That's not the point. If you're undisiplined, you won't last five minutes before you su and change/etc/hosts back. However, with Lockout you can't do that, since it changes your root password for a period of time before changing it back. I've actually thought something like that may have been usable. For instance, to help me study for an exam and not play Nethack all day, I had a friend disable the account on our Nethack server for a few days, and not change it back no matter how I begged. And it worked fine, until he felt guilty and enabled the account again. Lockout is just a Perl script, and though Perl is immensely complex, just like the human psyche is, it cannot feel guilt, so you can't persuade it:)
As far as I know: WineX/Cedega is a fork of WINE from back when WINE had a license that permitted non-free forks. WINE later changed to the GPL, I think, and not too early, IMO.
They were going to give the code back to the WINE project! This has not been done, and their code is still under an unfree license. Again, availability of source code does not equal open source!
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Look at the user comments at download.com. The newest comments are shown first, which are users warning about the GPL theft and bundled spyware. Then there's a LOT of REALLY HAPPY users.
Three different users actually say "This must be the best Thing in the world. Now my life is excelent!"
"This is a great program, works well and easy My roommate and I both use this program and we think it's stupendous! Would recommend this to anyone"
"I'm using only best well-tested soft, and here it is."
"The speed is shocking"
"It id very-very-very and one million more times very NICE stuff i ever had"... and so on.
The entire happy part of the user base seem to apply bad punctuation and similar spalling erors;)
Sure, you people LOVE to pick on Windows CE everytime there's a virus for it. But you ignore the fact that if your beloved Linux was as popular as Windows CE, there would be viruses for Linux too!!1
I just heard a mention of this on the news. Someone was quoted as saying "for people who stay up all night playing computer games and don't have any friends, military service can be quite a shock."
I'd say such people need that kind of shock more than most.
Thanks for posting that so I wouldn't have to:) It's sad to see that many people seem to think availability of source code equals Open Source, when the term is clearly defined by the Open Source Initiative. If we tolerate this, Microsoft will have an easy going convincing people that Open Source doesn't matter since they have "Shared Source" already. You have the source, right?
A friend taught me to remember which is which by thinking that "i.e." stands for "in example". This is a great way of remembering that "i.e." means "for example".
I don't think you understand the expression "the elephant in the room"":) The internet isn't something that we'd rather avoid talking about or easily overlook at slashdot.
So I don't think they'd sue just develop a lot of negative spin around the fact open source people steal other peoples code
Is code theft in Open Source a "fact" now? Either you're hopelessly buying into the SCO dribble, or that just came out a little wrong. I hope for the latter.
Huh? You pay to receive SMS? I'm used to paying for sending them (although most times I send them for free from an online service my operator provides), but for receiving them?
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That's not the point. If you're undisiplined, you won't last five minutes before you su and change /etc/hosts back. However, with Lockout you can't do that, since it changes your root password for a period of time before changing it back. I've actually thought something like that may have been usable. For instance, to help me study for an exam and not play Nethack all day, I had a friend disable the account on our Nethack server for a few days, and not change it back no matter how I begged. And it worked fine, until he felt guilty and enabled the account again. Lockout is just a Perl script, and though Perl is immensely complex, just like the human psyche is, it cannot feel guilt, so you can't persuade it :)
Unless, of course, it's black ice :)
For reference, that article was "lifted" from Xenix at Wikipedia -- using the primary source is always best :)
As far as I know: WineX/Cedega is a fork of WINE from back when WINE had a license that permitted non-free forks. WINE later changed to the GPL, I think, and not too early, IMO.
They were going to give the code back to the WINE project! This has not been done, and their code is still under an unfree license. Again, availability of source code does not equal open source!
Look at the user comments at download.com. The newest comments are shown first, which are users warning about the GPL theft and bundled spyware. Then there's a LOT of REALLY HAPPY users.
... and so on.
;)
Three different users actually say "This must be the best Thing in the world. Now my life is excelent!"
"This is a great program, works well and easy My roommate and I both use this program and we think it's stupendous! Would recommend this to anyone"
"I'm using only best well-tested soft, and here it is."
"The speed is shocking"
"It id very-very-very and one million more times very NICE stuff i ever had"
The entire happy part of the user base seem to apply bad punctuation and similar spalling erors
SCO has no patents to bully around with, and hasn't done so either.
I'm sorry, modders, I'll try to never attempt this level of irony in my posts again.
Sure, you people LOVE to pick on Windows CE everytime there's a virus for it. But you ignore the fact that if your beloved Linux was as popular as Windows CE, there would be viruses for Linux too!!1
I just heard a mention of this on the news. Someone was quoted as saying "for people who stay up all night playing computer games and don't have any friends, military service can be quite a shock."
I'd say such people need that kind of shock more than most.
Thanks for posting that so I wouldn't have to :) It's sad to see that many people seem to think availability of source code equals Open Source, when the term is clearly defined by the Open Source Initiative. If we tolerate this, Microsoft will have an easy going convincing people that Open Source doesn't matter since they have "Shared Source" already. You have the source, right?
Sure is. Some of them are listed here.
At least where I live (Norway), downloading music and movies is perfectly legal.
Following those instructions, the problem will be marginalized -- every attempt at a spoof will look completely bogus.
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I'd do the modding myself if I weren't banned from moderating
If Futurama is anything to go by, being poor will be judged a crime in a thousand years :)
Yes, my post was merely a thank you to my friend for the disinformation ;) I like your eggsample rule.
A friend taught me to remember which is which by thinking that "i.e." stands for "in example". This is a great way of remembering that "i.e." means "for example".
You're right, I'm not native. So, "couldn't care less" and "could care less" are effectively synonyms, eh. :)
Actually, I could care less about such wonderful things as GUI Errors for the moment.
It's great to see that someone cares about those errors. I, for one, could not care less.
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I don't think you understand the expression "the elephant in the room"" :) The internet isn't something that we'd rather avoid talking about or easily overlook at slashdot.
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So I don't think they'd sue just develop a lot of negative spin around the fact open source people steal other peoples code
Is code theft in Open Source a "fact" now? Either you're hopelessly buying into the SCO dribble, or that just came out a little wrong. I hope for the latter.
You have just spoke for a billion people.
Oh, the Jedis are gonna feel this one!
Huh? You pay to receive SMS? I'm used to paying for sending them (although most times I send them for free from an online service my operator provides), but for receiving them?