"If distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?"
The GPL FAQ says no. I would like to bundle GPLed software with some sort of installation software. Does that installer need to have a GPL-compatible license?
No. The installer and the files it installs are separate works. As a result, the terms of the GPL do not apply to the installation software.
If your boss doesn't care about ethics, try convincing him that his plan is flawed from a technical perspective.
Free accounts are unreliable and unstable. They have no obligation to provide any level of service and can be canceled on you at any time.
Screenscraping only works as long as the sites you are scraping keep their format--and that can change at any time without notice. Again, not very reliable.
It's hard to make the argument that the test is only a moneymaker when ETS does not actually profit. Which doesn't mean that they don't make money, but still....
Educational Testing Service is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides national and international educational testing, measurement and research.
When I lived abroad in 2000 I voted by absentee ballot, which is exactly the same as a regular ballot, even down to the bond issues. Other states may be different though.
That was a fun election. Because of the time difference, I was able to watch the crazy 2 AM (Eastern time) back and forth between Bush and Gore when it was already morning my time. And for a while after the election my sig was "Don't blame me, I voted by absentee ballot."
Three people/projects got $500 Merit Awards: Martin Pool for distcc, Tom Lord for GNU Arch, and The GIMP.
Yet another example of why it's a good idea to use a comma before the last item in a list. The last two awards went to the GIMP project and to Tom Lord for his work on GNU Arch.
I'm pretty sure this was mentioned on/. before. Banias is a river in northern Israel. Today the area is an Israeli national park with a nice waterfall and an easy hiking trail. Supposedly the Banias was named by the Greeks after their god Pan.
I'm not a gamer, so I'm curious about this. Why are the worst vaporware examples all games, and how is it that so many of them have been in development for upwards of five years? I can't imagine that, say, a word processor could be in development for that long--it would fall behind the times too quickly. How are games immune to the constant changes in operating systems, hardware, etc.?
Except that this article isn't a review of ROTK, it's a discussion about battle sequences in recent movies. The actual review by the author of this article (who happens to have won this year's Pulitzer for criticism) discusses the specific issues you raised.
Not from a resume, but a few years ago there was a tv show where a character claimed to have gotten her law degree at Baltimore City College. Which is a high school.
A L/GPL project is defending itself against license violations. Why is there such a negative reaction to this? The best reason I can think of is that the project's lawyers wrote a warning letter. But isn't that what the FSF does? Or is it because the project is for-profit? I thought everyone wants OS for-profit to succeed. Or maybe it's because another OS project was threatened? This is certainly not the first time that GPL advocates attacked other OS projects for using non-compatible licenses. So what's the issue here?
I support the GPL, I've released code under it. And I have nothing against the Apache project, I like a lot of their projects. I'm just trying to understand what the antagonism is about.
How long before the EFF or someone else sets up a non-profit dedicated to contesting bad patents? Why not organize the community to research questionable patents and find prior art, then have lawyers submit the challenges for review? One by one, the bad patents would be overturned and a message would be sent: that patents need to be accountable. I think this would be a way to actually make a difference with the patent office, by working within the system.
are available here at Renaissance Ventures site. Pretty amazing stuff. They even have a table calculating how much money they think SCO will make with an IBM settlement.
...and I decided that it's really only a matter of time. Okay, so it's unlikely that Linux user will run a strange attachment from an email, but we routinely download and install strange software from the net without thinking twice--after all, freely distributable software is the cornerstone of our culture. Besides, what kind of virus is going to./configure, make, make install itself;)?
Which leads to an important point: Spam vigilanteeism has the potential to become an worse form of "joe job".
When someone posts a name, address and phone number and says, "He's a spammer! Get him!" how many wannabe vigilantes actually go to whois or spamhaus to verify that the guy actually is a spammer and that the address and phone number actually belong to the spammer?
How long before spammers try to pull a "joe job" on an anti-spammer and post his address? And since when is whois information so reliable--what's to stop a spammer from registering a spam domain name under someone else's address? Think twice before harassing an alleged spammer--it may backfire.
PS. Yes, I know my sig is ironic in this context. Follow the link, it's funny:).
Perhaps one day "computer science" will, like Yugoslavia, get broken up into its component parts. That might be a good thing. Especially if it meant independence for my native land, hacking.
Lots of universities have computer science departments as well as information systems (or some variation of that term) departments. Like theoretical vs. applied mathematics or physics, the CS depts. concentrate on theory (algorithm development, etc.) and IS is geared toward practical applications (database application development, etc.).
You can read the
original spam email on Templeton's site. The list of addressees is like a directory of the early net, including addresses like KLEINROCK at USC-ISI and POSTEL@USC-ISIB. I wonder how many spam harvesters will find these addresses and try to send them mail, now that they've been posted to the web:).
When I was in kindergarten, my father bought a Lisa for his office. I'm now married with kids, so that gives you some idea of how long ago this was. I remember playing with it when I was a kid.
To this day, my father claims the Lisa was the best machine he has ever used. All the applications were completely integrated in a way that DOS and even Windows apps weren't for many years. You could draw up a diagram in the paint program and paste it into the word processing program easily. It was so solid that, AFAIK, it was still being used in the office just a few years ago and may still be there today.
I've spent the last two years trying to get up to speed on OS/390, and I'm still very green.
It is a different world altogether.
That was exactly my experience. Starting out in OS/390 is like trying to understand a foreign culture, in a different language. All the subtle little cues that you use to help find your way around a new system are different than you expect them to be.
There are silly little things, like the fact that the "Enter" key is different from the "Return" key--to enter, you need to use the Enter on the number pad, not Return. Or how everything that, in the unix world, would be lowercase is uppercase. Or how the acronyms are constructed--a logical partition is called LPAR, for example, instead of, I dunno, LP.
Obviously, all these little things are no big deal. However, they all contribute to the feeling that you're not in Kansas anymore. And that's when you're just starting and haven't even gotten to the nitty gritty....
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This is an Associated Press story published on the New York Times site. The NY Times did not report this.
The GPL FAQ says no.
I would like to bundle GPLed software with some sort of installation software. Does that installer need to have a GPL-compatible license?
No. The installer and the files it installs are separate works. As a result, the terms of the GPL do not apply to the installation software.
When I lived abroad in 2000 I voted by absentee ballot, which is exactly the same as a regular ballot, even down to the bond issues. Other states may be different though.
That was a fun election. Because of the time difference, I was able to watch the crazy 2 AM (Eastern time) back and forth between Bush and Gore when it was already morning my time. And for a while after the election my sig was "Don't blame me, I voted by absentee ballot."
I'm pretty sure this was mentioned on /. before. Banias is a river in northern Israel. Today the area is an Israeli national park with a nice waterfall and an easy hiking trail. Supposedly the Banias was named by the Greeks after their god Pan.
Every project, artwork, etc. that is released at kde-look.org can specify a license. Look for it under the Description section. The default is GPL.
can really change the look of a desktop. There are lots of unusual panel and taskbar replacements, clocks, etc.
Also check out KDE-Look's screenshots section which is filled with unusual desktops.
<plug>
Finally, there is kleardock a nice dock and kicker replacement for KDE.
</plug>
I'm not a gamer, so I'm curious about this. Why are the worst vaporware examples all games, and how is it that so many of them have been in development for upwards of five years? I can't imagine that, say, a word processor could be in development for that long--it would fall behind the times too quickly. How are games immune to the constant changes in operating systems, hardware, etc.?
Interesting story. But how do you pronounce it?
Except that this article isn't a review of ROTK, it's a discussion about battle sequences in recent movies. The actual review by the author of this article (who happens to have won this year's Pulitzer for criticism) discusses the specific issues you raised.
Not from a resume, but a few years ago there was a tv show where a character claimed to have gotten her law degree at Baltimore City College. Which is a high school.
I support the GPL, I've released code under it. And I have nothing against the Apache project, I like a lot of their projects. I'm just trying to understand what the antagonism is about.
How long before the EFF or someone else sets up a non-profit dedicated to contesting bad patents? Why not organize the community to research questionable patents and find prior art, then have lawyers submit the challenges for review? One by one, the bad patents would be overturned and a message would be sent: that patents need to be accountable. I think this would be a way to actually make a difference with the patent office, by working within the system.
are available here at Renaissance Ventures site. Pretty amazing stuff. They even have a table calculating how much money they think SCO will make with an IBM settlement.
...and I decided that it's really only a matter of time. Okay, so it's unlikely that Linux user will run a strange attachment from an email, but we routinely download and install strange software from the net without thinking twice--after all, freely distributable software is the cornerstone of our culture. Besides, what kind of virus is going to ./configure, make, make install itself ;)?
Which leads to an important point: Spam vigilanteeism has the potential to become an worse form of "joe job".
When someone posts a name, address and phone number and says, "He's a spammer! Get him!" how many wannabe vigilantes actually go to whois or spamhaus to verify that the guy actually is a spammer and that the address and phone number actually belong to the spammer?
How long before spammers try to pull a "joe job" on an anti-spammer and post his address? And since when is whois information so reliable--what's to stop a spammer from registering a spam domain name under someone else's address? Think twice before harassing an alleged spammer--it may backfire.
PS. Yes, I know my sig is ironic in this context. Follow the link, it's funny :).
Before you complain about the spelling, note that the original article is headlined "It's Nucular" and the /. headline is echoing that on purpose.
:).
Okay, now you can post
Have a look here for a minimalist, clean approach.
Lots of universities have computer science departments as well as information systems (or some variation of that term) departments. Like theoretical vs. applied mathematics or physics, the CS depts. concentrate on theory (algorithm development, etc.) and IS is geared toward practical applications (database application development, etc.).
That sounds right. They created VisiCalc for the Apple II. The IBM PC version came in 1981.
You can read the original spam email on Templeton's site. The list of addressees is like a directory of the early net, including addresses like KLEINROCK at USC-ISI and POSTEL@USC-ISIB. I wonder how many spam harvesters will find these addresses and try to send them mail, now that they've been posted to the web :).
When I was in kindergarten, my father bought a Lisa for his office. I'm now married with kids, so that gives you some idea of how long ago this was. I remember playing with it when I was a kid.
To this day, my father claims the Lisa was the best machine he has ever used. All the applications were completely integrated in a way that DOS and even Windows apps weren't for many years. You could draw up a diagram in the paint program and paste it into the word processing program easily. It was so solid that, AFAIK, it was still being used in the office just a few years ago and may still be there today.
That was exactly my experience. Starting out in OS/390 is like trying to understand a foreign culture, in a different language. All the subtle little cues that you use to help find your way around a new system are different than you expect them to be.
There are silly little things, like the fact that the "Enter" key is different from the "Return" key--to enter, you need to use the Enter on the number pad, not Return. Or how everything that, in the unix world, would be lowercase is uppercase. Or how the acronyms are constructed--a logical partition is called LPAR, for example, instead of, I dunno, LP.
Obviously, all these little things are no big deal. However, they all contribute to the feeling that you're not in Kansas anymore. And that's when you're just starting and haven't even gotten to the nitty gritty....