When I'm unhappy about some F/OSS I usually complain and submit bug reports to the maintainers. I try to do something constructive about the problem. I DON'T go about telling everybody how much the software sucks on some forum (like slashdot).
The nice thing about OSS is that you have the opportunity to fix things yourself. So PLEASE instead of complaining about some "user interface nightmare" on slashdot, do something about it! Fork or start a rewrite.
Or to correct myself: There is similiar organisations that "protect the rights" of the Copyright holders.
Although there have been reports that the police took action based on their own decisions, in the finnish case. I can imagine local Copyright holders reported them to the police though.
Well how about this: I develop a P2P system and advertise it as a general purpose P2P system, and people use it for spreading copyrighted material. Is the fact, that it is a P2P system, enough evidence that I released the software with the intent that it be used for copyright infringement? If this is the case then the law is a _major_ threat to the OSS community. I fear the media and public often think "P2P" == "piracy" and this will bias the interpretation of the law.
Well usually when you see such reports they are comparing apples and oranges. In the windows category they only include the default install of windows, and in the Linux category they take all imaginable popular programs and distro's.
The ieview extension could be used for getting your web developer friends to code the web-pages for mozilla first and then check if it works ok with IE. (You just right-click the URL and choose "Open link target in IE".)
The web developers I know sadly just use IE and then ignores the other browsers.
Well just trying might make people understand that bad patents actully hinders business. Only reasonable patents are good for the economy. The companies that are being abused by stupid patents SHOULD make a fuzz about it.
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Here's a link to the mentioned talk: Optimizing GNOME
I'll say it again.
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When I'm unhappy about some F/OSS I usually complain and submit bug reports to the maintainers. I try to do something constructive about the problem. I DON'T go about telling everybody how much the software sucks on some forum (like slashdot).
The nice thing about OSS is that you have the opportunity to fix things yourself. So PLEASE instead of complaining about some "user interface nightmare" on slashdot, do something about it! Fork or start a rewrite.
Or to correct myself: There is similiar organisations that "protect the rights" of the Copyright holders.
Although there have been reports that the police took action based on their own decisions, in the finnish case. I can imagine local Copyright holders reported them to the police though.
There's a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.
MPAA & friends have offices in these countries and they use the laws that are available to them.
Forget Perl 6. I want a Ruby compiler for Parrot. Anyway Perl 6's VM, Parrot, is a more important accomplishment than Perl 6, the language.
There's a torrent for eyeQ at suprnova.org for those who don't mind pirated software.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1002056&group_id=4421&atid=1044 21
Harmonization is always in the direction of the power. It doesn't have a thing to do with what's good for innovation anymore.
Well how about this: I develop a P2P system and advertise it as a general purpose P2P system, and people use it for spreading copyrighted material. Is the fact, that it is a P2P system, enough evidence that I released the software with the intent that it be used for copyright infringement?
If this is the case then the law is a _major_ threat to the OSS community.
I fear the media and public often think "P2P" == "piracy" and this will bias the interpretation of the law.
Another law taking away my freedom :(
Sure you're right. The info is stolen. BUT that doesn't make a good reason for modding it down, because it actually is good information anyway.
You're right... but I wonder how well hand-recognition and such things work.
I think the amount of subscribers nowadays actually is enough to have some slashdot-effect.
is it possible to run linux (reasonably well) on them yet?
Well usually when you see such reports they are comparing apples and oranges. In the windows category they only include the default install of windows, and in the Linux category they take all imaginable popular programs and distro's.
Yes, we are definitely coming closer and closer to the point when there is no major obstacle for switching to Linux on the desktop.
The ieview extension could be used for getting your web developer friends to code the web-pages for mozilla first and then check if it works ok with IE. (You just right-click the URL and choose "Open link target in IE".)
The web developers I know sadly just use IE and then ignores the other browsers.
Seems DavisDVD.com got to feel the power of slashdotting.
Heh yep. Sometimes having several tabs with slashdot in your browser can be confusing :(
Wow. There's endless possibilities to fool people with this. And the average Joe really trusts the info he gets from the Caller ID.
Wow. There's endless possibilities to fool people with this. And the average Joe really trusts the info he gets from the Caller ID.
Well just trying might make people understand that bad patents actully hinders business. Only reasonable patents are good for the economy.
The companies that are being abused by stupid patents SHOULD make a fuzz about it.