Re:Patents and the immorality of open source softw
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Perens on Patents
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Reading this post kept me laughing, until I suddenly realized this guy is serious!
Well, let me have a little fun here. Following the same logic... - We should stop building road, since they might be used to kill people in an accident, or facilitate the escape of bank robbers - We should stop building buildings, since they might burn down and hurt people. - We should stop making steel, since steel can be made into knives, and guns. And the bad people can use knives and guns to kill people quicker than with their own hands.
The one major point that was not mentioned is that these open source projects also provide tremendous resources to the 'Good' people in the repressive regimes. They can use apache and MySQL just as easily as the 'Bad' buys, and in most cases have much less funding that the 'Bad' people. I believe Open Source helps the underdog level the playing field. The Chinese government would have the means to buy IIS or iPlanet if Apache were gone, but the Chinese underground would not be so fortunate. -
What percentage of root servers that makeup the backbone of the Internet are actually runs by long-bearded education types and not corporations. This sounds more like he wants to take abilities away from universities and private entities and keep volunteers from having a voice in the Internet backbone.
Last I checked, AOL, Microsoft, and even Verisign are all Commercial companies and all of them have a piece of the Internet backbone pie, even though they may not have one of the 13 root servers. Instead of saying lets commercialize, instead he should be thinking - lets diversify. Besides, can anyonce really trust what a Verisign Root server would send you anyways?
P2P has never been about breaking copyrights. Had Napster not come along, P2P would have moved along without it just fine. The legitimate purposes of P2P will not be damaged. The illegal purposes of P2P might be destroyed, but the core technology that allowed it will continue.
Since the P2P acronymn has been improperly linked to illegal activities (copyrighted materials sharing). Maybe we should get a new one (Colabarative Resource Sharing CRS, or maybe computer resources Co-op CRC)
I love this idea. I'll never loose my keys again, or I could track what everyone who comes into my house has in their pocket, or track the exact route of every part of my car.
Or I could find the history of an item at a tag sale or on eBay. Gee, I could walk by a person's trunk and see what they havein their trunk, or what they have in their house! That way I know exactly what I want to borrow from my neighbors. It's CueCat gone wild!! (this might also keep thieves away from my house, since I have nothing of value and they would know it before they tried to break in)
I could put tags on my kids, or on me and have my house welcome me home! No more motion-detector lights, RFID detector lights are the future.
Maybe you should read the charges against Martha. Obstruction of justice, trying to convince other people to lie to authorities for her. These are serious charges. Martha would have probably gotten the same treatment as the Enron Execs if she had not blatantly tried to lie about her dealings.
1. Cost: Although each plane is more expensive to build then their counterparts today, the US would not need forward bases for air power. These bases are far more expensive to maintain than the aircraft are to buy. In addition, Air bases cause a lot of concern for the country they are in, as well as an increased risk to those who need to guard. 2. The Minutemen are missiles. ICBM's at that. The political and social implications of suddenly firing lots of those is incredible. In addition, these are not accurate weapons. With a nuclear payload, 10 miles off target is close enough. Not so with munitions they currently are using. Launching a Nuclear weapon is not an option. 3. These planes won't be in use until at least 2025. War will not be the same come that time. War is a move on or move out type of business. 4. What is going to shoot these down? Hypersonic Missiles? A plane this fast has got to have tremendous spy potential. Remember the U2? In addition, these could be used to take out ICBM's, as they would be much faster.
Some state Sales tax laws specifically state that purchases over the internet are included as taxable purchases. Many states have this included as a box on their tax return, but some don't.
Other states, like California, require out of state companies to collect sales tax (or at least pay it) if their sales from California residents are over a certain amount.
Mozilla Handles it Cacheing just fine
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Netscape 7.1 Released
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This is the basics of a 'soft reload' - Checks each downloaded file (image, html, etc) fors its modified timestamp. - If the cache is the same as the one on the server, there is no time spent downloading since these files are still the same. (unless the web developers don't know their trade and are placing modified dates in.)
*** The 'soft reload' is an important ability and should stay. I do not want to reload all the images of slashdot every time I want to see new stories, and slashdot does not want the extra load of all of us non-subscribers hitting reload waiting for a story to appear. The 'soft reload' not working is a Web Developer and Administrator problem, not a Netscape problem. If you have this problem a lot, go to more professional web sites.
If a kid hands a kick ball to another kid on a playground, then later sues the kid to pay rent for using that kickball, that is just silly.
If code was released into the GPL public domain, then SCO has the right to get reparations against those responsible for releasing that code, and maybe those responsible for knowingly distributing that code. In this case, they fire the guy that release the stuff into public domain, and request removal of their propritary information. Getting back licensing fees is nothing more than being a playground bully asking for kids' lunch money to play kickball.
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Reading this post kept me laughing, until I suddenly realized this guy is serious!
Well, let me have a little fun here. Following the same logic...
- We should stop building road, since they might be used to kill people in an accident, or facilitate the escape of bank robbers
- We should stop building buildings, since they might burn down and hurt people.
- We should stop making steel, since steel can be made into knives, and guns. And the bad people can use knives and guns to kill people quicker than with their own hands.
The one major point that was not mentioned is that these open source projects also provide tremendous resources to the 'Good' people in the repressive regimes. They can use apache and MySQL just as easily as the 'Bad' buys, and in most cases have much less funding that the 'Bad' people. I believe Open Source helps the underdog level the playing field. The Chinese government would have the means to buy IIS or iPlanet if Apache were gone, but the Chinese underground would not be so fortunate.
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What percentage of root servers that makeup the backbone of the Internet are actually runs by long-bearded education types and not corporations. This sounds more like he wants to take abilities away from universities and private entities and keep volunteers from having a voice in the Internet backbone.
Last I checked, AOL, Microsoft, and even Verisign are all Commercial companies and all of them have a piece of the Internet backbone pie, even though they may not have one of the 13 root servers. Instead of saying lets commercialize, instead he should be thinking - lets diversify. Besides, can anyonce really trust what a Verisign Root server would send you anyways?
So that makes a female werewolf a wowolf. cool.
P2P has never been about breaking copyrights. Had Napster not come along, P2P would have moved along without it just fine. The legitimate purposes of P2P will not be damaged. The illegal purposes of P2P might be destroyed, but the core technology that allowed it will continue.
Since the P2P acronymn has been improperly linked to illegal activities (copyrighted materials sharing). Maybe we should get a new one (Colabarative Resource Sharing CRS, or maybe computer resources Co-op CRC)
The article mentions response letters from Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens. Does anyone have links to these stories?
Answering my own question (sort-of) check this out. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx? ID=36606
Maybe someone can compile a list of GPS coordinated for these tiles, so we can go TOYNBEE Tile GPSing.
One of the problems with a plan in a binder somewhere, is that the tornado would have probably taken out the binder as well.
Hmmm. Maybe reading the article prior to posting would be in order. As the article states, $467-Linux, $519-Windows XP Home, and $589-Windows XP Pro
I love this idea. I'll never loose my keys again, or I could track what everyone who comes into my house has in their pocket, or track the exact route of every part of my car.
Or I could find the history of an item at a tag sale or on eBay. Gee, I could walk by a person's trunk and see what they havein their trunk, or what they have in their house! That way I know exactly what I want to borrow from my neighbors. It's CueCat gone wild!! (this might also keep thieves away from my house, since I have nothing of value and they would know it before they tried to break in)
I could put tags on my kids, or on me and have my house welcome me home! No more motion-detector lights, RFID detector lights are the future.
Maybe SCO will create a worm to automatically invoice anyone with linux. Or better yet, a worm that installs Linux and invoices at the same time.
Maybe you should read the charges against Martha. Obstruction of justice, trying to convince other people to lie to authorities for her. These are serious charges. Martha would have probably gotten the same treatment as the Enron Execs if she had not blatantly tried to lie about her dealings.
Accuracy. ICMB's are meant for accuracy within miles (ie, nuclear weapons). Bombers can drop weapons with accuracy within inches.
A couple needs these bombers address:
1. Cost: Although each plane is more expensive to build then their counterparts today, the US would not need forward bases for air power. These bases are far more expensive to maintain than the aircraft are to buy. In addition, Air bases cause a lot of concern for the country they are in, as well as an increased risk to those who need to guard.
2. The Minutemen are missiles. ICBM's at that. The political and social implications of suddenly firing lots of those is incredible. In addition, these are not accurate weapons. With a nuclear payload, 10 miles off target is close enough. Not so with munitions they currently are using. Launching a Nuclear weapon is not an option.
3. These planes won't be in use until at least 2025. War will not be the same come that time. War is a move on or move out type of business.
4. What is going to shoot these down? Hypersonic Missiles? A plane this fast has got to have tremendous spy potential. Remember the U2? In addition, these could be used to take out ICBM's, as they would be much faster.
Some state Sales tax laws specifically state that purchases over the internet are included as taxable purchases. Many states have this included as a box on their tax return, but some don't.
Other states, like California, require out of state companies to collect sales tax (or at least pay it) if their sales from California residents are over a certain amount.
This is the basics of a 'soft reload'
- Checks each downloaded file (image, html, etc) fors its modified timestamp.
- If the cache is the same as the one on the server, there is no time spent downloading since these files are still the same. (unless the web developers don't know their trade and are placing modified dates in.)
*** The 'soft reload' is an important ability and should stay. I do not want to reload all the images of slashdot every time I want to see new stories, and slashdot does not want the extra load of all of us non-subscribers hitting reload waiting for a story to appear. The 'soft reload' not working is a Web Developer and Administrator problem, not a Netscape problem. If you have this problem a lot, go to more professional web sites.
If a kid hands a kick ball to another kid on a playground, then later sues the kid to pay rent for using that kickball, that is just silly.
If code was released into the GPL public domain, then SCO has the right to get reparations against those responsible for releasing that code, and maybe those responsible for knowingly distributing that code. In this case, they fire the guy that release the stuff into public domain, and request removal of their propritary information. Getting back licensing fees is nothing more than being a playground bully asking for kids' lunch money to play kickball.
When special forces got into iraq and Afghanistan, they did not find Linx, or BSD, or any other open source OS's. They found WINDOWS.
At least people making comments like this could do a little research first.