Yeah... apparently everyone else knew that Chinese developers steal code unless you actively prevent them from doing it. Anyone who has worked with Chinese (or Indian) devs for more than 5 minutes also knows that they will lie to your face about it while they are doing it. I mean, they will actually look at you and smile and say they're writing original code as their fingers are busy stripping copyrights. Literally, in the literal sense of literally.
So... why weren't Microsoft aware of this? If you hire thieves, do you bear no responsibility for them stealing?
You're not going to pay top dorrah for a generic Made In China battery for a lawnmower or power tool, but you'll gladly pay a premium for higher quality electrons from a Japanese labeled battery in your iThinkBook. It's still Made In China, of course, but as long as you don't look too closely at it, you won't feel ripped off.
Remember that he was working in government, so of course he'd view everyone else like helpless retard-children incapable of doing anything for themselves.
Say, can you name any country in the world where a "ruling class" does not rule over the "common man"?
I ask because the best that's on offer seems to be de facto plutocracies or aristocracies where the system is set up to offer a choice between Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
M'kay? If you distribute the objects commercially, then it's your responsibility to distribute or provide the source that you used.
I completely agree with you, and thank you for saying what we're all thinking: now that I've got broadband - and health cover - screw everyone else. Filthy penniless scrounging hillbilly hippies; if they're going to die, they had better do it now, and decrease the surplus contention.
Hmm, I see what you're saying. Let's ignore the global scale of the problem, pick one counter-example that disproves it, quibble over the distinction between cause and effect, and mens rea and mens absentis, and say that Hitler didn't do anything wrong because other Nazis did wrong things too.
That is what you're saying, isn't it? Look, just admit that you love and worship your hero Hitler, and we can agree on where you're coming from.
Didn't Joshua Lincoln bring the laws on stone tablets down from a burning ark on Mount Rushmore? I'm pretty sure that's what I was taught in Civics 101.
Valkovich will face a statutory maximum of 50 years in prison: 20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud.
Two things amaze me:
One, that you can get more jail time for moving 440,000 from one DB column to another than for trying to have someone killed.
Two, that actual bankers that committed fraud to the tune of trillions were punished by (at most) being handsomely paid off and sentenced to go golfing for the rest of their lives.
What a strange "justice" system we've created for ourselves.
Yup. Number of people dumb enough to believe what he said rather than what he did: one, apparently.
I'm trying to figure out why he'd post such a ludicrous and trivially disprovable assertion. Either he's trying to own another news cycle, he really is that dumb, or he thinks that his customers really are that dumb.
I must try that next time I'm pulled over "Hey, pig, speed is irrelevant. So back the hell off, man, and let me get off the beaten track."
For us bikers who don't have the pleasure of living in Buttfuck, Arizona, or wherever you're talking about, speed is relevant, and GPS is pretty damn handy for finding the nearest fuel - you know, once you hit reserve. There's more than one type of biker, although whatever motorised armchair riding leather-chap wearing "boys' club" you're in would doubtless disagree.
Bingo, thanks for raising this issue. GPL2 does not state that it is irrevocable. Stallman and Moglen claim that it's implicit, but then went and added an explicit statement of irrevocability to GPL3. We'll need case law (in each jurisdiction) to decide whether the free ride can be terminated.
See, now I don't know whether to Friend you for being a really smart troll, or Foe you for being dumber and more stubborn than an inbred mule with a lobotomy.
As a pedal- and motor-cyclist, I can assure you that 99% of drivers on the road are operating their vehicles in such a way that they may kill someone, most likely me. The other 1% have pulled over to find the bottle of vodka that's rolled under the seat.
I dunno, from RTFA, he sounds pretty principled. I hope that's a comfort to him when Mozilla sack his ass for recommending that users cut off 97% of Mozilla's revenue.
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So... why weren't Microsoft aware of this? If you hire thieves, do you bear no responsibility for them stealing?
Terrarist...
In what weird alternative reality is screwing up North America not the end of the world? You're either with us, or with the volcanoes.
You're not going to pay top dorrah for a generic Made In China battery for a lawnmower or power tool, but you'll gladly pay a premium for higher quality electrons from a Japanese labeled battery in your iThinkBook. It's still Made In China, of course, but as long as you don't look too closely at it, you won't feel ripped off.
Remember that he was working in government, so of course he'd view everyone else like helpless retard-children incapable of doing anything for themselves.
My, what a verbose way of saying "No".
Say, can you name any country in the world where a "ruling class" does not rule over the "common man"?
I ask because the best that's on offer seems to be de facto plutocracies or aristocracies where the system is set up to offer a choice between Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum.
Let's read the license, shall we?
M'kay? If you distribute the objects commercially, then it's your responsibility to distribute or provide the source that you used.
I may? Oh, joy!
I completely agree with you, and thank you for saying what we're all thinking: now that I've got broadband - and health cover - screw everyone else. Filthy penniless scrounging hillbilly hippies; if they're going to die, they had better do it now, and decrease the surplus contention.
Hmm, I see what you're saying. Let's ignore the global scale of the problem, pick one counter-example that disproves it, quibble over the distinction between cause and effect, and mens rea and mens absentis, and say that Hitler didn't do anything wrong because other Nazis did wrong things too.
That is what you're saying, isn't it? Look, just admit that you love and worship your hero Hitler, and we can agree on where you're coming from.
Didn't Joshua Lincoln bring the laws on stone tablets down from a burning ark on Mount Rushmore? I'm pretty sure that's what I was taught in Civics 101.
Repetition for emphasis? How's that like what he did?
Two things amaze me:
One, that you can get more jail time for moving 440,000 from one DB column to another than for trying to have someone killed.
Two, that actual bankers that committed fraud to the tune of trillions were punished by (at most) being handsomely paid off and sentenced to go golfing for the rest of their lives.
What a strange "justice" system we've created for ourselves.
Yup. Number of people dumb enough to believe what he said rather than what he did: one, apparently.
I'm trying to figure out why he'd post such a ludicrous and trivially disprovable assertion. Either he's trying to own another news cycle, he really is that dumb, or he thinks that his customers really are that dumb.
The government?
Thanks! I do what I can, but I'm only one very small shell script.
I must try that next time I'm pulled over "Hey, pig, speed is irrelevant. So back the hell off, man, and let me get off the beaten track."
For us bikers who don't have the pleasure of living in Buttfuck, Arizona, or wherever you're talking about, speed is relevant, and GPS is pretty damn handy for finding the nearest fuel - you know, once you hit reserve. There's more than one type of biker, although whatever motorised armchair riding leather-chap wearing "boys' club" you're in would doubtless disagree.
Bingo, thanks for raising this issue. GPL2 does not state that it is irrevocable. Stallman and Moglen claim that it's implicit, but then went and added an explicit statement of irrevocability to GPL3. We'll need case law (in each jurisdiction) to decide whether the free ride can be terminated.
See, now I don't know whether to Friend you for being a really smart troll, or Foe you for being dumber and more stubborn than an inbred mule with a lobotomy.
Since you clearly haven't had any contact with Law Enforcement Inc. lately, I hardly think you're qualified to comment in this debate.
As a pedal- and motor-cyclist, I can assure you that 99% of drivers on the road are operating their vehicles in such a way that they may kill someone, most likely me. The other 1% have pulled over to find the bottle of vodka that's rolled under the seat.
If they had an agreement with Microsoft . Which they don't. Which you'd know if you'd read the article. Which you didn't. Busted, punk.
Indeed. "Indexing yesterdays's news, tomorrow" isn't exactly a marketing phrase that's going to set the world on fire.
I dunno, from RTFA, he sounds pretty principled. I hope that's a comfort to him when Mozilla sack his ass for recommending that users cut off 97% of Mozilla's revenue.