" It's a community driven software project like the Linux Kernel (although different licensing of course.) Anyway time will tell."
not exactly. whereas for linux, you can send in patches to the kernel, you can't do so with bsd. *bsd is maintained by a group of people and not the community.
Press Release
AOL withdraws its $1.5 million buy
SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2001 - The DALnet IRC Network (http://www.dal.net), a leader in Internet Chat, announces that those who believed the previous press release have just been had.
It's my pleasure to thank all those who were involved in todays April 1st joke, we certainly had a large number of people going. I'd like to thank taz for letting this go through, altering jade.* and services.*. frink for his servers and the short lived dalnet.*, as well as countless other opers and helpers making it be believable. Special thanks goes out to maloy, Gotharial, taz, Melech, Wuher and Psionic for support and ideas.
Let me make this perfectly clear. America Online has not bought DALnet, never had any intent to, nor have any secret discussions been going on. This was simply an April Fool's joke. It would be appreciated if all the joke AOL things that have been created, could be cleared up quickly to avoid confusion.
Thank you,
Peter/Doc_Z.
why is this even news? gnome has been the the freebsd portlist for a while now. how many freebsd users do you know that would rather download something and do it by hand rather than use the port collection. btw, gnome compiles on freebsd fine. it's not a matter of worry if it's gonna compile, because it will. btw, to all you trolls, this has nothing to do with "bsd dying", as you so bluntly put it. this isn't even a linux vs. bsd war. this is a kde vs. gnome war. maybe all you linux users just wanna take jabs at a faster, more stable OS. you don't realize that most of us freebsd users could care less about what list we are on for being supported. check www.freshports.org if you would like to see what the freebsd community ports to itself without having to wait for lil announcements like this one.
"For ASCAP/BMI/(I forget the third), the important copyright is the sheet music and lyrics. " SESAC is the third one. it's an invite-only organization. ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Just about anyone can join this. BMI = Broadcast Music Incorporated. One of the main differences in these are the way they track radio playback. BMI trusts the radio stations playlists. ASCAP uses a technology (i forgot what it's called) to sample radio from certain reporting stations. They figure out what songs are playing in what rotation. This is one way artists are paid royalties. i forgot what method SESAC uses.
this reminds me of watchin that movie SLC punk. bunch of young punks hated the liquor laws so they just drove to wyoming to get all their beer and liquor.
"but because the value of America's educational system is being degraded day after day. "
because america's schools suck. i live in alabama and our schools already suck bad enough.... but now the gov't has decided to slam us into proration cuz they need to cut from somewhere. so they just decide to cut from us. the court decision is tomorrow... we could possible get slammed with an 18.6% cut in education funding... but none of it will come from the high schools. it will come from the colleges. well guess what. i'm in college. so we'll be royally fukt. ppl deserve the right to be able to dis the schools. most of em deserve it.
Thanks for the EXTREMELY old post. I remember reading this exact same crap when they did the Theo interview. Hello, *BSD is NOT dying. Linux MAY be growing, but I am happy with what I have now. Even if for some stupid reason it was no longer developed, everything I need works. Linux has just begun to focus on the desktop while *BSD still focuses on the server. Quit gettin your hopes up about *BSD dying. All u are tryin to do is start a flame war.
skateboards are dangerous? since when? Ben must be some old fogey workin for the pig dept. And skateboarding is not a bad influence. Those dam lil scooters have caused a good many broken bones already and they haven't been around long.
I'm currently a college student workin at good ole wally world. *kills the sarcasm* I remember when I started, I had to sign an agreement not to tell the "secrets" of the store under any circumstances. Well I guess I just broke that agreement. =) I can see where they can stop me from telling their "trade secrets" or something like that. But if I go out and tell the truth about anything that has happened, they have no right to stop me. This is exactly like the situation in the early 1900s with Upton Sinclare. For those of you who don't know, he wrote a book called The Jungle in which he exposed things that really go on behind the scenes in meat-packing plants. His book made a complete revolution and brought about inspections by the USDA. Your goal should be to inform and not to commit slander or libel, which are illegal. If you signed no obligation, I don't see how they can stop you from saying anything. If they do try something, just inform your current employer of the situation. anyway, enough of my ramblings.
the RIAA (note the 2 A's) is just doing their job. They protect against piracy, bootlegging, and counterfeiting. This is the same sort of issue that people faced when warez came about. The people weren't selling the software (or in this case mp3s). They were just giving it away. Software piracy was deemed illegal. Are there still warez? yes. People somewhat try to enforce the copyright laws on software, but I doubt you would get arrested for downloading 1 program. Sure they can check. But it's not often that you see huge companies go after some lil 13 year old punk for downloading a $20 copy of a game. The same will probably be true with mp3s. No one is gonna kill you for having however many mp3s. I just wouldn't make copies and sell em on cds if I were you. =) That will count as piracy. If you went all the way with it and made actual cds and lil booklets it would be counterfeiting. TresStatus www.bsdpunk.com... We're the dot in dot dot dot...
What seems to be yer problem bub? OpenSSH and OpenSSL are under a BSD license. There is no GPL involved. Maybe you should investigate the code you wanna use before you put yourself through too much trouble doin somethin unrelated....like researchin GPL.
You people seriously need to learn how to reply. Don't reply to a comment. Reply to the article. When I read this, there were like a million replies to a comment. I dunno if you meant to do it that way or not.
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... finally someone else on this with a brain. and yes kde and gnome are both ugly and slow. my previous post says basically the same thing as this. and the problem with all u kde/gnome fanatics, is that u really can't see anything besides kde/gnome. "oh no they took my task bar"... "where are my icons"... why do i get a menu when i click on the desktop"...enlightenment is by far one of the best looking window managers i've ever seen. oh and someone said "kde is not a window manager".. hello... kwm is the default on it. that's the one they expect you to use. qt is slow as hell anyway. and they still aren't innovative. they still suck and are extremely slow.
I get sick of seein all you people say kde is "innovative". Come to think of it... IT'S NOT. KDE is nothin more than a ripoff of a win95 gui. if you want something innovative, try enlightenment or blackbox. if you want somethin that looks like windows, use gnome or kde. lets remember that there are a hell of a lot more than 2 window managers out there. the two most popular ones aren't necessarily the best ones. maybe some of you should head over to freshmeat.net and search for window managers. i don't know about you, but i really wouldn't be caught dead using a beefed up, ripoff of a microsoft gui.
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" It's a community driven software project like the Linux Kernel (although different licensing of course.) Anyway time will tell." not exactly. whereas for linux, you can send in patches to the kernel, you can't do so with bsd. *bsd is maintained by a group of people and not the community.
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Press Release AOL withdraws its $1.5 million buy SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2001 - The DALnet IRC Network (http://www.dal.net), a leader in Internet Chat, announces that those who believed the previous press release have just been had. It's my pleasure to thank all those who were involved in todays April 1st joke, we certainly had a large number of people going. I'd like to thank taz for letting this go through, altering jade.* and services.*. frink for his servers and the short lived dalnet.*, as well as countless other opers and helpers making it be believable. Special thanks goes out to maloy, Gotharial, taz, Melech, Wuher and Psionic for support and ideas. Let me make this perfectly clear. America Online has not bought DALnet, never had any intent to, nor have any secret discussions been going on. This was simply an April Fool's joke. It would be appreciated if all the joke AOL things that have been created, could be cleared up quickly to avoid confusion. Thank you, Peter/Doc_Z.
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why is this even news? gnome has been the the freebsd portlist for a while now. how many freebsd users do you know that would rather download something and do it by hand rather than use the port collection. btw, gnome compiles on freebsd fine. it's not a matter of worry if it's gonna compile, because it will. btw, to all you trolls, this has nothing to do with "bsd dying", as you so bluntly put it. this isn't even a linux vs. bsd war. this is a kde vs. gnome war. maybe all you linux users just wanna take jabs at a faster, more stable OS. you don't realize that most of us freebsd users could care less about what list we are on for being supported. check www.freshports.org if you would like to see what the freebsd community ports to itself without having to wait for lil announcements like this one.
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"For ASCAP/BMI/(I forget the third), the important copyright is the sheet music and lyrics. " SESAC is the third one. it's an invite-only organization. ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Just about anyone can join this. BMI = Broadcast Music Incorporated. One of the main differences in these are the way they track radio playback. BMI trusts the radio stations playlists. ASCAP uses a technology (i forgot what it's called) to sample radio from certain reporting stations. They figure out what songs are playing in what rotation. This is one way artists are paid royalties. i forgot what method SESAC uses.
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chmod a+x ./spammer ; ./spammer ; echo "Now executing the spammer"
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this reminds me of watchin that movie SLC punk. bunch of young punks hated the liquor laws so they just drove to wyoming to get all their beer and liquor.
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"but because the value of America's educational system is being degraded day after day. "
because america's schools suck. i live in alabama and our schools already suck bad enough.... but now the gov't has decided to slam us into proration cuz they need to cut from somewhere. so they just decide to cut from us. the court decision is tomorrow... we could possible get slammed with an 18.6% cut in education funding... but none of it will come from the high schools. it will come from the colleges. well guess what. i'm in college. so we'll be royally fukt. ppl deserve the right to be able to dis the schools. most of em deserve it.
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Thanks for the EXTREMELY old post. I remember reading this exact same crap when they did the Theo interview. Hello, *BSD is NOT dying. Linux MAY be growing, but I am happy with what I have now. Even if for some stupid reason it was no longer developed, everything I need works. Linux has just begun to focus on the desktop while *BSD still focuses on the server. Quit gettin your hopes up about *BSD dying. All u are tryin to do is start a flame war.
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skateboards are dangerous? since when? Ben must be some old fogey workin for the pig dept. And skateboarding is not a bad influence. Those dam lil scooters have caused a good many broken bones already and they haven't been around long.
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I have a patent on breathing in oxygen. Pay me bitch.
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I'm currently a college student workin at good ole wally world. *kills the sarcasm* I remember when I started, I had to sign an agreement not to tell the "secrets" of the store under any circumstances. Well I guess I just broke that agreement. =) I can see where they can stop me from telling their "trade secrets" or something like that. But if I go out and tell the truth about anything that has happened, they have no right to stop me. This is exactly like the situation in the early 1900s with Upton Sinclare. For those of you who don't know, he wrote a book called The Jungle in which he exposed things that really go on behind the scenes in meat-packing plants. His book made a complete revolution and brought about inspections by the USDA. Your goal should be to inform and not to commit slander or libel, which are illegal. If you signed no obligation, I don't see how they can stop you from saying anything. If they do try something, just inform your current employer of the situation. anyway, enough of my ramblings.
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" technically wonderful ideas that have failed or are failing, ie. Amiga, FreeBSD and even Apple,"
stupid troll
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the RIAA (note the 2 A's) is just doing their job. They protect against piracy, bootlegging, and counterfeiting. This is the same sort of issue that people faced when warez came about. The people weren't selling the software (or in this case mp3s). They were just giving it away. Software piracy was deemed illegal. Are there still warez? yes. People somewhat try to enforce the copyright laws on software, but I doubt you would get arrested for downloading 1 program. Sure they can check. But it's not often that you see huge companies go after some lil 13 year old punk for downloading a $20 copy of a game. The same will probably be true with mp3s. No one is gonna kill you for having however many mp3s. I just wouldn't make copies and sell em on cds if I were you. =) That will count as piracy. If you went all the way with it and made actual cds and lil booklets it would be counterfeiting.
TresStatus
www.bsdpunk.com... We're the dot in dot dot dot...
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What seems to be yer problem bub? OpenSSH and OpenSSL are under a BSD license. There is no GPL involved. Maybe you should investigate the code you wanna use before you put yourself through too much trouble doin somethin unrelated....like researchin GPL.
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You people seriously need to learn how to reply. Don't reply to a comment. Reply to the article. When I read this, there were like a million replies to a comment. I dunno if you meant to do it that way or not.
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well.. you shouldn't read slashdot for software updates. you should watch www.freshmeat.net for that.
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so... u can run blackbox on anything. come to think of it.. twm and fvwm work on anything. haha
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... finally someone else on this with a brain. and yes kde and gnome are both ugly and slow. my previous post says basically the same thing as this. and the problem with all u kde/gnome fanatics, is that u really can't see anything besides kde/gnome. "oh no they took my task bar"... "where are my icons"... why do i get a menu when i click on the desktop"...enlightenment is by far one of the best looking window managers i've ever seen. oh and someone said "kde is not a window manager".. hello... kwm is the default on it. that's the one they expect you to use. qt is slow as hell anyway. and they still aren't innovative. they still suck and are extremely slow.
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I get sick of seein all you people say kde is "innovative". Come to think of it... IT'S NOT. KDE is nothin more than a ripoff of a win95 gui. if you want something innovative, try enlightenment or blackbox. if you want somethin that looks like windows, use gnome or kde. lets remember that there are a hell of a lot more than 2 window managers out there. the two most popular ones aren't necessarily the best ones. maybe some of you should head over to freshmeat.net and search for window managers. i don't know about you, but i really wouldn't be caught dead using a beefed up, ripoff of a microsoft gui.
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www.freshports.org end of story