Quarantine chillingly recounts an incident in which the CDC is called in to quarantine a zombie outbreak.
(Not to be confused with the cDc, which may in fact be responsible for zombie outbreaks.)
And this should not be relevant to the airplane which landed in the Hudson River today, as that was a commercial plane and its location was known by a number of bystanders, one of whom helped crash TwitPic.
Once, a woman wanted to work in a remote area of the office for some peace and quiet, so we configured her laptop for wi-fi, showed her how to use it, and sent her on her way.
She comes back a few hours later to say that it stopped working. By "it", I mean the laptop -- the battery had run out because she hadn't plugged it into the wall to recharge.
The reason: "I thought you guys told me I had wireless."
You didn't specify OS, though I reckon it's probably an open source one. However, I'll post this anyway, in case it can help anyone:
Under Windows, you can add the driver for the "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" printer, pointed at the FILE: port (i.e., it prints to a file). The resulting files are PostScript. You can then install GhostScript (either on its own or as part of Cygwin) and use the ps2pdf utility to convert it to PDF. It's not very featureful (e.g., it can't generate document indices or anything), but it looks sharp.
Also, ps2pdf.com apparently allows you to upload a.ps file and download a.pdf file without having to install GhostScript on your machine.
1. Make sure your licensing follows the simple requirements in the 1st para of section 6.
2. Provide the LGPL library in a separate jar, and allow that jar to be replaced by newer versions of the library.
This is only one of the possible ways to comply, but it's certainly the easiest.
3. Make available the source code for the LGPL library.
Lawn darts (way before congress banned them). Now that I think of the games we played, it was probably good that those went...
Hey, I remember those. The people down the street used to have a set. There's something satisfying about the unpredictability of throwing heavy, sharp metal things into the air to see where they land -- much like throwing your standard wall darts, only better. There was this one time when my friend tossed one up and I caught it -- in my back. Mom really loved that one.
By releasing under the GPL, you're subscribing to certain ideas, such as software is Free, there should be no IP rights surrounding software.
There is more at stake to "IP rights" than ownership of ideas. In the case of trademark, it becomes ownership of your reputation. Your name is a proxy for who you are and what you stand for. That right transcends the ownership of code or ideas. You therefore would probably not want to condone use of your name in manners which wrongly associate you with things with which you have not chosen to associate. This is why things such as credit card fraud, libel, and slander are illegal.
I don't think there is anyone arguing for legalization of these things -- at least, no-one in a position to be defrauded, libeled, or slandered.
One of the tricky angles about trademarks is that if you knowingly allow other people to use them out of context (e.g., naming their products or services with your trademark), your trademark can be stripped due to dilution. As such, it is essential that anyone wishing to keep trademarks protect them, even by giving a blanket license to those using them in order to allow them to continue to use them. Or, the trademark holder might not want to license, but that's their prerogative.
The BSD license might have saved them from this mess.
Would it?
The GPL gives license to the code, not the name. Even if the BSD license were used, the only difference in this case would be that NuSphere MySQL Advantage would be a legally closed-source product violating MySQL AB's trademark, as opposed to an illegally closed-source product violating MYSQL AB's trademark as it is today.
At least with the GPL, we have the possibility of opening up the source of this new product. This is the least that Monty deserves for indirectly having donated his time to the NuSphere project, without which NuSphere MySQL Advantage would not exist.
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Quarantine chillingly recounts an incident in which the CDC is called in to quarantine a zombie outbreak. (Not to be confused with the cDc, which may in fact be responsible for zombie outbreaks.)
It's hard being a gangsta in Lynwood.
Does that mean that TwitPic was crashdotted?
True story:
Once, a woman wanted to work in a remote area of the office for some peace and quiet, so we configured her laptop for wi-fi, showed her how to use it, and sent her on her way.
She comes back a few hours later to say that it stopped working. By "it", I mean the laptop -- the battery had run out because she hadn't plugged it into the wall to recharge.
The reason: "I thought you guys told me I had wireless."
You didn't specify OS, though I reckon it's probably an open source one. However, I'll post this anyway, in case it can help anyone:
Under Windows, you can add the driver for the "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" printer, pointed at the FILE: port (i.e., it prints to a file). The resulting files are PostScript. You can then install GhostScript (either on its own or as part of Cygwin) and use the ps2pdf utility to convert it to PDF. It's not very featureful (e.g., it can't generate document indices or anything), but it looks sharp.
Also, ps2pdf.com apparently allows you to upload a .ps file and download a .pdf file without having to install GhostScript on your machine.
Good luck!
1. Make sure your licensing follows the simple requirements in the 1st para of section 6.
...
2. Provide the LGPL library in a separate jar, and allow that jar to be replaced by newer versions of the library. This is only one of the possible ways to comply, but it's certainly the easiest.
3. Make available the source code for the LGPL library.
4.
5. Profit!
Lawn darts (way before congress banned them). Now that I think of the games we played, it was probably good that those went...
Hey, I remember those. The people down the street used to have a set. There's something satisfying about the unpredictability of throwing heavy, sharp metal things into the air to see where they land -- much like throwing your standard wall darts, only better. There was this one time when my friend tossed one up and I caught it -- in my back. Mom really loved that one.
Man, those things were fun!
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There is more at stake to "IP rights" than ownership of ideas. In the case of trademark, it becomes ownership of your reputation. Your name is a proxy for who you are and what you stand for. That right transcends the ownership of code or ideas. You therefore would probably not want to condone use of your name in manners which wrongly associate you with things with which you have not chosen to associate. This is why things such as credit card fraud, libel, and slander are illegal. I don't think there is anyone arguing for legalization of these things -- at least, no-one in a position to be defrauded, libeled, or slandered.
One of the tricky angles about trademarks is that if you knowingly allow other people to use them out of context (e.g., naming their products or services with your trademark), your trademark can be stripped due to dilution. As such, it is essential that anyone wishing to keep trademarks protect them, even by giving a blanket license to those using them in order to allow them to continue to use them. Or, the trademark holder might not want to license, but that's their prerogative.
Would it?
The GPL gives license to the code, not the name. Even if the BSD license were used, the only difference in this case would be that NuSphere MySQL Advantage would be a legally closed-source product violating MySQL AB's trademark, as opposed to an illegally closed-source product violating MYSQL AB's trademark as it is today.
At least with the GPL, we have the possibility of opening up the source of this new product. This is the least that Monty deserves for indirectly having donated his time to the NuSphere project, without which NuSphere MySQL Advantage would not exist.