True, everyone chooses the license they want, the one they are comfortable with. In the OSS world, there are a lot of licenses and the GPL is probably the less free of all, that's all the parent is saying.
fuck them all - i am coding for fun and _no_one_ will tell me which license to choose or which feature to add
There is a time to code for fun, and - as you will see when you will be a little more mature - there is a time for reward, or some form of retribution. If you "fuck all" your users, you will get no reward. You don't even need to get a license because you probably don't care about any distribution in the first place.
The problem is different. If you want to get the best out of iTunes, you have to buy an iPod. For Napster, any MP3 player will do. So a customer for iTunes means almost invariably an iPod sold. A customer for Napster doesn't mean anything for them in terms os hardware.
The GPL only applies to the redistribution of works previously licensed to you under the terms of the GPL. It doesn't say anything about your rights to use those works, nor even your rights to modify those works.
Well, from what I understand, if you modify those works, you cannot redistribute them without the source code. And you say "It doesn't say anything about your rights to modify those works". Hmm, interesting. Looks to me like it prevent me from doing something. The BSD license is more free in this regard.
Don't waste your precious brain cells on this matter. Every other month they change course radically. All that you can think and react on the current news will be wiped out by the following one, which will probably be in total contradiction with this ons.
This has become now really too much. They don't have a case. Their contradictory press releases and various public announcements should be enough to win the lawsuit, even if they had a case.
I don't think you get it. This way of securing a port (22 for example) is obscuring in the sense it hide the fact that you have a service up (SSH) to the outside world unless you know the "knock code".
You can then hide any service that is not to be known from the public (SMTP, POP, SSH, TELNET, whatever...) thus removing the probability that any exploit for these may be exploited: The hacker on the other end doesn't even know the service is running!
I have comcast at home and to be honest, the quality really sucks. It is like a regular TV with an average reception. every now and then you will loose either picture or sound or even both. Last time it lasted a few minutes but the time before that, it lasted two full days: We lost half of our channels. The decoder sucks ass as far as features and usability are concerned. It heats up a lot and freezes from time to time so you have to reboot it. Not too annoying unless you're not at home and are recording (PVR, VCR, etc...).
I really expected a lot more from "digital cable".
As I have some karma to burn, I will ask this question that has been running in my head for a while now. I might look like an idiot, but what is a Slashback?
And thing of this: If you don't meat the customers expectations it's going to come back and bite you in the ass every time.
Not necessarily. In this case for example, ALL customers say "Cool, it's unlimited". So let's say 1000 customers subscribe. in those, 5 are going to "Abuse" it, and are going to get kicked out. They are still left with 995 customers that consume 10MB/month and pay for the "unlimited" service. Looks good to me.
Although you are probably just trolling, I'll still bite it.
The problem is not how to remap the Ctrl-Alt-Del, as I didn't even mention it in my post! The problem is that from one distro to the other, things are different. Unix in general and Linux in particular is a very modular system, which means that everything has its own module/executable.
This in effect makes it easy to have a robust system, since making every little piece bulletproof is way easier than trying to make a whole huge piece of code bulletproof.
On the other hand, all these little utilities/executables are not consistent, because of being very often developped by different people. And every distro takes a sadistic pleasure in moving some of these little piece in some other place than most of the other.
As a result, answering a simple question as "where is my shell in Linux" is not possible, because bash is (or may be) in different places in different distros.
Thus a level of complexity increased for the average joe that has spent the last two weeks getting his hands dirty with GenToo and looking for infos on the internet assuming that he has "Linux".
Note here that he his only halfway wrong. He has Linux. He doesn't have "Linux" as an OS though. As far as the OS is concerned, he has "GenToo".
So to the question: "When will Linux will beat Windows on the desktop", I'd respond: "Linux is a Kernel, Windows an OS, how could Linux beat Windows?".
We'll have to wait for someone to define something more than a Kernel to really define what "I have Linux" means.
Even if code was put in, the bottom line is that the Linux community will remove it.
Well, there would be still one problem remaining. All the Linux boxes already installed would be using infringing code. And that's a hell of a lot of machines to upgrade.
iPod mini does not compete with the flash based players Hmmm, and why?
Those that are truly in the market for a solid state player (bike riders for one) would never even consider a hdd player. Maybe you should try a new experience then: Open your mind and consider them.
RTFA. This iPod mini is not in competition with the iPod, stop comparing them. Just because you don't see an added value doesn't mean nobody does. It is competing with flash players, which are approx. at the same price!
You can't because the average joe is too stupid/busy to see the big picture on all matters. That's why you have a government: To make it difficult for everyone to give their uneducated two cents. Otherwise there is to much noise to get anything out of the crowd.
The problem is not in "how would they attack BSD". The problem is that if they win against Linux, you can bet people are going to be more cautious about them. If they start spreading the same FUD they do against Linux against BSD, people will take them far more seriously, and it'll effectively kill BSD. Even if they don't go to court.
Dude, it's the same with any innovation. You have to wait for the software to follow. Why are you making a big fuss out of it? When they introduced P4 with their new architecture, tests shown that it wasn't all that faster than a good old P3. Then compilers and software in general adapted and it became faster.
Same with the P3, the P2, the Pentium, the 486, 386, 286 (Even though no one adapted to this shit) and the 086. So yes, history repeats itself, and it is for good (at least on this one).
Well, there may be nothing wrong legally with that, but there is definitively something wrong morally. I mean, you don't steal code, granted, but you steal ideas, algorithms, etc... right?
Methink the so called "reverse engineering" piece is a little to free as of today. I mean, the guy obviously didn't do it "Black Box", right? He probably did disassemble some software player to see what was going on...
Of course, for such a noble cause, it is a noble mean. But I really doubt that the guy did come up with the whole algorithm just having a DVD-ROM and a DVD in his hands (And a computer of course).
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what do care what licenses other people choose?
True, everyone chooses the license they want, the one they are comfortable with. In the OSS world, there are a lot of licenses and the GPL is probably the less free of all, that's all the parent is saying.
fuck them all - i am coding for fun and _no_one_ will tell me which license to choose or which feature to add
There is a time to code for fun, and - as you will see when you will be a little more mature - there is a time for reward, or some form of retribution. If you "fuck all" your users, you will get no reward. You don't even need to get a license because you probably don't care about any distribution in the first place.
Well, when your webserver serves a .js/.html/.css file, it does actually serve the source code. Where is the problem again?
The problem is different. If you want to get the best out of iTunes, you have to buy an iPod. For Napster, any MP3 player will do. So a customer for iTunes means almost invariably an iPod sold. A customer for Napster doesn't mean anything for them in terms os hardware.
I have never deleted an email I meant to keep
How could you possibly know? You deleted it!!
The GPL only applies to the redistribution of works previously licensed to you under the terms of the GPL. It doesn't say anything about your rights to use those works, nor even your rights to modify those works.
Well, from what I understand, if you modify those works, you cannot redistribute them without the source code. And you say "It doesn't say anything about your rights to modify those works". Hmm, interesting. Looks to me like it prevent me from doing something. The BSD license is more free in this regard.
Don't waste your precious brain cells on this matter. Every other month they change course radically. All that you can think and react on the current news will be wiped out by the following one, which will probably be in total contradiction with this ons.
This has become now really too much. They don't have a case. Their contradictory press releases and various public announcements should be enough to win the lawsuit, even if they had a case.
So why worry?
I don't think you get it. This way of securing a port (22 for example) is obscuring in the sense it hide the fact that you have a service up (SSH) to the outside world unless you know the "knock code".
You can then hide any service that is not to be known from the public (SMTP, POP, SSH, TELNET, whatever...) thus removing the probability that any exploit for these may be exploited: The hacker on the other end doesn't even know the service is running!
From the story, not the article: "Thanks, Andy!".
So the slashdot community is now saying that viruses are good, is that it?
Back to the original point: An email service will open "Free" and everyone will rush. Oh wait, that's what's going on right now!
I have comcast at home and to be honest, the quality really sucks. It is like a regular TV with an average reception. every now and then you will loose either picture or sound or even both. Last time it lasted a few minutes but the time before that, it lasted two full days: We lost half of our channels. The decoder sucks ass as far as features and usability are concerned. It heats up a lot and freezes from time to time so you have to reboot it. Not too annoying unless you're not at home and are recording (PVR, VCR, etc...).
I really expected a lot more from "digital cable".
I don't know about the satellite though.
As I have some karma to burn, I will ask this question that has been running in my head for a while now. I might look like an idiot, but what is a Slashback?
And thing of this: If you don't meat the customers expectations it's going to come back and bite you in the ass every time.
Not necessarily. In this case for example, ALL customers say "Cool, it's unlimited". So let's say 1000 customers subscribe. in those, 5 are going to "Abuse" it, and are going to get kicked out. They are still left with 995 customers that consume 10MB/month and pay for the "unlimited" service. Looks good to me.
can you hear people breating from 3 feet
Well, I can definitely hear my wife snoring 1 foot away. Does that count?
Although you are probably just trolling, I'll still bite it.
The problem is not how to remap the Ctrl-Alt-Del, as I didn't even mention it in my post! The problem is that from one distro to the other, things are different. Unix in general and Linux in particular is a very modular system, which means that everything has its own module/executable.
This in effect makes it easy to have a robust system, since making every little piece bulletproof is way easier than trying to make a whole huge piece of code bulletproof.
On the other hand, all these little utilities/executables are not consistent, because of being very often developped by different people. And every distro takes a sadistic pleasure in moving some of these little piece in some other place than most of the other.
As a result, answering a simple question as "where is my shell in Linux" is not possible, because bash is (or may be) in different places in different distros.
Thus a level of complexity increased for the average joe that has spent the last two weeks getting his hands dirty with GenToo and looking for infos on the internet assuming that he has "Linux".
Note here that he his only halfway wrong. He has Linux. He doesn't have "Linux" as an OS though. As far as the OS is concerned, he has "GenToo".
So to the question: "When will Linux will beat Windows on the desktop", I'd respond: "Linux is a Kernel, Windows an OS, how could Linux beat Windows?".
We'll have to wait for someone to define something more than a Kernel to really define what "I have Linux" means.
On Debian, this is blah blah I'm not sure about others.
That is exactly why Linux is not ready for the desktop and the average joe. Don't even go looking for something in X, KDE or anything else.
Follow the thread AC
Hmm, yes. Ok, You're right. Absolutely.
learn how to write in English
I believe "learn how to type on a keyboard" to be more appropriate.
Even if code was put in, the bottom line is that the Linux community will remove it.
Well, there would be still one problem remaining. All the Linux boxes already installed would be using infringing code. And that's a hell of a lot of machines to upgrade.
The stock will probably be out of the market by then... Should be a fool to turn the guy in for peanuts.
iPod mini does not compete with the flash based players
Hmmm, and why?
Those that are truly in the market for a solid state player (bike riders for one) would never even consider a hdd player.
Maybe you should try a new experience then: Open your mind and consider them.
RTFA. This iPod mini is not in competition with the iPod, stop comparing them. Just because you don't see an added value doesn't mean nobody does. It is competing with flash players, which are approx. at the same price!
You can't because the average joe is too stupid/busy to see the big picture on all matters. That's why you have a government: To make it difficult for everyone to give their uneducated two cents. Otherwise there is to much noise to get anything out of the crowd.
The problem is not in "how would they attack BSD". The problem is that if they win against Linux, you can bet people are going to be more cautious about them. If they start spreading the same FUD they do against Linux against BSD, people will take them far more seriously, and it'll effectively kill BSD. Even if they don't go to court.
That may be their whole strategy after all.
Dude, it's the same with any innovation. You have to wait for the software to follow. Why are you making a big fuss out of it? When they introduced P4 with their new architecture, tests shown that it wasn't all that faster than a good old P3. Then compilers and software in general adapted and it became faster.
Same with the P3, the P2, the Pentium, the 486, 386, 286 (Even though no one adapted to this shit) and the 086. So yes, history repeats itself, and it is for good (at least on this one).
Well, there may be nothing wrong legally with that, but there is definitively something wrong morally. I mean, you don't steal code, granted, but you steal ideas, algorithms, etc... right?
Methink the so called "reverse engineering" piece is a little to free as of today. I mean, the guy obviously didn't do it "Black Box", right? He probably did disassemble some software player to see what was going on...
Of course, for such a noble cause, it is a noble mean. But I really doubt that the guy did come up with the whole algorithm just having a DVD-ROM and a DVD in his hands (And a computer of course).