it's not his choice now. Not all the code is his. All the contributors have also used GPLv2
If Linus had the choice, maybe he would go X11 or Apache or BSD...
but thanks to Stallman being there, we got GPLv2. Because Stallman cared about freedom, we get the updates from all the other kernel contributors making the whole kernel cool, instead of each proprietary release cool in a special fiscally licensable way.
That's the point. Linus chose GPLv2 almost by accident without deep consideration - hence thanks to Stallman. Linus has indicated (according to the gossip chains) that he might not have chosen GPL if he were choosing today.
Thus RMS putting GPLv2 into Linus hands gave us a system around which freedom zealots can assemble. (As we don't have hurd). BSD doesn't attract zealots and so makes less progress.
When things go bad HE gets a job somewhere else; he's already had the bonuses for saving on the wages bill - which is a good CV achievement, then he goes off to do the same for another company.
If they can't GIVE the jobs away they should try paying people to take the jobs. It may go against the company culture and the share-holders may not like it, but it's the sort of regime that most employees have come to expect and they'd be more likely to get staff! (ho ho)
If someone induces government ministers or departments to download your own personally created copyrighted content, you then each and collectively sue the government and it's departments to oblivion.
Sure, illegal interception of the intergalactic parcel post is a nice entry to the rest of the universe!
Wait till the Zargons come around looking for their bundle of palladium and naquadah, and we've not even made parole since last time (whatever it was we did to the sphinx or something).
Sure, illegal interception of the intergalactic parcel post is a nice entry to the rest of the universe!
Wait till the Zargons come around looking for their bundle of palladium and naquadah, and we've not even made parole since last time (whatever it was we did to the sphinx or something).
To be clear, these "drastic cuts" in deprived areas are not optional.
No-one has any money, least of all the people in the area.
Spending money you don't have and will have to pay back has made the cuts more extreme than they might have needed to be.
Some of the poor are poor because they waste what they have - like a bunch of hooligans did this time. On the other side sometimes the rich aren't rich, they just borrow high.
Riots don't bring money out of no where to make someone with no money pay for what you can't pay for yourself.
This is true, but if europe wanted to or could accept or agree to be run better then it already would be being run better without the germans doing the running. or perhaps they would have got the germans in to run it, who knows...
Because of the typical german temperament, the running of germany suits the germans.
Because of the typical spanish temperament, the running of spain suits the spanish. If it didn't they would change it.
The single currency is a german experiment, no-one else has an inherent desire for it, only a partial inclination as they are sold the benefits by the german financial controllers.
The rest of europe knows that german government has not given up on the idea of german control of europe, but since they lost the war they have to resort to other means.
It's still not working. Jaw jaw jaw is better than war war war but europeans don't actually want to be that unified.
I've no beef against germans or germany - if they want to unify europe, they are going the right way about it this time, but it won't work I think - but they are allowed to try, and good luck with the idea - but I don't support it, never did, and it isn't working.
Yes, they might actually own that code but not for the reasons you state.
This sort of clause is to prevent employees from doing a poor job at work and then rushing off home to do the "proper job" and then setting up in competition.
The employer pays a salary rather than weekly wages and expects to have the creative output of it's employees.
The employer is not subsidising R&D and training of it's employees future inventions.
My contract has such a clause but is limited to software that relates to the companies business. So I can write a tic-tac-toe solver at home and keep rights to it.
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it's not his choice now. Not all the code is his. All the contributors have also used GPLv2
If Linus had the choice, maybe he would go X11 or Apache or BSD...
but thanks to Stallman being there, we got GPLv2. Because Stallman cared about freedom, we get the updates from all the other kernel contributors making the whole kernel cool, instead of each proprietary release cool in a special fiscally licensable way.
That's the point. Linus chose GPLv2 almost by accident without deep consideration - hence thanks to Stallman. Linus has indicated (according to the gossip chains) that he might not have chosen GPL if he were choosing today.
Thus RMS putting GPLv2 into Linus hands gave us a system around which freedom zealots can assemble. (As we don't have hurd). BSD doesn't attract zealots and so makes less progress.
I like your .sig --- literally true when t is time
The US market produces a superiour health system doesn't it?
Or maybe it's what you get with a health-care system that's more about money than health...
Does this mean that health-care is a euphemism like health-and-safety?
you don't actually say what your current router is...
I remember the first WAP browsers that could use (special) SMS as a transport.
Google is not simply using that energy, that energy is being used by google users all over the world.
Those same users are also using energy locally to connect to the internet.
When someone says "I can't give it away" the next step is to pay people to take it.
The joke is that this is the first stage with jobs, and that there is actually not such a thing as to GIVE a job away/
You missed the point.
When things go bad HE gets a job somewhere else; he's already had the bonuses for saving on the wages bill - which is a good CV achievement, then he goes off to do the same for another company.
It seems that his priority is to get paid.
If they can't GIVE the jobs away they should try paying people to take the jobs. It may go against the company culture and the share-holders may not like it, but it's the sort of regime that most employees have come to expect and they'd be more likely to get staff! (ho ho)
If someone induces government ministers or departments to download your own personally created copyrighted content, you then each and collectively sue the government and it's departments to oblivion.
Sure, illegal interception of the intergalactic parcel post is a nice entry to the rest of the universe!
Wait till the Zargons come around looking for their bundle of palladium and naquadah, and we've not even made parole since last time (whatever it was we did to the sphinx or something).
how did I post to THIS story? I meant to post to the chinese stealing international asteroids story
Sure, illegal interception of the intergalactic parcel post is a nice entry to the rest of the universe!
Wait till the Zargons come around looking for their bundle of palladium and naquadah, and we've not even made parole since last time (whatever it was we did to the sphinx or something).
To be clear, these "drastic cuts" in deprived areas are not optional.
No-one has any money, least of all the people in the area.
Spending money you don't have and will have to pay back has made the cuts more extreme than they might have needed to be.
Some of the poor are poor because they waste what they have - like a bunch of hooligans did this time. On the other side sometimes the rich aren't rich, they just borrow high.
Riots don't bring money out of no where to make someone with no money pay for what you can't pay for yourself.
This is true, but if europe wanted to or could accept or agree to be run better then it already would be being run better without the germans doing the running. or perhaps they would have got the germans in to run it, who knows...
Because of the typical german temperament, the running of germany suits the germans.
Because of the typical spanish temperament, the running of spain suits the spanish. If it didn't they would change it.
The single currency is a german experiment, no-one else has an inherent desire for it, only a partial inclination as they are sold the benefits by the german financial controllers.
The rest of europe knows that german government has not given up on the idea of german control of europe, but since they lost the war they have to resort to other means.
It's still not working. Jaw jaw jaw is better than war war war but europeans don't actually want to be that unified.
I've no beef against germans or germany - if they want to unify europe, they are going the right way about it this time, but it won't work I think - but they are allowed to try, and good luck with the idea - but I don't support it, never did, and it isn't working.
it's the only kind that works.
An reason-based rationale can be gamed; any targets can be achieved at the expense of the reality those targets represent.
Of course entrail-based reasons are also subject to different influence.
> The thing is, Microsoft has actually nailed down the whole security thing quite well on the server now
That line speaks volumes and there isn't really anything you can say in MS favour after that, so I stopped reading at that point.
"nailed down" as a process of incremental security is quite vivid.
"quite well" as the limit of "nailing down" is also very expressive.
even better joke!
That was only 45 photographs.
Friends and relatives could supply more photos than that in the days before cheap digital cameras.
That was a few photographs, it took 2 minutes to view them.
Yes, they might actually own that code but not for the reasons you state.
This sort of clause is to prevent employees from doing a poor job at work and then rushing off home to do the "proper job" and then setting up in competition.
The employer pays a salary rather than weekly wages and expects to have the creative output of it's employees.
The employer is not subsidising R&D and training of it's employees future inventions.
My contract has such a clause but is limited to software that relates to the companies business. So I can write a tic-tac-toe solver at home and keep rights to it.
When you use the word sheeple you start the us/them falacy which made wolves out of the previous users of the word.
As I see it Murdoch's gang are being punished by the sort of lawless society that they supported by their behaviour.
It's not "right" but we don't feel like directing quite so many resources quite to quickly to protect them as we might othewise do.
Society was clearly already brutal.
Society is brutal through having such members and is brutal in removing such members.
Seems reasonable to me.