When they are debating about copyright for music or others, I say we can talk. But when they are talking about patents on medications and baby food, everything sudently become so scandalous. Like when Brazil had to fight on ineternational forums to be capable of helping it's AIDS dying population. What are they talking about?
I don't know where you got that Gandhi would one day spill blood but that is indeed a very original view. If you are really interested in Gandhi and what is life was about you could begin by reading the wikipedia article. He did go very far in his ideas about not pouring blood. From the know story of his life (and it is very documented) the most absolute thing was not to arm another living beeing. He was vegetarian. Please explain how Gandhi would not be peace.
That idea about defensive patent is all wrong. It should be clear that prior art is the best possible defence against patents. You don't patent something so that you won't be sued about the fonctionnality you are patenting.
There was a slashdot discussion last week where a Microsoft director was just explaining on his blog what Microsoft meant by defensive patent. He compared it with cold war. He stocked an awfull lot of patents and traitened everybody that if they use patents against Microsoft, they will use their portfolio against them. IBM did just that with SCO. Among they contersuits that were filled, they contersued on some unrelated patents infrigements.
Maybe someone can find what it was.. I don't remember it on the top of my head.
I've seen as bad. I eard about a story on some weapons of mass desructions. A freak said something about going to war for it. A powerfull nation (can't remember which) went on war for the WMD after another freak showed some unconvincing proof on TV.
well.. I think the stuff getting on fire are not that bad after all.
it basically says that when you use an API to access things like a DOM Node, you lose things like type checking and other advantages inherent to OO programming. They then go on and ask: "why not put that API in the language syntaxe?" The paper is great on the advantages of it has some very good examples.
Does anybody knows about Xen? It is a proposition for a programing language which use the document has a metaphor insteed of the object.
Is has many advantages and makes more then some sence from a webservices perpective. I would love to work on an opensource implementation of something like that. It could be based on python (for example). That would do a great mix with zope.
I, for one, am pretty much against regulation of encryption. But I do not want to fight any moral battle with peoples holding the flag of hate and self defence with guns.
I am french canadian. Viewed from here, the United-States are a very violent place indeed. Any hope to cure that by having everybody carry a gun goes so much against common sens that it is has hard to understand has terrorism (Fighting crime by terrorising the criminals with commun paoples guns has commun roots with terrorism).
I am a strong supporter of freedom, but not of freedom where everybody is affraid of it's brother. RMS showed us this week that he was not a leader to follow anywhere. Make your mind about encryption with earth and intelligence. Most of all, don't blindly follow the ideas of a guru of violence. Love of difference is hard to keep growing, but it just make the fight more important.
I am a former Mandrake user who switched to Debian.
urpmi works great to install a new package. But I never got it to upgrade the distribution. Going from Mandrake 7.0 to Mandrake 7.1 for example, was always very complicated. It was not working right when I added different repository, like the kde newest version.
I never had those problems with Debian. I started with potato and upgraded to woody with no pain at all. Not even a reboot. I now have the freashed kde available and it is very easy to keep up with what is new.
Thought I may have been a poor user of urpmi, it's lake of upgrade capability was the key in my decision to switch.
No problem with releasing under two licenses. thought, there is no way that you can force somebody to pay for your GPL program. That would be against the point.
You can still offer to send your product with a cd-rom for a fee.. or still better, offer a some support for the product for a fee once again.
There are many others ways to make money from your program. If it become popular, you'll be at the best spot to charge for support.
A politic or an idea should always be judged by it's effects rather then by it's promises. An idea which is defended up to the death of some innocents loses a lot of it's appeal.
The French and Russian revolutions where all about great ideas. Ideas Which were worth figthing for. The French wanted liberty, equality, and friendship among mens. But when Robespierre instored the "Terreur" for the sake of those ideas. When he want on killing the men he perceived has enemy of those ideas, he killed more then his enemies. He killed the ideas he was fighting for. Staline fell in the same trap.
Free speech is great because it permits men to live a better live. It permits men to grow in wisdom, freedom and keeps them going forward. But freedom of speech is never going to be more important then the lifes of mens and womens it was first supposed to help.
Mourir pour des idées d'accord
mais de mort lente
d'accord mais de more lente
Georges Brassens
Sorry for my bad english, but I had to answer.
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Baby food now?
I don't know where you got that Gandhi would one day spill blood but that is indeed a very original view. If you are really interested in Gandhi and what is life was about you could begin by reading the wikipedia article. He did go very far in his ideas about not pouring blood. From the know story of his life (and it is very documented) the most absolute thing was not to arm another living beeing. He was vegetarian. Please explain how Gandhi would not be peace.
That idea about defensive patent is all wrong. It should be clear that prior art is the best possible defence against patents. You don't patent something so that you won't be sued about the fonctionnality you are patenting.
There was a slashdot discussion last week where a Microsoft director was just explaining on his blog what Microsoft meant by defensive patent. He compared it with cold war. He stocked an awfull lot of patents and traitened everybody that if they use patents against Microsoft, they will use their portfolio against them. IBM did just that with SCO. Among they contersuits that were filled, they contersued on some unrelated patents infrigements.
Maybe someone can find what it was.. I don't remember it on the top of my head.
well.. I think the stuff getting on fire are not that bad after all.
well here is a great paper about it: the article
it basically says that when you use an API to access things like a DOM Node, you lose things like type checking and other advantages inherent to OO programming. They then go on and ask: "why not put that API in the language syntaxe?" The paper is great on the advantages of it has some very good examples.
Does anybody knows about Xen? It is a proposition for a programing language which use the document has a metaphor insteed of the object.
Is has many advantages and makes more then some sence from a webservices perpective. I would love to work on an opensource implementation of something like that. It could be based on python (for example). That would do a great mix with zope.
Anybody knows if something like that exists?
wow
I, for one, am pretty much against regulation of encryption. But I do not want to fight any moral battle with peoples holding the flag of hate and self defence with guns.
I am french canadian. Viewed from here, the United-States are a very violent place indeed. Any hope to cure that by having everybody carry a gun goes so much against common sens that it is has hard to understand has terrorism (Fighting crime by terrorising the criminals with commun paoples guns has commun roots with terrorism).
I am a strong supporter of freedom, but not of freedom where everybody is affraid of it's brother. RMS showed us this week that he was not a leader to follow anywhere. Make your mind about encryption with earth and intelligence. Most of all, don't blindly follow the ideas of a guru of violence. Love of difference is hard to keep growing, but it just make the fight more important.
urpmi works great to install a new package. But I never got it to upgrade the distribution. Going from Mandrake 7.0 to Mandrake 7.1 for example, was always very complicated. It was not working right when I added different repository, like the kde newest version.
I never had those problems with Debian. I started with potato and upgraded to woody with no pain at all. Not even a reboot. I now have the freashed kde available and it is very easy to keep up with what is new.
Thought I may have been a poor user of urpmi, it's lake of upgrade capability was the key in my decision to switch.
You can still offer to send your product with a cd-rom for a fee.. or still better, offer a some support for the product for a fee once again.
There are many others ways to make money from your program. If it become popular, you'll be at the best spot to charge for support.
good luck
A politic or an idea should always be judged by it's effects rather then by it's promises. An idea which is defended up to the death of some innocents loses a lot of it's appeal. The French and Russian revolutions where all about great ideas. Ideas Which were worth figthing for. The French wanted liberty, equality, and friendship among mens. But when Robespierre instored the "Terreur" for the sake of those ideas. When he want on killing the men he perceived has enemy of those ideas, he killed more then his enemies. He killed the ideas he was fighting for. Staline fell in the same trap. Free speech is great because it permits men to live a better live. It permits men to grow in wisdom, freedom and keeps them going forward. But freedom of speech is never going to be more important then the lifes of mens and womens it was first supposed to help. Mourir pour des idées d'accord mais de mort lente d'accord mais de more lente Georges Brassens Sorry for my bad english, but I had to answer.