For donors I would suspect they are a bunch of dot-coms. See how he named Amazon and CDNow. See how he almost made the point for that failed my-mp3.com business of listening CDs you already own.
For voters I think anyone who connects enough will be pleased to vote for this guy.
Maybe I'm just too dumb to realize it but if the first sale doctrine is enforced, wouldn't it be a threat to GPL?
I mean, if Red Hat (or anyone else) sells me a piece of Linux with the source code, can I resell it legally without source code? Is the license valid only the first time something is sold?
The thing most of the people is missing is that these tools are not rocket science, these tools are not SMP kernel hacking. These tools make a reasonable use of some modern programming tools. Some cryptography (not too difficult), some IP client/server and not much more.
Hell, I could have written these tools in a couple of weeks!!!! And taking into account that it has been years since my hands last typed C it cannot be that difficult.
Ok, Mixter released those tools to the public. So?
Sooner or later someone would!
Or worse yet would not and instead take dozens of sites down with noone expecting it!
This has been an issue for a long time. If at the time of reading this issue is still unsolved it only means that the industry will not solve it by itself.
Users should demand better security. The only way they can do it is being informed of the risks involved.
We have seen soooo many sites depending on this features for no reason at all for sooooo much time.
konstant is not sayng this is unjust (at least I didn't read so). He's sayng it is paradoxical to let sysadmins enforce policies AND let sysadmins not be considered some kind of government.
I think he has a valid point. I'm not sure what do I think about it. I'll give it some thought...
I wish I could say the same about here in Latin America. It is not as if there are no Linux enthusiast around here, there are a lot. The point is the lack of interest of major companies. Even small shops show no major interest at this time.
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All the desktops in my company are Windows desktops. Mostly NT, but I am sure there are 2000 around. It is a rather large company at 7000 employees.
To sumarize, the answers around here are, mainly, two: games or work.
I really don't think the situation is gaing to improve in those two fronts in the inmediate future.
Oh, by the way, I use Debian when at home.
because I disabled scripting.
Yes. You need scripting in order to get details of the security hole. On the other hand they recommend you to disable scripting.
Odd.
Yes. I have to use Windows at work.
Yes. I could use Mozilla.
For donors I would suspect they are a bunch of dot-coms. See how he named Amazon and CDNow. See how he almost made the point for that failed my-mp3.com business of listening CDs you already own.
For voters I think anyone who connects enough will be pleased to vote for this guy.
Just my thoughts...
Remember Bob? That pity OS Microsoft produced years ago?
I think this is just what he means...
Maybe I'm just too dumb to realize it but if the first sale doctrine is enforced, wouldn't it be a threat to GPL?
I mean, if Red Hat (or anyone else) sells me a piece of Linux with the source code, can I resell it legally without source code? Is the license valid only the first time something is sold?
Am I clueless or what?
The thing most of the people is missing is that these tools are not rocket science, these tools are not SMP kernel hacking. These tools make a reasonable use of some modern programming tools. Some cryptography (not too difficult), some IP client/server and not much more.
Hell, I could have written these tools in a couple of weeks!!!! And taking into account that it has been years since my hands last typed C it cannot be that difficult.
Ok, Mixter released those tools to the public. So?
Sooner or later someone would!
Or worse yet would not and instead take dozens of sites down with noone expecting it!
Just ranting... Nevermind...
Quite on the contrary!
This has been an issue for a long time. If at the time of reading this issue is still unsolved it only means that the industry will not solve it by itself.
Users should demand better security. The only way they can do it is being informed of the risks involved.
We have seen soooo many sites depending on this features for no reason at all for sooooo much time.
I think it is needed more pressure.
On a twisted note, the Mesa domain is hosted by VA Linux.
Hey boy, easy, easy!
konstant is not sayng this is unjust (at least I didn't read so). He's sayng it is paradoxical to let sysadmins enforce policies AND let sysadmins not be considered some kind of government.
I think he has a valid point. I'm not sure what do I think about it. I'll give it some thought...
I wish I could say the same about here in Latin America. It is not as if there are no Linux enthusiast around here, there are a lot. The point is the lack of interest of major companies. Even small shops show no major interest at this time.
We'll see that changing soon, but for now...