Unfortunatly, the RIAA labels make musicians selll them the copyright outright. I think the only way that traditional music distribution could be fair to artists would be to make it illegal to transfer a copyright away from the original owner
There is some similarity here between the RIAA labels and the FSF. The FSF recommends that the copyright is transfered to them - both have the same motivation to protect the work from being illegaly copied.
So why are the RIAA labels any more evil than the FSF in respect to copyright ?
Please keep the replies to copyright only not about making money or anything else the RIAA or FSF do because copyright is what is the topic of the court case and thus this thread on/.
The SPARC chip has the concept of eXecute bit for pages.
In the SPARCv7/v8 ABI the eXecute bit must be set by default to be ABI compliant but Solaris from 2.6 onwards provides the facility to turn off the eXecute pages on the stack by updating the/etc/system file with the nonexec_user_stack=1.
The SPARCv9 (64Bit) ABI has the eXecute bit for stack pages off by default.
However having said all that, it is still possible to exploit buffer overflows but it does provide a basic level of protection.
> I open dozens of data attachments from people I've never heard of (.doc attachments etc).
I hate to sound condicending but in that case you are no better off than those who run.exe files if you are doing this on windows because.doc files can contain executable content in the form of a macro virus.
NFS can run entierly over UDP or TCP and that is a CHOICE that is made at mount time - either automagically (as Solaris can do - not sure about others) or manually by the person typing the mount command.
NFS never uses a combination of UDP and TCP for a particular mounted filesystem. It is possible to have multiple filesystems some being accessed over UDP and some over TCP but not using both protocols for the same mount point.
Y2k Information for Global 2000 They mention that they first introduced windowing in Global System Manger 7.0. If my memory servs me correctly System Manger 7.0 was released about 1990.
Looking at this page brought back lots of memories of my first support job;-)
First of I'm Scottish so I say hash for # as in #brown and pound is either lb or £ depending on context, though for some people I'll pronounce £ as pound(s) sterling (usually the Merkins).
I beleive it is because the # symbol is simlar to the symbol used to represent the imperial measurement of mass called the pound, in the UK we tend to use `lb` (but not for much longer as it is no longer legal to sell produce using imperial measurements (only about a month ago I think)) but I have seen a symbol very like # used (particularly on large bags of flour) in old pictures or "period" films (UK and US).
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.....
Regardless, pound include just doesn't have the same same ring to it as hash include:-)
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Someone did.../bin/tsh is the Trusted shell used in Trusted Solaris 1.2 for executing privelged programs from the trusted path then using the Admin or ISSO roles.
What about the way you say zsh;-)
I say Zed Shell. I've heared others say ZEE Shell because it is a parody on csh when saying the letter Z the American way (ie ZEE rather than ZED).
The pronunciation of vi is easy there is only one way, you say both of the letters as you would pronounce them as standalone letters in standard English. Why ? It is an abbreviation of Visual Interface, which is all vi actually is ex does the real work;-)
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If the article I was reading recently is correct there might not even have been a single person going by the name of "Christopher Columbus", can't remember where it was though (Hmnn, might even have been an offtopic in a/. thread). At least you were actuate is saying land rather than most people who say "discover";-)
Re:The *Right* Way (Offtopic - Netscape/Mozilla)
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Nope since that phrase has been around for YEARS at least as far back as version Netscape 1.1N (20-Apr-95), which is the oldest I can lay my hands on at the moment. The word Mozilla appears 20 times in the binary as text (strings -a netscape | grep -i mozilla | wc -l)
For the record the same binary still runs on my Solaris 8 Beta system, although it gets today's/. page a bit screwy.
Back then the "View Page Source" was MUCH better than it is now - it was a proper motif text widget that you could Search in! Well thats progress for you;-)
As a Scot I think I'm can call it a telly if I want to, after all the Television/TV/telly as invented by a Scot. You'll hae us a' callin everyhing by your 'merkin names at this rate.
BTW TV is as much "slang" as telly is the correct word is Television - but that's a bit long for most people to say all of the time;-)
Hopefully the US can make a better job of introducing broadcast Digital TV than was done in the UK. OnDigital is the broadcast provider here in the UK and I must say the service is terrible and as for their customer service well its bad when their people raise their voices at the customer when you are complaining that they cut of your service because they didn't do the Direct Debit setup correctly and my Bank (HSBC) correctly rejected the transfers on security grounds.
The first time I saw windowing used as a Y2k solution was in 1988 in the Global 2000 (BOS) Operating System. The system admin got to choose the century start date at install time or later via the system admin menus.
If you use GPL then you have just given away that right because anyone else can fork from your code tree and go their own way.
I've strongly recommened anyone releasing code for the world to see NOT to use ANY of the current BSD, GPL, Artistic what ever licenses. Just write down what YOUR personal wishes are for that code and anything based on it. It is just as legally binding and if it doesn't suit you later then you only have yourself to blame.
That way it ensures that it is the morals and ethics of the person who wrote the code that are used not those of someone else who happend to make their personal morals into a widley known license.
There are a number of licenses people can choose to distribute their code under when the day comes that they think the rest of the world might be in someway interested in what they have done.
If they choose the BSD license IMHO what they are saying is I don't care what you do with it just recognise that I did it first; if you have more time than me to work on this and make money then go for it, if you think your work is ground breaking enough that others can learn from your source then let them see it. On the other hand if you thing for some reason you don't want others to see your code then that also is your choice.
If you go the GPL way, my take on this is you don't care what happens to your work except that anything that is ever based on it is also published. IMHO this is selfish you are imposing your personal values on everyone who ever thought you did some good work and wanted to extended your orignal good work for the benifit of others.
So what has all this got to do with Sun's Community Source License ? SCSL is just another license it is a compromise between the BSD, GPL and the needs of the SUNW stock holders.
GPL has problems too, the major one IMHO is that most people who shout about it don't understand what it really means. The way many GPL activists behave really discusts me, I'm not talking about RMS or people like that - I'm talking about the newbies out there who think they have a right to do what they like to everyone elses code, but have neither the skill or the intention of actually doing anything with it.
I've released code under GPL in the past and now I wish I hadn't - lucky it wasn't anything I care about much. I don't like the license as much as many of its supporters don't like the SCSL.
At the end of the day this is all about choice, make your choice based on your personal values about how you want others to treat work you personally have done, not what rights you believe you have to others work.
-- Darren J Moffat
This is my opinion and does not constitute official and offical statment from Sun Microsystems Inc.
This text or any portion of it may not be used outside of the slashdot.org forum if my name is attributed to it directly or indirectly (eg An Anyomous Sun source said...). The above text is to be protected under Scottish law.
I like Linux and what it has done for the Computing community as a whole. In the past I, and many other Sun engineers, have been contributers to the Linux community.
I work for Sun and they pay my living and if the company I work for decides to give the general public access to our crown jewels then that is our buisness - we didn't have to do it.
If you don't like ours or anyone elses license terms then don't buy or use the product, thats your choice just like it is the owner of the codes choice to decide how/if/when they distribute it to anyone else.
Would all the people who are complaining that the Community Source license isn't your favorite GPL virus be happy if all of the commerical companies who have decided to let you see their source turned around now and said "you all moaned too much sorry we have all changed our mind you aren't getting to see anything" ? Huh ? Well I think that the majority of you won't even notice the slightest difference because you had no intention what so ever of doing anything with the code. How many of you who moan about this stuff actually understand the full implications of the Sun Community Source License (SCSL) or GPL ?
The Linux source might be GPL but at the end of the day if Linus or his advisors don't like the changes you suggest it won't get into the official kernel. They only really difference between SCSL and GPL in this instance is that with the GPL you can go your own way and distribute it anyway.
I could have posted this as AC but I decided it would hold more weight if MY opions (not Sun's legal department) came from me not another AC posting.
I don't even think your are 100% about the very well know names such as McDonalds.
In the UK we have a chain of greetings card shops called McDonalds it is even written in Yellow and Red (same colours as the burger joint).
I've heard stories that McDonalds (the burger people) have tried to sue numerous people in the UK for use of their name and lost every single time, why ? It is the one the most common Scottish names for goodness sake and people are allowed to use their family name as the trading name for their buisness.
Also remember the case recently (I think it was posted to/.) that Microsoft was trying to sue a UK supermarket chain (Asda I think) for selling ladies undergarments using the brand name Microsoft; the court ruling was that there was no way computer software and ladies underwear could be confused.
Don't know about the rest of the world but in europe we have a system called RDS.
This enables me to drive from London to Glasgow and stay listening to the same national radio station without interuption regardless of the fact that it changes frequency 5 or 6 times during the 400mile journey.
RDS does huge number of other things.
Digital broadcast radio is also due online in the UK in the next few years.
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Unfortunatly, the RIAA labels make musicians selll them the copyright outright. I think the only way that traditional music distribution could be fair to artists would be to make it illegal to transfer a copyright away from the original owner
/.
There is some similarity here between the RIAA labels and the FSF. The FSF recommends that the copyright is transfered to them - both have the same motivation to protect the work from being illegaly copied.
So why are the RIAA labels any more evil than the FSF in respect to copyright ?
Please keep the replies to copyright only not about making money or anything else the RIAA or FSF do because copyright is what is the topic of the court case and thus this thread on
> 'd pay a small amount for each mp3 I downloaded. I'm just waiting for an efficiant way to do it.
http://www.intertrust.com/ has the technology in development to do this sort of thing, through Digital Rights Managment.
The SPARC chip has the concept of eXecute bit for pages.
/etc/system file with the nonexec_user_stack=1.
In the SPARCv7/v8 ABI the eXecute bit must be set by default to be ABI compliant but Solaris from 2.6 onwards provides the facility to turn off the eXecute pages on the stack by updating the
The SPARCv9 (64Bit) ABI has the eXecute bit for stack pages off by default.
However having said all that, it is still possible to exploit buffer overflows but it does provide a basic level of protection.
> I open dozens of data attachments from people I've never heard of (.doc attachments etc).
.exe files if you are doing this on windows because .doc files can contain executable content in the form of a macro virus.
I hate to sound condicending but in that case you are no better off than those who run
NFS can run entierly over UDP or TCP and that is a CHOICE that is made at mount time - either automagically (as Solaris can do - not sure about others) or manually by the person typing the mount command.
NFS never uses a combination of UDP and TCP for a particular mounted filesystem. It is possible to have multiple filesystems some being accessed over UDP and some over TCP but not using both protocols for the same mount point.
Why do you need this in cc whats wrong with using lint:
braveheart.UK$ cc -Xc notused.c -o notused
braveheart.UK$ lint notused.c
argument unused in function
(3) argc in main
(3) argv in main
set but not used in function
(5) foo in main
braveheart.UK$ cat notused.c
#include
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int foo = 1;
return 0;
}
Y2k Information for Global 2000 They mention that they first introduced windowing in Global System Manger 7.0. If my memory servs me correctly System Manger 7.0 was released about 1990.
;-)
Looking at this page brought back lots of memories of my first support job
According to Belkin what you need is part number:
49-54-81 which is the Sun Adaptor kit.
hash v pound
:-)
First of I'm Scottish so I say hash for # as in #brown and pound is either lb or £ depending on context, though for some people I'll pronounce £ as pound(s) sterling (usually the Merkins).
I beleive it is because the # symbol is simlar to the symbol used to represent the imperial measurement of mass called the pound, in the UK we tend to use `lb` (but not for much longer as it is no longer legal to sell produce using imperial measurements (only about a month ago I think)) but I have seen a symbol very like # used (particularly on large bags of flour) in old pictures or "period" films (UK and US).
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.....
Regardless,
pound include just doesn't have the same same ring to it as hash include
Someone did... /bin/tsh is the Trusted shell used in Trusted Solaris 1.2 for executing privelged programs from the trusted path then using the Admin or ISSO roles.
;-)
What about the way you say zsh
I say Zed Shell. I've heared others say ZEE Shell because it is a parody on csh when saying the letter Z the American way (ie ZEE rather than ZED).
The pronunciation of vi is easy there is only one way, you say both of the letters as you would pronounce them as standalone letters in standard English. Why ? It is an abbreviation of Visual Interface, which is all vi actually is ex does the real work ;-)
If the article I was reading recently is correct there might not even have been a single person going by the name of "Christopher Columbus", can't remember where it was though (Hmnn, might even have been an offtopic in a /. thread). At least you were actuate is saying land rather than most people who say "discover" ;-)
Nope since that phrase has been around for YEARS at least as far back as version Netscape 1.1N (20-Apr-95), which is the oldest I can lay my hands on at the moment. The word Mozilla appears 20 times in the binary as text (strings -a netscape | grep -i mozilla | wc -l)
/. page a bit screwy.
;-)
For the record the same binary still runs on my Solaris 8 Beta system, although it gets today's
Back then the "View Page Source" was MUCH better than it is now - it was a proper motif text widget that you could Search in! Well thats progress for you
As a Scot I think I'm can call it a telly if I want to, after all the Television/TV/telly as invented by a Scot. You'll hae us a' callin everyhing by your 'merkin names at this rate.
;-)
BTW TV is as much "slang" as telly is the correct word is Television - but that's a bit long for most people to say all of the time
Hopefully the US can make a better job of introducing broadcast Digital TV than was done in the UK. OnDigital is the broadcast provider here in the UK and I must say the service is terrible and as for their customer service well its bad when their people raise their voices at the customer when you are complaining that they cut of your service because they didn't do the Direct Debit setup correctly and my Bank (HSBC) correctly rejected the transfers on security grounds.
The first time I saw windowing used as a Y2k
solution was in 1988 in the Global 2000 (BOS)
Operating System. The system admin got to choose
the century start date at install time or later
via the system admin menus.
If you use GPL then you have just given away that right because anyone else can fork from
your code tree and go their own way.
I've strongly recommened anyone releasing code for the world to see NOT to use ANY of the current BSD, GPL, Artistic what ever licenses. Just write down what YOUR personal wishes are for that code and anything based on it. It is just as legally binding and if it doesn't suit you later then you only have yourself to blame.
That way it ensures that it is the morals and ethics of the person who wrote the code that are used not those of someone else who happend to make their personal morals into a widley known license.
--
Darren J Moffat
There are a number of licenses people can choose to distribute their code under when the day comes that they think the rest of the world might be in someway interested in what they have done.
If they choose the BSD license IMHO what they are saying is I don't care what you do with it just recognise that I did it first; if you have more time than me to work on this and make money then go for it, if you think your work is ground breaking enough that others can learn from your source then let them see it. On the other hand if you thing for some reason you don't want others to see your code then that also is your choice.
If you go the GPL way, my take on this is you don't care what happens to your work except that anything that is ever based on it is also published. IMHO this is selfish you are imposing your personal values on everyone who ever thought you did some good work and wanted to extended your orignal good work for the benifit of others.
So what has all this got to do with Sun's Community Source License ? SCSL is just another license it is a compromise between the BSD, GPL and the needs of the SUNW stock holders.
GPL has problems too, the major one IMHO is that most people who shout about it don't understand what it really means. The way many GPL activists behave really discusts me, I'm not talking about RMS or people like that - I'm talking about the newbies out there who think they have a right to do what they like to everyone elses code, but have neither the skill or the intention of actually doing anything with it.
I've released code under GPL in the past and now I wish I hadn't - lucky it wasn't anything I care about much. I don't like the license as much as many of its supporters don't like the SCSL.
At the end of the day this is all about choice, make your choice based on your personal values about how you want others to treat work you personally have done, not what rights you believe you have to others work.
--
Darren J Moffat
This is my opinion and does not constitute official and offical statment from Sun Microsystems Inc.
This text or any portion of it may not be used outside of the slashdot.org forum if my name is attributed to it directly or indirectly (eg An Anyomous Sun source said...). The above text is to be protected under Scottish law.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I like Linux and what it has done for the Computing community as a whole. In the past I, and many other Sun engineers, have been contributers to the Linux community.
I work for Sun and they pay my living and if the company I work for decides to give the general public access to our crown jewels then that is our buisness - we didn't have to do it.
If you don't like ours or anyone elses license terms then don't buy or use the product, thats your choice just like it is the owner of the codes choice to decide how/if/when they distribute it to anyone else.
Would all the people who are complaining that the Community Source license isn't your favorite GPL virus be happy if all of the commerical companies who have decided to let you see their source turned around now and said "you all moaned too much sorry we have all changed our mind you aren't getting to see anything" ? Huh ? Well I think that the majority of you won't even notice the slightest difference because you had no intention what so ever of doing anything with the code. How many of you who moan about this stuff actually understand the full implications of the Sun Community Source License (SCSL) or GPL ?
The Linux source might be GPL but at the end of the day if Linus or his advisors don't like the changes you suggest it won't get into the official kernel. They only really difference between SCSL and GPL in this instance is that with the GPL you can go your own way and distribute it anyway.
I could have posted this as AC but I decided it would hold more weight if MY opions (not Sun's legal department) came from me not another AC posting.
I don't even think your are 100% about the very well know names such as McDonalds.
/.) that Microsoft was trying to sue a UK supermarket chain (Asda I think) for selling ladies undergarments using the brand name Microsoft; the court ruling was that there was no way computer software and ladies underwear could be confused.
In the UK we have a chain of greetings card shops called McDonalds it is even written in Yellow and Red (same colours as the burger joint).
I've heard stories that McDonalds (the burger people) have tried to sue numerous people in the UK for use of their name and lost every single time, why ? It is the one the most common Scottish names for goodness sake and people are allowed to use their family name as the trading name for their buisness.
Also remember the case recently (I think it was posted to
So how are they going to inforced the non web
interface to get the user to confirm before
getting the query results back ?
They are not in control of ever whois binary
out there and not even incontrol of most of
the source versions ethier.
So surely an easy get out for anyone is that the
client they used didn't ofer then the chance to
agree or disagree
Don't know about the rest of the world but
in europe we have a system called RDS.
This enables me to drive from London to
Glasgow and stay listening to the same national
radio station without interuption regardless
of the fact that it changes frequency 5 or 6
times during the 400mile journey.
RDS does huge number of other things.
Digital broadcast radio is also due online in
the UK in the next few years.