Some diseases kill their hosts quickly. They can still survive because they also spread very fast. Nimda et al obviously spread fast so they sure could be both destructive and successful.
The gassing of civilian Kurds in north Iraq took place when Iraq was an ally of the US. Nobody seemed to worry about their faith then.
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So true. Imagine that back doors was made mandatory and the FBI or whatever intercepted some encrypted communication by suspected criminals. What would they find when they used the back door? The message encrypted with "illegal" tools without the backdoor.
Of course the suspected criminals could be jailed for using "illegal" encryption but that hardly makes up for the fact that all law abiding people no longer can use real encryption.
What is it they say, "When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption".
The submitter obviously has a problem with the product that he isn't able to fix because he doesn't have the source code. It's exactly this sort of situation the GPL is supposed to prevent.
What people have been saying for years is that if it isn't hackable (or at least not hackable without loads of trouble, there are always some nuts that figure out how to interface their microwave oven) there really is no need to have access to the source code. That's not the situation in this case.
Why can't people just read the license, or the article for that matter, before they start complaining?
You're never forced by the GPL to release changed code. If you're were to come to me wanting all the GPLed code I've messed around with, I could politely tell you to fuck off and that would be the end of it. (Of course, I'd give it to you even if I don't have to, but that's beside the point.)
However, I can't redistribute GPLed code without agreeing to the license. If I don't abide by the license I'm violating copyright as soon as I start handing out copies.
The GPL does not force anybody to do anything. It just puts up some conditions if you want to do things you're not allowed to do otherwise.
Col. Panic wrote "Perhaps the United States has been accused of acting like the global police department, but only for our own ends."
That statement is in no way contradictory of saying that America has stood idly by while terrorism has gripped the rest of the world.
I suppose the argument is against the US "meddling" in the affairs of other, clearly for your own purposes, is motivated with lots of talk of defending freedom, stopping genocide and other just causes. As in the wars against Iraq and Yugoslavia. This looks very bad when the US at the same time supports states that are infamous for oppression and murdering of civilians under their rule, like Israel and Turkey.
And to stop now and say "maybe we should think about why we were attacked..." just encourages the idea that if America does something you don't like, kill a few thousand of their people to make them change their course.
Ah, of course. So even if you were to find that you were doing something wrong, the wrongdoing must go on because of the attack.
Calling Israel a peaceful state is just sickening and so is justifying the assassinations carried out by Israel. Or are the assassinations are done peacefully and non-violently?)
Wouldn't you say a state whose police routinely use torture as a mean of interrogation "treat their people like shit"? (Torture was even legal in Israel until recently! It's still in use though.)
Do you think the parents of the eleven year old girl that was killed a few days ago during a "raid against militants" consider the Israeli government just?
Isn't a government lead by a war criminal (Sharon) whom should be sitting next to Milosovic in Hague a government that the USA should refrain from supporting?
You actually can discuss and try to understand WHY the attacks happened without justifying the attacks.
Of course the American people are angry. Of course they are tired of terrorism. That is exactly why we must know what causes terrorism.
The violent retaliation I fear will come soon will probably be just the sort of thing that causes terrorism.
No matter how many cruise missiles you fire and battle ships you station around the world, no matter how much you let go of freedom in the name of security, there is no way to stop terrorism.
The only way to stop terrorism is to take away the reasons for people to become terrorists. Because they are people you know. They are not plain evil but have real motivations.
And something must be really messed up somewhere if people are motivated to cause the sort of tragedies we've just seen. That is what we should be talking about right now.
I make a comment on US foreign policy on Slashdot and people agree with me? Where are my flames?;)
But seriously, you're right about how these things must be brought into the open. So many crimes are committed by the people who govern us that would never be accepted if people just knew what was going on. So keep up with the bitching =)
I know very well what you're talking about. I've been there too. You really should consider trying out Debian. The install wasn't that sweet, but it's well worth the trouble. You'll never look back once you're typed apt-get install app and seen the magic. It just works. Just like it's supposed to be. I'm evangelizing, sure, but I'm sure you will be too quite soon;)
It's strange that you mention US stopping wholescale slaughter of Kurds. Turkey has been for a long time, and still is, slaughtering Kurds both in Turkey and Iraq. But since Turkey is a member of NATO they can keep doing it without complaints.
Quite recently some British NATO pilots went public telling how they were routinely forced to cancel missions over north Iraq to not get in the way of Turkish "cleansing" missions agains the Kurdish population.
The point is that the suffering of the Kurdish people can be used as propaganda against an enemy, ie Iraq, while it is in fact caused by an ally.
They released QuakeI under the GPL but since they own it they can resell it to anyone they want for as much as they want, period.
Since they released QuakeI under the GPL, anyone can resell it for as much as they want. (Unless they do something to break their end of the GPL, then they have no rights to redistribute the software.)
You can never know what will happen in the courts, but what *should* hinder Sistina from stopping OpenGFS is the fact that they did license the code under the GPL. It's a contract between Sistina and whomever got hold of the code. All licensees are in their full right under the contract (the GPL) to modify the code. They are also allowed to redistribute the code, modified or not, as much as they like. Provided that they are willing to provide the source upon request and the source is still under the GPL. There's nothing said in the GPL about revocing the rights given to the licensee, unless the licensee breaks their part of the contract. RTFL! (read the fine license). Trying to stop OpenGFS would be a breach of contract, I don't think a court would like that.
Less than a week ago I went to a book signing event for "Just for fun". One of the questions Linus was asked was which was Linux' birthday. Linus said it was a matter of definition, but gave August 25 and September 17 as the candidate dates. His proposed solution was to have two parties.
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So you're saying we can expect graphics hardware with features like Dali-morphing and Picasso-polygons really soon?
So because there is a cost of production of software, we must restrict the rights of users of software? I don't buy that at all. Remove copyright and people will still want software, right? So somebody will be making money writing software. Many more will probably make money modifying, installing, supporting etc. existing software.
See my point here? The producers of the software will get paid for producing software. The distributors of software will get paid for distributing software. If you don't like it, you don't have to produce or distribute software, somebody else will. Everybody (except some of the people who are now making money selling proprietary software) will be happy.
Ah, but of course. Educating the children about sex, STD and how to be safe is not the solution to tenage pregnancies or HIV. No. Stupid me. Of course we must make sure they can in no way see naughty things on TV or the net, and the filthy thoughts simply will not enter their minds. Because as we all know, this thing with tenagers screwing each other is a very new phenomena that would never have come about if we'd just been able to stop that horrible so called "rock music" while there still was time.
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Of course the suspected criminals could be jailed for using "illegal" encryption but that hardly makes up for the fact that all law abiding people no longer can use real encryption.
What is it they say, "When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption".
What people have been saying for years is that if it isn't hackable (or at least not hackable without loads of trouble, there are always some nuts that figure out how to interface their microwave oven) there really is no need to have access to the source code. That's not the situation in this case.
You're never forced by the GPL to release changed code. If you're were to come to me wanting all the GPLed code I've messed around with, I could politely tell you to fuck off and that would be the end of it. (Of course, I'd give it to you even if I don't have to, but that's beside the point.)
However, I can't redistribute GPLed code without agreeing to the license. If I don't abide by the license I'm violating copyright as soon as I start handing out copies.
The GPL does not force anybody to do anything. It just puts up some conditions if you want to do things you're not allowed to do otherwise.
That statement is in no way contradictory of saying that America has stood idly by while terrorism has gripped the rest of the world.
I suppose the argument is against the US "meddling" in the affairs of other, clearly for your own purposes, is motivated with lots of talk of defending freedom, stopping genocide and other just causes. As in the wars against Iraq and Yugoslavia. This looks very bad when the US at the same time supports states that are infamous for oppression and murdering of civilians under their rule, like Israel and Turkey.
Ah, of course. So even if you were to find that you were doing something wrong, the wrongdoing must go on because of the attack.
Wouldn't you say a state whose police routinely use torture as a mean of interrogation "treat their people like shit"? (Torture was even legal in Israel until recently! It's still in use though.)
Do you think the parents of the eleven year old girl that was killed a few days ago during a "raid against militants" consider the Israeli government just?
Isn't a government lead by a war criminal (Sharon) whom should be sitting next to Milosovic in Hague a government that the USA should refrain from supporting?
Of course the American people are angry. Of course they are tired of terrorism. That is exactly why we must know what causes terrorism.
The violent retaliation I fear will come soon will probably be just the sort of thing that causes terrorism.
No matter how many cruise missiles you fire and battle ships you station around the world, no matter how much you let go of freedom in the name of security, there is no way to stop terrorism.
The only way to stop terrorism is to take away the reasons for people to become terrorists. Because they are people you know. They are not plain evil but have real motivations.
And something must be really messed up somewhere if people are motivated to cause the sort of tragedies we've just seen. That is what we should be talking about right now.
But seriously, you're right about how these things must be brought into the open. So many crimes are committed by the people who govern us that would never be accepted if people just knew what was going on. So keep up with the bitching =)
Quite recently some British NATO pilots went public telling how they were routinely forced to cancel missions over north Iraq to not get in the way of Turkish "cleansing" missions agains the Kurdish population.
The point is that the suffering of the Kurdish people can be used as propaganda against an enemy, ie Iraq, while it is in fact caused by an ally.
Such is the ways of the Good Guys.
Sorry!
Since they released QuakeI under the GPL, anyone can resell it for as much as they want. (Unless they do something to break their end of the GPL, then they have no rights to redistribute the software.)
Nope. Writing software is a service. Copyright is a complicated way of making sure the people providing this service gets paid.
Allowing people to charge for services rendered does not require the restriction of the right to redistribute and/or modify software.
See my point here? The producers of the software will get paid for producing software. The distributors of software will get paid for distributing software. If you don't like it, you don't have to produce or distribute software, somebody else will. Everybody (except some of the people who are now making money selling proprietary software) will be happy.