contribute if you want to too, there are open source project that help RC enthusiasts (if you interested in UAVs, there are projects that help you build one too, you could contribute there if you are interested in)
3) Depends on the idea and how much scope you see for it.
4) I am not really familiar with this area, but if the software is truly open source, I assume there would competitors who can provide support at a much competitive rate.
5) Very often the commercial version, provides you immunity from being sued for patent violation, and provides components that make things much more efficient or cutting edge. I have never seen this model work when the free version is crap.
I can think of 5 reason why (in no particular order):
1) Your company pays you to write software for linux
2) You have fun writing application for linux and do it part time (everyone needs a hobby, right?)
3) The software is good enough, that people donate money to help you work full time on it.
4) You sell support (or special edition cds or whatever) for your software, but your software is free.
5) You sell a commercial version of your software, that has additional components that are not included in your free version.
I am surprised you been on slashdot for so long, and still did not understand this.
Make sure they understand that the data they store in the VM is not permanent, and they need to keep backups of everything as often as possible. You dont want them to lose their holiday picture, right?
Well, if you are looking for developer/legal opinions there are better forums, but if you want legal, developer and user opinion (and a discussion based on them), slashdot is not bad. Besides you dont really know that OP has not also posted in a better developer/legal oriented forum (and I find it strange that you mention that you wouldnt post on slashdot, buy fail to mention the forum that is appropriate for this question (unless you yourselves were just trolling)).
Well played, sir!
And the Roman Catholic church is still thought to be full of pedophiles, even though it's only a few priests who actually are, and all government officials are accused of being corrupt, even though most are making an honest effort to do their jobs right.
Though they all do cover up the crimes of the few pedophiles instead of bringing justice. The same happen cops, a few bad cops and every other cop supporting them. They are all equally evil in my opinion.
Organic farming uses more arable land and water (finite resources, if I had to point it out). So it negates the benefits of not depending on oil. And you are right about not consuming pesticides used on other crops, but you do consume pesticides used on organic crops.
I always thought it was made by 3D printing.
Rack City is Vegas (which is not in CA, in case you did not know)
Yeah, I would be concerned about how good these systems are, and if they are really worth the money. Unless they do 3D face recognition (which is very expensive), the accuracy is really bad (especially for a system of this scale).
Spotify is too integrated with Facebook (it might make sense for Facebook to buy them and make them their bitch, but for Apple there is too much baggage attached (Apple usually buys small companies for their talent (and very rarely for their product), and pretty much never buys a well established player))
In Florida and California (until you mentioned, I thought it was same all around the country). I had to drive around pretty much deserted 25 mph roads (it was a weekday afternoon), parallel park, get back to the DMV.
May be they dont want to hurt you and they are being careful. I am usually wary of motorcycle riders (especially ones going at high speeds (sometimes even sharing lanes and weaving through at expressway speeds)), and I always try give way to them or keep an eye on them. It is also a liability thing, the one driving the car is usually held liable for accidents (in the case of an SUV behind you, it is the other way around, the SUV is more liable)
Yeah, everyone knows the proper way to relieve pressure is to sacrifice a virgin.
Seriously, is that even a question? EVERYTHING was created by divine intervention.
PS: For the humor impaired, that was a joke.