What about rendering farms? If these devices are as good as they're hyped up to be, stringing a bunch of these things together and using scripting languages like Perl and Python should kick some computational butt!
Could Microsoft and Apple be working 'Behind the scenes' again? Or could this be a way for Microsoft to make some inroads with Apple? Or just another way for Microsoft to make inroads to world domination?
Me? I'm betting on the last one. With OSX largely based on FreeBSD, and many BSDs offering binary emulation support, potentionally Microsoft's C# (and therefore other Microsoft software) could find its way happily running on BSD based servers.
Oh, and going 'shared source' just think of security holes this will open up!
I'll stick with Perl & PHP, thank you.
In the case of DLLs loaded at runtime, there is never a time when the GPL'd code is combined with the rest of the software to form a derivative work. Interaction with the DLL is in the form of interfaces where the operating system mediates the exchange of data between the calling program and the DLL, and the return of data from the DLL to the calling program. The two pieces of code are never combined into one whole program.
I disagree. The calling program requires the GPL DLL before it can operate, and therefore cannot be considered independant and serperate.
I guess I just can't understand copyright. I mean, I've always thought that if one creates the content and makes it well identified that they created that content (whether that content is code, graphics, paintings, books, what have you). Then the creator of the content has the right to do with whatever he/she wishes (to distribute it for free, ask a fee, to hide it from the world or present it in bright, shiny lights).
The case MPAA vrs 2600 is just plain stupid (as is RPAA vrs Napster). OK, granted, the MPAA is 'protecting' the copyrights of content creator's movie encoded onto the DVD, but the purchaser should also have the right to do with the purchase as they see fit (to play it, to hack it, to destory it) because they bought the rights to access the content.
But terms of the copyright on DeCCS...
Did the MPAA develop DeCCS? NooooooOOOooo...
Therefore, does the MPAA have the right to tell a website if it can or cannot link or display content they didn't create? (everyone chime in now) NooooOOOoooo...
Why? Because they didn't develop it, and have no rights governing its use.
Its a war, ladies and gentlemen, and should be treated as such. If someone breaks your encryption, you develop a new one to protect your secrets, plain and simple.
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How about sticking a browser on 'em and sell them to Libraries as internet Kiosks /w TVs?!
What about rendering farms? If these devices are as good as they're hyped up to be, stringing a bunch of these things together and using scripting languages like Perl and Python should kick some computational butt!
Could Microsoft and Apple be working 'Behind the scenes' again? Or could this be a way for Microsoft to make some inroads with Apple? Or just another way for Microsoft to make inroads to world domination? Me? I'm betting on the last one. With OSX largely based on FreeBSD, and many BSDs offering binary emulation support, potentionally Microsoft's C# (and therefore other Microsoft software) could find its way happily running on BSD based servers. Oh, and going 'shared source' just think of security holes this will open up! I'll stick with Perl & PHP, thank you.
That money would be better spent on the International Space Station.
In the case of DLLs loaded at runtime, there is never a time when the GPL'd code is combined with the rest of the software to form a derivative work. Interaction with the DLL is in the form of interfaces where the operating system mediates the exchange of data between the calling program and the DLL, and the return of data from the DLL to the calling program. The two pieces of code are never combined into one whole program. I disagree. The calling program requires the GPL DLL before it can operate, and therefore cannot be considered independant and serperate.
Good SQL developers get big bucks, So of course IBM is going to sell it.
Haven't you heard? You can run ipfilter on Linux since version 3.2. See http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ipfil-new.html
Multiple www and ftp sites can be placed on a single server
You must be suicidal to want to do that, especially if your hardware ain't up to the task.
Just wait for your local happy go lucky script kiddie, and feel the burn when you spend hours restoring all the data you lost.
I guess I just can't understand copyright. I mean, I've always thought that if one creates the content and makes it well identified that they created that content (whether that content is code, graphics, paintings, books, what have you). Then the creator of the content has the right to do with whatever he/she wishes (to distribute it for free, ask a fee, to hide it from the world or present it in bright, shiny lights). The case MPAA vrs 2600 is just plain stupid (as is RPAA vrs Napster). OK, granted, the MPAA is 'protecting' the copyrights of content creator's movie encoded onto the DVD, but the purchaser should also have the right to do with the purchase as they see fit (to play it, to hack it, to destory it) because they bought the rights to access the content. But terms of the copyright on DeCCS... Did the MPAA develop DeCCS? NooooooOOOooo... Therefore, does the MPAA have the right to tell a website if it can or cannot link or display content they didn't create? (everyone chime in now) NooooOOOoooo... Why? Because they didn't develop it, and have no rights governing its use. Its a war, ladies and gentlemen, and should be treated as such. If someone breaks your encryption, you develop a new one to protect your secrets, plain and simple.