the GPL is an industrial-strength legal contract. For more so, he suspects, than Richard Stallman could have expected it to be when it was drafted in 1985.
His design is more elegant and robust than he could have foreseen.
I think that pretty much sums up what's going to happen with a million lines of SCO-distributed GPLed code.
isn't BSD available under a much less restrictive license?
No, BSD isn't available under a much less restrictive license, It's available under a much more restrictive license.
i.e., less free.
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As the Commonwealth of Kentucky did. They trademarked the name "Kentucky" so that any use of the word in a business context would have to pay them royalties. This is the *real* reason why Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name, why the Kentucky Derby is now called "The Run for the Roses", and why you won't hear Neil Diamond's song "Kentucky Woman" played on the radio anymore.
I think KFC should try to fight this. The Supremes seem to be having a fit of common sense right now, and they might find that a state can't trademark their name. (imagine what would happen if EVERY state tried this?!!)
I know it's been said before, but...
SCO's real purpose behind this lawsuit is not to get money, but to publicize itself in hopes of finding a larger company to buy them.
SCO's business hasn't been so great lately, and...they're just a little desperate at this point.
1) How would you remove the water from the destination end? You can't really strain dirt out of mud.
2) I'm guessing that a large portion of the mountain is rock. Unless you plan on using some HIGH water pressure, you can't really dissolve rock.
The closest thing to what you're talking about that would actually work is some kind of conveyor-belt system to move small pieces of the mountain at a time.
The IRS this year was considering releasing its own tax software, available for free. Then the major tax software distributors (TurboTax, TaxCut, TaxAct, etc) cried foul..."if you release an electronic 1040 for free we'll go out of business!" and so instead the IRS struck an accord with them that they would give away their product to people with incomes under $30K/year.
Since when was the IRS responsible to the software companies to keep their revenue stream going, rather than providing a useful tax service to the public?
If you buy a piece of software covered by a particular EULA, and that EULA specifically forbids sharing copies with friends or strangers, then the only moral option is to return that software if you disgree with that contract.
But what if you don't really have an OPTION as to whether or not you accept the EULA? Let's say (hypothetically, of course) that a certain business used unfair, predatory, even CRIMINAL tactics to drive its software to a position of 95% dominance on all desktops...what then? If the software company (a convicted felon, in this case) is doing illegal things to force you into using their software, is it still so illegal and immoral to warez their products?
Mandrake pushed the User-Club as a short-term solution to being mismanaged last year. Currently they are under much better management, and now that they're no longer in the red I believe they're clear of immediate danger.
One of the alleged scammers the government is investigating is David L. Walker, who is said to have charged between $2,400 and $5,200 on his Web site for a cancer treatment hoax
I understand the desperation that's felt by someone with cancer, but really, what kind of person is going to believe that the miracle cure for cancer is sitting on some shady website and not in the hospitals?
Ogg Vorbis over MP3 because obviously Ogg is free while MP3 is locked up in patents, and if you're one of the golden-ears that can tell the difference, FLAC for high quality (and still free).
While they refuse to license BeOS, this could potentially change things in that respect...hopefully they'll either license it out, or...even better...continue development on it. It would definitely be a shame to see Be development stopped or limited to Palm's narrow goals.
Corporations have been eyeing the amateur radio bands for years. Here are these chunks of bandwidth that are licensed for public use in some very prime locations of the electromagnetic spectrum, all the way from 1.8MHz up to the GHz range. The FCC would just LOVE to auction off the ham radio portions of the spectrum and make millions off of it. Indeed, with waning interest in ham radio, the FCC will be under heavy pressure to free up that spectrum. It'll probably start out with switching them over to "shared use", but once they have their feet in the door, a few years down the road the ham bands will start disappearing. This is just another case of big money having more political influence than the public interest.
There are several MP3 CD players out there. Just burn a CD full of MP3s (800MB will get you quite a few MP3s)...a 4GB MP3 collection will all fit on 4 CDs, and they're very handy. Plus, you can still trade the CDs full of MP3s with friends and transfer them to other computers with no problem.
But what that article fails to take into account is the very rapid rate of development happening in the Linux desktop community. Very soon Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3.0 will be released, which are both major steps in their respective projects. What has Microsoft put out lately? Windows XP with the Luna interface, which after having played with, I can definitely say I'm not impressed (Mac OSX is still the best eye-candy).
The point is, Linux is usable, but still in development. At the rate that support for linux is snowballing and more and more people get onboard, Linux will be as good or better than M$ in, I'd guess, about two years.
Where is the amateur radio community in this? I know that many ham radio operators practice emergency communications simulations just for situations like this, and I'd guess that there are quite a few ham radio ops in NYC.
Yet another reason why the FCC shouldn't auction off the amateur radio spectrum to corporations for a little bit of extra $$.
Nothing but OGG has stepped up to fill the void.
Wrong...M$ has stepped up with their WMA format, which it seems they put a lot of research into, and unfortunately it sounds very good. OV must be able to compete with WMA in terms of quality, but that's not nearly as important as usability, because we all know how much M$ is going to push WMA with upcoming versions of Windoze.
IMHO, MP3 will be around forever. They're just too popular. Look at 3.5" floppies...20 year old technology, yet it's still found on every computer and still a popular way of changing information.
Zip drives were around for awhile...they were proprietary and expensive, but better than floppies. They dominated until a much better system, CDR/CDRW came around...But OV isn't THAT much better than MP3/WMA.
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the GPL is an industrial-strength legal contract. For more so, he suspects, than Richard Stallman could have expected it to be when it was drafted in 1985.
His design is more elegant and robust than he could have foreseen.
I think that pretty much sums up what's going to happen with a million lines of SCO-distributed GPLed code.
No, BSD isn't available under a much less restrictive license,
It's available under a much more restrictive license.
i.e., less free.
I think KFC should try to fight this. The Supremes seem to be having a fit of common sense right now, and they might find that a state can't trademark their name. (imagine what would happen if EVERY state tried this?!!)
I know it's been said before, but...
SCO's real purpose behind this lawsuit is not to get money, but to publicize itself in hopes of finding a larger company to buy them.
SCO's business hasn't been so great lately, and...they're just a little desperate at this point.
Ah yes, " Lumos ", from the Ancient Greek meaning " really dumb idea "
Just what we need in a country where people are too
lazy to go somewhere to vote and too
idiotic to follow an arrow and punch a hole.
1) How would you remove the water from the destination end? You can't really strain dirt out of mud.
2) I'm guessing that a large portion of the mountain is rock. Unless you plan on using some HIGH water pressure, you can't really dissolve rock.
The closest thing to what you're talking about that would actually work is some kind of conveyor-belt system to move small pieces of the mountain at a time.
There is no sugar or tea, either :P
We had this things launching tshirts at us in the bleachers at USC (Carolina, not SoCal) football games a couple years ago.
Since when was the IRS responsible to the software companies to keep their revenue stream going, rather than providing a useful tax service to the public?
But what if you don't really have an OPTION as to whether or not you accept the EULA? Let's say (hypothetically, of course) that a certain business used unfair, predatory, even CRIMINAL tactics to drive its software to a position of 95% dominance on all desktops...what then? If the software company (a convicted felon, in this case) is doing illegal things to force you into using their software, is it still so illegal and immoral to warez their products?
Explain the bad grammar there?
Monolinux is a linux-only slashdot-style website, with various interesting links on Linux (and better moderation ;)
Mandrake pushed the User-Club as a short-term solution to being mismanaged last year. Currently they are under much better management, and now that they're no longer in the red I believe they're clear of immediate danger.
I understand the desperation that's felt by someone with cancer, but really, what kind of person is going to believe that the miracle cure for cancer is sitting on some shady website and not in the hospitals?
A fool and his money are soon parted...
This notification is sent by NSProcessInfo whenever the kernel is nervous, but before it actually panics.
How about #include xanax.h, which will keep the kernel from panicking altogether...
This is a very small sampling of students, and from only one school. Too small to get reliable statistics from.
in 1996-1997 the researchers found 53 percent...
and in 2001: dropped to about 40 percent, Chiang said, a 25 percent decline
PLEASE explain to me how 53-25=40. Something is HORRIBLY wrong with this story!
Ogg Vorbis over MP3 because obviously Ogg is free while MP3 is locked up in patents, and if you're one of the golden-ears that can tell the difference, FLAC for high quality (and still free).
While they refuse to license BeOS, this could potentially change things in that respect...hopefully they'll either license it out, or...even better...continue development on it. It would definitely be a shame to see Be development stopped or limited to Palm's narrow goals.
Corporations have been eyeing the amateur radio bands for years. Here are these chunks of bandwidth that are licensed for public use in some very prime locations of the electromagnetic spectrum, all the way from 1.8MHz up to the GHz range. The FCC would just LOVE to auction off the ham radio portions of the spectrum and make millions off of it. Indeed, with waning interest in ham radio, the FCC will be under heavy pressure to free up that spectrum. It'll probably start out with switching them over to "shared use", but once they have their feet in the door, a few years down the road the ham bands will start disappearing. This is just another case of big money having more political influence than the public interest.
There are several MP3 CD players out there. Just burn a CD full of MP3s (800MB will get you quite a few MP3s)...a 4GB MP3 collection will all fit on 4 CDs, and they're very handy. Plus, you can still trade the CDs full of MP3s with friends and transfer them to other computers with no problem.
No, it's also about stealing warez and getting pr0n! :)
But what that article fails to take into account is the very rapid rate of development happening in the Linux desktop community. Very soon Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3.0 will be released, which are both major steps in their respective projects. What has Microsoft put out lately? Windows XP with the Luna interface, which after having played with, I can definitely say I'm not impressed (Mac OSX is still the best eye-candy).
The point is, Linux is usable, but still in development. At the rate that support for linux is snowballing and more and more people get onboard, Linux will be as good or better than M$ in, I'd guess, about two years.
Where is the amateur radio community in this? I know that many ham radio operators practice emergency communications simulations just for situations like this, and I'd guess that there are quite a few ham radio ops in NYC.
Yet another reason why the FCC shouldn't auction off the amateur radio spectrum to corporations for a little bit of extra $$.
Nothing but OGG has stepped up to fill the void. Wrong...M$ has stepped up with their WMA format, which it seems they put a lot of research into, and unfortunately it sounds very good. OV must be able to compete with WMA in terms of quality, but that's not nearly as important as usability, because we all know how much M$ is going to push WMA with upcoming versions of Windoze. IMHO, MP3 will be around forever. They're just too popular. Look at 3.5" floppies...20 year old technology, yet it's still found on every computer and still a popular way of changing information. Zip drives were around for awhile...they were proprietary and expensive, but better than floppies. They dominated until a much better system, CDR/CDRW came around...But OV isn't THAT much better than MP3/WMA.