Unlike previous releases of GFS that were available under the GNU General Public License, GFS 4.2 will be available only under the terms of the newly created Sistina Public License. This license is similar to the Aladdin Public License used for Ghostscript, a program developed by L. Peter Deutsch to interpret PostScript documents. Like Ghostscript, GFS was developed by a single entity (originally a research group at the University of Minnesota and later by Sistina Software), rather than a disparate community of free developers.
In addition, like Ghostscript, GFS is a technology that has a clear OEM market. GFS has attracted OEM vendors who are embedding the technology into their storage appliances and their commercial software offerings. Under the GPL, these commercial vendors are less likely to provide funding for GFS development and maintenance because of the free-rider problem; competitors who don't pay will directly benefit from those who do. The Sistina Public License solves the free-rider problem by creating a level playing field for all OEMs. The SPL provides Sistina with a means to attain a sustainable revenue stream to continue to develop and support GFS and other software.
Sistina is also currently certifying hardware to be supplied by a network of qualified re-sellers. For this reason, it is important that Sistina's licensing policies enforce standards for hardware certification, user support, and important customer service issues.
This is sort of like those stem cells which are free to researchers but have a fee tacked on to any profitability. Unlike the beer-free and speech-free GPL, the nonprofit only, and hence only speech-free, SPL will remove profitability incentives for developers.
Both of these aspects of freedom, in capitalism, are twined together; the right to utter information is negligible, in the mainstream world of research and development, if there is no profit incentive. Neither the programmers who develop for political reasons nor they who develop for profit reasons will touch this one.
If a company has a 10 percent chance of duplicating the success of a GPL tool with a closed source and licensed replacement product, it will try. Instead of using the free knowledge base and extending for-profit development from there, a company will pour development dollars into re-inventing the wheel.
Sistina's new GFS release is the worst of both worlds. It's open source to university geeks, but anyone who wants to spend the money and time making a product good enough for commercial release will be scared off.
It's very strange that I am moved to post by this thing.
Many of the most useful little devices started as toys. For instance the Aztec and Inca civilizations had wheels on their childrens toys but not on their wagons and carts.
This little toy, or at least the model of a cheap travelling rover based on existing tech, could lead to cheaply revolutionized communications in cities and other compact spaces, such as aircraft carriers, etc.
Using these devices as messengers would cut down on traffic and save gasoline and car-use resources in many cities.
It sounds weird to us not because it's scientifically or fiscally implausible but because we are involved in a car culture.
your argument that biz should have a right to do whatever it wants is based on an argument from the 14th amendment of the constitution that the supreme court threw out in like 1937.
the 14th is the one where the states can't deprive anyone of life, liberty or property without the due process of law.
That previous argument was "substantive due process" i.e. the legislatures of the 50 states have no right to make a law that regulates private property, 'cause private property is protected as a basic right originating in common law.
when the court authorized minimum wage and labor standards laws during the new deal, they threw out that argument.. they decided that legislatures have the right to pass any narrowly defined law that is for the public good, even if it affects a class of private property.
This definitely seems to be a case of public good. Whether or not they regulate a small category of speech using this law, the legislators have the right to do so if they have a good belief that this will reduce the rate of child abuse or help eradicate this form of pornography.
This is a mischaracterization of the Post article. The company hired/fired this guy because one sector of the company did not know the plans of another sector. He probably came in on a hiring effort based on the last thing the company was doing before the buyout.
He was used to an orderly and slow process based on the regulations a government contractor must follow. Then he went to a pure private firm which had an unclear focus due to the fact that someone had let out a rumor about an impending buyout.
Such a rumor makes everyone go haywire. People put on a show of how efficient at their jobs they are so they dont get laid off. Whoever hired this guy probably wanted to show they could make that decision fast, so they wouldn't get cut themselves. They didn't care about the guy they hired.
This can happen with any company, tech or not, especially an ill managed company.
Of course, in my experience tech companies tend to be ill-managed.;)
the nokia 6160 is the greatest cell fone i have ever had the joy of posessing. its got liION battery, games, like 50 different ring types, games, id recommend getting one. a lot of times you can get one for free when signing up for service. i also recommend get AT&T service. its the clearest ive ever heard and they have all those nice digital PCS features. they are a bit more pricey then the competitors, but its worth it.
since the state of virginia suspended my driving privledge for hitting small children in a fit of rage i desperately need one so i can kill more ki....i mean....get to work.
-=+ neonmatrix +=-
"who are you? who slips into my robot body and whispers to my ghost?"
im a high school graduate, i have CCNA, MCSE and i know several programming languages. BUT, i havent been able to find a job for over two months now. its either because i have no formal education or because there just arent any jobs. maybe its cus no one really likes me.
i thought this movie was excellent as well. mill jovovich is a beautiful and talented actress.
the gore in this movie was horrificly pleasing and realistic as well... the only thing i didnt like about joan of arc was that milla has six toes...and you see them at the end...and that kinda freaks me out =P
i only make $8 an hour for doing PC/LAN support and simple system admin tasks im up for a raise in two months...but it wont be more than $2 an hour. i live in the DC metro area...
someone kill me. =P or give me a better job. PLLEEAASSSE!
well, i live in DC [district of corruption] and everyone here who can start windows and browse the internet w/ frickin IE thinks they are somthing special. and dont even get me started on the kids in my old school that know about 2 MSDOS commands and think they are hackers. its ridiculous. and then people who have less skills than those of us in this area who are trained get better jobs than us because they took an MCSE class and didnt actually LEARN anything and just memorized crap from books. im sorry. im just mad. thanx. "life is like a video game with no chance to win" -atari teenage riot. neonmatrix@netscape.net
i think someone w/ a brain disease could donate their body...
do you think we have reached immortality w/ this? now that we can just get a new body brain disease is the only thing that stands between us and immortality.
just call up sega and say you want the username and password. maybe they'll give it to you... hopefully its not a defualt username and pwd for every machine... =P
in case you didnt know. the FBI has been taking all mug shots and fingerprints and digitizing them. then giving HP machines to local police departments w/ the mugshot and fingerprint databases. the only police departments i know of that have this right now or will have it in the immediate future are las vegas, the state of massachusettes and west virginia [theres a HUGE fbi compound in clarksburg].
i want night vision, mind over matter, the ability to increase adrenaline in my system, and i want to put a cell fone in my head so i can just "think" calls. heh. awesome.
i agree...but does that also mean that there could exist anti-people? would there be people in this alternate galaxy that negate us? would their ideals be opposites of ours? then adolf hitler and charles manson and bill gates *grin* would all be saints and mother teresa some sort of demon... or could the fact that the earth exists here negate itself in an alternate galaxy and not exist there?
is there a way to make a friggin line in GIMP? you know like the line tool in photoshop???? ive been messing with it for weeks and cant find it. does the book address this!?
it wasnt scary. i had heard all the hype and bull$hit surrounding the whole movie for the past month and when i finally saw the movie it bored me more than eyes wide shut. i would NOT recommend paying $7 for this movie, get it on video and watch it in your basement at 2am...maybe just maybe then would it scare someone. I dont know what was supposed to scary....SPOILER.... the sticks shaped like people? the little kids running around the tent?? yea, that stuff is fscked up and if it actually happened to me i would be scared out of my mind, but it wasnt really happening to me, i know it was all only a set up. oh, yea...i hear they put hallucinagens in their water to f-ck w/ them even more...hehe, pretty cool... =]
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Unlike previous releases of GFS that were available under the GNU General Public License, GFS 4.2 will be available only under the terms of the newly created Sistina Public License. This license is similar to the Aladdin Public License used for Ghostscript, a program developed by L. Peter Deutsch to interpret PostScript documents. Like Ghostscript, GFS was developed by a single entity (originally a research group at the University of Minnesota and later by Sistina Software), rather than a disparate community of free developers.
In addition, like Ghostscript, GFS is a technology that has a clear OEM market. GFS has attracted OEM vendors who are embedding the technology into their storage appliances and their commercial software offerings. Under the GPL, these commercial vendors are less likely to provide funding for GFS development and maintenance because of the free-rider problem; competitors who don't pay will directly benefit from those who do. The Sistina Public License solves the free-rider problem by creating a level playing field for all OEMs. The SPL provides Sistina with a means to attain a sustainable revenue stream to continue to develop and support GFS and other software.
Sistina is also currently certifying hardware to be supplied by a network of qualified re-sellers. For this reason, it is important that Sistina's licensing policies enforce standards for hardware certification, user support, and important customer service issues.
This is sort of like those stem cells which are free to researchers but have a fee tacked on to any profitability. Unlike the beer-free and speech-free GPL, the nonprofit only, and hence only speech-free, SPL will remove profitability incentives for developers.
Both of these aspects of freedom, in capitalism, are twined together; the right to utter information is negligible, in the mainstream world of research and development, if there is no profit incentive. Neither the programmers who develop for political reasons nor they who develop for profit reasons will touch this one.
If a company has a 10 percent chance of duplicating the success of a GPL tool with a closed source and licensed replacement product, it will try. Instead of using the free knowledge base and extending for-profit development from there, a company will pour development dollars into re-inventing the wheel.
Sistina's new GFS release is the worst of both worlds. It's open source to university geeks, but anyone who wants to spend the money and time making a product good enough for commercial release will be scared off.
It's very strange that I am moved to post by this thing.
Many of the most useful little devices started as toys. For instance the Aztec and Inca civilizations had wheels on their childrens toys but not on their wagons and carts.
This little toy, or at least the model of a cheap travelling rover based on existing tech, could lead to cheaply revolutionized communications in cities and other compact spaces, such as aircraft carriers, etc.
Using these devices as messengers would cut down on traffic and save gasoline and car-use resources in many cities.
It sounds weird to us not because it's scientifically or fiscally implausible but because we are involved in a car culture.
sorry guys
your argument that biz should have a right to do whatever it wants is based on an argument from the 14th amendment of the constitution that the supreme court threw out in like 1937.
the 14th is the one where the states can't deprive anyone of life, liberty or property without the due process of law.
That previous argument was "substantive due process" i.e. the legislatures of the 50 states have no right to make a law that regulates private property, 'cause private property is protected as a basic right originating in common law.
when the court authorized minimum wage and labor standards laws during the new deal, they threw out that argument.. they decided that legislatures have the right to pass any narrowly defined law that is for the public good, even if it affects a class of private property.
This definitely seems to be a case of public good. Whether or not they regulate a small category of speech using this law, the legislators have the right to do so if they have a good belief that this will reduce the rate of child abuse or help eradicate this form of pornography.
oh, ianal.
This is a mischaracterization of the Post article. The company hired/fired this guy because one sector of the company did not know the plans of another sector. He probably came in on a hiring effort based on the last thing the company was doing before the buyout.
;)
He was used to an orderly and slow process based on the regulations a government contractor must follow. Then he went to a pure private firm which had an unclear focus due to the fact that someone had let out a rumor about an impending buyout.
Such a rumor makes everyone go haywire. People put on a show of how efficient at their jobs they are so they dont get laid off. Whoever hired this guy probably wanted to show they could make that decision fast, so they wouldn't get cut themselves. They didn't care about the guy they hired.
This can happen with any company, tech or not, especially an ill managed company.
Of course, in my experience tech companies tend to be ill-managed.
the nokia 6160 is the greatest cell fone i have ever had the joy of posessing. its got liION battery, games, like 50 different ring types, games,
id recommend getting one. a lot of times you can get one for free when signing up for service.
i also recommend get AT&T service. its the clearest ive ever heard and they have all those nice digital PCS features. they are a bit more pricey then the competitors, but its worth it.
since the state of virginia suspended my driving privledge for hitting small children in a fit of rage i desperately need one so i can kill more ki....i mean....get to work.
-=+ neonmatrix +=-
"who are you? who slips into my robot body and whispers to my ghost?"
im a high school graduate, i have CCNA, MCSE and i know several programming languages. BUT, i havent been able to find a job for over two months now. its either because i have no formal education or because there just arent any jobs. maybe its cus no one really likes me.
i thought this movie was excellent as well.
mill jovovich is a beautiful and talented actress.
the gore in this movie was horrificly pleasing and realistic as well...
the only thing i didnt like about joan of arc was that milla has six toes...and you see them at the end...and that kinda freaks me out =P
i only make $8 an hour for doing PC/LAN support and simple system admin tasks
im up for a raise in two months...but it wont be more than $2 an hour.
i live in the DC metro area...
someone kill me. =P
or give me a better job. PLLEEAASSSE!
thats not that cool.... i could hit 1ghz by overclocking my dual p3 500s to 533 each. but then that would be on two chips and not one... =P
well, i live in DC [district of corruption] and everyone here who can start windows and browse the internet w/ frickin IE thinks they are somthing special. and dont even get me started on the kids in my old school that know about 2 MSDOS commands and think they are hackers. its ridiculous. and then people who have less skills than those of us in this area who are trained get better jobs than us because they took an MCSE class and didnt actually LEARN anything and just memorized crap from books. im sorry. im just mad. thanx. "life is like a video game with no chance to win" -atari teenage riot. neonmatrix@netscape.net
i want to become a half man/half machine being. ;)
like in ghost in the shell. that would be elite.
heh
i think someone w/ a brain disease could donate their body...
do you think we have reached immortality w/ this?
now that we can just get a new body brain disease is the only thing that stands between us and immortality.
just call up sega and say you want the username and password. maybe they'll give it to you...
hopefully its not a defualt username and pwd for every machine...
=P
in case you didnt know.
the FBI has been taking all mug shots and fingerprints and digitizing them. then giving HP machines to local police departments w/ the mugshot and fingerprint databases. the only police departments i know of that have this right now or will have it in the immediate future are las vegas, the state of massachusettes and west virginia [theres a HUGE fbi compound in clarksburg].
i want night vision, mind over matter, the ability to increase adrenaline in my system, and i want to put a cell fone in my head so i can just "think" calls. heh.
awesome.
alan, where do you see the future of linux going?
do you think it will surpass NT eventually?
superman and bizzaro...thats exactly what i was thinking...
perhaps this "anti" universe is in fact hell..............*gulp*
i agree...but does that also mean that there could exist anti-people? would there be people in this alternate galaxy that negate us? would their ideals be opposites of ours? then adolf hitler and charles manson and bill gates *grin* would all be saints and mother teresa some sort of demon...
or could the fact that the earth exists here negate itself in an alternate galaxy and not exist there?
is there a way to make a friggin line in GIMP? you know like the line tool in photoshop???? ive been messing with it for weeks and cant find it. does the book address this!?
it wasnt scary. i had heard all the hype and bull$hit surrounding the whole movie for the past month and when i finally saw the movie it bored me more than eyes wide shut. i would NOT recommend paying $7 for this movie, get it on video and watch it in your basement at 2am...maybe just maybe then would it scare someone. I dont know what was supposed to scary....SPOILER.... the sticks shaped like people? the little kids running around the tent?? yea, that stuff is fscked up and if it actually happened to me i would be scared out of my mind, but it wasnt really happening to me, i know it was all only a set up.
oh, yea...i hear they put hallucinagens in their water to f-ck w/ them even more...hehe, pretty cool... =]
also, putting the swap on a different controller and hard drive than the root filesystem...
ive heard of people getting up to 10% system higher system performance with this method
did anyone else see the word "krypto" on the right side???