Linus has often stated that he didn't want to join one of the various Linux distro vendors in order not to endores one of the distro's over another. Which is laudable IMAO. However, the fact that hardware design studio Transmeta apparantly is diversifying into a Linux distro vendor makes me wonder how Linux will be able to maintain his position being perceived as that of a distro-agnostic architect of Linux.
I am definitely no expert in US copyright law, but have a fair knowledg of continental European copyright law. Thanks to the Berne convention these copyright laws aren't that much different all over the world. And according to copyright law, it governs the so-called corpus mysticum, which in modern English are the bits of information themselves.
This is exactly why copyright law cannot prevent you from selling a book you have bought legally, but can prevent you from copying the book. It protects the ownership of the information, not the representation. The representation is a physical object, which is subject to property law, not copyright law.
So if I buy a book, make a hundred copies of it for my own use, burn the original, I am still perfectly entitled to the ownership of the hundred copies. As soon as I am lending out one of these copies to a friend and keep reading on of the other copies, I will be in violation of copyright law. We are already paying for the information and its distribution costs. The representation are part of those distribution costs. Not to mention the hefty profits made by those who specialise in information distribution. It is inherent to copyright law that information isn't free and will only be free if the author sets it free. If you want information to be free from its creation, you have to abolish copyright law.
The GPL is a clever hack of copyright law, turning its purpose of enabling copyright owners to restrict the free flow information into a restriction to the extent you can restrict the free flow of information.
You don't understand it correctly. 30 Gs is enough to make a human body look like it has been through an industrial meat-grinder. Jet fighter pilots are not capable to stand more than 9 Gs in steep turns and these guys and girls are specially trained and selected. Stubbing your toe against a table leg is more in the order of 1 G or even less.
First of all I think the SSH guy is right. With regard to the idea of trademarking a command name the answer is pretty simple: it won't live long. The idea behind a trade mark is pretty straightforward: it enables the consumer (you, in other words) to to figure out the origins of a certain product. In order to achieve this goal the trademark name has to be distinguishable from other names, whether they are trademarked or not. As soon as a certain trademark becomes a description of a certain product, like aspirin for pain killers, it becomes diluted and will no longer be protected by trademark law. That is why Rolls Royce sued Fender for calling their guitars the Rolls Royces among guitars. Trademarking a command name would be pretty pointless, since using the command as a verb would soon dilute the trademark. On top of that, the average command name is too descriptive to be protected by trade mark law at all. To get back to the SSH bloke: I think he is perfectly right in asking the OpenSSH guys to change their project's name. It is apparently confusing to consumers and therefore trademark infringement.
This would be perfectly good reasoning weren't it for the fact that cross-pollination between industrial hemp and marijuana would effectively kill the THC content of your marijuana, so you will get perfectly concealed but totally useless weed grown in your industrial hemp field. Which is exactly my problem with genetically altered crops, how do you prevent cross pollination? It happens all the time in nature, why wouldn't a herbicide resistance gene cross pollinate into the weeds you are trying to get rid of in the first place?
I am sorry to spoil your party, but 1024x768 isn't quite way above the limit the eye can discern. Unless you are seriously visually handicapped, 1024x768 comes nowhere near, say decent 1200 dpi prints.
I think Starship Troopers was an excellent adaptation of the novel for the big screen. It is no small feat to adapt such a novel to an action film while managing to retain the same atmosphere as the original. It is no point complaining about the lack of depth in which Heinlein's political depiction of a possible future society is treated, that kind of subject simply isn't very suited for a Hollywood production.
I remember this being mentioned on Slashdot in one of its early incarnations. Must have been autumn 1997 or something. Perhaps articles weren't archived back then. I am quite confident it must have been 1997, I have been using an artists impression of that 747 as a wallpaper for a while in that period.
Actually, as soon as someone writes a Berlin version of GDK, you will get a Berlin GTK+. GTK+ is not a competitor to Berlin, but it could complement it. Berlin would benefit big time from the capabality to run all those GTK+ applications. If you really think Berlin is so cool, write a GDK implementation for it and the masses will follow.
You would be perfectly right, weren't it for the fact that the DNA of these plants are being patented by Western corporations, who in turn try to enforce their patents in the Thirld World. And now you have taken away their plants.
Your logic is slightly flawed. You can be using freely available genetic material without even being able to spell your own name properly. It is called farming. You are suggesting that farmers in the Third World didn't farm indigeneous rice races before the generous Western seed producers dropped by to supply them the genetically modified rice races with exactly those traits only those indigeneous races posessed previously. What do you think those people ate before? Hot air or something?
On the contrary. This might help stripping down the Linux kernel to its very bare bones and having all services in user space, communicating with the kernel and each other through CORBA. Having Orbit in the kernel still wouldn't make such a kernel as a microkernel, I suppose. Think of all those heated discussions about formalising internal kernel API's. Having CORBA at your disposal might solve this as well.
One of the problems at Hotmail is that quite a few spammers just generate loads of addresses at Hotmail and just CC: them in order to bypass the BCC: filtering Hotmail applies. If you receive spam with a load of e-mail addresses CC'ed which are quite similar to yours, Hotmail probably isn't to blame at all. Otherwise, they might be involved indeed.
Either way you look at it, it is a laudable effort to convert more Windows users. As a happy Gnome user I think the 70% marketshare among Linux desktop users is a bit of a bold claim, but nonetheless I think the KDE project is a laudable effort. And it is definitely true that there is much more to be gained by converting Windows users than by competing for a relative minority. Not that this competition hasn't been fruitful after all, it is to be doubted that either Gnome or KDE would have gotten this far without this competition. It is good to have a bit of choice.
No, it is very American. It allows him to provide more bang for the clients buck. Or to charge more per hour because he can prove to get the job done much quicker. Either way, it is a competetive advantage.
DRI is great. I finally got Q3A up and running on my P200 with a Voodoo3. Somehow I get the impression that XFree 4.0.1 on 2.4test10 is less memory hungry and more responsive than on 2.2.15
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You are correct as far as Dutch is concerned, however, 'von' in a German name usually indicates noble ancestry.
Linus has often stated that he didn't want to join one of the various Linux distro vendors in order not to endores one of the distro's over another. Which is laudable IMAO. However, the fact that hardware design studio Transmeta apparantly is diversifying into a Linux distro vendor makes me wonder how Linux will be able to maintain his position being perceived as that of a distro-agnostic architect of Linux.
I am definitely no expert in US copyright law, but have a fair knowledg of continental European copyright law. Thanks to the Berne convention these copyright laws aren't that much different all over the world. And according to copyright law, it governs the so-called corpus mysticum, which in modern English are the bits of information themselves.
This is exactly why copyright law cannot prevent you from selling a book you have bought legally, but can prevent you from copying the book. It protects the ownership of the information, not the representation. The representation is a physical object, which is subject to property law, not copyright law.
So if I buy a book, make a hundred copies of it for my own use, burn the original, I am still perfectly entitled to the ownership of the hundred copies. As soon as I am lending out one of these copies to a friend and keep reading on of the other copies, I will be in violation of copyright law. We are already paying for the information and its distribution costs. The representation are part of those distribution costs. Not to mention the hefty profits made by those who specialise in information distribution. It is inherent to copyright law that information isn't free and will only be free if the author sets it free. If you want information to be free from its creation, you have to abolish copyright law.
The GPL is a clever hack of copyright law, turning its purpose of enabling copyright owners to restrict the free flow information into a restriction to the extent you can restrict the free flow of information.
Can someone pleas mod the parent of this comment up?
You don't understand it correctly. 30 Gs is enough to make a human body look like it has been through an industrial meat-grinder. Jet fighter pilots are not capable to stand more than 9 Gs in steep turns and these guys and girls are specially trained and selected. Stubbing your toe against a table leg is more in the order of 1 G or even less.
First of all I think the SSH guy is right. With regard to the idea of trademarking a command name the answer is pretty simple: it won't live long. The idea behind a trade mark is pretty straightforward: it enables the consumer (you, in other words) to to figure out the origins of a certain product. In order to achieve this goal the trademark name has to be distinguishable from other names, whether they are trademarked or not. As soon as a certain trademark becomes a description of a certain product, like aspirin for pain killers, it becomes diluted and will no longer be protected by trademark law. That is why Rolls Royce sued Fender for calling their guitars the Rolls Royces among guitars. Trademarking a command name would be pretty pointless, since using the command as a verb would soon dilute the trademark. On top of that, the average command name is too descriptive to be protected by trade mark law at all. To get back to the SSH bloke: I think he is perfectly right in asking the OpenSSH guys to change their project's name. It is apparently confusing to consumers and therefore trademark infringement.
This would be perfectly good reasoning weren't it for the fact that cross-pollination between industrial hemp and marijuana would effectively kill the THC content of your marijuana, so you will get perfectly concealed but totally useless weed grown in your industrial hemp field. Which is exactly my problem with genetically altered crops, how do you prevent cross pollination? It happens all the time in nature, why wouldn't a herbicide resistance gene cross pollinate into the weeds you are trying to get rid of in the first place?
Well, never done coke myself, but before doing pot I went straight for amfetamines, which you aren't supposed to do before weed either.
I am sorry to spoil your party, but 1024x768 isn't quite way above the limit the eye can discern. Unless you are seriously visually handicapped, 1024x768 comes nowhere near, say decent 1200 dpi prints.
Perhaps this famous fish might help to clear things a bit up? The French they are using isn't terribly complex anyway.
I think Starship Troopers was an excellent adaptation of the novel for the big screen. It is no small feat to adapt such a novel to an action film while managing to retain the same atmosphere as the original. It is no point complaining about the lack of depth in which Heinlein's political depiction of a possible future society is treated, that kind of subject simply isn't very suited for a Hollywood production.
I remember this being mentioned on Slashdot in one of its early incarnations. Must have been autumn 1997 or something. Perhaps articles weren't archived back then. I am quite confident it must have been 1997, I have been using an artists impression of that 747 as a wallpaper for a while in that period.
What makes you think that one is abandoned?
Actually, as soon as someone writes a Berlin version of GDK, you will get a Berlin GTK+. GTK+ is not a competitor to Berlin, but it could complement it. Berlin would benefit big time from the capabality to run all those GTK+ applications. If you really think Berlin is so cool, write a GDK implementation for it and the masses will follow.
Linux didn't start out with two million lines of code either. It was more like, 200 000, perhaps even less.
Oh, the fond memories of FTP'ing a complete SLS distro on 25 floppy's.
You would be perfectly right, weren't it for the fact that the DNA of these plants are being patented by Western corporations, who in turn try to enforce their patents in the Thirld World. And now you have taken away their plants.
Your logic is slightly flawed. You can be using freely available genetic material without even being able to spell your own name properly. It is called farming. You are suggesting that farmers in the Third World didn't farm indigeneous rice races before the generous Western seed producers dropped by to supply them the genetically modified rice races with exactly those traits only those indigeneous races posessed previously. What do you think those people ate before? Hot air or something?
On the contrary. This might help stripping down the Linux kernel to its very bare bones and having all services in user space, communicating with the kernel and each other through CORBA. Having Orbit in the kernel still wouldn't make such a kernel as a microkernel, I suppose. Think of all those heated discussions about formalising internal kernel API's. Having CORBA at your disposal might solve this as well.
Why not bring this to Dick Smith Electronics and get them to sue the filtering company into oblivion?
One of the problems at Hotmail is that quite a few spammers just generate loads of addresses at Hotmail and just CC: them in order to bypass the BCC: filtering Hotmail applies. If you receive spam with a load of e-mail addresses CC'ed which are quite similar to yours, Hotmail probably isn't to blame at all. Otherwise, they might be involved indeed.
Either way you look at it, it is a laudable effort to convert more Windows users. As a happy Gnome user I think the 70% marketshare among Linux desktop users is a bit of a bold claim, but nonetheless I think the KDE project is a laudable effort. And it is definitely true that there is much more to be gained by converting Windows users than by competing for a relative minority. Not that this competition hasn't been fruitful after all, it is to be doubted that either Gnome or KDE would have gotten this far without this competition. It is good to have a bit of choice.
You might take a look at Kernel Cousin Hurd, a weekly overview of Hurd developments. It is hosted on www.linuxcare.com.
No, it is very American. It allows him to provide more bang for the clients buck. Or to charge more per hour because he can prove to get the job done much quicker. Either way, it is a competetive advantage.
DRI is great. I finally got Q3A up and running on my P200 with a Voodoo3. Somehow I get the impression that XFree 4.0.1 on 2.4test10 is less memory hungry and more responsive than on 2.2.15
That happens to me quite often as well. But only in Netscape. IE and Mozilla don't suffer at all from this problem.