It wasn't that we weren't granted a trademark. It was that we gave up because it was too hard to defend as a trademark. Microsoft has a trademark on Windows, whowouddathunkit, but they have a gazillabucks for lawsuits to defend it. On the other hand, while we don't have any legal authority to stop people from misuing "open source", we have the moral authority to do it. -russ p.s. Hi, Eric!
It gets better. http://quaker.org/ and better yet: http://quaker.org/meetings.html -russ p.s. I actually got a very lucrative job involving international travel precisely BECAUSE my web page is designed by a hacker. They chose me, you see, because they didn't want to deal with marketing nonsense.
It takes great insight to realize that a server will get slashdotted. -russ p.s. hey slashcode! I can post an insightful comment more than once every two minutes, okay! Lay off!
If you say "I'm not going to sue you over X", and then you go ahead and do it, the judge will basically say "If you don't believe yourself, why should we?" -russ
The one button mouse never made sense because you need two: one to select a noun and the other to select a verb. Fitt's law says that you want the verb button to pop up a pie menu in place. So, pick with the left, and act on it using the right. -russ
Actually, McDonald's have been running Open Source Software since around 1989. They use the GPL'ed packet driver collection to communicate between the registers and the back of house system. There was a time when I had open source software running on more CPUs than any other person. -russ p.s. hehe.
Sheesh, you both have it wrong. It was a billboard just north of the California border that said "Oregon: A Nice Place to Visit", with the emphasis on "visit". We used to live there back in 1981. Worked at HP's Calculator Division in Corvallis. Worked on the HP-41 CMOS power supply chip. "Oh, I heard that the HP-41 only ever had a bipolar power supply chip." You'd be right, sigh. Never did get the damned thing working, but at least we scared Harris into improving its incoming yield rate. -russ
It's not Open Source. Jef has chosen to use a Creative Commons license which is not Open Source. It restricts commercial use. I've suggested that this is incorrect, but Jef doesn't take outside input very well. -russ
except that Microsoft has no need to make back the money they lose,
Sure! What they lose on individual sales, they make back on volume! -russ p.s. no, they really do need to make back the money they lose, eventually. If they don't, then the maneuver is called "unprofitable".
I understand that it may happen. But does it make money? If it makes money sometimes, how often? Is it worth the risk of not making money? Is it worth the cost to a company's reputation?
Companies do a lot of things that don't make money. The best do fewer; the worst many. -russ
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Maybe I'm typing slower on a QWERTY keyboard, but I still manage to type my/. replies in less than 20 seconds... and get hit by Malda's spamtrap. -russ
Carl is the antispam dude for AOL, and you're an Anonymous Coward. Carl understands that the problem is trojaned PCs. THAT is what he's talking about ISPs taking responsibility for. -russ
The reason to do nothing ineffective now (e.g. Kyoto) is that it will be cheaper to address the problems as they occur later than to prevent them now. This is true for four reasons: 1) the time value of money, 2) a free market society gets richer and richer all the time, 3) new technologies get invented all the time, and 4) scientists are just guessing (remember Global Cooling?). -russ
Back in 1975, I was told that we were going to run out of oil by 1980... and I was SO looking forward to driving. Obviously that hasn't happened. Probably never will. -russ
Smallpox was endemic in Europe and nonexistent in America. As soon as the first person infected with smallpox came to America from Europe, millions of people were doomed to die. It doesn't matter if the Europeans thought that was a good thing or not. It was inevitable given travel between continents. What would you have had them do? Not travel? Treat Americans like bubble boys? -russ
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It wasn't that we weren't granted a trademark. It was that we gave up because it was too hard to defend as a trademark. Microsoft has a trademark on Windows, whowouddathunkit, but they have a gazillabucks for lawsuits to defend it. On the other hand, while we don't have any legal authority to stop people from misuing "open source", we have the moral authority to do it.
-russ
p.s. Hi, Eric!
And he looks like a librarian.
Thank you, Jason, I take that as a sincere compliment. Librarians are some of the fiercest defenders of the right to read.
-russ
Yeah, I do.
-russ
Read my chapter of the upcoming Open Sources book.
-russ
It gets better. http://quaker.org/
and better yet: http://quaker.org/meetings.html
-russ
p.s. I actually got a very lucrative job involving international travel precisely BECAUSE my web page is designed by a hacker. They chose me, you see, because they didn't want to deal with marketing nonsense.
"tantrum junkie"? I love it! Thanks!
-russ
p.s. try archive.org. My point remains.
Who's Ayn Rand?
-russ
It takes great insight to realize that a server will get slashdotted.
-russ
p.s. hey slashcode! I can post an insightful comment more than once every two minutes, okay! Lay off!
If you say "I'm not going to sue you over X", and then you go ahead and do it, the judge will basically say "If you don't believe yourself, why should we?"
-russ
If you had a shotgun, and saw a fish in a barrel, you'd shoot it.
-russ
Microsoft created kerberos.
-russ
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
i = 0
k = 1
ary = []
ary.append(None)
while ( i != 0 ):
inl = sys.stdin.readline()
if inl:
j = int(inl)
ary.append(j)
k = k + 1
else:
i = 0
j = 1
while (j k):
print ary[j]
The one button mouse never made sense because you need two: one to select a noun and the other to select a verb. Fitt's law says that you want the verb button to pop up a pie menu in place. So, pick with the left, and act on it using the right.
-russ
Actually, McDonald's have been running Open Source Software since around 1989. They use the GPL'ed packet driver collection to communicate between the registers and the back of house system. There was a time when I had open source software running on more CPUs than any other person.
-russ
p.s. hehe.
Sheesh, you both have it wrong. It was a billboard just north of the California border that said "Oregon: A Nice Place to Visit", with the emphasis on "visit". We used to live there back in 1981. Worked at HP's Calculator Division in Corvallis. Worked on the HP-41 CMOS power supply chip. "Oh, I heard that the HP-41 only ever had a bipolar power supply chip." You'd be right, sigh. Never did get the damned thing working, but at least we scared Harris into improving its incoming yield rate.
-russ
Don't forget that Keith Packard lives in Portland also. So you have the core of Linux development and the core of X development.
-russ
It's not Open Source. Jef has chosen to use a Creative Commons license which is not Open Source. It restricts commercial use. I've suggested that this is incorrect, but Jef doesn't take outside input very well.
-russ
There is no zooming thing yet. Jef doesn't even have it specced out.
-russ
except that Microsoft has no need to make back the money they lose,
Sure! What they lose on individual sales, they make back on volume!
-russ
p.s. no, they really do need to make back the money they lose, eventually. If they don't, then the maneuver is called "unprofitable".
I understand that it may happen. But does it make money? If it makes money sometimes, how often? Is it worth the risk of not making money? Is it worth the cost to a company's reputation?
Companies do a lot of things that don't make money. The best do fewer; the worst many.
-russ
Maybe I'm typing slower on a QWERTY keyboard, but I still manage to type my /. replies in less than 20 seconds ... and get hit by Malda's spamtrap.
-russ
Carl is the antispam dude for AOL, and you're an Anonymous Coward. Carl understands that the problem is trojaned PCs. THAT is what he's talking about ISPs taking responsibility for.
-russ
The reason to do nothing ineffective now (e.g. Kyoto) is that it will be cheaper to address the problems as they occur later than to prevent them now. This is true for four reasons: 1) the time value of money, 2) a free market society gets richer and richer all the time, 3) new technologies get invented all the time, and 4) scientists are just guessing (remember Global Cooling?).
-russ
Back in 1975, I was told that we were going to run out of oil by 1980 ... and I was SO looking forward to driving. Obviously that hasn't happened. Probably never will.
-russ
Smallpox was endemic in Europe and nonexistent in America. As soon as the first person infected with smallpox came to America from Europe, millions of people were doomed to die. It doesn't matter if the Europeans thought that was a good thing or not. It was inevitable given travel between continents. What would you have had them do? Not travel? Treat Americans like bubble boys?
-russ