NO NO NO!!! You're post is full of false information!
ALL OF THOSE projects you mentioned have maintainers who are DEDICATED to their projects being used by proprietary software.
Hell! Did you know taht the GPL fanatics (and creators/maintainers/enforcers) believe that it should be ILLEGAL for someone to send out a proprietary Linux kernel driver?! They are CHOMPING AT THE BIT to sue makers like Nvidia and AMD JUST FOR RELEASING drivers for that operating!!
Did you know that the only thing that keeps them at bay is Linus Torvalds, who adamantly refuses to allow this sort of monkey business and refuses to move the kernel to the GPLv3?!?
No. I'm **sure** Torvalds is sick of these GPL nutters and wonders, why oh why, didn't he use the usertools from the BSD folks in the first place?
Most of the fanatical GPL proponents (and isn't that nearly all who's left in 2012??) are anarcho-communists who literally believe people should code for free, just for the love of it, and think zero protection against hostile forks is a good thing.
Hell, just look at how LibreOffice destroyed OpenOffice or aMule destroyed xMule...
Someone did a story of what happened to apps whenever a GPL equivalent came out, and it was NOT good! In almost every case, the GPL projects would drive out all other open- and proprietary sourced projects, usually to extinction.
GPL is a good *PREDATORY* license. It says, basically, we can use whatever code you want to give us (that's in your liberally licensed project) but if you use any of our's, YOUR code will HAVE to be GPLed, as well, and have ZERO commercial value. WAHAHAHA.
If I don't wear headphones, the constant **INTRIGUING** political and scifi conversations of coworkers behind me who never ever seem to get any work done (standing around behind me, yakking for what seems like 5 hours every day), I never get ANY work done!! A lot of the time, I even get sucked in, go over there, and start yakking myself!
Despite the overt psychosis of the story's protagonist, this ad is marvelous!!! I honestly wish you the best and hope this ad medium will be continued in other stories for other products;-)
In 2005, with the official suspension of the Mozilla Browser project, it was expected that the 30+ Mozilla devs would, naturally, just switch development to Firefox, the new child, which at the time only had 3 core developers.
The Mozilla devs, however, upon looking at the bastardized, sloppy, memory-leak-filled Firefox pre-2.0 codebase balked. They considered the Firefox devs to be rank amateurs and there was a move to change up the org structure of Firefox. That backfired when the Moz Consortium, encouraged by Google, entrenched support against Firefox and basically shunned the old guard developers.
The old guard then decided to fork the old Mozilla browser and, against the wishes of the AOL Corp., completely diverge from Netscape towards a more lean, memory-resilient browser/email/chat program called **SeaMonkey**. It took a while, and they didn't have the hundreds of millions of dollars, or even a modicrum of the advertising money or corporate backing that Firefox has had, but their product is vastly superior where it counts to Firefox and Thunderbird and maintains binary compatibility with their plugins.
You should really check out SeaMonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ It's how Firefox outside of the Moz Corp would be, and I enjoy it substantially more. Plus, they do a GREAT job keeping up with the Gecko Engine and are virtually always on a newer, better version than Firefox. Oh, and they don't have the memory problems, either.
First, all of my anecdotal experiences differ, strongly, from your's. Chrome always seems to beat Firefox by several multiples, if not an order of magnitude.
Second, benchmarks smenchmarks... I'm much more interested in how snappy the user experience in Chrome is compared to Firefox (which feels like molasses) and how I can close every single tab and reclaim nearly 90% of the used memory.
For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
I've always gotten bad vibes from the guy, now I know why!
Not in the world of the World Trade Organization!!
By international treaty and law, all copyrights are honored worldwide. Therefore, what is copyrighted in the U.S. is also copyrighted in Europe immediately, and vice versa (and Asia, too, technically all the GATT countries, which is pretty much everybody worth conducting business with).
So, unless you want to undo almost a century of globalization, this will affect legal software worldwide, unless and until copyright laws can be amended to more sane terms.
Regardless, this has "rush to the Supreme Court" smeared all over it.
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
College is for the unmotivated or those who have to be spoonfed their information.
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NO NO NO!!! You're post is full of false information!
ALL OF THOSE projects you mentioned have maintainers who are DEDICATED to their projects being used by proprietary software.
Hell! Did you know taht the GPL fanatics (and creators/maintainers/enforcers) believe that it should be ILLEGAL for someone to send out a proprietary Linux kernel driver?! They are CHOMPING AT THE BIT to sue makers like Nvidia and AMD JUST FOR RELEASING drivers for that operating!!
Did you know that the only thing that keeps them at bay is Linus Torvalds, who adamantly refuses to allow this sort of monkey business and refuses to move the kernel to the GPLv3?!?
No. I'm **sure** Torvalds is sick of these GPL nutters and wonders, why oh why, didn't he use the usertools from the BSD folks in the first place?
That is the intent.
Most of the fanatical GPL proponents (and isn't that nearly all who's left in 2012??) are anarcho-communists who literally believe people should code for free, just for the love of it, and think zero protection against hostile forks is a good thing.
Hell, just look at how LibreOffice destroyed OpenOffice or aMule destroyed xMule...
Someone did a story of what happened to apps whenever a GPL equivalent came out, and it was NOT good! In almost every case, the GPL projects would drive out all other open- and proprietary sourced projects, usually to extinction.
GPL is a good *PREDATORY* license. It says, basically, we can use whatever code you want to give us (that's in your liberally licensed project) but if you use any of our's, YOUR code will HAVE to be GPLed, as well, and have ZERO commercial value. WAHAHAHA.
That's why evil corporations love it.
Yeah, seriously! What a nub!
If I don't wear headphones, the constant **INTRIGUING** political and scifi conversations of coworkers behind me who never ever seem to get any work done (standing around behind me, yakking for what seems like 5 hours every day), I never get ANY work done!! A lot of the time, I even get sucked in, go over there, and start yakking myself!
Despite the overt psychosis of the story's protagonist, this ad is marvelous!!! I honestly wish you the best and hope this ad medium will be continued in other stories for other products ;-)
0.77 mm/yr * 42 yr/period = 32.34 mm/period; that's 1.25 inches per quarter century or 3 inches per century.
What's the secret?
I get that 'YOu may be running a counterfeit version" popup **constantly**!!
In 2005, with the official suspension of the Mozilla Browser project, it was expected that the 30+ Mozilla devs would, naturally, just switch development to Firefox, the new child, which at the time only had 3 core developers.
The Mozilla devs, however, upon looking at the bastardized, sloppy, memory-leak-filled Firefox pre-2.0 codebase balked. They considered the Firefox devs to be rank amateurs and there was a move to change up the org structure of Firefox. That backfired when the Moz Consortium, encouraged by Google, entrenched support against Firefox and basically shunned the old guard developers.
The old guard then decided to fork the old Mozilla browser and, against the wishes of the AOL Corp., completely diverge from Netscape towards a more lean, memory-resilient browser/email/chat program called **SeaMonkey**. It took a while, and they didn't have the hundreds of millions of dollars, or even a modicrum of the advertising money or corporate backing that Firefox has had, but their product is vastly superior where it counts to Firefox and Thunderbird and maintains binary compatibility with their plugins.
You should really check out SeaMonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ It's how Firefox outside of the Moz Corp would be, and I enjoy it substantially more. Plus, they do a GREAT job keeping up with the Gecko Engine and are virtually always on a newer, better version than Firefox. Oh, and they don't have the memory problems, either.
First, all of my anecdotal experiences differ, strongly, from your's. Chrome always seems to beat Firefox by several multiples, if not an order of magnitude.
Second, benchmarks smenchmarks... I'm much more interested in how snappy the user experience in Chrome is compared to Firefox (which feels like molasses) and how I can close every single tab and reclaim nearly 90% of the used memory.
You should try Comodo Dragon or Srware Iron. Both have 0 privacy problems and are direct forks of Chromium.
Too poor for even 5 year-old technology?
The world moved on.
A sad solution to a truly depressing state of affairs!
Quoting from that same blog comment:
For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
I've always gotten bad vibes from the guy, now I know why!
Thus why you should vote Constitutional Party -> Libertarian -> Independent -> Republican -> Abstain in that order for every politician.
I think you have that graph exactly backwards. The GBP is doing substantially worse than the Euro.
That's from the Pulp Fiction basement meme... ;-/
Isn't that the gang that goes up against the Bloods?
Saying that word in LA is likely to get you shot.
Not in the world of the World Trade Organization!!
By international treaty and law, all copyrights are honored worldwide. Therefore, what is copyrighted in the U.S. is also copyrighted in Europe immediately, and vice versa (and Asia, too, technically all the GATT countries, which is pretty much everybody worth conducting business with).
So, unless you want to undo almost a century of globalization, this will affect legal software worldwide, unless and until copyright laws can be amended to more sane terms.
Regardless, this has "rush to the Supreme Court" smeared all over it.
They had to use a free web template! You know! The Budget!
That page looks like your average amateur free template page, to be honest.
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
College is for the unmotivated or those who have to be spoonfed their information.
Any foreigner can obtain a U.S. trademark, copyright, and/or patent.
That's why you put all your assets in what's called a perpetual Family Trust.
Those are tax free (seriously!).
Costs all of about $1,000 (including attorney fees!) to set up, too.
That's how it works now, man~!
They do this anyway, all the time.