I understood that it's only a recommendation that the bottom 48-bits is your MAC address.. The reality is that if they did force it, you'd be throwing away a huge amount of address space.
Someone needs to hit this guy up the side of the head with some reality.
12.2 Effect of Termination. Upon termination, You agree to immediately stop any further use, reproduction, modification, sublicensing and distribution of the Covered Code and to destroy all copies of the Covered Code that are in your possession or control.
Ok. Simple question, with that kind of language, why would I want to contribute to anything under the APSL? (IANAL)
The most obvious thing that comes to mind is MySQL.. I did give it a shot installing linuxthreads, and I don't think I actually managed to get it right.
My first distro was Slackware, and was until about 3 months ago, when I switched to Debian. I hated it. I wouldn't switch back to Slackware now. As much as I said I despised package management, it's almost perfect in Debian, so it tends not to screw me up.
(I said almost - the mess with gtk did not impress me, but in part that's not Debian's fault, but authors using an unstable gtk branch.. ug, I'm still not rid of that mess..:( )
Compiling stuff by hand I still do. It's not mutually exclusive.. (Window Maker and all the dockapps I did by hand..) It's just a lot easier for the base stuff *grin*.
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I understood that it's only a recommendation that the bottom 48-bits is your MAC address.. The reality is that if they did force it, you'd be throwing away a huge amount of address space.
Someone needs to hit this guy up the side of the head with some reality.
I'd take NSI over ICANN any day of the week. At least NSI is honest in it's intentions, it's a company so it's going to operate like one.
Whereas ICANN..
Yes, the excellent "feature" of being able to force a Sun box down to it's hardware prompt with a quick tap of the break key is really useful.
That is, until someone power cycles a terminal server pugged into half your boxes. Opps, time to go and fix them all.. *grin*
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I see large chunks of nz.comp and other nz.* Usenet posters have turned up *grin*
To quote:
12.2 Effect of Termination. Upon termination, You agree to immediately stop any further use, reproduction, modification, sublicensing and distribution of the Covered Code and to destroy all copies of the Covered Code that are in your possession or control.
Ok. Simple question, with that kind of language, why would I want to contribute to anything under the APSL? (IANAL)
The most obvious thing that comes to mind is MySQL.. I did give it a shot installing linuxthreads, and I don't think I actually managed to get it right.
:( )
My first distro was Slackware, and was until about 3 months ago, when I switched to Debian. I hated it. I wouldn't switch back to Slackware now. As much as I said I despised package management, it's almost perfect in Debian, so it tends not to screw me up.
(I said almost - the mess with gtk did not impress me, but in part that's not Debian's fault, but authors using an unstable gtk branch.. ug, I'm still not rid of that mess..
Compiling stuff by hand I still do. It's not mutually exclusive.. (Window Maker and all the dockapps I did by hand..) It's just a lot easier for the base stuff *grin*.