Let me guess: you think that somebody tracks all airplanes every minute they're in the air.
All commercial flights log an IFR route with air traffic control before takeoff which is monitored. ATC knew full well the planes were hijacked as soon as they veered of course and didn't acknowledge.
Evolution is as much a "theory" as gravity is. There is no questioning the fact that organisms adapt to their environment through generationional changes.
It is the mechanism of evolution that is the theory, and we understand this mechanism much more than we can claim to understand how gravity works.
The only problem with that is that he's done a piss-poor job regarding the GFDL
I think RMS heart's in the right place and his "right to read" paranoia might pay off in the future, but he could be a little pragmatic on this issue.
Regardless, those who don't read the fine print will pay the price. Those who do read it and are happy can be assured their content will never legally be locked with DRM.
If you look into that, you find that RMS actually doesn't approve of login security
Yeah I've always been amused about RMS' attitude towards root and the GNU banishment of wheel, that's one of the first things I change in my build. To be honest I would like to live in a world without root, but one must be realistic.
This is on my software. If I dont like GPL 3.0, and dont want my software distributed under it, I'm already screwed.
To take a different angle on this; If there were a legal hole in the GPLv2 which had unforseen legal complications, your software would automatically be protected when a revised GPL which took care of this oversight was released.
The one wild-card is RMS, and I simply don't see RMS screwing this up
If there is one person I would trust with the best interests of software freedom, it would be RMS who has no concern for pragmatic issues such as corporate acceptance or development models. The goal is always clear to him.
Imagine for a moment a petty egomaniac like Eric Raymond in this sort of position.
This means that if the GPL review board goes insane and the GPL v3.0 does away with the "must provide source code" clauses, your program can suddenly be locked up in commercial software and any improvements made not given back to the community.
Well that's just tough luck, you should have read the fine print. But your strawman hypothetical is about as likely as RMS becoming major shareholder in Microsoft.
A software license for the free software community seems to me to require the input of, you know, the free software community.
That's where you're getting confused. The GPL is a document by the FSF for the FSF. If you consider the FSF's charter to be to your liking then releasing under the GPL is for you.
Otherwise you're free to use the myriad other pre-rolled licenses or, heaven-forbid, write your own.
Nobody's being forced to use GPLv3, if you're worried about it just release your software under perpetual GPLv2 as the Linux kernel is.
You're free to not use GPL software and have your opinion of RMS. If you don't like what you're given for free, then either use OpenBSD or go fuck yourself.
Linux is only a kernal and in some situations leaves a lot to be desired, jack of all trades and all that. I'm not comfortable with a kernal that changes so much mid-release and I've seen some (documented) crashes that shouldn't be.
I've worked with most Unix systems and was always impressed with Solaris kernel's stability, and now it has excellent performance. My standard build on 2.6 and 7 was to install gnu userland, and v8 on included them on the install disks. But it was always a chore to strip a system for secure production.
I've been using Debian personally and in production for seven years and it's by far the easiest and most stable system I've used. A stripped Debian is easier to script.
I think it would be great to combine the clean Debian system with a stable and mature 64-bit platform like Solaris. especially now with Sun's excellent AMD systems.
If we put the heat on, Sun may go the whole hog and cut the strings, that would be a great day for free software.
The kernel and shell are the easiest parts of a system to swap, considering the obvious similarities between modern GUI shells.
The applications are the hardest part to replace. Change apps until they are all free, then it's trivial to move them to a free kernel and shell.
The true beauty of free software is its cross platform and hardware independant nature.
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You mean you want drag and drop you email into an archive? Pretty tough to do with a web interface, but the tick and archive button does the same thing. Don't blame google for your own stupidity.
Agreed. My iPaq PDA has degenerated into being a glorified ebook reader.
How is this different to being a glorified music player? I never really used my palm that much until I started reading books and plucked web pages on it, for me that is the killer app.
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I'm an open source, open idea and freedom of information zealot however the xbox 360 is just cool.
Zealot doesn't appear to mean what you think it means. It certainly doesn't mean dropping your ideals when the opposing ideals are "just cool".
No, Scrum is different. Scrum is a daily meeting that is EXTREME TO THE MAXX!!
Don't buy locked in formats.
Gonna get me some SNU-SNU!
Let me guess: you think that somebody tracks all airplanes every minute they're in the air.
All commercial flights log an IFR route with air traffic control before takeoff which is monitored. ATC knew full well the planes were hijacked as soon as they veered of course and didn't acknowledge.
They probably figured out they needed a new name for marketing "Windows Onecare" in Europe.
I'm using a desktop rabbit unit right now, just plug your ethernet in and your on. No phone line, no ADSL bullshit, no headache when moving.
Also good for test when at a client site. Wireless broadband is the greatest!
Not all of Kansas is this conservative.
There is nothing conservative about fundamentalists.
The theory of evolution has some holes
Evolution is as much a "theory" as gravity is. There is no questioning the fact that organisms adapt to their environment through generationional changes.
It is the mechanism of evolution that is the theory, and we understand this mechanism much more than we can claim to understand how gravity works.
I read somewhere recently that 'more watts used' = 'more powerful'
Yeah, in a car magazine.
The only problem with that is that he's done a piss-poor job regarding the GFDL
I think RMS heart's in the right place and his "right to read" paranoia might pay off in the future, but he could be a little pragmatic on this issue.
Regardless, those who don't read the fine print will pay the price. Those who do read it and are happy can be assured their content will never legally be locked with DRM.
If you look into that, you find that RMS actually doesn't approve of login security
Yeah I've always been amused about RMS' attitude towards root and the GNU banishment of wheel, that's one of the first things I change in my build. To be honest I would like to live in a world without root, but one must be realistic.
This is on my software. If I dont like GPL 3.0, and dont want my software distributed under it, I'm already screwed.
To take a different angle on this; If there were a legal hole in the GPLv2 which had unforseen legal complications, your software would automatically be protected when a revised GPL which took care of this oversight was released.
If a license is incompatible with the GPL, it is because they have chosen to be.
The one wild-card is RMS, and I simply don't see RMS screwing this up
If there is one person I would trust with the best interests of software freedom, it would be RMS who has no concern for pragmatic issues such as corporate acceptance or development models. The goal is always clear to him.
Imagine for a moment a petty egomaniac like Eric Raymond in this sort of position.
This means that if the GPL review board goes insane and the GPL v3.0 does away with the "must provide source code" clauses, your program can suddenly be locked up in commercial software and any improvements made not given back to the community.
Well that's just tough luck, you should have read the fine print. But your strawman hypothetical is about as likely as RMS becoming major shareholder in Microsoft.
You are free to write your own license.
I don't mean the literal wording, but topics of interest and possibilities of handling them. Software patents. ASP models.
I think Moglen and Stallman have considered these issues at length in the decade since they drafted GPLv2, and in fact are the reasoning behind GPLv3.
A software license for the free software community seems to me to require the input of, you know, the free software community.
That's where you're getting confused. The GPL is a document by the FSF for the FSF. If you consider the FSF's charter to be to your liking then releasing under the GPL is for you.
Otherwise you're free to use the myriad other pre-rolled licenses or, heaven-forbid, write your own.
Nobody's being forced to use GPLv3, if you're worried about it just release your software under perpetual GPLv2 as the Linux kernel is.
You're free to not use GPL software and have your opinion of RMS. If you don't like what you're given for free, then either use OpenBSD or go fuck yourself.
Now not only are gamers going to be forced to buy price-inflated bundles yet again,
Nobody's forcing you to do anything. If you don't think the options are worth the money, don't buy. It's that easy.
Linux is only a kernal and in some situations leaves a lot to be desired, jack of all trades and all that. I'm not comfortable with a kernal that changes so much mid-release and I've seen some (documented) crashes that shouldn't be.
I've worked with most Unix systems and was always impressed with Solaris kernel's stability, and now it has excellent performance. My standard build on 2.6 and 7 was to install gnu userland, and v8 on included them on the install disks. But it was always a chore to strip a system for secure production.
I've been using Debian personally and in production for seven years and it's by far the easiest and most stable system I've used. A stripped Debian is easier to script.
I think it would be great to combine the clean Debian system with a stable and mature 64-bit platform like Solaris. especially now with Sun's excellent AMD systems.
If we put the heat on, Sun may go the whole hog and cut the strings, that would be a great day for free software.
The kernel and shell are the easiest parts of a system to swap, considering the obvious similarities between modern GUI shells.
The applications are the hardest part to replace. Change apps until they are all free, then it's trivial to move them to a free kernel and shell.
The true beauty of free software is its cross platform and hardware independant nature.
You mean you want drag and drop you email into an archive? Pretty tough to do with a web interface, but the tick and archive button does the same thing. Don't blame google for your own stupidity.
It works for you ... but why are you pushing it on all gmail users ?
It works well for me too, just had to get used to it. For those times when it doesn't work well, I just access through POP.
Agreed. My iPaq PDA has degenerated into being a glorified ebook reader.
How is this different to being a glorified music player? I never really used my palm that much until I started reading books and plucked web pages on it, for me that is the killer app.