You seem to be confused on the difference between "rights" and "privileges". Perhaps you need to sit at the back of the bus and think about that for a second.
Netrek 2006, for example, has a BSD/MIT style license that says "Do what thou wilt except re-license under a (L)GPL or similarly viral license". The author of that license specifically identifies GPL as reducing the freedoms of the developer, which to be fair I'm inclined to agree with.
How difficult is typing "apt-get install --reinstall foo"?
Again, what's 'foo'? There's no point in Grandma Josephine writing that down on her 3x5. What's the actual command?
The only difficult part is finding that information when you're an average user who doesn't have access to a GUI web browser.
Are you really so arrogant that you assume that the kind of user who's likely to bork their GUI and not know how to fix it from the command line also has a spare machine sitting right there where they can Google a solution?
Even if they do, according to you, the solution is "apt-get install --reinstall foo". Would you care to take this opportunity to provide one that might actually work, or are you more interested in demonstrating that you could do so, if it was in your idiom to actually help people rather than to just demonstrate your smug superiority?
With Ubuntu, you don't have to. You type "apt-get install --reinstall foo" and it works again.
OK, enough hypotheticals, grandpa. What's 'foo'? Tell me what apt-get command to run to fix a borken GUI. The actual command that will fix any conflict or misconfiguration, that I need to decide on and write down now, before my GUI goes tits up. That's your proposed solution, so demonstrate how it would actually work, without waffling and hand waving and "Oh, I could find that out if I had to." jibba jabba. You have to find it out before you're forced to do so, so show us how easy it is to do that.
>Personally, I find it far, Far, FAR, FAR blah blah blah
You've got a 4 digit UID. I submit that you're not representative of the bulk of potential GNU/Linux users. Calm down, grandad, nobody is suggesting taking your command line away from you. You can still do it the hard way if you want to, now that you've been forced to learn how, and the cognitive dissonance has kicked in. But there's no need for it to be so hard for a first time user to learn how to fix the GUI on their one and only computer.
Did you pause to consider that? How do you find out how to fix the GUI on your only box? Google via Lynx?
It didn't start as a NASA project, but it wasn't 'never' a NASA project, even if they only adopted it in order to kill it. Given your UID, you're probably a geezer, so I'll cut you some slack for not knowing how to look that up on the intartubes.
Project Orion was nuclear powered spacecraft. Are their Marketdroids really so bereft of imagination that they couldn't think of another name for the STS replacement?
Wow, you really embody the zeitgeist of the Free Software movement. I guess you posted your catechismic response before bothering to read what you were responding to. Or you simply didn't care. Either way, I give you top marks for scaring more of us towards Open rather than Free licenses.
I'd ask myself "Do I REALLY want the salary increase for this?". My "manager" just surfs the intartubes all day, and once a week asks me to create a task list that he never looks at. He's the perfect boss.
Au contrair; it's a bullshit ruling, as it requires TorrentSpy to substantially degrade their service. It's not just about the cost of storage, or even of modifying their software. It's that it gimps their servers.
High load servers don't touch the hard drive unless absolutely necessary. It's all about staying in RAM. Logging every IP connection, even if it's buffered and done occasionally, is going to degrade their performance. It'd be like obliging Burger King write draw a sketch of every customer by hand before serving them their grease-and-starch.
My 4 year old son knows to mute the TV when adverts come on. Start them off with good habits early, I reckon.
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> >people appear to be willing to pay for Opera Mini in that context.
Opera Mini appears to be free now as well to end users. They also give it to OEMs in return for putting an Opera button on their handset, to buy mindshare. It was a decent plan, but they needed to get a mortal lock-in on OEMs, and they fell a little short. Even when giving their product away, Opera hasn't managed to displace Access or Picsel browsers, both of which OEMs are happy to pay hard cash for. I do like Opera (both their products and their company), but I think that their post-IPO future is looking a bit lean.
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Counter: a civic duty is not a legal duty, and does not trump your rights. If they're not exercisable, then they're not rights.
And merely refusing to consent to a search is not, and cannot be, reasonable suspicion.
You seem to be confused on the difference between "rights" and "privileges". Perhaps you need to sit at the back of the bus and think about that for a second.
And he likes to take his punishment from a paid professional. Kinky.
You can do all that from the command line; it's just that on Windows, you don't have to.
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Netrek 2006, for example, has a BSD/MIT style license that says "Do what thou wilt except re-license under a (L)GPL or similarly viral license". The author of that license specifically identifies GPL as reducing the freedoms of the developer, which to be fair I'm inclined to agree with.
Again, what's 'foo'? There's no point in Grandma Josephine writing that down on her 3x5. What's the actual command?
Are you really so arrogant that you assume that the kind of user who's likely to bork their GUI and not know how to fix it from the command line also has a spare machine sitting right there where they can Google a solution?
Even if they do, according to you, the solution is "apt-get install --reinstall foo". Would you care to take this opportunity to provide one that might actually work, or are you more interested in demonstrating that you could do so, if it was in your idiom to actually help people rather than to just demonstrate your smug superiority?
OK, enough hypotheticals, grandpa. What's 'foo'? Tell me what apt-get command to run to fix a borken GUI. The actual command that will fix any conflict or misconfiguration, that I need to decide on and write down now, before my GUI goes tits up. That's your proposed solution, so demonstrate how it would actually work, without waffling and hand waving and "Oh, I could find that out if I had to." jibba jabba. You have to find it out before you're forced to do so, so show us how easy it is to do that.
You've got a 4 digit UID. I submit that you're not representative of the bulk of potential GNU/Linux users. Calm down, grandad, nobody is suggesting taking your command line away from you. You can still do it the hard way if you want to, now that you've been forced to learn how, and the cognitive dissonance has kicked in. But there's no need for it to be so hard for a first time user to learn how to fix the GUI on their one and only computer.
Did you pause to consider that? How do you find out how to fix the GUI on your only box? Google via Lynx?
It didn't start as a NASA project, but it wasn't 'never' a NASA project, even if they only adopted it in order to kill it. Given your UID, you're probably a geezer, so I'll cut you some slack for not knowing how to look that up on the intartubes.
Your mom needs you to take the trash out.
Project Orion was nuclear powered spacecraft. Are their Marketdroids really so bereft of imagination that they couldn't think of another name for the STS replacement?
Indeed, the main thrust of their claim is "Newer components are faster and cheaper than old ones." Gasps of surprise.
Wow, you really embody the zeitgeist of the Free Software movement. I guess you posted your catechismic response before bothering to read what you were responding to. Or you simply didn't care. Either way, I give you top marks for scaring more of us towards Open rather than Free licenses.
I'd ask myself "Do I REALLY want the salary increase for this?". My "manager" just surfs the intartubes all day, and once a week asks me to create a task list that he never looks at. He's the perfect boss.
Perhaps not even that. The 17.6% mentions unit sales, but the 5.6% doesn't. If it's 5.6% by price, then it's probably fewer than 1 in 18.
Earth to Citizen of Earth; the license applies to distributors, not recipients.
Au contrair; it's a bullshit ruling, as it requires TorrentSpy to substantially degrade their service. It's not just about the cost of storage, or even of modifying their software. It's that it gimps their servers.
High load servers don't touch the hard drive unless absolutely necessary. It's all about staying in RAM. Logging every IP connection, even if it's buffered and done occasionally, is going to degrade their performance. It'd be like obliging Burger King write draw a sketch of every customer by hand before serving them their grease-and-starch.
I don't really follow your point. What are you trying to say?
Its rediculus 2 loose you're temper over that.
My 4 year old son knows to mute the TV when adverts come on. Start them off with good habits early, I reckon.
Opera Mini appears to be free now as well to end users. They also give it to OEMs in return for putting an Opera button on their handset, to buy mindshare. It was a decent plan, but they needed to get a mortal lock-in on OEMs, and they fell a little short. Even when giving their product away, Opera hasn't managed to displace Access or Picsel browsers, both of which OEMs are happy to pay hard cash for. I do like Opera (both their products and their company), but I think that their post-IPO future is looking a bit lean.
Yerrrs, about that.
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Step 1: Give away free browser.
Step 2:
Step 3: IPO!
There are companies that still produce browsers that are good enough for people to pay money for them. Opera is not one of those companies.
Only if you're within 52 light years of him.