A Call For Open Governance Of X Development Persistent problems in XFree86 development have become widely recognisedwithin the X community. I have talked to people throughout the X community in a search for solutions. These conversations were personal rather than public because I felt the need for council, not conflict. Some have suggested that this was a secret attempt to undermine the XFree86 project: this was not my intent. I have tried as hard as I can to work within the existing XFree86 structure.
Some of the most persistent problems identified by the community are:
Limited development resources
The 'fetchmail' project has contributions from over 800 developers. Over the last two years there were about 250 contributors to XFree86, a project more than a hundred times larger.
Slow release schedules
Since the XFree86 4.2 release in January 2002, support for 27 new versions of the ATI Radeon chip was added to the XFree86 Radeon driver. Anyone using one of these chips was either forced to wait for the February 2003 release of XFree86 4.3 or run an unreleased version of XFree86.
Lack of cooperation with other projects
The KDE and Gnome projects were forced to form the freedesktop.org project to extend and enhance X Window System standards because XFree86 refused even to participate in the process.
Opacity of development processes
There is no information available on the XFree86 home page on becoming an XFree86 developer. Information for new developers consists of the mention of a couple of mailing list addresses in the README document included in the XFree86 4.3 release.
I have made limited progress in my attempts to address these issues. The opening of the XFree86 CVS repository and developer mailing lists to public access has benefitted X development significantly. In order to improve the technical coordination with other open source projects, I have become personally involved in many of them.
Within the last couple of months I have come to understand why these persistent problems have not been solved by the X community. By X community, I mean:
Developers working on the X server and libraries. Developers working on ancillary X extensions and services such as the DRI and GATOS projects. Developers working on Qt, Gtk+, Fltk, Tk, Motif and other toolkits. Application developers using either Xlib or an X toolkit. System integrators and distributors packaging X technology in various forms. Consulting companies selling services based on X. Hardware vendors producing hardware to work with X. X End users.
The key issue is that XFree86 is not a community-governed project.
XFree86 processes and procedures originate with the Directors of the XFree86 Corporation. Technical leadership of the XFree86 project has traditionally been provided by the XFree86 Core Team, an informal association of leading XFree86 developers.
While the XFree86 Board of Directors is nominally in charge of XFree86, they have absented themselves from governing the project and left that to the XFree86 Core Team. The community is left wondering who is actually in charge of XFree86. As a result, community trust in XFree86 leadership has suffered. Decisions appear to be arbitrary and are not seen to reflect the will of the community. The leadership has no accountability to the community: thus community members have no ability to change project direction and the Board has little incentive to do so. In addition, the lack of clear formal policies has made it difficult to resolve disputes when the usual consensus breaks down.
It is therefore essential for the community to be involved in the governance of X development. Two key elements in a community-governed project are:
1. A low barrier to become a voting member. 2. Regular elections of the government by all of the members.
Community governed projects such as Gnome, KDE and Debian have well-established membership policies. All allow anyone with the inter
but he still has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in his system. AIDS is just a state where your immune system have been broken down to the point where almost any virus makes you quite ill. Many people who have HIV do not even develop AIDS for years.
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I hate legalese, don't you ?
Ironic that this relatively short license which is somewhat BSD style is actually copyleft or "viral" in nature. Look closely at the section before the diclaimer boiler-plate. Maybe it should be called the DPL (Darren Public License) BSD advocates typically rant on and on about how GPL is terrible the way it contaminates software, and yet somehow this license is considered OK?
Many people here have made and interesting observation about the journal's that Jamie has pointed out. Journal's aren't easily viewed or found. There really should be a quick and easy links provided on the slashdot frontpage that take you to the ten most popular or most active journal's. Yeah Slashdot also has a way to add your own SID but how is anyone going to find it? Again maybe a link to most popular user created SID's.
Fork the code. Reimplement new fetures. That is what should be done. When people asked about Mozilla reay being open source the response was that you are always able to "do what is right, fork the code" This is the best thing anytime someone trys to take source away mid project. It would be one thing if this was closed from the beginning, but making major license changes like this is asking for trouble and upset developers. OpenSSH vs SHH anyone? Yes thats BSD. People say GPL projects can't be forked but they certainly can be and there are some examples of that as well. I believe OpenRacer vs Tux Racer is one. There was another having to do with file systems. Anyone remember what that one was called?
Exactly! They probably bought the expensive audio hardware when they money was rolling in. Now things are tough and they already have hardware and PCs but don't have any extra cash. The investment in the audio hardware is made once in a while with less need for an upgrade merry-go-round like the insane pc industry. Only now are people hanging on to older PC equipment. Again this is the economic downturn combined with the fact that an older 500Mhz or so machine is far from being usless. Why toss perfectly good hardware when new software is all that is needed?
That 100% number is the same regardless of what we do. There is a 100% chance that some terrorist groups will "attempt" to strike at the US. Notice the emphasis on "attempt" If we do nothing they will simply wait a while longer before they attack as making more plans and trying something as coordinated as last time. Since we are striking now they will attempt a more hasty and more ricky stike back sooner. As someone else already pointed out this means there is a better chance of catching these groups before the damage is done and lives are lost. There is something that is bothering me though. What if some of these terrorist cells already have secondary attack plans in place. This would be more likely to be some plan thought up in advance as cooridinated as the Sept 11 attacks. I know many members have been caught and that hopefully will help things but there is at least one known member still out there somewhere who has not been caught. They say he fled the US but who knows. In any case we cannot just sit on around and not respond because we are afraid of what may happen. The moment we respond to these attacks with fear is the moment the terrorist have won.
Just send a boolean "true" back whenever a server asks if a window is open or anything. Now I don't know much Javascript but are you only able to query "hey, is the window called 'bigbanner' open?" and then get a boolean true or false or is Javascript able to say "hey, give me a list of all the popups open" and you then check to see if the window called 'bigbanner' is in the list of windows returned. The second method of pop-up detection would be much harder to get around since the only possible way to avert it is to hack javascript in such a way that when window.open occurs it gets added to the list of open windows even though it does not appear. You know the more website try to push the issue the more people will want to block this stuff. I have no problem with banner ads. Even animated ones are ok by me. It is pop-ups and the javascript "punch the monkey" ads that really get on my nerves.
What I am complaining about is the spoiler info on the Slashdot opening homepage. As I said with movies spoiler stuff is inside after you click the link and there are even warnings saying so. You know, little messages like "caution: spoilers ahead" Slashdot does this when reviewing movies for people who haven't seen the movie yet. I was only suggesting the same thing should be done for series premiers like this as well. In order to not see that "commander whatchamacallit has no personality" and some other stuff I tried to avoid reading I would have to avert my eyes before I scroll down or maybe just not visit Slashdot until after Saturday.
In my market it won't be on until Saturday evening. Check www.wfft.com and go to Saturday the 29th and you see it there on the schedule (yes UPN shows are actually run on the FOX network here). So to really be safe the article should not have any details about the commanders or anything. I want to find out about the characters for myself. I know movies don't come out the same time for everyone and Slashdot generally has kept the spoilers inside.
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But it is not perfect. What about exact pharse searches? Try this search on google. "to be or not to be, that is the question" Google first hit is something about horticulture, huh?!? "To spray or not to spray?" And the rest of the hits have nothing to do with Shakespeare. Now try the same exact search on Altavista you actually get Shakespeare related sites. Google is great for topic search especially multiple topics. With Altavista it is +linux +filtering +security but Google is automatically ANDed. It is just to bad that Google's advanced search to turn on exact phase matching doesn't actually work. I tried the Google advanced search page but I got the same results as the standard page. Lycos has an advanced search with exact match and it did give the good results, so what is the deal with Google? I realize this may be redundant and others on Slashdot have mentioned this problem with Google. The question is: Is there a way around this or a fix in the works? Has anyone else experienced this?
I hearby invoke the "Godwin" precedent and rule that all clauses in the GPL are fully legal and in force. Court adjourned.
Has Slashdot's own search been removed for good?
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I was wondering if Slashdot was going to stick with "google search" indefinitely or is Slashdot going to bring back there own search engine. I really hope the regular Slashdot search comes back. Google just doesn't cut it when searching for something specific. I wanted to go back to a story about a benchmark and review of DDR motherboards used with Linux. So I tried the following search: linux ddr motherboards
and this is what I got:
Slashdot | Pentium 4 Under Linux
... Under Linux, I would not buy a P4... Re:Why didn't they use DDR RAM on the AMD? by Splork... someone
out there selling G4 motherboards with standard form factors and...
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/15/209215.shtml - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
Slashdot | Linux Intel Chipset Comparison
... it in march, and i run linux on it, and it performs... Re:Athlon Motherboards... (Score:1)
by Diabolus (troy... until we start seeing DDR mobos hit the shelves (any...
www.slashdot.org/articles/00/12/18/056248.shtml - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
Slashdot | AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux
... on several single-CPU motherboards; check your favourite vendor's... Quake3 demo benchmarks
under linux on the following boards... with 256 meg ddr sdram running at...
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/12/1838238.shtml - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
Slashdot | Intel To Drop Rambus Exclusivity, Support SDRAM
... problems with the newest linux kernels - but widespread - well... the cost of producing
motherboards and chipsets, but... need two seperate 400MHz DDR channels to get...
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/26/1153225.shtml - 89k - Cached - Similar pages
That is just the first few but I looked through a number of them and I couldn't find the story I was looking for.
A couple of more buildings that are unstable
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MSNBC said that One Liberty Plaza where Nasdaq is located has a crack in it. They mentioned some other building too.
Dog located something in the Empire State Building
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It is possibly a bomb. I just heard this on MSNBC. People are being cleared from the Empire State building. More later.
According to MSNBC 40 story WTC 7 has come down as well. I tried to find more info on there page but there doesn't appear to be any. Please post more infomation or other links if you have them.
I am not certain of that Sklyarov will have a jury trial but I would think that a jury or a judge would share many of the same guidelines for the determination of guilt. That being the case I would just like to point out this site. which outlines many of the powers that a jury has. Note this fourth bulleted item.
When they believe justice requires it, jurors can refuse to apply the law. Jurors have the power to consider whether the law itself is wrong (including whether it is "unconstitutional"), or is being applied for political reasons. Is the defendant being singled out as "an example" in order to demonstrate government muscle? Were the defendant's constitutional rights violated during the arrest? Much of today's "crime wave" consists of victimless crimes--crimes against the state, or "political crimes", so if you feel that a verdict of guilty would give the government too much power, or help keep a bad law alive, just remember that you can refuse to apply any law that violates your conscience.
By these guidelines I would say a jury (or judge) would be perfectly justified in declaring Dmitry not guilty.
At least the concept is not new. There was something called QTScape done a very long time ago right when the Mozilla project first started. Of course back then the code was based on the old Navigator code and is completely outdated. Its good to know there is some work being done on this though. I think that using the QT toolkit good give Mozilla a significant speed improvement. I know that Konq. is fast as well but it would be interesting to compare the speed of these two browsers when they run on the same toolkit. I have a feeling that Konq. would still be a little faster but perhaps not by nearly as much. Plus Mozilla has many features that Konq. doesn't have.
I don't mean to try and take away from the LiViD team. They were the first to start working on a DVD player for linux, and there work has provided the basis but there are several other DVD players for linux. But there are other players which many have reported to be better than oms in the areas of configuration, performance and audio sync. One of these is call VideoLAN which several others have mentioned. It now has css support much like OMS and the performance is suppose to be quite good on lower end system. VideoLAN is not quite as old as OMS but the source was only made available more recently hence less exposure. I believe most of the code in VideoLAN was developed independently of LiViD code except css of course. There is another which has called Xine which is the newest one but reported to be one of the best. I believe this one used the LiVid video and sound system but has tweaked synchronization and performance as well as adding some other feature. This one is also designed to be compatible across several free unix type platforms including *BSD. Note that the standard version of Xine does not come with css support but it can be added with a plugin from here as well as a version with the plugin already built in here. Again what LiViD has done is great but competition as always is good. The only thing I would like to see is some unified plugin standard for these players so that any css plugin could work with any of the DVD players. That way if new DVD's come out that break the current CSS updates could occur much easier for all the projects.
How can I hack into something I paid money for. I bought the dvd and player. It is mine. I can use it however I like. It is true that the content on a DVD is still copyrighted and you can't redistribute that content. But the DMCA isn't about content. It is about giving an excessive amount of protection to a certain class of encryption algorithms. I should be able to toss bits at a piece of hardware and see what happens all day if I like. I you saying that using the "print to file" function of the Windows print dialog for a simple image and then using that output to create printer drivers for linux or *bsd or any other system is illegal. If so then their are a dozen or so ghostscript drivers out there for Lexmark and HP printers that should be considered illegal.
The most threatened material like decss or cuecat should be preserved, along with various software that my be patented in some counties but not others (Lame, BladeEnc etc) Also, anything useful that has the potential to draw legal threats like reverse engineered device drivers for WinPrinters (Lexmark), WinModems, parallel port win-scanners. Think about it. If Digital Convergence can go after software drivers on linux and claim that there secret protocol is protected IP then every other dumb hardware manufacturer out there could go after all sorts of drivers for Linux or any other OS other than windows. Some companies have been successful in squashing certain software such as cp4break, glide wrappers simply because mirroring didn't happen fast enough.
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A Call For Open Governance Of X Development
Persistent problems in XFree86 development have become widely recognisedwithin the X community. I have talked to people throughout the X
community in a search for solutions. These conversations were personal rather than public because I felt the need for council, not conflict.
Some have suggested that this was a secret attempt to undermine the XFree86 project: this was not my intent. I have tried as hard as I can to work within the existing XFree86 structure.
Some of the most persistent problems identified by the community are:
Limited development resources
The 'fetchmail' project has contributions from over 800 developers. Over the last two years there were about 250 contributors to XFree86, a project more than a hundred times larger.
Slow release schedules
Since the XFree86 4.2 release in January 2002, support for 27 new versions of the ATI Radeon chip was added to the XFree86 Radeon driver. Anyone using one of these chips was either forced to wait for the February 2003 release of XFree86 4.3 or run an unreleased version of XFree86.
Lack of cooperation with other projects
The KDE and Gnome projects were forced to form the freedesktop.org project to extend and enhance X Window System standards because XFree86 refused even to participate in the process.
Opacity of development processes
There is no information available on the XFree86 home page on becoming an XFree86 developer. Information for new developers consists of the mention of a couple of mailing list addresses in the README document included in the XFree86 4.3 release.
I have made limited progress in my attempts to address these issues. The opening of the XFree86 CVS repository and developer mailing lists to public access has benefitted X development significantly. In order to improve the technical coordination with other open source projects, I have become personally involved in many of them.
Within the last couple of months I have come to understand why these persistent problems have not been solved by the X community. By X community, I mean:
Developers working on the X server and libraries. Developers working on ancillary X extensions and services such as the DRI and GATOS projects.
Developers working on Qt, Gtk+, Fltk, Tk, Motif and other toolkits. Application developers using either Xlib or an X toolkit. System integrators and distributors packaging X technology in various forms. Consulting companies selling services based on X. Hardware vendors producing hardware to work with X. X End users.
The key issue is that XFree86 is not a community-governed project.
XFree86 processes and procedures originate with the Directors of the XFree86 Corporation. Technical leadership of the XFree86 project has
traditionally been provided by the XFree86 Core Team, an informal association of leading XFree86 developers.
While the XFree86 Board of Directors is nominally in charge of XFree86, they have absented themselves from governing the project and left that to the XFree86 Core Team. The community is left wondering who is actually in charge of XFree86. As a result, community trust in XFree86 leadership has suffered. Decisions appear to be arbitrary and are not seen to reflect the will of the community. The leadership has no accountability to the community: thus community members have no ability to change project direction and the Board has little incentive to do so. In addition, the lack of clear formal policies has made it difficult to resolve disputes when the usual consensus breaks down.
It is therefore essential for the community to be involved in the governance of X development. Two key elements in a community-governed project are:
1. A low barrier to become a voting member.
2. Regular elections of the government by all of the members.
Community governed projects such as Gnome, KDE and Debian have well-established membership policies. All allow anyone with the inter
Simple solution, use a bigger box!
Of course it will look a little silly to buy software in boxes bigger than the computer.
but he still has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in his system. AIDS is just a state where your immune system have been broken down to the point where almost any virus makes you quite ill. Many people who have HIV do not even develop AIDS for years.
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I hate legalese, don't you ?
Ironic that this relatively short license which is somewhat BSD style is actually copyleft or "viral" in nature. Look closely at the section before the diclaimer boiler-plate. Maybe it should be called the DPL (Darren Public License) BSD advocates typically rant on and on about how GPL is terrible the way it contaminates software, and yet somehow this license is considered OK?
Many people here have made and interesting observation about the journal's that Jamie has pointed out. Journal's aren't easily viewed or found. There really should be a quick and easy links provided on the slashdot frontpage that take you to the ten most popular or most active journal's. Yeah Slashdot also has a way to add your own SID but how is anyone going to find it? Again maybe a link to most popular user created SID's.
Fork the code. Reimplement new fetures. That is what should be done. When people asked about Mozilla reay being open source the response was that you are always able to "do what is right, fork the code" This is the best thing anytime someone trys to take source away mid project. It would be one thing if this was closed from the beginning, but making major license changes like this is asking for trouble and upset developers. OpenSSH vs SHH anyone? Yes thats BSD. People say GPL projects can't be forked but they certainly can be and there are some examples of that as well. I believe OpenRacer vs Tux Racer is one. There was another having to do with file systems. Anyone remember what that one was called?
Exactly! They probably bought the expensive audio hardware when they money was rolling in. Now things are tough and they already have hardware and PCs but don't have any extra cash. The investment in the audio hardware is made once in a while with less need for an upgrade merry-go-round like the insane pc industry. Only now are people hanging on to older PC equipment. Again this is the economic downturn combined with the fact that an older 500Mhz or so machine is far from being usless. Why toss perfectly good hardware when new software is all that is needed?
That 100% number is the same regardless of what we do. There is a 100% chance that some terrorist groups will "attempt" to strike at the US. Notice the emphasis on "attempt" If we do nothing they will simply wait a while longer before they attack as making more plans and trying something as coordinated as last time. Since we are striking now they will attempt a more hasty and more ricky stike back sooner. As someone else already pointed out this means there is a better chance of catching these groups before the damage is done and lives are lost. There is something that is bothering me though. What if some of these terrorist cells already have secondary attack plans in place. This would be more likely to be some plan thought up in advance as cooridinated as the Sept 11 attacks. I know many members have been caught and that hopefully will help things but there is at least one known member still out there somewhere who has not been caught. They say he fled the US but who knows. In any case we cannot just sit on around and not respond because we are afraid of what may happen. The moment we respond to these attacks with fear is the moment the terrorist have won.
Just send a boolean "true" back whenever a server asks if a window is open or anything. Now I don't know much Javascript but are you only able to query "hey, is the window called 'bigbanner' open?" and then get a boolean true or false or is Javascript able to say "hey, give me a list of all the popups open" and you then check to see if the window called 'bigbanner' is in the list of windows returned. The second method of pop-up detection would be much harder to get around since the only possible way to avert it is to hack javascript in such a way that when window.open occurs it gets added to the list of open windows even though it does not appear. You know the more website try to push the issue the more people will want to block this stuff. I have no problem with banner ads. Even animated ones are ok by me. It is pop-ups and the javascript "punch the monkey" ads that really get on my nerves.
What I am complaining about is the spoiler info on the Slashdot opening homepage. As I said with movies spoiler stuff is inside after you click the link and there are even warnings saying so. You know, little messages like "caution: spoilers ahead" Slashdot does this when reviewing movies for people who haven't seen the movie yet. I was only suggesting the same thing should be done for series premiers like this as well. In order to not see that "commander whatchamacallit has no personality" and some other stuff I tried to avoid reading I would have to avert my eyes before I scroll down or maybe just not visit Slashdot until after Saturday.
In my market it won't be on until Saturday evening. Check www.wfft.com and go to Saturday the 29th and you see it there on the schedule (yes UPN shows are actually run on the FOX network here). So to really be safe the article should not have any details about the commanders or anything. I want to find out about the characters for myself. I know movies don't come out the same time for everyone and Slashdot generally has kept the spoilers inside.
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But it is not perfect. What about exact pharse searches? Try this search on google. "to be or not to be, that is the question" Google first hit is something about horticulture, huh?!? "To spray or not to spray?" And the rest of the hits have nothing to do with Shakespeare. Now try the same exact search on Altavista you actually get Shakespeare related sites. Google is great for topic search especially multiple topics. With Altavista it is +linux +filtering +security but Google is automatically ANDed. It is just to bad that Google's advanced search to turn on exact phase matching doesn't actually work. I tried the Google advanced search page but I got the same results as the standard page. Lycos has an advanced search with exact match and it did give the good results, so what is the deal with Google? I realize this may be redundant and others on Slashdot have mentioned this problem with Google. The question is: Is there a way around this or a fix in the works? Has anyone else experienced this?
I hearby invoke the "Godwin" precedent and rule that all clauses in the GPL are fully legal and in force. Court adjourned.
I was wondering if Slashdot was going to stick with "google search" indefinitely or is Slashdot going to bring back there own search engine. I really hope the regular Slashdot search comes back. Google just doesn't cut it when searching for something specific. I wanted to go back to a story about a benchmark and review of DDR motherboards used with Linux. So I tried the following search: linux ddr motherboards
... Re:Why didn't they use DDR RAM on the AMD? by Splork ... someone
...
... Re:Athlon Motherboards... (Score:1)
... until we start seeing DDR mobos hit the shelves (any ...
... Quake3 demo benchmarks
... with 256 meg ddr sdram running at ...
l - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
... the cost of producing
... need two seperate 400MHz DDR channels to get ...
l - 89k - Cached - Similar pages
and this is what I got:
Slashdot | Pentium 4 Under Linux
... Under Linux, I would not buy a P4
out there selling G4 motherboards with standard form factors and
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/15/209215.shtml - 69k - Cached - Similar pages
Slashdot | Linux Intel Chipset Comparison
... it in march, and i run linux on it, and it performs
by Diabolus (troy
www.slashdot.org/articles/00/12/18/056248.shtml - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
Slashdot | AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux
... on several single-CPU motherboards; check your favourite vendor's
under linux on the following boards
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/12/1838238.shtm
Slashdot | Intel To Drop Rambus Exclusivity, Support SDRAM
... problems with the newest linux kernels - but widespread - well
motherboards and chipsets, but
www.slashdot.org/articles/01/07/26/1153225.shtm
That is just the first few but I looked through a number of them and I couldn't find the story I was looking for.
MSNBC said that One Liberty Plaza where Nasdaq is located has a crack in it. They mentioned some other building too.
It is possibly a bomb. I just heard this on MSNBC. People are being cleared from the Empire State building. More later.
According to MSNBC 40 story WTC 7 has come down as well. I tried to find more info on there page but there doesn't appear to be any. Please post more infomation or other links if you have them.
I am not certain of that Sklyarov will have a jury trial but I would think that a jury or a judge would share many of the same guidelines for the determination of guilt. That being the case I would just like to point out this site. which outlines many of the powers that a jury has. Note this fourth bulleted item.
When they believe justice requires it, jurors can refuse to apply the law. Jurors have the power to consider whether the law itself is wrong (including whether it is "unconstitutional"), or is being applied for political reasons. Is the defendant being singled out as "an example" in order to demonstrate government muscle? Were the defendant's constitutional rights violated during the arrest? Much of today's "crime wave" consists of victimless crimes--crimes against the state, or "political crimes", so if you feel that a verdict of guilty would give the government too much power, or help keep a bad law alive, just remember that you can refuse to apply any law that violates your conscience.
By these guidelines I would say a jury (or judge) would be perfectly justified in declaring Dmitry not guilty.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is warning programmers not to go to the US or they could be arrested. Check out the story here.
Under the DMCA a Danish translator could be considered a circumvention device.
At least the concept is not new. There was something called QTScape done a very long time ago right when the Mozilla project first started. Of course back then the code was based on the old Navigator code and is completely outdated. Its good to know there is some work being done on this though. I think that using the QT toolkit good give Mozilla a significant speed improvement. I know that Konq. is fast as well but it would be interesting to compare the speed of these two browsers when they run on the same toolkit. I have a feeling that Konq. would still be a little faster but perhaps not by nearly as much. Plus Mozilla has many features that Konq. doesn't have.
I don't mean to try and take away from the LiViD team. They were the first to start working on a DVD player for linux, and there work has provided the basis but there are several other DVD players for linux. But there are other players which many have reported to be better than oms in the areas of configuration, performance and audio sync. One of these is call VideoLAN which several others have mentioned. It now has css support much like OMS and the performance is suppose to be quite good on lower end system. VideoLAN is not quite as old as OMS but the source was only made available more recently hence less exposure. I believe most of the code in VideoLAN was developed independently of LiViD code except css of course. There is another which has called Xine which is the newest one but reported to be one of the best. I believe this one used the LiVid video and sound system but has tweaked synchronization and performance as well as adding some other feature. This one is also designed to be compatible across several free unix type platforms including *BSD. Note that the standard version of Xine does not come with css support but it can be added with a plugin from here as well as a version with the plugin already built in here. Again what LiViD has done is great but competition as always is good. The only thing I would like to see is some unified plugin standard for these players so that any css plugin could work with any of the DVD players. That way if new DVD's come out that break the current CSS updates could occur much easier for all the projects.
How can I hack into something I paid money for. I bought the dvd and player. It is mine. I can use it however I like. It is true that the content on a DVD is still copyrighted and you can't redistribute that content. But the DMCA isn't about content. It is about giving an excessive amount of protection to a certain class of encryption algorithms. I should be able to toss bits at a piece of hardware and see what happens all day if I like. I you saying that using the "print to file" function of the Windows print dialog for a simple image and then using that output to create printer drivers for linux or *bsd or any other system is illegal. If so then their are a dozen or so ghostscript drivers out there for Lexmark and HP printers that should be considered illegal.
The most threatened material like decss or cuecat should be preserved, along with various software that my be patented in some counties but not others (Lame, BladeEnc etc) Also, anything useful that has the potential to draw legal threats like reverse engineered device drivers for WinPrinters (Lexmark), WinModems, parallel port win-scanners. Think about it. If Digital Convergence can go after software drivers on linux and claim that there secret protocol is protected IP then every other dumb hardware manufacturer out there could go after all sorts of drivers for Linux or any other OS other than windows. Some companies have been successful in squashing certain software such as cp4break, glide wrappers simply because mirroring didn't happen fast enough.