Microsoft uses BSD (style) licensed code all over the place. It would be stupid for them not to. An example, the broken PNG support in IE was because they used an ancient version of libpng for the longest time, assumedly forked so they didn't really want to resync with the upstream code.
These pieces of software are freely licensed for a reason, they want people like MS to use them. It would be silly for MS to write zlib and libpng and other common things from scratch.
In case you haven't notice, GPL licensed code is way more widely used than BSD licensed code.
You could equally say that by making the BSD sound GPL like, it's an attempt to show people that the BSD license is just as good as the GPL at protecting the rights of the people receiving the software.
Times have changed. We have the very real possibility of putting a huge library into a tiny server now, and duplicating the entire library in hours for the cost of another $2000 server. Millions of books, audio, video, all in a tiny box.
For the law to say that we can't use this technology for good purposes is untenable. Copyright law allowed us to have public libraries where anyone could go utilize any work that the library could afford. The public library is a dead concept now, it has moved into a digital world.
To say that information should not be freely available isn't maintaining the status quo, it's a radical position advocating the elimination of free access to information that everyone enjoyed for hundreds of years. The status quo is maintaining the free access to information that has been there from the beginning.
Fortune has a tendancy to concentrate on public companies, since that's their industry, pimping public companies. The vast majority of companies in the US are privately held, and under 1000 employees. I notice that none on this list are less than 1000 employees. They even have the gall to call those "small" companies.
Hehe, yeah that's what I say to my friends and family too. They ask me stuff like "well what happens when SL goes under"... I'm a contract programmer, whether I'm programming on SL or some guy's web site in PHP, it's all contract programming. I go where the demand is, and right now the demand is pretty high on SL.
It's pretty hard to make complex things in LSL. You only get 16k of memory per script, everything is by-value, strings take up like 2 bytes per character minimum. So doing something as simple as passing 5k of text to a function and getting it returned is just about impossible.
Of course, I'm contracting full time now, with most of that in SL, so obviously I can work around this stuff, but I wouldn't call LSL easy.
Yeah, because DNS is something that you should obviously trust a single company about!
Who need that old DNS system with the robust infrastructure, when we can have ads pushed on us for every domain we mistype and alongside our search results!
Someone call Verisign and tell them to fire sitefinder back up, these guys need some competition!
Any way to suggest sites would be gamed and abused. There are thousands of people in the "search engine optimization" "industry" that are total sleeze.
If they just sold them all at auction to start with, there wouldn't be a shortage.
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It's not collaboration and sharing if you can't "opt-out".
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Nobody wants to buy from those fascist assholes.
They sold their last book to anyone with any sense as soon as they decided to enforce a frivilous software patent.
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There's a vast difference between people voluntarily working together for a common cause, and wielding the violent force of government taxation and regulation to accomplish some social end.
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You had really never heard of water intoxication? It's not exactly an obscure piece of knowledge.
No.
Pure water isn't very conductive. That's a clear hint it's not ionized normally.
Microsoft uses BSD (style) licensed code all over the place. It would be stupid for them not to. An example, the broken PNG support in IE was because they used an ancient version of libpng for the longest time, assumedly forked so they didn't really want to resync with the upstream code.
These pieces of software are freely licensed for a reason, they want people like MS to use them. It would be silly for MS to write zlib and libpng and other common things from scratch.
In case you haven't notice, GPL licensed code is way more widely used than BSD licensed code.
You could equally say that by making the BSD sound GPL like, it's an attempt to show people that the BSD license is just as good as the GPL at protecting the rights of the people receiving the software.
Times have changed. We have the very real possibility of putting a huge library into a tiny server now, and duplicating the entire library in hours for the cost of another $2000 server. Millions of books, audio, video, all in a tiny box.
For the law to say that we can't use this technology for good purposes is untenable. Copyright law allowed us to have public libraries where anyone could go utilize any work that the library could afford. The public library is a dead concept now, it has moved into a digital world.
To say that information should not be freely available isn't maintaining the status quo, it's a radical position advocating the elimination of free access to information that everyone enjoyed for hundreds of years. The status quo is maintaining the free access to information that has been there from the beginning.
I agree. At least they often revisit the myths that people complain about.
Mythbusters is heavily peer reviewed in that way, you should see how they get torn up on the message boards when they do something stupid.
Salesmen.
Managment listens to these stupid sales pitches for products like this, and buys into the promises.
Salesmen (especially software salesmen) are more dangerous to a company than any competitor.
Fortune has a tendancy to concentrate on public companies, since that's their industry, pimping public companies. The vast majority of companies in the US are privately held, and under 1000 employees. I notice that none on this list are less than 1000 employees. They even have the gall to call those "small" companies.
You really think that's all science is?
Attitudes like yours destroy the credibility of science more than some religious nut.
Science is all around us, it happens every time someone tests a hypothesis.
Break out of your dogma and stop listening to your church bishops that have titles like Dr. or Professor.
Yes, if you don't make up new buzzwords, a violinist dies!
Exactly! It's like the web, in 3D, with micropayments that actually work.
:) Whether SL itself succeeds or fails, they will be an important historical beginning to the new 3D interactive Internet.
SL is web 3.0.
It's not a game any more than the web is a game, or Slashdot is a game. You don't "play" it.
Hehe, yeah that's what I say to my friends and family too. They ask me stuff like "well what happens when SL goes under"... I'm a contract programmer, whether I'm programming on SL or some guy's web site in PHP, it's all contract programming. I go where the demand is, and right now the demand is pretty high on SL.
It's pretty hard to make complex things in LSL. You only get 16k of memory per script, everything is by-value, strings take up like 2 bytes per character minimum. So doing something as simple as passing 5k of text to a function and getting it returned is just about impossible.
Of course, I'm contracting full time now, with most of that in SL, so obviously I can work around this stuff, but I wouldn't call LSL easy.
Why would there be backlash for providing a product at the price that matches market demand? Is American really that ignorant to how economics works?
Sometimes you have to be careful how history will view the types of media you choose to sponser. Case in point
Yeah, because DNS is something that you should obviously trust a single company about!
Who need that old DNS system with the robust infrastructure, when we can have ads pushed on us for every domain we mistype and alongside our search results!
Someone call Verisign and tell them to fire sitefinder back up, these guys need some competition!
They don't have to do this at all.
Any way to suggest sites would be gamed and abused. There are thousands of people in the "search engine optimization" "industry" that are total sleeze.
If they just sold them all at auction to start with, there wouldn't be a shortage.
It's not collaboration and sharing if you can't "opt-out".
Nobody wants to buy from those fascist assholes.
They sold their last book to anyone with any sense as soon as they decided to enforce a frivilous software patent.
There's a vast difference between people voluntarily working together for a common cause, and wielding the violent force of government taxation and regulation to accomplish some social end.
You do realize you are exactly the kind of fanboi they are making fun of, right?
He was talking about patriots rising up against tyrants, not some invading army coming in and slaughtering both.
They are going to want to know why you didn't just fly straight into the US. What would you tell them?