I've always thought that Debian was a tad on the snobby side with the whole GPL thing, to the point of being rather unworkable.
what? if your project is committed to remaining GPL-compatible and a contributor relicenses code that's fundamentally incompatible with that, what do you expect them to do?
debian did the right thing, in a straight-forward and even gracious way.
I submitted my patch to SGI. They wanted copyright assignation from me (no problem) but also from the original author. I emailed Jörg and he was very helpful and polite. He worked through the inane process that SGI legal set out for us and signed over copyright on the code to SGI all on the say-so of some stranger he'd never met.
i'm not sure i get this fully, but it does sound like he was cooperative when it resulted in code being released under a non-Free license...? what license was SGI using?
Perhaps the entire question of religion and its effect on societies could be better rephrased to ask if there's a religious framework out there that has demonstrated the best ability to curb violence and hatred.
you will not resolve "the entire question of religion" by evaluating its effect on society. first you will have to resolve whether the objects of religious belief are actually *real* or *imaginary*.
if they're imaginary, you can go on to discuss whether religious fantasies have a net positive or negative effect on some aspect of society. if they're real, you have quite another discussion on your hands.
Neelie Kroes doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals of business. If the EU fines MS $357M, MS can simply raise the price of their European software by $357M. The net effect is that the European consumers pay the fine rather than MS itself.
if that were true, it would be a de facto admission of microsoft's monopoly power. how many other companies could simply raise their prices, arbitrarily and at will, without suffering consequences in the marketplace?
however, the fact is that microsoft has a monopoly only within a certain price range. if they were to increase their prices, say, five-fold, their market share in europe would dwindle precipitously, and linux would get the lion's share of that difference.
that would be an even greater threat to microsoft: their position is so strong because their software is almost universal world-wide. people using alternatives still elicit rolling eyes and sighs from the technologically ignorant when they encounter the odd person or three who require documents in a non-microsoft format. if that number jumped to 30% of the people they deal with on a daily basis, they wouldn't be so ignorant after awhile.
and microsoft thrives on the inertia and ignorance if its customers.
Great, they slapped Microsoft hands for this but who is getting all this money and what are they gonna do with it?
is that even remotely as significant as the fact that someone is finally standing up to microsoft? imagine the precendent set if large corporations could thumb their noses at the law at will in the manner microsoft is doing. (yes, i know, i know.)
if windowsupdate.microsoft.com were hacked, you can bet your ass there'd be a nice big banner stating so because that is the "golden egg" of hacks.
this is not the kind of hack anyone cares about. i don't care if someone posts a "frodo crew rulez" banner on some site - i do care if someone is putting compromised packages up that find their way onto my machines.
would a massively-replicated and -distributed p2p database of song information be a better answer to this need? why put all the eggs in one cranky-developer basket, especially when such a large number of individuals have contributed their typing to building it?
evil devil people! every body know that we was all come downe from adam and the whore eve who rode to church on dino-saurs on sundays! this is what jesus teches us.
it's bizarre watching so many people jump through these software vendors' hoops like trained pekingese dogs at a circus. i haven't used a proprietary OS in about five years.
do yourself, and your self-respect, a favor, and make the switch. it's easier than ever these days. really.
Unless of course Microsoft's plan all along was to slowly replace all Google employees with former Microsoft ones. And when the code word is leaked they'll all revolt and start a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
you know what? i actually spent a few moments wondering if that were the case.
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as amazing as it may be to you, it's possible to make a negative observation about someone who is wealthy unmotivated by jealousy.
i'd like to map my nuts to her face.
in that bastion of free thought, texas.
god how i despise these propagandistic manipulative bastards.
there is nothing the least bit hypocritical about the GPL, your wordlery notwithstanding.
what? if your project is committed to remaining GPL-compatible and a contributor relicenses code that's fundamentally incompatible with that, what do you expect them to do?
debian did the right thing, in a straight-forward and even gracious way.
i'm not sure i get this fully, but it does sound like he was cooperative when it resulted in code being released under a non-Free license...? what license was SGI using?
amen to that. goodbye, and good riddance.
congrats to the debian team for maintaining their standards.
*MAN*, that just makes me want to beat the shit out of someone and fuck them in the ass!
>> If there is prior art before you file your patent application, then it isn't valid.
thanks for clarifying this. i was starting to freak out a little bit.
you will not resolve "the entire question of religion" by evaluating its effect on society. first you will have to resolve whether the objects of religious belief are actually *real* or *imaginary*.
if they're imaginary, you can go on to discuss whether religious fantasies have a net positive or negative effect on some aspect of society. if they're real, you have quite another discussion on your hands.
they're making room for the rich people.
if that were true, it would be a de facto admission of microsoft's monopoly power. how many other companies could simply raise their prices, arbitrarily and at will, without suffering consequences in the marketplace?
however, the fact is that microsoft has a monopoly only within a certain price range. if they were to increase their prices, say, five-fold, their market share in europe would dwindle precipitously, and linux would get the lion's share of that difference.
that would be an even greater threat to microsoft: their position is so strong because their software is almost universal world-wide. people using alternatives still elicit rolling eyes and sighs from the technologically ignorant when they encounter the odd person or three who require documents in a non-microsoft format. if that number jumped to 30% of the people they deal with on a daily basis, they wouldn't be so ignorant after awhile.
and microsoft thrives on the inertia and ignorance if its customers.
i see government trying to foster competition in the market. what do you see that i don't?
is that even remotely as significant as the fact that someone is finally standing up to microsoft? imagine the precendent set if large corporations could thumb their noses at the law at will in the manner microsoft is doing. (yes, i know, i know.)
but with a compromised dev machine, one could patch in back door code that gets signed as valid.
this is not the kind of hack anyone cares about. i don't care if someone posts a "frodo crew rulez" banner on some site - i do care if someone is putting compromised packages up that find their way onto my machines.
ahh, good. i was just starting to stand up.
thanks. this reprehensible underhanded covert marketing really makes the linux community look GREAT.
do yourself and everyone a favor: explain this and/or admit and apologize.
would a massively-replicated and -distributed p2p database of song information be a better answer to this need? why put all the eggs in one cranky-developer basket, especially when such a large number of individuals have contributed their typing to building it?
evil devil people! every body know that we was all come downe from adam and the whore eve who rode to church on dino-saurs on sundays! this is what jesus teches us.
every body know that we was all come downe from adam and the whore eve who rode to church on dino-saurs on sundays! this is what jesus teches us.
do yourself, and your self-respect, a favor, and make the switch. it's easier than ever these days. really.
luckily for all concerned, the office got together and bought ballmer this recently.
you know what? i actually spent a few moments wondering if that were the case.