Wouldn't anyone (e.g. a competing firm) that wants access to the modified code have the right to sue for it?
Interesting. Anyone who contributed the code being used (e.g. those portions whose "function signatures" were apparent) could sue for copyright infringement and "GPL enforcement" would still be in the area of copyright law. Your proposal, on the other hand, would be a true test of the "enforcability" of the GPL's extension of copyrights that require a distributor to make the source available. I think, however, that you'd have to buy the product first, as selling GPL software is allowed, but once sold (distributed) to someone, the source must be made available to whoever received the distribution.
IANAL: For a correct answer, buy a copy and try suing them....
If you look at the extra content that comes on their DVDs, they talk about how they get their ideas from the public domain.
Here's an idea. Take fair use excerpts from those DVD's and put up a streaming video collage of Disney supporting the concept of the public domain as a creative source. You get all the excitement of the "you illegally decrypted those" challenges along with the "hey, you're stealing our copyrighted property" challenges. Think of the fun!
You may want to consider starting your legal defense fund first....
How about somebody write a Python installer in Java? Let's get something genuinely useful out of this
Jythons an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform.
Agreed. I'm still using a 5000, and with OpenZaurus and/home configured to reside on a 256M SD card I could not bring myself to shell out $699 for this.
Maybe when there's a 64M RAM and OpenZaurus is proven on it, but not as it is now.
There's a cross-compile howto that will help you set up your environment. In addition to the tools, you may also need the kernel source (or at least the headers) and any libraries and header files required for the x86 target. But you shouldn't have to make any source code changes.
You may also want to ask on #opie on IRC to see if they have a more Opie specific howto somewhere.
There's a Qtopia demo on a floppy at Trolltech . Somewhere on there was a X framebuffer application that you could run Qtopia in a window under X (it may be in the Qtopia SDK but I don't remember for sure).
In both cases, however, you'd have to get the Opie source and re-compile them for X86 since the ipk's are all pre-compiled for the Z.
Honestly, if you've got a Zaurus, the easiest way to try it is to just back up everything and flash OZ. It's just not that hard to flash back and forth. I did it in the very early days and went almost immediately back to the Sharp ROM and just restored the data. Then I went to Paul Flinders "enhanced" (/home on SD card) rom. Since OZ 2.9.5-beta-something, however, I haven't looked back.
Let's see where those home schooled kids are when they're 25.
Do that. In the meantime I know several high school students that have been kicked out and/or headed into the juvenile (or even worse, adult) justice system. This is not the type of "socialization" most parents desire for their children.
Now I'll grant you that there are vast differences in school systems throughout the country; major differences even within the same school district. But if the school district where you live is as bad as the one where I live there are NO socialization problems that home-schooling could impose that are any where near the severity of the anti-socialization problems the public school system inculcates.
Until, of course, the Japanese took advantage out our complacency...
You mean like Peru, the EU, China and others are doing with open source software? When will we learn that what's good for [insert dominate corporation here] is not necessarily good for the US?
It's never the license that denies you rights. Licenses can only license you rights.
Apparently you haven't read many recent licenses. They deny you numerous rights that simple copyright allows you to excercise
The only truly public license is no copyright.
In fact, the federal government is prohibited from having copyright on government produced works. This is refering to contracted code which should be (IMHO) a work-for-hire for the federal government and should also be immediately public domain. I suspect that government contracts are written such that the contractor retains copyright, but I don't know for a fact.
As far as I can tell, the license to the code is GPL. (The patch does not "explain" how to circumvent anything, it "explains" how to prevent the circumvention.) The description is licensed under the freeworld license because it explains the vulnerabilities.
I take issue with the letter's statement that intellectual property belongs to the public and is, in effect, leased back to the author or inventor.
Take issue all you will but that's exactly what copyright is. Without copyright, the only way you'd be able to keep your so called intellectual "property" is to keep it to yourself. If you publish or otherwise release it, it would be "out there", outside of your control. You better get a damn good price for that first copy!
As you note, this does not occur at the "moment of authorship or invention". You're free to keep whatever you author or invent secret as long as you desire. As long as it's secret, nobody can either copy it or use it. Since nobody includes you, however, your work is useless not only to society, but to yourself.
Copyright law imposes a societal agreement. All the rest of us agree not to commercially distribute your work for a certain period of (theoretically limited) time; in other words, we agree to lease certain rights back to you (we keep "fair use" rights, for example) in exchange for you releasing the work to us.
You want to bring in new regulations because going back to the store is "too much of a pain"?
It's more than just a pain. Most retail stores prominently post something to the effect of "No refunds or returns of open software, music or DVDs. Exchanges Only!"
According to the EULA, you're supposed to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund if you don't agree, except they've already informed you that they refuse to abide by that agreement. The EULA not only attempts to force the customer into a contract with no explicit agreement, it also attempts to force the retailer into the agreement by requiring it to act as an agent of the manufacturer.
So you can return it if you don't agree, except you can't return it except to exchange it for another copy. Somewhere in here is a consipiracy to defraud, whether it's intentional or not.
Actually, taking off my IT hat, you're probably right. All the presentations I do are to network techs and technical management. In my case, it did make a difference because one of the key points I've been pushing up the management chain has been leveraging open source for systems and network management. Having executives responsible for technical groups realize that open source does not mean CLI-hacked-together "freeware" was a huge shift in perception.
This seems silly, but it's actually a huge opportunity for those who give presentations to decision makers: Use OpenOffice/StarOffice/KPresenter!
After the presentation, casually mention what you used (or even finish with a little "created with [product_logo]). You'll be surprised at the audience reaction, since they were sure during the whole presentation that you were using PowerPoint.
(If you need to distribute the presentation, export it to HTML so they can view it with nothing but a browser.)
Yes, but pref.js is where Mozilla stores all the preferences that are edit-able via the (non-existent in Phoenix) preferences dialog, and that's what I wanted to copy.
Still, your point's well taken for preferences NOT managed through the dialog.
Select File->Save Page As and select Text as type of file to save and the html is stripped from the file. Great for grabbing pages to view on your PDA!
There is a note in the prefs under advanced saying "your favorite features will be here soon".
Just for grins, I copied my Mozilla prefs.js over the phoenix version. Theming doesn't work, but the proxy and tab preferences do and it appears to ignore onLoad for popups as well. Apparently, the Edit preferences ability is not done, but using the prefs.js does.
IMHO, Joel Shoe-Mucker should get the entire blame for Batman Forever. He was quoted as saying somthing like it's time for the dark, brooding Batman to "get over it". He lost the entire concept of the character and turned the whole film into a glob of superstar cameo's.
I'd actually like to see Clooney do Batman again, but only if Burton took back the reins.
Quoth the article: The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov. It would be nice to see people read the articles they comment on.
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Interesting. Anyone who contributed the code being used (e.g. those portions whose "function signatures" were apparent) could sue for copyright infringement and "GPL enforcement" would still be in the area of copyright law. Your proposal, on the other hand, would be a true test of the "enforcability" of the GPL's extension of copyrights that require a distributor to make the source available. I think, however, that you'd have to buy the product first, as selling GPL software is allowed, but once sold (distributed) to someone, the source must be made available to whoever received the distribution.
IANAL: For a correct answer, buy a copy and try suing them....
Here's an idea. Take fair use excerpts from those DVD's and put up a streaming video collage of Disney supporting the concept of the public domain as a creative source. You get all the excitement of the "you illegally decrypted those" challenges along with the "hey, you're stealing our copyrighted property" challenges. Think of the fun!
You may want to consider starting your legal defense fund first....
Parody is "fair use", even of trademarks (at least according to this.
Jythons an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform.
Maybe when there's a 64M RAM and OpenZaurus is proven on it, but not as it is now.
Found the archive. It was the CRO of META, not Microsoft. It's no more "authoritative" than the predictive report.
Now all /. has to due is sue them for copyright infringement and they're history.
You may also want to ask on #opie on IRC to see if they have a more Opie specific howto somewhere.
In both cases, however, you'd have to get the Opie source and re-compile them for X86 since the ipk's are all pre-compiled for the Z.
Honestly, if you've got a Zaurus, the easiest way to try it is to just back up everything and flash OZ. It's just not that hard to flash back and forth. I did it in the very early days and went almost immediately back to the Sharp ROM and just restored the data. Then I went to Paul Flinders "enhanced" (/home on SD card) rom. Since OZ 2.9.5-beta-something, however, I haven't looked back.
Do that. In the meantime I know several high school students that have been kicked out and/or headed into the juvenile (or even worse, adult) justice system. This is not the type of "socialization" most parents desire for their children.
Now I'll grant you that there are vast differences in school systems throughout the country; major differences even within the same school district. But if the school district where you live is as bad as the one where I live there are NO socialization problems that home-schooling could impose that are any where near the severity of the anti-socialization problems the public school system inculcates.
You mean like Peru, the EU, China and others are doing with open source software? When will we learn that what's good for [insert dominate corporation here] is not necessarily good for the US?
Exactly. Would you like to download?
- Microsoft (TM) IE 6.0 full of security holes and privacy invasiveness, or
- OpenSource NotIE Version 0.9.9Beta-6 ("real" opensource projects don't go 1.0!) certified for installation on OpenBSD
Remember, the Microsoft version is GPL, so full compatibility of "user browsing experience" is gauranteed!Apparently you haven't read many recent licenses. They deny you numerous rights that simple copyright allows you to excercise
The only truly public license is no copyright.
In fact, the federal government is prohibited from having copyright on government produced works. This is refering to contracted code which should be (IMHO) a work-for-hire for the federal government and should also be immediately public domain. I suspect that government contracts are written such that the contractor retains copyright, but I don't know for a fact.
Or so I guess, since I can't read it.
Take issue all you will but that's exactly what copyright is. Without copyright, the only way you'd be able to keep your so called intellectual "property" is to keep it to yourself. If you publish or otherwise release it, it would be "out there", outside of your control. You better get a damn good price for that first copy!
As you note, this does not occur at the "moment of authorship or invention". You're free to keep whatever you author or invent secret as long as you desire. As long as it's secret, nobody can either copy it or use it. Since nobody includes you, however, your work is useless not only to society, but to yourself.
Copyright law imposes a societal agreement. All the rest of us agree not to commercially distribute your work for a certain period of (theoretically limited) time; in other words, we agree to lease certain rights back to you (we keep "fair use" rights, for example) in exchange for you releasing the work to us.
Or until OpenOffice gets installed on all the Windows systems running unlicensed copies of MS Office....
It's more than just a pain. Most retail stores prominently post something to the effect of "No refunds or returns of open software, music or DVDs. Exchanges Only!"
According to the EULA, you're supposed to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund if you don't agree, except they've already informed you that they refuse to abide by that agreement. The EULA not only attempts to force the customer into a contract with no explicit agreement, it also attempts to force the retailer into the agreement by requiring it to act as an agent of the manufacturer.
So you can return it if you don't agree, except you can't return it except to exchange it for another copy. Somewhere in here is a consipiracy to defraud, whether it's intentional or not.
Ah, well, I've been using galeon so I hadn't seen it. Phoenix, looks like it could give galeon a run.
Actually, taking off my IT hat, you're probably right. All the presentations I do are to network techs and technical management. In my case, it did make a difference because one of the key points I've been pushing up the management chain has been leveraging open source for systems and network management. Having executives responsible for technical groups realize that open source does not mean CLI-hacked-together "freeware" was a huge shift in perception.
This seems silly, but it's actually a huge opportunity for those who give presentations to decision makers: Use OpenOffice/StarOffice/KPresenter!
After the presentation, casually mention what you used (or even finish with a little "created with [product_logo]). You'll be surprised at the audience reaction, since they were sure during the whole presentation that you were using PowerPoint.
(If you need to distribute the presentation, export it to HTML so they can view it with nothing but a browser.)
Still, your point's well taken for preferences NOT managed through the dialog.
Select File->Save Page As and select Text as type of file to save and the html is stripped from the file. Great for grabbing pages to view on your PDA!
Just for grins, I copied my Mozilla prefs.js over the phoenix version. Theming doesn't work, but the proxy and tab preferences do and it appears to ignore onLoad for popups as well. Apparently, the Edit preferences ability is not done, but using the prefs.js does.
I'd actually like to see Clooney do Batman again, but only if Burton took back the reins.
Whoops, forgot where I was....