If you wanted to give it away for free, you could always use a FreeBSD licence.
With the GPL, what you are really protecting is the livelihood of the open-source community, which relies on sharing the improvements and additions to original code.
We are disagreeing about what "embedded world" is here. If you define it as "environments where optimization is always important" then of course my arguments don't make sense. But the applications for which such extreme efficiency was needed in the past can now be served by much more forgiving hardware thanks to Moore's law. For example, I'm working with some StrongArm-based hardware with multiple megabytes of RAM and flash which runs Linux easily. It would be a waste of effort trying to run something more compact-- what would be the benefit besides saving a couple of percent of available system memory?
The author points out several times that Linux, due to its general purpose design, is too inefficient/memory hungry/not real-time capable/etc. for embedded applications. However, he failed to account for the current trend of hardware becoming capable enough for those things not to matter any longer, especially in non-critical applications like Web interface for devices, home routers, media gateways, etc. The phenomenon of not coding PC software in hand-optimized assembler is spreading to high-end embedded devices.
I'd chip in too. mplayer is a marvelous piece of software. I remember the first time I used it. I had a bunch of home videos in the form of.iso images, with the actual AVIs sitting on the CD filesystems within. I felt frustrated that I would have to go mount each image, copy the AVI, unmount for each image, and then tried to just play the.iso files directly. It worked! What a convenient little feature! Can you imagine a company like MS ever having something like this in their media player?
1. Small commercial company A develops app and provides support for the town police. They GPL the source. Town pays full price.
2. Small commercial company B reuses A's source, provides service to their own town's police. The cost is minimal. Rinse, repeat.
3. The small commercial companies collaborate to improve the software. The cost is absorbed by service contracts and is split among all involved towns.
Feed the hungry people, and what happens? Their number just increases and they keep on being hungry. The solution is education, not free food.
Space exploration is not useless; actually, it should be the primary, driving goal of all mankind. Without space colonization, the human race will eventually perish, most likely due to a meteor hit. No billions of dollars spent on feel-good stuff will change that.
* Equipped with a 192-bit DAC for maximum output quality * Sound recording feature with 1MHz sampling rate * Full-color spectrum analyzer * Sturdy, "expensive plastic" design- you can drop it, drive a truck over it, and it will still work. * Modem line-quality test feature: just let it record the sound of your modem * The MP3 player uses 3 DSPs for fault-tolerance * Costs $15000
Even if it's true that a majority of people is freeloading music, so what? All it means is that the artists' business model is no longer viable. Does that mean that the commercial art industry is going to diminish? Sign me up!
There seems to be a new one available for $44.94 from one of the affiliated sellers (click the "82 used & new" link). That's about what I saw in my case too; I suppose to be pedantic, I should say it's not from Amazon itself, but from an affiliated bookseller.
A textbook was selling for $120 at my local college bookstore. This was the list price! I bet they would charge more if the list price let them. Anyway, I got the same book on Amazon for $60, free shipping, which was in the US. So it's not the foreign books that are cheaper-- the markup happens in the college bookstore.
SunComm was secretly formed by EFF in order to create a deliberately easy-to-circumvent DRM scheme, and subsequently sue the (also hired by EFF) whistleblower in order to set precedent. Pretty sneaky, but they can't fool me!
It looks like only "www.*.com" resolve this way. Try adding "www" to the front.
# telnet dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80 telnet: dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com: Name or service not known dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com: Unknown host # telnet www.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80 Trying 64.94.110.11... Connected to www.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> q Connection closed. #
It seems that only names of the form "www.foobar.com" get resolved to verisign's search page. Anything without "www" in front is still reported as non-existing, so maybe the problems that many posters above mention about spam cross-checks won't be that significant.
Good points. It's unfortunate that the subtle distinction between RIAA-owned and other music is not visible at all to most of the users; take this quote from the cnet article:
In a survey of 803 consumers ages 10 and older, 52 percent of respondents said they were "supportive and understanding of the industry's actions," the RIAA said. About 21 percent said they were "unsupportive and negative." The survey was conducted by polling firm Peter D. Hart Associates.
The poll was taken several days before news of the lawsuits broke.
The group also released data from a similar survey conducted earlier. That survey found that 58 percent of people polled in August knew that it was "against the law to make music available online for others to download for free," compared with just 37 percent of people polled in June.
(emphasis mine). Imagine that, 58% of pollees think that sharing any music is illegal! Is that scary or what?
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If you wanted to give it away for free, you could always use a FreeBSD licence.
With the GPL, what you are really protecting is the livelihood of the open-source community, which relies on sharing the improvements and additions to original code.
you insensitive clod!
We are disagreeing about what "embedded world" is here. If you define it as "environments where optimization is always important" then of course my arguments don't make sense. But the applications for which such extreme efficiency was needed in the past can now be served by much more forgiving hardware thanks to Moore's law. For example, I'm working with some StrongArm-based hardware with multiple megabytes of RAM and flash which runs Linux easily. It would be a waste of effort trying to run something more compact-- what would be the benefit besides saving a couple of percent of available system memory?
The author points out several times that Linux, due to its general purpose design, is too inefficient/memory hungry/not real-time capable/etc. for embedded applications. However, he failed to account for the current trend of hardware becoming capable enough for those things not to matter any longer, especially in non-critical applications like Web interface for devices, home routers, media gateways, etc. The phenomenon of not coding PC software in hand-optimized assembler is spreading to high-end embedded devices.
Imagine the outburst on here if FBI was to run directory!
I'd chip in too. mplayer is a marvelous piece of software. I remember the first time I used it. I had a bunch of home videos in the form of .iso images, with the actual AVIs sitting on the CD filesystems within. I felt frustrated that I would have to go mount each image, copy the AVI, unmount for each image, and then tried to just play the .iso files directly. It worked! What a convenient little feature! Can you imagine a company like MS ever having something like this in their media player?
Two things:
1. Mars has water, Moon does not. Damp sand doesn't count. Europa is nice too.
2. We don't know how to build permanent self-sustaining habitats yet. This could be easily researched planetside first.
(spoken in a thick Austrian accent): Give these people air!
Buy low, sell high!
1. Small commercial company A develops app and provides support for the town police. They GPL the source. Town pays full price.
2. Small commercial company B reuses A's source, provides service to their own town's police. The cost is minimal. Rinse, repeat.
3. The small commercial companies collaborate to improve the software. The cost is absorbed by service contracts and is split among all involved towns.
Much better than reinventing the wheel N times.
Better keep those CDRs away from him.
Yeah, problems like resistance to collisions with massive meteors. I suppose weapons of mass destruction would be perfect for the job!
Commodore: Entered an industry well penetrated by apple, IBM, Tandy (back then) and company and tried to play along, didn't make it....
Amiga will be back, damn it, and then you will all be sorry!
Feed the hungry people, and what happens? Their number just increases and they keep on being hungry. The solution is education, not free food.
Space exploration is not useless; actually, it should be the primary, driving goal of all mankind. Without space colonization, the human race will eventually perish, most likely due to a meteor hit. No billions of dollars spent on feel-good stuff will change that.
microwave for 1s
I can already see it:
* Equipped with a 192-bit DAC for maximum output quality
* Sound recording feature with 1MHz sampling rate
* Full-color spectrum analyzer
* Sturdy, "expensive plastic" design- you can drop it, drive a truck over it, and it will still work.
* Modem line-quality test feature: just let it record the sound of your modem
* The MP3 player uses 3 DSPs for fault-tolerance
* Costs $15000
Even if it's true that a majority of people is freeloading music, so what? All it means is that the artists' business model is no longer viable. Does that mean that the commercial art industry is going to diminish? Sign me up!
There seems to be a new one available for $44.94 from one of the affiliated sellers (click the "82 used & new" link). That's about what I saw in my case too; I suppose to be pedantic, I should say it's not from Amazon itself, but from an affiliated bookseller.
A textbook was selling for $120 at my local college bookstore. This was the list price! I bet they would charge more if the list price let them. Anyway, I got the same book on Amazon for $60, free shipping, which was in the US. So it's not the foreign books that are cheaper-- the markup happens in the college bookstore.
Yeah, what if their taller participants were more likely to play professional basketball? I'd say that would skew their results a bit ;)
SunComm was secretly formed by EFF in order to create a deliberately easy-to-circumvent DRM scheme, and subsequently sue the (also hired by EFF) whistleblower in order to set precedent. Pretty sneaky, but they can't fool me!
OK, about 60% of queries fail for me... maybe their dns server is overloaded?
Try akfjakfjajN.com for N=1,2,...
It looks like only "www.*.com" resolve this way. Try adding "www" to the front.
# telnet dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80
telnet: dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com: Name or service not known
dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com: Unknown host
# telnet www.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com 80
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to www.dkfjdfkjdkfjdkjf.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.
#
It seems that only names of the form "www.foobar.com" get resolved to verisign's search page. Anything without "www" in front is still reported as non-existing, so maybe the problems that many posters above mention about spam cross-checks won't be that significant.
An interesting way to leverage the DNS, anyway.
(emphasis mine). Imagine that, 58% of pollees think that sharing any music is illegal! Is that scary or what?