The solution to speech you don't like is more speech, not less speech. There are no acceptable governmental limitations on speech. Private parties may choose not to cooperate with you if they don't like your speech, or may require that you indemnify them if you shout "theatre" in a crowded fire. -russ
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Brunner's Shockwave Rider should be there, as should be the Adolescence of P-1. -russ
Richard cares more about his own freedom than he does about gaining mainstream popularity for freedom. You said it yourself; I'm just filling in-between the lines. -russ
You're mistaking the institution that spends donations for the donations themselves. The people who want to help would still want to help even if the UN did not exist. Thus, you should be comparing the UN with the set of institutions that don't exist simply because the UN does -- not against what would happen if everybody stopped caring. -russ
What part of "no law" don't you understand? You're being incredibly naive here. The founders of our country are wiser than you will ever be. As soon as you give Congress the ability to shut people up, the people they will shut up are the ones that threaten them. What is the biggest threat to a legislator? They got elected by the current majority, so they have an interest in protecting themselves from minority ideas. Marketplaces provide forums for minority ideas. So, they must shut down markets with Campaign Finance Reform. -russ
Interesting that a post with no replies got moderated as a 'Troll'. With no replies it could hardly have been a good attempt at trolling. I think, instead, that the moderator simply disagrees with what I had to say. Unfortunately, there's no 'Fuckwit' reason for moderating somebody down -- it would be a lot more honest if the moderator could have chosen that reason. -russ
That is, my boy, why there is no science in global warming. Ten years from now we'll be laughing at the idea of global warming, just as we laugh now at global cooling. Those of us who have been dubious at the idea of spending X% of our GDP reducing carbon emissions will have the last laugh. -russ
Is the codec patented? The only way you'll see a distro ship the codec is if it's patent-free, if the patent is licensed on a royalty-free basis, or if the distro can buy a flat-rate patent license for a reasonable sum of money. -russ
The parent of this isn't a troll. If it's a troll, then Keith Bostic has also been trolling over the years, and I doubt that. Yes, it does appear that there is a tension between having to do a good enough job that people like your software, but a lousy enough job that people need to buy your services. But, really, I haven't gotten all THAT much business through bugfixing. Most of my business has come from people with different requirements, e.g. it does X; that's great, but we need it to do Y on the Z platform.
For example, I had a packet driver customer who wanted to put packet drivers into an air traffic control system, but he needed to detect hardware transmission errors so that he could log hardware failure. I had another customer who was building special Ethernet hardware for operating rooms, and the existing packet driver needed changes relative to network connection detection.
The worst business I've had has been bug fixes, because, damnit, if I could have fixed the bug in the first place, I would have! -russ
Sheesh! You silly moderators! It's obvious that the AC submittor was making a play against the "BSD is dying" joke. It's not a troll in any way, although of course originally the "BSD is dying" folks were seriously trolling. Now, "X is dying" on slashdot isn't meant to be taken seriously. Basically, they were trolling, yes, but not for people to reply, but instead for humorless moderators to mod them down. -russ
If they're signing, why do they need music? Deaf people can't..... oh I see, the signing is for the deaf people, and the music is for the hearing people! -russ
It's widely believed that oreganized crime is deeply embedded in Bollywood financing, herbs, and spices. Indian slashdot readers will be coming online shortly, and I'm sure that some of them will concur. -russ
I agree with you: some open doors are not invitations to enter. Some are, though. From the cultural context, people understand that some doors you may walk through (e.g. stores) and others you may not (private residences). Thus, you cannot claim that "open source" only means that you may just examine the source. From the cultural context of software, "open source" means all the rights granted by the Open Source Definition. I also agree with you that people may not understand that immediately. Once they look into the issue more, they will. Further research will not lead them into thinking it has the meaning you claim it does.
For people to think open source means what you say, they must be and remain ignorant of most people's opinions. That's not something humans do very well.
I *am* the brutesquad (Fezzick gets all the best lines.) -russ
The meaning of a word comes from the way people use it. If you use "open source" to mean "flibberty-flobberty", then all of the other people who use it to mean "software distributed under a license that complies with the open source definition" will wonder about your sanity.
And I don't care about your retarded princess bride bullshit.
It was a trap for the humorless. You fell into it headfirst. -russ
We actually didn't talk that much about the terms of the license. We pointed out that we want reusable licenses (so it should say Licensor instead of Microsoft). We also pointed out that there's huge amounts of hostility to Microsoft simply because they're Microsoft, and that the licenses would be more widely reused if they followed Sun's model of not naming the license after themselves. You can see that Sun learned their lesson between submitting the SISSL and the CDDL.
But yeah, licensing minutia can be painful. I'd rather program in PDP-8 assembly language, but we can't leave this kind of important stuff to lawyers. Not even lawyers who understand coding, e.g. Larry Rosen, Larry Lessig, Mitchell Baker, and Karl Auerbach. -russ
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The solution to speech you don't like is more speech, not less speech. There are no acceptable governmental limitations on speech. Private parties may choose not to cooperate with you if they don't like your speech, or may require that you indemnify them if you shout "theatre" in a crowded fire.
-russ
Brunner's Shockwave Rider should be there, as should be the Adolescence of P-1.
-russ
Richard cares more about his own freedom than he does about gaining mainstream popularity for freedom. You said it yourself; I'm just filling in-between the lines.
-russ
You're mistaking the institution that spends donations for the donations themselves. The people who want to help would still want to help even if the UN did not exist. Thus, you should be comparing the UN with the set of institutions that don't exist simply because the UN does -- not against what would happen if everybody stopped caring.
-russ
Surely people should NOT be able to pay to have ads for some politician in the paper.
Gasp! Imagine if people were free to say anything they wanted??? We can't have that!
Move to some other country, John, where fucktards like me can't tell you where to fucking go.
-russ
I guess this is just part of the price of free speech.
Exactly. Free speech is not free of cost or consequences. It's just that all the alternatives are worse.
-russ
What part of "no law" don't you understand? You're being incredibly naive here. The founders of our country are wiser than you will ever be. As soon as you give Congress the ability to shut people up, the people they will shut up are the ones that threaten them. What is the biggest threat to a legislator? They got elected by the current majority, so they have an interest in protecting themselves from minority ideas. Marketplaces provide forums for minority ideas. So, they must shut down markets with Campaign Finance Reform.
-russ
The GP2X has a 320x240 screen. The 770 has an 800x600 screen, wifi, and bluetooth. They're nothing like comparable.
-russ
Interesting that a post with no replies got moderated as a 'Troll'. With no replies it could hardly have been a good attempt at trolling. I think, instead, that the moderator simply disagrees with what I had to say. Unfortunately, there's no 'Fuckwit' reason for moderating somebody down -- it would be a lot more honest if the moderator could have chosen that reason.
-russ
suggest not that climate is some preplanned externally determined thing, caused by the hand of God moving a knob on a thermostat somewhere.
Good thing you don't live in Kansass.
-russ
That is, my boy, why there is no science in global warming. Ten years from now we'll be laughing at the idea of global warming, just as we laugh now at global cooling. Those of us who have been dubious at the idea of spending X% of our GDP reducing carbon emissions will have the last laugh.
-russ
Is the codec patented? The only way you'll see a distro ship the codec is if it's patent-free, if the patent is licensed on a royalty-free basis, or if the distro can buy a flat-rate patent license for a reasonable sum of money.
-russ
Sony will only have an XYZ killer when they abandon Digital Restrictions Management. Who wants to buy restrictions?
-russ
But there's no reason why you couldn't have multiple root systems.
And there's no reason (except for the confusion it would cause) why we can't ALL be called Larry Lessig.
-larry
The parent of this isn't a troll. If it's a troll, then Keith Bostic has also been trolling over the years, and I doubt that. Yes, it does appear that there is a tension between having to do a good enough job that people like your software, but a lousy enough job that people need to buy your services. But, really, I haven't gotten all THAT much business through bugfixing. Most of my business has come from people with different requirements, e.g. it does X; that's great, but we need it to do Y on the Z platform.
For example, I had a packet driver customer who wanted to put packet drivers into an air traffic control system, but he needed to detect hardware transmission errors so that he could log hardware failure. I had another customer who was building special Ethernet hardware for operating rooms, and the existing packet driver needed changes relative to network connection detection.
The worst business I've had has been bug fixes, because, damnit, if I could have fixed the bug in the first place, I would have!
-russ
doesnt help a programmer pay the bills though.
I've managed to pay my bills selling support for the last 14 years. First for packet drivers, then for qmail.
-russ
... and I suppose you don't pay taxes either?
-russ
Sheesh! You silly moderators! It's obvious that the AC submittor was making a play against the "BSD is dying" joke. It's not a troll in any way, although of course originally the "BSD is dying" folks were seriously trolling. Now, "X is dying" on slashdot isn't meant to be taken seriously. Basically, they were trolling, yes, but not for people to reply, but instead for humorless moderators to mod them down.
-russ
If they're signing, why do they need music? Deaf people can't ..... oh I see, the signing is for the deaf people, and the music is for the hearing people!
-russ
It's widely believed that oreganized crime is deeply embedded in Bollywood financing, herbs, and spices. Indian slashdot readers will be coming online shortly, and I'm sure that some of them will concur.
-russ
Only 1 film in 12 makes a profit? Perhaps the films are not intended to make a profit, but instead are money laundering?
-russ
I think we're going to have to disagree. People reading this can figure out on their own that you are trying to fly a tattered flag.
Oh, you mean this gate key?
-russ
I agree with you: some open doors are not invitations to enter. Some are, though. From the cultural context, people understand that some doors you may walk through (e.g. stores) and others you may not (private residences). Thus, you cannot claim that "open source" only means that you may just examine the source. From the cultural context of software, "open source" means all the rights granted by the Open Source Definition. I also agree with you that people may not understand that immediately. Once they look into the issue more, they will. Further research will not lead them into thinking it has the meaning you claim it does.
For people to think open source means what you say, they must be and remain ignorant of most people's opinions. That's not something humans do very well.
I *am* the brutesquad (Fezzick gets all the best lines.)
-russ
The meaning of a word comes from the way people use it. If you use "open source" to mean "flibberty-flobberty", then all of the other people who use it to mean "software distributed under a license that complies with the open source definition" will wonder about your sanity.
And I don't care about your retarded princess bride bullshit.
It was a trap for the humorless. You fell into it headfirst.
-russ
We actually didn't talk that much about the terms of the license. We pointed out that we want reusable licenses (so it should say Licensor instead of Microsoft). We also pointed out that there's huge amounts of hostility to Microsoft simply because they're Microsoft, and that the licenses would be more widely reused if they followed Sun's model of not naming the license after themselves. You can see that Sun learned their lesson between submitting the SISSL and the CDDL.
But yeah, licensing minutia can be painful. I'd rather program in PDP-8 assembly language, but we can't leave this kind of important stuff to lawyers. Not even lawyers who understand coding, e.g. Larry Rosen, Larry Lessig, Mitchell Baker, and Karl Auerbach.
-russ