Someone will have to build and maintain those computer systems. At least until the systems themselves are capable of that job, and by then, you should be very, very afraid...
On a personal level, your open-source project is successful when it accomplishes everything you set out to do with it. On a non-personal level, widespread usage is probably the best metric.
I think you hit the nail on the head. As far as I've seen, it's just part of third group that frowns upon commercialization - why, I don't know. But anyway, the amount of people who hold this view aren't very numerous.
Instead of breaking said illogical law, it would be better to tell others about it, so everyone else can see how bad it is. You get a lot more credibility that way.
Android - at least all the code you get from Google - is under the Apache 2.0 License. That makes Android a fully open-source project, since the Apache License is an OSI-approved license (and quite a permissive one at that). So people can't (or shouldn't) complain about Android not being open-source; they should complain instead about carriers making proprietary extensions.
Quick note: CyanogenMod - an open-source build of Android - comes bundled with its own open-source marketplace application.
With these tools, you could make grep and diff work with binary files in a meaningful way - very useful at times. I bet you could even adapt the "Context-Free Grep" into a sort of packet sniffer with enough work. I'd sure like to try these new programs sometime.
The idea Facebook embodies is fine in my humble opinion, it's their implementation that keeps me on Twitter and Diaspora. Facebook, as seen here, is loathe to respect your privacy. Diaspora, on the other hand, respects it pretty well. And I can always run my own Diaspora pod, if it get really paranoid.
Well, those illegal arcade ROMs are "free" in the sense that you don't have to pay for them, but since they are still under copyright by their creators, who have deemed redistribution of those ROMs illegal, they are not "free" as in speech. Not to mention you're ignoring the fact that those ROMs are illegal, which is a far larger issue...
Who cares if everyone already pirates ROMs? That doesn't make it legal. Freeware ROMs are legal of course, but most of the titles the recipients of this gift have heard of don't fall into this category.
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Linking to TVTropes? Some of us had things to do today, man.
We'll be left with no speculationware to joke about pretty soon, looks like.
Unless it's encoded in something other than ASCII. Then things could get complicated...
...rudderless.
Someone will have to build and maintain those computer systems. At least until the systems themselves are capable of that job, and by then, you should be very, very afraid...
You mean the guy who went around literally whipping peddlers because they were selling stuff in his temple?
I 7th Python. I wish I could have started with Python instead of C - I'd have learned so much more (and much more quickly).
On a personal level, your open-source project is successful when it accomplishes everything you set out to do with it. On a non-personal level, widespread usage is probably the best metric.
I knew it!
I think you hit the nail on the head. As far as I've seen, it's just part of third group that frowns upon commercialization - why, I don't know. But anyway, the amount of people who hold this view aren't very numerous.
Instead of breaking said illogical law, it would be better to tell others about it, so everyone else can see how bad it is. You get a lot more credibility that way.
Android - at least all the code you get from Google - is under the Apache 2.0 License. That makes Android a fully open-source project, since the Apache License is an OSI-approved license (and quite a permissive one at that). So people can't (or shouldn't) complain about Android not being open-source; they should complain instead about carriers making proprietary extensions. Quick note: CyanogenMod - an open-source build of Android - comes bundled with its own open-source marketplace application.
...why in the world are they on Facebook?
I see what you did there. Very clever indeed, sir. :)
Gives me an excuse to murder that guy from down the street I'm not exactly fond of. "But he was contributing to global warming, Your Honor!"
... Is that a bad thing?
That too is unfair criticism. There are specific, valid, reasons given in Hebrews as to why those old laws aren't applicable anymore.
is misleading.
With these tools, you could make grep and diff work with binary files in a meaningful way - very useful at times. I bet you could even adapt the "Context-Free Grep" into a sort of packet sniffer with enough work. I'd sure like to try these new programs sometime.
What's an astonoy geek?
The idea Facebook embodies is fine in my humble opinion, it's their implementation that keeps me on Twitter and Diaspora. Facebook, as seen here, is loathe to respect your privacy. Diaspora, on the other hand, respects it pretty well. And I can always run my own Diaspora pod, if it get really paranoid.
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Well, those illegal arcade ROMs are "free" in the sense that you don't have to pay for them, but since they are still under copyright by their creators, who have deemed redistribution of those ROMs illegal, they are not "free" as in speech. Not to mention you're ignoring the fact that those ROMs are illegal, which is a far larger issue...
Who cares if everyone already pirates ROMs? That doesn't make it legal. Freeware ROMs are legal of course, but most of the titles the recipients of this gift have heard of don't fall into this category.
That's certainly possible, but all the programs I listed work on Windows as well, so it's not strictly necessary.